BOOKS AND MOVIES

Adams, Poppy
~ The Sister

Adlington, L.J.
~ The Diary of Pelly D

Alcorn, Randy
~ Heaven

Alda, Alan
~ Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

Allen, Sarah Addison
~ Garden Spells

Ambrose, Stephen E.
~ To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian

Anderson, Laurie Halse
~ Twisted

Antalek, Robin
~ The Summer We Fell Apart

Asher, Bridget
~ My Husband’s Sweethearts

Asher, Jay
~ Thirteen Reasons Why

Austen, Jane
~ Emma
~ Mansfield Park
~ Northanger Abbey
~ Sense and Sensibility
~ The Watsons

Austin, Lynn
~ Though Waters Roar

Avi
~ A Beginning, a Muddle, and an End

Bachorz, Pam
~ Candor

Barbieri, Heather
~ The Lace Makers of Glenmara

Barry, Brunonia
~ The Lace Reader
~ The Map of True Places

Beah, Ishmael
~ A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Beckett, Bernard
~ Genesis

Beddor, Frank
~ Hatter M: The Looking Glass Wars, Volume 1
~ The Looking Glass Wars

Bell, James Scott
~ Presumed Guilty

Berg, Elizabeth
~ The Year of Pleasures

Berry, Wendell
~ Collected Poems: 1957-1982
~ That Distant Land

Bete, Tim
~ In the Beginning There Were No Diapers

Binchy, Maeve
~ Whitethorn Woods

Birdsall, Jeanne
~ The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

Bishop, George
~ Letter to My Daughter

Black, Benjamin
~ Christine Falls

Black, Holly
~ White Cat

Blake, William
~ Songs of Innocence and Experience

Bluedorn, Hannah
~ Bless the Lord

Bluedorn, Nathaniel and Hans
~ The Thinking Toolbox

Boling, Dave
~ Guernica

Boynton, Sandra
~ Blue Moo

Brashares, Ann
~ Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
~ Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
~ The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
~ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Bray, Libba
~ Going Bovine

Brockenbrough, Martha
~ Things That Make Us [Sic]

Brodie, Laura
~ Love in a Time of Homeschooling: A Mother and Daughter’s Uncommon Year
~ The Widow’s Season

Bronte, Charlotte
~ Jane Eyre

Buchanan, Andrea & Peskowitz, Miriam
~ The Daring Book for Girls

Burgess, Glenda
~ The Geography of Love: A Memoir

Burney, Claudia Mair
~ Wounded

Burton, Gabrielle
~ Impatient with Desire

Butcher, Jim
~ Storm Front

Buzbee, Lewis
~ The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

Carrell, Jennifer Lee
~ Interred With Their Bones

Carver, Raymond
~ Where Water Comes Together With Other Water: Poems

Cashore, Kristin
~ Fire
~ Graceling

Cather, Willa
~ Death Comes for the Archbishop

Center, Katherine
~ Everyone is Beautiful
~ Get Lucky

Chabon, Michael
~ Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

Chesterton, G.K.
~ The Man Who Was Thursday
~ Orthodoxy

Chevalier, Tracy
~ Burning Bright

Chopin, Kate
~ The Awakening & Selected Short Fiction

Clare, Cassandra
~ City of Ashes
~ City of Bones
~ City of Glass

Clay, Mortimus
~ The Purloined Boy

Clements, Andrew
~ We the Children: Keepers of the School, Book 1

Colfax, David and Micki
~ Homeschooling for Excellence

Collins, Billy
~ Nine Horses
~ Questions About Angels: Poems

Collins, Suzanne
~ Catching Fire
~ The Hunger Games

Conrad, Joseph
~ Heart of Darkness & Selected Short Fiction

Coyne, Teri
~ The Last Bridge

Cramer, W. Dale
~ Summer of Light

Cronin, Justin
~ The Passage

Crutcher, Chris
~ King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography

Cullen, Lynn
~ The Creation of Eve

Cupala, Holly
~ Tell Me a Secret

Dashner, James
~ The Maze Runner

David, Peter
~ Tigerheart

Delaney, Frank
~ Ireland
~ Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show

de los Santos, Marisa
~ Belong to Me
~ Love Walked In

Denham, Holly
~ Holly’s Inbox

Diamand, Emily
~ Raiders’ Ransom

Dickens, Charles
~ A Tale of Two Cities

Dickson, Athol
~ The Cure
~ River Rising
~ Winter Haven

Didion, Joan
~ The Year of Magical Thinking

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
~ One Amazing Thing

Dowd, Siobhan
~ Bog Child

Dunant, Sarah
~ Sacred Hearts

Dyer, Dena
~ Grace for the Race: Meditations for Busy Moms

Eisdorfer, Erica
~ The Wet Nurse’s Tale

Eldredge, John and Stasi
~ Captivating

Erdrich, Louise
~ The Plague of Doves

Essex, Karen
~ Dracula in Love
~ Leonardo’s Swans
~ Stealing Athena

Eugenides, Jeffrey
~ Middlesex

Evanovich, Janet
~ Eleven on Top
~ Finger Lickin’ Fifteen
~ Lean Mean Thirteen
~ Ten Big Ones
~ Three to Get Deadly
~ Twelve Sharp

Fadiman, Anne
~ At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
~ Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Feldman, Ellen
~ Scottsboro

Fforde, Jasper
~ The Eyre Affair

Fitzpatrick, Becca
~ Hush, Hush

Flinn, Alex
~ Beastly

Ford, Jamie
~ Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Forman, Gayle
~ If I Stay

French, Dawn
~ Dear Fatty

French, Tana
~ The Likeness

Funke, Cornelia
~ Inkheart

Gabaldon, Diana
~ A Breath of Snow and Ashes
~ Drums of Autumn
~ An Echo in the Bone
~ The Fiery Cross

Gaiman, Neil
~ Anansi Boys

Galloway, Steven
~ The Cellist of Sarajevo

Garcia, Kami
~ Beautiful Creatures

Gaskell, Elizabeth
~ Wives and Daughters

Giff, Patricia Reilly
~ Eleven

Gilbar, Steven
~ Bibliotopia

Gladstone, William
~ The Twelve

Goetsch, Leslie
~ Back Creek

Grafton, Sue
~ T is for Trespass
~ U is for Undertow

Granger, John
~ Looking for God in Harry Potter

Grant, Michael
~ Gone
~ Hunger

Green, John
~ An Abundance of Katherines
~ Looking for Alaska
~ Paper Towns

Greene, Graham
~ The Quiet American

Gresham, Douglas H.
~ Jack’s Life

Grossman, Lev
~ The Magicians

Gruen, Sara
~ Water for Elephants

Haarsma, P.J.
~ Betrayal on Orbis 2
~ Virus on Orbis 1

Hale, Shannon
~ The Actor and the Housewife
~ Austenland

Hamill, Pete
~ North River

Hanff, Helene
~ 84, Charing Cross Road

Hardy, Thomas
~ Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Harrington, Karen
~ Janeology

Harris, Charlaine
~ Dead Until Dark

Hatcher, Robin Lee
~ Return to Me

Hauser, Melanie Lynne
~ Confessions of Super Mom
~ Super Mom Saves the World

Henderson, Dee
~ Before I Wake
~ The Witness

Hinton, Lynne
~ Friendship Cake

Hoffman, Beth
~ Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

Holden, Taylor
~ The Sense of Paper

Hornby, Nick
~ How to Be Good
~ The Polysyllabic Spree
~ Shakespeare Wrote for Money

Hunt, Angela
~ Doesn’t She Look Natural
~ Magdalene

Huxley, Aldous
~ Brave New World

Ishiguro, Kazuo
~ Never Let Me Go

Jackson, Joshilyn
~ The Girl Who Stopped Swimming

Jacobs, A.J.
~ The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
~ The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

James, P.D.
~ Children of Men

Jeffress, Robert
~ When Forgiveness Doesn’t Make Sense

Jenoff, Pam
~ Almost Home

Johnson, Nicole
~ Fresh-Brewed Life

Kadohata, Cynthia
~ Kira-Kira

Kallos, Stephanie
~ Broken for You

Kate, Lauren
~ Fallen

Kent, Kathleen
~ The Heretic’s Daughter

Kephart, Beth
~ The Heart is Not a Size
~ Undercover

King, Laurie R.
~ The Game
~ God of the Hive
~ Justice Hall
~ The Language of Bees
~ Locked Rooms
~ A Monstrous Regiment of Women

Kingsbury, Karen
~ Divine

Knisley, Lucy
~ French Milk

Korelitz, Jean Hanff
~ Admission

L’Amour, Louis
~ Down the Long Hills
~ Education of a Wandering Man

L’Engle, Madeleine
~ A Circle of Quiet
~ The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L’Engle

Levi, William
~ The Bible or the Axe

Levine, James A.
~ The Blue Notebook

Logsted, Greg
~ Alibi Junior High

Lowry, Lois
~ The Giver

Mac, Toby and Tait, Michael
~ Living Under God

Marr, Melissa
~ Wicked Lovely

Marsden, John
~ Burning for Revenge
~ Darkness Be My Friend
~ The Dead of Night
~ A Killing Frost
~ The Night is for Hunting
~ The Other Side of Dawn
~ Tomorrow, When the War Began

Martel, Yann
~ Life of Pi

Martin, Steve
~ Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life

Mathias, Kathi
~ The Train-of-Thought Writing Method

McCarthy, Cormac
~ The Road

Meyer, Herbert E. and Jill M.
~ How to Write

Meyer, Stephenie
~ The Host
~ The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
~ Twilight

Mitchard, Jacquelyn
~ The Deep End of the Ocean
~ No Time to Wave Goodbye

Moran, Johanna
~ The Wives of Henry Oades

Mullen, Thomas
~ The Last Town on Earth

Murnighan, Jack
~ Beowulf on the Beach

Ness, Patrick
~ The Knife of Never Letting Go

Newmark, Elle
~ The Book of Unholy Mischief

Nicholls, David
~ One Day

O’Brien, Robert C.
~ Z for Zachariah

O’Brien, Tim
~ The Things They Carried

Oliver, Mary
~ Evidence: Poems

Pak, Sang
~ Wait Until Twilight

Paolini, Christopher
~ Eldest

Parkhurst, Carolyn
~ The Nobodies Album

Patterson, James and Ledwidge, Michael
~ The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

Patterson, James and Rust, Ned
~ Daniel X: Watch the Skies

Pearson, Mary E.
~ The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Peck, Richard
~ The Teacher’s Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts

Pelecanos, George
~ The Way Home

Petersen, David
~ Mouse Guard: Fall 1152

Peterson, A.S.
~ The Fiddler’s Gun

Peterson, Andrew
~ North! Or Be Eaten
~ On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness

Pfeffer, Susan Beth
~ The Dead and the Gone
~ Life As We Knew It
~ This World We Live In

Philbrick, Nathaniel
~ Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War

Phillips, Joseph C.
~ He Talk Like a White Boy

Picoult, Jodi
~ Perfect Match
~ Songs of the Humpback Whale

Pike, Aprilynne
~ Wings

Pool, Daniel
~ What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist – The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England

Price, Jill
~ The Woman Who Can’t Forget

Prose, Francine
~ Reading Like a Writer

Quindlen, Anna
~ Every Last One
~ How Reading Changed My Life
~ One True Thing

Rees, Celia
~ Pirates

Rice, Thomas J.
~ Far From the Land: An Irish Memoir

Robinson, Marilynne
~ Gilead

Robyn, Fiona
~ Thaw

Rogers, Jonathan
~ The Bark of the Bog Owl
~ The Secret of the Swamp King

Rosenberg, Liz
~ Home Repair

Rosenthal, Amy Krouse
~ Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life

Rowling, J.K.
~ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Ryan, Carrie
~ The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Ryan, Terry
~ The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio

Salak, Kira
~ The White Mary

Samson, Lisa
~ Quaker Summer
~ Straight Up
~ Tiger Lillie

Sandell, Laurie
~ The Impostor’s Daughter: A True Memoir

Savage, Sam
~ Firmin

Schneider, Helga
~ Let Me Go

Setterfield, Diane
~ The Thirteenth Tale

Shapiro, James
~ A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

Sheehan, Jacqueline
~ Now and Then

Shors, John
~ Beside a Burning Sea
~ Dragon House

Shortridge, Jennie
~ When She Flew

Smith, Dodie
~ I Capture the Castle

Smith, Timothy
~ Connecting With Your Kids

Smith, Zadie
~ On Beauty

Soli, Tatjana
~ The Lotus Eaters

Solomon, Lon
~ Brokenness: How God Redeems Pain and Suffering

Speare, Elizabeth
~ The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Stead, Rebecca
~ When You Reach Me

Stewart, Leah
~ The Myth of You and Me

Stockett, Kathryn
~ The Help

Stringer, Helen
~ Spellbinder

Strout, Elizabeth
~ Abide With Me

Taylor, Patrick
~ An Irish Country Doctor
~ An Irish Country Girl

Thackeray, William Makepeace
~ Vanity Fair

Thompson, Craig
~ Blankets

Thornton, Rosy
~ Crossed Wires

Tolstoy, Leo
~ Anna Karenina

Trollope, Anthony
~ The Warden

Undset, Sigrid
~ Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath
~ Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife
~ Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross

Unger, Lisa
~ Fragile

Uris, Leon
~ Trinity

Vreeland, Susan
~ Life Studies: Stories

Waldman, Ayelet
~ Red Hook Road

Walter, Jess
~ The Financial Lives of the Poets

Watrous, Malena
~ If You Follow Me

Webber, Heather
~ Truly, Madly

Weiner, Jennifer
~ Best Friends Forever

Westerfeld, Scott
~ Leviathan
~ Pretties
~ Specials

Wharton, Edith
~ The Age of Innocence
~ Ethan Frome
~ The House of Mirth

White, Karen
~ On Folly Beach

Wiesel, Elie
~ Night

Williams, Carol Lynch
~ The Chosen One

Winston, Lolly
~ Good Grief
~ Happiness Sold Separately

Yancey, Phillip
~ Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?

Yolen, Jane
~ Take Joy: A Writer’s Guide to Loving the Craft
~ Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie, & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

Zusak, Markus
~ The Book Thief

Collections and Reference Books:

~ Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 edited by Dave Eggers
~ Pick Me Up
~ Sex and the Supremacy of Christ
~ Writers on Writing, Volume II