Below are the books I read in the first quarter 2011, with links to reviews where available. My goal was to read from my shelves, and I somewhat succeeded. I will continue to read books from my shelves. I’ll let you know about my upcoming plan next week.

I do intend to finish For Whom the Bell Tolls before the end of the month. I’ll count it in the next quarter round up, though. I’m currently caught up on reviews, so I’m at a good “round up” point.

January

I did a really good job of reading from my shelves this month. There are no library books on my “read books” list.

• My grandma’s personal history
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• Dr Harrison’s Confessions by Elizabeth Gaskell (no review)
• Poetics by Aristotle
• Aristotle by Jonathon Barnes
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

February

I did okay this month. I did check out Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from the library, and I also downloaded the text of a Persephone book (Round About a Pound a Week) for Persephone Weekend.

• My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Passing by Nella Larson
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (a non-review post mentioning my reread)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Richard III by William Shakespeare (read twice)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
• Round About a Pound a Week by Maude Pember Reeves

March

I fell off the bandwagon this month. Less than half of these reads (3 of the 7) were from my shelves; the others came from either the library or from online public domain copies.

• Same Kind of Different at Me by Ron Hall
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
• Ghosts by Henrick Ibsen
• A Doll’s House by Henrick Ibsen
• A London Childhood in the 1870s by M.V. Hughes

Children’s Books Reviewed

These are the children’s books I reviewed in this quarter.

• Abraham Lincoln by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
• Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Cooney
• Cinderella, or, The Little Glass Slipper by Marcia Brown
• Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London
• Frosty the Snowman (Little Golden Book )
• Frosty the Snowman illustrated by Richard Cowdrey
• In the Snow by Hu Voun Lee
• Mother Goose by Tasha Tudor
• Mother Goose by Tomie De Paola
• Olivia! by Ian Falconer
• Puss in Boots, illustrated by Fred Marcellino, translated by Malcolm Arthur
• Rapunzelby Paul O. Zelinsky
• Rumpelstiltskinby Paul O. Zelinsky
• Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
• Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright
• Snow by Uri Shulevitz
• Snow Day Dance by Will Hubbell
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Wanda Gág
• Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, translated by Randall Jarrell
• Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Eveningby Robert Frost, illustrated by Susan Jeffers
• The Graphic Alphabet by David E. Pelletier
• The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
• The Ugly Duckling illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

One to the coming months! I aim for more world literature, or at least one book a month from a country other than America or England.