goal: 40 books

• ✔ Cold Springs Riordan (6)
• ✔ Allegiant Roth (7)
• ✔ 84 Charing Cross Road Hanff
• ✔ When You Reach Me Stead
• ✔ Sabriel nix
• ✔ House of Hades Riordan (7.5)
• ✔ The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street Hanff
• ✔ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night haddon
• ✔ The Secret Life of Bees monk
• Pants on Fire cabot
• Redwall jacques
• ✔ Once Upon a Marigold ferris
• ✔ Beauty mckinley
• ✔ Sweethearts zarr
• Stargirl spinelli
• ✔ Eleanor and Park rowell
• ✔ Mariel of Redwall jacques
• ✔ Anne of Green Gables montgomery
• ✔ Brideshead Revisited waugh
• ✔ Circle of Magic: Sandry's Book pierce
• ✔ Cinder meyer
• ✔ Scarlet meyer
• ✔ Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist cohn/levithan
• ✔ Bossypants fey
• ✔ Jack London: A Biography dyer
• ✔ Sammy Keyes and the Kiss Goodbye van draanen
• ✔ Side Effects May Vary murphy
• ✔ The Blood of Olympus riordan

Picture Books

• ✔ Firebird Isadora
• Strega Nona: Her Story de Paola
• ✔ Running Shoes Lipp
• The Story of Babar de Brunhoff
• Madeline Bemelmans
• The Lady of Guadalupe de Paola
• ✔ Don't Let the Pigeons Drive the Bus Willems
• ✔ The Wretched Stone van allsburg
• ✔ The Stranger van allsburg
• ✔ The Sweetest Fig van allsburg
• ✔ Anno's Italy anno
• ✔ The Girl Who Wouldn't Brush Her Hair bernheimer
• ✔ I, Galileo christensen
• ✔ Max's Chocolate Chicken wells
• ✔ Max and Ruby's Snow Day wells
• ✔ A Lion for Lewis wells
• ✔ Max and Ruby's Midas: Another Greek Myth wells
• Amelia Bedelia parish
• Andrew's Loose Tooth munsch
• ✔ Anno's USA anno
• ✔ Big & Little jenkins
• ✔ 26 Fairmount Ave de paola
• ✔ The Man Who Made Time Travel lasky
• ✔ Jim Henson: The Guy Who Played with Puppets krull
• Goggles! keats
• Dreams keats

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Total: 28//Total Picture Books: 27 ________________________________________________________________

Favorites (new): Sabriel, The Secret Life of Bees, Once Upon a Marigold, all the McKinley books!, Mariel of Redwall, Cinder & Scarlet, Sammy Keyes and the Kiss Goodbye, Brideshead Revisited//Favorite Picture Books (new): Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Max & Ruby books, The Man Who Made Time Travel ________________________________________________________________

Comments: I didn't quite make the goal of 40 books (and I meant books with chapters) but I did really enjoy the books I actually finished. Caroline's recommendations are always good. Read a fairly wide variety of books, including a biography, a travel journal, random books from the thrift store, books I missed as a kid (Anne of Green Gables..), and tina fey's memoir, not to mention the usual fantasy and/or YA novels. Should read more science-related books. ________________________________________________________________

In the future: Keep going with the series Cinder and Scarlet come from, read more kids books!, read more travel books, write letters to authors when I really like the book. Read a wider variety of books, read things that just came out, read biographies, read travel logs, read about science, read about my faith, read philosophical works.