Books I Have Read in my Lifetime (by author)
Submitted by Belladonna on Thu, 07/10/2008 - 02:49
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- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
- For One More Day – Mitch Albom
- Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom
- Little Women - Lousia May Alcott
- The Sugar Queen - Sarah Addison Allen
- Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
- Flowers In the Attic – V. C. Andrews
- Petals on the Wind – V. C. Andrews
- If There Be Thorns – V. C. Andrews
- Seeds of Yesterday – V. C. Andrews
- Garden of Shadows – V. C. Andrews
- The Amityville Horror - Jay Anson
- Sounder – William H. Armstrong
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
- Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt
- The Sea - John Banville
- Expecting Adam – Martha Beck
- Leaving the Saints - Martha Beck
- Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
- Jaws - Peter Benchley
- Losing It - Valerie Bertinelli
- The Velveteen Rabbit – Margery Williams Bianco
- Brain Surgeon - Keith Black
- Breaking Clean - Judy Blunt
- The Hiding Place – Corrie Ten Boom
- When the Legends Die – Hal Borland
- A Mother Held Hostage - Barbara Borntrager
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Angels & Demons – Dan Brown
- The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
- The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
- Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
- The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Dry – Augusten Burroughs
- Hungry Monkey - Matthew Amster-Burton
- The Obesity Myth - Paul Campos
- My Antonia - Willa Cather
- Bread & Dreams - Jonatha Ceely
- The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes - Diane Chamberlain
- Selected Stories of Anton Chekov - Anton Pavlovich Chekov
- Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
- The Awakening – Kate Chopin
- Without a Doubt – Marcia Clark
- Where the Lilies Bloom – Bill Cleaver
- The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
- Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs - Michael Collins
- Acceptable Risk – Robin Cook
- Contagion – Robin Cook
- Dispatches from the Edge – Anderson Cooper
- The Middle Place - Kelly Corrigan
- Maggie A Girl of the Streets - Stephen Crane
- Mommie Dearest – Christina Crawford
- The Camerons – Robert Crichton
- The Truth About Forever - Sarah Dessen
- A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
- Beautiful Stranger - Hope Donahue
- Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- Waiter Rant - Steve Dublanica
- The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
- Discovering the Quality of Success - Paul H. Dunn
- I Stand All Amazed - Elaine Durham
- Embraced by the Light - Betty J. Eadie
- Housebroken: Confessions of a Stay-at-home-Dad - David Eddie
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter - Kim Edwards
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
- Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
- The Black Dahlia - James Elroy
- I Feel Bad About My Neck - Nora Ephron
- Girlbomb - Janice Erlbaum
- Like Water For Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
- Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
- One For the Money - Janet Evanovich
- Two For the Dough - Janet Evanovich
- Three to Get Deadly - Janet Evanovich
- Four to Score - Janet Evanovich
- High Five - Janet Evanovich
- Hot Six - Janet Evanovich
- The Horse Whisperer – Nicholas Evans
- What Falls Away - Mia Farrow
- My Story - Sarah Ferguson
- Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
- Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason - Helen Fielding
- Zlata's Diary - Zlata Filipovic
- Kiss Mommy Goodbye – Joy Fielding
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Gennifer Flowers: Passion & Betrayal - Gennifer Flowers
- Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
- Howard's End - E.M. Forster
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
- A Million Little Pieces – James Frey
- Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
- I Can't Believe I Said That - KL Gifford
- Life & Other Calamities - KL Gifford
- Old Yeller – Fred Gipson
- Memoirs of A Geisha – Arthur Golden
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can – Barbara Gordon
- Multiple Blessings - Jon & Kate Gosselin
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- Thy Brother’s Wife – Andrew M. Greeley
- The Juror – George Dawes Green
- Diary of a Fat Housewife – Rosemary Green
- The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory
- The Queen’s Fool – Philippa Gregory
- Official Book Club Selection - Kathy Griffin
- Replay – Ken Grimwood
- A Time to Kill – John Grisham
- The Brethren – John Grisham
- The Chamber – John Grisham
- The Client – John Grisham
- The Firm – John Grisham
- King of Torts - John Grisham
- The Partner – John Grisham
- The Pelican Brief – John Grisham
- The Rainmaker – John Grisham
- The Runaway Jury – John Grisham
- The Street Lawyer – John Grisham
- Marley & Me - John Grogan
- Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon
- Mythology – Edith Hamilton
- Tired of Being Tired - Jesse Lynn Hanley
- A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
- Plainsong - Kent Haruf
- The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Never Give Up - Ron Heagy
- Blue Highways - William Least Heat-Moon
- A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
- A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
- For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
- The Old Man And The Sea – Ernest Hemingway
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- A Woman Named Jackie – C. David Heymann
- You’ll Like My Mother – Naomi A. Hinlze
- The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
- His Name is Ron: Our Search for Justice – Willia and Marilyn Hoffer
- Driving With Dead People - Monica Holloway
- The Odyssey - Homer
- House Calls & Hitching Posts - Dorcas Sharp Hoover
- Loving Frank - Nancy Horan
- Wasted - Marya Hornbacher
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
- A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
- The World According To Garp - John Irving
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Gods in Alabama - Joshilyn Jackson
- Whispers – Lisa Jackson
- There Will Be A Road – Dwight Jensen
- Lies My Mother Never Told Me - Kaylie Jones
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
- Dubliners - James Joyce
- Columbine: A True Crime Story - Jeff Kass
- Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keyes
- Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
- Parched – Heather King
- Firestarter – Stephen King
- On Writing - Stephen King
- Pet Sematary – Stephen King
- Thinner – Stephen King
- The Eyes of the Dragon – Stephen King
- The Shining – Stephen King
- The Talisman – Stephen King
- The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
- The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
- Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella
- Drinking, A Love Story - Caroline Knapp
- A Separate Peace - John Knowles
- Watchers – Dean Koontz
- Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
- Till We Meet Again – Judith Krantz
- The Food of a Younger Land - Mark Kurlansky
- Secret Ceremonies – Deborah Laake
- She’s Come Undone – Wally Lamb
- If I Am Missing or Dead - Janine Latus
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
- Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
- Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping - Judith Levine
- A Brain Wider Than the Sky - Andrew Levy
- The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
- The Call of the Wild – Jack London
- White Fang - Jack London
- The Giver - Lois Lowry
- Sarah, Plain and Tall – Patricia MacLachlan
- Susannah’s Garden – Debbie Macomber
- Oprah Winfrey: The Real Story - George Mair
- Sweet Life - Barry Manilow
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Juffie Kane – Beverly S. Martin
- Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
- Just Dial a Number – Edith Maxwell
- The Road - Cormac McCarthy
- Angela’s Ashes - Frank McCourt
- Teacher Man - Frank McCourt
- ’Tis - Frank McCourt
- The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
- Thousand Pieces of Gold – Ruthanne Lum McCunn
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
- Saturday - Ian McEwan
- Blind Faith – Joe McGinniss
- Dancing at the Harvest Moon – K.C. Mckinnon
- The Nanny Diaries – Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
- Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
- Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
- New Moon – Stephenie Meyer
- Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
- While I Was Gone – Sue Miller
- Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
- Where the River Ends - Charles Martin
- The Tender Bar – J.R. Moehringer
- Life After Life - Raymond Moody
- After All – Mary Tyler Moore
- Gap Creek - Robert Morgan
- Beloved – Toni Morrison
- The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
- Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
- Diana: Her New Life - Andrew Morton
- Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words – Andrew Morton
- Monica's Story - Andrew Morton
- Confessions of a Contractor - Richard Murphy
- Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
- Lisa, Bright and Dark – John Neufeld
- The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
- Forever Young: My Friendship with JFK Jr. - Bill Noonan
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien
- The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
- Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
- Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman - Nuala O'Faolain
- Paper Life - Tatum O'Neal
- The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- Life Is Just What You Make It: My Story So Far - Donny Osmond
- Behind the Smile - Marie Osmond
- Might As Well Laugh About It Now - Marie Osmond
- Family Feasts for $75 a Week - Mary Ostyn
- The Dive From Clausen’s Pier – Ann Packer
- The Dogs of Babel - Carolyn Parkhurst
- Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
- Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas – James Patterson
- Degree of Guilt – Richard North Patterson
- The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
- I’m Only One Man – Regis Philbin
- Mercy – Jodi Picoult
- My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
- The Pact - Jodi Picoult
- Reviving Ophelia – Mary Pipher
- 90 Minutes in Heaven - Don Piper
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allen Poe
- The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
- The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
- The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe
- The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
- The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
- The Prize Pulitzer = Roxanne Pulitzer
- The Godfather – Mario Puzo
- One True Thing - Anna Quindlen
- What Remains - Carole Radziwill
- The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
- Summer of the Monkeys – Wilson Rawls
- Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls
- Still Me – Christopher Reeve
- The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl - Shauna Reid
- Nicole Brown Simpson – Faye D. Resnick
- Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
- The Vampire Lestat – Anne Rice
- Queen of the Damned – Anne Rice
- A Break With Charity - Ann Rinaldi
- Scarlett - Alexandra Ripley
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Barbara Robinson
- Love Play – Rosemary Rogers
- Giants in the Earth – Edyart Rolyaag
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
- Ten Degree of Reckoning - Hester Rumberg
- Empire Falls - Richard Russo
- Holes - Louis Sacher
- Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
- The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Woman First Family Always – Kathryn Sansone
- Love Walked In - Marisa De Los Santos
- The Good Eater – Ron Saxen
- The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
- Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser
- Sybil – Flora Rheta Schreiber
- The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
- Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
- Snow Flower & the Secret Fan - Lisa See
- Love Story – Erich Segal
- The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
- The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare
- Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
- Macbeth – William Shakespeare
- If Tomorrow Comes – Sidney Sheldon
- The Stars Shine Down – Sidney Sheldon
- Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25 & the Search for the American Dream - Adam Shepard
- Down Came the Rain – Brooke Shields
- Light On Snow - Anita Shreve
- The Pilot’s Wife –Anita Shreve
- Colony - Anne Rivers Siddons
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
- Joy In the Morning - Betty Smith
- Beyond All Reason: My Life With Susan Smith – David Smith
- On Beauty - Zadie Smith
- Her Last Death - Susanna Sonnenberg
- Antigone – Sophocles
- Oedupus at Colonus - Sophocles
- Oedipus Rex– Sophocles
- At First Sight – Nicholas Sparks
- Dear John – Nicholas Sparks
- Nights in Rodanthe – Nicholas Sparks
- The Wedding – Nicholas Sparks
- Three Weeks With My Brother – Nicholas Sparks
- Story Telling - Tori Spelling
- Wringer – Jerry Spinelli
- Crossings – Danielle Steele
- Family Album – Danielle Steele
- The Ring – Danielle Steele
- Zoya – Danielle Steele
- Cannery Road – John Steinbeck
- East of Eden – John Steinbeck
- Of Mice & Men - John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- The Pearl – John Steinbeck
- The Red Pony – John Steinbeck
- The Winter of Our Discontent – John Steinbeck
- Deadly Intentions - William Randolph Stevens
- The Help - Kathryn Stockett
- The Passions of the Mind: A Biographical Novel of Sigmund Freud - Irving Stone
- The President's Lady: A Novel about Rachel and Andrew Jackson - Irving Stone
- Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Keep Climbing - Sean Swarner
- A Three Dog Life - Abigail Thomas
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- The Hobbit – J.R.R.Tolkien
- Devil In the Details - Jennifer Traig
- Nickel Dreams: My Life - Tanya Tucker
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
- Rabbit, Run - John Updike
- My Life as a Man - Norah Vincent
- From Binge to Blackout - Chris & Toren Volkmann
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- Growing up with Jessica - James Walker
- Stolen Innocence - Elissa Wall
- Half Broke Horses - Jeannette Walls
- The Glass Castle – Jeanette Walls
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- It's All Too Much - Peter Walsh
- Raging Heart: The…Marriage of O.J. and Nicole… - Sheila Weller
- The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
- Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
- Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
- Night – Elie Wiesel
- On the Banks of Plum Creek - Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Gimme Shelter - Mary Elizabeth Williams
- Honeymoon With My Brother – Franz Wisner
- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- Selected Poems & Two Plays – William Butler Yeats
- The Shack - William P. Young
- Smashed – Koren Zailckas
Author Comments:
I really wish I would have recorded the books I read much sooner in my life because now it is very hard to remember them all. I have included some kids books that I have read with or to my children fairly recently. This list will be an ongoing project...
I probably screwed up "The Little Prince" - can somebody smart please tell me where it should go alphabetically?
I do believe you would alphabetize it under last name S, as you have it now... the following link supports what my initial hunch was. Apparently the French "de" name component is under a different set of standards than some of the others (like "Le" and "Du")
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/emc/028004-240-e.html
Oh, and if you like Tolstoy check out Resurrection. But before that, read Perfume by Patrick Suskind. :)
Ahh, thanks for the info, and the book recommendations which I will likely take you up on. Yep - I'm one who appreciates Tolstoy. I always like to balance my fluff books with some weightier ones:)
So I see that you really loved "A Prayer for Owen Meany" which I have sitting on my nightstand. Guess I should get around to reading it. I read Garp just this year - Irving is a terrific writer!
I could *not* get into Garp, but Owen Meany gripped me from the first chapter. Lots of Irving haters out there but I think he does a superb job of riding the fine line between deep and simply entertaining in fiction. And after all, isn't that what we'd like in all of our reads?
I had put off reading Garp because I had heard a lot about it and figured that it was probably overrated and I would end up disappointed. I wasn't as sold on the characters in Garp as I was on Irving's ability to write. I agree with you on this "...he does a superb job of riding the fine line between deep and simply entertaining in fiction." Well put!
I'll probably start Owen Meany today as I just finished up 2 books this weekend.
Perfume is a pretty short read. At least, it seemed like it after reading several 500+ pagers in a row last semester ;)
Oh, and you really do need to add "The Betrothed" by Alessandro Manzoni to your list to read some day... apparently it's considered by many critics to be the definitive 19th c. European novel and, while almost ignored anywhere else, is something nearly every Italian reads some time in high school or college...
It's 800 dense pages, so certainly not a light undertaking. There's so much going on in it, though, that it doesn't feel like work. War, famine, good vs. evil, evil taking a look at itself in the mirror, plague, romance, ... you get the picture ;)
Okay, Perfume I can probably handle, but this: "The Betrothed" by Alessandro Manzoni. It's 800 dense pages..." might just have to wait until the new year. I'm trying to reach a goal of 100 books read this year - not an easy task with 4 kids underfoot!
Thanks for the recommendations - I'm always open to them.
Betrothed is definitely in the same sort of class as War and Peace. I have a solution though... bedtime story! I'm sure the kids will love it!
Ha! Great Idea, only they don't let me pick the books anymore ever since I read them The Black Dahlia at bedtime...:)
Man, I really need to build one of these lists as well... what an intimidating proposition...
Well, I feel my own list is pretty pathetic because I think of books to add to it all of the time until I log in and then can't remember them. I hope that eventually my memory will serve me and I'll get most of them listed. It is indeed quite an undertaking though, but ultimately a nice reference for myself. You should throw one together - don't keep us waiting!
I also have this list, but mine is on paper, when I catch some time I'll probably put it up here on listology, and I agree that it's hard to remember books from early periods of my life, which is sad for me because I read so many books back then it would be lovely to know their titles. Hopefully someday I'll track majority of them down, but if not there's always new ones coming up.
Hi! Yes, you should list your books here on listology for people like me to see! I also jot mine down on paper, and have attempted to write short reviews on several, but it never seems I have enough time to keep up with it. Guess I'll mainly concentrate on the 4 kids for now.
Anyway, I'd love to check out your list of "books read in your lifetime" if you ever get a chance to create it. Good luck!