Past Reading Lists

The following is simply list of books I have read in the past, organized by year.  Please note that some of these books are wonderful reads, but I would not recommend every item listed below.  My favorites are marked with an asterisk (*).

2005-2008 (not exhaustive)

  • Works of Shakespeare
    • The Comedy of Errors
    • Richard III
    • Romeo & Juliet *
    • Much Ado About Nothing
    • Henry V

  • Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling
    • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (#6)
    • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (#7)

  • Confessions of Georgia Nicolson Series, Louise Rennison * (My favorite series)
    • Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers (#6)
    • Startled by His Furry Shorts (#7)
    • Love Is A Many Trousered Thing (#8)

  • Mary Higgins Clark Mysteries
    • A Cry in the Night
    • Remember Me
    • La Nuit du Renard (a French translation of one of her novels)

  • Stephanie Plum Series, Janet Evanovich (mostly listened as audio books)
    • One for the Money
    • Two for the Dough
    • Three to Get Deadly
    • Four to Score
    • High Five
    • Hot Six
    • Seven Up
    • Hard Eight
    • To the Nines
    • Then novels #10-14

  • Twilight Series, Stephanie Meyer
    • Twilight
    • New Moon
    • Eclipse
    • Breaking Dawn

  • The Inheritance Cycle, Christopher Paolini
    • Eragon
    • Eldest
    • Brisingr
    • Inheritance (read in 2012)

  • Other Series
    • As Sure as the Dawn (Mark of the Lion III), Francine Rivers
    • Charmed Thirds, Megan McCafferty
    • A Year in the Merde, Stephen Clarke
    • In the Merde for Love, Stephen Clarke
    • Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
  • War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
  • Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte *
  • The Centurion, Leonard Wibberly
  • Little Women, Louisa May Alcott *
  • Shanna, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss (This was an assignment for a Women's Lit class I took.  I can't say that I finished this one; it was so cringey.)
  • Tristan et Iseut, Translated into modern French by Pierre Champion
  • Flapper, Joshua Zeitz
  • Can't Buy My Love, Jean Kilbourne
  • Pursuit in the French Alps, Paul-Jacques Bonzon
  • Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
  • Audrey Hepburn Biography (title/author forgotten)
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
  • No One to Trust, Iris Johansen
  • The Raging Quiet, Sherryl Jordan *
  • A Garden in Paris, Stephanie Grace Whitson
  • The Bible
  • Code of the Woosters, P.G. Wodehouse
2010
  • French Women Don't Get Fat, Mireille Guiliano
  • Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Le Petit Nicolas, Rene Goscinny et Jean-Jacques Sempe *
  • A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle
  • Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand (original French play)
  • What the Heck Am I Going to Do with My Life?, Margaret Feinberg
  • All Through the Night, Mary Higgins Clark
  • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl *
  • Crazy Love, Francis Chan
  • The Flaneur, Edmund White
  • Claude Gueux, Victor Hugo
  • Candide, Voltaire *
  • Night, Elie Wiesel
  • Just Married, Margaret Feinberg
  • Un Crime, Georges Bernanos
  • I Am Nujood: Age 10 and Divorced, Nujood Ali
  • Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson #9), Louise Rennison * (part of my favorite series)
  • The Gunslinger (Dark Tower #1), Stephen King
  • The Hunger Games (entire series: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, The Mockingjay), Suzanne Collins
2011
  • The Dark Tower Series, Stephen King
    • The Drawing of the Three
    • The Wastelands
    • Wizard and Glass * (My favorite book within this series)
    • Wolves of the Calla

  • Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
  • Carry On, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
  • And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
  • The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare
  • Why Not Women?, David Joel Hamilton and Loren Cunningham
  • Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
  • A Woman's Place, Lynn Austin
  • Pompeii, Robert Harris
2012
  • The Dark Tower Series, Stephen King
    • Song of Susannah
    • The Dark Tower

  • It, Stephen King
  • Ur, Stephen King
  • Inheritance, Christopher Paolini (see 2005-2008)
  • Frankenstein, Mary Shelley *
2013
  • Everything's Eventual, Stephen King
  • The Little Sisters of Eluria, Stephen King
  • The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King
  • The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom
  • Hour Game, David Baldacci
  • Tomorrow Will Be Better, Betty Smith
  • Bringing Up Bebe, Pamela Druckerman
2015
  • How to Tell If Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You, The Oatmeal (Matthew Inman)
  • Evangeline, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow *
  • Women of the Bible (author forgotten)
  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte *
  • Yallah Bye, Joseph Safieddine
  • A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens *
2016
  • Candide, Voltaire (re-read) *
  • 11/22/63, Stephen King *
  • Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
  • Nouvelles Lectures Libres, Collection of short stories by various authors
  • Bleak House, Charles Dickens
  • The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (English), Victor Hugo
2017
  • Notre Dame de Paris (French, abridged), Victor Hugo
  • The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Beauty and the Beast, Adapted by Elizabeth Rudnick
  • Die I Will Not, S.K. Rizzolo
  • On A Desert Shore, S.K. Rizzolo
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
  • All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr 
  • Rebecca, Daphne DuMaurier
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
  • Confessions of a Domestic Failure, Bunmi Laditan
  • The Book of Hygge, Louisa Thomsen Brits
  • The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
  • (Others not listed)
2018
  • The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
  • Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery (re-read)
  • The Cricket on the Hearth, Charles Dickens
2019
  • Beowulf, verse/translation by Seamus Heaney
  • The Jesus Storybook Bible, Sally Lloyd-Jones
  • If Stones Could Speak, Marc Aronson and Mike Parker Pearson
  • The Little Book of Hygge, Meik Wiking
  • Ramona the Pest, Beverly Cleary *
  • (Others not listed)
2020
*I read a lot of children's books this year as we homeschooled during the pandemic.
  • Nouvelles Lectures Libres, Collection of short stories by various authors (re-read)
  • The World According to Humphrey, Betty G. Birney
  • Dewey the Library Cat, Vicki Myron and Bret Witter
  • Tales of St. Patrick, Eileen Dunlop
  • The Windsors, publication about the royal family
  • Solutions and Other Problems, Allie Brosh
  • American Girl Series:  Felicity (Books #1-6), Valerie Tripp
  • American Girl Series:  Samantha (Books #1-6), Susan S. Adler, Maxine Rose Schur, Rose Schur, Valerie Tripp
  • The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Beverly Cleary
  • The Boxcar Children #1, Gertrude Chandler Warner
  • Great Expectations (children's adaptation), Charles Dickens
  • Iroquois, Traditional stories and culture of the Iroquois people
  • Amelia Bedelia Christmas, Peggy Parish
  • The House Without a Christmas Tree, Gail Rock *
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
2021
*I read a lot of children's books this year as we homeschooled during the pandemic.
  • The Twilight of Courage, Bodie and Brock Thoene
  • Arabian Nights (Classic Starts, a children's adaptation)
  • American Girl Series:  Addy (Books #1-6), Connie Rose Porter
  • Heidi, Johanna Spyri *
  • The Mystery of the Old Violin, Augusta Huiell Seaman
  • Lebanon (Modern Nations of the World series), Linda Hutchison
  • Ralph S. Mouse, Beverly Cleary
  • Story of the World: Volume I, Susan Wise Bauer *
  • Felicia, Eleanor Frances Lattimore
  • My Father's Dragon, Ruth Stiles Gannett
  • A Column of Fire, Ken Follett
  • She-Ra:  Legend of the Fire Princess (Junior Graphic Novel), Gigi D.G., ND Stevenson, Paulina Ganucheau
  • Bruno, Chief of Police, Martin Walker
  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
  • The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Catch As Cat Can, Rita Mae Brown
  • The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (re-read) *
  • Story of the World: Volume 2, Susan Wise Bauer *
2022
  • World Without End, Ken Follett
  • Time Cat, Lloyd Alexander
  • The Declaration of the Rights of Women and Female Citizens, Olympe de Gouges *
  • UN Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, United Nations
  • The Book of the City of Ladies, Christine de Pizan
  • The Hungry Heart: Josephine, Jean-Claude Baker and Chris Chase
  • Sunset of the Sabertooth, Mary Pope Osborne
  • Midnight on the Moon, Mary Pope Osborne
  • The Town Cats, Lloyd Alexander
  • Wishtree, Katherine Applegate
  • How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety, Zachary Auburn
  • Anna Maria's Gift, Janice Shefelman
  • Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens *
2023
  • See posts beginning in February 2023.
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