Stockton Reads! 2009

Here's What Stockton Reads!

Ron Hittle, Fire Chief
Stockton Fire Department

• The Calvary Road by Roy Hession

Mitchell Kanter, Principal (Governor's Challenge Gold Country
Regional Award 2008) Victory Elementary School, Stockton USD

• The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless by Ahmet Zappa

Kathy Miller, Vice Mayor, Council District 2
City of Stockton

• Author: John Irving, especially his books:
  • The World According to Garp
  • Cider House Rules
  • Hotel New Hampshire
  • The Fourth Hand
  • Until I Find You
• Author: Tom Wolfe, especially his books:
  • The Right Stuff
  • A Man in Full
  • Bonfire of the Vanities
• She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
• Author: Ruth Reichl, especially her books:
  • Comfort Me with Apples
  • Tender at the Bone
  • Garlic and Sapphires
• Author: Larry McMurtry, especially his books:
  • Lonesome Dove
  • Streets of Laredo

Annette Sanchez, Director of Operations
El Concilio

• Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin, Jr/Eric Carle

Pamela Sloan, Director of Community Services
City of Stockton

• comics
• Author: Roland Smith, especially his books:
  • Z is for Zookeeper
  • E is for Evergreen
  • The Captain's Dog
• Author: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter series
• Author: Semour Simon, especially his books:
  • Weather
  • Bones
  • Tornadoes
  • Stars
  • Our Solar System
• Author: J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings series and The Hobbit
• Author: Lemony Snicket
• Series: Black Lagoon
• Series: Magic School Bus

Blake Tatum, Lieutenant
Stockton Police Department

When I was much younger I enjoyed reading about something that interested me, such as a hobby, a sport, or an adventure. As a young man, I liked reading magazines a lot because of the short attention span males have and because of the wealth of information that a magazine article contains. Some of my favorite magazines are

• Popular Science
• Popular Mechanics
• any auto racing magazine that covered the Formula One circuit

As far as novels are concerned naturally I like anything to do with spies and police work. As a young man I liked all of the Clive Cussler novels with Dirk Pitt as the hero.

Dr. Cheuyengther Xiong, Board of Directors
Lao Family Community of Stockton

• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

2008 Top Reads! Titles Checked-out the Most -- July through December 2008

• Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich.
• The Quickie by James Patterson
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• Double Take by Catherine Coulter

• Sixth Target by James Patterson