Getting By, Dreaming Big

I didn’t start keeping track of what I was reading until after college.  My friend Amy & I started a Book Journal where we review books after we read them and then swap notebooks every 6 months.  A couple of years ago I found Goodreads and started keeping track of all the books that I’ve read there.  In the spirit of Monday Bookworms I thought I would make it easy for my blog readers to see what I have read and what I loved.  The books are sorted by how much I liked them and alphabetically within that section.

5 Stars

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe

Tuesdays with Morrie: A Old Man, A Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lessons, Mitch Albom

The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Without Reservation: How a Controversial Indian Tribe Rose to Power and Built the World’s Largest Casino, Jeff Benedict

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt

March, Geraldine Brooks

Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson

The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck

In Cold Blood, Truman Capote

The Alienist, Caleb Carr

Life and Death in Shanghai, Nien Cheng

Kitchen Privilegs:  A Memior, Mary Higgins Clark

Stillwatch, Mary Higgins Clark

Where Are the Children?, Mary Higgins Clark

The Red Tent, Anita Diamant

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lucky Man:  A Memoir, Michael J. Fox

Outlander, Diana Gabaldon

The Autobiography of Henry VII, With Notes by his Fool, Will Somers, Margaret George

Memiors of a Geisha, Arthur Golden

Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson

The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemmingway

When Elephants Dance, Tess Uriza Holthe

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

The Cider House Rules, John Irving

On the Road, Jack Kerouac

The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd

The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer

To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane

All Souls:  A Family Story from Southie, Michael Patrick MacDonald

Life of Pi, Yann Martel

The Road, Cormac McCarthy

Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt

John Adams, David McCullough

Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of 6 MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, Ben Mezrich

Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Pable Neruda

The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

The Eight, Katherine Neville

The Dante Club:  A Novel, Matthew Pearl

Here Be Dragons (Book #1), Sharon Kay Penman

Falls the Shadow (Book #2), Sharon Kay Penman

The Reckoning (Book #3), Sharon Kay Penman

Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick

The Godfather, Mario Puzo

George Washington: A Life, Willard Sterne Randall

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling

The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell

Snowflower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein

Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks

The Wedding, Nicholas Sparks

Exodus, Leon Uris

Trinity, Leon Uris

Here is New York, E.B. White

The Blessing Stone, Barbara Wood

The Winds of War, Herman Wouk

War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk

The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon