Mark's 100 Books list

[Mark]

I will add the books I have read so far this year here soon...

[Mark]

Earliest to most recent....
1. Witch and Wizard - John Patterson
2. Game of Thrones- George R.R. Martin
3. A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. The Restaurant At the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams
6. Life, the Universe,and Everything, Douglas Adams
7. So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish, Douglas Adams
8. Cosmopolis - Don Delillo
9. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
10. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
11. Othello - William Shakespeare
12. 1984 - George Orwell
13. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
14. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories - Flannery O'Connor
15. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Amy Chua
16. Taiwan A to Z - Amy Liu
17. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
18. Conscious Classroom Management: Unlocking the Secrets of Great Teaching - Rick Smith
19. Clock Watchers: Six Steps to Motivating and Engaging Disengaged Students - Stephanie Quate
20. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
21. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
22. Pacific Crossing - Gary Soto
23. Milkweed - Jerry Spinelli
24. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
25. Living Rich by Spending Smart - Gregory Karp
26. Thirst - Andrei Gelasimov
27. Coraline - Neil Gaiman
28. A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
29. X-Isle - Steve Augarde
30. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman

That's it for now...Not bad, I hope, for a teacher who just moved to Taiwan from Colorado and was student-teaching till May, graduated, then moved overseas. I'm breezing through a lot of YA literature while still trying to keep my mind sharp by reading "important" books as well as professional development books...

Here's to hoping I can finish strong and reach my goal of 100 books for the year!!!

[Mark]

31. Hatchet - Gary Paulsen

32. Best Practices in ELL Instruction - Guofang Li, Patricia A. Edwards

[Mark]

33. How to Train Your Dragon - Cressida Cowell

[Mark]

34. How to Train Your Dragon Book 2: How to Be a Pirate - Cressida Cowell

[Mark]

35. Call of the Wild - Jack London

36. 47 Ways to Make $100 in a Day - Jonathan Cockrum. Do not read this book, for the love of all that is holy!

[Mark]

37. The Pearl- John Steinbeck

[Mark]

38. Number the Stars - Lois Lowry

39. Life of Pi - Yann Martel

I'm on a two-week break...really flying through these books! I have to make up for lost time!

[Mark]

40. World Folktales - Kathy Burke

[Mark]

41. Basic Training - Kurt Vonnegut

[Mark]

42. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander

[Mark]

43. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum

[Mark]

44. American-Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang

[Mark]

45. How to Train Your Dragon Book 3:How to Speak Dragonese - Cressida Cowell

[Mark]

46. Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams

[Mark]

47. The Water Wars - Cameron Stracher

[Mark]

48. - I'm Starved for You - Margaret Atwood

[Mark]

49. Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli

[Mark]

50. Night - Elie Wiesel

[Mark]

51. The Sign of the Beaver - Elizabeth George Speare

[Mark]

52. Holes - Louis Sacher

[Mark]

53. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

[Mark]

54. Firegirl - Tony Abbott

[Mark]

55. - Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

56. - Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell

[Mark]

57. - Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

[Mark]

58. On the Decay of the Art of Lying - Mark Twain

[Mark]

59. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown

60. - 2BRO2B - Kurt Vonnegut

[Mark]

61. 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake

62. The Woggle-Bug Book - L. Frank Baum

[Mark]

63. - Short Cuts - Raymond Carver

[Mark]

64. Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls

[Mark]

65. The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham

[Mark]

66. The End of the World - Andrew Biss

[Mark]

67. Grimm's Fairy Stories - Gebruder Grimm

[Mark]

68. - Pirates - Charles Johnson

[Mark]

69. The Professor of Desire - Philip Roth

[Mark]

70. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus - L. Frank Baum

[Mark]

71. The Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs

[Mark]

72. Tea Party Fairy Tales - James Finn Garner

[Mark]

73. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk - Ben Fountain

[Mark]

74. Charles Dickens' Children Stories - Charles Dickens

[Mark]

75. - The Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera

[Mark]

76. The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie

[Mark]

77. A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle

[Mark]

78. The Hours - Michael Cunningham

[Mark]

79. Alone - TR Sullivan

[Mark]

80. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson

[Mark]

81. Messenger - Lois Lowry

[Mark]

82. End Zone - Don DeLillo

[Mark]

83. Zombie - Joyce Carol Oates

[Mark]

84. Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry

85. The Sea Fairies - L. Frank Baum