2013 Booklog

French Kids Eat Everything: How Our Family Moved to France, Cured Picky Eating, Banned Snacking, and Discovered 10 Simple Rules for Raising Happy, Healthy Eaters by Karen Le Billon

Odd Duck by Cecil Castellucci, illustrated by Sara Varon

The Great Conversation: The Substance Of A Liberal Education by Robert Maynard Hutchins (Introduction to Great Books of the Western World Vol. 1)

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark

A Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason (reread)

Plato’s Apology (reread)

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther

Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield (reread)

The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead

The Scent of Water by Elizabeth Goudge (reread)

Pilgrim’s Inn by Elizabeth Goudge

Midnight Hour Encores by Bruce Brooks (reread)

Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Other People’s Children by Joanna Trollope

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

The Killer Angels by Michael Sharra (reread)

Silhouettes of American Life by Rebecca Harding Davis

The Group by Mary McCarthy

Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple

The Canterbury Tales, Prologue and Nun’s Priest’s Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer (reread)

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Everyone’s Reading Bastard by Nick Hornby

More Baths, Less Talking by Nick Hornby

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym

Read to Kids

(a selection; I’ve given up trying to log our picture books and other read-alouds)

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling C. Holling

Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin (assorted)

Story of Science Vol. 2: Newton at the Center (in progress)

Peter Pan by James Barrie

Brambly Hedge by

The Emergence of Folklore in Everyday Life (parts)

English Literature for Boys and Girls (parts)

Older booklists: 2012 • 2011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2008
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