What have we read?

Happy Birthday! It is hard to believe that we have been discussing books for 9 years, but it is true. Did you know that our first discussion was on the book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card?
 

I always like to look back at the books that we have read over the years. 

Here is the list of what we read in 2014

• "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho and a book off of your "to read list"
• "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
• "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford
• "The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax" by Dorothy Gilman
• "The Devil in the While City" by Erik Larson
• "The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells" Andrew Sean Greer
• "Mrs. Poe" by Lynn Cullen
• "A Long Fatal Love Chase" by Louisa May Alcott
• Banned Book: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• "Tending Roses" by Lisa Wingate
• Audio book of your choice 

Check out this long list (2006-2013) if you want to see what we have read over the years.

2013

• Book you received as a gift
• "The Book of Tomorrow" by Cecelia Ahern
• "The Blue Castle" by L. M. Montgomery
• "Ella Minnow Pea" by Mark Dunn
• " A Breath of Eyre" by Eve Marie Mont
• "Neighborhood Watch" by Cammie McGovern
• "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
• "Orphan Train" Christina Baker Kline
• "The Secrets of Mary Bowser" by Lois Leveen
• Banned Book: "Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Canan Doyle

2012

• “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett
• “ My Life from Scratch” by Gesine Bullock Prado
• “Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt” by Beth Hoffman
• “The Violets of March” by Sarah Jio
• “A Devil to Play” by Jasper Rees
• “Crocodile on the Sandbank” by Elizabeth Peters
• “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers” by Maria Augusta Trapp
• “The Tigers Wife” by Tea Obreht
• “Five Quarters of the Orange” by Joanne Harris
• “The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern
• “Daughters of Witching Hill” by Mary Sharrat 
• Book that your received as a gift 

2011

• “Prayers for Sale” by Sandra Dallas
• “The Princess Bride” by William Goldman
• “The Beekeeper’s Apprentice” by Laurie R. King
• “Hearts of Horses” by Molly Gloss
• “The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” by Alan Bradley
• Novel Destinations: book of your choice that takes place somewhere you have always wanted to go. (Based on the summer reading program theme)
• “The Island” by Victoria Hislop
• “City of Bones” by Cassandra Clare
• Banned book of your choice and or To Kill a Mockingbird
• “Seer of Shadows” by AVI
• “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett

2010

• “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” by David Wroblewski
• “Sarah Canary” by Karen Joy Fowler
• “Emma” by Jane Austen
• “Dewey: The small town library cat who touched the world” by Vicki Myron
• “Book of Unholy Mischief” by Elle Newmark
• “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins
• “The Host” by Stephanie Meyer
• Banned Book of your choice
• “The Forgotten Garden” by Kate Morton
• “Santa Clawed” by Rita Mae Brown
• “The Devlin Diary” by Christi Phillips

2009

• “The Thin Woman” by Dorothy Cannell
• “The Naming” by Alison Croggon
• “Moon Medicine” by Mike Blakely
• “Farewell to Manzanar” by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
• “The Alchemyst” by Michael Scott and/or “Edymion Spring” by Matthew Skelton
• “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” by Lisa See
• “Stepsister Scheme” by Jim C. Hines
• “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer
• “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen
• Banned Book of your choice
• “These Is My Words” by Nancy Turner
• “The Christmas Carol” by Dickens and
• ”The best Christmas Pageant Ever” by Robinson 

2008

• “A Town Like Alice” by Nevil Shute
• “Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west” by Gregory Maguire
• “Tallgrass” by Sandra Dallas
• “A Great and Terrible Beauty” by Libba Bray
• “Housekeeping” by Marilynne Robinson
• “The Book Thief” by Markus Zasak
• “The Princess and the Hound” by Mette Ivie Harrison
• “The Book of Lost Things” by John Connolly
• Arthurian Legend themed book or your choice
• Banned Book: “Twilight” by Stephanie Meyer
• “The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setterfield
• “Winterdance” by Gary Paulsen

2007

• “Poison Study” by Maria V. Snyder
• “Flying Crows” by Jim Lehrar
• “Falling Leaves” by Adeline Yen Mah
• “Mrs. Mike” by Benedict Freedman
• “Timeline” by Michael Crichton
• “S is for Silence” by Sue Grafton
• “Three Cups of Tea” Greg Mortenson
• Retold Fairy Tale of your choice
• “The Tea Rose” by Jennifer Donnelly
• “My Sisters Keeper” Jodi Picoult
• Banned book of your choice
• “Christmas Letters” Debbie Macomber

2006

• “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card
• “The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle” by Avi
• “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger
• “Persian Pickle Club” by Sandra Dallas
• “Murder on the Middle Fork” by Don Ian Smith
• “Darkly Dreaming Dexter” by Jeff Lindsay
• “Elantris” by Brandon Sanderson
• “A Northern Light” by Jennifer Donnelly
• “Peril at End House” by Agatha Christie and one book of your choice by Agatha Christie
• “The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency” by Alexander McCall Smith

What has been your favorite book in 2014? Do you have a favorite that has really stood out over the past 9 years? Have you shared any of these books with anyone?