3: Top Five Books to Read over the Next Year

In my future, I foresee myself reading the following:

1. The Chemist by Stephanie Meyer:  I do not even know what this books is about...I just know she wrote The Twilight series and The Host (which I LOVE!), so, of course, I would want to read this book!  For that reason, I chose (okay...I subtlety asked the BHS Reads Faculty Book Club if they might want to read this book.  They said, "Yes!"  Yay!)
2. The Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds:  This book has been on every suggested young adult book list for a while...because of its diverse topics.
3. 180 Days by Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher:  LOVE this book! AND these authors...written by teachers STILL in the classroom.  I so much more can handle someone telling me how to teach...from someone who is still in the trenches, not from someone who has been out of the classroom for years (although I will still buy and read their books...BUT I might talk about them differently!)  This book is the title/content being discussed in two of my book clubs.
4. Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo:  Quite the popular title right now...
5. Fish in a Tree by Lynda Hunt:   A peer on Arkansas Reading Association Facebook page recommended this book to my young adult readers
6. The Man Who Invented Christmas`by Les Standiford:  This book is on two my book club lists for December 2018.  This one tells the story of Dickens and his The Christmas Carol (btw, I own several versions of this play...which we attempt to watch...yes, all of them...every year!)  The Christmas Carol IS Christmas!
7. Misery by Stephen King:   I plan to read this book because a student recommended this particular King book as a first read of his books.  Hummmm....I hear these books are scary.  How timely...as this is the "scary" months.  (NOTE:  See RIP Book Challenge here).
1. For the RIP Challenge, I am reading...drumroll please...The Chemist and Misery!