I re-read/completed some children’s series this year as well, including:
Beverly Cleary’s Ramona series
(Ramona and Her Father (Illus. Alan Tiegreen) 1975; Ramona and Her Mother (Illus. Alan Tiegreen) 1979; Ramona Forever 1984; Ramona Quimby, Age 8 1981; Ramona the Brave (Illus.Alan Tiegreen) 1975; Ramona the Pest (Illus. Louis Darling) 1968; Ramona’s World 1999)
Jeff Smith’s Bone series
(including, in order, Rose 2002; Out from Boneville 1991; The Great Cow Race; Eyes of the Storm 1994; The Dragonslayer 1995; Rock Jaw: Master of the Eastern Border 1997; Old Man’s Cave 1998; Ghost Circles 2000; The Treasure Hunters 2001; Crown Of Horns; Tall Tales 2010; Bone Handbook 2010)
Sydney Taylor’s The All-of-a-Kind Family series
(including All-of-a-Kind-Family 1951; All-of-a-Kind-Family Downtown 1972; All-of-a-Kind-Family Uptown 1958; Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family 1978; More All-of-a-Kind Family 1954)
And here’s the rest of it:
| Abdou | Angie | The Bone Cage | 2007 |
| Abouet | Marguerite | Aya de Yopougon 1 (Illus. Clement Oubrerie) | 2005 |
| Abouet | Marguerite | Aya de Yopougon 2 (Illus. Clement Oubrerie) | 2008 |
| Aboulela | Leila | Lyrics Alley | 2010 |
| Alcott | Louisa May | Little Women and Good Wives; Little Men | 1868-71 |
| Alcott | Louisa May | Jo’s Boys | 1886 |
| Angelou | Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | 1969 |
| Atwood | Margaret | The Handmaid’s Tale | 1986 |
| Badami | Anita Rau | Tamarind Mem | 1996 |
| Badoe | Adwoa | Between Sisters | 2010 |
| Badoe | Adwoa | The Pot of Wisdom | 2001 |
| Bezmozgis | David | The Free World | 2010 |
| Bidulka | Anthony | Amuse Bouche | 2003 |
| Birch | Carol | Jamrach’s Menagerie | 2011 |
| Blaise | Clark | The Meagre Tarmac | 2011 |
| Boggs | Belle | Mattaponi Queen | 2010 |
| Bray | Libba | A Great and Terrible Beauty | 2003 |
| Bronsky | Alina | Broken Glass Park | 2008 |
| Brookner | Anita | A Start in Life | 1981 |
| Burgess | Tony | Ravenna Gets | 2010 |
| Cameron | Elspeth | And Beauty Answers | 2007 |
| Carroll | Sean B. | Remarkable Creatures | 2009 |
| Christie | Michael | The Beggar’s Garden | 2011 |
| Clarke | George Elliott | Whylah Falls | 1990 |
| Cleary | Beverly | Dear Mr. Henshaw | 1983 |
| Coady | Lynn | Play the Monster Blind | 2000 |
| Coady | Lynn | The Antagonist | 2011 |
| Comeau | Joey | One Bloody Thing after Another | 2010 |
| Comeau | Joey | Overqualified | 2009 |
| Comyns | Barbara | Sisters by a River | 1947 |
| Coolidge | Susan M. | What Katy Did | 1872 |
| Coolidge | Susan M. | What Katy Did at School | 1873 |
| Coolidge | Susan M. | What Katy Did Next | 1886 |
| Cooper | Lettice | The New House | 1936 |
| Cox | Daniel Allen | Krakow Melt | 2010 |
| Coytoe | Ivan | Missed Her | 2010 |
| Davis | Tanya | At First, Lonely | 2011 |
| Dereske | Jo | Bookmarked to Die | 2006 |
| Deutsch | Barry | Hereville | 2010 |
| deWitt | Patrick | The Sisters Brothers | 2011 |
| Dickens | Charles | Great Expectations | 1861 |
| Dickens | Monica | The House at World’s End | 1970 |
| Dickens | Monica | Summer at World’s End | 1971 |
| Dickens | Monica | World’s End in Winter | 1972 |
| Dickens | Monica | Spring Comes to World’s End | 1973 |
| Divakaruni | Chitra | One Amazing Thing | 2010 |
| Doctor | Farzana | Stealing Nasreen | 2007 |
| Doshi | Tishani | The Pleasure Seekers | 2010 |
| Doughty | Louise | Whatever You Love | 2010 |
| Drabble | Margaret | The Garrick Year | 1964 |
| Draper | Sharon | Tears of a Tiger | 1994 |
| Eager | Edward | Half Magic | 1954 |
| Eager | Edward | Magic by the Lake | 1957 |
| Edstrom | Vivi | Astrid Lindgren: A Critical Study | 1992 |
| Edugyan | Esi | Half-Blood Blues | 2011 |
| Egan | Jennifer | A Visit from the Goon Squad | 2010 |
| Endicott | Marina | The Little Shadows | 2011 |
| English | Isobel | Every Eye | 1956 |
| Fabre | Dominique | The Waitress Was New Trans. Jordan Stump | 2005 |
| Fallis | Terry | The Best Laid Plans | 2007 |
| Findley | Timothy | Spadework | 2005 |
| Fitzgerald | James | What Disturbs Our Blood | 2010 |
| Fowles | Stacey May | Be Good | 2007 |
| Gallant | Mavis | Home Truths | 1981 |
| Gartner | Zsuzsi | Better Living through Plastic Explosives | 2011 |
| Gavalda | Anna | Je l’aimais | 2002 |
| Gerson | Carole & Gwendolyn Davies | Canadian Poetry | 1994 |
| Gopnik | Adam | Winter | 2011 |
| Gornick | Vivian | The Situation and the Story | 2001 |
| Gray | Charlotte | The Museum Called Canada | 2004 |
| Greer | Darren | Still Life with June | 2003 |
| Griggs | Terry | The Silver Door | 2004 |
| Griggs | Terry | Invisible Ink | 2006 |
| Gripe | Maria | Josephine (Trans. Paul Britten Austin, Illus. Harald Gripe) | 1961 |
| Gripe | Maria | Hugo and Josephine (Trans. Paul Britten Austin, Illus. Harald Gripe) | 1962 |
| Gripe | Maria | Hugo (Trans. Paul Britten Austin, Illus. Harald Gripe) | 1966 |
| Gunn | Genni | Solitaria | 2010 |
| Hadley | Tessa | The London Train | 2011 |
| Hanff | Helene | 84 Charing Cross Road | 1970 |
| Harbach | Chad | The Art of Fielding | 2011 |
| Harris | Amy Lavender | Imagining Toronto | 2010 |
| Harris | Charlaine | Dead Until Dark | 2001 |
| Harris | Charlaine | Living Dead in Dallas | 2002 |
| Harris | Charlaine | Club Dead | 2003 |
| Harris | Charlaine | Dead to the World | 2004 |
| Harris | Alexandra | Romantic Moderns | 2010 |
| Henderson | Emma | Grace Williams Says It Loud | 2010 |
| Highway | Tomson | Kiss of the Fur Queen | 1998 |
| Hoffman | Alice | The Dovekeepers | 2011 |
| Holdstock | Pauline | Into the Heart of the Country | 2011 |
| Horlock | Mary | The Book of Lies | 2011 |
| Hunt | Samantha | The Seas | 2004 |
| Jekyll | Agnes | Kitchen Essays | 1922 |
| Jennings | Sharon | Home Free | 2009 |
| Johnston | Wayne | A World Elsewhere | 2011 |
| Kavenna | Joanna | The Birth of Love | 2010 |
| King | Thomas | Truth and Bright Water | 2000 |
| King | James | Etienne’s Alphabet | 2010 |
| Kirkman | Robert | The Walking Dead: Too Far Gone 13 | 2010 |
| Kirkman | Robert | The Walking Dead: No Way Out 14 | 2011 |
| Krauss | Nicole | Great House | 2010 |
| Kroetsch | Robert | What the Crow Said | 1978 |
| Laferriere | Dany | The Return (Trans. David Homel 2011) | 2009 |
| Lahiri | Jhumpa | The Namesake | 2003 |
| Law-Yone | Wendy | The Road to Wanting | 2010 |
| Leavitt | Sarah | Tangles | 2010 |
| Leegant | Joan | Wherever You Go | 2010 |
| Leenders | Gordon j.h. | To Be Continued Volume 1 | 2005 |
| Lemire | Jeff | Essex County, Complete | 2009 |
| Lindgren | Astrid | Pippi Goes on Board | 1957 |
| Lindgren | Astrid | Pippi in the South Seas | 1959 |
| Lockhart | E. | The Disputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks | 2008 |
| Lowry | Lois | The Giver | 1993 |
| Lowry | Lois | Gathering Blue | 2000 |
| Lowry | Lois | Messenger | 2004 |
| Maharaj | Rabindranath | The Amazing Absorbing Boy | 2010 |
| Mankell | Henning | The Pyramid (Trans. Ebba Segerberg and Laurie Thompson) | 1999 |
| Mankell | Henning | Faceless Killers (Trans. Steven T. Murray, 1997) | 1991 |
| Marcone | Massimo | Acquired Tastes | 2010 |
| Mayr | Suzette | Monoceros | 2011 |
| Mazur | Grace Dane | Hinges | 2010 |
| McCarthy | Doris | Ninety Years Wise | 2004 |
| McQuarrie | John | Toronto, Then & Now | 2000 |
| Micallef | Shawn | Stroll | 2010 |
| Michaels | F.S. | Monoculture | 2011 |
| Mitchell | Margaret | Gone with the Wind | 1936 |
| Moore | Brian | The Luck of Ginger Coffey | 1960 |
| Moorehead | Caroline | A Train in Winter | 2011 |
| Munro | Alice | Dance of the Happy Shades | 1968 |
| Munro | Alice | Lives of Girls and Women | 1971 |
| Munro | Alice | Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You | 1974 |
| Nasar | Sylvia | Grand Pursuit | 2011 |
| Nickerson | Billeh | McPoems | 2010 |
| Niffenegger | Audrey | The Night Bookmobile | 2010 |
| Norton | Mary | The Borrowers | 1953 |
| Norton | Mary | The Borrowers Afield | 1955 |
| Norton | Mary | The Borrowers Afloat | 1959 |
| Norton | Mary | The Borrowers Aloft (and Poor Stainless, 1966) | 1961 |
| Norton | Mary | The Borrowers Avenged | 1982 |
| Obreht | Téa | The Tiger’s Wife | 2010 |
| Off | Carol | Bitter Chocolate | 2006 |
| Ondaatje | Michael | In the Skin of a Lion | 1987 |
| Ondaatje | Michael | The Cat’s Table | 2011 |
| Peile | Anne | Repeat It Today with Tears | 2010 |
| Penny | Louise | Dead Cold | 2006 |
| Penny | Louise | The Cruellest Month | 2007 |
| Randall | Alice | The Wind Done Gone | 2001 |
| Roberson | Chris & Michael Allred | iZombie: Dead to the World | 2010 |
| Ruddock | Nicholas | The Parabolist | 2010 |
| Russell | Karen | Swamplandia! | 2011 |
| Russell | Harriet | Envelopes | 2005 |
| Schiffer | Vivienne | Camp Nine | 2011 |
| Seelig | Adam | Every Day in the Morning (Slow) | 2010 |
| Selecky | Sarah | This Cake is for the Party | 2010 |
| Shoneyin | Lola | The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives | 2010 |
| Sikoryak | Robert | Masterpiece Comics | 2009 |
| Simpson | Helen | Four Bare Legs in a Bed | 1990 |
| Smiley | Jane | Charles Dickens | 2002 |
| Smith | Rick & Bruce Lourie | Slow Death by Rubber Duck | 2009 |
| Smith | Lee | Christmas Letters | 1996 |
| Staikos | Andreas | Les Liaisons Culinaires (Trans. Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife Illus. Jeff Fisher) | 1997 |
| Steffler | John | The Afterlife of George Cartwright | 1992 |
| Stellings | Caroline | The Contest | 2010 |
| Tan | Shaun | The Arrival | 2007 |
| Tchana | Katrin Hyman | Changing Woman and Her Sisters | 2006 |
| Tearne | Roma | The Swimmer | 2010 |
| Thornton | Rosy | The Tapestry of Love | 2010 |
| Thornton | Rosy | More than Love Letters | 2006 |
| Tobin | Jacqueline L. with Hettie Jones | From Midnight to Dawn | 2007 |
| Tolkien | J.R.R. | The Father Christmas Letters | 1976 |
| Townsend | Sue | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 | 1982 |
| Tremain | Rose | Sacred Country | 1992 |
| Urquhart | Jane | The Whirlpool | 1986 |
| Urquhart | Jane | Away | 1993 |
| Urquhart | Jane | Sanctuary Line | 2010 |
| Vanderhaeghe | Guy | A Good Man | 2011 |
| Vida | Vendela | The Lovers | 2010 |
| Viorst | Judith | It’s Hard to Be Hip over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life | 1968 |
| Vyeta | Dan | The Quiet Twin | 2011 |
| Walker | Alice | The Color Purple | 1983 |
| Watson | S.J. | Before I Go to Sleep | 2011 |
| Webster | Jean | Daddy-Long-Legs | 1912 |
| Wharton | Thomas | Icefields | 1995 |
| Wharton | Edith | The Custom of the Country | 1913 |
| Wiebe | Catherine M.A. | Second Rising | 2009 |
| Williams | Ian | You Know Who You Are | 2010 |
| Williamson | Ronald F. | Toronto | 2008 |
| Willingham | Bill | Fables: Legends in Exile (1) | 2002 |
| Winter | Kathleen | Annabel | 2010 |
| Wiwa | Ken | In the Shadow of a Saint | 2000 |
| York | Alissa | Fauna | 2010 |
| Yoshimoto | Banana | The Lake(Trans. Michael Emmerich) | 2005 |
| Zentner | Alexi | Touch | 2011 |
| Ziegelman | Jane | 97 Orchard | 2009 |