Favorite Books
The religious works of C. S. Lewis (especially The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity)
All Jane Austen books (except Northanger Abbey)
E. M. Forster: A Room with a View
Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
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2003
Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo
Amy Tan: The Opposite of Fate
Anna Seghers: The Seventh Cross
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2004
Peter Smith: Two of Us
Lemony Snicket: The Bad Beginning
Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth
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2005
C.S. Lewis: A Grief Observed
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses
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2006
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
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2007
The Freedom Writers: The Freedom Writers Diary
Carolyn J. Rasmus: Simplify
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
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2008
Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth
David McCullough: 1776
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2009
Caroline Knapp: Appetites: Why Women Want
Carlfred Broderick: The Uses of Adversity
Paulo Coehlo: Veronika Decides to Die (again)
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2010
Boris Akunin: The Turkish Gambit
C. S. Lewis: The Last Battle
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan
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2011
Christopher Morley – The Haunted Bookshop
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – The Sorrows of Young Werther
Barbara Ehrenreich – Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
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2012
Charles Dickens – Our Mutual Friend
The Countess of Carnarvon – Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
Téa Obreht – The Tiger’s Wife
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2013
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2014
Alexandre Dumas – The Man in the Iron Mask
Blaine Harden – Escape from Camp 14
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich – Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
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2015
Clare Boylan – Emma Brown
Frances Hodgson Burnett – A Little Princess
Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights
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2016
Tanwi Nandini Islam – Bright Lines
Renée Fleming – The Inner Voice
Nick Hornby – The Polysyllabic Spree
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2017
William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying
Mary Gaitskill – Bad Behavior
William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury
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2018
Elena Glasgow – In This Our Life (PP 1942)
Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (PP 2001)
J. D. Salinger – Nine Stories
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2019
David Sedaris – Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls
David Sedaris – Squirrel Seeks Owl: A Modest Bestiary
Zadie Smith – Swing Time