Teen & Younger

I also have a great love of young adult and children's fiction. They are so easy to read. I can sit down and in an hour or so be finished with a very worthwhile book. Never let anyone tell you that you are too old to be reading something. Sometimes all we need is an uplifting tale that reminds you to always be young at heart.

2008

17 Things I'm Not Allowed To Do Anymore
The Baby-Sitters Club: Kristy's Great Idea (Graphic Novel)
Betsy-Tacy series
Castle Corona
Coraline
The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy, Book 1
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
My Cat Copies Me
This is Paris
Toys Go Out
Under the Spell of the Moon


2007
13 Little Blue Envelopes
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging
Araminta Spookie 1: My Haunted House
Assassins
Confessions of a Teen Sleuth
Eight Cousins
Elsewhere
Finding Miracles
Hattie Big Sky
Here Lies the Librarian
The Higher Power of Lucky
Hoboken Chicken Emergency
Holes
The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Niagra Falls of Does It?
Not a Box
Rash
The Schwa Was Here
The Somebodies
The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
The Tequila Worm
Weetzie Bat

Adult Nonfiction

Recent Reads for Nonfiction. For some reason I've been on nonfiction binge which is very much unlike me.

2008

I Am America (And So Can You)
Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library
Letters to Juliet
One Special Summer
Postcards: True Stories that Never Happened
Summer at Tiffany
Unwise Passions

2007

1001 Events That Made America
All But My Life
Candy and Me: A Love Story
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
Honeymoon With My Brother
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
The Intellectual Devotional
Museum of the Missing: The High Stakes of Art Crime
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress
What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self

Adult Fiction

Below is a list of the recent fiction books I've read. Enjoy!!

2008

The Book of Bunny Suicides
Cane River
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Garden Spells
Gods Behaving Badly
Housewrights
This Is Not Civilization
The Venetian Betrayal
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
The Wednesday Letters

2007

The Alexandria Link
The Book of Fate
The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
The Case of the Missing Books
A Connecticut Fashionista in Kind Arthur's Court
Falling Boy
For One More Day
Heart-Shaped Box
The Last Templar
Monster
Nineteen Minutes
The Shining
The Templar Legacy
The Virgin of Small Plains