Yearly Archives

2012

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• Immoveable Feast by John Baxter
• Tinkers by Paul Harding
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente (YA)
• Divergent by Veronica Roth (YA)
• Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
• Henry V by William Shakespeare
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• The Inferno by Dante, John Ciardi translation
• The Lemon Grove by Ali Hosseini
• The Aeneid by Virgil, Dryden translation
• Cassie Binegar by Patricia MacLachlan (YA)
• The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch
• A Place of My Own by Michael Pollan
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• The Cambridge Companion to Homer ed. Robert Fowler
• Rediscovering Homer by Andrew Dalby
• The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis (YA)
• Home by Toni Morrison
• Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard
• The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis (reread; audio)
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (reread)
• Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference by Warren St. John
• Lizard Music by Daniel Pinkwater
• The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
• The Odyssey retelling by Simon Armitage
• Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
• The Submission by Amy Waldman
• Benjamin Pratt & the Keepers of the School: We the Children by Andrew Clements (YA)
• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
• Mother Poems by Hope Anita Smith (poetry, YA)
• Redeye by Clyde Edgerton
• Peacock and Other Poems by Valerie Worth (poetry, YA)
• Morning Girl by Michael Dorris (YA)
• Loser by Jerry Spinelli (YA)
• Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan
• A Maze Me: Poems for Girls by Naomi Shihab Nye (poetry, YA)
• A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver (poetry)
• Going by Kevin Oderman
• Chomp by Carl Hiaasen (YA)
• Aldabra by Silvani Gandolfi (YA)
• Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake (reread)
• Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay by Christopher Benfey
• From a Person Sitting in Darkness by Gerald Barrax (poetry)
• Abel's Island by William Steig (YA)
• I hate to see that evening sun go down by William Gay (DNF)
• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
• War & Watermelon by Rich Wallace (YA)
• Kingdom of an Instant by Rodney Jones (poetry)
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
• Civil War in West Virginia by Winthrop D. Lane
• When Miners March by William Blizzard
• Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• The United States of Appalachia by Jeff Biggers

2011

• Rules by Cynthia Lord
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• small as an elephant by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
• The Kitchen Counter Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn
• Tutored by Allison Whittenberg
• The Fairy Tale Detectives (The Sisters Grimm, Book 1) by Michael Buckley
• The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry
• Up a Creek by Laura E. Williams
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
• Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (poetry)
• One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman
• The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
• Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
• The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
• Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol
• Letters to a Teacher by Sam Pickering
• The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (YA)
• The Underneath by Kathi Appelt (YA)
• A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
• The Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser
• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Lost Son by Theodore Roethke (poetry)
• Strange as this Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake
• The Season of Second Chances by Diane Meier
• This Rock by Robert Morgan
• Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry by David Orr
• The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
• Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot (poetry)
• Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm (YA)
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 
• Against Happiness by Eric G. Wilson
• A Woman of Means by Peter Taylor
• Home by Marilynne Robinson
• The Zero by Jess Walter
• Confederate Streets by Erin E. Tocknell 
• Keeper by Kathi Appelt (YA)
• My Brother's Ghost by Allan Ahlberg (YA)
• 200 Nights and One Day by Margaret Rogza (poetry)
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• The Collected Poems by Elizabeth Bishop
• Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream by Adam Shepard
• My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student by Rebekah Nathan
• The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop
• The Life of the Mind: On the Joys and Travails of Thinking by James V. Schall

2010

• Beyond the Station Lies the Sea by Jutta Richter
• The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
• Sunset Park by Paul Auster
• From Here to April by Deborah Copaken Kogan
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• The View From Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
• Babylon in a Jar by Andrew Hudgins
• To the End of the Land by David Grossman
• Green Stars by Charlotte Hilary Matthews
• Poems and Sketches of E. B. White
• When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
• Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
• Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
• War Dances by Sherman Alexie
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
• Dorothy Parker, Revised by Arthur Kinney
• Enough Rope by Dorothy Parker
• In the American Grain by William Carlos Williams
• Billy Creekmore by Tracey Porter
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• Loving by Henry Green
• Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• "Les Aventures du Dernier Abencerage" by Francois Chateaubriand
• Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris by A. J. Liebling
• Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
• Dancing Girls and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood
• Love's Shadow by Ada Leverson
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren
• Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
• In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
• The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
• Flight by Sherman Alexie
• The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, our Communities, and our Health - and a Vision for Change by Annie Leonard
• A Monk Swimming: A Memoir by Malachy McCourt
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
• The Lotus and the Cross by Ravi Zacharias
• Blue Calhoun by Reynolds Price
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France
• Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community by Wendall Berry
• Waiting by Ha Jin

2009

• Black Mountain Breakdown by Lee Smith
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
• Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
• Stuart's Cape by Sara Pennypacker
• Godric by Frederick Buechner
• The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
• So, You Want To Be Like Christ? by Charles Swindoll
• Divining Women by Kaye Gibbons
• The Human Stain by Philip Roth
• Creating Community by Andy Stanley
• The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff
• The Best American Essays of 2004
• Bucking the Sun by Ivan Doig
• The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
• A Theft by Saul Bellow
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen
• Rich In Love by Josephine Humphreys
• French Lessons by Alice Kaplan
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Shack by Wm. Paul Young
• Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Myers
• Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
• Ten Indians by Madison Smartt Bell
• Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
• Rabbit, Run by John Updike
• The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
• Fields of Gold by Andy Stanley
• Birdy by William Wharton
• The Blessing of a Skinned Knee Wendy Mogel
• Dare to Discipline by James Dobson
• Eclipse by Stephenie Myers
• Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
• Native Son by Richard Wright

*Many of these posts were created when I was experimenting with a more frequent but also more fragmented approach to recording my reading.  Some of the links share space with another title.  Also, I did not not link to all the books I merely commented on in passing.  For more information on any title, feel free to browse the posts from 2009.