2012 Booklog

Fiction

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Village School by Miss Read
• The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery*
• The Scent of Water by Elizabeth Goudge
• The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia McKillip
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Possession by A.S. Byatt*
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows*
• All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot*
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Children’s & YA

• The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson (read-aloud)*
• Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke
• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt*
• Wise Child by Monica Furlong*
• Juniper by Monica Furlong*
• Linnets and Valerians by Elizabeth Goudge*
• Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem (read-aloud)
• Friends with Boys by Faith Erin Hicks
• Drama by Raina Telgemeier
• Little Witch by Anna Elizabeth Bennett*
• Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery*

Nonfiction

• Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence—A Friendship in Letters edited by Emily Herring Wilson
• Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katharine S. White*
• The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling by Quinn Cummings
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• Welcome to Lizard Motel: Children, Stories, & the Mystery of Making Things Up by Barbara Feinberg
• Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman
• How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
• The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
• American Terroir: Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, and Fields by Rowan Jacobsen

Plus picture books and early readers too numerous to mention, a number of nonfiction works as research for my current novel, and many hundreds of hours’ worth of articles and posts on climate change and political/social issues, especially in the months leading up to the election. Big chunks of Beowulf. A good bit of poetry. The first chapters (or even larger chunks) of at least two dozen novels and works of narrative nonfiction. A lot of history with the kids.

*a favorite reread

(For my big list of book recommendations, including links to notes on some of the books mentioned above, click here.)

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