Books I’ve Read

 

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
~ George Holbrook Jackson ~

By no means is this a complete list of books that I’ve read. It is just a list of books that I remember reading.

* Denotes a book club book.

  • Gilead by Marilynne Robinson - January 2008* 
  • The Space Between Us by Thrify N. Umrigar – January 2008* 
  • Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert – August 2007*
  • The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty – August 2007*
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling – July 2007
  • Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron – June 2007*
  • Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler – May 2007*
  • Recaptitulation by Wallace Stegner - April 2007 *
  • Unless by Carol Shield – March 2007 *
  • Love in Driest Season by Neely Tucker – February 2007 *
  • Empire Falls by Richard Russo - January 2007 *
  • Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman – December 2006 *
  • Eva Luna by Isabel Allende – August 2006 *
  • Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver – June 2006 *
  • Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner – June 2006 *
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coeho – July 2006 
  • The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz – May 2006*
  • My Sister’s Keeper by  Jodi Picoult – May 2006 *
  • Paula by Isabel Allende – April 2006
  • The Mapmaker’s Wife by Robert Whitaker - April 2006 * 
  • The Youage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis – March 2006
  • Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis – February 2006
  • Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince by J.K. Rowling - February 2006
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling – February 2006
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling – February 2006
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling - January 2006 
  • Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner – January 2006
  • Delivering Dr. Amelia by Dan Shapiro February – 2006 * 
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling – February 2006
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling - February 2006 
  • The Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis – January 2006 *
  • The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell – December 2005 * 
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - November 2005 * 
  • The Summer of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares – November 2005
  • Traveling Mercies by Anne LaMotte – October 2005 * 
  • Polar Dreams by Helen Thayer – September 2005 *
  • Good Grief by Lolly Winston – August 2005 * 
  • A Song of the Lark by Willa Cather – July 2005 *
  • A Horse and a Boy by C.S. Lewis – June 2005 
  • Sea Biscuit by Laura Hillenbrand - June 2005 *
  • The Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis – June 2005 
  • The Magician and His Nephew by C.S. Lewis – June 2005 
  • Riding the Bus with My Sister by  Rachel Simon – May 2005
  • The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer – April 2005 
  • Our Lady of the Forest by David Gueterson - March 2005 *
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon – February 2005 *
  • The Time Travler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - January 2005 *
  • Plain Song by Kent Haruf – January 2005 *
  • Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne – November 2004 
  • The Chili Queen by Sandra Dallas - November 2004 
  • For Matrimonial Purpose by Kavita Daswani – November 2004 *
  • The Jane Austen Bookclub by Karen Joy Fowler Noveber 2004 
  • Walking on Water by Madeline L’Engle – November 2004 *
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabine by Harriet Beecher Stowe – October 2004 
  • Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett – October 2004 *
  • Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities by Alexandra Robbins - September 2004 
  • Perlandra by C.S. Lewis - September 2004 *
  • The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger – August 2004
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez – August 2004 *
  • The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith - July 2004 
  • Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella – July 2004 
  • Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot - July 2004 
  • The Morning and the Evening by Virginia Sorenson – July 2004 *
  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides – June 2004  
  • Babyville by Jane Green - June 2004 
  • Bookends by Jane Green – June 2004 
  • Peace Like a River by Leif Enger - June 2004 *
  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom – June 2004
  • The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith – May 2004
  • Mortality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith – May 2004
  • Seabiscuit: An American legend – April 2004 *
  • Midaq Alley by Naghib Mahfouz – March 2004 * 
  • Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko – February 2004 * 
  • The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale – January 2004 * 
  • The Life of Pi by Yann Martel – December 2003 *
  • About a Boy by Nick Horby – November 2003
  • My Darling Elia by Eugenie Melnyk – November 2003 *
  • I Don’t Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson – October 2003 *
  • Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner – September 2003 *
  • Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella – August 2003
  • Shopaholic Take Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella – August 2003
  • Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella – July 2003
  • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines – June 2003 * 
  • Pemberly by Emma Tennant - June 2003
  • Sense and Sensability by Jane Austen  – June 2003
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen  – May 2003
  • The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer – May 2003 *
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – April 2003 *
  • The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith – April 2003* 
  • A Beautiful Mind by Syliva Nasar - April 2003 
  • About a Boy by Nick Nornby – March 2003
  • Possession by A.S. Byatt – March 2003 *
  • Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold – February 2003 *
  • John Adams by David McCullough – January 2003 *
  • Monster by Walter Dean Mers - January 2003 
  • Saturn’s Return to New York by Sara Gran – December 2002
  • Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells – December 2002 
  • I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith - December 2002 
  • Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons – December 2002 
  • A Virtuous Women by Kaye Gibbons - December 2002 * 
  • A Cure for Dreams by Kaye Gibbons November 2002
  • Peel My Love Like an Onion by Ana Castillo – November 2002 
  • Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt – November 2002 * 
  • Zabelle, a Novel by Nancy Kricorian – November 2002 
  • The Correction by Jonathan Franze – October 2002 *
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond - September 2002 *
  • The Quilter’s Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini – July 2002 * 
  • The Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska – June 2002 *
  • The Red Tent by Anita Diamant – May 2002 *
  • The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom – April 2002 *
  • While I was Gone by Sue Miller - March 2002 *
  • Iron and Silk by Mark Salzman – February 2002 *
  • Magic of Ordinary Days by Ann Howard Creel – January 2002 *
  • Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan – November 2001 *
  • Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon – October 2001 *
  • Bee Season by Myla Goldbergy - September 2001 *
  • Waiting by Ha Jin – August 2001 * 
  • Gone for Good by Mark Childress – July 2001 *
  • Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey – June 2001 
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier - May 2001 * 
  • There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz - April 2001 *
  • Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - March 2001 *
  • The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis – February 2001 *
  • Midwives by Chris Bohjalian by – January 2001 *
  • The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman - December 2001 *
  • The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
  • Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara
  • The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara