Books Read 2016

  1. Eragon – Christopher Paolini (U.S., 2003) [started 2015]
  2. White Nights – Ann Cleeves (U.K., 2008)
  3. New Testament (KJV) [started 2015]
  4. The Two Gentlemen of Verona – William Shakespeare (England, c. 1589-91)
  5. Ghostwalk – Rebecca Stott (U.K., 2007) [started 2015]
  6. Emil and the Detectives [Emil und die Detektive] – Erich Kästner (Germany, 1929) [Eileen Hall, translator]
  7. Beatrix Potter tales:
    1. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)
    2. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (1903)
    3. The Tailor of Glouscester (1903)
    4. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904)
    5. The Tale of Two Bad Mice (1904)
    6. The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (1905)
    7. The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1906)
    8. The Tale of Tom Kitten (1907)
    9. The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908)
    10. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (1909)
    11. The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse (1910)
    12. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes (1911)
    13. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse (1918)
    14. The Tale of Mr. Tod (1912)
    15. The Tale of Pigling Bland (1913)
    16. The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding (1908)
    17. The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan (1905)
    18. The Tale of Ginger and Pickles (1909)
    19. The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1930)
    20. The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit (1906)
    21. The Story of Miss Moppet (1906)
    22. Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes (1917)
    23. Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes (1922)
  8. The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling (England, 1894)
  9. Folks from Dixie – Paul Laurence Dunbar (U.S., Ohio, 1898), as republished in The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Ohio University Press, 2005)
  10. Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo (Mexico, 1955) [Margaret Sayers Peden, translator]
  11. Selected Poems – Paul Laurence Dunbar (U.S., Ohio, c. 1893-1906), edited and with an introduction by Herbert Woodward Martin (Penguin Books, 2004)
  12. Titus Andronicus – William Shakespeare (England, c. 1592)
  13. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare (England, c. 1595)
  14. The Grey King – Susan Cooper (England, 1974)
  15. Silver on the Tree – Susan Cooper (England, 1977)
  16. The President [El Señor Presidente] – Miguel Ángel Asturias (Guatemala, 1946) [Frances Partridge, translator]
  17. But What If We’re Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past – Chuck Klosterman (U.S., 2016)
  18. Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings – Craig S. Simpson and Gregory S. Wilson (U.S., 2016) [Kent State University Press]
  19. His Last Bow – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Scotland, 1917)
  20. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison (U.S., 1970)
  21. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (England, 1813)
  22. The Taming of the Shrew – William Shakespeare (England, c. 1590-91)
  23. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child –  J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany (Britain, 2016)
  24. The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins (Britain/Zimbabwe, 2015)
  25. The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater (U.S., 2012)
  26. Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbitt (U.S., 1975)
  27. Silence – Shūsaku Endō (Japan, 1966) [William  Johnston, translator]
  28. The Dream Thieves – Maggie Stiefvater (U.S., 2013)