Books Read (* Great Books)
Pre-2002
To Kill a Mockingbird
Beloved
Interpreter of Maladies*Jhumpa Lahiri
The Blind Assassin*Margaret Atwood
The God of Small Things*Arundhati Roy
Summer 2002
1. The Last Time They Met- Anita Shreve
2. Bird By Bird* Anne Lamott
3. In The Heart Of The Sea: The Tragedy Of The Whaleship Essex* Nathaniel Philbrick
4. The Corrections* Jonathan Franzen
5. Kleopatra- Karen Essex
6. American Gods* Neil Gaiman
7. Icarus- Russell Andrews
8. Circus Of The Damned- Laurel K. Hamilton
9. The Shipping News* Annie Proulx
10. Love That Dog* Sharon Creech
11. Narcissus Ascending- Karen McKinnon
12. Remnant-Lahaye & Jenkins
13. Calculating God- Robert Sawyer
14. From A Buick 8- Stephen King
15. 10th Good Thing About Barney -Judith Viorst
16. Eating The Cheshire Cat- Helen Ellis
17. Airframe- Michael Crichton
18. 24 Hours- Greg Iles
19. Shadowfires- Dean Koontz
20. Night Blooming- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
21. The Lovely Bones* Alice Sebold
22. Dark Debts- Karen Hall
23. The Book Of Shadows- James Reese
24. The MD- Thomas Disch
25. Angus, Thongs, & Full-Frontal Snogging* Louise Rennison
26. Blackwood Farm- Anne Rice
27. Possession- A.S. Byatt
28. Reading For Understanding: A Guide To Improving Reading In Middle And High School ClassroomsSchoenbach, Greenleaf, Cziko, Hurwitz (Wested) Www.Wested.Org/ Stratlit/
29. The Little Friend* Donna Tartt
30. The Afterword- Mike Bryan
31. Cerulean Sins- Laurel Hamilton
32. One Doorway Away From Heaven* Dean Koontz
33. How The Irish Saved Civilization A- Thomas Cahill
34. Gone South- Robert McCammon
35. Coralline* Neil Gaiman
36. Going After Cacciato* Tim O’Brien
37. Rebecca* Daphne Du Maurier
38. Oryx And Crake* Margaret Atwood
June 2003
39. Because Writing Matters- National Writing Project
40. Lessons That Change Writers* Nancy Atwell
41. Lucky-Alice Sebold
42. Hangman's Beautiful Daughter- Sharyn McCrumb
43. Armageddon- Tim Lahaye & Jerry Jenkins
44. White Death- Clive Cussler A
45. Lives Of The Poets- E.L. Doctorow
46. Poetry Everywhere* Collom & Noethe
47. Poetry: Starting From Scratch* Michael Carey
48. When Kids Can’t Read* Kylene Beers
49. The Hot Zone* Richard Preston
50. Prey* Michael Crichton A
51. The Music Of The Spheres- Elizabeth Redfern
52. Gone For Good-Harlan Coben A
53. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix* JK Rowling
54. Stuck In Neutral* Terry Trueman
October 2003
55. Red Rabbit- Tom Clancy A
56. Balzac & The Little Chinese Seamstress* Dai Sijie A
57. Tuesdays With Morrie* Mitch Albom
58. The Prometheus Deception- Robert Ludlum A
59. Angels & Demons* Dan Brown
60. Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge* Mem Fox
61. Halloween- Jerry Seinfeld
62. Lullaby* Chuck Palahniuk A
November 20, 2003
63. Midnight Harvest- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
64. A Painted House* John Grisham A
65. Blood Canticle- Anne Rice
66. River King* Alice Hoffman A
67. Ties That Bind- Philip Margolin A
68. Wild Justice- Philip Margolin A
69. Wicked- Gregory Maguire
70. Alias Grace* Margaret Atwood A
71. Wolves Of The Calla- Stephen King
72. The Sigma Protocol- Robert Ludlum A
January 2004
73. Cold Mountain* Charles Frazier
74. Odd Thomas- Dean Koontz
75. The Surgeon- Tess Gerritsen A
76. The Experiment- John Darnton A
February 2004
77. The Sinner- Tess Gerritsen A
78. To Kill A Mockingbird* Harper Lee
79. A Parchment Of Leaves* Silas House
80. Cohesive Writing* Carol Jago
March 2004
81. Deliverance- James Dickey A
82. The Bluest Eye* Toni Morrison A
83. Pigs In Heaven* Barbara Kingsolver A
84. Liar's Club* Mary Kerr
85. Paradise* Toni Morrison A
86. Glorious Appearing-Tim Lahaye & Jerry Jenkins
April 2004
87. Choke- Chuck Palahniuk
88. The Man In The Black Suit* Stephen King A
89. The Hammer Of Eden- Ken Follett
90. Where Are The Children? -Mary Higgins Clark
91. After The End* Barry Lane
92. With Rigor For All* Carol Jago
May 2004
93. The Things They Carried* Tim O’Brien
94. The 5 People You Meet In Heaven* Mitch Albom
95. The Lives Of The Monster Dogs* Kathleen Bakis
96. Rice-Nikki Finney
97. Diary* Chuck Palahniuk
98. Losing My Faculties* Brendan Halpin
99. The Bourne Supremacy- Robert Ludlum
100. The Taking- Dean Koontz
101. Krakatoa-Simon Winchester
June 2004
102. Subject Matters* Harvey Daniels
103. Thinking Through Genre* Heather Lattimer
104. Invisible Monsters* Chuck Palahniuk
105. The Coma* Alex Garland
106. Speak* Laurie Halse Anderson
107. Song Of Susannah- Stephen King
108. The Beach* Alex Garland
109. Bad Boy- Walter Dean Myers
110. On Writing* Stephen King
111. Teaching With Fire: Poetry That Sustains The Courage To Teach* Eds. Intrator & Scribner
112. Insomnia- Stephen King
July 2004
113. The Coming Global Superstorm -Art Bell, Whitley Strieber
114. Childhood's End* Arthur C. Clarke
115. Because Of Winn-Dixie- Kate Dicamillo
116. I, Robot- Arthur C. Clarke
117. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time* Mark Haddon
118. Hidden- Paul Jaskunas A
119. The Last Quest Of Gilgamesh: Retold By Ludmila Zeman
120. From The Borderlands: Stories Of Terror And Madness- Little & Strieber
October 2004
121. Babylon Rising- Tim Lahaye & Greg Dinallo
122. The Probable Future- Alice Hoffman A
123. The Birth Of Venus* Sarah Dunant A
124. Messenger- Lois Lowry A
125. The Dark Tower- Stephen King
126. Just One Look- Harlan Coben A
127. The Lady And The Unicorn* Tracy Chevalier
128. Year One- Jeff Long
129. Girl In Hyacinth Blue* Susan Vreeland A
130. I, Lucifer- Glen Duncan
131. The Little Friend* Donna Tartt A
132. The Secret Life Of Bees* Sue Monk Kidd
133. Getting to Know William Shakespeare* Joy Wake A
December 2004
134. Brimstone* Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
135. Jennifer Government* Max Berry
136. Blood Canticle- Anne Rice A
137. Sunshine* Robin McKinley
138. Survivor- Chuck Palahniuk
January 2005
139. Cat's Eye* Margaret Atwood
140. Ariel* Sylvia Plath
141. The Boy from the Basement* Susan Shaw
142. The Man in My Basement* Walter Mosley
February 2005
143. The Ice Limit- Preston & Child
144. Sister Noon* Karen Joy Fowler
145. How the Light Gets In* MJ Hyland
March 2005
146. Dark of the Sun* Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
147. Lost Names* Richard Kim
148. Red Scarf Girl* Ji-li Jiang
149. Piece by Piece* Tori Amos & Ann Powers
150. Ravens- Sarah Slean
151. Digital Fortress- Dan Brown A
152. Net Force: State of War- Tom Clancy A
April 2005
153. Cabinet of Curiosities* Preston & Child
154. Perdido Street Station* China Miéville
155. The Blood of Kings- John Curlovich
156. Decipher* Stel Pavlou
May 2005
157. The Night Listener*Armistead Maupin
158. Sacred Stone- Clive Cussler A
June 2005
159. High Stakes* Dale & Bonnie Johnson
160. The Coming Storm- Paul Russell
161. God’s Debris* Scott Adams
162. The Secret History* Donna Tartt
163. Reading Don’t Fix No Chevys* Michael Smith & Jeffrey Wilhelm
164. Daughter of God* Lewis Perdue
165. In the Heart’s Deep Core* Michael Johnston
166. Among the Hidden- Margaret Peterson Haddix
167. Among the Imposters- Margaret Peterson Haddix
168. Dance of Death* Preston & Child
169. Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?* Cris Tovani
170. I Read It, But I Don’t Get It* Cris Tovani
171. Relic-Preston & Child
172. Split Second- David Baldacci A
173. Still Life with Crows- Preston & Child
July 2005
174. Educating Esmé * Esmé Cordell
175. Plan of Attack- Dale Brown A
176. Teeth of the Tiger- Tom Clancy A
177. Winter Moon- Dean Koontz
178. Haunted- Chuck Palahniuk
179. The Poet- Michael Connelly
180. Sleep No More- Greg Iles
181. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- JK Rowling
182. Bad Blood- Lorna Sage
183. Paris to the Moon* Adam Gopnik
184. You Poor Monster* Michael Kun
September 2005
185. The First Verse* Barry McCrea
186. Hidden- Paul Jaskunas
187. The Mermaid's Chair- Sue Monk Kidd
188. Margarettown* Gabrielle Zevin
October 2005
189. A Death In Vienna-Daniel Silva A
190. French Cats Don’t Get Fat- Henry Beard
191. The Historian* Elizabeth Kostova
192. The Last Temptation-Val Mcdermid A
193. Smoke And Mirrors* Neil Gaiman
194. Poetry for Cats* Henry Beard
195. Tyranasaur Canyon* Douglas Preston
196. Fledgling* Octavia Butler
197. Dispatch- Bentley Little
198. Reliquary-Preston & Child
November 2005
199. The Penelopiad-Margaret Atwood
200. States of Grace- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
201. Four and Twenty Blackbirds* Cherie Priest
202. In the Face of Death- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
December 2005
203. Forever Odd-Dean Koontz
204. Coiled in the Heart*Scott Elliot
205. Mozart & Leadbelly-Ernest Gaines
206. Mr. Murder-Dean Koontz
207. Memoirs of a Geisha*Arthur Golden
208. Cloning Christ- Peter Senese
209. Don't Know Much About the Bible*
210. Pride and Prejudice*Jane Austin
211. American Desert* Percival Everett
212. Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven-Karen Salyer McElmurray
213. The Magician's Nephew- C. S. Lewis
January 2006
214. Four Corners-Diana Freund
215. The Children's Blizzard-David Laskin
216. Cross Bones* Kathy Reichs
217. Silver Kiss*Annette Curtis Kraus YA
February 2006
218. My Old True Love* Sheila Kay Adams
219. Cell-Stephen King
220. Palindrome- Stuart Woods
221. Cruise Control-Terry Trueman
222. Flowers for Algernon* Daniel Keyes A
223. In Country-Bobbie Ann Mason
224. The Boy on the Bus-Deborah Schupack
225. Ghost Writer-John Harwood
226. Orbis-Scott Mackay
227. Hunting Season-Nevada Barr A
March 2006
228.The Princess Bride-William Golding A
229.Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice To All Creation- Olivia Judson
230.The Glass Castle- Jeannette Wells
231.Marshfield Dreams-Ralph Fletcher
232.A Lesson Before Dying-Ernest Gaines A
233.Gilead* Marilynne Robinson
234.Snow Crash* Neil Stephenson A
April 2006
235.Drinking Coffee Elsewhere*ZZ Packer
236.Canone Inverso*Paolo Maurensig
237.The Mark Twain Collection-A
238.Labyrinthe-Kate Mosse
239.French Lessons*Peter Mayle A
240.House-Peretti
241.Treasure of Montsegur*Sophy Burnham
242.Night*Elie Wiezel (new translation)
243.Jewel-Bret Lott
244.Carry Me Down*MJ Hyland
May 2006
255.Gravity-Tess Gerritsen A
256.Jonathan Livingston Seagull-Richard Bach
257.Codex*Lev Grossman
258.Nathaniel- John Saul A
259.Running With Scissors*Augusten Burroughs
260.Pop Goes the Weasel-James Patterson A
261.When the Wind Blows-James Patterson A
June 2006
262.Dante's Equation*Jane Jensen
263.The Dance of Death*Preston & Child
264.The Footprints of God- Greg Iles
265.The Husband-Dean Koontz
266.White Noise*Don Delillo
267.The Turn of the Screw-Henry James
268.The Secret Supper-Javier Sierra
269.Fatal Voyage-Kathy Reichs
270.Off Season-Jack Ketchum
271.Monday Mourning-Kathy Reichs
272.The Mask of Atreus-AJ Hartley
273.Night Whispers-Judith McNaught
274.The Facts Of LifeJuly 2006
275.The Overnight-Ramsey Campbell
276.Paris to the Moon*Adam Gopnik A
277.The Presence-John Saul
278.The Talented Mr. Ripley*Patricia Highsmith
279.Ripley Underground-Patricia Highsmith
280.Ripley's Game-Patricia Highsmith
281.Culture Shock282.Going with the Flow-Wilhelm & Smith
283.What Really Matters With Struggling Readers- Richard Allington
August 2006
284.The Third Translation-Matt Bondurant
285.Specimen Days*Michael Cunningham A
286.Mechanically Inclined*Jeff Anderson
287.Me Talk Pretty One Day*David Sedaris
288.Knight in Shining Armor*Jude Devereaux
September 2006
289.The Cathars:The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages-Sean Martin
290.As I Lay Dying-William Faulkner
291.Natural Selection-Dave Freedman
292.The Moonstone*Wilkie Collins A
293.Thirst-poems by Mary Oliver
294.The Last Cato*
295.Parasites Like Us*Adam Johnson
296.A Spot of Bother-Mark Haddon
297.Mystery Walk-Robert McCammon
298.Back When We Were Grownups-Anne Tyler A
299.The Road*Cormac Mccarthy
300.The Town That Forgot How to Breathe- Ken Harvey
301.Roman Dusk-Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
October 2006
302.The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P-Brian O'Doherty
303.The Postman-David Brin A
304.One For the Road-Ray Bradbury A
305.High Tide in Tucson* Barbara Kingsolver
306.The Left Side of Darkness-Ursula LeGuin
307.The Midnight Club-James Patterson A
November 2006
308.Lisey's Story-Stephen King
309..The Third Secret-Steve Berry
310.Map of Bones* James Rollins
311.The Wave*Walter Mosley A
312.The Bad Beginning*Lemony Snicket
313.The Lake House-James Patterson A
314.If Angels Burn* Lynn Viehl
315.The Reptile Room-Lemony Snicket
316.The Templar Legacy-Steve Berry A
317.The Historian* Elizabeth Kostova A
318.The Wide Window-Lemony Snicket
319.The Traveler-John Twelve Hawks
December 2006
320.The Austere Academy-Lemony Snicket
321.Cradle and All-James Patterson A
322.Private Demon- Lynn Viehl
323.Hannibal Rising-Thomas Harris
324.Dark Need- Lynn Viehl
325.Honeymoon-James Patterson A
326.The Book Thief*Markus Zusak
327.Night Pleasures-Sherrilyn Kenyon
328.Dark Lover-JR Ward
329.The Miserable Mill-Lemony Snicket
330.All Over but the Shouting* Rick Bragg
331.Brother Odd-Dean Koontz
January 2007
332.World War Z*Max Brooks
333.Night Embrace-Sherrilyn Kenyon
334.Fangland-John Marks
335.Deeper Reading-Kelly Gallagher
February 2007
336.Travels in the Scriptorium-Paul Auster
337.Freedom Writers Diary with Erin Gruwell
338.The Thirteenth Tale*Diane Setterfield
339.The Amber Room-Steve Berry
340.Mistress of the Art of Death*Ariana Franklin
341.Deep Storm-Lincoln Child
March 2007—data erased from March to October
342. Skylight Confessions-Alice Hoffman
343. Desert Eden*Patricia Grasso
344. Deja Dead-Kathy Reichs
345. Death du Jour-Kathy Reichs
346. Kingdom Come-Tim LaHaye
347. The Keep
348. Night Lost-Lynn Viehl
349. Fantasy Lover-Sherrilyn Kenyon
350. Dance with the Devil-Sherrilyn Kenyon
351. Seize the Night-Sherrilyn Kenyon
352. The Book of the Dead-Preston&Child
353. The Black Lyon-Victoria Holt
354. The Good Guy-Dean Koontz
355. Twilight-Stephanie Meyer
356. New Moon-Stephanie Meyer
357. Eclipse-Stephanie Meyer
358. A Carnivore’s Inquiry*
359. Sharp Objects*Gillian Flynn A
360. The Lost Diary of Don Juan
361. The Judas Strain-Steve Berry
362. The Vampire Tapestry-Suzy Charnas
363. Stagestruck Vampires-Suzy Charnas
364. A Mortal Glamour-Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
365. Adolescent Literacy
366. Mosaic of Thought 2nd edition
367. Strategic Reading
368. Cesar’s Way-Cesar Milan
369. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-JK Rowling
370. The Secret*Rhonda Byrne
371. Lover Eternal- JR Ward
372. Lover Awakened- JR Ward
373. Lover Revealed- JR Ward
374. Rant- Chuck Palahniuk
375. Strange Candy-Laurell K. Hamilton A
376. Blaze-Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
377. Origin-Diana Abu Jaber
378. Wheel of Darkness—Preston and Child
379. All the Pretty Horses-Cormac McCarthy A
380. After the First Death*Robert Cormier
381. Guide to a Well-Behaved Parrot
382. Pygmalion-George Bernard Shaw
383. Merle’s Door-Ted Kerasote
384. The Reluctant Fundamentalist*MohsinHamid
385. A Prayer for the Dying*Steward O’Nan
386. The Alienist-Caleb Carr A
387. Darkly Dreaming Dexter-Jeff Lindsay
388. The Harlequin-Laurell K. Hamilton
389. Guilty Pleasures-Laurell K. Hamilton
390. Lover Unbound-JR Ward
391. Alex Rider: Stormbreaker-Anthony Horowitz
392. Dress Your Family in Denim and Corduroy* Dave Sedaris A
393. Life on the Refrigerator Door-Alice Kuiper
394. Be the Pack Leader-Cesar Milan
395. Mississippi Sissy*Kevin Sessums
396. The Ruins-Scott Smith
~data lost 397-402
November 2007
403.The Almost Moon-Alice Sebold
404.Nineteen Minutes*Jodi Picoult
405.Feed*M.T. Anderson
December 2007
406.Unleash the Night-Sherilynn Kenyon
407.Dark Side of the Moon-Sherilynn Kenyon
408.Enslaved-Virginia Henley
409.Darkest Evening of the Year-Dean Koontz
410.Evermore-Lynn Viehl
411.Deeper-Jeff Long
412.Kiss of the Night-Sherilynn Kenyon
January 2008
413.Perfect Match*Jodi Picoult
414.Sea of Tranquility-Paul Elliott Russell
415.Borne in Blood*
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
416.Saint Germain Memoirs-ChelseaQuinn Yarbro
February 2008
417.Blasphemy*Douglas Preston
418.Night Play-Sherilynn Kenyon
419.Burned Alive*Souad
420.My Sister's Keeper-Jodi Picoult
421.Duma Key-Stephen King
422.Anansi Boys-Neil Gaiman
March 2008
423.Vanishing Acts-Jodi Picoult
424.The House of Thunder-Dean Koontz A
425.The Confessions of an Economic Hitman*John Perkins
426.Dearly Devoted Dexter-Jeff Lindsey
427.Sam’s Letters to Jennifer-James Patterson A
428.Bones to Ashes-Kathy Reichs A
429.Swarm*Frank Schatzing
April 2008
430.Harvesting the Heart-Jodi Picoult
431.The Heart is a Lonely Hunter*Carson McCullers A
432.The Devil's Labyrinth-John Saul
433.Infected-Scott Sigler (podcast)
434.True Grit-Charles Portis A
May 2008
435.Dexter in the Dark-Jeff Lindsay A
436.The South Beach Diet Supercharged-Arthur Agaston
437.The World is Flat*Thomas Friedman
438.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest*Ken Kesey
439.Never Let Me Go-Kazuo Ishiguro
440.Angela's Ashes-Frank McCourt A
June 2008
441.Memory Boy-Will Weaver
442.lost boy lost girl- Peter Straub
443.in the night room-Peter Straub
444.The Gingerbread Girl-Stephen King A
445.Monster-Frank Peretti A
446.Sunshine*Robin McKinley
447.The Harrowing
July 2008
448.Break No Bones-Kathy Reichs
449.The Raw Shark Text*Steven Hall
450.The Uncanny-Andrew Klavan
451.American Shaolin-Matthew Polly
452.Pleasure Unbound-Larissa Ione
453.Lover Enshrined-JR Ward
454.Twilight Fall-Lynn Viehl
455.2012-Whitley Streiber
August 2008
456.Breaking Dawn-Stephenie Meyer
457.Mike's Election Guide 2008-Michael Moore
458.The Tenth Circle-Jodi Picoult
459.The Host*Stephenie Meyer
September 2008
460.A Canticle for Leibowitz-Walter M. Miller, Jr.
461.Devil May Cry-Sherrilyn Kenyon
462.Heart-Shaped Box-Joe Hill
463.Acheron-Sherrilyn Kenyon
464.Bronx Masquerade-Nikki Grimes
465.
The Gargoyle-Andrew Davidson p277
The Cobra Event- p35
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Love Falls-Esther Freud
Book of Air & Shadows-Michael Gruber