Recently Read Books

"...The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing."
- "Franny and Zooey" J.D. Salinger



Fiction Non-Fiction
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
Short Girls - Bich Minh Nguyen
The Water Method Man - John Irving
The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
The Last Theorem - Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Deja Dead - Kathy Reichs
Hercules: The Wrath of Poseidon - John Gregory Betancourt
My Gun Is Quick - Mickey Spillane
Brides of the Impaler - Edward Lee
I, The Jury - Mickey Spillane
A Streetcar Named Expire: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery - Mary Daheim
Any Given Doomsday - Lori Handeland
The Genesis Machine - James P. Hogan
The Tragedy of Richard III - William Shakespeare
The Grays - Whitley Strieber
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Skinny Dip - Carl Hiaasen
Congo - Michael Crichton
Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill
The Colorado Kid - Stephen King
A Canticle For Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Area 51 - Robert Doherty
Wither - J. G. Passarella
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire
Cell - Stephen King
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Sunshine - Robin McKinley
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence: After the Long Goodbye - Masaki Yamada
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
From A Buick 8 - Stephen King
Mary, Queen of France - Jean Plaidy
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger
Warrior Queen - Alan Gold
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Night In The Lonesome October - Richard Laymon
Low Red Moon - Caitlin R. Kiernan
The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Deception Point - Dan Brown
Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
lost boy lost girl - Peter Straub
Belinda - Anne Rice
Slob - Rex Miller
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
Threshold - Caitlin R. Kiernan
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
'Salem's Lot - Stephen King
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
Mystery - Peter Straub
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty - Anne Rice
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
The Path - Richard Matheson
The Secret History - Donna Tarrt
Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman
Lies & Ugliness - Brian Hodge
Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
The Book of the Damned - Tanith Lee
Lucky You - Carl Hiaasen
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Wild Horses - Brian Hodge

Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things - Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much - Allison Hoover Bartlett
Superfreakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
My Life in France - Julia Child with Alex Prud'Homme
American On Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot - Craig Ferguson
Creative Journal Writing - Stephanie Dowrick
Julie & Julia - Julie Powell
Diary of an Exercise Addict - Peach Friedman
Giving Up: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath - Jillian Becker
Dewey - Vicki Myron
Marley and Me - John Grogan
The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs - Ken Jennings
Oval Office Occult: True Stories of White House Weirdness - Brian M. Thomsen
Obscene In The Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' - Rick Wartzman
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor - Bruce Campbell
Compulsive Acts: A Psychiatrist's Tales of Ritual and Obsession - Elias Aboujaoude, M. D.
Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse - Dr. Robi Ludwig and Matt Birkbeck
Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple) - Jeffrey Kluger
Baa Baa Black Sheep - Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, Col., U.S. Marine Corps, Ret.
Travels with Charley (In Search of America) - John Steinbeck
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
The Planets - Dava Sobel
Too Far From Home - Chris Jones
Secrets of the Widow's Son - David A. Shugarts
Playing With Trains: A Passion Beyond Scale - Sam Posey
The Pedant's Revolt: Know What Know-It-Alls Know - Andrea Barham
While Europe Slept - Bruce Bawer
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
The Serpent and The Moon - HRH Princess Michael of Kent
Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Know-It-All - A. J. Jacobs
So Many Books, So Little Time - Sara Nelson
Holy Blood, Holy Grail - Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
Salinger: A Biography - Paul Alexander
The Fog - Rob MacGregor and Bruce Gernon
Bringing Down the House - Ben Mezrich
Alien Agenda - Jim Marrs
The Key - Whitley Strieber
The Secret School - Whitley Strieber
The Philadelphia Experiment - William Moore and Charles Berlitz
Historical Deception - Moustafa Gadalla
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed - Patricia Cornwell
How The Irish Saved Civilization - Thomas Cahill
On Writing - Stephen King
1066: The Year of the Conquest - David Howarth
First Light - Richard Preston



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Last Update: 7-29-2010