So Many Books, So Little Time
Submitted by bravereader on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 08:06
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- Broken by William Cope Moyers
- Tender is the Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
- She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
- Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
- Lust for Life by Irving Stone
- Werewolves in Their Youth by Michael Chabon
- Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls (repeater)
- My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (repeater)
- Women and Other Animals by Bonnie Jo Campbell
- The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper
- The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
- Midnight's Children by Salmon Rushdie
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- Life of Pi by Yanu Martel (repeater)
- The Dwarfs by Harold Pinter
- Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
- The Book of Ruth by June Hamilton
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevski
- Ann Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Ann Frank
- Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Schaffer
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
- Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns (repeater)
- A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs
- The Chosen by Chaim Potok (repeater)
- Down River by John Hart
- Through Painted Deserts by Donald Miller
- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
- The Crows by Maris Soule
- Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
- Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
- Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon
- That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
- Cotton Patch Version by Clarence Jordan
- The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty (repeater)
- The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin Jr.
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
- The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton
- Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
- Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
- American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
- A Good Fall by Ha Jin
- Dear Husband by Joyce Carol Oates
- Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
- The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
- The Promise by Chaim Potok (repeater)
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges
- Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
- Crazy For the Storm
- The City by China Melville
- Stitches by David Small
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
- Beautiful Creatures
- Strength in What Remains
- Let the Great World Spin
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (hated it)
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
- Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
- What Looks Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
- Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
- Jewel by Brett Lott
- The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
- Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Ape House by Sara Gruen
- Fame by Daniel Kehlmann
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
- Waiting For Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire
- Red Azalea by Anchee Min
- True Grit by Charles Portis (repeater)
- Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
- Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
- That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
- When the Killing's Done by T.C. Boyle
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
- Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Author Comments:
This list includes a number of books not included on my other lists. The list is open to additions, as I continually realize the existence of more literature I just can't live without. Highlighted selections are books I have read. Unfortunately, I may leave out books I will read that are not on this list. They come; they go. As I said, "So many books, so little time."
I really reccomend The Memory of Running and God of Small Things, I loved them both!
I just finished The Memory of Running. It had a personal meaning for me since there was a character like the sister in my life. Thanks for your comment, evolphoto.