Books I've Read This Year

Since I do a lot of things that don't require much brain power (art, crafts, homework, cooking, cleaning, staring off in to space...) I've taken to listening to many books on cd recently. I try to find good children's novels, since I am planning on teaching the upper elementary grades. I have found many that I love so far. Sometimes a grown-up novel finds its way into my playlist, too. Here are all the books I can remember either reading or listening to this year. Most of them are sci-fi/fantasy books, as I love crazy imaginations! I'll probably have many more books read before the year is over (as I can get through a whole book in one day this way!)

1. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
2. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
3. The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
4. Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
5. Austenland by Shannon Hale
6. Powers by Ursula K. LeGuin
7. Voices by Ursula K. LeGuin
8. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
9. Enchantress from the Stars by
10. On the Road by Jack Keruoac
11. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
12. The Secret Lives of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
13. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
14. MacBeth by William Shakespeare
15. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
16. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
17. Dragon Blood Tattoo, book 1 by
18. The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinnley
19. Teaching Art to Children by
20. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
21. Deeper by Rodderick Gordan and Brian Williams
22. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Patterson
23. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
24. The Wild Girls by Pat Murphey
25. I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris
26. Naked by David Sedaris
27. Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
28. The Pleasure of my Company by Steve Martin