My 2010 reading list
It is (mostly) alphabetical by author's last name
A
1) A Death in the Family by James Agee
2) Eva Luna, Isabel Allende (1988)
3) Money, Martin Amis (1985
4) Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
5) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
6) And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
7) Days of Grace by Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad
8) Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
9) The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth by David Attenborough
10) The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
B
11) Growing Up by Russell Baker
12) Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
13) The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (1996)
14) Lilies of the Field by William Barrett
15) Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006)
16) Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger (1990)
17) Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
18) Looking Backward: 2000-1987 by Edward Bellamy
19) Sieze the Day by Saul Bellow
20) The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as told in the United States by Michael Berenbaum
21) Drop City, TC Boyle (2003)
22) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
23) Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch (1988)
24) Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
25) Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
26) The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
27) Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
28) The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (2003)
29) The Predators' Ball, Connie Bruck (1988)
30) Possession, A.S. Byatt (1990)
C
31) The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
32) Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
33) Cathedral, Raymond Carver (1983)
34) My Antonia by Willa Cather
35) O Pioneers by Willa Cather
36) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
37) The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
38) The Awakening by Kate Chopin
39) The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (1984)
40) Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930 by Gregory Clancey
41) Alistar Cooke’s America by Alistar Cooke
42) The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
43) The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
44) The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
45) I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
46) To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family by Jan D. Criddle and Teeda Butt Mam
47) Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes
48) Complete Poems, 1904-1962 by E.E. Cummings
49) Madame Curie by Eve Curie
D
50) Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995)
51) The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
52) Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sara and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth
53) Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997)
54) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)
55) The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
56) The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2005)
57) World's Fair, E.L. Doctorow (1985)
58) The Complete Poetry of John Donne by John Donne
59) A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
E
60) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (2000)
61) Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
62) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
63) “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot
64) Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard. by Norrie Epstein
F
65) The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman (1997)
66) Backlash, Susan Faludi (1991)
67) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
68) Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! By Richard Feynman
69) Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (1998)
70) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
71) The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
72) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
73) The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (2001
74) Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)
75) The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost
G
76) Sandman, Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)
77) The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Earnest Gaines
78) Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
79) Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
80) Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
81) Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
82) My House by Nikki Giovanni
83) The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
84) Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman (1998)
85) Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
86) Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene (1991)
87) Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick (1994)
H
88) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (2003)
89) Mythology by Edith Hamilton
90) A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
91) The Scarlet LetterThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
92) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
93) A Farwell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
94) Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
95) Hiroshima by John Hersey
96) Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (1995)
97) The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
98) High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (1995)
99) The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)
100) Selected Poems by Langston Hughes
101) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
I
102) A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
103) A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1989)
104) The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
J
105) Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson (1992)
K
106) The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England by Carol Karlsen
107) The Liars' Club, Mary Karr (1995)
108) Complete Poems by John Keats
109) The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
110) Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
111) One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
112) A Testament of Hope: The Essenstial Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
113) On Writing, Stephen King (2000)
114) The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
115) Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
116) There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in Urban America by Alex Kotlowitz
117) Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol
118) Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997)
L
119) Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)
120) To Kill a Mockingbird byHarper Lee
121) Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
122) The Night Manager, John le Carré (1993)
123) Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001)
124) LaBrava, Elmore Leonard (1983)
125) A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
126) Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
127) Call of the Wild by Jack London
128) The Poetical Works of Longfellow Includes "The Song of Hiawatha" and "The Courtship of Miles Standish." By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
129) The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993)
M
130) The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
131) The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom (1990)
132) Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
133) Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (1988)
134) Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
135) Millenium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World by David Maybury-Lewis
136) The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006)
137) Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt (1996)
138) The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCuller
139) Atonement, Ian McEwan (2002)
140) Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney (1984)
141) Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)
142) Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985)
143) Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James McPherson
144) Moby Dick by Herman Melville
145) This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer by Kay Mills
146) Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
147) Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
148) Borrowed Time, Paul Monette (1988)
149) Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (1998)
150) Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
151) Sula by Toni Morrison
152) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997)
153) Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996)
N
O
154) Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates (1992)
155) The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (1990)
156) A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’ Connor
157) Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill
158) Animal Farm by George Orwell
P
159) The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
160) Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
161) Bel Canto, Anne Patchett (2001)
162) Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
163) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
164) The Republic by Plato
165) Great Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
166) The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
167) The Chosen by Chaim Potok
168) Clockers, Richard Price (1992)
169) Close Range, Annie Proulx (1999)
Q
R
170) Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl (2001)
171) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
172) A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell (1998)
173) A Light In The Forest by Conrad Richter
174) Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (2004)
175) Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues by Donn Rogosin
176) American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997)
177) Goodbye, Columbus by Phillip Roth
178) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000)
S
179) Holes, Louis Sachar (1998)
180) The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger
181) Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg
182) Clover by Dori Sanders
183) Blindness, José Saramago (1998)
184) Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)
185) No Exit by Jean Paul Sarte
186) Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003)
187) Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2001)
188) Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
189) The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (2002)
190) Naked, David Sedaris (1997)
191) William Shakespeare
192) Man and Superman, Saint Joan, Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
193) Frakenstein by Mary W. Shelley
194) Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
195) And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987)
196) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
197) A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (1991)
198) The Ruins, Scott Smith (2006)
199) On Beauty, Zadie Smith (2005)
200) Oedipus Rex by Sophocoles
201) Maus, Art Spiegelman (1986/1991)
202) The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (1994)
203) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
204) The Pearl by John Steinbeck
205) The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
206) America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)
207) The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Cliff Stoll
208) Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
209) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
210) Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
T
211) The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
212) Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)
213) Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession by Studs Terkel
214) Poems of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas
215) Walden by Henry David Thoreau
216) Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
217) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
218) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
219) A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara Tuchman
220) Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow (1987)
U
221) Rabbit at Rest, John Updike (1990)
V
222) Slaughterhouse- Five by Kurt Vonnegut
W
223) Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade
224) The Color Purple by Alice Walker
225) A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997)
226) The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (2006)
227) Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware (2000)
228) The Double Helix by James Watson
229) Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf, with illustrations by Catherine Stoodley
230) The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
231) Thirteen Stories by EudoraWelty
232) Night by Elie Weisel
233) Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-65 by Juan Williams
234) Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams
235) The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
236) Our Town by Thornton Wilder
237) A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
238) The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
239) Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
240) The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987)
241) Poems by William Wordsworth
242) Native Son by Richard Wright
X
Y
243) The Poems by William Butler Yeats
244) Favorite Folktales From Around the World by Jane Yolen
Z
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