Reading List

2009

1. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
2. Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
3. Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
4. Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
5. You Know You’re a Writer When by Adair Lara
6. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
7. One Fifth Avenue by Candance Bushnell
8. Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide by Holly Black and Tony Diterlizzi
9. Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers by Louise Rennison
10. Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
11. Aesop’s Fables by Aesopus
12. King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
13. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
14. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
15. The Witches by Roald Dahl
16. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
17. King Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
18. If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
19. Persepolis I by Marjane Satrapi
20. Spiderwick Chronicles: The Seeing Stone by Holly Black
21. C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton
22. Spiderwick Chronicles: Lucinda’s Secret by Holly Black
23. Spiderwick Chronicles: The Ironwood Tree by Holly Black
24. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
25. Startled by His Furry Shorts by Louise Rennison
26. Spiderwick Chronicles: The Wrath of Mulgarath by Holly Black
27. Matilda by Roald Dahl
28. Have You Seen…? by David Thomson
29. Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
30. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
31. Love is a Many Trousered Thing by Louise Rennison
32. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
33. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
34. Stop in the Name of Pants by Louise Rennison
35. Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
36. Maus by Art Spiegelman
37. The 1996 What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
38. Pop Goes the Weasel by James Patterson
39. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
40. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
41. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
42. Maus II by Art Spiegelman
43. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
44. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
45. Naked in Death by J.D. Robb
46. The Writer’s Idea Book by Jack Heffron
47. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
48. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
49. Sin City: The Hard Goodbye (Vol. 1) by Frank Miller
50. Fool by Christopher Moore
51. Roses are Red by James Patterson
52. Twilight Director’s Notebook by Catherine Hardwicke
53. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
54. Sex and the City: The Movie by Amy Sohn
55. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
56. Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center
57. Knit Two by Kate Jacobs
58. The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum
59. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
60. 300 by Frank Miller
61. Love Letters of Great Men Vol. 1 by John C. Kirkland
62. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
63. 30 Days of Night by Steve Niles
64. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
65. Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
66. Violets are Blue by James Patterson
67. Four to Score by Janet Evanovich
68. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
69. 8th Confession by James Patterson
70. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Vol. 2) by Frank Miller
71. Sin City: The Big Fat Kill (Vol. 3) by Frank Miller
72. The Daring Book For Girls by Andrea Buchanan
73. Sin City: That Yellow Bastard (Vol. 4) by Frank Miller
74. The Dirty Secrets Club by Meg Gardiner
75. Mommywood by Tori Spelling
76. Size 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
77. Step on a Crack by James Patterson
78. Daniel X: Alien Hunter by James Patterson
79. Watchmen by Alan Moore
80. Sin City: Family Values (Vol. 5) by Frank Miller
81. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
82. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Frannie Flagg
83. Atonement by Ian McEwan
84. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
85. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
86. Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum
87. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
88. Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
89. Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
90. All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
91. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
92. Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges
93. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
94. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
95. Swimsuit by James Patterson
96. Take Your Shirt Off and Cry by Nancy Balbirer
97. Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
98. One Word Answer by Charlaine Harris
99. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
100. The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
101. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
102. Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets (Vol. 6) by Frank Miller
103. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
104. Marley and Me by John Grogan
105. Batman: Year One by Frank Miller
106. Four Blind Mice by James Patterson
107. Five Days in Paris by Danielle Steel
108. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
109. Run For Your Life by James Patterson
110. Decked by Carol Higgins Clark
111. Strengths Finder by Tom Rath
112. The Noticer by Andy Andrews
113. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
114. Sin City: Hell and Back (Vol. 7) by Frank Miller
115. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
116. Big Bad Wolf by James Patterson
117. London Bridges by James Patterson
118. Mary Mary by James Patterson
119. Cross by James Patterson
120. As Man Thinketh by James Allen
121. High Five by Janet Evanovich
122. D is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton
123. Smile and Move by Sam Parker
124. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
125. Hot Six by Janet Evanovich
126. Free Stallion by Amber Tamblyn
127. Generation Kill by Evan Wright
128. Murder of King Tut by James Patterson
129. Roxana by Daniel Defoe
130. Bang Ditto by Amber Tamblyn
131. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
132. Double Cross by James Patterson
133. Cross Country by James Patterson
134. The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum
135. Pretties by Scott Westerfled

2008

1. Dawn by V.C. Andrews
2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
3. Persuasion by Jane Austen
4. Beowulf
5. It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken by Greg Behrendt
6. A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen
7. P.S. I Love You by Cecilia Ahern
8. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
9. Bob Dylan: the Essential Interviews
10. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
11. Make Loneliness by J. Reuben Appelman
12. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
13. Sam’s Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson
14. Skinny Bitch
15. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
16. A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories
17. The 6th Target by James Patterson
18. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
19. The Green Mile by Stephen King
20. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
21. The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
22. Spanish Billionaire, Innocent Wife by Kate Walker
23. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
24. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
25. The Wishing Year by Noelle Oxenhandler
26. Between Here and April by Deborah Copaken Kogan
27. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
28. Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison
29. Loverboy by Victoria Redel
30. Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson
31. A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
32. The Pocket Muse: Endless Inspiration by Monica Wood
33. On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God by Louise Rennison
34. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fower
35. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
36. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
37. New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
38. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
39. Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
40. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
41. Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner
42. The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
43. Stori Telling by Tori Spelling
44. One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
45. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
46. Jack and Jill by James Patterson
47. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
48. Turn of the Screw by Henry James
49. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
50. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
51. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
52. With Our Good Will by Doug Copsey
53. Knocked Out By My Nunga Nungas by Louise Rennison
54. War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
55. 7th Heaven by James Patterson
56. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
57. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fiztgerald
58. Smoke Screen by Sandra Brown
59. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
61. Notes From the Underground by Dostoevsky
62. You’ve Been Warned by James Patterson
63. Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
64. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
65. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson
66. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
67. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
68. Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
69. Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain
70. Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
71. Sundays at Tiffany’s by James Patterson
72. On Writing by Stephen King
73. Dracula by Bram Stoker
74. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
75. Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh
76. Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
77. The Quickie by James Patterson
78. The Case for Christ by Leo Strobel
79. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
80. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
81. The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
82. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
83. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
84. Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
85. Dancing in My Nuddy Pants by Louise Rennison
86. A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane
87. Journals by Kurt Cobain
88. Eight Tales of Terror by Edgar Allan Poe
89. Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich
90. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
91. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
92. Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
93. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
94. 1984 by George Orwell
95. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
96. A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
97. The Island of Doctor Moreau by HG Wells
98. The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo  Tolstoy
99. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
100. The Invisible Man by HG Wells
101. Influence by Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen
102. santaKid by James Patterson
103. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
104. B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton
105. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
106. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
107. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
108. Paradise Lost by John Milton
109. The Lake House by James Patterson
110. The Hound of Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
111. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
112. Away Laughing on a Fast Camel by Louise Rennison
113. Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
114. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
115. The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
116. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
117. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
118. Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum
119. Stiff by Mary Roach
120. Cat and Mouse by James Patterson

Plays in 2008

1. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
2. Othello by William Shakespeare
3. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
4. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
5. Antony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
6. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
7. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
8. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
9. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
10. The Seagull by Anton Chekhov

Prior to 2008

1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. Hunger: a Novel by Elise Blackwell
4. He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt
5. Roses Are Red by James Patterson
6. Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
7. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
8. The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante
9. Harry Potter and Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
10. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
11. Play Dirty by Sandra Brown
12. Kiss the Girls by James Patterson
13. Angelina Jolie: Notes From My Travels
14. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
15. Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
16. The  Thomas Berryman Number by James Patterson
17. Season of the Machete by James Patterson
18. Hide and Seek by James Patterson
19. When the Wind Blows by James Patterson
20. 1st to Die by James Patterson
21. 2nd Chance by James Patterson
22. 3rd Degree by James Patterson
23. 4th of July by James Patterson
24. 5th Horseman by James Patterson
25. the Black Echo by Michael Connelly
26. The Black Ice by Michael Connelly
27. The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
28. The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly
29. The Poet by Michael Connelly
30. Ricochet by Sandra Brown
31. Chill Factor by Sandra Brown
32. White Hot by Sandra Brown
33. Hello, Darkness by Sandra Brown
34. The Crush by Sandra Brown
35. Envy by Sandra Brown
36. The Switch by Sandra Brown
37. The Rana Look by Sandra Brown
38. Standoff by Sandra Brown
39. Tiger Prince by Sandra Brown
40. The Alibi by Sandra Brown
41. Texas! Chase by Sandra Brown
42. Texas! Lucky by Sandra Brown
43. Texas! Sage by Sandra Brown
44. Fat Tuesday by Sandra Brown
45. Long Time Coming by Sandra Brown
46. Love Beyond Reason by Sandra Brown
47. Demon Rumm by Sandra Brown
48. Breakfast in Bed by Sandra Brown
49. Adam’s Fall by Sandra Brown
50. Sunny Chandler’s Return by Sandra Brown
51. The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
52. White Oleander by Janet Fitch
53. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich bt Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
54. Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
55. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
56. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
57. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
58. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
59. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
60. Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
61. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
62. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
63. Medea
64. Waiting For Godot
65. Love’s Encore by Sandra Brown
66. Two Alone by Sandra Brown
67. You Are Special by Max Lucado
68. The Hottest State by Ethan Hawk
69. Sign of the Seahorse
70. the Movies: Prima Official Game Guide
71. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
72. Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding
73. Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul Journal
74. Beach House by James Patterson
75. Mormonism for Dummies
76. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence
77. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
78. Angelina Jolie by Kathleen Tracy
79. O Henry Prize Stories 2002
80. Friends: The One About the #1 Sitcom
81. The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert
82. Exile (Lois& Clark #2) by Michael Jan Friedman
83. Heat Wave (Lois & Clark) by Michael Jan Friedman
84. Deadly Games (Lois & Clark #3) by Michael Jan Friedman
85. Best American Short Stories 2005
86. Lois & Clark: A Superman Novel by Michael Jan Friedman
87. Norton Anthology of American Literature
88. Bum Rush the Page
89. The Making of a Poem
90. Best American Science & Nature Writings 2003
91. The Art of the Story
92. 2006 Writer’s Market
93. 2005 Poets Market
94. Musical Life of Gustav Mole
95. Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
96. Seven
97. The Shell Collector
98. The Crucible
99. Down With Love by Barbara Novak
100. Loose Sugar
101. Steal Away
102. Sex Kittens: Single Cats Seeking Same
103. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
104. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
105. The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer
106. Kissing in Manhattan
107. Is Your Mama a Llama
108. Ocean’s 11
109. The Little Mouse, Red  Ripe Strawberry and Big Hungry Bear
110. Macs for Dummies
111. Great Dialogues of Plato
112. My Father’s Dragon
113. The Switch by Sandra Brown
114. French Silk by Sandra Brown
115. Prime Time by Sandra Brown
116. Best Kept Secrets by Sandra Brown
117. A Secret Splendor by Sandra Brown
118. Where There’s Smoke by Sandra Brown
119. Led Astray by Sandra Brown
120. Exclusive by Sandra Brown
121. Hidden Fires by Sandra Brown
122. Send No Flowers by Sandra Brown
123. Breath of Scandal by Sandra Brown
124. Above and Beyond by Sandra Brown
125. Temperature’s Rising by Sandra Brown
126. The Missing Piece Meets the Big O by Shel Silverstein
127. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
128. Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
129. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
130. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
131. The Approaching Fury
132. Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
133. Outrageous!
134. Sonnets by William Shakespeare