Thursday, January 1, 2015

Favorites

I'm always trying to figure out what my favorite books have been.  This morning I was trying to think of favorite illustrators.  Thus this page.  It'll give me a chance to think and research, and an opportunity to find some new stuff, too.

Favorite Books

2015
Red Queen (Aveyard) YA Dystopia
Counting by 7s (Sloan) a GREAT Tweens read - simply to feel good!
Museum of Extraordinary Things, The (Hoffman) great historical fiction (and beautifully read aloud)
Court of Fives  (Elliott) Couldn't-put-it-down like the Hunger Games

2014
Between Georgia (Jackson) AND A GrownUp Kind of Pretty (same author!)
Shockwave (Virgil Flowers #5/Pyemart) (Sandford)
Lost Sisterhood (Fortier)
The Bookman's Tale (Lovett)
The Rosie Project (Simsion)
Never Coming Back (David Raker/UK #4) (Weaver)
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry (Zevin)
The Dead Will Tell (Kate Burkholder #6 (Castillo)
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell (Hashimi)
Flight Behavior (Kingsolver)

2013
Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor #1) (Krueger)
City of Bones (Harry Bosch #8) (Connelly)
Night Ferry (Robotham)
Widower's Tale (Glass)
Night Film (Pessl)
A Discover of Witches (Harkness)

2012
Think of a Number (Dave Gurney #1) Verdon
The Language of Flowers (Diffenbaugh)
Breaking Silence (Kate Burkholder #3) Castillo
Criminal (Will Trent #6) Slaughter
Gone Missing (Kate Burkholder #4) Castillo

ALSO
The Lace Reader (Barry)
People of the Book (Brooks)
The Messenger (Burke)
Solomon's Oak (Mapson)
Forgotten Garden (Morton)
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (O'Farrell)
State of Wonder (Patchett)
Scent of Rain and Lightning (Pickard)
Guernsey Potato Peel and Literary Society (Shaffer)
Jasmine Trade (Hamilton)
Drink the Tea (Kaufman)

Favorite YA
Court of Fives (Elliott)
Red Queen (Aveyard)
A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life (Reinhardt)
Cress (#3 Cinder) (Meyer)
Dairy Queen (Murdock)
If You Find Me (Murdoch)
Jellicoe Road (Marchetta)
Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Taylor)

Favorite Tween
Counting by 7s (Sloan)

Favorite Intermediate
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Favorite Illustrators
Julie Paskich
Karla Gudeon

Favorite Movies
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