2015

Raegan is a bookworm (Nov. 2014)
My rating system
10 - Loved it!! Couldn't put it down!!
9 - Excellent!
8 - Very Good
7 - Good
6 - Above Average
5 - Average
Anything lower - Nah (and all this is totally my subjective feeling about a book)
* DNF - Did Not Finish
JANUARY
January favorite (#3)

1.  Stone Mattress: Nine Tales ~ by Margaret Atwood, 2014, fiction, 8/10
2.  Gossip ~ by Beth Gutcheon, 2013, fiction (New York), 8/10
3.  The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry ~ by Gabrielle Zevin, 2014, fiction (Massachusetts), 10/10
4.  Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America ~ by Linda Tirado, 2014, memoir, 8/10
5.  Naamah and the Ark at Night ~ by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, illustrated by Holly Meade, 2011, children's, 8/10
6.  In Falling Snow ~ by Mary-Rose MacColl, 2012, fiction (France), 9/10
7.  All the Light We Cannot See ~ by Anthony Doerr, 2014, fiction (France), 9/10
8.  Gray Mountain ~ by John Grisham, 2014, fiction (Virginia), 8/10
9.  If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him... ~ by Sharyn McCrumb, 1995, fiction (Virginia), 6/10
10.  Marmaduke: It's a Dog's Life ~ by Brad Anderson, 1989, fiction (cartoons), 9/10
11.  God's Echo: Exploring Scripture with Midrash ~ by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, afterword by Joan Chittister, 2007, religion (Judaism), 9/10
12.  The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates ~ by Wes Moore, 2010, memoir (Maryland), 9.5/10

FEBRUARY
February favorite (#13)

13.  There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow! ~ by Lucille Colandro, illustrated by Jared Lee, 2003, children's, 10/10
14.  No, David! ~ by David Shannon, 1998, children's, 9/10
15.  The Book of Strange New Things ~ by Michel Faber, 2014, fiction, 9/10
16.  Bunny Loves to Read ~ by Peter Bently, illustrated by Deborah Melmon, 2011, children's, 9/10
17.  Last Stop on Market Street ~ by Matt de la Pena, illustrated by Christian Robinson, 2015, children's, 9/10
18.  A Constellation of Vital Phenomena ~ by Anthony Marra, 2013, fiction (Chechnya), 6/10
19.  The Same Sky ~ by Amanda Eyre Ward, 2015, fiction (Honduras and Texas), 9/10
20.  The Lower River ~ by Paul Theroux, 2012, fiction (Malawi), 7/10

MARCH
March favorite (#23)

21.  Etta and Otto and Russell and James ~ by Emma Hooper, 2015, fiction (Canada), 9/10
21.  The Dance of the Dissident Daughter ~ by Sue Monk Kidd, 1996, memoir, 10/10
22.  A Spool of Blue Thread ~ by Anne Tyler, 2015, fiction (Maryland), 8/10
23.  Kind of Kin ~ by Rilla Askew, 2013, fiction (Oklahoma), 10/10
24.  Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade ~ by Thomas Norman DeWolf and Sharon Morgan, 2012, race relations, 9/10
25.  No Job for a Lady ~ by Carol McCleary, 2014, fiction (Mexico), 7/10
26.  1014: Brian Boru and the Battle for Ireland ~ by Morgan Llywelyn, 2014, history (Ireland), 9/10
27.  Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle ~ by Clair A. Nivola, 2012, children's, 9/10
28.  You Can Be Anything! ~ by Charles M. Schulz, 2009, cartoons, 9/10
29.  The Reluctant Midwife ~ by Patsy Harman, 2015, fiction (West Virginia), 9/10
30.  Violet Goes to the Country (full title is actually:  Jan Karon Presents Cynthia Coppersmith's Violet Goes to the Country) ~ story by Melanie Cecka, illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully, 2007, children's, 10/10

APRIL
April favorite (#34)

31.  Station Eleven ~ by Emily St. John Mandel, 2014, fiction (Great Lakes area), 8/10
32.  The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure ~ by James Redfield, 1993, fiction (Peru), 8/10
33.  Some Luck ~ by Jane Smiley, 2014, fiction (Iowa), 8/10
34.  The Book of Negroes ~ by Lawrence Hill, 2007, fiction (South Carolina; Nova Scotia, Canada; Sierre Leone), 10/10
35.  We Should All Be Feminists ~ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2013, women's studies, 8/10
Your Face in Mine ~ by Jess Row, 2014, fiction (Maryland), DNF
36.  The Kashmir Shawl ~ by Rosie Thomas, 2011, fiction (India), 9/10

MAY

37.  The Secret of Magic ~ by Deborah Johnson, 2014, fiction (Mississippi), 8/10
38.  The Best of Me ~ by Nicholas Sparks, 2011, fiction (North Carolina), 9.5/10
39.  Run ~ by Ann Patchett, 2007, fiction (Massachusetts), 9/10

JUNE
June favorite (#45)

40.  Goodnight Moon ~ by Margaret Wise Brown, 1947, children's, 8/10
41.  All That Matters ~ by Jan Goldstein, 2004, fiction (California, New York, Maine), 9/10
42.  What She Left Behind ~ by Ellen Marie Wiseman, 2014, fiction (New York), 9/10
43.  Body Surfing ~ by Anita Shreve, 2007, fiction (New Hampshire), 9/10
44.  The Story of a Pioneer ~ by Anna Howard Shaw, 1915, memoir, 8/10
45.  Booth Girls: A Love Story ~ by Joan Uda, 2013, fiction (Iowa), 10/10

JULY
July favorite (#46)

46.  Windows With Birds ~ by Karen Ritz, 2010, children's, 10/10
47.  The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently ... and Why ~ by Richard Nisbett, 2003, psychology (critical thinking), 8/10
48.  A Home for Copper: A Story of Adoption ~ by Susan Carter, 2014, children's, 10/10

AUGUST
August favorite (#49)

49.  Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat ~ by Gwen Cooper, 2009, memoir (Florida and New York), 9/10
50.  The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq ~ by Jeanette Winter, 2005, children's, 7/10
51.  The Italian Wife ~ by Ann Hood, 2014, fiction (Italy and USA), 5/10
52.  Simmer and Smoke: A Southern Tale of Grit and Spice ~ by Peggy Lampman, 2015, fiction (Georgia), 8/10
53.  The Reconstructionist ~ by Josephine Hart, 2001, fiction (Ireland and England), 8/10

SEPTEMBER
September favorite (#55)

54.  Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite ~ by Suki Kim, 2014, memoir (North Korea), 8/10
55.  If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person ~ by Philip Gulley and James Mulholland, 2003, religion, 9.5/10
56.  Out of Warranty ~ by Haywood Smith, 2013, fiction (Georgia), 9/10
57.  Miss Brooks Loves Books! (and I don't) ~ by Barbara Bottner, illustrated by Michael Emberley, 2010, children's, 9/10
58.  The Good Neighbor ~ by A. J. Banner, 2015, fiction (Washington), 8/10

OCTOBER
October favorite (#63)

59.  Cleo: The Cat Who Mended a Family ~ by Helen Brown, 2009, memoir (New Zealand and Australia), 9/10
60.  Between the World and Me ~ by Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015, race relations, 9/10
61.  The Girls, Alone: Six Days in Estonia ~ by Bonnie J. Rough, 2015, memoir, 9/10
62.  The Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet by Tony Abbott, 1999, children's, 7/10
63.  Orphan Train ~ by Christina Baker Kline, 2013, fiction (Minnesota and Maine), 10/10

NOVEMBER

64.  Amelia Bedelia 4 Mayor ~ by Herman Parish, 1999, children's, 9/10

DECEMBER
December favorite (#70)

65.  To Kill a Mockingbird ~ by Harper Lee, 1960, fiction (Alabama), 10/10
66.  The Jew Store ~ by Stella Suberman, 1998,  memoir (Tennessee), 8/10
67.  Outsider in the White House ~ by Bernie Sanders with Huck Gutman, 1997 and 2015, politics, 9/10
68.  The Not So Perfect Heroine ~ by Gloria Atcheson, 2014, fiction (Tennessee), 8/10
69.  Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes ~ by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, 2007, philosophy, 8/10
70.  Creation: Story Book ~ by Pamela Blair, illustrations by Roberto Rodriques, 2011, children's, 10/10
71.  Elizabeth Is Missing ~ by Emma Healey, 2014, fiction (UK), 8/10

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