books

Books, books, books. So many out there — so many left to read. This is a sort of waiting list. Some are repeats. All are not ordered. Know a good one that’s not on here? I love suggestions :)

Books

Young Adult Fiction
Grown-up Fiction
Non Fiction
Religious/Spiritual
Techincal

Young Adult Fiction

  • Breathe My Name: R.A. Nelson
  • Teach Me: R.A. Nelson
  • Life of Pi: Yann Martel
  • Perks of Being a Wallflower: Stephen Chbosky
  • Just Listen: Sarah Dessen
  • Perfect: Natasha Friend
  • The Truth About Forever: Sarah Dessen
  • It’s Kind of a Funny Story: Ned Vizzini
  • Stargirl: Jerry Spinelli
  • I Am the Messenger: Markus Zusak
  • The Secret Garden: Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Cupcake: Rachel Cohn
  • Queen of Babble: Meg Cabot
  • Does My Head Look Big in This?: Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Swallowing Stones: Joyce McDonald
  • The Bridge to Terabithia: Katherine Paterson
  • The Giver: Lois Lowry
  • After the First Death: Robert Cormier
  • Number the Stars: Lois Lowry
  • Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck
  • Go Ask Alice: Anonymous, Beatrice Sparks
  • Watership Down: Richard Adams
  • The Book Thief: Markus Zusak
  • Elsewhere: Gabrielle Zevin
  • The Gospel According to Larry: Janet Tashjian
  • Getting the girl: Markus zusak
  • Specials: Scott Westerfeld
  • Dreamland: Sarah Dessen
  • After: Francine Prose
  • 13 Little Blue Envelopes: Maureen Johnson
  • So Yesterday: Scott Westerfeld
  • The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Anne Brashares
  • The Second Summer of the Sisterhood: Anne Brashares
  • Girls in Pants: Anne Brashares
  • The Bermudez Triangle: Maureen Johnson
  • Be More Chill: Ned Vizzini
  • Matilda: Roald Dahl
  • Letters from the Inside: John Marsden
  • Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist: Rachel Cohn, David Levitan
  • Bloomability: Sharon Creech
  • Just Ella: Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • The Lovely Bones: Alice Sebold
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: JK Rowling
  • Harry, a History: Melissa Anelli
  • Tales of Beedle the Bard: J. K. Rowling

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Grown-up Fiction

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Milan Kundera
  • She’s Come Undone: Wally Lamb
  • The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath
  • The End of Mr. Y: Scarlett Thomas
  • The Hippopotamus: Stephen Fry
  • How to be idle: Tom Hodgkinson
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns: Khaled Hosseini
  • All Quiet on the Western Front: Erich Maria Remarque
  • Animal Farm: George Orwell
  • Huis Clos (No Exit): Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Utopia: Thomas Moore
  • A Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burgess
  • The Old Man and The Sea: Ernest Hemingway
  • The Sunflower: Richard Paul Evans
  • 1984: George Orwell
  • Snuff: Chuck Palahniuk (explicit)
  • Choke: Chuck Palahnuik
  • The Mysteries of Pittsburgh: Michael Chabon
  • The Amazing Adverntures of Kavalier and Clay: Michael Chabon
  • The Yiddish Policemen’s Union: Michael Chabon
  • Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austin
  • Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austin
  • Emma: Jane Austin
  • Mansfield Park: Jane Austin
  • Northanger Abby: Jane Austin
  • Persuasion: Jane Austin
  • Wuthering Heights: Emily Brontë
  • Jane Eyre: Charolette Bonte
  • Ender’s Game: Orson Scott Card
  • A War of Gifts: Orson Scott Card
  • Ender in Exile: Orson Scott Card
  • Speaker for the Dead: Orson Scott Card
  • Xenocide: Orson Scott Card
  • Children of the Mind: Orson Scott Card
  • Ender’s Shadow: Orson Scott Card
  • Shadow of the Hegemon: Orson Scott Card
  • Shadow Puppets: Orson Scott Card
  • Shadow of the Giant: Orson Scott Card
  • Shadows in Flight: Orson Scott Card
  • Siddhartha: Herman Hesse
  • Lord of Light: Roger Zelazny
  • More than Human: Theodore Sturgeon

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Non Fiction

  • Three Cups of Tea: Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
  • A Better War: Lewis Sorley, along with A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul
  • Tuesdays With Morrie: Mitch Albom
  • On the Road: Jack Kerouac
  • Sweet tea: E. Patrick Johnson
  • Moab is My Washpot: Stephen Fry
  • The Bottom Billion: Paul Collier.

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Religious/Spiritual

  • Eat Pray Love: Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Earth Prayers: From Around the World: Elizabeth Roberts, Elias Amidon
  • Meditations on Nature, Meditations on Silence: Roderick MacIver, Ann O’Shaughnessy

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Technical

  • The Ode Less Travelled: Stephen Fry
  • Skinny Bitch: Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
  • Eats, Shoots and Leaves: Lynne Truss

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