Books – pre-2007
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Richard Adams: Watership Down Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo 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
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Peter Smith: Two of Us Lemony Snicket: The Bad Beginning 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
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2005 |
2006 |
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C.S. Lewis: A Grief Observed Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire 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 |
Åsne Seierstad: A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything 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
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