Color coded in imitation of Daylily’s system;
*Loved it, would read it again
*Liked it enough to maybe read again
*It was good, but would not read it again
*Eh…
*Hated it, couldn’t even finish it
*Reference, Non Fiction and/or other educational book; rated with *****
*Currently reading – no opinion yet
*NOTE* I also read several magazines, countless blogs, newspapers, children’s books, message boards and cereal boxes. This list is confined only to books I have read for myself.
2009
Going backwards from oldest to newest this year.
- Neverwhere: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
- The A to Z of Autism Spectrum Disorders by Carol Turkington***
- Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
- Graceling by Kristin Cashore
- Ten Things Every Child With Autism Wishes You Knew by Ellen Notbohm *****
- Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
- The Geography of Bliss : one grump’s search for the happiest places in the world by Eric Weiner
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
- The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome by Tony Attwood
- The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
- Unaccustomed Earth : stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
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2008
My goal for 2008 is to read at least one book by an author from each letter of the alphabet. I tend to get stuck reading the same genre or the same author over and over, so I am trying to break away from that.
Progress thus far;
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
*End of year note~ Darn! Well that sure didn’t work, did it? I fell short by 8 letters!
Numerical count to date; 33
- Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama
- The Lounge Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
- A Parent’s guide to Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism: How to Meet the Challenges and Help Your Child Thrive by Sally Ozonoff, Geraldine Dawson and James McPartland ****
- Navigating the social world : a curriculum for individuals with Asperger’s syndrome by Jeanette McAfee***
- Good Omens; The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch: a novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachet
- Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart
- Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
- Coal Country Ghosts, Legends and Lore by Charles J. Adams III
- Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Year Disguised as a Man by Norah Vincent
- Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
- Lamb; The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
- Odd hours by Dean Koontz
- Nobody nowhere : the extraordinary autobiography of an autistic by Donna Williams
- The post-American world by Fareed Zakaria (*yawn*)
- Aquamarine Blue 5 by Dawn Prince-Hughes
- March by Geraldine Brooks (too bad, I loved Year of Wonders)
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- The water and the blood : a novel by Nancy E. Turner
- A Molly Maguire on trial: the Thomas Munley story by H.T. Crown *
- Home to Harmony by Philip Gulley
- Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by Steven Levitt
- Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
- Look Me in the Eye : my life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison
- Windfalls by Jean Hegland
- Duma Key by Stephen King
- A Midwife’s Story by Penny Armstrong (this is the second time I read this)
- Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Thin Place : A Novel by Kathryn Davis (this actually falls more around “interesting, but confusing” than “eh”)
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Feingold Cookbook for Hyperactive Children by Ben F Feingold ***** (excellent basic recipes for anyone trying to avoid food additives)
- Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
- Cell : a Novel by Stephen King
- 2007
- In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alverez
- Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak *I feel like this book requires a re-reading
- The Tender Bar; A Memoir by JR Moehringer
- Pink Slip by Rita Ciresi
- Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers – Ariel Gore and Bee Lavender
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Point Blank by Catherine Coulter
- When We Get There by Shauna Sheliy
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle; A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
- Flush by Carl Hiaasen
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- Lisey’s Story by Stephen King
- Eat, Pray, Love; One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonisia by Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
- The Guy Not Taken by Jennifer Weiner
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead by Cassandra Danz ****
- One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
- Marley and Me, Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
- The Plants of Pennsylvania: An Illustrated Manual by Ann Fowler Rhoads, Timothy A. Block, and Anna Anisko*****
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
- Lost in Place; Growing up Absurd in Suburbia by Mark Salzman
- Brother Odd by Dean Koontz
- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
- The Kitchen Garden by Sylvia Vaughn Sheekman**
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
