Ms. Okada's Classroom

2025 (Goal: Read 10,000 pages, 6 non-fiction books, 2 Japanese language books)

• The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
• Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
• Emily Wilde's Map of Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
• The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
• The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen by Yuta Takahashi
• We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida
• We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
• Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
• In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner
• Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) by Jesse Q Sutanto
• Guilt and Ginataan by Mia P Manansala
• Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yamboao
• The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
• The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis
• The Crescent Moon Tearoom by Stacy Sivinski
• If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura
• All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore
• Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
• How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
• The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
• For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten
• Maktub by Paulo Coelho
• How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
• The Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose
• None of This is True by Lisa Jewell
• A Pho Love Story by Loan Le
• The Fleet Street Murders by Charles Finch
• The Book You Wish Your Parent Had Read by Philippa Perry
• Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
• Cassie Coburn Mystery Series (Books 1~5) by Samantha Silver
• Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir by Kat Chow
• Love Can't Feed You by Cherry Lou Sy
• Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
• The September Society by Charles Finch
• Assistant to the Villain and Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
• Where They Last Saw Her by Marcie R Rendon
• A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch
• The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence

2024 (Goal: Read 10,000 pages, 6 non-fiction books, 2 Japanese language books [goals not met - did not meet goal of Japanese language books)

• The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
• Scythe, Thunderhead, The Toll by Neil Shusterman (Trilogy)
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• The Fox Wife by Yongsze Choo
• Relish by Lucy Knisley
• Before We Say Goodbye by Kawaguchi Toshikazu
• The Kamagowa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai
• Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
• The Undercurrent by Sarah Sawyer
• You Shouldn't Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose
• Yellowface by RF Kuang
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
• X by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon
• Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese A Fowler
• The Queen of Paris by Pamela B Ewen
• Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
• Bite by Bite by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
• Inciting Joy by Ross Gay
• Belladonna, Foxglove, and Wisteria by Adalyne Grace (Trilogy)
• The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
• Slewfoot by BROM
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Clown in the Cornfield by Adame Cesare
• The Rose Arbor by Rhys Bowen
• Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown
• We Belong by Cookie Hiponia
• A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• The Story Collector by Evie Woods
• The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar
• Illuminae, Gemina, and Obsidio by Kauffman and Kristoff (Trilogy)
• The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
• The Daughter of Fair Verona by Christina Dodd
• The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
• Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
• What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
• Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister
• The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
• Sizzle, Grace Under Fire, Wired, Fast Track, Hotshot, Sweet Talk, and The Ideal Man by Julie Garwood
• What We Carry by Maya Shanbhag Lang
• Funny Story by Emily Henry
• Our Hideous Progeny by CE McGill
• The Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Gray
• What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez
• Bridgerton Series, Prequel Series, All of them by Julia Quinn
• This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
• Heartberries by Terese Marie Mailhot
• The Women by Kristin Hannah
• Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
• The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
• Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
• A Grave Robbery  by Deanna Raybourn
• Mother/Land by Ananda Lima
• Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
• Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
• A Sinister Revenge by Deanna Raybourn
• One Summer in Savannah by Terah Shelton Harris
• Nothing More to Tell by Karen McManus
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose
• The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
• Before the Devil Knows You're Here by Autumn Krause
• Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
• An American Beauty by Shana Abe
• Great Italian Stories by Various Authors
• Murder and Mamon by Mia P Manansala
• Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrove Manor by Stephanie Barron
• What You are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
• Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross
• Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto

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