Life as the mother of 4: Books

I love to read! My parents use to punish me when I was a child by sending me to my room and telling me I couldn't read. Odd I know, but if it works it works. I love multiple genres. I read mostly for pleasure but like to throw in something interesting frequently. I love murder mysteries, books about politics, Jane Austin, classics. I use to read more "highbrow" books but sadly now have sunk to mostly entertaining junk. It just makes me happy.

I inherited the gift of speed reading from my dad so I can whip though a book quickly, which just makes it more depressing that I don't read better stuff. My husband picks fascinating books to read but he's so slow and so busy he doesn't read much. If I'm bored I'll read almost anything. Currently I'm reading a lot of young adult literature. It's a hot market and there really is a lot available. And best of all, I know what my kids are reading.

Books I like: (I'll add more as I think of them and read more.)

Young Adult

The Ranger Apprentice Series
Underland Chronicles
Wardstone Chronicles: Spooks defending people against witches, etc. Warning this one is dark and a little scary. Last Apprentice Series
The Shamer Series by Lene Kaaberbol. Fun books with a female protagonist.
Shadow Children Series: Anything by Margaret Haddix is good.
Uglies Trilogy
Spiderwick Chronicles
Holes and Small Steps
Charlie Bone Series
Chronicles of Narnia
Tuck Everlasting
Witch of Blackbird Pond
Anne of Green Gables and the rest of L.M. Montgomery’s books
Giver Trilogy by Lois Lowry
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud. Stroud wrote the Bartimaeus Trilogy (+ prequel)
Into the Wild by Sarah Beth Durst
Hunger Games trilogy
Where the Red Fern Grows

Summer of the Monkeys

Bridge to Terabithia

Matched

The Keepers'Tattoo

The Unidentified

Fiction

Unaccustomed Earth and The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Thomas Perry. I like the Jane Whitefield novels
Lee Child Reacher novels
Robert B. Parker Jesse Stone novels

Non-Fiction

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs

The American Way of War

How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq

Three Cups of Tea

A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting