Reading like Mad - January through March, 2010

I have been reading like crazy this first quarter of the year. Here are the books:

1. The 7-Day Back Pain Cure by Jesse Cannone
2. The Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan
3. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
4. The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
5. The Children’s Homer by Padraic Colum
6. Theras and his Town by Caroline Dale Snedeker
7. Journey Through Jewish History by Seymour Rossel
8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
9. The Epic of Gilgamesh by N.K. Sandars
10. The Gift of an Ordinary Day by Katrina Kenison
11. The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
12. The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
13. The Trial of Socrates by Don Nardo
14. Dark Water: Art, Disaster and Redemption in Florence by Robert Clark
15. Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety by Judith Warner
16. Chu Ju’s House by Gloria Whelan
17. Postcards From France by Megan Libby
18. China: Land of Dragons and Emperors by Adeline Yen Mah
19. A Year Without Made in China by Sara Buongiorni
20. Revolution is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine
21. Charles and Emma – The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
22. Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang
23. From the Mixed –up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by EL Konigsburg
24. Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka
25. Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick (Iraq)
26. Thura’s Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq by Thura Al-Windawi
27. Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees by Deborah Ellis
28. Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Gatto
29. Moby Dick (partially) by Herman Mellville
30. The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
31. The Hole in Our Gospel by Rich Stearns
32. Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples
33. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury


I'll highlight a few below.