Books I Have Read in 2007
December
Once a King, Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King (Raymundo Sanchez)
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (Rebecca Solnit)
November
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
October
Look at Me (Jennifer Egan)
The Life of Pi(Yann Martel)
September
Hoot (Carl Hiaasen)
August
Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser)
Augusta, Gone: A True Story (Martha Tod Dudman)
July
Inside the Crips: Life Inside L.A.'s Most Notorious Gang (Colton Simpson)
The Seas (Samantha Hunt)
Forever (Pete Hamill)
June
The Hungry Ocean, A Swordboat Captain's Journey (Linday Greenlaw)
Cheese Monkeys (Chip Kidd)
Fortunate Son (Walter Mosley)
Genome (Matt Ridley)
Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
May
Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con Artist (Peter Fenton)
Stones From the River (Ursula Hegi)
The Effect of Living Backwards (Heidi Julavits)
April
The Book of Ruth (Jane Hamilton)
March
Jesus Land (Julia Scheeres)
Lucky : A Memoir (Alice Sebold)
Speak (Laurie Halse Anderson)
February
The Stardust Lounge (Deborah Digges)
Me Times Three (Alex Witchel)
Sylvanus Now (Donna Morrissey)
January
The Legend of Mick the Miiler (Michael Tanner)
An Unquiet Mind (Kay Redfield Jamison)
The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America (Jonathan Kozol)

 

   Books I Have Read in 2006
December
The Road from Emeryville: A History of Greyhound Racing (Paul C Hartwell)
Selecting, Training & Racing Greyhounds (Roy Burnell)
November
George Curtis: Training Greyhounds (Julia Barnes)
The New Brain - How The Modern Age is Rewiring Your Mind (Richard Restack M.D.)
October
Accordion Crimes (Annie Proulx)
Running With Scissors: A Memoir (Auguston Burroughs)
Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity (Elizabeth Gold)
September
"I Won't Learn from You": And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment (Herbert Kohn)
The Rackets (Thomas Kelly)
Stargirl (Jerry Spinelli)
August
The Seven Sisters (Margaret Drabble)
Case Histories (Kate Atkinson)
July
Where You Once Belonged (Kent Haruf)
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions (Ben Mezrich)
Maximum Security: The Culture of Violence in Inner-City Schools (John Devine)
June
It Takes a Worried Man : A Memoir (Brendan Halpin)
The Boy He Left Behind : A Man's Search for his Lost Father (Mark Matousek)
Losing My Faculties : A Teacher's Story (Brendan Halpin)
Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope (Jonathan Kozol)
Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers (Linda Perlstein)
May
Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports From A Life With Autism (Temple Grandin)
Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D (Lizzie Simon)
The Family Story of Bonnie and Clyde (Phillip W. Steele, Marie Barrow Scoma)
The Piano Tuner (Daniel Mason)
I Won't Learn from You (Herbert Kohl)
April
Ms. Moffett's First Year: Becoming a Teacher in America (Abby Goodnough)
Sent to the Principal : Students Talk about Making High Schools Better (Kathleen Cushman)
March
Waiting To Be Heard: Youths Speak Out About Inheriting a Violent World (Students of SF's Thurgood Marshall H.S.)
We can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools (Gary R. Howard)
February
The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing (Laura Thompson)
January
Inside Mrs. B's Classroom : Courage, Hope, and Learning on Chicago's South Side (Leslie Baldacci)
The Burn Journals (Brent Runyan)
Scar Tissue (Anthony Kiedis)

 

   Books I Have Read in 2005
December
Teacher Man (Frant McCourt)
Not So easy Going - The Policy Environments of Small Urban Schools (Raywid & Schmerler)
November
The Firm (John Grisham)
October
In Schools We Trust (Deborah Meier)
September
Finding Fish (Antwone Fisher)
Bob Dylan Chronicles (Bob Dylan)
August
Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith (Jon Krakauer)
July
Mourning Ruby (Helen Dunmore)
June
Borderliners (Peter Hoeg)
May
The Reader (Bernhard Schlink)
Living at the Edge of the World: A Teenager's Survival in the Tunnels of Grand Central Station (Tina S. Jamie Pastor Bolnick)
April
Chang and Eng (Darin Strauss)
March
The Dogs of Babel (Carolyn Parkhurst)
Edutopia: Success Stories for Learning in the Digital Age (The George Lucas Educational Foundation)
February
My Sister Life (Maria A. Flook)
The Final Frontiersman (James Campbell)
Dog World (Alfred Gingold)
January
Horace's Compromise (Theodore R. Sizer)
Ordinary Monsters (Karen Novak)

 

   Books I Have Read in 2004
December
Understanding By Design (Grant Wiggens Jay McTighe)
November
What Every Middle School Teacher Should Know (Trudy Knowles, Dave F. Brown)
Reversable Errors (Scott Turow)
October
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (Mark Haddon)
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
September
Dreaming in Cuban (Christina Garcia)
Katie.com (Katie Tarbox)
August
Crow Lake (Mary Lawson)
The Horse Whisperer (Nicholas Evans)
Seabiscuit (Laura Hillenbrand)
July
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (Alice Munro)
House of Sand and Fog (Andre Dubus III)
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America (Nathan McCall)
June
Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho (Jon Katz)
Waiting (Ha Jin)
The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker (Eric Liu)
May
Stirring the Chalkdust: Tales of Teachers Changing Classroom Practice (Patricia A. Wasley)
A Map of the World (Jane Hamilton)
April
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Steven Millhauser)
The Optimist's Daughter (Eudora Welty)
March
Crossing the Water (Daniel Robb)
The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
Affliction (Russell Banks)
February
Bee Season (Myla Goldberg)
A Letter To Teachers (Vito Perrone)
January
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
The Bully, The Bullied, and the Bystander (Barbara Coloroso)
What To Look For in a Classroom (Alfie Kohn)

 

   Books I Have Read in 2003
December
The Pilot's Wife (Anita Shreve)
November
One Sweet Quarrel (Deirdre McNamer)
October
Postcards (E. Annie Proulx)
A Patchwork Planet (Anne Tyler)
Monster (Walter Dean Myers)
September
Almost A Woman (Esmeralda Santiago)
In Search of Love and Beauty (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)
When Teachers Face Themselves (Arthur T. Jersild)
Back When We Were Grownups (Anne Tyler)
August
The Insult (Rupert Thompson)
Media Unlimited (Todd Gitlin)
Motherless Brooklyn (Jonathan Lethem)
July
The Lecturer's Tale (James Hynes)
A Thousand Acres (Jane Smiley)
June
With Your Crooked Heart (Helen Dunmore)
Stand Before Your God (Paul Watkins)
May
Regeneration (Pat Barker)
Prodigal Summer (Barbara Kingsolver)
April
Andorra (Peter Cameron)
The Journey Home (Olaf Olafsson)
Plainsong (Kent Haruf)
The Perfect Storm (Sebastian Junger)
March
The Color of Water (James McBride)
Bastard Out of Carolina (Dorothy Allison)
February
Farthest North (Dr. Fridtjof Nansen)
January
Mendel's Dwarf (Simon Mawer)
Year of Wonders (Geraldine Brooks)
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (Michael Dorris)


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