The second half of my second year teaching, the first semester of grad school. The first six months of Book Fifty!
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1. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (1/3)
2. A Prayer Journal by Flannery O’Connor (1/11)
3. The Boys in the Boat by James Daniel Brown (1/16)
4. American Sniper by Chris Kyle (1/18)
5. The Molehill Vol. 3 (1/24)
6. Legend by Wendy Lu (1/31)
7. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (2/14)
8. The Shell Collector: Short Stories by Anthony Doerr (2/19)
9. The Best Yes by Lysa TerKeurst (3/3)
10. The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer (3/16)
11. All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (3/22)
12. Dead Wake by Erik Larson (4/16)
13. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (4/18)
14. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (4/20)
15. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (4/22)
16. To Live is Christ To Die is Gain by Matt Chandler (4/28)
17. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (5/15)
18. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (5/17)
19. How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson (5/24) (audiobook)
20. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (5/28)
21. The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty (6/1)
22. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (6/2)
23. What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Monroe (6/4) (audiobook)
24. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (6/6)
25. The Martian by Andy Weir (7/13) (audiobook)
26. Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor (7/23)
27. The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan (7/23)
28. In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Phillbrick (7/29)
29. Moby Dick by Herman Melville (8/23) (Combination of Kindle, Audiobook, and Hard Copy)
30. Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor (9/2)
31. A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis (9/18)
32. And The Good News Is… by Dana Perino (9/27)
33. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (10/7)
34. The Summer of the Great-Grandmother by Madeleine L’Engle (10/11)
35. Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare (10/25)
36. Dog Songs by Mary Oliver (11/2)
37. Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare (11/11)
38. Rhetorical Grammar by Martha Kolln and Loretta Gray
39. The Sound on the Page by Ben Yagoda
40. How to Write a Sentence, and How to Read One by Stanley Fish
41. They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein
42. A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War by Joseph Loconte (11/15)
43. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (11/22)
44. The Irrational Season by Madeleine L’Engle (12/4)
45. Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (12/6)
46. Henry V by William Shakespeare (12/21)
47. Watch for the Light (12/23)
48. Behold the Lamb of God by Russ Ramsey (12/24)
49. Mindscape by Timothy Witmer (12/28)
50. The Story of God’s Love for You by Sally Lloyd-Jones (12/29)
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