My Reading List

If you don't read, you only get to live one life. 

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver


Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Marcelo in the Real World by Fransisco X. Stork

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head

The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

Sahara Special by Esme Raji Codell

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

"You Can't Take it With You" by Moss Hart

A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufield

Stop Pretending by Sonya Sones

Harry Potter and Philosophy by David Baggett

Women Making America by Heidi Hemming

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Three Tall Women by Edward Albee

The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen

Blackout by John Rchocco

Where Children Sleep by James Mollison

"A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennesee Williams

White Teeth - Zadie Smith

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

Ruined by Lynn Nottage

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere - Z.Z. Packer

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender

The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera

The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith

Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

All Souls Rising by Madison Smartt Bell

"Our Town" by Thornton Wilder

A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

"Inherit the Wind" by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye

Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Cellist of Serajevo by Steven Galloway

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

The Museum of Intangible Things by Wendy Wunder

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

One Hundred Years of Solitude by  Gabriel Garcia Marquez


The Freedom Writers Diary by The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesy


a mercy by Toni Morrison

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay

The Global Citizen by Elizabeth Kruempelmann

"Master Harold...and the boys" by Athol Fugard

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

The Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson

The Diary of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall

The Giver by Lois Lowry

I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK? - Naomi Shihab Nye

How Does it Feel to be a Problem? by Moustafa Bayoumi

"The Mountaintop" by Katori Hall

Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Holes by Louis Sachar

Columbine by Dave Cullen

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Ceremony by Leslie Silko

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan

Native Son by Richard Wright


Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

"Waiting For Godot" by Samuel Beckett

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Maus by Art Spiegelman

Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda

Cop in the Hood by Peter Moskos

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

The Doubting Disease by Joseph Ciarrocci

The Chosen by Chaim Potak

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

"No Exit" by Jean-Paul Sartre

Days of Reading by Marcel Proust

"The Merry Wives of Windsor" by William Shakespeare

"As You Like It" by William Shakespeare

"Henry IV" by William Shakespeare

An Unspoken Hunger by Terry Tempest Williams

OCD and Other Gods by Christian R. Komor

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers


To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

"A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry

The Good Earth by Pearl Buck

The Metamorphasis by Franz Kafka

The Geurnsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Flight - Sherman Alexie

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

The Color of Water by James McBride

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

What is the What by Dave Eggers

Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Blankets by Craig Thompson

Night by Elie Weisel

A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Polygamous Wives Writing Club by Paula Harline

Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros