Ms. Okada's Classroom

2024 (Goal: Read 10,000 pages, 6 non-fiction books, 2 Japanese language books)

2023 (Goal: Read 10,000 pages, 6 non-fiction books [met goals])

• The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
• A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn
• A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn
• A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn
• A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
• Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
• Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
• Emma Project by Sonali Dev
• Incense and Sensibility by Sonali Dev
• Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev
• Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
• I Must Betryay You by Ruta Sepetys
• Solito by Javier Zamora
• The Power by Naomi Alderman
• Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor
• Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
• Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian Mc Allister
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
• Dear Marin by Nic Stone
• Cold by Marino Tamaki
• Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price
• The World We Make by NK Jemisin
• The City We Became by NK Jemisin
• Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
• Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions by Amy Stewart
• You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwake Emezi
• The Last Days of the Dinosaurs by Riley Black
• Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
• A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
• This is My America by Kim Johnson
• The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
• Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D Jackson
• Tenth of December by George Saunders
• Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• Well, That Escalated Quickly by Franchesca Ramsey
• Digging In by Loretta Nyhan

2022 (Goal: Read 10,000 pages, 6 non-fiction books [met goal])

• Hunting by Stars by Cherie Dimaline
• The Three Mothers by Anna Malaika Tubbs
• The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• The Hacienda by Isabel Canas
• All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
• Beach Read, People You Meet on Vacation, and Book Lovers by Emily Henry
• The Book of Longing by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
• Apsara in New York by Sokunthary Svay
• A Nail the Evenings Hang On by Monica Sok
• The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
• We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Super Hero Origin Story by Simu Liu
• When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him
• Horse by Geraldine Brooks
• Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
• Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
• The Story Teller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
• Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
• The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
• Groundskeeping by Lee Cole
• From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo
• The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
• Caste: The Origins of our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
• Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
• Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir by Amy Tan
• Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
• The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez 
• The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
• Ace of Spaces by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
• The Gardener and the Carpenter by Alison Gopnik
• The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
• The Maid by Anita Prose
• The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
• The Thursday Murder Club and The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
• Everything Sad is Untrue (a true story) by Daniel Nayeri
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 
• The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Joyoun Kim
• Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller
• An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good and An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Tursten, translated by Marlaine Delargy
• The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki