2008

Love Walked In - Marisa del los Santos 

The Echo Maker - Richard Powers 

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

Montana Gardener’s Companion - Bob Gough

2007 

Digging to America - Anne Tyler 

Happiness Sold Separately - Lolly Winston 

The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perotta 

Bel Canto - Ann Patchett 

 A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

 The Myth of You and Me - Leah Stewart

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver 

Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl 

Grace (Eventually) - Anne Lamott 

I Feel Bad About My Neck - Nora Ephron 

We the Living - Ayn Rand

On Beauty - Zadie Smith

Succulent Wild Woman - Sark

Tell Me Everything - Sarah Salway

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer

The Female Brain - Louann Brezendine, MD

O Pioneers - Willa Cather

The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri

Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri

2006

Little Children - Tom Perotta

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter - Kim Edwards

Writing Down the Bones - Natalie Goldberg

The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo

The Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin

Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott

The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult

Veronica - Mary Gaitskill

I Am Charlotte Simmons - Tom Wolfe

The Inner Circle - T.C. Boyle

Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

The World is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman

The Tortilla Curtain - T.C. Boyle

Freakonomics - Levitt and Dubner

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

The Journals of Lewis and Clark - edited by Bernard Devoto

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd

The Dark Tower - Stephen King

Song of Susannah - Stephen King

Wolves of the Calla - Stephen King

Wizard and Glass - Stephen King

The Waste Lands - Stephen King

The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith

Della Raye - Gary Penley

Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer

The Pact - Jodi Picoult

Salem Falls - Jodi Picoult

My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

Good Grief - Lolly Winston

2005

The Life of Pi - Yann Martel

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

Eiger Dreams - Jon Krakauer

The Gunslinger - Stephen King

Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck

Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich

Plainsong - Kent Haruf

The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon

Rain of Gold - Victor Villasenor

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Cannery Row - John Steinbeck

East of Eden - John Steinbeck

Blindness - Jose Saramago

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories - Flannery O’Connor

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

One Response to “Book List”

  1. pikespeakdenise Says:

    Did you like Bel Canto? I love Patchett. Just checked out her new one, Run. But I don’t think I am going to get to it. Ack!!

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