Dewey's Book Reading Challenge

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Dewey's Book Reading Challenge is about honoring Dewey, the prolific and much loved book blogger after her passing in late November 2008. The idea is simple: pick one book from each of the years she reviewed books, read it and then post a review of it here. To make this an easier process, I went through and made a list of all the books I could find reviews of in her blog The Hidden Side of a Leaf. Below is the cut to the list with the titles linked to their respective blog posts.


2003

-January-

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Grass by Terri Tepper
Lullaby by chuck Palahniuk
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
After Dachou by Daniel Quinn
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer

-February-

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (books: many)

-May-

A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle

-June-

Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian

-October-

The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier

-November-

A Secret History by Donna Ta rtt


2004

-January-

The curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon

-October-

The Inner Circle by T.C. Boyle
Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos

-November-

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold


2005

-January-

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

-March-

The Ha-Ha King by Dave King
Property by Valerie Martin
Old School by Tobias Wolff

-April-

Birth of Venus by Sara Dunant
Wild Child by Chelsea Cain
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

-May-

Saturday by Ian McEwan

-September-

A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Until I Find You by John Irving


2006

-January-

Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon

-April-

The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Cell by Stephen King
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
The Misfits by James Howe

-May-

Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
March by Geraldine Brooks

-June-

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Kindred by Octavia Butler
The Little Women by Kathrine Weber
The Parable of the Talents

-August-

Lord Vishnu's Love Handles by Will Clarke
Windfalls Jean Hegland


2007

-January-

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford
Peanuts: A Goldern Celebration by Charles Schulz
Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
The King's Already Here by Garret Freymann-Weyr
A Year on the Merde by "Paul West"
Tintin Series Herge
three Junes by Julia Glass

-May-

Acplytes by Nikki Giovanni
Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes
The Every Boy by Dana Adam Shapiro
It's Like This, Cat by Emil Cheney Neville
Genius Denied by Jan and Bob Davidson and Laura Vanderkam
Smart Gils: A New Psychology of Girls, Women, and Giftedness by Barbara A. Kerr
Smart Boys: Talent, Manhood, and the Search for Meaning by Barbara A. Kerr
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Loaded Christos Tsiolkas
Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again by Frank Miller
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Insomnia Cures by Barry Krakow
Wind Song by Carl Sandburg

-June-

Ethen Frome by Edith Wharton
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Curse of the Killer Hedge David Bateman
Pesthouse by Jim Grace
The Totally Garlic Cookbook by Helene Siegal and Karen Gillingham
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
Stick Kid Peter Holwitz
Jam-Packed Foxtrot by Bill Amend
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
Luncheon of The Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
Mockingbird by Charles J. Shields
Half of Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

-August-

Lisey's Story by Stephen King
Holes by Louis Sachar
The View From Saturday
Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters by Courtney E. Martin (Introduction)
PG,SD Chapter 1
PG,SD Chapter 2
PG,SD Chapter 3
PG,SD Chapter 4
Maximum Ride by James Patterson
Everyman by Philip Roth

-September-

Helpless by Barbara Gowdy
PG,SD Chapter 5
PG,SD Chapter 6
Bad Cat by Jim Edgar
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
What Mothers Do Naomi Stalden
The Squirrel Mother by Megan Kelso
The Splendor of Silence by Indu Sundaresan

-October-

And Tango Makes Three by Richardson and Parnell
Black Hole by Charles Burns
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Oh My Goth Gena Showalter
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden
The Reincartionationist by M.J. Rose
Grief by Andew Holleran
A Practical Guide to Dragons by Lisa Trumbauer
Confessions of a High School Word Nerd by Cohen and Kinder
Chocolat by Joanne Harris

-November-

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Spencer
A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005 by Annie Liebovitz
The Polysyballic Spree by Nick Hornby
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
The Secret of Lost Things Sheridan Hay
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (second review)
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Cool Stuff They Should Teach in School by Kent and Kyle Healy
Flavor of the Month by Joel Best

-December-

Digging Back to America by Anne Tyler
Black Cat Bone by J. Patrick Lewis
Miss Alaineus by Debra Frasier
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Knitting in No Time by Melody Griffiths
Stitch and Bitch by Debbie Stoller
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
The Lost Years of Merlin by T.A. Barron
Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones


2008

-January-

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Preludes and Noctunes by Neil Gaiman
Body Drama by Nancy Amanda Redd
If a Tree Fall at Lunch Period by Gennifer Choldenko
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear
The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
Curly Girl by Lorraine Massey
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming by Lemony Snicket
The Tale of One Bad Rat by Brian Talbot
Kids Knitting by Melanie Falick
No Sheep for You by Amy R. Singer
Knitting for Beginners by Jessie Rubenstone

-February-

Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan
How I Live Now by Meg Roscoff
Sixtyfive Roses by Heather Summerhayes Cariou
The Three Incestuous Sister by Audrey Niffenegger
Looking for Alaska by John Green
John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth by Elizabeth Patridge
I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
Remembering the Bones by Francis Itani

-March-

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Gestures: The Dos and Taboos of Body Language by Roger Axtell
The Definitive Book of Body Language
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
The Plain Janes by C. Castelluci and J. Rugg
Drop City by T.C. Boyle
Purple Hibiscus by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Un Lun Dun China Meiville
Dogs and Cats by Steve Jenkins
A Good Day by Kevin Henkes
Heatwave Eileen Spinelli
Pictures from Our Vacation Lynne Rae Perkins
A Caldecott Celebration by Leornard S. Marcus

-April-

The Boys in the Trees by Mary Swan
Choosing You by Alexandra Soiseth
1984 by George Orwell
Le Petit Prince by Antoine de St.-Exupery
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry
Meet Wild Boars by Meg Rosoff
The Little Candy Breathing Dragon by Gloria Clark
The Cake Thief by Sally O. Lee
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
The Cure for Modern Life by Lisa Tucker
Healthy Child, Healthy World by Christopher Gavigan

-May-

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
One Piece vol 1 by Elichiro Oda
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
What I Was by Meg Rosoff
I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
Worlds of Amano by Yoshitaka Amano
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

-June-

The Pact by Jodi Picoult

-July-

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
The Castaways by Rob Vollmar and Pablo Callejo
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
Varjak Paw by S.F. Said
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Parenting, Inc by Pamela Paul
Totally Joe by James Howe
Bob Dylan: The Drawn Blank Series by Frank Zollner, Ingrid Mossinger, and Kerstin Dreschel
With the Light by Keiko Tobe
The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
Freddie and Me by Mike Dawson
Bonk by Mary Roach

-August-

Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson
The Dark Child by Nicolas De Crecy
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
Educating Esme by Esme Raji Codell
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier

-September-

Glacial Period by Nicolas De Crecy
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Our Lady of the Forest by David Guterson
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
Harlem Summer by Walter Dean Myers

-October-

Kockroach by Tyler Knox
The Museum Vaults by Marc-Antoine Mathieu
33 Things Every Girl Should Know about Women's History by Tonya Bolden
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

-November-

Nation by Terry Pratchett
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
Gossamer by Lois Lowry
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Red, White and Drunk All Over by Natalie MacLean
Goodnight Bush by Eric Origen and Gan Golan
East of Eden by John Steinbeck

(Could not find the links to these:)
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Folk Socks by Nancy Bush
Knitting Vintage Socks by Nancy Bush
How to Knit by Debbie Bliss
Mason-Dixie Knitting by Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne

I was as thorough as I could be, but please inform me if I missed a book, linked one incorrectly, have a book listed in the wrong year/month, typos or any

other small mistake. Thanks!

Read on, ye who take this challenge!