Book of the Week - Book Lists

For grad school I have to read a 120 count reading list. Not only do I have to read these books in a little over a year, but I there are also the books I want to read for fun, for papers, for my thesis, as well as the occasional adult book. I have read a lot of great books in the past 5 months and here is a list of all of them in alphabetical order by author. Some of these I had read before, but there is a large difference reading a book for fun and reading it for the analysis. I have starred the books that I really enjoyed though.

*The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexia

The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen

Handel: Who Knew What He Liked by M.T. Anderson

No Castles Here by A.C.E. Bauer

Are You There God, It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume

Bronzeville Boys and Girls by Gwendolyn Brooks

Snow White by The Brothers Grimm

Mr. Grumpy's Outing by John Burningham

The Earthborn by Paul Collins

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots by Carmela LaVigna Coyle

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Door in the Wall by Margeurite deAngeli

The Eye, the Ear, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

*House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

The Voice That Challenge A Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman

Nicholas by Rene Goscinny

Gone by Michael Grant

The Friends by Rosa Guy

*Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

Bluish by Virginia Hamilton

The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton

It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Health by Robie E. Harris

So Many Circles, So many Squares by Tana Hoban

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes

Brave New World by Alduous Huxley

The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell

...If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights by Anne Jamma

*Darkness Under the Water by Beth Kannell

Steering the Craft by Ursula LeGuin

John Henry by Julius Lester

*Rules by Cynthia Lord

George and Martha by James Marshall

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass

When She Was Good by Norma Mazer

Judy Moody by Megan McDonald

Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh

The Kiss That Missed by David Melling

The Great Fire by Jim Murphy

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson

Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

*Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen

This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie by Elizabeth Partridge

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

*The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex

*Stoner & Spaz by Ron Koertge

*Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say

Guys Write for Guys Read by jon Scieszka

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

Reality Leak by Joni Sensel

What Have You Lost? by Naomi Shihab

In Real Life: Six Women Photographers by Leslie Sills

The Fools of Chelm and Their History by Isaac Singer

*Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork

Tru Confessions by Janet Tashjian

Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan

Poetry Speaks to Children by Various Authors

Father Fox's Pennyrhymes by Clyde Watson

Max Cleans Up by Rosemary Wells

I Love My New Toy by Mo Willems

Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by Mo Willems

The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog by Mo Willems

*Take Joy by Jane Yolen