Books I’ve Recently Read

“Books are uniquely portable magic.”
~ Stephen King

Titles notated with a ♥ are favourites.

    Currently Reading

  • Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales (Angela Carter)
  • Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)

    2009

  • The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) (4/5)
  • The Hours (Michael Cunningham) (5/5) ♥
  • Aesop’s Fables (Aesop) (4/5)
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (J.M. Barrie) (3/5)
  • Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie) (3.5/5)
  • Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf) (2/5)
  • A Million Little Pieces (James Frey) (3.5/5)
  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom) (3.5/5)
  • Veronika Decides to Die (Paulo Coelho) (5/5) ♥
  • Eva (Peter Dickenson) (2/5)
  • The Tales of Beedle the Bard (J.K. Rowling) (4/5)
  • Castle Waiting (Linda Medley) (2.5/5)
  • Thieves and Kings: Book 1 (Mark Oakley) (3/5)
  • Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett) (3/5)
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) (5/5) ♥
  • The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao (Andrew McClellan) (3.5/5)
  • The Giver (Lois Lowry) (4/5)
  • The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman) (5/5)
  • The Hero and the Crown (Robin McKinley) (3.5/5)
  • Voices (Ursula LeGuin) (1/5)
  • The Arrival (Shaun Tan) (3/5)

    2008

  • Old Peter’s Russian Tales (Arthur Ransom)
  • A Wolf at the Table (Augusten Burroughs)
  • Beauty (Robin McKinley)
  • Scarlett Moon (Debbie Viguié)
  • Zel (Donna Jo Napoli)
  • The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls) ♥
  • Extremely Loud and Extremely Close (Jonathon Safran Foer)
  • Twilight (Stephanie Meyer)
  • The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
  • The Other Boleyn Girl (Philippa Gregory)
  • Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
  • My Sister’s Keeper (Jodi Picoult)
  • The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) ♥
  • Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
  • The Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
  • Possible Side Effects (Augusten Burroughs)
  • Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
  • The Shipping News (Annie Proulx)
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Jean-Dominique Bauby) ♥
  • Magical Thinking (Augusten Burroughs)

    2007

  • Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen) ♥
  • Rant (Chuck Palanuik)
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling) ♥
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling) ♥
  • Sense And Sensibility (Jane Austen) ♥
  • The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) ♥
  • Go Ask Alice (Anonymous)
  • Echo (Francesca Lia Block)
  • Paint it Black (Janet Fitch)
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J.K. Rowling)
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J.K. Rowling) ♥
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J.K. Rowling)
  • Harry Potter and the Prison of Azkaban (J.K. Rowling) ♥
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (J.K. Rowling)
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (J.K. Rowling)

    2006

  • Diary (Chuck Palahnuik)
  • Invisible Monsters (Chuck Palahnuik) ♥
  • Running with Scissors (Augusten Burroughs) ♥
  • The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides) ♥
  • What Happened to Lani Garver (Carol Plum-Ucci)
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
  • Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) ♥
  • Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo) ♥
  • Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) ♥
  • A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
  • Wasteland (Francesca Lia Block)
  • Cranberry Queen (Kathleen DeMarco)
  • The Eye of the World (Robert Jordan)
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier)
  • The Guardian (Nicholas Sparks)
  • This Lullaby (Sarah Dessen)

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