Book List
Title | Author |
Short List |
Read It |
Own It |
Saw Film |
1000 Places To See Before You Die | Patricia Schultz |
Y |
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101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married | Linda and Charlie Bloom |
Y |
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2009 Writer’s Market |
Y |
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4-Hour Work Week, The | timothy Ferriss |
Y |
Y |
Y G |
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8 Secrets of Happily Married Men, The | Scott Haltzman |
G |
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A Long Way Gone | Ishmael Beah | ||||
A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini |
Y |
Y |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Smith Betty |
Y |
2/13 |
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A Walk On The Beach | Joan Anderson |
Y |
Y |
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A Year by The Sea | Joan Anderson |
Y |
Y |
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Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy and Committment | Steve Harvey | ||||
African American Book of Values (short stories) , The | |||||
America, America | Ethan Canin | ||||
American Indian Myths and Legends |
Y |
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Anatomy of the Sea | Dr David Ponsonby and Professor Georges Dussart |
Y |
Y C |
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Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons | Lorna Landvik | ||||
Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
Y |
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Art of Racing in the Rain, The | Garth Stein |
Y |
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Art of War, The | Tun Tse |
Y |
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Associate, The | John Grisham |
Y |
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Atonement | Ian McEwan | ||||
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | Dai Sijie | ||||
Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | ||||
Black Elk Speaks as told to John G. Neihardt | John G. Neihardt |
Y |
Y |
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Blankets | Craig Thompson | ||||
Book of Peoples of the World (A Guide to Cultures) | Davis & Harrison | ||||
Book Thief, The | Markus Zusak |
Y |
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Border Music | Robert James Waller | ||||
Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The | John Boyne |
Y |
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Breathing Lessons | Tyler Anne | ||||
Bridge of Sighs | Richard Russo | ||||
Broker, The | John Grisham |
Y |
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Burning Bright | Tracy Chevalier | ||||
Cage of Stars | Mitchard Jacquelyn | ||||
Care of The Soul | Thomas Moore | ||||
Case For Faith, The | Lee Storbel |
Y |
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Celebrating Christmas with Jesus (An Advent Devotional) | Max Lucado |
Y |
Y |
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Ceremony | Leslie marmon Silko |
Y |
Y |
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Christian Imagination, The |
Y |
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City of Sorcery | Zimmer Bradley Marion | ||||
Collected Poetry of Dorothy Parker, The |
Y |
Y |
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Cowboys Are My Weakness | Pam Houston |
Y |
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Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
2/13 |
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Crow Lake | Mary Lawson | ||||
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, The | Haddon Mark |
Y |
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Da Vinci Code, The | Dan Brown |
Y |
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Developing Solutions with MS Infopath | Halstead, Mandava and Blain |
Y |
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Devil in the White City, The | Lawson Erik | ||||
Doctor’s Wife, The | Elizabeth Brundage | ||||
Don Quixote, Part One, The Ingenious Hidalgo de la Mancha | Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra |
Y |
Y |
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Down the Commons | Ann Baer | ||||
Dream When You’re Feeling Blue | Elizabeth Berg |
Y |
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Dreams From My Father | Barack Obama |
Y |
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Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton | ||||
Every Day I Love You More (just not today) | Nancy Shulins | ||||
Eye Contact | Cammie McGovern | ||||
Eyewitness Companions-Scuba Diving (Techniques, Equipment, Marine Life, Dive Sites) | Halls and Krestovnikoff |
Y |
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Falls the Shadow | Sharon Kay Penman | ||||
Find Your Strongest Lift: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently | Marcus Buckingham | ||||
First, Break All The Rules | Marcus Buckingham |
Y |
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Five People You Meet In Heaven, The | Mitch Albom |
Y |
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Flabbergasted | Ray Blackston | ||||
For One More Day | Mitch Albom | ||||
Four Pillars of a Man’s Heart | Stu Weber | ||||
Friday Night Knitting Club, The | Kate Jacobs |
Y |
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Galileo’s Daughter (CD) |
Y |
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Garden Spells | Allen Sarah Addison |
Y |
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Getting Mother’s Body | Suzan-Lori Parks |
Y |
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Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | ||||
Girl with a Pearl Earring, The | Tracy Chevalier | ||||
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | |||||
Glass Castle, The | Jeannette Walls | ||||
GO Put Your Strengths To Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance | Marcus Buckingham | ||||
God Grew Tired of Us | John Bul Dau, Michael S Sweeney |
Y |
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Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread, The | Don Robertson | ||||
Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl | Carol Bedensteiner |
Y |
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Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The | Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows | ||||
Had Enough? | James Carville | ||||
Handmaid’s Tale, The | Atwood Margaret | ||||
Heart and Soul | Maee Binchy | ||||
Heart of a Tender Warrior, The | Stu Weber | ||||
History of Love, The | Nicole Krauss | ||||
Home to Big Stone Gap | Adriana Trigiani | ||||
Hours, The | Michael Cunningham | ||||
How to Shit in the Woods, An environmentally sound approach to a lost art | Kathleen Meyer |
Y |
Y |
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How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci |
Y |
Y |
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Husband, The | Koontz Dean | ||||
I Feel Bad About My Neck | Nora Ephron |
Y |
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If Love Were All | Judith Henry Wall | ||||
Illusions The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah | Richard Bach | ||||
In Memory of Running | Ron McLarty |
Y |
Y |
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In The Spirit of Crazy Horse | Peter Matthiessen | ||||
Indian Campfire Tales | W.S. Phillips |
Y |
Y |
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Jew is Not My Enemy, The | Tarek Fatah | ||||
Jungle, The | Upton Sinclair | ||||
Kite Runner, The | Khaled Hosseini | ||||
Leap of Faith | Queen Noor | ||||
Learning SQL | Alan Beaulieu |
Y |
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust | Immaculee Ilibaginza, Steve Erwin | ||||
Lemon Jelly Cake, The | Smith Madeline Babcock | ||||
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name | Vendela Vida | ||||
Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
Y |
Y |
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Locking Arms in Strength in Character through Friendships | Stu Weber | ||||
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits | Ayelet Waldman | ||||
Love in the Time of Cholera | Marquez Gabriel Garcia | ||||
Lovely Bones, The | Alice Sebold | ||||
Loving Frank | Nancy Horan | ||||
Man Whisperer, The | Rick Johnson |
Y |
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March | Geraldine Brooks | ||||
Marley & Me | Albom Mitch | ||||
Memory Keeper’s Daughter, The | Kim Edwards | ||||
Memory of Water | Karen White | ||||
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus |
Y |
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Merle’s Door Lessons from a Freethinking Dog | Ted Kerasote | ||||
Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||||
Mister Pip | Lloyd Jones | ||||
Moche Warrior, The | Lyn Hamilton |
2/13 |
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MSAccess Inside Out Version 2002 |
Y |
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My Sister’s Keeper | Jodi Picoult |
Y |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The |
Y |
Y |
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Nineteen Minutes | Jodi Picoult |
Y |
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Not Just the Levees Broke | Phyllis Montana-Leblanc |
2/13 |
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No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, The | Alexander McCall Smith | ||||
Now, Discover Your Strengths | Marcus Buckingham | ||||
O’ Clouds, Unfold: Clara Uleland and Her Family |
Y |
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Oive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout | ||||
One Thing You Need to Know, The | Marcus Buckingham | ||||
Opposing Viewpoints: Hate Groups |
Y |
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Other Boleyn Girl, The | Philippa Gregory | ||||
Owner’s and Operator’s Guide to Men |
Y |
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Peace Like a River | Leif Enger |
Y |
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Peony in Love | Lisa See | ||||
Pigs in Heaven | Barbara Kingsolver | ||||
Plain Truth | Jodi Piccult | ||||
Poet’s Market, The |
Y |
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Point Man | Steve Farrar | ||||
Portrait of a Lady, The | Henry James | ||||
Portuguese English Translastion Dictionary |
Y |
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Pride and Prejudice | Austen Jane | ||||
Push Not the River | James Conroyd Martin | ||||
Reading Lolita in Tehran | Azar Nafisi | ||||
Restoring Hope | |||||
Riding Lessons | Sara Gruen |
Y |
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Rules for Writers |
Y |
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San Domingo, The Medicine Hat Stallion | Marguerite Henry |
Y |
Y |
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Sarah’s Key | Tatiana de Rosnay | ||||
Seabiscuit | Laura Hillenbrand |
Y |
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Second Silence, The | Eileen Goudge | ||||
Secret of a Man’s Soul, The | John Eldridge |
Y |
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Shadow of the Wind, The | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||||
Shout Down the Moon | Tucker Lisa | ||||
Sight Hound | Pam Houston | ||||
Skipping Christmas | John Grisham |
Y |
Y |
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See |
Y |
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Space Between Us, The | Thrity Umrigar | ||||
Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in the Pursuit of Happyness | Chris Gardner | ||||
Story of Edgar Sawtelle, The | David Wroblewski |
Y |
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Sugar Queen, The | Allen Sarah Addison | ||||
Summerhouse, The | Jude Deveraux | ||||
Sweet Potato Queen’s Book of Love, The | Conner Browne Jill | ||||
Tao of Pooh, The | Benjamin Hoff |
Y |
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Tender Warrior | Stu Weber | ||||
The Mermaid’s Chair | Kidd Sue Monk |
Y |
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The Middle Place | Kelly Corrigan | ||||
The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||||
The Rest of Her Life | Laura Moriarty | ||||
The Sea, The Sea | Iris Murdoch | ||||
The Secret Life of Bees, The | Sue Monk Kidd |
Y |
G |
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The Shack | Wm. Paul Young |
Y |
Y G |
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The Thirteenth Tale | Diane Setterfield | ||||
The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion | ||||
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Y |
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Their Jihad … Not my Jihad | Raheel Raza | ||||
Then We Came to the End | Joshua Ferris | ||||
Thomas Hardy, The Time-Torn Man | Claire Tomalin |
2/13 |
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Those Who Save Us | Jenna Blum | ||||
Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin |
Y |
G |
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Three Junes | Julia Glass | ||||
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying | Sogyal Rinpoche |
Y |
Y |
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Time Traveler’s Wife, The | Audrey Niffenegger | ||||
Totally Tangled | Sandy Steen Barholomew |
Y |
Y |
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Translator, The | Hari Daoud |
Y |
G |
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True Love | Robert Fulghum | ||||
Truth About You, The | Marcus Buckingham | ||||
Tuesdays With Morrie | Mitch Albom |
Y |
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Twilight | Stephenie Meyer |
Y |
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Vintage Surfing | Jim Heimann |
Y C |
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Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
Y |
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Walden and Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau |
2/13 |
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Waltzing the Cat | Pam Houston |
Y |
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Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen |
Y |
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We Are All The Same | Jim Wooten |
2/13 |
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Weekend Novelist, The | Robert J Ray |
Y |
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White Ghost Girls | Alice Greenway | ||||
Why you’re Still Single (Things your friends would tell you if you promised not to get mad) | Katz & Holmes |
Y |
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Wild At Heart | John Eldridge |
Y L |
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Wild Bill Hickok | A.M. Anderson |
Y |
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World Without End | Ken Follett | ||||
Woven on the Wind | Hasselstrom, Collier & Curtis |
2/13 |
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Writer’s Home Companion, The | Joan Bolker |
Y |
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Writing Articles From The Heart | Marjorie Holmes |
Y |
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Writing for Quick Cash | Lorian Hoff Oberli |
Y |
G = Gifted my copy L = Loaned my copy C = purchased as craft supply
Last update: February 23, 2013
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