Books I’ve Read: 2006-2019
Alexie, Sherman - Flight
Anderson, Joan - A Second Journey
- An Unfinished Marriage
- A Walk on the Beach
- A Year By The Sea
Anshaw, Carol - Carry the One
Auden, W.H. - The Selected Poems of W.H. Auden
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Bach, Richard - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Bear, Donald R - Words Their Way
Berg, Elizabeth - Open House
Bly, Nellie - Ten Days in a Madhouse
Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
- The Martian Chronicles
Brooks, David - The Road to Character
Brooks, Geraldine - Caleb’s Crossing
Brown, Dan - The Da Vinci Code
Bryson, Bill - The Lost Continent
Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden
Buscaglia, Leo - Bus 9 to Paradise
- Living, Loving & Learning
- Personhood
- Seven Stories of Christmas Love
Byrne, Rhonda - The Secret
Carlson, Richard - Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
Carson, Rachel - The Sense of Wonder
- Silent Spring
Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote
Cherry, Lynne - The Greek Kapok Tree
Chopin, Karen - The Awakening
Clurman, Harold - The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre & the 30s
Coelho, Paulo - Adultery
The Alchemist
Conklin, Tara - The Last Romantics
Conroy, Pat - Beach Music
- The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
- The Great Santini
- The Lords of Discipline
- The Prince of Tides
- The Water is Wide
Corelli, Marie - A Romance of Two Worlds
Delderfield, R.F. - To Serve Them All My Days
Dempsey, Janet - Washington’s Last Contonment: High Time for a Peace
Dewey, John - Experience and Education
Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol
- Great Expectations
- A Tale of Two Cities
Didion, Joan - The Year of Magical Thinking
Disraeli, Benjamin - Sybil
Doctorow, E.L. - Andrew’s Brain
- Ragtime
Doerr, Anthony - All the Light We Cannot See
Dreiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie
Dyer, Wayne - Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
- The Power of Intention
- Your Erroneous Zones
Edwards, Kim - The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Ellis, Joseph J. - His Excellency: George Washington
Ellison, Ralph - The Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Essays and Lectures
Felkner, Donald W. - Building Positive Self Concepts
Fergus, Jim - One Thousand White Women
Flynn, Gillian - Gone Girl
Follett, Ken - Pillars of the Earth
Frank, Anne - The Diary of a Young Girl
Freud, Sigmund - The Interpretation of Dreams
Frey, James - A Million Little Pieces
Fromm, Erich - The Art of Loving
- Escape from Freedom
Fulghum, Robert - All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Fuller, Alexandra - Leaving Before the Rains Come
Garield, David - The Actors Studion: A Player’s Place
Gates, Melinda - The Moment of Lift
Gibran, Kahlil - The Prophet
Gilbert, Elizabeth - Eat, Pray, Love
- The Last American Man
- The Signature of All Things
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader - My Own Words
Girzone, Joseph F, - Joshua
- Joshua and the Children
Gladwell, Malcom - Blink
- David and Goliath
- Outliers
- The Tipping Point
- Talking to Strangers
Glass, Julia - Three Junes
Goodall, Jane - Reason for Hope
Goodwin, Doris Kearnes - Team of Rivals
Graham, Steve - Best Practices in Writing Instruction
Gray, John - Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
Groom, Winston - Forrest Gump
Gruen, Sarah - Water for Elephants
Hannah, Kristin - The Great Alone
- The Nightingale
Harvey, Stephanie and Anne Goudvis - Strategies That Work
Hawkins, Paula - The Girl on the Train
Hedges, Chris - Empire of Illusion
Hellman, Lillian - Maybe
- Pentimento
Hemingway - Ernest - A Moveable Feast
Hendrix, Harville - Getting the Love You Want
Hesse, Hermann - Demian
- Narcissus and Goldmund
- Peter Camenzind
- Siddhartha
- Steppenwolf
Hilderbrand, Elin - The Beach Club
Hitchens, Christopher - God is Not Great
Hoffman, Abbie - Soon to be a Major Motion Picture
- Steal This Book
Holt, John - How Children Fail
- How Children Learn
- Learning All the Time
- Never Too Late
Hopkins, Joseph - The American Transcendentalist
Horney, Karen - Feminine Psychology
- Neurosis and Human Growth
- The Neurotic Personality of Our Time
- New Ways in Psychoanalysis
- Our Inner Conflicts
- Self Analysis
Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner
Hoover, John J, Leonard M. Baca, Janette K. Klingner - Why Do English Learners Struggle with Reading?
Janouch, Gustav - Conversations with Kafka
Jefferson, Thomas - Crusade Against Ignorance
Jong, Erica - Fear of Dying
Joyce, Rachel - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Kafka, Franz - Amerika
- Metamophosis
- The Trial
Kallos, Stephanie - Broken For You
Kazantzakis, Nikos - Zorba the Greek
Keaton, Diane - Then Again
Kelly, Martha Hall - The Lilac Girls
Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algernon
King, Steven - On Writing
Kornfield, Jack - Bringing Home the Dharma
Kraft, Herbert - The Indians of Lenapehoking - The Lenape or Delaware Indians: The Original People of NJ, Southeastern New York State, Eastern Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware and Parts of Western Connecticut
Kundera, Milan - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Lacayo, Richard - Native Son
Lamott, Anne - Bird by Bird
Word by Word
L’Engle, Madeleine - A Wrinkle in Time
Lahiri, Jhumpa - The Namesake
Lappe, Frances Moore - Diet for a Small Planet
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lems, Kristin et al - Building Literacy with English Language Learners
Lewis, Sinclair - Main Street
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Lowry, Lois - The Giver
Mander, Jerry - Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Marks, John D. - The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control
Martel, Yann - Life of Pi
Maslow, Abraham - The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
- Motivation and Personality
- Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences
- Toward a Psychology of Being
Maugham. W. Somerset - Of Human Bondage
- Christmas Holiday
Maurier, Daphne du - Rebecca
Mayes, Frances - Under the Tuscan Sun
Mayle, Peter - A Year in Provence
McCourt, Frank - Angela’s Ashes
- Teacher man
McCullough, David - 1776
- Brave Companions
McEwan, Ian - Atonement
- Saturday
McLaughlin, Emma - The Nanny Diaries
McLuhan, Marshall - Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Meissner, Susan - The Fall of Marigolds
Millman, Dan - Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Moehringer, J.R. - The Tender Bar
Moon, Elizabeth - The Speed of Dark
Moriarty, Liane - The Husband’s Sister
- The Last Anniversary
- What Alice Forgot
Mortenson, Greg - Three Cups of Tea
Moyes, Jo Jo - One Plus One
- Me Before You
Ng, Celeste - Little Fires Everywhere
Neill, A.S. - Summerhill
Noah, Trevor - Born a Crime
O’Dell, Scott - Island of the Blue Dolphins
Offerman, Nick - Gumption
O’Neill, Eugene - Long Day’s Journey Into Night
A Touch of the Poet
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Owens, Delia - Where the Crawdads Sing
Paulus, Trina - Hope for the Flowers
Pausch, Randy - The Last Lecture
Patchett, Ann - The Dutch House
Peck, Scott M. - The Road Less Traveled
- The Road Less Traveled and Beyond
Paterson, Katherine - Bridge to Teribithia
Picoult, Jodi - My Sister’s Keeper
Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Puzo, Mario - The Godfather
Quindlen, Anna - Black and Blue
Radish, Kris - Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral
Redfield, James - The Celestine Prophecy
Rickert, Mary - The Memory Garden
Rogers, Carl - On Becoming a Person
Ruiz, Miguel - The Fifth Agreement
- The Four Agreements
- The Mastery of Love
Rum, Etaf - A Woman is No Man
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - The Little Prince
Salinger, J.D. - Catcher in the Rye
Schumacher, E.F. - Small is Beautiful
Sebold, Alice - The Almost Moon
- The Lovely Bones
Shaffer, Mary Ann and Anne Barrows - The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shakespeare, William - Alls Well That Ends Well
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Twelfth Night
- Two Gentlemen of Verona
Sides, Hampton - Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree
Skinner, B.F. - About Behaviorism
Smith, Betty - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley - The Velvet Room
Spinelli, Jerry - Loser
Spolin, Viola - Improvisation for the Theater
Stanislavski, Constantin - An Actor Prepares
Stedman, M.L. - The Light Between Oceans
Steinbeck, John - Travels with Charley
Steiner, Peter - The Terrorist
Stockett, Kathryn - The Help
Strayer, Cheryl - Wild
Streatfeild, Dominic - Brainwash
Strout, Elizabeth - My Name is Lucy Barton
Tartt, Donna - The Goldfinch
Taylor, Kathleen - Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control
Thomas, Matthew - We Are Not Ourselves
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolle, Eckhart - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
- The Power of Now
Towles, Amor - A Gentleman in Moscow
- Rules of Civility
Tracey, Diane and Lesley Morrow - Lenses on Reading
Traub, Nina - Recipe for Reading
Tzu, Lao - Tao Te Ching
United States Congress - Project MKULTRA, the CIA's program of research in behavioral modification: Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the ... Congress, first session, August 3, 1977
Van Allsburg, Chris - Just a Dream
- Polar Express
- Sweet Dreams
- Stranger
- Two Bad Ants
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Waller, Robert James - Bridges of Madison County
Warren, Elizabeth - A Fighting Chance
Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited
Weir, Andy - The Martian
Weinstein, Harvey M. - Father, Son and CIA
Welles, Rebecca - The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
Westover, Tara - Educated
White, E.B. - Charlotte’s Web
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorien Gray
Wolfe, Tom - I Am Charlotte Simmons
Wolitzer, Meg - The Female Persuasion
Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway
Zevin, Gabrielle - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Zusak, Marcus - The Book Thief
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