Book Fifty

The year that I kept working on my master’s degree and started a wonderful new job teaching 9th grade English. Also the year that a 5 year dream came true–I went back to the UK!

Click on the linked titles to see my review!

(Wait List=A book I already own but haven’t read.)

1. A Center of Quiet by David Runcorn (1/9)
2. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1/11) (Wait List)
3. The Fiddler’s Gun by A.S. Peterson (1/29) (Wait List)
4. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (2/5)
5. A Guide to Composition Pedagogies (2/13)
6. The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson (3/2)
7. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (3/5) (audiobook)
8. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin (3/11)
9. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (3/30)
10. One Summer by Bill Bryson (4/22) (audiobook, mostly)
11. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King (4/29)
12. Yes, Please by Amy Poehler (5/3) (Audiobook)
13. The St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing
14. Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
15. Close Range by Annie Proulx
16. Story and Structure 
17. Everlasting is the Past by Walter Wangerin, Jr.(5/9) (Wait List)
18. Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo (5/16)
19. The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo (5/17)
20. Little Bee by Chris Cleave (5/31)
21. The Selection by Kiera Cass
22. When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning (6/30)
23. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (7/4) (audiobook, mostly)
24. Animal Farm by George Orwell (7/8)
25. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (7/11) (audiobook, mostly)
26. Monster by Walter Dean Myers (7/17)
27. Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles (7/27)
28. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (7/28)
29. Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend (8/1)
30. The Keeper by Tim Howard (8/4)
31. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling (8/4)
32. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (8/10) (Audiobook)
33. The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcom (8/30)
34. Fun Home by Allison Bechdel (9/4)
35. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (9/10) (Wait List)
36. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (9/13)
37. The Province of Joy: Praying with Flannery O’Connor (9/20)
38. The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro (10/13) (Audiobook)
39. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (11/12)
40. The Copyeditor’s Handbook
41. The Subversive Handbook
42. Writing the Memoir
43. The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick (12/13)
44. Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith (12/22)
45. As You Like It by William Shakespeare (12/23)
46. Behold the Lamb of God by Russ Ramsey (12/25)
47. God is in the Manger: Readings for Advent and Christmas (12/25)
48. The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson (12/26)
49. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (12/30)
50. All’s Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare (12/31)