The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Hatchet Gary Paulsen
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Paper Towns by John Green
Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
Just Kids By Patti Smith
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Bone Dance by Martha Brooks
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Books I started but didn’t’ finish
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides – I’ll get back to it!
50 Shades of Grey by E.L.James – um…
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls – I’ll get back to it!
What did you read? Which book will stay with you forever?
VANESSA SHIELDS, writer 
Besides The Book Thief, were there any other standouts in your reading list this year?
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The Great Gatsby, of course…F. Scott is a master! I really loved all the John Green books…that’s why I read every one he’s ever published!
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The 7 Diana Gabaldon books: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone.
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Great Expectations by Dickens (the children’s version because I read it to the boys)
Some of the Tales of King Arthur
The Three Musketeers by Dumas
And of course laughing through a second pregnancy by you!
The only book I started and couldn’t finish was The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje…maybe some other time…
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Nice! Which one would you recommend I read?
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Only one? That’s tough. I would say Outlander. I really fell in love with the main characters and I read the series the first half of the year, so when I was done I felt like I lost two of my friends. I know it’s corny…
Also, Life of Pi, it wasn’t the reading I enjoyed as much as thinking back when it was all finished. The more I thought about it the more I liked it. I don’t regret reading most of them though.
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I still think about ‘Life of Pi’…I read it years ago and it remains in my mind in its own special spot! I’ll have to check out Outlander…thanks!!
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