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February 1, 2005

Reading List

Asked friends and coworkers to let me know some of their favorite books. Some responded with books from their childhood. Some with books that have been life changing. Some with books that just make them feel good.

I was suprised and pleased with the results. I'm always looking for additional titles, so please feel free to add to the list.

A. J. Langguth, Patriots: The Men Who Started The American Revolution
Agatha Christie, assorted titles
Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo/The Three Musketeers
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
Andre Previn, No Minor Chords
Anita Stansfield, First Love and Forever
Ann Rice, multiple titles
Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank
Anne/Charlotte/Emily Bronte, multiple titles
Annie Dillard, An American Childhood/Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential
Antoine de Saint-Exuprey, Wind, Sand and Stars
Antonia Van Loon, For Us The Living
Anya Seton, Katherine
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Ayn Rand, Anthem/Atlas Shrugged
Barbara Delinsky, no titles specified
Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees/The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Michaels (Elizabeth Peters), no titles specified
Barbara Park, Junie B. Jones
Beryl Markham, West With the Night
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn/Joy in the Morning
Brian Bates, The Real Middle Earth : Exploring the Magic and Mystery of the Middle Ages, J.R.R. Tolkien, and "The Lord of the Rings"
Brian Lumley, Necroscope series
Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia/etc.
Caleb Carr, The Alienist/The Angel of Darkness
Carl Hiassen, no titles specified
Carol Berkin, First Generations: Women in Colonial America
Carolly Erickson, Bloody Mary (about Mary Tudor)
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities/Great Expectations/etc!!!
Christine Feehan, no titles specified
Christopher Polini, Eragon
Colleen McCullough The Thorn Birds
Connie Willis, Doomsday Book/To Say Nothing of the Dog
Cori Tenboom, The Hiding Place
Dan Baker, Cameron Stauth, What Happy People Know
Dan Brown, Digital Fortress/The Davinci Code/Angels and Demons
Dave Barry, multiple titles
David E. Stannard, American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World
David Eddings, Belgariad/Mallorean series
David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
Dean Koontz, multiple titles
Diane Gabaldon, Outlander series
Dick Francis, Blood Sport
Dr. Phil McGraw, Self Matters
Dr. Seuss, The Sneetches
Edith Hamilton, Mythology
Edward Rutherfurd, Russka/Sarum
Emily Dickinson, Collected Poems
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Esther Hautzig, The Endless Steppe
Frank Herbert/Brian Herbert, Dune series (including prequels)
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
G.A. McKevett, no titles specified
Gavin De Becker, The Gift of Fear
George Orwell, Animal Farm
George R. R. Martin, Song of Fire & Ice series
Gerald N. Lund, The Work and the Glory series
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Helen P. Hoyt, The Jeweled Cross
Henry Eyring, Reflections of a Scientist
Hugh Douglas, Flora McDonald, Heroine of the Highland
Hugh Nibley, Approaching Zion
Iris Johansen, no titles specified
J. Belinda Yandell, Small Change: The Secret Life of Penny Benjamin
J.D. Robb, In Death series
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter series
J.R.R. Tolkien/Christopher Tolkien, The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings/related books
James Clavell, Shogun
James Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me
James Michener, The Source
James Patterson, Kiss the Girls
Jan Karon, Mitford series
Jane Austen, multiple titles
Janet Evanovich, no titles specified
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jean Auel, Clan of the Cave Bear series
Jefferson Mack, Running a Ring of Spies
Jennifer Cruisie, no titles specified
Jim Butcher, Dresden Files
Joanna Lindsey, no titles specified
Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
John Grisham, A Painted House
John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany/The World According to Garp
John Jakes, Heaven & Hell/Love & War/North & South
John Saul, The Blackstone Chronicles
John Steinbeck, multiple titles
Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor
Judy Blume, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
K.P. Yohannan, Revolution in World Missions
Karen Marie Moning, Highlander series
Ken Follett, Pillars of the Earth
Khassan Baiev, The Oath
Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater
Lahaye & Dinallo, Babylon Rising series
Tao Te Ching, Lao-tzu, trans by Stephen Mitchell
Laura Antoniou, The Marketplace series
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
Laureel K. Hamilton, Meredith Gentry series
LayHaye and Jenkins, Left Behind series
Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events series
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina/War and Peace
Leon Uris, multiple titles
Linda Howard, no titles specified
Lindsay McKenna, no titles specified
Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe
Lori Foster, no titles specified
Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Lowis Lowry, Gathering Blue
Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Magnus Magnusson, Scotland: The Story of a Nation
Mario Puzo, The Godfather
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer/etc.
Martin Cruz Smith, Rose
Martin/Gracia Burnham, In the Presence of My Enemies
Mary Beth Norton, Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women
Mary Higgins Clark, no titles specified
Mary Kurlansky, Salt: A World History
Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
Micah & Nicholas Sparks, Three Weeks with My Brother
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet On Your Way to Heaven
N. Brysson Morrison, Mary Queen of Scots
Nabakov, multiple titles
Natalie Babbitt, The Search of Delicious/Tuck Everlasting
Nelson Demille, By the Rivers of Babylon
Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice
Orson Scott Card, The Ender series
Paul Fleischman, Seedfolks
Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth series
Ray Bradbury, Collected Short Stories
Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Rigoberta Menchu, I, Rigoberta Menchu
Roald Dahl, The BFG/James and the Giant Peach
Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons
Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time series
Robert Lewis Taylor, The Travels of Jamie McPheeters
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity
Robert Thurston, The Jade Phoenix series
Roberta Latow, Three Rivers
Robin Cooke, no titles specified
Ronald McNair Scott, Robert the Bruce, King of Scots
Shannon McKenna, no titles specified
Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons
Sheri Dew, no titles specified
Slavomir Rawicz, The Long Walk
Stephan R. Donaldson, Thomas Covenant series
Stephanie Barron, Jane Austin mystery series
Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage
Stephen King, The Stand
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Sun Tsu, The Art of War
Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising series
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Tami Hoag, no titles specified
Terry Cole-Whittaker, What You Think of Me is None of My Business
Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge
Tony Hillerman, no titles specified
Trevanian, Shibumi
Ursula K. LeGui,n A Wizard of Earthsea/etc.
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
W.B. Forbush, Fox's Book of Martyrs
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone/The Woman in White

Posted by swift at February 1, 2005 5:25 AM

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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
We The Living by Ayn Rand

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