2011

A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton

After the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughn

Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

Alterant by Sherrilyn Kenyon and Diana Love

The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi

Angels by Marian Keyes

B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton

The Baby Name Wizard: A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby by Laura Wattenberg

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney

Big Boned by Meg Cabot

Birds of Prey by Wilbur Smith

Blameless by Gail Carriger

Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs

Blood Noir by Laurell K. Hamilton

Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth

Blood Trinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon and Diana Love

Blue Moon by Laurell K. Hamilton

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child by Donalyn Miller

Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

Bring Back Beatrice! by Jennifer Griffin

Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement: Research on What Works in Schools by Robert J. Marzano

Bullet by Laurell K. Hamilton

Burnt Offerings by Laurell K. Hamilton

C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton

The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd

Cerulean Sins by Laurell K Hamilton

Changeless by Gail Carriger

Changes by Jim Butcher

Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card

The Crucible by Arthur Miller (re-read with students)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Dad’s Guide to Pregnancy for Dummies by Matthew M.F. Miller

Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton

Deadline by Chris Crutcher

Dreadnought by Cherie Priest

Dream Warrior by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Duma Key by Stephen King

Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card

Envy by J.R. Ward

Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

Flirt by Laurell K. Hamilton

Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley

Getting Pregnant: What You Need to Know Right Now by Neils Lauerson

The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

Godmother by Carolyn Turgeon

Going in Circles by Pamela Ribon

Gone by Michael Grant

Hamlet by William Shakespeare [re-read with students]

Happy Are Those Who Mourn by Andrew Greeley

The Harlequin by Laurell K. Hamilton

Heartless by Gail Carriger

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Hunger by Michael Grant

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

Incubus Dreams by Laurell K. Hamilton

It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita by Heather B. Armstrong

Jack of Kinrowan: Jack the Giant-Killer and Drink Down the Moon by Charles De Lint

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Jhereg by Steven Brust (re-read)

The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton

The Last Colony by John Scalzi

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (audio book)

Lisey’s Story by Stephen King

The Little Lady Agency by Hester Browne

The Little Lady Agency and the Prince by Hester Browne

Little Lady, Big Apple by Hester Browne

Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America’s Educationally Underprepared by Mike Rose

Losers by Matthue Roth

Micah by Laurell K. Hamilton

Minion by L.A. Banks

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (re-read of a beloved book… first time in YEARS)

Moon Called by Patricia Briggs

Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K. Hamilton

Night by Elie Wiesel (re-read with students)

No Mercy by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Obsidian Butterfly by Laurell K. Hamilton

Old Man’s War by John Scalzi

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card

The Piano Teacher by Lynn York

The Postman by David Brin

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn by Penny Simkin

The President’s Vampire by Christopher Farnsworth

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (audio book)

Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher

The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman

Red Letter Christians: A Citizen’s Guide to Faith and Politics by Tony Campolo

Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins

Sapphique by Catherine Fisher

Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card

Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card

She Went All The Way by Meg Cabot

Sima’s Undergarments for Women by Ilana Stanger-Ross

Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger

Skin Trade by Laurell K. Hamilton

Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Small Favor by Jim Butcher

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Soulless by Gail Carriger

Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

Swept Off Her Feet by Hester Browne

Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health by Toni Weschler

True Grit by Charles Portis

Turn Coat by Jim Butcher

Under the Dome by Stephen King

A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card

What I Was by Meg Rosoff

What to Expect When You’re Expecting by Heidi Murkoff

Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created America’s Best Schools by Jay Mathews

The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card

Xenocide by Orson Scott Card

Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi

2010

All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris (actually listened to it on Playaway)

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson (on audiobook, back and forth to work!)

Bad Moon Rising by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Blood Rites by Jim Butcher

Bloody Bones by Laurell K. Hamilton

The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman, John Bolton, Scott Hampton, and Charles Vess

The Boys from Little Mexico: A Season Chasing the American Dream by Steve Wilson

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

chasing harry winston by Lauren Weisberger

Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac

Columbine by Dave Cullen

The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz

Covet by J.R. Ward (on audiobook)

Crave by J.R. Ward

Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris

Dead Beat by Jim Butcher

Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris

Death Masks by Jim Butcher

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron and Bret Witter (on audiobook)

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole

The Dream-Hunter by Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle by Jim Butcher and Ardian Syaf

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (re-read)

Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card

Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms by Amy Benjamin with Tom Oliva

Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

The Faith Club: A Muslim, a Christian, a Jew – Three Women Search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner

First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood by Thrity Umrigar

Fool Moon by Jim Butcher

From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris

Grave Peril by Jim Butcher

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (audio book)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (re-read)

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (audio book)

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb

Image Grammar: Using Grammatical Structures to Teach Writing by Harry R. Noden

Is It a Choice? By Eric Marcus

It’s Superman! by Tom DeHaven

King Dork by Frank Portman

A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton

Kitty’s House of Horrors by Carrie Vaughn

Lighting Their Fires: How Parents and Teachers Can Raise Extraordinary Kids in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World by Rafe Esquith

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Love in the Time of Dragons by Katie MacAlister

Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Luna by Julie Anne Peters

Lunatic Cafe by Laurell K. Hamilton

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

Me and My Shadow by Katie MacAlister

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Navajo Weapon: The Navajo Code Talkers by Sally McClain

Otherwise Engaged by Suzanne Finnamore

Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card

The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Steamed by Katie MacAlister

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

Summer Knight by Jim Butcher

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (re-read)

Totally Joe by James Howe

The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex

Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution by Derrick Jensen

What If Someone I Know is Gay? by Eric Marcus

White Night by Jim Butcher

The Wild Trees by Richard Preston

2009

Acheron by Sherillyn Kenyon

Biblia’s Guide to Warrior Librarianship: Humor for Librarians Who Refuse to Be Classified by Amanda Credaro

Bitten by Kelley Armstrong

Born of Fire by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Born of Ice by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Born of Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer

Broken by Kelley Armstrong

Cell by Stephen King

Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (re-read)

Dates from Hell by Kim Harrison, Lynsay Sands, Kelley Armstrong, and Lori Handeland

Devil May Cry by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong (re-read, because I’m weak like that)

Don’t Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Neil Gaiman

Dream Chaser by Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Dreaming by Queenie Chan

Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer (finally finished – and loved – after putting it down for a while)

Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon (another stupid title, and not really worth it)

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Fat Kid Rules the World by K. L. Going

Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything by E. Lockhart

For the Love of Reading: Books to Build Lifelong Readers by David Bouchard, et. al.

Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger

Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner (stupid title, fun book)

The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Kim Harrison

Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton (because, seriously, could we possibly write a paranormal book that didn’t have a sexually suggestive title? noooooo)

Hero by Perry Moore

I Read It, But I Don’t Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers by Cris Tovani

In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner

Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong

Interworld by Neil Gaiman

Isaac Asimov’s Werewolves (anthology, edited by Gardner Dozois and Sheila Williams)

Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand by Carrie Vaughn

Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn

Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn

Kitty and the Silver Bullet by Carrie Vaughn

Kitty Goes to Washington by Carrie Vaughn

Kitty Goes to Washington by Carrie Vaughn

Kitty Raises Hell by Carrie Vaughn

Kitty Takes a Holiday by Carrie Vaughn

The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton

The Librarian’s Career Guidebook by Priscilla Shontz

Los Dos Mundos: Rural Mexican Americans, Another America by Richard Baker

Maus I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

Meridian: Flying Solo by Barbara Kesel, Steve McNiven, and Joshua Middleton

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

MW by Osamu Tezuka

My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Charlaine Harris, L. A. Banks, and Jim Butcher

A Necessary Evil by Alex Kava

New Moon by Stephanie Meyer

Nocturnes by John Connolly

One Silent Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Outsiders (re-read) by S.E. Hinton

Paper Towns by John Green

A Perfect Evil by Alex Kava

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

Personal Demon by Kelley Armstrong

The Princess Bride by William Goldman (re-read)

Queen of Babble Gets Hitched by Meg Cabot

Queen of Babble in the Big City by Meg Cabot

The Quest by Wilbur Smith

Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale

River God by Wilbur Smith

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Seize the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Seventh Scroll by Wilbur Smith

Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman

Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman

Stolen by Kelley Armstrong

The Summons by John Grisham

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate Dicamillo

Unleash the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd

Warlock by Wilbur Smith

Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom by Christiane Northrup

Write is a Verb: Sit Down, Start Writing, No Excuses by Bill O’Hanlon

You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop by John Scalzi

2008

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Black Orchid, Book One by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean

Black Orchid, Book Three by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean

Black Orchid, Book Two by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean

A Case of Need by Michael Crichton

The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

The Corset Diaries by Katie MacAlister

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert

Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks

Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris

Hissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews

Holy Smokes by Katie MacAlister

Jigs and Reels by Joanne Harris

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

Looking for Alaska by John Green

Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (re-read)

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Paul Moves Out by Michel Rabagliati

Playing with Fire by Katie MacAlister

School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School by Edward Humes

Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Spoken Word Revolution edited by Mark Eleveld

Tales from the Teachers’ Lounge by Robert Wilder

Trading Up by Candace Bushnell

The Trouble with Poetry: and Other Poems by Billy Collins

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

You Slay Me by Katie MacAlister

2007

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum

Artists Books: A Critical Survey of the Literature by Stefan Klima

Blood Canticle by Anne Rice

Blow Me Down by Katie MacAlister

Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder by David Quammen

Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

Bookbinder in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Century of Artists’ Books by Johanna Drucker

Classroom Teaching Skills by James M. Cooper, et al

Community of Writers: Teaching Writing in the Jr. and Sr. High School by Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman

The Courage Consort by Michel Faber

Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris

Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss

Educational Psychology: Reflection for Action by Angela O’Donnell, et al

Fire by Sebastian Junger

Fire Me Up by Katie MacAlister

Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris

Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris

Happy Hour at Casa Dracula by Marta Acosta

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowlings

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris

A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

Muriel Foster’s Fishing Diary by Muriel Foster

Old School by Tobias Wolff

Opportunities and Options in Classroom Management by Patricia B. Kyle and Lawrence R. Rogien

Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot

Return to Treasure Island and the Search for Captain Kidd by Barry Clifford and Paul Perry

Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton

Stupid Sock Creatures by John Murphy

Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman

Teaching Adolescents to Write: The Unsubtle Art of Naked Teaching by Lawrence Baines and Anthony Kunkel

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Student Teaching: A Guide for First-Time English Teachers by Mike Rychlik and Pamela Carroll

Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee

Zen and the Practice of Teaching English by Robert Tremmel

 

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