The Previous Three Years' Book Lists

I'll be posting some reviews of the higher graded books. But as for now, here's the full lists. I like having these around because it reminds me which books I liked that were the starts of series, so I can get back to the books I was looking forward to. I have a habit of needing to finish a series once I start reading it. Though if it's awful, like the Gossip Girl books, I can't bring myself to get through them. Case in point, I need to get myself back to the Series of Unfortunate Events.

Is there a way to cut these posts, so I don't have to scroll past these things all the time? LiveJournal has a cut function. Does that exist on Blogger? Hmm. Anyway, onward to the lists...

2007's List

1. Lemony Snicket - The Bad Beginning B+
2. Frank Miller - Batman, Year One A
3. Whitney Gaskell - Testing Kate A
4. Lauren Weisberger - The Devil Wears Prada A
5. Meg Cabot - When Lightning Strikes A
6. Brad Meltzer - Identity Crisis A-
7. Meg Cabot - Code Name Cassandra B
8. Frank Miller - Sin City 6: Booze, Broads and Bullets A
9. Jo Edwards - Love Undercover A-
10. Louise Rennison - Away Laughing on a Fast Camel F-
11. Stanley Manly - Raiders of the Low Forehead ZZPluralZAlpha- It's awful, don't read it. EVER. YICK!
12. Ann Brashares - Forever in Blue A-
13. Alan Moore - The Watchmen A
14. Thu-Huong Ha - Hail Caesar C+
15. Frank Miller - 300 A
16. Brian Lynch - Spike: Asylum A
17. Meg Cabot - Boy Meets Girl A
18. Will Eisner - A Contract with God A-
19. Brian K. Vaughn - Runaways, Volume 4 A
20. Brian K. Vaughn - Runaways, Volume 5 A
21. Brian K. Vaughn - Runaways, Volume 6 A
22. Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception A
23. Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid - 52 A
24. Frank Miller - Sin City: Hell and Back A+
25. P. L. Travers - Mary Poppins A
26. God? - Genesis B
27. Lemony Snicket - The Reptile Room A-
28. Lemony Snicket - The Wide Window B+
29. J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows A+!
30. Blue Balliett - Chasing Vermeer A
31. Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook A
32. Karen Joy Fowler - The Jane Austen Book Club C+
33. Gail Simone - Villains United A-
34. Gennifer Choldenko - Al Capone Does My Shirts A+
35. Jennifer Crusie - Manhunting A
36. Meg Cabot - Safe House A
37. Bill Willingham - Fables: Legends in Exile/Fables: Animal Farm A
38. Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary B+
39. Jane Austen - Pride and Predjudice A-
40. Dave White - When One Man Dies A+
41. William Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew A
42. Meg Cabot - All-American Girl C+
43. Perry Moore - Hero A
44. Wendy Markham - Bride Needs Groom B-
45. Meg Cabot - The Mediator: Shadowland A+
46. Meg Cabot - The Mediator: Ninth Key A
47. Meg Cabot - The Mediator: Reunion A
48. Meg Cabot - The Mediator: Darkest Hour A
49. Meg Cabot - The Mediator: Haunted A-
50. Meg Cabot - The Mediator: Twilight A+

2008's List

1. Meg Cabot - Sanctuary A
2. Cecily von Ziegesar - Gossip Girl B-/C+
3. Ian Fleming - Casino Royale A
4. Various - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Omnibus V1 A-
5. Various - X-Men: Messiah Complex A
6. Joss Whedon - Astonishing X-Men: Gifted A
7. Aury Wallington - Heroes: Saving Charlie C-
8. Emma Harrison - The Best Girl B
9. William Shakespeare - The Merry Wives of Windsor A+
10. Meg Cabot - Missing You A-/B+
11. Jennifer Cruisie - Welcome to Temptation C
12. Alex Robinson - Box Office Poison D-
13. Meg Cabot - Queen of Babble A
14. Joss Whedon - Fray A
15. Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony A
16. Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries C+
17. Meg Cabot - Every Boy's Got One B+
18. Cecily von Ziegesar - You Know You Love Me C+
19. Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason C-
20. Various - The Amazing Spiderman: One More Day/Brand New Day C+
21. William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream A-/B+
22. Joe Quesada, Alitha Martinez, & Sean Chen - Mask in the Iron Man A
23. Warren Ellis & Adi Granov - Iron Man: Extremis A-
24. Cecily von Zeigesar - All I Want is Everything C
25. Gail Simone - Birds of Prey: Between Dark and Dawn B+
26. Peter Pan in Scarlet - Geraldine McCaughrean A
27. Meg Cabot - The Boy Next Door B+
28. C.S. Lewis - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe B+
29. Hester Brown - The Little Lady Agency A-
30. Dennis O'Neil - The Ring, The Arrow, & The Bat B
31. Brian K. Vaughan - Ex Machina: The First Hundred Days B-
32. William Shakespeare - The Comedy of Errors A-
33. Andrea Meyer - Room for Love F
34. Dave White - The Evil That Men Do A
35. Blue Balliett - The Wright 3 A
36. Meg Cabot - Pants on Fire A/A-
37. Various - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus: Volume 2 B-
38. Diana Peterfreund - Secret Society Girl A+
39. Meg Cabot - Queen of Babble in the Big City C+
40. Diana Peterfreund - Under the Rose A+
41. Diana Peterfreund - Rites of Spring (Break) A+
42. Ridley Pearson - The Kingdom Keepers A+
43. Kathleen Long - Get Bunny Love F
44. Gail Simone - Birds of Prey: The Battle Within B+
45. Brian K. Vaughan - Y: The Last Man: Unmanned A
46. Bruce Campbell - Make Love!* *The Bruce Campbell Way C+
47. Devin Grayson & Greg Rucka - Nightwing/Huntress & Batman/Huntress Cry for Blood C+ & B
48. Cecily von Ziegesar - Because I'm Worth It F+
49. Maureen Johnson - 13 Little Blue Envelopes A-/B+
50. William Shakespeare - Macbeth B+
51. Brian K. Vaughan - Pride of Baghdad A-
52. Various - Not Quite What I Was Planning A
53. Erin McCarthy - You Don't Know Jack B-/C+
54. Brian K. Vaughan - Y: The Last Man: Cycles A
55. Sophie Kinsella - Confessions of a Shopaholic F
56. Brian Vaughan - Y: The Last Man: One Small Step A
57. Stephanie Meyer - Twilight A-
58. Sonya Sones - What My Mother Doesn't Know B+
59. Douglas B. Lyons - American History: A Geek's Guide A
60. Audrey Niffennegger - The Time-Traveler's Wife B
61. Bill Willingham - Fables: Storybook Love A
62. Bill Willingham - Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers A
63. Mary Beth Sammons & Robert Edwards - City Ghosts: True Tales of Hauntings in American Cities F
64. Eileen Davidson - Death in Daytime A
65. Steve Moss, Editor - The World's Shortest Short Stories A-
66. Marc Acito - How I Paid for College: a Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater B
67. Cathy Yardley - Crave: the Seduction of Snow White F-
68. Stephanie Meyer - New Moon A-
69. Brian K. Vaughan - Y: The Last Man: Safeword A
70. Charlaine Harris - Dead Until Dark B+
71. Joanne Fluke, Laura Levine, Leslie Meier - Candy Cane Murder D-
72. Wm. Paul Young - The Shack B+
73. Ian Fleming - Live and Let Die A-
74. Lori Foster, Gemma Bruce, and Janice Maynard - A Very Merry Christmas C
75. Various - Angel Omnibus: Volume 1 B+

2009's List

1. Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow - The Last Lecture A+
2. Stephanie Meyer - Eclipse C/C-
3. Maureen Johnson - Girl at Sea A-
4. Various - Tales of the Slayer V1 B+
5. Susan Anderson - Just for Kicks B+
6. John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany C+
7. - 10. Brian K. Vaughan - Y: The Last Man: Ring of Truth; Girl on Girl; Paper Dolls; Kimono Dragons; Motherland; and Whys and Wherefores A to B+, depending
11. Aimee Friedman - A Novel Idea B+
12. Brian Jacques - Redwall C-
13. Rosemary Harris - Pushing Up Daisies B+
14. Kieran Scott - I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader B+
15. Anna Mantzaris - 1001 Things You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know C+
16. Sarah Miller - Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn A
17. Marian Keyes - Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married C-/D+
18. Ann Purser - Murder on Monday C-
19. Robin Palmer - Geek Charming B+
20. Michele Bardsley - I'm the Vampire, That's Why B+
21. William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice C+
22. Nancy Krulik - Puppy Love C+
23. Catherine Hapka - Love on Cue B-
24. Valerie Frankel - The Girlfriend Curse B-
25. Sue Margolis - Apocalipstick C
26. Chris Roberts - Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme B+
27. Bill Willingham - Fables: Homelands; Arabian Nights (and Days) B+ for both
28. Diana Peterfreund - Tap & Gown A+
29. Eileen Davidson - Dial Emmy for Murder A-
30. Erika J. Kendrick - Confessions of a Rookie Cheerleader D
31. William Conescu - Being Written B-
32. Stephanie Meyer - Breaking Dawn B-/C+
33. Madeline Alt - The Trouble with Magic C
34. Kate Carlisle - Homicide in Hardcover B+
35. Hester Browne - Little Lady, Big Apple C
36. Hester Browne - The Little Lady Agency and the Prince B
37. Christopher Buckley - No Way to Treat a First Lady B+
38. Richard Castle - Heat Wave A-
39. Marion Chesney - Hasty Death B-/C+
40. Sabrina James - Secret Santa F+

The Beginning

I've been told that I should start a new blog so that some of my family and friends can keep track of me. I have a LiveJournal, but it's locked down, so most people can't get into it. I got yelled at for that by a few people, so I'm going to try to start keeping up on blogspot too, and we'll see how that goes.

I plan on using this to track my book reading. A few years ago, I found a community on LiveJournal called 50 Book Challenge, where they challenge you to read 50 books over the course of a year. It's a little less than four books every month. I did it in 2007 (though I didn't realize it! Always thought I made it to 49), and smashed the number in 2008 (75 books in '08!), but missed it by 10 books in 2009. Maybe this year I'll make it again. We'll see! But I'm going to post some past reviews, with the dates of the original reviews included in the re-post. And for the better books, I'll try to include the Amazon link, too, just for good measure.

We'll see how this goes. More coming soon...