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
