Two big events have conspired recently to make reading more difficult for me. The first one is our move from Michigan to Virginia. In making the move I obviously had to change libraries. A big plus (at least in my mind) for our new home in Virginia, is that we’re walking distance to the library. The downside is that the local library system has a much smaller selection of books from which it draws. I’ve discovered a growing list of books that I want to read that our new library doesn’t have access to.

A bigger change to my reading life has been the birth of my son. For some reason, he doesn’t want to play quietly on his own for several hours while mommy reads. Because of these changes, I have access to fewer books, and less time to read the ones I do check out. But yet, I continue to stumble across books that I really need to read.

And so, I’ve reached the point in my life in which I must maintain a “to read someday” list. Never before have I had such a list, but now it’s become a necessity. And so begins my queue. . .

1. The Feminine Mistake by Leslie Bennets

2. Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber

3. Everything You Want by Barbara Shoup

4. Greetings from Nowhere by Barbara O’Connor

5. Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories by Will Weaver

6. An Unlit Path by Deborah L. Hannah

7. Tiny Titan by Ann Yurcek

8. My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park by Steve Kluger

9. My Mother the Cheerleader by Robert Sharenow

10. Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner

11. The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

12. Mousetraps by Pat Schmatz

13. Sister Wife by Shelley Hrdlitschka

14. The Plague by Joanne Dahme

15. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

16. The September Sisters by Jillian Cantor

17. Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher

18. Why Don’t Students Like School?  A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions about How the Mind Works and What it Means for Your Classroom by Daniel T. Willingham

19. Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language by Patricia T. O’Conner and Steward Kellerman

20. Up From Ground Zero by Scott Lasser

21. Prairie Tale by Melissa Gilbert

22. Tug of War by Catherine Forde

23. The Enemy by Charlie Higson

24. A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich

25. The Maze Runner by James Dashner

26. Love, Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur

27. This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer

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