From favorite to least favorite
This was SO hard to do. I read a few classics this year, re-read some of my favorites, added graphic novels to the mix, a couple short story collections, and read at least 3 nonfiction books. It was hard to rank them all.
Stamped was definitely number one. We read it as a family, and we all learned so much. I read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for the first time, (I know! Shocking! You know what’s even more shocking. I have still not read the 7th book!) and I loved it. Night was a re-read for me, and it has the same impact as the first time I read it. I’d say the next 20 books on the list are tied for 4th place.
Honestly, I really enjoyed most of the books I read this year. The last few on the list were just hard to get through. For some is was simply the style of writing, and it took away from the story for me. I know others who loved some of the last 5 or 6 books on my list. If I have learned anything from reading, teaching reading, blogging about reading, and reading blogs about books, it is that everyone has their own opinion. I’m just here sharing mine.
| Stamped |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince |
| Night |
| Speak: A Graphic Novel |
| Other Words for Home |
| The Black Kids |
| Cinderella Is Dead |
| Let Me Hear a Rhyme |
| Autobiography of my Dead Brother |
| Ghost |
| Clean Getaway |
| All American Boys |
| The First Part Last |
| Grown |
| New Kid |
| Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone |
| Nightbooks |
| Land of the Cranes |
| Free Lunch |
| Yummy |
| The Poet X |
| Look Both Ways |
| Kindred: Graphic Novel |
| Skyward |
| Head of the Colored People |
| Out of the Dust |
| Ignite the Sun |
| The Bone Houses |
| Fish in a Tree |
| Lu |
| Invisible Differences |
| When They Call You a Terrorist |
| Friday Blak |
| Eloquent Rage |
| Fahrenheit 451 |
| Harbor Me |
| The Lonely Dead |
| Patina |
| Harry Potter: The Chamber of Secrets |
| March: Book 1 |
| I’ll Give You the Sun |
| The Sky Is Everywhere |
| When You Know What I Know |
| To Night Owl from Dogfish |
| Invisible Emmie |
| A Good Kind of Trouble |
| White Rose |
| The Crossover:Graphic Novel |
| The Crossover |
| The Princess Bride |
| What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker |
| Drama |
| Hey, Kiddo |
| Maybe He Just Likes You |
| A Line Tender |
| Nejma |
| Ghosts |
| Sisters |
| The Lovely and the Lost |
| Guts |
| For Black Girls Like Me |
| The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl |
| Dress Coded |
| Redwood and Ponytail |
| Smile |
| Booked |
| My Hero Academia |
| The Last Lie |
| Stargazing |
| Pet |
| Jo: An adaption of Little Women |
| Making Friends |
| Making Friends: Back to the Drawing Board |
| Four Days of You and Me |
| I Am Ruth and Everything Is Not Okay |
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