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Top Ten Tuesday - Books I Am Thankful I Read This Year

11/24/2015

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This weekly frenzy of listing is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
As I reflect on things I am thankful for this year, books are definitely on the list. For this week's Top Ten Tuesday topic, I thought I would share ten books that I am thankful I read this year.

Nonfiction

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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot By the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma
America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great by Ben Carson
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids by Ken Jennings

Fiction

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House of Living Stones by Katie Schuermann
​Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
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Monica
11/24/2015 07:42:55 am

I need to look back at my year. Since my break from everything my brain has been mush. I need to train it back into shape. Can't remember much of what I've read this year. ;)
There are a few on your list though that I would really like to get my hands on.

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
11/25/2015 08:50:30 pm

If it weren't for Goodreads, I never would have been able to make this list! :)

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Deb Nance at Readerbuzz
11/24/2015 09:55:01 am

When you read the story of Malala, you feel gratitude for your life.

http://readerbuzz.blogspot.com/2015/11/thirty-days-of-thankfulness.html

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
11/25/2015 08:49:44 pm

That is very true!

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