I posted about some of my New Year's Resolutions last year, hoping that the fear of public humiliation would motivate me to be more dedicated to them. I forgot that that doesn't work haha. 2014 was a ride, and I ended up not completing a lot of my resolutions. I did complete all of my reading goals, though.
My mom always makes a list of the books she read during the year; here is mine from 2014. There were a lot of gems, some duds, several repeats and feel goods. I chose most of the books I read this year based on the knowledge that I would be in a classroom with teenage students, and I would need to remember, review, be able to talk about, reference, and teach a lot of these to them. Then, I got to teach some of these books this year--a dream come true.
13 non-fiction and 27 fiction.
15 female authors and 25 male authors.
...and I clearly favor American lit.
I'll write book reviews on the last set I never reviewed some day. But today is just a list. If anybody wants to know if I suggest any of the following, you can message me for now :)
2014:
2. Anthem by Ayn Rand
3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
4. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
5. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
6. Animal Farm by George Orwell
7. What is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense by Sherif Girgis, Robert George, and Ryan Anderson
8. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
9. Classroom Assessment by W. James Popham
10. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
11. Your Endowment by Mark A Shields
12. Diversity Pedagogy by Rosa Hernandez Sheets
13. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
14. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
15. My Antonia by Willa Cather
16. Old Testament: Student Manual 1
17. Room by Emma Donoghue
18. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
19. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
20. The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
21. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
22. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
23. My Story by Elizabeth Smart and Chris Stewart
24. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
25. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
26. The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher by Harry K Wong
27. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
28. Maus by Art Spiegelman
29. Maus II by Art Spiegelman
30. The Arrival by Shaun Tan
31. How To Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C Foster
32. Turned by Charlotte Perkins Gilman + The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman + Gilman anthology (lets just call this all one)
33. Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
34. The Smartest Kids in the World: and How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley
35. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (x2)
36. Persuasion by Jane Austen
37. The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
38. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
39. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
40. The G-Free Diet by Elizabeth Hasselbeck
On to 2015! Happy Reading.
(to read the first half of 2014 book reviews, click here)
