| Alene | Bruce | Both (aloud) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid Zoe Tout Court: La Fete des Cupcakes, Charise M. Harper | ||
| May | The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes The Woman Lit by Fireflies, Jim Harrison Le Roman de Renart, Jean-Marc Mathis & Thierry Martin | Swimming Home, Deborah Levy | The Circus at the End of the Sea, Lori R. Snyder |
| April | Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver Lady Oracle, Margaret Atwood Slow Horses, Mick Herron | The Colors of All the Cattle, Alexander McCall Smith Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver Diving Free, Carlos Eyles | |
| March | The Colors of All the Cattle, Alexander McCall Smith Diving Free, Carlos Eyles Sounds of the Ocean, Susan Casey Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh | What a Fish Knows, Jonathan Balcombe | The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling |
| February | What A Fish Knows, Jonathan Balcombe Precious & Grace, Alexander McCall Smith My Reading Life, Pat Conroy | Dead Downwind, Bill Riddle | Hank Zipzer: Day of the Iguana, Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver |
| January 2023 | The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt | My Ship is So Small, Ann Davison The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers | Some Places More Than Others, Renee Watson Stuart Little, E.B. White |
| December 2023 | Fifteen Dogs, Andre Alexis My Ship Is So Small, Ann Davison The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers Rosewater, Tade Thompson Sacrees Sorcieres, Roald Dahl (in French) | Underland, Robert MacFarlane Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, Kathleen Rooney | |
| November | In Sunshine, In a Beautiful Garden, Kathleen Cambor The House of Unexpected Sisters, Alexander McCall Smith The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine, Alexander McCall Smith Swimming Home, Deborah Levy | The House of Unexpected Sisters Alexander, McCall Smith Snuff, Terry Pratchett (audiobook) | Tangled Threads, Pegi Deitz Shea |
| October | Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, Kathleen Rooney The Hare with Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal The Devil’s Teeth, Susan Casey Any Human Heart, William Boyd | Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell Devil’s Teeth, Susan Casey | Simon Sort of Says, Erin Bow |
| September | The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell | Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts, Kate Racculia The Heat Islands, Randy Wayne White | |
| August | The Mermaid of Black Conch, Monique Roffey Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel | The Mermaid of Black Conch, Monique Roffey The Hare with Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal | |
| July | How to Speak Whale, Tom Mustill | Summer of Changes, Ann Alma In the Night Kitchen, Maurice Sendak (translated into French by ADR) | |
| June 2023 | The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Lisa See | Criss Cross, Lynne Rae Perkins | |
| May | Peace Like a River, Leif Enger Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts, Kate Racculia In One Person, John Irving Making Money, Terry Pratchett (audiobook) | The Happy isles of Oceania, Paul Theroux | The Boy Who Fell to Shore, Charles J. Doane |
| April | Starlight, Richard Wagamese Underland, Robert MacFarlane The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretchen Ehrlich The Pelican Chorus & The Quangle Wangle’s Hat, Edward Lear | The Widow, The Priest and The Octopus Hunter, Amy Chavez Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett (audiobook) | |
| March | The Widow, The Priest and the Octopus Hunter, Amy Chavez Portrait of an Unknown Woman, Daniel Silva | Whose Name We Carry, Ellen Leonard Stalking the Angel, Robert Crais | |
| February | Jeanmarie and the Missing Ring, Lucille Travis The Happy Isles of Oceania, Paul Theroux | West with the Night, Beryl Markham Illusions, Richard Bach Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck | Loser, Jerry Spinelli |
| January 2023 | Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett (audiobook) The Handsome Man’s De Luxe Cafe, Alexander McCall Smith | Cork Boat, John Pollack The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Ehrlich Krakatoa, Simon Winchester | The Last Olympian, Rick Riordan |
| December 2022 | Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward | Precious and Grace, Alexander McCall Smith | The Battle of the Labyrinth, Rick Riordan |
| November | Empress Orchid, Anchee Min The Whip Hand – A Rex Carver Mystery, Victor Canning Krakatoa, Simon Winchester | Questions of Travel, Michelle de Kretser On the Road, Jack Kerouac | |
| October | On the Road, Jack Kerouac | Starlight, Richard Wagamese Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt Hope Never Dies, Andrew Shaffer | Fudge-a-mania, Judy Blume |
| September | Cork Boat, John Pollack Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck | Rainbow Crow, Nancy Van Laan One Crazy Summer, Rita Williams-Garcia | |
| August | Sisters & Spies, Susan Ottaway Desperate Voyage, John Caldwell Catfish and Mandala, Andrew X. Pham | American Gods, Neil Gaiman | The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkein |
| July | The Stars My Blanket, Beryl Smeeton Straight Man, Richard Russo The Cider House Rules, John Irving | Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry, Frederick Backman The Stars My Blanket, Beryl Smeeton The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy | Sam Who Went to Sea, Phyllis Root |
| June 2022 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne | Straight Man, Richard Russo The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine, Alexander McCall Smith | Our Only May Amelia, Jennifer L. Holm |
| May | Little Bee, Chris Cleave Light on Snow, Anita Shreve Hat Full of Sky (audiobook), Terry Pratchett | ||
| April | Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard The Thousand-Mile War, World War II in Alaska & the Aleutians, Brian Garfield The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection, Alexander McCall Smith | I Shall Wear Midnight (audiobook), Terry Pratchett News of the World (audiobook), Paulette Jiles Wintersmith (audiobook), Terry Pratchett The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Caroline Kennedy | The Titan’s Curse, Rick Riordan The Twits, Roald Dahl |
| March | Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate The Sea, Myths & Legends, Angelo S. Rappaport | A Hat Full of Sky (audiobook), Terry Pratchett The Cider House Rules, John Irving Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, Alexander McCall Smith | |
| February | The Overstory, Richard Powers Isaac’s Storm, Erik Larson Trans-Pacific Trimaran, Arthur Piver Brief Answers to The Big Questions, Stephen Hawking | The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection, Alexander McCall Smith | The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn, John Bellairs |
| January 2022 | Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann Tales of a Female Nomad, Rita Golden Gelman | Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson The Overstory, Richard Powers | |
| December 2021 | The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Dr. Seuss | Voyage of the Frog, Gary Paulson Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Wooden Lady, Carolyn Keene | |
| November | Nancy Drew: By the Light of the Study Lamp, Carolyn Keene Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer | A Man Called Ove, Frederick Backman | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown, Jeff Kinney |
| October | The Christopher Robin Story Book, A. A. Milne When We Were Very Young, A. A. Milne A Mouse’s Tale, Pamela Johnson Unsheltered, Barbara Kingsolver | Anne of the Island, L.M. Montgomery | |
| September | The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart | Unsheltered, Barbara Kingsolver | Never Cry Wolf, Farlay Mowat |
| August | A Man Called Ove, Frederik Backman Am I Old Yet, Leah Komaiko Talk Before Sleep, Elizabeth Berg | Anne of Avonlea, L.M. Montgomery | |
| July | The Razor’s Edge, W. Somerset Maugham | Eighty Days, Matthew Goodman French Exit, Patrick DeWitt The Sea, John Banville | |
| June 2021 | The Wayward Bus, John Steinbeck The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell | Watch With Me, Wendell Berry When Rabbit Howls, Trudi Chase Peace Like a River, Leif Enger | |
| May | The Blue Edge, Carlos Eyles | The Blue Edge, Carlos Eyles The Razor’s Edge, W. Somerset Maugham Factfulness, Hans Rosling Manta, Secret Life of Devil Rays, Guy Stevens & Thomas P. Peschak | Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| April | Manta, Secret Life of Devil Rays, Guy Stevens & Thomas P. Peschak Sharks; Silent hunters of the Deep, Reader’s Digest | The Lonely Sea and the Sky, Francis Chichester The Wayward Bus, John Steinbeck Sharks; Silent hunters of the Deep, Reader’s Digest | Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library, Chris Grabenstein |
| March | the sea was our village, Miles Smeeton The Lonely Sea and the Sky, Francis Chichester | City of Beasts, Isabelle Allende Along the Clipper Way, Francis Chichester | Dove, Robin Lee Graham Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One, Judy Blume Ramona and her Father, Beverly Cleary |
| February | Along the Clipper Way, Francis Chichester (selected chapters) | To the Reefs, Bernard Motissier the sea was our village, Miles Smeeton | Crazy Lady, Jane Leslie Conly |
| January 2021 | Birdcage Walk, Helen Dunmore The Mystery of Alice, Lee Bacon (audiobook) | The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien |
| December 2020 | Rounding the Horn, Dallas Murphy | Train I Ride, Paul Mosier Le Petit Prince, Antoine St. Exupery | |
| November | The Last of the Blue Water Hunters, Carlos Eyles | Trans-Pacific Trimaran, Arthur Piver The Last of the Blue Water Hunters, Carlos Eyles | Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine |
| October | Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford David & Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel, Jeff Kinney |
| September | Man and His World – 2, The Evolution of the Modern World: A Course in History and Geography, James Mainwaring The Sisters Brothers, Patrick DeWitt The Lives of Whales & Sharks, Richard C. Connor & Dawn Micklethwaite Peterson | The Sisters Brothers, Patrick DeWitt David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards | A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Madeline L’Engle |
| August | Caleb’s Crossing, Geraldine Brooks The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon | All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr | |
| July | Rumpole a la Carte, John Mortimer Maiden Voyage, Tania Aebi | Maiden Voyage, Tania Aebi | A Wind in the Door, Madeline L’Engle |
| June 2020 | Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne The Road to Character, David Brooks | A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead |
| May | Adrift, Steven Callahan Eighty Days, Matthew Goodman | The Double Comfort Safari Club, Alexander McCall Smith | The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman |
| April | Highly Illogical Behavior, John Corey Whaley | Adrift, Steven Callahan | |
| March | The Double Comfort Safari Club, Alexander McCall Smith | Call It Courage, Armstrong Sperry | |
| February | The View from Saturday, e.l. konigsburg Less, Andrew Sean Greer | Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert | Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, Judy Blume |
| January 2020 | Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens The Martian, Andy Weir | Highly Illogical Behavior, John Corey Whaley | The Tale of Despereux, Kate DiCamillo |
| December 2019 | Pachinko, Min Jin Lee | John Peel: Margrave of the Marshes, John Peel & Sheila Ravenscroft | The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pene du Bois Jukebox Joyride (audiobook) |
| November | Anything Worth Doing, Jo Deurbrouck | Anything Worth Doing, Jo Deurbrouck Less, Andrew Sean Greer | Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter |
| October | Among Whales, Roger Payne | ||
| September | The Handsome Man’s De Luxe Cafe, Alexander McCall Smith The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell | The Fledgling, Jane Langton | |
| August | The Girls’ Guide to Hunting & Fishing, Melissa Bank All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr | blink, Malcolm Gladwell Set sail and Live Your Dreams, April and Bruce Winship | Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli M. Chatouille et le Dragon, Roger Hargreaves |
| July | The Language of Baklava, Diana Abu-Jaber | Rounding The Horn, Dallas Murphy Tears of the Giraffe, Alexander McCall Smith The Shark Chronicles, John A. Musick & BeverlyMcMillan | The Water Babies, Charles Knightly Mr. Birthday, Roger Hargreaves Les Monsieur Madame et les Dinosaures, Roger Hargreaves |
| June 2019 | Billy Budd, Herman Melville | ||
| May | Emma, Jane Austen We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates | Mansfield Park, Jane Austen The Martian, Andy Weir Emma, Jane Austen | Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli Josie on Her Own, Gunilla B. Norris Une Sorcière dans la Boutique, Mymi Doinet M. Peureux et Les Pirates M. Rapide M. Etonnant Mme Bonheur et la Sorcière all by Roger Hargreaves |
| April | The Miracle at Speedy Motors, Alexander McCall Smith | Among Whales, Roger Payne | Crispin, The Cross of Lead, Avi Perdu? Retrouve!, Oliver Jeffers Mme Vite-Fait M. Non Les Monsieur Madame et les Dinosaures Mme Autoritaire M. Costaud all by Roger Hargreaves |
| March | Cyber.kdz: 3-6 When the Chips Are Down In Pursuit of Picasso Blackout in the Amazon The Great Nasa Flu by Bruce Balan | ||
| February | Cyber.kdz:2 A Picture’s Worth, Bruce Balan Cyber.kdz:1 In Search of Scum, Bruce Balan | Zoo Quest for a Dragon, David Attenborough | The Family Under the Bridge, Natalie Savage Carlson Lost Horizon, James Hilton |
| January 2019 | Corduroy Mansions, Alexander McCall Smith | Soul of an Octopus, Sy Montgomery | |
2005-2018: Alene – Bruce – Both of Us
Alene
December 2018
The Meaning of Everything, Simon Winchester
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge, M.T. Anderson & Eugene Yelchin
Tears of the Giraffe, Alexander McCall Smith
November 2018
A Gentleman from Moscow, Amor Towles
Alone on the Wall, Alex Honnold with David Roberts
The People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
Dog Man, Lord of the Fleas, Dav Pilkey
October 2018
The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey
September 2018
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
August 2018
The Shark Chronicles, John A Musick & Beverly McMillan
Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
July 2018
The Samurai’s Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
Zoo Quest for a Dragon, David Attenborough
June 2018
The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh
May 2018
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards
April 2018
The Soul of an Octopus, Sy Montgomery
Serpent in Paradise, Dea Birkett
March 2018
The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
February 2018
Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
Seized, Max Hardberger
January 2018
Before the Wind, Jim Lynch
December 2017
The Walrus on my Table, Anthony Guglielmo & Cari Lynn
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms, Gail Tsukiyama
The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett (audiobook)
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party, Alexander McCall Smith
November 2017
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon
September 2017
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, Ruth Benedict
Shadows on the Koyukuk, An Alaskan Native’s Life Along the River, Sidney Huntington, as told to Jim Rearden
Of Orcas and Men – What Killer Whales Can Teach Us, David Neiwert
August 2017
Teddy’s poetry & prose
July 2017
Harlan Hubbard, Life and Work, Wendell Berry
The Missing Piece, Shel Silverstein
June 2017
Solar, Ian McEwan (audiobook)
I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett (audiobook)
May 2017
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
April 2017
Japan at a Glance, International Internship Programs
February 2017
Letters from the Hive, An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, & Humankind, Stephen Buchmann with Banning Repplier
January 2017
Japanese Identity, Isamu Kurita
June 2016
The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
April 2016
White Man Returns, Agnes Newton Keith
Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver
March 2016
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
January 2016
Three Came Home, Agnes Newton Keith
Land Below the Wind, Agnes Newton Keith
December 2015
Dr. Seuss, Kathleen Kudlinski
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace, The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram, Translated by Andrew X. Pham
(unreadable pirated edition – didn’t finish)
November 2015
Red Planet (audio), Robert A. Heinlein
October 2015
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit (audio), Paula Danziger
Miracles on Maple Hill (audio), Virginia Sorensen
September 2015
The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
August
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
July 2015
Carpe Jugulum (audio), Terry Pratchett
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
May 2015
The Last Continent (audio), Terry Pratchett
April 2015
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, Alexander McCall Smith
December 2014
Hogfather (audio), Terry Pratchett
August 2014
The First Rumpole Omnibus, John Mortimer
Point Omega, Don DeLillo
July 2014
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Alexander McCall Smith
June 2014
Lamb, Christopher Moore
May 2014
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
Star Island, Carl Hiaasen
April 2014
The Lady and the Sharks, Eugenie Clark
March 2014
The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover, Kinky Friedman
January 2014
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
December 2013
The Log of the Skipper’s Wife, James Balano
Mr Phillips, John Lanchester
October 2013
Arty & the Fox, Barry Crump
September 2013
Bangkok Blondes, Bangkok Women’s Writer’s Group
March – August 2013
Refit – no books read
February 2013
March, Geraldine Brooks
Poseidon’s Steed; The Story of Seahorses From Myth to Reality, Helen Scales
January 2013
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
December 2012
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
November 2012
His Best Stories, Witi Ihimera
October 1202
The Flight of the Phoenix, Elleston Trevor
Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett (audiobook)
The Shadow Lines, Amitav Ghosh
Close to the Wind, Pete Goss
September 2012
Maskerade, Terry Pratchett (audiobook)
The Whale Rider, Witi Ihimera
The Constant Gardener, John Le Carre
Interesting Times, Terry Pratchett (audiobook)
Possession, A.S. Byatt
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
August 2012
A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Death of a Cruise Ship; The Mystery of the Mikhail Lermontov, Tom O’Connor
July 2012
Eels, James Prosek
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
June 2012
The Magic Treehouse: The Knight at Dawn, Mary Pope Osborne
May 2012
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
House Rules, Jodi Picoult
Minerva Reef, Olaf Ruhen
The Other Side of the Story, Marian Keyes
The Magic Treehouse: Dinosaurs Before Dark, Mary Pope Osborne
April 2012
Animal Vegetable Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
March 2012
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
February 2012
Outcasts United, Warren St. John
F is for Fugitive, Sue Grafton
A Widow for One Year, John Irving
The Last Deception of Palliser Wentwood, Imogen de la Bere
January 2012
Mao’s Last Dancer, Li Cunxing
December 2011
Great Wolf and the Good Woodsman, Helen Hoover
Red Sky in Mourning, Tami Oldham Ashcraft
The Return of the King, JRR Tolkien
November 2011
The Two Towers, JRR Tolkien
October 2011
For One More Day, Mitch Albom
Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
September 2011
The Fellowship of the Ring, JRR Tolkien
August 2011
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
The Other Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
Tales of the South Pacific, James Michener
Ashtanga Yoga, David Swenson
July 2011
Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Marian Keyes
Portrait in Sepia, Isabel Allende
June 2011
Keeping Faith, Jodi Picoult
Getting Stoned with Savages, J Maarten Troost
The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
May 2011
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
All This, and Heaven Too, Rachel Field
Beim Kinderarzt, Mariana Kohl
April 2011
Awesome, Neil Pasricha
Uncle Whiskers, Philip Brown
The Language of Silence, J Allen Boone
Whale Tales, Peter J. Fromm
March 2011
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
Aku-Aku, Thor Heyerdahl
A World of My Own, Robin Knox-Johnston
February 2011
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter., Carson McCullers
Trimaran Against the Trades, Jean Cole
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
Pitcairn’s Island, Chs Nordhoff, Jms Norman Hall
January 2011
A Thread Across the Ocean, John Steele Gordon
Dream Time, Neville Hockley
House of Sand & Fog, Andre Dubus III
December 2010
The Orchard Keeper, Cormac McCarthy
The Mary Deare, Hammond Innes
Soul Music (audio), Terry Pratchett
November 2010
Plundering Paradise – The Hand of Man on the Galapagos Islands, Michael D’Orso
The Diving Bell & the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
In The Company of Cheerful Ladies (The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency), Alexander McCall Smith
October 2010
Fatal Storm, Rob Mundle
Sit, Joe Bennett
September 2010
Chasing the Dream – Tryste Around the World, Val Haigh
The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh
The City of Falling Angels, John Berendt
Mariner’s Account of the Tonga Islands, John Martin
Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
August 2010
To Free a Dolphin, Richard O’Barry
Crusoes of Sunday Island, Elsie K. Morton
July 2010
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollen
Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende
June 2010
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
Lone Voyager, Joseph E. Garland
Lords & Ladies (audio), Terry Pratchett
Atonement, Ian McEwan
May 2010
The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
Haschen, Maribeth Boelts (children’s book in German)
April 2010
The World According to Garp, John Irving
February – March 2010
none – working on boat
January 2010
Plain Truth, Jodi Piccoult
December 2009
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
Half-Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls
Angels, Marian Keyes
November 2009
Evolution’s Captain, Peter Nichols
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
Skinny Dip, Carl Hiaasen
October 2009
You Can’t Blow Home Again, Herb Payson
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez
September 2009
Small Gods (audio), Terry Pratchett
Fatu-Hiva, Thor Heyerdahl
The Deadly Sunshade, Phoebe Atwood Taylor
At First Sight, Nicholas Sparks
Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
August 2009
Middlemarch, George Elliot
Reaper Man (audio), Terry Pratchett
July 2009
Morality for Beautiful Women, Alexander McCall Smith
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
June 2009
That Old Ace in the Hole, Annie Proulx
Mountains Upon Mountains, Tracy Kidder
Seaworthy, T.R. Pearson
May 2009
Baby Proof, Emily Giffin
Captain James Cook – A Biography, Richard Hough
The Beast, Walter Dean Myers
April 2009
Moving Pictures (audio), Terry Pratchett
Until I Find You, John Irving
Tamata & the Alliance, Bernard Moitessier
March 2009
Guards! Guards! (audio), Terry Pratchett
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
The Water In Between, Kevin Patterson
Pyramids (audio), Terry Pratchett
February 2009
Coral Reef Fishes, Ewald Lieske & Robert Myers
Suite Francaise, Irène Némirovsky
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult
January 2009
The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin
December 2008
In the Company of Dolphins, Irwin Shaw
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
Snow Flower & the Secret Fan, Lisa See
The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer
Grayson, Lynn Fox
November 2008
Night, Elie Wiesel
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
Nilo & the Tortoise, Ted Lewin
October 2008
An Equal Music, Vikram Seth
September 2008
What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Richard P. Feynman
August 2008
Carry Me Across Water, Ethan Canin
Wordstruck, Robt McNeil
July 2008
Music & Silence, Rose Tremain
Wicked, Gregory Maguire
Sourcery (audio), Terry Pratchett
June 2008
Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
Equal Rites (audio), Terry Pratchett
Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks
May 2008
Witches Abroad (audio), Terry Pratchett
The Wind in the River, Ferrol Sams
Wyrd Sisters (audio), Terry Pratchett
The Bounty, Caroline Alexander
The Light Fantastic (audio), Terry Pratchett
The Mystery of Easter Island, Katherine Routledge
Four Souls, Louise Erdrich
April 2008
31 Dream Street, Lisa Jewell
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
True Believer, Nicholas Sparks
The Honk & Holler Opening Soon, Billie Letts
Moitessier: A Sailing Legend, Jean-Michel Barrault
March 2008
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
The Pirate Coast, Richard Zacks
The Sad Truth About Happiness, Anne Giardini
February 2008
Homeland & Other Stories, B. Kingsolver
The Full Cupboard of Life, Alexander McCall Smith
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
State of Fear, Michael Crichton
Move to Strike, Parri O’Shaughnessy
The Kalahari Typing School for Men, Alexander McCall Smith
January 2008
Prospero’s Children, Jan Siegel
December 2007
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough
Truth & Beauty, Ann Patchett
I’m a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson
November 2007
Small Wonders, B. Kingsolver
Many Waters, Madeleine L’Engle
Trouble in Paradise, Robert B. Parker
October 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
A Swiftly Tilting Planet, M. L’Engle
September 2007
Bailey’s Cafe, Gloria Naylor
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle Aug 07
Intrusions, Ursula Hegi
July 2007
Albatross, Deborah Scaling Kiley & Meg Noonan
The Laws, Connie Palman
The Guardian, Nicholas Sparks
June 2007
Life Is So Good, George Dawson & Richard Glaubman
The Darwin Conspiracy, John Darnton
Zorro, Isabel Allende
Around the World in Eighty Days (audio), Jules Verne
May 2007
The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman
Hank Zipzer and the Day of the Iguana, Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver
Over the Edge of the World, Laurence Bergreen
April 2007
The Color of Water, James McBride
Nights of Rain and Stars, Maeve Binchy
Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
Rescue in the Pacific, Tony Farrington
March 2007
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The Time Traveler’s Wife (audio), Audrey Niffenegger
Xenophobia (audio), Orson Scott Card
The Nanny Diaries, Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
February 2007
Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
The Water In Between, Kevin Patterson
December 2006
Women Sailors & Sailor’s Women, David Cordingly
Harry Potter #5, J.K. Rowling
Billy Bathgate, E.L. Doctorow
November 2006
Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver
Lay That Trumpet In My Hands, (?)
October 2006
The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver
Bruce
December 2018
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge, M.T. Anderson & Eugene Yelchin
November 2018
Vaquita: Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez, Brooke Bessesen
Alone On The Wall, Alex Honnold with David Roberts
The Samurai’s Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
Dogman: Lord of the Fleas, Dave Pilkey
October 2018
Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
September 2018
A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
July 2018
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency), Alexander McCall Smith
The Miracle at Speedy Motors (The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency), Alexander McCall Smith
June 2018
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms, Gail Tsukiyama
May 2018
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
March 2018
Seized, Max Hardberger
January 2018
Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey
December 2017
Making Money (Audio), Terry Pratchett
November 2017
Of Orcas and Men, David Neiwert
Monstrous Regiment (Audio), Terry Pratchett
October 2017
Thud (Audio), Terry Pratchett
September 2017
Shadows on the Koyukuk,Sidney Huntington
The Sword and the Chrysanthemum, Ruth Benedict
The Wee Free Men (Audio), Terry Pratchett
August 2017
Night Watch (Audio), Terry Pratchett
July 2017
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Michael Chabon
Thief of Time (Audio), Terry Pratchett
I Shall Wear Midnight (Audio), Terry Pratchett
June 2017
The Thousand Mile War, Brian Garfield
Who I Am (Audio), Pete Townsend
May 2017
West of Jesus, Steven Kotler
April 2017
Running the Shikoku Pilgrimage; 900 Miles to Enlightenment, Amy Chavez
February 2017
Love, Leo Buscaglia
November 2016
Isaac’s Storm, Erik Larson
August 2016
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Yukio Mishima
July 2016
The Key, Junichiro Tanizaki
June 2016
The Right Attitude to Rain, Alexnder McCall Smith
The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
April 2016
White Man Returns, Agnes Newton Keith
March 2016
Trying To Save Piggy Sneed, , John Irving
Poseidon’s Steed, The Story of Seahorses, From Myth to Reality, Helen Scales
February 2016
Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver
January 2016
Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier
December 2015
Three Came Home, Agnes Newton Keith
Land Below the Wind, Agnes Newton Keith
November 2015
Lucky You, Carl Hiaasen
Rumpole a la Carte, John Mortimer
October 2015
Eels, James Prosek
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
The Fault In Our Stars, John Green
September 2015
An Exaltation of Larks, James Lipson
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
The Rice Mother, Rani Manicka
August 2015
All Elevations Unknown, Sam Lightner, Jr.
July 2015
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
June 2015
Cyber.kdz :1 – In Search of Scum, Bruce Balan
Chasing the Horizon, Cap’n Fatty Goodlander
March 2015
Long Walk To Freedom, Nelson Mandela
November 2014
The First Rumpole Omnibus, John Mortimer
September 2014
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
Double Whammy, Carl Hiaasen
August 2014
Strip Tease, Carl Hiaasen
June 2014
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency), Alexander McCall Smith
Point Omega, Don DeLillo
May 2014
The Lady and the Sharks, Eugenie Clark
April 2014
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency), Alexander McCall Smith
Star Island, Carl Hiaasen
March 2013
The Book of General Ignorance, John Mitchinson & John Lloyd
November 2012
Jingo, Terry Pratchett (audiobook)
October 2012
Close to the Wind, Pete Goss
Rounding the Horn, Dallas Murphy
Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett (audiobook)
Hogfather, Terry Pratchett (audiobook)
September 2012
Setting Free the Bears, John Irving
The Flight of the Phoenix, Elleston Trevor
The Rebel Angels, Robertson Davies
Fortune Cookie, Bryce Courtenay
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
Interesting Times, Terry Pratchett (audiobook)
Masquerade, Terry Pratchett (audiobook)
August 2012
The Voyaging Stars; Secrets of Pacific Island Navigators, David Lewis
Bel Canto, Anne Pratchett
A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby
July 2012
Inside the Cannibal Pot, Graeme Lay
Death of a Cruise Ship; The Mystery of the Mikhail Lermontov, Tom O’Connor
Rough Water; Stories of Survival From the Sea, Edited by Clint Willis
June 2012
A Gift of Wings, Richard Bach
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Laurie Lee
May 2012
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
The Wave, Susan Casey
The Last Deception of Palliser Wentwood, Imogen de la Bere
Minerva Reef, Olaf Ruhen
February 2012
A Widow for One Year, John Irving
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
July 2011 – January 2012
Animal Vegetable Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
Red Sky in Mourning, Tami Oldham Ashcraft
June 2011
The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
My Century, Günter Grass
Aku Aku, Thor Heyerdahl
May 2011
Kon Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl
April 2011
Trimaran Against the Trades, Jean Cole
March 2011
Pitcairn’s Island, Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
February 2011
A Thread Across the Ocean, John Steele Gordon
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
January 2011
Dream Time, Neville Hockley
December 2010
The Mary Deare, Hammond Innes
Narrow Dog to Carcassonne, Terry Darlington
November 2010
The Boat That Wouldn’t Float, Farley Mowat
In The Company of Cheerful Ladies (The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency), Alexander McCall Smith
To Free A Dolphin, Richard O’Barry
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Chasing the Dream – Tryste Around the World, Val Haigh
October 2010
Mariner’s Account of the Tonga Islands, John Martin
(If you visit Tonga, you must read this book)
September 2010
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Crusoes of Sunday Island, Elsie K. Morton
August 2010
…reading War and Peace
June 2010
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
The Good Earth (audio), Pearl S. Buck
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
The Race – Extreme Sailing and its Ultimate Event, Tim Zimmermann
May 2010
The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
December 2009 & April 2010
Nada — working on boat (and lots of New Yorkers in the US)
November 2009
Fastnet, Force 10, John Rousmaniere
October 2009
You Can’t Blow Home Again, Herb Payson
The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh
September 2009
Baby Proof, Emily Giffin
The Fourth Hand, John Irving
Eat Pray Love, Elizbeth Gilbert
A World of My Own, Robin Knox-Johnston
Fatu Hiva, Thor Heyerdahl
August 2009
The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester
Lone Voyager – The Extraordinary Adventures of Howard
Blackburn, Hero Fisherman of Gloucester, Joseph E. Garland
July 2009
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky
June 2009
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Chapters 1-5
Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver
Fatal Storm – The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race, Rob Mundle
May 2009
The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin
Skinny Dip, Carl Hiaasen
April 2009
The Deadly Sunshade, Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Evolution’s Captain – The Dark Fate of the Man
Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World, Peter Nichols
March 2009
Captain James Cook – A Biography, Richard Hough
Command a King’s Ship, Alexander Kent
Morality For Beautiful Girls
(The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #3), Alexander McCall Smith
Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder
February 2009
Over the Edge of the World, Laurence Bergreen
The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult
January 2009
Albatross, Deborah Scaling Kiley
September 2008 – December 2008
Grayson, Lynn Cox (I list this but I actually couldn’t finish it because it was so bad)
No other books; most of the time catching up on sailing and
scuba magazines and The New Yorker
August 2008
Wordstruck – A Memoir, Robert MacNeil
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
Passage to Juneau, Jonathan Raban
July 2008
Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Stuntology, Sam Bartlett
The Big Book of Stuntology, Sam Bartlett
Life Is So Good, George Dawson & Richard Glaubman
June 2008
The Whisper of the River, Ferrol Sams
Wicked, Gregory Maguire
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, Gary Kinder
The Mystery of Easter Island, Katherine Routledge
May 2008
Until I Find You, John Irving
Treason’s Harbour, Patrick O’Brian
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
April 2008
In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
Code Zero, Ken Follett
Intrusions, Ursula Hegi
March 2008
Galapágos: A Natural History Guide, Pierre Constant
Einstein In Love, Dennis Overbye
The Voyage of the Beagle (just the Galápagos chapter), Charles Darwin
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin — READ THIS BOOK!
Blue at the Mizzen, Patrick O’Brian
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
February 2008
The Kalahari Typing School for Men (The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #4), Alexander McCall Smith
The Full Cupboard of Life (The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #5), Alexander McCall Smith
Zero (Audiobook), Charles Seife
January 2008
The Path Between the Seas, David McCullough
December 2007
A Policy of Kindness, The Dalai Lama
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
“What Do You Care What Other People Think?”, Richard P. Feynman
November 2007
Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
October 2007
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowlings
September 2007
The Laws, Connie Palman
August 2007
Middlemarch, George Eliot
July 2007
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
June 2007
Straight on till Morning, Mary S. Lovell
The Pirate Coast, Richard Zacks
Soul Music (audio), Terry Pratchett
Fall On Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald
May 2007
The Long Way, Bernard Moitessier
Tamata and the Alliance, Bernard Moitessier
Tricky Business, Dave Barry
Rescue in the Pacific, Tony Farrington
Homeland and Other Stories, Barbara Kingsolver
The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith
Common Sense, Thomas Paine
Reluctant Cook, Janet Gibb
April 2007
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
March 2007
Men at Arms (Audio), Terry Pratchett
Lords & Ladies (Audio), Terry Pratchett
The Bounty, Caroline Alexander
Alone Through the Roaring Forties, Vito Dumas
February 2007
Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis De Bernières
October 2006 – February 2006
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August 2006
Native Tongue, Carl Hiaasen
July 2006
The Map of Love, Ahdaf Soueif
Stormy Weather, Carl Hiassen
June 2006
West With the Night, Beryl Markham
Loitering with Intent, Muriel Sparks
Aftermath, Farley Mowat
May 2006
Going Postal (Audio), Terry Pratchett
Moitessier: A Sailing Legend, Jean-Michel Barrault
April 2006
Holiday on Ice, David Sedaris
A Dog’s Life, Ann Martin
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
March 2006
Carry Me Across the Water, Ethan Canin
February 2006
The Mountains of California, John Muir
January 2006
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
December 2005
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October – November 2005
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Godforsaken Sea, Derek Lundy
The Lost Country, Bill Bryson
September 2005
1984, George Orwell
Death of an Expert Witness, P.D. James
August 2005
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
July 2005
Sex Lives of Cannibals, Martin van Troost
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
Both of Us
We usually have something we read aloud each night.
December 2018
The Summer of the Swans, Betsy Byars
November 2018
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
October 2018
A Little Princess, Francis Hodgkin Burnett
September 2018
The Fighting Ground, Avi
August 2018
Freedom for a Cheetah, Arthur Catherall
July 2018
The Adventures of Nanny Piggins, R.A. Spratt
June 2018
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
May 2018
Junie B., First Grader: Turkeys We Have Loved and Eaten (and Other Thankful Stuff), Barbara Park
April 2018
The Secret School, Avi
March 2018
Rascal, Sterling North
February 2018
Ten Short Stories by Damon Runyon
January 2018
Touching Spirit Bear, Ben Mikaelsen
November 2017
Knee-Knock Rise, Natalie Babbitt
October 2017
Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
May 2017
The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White
March 2017
The Fish in Room 11, Heather Dyer
Sadako & the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr
February 2017
Heart of a Samurai, N. Preus
November 2016
Once Upon a Time in Japan, Syami Kawauchi, Ralph. F. McCarthy
September 2016
The Haunting of Hiram, Eva Ibbotson
August 2016
My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
July 2016
Joey Pigza Loses Control, Jack Gantos
May 2016
The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden
April 2016
Red Sails to Capri, Ann Weil
March 2016
The Sign of the Beaver, Elizabeth George Speare
January 2016
Matilda, Roald Dahl
December 2015
Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Graham
Matilda, Roald Dahl
October 2015
Hoot, Carl Hiaasen
September 2015
The Black Pearl, Scott O’Dell
August 2015
Amber Brown Horses Around, Bruce Coville & Elizabeth Levy
July 2015
Amber Brown Is Moving On, Bruce Coville & Elizabeth Levy
Call of the Wild, Jack London
May 2015
Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
April 2015
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
March 2015
The BFG, Roald Dahl
February 2015
Everything on a Waffle, Polly Horvath
Amber Brown Is Tickled Pink, Bruce Coville & Elizabeth Levy
Have I Ever Told You How Lucky You Are?, Dr. Seuss
January 2015
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Roald Dahl
November 2014
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
The Wanderer, Sharon Creech
October 2014
One-Eyed Cat, Paula Fox
December 2013
The 14 Fibs of Gregory K., Greg Pincus
September 2012
Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
June 2012
The Fir Tree, Hans Christian Andersen
Doctor Doolittle: A Treasury, Hugh Lofting
April 2012
Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
March 2012
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
Les Animaux de la Savane, Agnes Mathieu
December 2012
Sea of Monsters, Rick Riordan
June 2011
South Sea Tales, Jack London
Clementine’s Letter, Sarah Pennypacker
The Talented Clementine, Sarah Pennypacker
Anancy & the Sky God
The Serendipity Effect, Larry Verstraete
The 7 Treasure Hunts, Betsy Byars
How the Camel Got His Hump
Blinky Bill in The Big Bold Bunyip of the Billabong
Coco & Chacha: The Coatis
May 2011
Henny Penny, Jim Lawrence
Nez Rouge, un Sacré Magicien, Elsa Devernois
Samantha Cardigan & the Genie’s Revenge, David Sutherland
The Cheerful Quiet, Betty Horvath
Los Números Con Blancanieves
Creepy Creatures, Seymour Simon
Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish
Come Back, Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish
Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish
Too Many Rabbits -Peggy Parish
Aide T’choupi à s’habiller, Thierry Courtin
Daisy’s Taxi, Ruth Young
Strega Nona, Tomie de Paola
Les Avions
Cher Père Noël, Jeanne Ashbé
March 2011
Who Knew? 50 Great Kiwi Innovations, Steve Bohling
October 2010
Clementine, Sarah Pennypacker
(This is the second time we’ve read this… it is SO good!)
September 2010
The Alligator Case, William Pène du Bois
Go, Dog, Go!, P.D. Eastman
August 2010
The Prince & the Pauper, Mark Twain
July 2010
Rocky Shore, Brian O’Flaherty
A B-Day in the Life of Ozzie Kingsford, Val Bird
Four Rowdy Crickets, Carolyn Carter
Martin’s Gang & the Ogre, Jon Gadsby
Two Hoots, Helen Cresswell
Fuss the Collector, Gaelyn Gordon
The Great Dog Wash, Shellie Braeuner
Django—World’s Greatest Jazz Guitarist, Bonnie Christensen
Pita Pekapeka P.P. & the Four Naughty Boys, Mary Kippenberger
Just How Long Can a Long String Be?, Keith Baker
Surf War!, Margaret Red MacDonald
Fuss the Farm Dog, Gaelyn Gordon
Adventures of Riley—Dolphins in Danger, Amanda Lumry & Laura Hurwitz
The Fabulous Feud of Gilbert & Sullivan, Jonah Winter
The Ocean Alphabet Book, Jerry Pallotta
The Albatross, Barbara Todd
The Day-Glo Brothers, Chris Barton
Katy Duck is a Caterpillar, Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Dance, Y’all, Dance, Kelly Bennett
Pita Pekapeka PP Acrobat Bat, Mary Kippenberger
June 2010
All of my books except Cyber.kdz (ADR made me… for her birthday)
Gezani & the Tricky Baboon, Valanga Khoza
Bully for the Beast!, Kathleen Stevens
How Maui Defied the Goddess of Death, Peter Gossage
Ghost’s Hour, Spook’s Hour, Eve Bunting
Grappling with the Grumblies, Deborah Miller
Seahorse, Chris Butterworth
24 Robbers, Audrey Wood
French Primers:
Ce Que J’Aime, Eileen Ryder
Le Pouissin Jaune, Eileen Ryder
Le Soleil, Lesley Anne Ivory
Les Animaux, Nathalie Bélineau, Jack Delaroche
May 2010
Ernest the Fierce Mouse, Amy & Philip Rowe
I Was a Class 2 Werewolf, Daniel Pinkwater
When Pigs Fly, Valerie Coulman
Hit the Ball Duck, Jez Alboroug
Neptune’s Nursery, Kim Michelle Toft & Allan Sheather
Audrey of the Outback, Christine Harris
March 2010
Babar: Fier d’Isabelle -Laurent de Brunhoff
Jules a une Petite Soeur, Christian Lamblin
Cher Père Noël, Jeanne Ashbé
Aboie, Georges! -Jules Feiffer
Short stories by Mark Twain:
-The Office Bore
-Johnny Greer
-The Great Beef Contract
-The Case of George Fisher
-Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy
-The Judge’s “Spirited Woman”
-Information Wanted
-Some Learned Fables
-My Late Senatorial Secretaryship
-A Fashion Item
-Riley-Newspaper Correspondent
-A Fine Old Man
-Science vs. Luck
-The Killing of Julius Caesar “Localized”
-The Widow’s Protest
-Mr Bloke’s Item
February 2010
Short stories by Mark Twain:
-My Watch, An Instructive Little Tale
-Political Economy
-Journalism in Tennessee
-Story of the Bad Little Boy
-Story of the Good Little Boy
-A Couple of Poems by Twain & Moore
-Niagara
-Answers to Correspondents
-To Raise Poultry
-Experiences of the McWilliamses w/Membranous Croup
-My First Literary Venture
-How the Author was Sold in Newark
The Wizard of Oz, Frank Baum
Joyeux Noël Didou, Yves Got
January 2010
The Jumping Frog (In English, Then in French. Then Clawed Back into a
Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unrenumeated Toil), Mark Twain
November 2009
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
October 2009
Deep Wizardry, Diane Duane
July 2009
Ginger Pye, Eleanor Estes
June 2009
All of BB’s books (Alene’s insistence)
Happy Birthday to You, Dr. Seuss
May 2009
The Boy Who Saved Baseball, John H. Ritter
April 2009
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell
March 2009
The Spiderwick Chronicles #5, Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
(note: this series started OK, but it was severly lame by the time it ended)
The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told, Edited by Christopher Caswell
February 2009
The Spiderwick Chronicles #2, Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
The Spiderwick Chronicles #3, Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
The Spiderwick Chronicles #4, Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
January 2009
Junie B. Jones & her Big Fat Mouth, Barbara Parks
The Spiderwick Chronicles #1, Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
September 2008
The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told, Edited by Christopher Caswell
August 2008
Stone Fox, John Reynolds Gardiner
July 2008
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales, Washington Irving
June 2008
War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
March 2008
The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
February 2008
The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan
December 2007
Call Down the Moon, Myra Cohn Livingston
Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Richard & Florence Atwater
November 2007
The Good Day Mice, Carol Beach York
October 2007
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowlings
(the last third we read aloud)
August 2007
The Last Word and Other Stories, Graham Greene
July 2007
Ellen Tebbits, Beverly Cleary
Shipwrecked Sailor…, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
June 2007
Happy Birthday to You, Dr. Seuss
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ellen Tebbits, Beverly Clearly
May 2007
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
April 2007
The Higher Power of Lucky, Susan Patron
March 2007
Einstein’s Refrigerator, Steve Silverman
January 2007
Clementine, Sarah Pennypacker
October 2006
A Collection of Adventure/Travel Stories that we forgot the title of…
July 2006
The Kindness of Strangers, Anthology
June 2006
Peep-Larrsons Go Sailing, Edith Unnerstaad
May 2006
Caught By the Sea, Gary Paulsen
April 2006
Illusions, Richard Bach
December 2006
All of my books except Cyber.kdz
(She made me)