52 Books in 52 Weeks
The goal is to read and review 52 books in 52 weeks. One book for each week of the year. Since 52 books was a little to easy for me, I have challenged myself to read 52 books in each of the following categories: Fiction/Non-Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, and Juvenile/Middle Grade Fiction. This is a list of all the books I’ve read in each category this year thus far. Click on a link to be taken to my review.
Fiction
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Bright Side of Disaster by Katherine Center
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Sky Burial by Xinran
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
The Fiction Class by Susan Breen
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
Austenland by Shannon Hale
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency byAlexander McCall Smith
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Everyman by Philip Roth
The Gift by Richard Paul Evans
Finding Noel by Richard Paul Evans
Memoir
Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist’s Wife by Irene Spencer
Escape by Carolyn Jessop
Admit One: A Journey Into Film by Emmett James
Monique and the Mango Rains by Kris Holloway
Slave: My True Story by Mende Nazer & Damiel Lewis
We Are On Our Own by Miriam Katin
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Non-Fiction
Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast
I Am a Mother by Jane Clayson Johnson
Cheap Psychological Tricks for Parents by Perry W. Buffington
Young Adult Memoir
I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Young Adult Non-Fiction
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Young Adult Fiction
Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
Sweethearts by Sara Zarr
If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
Behind You by Jacqueline Woodson
Madapple by Christina Meldrum
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
My Brother’s Keeper by Patricia McCormick
Cut by Patricia McCormick
Sold by Patricia McCormick
Juvenile/Middle Grade Fiction
The Willoughby’s by Lois Lowry
Libertad by Alma Fullerton
Far World, Water Keep by J. Scott Savage
The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Horns & Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson
Mud City by Deborah Ellis
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
Criss Cross by Lynn Rae Perkins
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schiltz
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
Sirens and Spies by Janet Taylor Lisle
Torn Thread by Anne Isaacs
Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Parvana’s Journey by Deborah Ellis
Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Penny From Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
Rules by Cynthia Lord
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
Juvenile Non-Fiction
Hana’s Suitcase by Karen Levine
The Sudan Project: Rebuilding with the People of Darfur, A Young Person’s Guide by Melissa Leembrugeen
Abandoned Books
Keeper and Kid by Edward Hardy
[…] library for several reasons. One, it looked like a really fast read, thus bringing me closer to my 52 Books in 52 Weeks goal in Juvenile/Middle Grade Fiction. Two, it was on a display table at the library (because I now […]
on April 30th, 2008 at 4:52 am