Wendy's Library List

I walked into the library this morning just in time to see someone pick up a book from my display. I very uncreepily followed her over to where she was checking out books in order to determine which book she'd chosen. It was Rocket Boys, one of those nonfiction titles I avoid because I'm convinced it will be dull, only to become absolutely smitten with when I give it a try.

I promised you a list, and I'm going to over-deliver, trust me on that. First, here's a link to the full 149 item list I generated, alphabetical by author's last name (where applicable).

But 149 items is a lot to slog through, especially without context, so I'm going to share some more data here.

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NON BOOK ITEMS

• stud finder
• bocce ball set
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince DVD
• mini heart silicone mold cake pan
• Room with a View DVD
• Waiting to Exhale DVD

Yes, these are all things I've checked out from the library. And yes, I only added movies that were book adaptations. I would have also included the GoPro my son borrowed once for filming skateboarding life, or the ice cream maker we try to get once a year, but they both have dozens of holds, so I didn't want to try to mess with that. 

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PICTURE BOOKS

Clearly, I mostly like funny picture books and ones with messages of love.

• The Princess and the Pony.
• I Carry Your Heart With Me. (I'd really wanted the collection of e. e. cummings poems my sister owns, but it wasn't at this library, so I found this picture book adaptation instead.)
• A Hungry Lion, or, a Dwindling Assortment of Animals.
• I am Jazz.
• Diary of a Wombat
• Du iz tak?. which is set up so a careful reader can develop a word-for-word translation of the made-up language used
• I Want My Hat Back
• Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake in which she loves it so much she says she's going to marry it when she grows up, and her brother Bill deadpans, "You're going to have funny-looking kids."
• The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
• Go the Fuck to Sleep No, it's not housed with the children's books.
• And Tango Makes Three.
• Grandfather's Journey, the first picture book I fell in love with as an adult
• They All Saw a Cat.
• Each Kindness As a kid, I thought The Hundred Dresses packed a powerful punch in a short book. This is MORE powerful, and in a picture book!
• This is Sadie
• Separate is Never equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation

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NONFICTION, POETRY, AND OTHER THINGS YOU DIDN'T REALIZE FALCONER'S LIBRARY LOVES TO READ

You can tell a lot about my non-book hobbies and interest from this list. Also, that I prefer my poetry free verse, narrative, and direct.

• Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
• How to Cook Everything
• Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
• American Cake: From Colonial Gingerbread to Classic Layer, the Stories and Recipes Behind More than 125 of our Best-loved Cakes from Past to Present I picked this up browsing the cooking aisle, and have made four cakes from it so far.
• Sailing alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
• Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States
• "Multiplication is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children There were other professional works I would have loved to add, from The Way It Spozed To Be to Reading in the Wild, but none were housed at this location.
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: a Hmong Child, her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
• The World's Strongest Librarian: a Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
• Embroidered Effects: Projects and Patterns to Inspire your Stitching
• The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
• The Ghost Map: the Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World I read this for a book club years ago, and still talk about things I learned from it.
• On Writing: a Memoir of the Craft
• Steal Like An Artist
• Literary Knits: 30 Patterns Inspired by Favorite Books
• Joy of Zentangle: Drawing your Way to Increased Creativity, Focus, and Well-being
• 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
• Dog Songs: Thirty-five Dog Songs and One Essay Other poets I would have loved to include are Robert Frost, Marge Piercy, and Ursula le Guin, but again, I was limited to what this branch has on hand.
• The Boys from Little Mexico: a Season Chasing the American Dream
• Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life: Volume one I just read Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal the other day and love it too, but considering I had to go through a holds list to get it, I don't think it needs me pushing it right now.
• Little House on a Small Planet: Simple Homes, Cozy Retreats, and Energy Efficient Possibilities
• Hiking the Columbia River Gorge
• Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
•  Most dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
• Touching the Void
• Creating the Not so Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American Home
• Some writer!: The Story of E. B. White
• Fire at Eden's gate: Tom McCall & the Oregon Story
• Pygmalion

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NORTHWEST AUTHORS AND TOPICS

• Fire at Eden's gate: Tom McCall & the Oregon Story
• Hiking the Columbia River Gorge
• The Boys from Little Mexico: a Season Chasing the American Dream
• Cathedral: Stories
• Whale Talk
• The Brothers K
• The River Why
• The Jump-Off Creek
• The Left Hand of Darkness
• The Tombs of Atuan
• Winterkill
• The Knife of Never Letting Go
• Grandfather's Journey

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ONLY REPEATED AUTHORS

• Ursula K. LeGuin (who totally would have been on here more if they'd had more of her books here)
• David James Duncan
• Jason Reynolds