Trent Reedy - soldier/ scholar/ author/ and all-around nice guy declared that 2016 would be the year of the BOOK. He aimed to read over 100 books in 2016 and challenged the rest of us to also do so.(His latest book - The Last Full Measure - came out in time to prepare us for the election results in November. Here's hoping the things he predicted in this Divided We Fall trilogy don't actually come true.)
In his honor, I hereby list the books I've read this past year.
(no, I never reached 100, and I've probably forgotten to list some.)
Here are the books I read this year:
PICTURE BOOKS:
Austrian, J.J. Worm Loves Worm. Illus. Mike
Curato. NY: Balzer & Bray,
2016.
Andrews, Troy. Trombone Shorty. Illus Bryan Collier.
NY: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2015.
(ghost writer = Bill Taylor)
Charlip, Remy. Fortunately. NY: Simon & Schuster,
1964.
Gag, Wanda.
Millions of Cats. NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1928. Newbery Medal honor.
Henkes, Kevin. Waiting. NY: Greenwillow Books, 2015.
Caldecott
Honor 2016
Rohmann, Eric. My Friend Rabbit. NY: Roaring Brook
Press, 2002. The Caldecott Medal,
2003.
Savage,
Stephen. Supertruck. NY: Roaring
Brook Press, 2015.
I Can Read
Adler, David A. Don’t Throw it to Mo! Illus Sam Ricks.
NY: Penguin young readers, 2015. Geseil award
Fenske,
Jonathan. A Pig, a fox, and a box.
(level 2) NY: Penguin Young Readers, 2015.
Geseil
award
Hoover,
P.J. TUT, the story of my immortal life. NY: Tor, 2014
Willems,
Mo. Several in the Elephant and
Piggy series.
J – FICTION :
Britt, Paige.
The Lost Track of Time. Illus Lee
White. New York: Scholastic Press, 2015.
Burnham,
Molly. Teddy Mars, Almost a World Record Breaker. New York: HarperCollins,
2015.
….. Teddy
Mars, Almost a Winner. (book
2) New York: HarperCollins, 2016.
Coville, Bruce.
Diary of a Mad Brownie – with Supporting
Documents. (The Enchanted Files)
Illus. Paul Kidby. NY:
Random House, 2015.
….. Goblins on the Prowl. NY: Simon &
Schuster, 2015.
Cuevas,
Michelle. Confessions of an Imaginary
friend, a memoir by Jacques Papier as told to Michelle Cuevas. NY: Dial
Books for Young Readers, 2015.
Federle, Tim. Better Nate than Ever. NY: Simon &
Schuster, 2013.
Hannigan, Kate.
The Detective’s Assistant. NY: Little
Brown and Co, 2015.
…. Cupcake
Cousins. NY: Hyperion, 2014.
(not as good as the one above)
Jones, Diana
Wynne. Dogsbody. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1975.
Mass,
Wendy. The Candymakers and the Great Chocolate Chase. NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
Messner, Kte. The Seventh Wish. NY: Bloomsbury, 2016.
Sylvester,
Kevin. MINRS. New York:
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2015.
…. MINR2S. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books,
2016.
Time, Nicholas
(pen name for multiple writers) In
Due Time (series)
… Going, going, gone. (book 1) NY: Simon
Spotlight, 2016.
… Stay a spell. (book 2) NY: Simon Spotlight, 2016.
… Wrong Place, (really) Wrong Time. (book
3) NY: Simon Spotlight, 2016. (actual
writer = Caroline Smith Hickey for book 3.)
YA Fiction:
Axelrod, Amy. The Bullet Catch, Murder by misadventure.
New York: Holiday House, 2015.
Carter,
Ally. All Fall Down. Embassy Row novel 1. New York: Scholastic Press, 2015
…. See
How they run. Embassy Row novel 2. New York: Scholastic Press, 2016.
Jamieson,
Victoria. Roller Girl. NY: Dial, 2015.
(Graphic novel)
Korman, Gordon.
Schooled. NY: Hyperion, 2007. (Commune boy meets Middle School)
Lackey,
Mercedes. The Collegium Chronicles. NY: Daw Books,. Vol 1-6.
…. The
Herald Spy series. NY: Daw
Books,. Vol 1- 3
….. Hunter.
New York: Hyperian, 2015.
….
Elite (a Hunter novel) Hyperian, 2016.
Nielsen,
Jennifer A. Mark of the Thief. Book 1. New York: Scholastic Press,
2015
…. Rise of the Wolf
(Book 2 of Mark of the Thief) New York? Scholastic Press, 2016.
Papademetriou,
Lisa and Chris Tebbetts. M or F? New York: Razorbill/ Penguin, 2005.
Patrick,
Cat. The Originals. NY: Little Brown, 2013.
Westrick, A.
(Anne) B. Brotherhood. NY: Viking, 2013.
PICTURE BOOK BIOGRAPHIES:
Kulling,
Monica. ZAP! Nikola Tesla Takes Charge. Ill Bill Slavin. Canada: Penguin Random House, 2016.
Reich,
Susanna. Fab Four Friends; the Boys Who
Became the Beatles. Illus Adam
Gustavson. New York: Henry Holt
and Company, 2015.
Weatherford,
Carole Boston. Voice of Freedom, Fannie
Lou Hammer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement. Illus. Ekua Holmes.
Somerville, MA: Candlewick, 2015.
J BIOGRAPHIES:
Anderson,
M.R. Symphony for the City of the Dead, Dimitri Shostakovich and the Siege
of Leningrad. Sommerville, MA:
Candlewick, 2015.
Sheinkin,
Steve. Most Dangerous, Daniel Ellsberg
and the Secret History of the Vietnam War. New York: Roaring Brook Press,
2015.
Sweet, Melissa.
Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2016.
J NONFICTION:
976.044 BRO – Brown, Dan. Drowned City:
Hurricane Katrina. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. Graphic Novel format.
ADULT FICTION
Lackey,
Mercedes. From a High Tower. New York: DAW books, 2015.
….
A Study in Sable. New York:
Hyperian, 2016.
Putney, Mary
Jo. Once a Soldier. NY: Kensington
Books, 2016.
Schwab,
V.E. A Darker Shade of Magic. NY: Tor, 2015. v-1 of a series.
ADULT NONFICTION
331.48107
Povich, Lynn. The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek sued their bosses and
changed the workplace. NY:
Public Affairs, 2012.
791.4372E Elwes, Cary with Joe Layden. As
You Wish: Inconceivable tales from the making of the Princess Bride. NY: Simon & Schuster,
2014. (second time reading – just
as good)
824.914G Gaiman, Neil. The View from the
Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction.
NY: HarperCollins, 2016.
