I’d love to honor Dewey by participating in this challenge. You can read more about the challenge here. I’m going with the option of reading 5 books that Dewey reviewed on her blog. As a bonus to the five, I also plan on reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog, the book Dewey was reading at the time of her death.
I’ll choose my five from the following:
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing vol.1 by M.T. Anderson
- Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
- An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
- House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
- Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E Pearson
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
The Boys in the Trees by Mary Swan
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
Mr Pip by Lloyd Jones
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Bonus: Elegance of the Hedgehog






