As the New Year quickly comes upon us, I send my best wishes for a happy, healthy, and book-filled year. In the spirit of finding new stories to thrill and enlighten, I share the books my sons and I enjoyed this year. May you find some joy for yourself in this bounty.
- Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan
- Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
- Spin by Lamar Giles’
- The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
- Warriors: The Silent Thaw (The Broken Code series) by Erin Hunter
- Warriors Super Edition: Squirrelflight’s Hope by Erin Hunter
- Color Blind by Sheila Sobel
- Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
- Nathan Hales’ Hazardous Tales: The Underground Abductor
- Nathan Hales’ Hazardous Tales: Lafayette!!
- Coraline graphic novel edition by Neil Gaiman
- The Devil’s Tree by Susan McCauley
- In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
- Queen of Physics: How Wu Chen Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom by Teresa Robeson, illustrated by Rebecca Huang
- Dreamers, written and illustrated by Yuyi Morales
- Ghost by Jason Reynolds
- Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
- We Don’t Eat Our Classmates, written and illustrated by Ryan T. Higgins
- Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
- The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
- The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
- A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
- The Legend of Drizzt, by R.A. Salvatore
- Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
- Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children: A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
- The Changeling by Victor Lavalle
- One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
- How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather
- A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Leguin
- Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
