Summer 2004 Booklist
Beyond Beliefs, Elaine Pagels
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
Independence Day, Richard Ford
I know this much is true, Wally Lamb
Hidden Victory, Herbert Francis Smith
Inventing a Nation, Gore Vidal
The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
Reffer Madness, Eric Schlosser
A Child Called It, Dave Pelzer
Morality for Beautiful Girls, Alexander McCall Smith
The Full Cupboard of Life, Alexander McCall Smith
The Great Compassion, Buddhism and Animal Rights, Norm Phelps
Please Don't Kill the Freshman, Zoe Trope
Bookseller of Kabul, Asne Seierstad
Da Vinci Code Decoded, Martin Lunn
Timoleon Vieta Come Home, Dan Rhodes
The Last Catholic in America, John Powers
Making the List, Michael Korda
Secret of Shambhala, James Redfield
Einstein Lived Here, Abraham Pais
The Amateur Marriage, Anne Tyler
The Life of Elizabeth I, Allison Weir

Fall 2004 Reading List
Deception Point, Dan Brown
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller
My Life As a Seer, Edgar Cayce
Back When We Were Grownups, Anne Tyler
Positively 4th Street, David Hajdu
Wicked, The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory Maguire
Herzog, Saul Bellow
Carl Gustav Jung, Frank McLynn
Helen Keller A Life, Dorothy Herrmann
Tales From Rhapsody Home, John Gould
The Copper Beech, Maeve Binchy
In the Wake of the Plague, Norman F. Cantor
The Lost Boy, Dave Pelzer
Hold the Line, Barbara Kingsolver
The Crimson Petal and the White, Michael Faber
The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
The Sunday Philosophy Club, Alexander McCall Smith
A Distant Mirror Part One, Barbara Tuchman
Hometown Legend, Jerry B. Jenkins
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
The Running Mate, Joe Klein
A Death in the Family, James Agee
The Earth Shall Weep, James Wilson
Scribbling the Cat, Alexandra Fuller
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Dublin 4, Maeve Binchy
Dude Where's My Country, Michael Moore
Black Boy (American Hunger), Richard Wright
Tar Baby, Toni Morrison
Lolita, Vladimer Nabokov
Majic Man, Max Allan Collins
Joe, Larry Brown
Harvard and the Unabomber, Alston Chase
Native Son, Richard Wright

Spring 2005 Reading List
The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester
Jazz, Toni Morrison
Blue Blood, Edward Conlon
The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday
Hitler and the Holocaust, Robert Wistrich
Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean
Sula, Toni Morrison
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
The Answer Man, Roy Johansen
American Appetite, Joyce Carol Oates
Villages, John Updike
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
So Big, Edna Ferber
Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harrer
The Holy Man, Susan Trott
Famous After Death, Benejamin Cheever
Lying Awake, Mark Salzman
God's Little Acre, Erskine Caldwell
Plot Against America, Philip Roth
Cry the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
The Indictment, Berry Reed
The Accidental Tourist, Ann Tyler
The List, Steve Martini
Light on Snow, Anita Shreve
The Crazed, Ha Jin
Smoke Screen, Vincent Patrick
The Search, Iris Johansen
Hope's Cadillac, Patricia Page
Pigtown, William Counts

Summer 2005 Booklist
A Patchwork Planet, Anne Tyler
The Inner Circle, TC Boyle
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, Brady Udall
Long Time No See, Susan Isaacs
Selling Ben Cheever, Benjamin Cheever
The Glass Lake, Maeve Binchy
Nights of Rain and Stars, Maeve Binchy
Finders Keepers, Mark Bowden
How I Paid for College, Marc Acito
The Kidnapping of Aaron Greene, Terry Kay
Special Circumstances, Sheldon Siegel
Mouth to Mouth, Michael Kimball
Deadly Feasts, Richard Rhodes
The Known World, Edward P. Jones
The Meat You Eat, Ken Midkiff
The Known World, Edward P. Jones
The Girl Who Married a Lion, Alexander McCall Smith
Fist Stick Knife Gun, Geoffrey Canada
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris
Jacqui White, Ron Wright
Kennedy and Nixon, Christopher Mathews
The Zen Commandments, Dean Sluyter
Scorched Earth, David L. Robbins
Midwives, Chris Bohjalian
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, Alexander McCall Smith
The Jews:  A History of a People, Howard Fast
The Pardon, James Grippando
Done Deal, Les Standiford
Rose, Martin Cruz Smith
True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey

Fall 2005 Reading List
Men in Black, Scott Spencer
In Dubious Battle, John Steinbeck
The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith
The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Andrew Sean Greer
Rabbit Redux, John Updike
Rabbit at Rest, John Updike
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Egyptologist, Arthur Phillips
The Final Verdict, Sheldon Siegel
The Truth about the Drug Companies, Marcia Angell
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Last Refuge of Scoundrels, Paul Lussier

Spring 2006 Booklist
In the Deep Midwinter, Robert Clark
The Archivist, Martha Cooley
All of God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, Maya Angelou
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
Mr. Phillips, John Lanchester
Three Soldiers, John Dos Passos
Little Children, Tom Perrotta
The Runner, Christopher Reich
Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
Night, Elie Wiesel
Chain of Command, Seymour Hersh
Chronicles, Bob Dylan
Gather Together in My Name, Maya Angelow
At Play in Fields of the Lord, Peter Matthiessen
John, Cynthia Lennon
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald, David Handler
Sin Killer, Larry McMurty
Faster, James Gleick
Misquoting Jesus, Bart D. Ehrman
We'll Always have Parrots, Donna Andrews
Shrub, Molly Ivins
A Song Flung Up to Heaven, Maya Angelou
The Portrait, Iain Pears
One Woman's Army, Janis Karpinski
The Lost Painting, Jonathan Harr
Leaving Cheyenne, Larry McMurtry
Underboss, Peter Maas
Confessions of an Economic Hitman, John Perkins
The Demon in the Freezer, Richard Preston
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, Ross King
Bone's Lick, Larry McMurtry
One More River to Cross, Will Henry
Wondering Hill, Larry McMurtry
Middle Age, Joyce Carol Oates
Swimming to Catalina, Stwart Wood
Nothing's Sacred, Lewis Black
The Forgotten, Elie Wiesel
God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Futureland, Walter Mosley

Summer 2006

The Juges, Elie Wiesel
Will Rogers:  Reflections and Observations, 1922-1935, Bryan B and Frances N. Sterling
Ya-Yas in Bloom, Rebecca Wells
We Are All Welcome Here, Elizabeth Berg
American Theocracy, Kevin Philips
Don't Eat This Book, Morgan Spurlock
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
Ahab's Wife, Sena Jeta Naslund
The Insider, Stephen Frey
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
The Great Failure, Natalie Goldberg
Little Alters Everywhere, Rebecca Wells
Found Money, James Grippando
A Gathering of Old Men, Ernest J. Gaines
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
Death of Common Sense, Philip Howard
Our Inner Ape, Frans De Waal
The Holy Man's Journey, Susan Trott
Jungle Law, Victoria Vinton
A Cinderella Affidavit, Michael Frederickson
The Long Rain, Peter Gadol

Fall 2006

Marley and Me, John Grogen
Telegraph Days, Larry McMurtry
Cesar's Way, Cesar Millan and Melissa Jo Pettier
LA. Times, Stuart Woods
The Run, Stuart Woods
Self Made Man, Norah Vincent
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole, Stephanie Doyon
On Beauty, Zadie Smith
Love Walked In, Marisa De Los Santos
Saving Fish from Drowning, Amy Tan
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
The Man Called Cash, Steve Turner
American Sphinx:  The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Joseph J. Ellis
Saturday, Iam McEwan
Straight Man, Richard Russo
Blue Shoes and Happiness, Alexander McCall Smith
The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer
The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
The Way We Eat, Peter Singer and Jim Mason
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult
Dinosaur Days, Jill Laurimore
Our Lady of the Forest, David Guterson
DaLai Lama, My Son, Diki Tsering
The Brethren, John Grisham
Shock, Robin Cook
Reversible Errors, Scott Turow
Both Your Houses, Sarah Harrison
Suspect, Michael Robotham
Ethnic America, Thomas Sowell
Firefly Beach, Luanne Rice
Talk Talk, T.C. Boyle

Must Read List
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
The Dress Lodger, Sheri Holman
The Crimson Petal and the White, Michael Faber
The Earth Shall Weep, James Wilson

How to afford a reading habit.
1. Go to the library
2. Buy used books on the Internet (great bargains)
3. Join Book clubs (free book offers)
4. Join rent a book clubs (cheap books)
5. For your birthday or Christmas or anytime people give you gifts, ask for books