Reading Log 9.06-present

SEPTEMBER
Watership Down, Richard Adam
The Thief Lord, Cornelia Funke
Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
Small Wonder, Barbara Kingsolver

OCTOBER
The Long Walk, Slavomir Rawicz

NOVEMBER
Listener Supported, Jack Mitchell

2007

JANUARY
Endurance, Alfred Lansing
Guns Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond

MARCH
Since Cumorah, Hugh Nibley (unfinished)


APRIL
The Dark is Rising Series (5 books), Susan Cooper

MAY
Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut

JUNE
Garbage Land, Elizabeth Royte
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
Essays by Wendell Berry

JULY
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
Portions of The Archeology of Medieval Bookbinding, J.A. Szirmai
The Baker Street Irregulars, Terrence Dicks
The Goose Girl, Shannon Hale

AUGUST
Deliver us From Normal, Kate Klise
Book of Mormon

OCTOBER
The Golden Compass, Phillip Pulman
Lies My Teacher Told Me, James Loewen
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

NOVEMBER
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman

DECEMBER
The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman

2008

JANUARY
Sister Saints, Burgess-Olsen, Victoria, ed. (almost finished)

FEBRUARY
Epileptic, Daivd B. (unfinished)
Enna Burning, Shannon Hale
River Secrets, Shannon Hale
Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco

MARCH
Stop the Train!, Geraldine McCaughrean
Hail Babylon! In Search of the American City at the End of the Millennium, Andrei Codrescu
In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
Princess Academy, Shannon Hale

APRIL
“Good Country People,” Flannery O’Connor (short story)
Dangerously Alice, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Founding Faith, Steven Waldman

MAY
Prince Caspian, C.S. Lewis

JUNE
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan

JULY
Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Jonah Lehrer

AUGUST
Matilda Bone, Karen Cushman
The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires From Nosferatu to Count Chocula, Eric Nuzum

SEPTEMBER
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case, Richard E. Turley, Jr.
Beauvallet, Georgette Heyer
Science for Conservators: Book 1--An Introduction to Materials

OCTOBER
The Halloween Tree, Ray Bradbury

NOVEMBER
The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

DECEMBER
The Land of Oz, L. Frank Baum
Ozma of Oz, L. Frank Baum

2009

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH
The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket
The Reptile Room, Lemony Snicket

APRIL
The Wide Widow, Lemony Snicket
The Miserable Mill, Lemony Snicket
The Austere Academy, Lemony Snicket
Water Street, Patricia Reilly Giff

MAY
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
Naked, David Sedaris
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Ersatz Elevator, Lemony Snicket
He Done Her Wrong, author?
Billy Hazelnuts..??
The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell

JUNE

JULY
Here Lies the Librarian, Richard Peck
The Vile Village, Lemony Snicket
Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young-Lee (most)

AUGUST
The Hostile Hospital, Lemony Snicket

SEPTEMBER
Shop Class As Soul Craft, Michael Crawford
Chalice, Robin Mckinley

OCTOBER
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
Cien Anos de Soledad, Gabriel Garcia Marcos (2/3)

Lectures on Faith, Joseph Smith (most)


NOVEMBER
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech

Massacre at Mountain Meadows (Glen Leonard, Richard Turley, et al.)

 

DECEMBER
Intensely Alice, Phyllis Reynold Naylor
 
JANUARY

Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks

The Midnighters: The Secret Hour, Scott Westerfeld

FEBRUARY
Touching Darkness, Scott Westerfeld
Blue Noon, Scott Westerfeld

MARCH
Banana: the fate of the fruit that changed the world, Dan Koeppel

APRIL
Mary's manuscript
Bryce's manuscript
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home, Joss Whedon
The Female Brain, Louann Brezendine

MAY
The Thread That Binds (in progress, finished October)
The Male Brain
The Watchmen (in progress)


JUNE
Smiles to Go, Jerry Spinelli
Einstein's God, Christa Tippet


JULY
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman


AUGUST
The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell


SEPTEMBER
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins


OCTOBER
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman


NOVEMBER
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell



DECEMBER
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (in progress)
The Wise Heart, Jack Kornfield (in progress)
Intellectuals, Paul Johnson (in progress)


2011

JANUARY
The Wise Heart, Jack Kornfield
Intellectuals, Paul Johnson
The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis
When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead (2010 Newberry)

MARCH
The War of Art, Steven Pressfield

APRIL
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie
Them: Adventures With Extremists, Jon Ronson

MAY
Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
Conversations With Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft

JUNE
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clark


JULY
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks


SEPTEMBER
The Tower at the End of the World, Brad Strickland

OCTOBER
Merchants of Doubt
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
More Tales of the Unexpected, Roald Dahl


NOVEMBER
East of Eden, John Steinbeck