Books I’ve Read: 2006-2019
Alexie, Sherman - Flight
Anderson, Joan - A Second Journey
- An Unfinished Marriage
- A Walk on the Beach
- A Year By The Sea
Anshaw, Carol - Carry the One
Auden, W.H. - The Selected Poems of W.H. Auden
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Bach, Richard - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Bear, Donald R - Words Their Way
Berg, Elizabeth - Open House
Bly, Nellie - Ten Days in a Madhouse
Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
- The Martian Chronicles
Brooks, David - The Road to Character
Brooks, Geraldine - Caleb’s Crossing
Brown, Dan - The Da Vinci Code
Bryson, Bill - The Lost Continent
Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden
Buscaglia, Leo - Bus 9 to Paradise
- Living, Loving & Learning
- Personhood
- Seven Stories of Christmas Love
Byrne, Rhonda - The Secret
Carlson, Richard - Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
Carson, Rachel - The Sense of Wonder
- Silent Spring
Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote
Cherry, Lynne - The Greek Kapok Tree
Chopin, Karen - The Awakening
Clurman, Harold - The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre & the 30s
Coelho, Paulo - Adultery
The Alchemist
Conklin, Tara - The Last Romantics
Conroy, Pat - Beach Music
- The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
- The Great Santini
- The Lords of Discipline
- The Prince of Tides
- The Water is Wide
Corelli, Marie - A Romance of Two Worlds
Delderfield, R.F. - To Serve Them All My Days
Dempsey, Janet - Washington’s Last Contonment: High Time for a Peace
Dewey, John - Experience and Education
Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol
- Great Expectations
- A Tale of Two Cities
Didion, Joan - The Year of Magical Thinking
Disraeli, Benjamin - Sybil
Doctorow, E.L. - Andrew’s Brain
- Ragtime
Doerr, Anthony - All the Light We Cannot See
Dreiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie
Dyer, Wayne - Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
- The Power of Intention
- Your Erroneous Zones
Edwards, Kim - The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Ellis, Joseph J. - His Excellency: George Washington
Ellison, Ralph - The Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Essays and Lectures
Felkner, Donald W. - Building Positive Self Concepts
Fergus, Jim - One Thousand White Women
Flynn, Gillian - Gone Girl
Follett, Ken - Pillars of the Earth
Frank, Anne - The Diary of a Young Girl
Freud, Sigmund - The Interpretation of Dreams
Frey, James - A Million Little Pieces
Fromm, Erich - The Art of Loving
- Escape from Freedom
Fulghum, Robert - All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Fuller, Alexandra - Leaving Before the Rains Come
Garield, David - The Actors Studion: A Player’s Place
Gates, Melinda - The Moment of Lift
Gibran, Kahlil - The Prophet
Gilbert, Elizabeth - Eat, Pray, Love
- The Last American Man
- The Signature of All Things
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader - My Own Words
Girzone, Joseph F, - Joshua
- Joshua and the Children
Gladwell, Malcom - Blink
- David and Goliath
- Outliers
- The Tipping Point
- Talking to Strangers
Glass, Julia - Three Junes
Goodall, Jane - Reason for Hope
Goodwin, Doris Kearnes - Team of Rivals
Graham, Steve - Best Practices in Writing Instruction
Gray, John - Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
Groom, Winston - Forrest Gump
Gruen, Sarah - Water for Elephants
Hannah, Kristin - The Great Alone
- The Nightingale
Harvey, Stephanie and Anne Goudvis - Strategies That Work
Hawkins, Paula - The Girl on the Train
Hedges, Chris - Empire of Illusion
Hellman, Lillian - Maybe
- Pentimento
Hemingway - Ernest - A Moveable Feast
Hendrix, Harville - Getting the Love You Want
Hesse, Hermann - Demian
- Narcissus and Goldmund
- Peter Camenzind
- Siddhartha
- Steppenwolf
Hilderbrand, Elin - The Beach Club
Hitchens, Christopher - God is Not Great
Hoffman, Abbie - Soon to be a Major Motion Picture
- Steal This Book
Holt, John - How Children Fail
- How Children Learn
- Learning All the Time
- Never Too Late
Hopkins, Joseph - The American Transcendentalist
Horney, Karen - Feminine Psychology
- Neurosis and Human Growth
- The Neurotic Personality of Our Time
- New Ways in Psychoanalysis
- Our Inner Conflicts
- Self Analysis
Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner
Hoover, John J, Leonard M. Baca, Janette K. Klingner - Why Do English Learners Struggle with Reading?
Janouch, Gustav - Conversations with Kafka
Jefferson, Thomas - Crusade Against Ignorance
Jong, Erica - Fear of Dying
Joyce, Rachel - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Kafka, Franz - Amerika
- Metamophosis
- The Trial
Kallos, Stephanie - Broken For You
Kazantzakis, Nikos - Zorba the Greek
Keaton, Diane - Then Again
Kelly, Martha Hall - The Lilac Girls
Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algernon
King, Steven - On Writing
Kornfield, Jack - Bringing Home the Dharma
Kraft, Herbert - The Indians of Lenapehoking - The Lenape or Delaware Indians: The Original People of NJ, Southeastern New York State, Eastern Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware and Parts of Western Connecticut
Kundera, Milan - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Lacayo, Richard - Native Son
Lamott, Anne - Bird by Bird
Word by Word
L’Engle, Madeleine - A Wrinkle in Time
Lahiri, Jhumpa - The Namesake
Lappe, Frances Moore - Diet for a Small Planet
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lems, Kristin et al - Building Literacy with English Language Learners
Lewis, Sinclair - Main Street
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Lowry, Lois - The Giver
Mander, Jerry - Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Marks, John D. - The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control
Martel, Yann - Life of Pi
Maslow, Abraham - The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
- Motivation and Personality
- Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences
- Toward a Psychology of Being
Maugham. W. Somerset - Of Human Bondage
- Christmas Holiday
Maurier, Daphne du - Rebecca
Mayes, Frances - Under the Tuscan Sun
Mayle, Peter - A Year in Provence
McCourt, Frank - Angela’s Ashes
- Teacher man
McCullough, David - 1776
- Brave Companions
McEwan, Ian - Atonement
- Saturday
McLaughlin, Emma - The Nanny Diaries
McLuhan, Marshall - Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Meissner, Susan - The Fall of Marigolds
Millman, Dan - Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Moehringer, J.R. - The Tender Bar
Moon, Elizabeth - The Speed of Dark
Moriarty, Liane - The Husband’s Sister
- The Last Anniversary
- What Alice Forgot
Mortenson, Greg - Three Cups of Tea
Moyes, Jo Jo - One Plus One
- Me Before You
Ng, Celeste - Little Fires Everywhere
Neill, A.S. - Summerhill
Noah, Trevor - Born a Crime
O’Dell, Scott - Island of the Blue Dolphins
Offerman, Nick - Gumption
O’Neill, Eugene - Long Day’s Journey Into Night
A Touch of the Poet
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Owens, Delia - Where the Crawdads Sing
Paulus, Trina - Hope for the Flowers
Pausch, Randy - The Last Lecture
Patchett, Ann - The Dutch House
Peck, Scott M. - The Road Less Traveled
- The Road Less Traveled and Beyond
Paterson, Katherine - Bridge to Teribithia
Picoult, Jodi - My Sister’s Keeper
Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Puzo, Mario - The Godfather
Quindlen, Anna - Black and Blue
Radish, Kris - Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral
Redfield, James - The Celestine Prophecy
Rickert, Mary - The Memory Garden
Rogers, Carl - On Becoming a Person
Ruiz, Miguel - The Fifth Agreement
- The Four Agreements
- The Mastery of Love
Rum, Etaf - A Woman is No Man
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - The Little Prince
Salinger, J.D. - Catcher in the Rye
Schumacher, E.F. - Small is Beautiful
Sebold, Alice - The Almost Moon
- The Lovely Bones
Shaffer, Mary Ann and Anne Barrows - The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shakespeare, William - Alls Well That Ends Well
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Twelfth Night
- Two Gentlemen of Verona
Sides, Hampton - Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree
Skinner, B.F. - About Behaviorism
Smith, Betty - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley - The Velvet Room
Spinelli, Jerry - Loser
Spolin, Viola - Improvisation for the Theater
Stanislavski, Constantin - An Actor Prepares
Stedman, M.L. - The Light Between Oceans
Steinbeck, John - Travels with Charley
Steiner, Peter - The Terrorist
Stockett, Kathryn - The Help
Strayer, Cheryl - Wild
Streatfeild, Dominic - Brainwash
Strout, Elizabeth - My Name is Lucy Barton
Tartt, Donna - The Goldfinch
Taylor, Kathleen - Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control
Thomas, Matthew - We Are Not Ourselves
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolle, Eckhart - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
- The Power of Now
Towles, Amor - A Gentleman in Moscow
- Rules of Civility
Tracey, Diane and Lesley Morrow - Lenses on Reading
Traub, Nina - Recipe for Reading
Tzu, Lao - Tao Te Ching
United States Congress - Project MKULTRA, the CIA's program of research in behavioral modification: Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the ... Congress, first session, August 3, 1977
Van Allsburg, Chris - Just a Dream
- Polar Express
- Sweet Dreams
- Stranger
- Two Bad Ants
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Waller, Robert James - Bridges of Madison County
Warren, Elizabeth - A Fighting Chance
Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited
Weir, Andy - The Martian
Weinstein, Harvey M. - Father, Son and CIA
Welles, Rebecca - The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
Westover, Tara - Educated
White, E.B. - Charlotte’s Web
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorien Gray
Wolfe, Tom - I Am Charlotte Simmons
Wolitzer, Meg - The Female Persuasion
Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway
Zevin, Gabrielle - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Zusak, Marcus - The Book Thief
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every book i read in 2019
full list under the cut! faves are bolded and books read for school are starred
Hunger by Roxane Gay (4/5 stars)
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan (4/5 stars)
Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht (4/5 stars)
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (3.5/5 stars)
Becoming by Michelle Obama (5/5 stars)
Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake (5/5 stars)
The Wicked King by Holly Black (3.5/5 stars)
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand (5/5 stars)
The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi (5/5 stars)
What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold (4.5/5 stars)
I Gave Birth To All The Ghosts Here by Lyd Havens (5/5 stars)
Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles (4/5 stars)
Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon (4/5 stars)
Shrill by Lindy West (5/5 stars)
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (3.5/5 stars)
The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani (4/5 stars)
Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake (5/5 stars)
Like Water by Rebecca Podos (4/5 stars)
The Disasters by MK England (3/5 stars)
On The Come Up by Angie Thomas (5/5 stars)
The Falconer by Dana Czapnik (4/5 stars)
The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan (4/5 stars)
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (5/5 stars)
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker (4.5/5 stars)
The Fever King by Victoria Lee (3/5 stars)
*Symposium by Plato (4/5 stars)
The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson (4.5/5 stars)
Educated by Tara Westover (4.5/5 stars)
My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (4/5 stars)
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (3.5/5 stars)
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero (3/5 stars)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (4/5 stars)
The Truth About Keeping Secrets by Savannah Brown (5/5 stars)
Sink by Desiree Dallagiacomo (5/5 stars)
When The Sky Fell On Splendor by Emily Henry (3/5 stars)
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib (4/5 stars)
Damsel by Elana K. Arnold (5/5 stars)
*The Aeneid by Virgil (2/5 stars)
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (4.5/5 stars)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (4/5 stars)
A Queer Little History of Art by Alex Pilcher (3.5/5 stars)
King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo (4.5/5 stars)
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (3.5/5 stars)
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray (4/5 stars)
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (2.5/5 stars)
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty (4/5 stars)
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (4/5 stars)
*The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (3.5/5 stars)
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (4.5/5 stars)
The Gypsy Moth Summer by Julia Fierro (3/5 stars)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (4/5 stars)
My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix (5/5 stars)
Beartown by Fredrik Backman (4/5 stars)
Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins (5/5 stars)
You Must Not Miss by Katrina Leno (4.5/5 stars)
Mermaid in Chelsea Creek by Michelle Tea (2/5 stars)
My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing (4.5/5 stars)
The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman (3/5 stars)
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong (4.5/5 stars)
Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan (5/5 stars)
There There by Tommy Orange (4/5 stars)
The French Girl by Lexie Elliott (3/5 stars)
I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver (4/5 stars)
Dead Girls by Alice Bolin (3.5/5 stars)
The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake (5/5 stars)
Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills (5/5 stars)
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (1/5 stars)
Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney Stevens (3.5/5 stars)
With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (3/5 stars)
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (3/5 stars)
The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan (3/5 stars)
This Darkness Mine by Mindy McGinnis (4.5/5 stars)
The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum (4/5 stars)
These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling (2.5/5 stars)
Normal People by Sally Rooney (3.5/5 stars)
The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware (5/5 stars)
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (3.75/5 stars)
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne (5/5 stars)
In A Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware (3.75/5 stars)
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman (3/5 stars)
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware (3/5 stars)
Women & Power by Mary Beard (4/5 stars)
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (4/5 stars)
The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager (4/5 stars)
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector (4/5 stars)
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen (3/5 stars)
Wilder Girls by Rory Power (4.5/5 stars)
Murder, Magic, and What We Wore by Kelly Jones (2/5 stars)
The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg (4.5/5 stars)
The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante (5/5 stars)
Lock Every Door by Riley Sager (5/5 stars)
I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum (5/5 stars)
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi (2/5 stars)
A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti (5/5 stars)
In the Neighborhood of True by Susan Kaplan Carlton (3/5 stars)
The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo (3/5 stars)
Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi (4/5 stars)
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware (5/5 stars)
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino (5/5 stars)
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou (4/5 stars)
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (4/5 stars)
The Whale: A Love Story by Mark Beauregard (3/5 stars)
Not the Girls You’re Looking For by Aminah Mae Safi (3/5 stars)
Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky (2/5 stars)
Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (5/5 stars)
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (2.5/5 stars)
How (Not) to Ask a Boy to Prom by SJ Goslee (4/5 stars)
We Sold our Souls by Grady Hendrix (3/5 stars)
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren (4.5/5 stars)
Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim (4/5 stars)
*Othello by William Shakespeare (4.5/5 stars)
*Lysistrata by Aristophanes (3.5/5 stars)
How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox (4/5 stars)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (2/5 stars)
The New Me by Halle Butler (4/5 stars)
*Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (2/5 stars)
Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson (4/5 stars)
Sula by Toni Morrison (3.5/5 stars)
*Emma by Jane Austen (4/5 stars)
Sleepwalking by Meg Wolitzer (4.5/5 stars)
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (4/5 stars)
Carrie by Stephen King (4.5/5 stars)
*Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (4/5 stars)
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow (5/5 stars)
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (4/5 stars)
*The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (4/5 stars)
*The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (4/5 stars)
Call Down The Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater (5/5 stars)
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (5/5 stars)
*Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (3.5/5 stars)
Well Met by Jen DeLuca (2.5/5 stars)
Soft Science by Franny Choi (4/5 stars)
Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney (5/5 stars)
To Night Owl From Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer (3/5 stars)
*Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (3/5 stars)
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman (4/5 stars)
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (5/5 stars)
*Small Island by Andrea Levy (3.5/5 stars)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (4/5 stars)
One Day in December by Josie Silver (1.5/5 stars)
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang (5/5 stars)
Final Girls by Riley Sager (3/5 stars)
Milkman by Anna Burns (5/5 stars)
Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell (4/5 stars)
Famous In A Small Town by Emma Mills (4/5 stars)
Blud by Rachel McKibbens (4/5 stars)
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