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2015:

1. The Theif Lord by Cornelia Funke 
2. An Age of Liscence: a Travelogue by Lucy Knisley 
3. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
4. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
5. When you Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
6. Relish: My life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley 
7. Liesl & Po  by Lauren Oliver
8. Scary Close by Donald Miller
9. El Iluminado by Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin

Children’s/Picture Books

1. Once Upon an Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers – check out a video about this cool cat
2. This Moose Belongs to Me by Olvier Jeffers
3. The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus  by Jen Bryant

2014: a year my reading went by the wayside and I didn’t keep track. 

2013:

1. El Cuaderno de Maya by Isabel Allende
2. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
3. “Walking” by Henry David Thoreau
4. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
5. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
6. The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
7. Peony in Love by Lisa Sea
8. Casa de los espiritus by Isabel Allende
9. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
10. El Catedral del Mar by Ildefonso Falcones
11. Cuarteto para una solista by Jose Luis Sampedro
12. God Never Blinks by Regina Brett
13. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
14. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
15. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
16. City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
17. City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare
18. What Happens When Women Say Yes to God by Lysa Terkeurst
19. Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
20. My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
21. Elmer and The Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
22. The Dragons of Blueland by Ruth Stiles Gannett
23. And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (currently reading…)

2012: 

1. Todo lo que podríamos haber sido tu y y si no fueramo tu y yo por Albert Espinosa
2. ¡Indignaos! por Stephane Hessel 
3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
4. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
5. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
6. The Book Thief  by Mark Zusak
7. Leonora by Elena Ponitowska
8. Introducing Cultural Anthropology by Brian M. Howell and Jenell William Paris
9. The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo
10. The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
11. One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp 
12. Crazy Love by Francis Chan
13. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by  John Boyne
14. The Miraculous Adventures of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
15. Aunque Seamos Malditas (Although we were damned)  by Eugenia Rico
16.  El libro de arena (The Book of Sand) by Jorge Luis Borges
17.  Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
18.  Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Marukami
19.  La casa de amores impossibles  (The House of Impossible Loves) por Cristina Lopez Barrio
20.  Global Soul by Pico Iyer
21.  The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
22. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

Some of my all-time favorite books are:

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• The Island of Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
• Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
• An Elephant at the Waldorf  by Anne Miranda
• Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• La sombra en el viento (A Shadow in the Wind) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Extremely Loud and Incrediby Close  by Jonathan Safran Foer
• La Mujer Habitada by Giocanda Belli
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger