Not Lost Forever, My Survival Story by Carmina Salcido
*William S. and the Great Escape by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words by John Bemelmans Marciano
*Painting Aalesund by Tod Steward
*Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America by Kati Marton
*Herodotus and the Road to History by Jeanne Bendick
Confessions of a Closet Master-Baker by Gesine Bullock-Prado
Boys Adrift: Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men by Leonard Sax
*Saint Paul by Pope Benedict XVI
*The Iliad by Homer
Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides
*NurtureShock: New Thinking about Children by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
*A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
Escape Under the Forever Sky by Eve Yohalem
The Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece by Vernon Silver
The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane
*A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken
*Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town by Warren St. John
City Boy by Jan Michael
*Hamlet by William Shakespeare
*To Whom Shall We Go? by Archbishop Timothy Dolan
*The Midnight Dancers: A Fairy Tale Retold by Regina Doman
*Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love by Myron Uhlberg
A World Away: The Quest of Dan Clay, Book One by T.J. Smith
The Harrowing Escape: The Quest of Dan Clay, Book Two by T.J. Smith
Trespasses Against Us by Christian M. Frank
I didn't like all of them, but there were quite a few good ones this year. I've put an asterisk before my favorites. (Naturally this isn't a complete list.) Also, I didn't include picture books here (and I read a lot of them this year). I'm hoping to put together a separate post on favorite picture books and favorite movies that we discovered this year.
3 comments:
How did you choose the books on this list, Alicia? How did you fit them in?
As a busy (distracted!) mom, I would love a bit of counsel on how to be reading more for me.
Good idea - I'll see what I can do. Though my reading habits are so haphazard, I'm not sure how much I'll be able to help. Two areas that definitely work are keeping a book in the bathroom (we actually have a little bookshelf in the bathroom that my husband built) and getting a good booklight for reading in bed.
P.S. Underlining in books (esp. non-fiction) has really helped me too especially because of the distractions. When I underline key points, it's easier for me to remember what was going on when I left off.
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