Posts tagged Kathryn Stockett

Not including library science text books, here are your friendly neighborhood librarian’s reading statistics for 2011.

# Books Read: 106

• % Fiction: 90
• % Nonfiction: 10
• % Graphic Novel: 16
• % Young Adult: 39
• % Children’s: 19

# Reviewed for ABookandaHug.com: 24

# Written by Women: 64

# Written by Men: 42

First Book of 2011: Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain

Last Book of 2011: Wildthorn, by Jane Eagland

Top 20 Favorites (in no particular order):

1. Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin
2. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
3. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs
4. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, by Allison Hoover Bartlett
5. The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
6. Anna and the French Kiss, by Stephanie Perkins
7. Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver
8. Maus, by Art Spiegelman
9. Paper Towns, by John Green
10. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, by Maryrose Wood
11. Bossypants, by Tina Fey
12. If I Stay, by Gayle Forman
13. Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares, by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
14. Wonderstruck, by Brian Selznick
15. Medium Raw, by Anthony Bourdain
16. Wisdom’s Kiss, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
17. A Clash of Kings, by George R.R. Martin
18. To Timbuktu, by Casey Sczieska and Steven Weinberg
19. The Dreamer, by Pam Munoz Ryan
20. The Weird Sisters, by Eleanor Brown

The bad news is that my home is right in the path of Hurricane Irene.  The good news is that, in the event of power loss, I am fully stocked with candles, lanterns, and flashlights so I can do some serious reading. 

My Hurricane Irene Reading List:

• The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs
• Awaken, by Katie Kacvinsky
• One Day, by David Nicholls
• A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin

What’s on your list?