Score! Christmas Books
The past two years, I’ve created lists of books that I hoped to read in the upcoming year, and here I am, doing it again. 2014’s list was much more ambitious than 2013’s (23 books versus 14), and I am proud to say that I finished 17 of them. And I even got way sidetracked for a while. (Some of the books that sidetracked me I won’t ever read again, but at least they gave me blog fodder.)
I enjoy making this list just after Christmas because this is the time of year when people get generous and give me books, gift cards to bookstores, or both. This year being no exception, I am prepared to meet 2015 with lots of new fiction.
New Books!
First of all, I am going to vow right now that 2015 will be the year that I finish Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle. It’s been on my list two years now, and I just can’t leave those books hanging any longer. The first three are slow-paced, but my husband assures me that the last one really picks up, so I’m just going to knuckle down and read them.
A wonderful thing that’s happened in the past few months is that my first grader has gotten into chapter books. It wasn’t until he was almost six that we realized that he has several learning disabilities, and he’s a poor audio learner, so reading books without pictures went right over his head. But since we’ve been helping him with his working memory and dyslexia, I’ve noticed a huge improvement in his reading ability and comprehension. This summer, I plan to start reading Harry Potter to Peter, and I hope he gets as much joy out of that series as I do.
If you’re interested in reading my previous years’ fiction lists, here are 2013 and 2014, and here are the books that I actually finished in 2014:
The Rim of the Prairie
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
The Maze Runner
The Scorch Trials
The Death Cure
The Kill Order
An Echo in the Bone
Outlander
The Graveyard Book
An Abundance of Katherines
The Fault in Our Stars
Looking for Alaska
11/22/63
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
The Host
The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, Book 1)
The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus, Book 2)
The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus, Book Three)
by Rick Riordan
Insurgent
Allegiant
The Casual Vacancy
Mark My Words: Mark Twain on Writing
And here are the books I plan to read this year:
And Another Thing… Douglas Adams`s Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy Part Six of Three
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
Written in My Own Heart’s Blood
The Cuckoo’s Calling
Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
Paper Towns
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Lisey’s Story
The Giver
Gathering Blue
Messenger
Son
Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1)
Eldest (Inheritance Cycle, Book 2)
Brisingr (Inheritance Cycle, Book 3)
Inheritance (Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)
The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus, Book 4)
The Blood of Olympus (Heroes of Olympus, Book 5)
Divergent
Insurgent
Allegiant
Four: A Divergent Collection
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
The Hobbit
The Book Thief
I know it’s a long list, but I have lots of hope to finish a good number of these. Some are brand new, some beloved repeats. And I hope to be interrupted by books as yet undiscovered. (I’m always up for suggestions!)
Happy reading in 2015!
Full-Time Writer Mom 
That’s quite a list! I’m glad this works for you. For me, I think it would turn reading into a chore instead of a pleasure. I’d be thinking about crossing things off the list instead of just getting lost in them. Good luck with your list –and your serendipitous adventures.
Mainly it’s to make sure I don’t buy books and forget about them. That, and I’m really lame and get excited when I see all those titles. 😉
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