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2666, by Roberto Bolano
A
The Abstinence Teacher, by Tom Perotta
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
All The Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
The American, by Henry James
American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
American Wife, by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Arsonist’s Guide to Homes in New England, by Brock Clarke
As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
B
The Baby-Sitters Club, by Ann M. Martin
Ballet Shoes, by Noel Streatfeild
Best American Short Stories of 2005, ed. Michael Chabon
Berenstain Bears, by Stan and Jan Berenstain
The BFG, by Roald Dahl
The Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, by Truman Capote
Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding
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The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
Cheaper by the Dozen, by Frank Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Chicken Soup for the Soul, ed. Jack Canfield/Mark Victor Hansen
Children of Men, by P.D. James
Collapse, by Jared Diamond
A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
Confessions of a Shopaholic, by Sophie Kinsella
The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
D
Dancer, by Colum McCann
Danny, the Champion of the World, by Roald Dahl
Deception Point/Digital Fortress, by Dan Brown
Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell
Drown, by Junot Diaz
E
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, by Nancy Farmer
Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, by Donald J. Sobol
Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, by Wells Tower
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer
F
Farmer Boy, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsberg
G
A Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, by Paul Theroux
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larssn
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls
The Golden Apples of the Sun, by Ray Bradbury
Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell: part 2
Gossip Girl, by Cecily von Ziegesar
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer
H
The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling
How We Are Hungry, by Dave Eggers
The Human Stain, by Philip Roth
The Horse and His Boy, by C.S. Lewis
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
I
I Am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe
If on a winter’s night a traveler, by Italo Calvino
In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan
Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
J
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
K
Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
L
Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
Less Than Zero, by Bret Easton Ellis
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, by Bill Bryson
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown
Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniuk
M
The Man of My Dreams, by Curtis Sittenfeld
March, by Geraldine Brooks
Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
A Million Little Pieces, by James Frey
Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins
N
The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, by Carolyn Keene
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich
Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry
O
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
On Beauty, by Zadie Smith
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
P
A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
Pontoon, by Garrison Keillor
Prep, by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
R
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
The Rule of Four, by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
S
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, by Chuck Klosterman
The Shipping News, by Annie Proulx
Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser
Something Borrowed/Something Blue, by Emily Giffin
The Sportswriter, by Richard Ford
Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky
Summer Sisters, by Judy Blume
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The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
This Book Will Save Your Life, by A.M. Homes
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
Twilight, by Stephenie Meyers
U
Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri
Until Gwen, by Dennis Lehane (not a book–a story)
V
Varieties of Disturbance, by Lydia Davis
The View from Saturday, by E.L. Konigsberg
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C.S. Lewis
W
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
Wayside School is Falling Down, by Louis Sachar
Welcome to the Monkey House, by Kurt Vonnegut
The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin
Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls
White Noise, by Don DeLillo
Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
What We Believe But Cannot Prove, ed. John Brockman


Hi,
I notice you are not adverse to chidren’s books – if you are looking for something new to read, I would wholeheartedly and a little evangelistically recommend ‘Wolf Brother’ by Michelle Paver – I don’t know if it is released in America, but it is one of the best children’s books I’ve read! (Along with the ‘Magician’s House’ series by William Corlett.) It is actually a series, and I am still waiting eagerly for the final book to be published. I m a bit of a sucker for mystical style fantasy adventure (hence my love of children’s books!), but if that appeals to you then you will love it!