Books – pre-2009

Amy Tan: The Opposite of Fate

Anna Seghers: The Seventh Cross

Anne Tyler: Back When We Were Grownups

C.S. Lewis: The Screwtape Letters (yes, again)

Charlotte Brontë: Wuthering Heights

Didier van Cauwelaert: One Way

E.M. Forster: Howards End

Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence

Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South

Elizabeth Gold: Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity

Helen Fielding: The Edge of Reason

J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter (vol. 5)

J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter (vols. 1-5) (again)

Jon McCullough: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (*******) (LOVED IT. LOVED IT. LOVED IT.)

Lemony Snicket: The Bad Beginning

Michael Morris: Slow Way Home (hated it)

Nick Hornby: How to Be Good

Peter Smith: Two of Us

Tom Wolfe: The Bonfire of the Vanities (just over half—hated it)

Tracy Chevalier: Falling Angels

Tracy Chevalier: Girl with a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier: The Virgin Blue

Wallace Stegner: Angle of Repose

Yann Martel: The Life of Pi

Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth

Homer: The Odyssey

John Irving: The Cider House Rules

Orly Castel-Bloom: Human Parts

Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Tadeus Borowski: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris: Holidays on Ice

Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting

Henry James: Washington Square

Michael Chabon: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Sir Walter Scott: Rob Roy

Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code

Baroness Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities

Shakespeare: Macbeth

Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist

Willa Cather: My Antonia

Sinclair Lewis: Babbitt

Toni Morrison: Beloved

James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

David Sedaris: Naked

Wendy Shalit: A Return to Modesty

James Agee: A Death in the Family

Cormac McCarthy: Cities of the Plain

Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses

David Sedaris (edited): Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

Olive Ann Burns: Cold Sassy Tree

David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd

Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation

Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner: Freakonomics

Marilynne Robinson: Gilead

J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping

R.D. Blackmore: Lorna Doone

George Eliot: Middlemarch

Henry James: The American

Robert Atwan and Susan Orlean (edited): The Best American Essays 2005

Åsne Seierstad: The Bookseller of Kabul

Sarah Orne Jewett: The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories

Edith Wharton: The Custom of the Country

Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge

George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss

Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day

Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point

Charlotte Brontë: Villette

Stephen Greenblatt: Will in the World

Philip Barlow (edited): A Thoughtful Faith: Essays on Belief by Mormon Scholars

Sarah Vowell: Assassination Vacation

Malcolm Gladwell: Blink

Paul Theroux: Dark Star Safari

Dominique Glocheux: La Vie En Rose: The Little Book of Joy

Viktor E. Frankl: Man’s Search for Meaning

Tracy Kidder: Mountains Beyond Mountains

Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran

Gary Neilson and Bruce Pasternack: Results: Keep What’s Good, Fix What’s Wrong, and Unlock Great Performance

M. Catherine Thomas: Spiritual Lightening

Jeffrey Sachs: The End of Poverty

C.S. Lewis: The Problem of Pain

Jon Scieszka: The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

T.R. Reid: The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy

Bookcraft (book of LDS essays, no editor listed): Why I Believe

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: The Unknown Errors of Our Lives

Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage

Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake

James Hilton: Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street

Laura Shapiro: Something from the Oven- Reinventing Dinner in 1950′s America

Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist

Frank McCourt: Teacher Man

Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag: British and American short stories

Paulo Coelho: The Devil and Miss Prym

Paulo Coelho: Veronika Decides to Die (FABULOUS)

J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Zadie Smith: On Beauty

Roman Schatz: From Finland With Love (the English version)

Bill Bryson: Mother Tongue

Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native

C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity (yes, again)

William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair

C.S. Lewis: The Great Divorce (yes, again)

Clare Boylan: Emma Brown

Wallace Stegner: Angle of Repose (again)

Simon Winchester: The Meaning of Everything- The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

C.S. Lewis: The Screwtape Letters (yes, again)

Barry Schwartz: The Paradox of Choice

Stephen E. Robinson: Following Christ

Bradley Trevor Greive: The Meaning of Life

James L. Ferrell: The Peacegiver

James Collier and Chris Collier: My Brother Sam Is Dead

David McCullough: 1776

Willa Cather: A Lost Lady

Johanna Spyri: Heidi

John Steinbeck: Cannery Row

James McBride: The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother

Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin: Three Cups of Tea

Henry James: The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

Gregory Maguire: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Gloria Naylor: Mama Day

Deborah Tannen: You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

Sheri Dew: If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn’t Be Hard

Henry James: Roderick Hudson

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Daniel Tammet: Born on a Blue Day

Brian Kolodiejchuk: Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light – The Private Writings of the “Saint of Calcutta”

Colleen McCullough: The Thorn Birds

Thomas Sowell: Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy

Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Halldór Laxness: Independent People

Gary Chapman: The Five Love Languages for Singles

Thomas More: Utopia

James Allen: As a Man Thinketh

Michael Chabon: Summerland