2011 Reading List

* = Recommended book

** = Highly recommended book

1. The Twin’s Daughter by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
2. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl *
3. Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen *
4. The Watsons Go To Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis  *
5. Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
6. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien  *
7. Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan  **
8. Lost on Planet China by J. Maarten Troost  *
9. Fall for Anything by Courtney Summers  *
10. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead  *
11. Half Magic by Edward Eager
12. This Gorgeous Game by Donna Freitas
13. Frostbite by Richelle Mead  *
14. Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
15. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
16. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban  **
17. Loud in the House of Myself by Stacy Pershall
18. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
19. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder  *
20. Hush by Eishes Chayil   *
21. The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
22. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins  **
23. Look Me In the Eye: My Life With Asperger’s by John Elder Robison
24. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
25. The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney
26. Linger by Maggie Stiefvater  **
27. The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo  **
28. Sleepless by Cyn Balog
29. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett  *
30. Paranormalcy by Kiersten White  *
31. Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis
32. Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead  **
33. Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins  *
34. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
35. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
36. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
37. A World Without Heroes by Brandon Mull
38. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott  *
39. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han  **
40. Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
41. The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart  **
42. Matilda by Roald Dahl  **
43. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
44. As You Wish by Jackson Pearce
45. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo  *
46. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli  *
47. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson  *
48. Exposed by Kimberly Marcus  *
49. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
50. The Boy Book by E. Lockhart   **
51. Julie & Julia by Julie Powell  *
52. Another Place at the Table by Kathy Harrison  *
53. I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
54. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
55. The Latte Rebellion by Sarah Jamila Stevenson
56. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery  *
57. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly  *
58. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone  **
59. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
60. Holes by Louis Sachar  **
61. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett  *
62. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
63. Bar Flower by Lea Jacobson
64. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
65. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis  **
66. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
67. The Giver by Lois Lowry  **
68. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling  **
69. Rival by Sara Bennett Wealer
70. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
71. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
72. The Treasure Map of Boys by E. Lockhart