Reading Challenges for Maw Books

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

1. The Romantics by Galt Niederhoffer
2. The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
3. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
4. The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
5. The Best Place to Be by Lesley Dorman
6. Capote in Kansas by Kim Powers
7. Janeology by Karen Harrington
8. The Last Beach Bungalow by Jennie Nash
9. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
10. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
11. The Leper Compound by Paula Nangle
12. The First Hurt, Stories by Rachel Sherman
13. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
14. Saturday by Ian McEwan
15. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
16. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
17. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (and quotes from The Alchemist)
18. The Smart One by Ellen Meister
19. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
20. The Bright Side of Disaster by Katherine Center
21. Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
22. Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
23. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
24. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
25. Sky Burial by Xinran
26. The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
27. Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
28. Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
29. The Fiction Class by Susan Breen
30. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
31. The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
32. Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
33. Austenland by Shannon Hale
34. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
35. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
36. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency byAlexander McCall Smith
37. What is the What by Dave Eggers
38. Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
39. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
40. Everyman by Philip Roth
41. The Gift by Richard Paul Evans
42. Finding Noel by Richard Paul Evans

Non-Fiction

1. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families:  Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
2. Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast
3. I Am a Mother by Jane Clayson Johnson 
4. Cheap Psychological Tricks for Parents by Perry W. Buffington
5. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Young Adult)
6. Hana’s Suitcase by Karen Levine (Middle Grade)
7. The Sudan Project: Rebuilding with the People of Darfur, A Young Person’s Guide by Melissa Leembrugeen (Middle Grade)
8. The Devil Came on Horseback:  Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur by Brian Steidle
9. Darfur Diaries:  Stories of Survival by Jen Marlowe
10. Genocide in Darfur by Janey Levy (Young Adult)

Memoir

1. Stolen Innocence:  My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall
2. Apples and Oranges, My Brother and Me, Lost and Found by Marie Brenner
3. The Road of Lost Innocence, The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine by Somaly Mam
4. Tears of the Desert, A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir with Damien Lewis
5. Of Beetles and Angels, One Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard by Mawi Asgedom (Juvenile)
6. The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
7. Shattered Dreams:  My Life as a Polygamist’s Wife by Irene Spencer
8. Escape by Carolyn Jessop
9. Admit One:  A Journey Into Film by Emmett James
10. Monique and the Mango Rains by Kris Holloway
11. Slave:  My True Story by Mende Nazer & Damiel Lewis
12. We Are On Our Own by Miriam Katin
13. I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson (young adult)
14. The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
15.  The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
16.  Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat
17. Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza
18. Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Young Adult Fiction

1. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
2. Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City by Kristen Miller
3. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
4. The Patron Saint of Butterflies by Cecilia Galante
5. Identical by Ellen Hopkins
6. Lessons from a Dead Girl by Jo Knowles
7. The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
8. I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder
9. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
10. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
11. Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
12. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Spear
13. This is What I Did by Ann Dee Ellis
14. Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale
15. The Thirteenth Reality by James Dashner
16. Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
17. Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
18. Messenger by Lois Lowry
19. The Debs by Susan McBride
20. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
21. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
22. Katarina by Kathryn Winter
23. Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
24. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
25. Sweethearts by Sara Zarr
26. If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
27. Behind You by Jacqueline Woodson
28. Madapple by Christina Meldrum
29. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
30. The Giver by Lois Lowry
31. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
32. The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
33. Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
34. I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
35. Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
36. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
37. Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
38. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
39. Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
40. Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
41. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
42. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
43. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
44. My Brother’s Keeper by Patricia McCormick
45. Cut by Patricia McCormick
46. Sold by Patricia McCormick

Juvenile/Middle Grade Fiction

1. The Heaven Shop by Deborah Ellis
2. Quake by Joe Cottonwood
3. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
4. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
5. A Thousand Never Evers by Shauna Burg
6. The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones by Helen Hemphill
7. As if Being 12 3/4 Isn’t Bad Enough My Mother is Running for President by Donna Gephart
8. T4 by Ann Clare LeZotte
9. The Witches by Roald Dahl
10. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Scwartz
11. The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
12. Journey to Topaz by Yoshiko Uchida
13. What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
14. Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
15. Clementine’s Letter by Sara Pennypacker
16. The Talented Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
17. Where I Live by Eileen Spinelli
18. A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
19. A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
20. Second Grade Pig Pals by Kirby Larson
21. Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman
22. Are You There Go?  It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
23. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahlzzz
24. Jimmy’s Stars by Mary Ann Rodman
25. Diary of a Wimpy Kid:  Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
26. The Willoughby’s by Lois Lowry
27. Libertad by Alma Fullerton
28. Far World, Water Keep by J. Scott Savage
29. The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
30. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
31. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
32. The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo
33. The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
34. Horns & Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson
35. Mud City by Deborah Ellis
36. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
37. Criss Cross by Lynn Rae Perkins
38. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
39. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schiltz
40. The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
41. Sirens and Spies by Janet Taylor Lisle
42. Torn Thread by Anne Isaacs
43. Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
44. Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
45. Parvana’s Journey by Deborah Ellis
46. Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy
47. Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
48. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
49. Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
50. The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
51. The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
52. Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
53. Penny From Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
54. Rules by Cynthia Lord
55. The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

Picture/Board Books

1. The Raucous Royals by Carlyn Beccia (non-fiction)
2. This is the Feast by Diane Z. Shore (non-fiction)
3. Angela and the Baby Jesus by Frank McCourt
4. A Very Marley Christmas by John Grogan
5. Santa Claus, The Worlds Number One Toy Expert by Marla Frazee
6. Mrs. Claus Explains it All (At Last) Answers to Questions Real Kids Ask! by Elisabeth Claus
7. Amadi’s Snowman by Katia Novet Saint-Lot
8. There’s No Such Thing as Ghosts by Emmanuelle Eeckhout
9. Board Books by Leslie Patricelli
10. The Two Bobbies:  A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival by Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery
11. The Magic Kerchief by Kirby Larson
12. Walk On!  A Guide for Babies of All Ages by Marla Frazee

Abandoned Books

1. Keeper and Kid by Edward Hardy
2. X-Indian Chronicles by Thomas Yeahpau