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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Rory's Book List

This is the list of books read by Rory in the television show Gilmore Girls.   Thanks to Shona of Shona's Book Shelves for compiling the list for the Rory Gilmore Books Project.

Books I have read are in bold.


On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H.R. Mencken
My Life As Author And Editor by H.R. Mencken
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Emma by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
The Group by Mary McCarthy
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
The Divine Comedy by Dante
Carrie by Stephen King
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Christine by Stephen King
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Art of Fiction by Henry James
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Ulysses by James Joyce
Out of Africa by Isac Denison
The Art of Fiction by Henry James
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Howl by Allen Ginsburg
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell : 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Savage Beauty:The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
The Iliad by Homer
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Shining by Stephen King
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Several biographies of Winston Churchill
The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell : 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
The Return of the King: Lord Of The Rings – Book 3 by J.R.R.Tolkien
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm
David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D.
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Candide by Voltaire
The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
The Bhagava Gita
Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
Othello by William Shakespeare
Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell
Fletch by Gregory McDonald
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/ Angels on Toast/ A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell
What Color is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
High Fidelity by Nick Hornsby
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
The Graduate by Charles Webb
The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Inferno by Dante
Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days (3.1)
A Bolt From The Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
Shane by Jack Shaefer
Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
The Manticore by Robertson Davies
Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: Harry Potter – Book 1 by J. K. Rowling
Henry V by William Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
Fiddler of the Roof by Joesph Stein
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
We Owe You Nothing- Punk Planet: the Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
Marathon Man by William Goldman
Deenie by Judy Blume
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Woolf
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Love Story by Erich Segal
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
Babe by Dick King- Smith
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Gidget by Frederick Kohner
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
Stuart Little by E. B. White
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Mutiny On The Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
Eloise by Kay Thompson
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Europe Through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
Selected Hotels of Europe
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
Walt Disney’s Bambi (Based on Original Story by Felix Salten) by Felix Salten
Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective byDonald J. Sobol
The Fellowship Of The Ring: Lord Of The Ring – Book 1 by J.R.R. Tolkien
Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
I’m With the Band by Pamela Des Barres
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
The Hobbit, The Sofa and Digger Stiles (4.3)
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Wurthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Cujo by Stephen King
1984 by George Orwell
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon
Ethics by Spinoza
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
It takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
R is for ricochet by Sue Grafton
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhitE
The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
Sexus by Henry Miller
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan, Jeffrey L. Williams, Vincent B. Leitch
R  is for Ricochet, S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
The Vanishing Newspaper by Phillip Meyers
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Canterbery Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Sanctuary by William Faulkner
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Good Soilder by Ford Maddox Ford
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Bitch In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
George W. Bushisms : The Slate Book of The Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

Novel and Fiction Pulitzer Prize Winners

Books I have read are in bold.  

[Novel: 1917 – 1947] [Fiction: 1948 – present]

1918
His Family by Ernest Poole

1919
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

1921
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

1922
Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

1923
One of Ours by Willa Cather

1924
The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson

1925
So Big by Edna Ferber

1926
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

1927
Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield

1928
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

1929
Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin

1930
Laughter Boy by Oliver Lafarge

1931
Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes

1932
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

1933
The Store by T.S. Stribling

1934
Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller

1935
Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson

1936
Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis

1937
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

1938
The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand

1939
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1940
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

1942
In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow

1943
Dragon’s Teeth by Upton Sinclair

1944
Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin

1945
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey

1947
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

1948
Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener

1949
Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens

1950
The Way West by A.B. Guthrie

1951
The Town by Conrad Richter

1952
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

1953
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

1955
A Fable by William Faulkner

1956
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

1958
A Death In The Family by James Agee

1959
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor

1960
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury

1961
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1962
The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor

1963
The Reivers by William Faulkner

1965
The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau

1966
Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter

1967
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

1968
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

1969
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

1970
Collected Stories by Jean Stafford

1972
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

1973
The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty

1975
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

1976
Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow

1978
Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson

1979
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

1980
The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer

1981
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

1982
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike

1983
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

1984
Ironweed by William Kennedy

1985
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

1986
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

1987
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor

1988
Beloved by Toni Morrison

1989
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

1990
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

1991
Rabbit At Rest by John Updike

1992
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

1993
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler

1994
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

1995
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

1996
Independence Day by Richard Ford

1997
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser

1998
American Pastoral by Philip Roth

1999
The Hours by Michael Cunningham

2000
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

2001
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

2002
Empire Falls by Richard Russo

2003
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

2004
The Known World by Edward P. Jones

2005
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

2006
March by Geraldine Brooks

2007
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

2008
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

2009
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

2010
Tinkers by Paul Harding

2011
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

2012
No winner selected

101 Great Books Recommended for College Bound-Readers

This list is from the CollegeBoard.  Books I have read are in bold. 


Beowulf
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
A Death in the Family by James Agee
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Inferno by Dante
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Tomas Hardy
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Beloved by Toni Morrison
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Selected Tales by Edgar Allen Poe
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Antigone by Sophocles
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Candide by Voltaire
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Native Son by Richard Wright

TBR (Books I Don't Own)

Autobiography, Biography, Memoir
  • The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
  • The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey by Linda Greenlaw
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  • Into the Wild by John Krakauer
  • Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall
Classics
  • A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  • Don Quixote by Cervantes
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
  • Light in August by William Faulkner
  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Faith
  • Believing God by Beth Moore
  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
  • The Shack by William P. Young
Fiction
  • Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
  • Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
  • The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
  • The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  • The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
  • Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
  • The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
  • The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey (finished April 25, 2010)
Nonfiction
  • A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen (finished April 20, 2010)
  • Being Perfect by Anna Quindlen (finished April 21, 2010)
  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
  • The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin
  • How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen (finished April 25, 2010)
  • The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond
  • The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel J. Levitin
  • The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

TBR (Books Already Owned)

Books I have read are in bold.

Autobiography, Biography, Memoir
  • American Lion by Jon Meacham
  • The American Presidents: Biographies of the Chief Executives, from George Washington through Barack Obama by David C. Whitney
  • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
  • The First Ladies Fact Book: The Childhoods, Courtships, Marriages, Campaigns, Accomplishments, and Legacies of Every First Lady from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama by Bill Harris
Classics
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (finished April 12, 2010)
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 
  • The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
  • Emma by Jane Austen
  • Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  • Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
  • Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  • My Ántonia by Willa Cather
  • Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  • O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen
  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  • Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (finished April 28, 2010)
  • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 
Faith
  • Breaking Free by Beth Moore (finished March 8, 2010)
  • The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller
  • Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers (finished January 13, 2010)
Fiction
  • 1st to Die by James Patterson
  • Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  • Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  • The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
  • Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe
  • The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks (finished March 25, 2010)
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  • The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 
  • Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Nonfiction
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  • The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
  • This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin
  • The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel J. Levitin