Here is the recommended reading list from my disparate group of friends. I
have included their comments, if they made any.
The winner:
1. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (4)
1st runners up:
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini (3)
2. Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (3) books about
the. They’re set in Botswana and are being made into movies on HBO. I think
they’re already being shown in England.
3. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (3)
4. The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory (3)
5. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (3)
6. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Greggory (3)
7. Three Cups of Tea; One Mans Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build
Nations...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
(really good!) (3)
8. Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang One of the all time
favorite books my Book Club liked was its nonfiction and tells the story of
three generations of women from the grandmother with the bound feet to the
mother and daughter. (3)
Second Runners up:
1. A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle (2) (It was REALLY good, and I’m not usually
one
to read that kind of stuff.)
2. Austenland Shannon Hale (2)
3. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (2)
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (2)
5. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2)
6. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (2)
7. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (2)
8. The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards (2)
9. The Queens Fool, Philippa Greggory (2)
10. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (2)
11. The Shack by William P. Young (2)
12. The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2)
13. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (2)
The Rest:
1. 101 things to do before you die, by Richard Horn.
2. 1776 by David McCullough
3. A child called it, David peltzer.
4. A Painted Veil by w Maugham
5. A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
6. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
7. A Trip to the Stars, by Nicholas Christopher
8. A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements
9. Ahab’s Wife by Sean Jeter Naslund
10. An Arrow Pointing to Heaven, James Bryan Smith
11. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia
Nicolson,
by Louise Rennison
12. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver,
Steven L. Hopp
13. Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
14. Another Long Day on the Piste by Will Randall
15. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
16. Atonement by Ian McEwan
17. Battlefield of the Mind, Joyce Meyer
18. Being Written: A Novel (P.S.) by William Conescu
19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchet
20. Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson.
21. Breadfruit by Celestine Hitiura Vaite
22. Breathe by Keri Wyatt Kent
23. Candle in the Darkness by Lynn Austin
24. Center Cannot Hold, The: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks
25. Cherished, by Carolyn Jessop.
26. Child of the Phoenix by Barbara Erskine
27. Chile: Travels In a Thin Country, Sara Wheeler
28. China Road, Rob Gifford
29. Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright (very good!)
30. Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey D. Sachs
31. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
32. Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
33. Daughters of Fire by Barbara Erskine
34. DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
35. Distant Voices (short stories). Barbara Erskine
36. Don’t Stop the Carnival, Herman Wouk,
37. Driving a Yellow Cab by Melissa Plaut
38. Dry : A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
39. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
40. Eat Cake: A Novel, Jeanne Ray
41. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
42. Encyclopedia of the Christian Church, exhaustively fair
43. Escape, by Angela Cannings.
44. Fearless Fourteen .
Janet
Evanovich
45. Financial Peace, Dave Ramsey
46. Flyboys by James Bradley
47. Follow the River James Alexander Thom
48. Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
49. Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins and Dominique LaPierre. Its
nonfiction and is about England granting freedom to India and the creation
of
Pakistan. Problems of today have their root in this event.
50. Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
51. Frindle, Andrew Clements
52. From a Persian Tea House Michael Carroll. It is not today’s Iran, but it
is a lovely book written in 1960 but reprinted
53. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by
Sudhir
Venkatesh
54. Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death by Laurie Notaro (If you haven’t
read Laurie Notaro yet. get anything by her. They are generally collections
of
short stories (nice mommy brain size doses) loosely based on her own life
and
exaggerated to the point of absolute hilarity... that is if you have any
sort
of the same sense of humor as I do.)
55. Girl, Barely 15: Flirting for England by Sue Limb
56. Googlepedia: The Ultimate Google Resource (3rd Edition)
by Michael Miller, so much to use Google for, so much of which I was unaware
57. Healing is a Choice by Stephen Arterburn
58. Hiding from the light. by Barbara Erskine
59. House of Dreams by Brenda Joyce
60. House of Echoes by Barbara Erskine
61. In Defense of Food: An Eaters Manifesto, by Michael Pollan
62. In the Woods, Tana French,
63. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
64. Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto is about the Dutch
settlements in New York and tells why New York was so cosmopolitan right
from
the very beginning.
65. Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason
66. Kabul Beauty School, Deborah Rodriguez
67. Keeping Faith by Jodi Piccoult
68. Kingdom of Shadows by Barbara Erskine
69. Lady of Hay Barbara Erskine
70. Lafayette by Harlow Giles Unger
71. Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza
72. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison
73. Love the One You’re with by Emily Giffin
74. Lovely bones, by Alice Seybold
75. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan is a fictionalized version of the romance
between Franklin Lloyd Wright and Mama Cheney. This is quite popular with
Book Clubs.
76. Lunch Money by Andrew Clements
77. Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
78. Magical Thinking: True Stories by Augusten Burroughs
79. Managing Your Emotions, Joyce Meyer
80. Manic: A Memoir by Terri Cheney
81. Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick is an award winning nonfiction book
about
the Pilgrims who landed in Massachusetts. Its ironic because they wanted
religious freedom, but failed to give it to others like the Quakers and even
sold Native Americans into slavery.
82. Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards
83. Merles Door by Ted Kerasote
84. Midnight is a lonely place by Barbara Erskine
85. Molokai by Alan Brennert
86. Motherstyles: Using Personality Type to Discover Your Parenting
Strengths
by Janet P. Penley
87. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition
by Oliver Sacks
88. My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
89. Nadia Knows Best by Jill Mansell
90. Neverwhere & American Gods, Neil Gaiman,
91. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Piccoult
92. On the edge of darkness by Barbara Erskine
93. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
94. Patty Janes House of Curl, Lorna Landvik
95. Peace like a River by Leif Enger
96. Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver
97. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
98. Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
99. Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes: Unmasking the Real You by Brennan Manning
100. Power of a Praying Wife. by Stormie OMartian
101. Prayer, Does It Make Any Difference, Philip Yancey
102. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
103. Radical Brewing, Randy Mosher,
104. Raising your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
105. Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann
106. Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
107. Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall & Denver Moore with Lynn
Vincent
108. Sands of time (short stories) by Barbara Erskine
109. Second Chance by Jane Green
110. Sex God, Rob Bell
111. Siblings without Rivalry by Adele Faber
112. Simple Prayer, Joyce Meyer
113. Slacker Girl by Alexandra Koslow
114. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
115. Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: A Slightly Tarnished
Southern Belle's Words of Wisdom by Celia Rivenbark
116. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemiorvsky is a fiction book set in France
during World War II. It’s amazing that it was ever published because she was
killed in a concentration camp, but her daughters were saved. They had the
manuscript, but didn’t realize what they had until recently.
117. T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton
118. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin is an excellent book about
Abraham
Lincoln and the members of his cabinet. Nice to read before visiting the
Abraham Lincoln Museum in Springfield.
119. Tell me Where it Hurts by Nick Trout
120. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
121. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
122. The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
123. The Bonesetters Daughter Amy Tan
124. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne.
125. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
126. The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett
127. The Children of Willesden Lane by Mona Golabek & Lee Cohen
128. The Confessor by Daniel Silva
129. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
130. The Dog Says How, Kevin Kling
131. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
132. The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the
Gardens
of Ethnic Americans, by Patricia Klindienst
133. The English Assassin by Daniel Silva
134. The five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom
135. The Forbidden Garden, Ursula CURTISS
136. The Frozen Lake by Elizabeth Edmonson
137. The Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
138. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls (3) This is a very popular memoir by
a
woman who was raised by a dysfunctional family. It’s a quick read.
139. The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
140. The Grandest of Lives: Eye-to-Eye with Whales by Douglas H. Chadwick
141. The Great Forever by Lee Martin
142. The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society by Mary Ann Shaffer , Annie Barrows
143. The Hawk and the Jewel, 1993, Lori Wick
144. The Heavenly Man by Brother Yun with Paul Hattaway
145. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
146. The Idiot
147. The Invisible Man by HG Wells.
148. The Jesus Family Tomb by Charles Pellegrino
149. The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva
150. The Knight and the Dove, Lori Wick
151. The Landry News, Andrew Clements
152. The Little Drummer Girl, John le Carre
153. The Little Lady Agency by Hester Browne
154. The Lost Painting by Johathon Harr is a quick read. Its nonfiction
about
a lost Caravaggio painting.
155. The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
156. The Mammy by Brendan O'Carroll
157. The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson,.
158. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
159. The Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
160. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
161. The Power of a Praying Parent, by Stormie OMartian
162. The Princess of Burundi by Kjell Eriksson
163. The Proposal, Lori Wick
164. The Pursuit, Lori Wick
165. The Rescue by Lori Wick
166. The Rest of Us by Jacquelyn Mitchard
167. The Return by Victoria Hislop – a novel set around the Spanish Civil
War
–
168. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
169. The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
170. The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
171. The Third Heiress by Brenda Joyce
172. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
173. The Various and Celandine by Steve Augarde
174. THE Watchmen. I loved it.
175. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
176. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the
Bible
as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs
177. The Last Holiday Concert by Andrew Clements
178. Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
179. Through a Screen Darkly by Jeffrey Overstreet
180. Tintin and the World of Herge: An Illustrated History by Benoit Peeters
181. Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
182. Tony Blair (Biography). by Thomas M. Collins, frightening how similar
he
was to Obama
183. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
184. Uncle Johns Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader by the Bathroom Readers
Institute.
185. Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith
186. Velvet Elvis Rob Bell (OHS ‘92 graduate)
187. Vince and Joy: A Novel by Lisa Jewell
188. Vine to Wine by Jeff Cox,
189. Virgin Blue, Tracy Chevalier
190. Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earths Last Dinosaurs by Carl
Safina
191. Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
192. Whatever You Do, Don’t Run by Peter Allison
193. Whispers in the sand by Barbara Erskine
194. Whitechapel Gods by S.M. Peters
195. Who Brings Forth the Wind by Lori Wick
196. Wings of the Morning, by Lori Wick
197. Women and Money, by Suze Orman
198. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
have included their comments, if they made any.
The winner:
1. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (4)
1st runners up:
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini (3)
2. Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (3) books about
the. They’re set in Botswana and are being made into movies on HBO. I think
they’re already being shown in England.
3. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (3)
4. The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory (3)
5. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (3)
6. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Greggory (3)
7. Three Cups of Tea; One Mans Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build
Nations...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
(really good!) (3)
8. Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang One of the all time
favorite books my Book Club liked was its nonfiction and tells the story of
three generations of women from the grandmother with the bound feet to the
mother and daughter. (3)
Second Runners up:
1. A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle (2) (It was REALLY good, and I’m not usually
one
to read that kind of stuff.)
2. Austenland Shannon Hale (2)
3. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (2)
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (2)
5. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2)
6. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (2)
7. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (2)
8. The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards (2)
9. The Queens Fool, Philippa Greggory (2)
10. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (2)
11. The Shack by William P. Young (2)
12. The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2)
13. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (2)
The Rest:
1. 101 things to do before you die, by Richard Horn.
2. 1776 by David McCullough
3. A child called it, David peltzer.
4. A Painted Veil by w Maugham
5. A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
6. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
7. A Trip to the Stars, by Nicholas Christopher
8. A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements
9. Ahab’s Wife by Sean Jeter Naslund
10. An Arrow Pointing to Heaven, James Bryan Smith
11. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia
Nicolson,
by Louise Rennison
12. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver,
Steven L. Hopp
13. Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
14. Another Long Day on the Piste by Will Randall
15. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
16. Atonement by Ian McEwan
17. Battlefield of the Mind, Joyce Meyer
18. Being Written: A Novel (P.S.) by William Conescu
19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchet
20. Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson.
21. Breadfruit by Celestine Hitiura Vaite
22. Breathe by Keri Wyatt Kent
23. Candle in the Darkness by Lynn Austin
24. Center Cannot Hold, The: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks
25. Cherished, by Carolyn Jessop.
26. Child of the Phoenix by Barbara Erskine
27. Chile: Travels In a Thin Country, Sara Wheeler
28. China Road, Rob Gifford
29. Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright (very good!)
30. Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey D. Sachs
31. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
32. Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
33. Daughters of Fire by Barbara Erskine
34. DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
35. Distant Voices (short stories). Barbara Erskine
36. Don’t Stop the Carnival, Herman Wouk,
37. Driving a Yellow Cab by Melissa Plaut
38. Dry : A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
39. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
40. Eat Cake: A Novel, Jeanne Ray
41. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
42. Encyclopedia of the Christian Church, exhaustively fair
43. Escape, by Angela Cannings.
44. Fearless Fourteen
Janet
Evanovich
45. Financial Peace, Dave Ramsey
46. Flyboys by James Bradley
47. Follow the River James Alexander Thom
48. Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
49. Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins and Dominique LaPierre. Its
nonfiction and is about England granting freedom to India and the creation
of
Pakistan. Problems of today have their root in this event.
50. Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
51. Frindle, Andrew Clements
52. From a Persian Tea House Michael Carroll. It is not today’s Iran, but it
is a lovely book written in 1960 but reprinted
53. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by
Sudhir
Venkatesh
54. Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death by Laurie Notaro (If you haven’t
read Laurie Notaro yet. get anything by her. They are generally collections
of
short stories (nice mommy brain size doses) loosely based on her own life
and
exaggerated to the point of absolute hilarity... that is if you have any
sort
of the same sense of humor as I do.)
55. Girl, Barely 15: Flirting for England by Sue Limb
56. Googlepedia: The Ultimate Google Resource (3rd Edition)
by Michael Miller, so much to use Google for, so much of which I was unaware
57. Healing is a Choice by Stephen Arterburn
58. Hiding from the light. by Barbara Erskine
59. House of Dreams by Brenda Joyce
60. House of Echoes by Barbara Erskine
61. In Defense of Food: An Eaters Manifesto, by Michael Pollan
62. In the Woods, Tana French,
63. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
64. Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto is about the Dutch
settlements in New York and tells why New York was so cosmopolitan right
from
the very beginning.
65. Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason
66. Kabul Beauty School, Deborah Rodriguez
67. Keeping Faith by Jodi Piccoult
68. Kingdom of Shadows by Barbara Erskine
69. Lady of Hay Barbara Erskine
70. Lafayette by Harlow Giles Unger
71. Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza
72. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison
73. Love the One You’re with by Emily Giffin
74. Lovely bones, by Alice Seybold
75. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan is a fictionalized version of the romance
between Franklin Lloyd Wright and Mama Cheney. This is quite popular with
Book Clubs.
76. Lunch Money by Andrew Clements
77. Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
78. Magical Thinking: True Stories by Augusten Burroughs
79. Managing Your Emotions, Joyce Meyer
80. Manic: A Memoir by Terri Cheney
81. Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick is an award winning nonfiction book
about
the Pilgrims who landed in Massachusetts. Its ironic because they wanted
religious freedom, but failed to give it to others like the Quakers and even
sold Native Americans into slavery.
82. Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards
83. Merles Door by Ted Kerasote
84. Midnight is a lonely place by Barbara Erskine
85. Molokai by Alan Brennert
86. Motherstyles: Using Personality Type to Discover Your Parenting
Strengths
by Janet P. Penley
87. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition
by Oliver Sacks
88. My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
89. Nadia Knows Best by Jill Mansell
90. Neverwhere & American Gods, Neil Gaiman,
91. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Piccoult
92. On the edge of darkness by Barbara Erskine
93. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
94. Patty Janes House of Curl, Lorna Landvik
95. Peace like a River by Leif Enger
96. Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver
97. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
98. Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
99. Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes: Unmasking the Real You by Brennan Manning
100. Power of a Praying Wife. by Stormie OMartian
101. Prayer, Does It Make Any Difference, Philip Yancey
102. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
103. Radical Brewing, Randy Mosher,
104. Raising your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
105. Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann
106. Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
107. Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall & Denver Moore with Lynn
Vincent
108. Sands of time (short stories) by Barbara Erskine
109. Second Chance by Jane Green
110. Sex God, Rob Bell
111. Siblings without Rivalry by Adele Faber
112. Simple Prayer, Joyce Meyer
113. Slacker Girl by Alexandra Koslow
114. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
115. Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: A Slightly Tarnished
Southern Belle's Words of Wisdom by Celia Rivenbark
116. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemiorvsky is a fiction book set in France
during World War II. It’s amazing that it was ever published because she was
killed in a concentration camp, but her daughters were saved. They had the
manuscript, but didn’t realize what they had until recently.
117. T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton
118. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin is an excellent book about
Abraham
Lincoln and the members of his cabinet. Nice to read before visiting the
Abraham Lincoln Museum in Springfield.
119. Tell me Where it Hurts by Nick Trout
120. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
121. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
122. The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
123. The Bonesetters Daughter Amy Tan
124. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne.
125. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
126. The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett
127. The Children of Willesden Lane by Mona Golabek & Lee Cohen
128. The Confessor by Daniel Silva
129. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
130. The Dog Says How, Kevin Kling
131. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
132. The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the
Gardens
of Ethnic Americans, by Patricia Klindienst
133. The English Assassin by Daniel Silva
134. The five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom
135. The Forbidden Garden, Ursula CURTISS
136. The Frozen Lake by Elizabeth Edmonson
137. The Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
138. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls (3) This is a very popular memoir by
a
woman who was raised by a dysfunctional family. It’s a quick read.
139. The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
140. The Grandest of Lives: Eye-to-Eye with Whales by Douglas H. Chadwick
141. The Great Forever by Lee Martin
142. The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society by Mary Ann Shaffer , Annie Barrows
143. The Hawk and the Jewel, 1993, Lori Wick
144. The Heavenly Man by Brother Yun with Paul Hattaway
145. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
146. The Idiot
147. The Invisible Man by HG Wells.
148. The Jesus Family Tomb by Charles Pellegrino
149. The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva
150. The Knight and the Dove, Lori Wick
151. The Landry News, Andrew Clements
152. The Little Drummer Girl, John le Carre
153. The Little Lady Agency by Hester Browne
154. The Lost Painting by Johathon Harr is a quick read. Its nonfiction
about
a lost Caravaggio painting.
155. The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
156. The Mammy by Brendan O'Carroll
157. The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson,.
158. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
159. The Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
160. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
161. The Power of a Praying Parent, by Stormie OMartian
162. The Princess of Burundi by Kjell Eriksson
163. The Proposal, Lori Wick
164. The Pursuit, Lori Wick
165. The Rescue by Lori Wick
166. The Rest of Us by Jacquelyn Mitchard
167. The Return by Victoria Hislop – a novel set around the Spanish Civil
War
–
168. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
169. The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
170. The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
171. The Third Heiress by Brenda Joyce
172. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
173. The Various and Celandine by Steve Augarde
174. THE Watchmen. I loved it.
175. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
176. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the
Bible
as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs
177. The Last Holiday Concert by Andrew Clements
178. Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
179. Through a Screen Darkly by Jeffrey Overstreet
180. Tintin and the World of Herge: An Illustrated History by Benoit Peeters
181. Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
182. Tony Blair (Biography). by Thomas M. Collins, frightening how similar
he
was to Obama
183. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
184. Uncle Johns Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader by the Bathroom Readers
Institute.
185. Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith
186. Velvet Elvis Rob Bell (OHS ‘92 graduate)
187. Vince and Joy: A Novel by Lisa Jewell
188. Vine to Wine by Jeff Cox,
189. Virgin Blue, Tracy Chevalier
190. Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earths Last Dinosaurs by Carl
Safina
191. Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
192. Whatever You Do, Don’t Run by Peter Allison
193. Whispers in the sand by Barbara Erskine
194. Whitechapel Gods by S.M. Peters
195. Who Brings Forth the Wind by Lori Wick
196. Wings of the Morning, by Lori Wick
197. Women and Money, by Suze Orman
198. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
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