i started writing reviews back in 2005/2006, though you’ll have to forgive me for my juvenile review style (if you go back that far).  the review writing has been a work in progress for me and has no doubt evolved over the years, and will hopefully continue to evolve.

and, as life has it, my reading was inconsistent, as was my writing.  if you know of a way to make life go away so that i can read more, please let me know.  :)

favorites are anotated with an asterisk (*)

2010

1. 1. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry *
   2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak *
   3. Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
   4. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
   5. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
   6. Monster by Walter Dean Myers
   7. Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
   8. The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
   9. The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz
   10. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler *
   11. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
   12. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
   13. Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
   14. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
   15. Meet Me on the Paisley Roof by Murray Tillman
   16. The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
   17. This One Is Mine by Maria Semple
   18. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
   19. The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson *
   20. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
   21. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
   22. The Hunt for the Eye of Ogin by Patrick Doud
   23. Luna
   24. Paper Daughter by Jeanette Ingold
   25. The Bird Room by Chris Killen
   26. Coraline
   27. The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk
   28. If I Stay by Gayle Forman *
   29. Hypnotizing Maria by Richard Bach
   30. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
   31. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins  *
   32. No Greater Love by Kathi Mills-Macias
   33. Going Bovine by Libba Bray
   34. Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey *
   35. The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia
   36. An Unfinished Score by Elise Blackwell
   37. Mudbound by Hillary Jordan  *
   38. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende  *
   39. The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
   40. The City and the City by China Mieville
   41. Looking for Alaska by John Green
   42. Everything is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma by Emma Larkin
   43. Horns by Joe Hill
   44. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
   45. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
   46. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
   47. Almost Dead by Assaf Gavron
   48. Stand by Debbie Williamson  *
   49. The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
   50. The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors by Michele Young-Stone  *
   51. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
   52. Buying Time by Pamela Samuels Young
   53. The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
   54. Original Sins by Peg Kingman
   55. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
   56. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
   57. The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
   58. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee  *
   59. The Murderer’s Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers
   60. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
   61. Kapitoil by Teddy Wayne
   62. A Step from Heaven by An Na
   63. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
   64. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
   65. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley  *
   66. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
   67. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
   68. Flight by Sherman Alexie  *
   69. How to Be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway
   70. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
   71. Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
   72. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe  *
   73. Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search and Rescue Dogby Susannah Charleson
   74. Ida B by Katherine Hannigan
   75. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
   76. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy  *
   77. I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyways by Tracy McMillan
   78. The Blessings of the Animals by Katrina Kittle
   79. Little Bee by Chris Cleave
   80. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins  *
   81. Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill  *
   82. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
   83. Sula by Toni Morrison
   84. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison  *
   85. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
   86. Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins
   87. In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
   88. Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Story Began by Art Spiegelman  *
   89. Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
   90. Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
   91. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
   92. Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
   93. The Peep Diaries by Hal Niedzviecki
   94. Mediated by Thomas de Zengotita
   95. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
   96. Beloved by Toni Morrison
   97. Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
   98. Neuromancer by William Gibson
   99. Jazz by Toni Morrison
   100. Count Zero by William Gibson
   101. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
   102. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

2009

1. 1. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
   2. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
   3. New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
   4. Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
   5. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
   6. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
   7. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
   8. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith *
   9. Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
   10. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
   11. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
   12. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
   13. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
   14. Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
   15. Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
   16. All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
   17. From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
   18. Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
   19. The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs
   20. Proof by Seduction by Courtney Milan
   21. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami *
   22. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

2008

1. 1. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
   2. Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
   3. The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
   4. The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman
   5. The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman

2007

1. 1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
   2. Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
   3. Eragon
   4. Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
   5. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
   6. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
   7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
   8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
   9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
   10. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
   11. Eldest by Christopher Paolini
   12. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini *
   13. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
   14. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

2006

1. 1. The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
   2. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
   3. My Friend Leonard by James Frey
   4. Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
   5. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers
   6. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
   7. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
   8. Night by Elie Wiesel
   9. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
   10. Lucky by Alice Sebold
   11. The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
   12. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts *
   13. Tsotsi by Athol Fugard
   14. Marley & Me: Life and Love with the Worlds Worst Dog by John Grogan
   15. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
   16. Middlesex by Geoffrey Eugenides
   17. Wicked by Gregory Maguire *
   18. Look at Me by Jennifer Egan

2005

1. 1. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
   2. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
   3. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk *
   4. Jonathon Livingston Seagull by Robert Bach *
   5. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
   6. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
   7. Hawaii by James Michener
   8. Seven Habits for Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
   9. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
   10. The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
   11. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
   12. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupèry *

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