Children’s and Young Adult Fiction:
The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic by Jennifer Trafton. Semicolon review here.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Semicolon review at The Point, Youth Reads
You Killed Wesley Payne by Sean Beaudoin. Hard-boiled teen detective solves a high school murder mystery with way too much farking and bobbing. I wanted to scream, “If you can’t clean up your language (best choice), just use the word already. Enough with the euphemisms!”
Famous by Todd Strasser. Semicolon review here.
My Life, the Theater and Other Tragedies by Allen Zadoff. Semicolon review here.
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson.
Divergent by Veronica Roth. Look for my review at The Point: Youth Reads sometime soon.
Matched by Ally Condie.
The Queen’s Daughter by Susan Coventry.
Daughter of Xanadu by Dori Jones Yang.

Adult FIction:
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson.
The Ambition by Lee Strobel. Semicolon review here.
The Moon in the Mango Tree by Pamela Binnings Ewen. Semicolon review here.
City of Tranquil Light by Bo Caldwell. Semicolon review here.
The Skin Map by Stephen Lawhead. CLIFFHANGER warning: Do not read this book unless you are prepared to wait however long it takes to have published however many books Mr. Lawhead is planning to write to complete this series. The story is quite unfinished in this first volume. I find this year-long wait between parts of a story annoying and unacceptable, even though I admire Mr. Lawhead as a writer.
The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne.

Nonfiction:
The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy Sayers.
Love Wins: A Book about Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell. Semicolon review here.
The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father’s Nazi Boyhood by Mark Kurzem. Semicolon review here.
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff. Semicolon review here.
Jesus, My Father, the CIA and Me: A Memoir . . . of Sorts by Ian Cron. Semicolon review here.
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, The Birth of the “It” Girl, and the Crime of the Century by Paula Uruburu. Semicolon review here.
The World Is Bigger Now: An Americna Journalist’s Release from Captivity in North Korea by Euna Lee with Lisa Dickey.