What I've Been Reading Lately (and over the past few years) |
| When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks |
Harvey Araton |
| Bullet Point |
Peter Abrahams |
| Unwind |
Neal Shusterman |
| An Abundance of Katherines |
John Green |
| Looking for Alaska |
John Green |
| City of Thieves |
David Benioff |
| Inheritance |
Christopher Paolini |
| Perks of Being a Wallflower |
Stephen Chbosky |
| Room |
Emma Donoghue |
| The Enemy |
Lee Child |
| Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN |
James Miller & Tom Shales |
| Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption |
Laura Hillenbrand |
| In the Garden of the Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin |
Erik Larson |
| Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game |
Dan Barry |
| The Faithful Spy |
Alex Berenson |
| The Girl Who Could Fly |
Victoria Forester |
| One Day |
David Nicholls |
| The Lincoln Lawyer |
Michael Connelly |
| Burned Alive: A Survivor of an Honor Killing Speaks Out |
Souad |
| Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won |
Tobias Moscowitz and L. Jon Wertheim |
| The Dangerous Days of Daniel X |
James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge |
| Little Bee |
Chris Cleave |
| Water for Elephants |
Sara Gruen |
| Jurassic Park |
Michael Crichton |
| Nineteen Minutes |
Jodi Picoult |
| Blue Heaven |
C.J. Box |
| Whirlwind (Caretaker Trilogy #2) |
David Klass |
| The Accidental Time Machine |
Joe Haldeman |
| When You Reach Me |
Rebecca Stead |
| Timeline |
Michael Crichton |
| The Merchant of Death (Pendragon series) |
D. MacHale |
| Uglies |
Scott Westerfeld |
| Ender's Game |
Orson Scott Card |
| Sarah's Key |
Tatiana de Rosnay |
| Mockingjay |
Suzanne Collins |
| Catching Fire |
Suzanne Collins |
| The Hunger Games |
Suzanne Collins |
| Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
| The Good Soldiers |
David Finkel |
| When the Game Was Ours by Larry Bird & Magic Johnson w/ Jackie MacMullan |
| The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest |
Stieg Larsson |
| The Girl Who Played With Fire |
Stieg Larsson |
| The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo |
Stieg Larsson |
| The Forever War |
Dexter Filkins |
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China |
Matthew Polly |
| Olive Kitteridge |
Elizabeth Strout |
| Truth and Beauty: A Friendship |
Ann Patchett |
| Autobiography of a Face |
Lucy Grealy |
| Run |
Ann Patchett |
| Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul |
Kenneth R. Miller |
| The Alchemist |
Paulo Coehlo |
| Midwives |
Chris Bohjalian |
| Fatal February |
Barbara Levenson, BHS Class '53 |
| K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist |
Peter Carlson |
| The Lovely Bones |
Alice Sebold |
| Finding Lubchenko |
Michael Simmons |
| When You Are Engulfed in Flames |
David Sedaris |
| J.K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harry Potter |
Marc Shapiro |
| Hell |
Robert Olen Butler |
| The Complete Idiot's Guide to American History |
Alan Axelrod |
| How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines |
Thomas C. Foster |
| Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood |
Donovan Campbell |
| Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, An American Town |
Warren St. John |
| Down the Rabbit Hole |
Peter Abrahams |
| Things Fall Apart |
Chinua Achebe |
| Fool Moon |
Jim Butcher |
| Bel Canto |
Ann Patchett |
| Storm Front |
Jim Butcher |
| Artemis Fowl |
Eoin Colfer |
| What Now? |
Ann Patchett |
| I Am America (And So Can You) |
Stephen Colbert |
| The House of Scorpion |
Nancy Farmer |
| Alfred Kropp: Seal of Solomon |
Rick Yancey |
| This Boy's Life: A Memoir |
Tobias Wolff |
| The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp |
Rick Yancey |
| Outliers: The Story of Success |
Malcolm Gladwell |
| Child 44 |
Tom Rob Smith |
| Halfway to the Grave |
Jeaniene Frost |
| Watchmen |
Alan Moore |
| Abraham Lincoln |
James C. McPherson |
| Hero |
Perry Moore |
| Tweak |
Nic Sheff |
| Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through His Son's Addiction |
David Sheff |
| Playing for Pizza |
John Grisham |
| Middlesex |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
| Irreligion: A mathematician explains why the arguments for God just don't add up |
John Allen Paulos |
| Old School |
Tobias Wolff |
| Spanking Shakespeare |
Jake Wizner |
| Taming the Beast |
Emily Macguire |
| Twilight Saga |
Stephanie Meyer |
| Brisingr |
Christopher Paolini |
| Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories |
Tobias Wolff |
| One
Mississippi |
Mark Childress |
| Red
Summer: The Danger, Madness, and Exaltation of Salmon Fishing in a Remote
Alaskan Village |
Bill Carter |
| The
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian |
Sherman Alexie |
| Feed |
M. T. Anderson |
| Practical
Magic |
Alice Hoffman |
| Dune |
Frank Herbert |
| God
Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything |
Christopher
Hitchens |
| Mr.
Vertigo |
Paul Auster |
| The
Double Bind |
Chris Bohjalian |
| Sunset
Limited: A Dave Robicheaux Novel |
James Lee Burke |
| The
Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals |
Michael Pollan |
| Can
I Keep My Jersey?: 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball
Vagabond |
Paul Shirley |
| Eagle
Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska |
Michael D'Orso |
| The
Blind Side: Evolution of a Game |
Michael Lewis |
| Professor
and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford
English Dictionary |
Simon Winchester |
| Pope
Joan |
Donna Cross |
| Disco
for the Departed |
Colin Cotterill |
| The
Complete Persepolis |
Marjane Satrapi |
| The
Tortilla Curtain |
T. Coraghessan
Boyle |
| The
Lord of the Rings |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
| The
Mist |
Stephen King |
|
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia |
Jean Sasson |
| A
Drinking Life: A Memoir |
Pete Hamill |
| The
Golden Compass |
Phillip Pullman |
| Why
Sinatra Matters |
Pete Hamill |
| The
Guns of Heaven |
Pete Hamill |
| Manhunt:
The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer |
James Swanson |
| Freakonomics:
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything |
S. Levitt &
S. Dubner |
| Triumph:
The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics |
Jeremy Schaap |
| Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
J.K. Rowling |
| The
Judgment of Caesar: A Novel of Ancient Rome |
Steven Saylor |
| The
Children of Hurin |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Gil's
All Fright Diner |
A. Lee Martinez |
| The
Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series #2) |
Rick Riordan |
| The
Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series #1) |
Rick Riordan |
| Opening
Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season |
Jonathan Eig |
| Heart
of the Hunter |
Deon Meyer |
| A
Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier |
Ishmael Beah |
| Cat's
Cradle |
Kurt Vonnegut |
| High
Fidelity |
Nick Hornby |
| The
Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate |
Jonathon Stroud |
| Echo
Park |
Michael Connelly |
| The
Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two: The Golem's Eye |
Jonathon Stroud |
| Lucky
You |
Carl Hiaasen |
| The
Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: The Amulet of Samarkand |
Jonathon Stroud |
| Enough:
The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining
Black America--and What We Can Do about It |
Juan Williams |
| The
History of Love |
Nicole Krauss |
| So
Sad to Fall in Battle: An Account of War
(Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi's Letters from Iwo Jima) |
Kumiko Kakehashi |
| The
Real Animal House: The Awesomely Depraved Saga of the Fraternity That Inspired
the Movie |
Chris Miller |
| Firestorm:
(Caretaker Trilogy #1) |
David Klass |
| Shockwave:
Countdown to Hiroshima |
Stephen Walker |
| The
Silver Kiss |
Annette Curtis
Klaus |
| Black
and White |
Paul Volponi |
| For
One More Day |
Mitch Albom |
| Dean
Koontz's Frankenstein: City of Night |
Dean Koontz |
| Dean
Koontz's Frankenstein: Prodigal Son |
Dean Koontz |
| Extremely
Loud and Incredibly Close |
Jonathon Safran
Foer |
| The
Ghosts of Iwo Jima |
Robert S. Burrell |
| Letter
to a Christian Nation |
Sam Harris |
| The
Day of the Jackal |
Frederick Forsyth |
| Angels
and Demons |
Dan Brown |
| Flags
of Our Fathers |
James Bradley
w/Ron Powers |
| Philosophy
Made Simple: A Novel |
Robert Hellenga |
| Play
Baseball the Ripken Way: The Complete Illustrated Guide to the Fundamentals |
Cal Ripken, Jr.,
et al. |
|
Language Acquisition: The Age Factor |
David Singleton
& Lisa Ryan |
| Eldest |
Christopher Paolini |
| Truth
and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know
about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine |
Bart Ehrman |
| Eragon |
Christopher Paolini |
| Rulers
and Subjects: Government and People in Russia, 1801-1991 |
John Gooding |
| It's
Superman! |
Tom De Haven |
| The
End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason |
Sam Harris |
| Shadow
Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve
One of the Last Mysteries of World War II |
Robert Kurson |
| Everything
Is Illuminated |
Jonathan Safran
Foer |
| Evolution:
The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory |
Edward J. Larson |
| Jarhead:
A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles |
Anthony Swofford |
| Tragedy
and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy
Democracy |
Nichols &
McChesney |
| Killer
Swell |
Jeff Shelby |
| The
Princess Bride |
William Goldman |
| Shopgirl:
A Novella |
Steve Martin |
| Against
All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror |
Richard Clarke |
| In
the Shadow of the Law |
Kermit Roosevelt |
| The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
Douglas Adams |
| Legion
Tourney |
Wilfred MCormick |
| Soccerhead:
An Accidental Journey into the Heart of the American Game |
Jim Haner |
| Plan
of Attack |
Bob Woodward |
| Prey
|
Michael Crichton |
| Big
Bang: The Origin of the Universe |
Simon Singh |
| Harry
Potter and the Half-Blood Prince |
J.K. Rowling |
| The
Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness |
Buster
Olney |
| Sky
Full of Sand |
Rick DeMarinis |
| No
god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam |
Reza Aslan |
| The
Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics
|
Alan Schwarz |
| Sideways |
Rex Pickett |
| All's
Fair in Love, War, and High School |
Janette Rallison |
| The
Kite Runner |
Khaled Hosseini |
| Scorpia |
Anthony Horowitz |
| Bruce
Springsteen: Two Hearts: The Definitive Biography, 1972-2003
|
Dave Marsh |
| The
Bourne Legacy |
Eric van Lustbader |
| The
Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon |
Stephen King |
| The
Plot Against America |
Philip
Roth |
| Second
Language Learning Theories |
R.
Mitchell and F. Myles |
| Making
Communicative Language Teaching Happen |
J. Lee &
B. VanPatten |
| The
Rule of Four |
Caldwell & Thomason |
| Friday
Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream |
H.
G. Bissinger |
| The
Human Story: Our History, from the Stone Age to Today |
James
C. Davis |
| Instant
European History |
Robert
Libbon |
| The
Source |
James
Michener |
| The
Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s |
David
Farber |
| Dress
Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: Essays |
David
Sedaris |
| Fortune's
Bastard |
Robert
Chalmers |
| Prompt
and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan |
J.
Samuel Walker |
| Don't
Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood |
Alexandra
Fuller |
| Moneyball:
The Art of Winning an Unfair Game |
Michael
Lewis |
| Ender's
Game |
Orson
Scott Card |
| Skinny
Dip |
Carl
Hiaasen |
| Sounds
of the River |
Da
Chen |
| Colors
of the Mountain |
Da
Chen |
| Before
the Flood |
Alan
Wilson |
| Judaism:
A Very Short Introduction |
Norman
Solomon |
| Whale
Talk |
Chris
Crutcher |
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Gordon
Karman |
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Anthony
Horowitz |
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Derek
Offord |
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Abraham
Ascher |
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Chuck
Palahniuk |
| We
Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends |
D.H. Donald |
| Jackie
Robinson: A Biography |
Arnold
Rampersad |
| Jackie
Robinson and the Integration of Baseball |
Scott
Simon |
| The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
Mark
Haddon |
| It
Ain't No Sin to Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen |
Eric Alterman |
| King
of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero |
David Remnick |
| In
Pursuit of Happiness: Better Living from Plato to Prozac |
Mark Kingwell |
| Summer
for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science
and Religion |
Edward J. Larson |
| The
Fifties |
David Halberstam |
| Grand
Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 |
James T. Patterson |
| Lincoln |
D.H. Donald |
| With
Malice toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Stephen
B. Oates |
| Battle
Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era |
James McPherson |
| From
Here to Economy: A Shortcut to Economic Literacy |
Todd G. Buchholz |
| Snow
in August |
Pete Hamill |
| Mr.
Vertigo |
Paul Auster |
| In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War |
Tobias Wolff |
| Love in the Time of Cholera |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Nobody's Fool |
Richard Russo |
