Books In Review

I read 59 books last year, which made me happy compared to last years 32. 

Books I Loved

Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery 

Any Which Wall by Laurel Snyder Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan 

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

Authors I Loved

Eva Ibbotson 

Edward Eager

Let Downs

Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

A Wind in the Door by Madeline L' Engel 

Spindle's End by Robin McKinly

Surprises

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Books I Read Because Others Liked Them, But Didn't Like As Much As They Did 

Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter

Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter

Only the Good Spy Young by Ally Carter

Inside The Shadow City by Kirsten Miller

The Empress's Tomb by Kirsten Miller

Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

The Sword In The Stone by T. H. White

Discoveries

Margret Peterson Haddix's Shadow Children Series

Any Which Wall by Laurel Snyder

Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach

The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson

Goals For Next Year

To Come and Go Like Magic by Katie Pickard Fawcett

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn
Flowers for Algeron by Daniel Keyes

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Straw Into Gold by Gary D. Schmidt

Keep a Quiet Heart by Elizabeth Elliot

Passion and Purity by Elizabeth Elliot

Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home by Richard J. Foster

(and of course all those books I've got to read for my Children's Literature Class)

you?