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* = loved it

~ = mixed feelings (enjoyed it, but something keeps me from recommending to everyone, but please read it anyway because I want to know what you think)

^ = hated it

For anything else, I’m either indifferent or I can’t remember what I thought. And yes, I stole this system from Stefanie and am doing it at Monkey’s suggestion.

1984, George Orwell
A is for Alibi, Sue Grafton
*About A Boy, Nick Hornby
About Time, Jack Finney
The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler
Adopted Jane, by Helen Fern Daringer
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
*The Alienist, Caleb Carr
*All the Little Live Things, Wallace Stegner
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
All Families Are Psychotic, Douglas Coupland
*All Over But the Shoutin’, Rick Bragg
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
The Alphabetical Hookup List A-J, Phoebe McPhee
The Alphabetical Hookup List K-Q, Phoebe McPhee
The Alphabetical Hookup List R-Z, Phoebe McPhee
*The Amateur Marriage, Anne Tyler
~The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
Americana, Don DeLillo
The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
*Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons, by Lorna Landvik
Angus, Thongs, & Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
*Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea, L.M. Montgomery
Anywhere But Here, Mona Simpson
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
*Around the World with Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
As It Is in Heaven, Niall Williams
At Home in Mitford, Jan Karon
*Atonement, by Ian McEwan
**Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
B is for Burglar, Sue Grafton
Banishing Verona, Margot Livesy
The Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments, the Snapper, the Van, Roddy Doyle
Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
*Beach Music, Pat Conroy
The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
*Before Women Had Wings, Connie May Fowler
*Before You Know Kindness, Chris Bohjalian
*Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
*Belong to Me, by Marisa de los Santos
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Beowulf
*The Best American Short Stories of 2007, ed. by Stephen King
~Between, Georgia, by Joshilyn Jackson
*The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant
^Bleak House, Charles Dickens
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
Brave New Girl, Louisa Luna
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler
*Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
^^Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
The Bright Forever, Lee Martin
C is for Corpse, Sue Grafton
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
~Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
*Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
*The Center of Everything, Laura Moriarty
Charmed Thirds, Megan McCafferty
*Charming Billy, Alice McDermott
*Charms for the Easy Life, Kaye Gibbons
*Chasing Cezanne, Peter Mayle
*The Children’s War, J.N. Stroyar
The Chisellers, Brendan O’Carroll
Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
The Christmas Mystery, Jostein Gaarder
The Client, John Grisham
Clinton in Exile, by Carol Felsenthal
The Clock Winder, Anne Tyler
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
*Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazer
*Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns
~The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai, by John Tayman
*The Colour Purple, Alice Walker
Come Again, Josie Lloyd & Emlyn Rees
*Come Together, Josie Lloyd & Emlyn Rees (I know. It’s total chick lit, but I loved it!)
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway
^Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
^Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
*The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind, David Guterson
The Cradle Will Fall, Mary Higgins Clark
*Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
*Crossing California, Adam Langer
The Cunning Man, by Robinson Davies
A Cure for Dreams, Kaye Gibbons
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon
D is for Deadbeat, Sue Grafton
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
Daddy, Danielle Steel
Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants, Louise Rennison
*The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl
Dark Angel, V.C. Andrews
Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, William Styron
*Dear Catastrophe Waitress, by Brendan Halpin
*Dearly Devoted Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay
Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
The Deep End of the Ocean, Jacquelyn Mitchard
Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
*Digging to America, by Anne Tyler
*Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler
*The Dirty Girls Social Club, Alisa Valdez-Rodriguez
*The Dive From Clausen’s Pier, Ann Packer
The Diversity of Life, E.O. Wilson
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
The Dog Who Spoke With Gods, Diane Jessup
Dragonfly in Amber, Diana Gabaldon
*Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, by David Sedaris
Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon
Drunk, Divorced, & Covered in Cat Hair, by Laurie Perry
E is for Evidence, Sue Grafton
Earth in the Balance, Al Gore
*Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
*Eating the Cheshire Cat, by Helen Ellis
~Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, by Janisse Ray
The Edge of Reason, Helen Fielding
^The Effect of Living Backwards, Heidi Julavits
Egyptian Jukebox, Nick Bantock
~Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons
*Empire Falls, Richard Russo
The Emperor of Ocean Park, Stephen L. Carter
*Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
Eye Contact, by Cammie McGovern
~The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
*Fall On Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Falls, Joyce Carol Oates
Family Album, Danielle Steel
~Family History, Dani Shapiro
A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Finding Manana, Mirta Ojito
Finding Miracles, Julia Alvarez
The Firm, John Grisham
Flowers in the Attic, V.C. Andrews
The Forgetting Room, Nick Bantock
^Forever, Pete Hamill
Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood, by Ann Brashares
The Forgotten Man, Robert Crais
*Four Letters of Love, Niall Williams
*Four Spirits, Sena Jeter Naslund
*Franny & Zooey, J.D. Salinger
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Fannie Flagg
From Time to Time, Jack Finney
*Further Tales of the City, by Armistead Maupin
Garden of Shadows, V.C. Andrews
Generation X, Douglas Coupland
*Gentlemen and Players, by Joanne Harris
*Georgia Under Water, Heather Sellers
The Giant’s House, Elizabeth McCracken
Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland
Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Melissa Banks
*Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
*Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares
Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis
*The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
Go Ask Alice, Anonymous
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
~The Gold Club: The Jacklyn “Diva” Bush Story: How I Went from Gold Room to Court Room, by Jacklyn Bush
The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes, Nick Bantock
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Good in Bed, Jennifer Weiner
*The Good Life, Jay McInerney
The Good Mother, Sue Miller
The Granny, Brendan O’Carroll
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (2)
*The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Santini, Pat Conroy
Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway
Grendel, John Gardner
*Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence, Nick Bantock
*The Group, Mary McCarthy
Gryphon: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues, Nick Bantock
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathon Swift
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, Tom Robbins
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
*Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
*Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
*Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
*Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
*Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling
*Harvesting the Heart, Jodi Picoult
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Heaven, V.C. Andrews
Her Husband: Hughes & Plath – A Marriage, Diane Middlebrooks
~Her Mother’s Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of my Daughter, Courtney Love, by Linda Carroll
*Hey Nostradamus!, by Douglas Coupland
*High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
*The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
^A Home at the End of the World, Michael Cunningham
^Honeymoon, James Patterson
The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
*The House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III
*The House on Fortune Street, by Margot Livesey
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
*The House on Fortune Street, by Margot Livesey
How the Irish Saved Civilization, Thomas Cahill
How to Be Good, Nick Hornby
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkein
*Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris
*How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez
*How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life, by Mameve Medwed
~I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe
*I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
*I Know This Much Is True, by Wally Lamb
*I Want to Go Home, by Gordon Korman (re-read)
The Ice Queen, by Alice Hoffman
If There Be Thorns, V.C. Andrews
*In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
In Her Shoes, Jennifer Weiner
*In the Company of the Courtesan, by Sarah Dunant
*In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
*Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Informers, Bret Easton Ellis
*The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
*Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
*Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, by Jon Krakauer
^Isle of Palms, Dorothea Benton Frank
The Ivy Chronicles, by Karen Quinn
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
~Joe College, Tom Perrotta
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
*Julie & Julia: 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, Julie Simon
~The Keep, by Jennifer Egan
Keeping Faith, by Jodi Picoult
*Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto
*The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas, Louise Rennison
The Known World, by Edward P. Jones
L.A. Requiem, Robert Crais
Ladder of Years, Anne Tyler
~The Lake of Dead Languages, Carol Goodman
The Last Days of Dogtown, by Anita Diamant
The Last Detective, Robert Crais
The Last Girls, Lee Smith
*The Last of the Savages, Jay McInerney
~The Last Time They Met, Anita Shreve
~Leaving Atlanta, Tayari Jones
Leaving Cold Sassy, Olive Ann Burns
Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Mary Higgins Clark
*Lie Down in Darkness, William Styron
*The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
Little Altars Everywhere, Rebecca Wells
*Little Children, Tom Perrotta
The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
*Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
*Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
*A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby
*A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
The Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy
Lost Laysen, Margaret Mitchell
Lost Things, Jenny Offill
*Love Is A Mix Tape, by Rob Sheffield
*Love Walked In, Marisa de los Santos
~The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk
*Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
The Mammy, Brendan O’Carroll
~A Map of the World, Jane Hamilton
*Me & Emma, Elizabeth Flock
*Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
*The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards
*The Mercy of Thin Air, Ronlyn Dominque
Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
*The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
Midnight Flight, V.C. Andrews
*Midwives, Chris Bohjalian
*A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
Miss Wyoming, Douglas Coupland
The Monkey’s Raincoat, Robert Crais
Moose, by Stephanie Klein
*More Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin
My Dream of You, Nuala O’Faolain
My Little Blue Dress, Bruno Maddox
~My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
My Sweet Audrina, V.C. Andrews
Naked, David Sedaris
^Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
*The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
The Nanny Diaries, Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
~Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
*The New Girls, Beth Gutcheon
~New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer
*Night, by Elie Wiesel
Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
^The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith
*Number 6 Fumbles, Rachel Solar-Tuttle
O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our Life in County Clare, Niall Williams & Christine Breen
The Odyssey, Homer
*Of Men and Their Mothers, by Mameve Medwed
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God, Louise Rennison
*One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
*One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One L, Scott Turow
Ordinary People, Judith Guest
Out, by Natsuo Kirino
Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
The Pact, Jodi Picoult
Paddy Clark Ha-Ha-Ha, Roddy Doyle
Paradise Lost, John Milton
*Peace Like A River, Leif Enger
The People’s Act of Love, by James Meek
*The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Steven Chbosky
Petals on the Wind, V.C. Andrews
*The Piano Tuner, Daniel Mason
The Pilot’s Wife, Anita Shreve
*Plain Truth, by Jodi Picoult
Plantation, Dorothea Benton Frank
Players, Don DeLillo
Playing With Boys, Alisa Valdez-Rodriguez
The Poe Shadow, by Matthew Pearl
*The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
*Popco, Scarlett Thomas
*The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
*The Power of One, Bryce Courtenay
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
^Prep, Curtis Sittenfield
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy
*The Probable Future, Alice Hoffman
Pure, Rebecca Ray
The Quiet American, Graham Greene
*Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, J.D. Salinger
The Reading Group, Elizabeth Noble
Rebecca, Daphne DuMaurier
Red Dragon, Thomas Harris
*The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
*The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
The Rotters’ Club, Jonathan Coe
*The Ruins of California, Martha Sherrill
*The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell
*The Rules of Attraction, Bret Easton Ellis
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
*Sabine’s Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence Continues, Nick Bantock
Saint Maybe, Anne Tyler
Salinger: A Biography, Paul Alexander
~The Same Sweet Girls, Cassandra King
Saturday, Ian McEwan
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
Searching for Caleb, Anne Tyler
*Second Helpings, Megan McCafferty
*The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares
*The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
*The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Seeds of Yesterday, V.C. Andrews
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
*A Separate Peace, John Knowles
Seventh Heaven, Alice Hoffman
*Shampoo Planet, Douglas Coupland
*The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
Ship of Fools, Katherine Anne Porter
The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
Sights Unseen, Kaye Gibbons
Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
*The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
A Slipping-Down Life, Anne Tyler
*Sloppy Firsts, Megan McCafferty
The Smoke Jumper, by Nicholas Evans
Snow Falling On Cedars, David Guterson
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
*Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
The Southern Belle’s Primer, Maryln Schwartz
*The Space Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar
Speaking With the Angel, ed. by Nick Hornby
Stalking the Angel, Robert Crais
Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
*Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs, by Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer
The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
Stones From the River, Ursula Hegi
The Stranger, Albert Camus
*Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist’s Quest to Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pie is Not the Answer, by Jen Lancaster
Sullivan’s Island, Dorothea Benton Frank
Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
*Tales of the City, Amistead Maupin
^Talk Before Sleep, Elizabeth Berg
*The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer
The Tenth Circle, by Jodi Picoult
~Terrorist, by John Updike
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Thin Skin, Emma Forrest
*Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
~Things I Want My Daughters to Know, by Elizabeth Noble
Thinner, Stephen King
*The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
*A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
*A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
Three Junes, Julia Glass
*Time and Again, Jack Finney
A Time to Kill, John Grisham
*The Time-Traveler’s Wife, Julia Niffenegger
*To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
*Tolstoy Lied, by Rachel Kadish
Tommyknockers, Stephen King
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Trans-sister Radio, by Chris Bohjalian
Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
*A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
^The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, Elisabeth Robinson
True At First Light: A Fictional Memoir, Ernest Hemingway & Patrick Hemingway
*Tunnel Vision, Keith Lowe
Ulysses, James Joyce
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
*Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer
Up Island, Anne Rivers Siddons
*Valley of the Dolls, Jacquelyn Susann
The Venetian’s Wife, Nick Bantock
A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons
Voodoo River, Robert Crais
Voyager, Diana Gabaldon
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
*Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
The Water Is Wide, Pat Conroy
~We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates
Where Are the Children, Mary Higgins Clark
*While I Was Gone, Sue Miller
While My Pretty One Sleeps, Mary Higgins Clark
Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne
~A Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, Roddy Doyle
The World Below, Sue Miller
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
The Young Wan, Brendan O’Carroll
Zoya, Danielle Steel