I had to read 40 books before my residency started. Now I’ve got 80 more to go by the end of the year. For my own records, I’ll post this list here.
- Eleanor and Park, by Rainbow Rowell
- The Real Boy, by Anne Ursu
- Okay for Now, by Gary D. Schmidt
- American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang
- The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
- Bad Apple, by Laura Ruby
- Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses, by Ron Koertge
- Chasing Shadows, by Swati Avasthi
- Boy Meets Boy, by David Levithan
- Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein
- Newsgirl, by Liza Ketchum
- The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart
- Flora and Ulysses, by Kate DiCamillo
- Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Zen in the Art of Writing, by Ray Bradbury
- The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
- Holes, by Lous Sachar
- Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi
- Baseball Saved Us, by Ken Mochizuki
- Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
- One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia
- Big Momma Makes the World, by Phyllis Root
- The Borrowers, by Mary Norton
- Split, by Swati Avasthi
- Esperanza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan
- Looking for Alaska, by John Green
- The Outlandish Adventures of Liberty Aimes, by Kelly Easton
- Coral Reefs, by Seymour Simon
- December Secrets, by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Beast and the Halloween Horror, by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Bronzeville Boys and Girls, by Gwendolyn Brooks
- Sam and the Tigers, by Julius Lester
- Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart, by Vera B. Williams
- Writing Picture Books, by Ann Whitford Paul
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume
- The Folk Keeper, by Franny Billingsley
- When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead
- Who Was First? Discovering the Americas, by Russell Freedman
- The Year of Billy Miller, by Kevin Henkes
- The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green
- The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
- Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem, by Rosalyn Schnazner
- The Astonishing Tale of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson
- Hometown, by Marsha Qualey
- Up North at the Cabin, by Marsha Wilson Chall
- My Country ‘Tis of Thee: How One Song Reveals the History of Civil Rights, by Claire Rudolf Murphy
- Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse
- Monster, by Walter Dean Myers
- Hope Was Here, by Joan Bauer
- Clementine, Friend of the Week, by Sara Pennypacker
- The Great Fire, by Jim Murphy
- The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, by Nancy Farmer
- Lion, Lion, by Miriam Busch and Larry Day
- Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth I, by Jane Resh Thomas
- Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, by Paul Fleischman
- Carver: A Life in Poems, by Marilyn Nelson
- Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement, by Ann Bausum
- The Goose Girl, by Shannon Hale
- Stitches, by David Small
- Bronx Masquerade, by Nikki Grimes
- Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O’Dell
- Out of My Mind, by Sharon Draper
- Making Comics, by Scott McCloud
- The Giant Jam Sandwich, by John Vernon Lord and Janet Burroway
- Bomb: The Race to Build-and Steal-the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon, by Steve Sheinkin
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor
- The Birchbark House, by Louise Erdrich
- Big Bang! The Tongue-Tickling Tale of a Speck that Became Spectacular, by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano
- What Jamie Saw, by Carolyn Coman
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
- The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, by Langston Hughes
- Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing, by Gary Soto
- The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Black Juice, by Margo Lanagan
- Am I Blue?:Coming Out from the Silence, by Marion Dane Bauer
- The Talented Clementine, by Sara Pennypacker
- Clementine and the Spring Trip, by Sara Pennypacker
- Darkness Over Denmark, by Ellen Levine
- Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies, by Chris Kluwe
- Feed, by M.T. Anderson
- Better Nate Than Ever, by Tim Federle
- Dad Is Fat, by Jim Gaffigan
