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 |
Wow, that’s a diverse list of books. My reading has been incredibly slow this year. Hopefully, i get to pick if up and read more. I’ll definitely be coming back to check out your book lists and reviews.
thanks for dropping by my post earlier.
Thanks, Iphigene. This isn’t one of my slow reading years, that’s for sure. It might even be a record, but I don’t know! Either way, it does stand out because usually at the end of a reading year, I feel that I’ve overlooked something and although of course I always want to read “more”, I’m quite happy with 2011′s reading so far.