Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Reading List 2018

Here's an archived copy of my reading list for this year. I'll be keeping up the new list here: http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html

I would recommend the bolded titles with enthusiasm, and I enjoyed the italicized titles but probably wouldn't read them again.

0.1.* Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy!, by Bob Harris
0.3.* Dead Girls and Other Stories, by Emily Geminder
1. The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano, by Sonia Manzano
1.1.* Hood, by Emma Donoghue
2. Harry Potter and the Method of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
3. The Waiting: The True Story of a Lost Child, a Lifetime of Longing, and a Miracle for a Mother Who Never Gave Up, by Cathy LaGrow
4. This Is How It Always Is, by Laurie Frankel
5. Chasing Secrets, by Gennifer Choldenko
6. Empress of the World, by Sara Ryan
7. The Hundred-Foot Journey, by Richard C. Morais
7.1.* The Blacker the Berry, by Wallace Thurman
7.2.* Ophelia, by Lisa Klein
8. Home Is with Our Family, by Joyce Hansen 
9. A Reliable Wife, by Robert Goolrick
10. Red Clocks, by Leni Zumas
10.1.* Far From the Tree, by Robin Benway
11. The Summer We Got Free, by Mia McKenzie
12. One True Way, by Shannon Hitchcock
12.1.* Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado
13. Babylon Sisters, by Pearl Cleage
14. Poisoned Blade, by Kate Elliott
15. Some Things I Thought I'd Never Do, by Pearl Cleage
16. The Secrets of Midwives, by Sally Hepworth
17. The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, by Meg Elison
27.1.* The Border of Paradise, by Esme Weijun Wang
28. Till You Hear from Me, by Pearl Cleage
29. Silhouette of a Sparrow, by Molly Beth Griffin
30. Silver Stars, by Michael Grant
31. On the Far Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George
32. Crooked Little Heart, by Anne Lamott
33. The River King, by Alice Hoffman
33.1.* No Biking in the House without a Helmet, by Melissa Fay Greene
34. Purple Hearts, by Michael Grant
35. The Power, by Naomi Alderman
[Alanna: The First Adventure, by Tamora Pierce]
[In the Hand of the Goddess, by Tamora Pierce]
[The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, by Tamora Pierce]
36. Gwendy's Button Box, by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar
37. Tess of the Road, by Rachel Hartman
38. Dirty Mary No More, by Marion Page 
39. Hardscrabble, by Sandra Dallas
39.1.* Reading Picture Books to with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They See, by Megan Dowd Lambert
40. Red As Blood: Or, Tales from the Sisters Grimmer, by Tanith Lee
40.2.* My Ex-Life, by Stephen McCauley
41. Tempests and Slaughter, by Tamora Pierce
42. I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering, by Janelle Hanchett
43. Bud Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis
44. Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess, by Shari Green
44.1.* Probable Claws, by Rita Mae Brown
45. Love, Penelope, by Joanne Rocklin
46. Dreaming Dangerous, by Lauren DeStefano
47. Summer of Salt, by Katrina Leno
48. The Book of Essie, by Meghan MacLean Weir
49. Forever Mom: What to Expect When You're Adopting, by Mary Ostyn
50. Not Becoming My Mother, by Ruth Reichl
51. The Outsider, by Stephen King
51.1.* The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner
52. Make Me a Mother, by Susanne Antonetta
53. The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden, by Karina Yan Glaser
54. My Year in the Middle, by Lila Quintero Weaver
54.1.* The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, by Kate Andersen Brower
55. The Lotterys, More or Less, by Emma Donoghue
56. Girls Like Me, by Nina Packebush
57. Ink, by Sabrina Vourvoulias
58. The Summer of Owen Todd, by Tony Abbott
58.2.* Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America, by Beth Macy
59. Dread Nation, by Justina Ireland
60. The Assistants, by Camille Perri
61. Prairie Evers, by Ellen Airgood
62. Moloka'i, by Alan Brennert
62.1.* "When the Welfare People Come": Race and Class in the US Child Protection System, by Don Lash
63. Alchemy and Meggy Swann, by Karen Cushman
63.3.* One Part Woman, by Perumal Murugan
64. Training School for Negro Girls, by Camille Acker
65. Love to Everyone, by Hilary McKay
66. Running on Empty, by S. E. Durrant
67. Elevation, by Stephen King
68. Two Roads, by Joseph Bruchac
69. Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose, by Joe Biden
70. Six Scary Stories, edited by Stephen King
71. Ogre Enchanted, by Gail Carson Levine
72. The Brass Bed and Other Stories, by Pearl Cleage
73. Sugar Land, by Tammy Lynne Stoner
[The Oathbound, by Mercedes Lackey]
74. Baby Brother's Blues, by Pearl Cleage
75. Seen It All and Done the Rest, by Pearl Cleage
76. The Other Sister, by Sarah Zettel
[Oathbreakers, by Mercedes Lackey]
77. The Night Visitor, by Lucy Atkins
78. Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds
79. The Special Ones, by Em Bailey
80. The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America, by Tamara Winfrey Harris
81. Between the Lines, by Nikki Grimes
82. Deals with the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot, by Pearl Cleage
83. Running Out of Time, by Margaret Peterson Haddix
84. Joy in the Morning, by Betty Smith
85. On a Clear Day, by Walter Dean Myers
86. God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine, by Victoria Sweet
87. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened, by Allie Brosh
88. The Morrigan: Meeting the Great Queens, by Morgan Daimler
89. Love, Amalia, by Alma Flor Ada & Gabriel M. Zubizarreta
90. Harbor Me, by Jacqueline Woodson
*I started reading these fractional selections, but didn't finish.

[These selections are re-reads that I completed in full. They don't count as new books.]

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