Books I Read in the Last Year w/ comments

Fiction:
Orson Scott Card: - One of my all-time favorite authors EVER
*Ender’s Game - read it in fifth grade, great book. Got deeper as time went on.
*Speaker for the Dead - First time, couldn't get through it. You really have to grow up to love this one.
*Ender in Exile
*Ender’s Shadow
First Meetings - I love his short stories, too.
Shadow of the Hegemon - So much politics, and I thought I didn't like politics. Also taught me bunches about life.
Shadow Puppets
Shadow of the Giant
War of Gifts
Sarah - I was amazed at his historical fiction. Doesn't seem the type, but it was really good.
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Songmaster

JK Rowling:
*Harry Potter series
The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Jerry Spinelli:
*Stargirl - Really makes you think.
*Love, Stargirl

Anne McCaffrey:
*The Dragonriders of Pern series
Dragondrums
Dragonsinger

Robert A. Heinlein:
Methuselah’s Children
The Day After Tomorrow - So much strategy! Like winning a chess game with only a king and five pawns, against an army.
Three by Heinlein

Piers Anthony:
*Split Infinity
*Blue Adept
*Juxtaposition
Demons Don’t Dream - Puns! Hilarious book ^^

Neil Gaiman:
Coraline - The book Gaiman is most proud of. Children don't find it creepy, but adults do.
The Graveyard Book

Brian Jacques:
*Redwall
*Mossflower

Tamora Pierce:
*The Circle of Magic series
*Alanna: The First Adventure - just can't get enough of these...such a quick read

*Abarat series – Clive Barker - amazing imagination here
*Across The Wall – Garth Nix - so much compassion.
*A Wind in the Door – Madeleine L’Engle
*Children of the Lamp series - P.B. Kerr
*Deep and Dark and Dangerous – Mary Downing Hahn - Amazingly creepy.
Dragon Slippers – Jessica Day George
England, England - Julian Barnes
*Haroun and the Sea of Stories – Salman Rushdie - Like Abarat, but deeper and better.
*His Dark Materials series - Philip Pullman - just...wow.
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life – Wendy Mass
*Oracle Night – Paul Austen
*Strange Happenings – Avi
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho - Makes you stare at the wall in thought and amazement.
The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown - very intricate.
The House of Night series – P.C. Cast - A combination of Harry Potter and Twilight styles.
*The House of the Scorpion – Nancy Farmer - A classic.
The Hunger Games series – Suzanne Collins
The King in the Window – Adam Gopnik
The Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan
*The Lost Years of Merlin – T.A. Barron - A great study of the early years of Merlin.
*The Midwife’s Apprentice – Karen Cushman - really brings out humanity.
*The Music of Dolphins – Karen Hesse - Structually interesting, but not terribly well written.
The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
*The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner – Stephanie Meyer
The Shining – Stephen King - Wasn't as scary as I expected. I'm kind of disappointed, actually.
*The Rope Trick – Lloyd Alexander - interesting idea
*The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning – Danette Haworth


Non-Fiction:
A History of Food - Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat - too heavy! But much finish sometime.
*Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin A. Abbott - LOVE IT!!
*Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So - Ian Stewart - More math, less story, but the references are awesome.
How Sex Works – Dr. Sharon Moalem - everyone should read this sometime xD
1776 – David McCollough
Mischief Maker’s Manual – John Hargrave - I don't have the guts to try most of this stuff. Sounds like fun, though.
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey - Jill Bolte Taylor - Very good for listed summer reading, though I didn't end up taking the class.
The Arabian Nights – Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Origin Of Life – Charles Darwin - This isn't something you can read for 5 minutes at a time.
This is Your Mind on Music - Daniel J. Levitin
Grimms’ Complete Fairy Tales – Grimms

For School:
A New Religious America – Diana L. Eck
American Lion - Jon Meacham - really good biography on Jackson.
Crime and Punishment – Fyoder Dostoevsky
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Louis Stevenson
God is Red: A Native View of Religion – Vine Deloria Jr. - Interesting insight and theories.
Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer – Joseph Conrad - absolutely awful. Only book on this list that I really didn't like.
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner - Amazing stylistically: a work of art.
English Romantic Poetry: Anthology - Stanley Appelbaum - This would be my favorite time period for poetry.
English Victorian Poetry - Paul Negri
Selected Poems – John Donne
Waste Land, Prufrock & Other Poems – T.S. Eliot
Shropshire Lad – A.E Housman
Young Men and Fire - Norman Maclean - :) loved it
The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. Du Bois
Complete Sonnets – William Shakespeare
Early Poems – William Butler Yeats

*reread