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Books I've Read (pre-September 2001)
Sideways Stories at Wayside School - Louis Sachar
Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea - L.M. Montgomery
Anne of the Island - L.M. Montgomery
Anne of Windy Poplars - L.M. Montgomery
Anne's House of Dreams - L.M. Montgomery
Anne of Ingleside - L.M. Montgomery
Rainbow Valley - L.M. Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside - L.M. Montgomery
Emily of New Moon - L.M. Montgomery
Emily Climbs - L.M. Montgomery
Emily's Quest - L.M. Montgomery
Dicey's Song - Cynthia Voigt
Homecoming - Cynthia Voight
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius -
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
Interstellar Pig - William Sleator
A Summer to Die - Lois Lowry
A Day No Pigs Would Die - Robert Peck
Are you there God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks
The Return of the Indian - Lynne Reid Banks
My Side of the Mountain - Jean Craighead George
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Girl in the Box - Ouida Sebestyen
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Where Are The Children? - Mary Higgins Clark
I'll Be Seeing You - Mary Higgins Clark
The Cradle Will Fall - Mary Higgins Clark
Loves Music, Loves to Dance - Mary Higgins Clark
The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories - Mary Higgins Clark
A Stranger is Watching - Mary Higgins Clark
A Cry in the Night - Mary Higgins Clark
Weep No More, My Lady - Mary Higgins Clark
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Scarlet Letter - Nathanial Hawthorne
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Farmer Boy - Laura Ingalls Wilder
On the Banks of Plum Creek - Laura Ingalls Wilder
By the Shores of Silver Lake - Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Long Winter (1940) - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little Town on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
These Happy Golden Years - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Alice in Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
Sula - Toni Morrison
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
Jacob Have I Loved - Katherine Paterson
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
Holes - Louis Sachar
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull - Richard Bach
The Bridge Across Forever - Richard Bach
Watership Down - Richard Adams
One - Richard Bach
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
Cold Sassy Tree - Olive Anne Burns
Texas - James Michener
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
Death Be Not Proud - John Gunther
The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Hawaii - James Michener
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
The World According to Garp - John Irving
The Cider House Rules - John Irving

Books Read in Nicaragua (Sept '01-Dec '03)
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Touching the Void - Joe Simpson
Still Life with Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
Krik? Krak! - Edwidge Danticat
The Ugly American - William Lederer
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
Sandino's Daughters - Margaret Randall
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin
The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing - Melissa Bank
Sandino's Daughters Revisited - Margaret Randall
41 Stories - O. Henry
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You - Alice Munro
Hearts in Atlantis - Stephen King
La Gran Gilly Hopkins - Katherine Peterson (in Spanish!)
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
Anthem - Ayn Rand
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl - Fannie Flagg
The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan
Summer Sisters - Judy Blume
A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Horse Whisperer - Nicholas Evans
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates - Tom Robbins
Normal Girl - Molly Jong-Fast
Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire (#4) - J.K. Rowling
Waiting for the Snow - Tom Scanlon
The Book of Ruth - Jane Hamilton
Girl With A Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Pigs in Heaven - Barbara Kingsolver
Good News - Edward Abbey
Tuck Para Siempre - Katherine Paterson
Down the River - Edward Abbey
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Iron and Silk - Mark Salzman
The Beauty of the Beastly - Natalie Angier
Calico Bush - Rachel Field
Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Girl in Hyacinth Blue - Susan Vreeland
Map of the World - Jane Hamilton
London - Edward Rutherford
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Oliver Twist (condensed spanish version) - Charles Dickens
Muy Macho - Ray Gonzalez, et. al.
River Town - Peter Hessler
Don Quixote - Miguel Cervantes
Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver
Ordinarly People - Judith Guest
Fire From the Mountain - Omar Cabeza
Where is Nicaragua? - Peter Davis
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In Search of Intelligent Life from Outer Space - Jane Wagner
Of Love and Other Demons - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle
Into the Forest - Jean Hegland
Old Yeller - Fred Gipson
Homeland - Barbara Kingsolver
Naked - David Sedaris
Miles, The Autobiography - Miles Davis w/ Quincy Troupe
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Blood of Brothers - Steven Kinzer
Generation of Swine - Hunter S. Thompson
Skinny Legs and All - Tom Robbins
Bastard Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
About A Boy - Nick Hornby
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee
A Yellow Raft on Blue Water - Michael Dorris
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
Don't Stop the Carnival - Herman Wouk
Bridge Over River Kwai - Pierre Boulle
The Agony and The Exctasy - Irving Stone
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
The Sharks of Lake Nicaragua - Randy Wayne White
Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris
How We Die - Sherwin B. Nuland
Sea Glass - Anita Shreve
Jailbird - Kurt Vonnegut
Singin' & Swingin' & Getting Merry Like Christmas - Maya Angelou
The Autobiography of My Mother - Jamaica Kincaid
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
Freedom in Exile - The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Julia Alvarez
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Boy Who Saw True - author unknown
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
The Sound and The Fury - William Fauklner
Black and Blue - Anna Quindlen
Becoming Madame Mao - Anchee Min
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - David Eggers
Mutant Messages Down Under - Marlo Morgan
Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
Siddartha - Herman Hesse
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
El Alquimista - Paulo Coehl
Surprised by Joy - C.S. Lewis
The Four Loves - C.S. Lewis
In the Time of Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Malaria Capers - Robert Desowitz
To the Lighthouse - Virgina Woolfe
News of a Kidnapping - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Illuminati - Larry Burkett
The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
At the Fall of Somoza - Lawrence and Ralph Pezzullo
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Lady Windermere's Fan - Oscar Wilde
Run with the Horsemen - Ferrol Sams
Crime and Punishment - Fydor Dostoevsky
Dear Exile - Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery

Post Peace Corps (Dec '03-Dec '08)
The Jaguar Smile - Salman Rushdie
Lady Chatterly's Lover - D.H. Lawerence
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
From Beirut to Jerusalem - Thomas Friedman
How to be Good - Nick Hornby
Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
The Lucky Ones: A Novel - Rachel Cusk
Our Father Who Art in a Tree - Judy Pascoe
Riding the Bus with My Sister - Rachel Simon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Dress Your Children in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Power of One - Bryce Courtney
The Confessions of Max Tivoli - Andrew Sean Greer
The Joys of Motherhood - Buchi E
Random Family - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
A Primate's Memoir - Robert Sapolsky
Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guevara
The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillipa Gregory
The Johnstown Flood - David McCullough
The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Night - Elie Wiesel
Dawn - Elie Wiesel
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
Magical Thinking - Augusten Burroughs
The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis
Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis
The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis
The Last Battle - C.S. Lewis
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Icy Sparks - Gwyn Hyman Rubio
The Dogs of Babel - Carolyn Parkhurst
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove - Christopher Moore
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror - Christopher Moore
Howard's End - E.M. Forster
**On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Little Children - Tom Perrotta
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow - Kristen Breitweiser
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
**Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
The Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan

2009
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Nectar in a Sieve - Kamala Markandaya
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
*Bless Me Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya





*in progress
**unfinished