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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Best Reads of 2011

Here is a list of my favorite reads from 2011:

10. The Beach Club

9. Captain's Courageous

8. Picture of Dorian Gray

7. My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962

6. The Grapes of Wrath

5. A Foreign Affair

4. Our Mutual Friend

3. The Blind Contessa's New Machine

2. The Help

1. Rules of Civility

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  • The Woodlanders
  • Between Two Worlds
  • Roast Beef Medium
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Children's Literature Classics Read

  • 1982: The BFG
  • 1975: Tuck Everlasting
  • 1964: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • 1964: Harriet the Spy
  • 1962: A Wrinkle in Time
  • 1961: The Phantom Tollbooth
  • 1961: James and the Giant Peach
  • 1960: The Cricket in Times Square
  • 1959: The Rescuers
  • 1958: A Bear Called Paddington
  • 1958: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
  • 1956: The Hundred and One Dalmations
  • 1955: Betsy's Wedding
  • 1952: Betsy and the Great World
  • 1955: The Magician's Nephew
  • 1954: The Horse and His Boy
  • 1952: Charlotte's Web
  • 1952: The Borrowers
  • 1951: All-of-a-Kind Family
  • 1950: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • 1948: Betsy and Joe
  • 1948: I Capture the Castle
  • 1947: Betsy Was a Junior
  • 1946: Betsy in Spite of Herself
  • 1946: Cheaper by the Dozen
  • 1945: Heaven to Betsy
  • 1945: Pippi Longstocking
  • 1945: Stuart Little
  • 1944: National Velvet
  • 1943: Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
  • 1943: Mary Poppins Opens the Door
  • 1943: The Little Prince
  • 1942: Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big HIll
  • 1941: Betsy-Tacy and Tib
  • 1940: Betsy-Tacy
  • 1940: Lassie Come Home
  • 1939: Anne of Ingleside
  • 1936: Anne of Windy Poplars
  • 1936: Ballet Shoes
  • 1935: Mary Poppins Comes Back
  • 1934: Mary Poppins
  • 1928: The House at Pooh Corner
  • 1926: Winnie the Pooh
  • 1922: The Velveteen Rabbit
  • 1921: Rilla of Ingleside
  • 1920: The Story of Doctor Dolittle
  • 1919: Rainbow Valley
  • 1918: Raggedy Ann Stories
  • 1917: Anne's House of Dreams
  • 1915: Anne of the Island
  • 1913: Pollyanna
  • 1911: Peter Pan and Wendy
  • 1911: The Secret Garden
  • 1909: A Girl of the Limberlost
  • 1909: Anne of Avonlea
  • 1908: The Wind in the Willows
  • 1908: Anne of Green Gables
  • 1907: Ozma of Oz
  • 1906: The Railway Children
  • 1906: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
  • 1905: A Little Princess
  • 1904: The Marvelous Land of Oz
  • 1903: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
  • 1902: Five Children and It
  • 1902: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
  • 1902: Just So Stories
  • 1902: The Tale of Peter Rabbit
  • 1900: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • 1895: The Little Colonel
  • 1894: The Jungle Book
  • 1886: Kidnapped
  • 1886: Jo's Boys
  • 1885: A Child's Garden of Verses
  • 1884: Heidi
  • 1883: The Adventures of Pinocchio
  • 1881: The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
  • 1876: Rose in Bloom
  • 1875: Eight Cousins
  • 1872: The Princess and the Goblin
  • 1871: Through the Looking Glass
  • 1871: At the Back of the North Wind
  • 1871: Little Men
  • 1870: An Old Fashioned Girl
  • 1868: Little Women
  • 1866: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • 1863: The Water Babies
  • 1854: Flower Fables
  • 1812: Household Tales by the Brother's Grimm

Newbery Medal Books Read

  • 2007: The Higher Power of Lucky
  • 1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall
  • 1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  • 1976: The Grey King
  • 1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
  • 1963: A Wrinkle in Time
  • 1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
  • 1947: Miss Hickory
  • 1946: Strawberry Girl
  • 1945: Rabbit HIll
  • 1944: Johnny Tremain
  • 1943: Adam of the Road
  • 1942: The Matchlock Gun
  • 1941: Call It Courage
  • 1940: Daniel Boone
  • 1939: Thimble Summer
  • 1938: The White Stag
  • 1937: Roller Skates
  • 1936: Caddie Woodlawn
  • 1935: Dobry
  • 1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
  • 1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
  • 1932: Waterless Mountain
  • 1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven
  • 1930: Hitty: Her First Hundred Years
  • 1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow
  • 1928: Gay Neck, The Story of a Pigeon
  • 1927: Smoky the Cowhorse
  • 1926: Shen of the Sea
  • 1925: Tales from Silver Lands
  • 1924: The Dark Frigate
  • 1923: The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle
  • 1922: The Story of Mankind

Newbery Honor Books Read

  • 2008: The Wednesday Wars
  • 2005: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
  • 2001: Because of Winn-Dixie
  • 1998: Ella Enchanted
  • 1974: The Dark Is Rising
  • 1971: Enchantress from the Stars
  • 1965: Across Five Aprils
  • 1961: The Cricket in Times Square
  • 1959: The Family Under the Bridge
  • 1953: Charlotte's Web
  • 1949: My Father's Dragon
  • 1948: Misty of Chincoteague
  • 1945: The Hundred Dresses
  • 1944: These Happy Golden Years
  • 1942: Little Town on the Prairie
  • 1941: The Long Winter
  • 1940: By the Shores of Silver Lake
  • 1939: Mr. Popper's Penguins
  • 1938: On the Banks of Plum Creek
  • 1936: The Good Master
  • 1932: Calico Bush
  • 1929: Millions of Cats
  • 1922: The Windy Hill

Caldecott Medal Books Read

  • 1993: Mirette on the High Wire
  • 1964: Where the Wild Things Are
  • 1963: The Snowy Day
  • 1962: Once a Mouse
  • 1961: Baboushka and the Three Kings
  • 1959: Chanticleer and the Fox
  • 1958: A Time of Wonder
  • 1957: A Tree Is Nice
  • 1955: Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper
  • 1954: Madeline's Rescue
  • 1953: The Biggest Bear
  • 1948: White Snow, Bright Snow
  • 1947: The Little Island
  • 1946: The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles
  • 1945: Prayer for a Child
  • 1944: Many Moons
  • 1943: The Little House
  • 1942: Make Way for Ducklings
  • 1941: They Were Strong and Good
  • 1940: Abraham Lincoln
  • 1939: Mei Li
  • 1938: Animals of the Bible

Caldecott Honor Books Read

  • 1971: Frog and Toad Are Friends
  • 1971: In the Night Kitchen
  • 1953: One Morning in Maine
  • 1949: Blueberries for Sal
  • 1948: Stone Soup
  • 1947: Sing in Praise: A Collection of the Best Loved Hymns
  • 1946: You Can Write Chinese
  • 1946: Little Lost Lamb
  • 1945: The Christmas Anna Angel
  • 1945: Yonie Wondernose
  • 1945: In the Forest
  • 1945: Mother Goose
  • 1944: The Mighty Hunter
  • 1944: Pierre Pidgeon
  • 1944: Small Rain: Verses of the Bible
  • 1944: The Good-Luck Horse
  • 1944: A Child's Good Night Book
  • 1943: Marshmallow
  • 1943: Dash & Dart
  • 1942: In My Mother's House
  • 1942: An American ABC
  • 1942: Nothing at All
  • 1942: Paddle-to-the-Sea
  • 1941: April's Kittens
  • 1940: Madeline
  • 1940: Cock a Doodle Doo
  • 1940: The Ageless Story
  • 1939: The Forest Pool
  • 1939: Barkis
  • 1939: Wee Gillis
  • 1939: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • 1939: Andy and the Lion
  • 1938: Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale
  • 1938: Four and Twenty Blackbirds

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Read

  • 2006: March
  • 1999: The Hours
  • 1983: The Color Purple
  • 1976: Humboldt's Gift
  • 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird
  • 1958: A Death in the Family
  • 1953: The Old Man and the Sea
  • 1945: A Bell for Adano
  • 1943: Journey in the Dark
  • 1942: Dragon's Teeth
  • 1941: In This Our Life
  • 1940: The Grapes of Wrath
  • 1939: The Yearling
  • 1938: The Late George Apley
  • 1937: Gone With the Wind
  • 1936: Honey in the Horn
  • 1935: Now in November
  • 1934: Lamb in His Bosom
  • 1933: The Store
  • 1932: The Good Earth
  • 1931: Years of Grace
  • 1930: Laughing Boy
  • 1929: Scarlet Sister Mary
  • 1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  • 1927: Early Autumn
  • 1926: Arrowsmith
  • 1925: So Big
  • 1924: The Able McLaughlins
  • 1923: One of Ours
  • 1922: Alice Adams
  • 1921: The Age of Innocence
  • 1919: The Magnificent Ambersons
  • 1918: His Family
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