2026 Reading List: 

(This list is made up in Feb. when everyone from age 5 to 100 get to tell me their ULTIMATE favorite book.  I find this gets me outside my own reading box!)

Thank you Everyone for the Gift of Reading!

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2026

CRICHTEN Michael- Jurassic park!

BEAUBY Jean-Dominique-The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 

REID Taylor Jenkins-Carrie Soto is Back

PATRICK Cat-Tornado Brain
HOCHSCHILD Arlie-The Second Shift
OWEN James A.-Here There be Dragons
HARPMEN Jacqueline-I who have never known men

STRAND Sophie-the madonna secret

MOON Elizabeth-the adventures of Paksenarrion

BRAUWER Sigmond-the wings of dawn

ROWLING-philosophers stone(READ)

WALSH Chloe- binding 13

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2025

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ANTHONY Piers- to ride a pale horse (READ)

ARCHER Jeffrey-Nothing Ventured (READ)

BANCROFT Josiah-Senlin Ascends

BARKER Clive-Imajica

BARTIN Louise-I married the Klondike

BERTON-Vimy

BROOKS Geraldine-people of the book

BUJOLD McMaster Lois-shards of honor(READ)

CAREY Jaqueline-Starless (READ)

CLAVELL James-Nobel house

COUSINEAU Phil-The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred- (READ)

CRUMMEY Michael-river thieves 

DOYLE Author Conan-The hounds of the Baskerville(READ)

FOSTER Alan Dean- The Tar-Aiym Krang

FREEDMAN Benedict & Nancy-Mrs Mike 

GOLDING William-Lord of the Flies(READ)

GRAY Zane-Rainbow Trail (READ)

HANFF Helen-84 Charring Cross Rd.

HANSON  Victor Davis-Why the West Has Won : Carnage and Culture from Salamis to Vietnam

HAWKINS David-I:  Reality and Subjectivity

HAWKINS Scott-The library at Mount Char

HINTON S.E.-That was then, this is now

JORDAN Robert-Memory of light

KING Stephen-Fairy Tale 

KUANG R.F.-Babel(READ)

KUNDERA Milan-The unbearable likeness of being

LAWRENCE Margaret-The Diviners

LIPPINCOTT Rachel-5 feet apart

MAAS Sarah-Crescent City. House of earth and blood

MARSHALL Heather-Looking for Jane(READ)

McCARTHY Cormac-Crossing

McGOWAN Kathleen-the expected one

NABAKOV-Lolita

ORWELL George-Down and out in Paris & London

PAIGE Danielle-Dorothy must die

PAUL Gill-Women and children first

PEART Neil-Ghost rider:  Travels on the healing road

PLUM-UCCI Carol-What Happened to Lani Garver 

POLLOCK Donald Ray-The Heavenly Table

REID Taylor Jenkins-Daisy Jones and the Six(ABANDONED)

RITCHLER Mordicai-Jacob Two Two

SANDERSON Brandon-Skyward

SCHWAB Victoria-this savage song

SEUSS-because a little bug went kachoo

SMYTHE Rachel-Lore

STEINBECK-Travels With Charlie in Search of America

STEWART Mary-the Chrystal Cave

URIS Leon-Exodus

VONNEGUT Kurt-Harrison Bergeron

WILDE Oscar-picture of Dorian Gray

WILDER Laura Ingalls-Little House on the Prairie series(READ)

WILLIAMS Jean-Unplowed skies

 

2024 

 

AHLBERG Janet-The Jolly Postman

ATWOOD Margaret-the fire dwellers

BANKS Ian-Player of games

BARKER Clive-Thief of Always

BLACK Holly-Cruel Prince (READ)

BONJEAN Hugo-In the eyes of Anahita: An Adventure in Search of Humanity

BORGIA Anthony-Life in the world of unseen

BROWN Pierce- Dark age

CHEW Ruth-Wednesday witch

CLEEVE Chris-Little Bee (READ)

COHEN Jon-Harry's tree

COLLINS Max Allen-Blood Thunder

COMER John Mark-The Ruthless Elimination of hurry (ABANDONED)

CRICHTON-State of fear

DAVIDSON Andrew-The Gargoyle

DESSON Sarah-Lock and Key(READ)

DICKENS Charles-Great expectation (ABANDONED)

DOCTOROW E.L.-World's fair

DOSTOEVSKY Fyodor-crime and punishment

FAIRBAIRN Anne-5 smooth stones

FITCH Janet-White Oleander

FORMAN Vicki-This lovely life

GAIMAN Neil-Grave yard book

GRANT Michael-The age of Alexander

GRIFFIN W.E.B-Brotherhood of War

HEINLIEN Robert-Time enough for love, Starship Troopers(READ)

HICKEL Jason-the Divide

HIGGINS Jack-the eagle has landed (READ)

HINTON Anthony-Sun does Shine:  How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row(READ)

HUGO Victor-Les Misérables(READ)

IRVING John-World according to Garp, prayer to Owen Meany

JOYCE Rachel-Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

KEYES Daniel-Flowers for Algernon(READ)

KING Author

KING Stephen-Different Seasons

L'AMOUR Louis-Long way home

LAUREN Kate-Fallen(ABANDONED)

LEMIRE Jeff-Roughneck

LONDON Jack-White fang(READ)

LUTES Jason-Berlin

MARQUEZ Gabriel Garcia- A Hundred years of solitude (ABANDONED)

McCARTHY Cormac-Blood Meridian (READ)

McCULLOUGH Colleen-First man in Rome, independent woman

McFADDEN John Joe-Life on the edge: the coming of quantum biology

PATTERSON James-Maximum ride

PIERCE Meridith-Birth of Firebringer

RICE Anne-Witching hour

ROBERTS Gregory-Shantaram

ROY Gabrielle-Street of riches

RYAN Cornelius-Bridge too far

SAILOR Charles-The Second son

SALINGER JD-Nine stories

SANDFORD John-Saturn's run

STEINBECK-Winter of our discontent

STEWART George R.-Earth Abides

STRATTON Gene-freckles

UPDIKE John-Harry Rabbit angstrom series

WOLF Tom-Back to blood(READ)

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2023

BRITAIN Kristin-Green Rider 

GREEN John Patrick-Investigators Braver and Boulder

KLUNE T.J -The House in the Cerulean Sea(READ)

MacLEAN Alister-HMS Ulysses

MERTON Thomas- Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander 

MUNSCH Robert-Love you forever (READ)

SAJER Guy-Forgotten Soldier

SAKS Elyn-The center cannot hold

SHAFAK Elif- The Forty Rules of Love

SILVERBERG -At Winter’s End

SIMMONS Dan -Hyperion

SMART Elizabeth-By Grand Central Station I sat down and Wept

WALLACE David Foster-Infinite Jest

YANAGIHARA- A Little Life(ABANDONED)

YOUNG Moira - Blood Red Road

YOUNG Wm. Paul-The Shack (READ)

 

2022

 

ANGELOU Maya-I know where the caged bird sings(READ)

ARMSTRONG Kelly-bitten

ATWOOD Margaret- Robber Bride

BARDUGO Leigh- 6 of crows

BENGTSSON Franz G.- the Longships

BOLDT Menno- Surviving as Indians

CARD Orson-Enders Game

CAREY Jaqueline-starless

CARTER Rueban-16th Round

CHBOSKY Stephen-Perks of being a wallflower(READ)

CHOPIN Kate-the awakening

CHRISTIE Agatha- 10 little Indians

CHURCHILL Winston-Biography

CLANCEY Tom- the Hunt for Red October

COLLODI Carlo-Pinocchio (READ)

COOK Robin-Toxin

COPE Gordon-A Paris moment

CRONIN Justin-passage (READ)

DEMILLE-nightfall

DUNCAN David James-the brothers K

ESTES Clarissa Pinkola- Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (READ)

EVANS Richard- the Horse Whisper

FERBER Edna- Cimarron

FITZGERALD Scott-Great Gatsby

FORSCHEN William R.- Magic the gathering: the arena

GREEN John- Paper Towns

HANNAH Kristin- Nightingale(READ)

KAUFMANN Donna-Barking up the wrong tree

KAUFMANN Christmas C-light from heaven

KIDD Sue Monk-Secret lives of bees

KING Stephen- Talisman

KINGSOLVER Barbara-Animal, vegetable, miracle (READ)

KINSELLA W.P- shoeless Joe 9 (READ)

LACKEY Mercedes-the last herald mage

LAMBERT Mary E.-Distress Signal

LANDY Derek-skulduggery pleasant (READ)

LOWREY Lois-the giver(READ)

LOWREY Malcolm- Under the Volcano

MACINTYRE Ben-Agent zigzag

MAFI Tahereh-Shatter me

MARR Melissa-Wicked lovely

MCQUISTON Macy-Red, White, Royal Blue

MEYERS Stephanie-twilight(READ)

MILLER Madeline-Circe(READ)

MONSERRAT Nicholas-Cruel Sea

MOORE Christopher-Lamb (READ)

MUKHERJE Siddhartha- the Emperor of all Maladies

OGIWARA Noriko-Dragon sword and wind chill

OPPEL Kevin-Silverwing

PICOULT Jodi-my sisters keeper(READ)

POE Edgar Allan- complete works

ROBBINS Tom-still life with Woodpeckers

ROTH Veronica-Divergent

RUTHERFORD Edward-Paris(READ)

SARAMAGO Jose-Blindness (READ)

SCHUSTERMAN-Scythe

SMITH Zoe-white teeth

SOWELL Thomas-Intellectuals and Society

STOVEL Jim- the ultimate gift

SUMINO Yuro-I want to eat your pancreas

TARSHIS Lauren- I survived-Grizzly Attack

TELGEMEIER Raina-Smile

TORRE Joe-the Yankee Years

WYNDHAM John-the triffids (READ)

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2021

ARMSTRONG Kelley - The Summoning

BURROUGHS Edgar Rice - A princess of Mars

CLINE Ernest - Ready player one (abandoned try later)

COLLINS Suzanne - The Hunger Games (READ)

DICKENS Charles - A tale of two cities (Abandoned try later)

DOYLE Arthur Conan - The lost world(READ)

GAIMAN Neil - Neverwhere (READ)

GINZBURG Natalia - Family Lexicon

GRIMM - Grimm's fairy tales(READ)

GWYNNE S.C. - Empire of the summer moon (READ)

HEMINGWAY Ernest - A farewell to arms

IGGULDSON - Dunstan

JOHNSON W Mendal - Lets go play at the Adams'

KEENE Carolyn - A Nancy Drew Christmas

KUNDERA Milan - The book of laughter & forgetting

LEWIS C.S. - The Magician's Nephew(READ)

McCARTHY Cormac - Suttree

McCULLOUGH - Thornbirds

McCULLERS Carson - The heart is a lonely hunter

MONTGOMERY L M - The blue Castle

MUSASHI Miyamoto - The book of five rings

PUZO Mario -The Godfather(READ)

RULE Anne - Stranger beside me(READ)

SANDERSON Brandon - The way of kings (READ)

SHUTE Neville - Pastoral

SINCLAIR April - Coffee will make you black

TOWELS Amor - Gentleman in Moscow (abandoned try later)

VERNE Jules - 20000 leagues under the sea (abandoned try later)

WOMACK Gwendolyn - The memory painter

YOGANANDA Paramahansa - Autobiography of a Yogi

ZINDEL Paul - To take a dare

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2020

ARCHER Jeffrey-Kane and Abel

BALLINTINE T-Twisted Metal-

BAUGHMAN Richard-friendly Banker-financial

BENFORD Greg-Timescape

BINCHY Maeve-circle of friends

BINDERMANN Gottlob-In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir

BISHOP Anne-Daughter of the blood

BLUME Judy-tiger eyes(READ)

BOONE Charles- love this land

BRADBURY-fahrenheit 451-C (READ)

BROWN Christie-my left foot

BURTON Pierre-The last spike

BUTLER Octavian-kindred-(READ)

BUTLER Samuel- Erewhon-

CAREY Edward-Observatory Mansions

CARR Caleb- the alienist

CHILTON David-Wealthy Barber(READ)

CLANCY-Without Remorse(READ)

CLARE Cassandra-city of Bones (READ)

COELHO Pablo-11 minutes

CONROY Frank-Body and Soul

COPELAND- life after god

COURTNEY Bryce-power of one

DANIELEWSKI Mark- House of Leaves 

DASH Mike-Batavia's Graveyard

DELINSKY Barbara-Coast Road

D'LACY-Eternal fire, fire within

DOBYNS Stephen-Church of Dead Girls

DOERR-All the light we cannot see(READ)

DONALDSON Steven-Chronicles of the Thomas Covenant 

DU MAURIER-rebecca(READ)

DYER Gwynne-war

ECKERT Allen-Hab Theory

EDDINGS David-belgarian series(READ)

ELIOT George-middlemarch

FABIASCHI Abbi-I like my life

FAULKNER John Meade-Moonfleet

FLEURY Theoren-playing with fire

FOLLETT Ken-Eye of the needle,

GAIMON NEAL- Ocean at the end of the lane

GALLARD Adolf-The first and last

GARWOOD Julie-Ransom

GOMI Taro-everyone poops

GOODKIND Terry-The Wizards First Rule

GIBSON William-Neuromancer

GRAFTON Sue-p for peril (READ)

GRAVES- I, Claudius

GREEN John-Will Grayson, Will Grayson

HARARI Yuval-Sapiens(READ)

HINTON- outsiders (READ)

HUGHES Katherine-the letter

HUGHES Robert-Fatal Shores

JACKSON Lisa-Right behind you(READ)

JACKSON Shirley- Raising demons

JOE-Goose Girl (READ)

KHAYYAM Gilbram-rubaiyat(READ)

KING Steven-dragon eyes

KOONTZ-From the corner of his eye

L'AMOUR-Flint

LECKIE Anne-ancillary justice

LIVINGSTONE Johnathon-the seagull

LONDON Jack-call of the wild(READ), seawolf

LUDLUM Robert- Matrese, parsifal mosaic

MEAD Rachel-Vampire Academy

MICHENER -Hawaii,

MISTRY Rohinton- a fine balance 

MITCHELL-gone with the wind (READ)

MONROE Jim-flyboy action figure comes with gas mask

NASRIN Taslima-Lajja

NIETZSCHE-Thus spoke Zarathustra

ORWELL-1984(READ), animal farm(READ)

PALACIO-Wonder

PIRSIG Robert-Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance(READ)

REYNOLDS Allister-House of Suns

RIORDAN Rick-house of hades(ABANDONED)

SALINGER-Catcher in the Rye

SCARRY Richard-cars, trucks and things that go(READ)

SELBY Hubert-Last exit to Brooklyn

SENDAK Maurice-where the wild things are(READ)

SHAKESPEARE-Othello

SHIRER William-rise and fall of third Reich(READ)

SPARKS Nicolas-the notebook(READ)

STARKELL-paddle to the Amazon(READ)

STIEFVATER Maggie-Raven boys(READ)

STEINBECK-the pearl (READ)

STEVENSON Neil-Anathema

STRASSER Todd-Give the boy a gun

WALLACE David- This is water

WERNER Herbert-Iron Coffins

WILSON Robert- The Chronoliths

ZINDEL-Pigman

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2019

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AUSTEN Jane-Pride and Prejudice(READ)/Mansfield park-

BUGLIOSI Vincent-Helter Skelter-(READ)

BRAGIN Vladimir-in the world of sleeping grass-

BROWN JACKSON-Life's little instruction book-

CARNEGIE Dale-How to win friends and influence people-(READ)

DUNNET-Game of Kings-

GRABENSTEIN Chris-Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library-

HUXLEY -Brave New World-(READ)

KAYE M.M.-Far Pavilions

KEARSLEY Susanna-firebird

KIEDIS Anthony-Scar Tissue

KING Stephen-11-23-63(READ)

KOONTZ-Black lightning

KUROYANAGI Tetsuko-Totto Chan:the little girl at the window-kids

LAMB Wally-I Know this much is true

LeCARRE John-Tinker, tailor, soldier spy

LUMLEY BRIAN-Necroscope

MCCARTHY Cormac-the Road(READ)

McMANUS Patrick-the horse in my garage

MORTON Kate-Forgotten Garden-

RATH E.J-the Nervous Wreck

SAINT EXUPERY- the Little Prince(READ)

SILVER Alfred-Where the Ghost Horse runs

SMITH Wilbur-River God

STEVENSON Robert-treasure Island(READ)

TURANO Jen-A change of Fortune

WYNDHAM JOHN-Chrysalids-F (READ)

WOLFF Tom-right stuff

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2018 reading list...still working on it!

ADAMS Douglas-Dirk Gently’s Holistic Agency(abandoned-try later)

ALBOM Mitch-Tuesdays with Morrie (READ)
ANTHONY Piers-Spell for a Chameleon

ASIMOV-foundation(READ)

AURELIUS Marcus-Meditations

BABBITT- Tuck Everlasting (READ)

BERTIN Pierre-Why we Act Canadian (abandoned try later)

BISHOP Anne-Written in Red(READ)

BONE-Graphic novel kids(READ)

BOX CAR KIDS #10 (READ)

CALVIN&HOBBES-something under the bed is drooling(READ)

COELO Pablo-the Alchemist(READ)

COOLIDGE Susan-What Katy Did(READ)
CONROY Pat-Beach Music/Prince of Tides

CULLETON Beatrice-In search of April Raintree(READ)
CUSSLER Clive-Seahunters
DeWITT Patrick-the sisters brothers (abandoned try later)
DIAMOND-Red Tent

DUMAUIER Daphne-Jamaica Inn(READ)

FARLEY Walter-Man of War(READ)
FERRANTE- My Brilliant Friend(READ)
FOLLET-Pillars of the earth(READ)

GABALDON-outlander(READ)

GOOSEBUMPS- The Headless Ghost (READ)

GRIFFITHS Andy-13th story Treehouse

HEINLEIN-Door into Summer

IGGULDEN Conn- Conqueror
IRVING-A prayer for Owen Meany

JORDAN Robert-eye of the World (READ)

KENNEDY Richard-Amy’s Eyes(READ)
KING Stephen-the Stand(READ),Long walk (READ)

KINGSOLVER-Poisonwood Bible (READ)

LAWHEAD Stephen-Byzantium(READ)

MALCHUK Kim-Tasting Rain

MAMOODY Betty-not without my daughter(READ)
MANDELA-Long Walk to Freedom (READ)

MARLYN John-under the ribs of Death-WPG author
MCCAMMON-Swan Song

MCMURTRY-Lonesome Dove

MONTGOMERY-Anne of Green Gables(READ)

MOORE Christopher-Lamb(READ)

MORGENSTERN- night circus (READ)

MOYES Jojo- Me Before You(READ)

NANCY DREW- the hidden Staircase(READ)
NIVEN John- Kill Your Friends

NIVEN Jennifer-All the Bright Places(READ)

PIERCE Tamara-Wild Magic(READ)
PILCHER Rosamunde-Shell seekers

PILKEY-Dogman(READ)

PORTER JEAN Stratton-the Girl of the Limber lost(READ)

RAND Ayn-Atlas Shrugged-(abandoned don't know if try later, sooo long and confusing))

ROTHFUSS Patrick-Name of the Wind

SEATON Ernest-bio of a grizzly

SHELLEY Mary-Frankenstein (READ)

SMITH Patti-just Kids-(READ)

SOLZHENITSYN Aleksandr-Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich(READ)

SPECHT Robert-Tisha

STEIN Garth-Art of Racing in the Rain(READ)

STEINBECK-east of Eden, Of Mice and Men (READ)

STEPHENSON Neil-Snow Crash

STUEMER Diane-Voyage of the Northern Magic

TAN AMY-Joy Luck Club (READ)
TARTT-Goldfinch(READ)
TREVANIAN-Shibumi
VONNEGUT Kurt-slaughter house 5(abandoned-try later)

WILLIAM Tadd-Dragonbone Chair

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BOOKS I DON’T HAVE IN THE SHOP YET:
(If Anyone has any of These Feel Free to Bring them in!)

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ABBEY LLOYD-the Last Whales:  a novel

MATTIEU W.A.-a Musical Life
TOYNBEE ARNOLD-a Study of History

ZANE Parker-Tin Tin

 

HAPPY HAPPY READING!