A Christmas Carol

Title: A Christmas Carol
Author: Charles Dickens
Rating: ★★★★

O Pioneers

Title: O Pioneers
Author: Willa Cather
Rating: ★★★★

Favorite Quote:

"And now the old story has begun to write itself over there. Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years."

The Secret Garden

Title: The Secret Garden
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Rating: ★★★★

Mini Shopaholic

Title: Mini Shopaholic
Author: Sophie Kinsella
Rating:★★★★

Germs, Genes, and Civilization

Title: Germs, Genes, and Civilization - How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today
Author: David P. Clark
Rating: ★★★

Mockingjay

Title: Mockingjay
Author: Suzanne Collins
Rating: ★★★

Far from the Madding Crowd

Title: Far from the Madding Crowd
Author: Thomas Hardy
Rating: ★★★★

Pollyanna

Title: Pollyanna
Author: Eleanor H. Porter
Rating: ★★★★

A Room with a View

Title: A Room with a View
Author: E. M. Forster
Rating: ★★★

Thomas Hardy

Title: Thomas Hardy
Author: Claire Tomalin
Rating: ★★

Mother Tongue

Title: The Mother Tongue, English and How It Got that Way
Author: Bill Bryson

Rating: ★★★

Quote:

"just nine [words] account for fully one quarter of all the words in almost any sample of written English. Those nine are: and, be, have, it, of, the, to, will, and you."

Street Gang

Title: Street Gang, the Complete History of Sesame Street
Author: Michael Davis
Rating: ★★★½

Physics for Future Presidents

Title: Physics for Future Presidents
Author: Richard A. Muller
Rating: ★★★★

The Help

Title: The Help

Author: Kathryn Stockett

Rating: ★★★★★

The Painted Veil

Title: The Painted Veil
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Rating: ★★★★★

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

Title: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
Author: Stephanie Meyer
Rating: ★★

The Passion of Artemisia

Title: The Passion of Artemisia
Author: Susan Vreeland
Rating: ★★★

The Story of Tea

Title: The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide

Authors: Mary Lou Heiss and Robert J. Heiss

Rating: ★★

Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang

Title: Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
Author: Chelsea Handler
Rating: ★★★

Seesaw Girl

Title: Seesaw Girl
Author: Linda Sue Park
Rating: ★★★

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Title: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Author: Muriel Barbery
Rating: ★★★★★

Favorite Quote:

"I have spent every moment of my existence that could be spared from work in reading, watching films, and listening to music. But my frenzied devouring of cultural objects seems to me to suffer from a major error in taste: brutally mixing respectable works with other that are far less so."

Project Mulberry

Title: Project Mulberry
Author: Linda Sue Park
Rating: ★★★★

Marked

Title: The House of Night: Marked
Author: P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Rating: ★★★★

A Single Shard

Title: A Single Shard
Author: Linda Sue Park
Rating: ★★★★★

When You Reach Me

Title: When You Reach Me
Author: Rebecca Stead
Rating: ★★★

Forest Born

Title: Forest Born
Author: Shannon Hale
Rating: ★★★★★

Bright-Sided

Title: Bright-Sided: How The Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Rating: ★★★★

The Maze Runner

Title: The Maze Runner
Author: James Dashner
Rating: ★★

The Calligrapher's Daughter

Title: The Calligrapher's Daughter
Author: Eugenia Kim
Rating: ★★★

When My Name Was Keoko

Title: When My Name Was Keoko
Author: Linda Sue Park
Rating: ★★★★

Official Book Club Selection

Title: Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir
Author: Kathy Griffin
Rating: ★★★★