My Bookshelf

Reading Books of 2020

• What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan
• The Siren by Kiera Cass
• Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
• The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider
• You Only Love Me When I’m Suffering by John Lupin
• The Little Book of Haiku ed. by Sam Hamill
• Haiku Harvest ed. by Peter and Harry Behn
• Ghosted by Rosie Walsh
• My Life in the Shadow World by Todd Slavkin

Currently Reading: 

• The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper

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Reading Books of 2019

• They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera
• The Here & Now by Ann Brashares
• My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
• Defy The Stars by Claudia Gray
• Swimmer In The Secret Sea by William Kotzwinkle
• The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
• The Reckoning of Noah Shaw (Shaw Confessions #2) by Michelle Hodkin
• Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
• The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle #1) by Maggie Stiefvater
• Landscape With Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves by Barry Gifford
• A Much Younger Man by Dianne Highbridge
• Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
• Mon Amie Américaine by Michele Halberstadt
• I Am Madame X by Gioia Diliberto
• The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg
• The Dream Thieves (Raven Cycle #2) by Maggie Stiefvater
• The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs #15) by Jacqueline Winspear
• Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg
• Honestly Ben by Bill Konigsberg
• A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard
• I Wish You All The Best by Mason Deaver
• The Only Story by Julian Barnes
• The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel by Renee Nault
• Defy the Worlds (Constellations #2) by Claudia Gray
• Defy the Fates (Constellations #3) by Claudia Gray
• The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace
• Just One Day by Gayle Forman
• Just One Year by Gayle Forman
• Just One Night by Gayle Forman
• The Hourglass Door by Lisa Mangum
• The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
• The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey
• The Last Star by Rick Yancey
• After by Anna Todd
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
• Love Looks Pretty on You by Lang Leav
• A Paris Affair by Tatiana de Rosnay
• The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel by Cassandra Clare & Cassandra Jean
• Izzy and Tristan by Shannon Dunlap
• The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski
• Haiku: Classic Japanese Short Poems ed. by Hart Larrabee
• Classic Haiku: A Master’s Selection ed. by Yuzuru Miura

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Reading Books of 2018

• The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
• The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
• Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
• Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
• Sea of Strangers by Lang Leav
• The Becoming of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson
• A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
• The Course of True Love (And First Dates) by Cassandra Clare
• The Universe of Us by Lang Leav
• Identity by Milan Kundera
• Delirium by Lauren Oliver
• Pandemonium (Delirium #2) by Lauren Oliver
• Requiem (Delirium #3) by Lauren Oliver
• Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
• To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs #14) by Jacqueline Winspear
• The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
• Replica by Lauren Oliver
• The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
• The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace
• The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
• The Spy by Paolo Coelho
• Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto
• Maurice by E.M. Forster
• Still Me by Jojo Moyes
• To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
• Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
• P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
• Always & Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han
• It Takes Two To Tumble by Cat Sebastian
• Ship It by Britta Lundin
• The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
• Origin by Dan Brown
• What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
• History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
• Enigma Variations by Andre Aciman
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
• The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson w/ Martin Dugard
• Boy Erased by Garrard Conley
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald by J.K. Rowling
• The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 2 by Cassandra Clare and Cassandra Jean
• Queen of Air & Darkness (The Dark Artifices #3) by Cassandra Clare

Reading Books of 2017

• The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Maureen Johnson
• Tales From The Shadowhunter Academy by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Robin Wasserman, and Maureen Johnson
• Fairest (Lunar Chronicles #3.5) by Marissa Meyer
• The Four Seasons: Japanese Haiku Series II (Peter Pauper Press)
• Zen Telegrams by Paul Reps
• As Old As Time (A Twisted Tale #3) by Liz Braswell
• At This Grave Hour (Maisie Dobbs #13) by Jacqueline Winspear
• Winter (Lunar Chronicles #4) by Marissa Meyer
• Snow on the Water ed. by Jim Kacian
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho by Matsuo Basho
• An Illustrated History of Notable Shadowhunters and Denizens of Downworld by Cassandra Clare and Cassandra Jean
• Lord of Shadows (Dark Artifices #2) by Cassandra Clare
• Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader ed. by Cassandra Clare
• Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
• Spellcaster by Claudia Gray
• Steadfast (Spellcaster #2) by Claudia Gray
• Sorceress (Spellcaster #3) by Claudia Gray
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
• China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians #2) by Kevin Kwan
• Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians #3) by Kevin Kwan
• Stars Above (Lunar Chronicles #4.5) by Marissa Meyer
• Haven (Winterhaven #1) by Kristi Cook
• Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
• Slowness by Milan Kundera
• The Selection by Kiera Cass
• The Brain by Dr. David Eagleman
• The Elite (Selection #2) by Kiera Cass
• The One (Selection #3) by Kiera Cass
• The Heir (Selection #4) by Kiera Cass
• The Crown (Selection #5) by Kiera Cass
• Teardrop by Lauren Kate
• We Are The Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
• A Thousand Pieces of You (Firebird #1) by Claudia Gray
• At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson
• Suspicion by Alexandra Monir
• Turtles All The Way Down by John Green
• Troublemaker by Leah Remini
• The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell
• The Iron Trial (Magisterium #1) by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare
• The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1 by Cassandra Clare and Cassandra Jean
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
• Simon and The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
• Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie Dao
• The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
• The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

Reading Books of 2016

• Aimless Love by Billy Collins
• Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
• Daredevil: The Man Without Fear by Frank Miller
• A Splash of Water by Catherine J.S. Lee (Editor)
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
• Daredevil: Frank Miller and Klaus Janson, (Vol. 1) by Frank Miller
• The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett
• An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
• Conversion by Katherine Howe
• Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac
• Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Maguib Mahfouz
• Daredevil: Frank Miller and Klaus Janson, (Vol. 2) by Frank Miller
• Journey to Munich (Maisie Dobbs #12) by Jacqueline Winspear
• Broken Crowns (Internment Chronicles #3) by Lauren DeStefano
• Daredevil: Frank Miller and Klaus Janson, (Vol. 3) by Frank Miller
• Silent Flowers Ed. by Dorothy Price
• The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau
• Independent Study (The Testing #2) by Joelle Charbonneau
• Graduation Day (The Testing #3) by Joelle Chardonneau
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
• Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer
• Lady Midnight (Dark Artifices #1) by Cassandra Clare
• Classic Haiku Ed. by Tom Lowenstein
• Knitting for Good by Betsy Greer
• Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education  by Sir Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• After You by Jojo Moyes
• Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord
• Food Rules by Michael Pollan
• Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles #2) by Marissa Meyer
• Cress (Lunar Chronicles #3) by Marissa Meyer
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J.K. Rowling
• The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer
• Facing Nature by John Updike

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Reading Books of 2015

• Haiku: The Last Poems of an American Icon by Richard Wright, Ed. by Yoshinobu Hakutani and Robert L. Tener
• The Secret Journal of Ichabod Crane by Alex Irvine
• Sleepy Hollow: Children of the Revolution by Keith R.A. DeCandido
• The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Emily Dickinson
• Timekeeper (sequel to Timeless) by Alexandra Monir
• The Essential Haiku Ed. by Robert Hass
• Seeds From A Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and The Spiritual Journey by Clark Strand
• On Writing by Stephen King
• Haiku Moment: An Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku Ed. by Bruce Ross
• A Dangerous Place (Maisie Dobbs #11) by Jacqueline Winspear
• The Unswept Path: Contemporary American Haiku Ed. by John Brandi
• Haiku (Everyman’s Library Pocket Books) Ed. by Peter Washington
• Burning Kingdoms (Internment Chronicles #2) by Lauren DeStefano
• Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins
• Take-out Window Ed. by Gary Hotham
• 5 Steps to a 5: AP U.S. History (2012-2013 Edition) by Stephen Armstrong
• How To Be A Heroine by Samantha Ellis
• One More Thing by B.J. Novak
• Grey by E.L. James
• Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles by Ron Currie, Jr.
• Fates by Lanie Bross
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (reread)
• Chaos (Fates #2) by Lanie Bross
• Looking For Alaska by John Green
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
• How To Build A Girl by Caitlin Moran
• Haiku 21 Ed. by Lee Gurga and Scott Metz
• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
• The Palace of Tears by Alev Lytle Crouteir
• Haiku (British Museum) Ed. David Cobb
• Haiku Mind by Patricia Donegan
• Life and Death (Twilight 10th Anniversary Dual Edition) by Stephenie Meyer
• The House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine Howe
• Breath Marks by Gary Hotham
• Unforgiven (Fallen Series) by Lauren Kate

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Reading Books of 2014

• Beautiful Chaos (Caster Chronicles #3) by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• Beautiful Redemption (Caster Chronicles #4) by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
• Rapture (Book #4, Fallen Series) by Lauren Kate
• The Passport by Herta Müller
• Perfect Ruin (Internment Chronicles #1) by Lauren DeStefano
• Clockwork Princess (Infernal Devices Series) by Cassandra Clare
• Finale (Hush, Hush Saga) by Becca Fitzpatrick
• What I Was by Meg Rosoff
• Inferno by Dan Brown
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• My French Whore by Gene Wilder
• The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
• The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• The Opposite of Invisible by Liz Gallagher
• The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
• Matched by Ally Condie
• Crossed (Matched #2) by Ally Condie
• Reached (Matched #3) by Ally Condie
• City of Heavenly Fire (Mortal Instruments #6) by Cassandra Clare
• The Maze Runner James Dashner
• The Waterproof Bible by Andrew Kaufman
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
• My Not So Still Life by Liz Gallagher
• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner #2) by James Dashner
• Look Up! Musings on the Nature of Mindfulness by Jennifer A. Payne
• The Death Cure (Maze Runner #3) by James Dashner
• How To Be A Victorian by Ruth Goodman
• Gabriel’s Redemption by Sylvain Reynard
• The Classic Tradition of Haiku Ed. by Faubion Bowers
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
• The Haiku Anthology  ed. by Cor van den Heuvel
• Haiku in English ed. Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, and Allan Burns
• Newspaper Blackout by Austin Kleon

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Reading Books of 2013

• Original Bliss by A.L. Kennedy
• Gabriel’s Inferno by Sylvain Reynard
• Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
• Gabriel’s Rapture by Sylvain Reynard
• A Matter of Class by Mary Balogh
• The Odd Sea by Frederick Reiken
• Lupa by Marie Marshall
• Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• Conversations With David Foster Wallace Ed. by Stephen J. Burn
• Sever (Chemical Garden Trilogy, Book 3) by Lauren DeStefano
• Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• The London Scene – Six Essays on London Life by Virginia Woolf
• How I got Published Edited by Ray White and Duane Lindsay
• Flat Out Love by Jessica Park
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• The Royals by Leslie Carroll
• Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs #2) by Jacqueline Winspear
• Entwined With You by Sylvia Day
• Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs #3) by Jacqueline Winspear
• The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
• Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs #4) by Jacqueline Winspear
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• An Incomplete Revenge (Maisie Dobbs #5) by Jacqueline Winspear
• Ai Weiwei Speaks with Hans Ulrich Obrist (Compiled Interviews)
• Among the Mad (Maisie Dobbs #6) by Jacqueline Winspear
• The Mapping of Love and Death (Maisie Dobbs #7) by Jacqueline Winspear
• A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #8) by Jacqueline Winspear
• Insurgent (Divergent #2) by Veronica Roth
• Elegy for Eddie (Maisie Dobbs #9) by Jacqueline Winspear
• Jane Austen’s England by Roy and Lesley Adkins
• Leaving Everything Most Loved (Maisie Dobbs #10) by Jacqueline Winspear
• Allegiant (Divergent #3) by Veronica Roth
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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Reading Books of 2012

All snapshot reviews for these books have been moved and can be viewed by visiting my Goodreads profile, C.B. Wentworth

• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
• Shattered (Book 1 Dream Realms Trilogy) by Sophia Sharp
• Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick
• Fallen In Love by Lauren Kate
• Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler
• History (A Brief Insight) by John H. Arnold
• The Bride’s Farewell by Meg Rosoff
• Fever (Chemical Garden Trilogy, Book 2) by Lauren DeStefano
• Balthazar (Evernight Series) by Claudia Gray
• The Forest for the Trees by Betsy Lerner
• Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
• Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James
• Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James
• Snow White & The Huntsman by Lily Blake, Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock, and Hossein Amini
• City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare
• How to Be a Woman by Caitlan Moran
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D.T. Max (A full review can be read here.)
•  Darkness Visible by William Styron
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
• Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
• Disquiet by Julia Leigh
• Van Gogh’s Bad Cafe by Frederic Tuten
• Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
• Bared to You by Sylvia Day
• Reflected in You by Sylvia Day
• Simon’s Cat in Kitten Chaos by Simon Tofield
• Mr. Happy by Roger Hargreaves
• Mr. Messy by Roger Hargreaves
• Mr. Bump by Roger Hargreaves

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Reading Books of 2011

• Never Let Me Go by Kasuo Ishiguro
• Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
• The Woman Who Wouldn’t by Gene Wilder
• I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
• Timeless by Alexandra Monir
• Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
• Red Riding Hood adapted by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Warped by Maurissa Guibord
• Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H.Lawrence
• The Sherlockian by Graham Moore
• Afterlife by Claudia Gray
• A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
• The Rising by Temple Mathews
• Across the Universe by Beth Revis
• City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
• The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
• Out of Our Minds by Ken Robinson
• Nocturne by Syrie James
• Esther’s Inheritance by Sandor Marai
• After Dark by Haruki Murakami
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Passion (Fallen Series) by Lauren Kate
• Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
• The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
• Of Love and Hunger by Julian MacLaren-Ross
•  The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore
• Villette by Charlotte Brontë
• The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
• Wither by Lauren Destefano

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Reading Books of 2010

• Everything Matters by Ron Currie, Jr.
• The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
• A Life by Guy de Maupassant
• The End of the Alphabet by C.S. Richardson
• The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
• The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter
• Death With Interruptions by Jose Saramago
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Coma by Alex Garland
• Embers by Sandor Marai
• Hourglass by Claudia Gray
• Fallen by Lauren Kate
• Shadowland by Alyson Noel
• Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
• Wings by Aprilynne Pike
• Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
• The Obituary Writer by Porter Shreve
• This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Ballad of the Sad Cafe & Other Stories by Carson McCullers
• Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner – Stephanie Meyer
• Light Boxes by Shane Jones
• Thirteen Days to Midnight by Patrick Carman
• Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself  by David Lipsky
• Casanova in Bolzano by Sandor Marai
• The Element by Ken Robinson
• Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
• Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
• Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
• Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
• Pierre Et Jean by Guy de Maupassant
• The Ultimate Intimacy by Ivan Klima
• Torment by Lauren Kate
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen