Booking Through Thursday - Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year!!

So . . . any Reading Resolutions? Say, specific books to read? A plan to read more _ _ _? Anything at all?

Yesterday afternoon I went to the library and found so many wonderful books waiting for me. This morning I plan on starting Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain. After that I have:

Tithe by Holly Black
The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill
Death with Interruptions - Jose Saramago
Looking for Alaska by John Green
An exact replica of a figment of my imagination by Elizabeth McCracken

My reading resolution is to read more books by minority authors and others from foreign countries. Happy New Year!

The Printz Project

Michael L. Printz Winners & Honor Books

2009
Jellicoe Road, by Melina Marchetta

• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves, by M.T. Anderson
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart
• Nation, by Terry Pratchett
• Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan

2008
The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean

• Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet, by Elizabeth Knox
• One Whole and Perfect Day, by Judith Clarke
• Repossessed, by A.M. Jenkins
• Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath, by Stephanie Hemphill

2007
American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang

• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; Volume I: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson
• An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green
• Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett
• The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

2006
Looking for Alaska, by John Green

• Black Juice, by Margo Lanagan
• I Am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak
• John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography, by Elizabeth Partridge
• A Wreath for Emmett Till, by Marilyn Nelson

2005
how i live now, by Meg Rosoff

• Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel
• Chanda’s Secrets, by Allan Stratton
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt

2004
The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson

• A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly
• Keesha’s House, by Helen Frost
• Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going
• The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler

2003
Postcards from No Man’s Land, by Aidan Chambers

• The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer
• My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr
• Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos

2002
A Step From Heaven, by An Na

• The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson
• Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, by Jan Greenberg
• Abrams Freewill, by Chris Lynch
• True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff

2001
Kit’s Wilderness, by David Almond

• Many Stones, by Carolyn Coman
• The Body of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci
• Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, by Louise Rennison
• Stuck in Neutral, by Terry Trueman

2000
Monster, by Walter Dean Myers

• Skellig, by David Almond
• Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger

Project Fill-in-the gaps

I stole this idea from Aerin who stole it from Moonrat who stole it from Andromeda. According to Moonrat, Andromeda wanted to collect a list of 100 books to read to fill in the gaps she has when it comes to classics and contemporary fiction. She gave herself 5 years to read all 100 books. She also gave herself a 25% forgiveness rate so 75% completion rate is victorious.

We’re all giving ourselves the same rules Andromeda gave herself. So I should be completed with my list by March 29, 2014.

The criteria for the list:

• snobby classics I’ve always wished I could tell people I’ve read, but would never read otherwise because I can’t imagine enjoying them (these will probably end up making up the 25)
• Books that I’ve bought and owned for a long time, but haven’t read because they’re reeeeally long and I’m easily daunted by length at time of reading–choosing
• Some books I’ve been curious about and keep forgetting to buy/read
• The gaps filled in with some award-winning books

A

• Agee, James - A Death in the Family (’58 Pulitzer Prize)
• Allende, Isabel - The House of Spirits
• Anderson, Laurie Halse - Speak
• Austen, Jane - Sense and Sensibility

B

• Beagle, Peter S. - A Fine and Private Place
• Beagle, Peter S. - We never talk about my brother
• Beowulf
• Boyle, T.C. - The Tortilla Curtain
• Bragg, Rick - All over but the shoutin’
• Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre

C

• Carter, Angela - Nights at the Circus (’84 James Tait Black Memorial Prize)
• Carter, Angela - The Bloody Chamber
• Chandler, Raymond - The Big Sleep
• Chaon, Dan - You remind me of me
• Cheever, John - The Stories of John Cheever
• Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
• Chekhov, Anton - 40 Stories
• Cisneros, Sandra - Caramelo
• Cleaver, Eldridge - Soul on Ice
• Colwin, Laurie - Home Cooking
• Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness

D

• Dante - The Inferno
• Datlow, Ellen - Black Swan, White Raven
• Didion, Joan - The White Album
• Dillard, Annie - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (’75 Pulitzer)
• Dog, Mary Crow - Lakota Woman
• Doyle, Arthur Conan - The Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1

E

• Eliot, George - Middlemarch
• Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man (’53 National Book Award)
• Erdrich, Louise - Love Medicine (’84 National Book Critics Circle Award)
• Erdrich, Louise - Tales of Burning Love
• Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Virgin Suicides

F

• Faulker, William
• Fisher, M F K -
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
• Friedan, Betty - The Feminine Mystique
• Funke, Cornelia - Inkheart

G

• Gaines, Ernest - A Lesson Before Dying (’93 NBCCA)
• Green, John - Looking for Alaska (2006 Printz)
• Greene, Graham - The End of the Affair

H

• Hamilton, Edith - Mythology
• Hansberry, Lorraine - A Raisin in the Sun
• Harjo, Joy - She had Some Horses
• Heat-Moon, William Least - Blue Highways
• Hemingway, Ernest - Old Man and the Sea (’53 Pulitzer)
• Hempel, Amy - Collected Stories
• Hoffman, Alice - The Ice Queen
• Hoffman, Nina Kiriki - A Fistful of Sky
• Homer - The Odyssey (this time finish it)
• Horn, Dara - The World to Come
• Houston, Pam - Cowboys are my weakness

I

• Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
  

J

• Jelloun, Tahar Ben - This Blinding Absence of Light (2004 Impac Dublin)
• Jones, Edward - The Known World (’04 Pulitzer in Fiction)

K

• Karr, Mary - Sinners Welcome
• Kennedy, William J.- Ironweed (’84 Pulitzer in Fiction)
• King, Laurie R. - The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
• Kingston Maxine Hong - Woman Warrior (’76 NBCCA)
• Kushner, Tony - Angels in America (’93 Pulitzer in Drama)

L

• Lesser, Elizabeth - The Seeker’s Guide
• Li, Yiyun - The Vagrants
• Li, Yiyun - A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (’05 Pen/Hemingway)

M

• Mansfield, Katherine - The Collected Stories
• Mattiessen - Shadow Country (’08 National Book Award)
• McCarthy, Cormac - Blood Meridan
• McCarthy, Mary - The Group
• Medley, Laura - Castle Waiting *completed 4/9/09
• Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
• Millay, Edna St. Vincent - Selected Poems (Pulitzer)
• Momaday, N. Scott - House Made of Dawn (’69 Pulitzer)
• Morrison, Toni - Beloved (’87 Pulitzer)
• Munro, Alice - The View from Castle Rock
• Murakami, Haruki - Norwegian Wood

N

O

• Obama, Barack - Dreams from my father
• O’Brien, Tim - The things they carried
• O’Connor, Flannery - Collected Stories
• Oliver, Mary - Red Bird

P

• Paley, Grace- Collected Stories
• Pattou, Edith - East *completed 3/30/09
• Parks, Suzan-Lori - Topdog/Underdog (’02 Pulitzer in Drama) *completed 4/19/09
  
• Porter, Katherine Anne - Collected Stories (’66 Pulitzer)
  
• Pollock, Donald Ray - Knockemstiff
• Potok, Chaim - The Chosen
• Proulx, Annie

Q

R

• Robinson, Marilynne - Housekeeping (’81 Pen/Hemingway)
  
• Russo, Richard - Empire Falls (’02 Pulitzer)
  
• Rylant, Cynthia - Missing May (’93 Newbery Medal)
  

S

• Said, Edward W. -Orientalism
• Sexton, Anne
• Shakespeare, William - Othello
• Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
• Smith, Zadie
• Spiegelman, Art - The Complete Maus (’92 Pulitzer & ‘92 Eisner)
• Stein, Steve - The Angel of Forgetfulness
• Suskind, Patrick - Perfume: The story of a murderer

T

• Tan, Amy - The Joy Luck Club
• Taylor, Peter - A Summons To Memphis (’87 Pulitzer)
• Teasdale, Sara - Love Poems (1918 Pulitzer for Poetry)
• Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace

U

V

W

• Walker, Alice - The Color Purple (’83 Pulitzer)
• Wallace, David Foster - Consider the Lobster
• Wells, H. G. - War of the Worlds
• Wells, H.G. - The Invisible Man
• Welty, Eudora - 13 stories
• Welty - The Optimist’s Daughter (’72 Pulitzer Prize)
• White, T.H. - The Sword in the Stone
• Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself
• Williams, Tennesse - A Streetcar Named Desire (’48 Pulitzer in Drama)
• Woolf, Virginia - A Room of One’s Own
• Wright, Richard - Native Son

X

• X, Malcolm - Autobiography of Malcolm X

Y

• Yezierska, Anzia - Bread Givers
• Yolen, Jane - Briar Rose
• Yolen, Jane - Favorite Folktales from Around the World

Z

• Zafron, Carlos Ruiz - The Shadow of the Wind

Is there a book you think I left off? Leave a comment!

What I read in 2008

You don't have to read this. It's just for my records every book I read this year.

1. Mouse Tales - Arnold Lobel
2. Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel
3. Babymouse Vol. 1 - Jennifer Holm
4. The Retired Kid - James Agee (Cybils)
5. My letter to the world and other poems - Emily Dickinson (Cybils)
6. Flotsam - David Weisner
7. Life is a Verb - Patti Digh
8. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
9. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
10. Savvy - Ingrid Law (Cybils)
11. Not a Stick - Antoinette Portis (Cybils)
12. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J. K. Rowling
13. I know an old lady who swallowed fly guy - Tedd Arnold
14. The Pocket Muse - Monica Wood
15. It's not fair - Amy Krouse Rosenthal (Cybils)
16. Snoring Beauty - Bruce Hale (Cybils)
17. Me Hungry! - Jeremy Tankard (Cybils)
18. Duck Soup - Jackie Urbanovic (Cybils)
19. Big Bad Bunny - Franny Billingsley (Cybils)
20. The boy who wouldn't share - Mike Reiss (Cybils)
21. The Twin Giants - Dick King-Smith (Cybils)
22. Fletcher and the Falling Leaves - Julia Rawlinson
23. We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson (Cybils)
24. Fool Moon- Jim Butcher
25. Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant - Jack Prelusky
26. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F. Scott Fitzgerald (s.s.)
27. Paradise Lost - John Milton
28. Storm Front - Jim Butcher
29. Owl at Home - Arnold Lobel
30. Backup - Jim Butcher
31. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
32. Delilah D. at the library - Jeanne Willis
33. The Zoo - Suzy Lee
34. Grace for President - Kelly Dipucchio (Cybils)
35. Wolves - Emily Gravett
36. The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
37. A broom of one's own - Nancy Peacock
38. The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm - Laura Amy Schlitz
39. The girl in the castle inside the museum - Kate Bernheimer (Cybils)
40. Woolbur - Leslie Helakoski
41. The Boy who grew flowers - Jen Wojtowicz
42. The Sisters Grimm Vol. 1 - Michael Buckley
43. I ain't gonna paint no more - Karen Beaumont
44. The Way Back Home - Oliver Jeffers
45. LadyBug Girl - Jacky Davis (Cybils)
46. The Dangerous Alphabet - Neil Gaiman
47. Arthur's Halloween - Marc Brown
48. In a blue room - Jim Averbeck (Cybils)
49. The Willoughbys - Lois Lowry
50. The very brave witch - Alison McGee
51. Geography of Love - Glenda Burgess
52. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
53. Wanted - Brian K.
54. Zami - Audre Lorde
55. Gloom Cookie - Serena Valentino
56. Art by Patrick McDonnell
57. The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
58. Just who will you be? Big Question. Little Book. Answer Within by Maria Shriver
59. Housekeeping vs. the Dirt - Nick Hornby
60. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
61. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - The Pearl Poet
62. The Pull of the Moon - Elizabeth Berg
63. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
64. Flight Vol. 2- ed. Kazu Kibuishi
65. Flight Vol. 1 - ed. Kazu Kibuishi
66. Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
67. Robot Dreams - Sara Varon
68. A wrinkle in Time - Madeline L'Engle
69. The Book of Lost Things by John O'Connolly
70. We are on our own - Miriam Katin
71. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
72. Bone Vol. 9 -Jeff Smith
73. Bone Vol. 8 -Jeff Smith
74. Bone Vol. 7 - Jeff Smith
75. Bone Vol. 6 - Jeff Smith
76. Bone Vol. 5 - Jeff Smith
77. Bone Vol. 4: Jeff Smith
78. Bone Vol. 3: Jeff Smith
79. Bone Vol. 2: Jeff Smith
80. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
81. Understanding Comics- Scott McCloud
82. Bone Vol. 1: Out of Boneville - Jeff Smith
83. Comfort - Ann Hood
84. What now? - Ann Patchett
85. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
86. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
87. Fables Vol. 5: The Mean Seasons
88. Fables 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers
89. Fables Vol. 3: Storybook Love
90. Fables Vol. 2 Animal Farm - Bill Willingham
91. The Well-Adjusted Child - Rachel Gathercole
92. Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
93. Dinner with Friends - Donald Margulies
94. The Flower - John Light
95. Steel Magnolias - Robert Harling
96. Fables: Legends in Exile - Bill Willingham
97. Time and Materials -Robert Hass
98. The Wild Braid - Stanley Kunitz
99. The Sandman Vol. 1 Preludes and Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
100. Driving Miss Daisy - Alfred Uhry
101. Wit: a play - Margaret Edson
102. Minnie and Moo and the seven wonders of the world - Denys Cazet
103. The Book of Other People - Zadie Smith
104. The Resurrectionist - Jack O'Connell
105. The End of the Alphabet - CS Richardson
106. Monsters of Templeton - Lauren Groff
107. The Stolen Child - Keith Donohue
108. Love Walked in - Marisa De Los Santos
109. The Arrival - Shaun Tan
110. BooBoo - Olivier Dunrea
111. Peedie - Olivier Dunrea
112. American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang
113. The Happiness Code - Amy Herrick
114. Ollie - Olivier Dunrea
115. Purplicious - Victoria Kahn
116. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Alan Moore
117. How to be a Domestic Goddess - Nigella Lawson
118. Amulet: Book 1 The Stonekeeper - Kazu Kibuishi
119. Baby Bear, Baby Bear, what do you see? - Bill Martin Jr.
120. Penelope - Marilyn Kaye
121. Not quite what I was planning - Smith Magazine
122. Every monday matters - matthew emerzian
123. 52 projects - Jeffrey Yamaguchi
124. Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician by Daniel Wallace
125. That rabbit belongs to Emily Brown by Cressida Cowell
126. The who who was raisied by librarians - Carla Morris
127. The nighteater by Ana Juan
128. Into the woods - Lyn Gardner
129. Knuffle Bunny Too by Mo Willems
130. The Frog Prince continued by Jon Scieszka
131. Nate the Great and the Monster Mess by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
132. Nate the great and the mushy valentine by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
133. Time to pee by Mo Willems
134. Persepolis 2 -Marjane Satrapi
135. One of those days - Amy Krouse Rosenthal
136. Diary of a wimpy kid by Jeff Kinney
137. Horns and Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson
138. Good-bye, Chunky Rice - Criag Thompson
139. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
140. Julia's Chocolates -Cathy Lamb
141. Riding the bus with my sister - Rachel Simon
142. Minnie and Moo and the haunted sweater - Denys Cazet
143. Minnie and Moo: The Case of the Missing Jelly Donut - Denys cazet
144. Baby Bear's Books - Jane Yolen
145. Stardust - Neil gaiman
146. The Library - Sarah Stewart

Another Challenge!!

Wendy at Caribousmom is hosting the 2nd annual Mini-challenges again. I love this challenge. There are 12 mini-challenges that you can do in any order starting January 1st and ending December 31st. The only catch is that you have to either blog about the completed challenge or tell Wendy's Yahoo group A Novel Challenge about it. Here are the challenges cut and pasted:

1.Read a collection of short stories and either blog about it, OR tell the group about what you read

2. Read a play. Blog about it, OR tell the group about your experience.

3. Read a nonfiction book; write a review on your blog or post it to the group.

4. Read an 2 essays from the same collection; write a review on your blog or tell the group about what you read.

5. Go to a book event; blog about it or tell the group about it.

6. Borrow a library book, read it and review it on your blog (or tell the group about it).

7. Read a book by a new to you author. Do a little research on the author…do they have a blog? How many books have they written? Have they won any prizes? Where do they live? etc… Blog about the book you read and the author OR tell the group about them.

8. Make a donation. You can either donate to an organization that supports reading OR make a physical donation of a book (or books) to ANYONE. Blog about it or tell the group what you did.

9.Promote literacy. This is wide open - use your imagination. You could give a child a book, or read a book to someone who cannot read, or volunteer at an event which promotes literacy, or donate to your local library, or write something on your blog with a link to a group which promotes literacy, or anything in between. The only rule with this one is that you must PROMOTE literacy in some way…

10. Participate in a buddy read or Group discussion. This can be a face to face group, an on-line group or a one on one discussion with a friend who read the same book. Either way, blog about your experience or share with the group. Did the discussion give you greater appreciation or insight into what you read?

11. Read a book outside your comfort level or from a genre you don’t normally read. Blog about it, or tell the group about it.

12.Read a classic (defined as anything published before 1970). Tell us why it fits the category of being a classic. Write a review or tell the group about the book.

My Favorites of 2008

2008 was not my best reading year but it was my best year when it comes to exploring the blogosphere. I've been blogging for a year and half now, discovering new books and genres while expanding my horizons and making new friends along the way. Thanks to Dewey and Nymeth, I've tried and fell in love with graphic novels. Because of Wendy, I know about every reading challenge on this side of the sphere. The great J.Kaye turned me back on to young adult books.

I've read so many great books this year, most of which were published years ago. So I can't honestly say what the best books of this year are, but I can tell you what my favorites are. I tried to come up with my top 20 but found that impossible.

Favorite young adult/high school
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn and David Leviathan

Favorite Middle School fiction
1. Savvy by Ingrid Law
2. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
3. Into the Woods -Lyn Gardner

Favorite Self-Help
Life is a Verb - Patti Digh

Favorite Adult Fiction
1. The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
2. Wit: A Play - Margaret Edson
3. The Book of Other People: short stories edited by Zadie Smith
4. Love Walked In - Marisa de Los Santos
5. The End of the Alphabet - CS Richardson

Favorite graphic novels
1. We are own our own - Miriam Katin (also one of my favorite non-fiction reads)
2. Amulet Vol. 1: The Stonekeeper - Kazu Kibuishi
3. Goodbye, Chunky Rice - Craig Thompson
4. Babymouse Vol. 1 - Jennifer and Matthew Holm
5. Fables series -Bill Willingham

Favorite nonfiction
1. The Geography of Love - Glenda Burgess
2. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
3. Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud
4. Comfort - Ann Hood

Favorite Children's Books
1. The Flower -John Light
2. Flotsam - David Weisner
3. Minnie and Moo series - Denys Cazet
4. The Retired Kid - James Agee

Favorite Series
Fables by Bill Willingham

Favorite Challenges
1. Once Upon a Time hosted by Carl V.
2. R.I.P. (Readers Imbibing Peril) also hosted by Carl V.
3. 24 Hour Read-a-thon hosted by Dewey

Favorite bloggers
All of you who visit 1330v and leave comments. Thank you so much. I appreciate you and wish you happy readings and great times in 2009.

Sunday Salon: The Last Sunday

It amazes me that 2009 is just a few days away. This year went by so fast! With my vacation from school lasting until the middle of January, I've been trying to read as many books as possible to make up for all those I couldn't read during the semester.

In the last week or so I read nine books and my favorites are:

Savvy by Ingrid Law
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn and David Leviathan
Life is a Verb - Patti Digh
My letter to the world and other poems - Emily Dickinson

Between reading and relaxing, I just had to sign up for some of next year's reading challenges. I promised myself that I would only sign up for six challenges next year, but at yesterday's count I signed up for nineteen! All are pretty flexible and I can make my list as I go. Most of the challenges are new to me, only three are challenges I've heard about or participated in before: Jewish Literature, Book Awards, and the challenge I'm hosting the In Their Shoes Challenge. The great thing about reading challenges is you have the opportunity to sign up to read books you normally would not have read on your own.

On December 31st, I will be posting my 20 favorite books of 2008. So far this year I've read 139 books, most of which were not published this year. It's going to be hard to come up with my top 20, but I'll try. Don't be surprise if you see my top 23 or 25!

Happy New Year!

Unshelved Reading Challenge

I promise this will be my last challenge post for today. This challenge is being hosted by Becky at Becky's Book Reviews. It starts February 1st and ends June 1st 2009. The goal is to read at least three books reviewed by the Unshelved Book Club. My picks:

1. An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
2. The Confessions of Max Tivoli - Andrew Sean Greer
3. The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
4. Mouse Guard Fall 1152 - David Peterson
5. Sharp Teeth - Toby Barlow

Lambda Challenge

I really do need to keep up with all the challenges I'm signed up for. The Lambda Challenge is being hosted by Adventures in Reading. There's no time limit and the only rule is to read books that have won the Lambda Award. The award celebrates the best in LBGT literature. My list so far with books I've read in bold:

Call me by your name - Andre Aciman
The bill from my father - Bernard Cooper
Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
Me talk pretty one day - David Sedaris

Jewish Literature

I know, I know, I said I wasn't going to sign up for that many challenges next year, but I can't help it. I'm addicted.

The Jewish Literature Challenge is being hosted by Callista. The rules to read at least four books by Jewish authors or about Judaism. It started December 21st and ends April 27, 2008.

My picks:

1. Angel of Forgetfulness - Steve Stern
2. The World to Come - Dara Horn
3. People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
4. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn and David Leviathan (finished)