Book List 2006
January
1. Pretty Woman (Michaels)
2. My Sister's Keeper (Picoult)
3. Half Magic (Eager) Read this to my students
4. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Rowling)
5. Something Blue (Giffin)
February
6. My Friend Leonard (Frey)
7. Teacher Man (McCourt)
8. Worth More Dead (Rule)
9. Cell (King)
10. The Wonder Spot (Bank)
11. Magic by the Lake (Eager) Read this to my students
March
12. Owls in the Family (Mowat) Read this to my students
13. Mine are Spectacular (Kaplan & Schnurnberger)
14. A Mid-Semester Night's Dream (Meacham) Read this to my students
15. The Mermaid Chair (Kidd)
16. Socks (Cleary) Read this to my students
April
17. In the Land of the Lawn Weenies: and Other Warped and Creepy Tales (Lubar) Read this to my students
18. Lunch Money (Clements) Read this to my students
19. Special Delivery (Steel)
20. Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery)
21. I Am No One You Know (Oates)
22. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (DiCamillo)
23. Irresistible Forces (Steel)
24. The Memory of Running (McLarty)
May
25. Angela's Ashes (McCourt)<---A great book. I read it a long time ago, but this time listened to the audio version. It was fabulous to hear it read in the author's voice.
26. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood (Zailckas)
27. Toxic Bachelors (Steel) I always tell myself I will never read another one of her novels again, but somehow they just suck me in.
28. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (Patterson) Whoa, better have some Kleenex if you read this one!
29. A Certain Slant of Light (Whitcomb)
30. My Teacher is an Alien (Coville) Read to my class.
31. The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts (Peck)
32. Someone Like You (Dessen)
33. The Men I Didn't Marry (Kaplan & Schnurnberger)
June
34. The Kite Runner (Hosseini) After picking up this book several times and not being able to get into it, I got the book on Cd and listened to it on my iPod. Surprisingly, I loved it!
35. Sam's Letter to Jennifer (Patterson)
36. Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (Brahsares)
37. Gooseberry Park (Rylant)
38. The Wright 3 (Balliett)
39. It Only Looks Easy (Swallow)
40. Never Mind! : A Twin Novel (Avi)
41. The Invisible Man (Wells) It's weird to think this book was first published in 1897. I found it very interesting!
42. In Cold Blood (Capote) Audio book
43. Baby Proof (Giffin) So far I've loved every book I've read by this author. This was no exception!
July
44. The Abortionist's Daughter (Hyde)
45. Digging to America (Tyler)
46. Through the Window (Fanning)
47. Love @ First Site (Moore)
48. Love in the Present Tense (Hyde)
49. The Only Girl in the Car (Dobie)
50. True Believer (Sparks)
51. The Stolen Child (Donohue)
52. The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Edwards)
August
53. Every Secret Thing (Shaara) I did not like this book at all. It was 445 pages, about 2 times longer than it needed to be. The writing was disjointed and the story dragged on forever. Things weren't explained well, and I didn't feel I really got to know any of the characters. A waste of the six days it took me to read this.
54. The Doctor's Daughter (Wolitzer)
55. Tears of Rage (Walsh)
56.The Wedding Planner's Daughter (Paratore) The fourth book I read this summer that has the word daughter in the title. Weird!
57. Seeing Sugar (Brinson)
58. Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog (Grogan)
59. The Confessions of Max Tivoli (Greer) This book had an interesting premise: a boy is born with the body of a 70 year old, but as he ages, his body becomes younger. It takes place in the San Francisco Area about a century ago. I liked it.
60. At First Sight (Sparks)
61. Love From Your Friend Hannah (Skolsky)
62. The Tail of Emily Windsnap (Kessler)
63. So B. It (Weeks)
September
64. Keeper of the Doves (Byars)
65. Do you Know the Monkey Man? (Butler) I really enjoyed this book. It's for junior-high level kids, but I enjoyed it so much I even went to the author's web site and signed her guest book. She wrote me back, too!
66. The Shop on Blossom Street (Macomber)
67. Jack on the Tracks (Gantos)
68. Criss-Cross (Perkins) This was the 2006 Newbery award-winning book. It was OK.
69. Under the Watson's Porch (Shreve)
70. Gossamer (Lowry) I will never think the same about dreams again after reading this book.
71. A Day No Pigs Would Die (Peck)
72. The Penderwicks (Birdsall)
73. Show Way (Woodson) Technically I would classify this as a picture book, and I never count picture books as books I've read, but it won a Caldecott award, so I'm recording it. It took me less than 20 minutes to read.
74. Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow (Bartoletti)
75. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Foer)
76. No Flying in the House (Brock and Trip) Read this to my class
October
77. Whittington (Armstrong)
78. The Hundred Dresses (Estes)
79. Princess Academy (Hale)
80. While I Was Gone (Miller)
81. Unexpected: 11 Mysterious Stories (Williams)
82. A Good Yarn (Macomber)
83. This Matter of Marriage (Macomber)
84. The Guy Not Taken (Weiner)
November
85. Mountain Pose (Wilson)
86. The Tiger Rising (DiCamillo)
87. What You Wish For (Michaels)
88. Behind the Bedroom Wall (Wilson)
89. The Treasure Trap (Masterman-Smith) Read this to my students.
90. Apt Pupil (King)
91. Katarina (Winter) I just cannot get tired of Nazi Germany historical fiction
92. Cross My Heart (Philips)
93. Series of Unfortunate Events #13: The End (Snicket)
December
94. Is That a Dead Dog in Your Locker? (Strasser) Read this to my class--funny!
95. Lipstick Jungle (Bushnell)
96. No Regrets: Ann Rule's Crime Files: Volume 11 (Rule)
97. The Goodbye Summer (Gaffney)
98. The Diary of Chickabiddy Baby (Kallok)
99. On Christmas Eve (Martin)
100. Who Stole the Wizard of Oz? (Avi)
1. Pretty Woman (Michaels)
2. My Sister's Keeper (Picoult)
3. Half Magic (Eager) Read this to my students
4. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Rowling)
5. Something Blue (Giffin)
February
6. My Friend Leonard (Frey)
7. Teacher Man (McCourt)
8. Worth More Dead (Rule)
9. Cell (King)
10. The Wonder Spot (Bank)
11. Magic by the Lake (Eager) Read this to my students
March
12. Owls in the Family (Mowat) Read this to my students
13. Mine are Spectacular (Kaplan & Schnurnberger)
14. A Mid-Semester Night's Dream (Meacham) Read this to my students
15. The Mermaid Chair (Kidd)
16. Socks (Cleary) Read this to my students
April
17. In the Land of the Lawn Weenies: and Other Warped and Creepy Tales (Lubar) Read this to my students
18. Lunch Money (Clements) Read this to my students
19. Special Delivery (Steel)
20. Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery)
21. I Am No One You Know (Oates)
22. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (DiCamillo)
23. Irresistible Forces (Steel)
24. The Memory of Running (McLarty)
May
25. Angela's Ashes (McCourt)<---A great book. I read it a long time ago, but this time listened to the audio version. It was fabulous to hear it read in the author's voice.
26. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood (Zailckas)
27. Toxic Bachelors (Steel) I always tell myself I will never read another one of her novels again, but somehow they just suck me in.
28. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (Patterson) Whoa, better have some Kleenex if you read this one!
29. A Certain Slant of Light (Whitcomb)
30. My Teacher is an Alien (Coville) Read to my class.
31. The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts (Peck)
32. Someone Like You (Dessen)
33. The Men I Didn't Marry (Kaplan & Schnurnberger)
June
34. The Kite Runner (Hosseini) After picking up this book several times and not being able to get into it, I got the book on Cd and listened to it on my iPod. Surprisingly, I loved it!
35. Sam's Letter to Jennifer (Patterson)
36. Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (Brahsares)
37. Gooseberry Park (Rylant)
38. The Wright 3 (Balliett)
39. It Only Looks Easy (Swallow)
40. Never Mind! : A Twin Novel (Avi)
41. The Invisible Man (Wells) It's weird to think this book was first published in 1897. I found it very interesting!
42. In Cold Blood (Capote) Audio book
43. Baby Proof (Giffin) So far I've loved every book I've read by this author. This was no exception!
July
44. The Abortionist's Daughter (Hyde)
45. Digging to America (Tyler)
46. Through the Window (Fanning)
47. Love @ First Site (Moore)
48. Love in the Present Tense (Hyde)
49. The Only Girl in the Car (Dobie)
50. True Believer (Sparks)
51. The Stolen Child (Donohue)
52. The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Edwards)
August
53. Every Secret Thing (Shaara) I did not like this book at all. It was 445 pages, about 2 times longer than it needed to be. The writing was disjointed and the story dragged on forever. Things weren't explained well, and I didn't feel I really got to know any of the characters. A waste of the six days it took me to read this.
54. The Doctor's Daughter (Wolitzer)
55. Tears of Rage (Walsh)
56.The Wedding Planner's Daughter (Paratore) The fourth book I read this summer that has the word daughter in the title. Weird!
57. Seeing Sugar (Brinson)
58. Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog (Grogan)
59. The Confessions of Max Tivoli (Greer) This book had an interesting premise: a boy is born with the body of a 70 year old, but as he ages, his body becomes younger. It takes place in the San Francisco Area about a century ago. I liked it.
60. At First Sight (Sparks)
61. Love From Your Friend Hannah (Skolsky)
62. The Tail of Emily Windsnap (Kessler)
63. So B. It (Weeks)
September
64. Keeper of the Doves (Byars)
65. Do you Know the Monkey Man? (Butler) I really enjoyed this book. It's for junior-high level kids, but I enjoyed it so much I even went to the author's web site and signed her guest book. She wrote me back, too!
66. The Shop on Blossom Street (Macomber)
67. Jack on the Tracks (Gantos)
68. Criss-Cross (Perkins) This was the 2006 Newbery award-winning book. It was OK.
69. Under the Watson's Porch (Shreve)
70. Gossamer (Lowry) I will never think the same about dreams again after reading this book.
71. A Day No Pigs Would Die (Peck)
72. The Penderwicks (Birdsall)
73. Show Way (Woodson) Technically I would classify this as a picture book, and I never count picture books as books I've read, but it won a Caldecott award, so I'm recording it. It took me less than 20 minutes to read.
74. Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow (Bartoletti)
75. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Foer)
76. No Flying in the House (Brock and Trip) Read this to my class
October
77. Whittington (Armstrong)
78. The Hundred Dresses (Estes)
79. Princess Academy (Hale)
80. While I Was Gone (Miller)
81. Unexpected: 11 Mysterious Stories (Williams)
82. A Good Yarn (Macomber)
83. This Matter of Marriage (Macomber)
84. The Guy Not Taken (Weiner)
November
85. Mountain Pose (Wilson)
86. The Tiger Rising (DiCamillo)
87. What You Wish For (Michaels)
88. Behind the Bedroom Wall (Wilson)
89. The Treasure Trap (Masterman-Smith) Read this to my students.
90. Apt Pupil (King)
91. Katarina (Winter) I just cannot get tired of Nazi Germany historical fiction
92. Cross My Heart (Philips)
93. Series of Unfortunate Events #13: The End (Snicket)
December
94. Is That a Dead Dog in Your Locker? (Strasser) Read this to my class--funny!
95. Lipstick Jungle (Bushnell)
96. No Regrets: Ann Rule's Crime Files: Volume 11 (Rule)
97. The Goodbye Summer (Gaffney)
98. The Diary of Chickabiddy Baby (Kallok)
99. On Christmas Eve (Martin)
100. Who Stole the Wizard of Oz? (Avi)