Reading

In 2011 I made a resolution to read more.  Below are the books I've read since. Sometimes they're hard copies. Sometimes they're audiobooks.

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In Progress:
  • The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
  • The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford


Completed 2013:
  • Reached by Ally Condie
  • The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
  • McTeague by Frank Norris
  • The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
  • Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs


Completed 2012:
  • Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
  • Lady Chatterly's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's (and three short stories) by Truman Capote
  • Crossed by Ally Condie
  • Matched by Ally Conie
  • Insurgent by Veronica Roth
  • Divergent by Veronica Roth
  • Sharp Object by Gillian Flynn
  • Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
  • Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • Fifty Shades Freed by E. L. James
  • Fifty Shades Darker by E. L. James
  • Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
  • Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J. K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
  • Beowulf
  • The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
  • The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  • The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  • Most Talkative by Andy Cohen
  • Watership Down by Richard Adams
  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  • The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant
  • Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
  • Washington Square by Henry James
  • Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
  • Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
  • Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
  • A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  • A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
  • A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
  • A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
  • The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
  • A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
  • Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman

Completed 2011:
  • The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  • The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  • Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  • Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman
  • The Art of War by Sun-Tzu
  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
  • The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  • When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman
  • The Twilight Saga - New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
  • The Twilight Saga - Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
  • The Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
  • The Twilight Saga - Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
  • Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain
  • A Master Hand by Richard Dallas
  • Devil's Brood by Sharon Kay Penman
  • Captive Queen by Alison Weir
  • Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bedier
  • The Champion by Elizabeth Chadwick
  • The Marsh King's Daughter by Elizabeth Chadwick
  • The Falcons of Montabard by Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Lords of the White Castle by Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  • The Semi-Detached House by Emily Eden
  • Behind a Mask (or A Woman's Power) by Louisa May Alcott
  • The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
  • Lady of the English by Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton
  • Shadows and Strongholds by Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Rising on the River: St. Louis 1822 to 1850, Explosive Growth from Town to City by Frederick A. Hodes, Ph.D
  • Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Mr. Hogarth's Will by Catherine Helen Spence
  • Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
  • The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  • The Touchstone by Edith Wharton
  • Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
  • The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
  • Summer by Edith Wharton
  • The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
  • A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • Eve's Diary by Mark Twain
  • Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  • Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  • The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
  • Howards End by E. M. Forster
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen
  • Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. Wodehouse
  • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  • Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  • Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • What Maisie Knew by Henry James
  • The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  • Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  • The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • To Defy a King by Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Emma by Jane Austen
  • Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  • For the King's Favor by Elizabeth Chadwick
  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) by Henry David Thoreau 
  • Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte