books from Anna Quindlen
Submitted by kbuxton on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:01
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- 10 Big Thick Wonderful Books That Could Take You a Whole Summer to Read (but Aren't Beach Books)
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
- Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
- Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
- Sophie's Choice by William Styron
- Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon
- Underworld by Don DeLillo
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- 10 Nonfiction Books That Help Us Understand the World
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
- The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
- Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick
- Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- How We Die by Sherwin Nuland
- The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos
- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
- The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
- 10 Books That Will Help a Teenager Feel More Human
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Lost in Place by Mark Salzman
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape? by Peter Hedges
- The World According to Garp by John Irving
- Bloodbrothers by Richard Price
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
- The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
- The 10 Books I Would Save in a Fire (If I Could Save Only 10)
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
- The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
- The Collected Plays of William Shakespeare
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- 10 Books for a Girl Who is Full of Beans (or Ought to Be)
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Julius: The Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes
- Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- The BFG by Roald Dahl
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
- Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
- Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi, Ruth E. Murray
- 10 Mystery Novels I'd Most Like to Find in a Summer Rental
- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P. D. James
- Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers
- The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie P. King
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
- Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham
- The Way Through the Woods by Colin Dexter
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre
- 10 Books Recommended by a Really Good Elementary School Librarian
- The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
- Frindle by Andrew Clements
- My Daniel by Pam Conrad
- The Houdini Box by Brian Selznick
- Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
- No Flying in the House by Betty Brock
- My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
- Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye
- Mudpies: And Other Recipes: A Cookbook for Dolls by Marjorie Winslow
- The Story of May by Mordecai Gerstein
- 10 Great Book-Club Selections
- Fraud by Anita Brookner
- Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
- The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
- The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean howells
- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
- Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
- Eden Close by Anita Shreve
- 10 Modern Novels that made me Proud To Be a Writer
- The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
- Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser
- True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne
- The Death of the Haert by Elizabeth Bowen
- The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
- Falconer by John Cheever
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Information by Martin Amis
- Portnoy's Complain by Philip Roth
- 10 of the Books My Exceptionally Well Read Friend Ben SAys He's Taken the Most From
- Herzog by Saul Bellow
- Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
- Something of an Achievement by Gwyn Griffin
- Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
- The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
- Walden by Harry David Thoreau
- The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham
- Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
- Heretics by G.K. Chesterton
- The Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever
- 10 Books I Just Love to Read, and always Will
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Group by Mary McCarthy
- The Blue Swallows by Howard Nemerov
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
These were all taken from Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life. I've not read many of the titles. (I condensed them all into one list so I wouldn't have to attribute many times, and because it won't be changing).