Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Ford County by John Grisham
The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary by Jeff Kinney (w/ Gage)
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
The Lake Shore Limited by Sue Miller
Driftless by David Rhoades
Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry
Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey
Indian in the Cupboard by Lynn Reid Banks (w/ Gage)
Lush Life by Richard Price
Magic Tree House: Monday with a Mad Genius by Mary Pope Osborne (w/ Gage)
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris
Magic Tree House: Christmas in Camelot by Mary Pope Osborne (w/ Gage)
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney (wanted to see what my kid was reading--they're pretty funny!)
Do Justice and Let the Sky Fall: Elizabeth F. Loftus and Her Contributions to Science, Law, and Academic Freedom by Harlene Hayne and Maryanne Garry
Forever Today: A Memoir of Love and Amnesia by Deborah Wearing
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet
What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain
The Road by Corman McCarthyThe Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
Another Day in the Life of the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside by Katrina Firlik
Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent by John Burnett
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
I Thought My Father was God and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project by Paul Auster
The Story of My Father by Sue Miller
Naked by David Sedaris
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Lisey's Story by Stephen King
State of Fear by Michael Crichton
Mindhunter by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Cell by Stephen King
My Friend Leonard by James Frey
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Other books I've read prior to me keeping this silly list (pre-April 2006)
On Writing by Stephen King
I Know this Much is True by Wally Lamb
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller (I was on a Sue Miller kick for a few months)
Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller
The Good Mother by Sue Miller
Inventing the Abbots by Sue Miller
Family Pictures by Sue Miller
For Love by Sue Miller
The World Below by Sue Miller
The Distinguished Guest by Sue Miller
Hurricane by James Hirsch
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Cry Wolf by Tami Hoag
Night Sins by Tami Hoag
Dark Paradise by Tami Hoag
Dark Horse by Tami Hoag
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
All Stephen King
All Harry Potter
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
A Creed for the Third Millennium by Colleen McCullough
Siddartha by Herman Hesse
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
And plenty of trashy novels by Michael Crichton, James Hall, John Grisham, Patricia Cornwell, Dean Koontz, etc, etc.
Books I remember reading as a kid
House of Stairs by William Sleator
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Time at the Top by David Ormondroyd
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
All the Nancy Drew mysteries by Carolyn Keene
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
A Wind Through the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Forever by Judy Blume
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Judy Blume
Wifey by Judy Blume
Deenie by Judy Blume
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
Blubber by Judy Blume
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Promise by Danielle Steele (and a lot of other sappy-spicy Steele books)
The Borrowers by Mary Norton