I stopped writing reviews pretty early, and I don’t know if I’ll remember everything, but this is what I can think of now. In the order I pulled them off the shelves– not necessarily the order in which I read them.

At least some are re-reads: (R), and I refrained from listing the (probably numerable, but only with too much work) children’s picture books I read.

• A Mom Just Like You
• Homeschooling: Take a Deep Breath— You Can Do This!
• Home by Choice
• Fire-Hunter (R)
  
• Coraline (Gaiman)
• Sport (Fitzhugh) (R)
  
• Perilous Gard (Pope) (R)
• On Writing (Stephen King)
• Stein on Writing (Sol Stein)
• Becoming a Writer (Brande)
• The Bridge (Massi) (R)
• Swan Sister (ed. Datlow/Windling)
• The Princess and the Hound (Harrison)
• East (Pattou)
• A Well-Timed Enchantment (Velde)
• Russian Tales of Fabulous Beasts and Marvels (Wyndham)
• Cinderellis and the Glass Hill (Levine)
• Dream or Destiny (Ammann)
• The Book of Dragons (Hague)
• The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (R) to the kids
• The Horse and His Boy (R) to the kids
  • I started a number of other chapter books, and while the kids will sit and listen, they never really got into any of these.  I’ve mostly stopped attempts for now, realizing I could run out of good reads too early if I start them too young.  There are too many *excellent* picture books (requiring more of their readers) to urge them quickly into chapter books.

I was going to do a short series on reading, but ended up making a 2009 Books page instead.  With my decision to stop buying (which I hope to better on this year than last) I descided to try my first reading challenge and am looking at my un-read collection with anticipation.