What is Ms. Schmidt Reading?
Every now and then somebody asks me, "What do library media specialists read, anyway?" The answer is we read the same sorts of things other people read. I go for a combination of books that deepen my understanding of what I teach, along with a lot of nonfiction and mystery/thrillers. I also read lots of newspaper and magazine articles (EW, NYTimes, The Atlantic, SLJ, VOYA).
Here is my book list with what I've finished most recently at the top. If you read any of these on your own, let me know. I would enjoy
hearing what you think.
Here is my book list with what I've finished most recently at the top. If you read any of these on your own, let me know. I would enjoy
hearing what you think.
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Spring 2015
Wayward, Blake Crouch
The Pines, Blake Crouch
The Sound of a WIld Snail Eating
Kid Me Not
Spinster, Kate Bolick
A Curious Mind, Brian Grazer
Spinster, Kate Bolick
Tell the Wolves I'm Home,
Rooms, Lauren Oliver
The Unquiet Dead,
The Good Girl, Mary Kubica
You Should Have Known,
Sweet Tooth, Ian McEwan
The One You Love, Paul Pilkington
Fresh Doubt, Eva Hudson
Die Again, Tess Gerritsen
The Grave Tattoo, Val McDermid
No Kidding,
The Frozen Dead, Bernard Minier
Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
The Pines, Blake Crouch
The Sound of a WIld Snail Eating
Kid Me Not
Spinster, Kate Bolick
A Curious Mind, Brian Grazer
Spinster, Kate Bolick
Tell the Wolves I'm Home,
Rooms, Lauren Oliver
The Unquiet Dead,
The Good Girl, Mary Kubica
You Should Have Known,
Sweet Tooth, Ian McEwan
The One You Love, Paul Pilkington
Fresh Doubt, Eva Hudson
Die Again, Tess Gerritsen
The Grave Tattoo, Val McDermid
No Kidding,
The Frozen Dead, Bernard Minier
Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
Winter 2014-15Retribution, Val McDermid
Fever of the Bone, Val McDermid Beneath the Bleeding, Val McDermid The Burning Room, Michael Connelly The Last Temptation, Val McDermid The Silent Girls, Eric Rickstad Everything Burns What We Saw at Night, Jacqueline Micthard Beautiful Lies, Lisa Unger Miramont's Ghost, Elizabeth Hall The Secret History, Donna Tartt The Infinite Sea, Rick Yancey The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins Still Writing, Dani Shapiro Personal, Lee Child Sun Storm, Asa Larsson Paris Letters The Truth About Alice Oh Myyyy!, George Takei The Son, Jo Nesbo The Most Magnificent Thing Marina, Carlos Ruiz Zafon All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr Raging Heat, Richard Castle Article 5, Kristen Simmons |
Fall 2014Robopocalypse, Daniel Wilson
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, Joshua Foer California, Eden Lipnicki Seduction, MJ Rose Hector and the Search for Happiness Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel Hector and the Search for Happiness, The Kraken Project, Douglas Preston The Ask and the Answer, Patrick Ness Top Secret Twenty-One, Janet Evanovich Murder 101, Faye Kellerman Texts from Jane Eyre The Second Deadly Sin, Asa Larsson Reconstructing Amelia, Kimberly McCreight Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell The Fault in Our Stars, John Green Openly Straight Where'd You Go Bernadette Terminal City, Linda Fairstein P.O.W.E.R., Lisa Kramer |
Summer 2014Prodigy, Marie Lu
Monsters, Lisa J. Bick Shadows, Lisa J. Bick Lonely, Rot & Ruin Ashes, Lisa J. Bick Wish You Were Dead, Todd Strasser Inhuman, Kat Falls Fat Girl, Marilyn Sachs The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness Four, VEronica Roth The Eye of Minds, James Dashner The Universe Versus Alex Woods One More Thing, BJ Novak The Storied Life of AJ Fikrey Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell Stung!, Bethany WIggins Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets All I Did Was Ask, Terry Gross Reboot How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff In the After Not a Drop to Drink Graduation Day, Joelle Charbonneau Independence Day, Joelle Charbonneau The Well-Tempered Heart Great All Our Yesterdays Reality Boy, AS King Counting by 7s, Holly Sloan We Were Liars, E.Lockhart The Archived Legend, Marie Lu The Culling, Steven Dos Santos If You Could Be Mine, Learning to Breathe, Priscilla Warner Imagined London, Anna Quindlen Breathe, Sarah Crossan Incarceron, The Testing, Joelle Charbonneau Fire Will Fall, Carol Plum-Ucci Spring 2013The Bat, Jo Nesbo Finding Your Element, Dr. Ken Robinson Daring Greatly, Brene Brown Every Day, David Levithan Sixpence House, Paul Collins We the Animals, Justin Torres Suspect, Robert Crais Fortytude, Sarah Brokaw Kinsey and Me, Sue Grafton Crossed, Allie Condie |
Spring 2014The Grimm Legacy, Polly Shulman
The World's Strongest Librarian, JoshHanagarne Hate List, Jennifer Brown A Trick of LIght, Louise Penny Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan Ruin, The Eye of God, James Rollins The Brutal Telling, Louise Penny Dust, Patricia Cornwell Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Saenz The World's Strongest Librarian, Cockroaches, Jo Nesbo Never Fall Down, Patricia McCormick Death Cloud, Andrew Lane Henry Franks, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple The Silent Wife, A.S.A. Harrison This Dark Endeavor, Ken Oppel The Eye of Minds, James Dashner The Bookman's Tale, Charlie Lovett Far, Far Away, Tom McNeal My Bookstore Summer 2013How Literature Saved My Life, David Shields
The Fire Witness, Lars Kepler Orange is the New Black, Piper Kerman Set in Darkness, Ian Rankin The Preacher, Camilla Lackburg Collaboration and the School Media Specialist, Carol Doll 21st Century Learning in School Libraries Murder in the Marais, Cara Black Information Power, ALA Library 2.0, Nancy Courtney Speaking From Among the Bones, Alan Bradley Insurgent, Veronica Roth Teen Genreflecting Divergent, Veronica Roth The 5th Wave, Rick Yancey A Question of Blood, Ian Rankin The Hanging Gardens, Ian Rankin Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell The Redeemer, Jo Nesbo Inferno, Dan Brown Tenth of December, George Saunders Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick The Systematic Design of Instruction, Dick and Carey |
Winter 2013-14The Watcher in the Shadows, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My Stroke of Insight, Jill Bolte Taylor More Than This, Patrick Ness Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality, Elizabeth Eulberg The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, Andrew Greer Where the Peacocks Sing White Fire, Preston & Child Listening to Madeline The Returned, Jason Mott The Question Book, Dropped Names, Frank Langella The Cruelest Month, Louise Penny The Reason I Jump, Naoki Higashida The Art of Hearing Heartbeats Lexicon, Max Barry Lost Cat Killing the Shadows, Val McDermid The Wes Anderson Collection The Obituary Writer, Ann Hood Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, Matthew Quick Police, Jo Nesbo Cross and Burn, Val McDermid The Distant Echo, Val McDermid How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You The Chaperone, Laura Moriarty A Fatal Grace, Louise Penny The Rosie Project, Graehme Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh W is for Wasted, Sue Grafton Still Life, Louise Penny Standing in Another Man's Grave, Ian Rankin The Beast, Faye Kellerman Allegiant, Veronica Roth Mrs. Poe, Lynn Cullen Empty Mansions, Bill Dedman Fall 2013Room No. 10, Ake Edwardson
Bones of the Lost, Kathy Reichs Inside the Bungalow, Paul Duscherer The Bungalow, Paul Duscherer Dad is Fat, Jim Gaffigan Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, Therese Fowler Frozen Heat, Richard Castle Unseen, Karin Slaughter Guilt, Jonathan Kellerman Death Angel, Linda Fairstein Never Go Back, Lee Child Archetypes: Who Are You?, Caroline Myss Life After Life, Kate Atkinson The Other Typist, Suzanne Rindell The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman Dark Places, Gillian Flynn Ready Player One, Ernest Cline The Stranger, Camilla Lackberg Laughing Without an Accent, Firoozeh Dumas Winter 2012-13Brain on Fire, Susannah Callahan
Cold Hit, Stephen J. Cannell Monkey Mind, Daniel Smith An Abundance of Katherine's, John Green The Lineup, Otto Penzi Origins, Jessica Khoury The Nightmare, Lars Keplar Designated Fat Girl The Uninvited Guests, Sadie Jones The Ice Station, Matt Reilly The Lifeboat, Charlotte Rogan A Rule Against Murder, Louise Penny A Beautiful Mystery, Louise Penny The Black Box, Michael Connelly The Third Gate, Lincoln Child Lost at Sea, Jon Ronson The Art Forger, B.A. Shapiro Blind Goddess, Anne Holt In One Person, John Irving The Other Woman, Hank Phillips Quiet, Susan Cain The Bone Bed, Patricia Cornwell Two Graves, Preston & Child Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter Escaping Into the Open: Writing True, Elizabeth Berg Radio Shangri-La, Jo Napoli Phantom, Jo Nesbo Book Love, Penny Kittle The Lover's Dictionary, David Levitan |