January 13, 2019

Top 10 Fiction Titles for 2018

Here are the top 10 circulating fiction titles at Cairo American College for 2018 . How many did you read?

(Links are to the CAC MHS library catalog record for the title.)

10. Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins  Written in 2008, this book is still in the top 10. Go, Katniss!!Click for more information on this title

 

9. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling

The second book in the series seems to have been the most popular this year, but all of them still circulate well.

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8. Gathering Blue, by Lois Lowry

Set in the universe of The Giver, this story is about a handicapped and gifted girl who must work for the all powerful Guardians.

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7. The Empty Kingdom, by Elizabeth E. Wein

This is book 2 in the series Mark of Solomon. I loved Ms. Wein’s historical fiction novels set in World War 2 with their courageous female spies. I highly recommend that series too!

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6. The Elite, by Kiera Cass

Also book 2 in a series: The Selection. Cinderella-ish romance in a post-apocalyptic world. We have several novellas set in that universe on our Overdrive collection.

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5. Camp Nine, by Vivienne Schiffer

I have been seeing more and more titles set during the Japanese internment of World War II. This one is new to me, so I’ll be reading it this year!

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4. The School for Good and Evil: A World Without Princes, by Soman Chainani

The second book in series has been very popular this year! This is the fourth one in this list of 10 ten.

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3. Everything, Everything, by Nicola Yoon

Now a movie. Nicola Yoon is a very popular author at our library!

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2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie

Another book still going strong more than 10 years after publication.

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  1. The Inquisitor’s Tale, or, Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog, by Adam Gidwitz, illustrated by Hatem Aly

The illustrator for The Inquisitor’s Tale visited CAC last school year. Very glad to see his book in the top spot for fiction in 2018.

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January 11, 2019

What will you read in 2019?

For the last 5 years, I’ve joined Goodreads Reading Challenge and set myself the goal of reading 365 books. That was somewhat easy given that I’d been an elementary school librarian and picture books formed the bulk of my professional reading. I thought that now that I was a secondary school librarian, I’d struggle to read the goal, but I did it, and several days before the end of the year too!

Here’s a screenshot of my year in books for 2018. You can see the full list of books here. 

I love reading mysteries, fantasy and steampunk science fiction. I also read a lot of professional books about education and libraries. What will you read in 2019?

 

 

Infographic summarizing my year of reading 2019