This Year's Reading Schedule


2015

May
June - Counting by 7's by Holly Goldberg Sloan
July
August
September
October
November/December

Books we've read

* indicates book was "popular" meaning among the best-read and most-liked. Recommended reading if you don't know where to start!

2014

February - *Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
March - The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra
April - Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
May - The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
July - Wonder by R.J. Palacio

2013

October - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
September - *Blackmoore by Julianne Donaldson
August - book reports
May 28 - *The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
April 23 - The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease
March (April 2) - Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
February - The Cleansing of America by W. Cleon Skousen
January - Palace of Stone by Shannon Hale

2012

December - Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
October - Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
September - Saving CeeCee Honeycut by Beth Hoffman
August- Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
July - *Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson
June - The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
May - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
April - Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt
March - The Maze Runner by James Dashner
February - Austenland by Shannon Hale


2011

October - Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans
August - [movie night, The Help]
July - The Miracle of Freedom: 7 Tipping Points that Saved the World by Chris Stewart
June - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
April - The Hourglass Door by Lisa Mangum
March - The Angels of Morgan Hill by Donna VanLiere
February - Funny in Farsi: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas

2010

December - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
September - Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas
August - The Anatomy of Peace
July - The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
June - *The Help, Kathryn Stockett
May - The Photograph, Virginia Ellis
April - Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
March - The Robe, Lloyd C. Douglas
February - Recovering Charles, Jason F. Wright
January - Let the Hurricane Roar, Rose Wilder Lane

2009

December - *The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Schaffer & Annie Barrows
October - Joan of Arc, Mark Twain
September - Behind Every Good Man, John Bytheway
July - Tilting at Windmills, Julian Branston
June - Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
May - Novels by Tony Hillerman
April - *The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
March - The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
February - *These Is My Words, Nancy E. Turner
January - Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card


2008

November - The Tale of Desperaux, Kate DiCamillo
October - parenting books
Titles included:
   The No-Cry Discipline Solution
   Children: the Challenge
   The Power of Positive Parenting
   Taming the Spirited Child
   Touchpoints: Birth to 3
   Guide to Your Child's Sleep
   Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
   The Happiest Toddler on the Block
   5 Days to a Perfect Night's Sleep for Your Child
September - *The Goose Girl, Shannon Hale
July - The Magic of Ordinary Days, Ann Howard Creel
May - Love is a Verb, Mary Ellen Edmunds
April - The Wednesday Letters, Jason F. Wright
March - Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
February - *I Am a Mother, Jane Clayson Johnson
January - Twilight, Stephenie Meyer

2007

November - The Ultimate Gift, Jim Stovall
June - The Princess Bride, William Goldman
May - The Giver, Lois Lowry
April - *The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Emmuska Orczy
February - The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Laura Schlessinger
January - Organizing from the Inside Out, Julie Morgenstern

2006

November - A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
October - *The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
September - Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
August - The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
July - The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
June - Jamaica Inn, Daphne du Maurier
May - The Five Love Languages/The Five Love Languages of Children, Gary Chapman
May - Small Change: The Secret Life of Penny Buford
March/April - *The Persian Pickle Club, Sandra Dallas
February - *The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
January - Letters for Emily, Camron Wright

2005

November - Left For Dead
October - Order From Chaos
September - The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom
August - Les Miserables
July - Angle of Repose
June - Mount Vernon Love Story, Mary Higgins Clark
May - Children Who Do Too Little
April - Kitchen Table Wisdom
March - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
February - Joyful Mother of Children
January - Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns

2004

December - Skipping Christmas, John Grisham
October - The Remember Box, Patricia Sprinkle

Other books from 2004/2003:

*The Wedding Dress
Hope Was Here
A Long Way From Chicago
Enchantment
The Princess Bride
Little Women
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Lovely Bones
Plain Truth
The Diary of Mattie Spenser