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 Classrooms-Schoenbach, Greenleaf, Cziko, Hurwitz (Wested) 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

  1. Because Writing Matters- National Writing Project
  2. Lessons That Change Writers* Nancy Atwell
  3. Lucky-Alice Sebold
  4. Hangman's Beautiful Daughter- Sharyn McCrumb
  5. Armageddon- Tim Lahaye & Jerry Jenkins
  6. White Death- Clive Cussler A
  7. Lives Of The Poets- E.L. Doctorow
  8. Poetry Everywhere* Collom & Noethe
  9. Poetry: Starting From Scratch* Michael Carey
  10. When Kids Can’t Read* Kylene Beers
  11. The Hot Zone* Richard Preston
  12. Prey* Michael Crichton A
  13. The Music Of The Spheres- Elizabeth Redfern
  14. Gone For Good-Harlan Coben A
  15. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix* JK Rowling
  16. Stuck In Neutral* Terry Trueman

October 2003

  1. Red Rabbit- Tom Clancy A
  2. Balzac & The Little Chinese Seamstress* Dai Sijie A
  3. Tuesdays With Morrie* Mitch Albom
  4. The Prometheus Deception- Robert Ludlum A
  5. Angels & Demons* Dan Brown
  6. Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge* Mem Fox
  7. Halloween- Jerry Seinfeld
  8. Lullaby* Chuck Palahniuk A

November 20, 2003

  1. Midnight Harvest- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  2. A Painted House* John Grisham A
  3. Blood Canticle- Anne Rice
  4. River King* Alice Hoffman A
  5. Ties That Bind- Philip Margolin A
  6. Wild Justice- Philip Margolin A
  7. Wicked- Gregory Maguire
  8. Alias Grace* Margaret Atwood A
  9. Wolves Of The Calla- Stephen King
  10. The Sigma Protocol- Robert Ludlum A

January 2004

  1. Cold Mountain* Charles Frazier
  2. Odd Thomas- Dean Koontz
  3. The Surgeon- Tess Gerritsen A
  4. The Experiment- John Darnton A

February 2004

  1. The Sinner- Tess Gerritsen A
  2. To Kill A Mockingbird* Harper Lee
  3. A Parchment Of Leaves* Silas House
  4. Cohesive Writing* Carol Jago

March 2004

  1. Deliverance- James Dickey A
  2. The Bluest Eye* Toni Morrison A
  3. Pigs In Heaven* Barbara Kingsolver A
  4. Liar's Club* Mary Kerr
  5. Paradise* Toni Morrison A
  6. Glorious Appearing-Tim Lahaye & Jerry Jenkins

April 2004

  1. Choke- Chuck Palahniuk
  2. The Man In The Black Suit* Stephen King A
  3. The Hammer Of Eden- Ken Follett
  4. Where Are The Children? -Mary Higgins Clark
  5. After The End* Barry Lane
  6. With Rigor For All* Carol Jago

May 2004

  1. The Things They Carried* Tim O’Brien
  2. The 5 People You Meet In Heaven* Mitch Albom
  3. The Lives Of The Monster Dogs* Kathleen Bakis
  4. Rice-Nikki Finney
  5. Diary* Chuck Palahniuk
  6. Losing My Faculties* Brendan Halpin
  7. The Bourne Supremacy- Robert Ludlum
  8. The Taking- Dean Koontz
  9. Krakatoa-Simon Winchester

June 2004

  1. Subject Matters* Harvey Daniels
  2. Thinking Through Genre* Heather Lattimer
  3. Invisible Monsters* Chuck Palahniuk
  4. The Coma* Alex Garland
  5. Speak* Laurie Halse Anderson
  6. Song Of Susannah- Stephen King
  7. The Beach* Alex Garland
  8. Bad Boy- Walter Dean Myers
  9. On Writing* Stephen King
  10. Teaching With Fire: Poetry That Sustains The Courage To Teach* Eds. Intrator & Scribner
  11. Insomnia- Stephen King

July 2004

  1. The Coming Global Superstorm -Art Bell, Whitley Strieber
  2. Childhood's End* Arthur C. Clarke
  3. Because Of Winn-Dixie- Kate Dicamillo
  4. I, Robot- Arthur C. Clarke
  5. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time* Mark Haddon
  6. Hidden- Paul Jaskunas A
  7. The Last Quest Of Gilgamesh: Retold By Ludmila Zeman
  8. From The Borderlands: Stories Of Terror And Madness- Little & Strieber

October 2004

  1. Babylon Rising- Tim Lahaye & Greg Dinallo
  2. The Probable Future- Alice Hoffman A
  3. The Birth Of Venus* Sarah Dunant A
  4. Messenger- Lois Lowry A
  5. The Dark Tower- Stephen King
  6. Just One Look- Harlan Coben A
  7. The Lady And The Unicorn* Tracy Chevalier
  8. Year One- Jeff Long
  9. Girl In Hyacinth Blue* Susan Vreeland A
  10. I, Lucifer- Glen Duncan
  11. The Little Friend* Donna Tartt A
  12. The Secret Life Of Bees* Sue Monk Kidd
  13. Getting to Know William Shakespeare* Joy Wake A

December 2004

  1. Brimstone* Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
  2. Jennifer Government* Max Berry
  3. Blood Canticle- Anne Rice A
  4. Sunshine* Robin McKinley
  5. Survivor- Chuck Palahniuk

January 2005

  1. Cat's Eye* Margaret Atwood
  2. Ariel* Sylvia Plath
  3. The Boy from the Basement* Susan Shaw
  4. The Man in My Basement* Walter Mosley

February 2005

  1. The Ice Limit- Preston & Child
  2. Sister Noon* Karen Joy Fowler
  3. How the Light Gets In* MJ Hyland

March 2005

  1. Dark of the Sun* Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  2. Lost Names* Richard Kim
  3. Red Scarf Girl* Ji-li Jiang
  4. Piece by Piece* Tori Amos & Ann Powers
  5. Ravens- Sarah Slean
  6. Digital Fortress- Dan Brown A
  7. Net Force: State of War- Tom Clancy A

April 2005

  1. Cabinet of Curiosities* Preston & Child
  2. Perdido Street Station* China Miéville
  3. The Blood of Kings- John Curlovich
  4. Decipher* Stel Pavlou

May 2005

  1. The Night Listener*Armistead Maupin
  2. Sacred Stone- Clive Cussler A

June 2005

  1. High Stakes* Dale & Bonnie Johnson
  2. The Coming Storm- Paul Russell
  3. God’s Debris* Scott Adams
  4. The Secret History* Donna Tartt
  5. Reading Don’t Fix No Chevys* Michael Smith & Jeffrey Wilhelm
  6. Daughter of God* Lewis Perdue
  7. In the Heart’s Deep Core* Michael Johnston
  8. Among the Hidden- Margaret Peterson Haddix
  9. Among the Imposters- Margaret Peterson Haddix
  10. Dance of Death* Preston & Child
  11. Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?* Cris Tovani
  12. I Read It, But I Don’t Get It* Cris Tovani
  13. Relic-Preston & Child
  14. Split Second- David Baldacci A
  15. Still Life with Crows- Preston & Child

July 2005

  1. Educating Esmé * Esmé Cordell
  2. Plan of Attack- Dale Brown A
  3. Teeth of the Tiger- Tom Clancy A
  4. Winter Moon- Dean Koontz
  5. Haunted- Chuck Palahniuk
  6. The Poet- Michael Connelly
  7. Sleep No More- Greg Iles
  8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- JK Rowling
  9. Bad Blood- Lorna Sage
  10. Paris to the Moon* Adam Gopnik
  11. You Poor Monster* Michael Kun

September 2005

  1. The First Verse* Barry McCrea
  2. Hidden- Paul Jaskunas
  3. The Mermaid's Chair- Sue Monk Kidd
  4. Margarettown* Gabrielle Zevin

October 2005

  1. A Death In Vienna-Daniel Silva A
  2. French Cats Don’t Get Fat- Henry Beard
  3. The Historian* Elizabeth Kostova
  4. The Last Temptation-Val Mcdermid A
  5. Smoke And Mirrors* Neil Gaiman
  6. Poetry for Cats* Henry Beard
  7. Tyranasaur Canyon* Douglas Preston
  8. Fledgling* Octavia Butler
  9. Dispatch- Bentley Little
  10. Reliquary-Preston & Child

November 2005

  1. The Penelopiad-Margaret Atwood
  2. States of Grace- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  3. Four and Twenty Blackbirds* Cherie Priest
  4. 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 Life-

July 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 Shock-

282.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

  1. Skylight Confessions-Alice Hoffman
  2. Desert Eden*Patricia Grasso
  3. Deja Dead-Kathy Reichs
  4. Death du Jour-Kathy Reichs
  5. Kingdom Come-TimLaHaye
  6. The Keep
  7. Night Lost-Lynn Viehl
  8. Fantasy Lover-Sherrilyn Kenyon
  9. Dance with the Devil-Sherrilyn Kenyon
  10. Seize the Night-Sherrilyn Kenyon
  11. The Book of the Dead-Preston&Child
  12. The Black Lyon-Victoria Holt
  13. The Good Guy-Dean Koontz
  14. Twilight-Stephanie Meyer
  15. New Moon-Stephanie Meyer
  16. Eclipse-Stephanie Meyer
  17. A Carnivore’s Inquiry*
  18. Sharp Objects*Gillian Flynn A
  19. The Lost Diary of Don Juan
  20. The Judas Strain-Steve Berry
  21. The Vampire Tapestry-Suzy Charnas
  22. Stagestruck Vampires-Suzy Charnas
  23. A Mortal Glamour-Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  24. Adolescent Literacy
  25. Mosaic of Thought 2nd edition
  26. Strategic Reading
  27. Cesar’s Way-Cesar Milan
  28. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-JK Rowling
  29. The Secret*Rhonda Byrne
  30. Lover Eternal- JR Ward
  31. Lover Awakened- JR Ward
  32. Lover Revealed- JR Ward
  33. Rant- ChuckPalahniuk
  34. Strange Candy-LaurellK.Hamilton A
  35. Blaze-Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
  36. Origin-Diana Abu Jaber
  37. Wheel of Darkness—Preston and Child
  38. All the Pretty Horses-Cormac McCarthy A
  39. After the First Death*Robert Cormier
  40. Guide to a Well-Behaved Parrot
  41. Pygmalion-George Bernard Shaw
  42. Merle’s Door-Ted Kerasote
  43. The Reluctant Fundamentalist*MohsinHamid
  44. A Prayer for the Dying*Steward O’Nan
  45. The Alienist-Caleb Carr A
  46. Darkly Dreaming Dexter-JeffLindsay
  47. The Harlequin-LaurellK.Hamilton
  48. Guilty Pleasures-Laurell K. Hamilton
  49. Lover Unbound-JR Ward
  50. Alex Rider: Stormbreaker-AnthonyHorowitz
  51. Dress Your Family in Denim and Corduroy* Dave Sedaris A
  52. Life on the Refrigerator Door-Alice Kuiper
  53. Be the Pack Leader-Cesar Milan
  54. Mississippi Sissy*Kevin Sessums
  55. 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

Next?

Love Falls-Esther Freud

Book of Air & Shadows-Michael Gruber