books

Currently Reading: Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd

2011 Personal Booklog

• The Preacher’s Bride, Jody Hedlund
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
• A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard
• Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver
• The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
• The Blue Notebook: A Novel, James A. Levine
• Escape, Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer
• Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
• Unbroken: A World War II story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption, Laura Hillenbrand
• Green River, Running Red, Ann Rule
• Half Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls
• The Widower’s Tale, Julia Glass
• Room: A Novel, Emma Donoghue

2010 Personal Booklog

• Little Bee, Chris Cleave
• Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakeauer
• Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld
• American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld
• Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
• Sweeping Up Glass, Carolyn Wall
• Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
• The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, Stieg Larson
• Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
• Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing
• The Widower’s Tale, Julia Glass

2009 Personal Booklog

• Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
• The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
• All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Janelle Brown
• The Help, Kathryn Stockett
• Columbine, Dave Cullen
• Terms of Endearment, Larry McMurtry
• I See You Everywhere, Julia Glass
• A Long Way Gone: Memiors of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah
• Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
• In the Woods, Tana French
• The Reader, Bernard Schlink
• The Boleyn Inheritance, Philippa Gregory
• No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
• Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
• Sarah’s Key, Tatiana De Rosnay
• Run, Ann Patchett
• The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty
• Tweak, Nic Sheff
• Vinegar Hill, A. Manette Ansay

2008 Personal Booklog

• Peace Like a River, Leif Enger
• Five Skies, Ron Carlson
• The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
• Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
• The Last Days of Dogtown, Anita Diamant
• Three Junes, Julia Glass
• Atonement, Ian McEwan
• The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
• After Long Silence, Helen Fremont
• Wonder Boys, Michael Chab
• The Zoo Keeper’s Wife, Diane Ackerman
• The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Love Walked In, Marisa De Los Santos

On My List to Read

• Giants in the Earth Ole, Edvart Rolvaag (Read in HS and would like to re-read it)
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (Read in HS and would like to re-read it)
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (Read in HS and would like to re-read it)
• Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer
• In the Company of a Courtesan, Sarah Dunant
• A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
• Truth and Beauty, Anne Patchett
• The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
• The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer

Recommended Books

• Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
• Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
• Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
• The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
• Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
• The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant
• The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
• The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards