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No Great Expectations - Lawrence KS
Reading List: 1996-2008

• Charms for the Easy Life - Kaye Gibbons
• Handmaid’s Tale -- Margaret Atwood
• Pride and Prejudice-- Jane Austen
• Mother and Two Daughters -- Gail Godwin
• Reviving Ophelia -- Mary Pipher
• A Thousand Acres -- Jane Smiley
• Catcher in the Rye -- J.D. Salinger
• Independence Day -- Richard Ford
• Shipping News -- E.Annie Proulx
• Snow Falling on Cedars -- David Guterson
• Angle of Repose -- Wallace Stegner
• Beloved -- Toni Morrison
• Stone Diaries -- Carol Shields
• Pigs in Heaven -- Barbara Kingsolver
• Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
• Old Man and the Sea -- Ernest Hemingway
• Bootlegger’s Daughter -- Margaret Maron
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- Maya Angelou
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil -- John Berendt
• Walking Across Egypt -- Clyde Edgerton
• Angela’s Ashes -- Frank McCourt
• July’s People -- Nadine Gordimer
• Not Without Laughter -- Langston Hughes
• Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole
• Rain of Gold -- Victor Villa Senor
• East of Eden -- John Steinbeck
• Montana 1948 -- Larry Waton
• Ragtime -- E.L. Doctorow
• A Lesson Before Dying -- Ernest Gaines
• Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood -- Rebecca Wells
• She’s Come Undone -- Wally Lamb
• Lolita -- Vladimir Nabokov
• Killer Angels -- Michael Shaara
• A Personal History -- Katharine Graham
• The God of Small Things -- Arundhati Roy
• My Antonia -- Willa Cather
• Into Thin Air -- Jon Krakauer
• River of Hidden Dreams -- Connie May Fowler
• The Power of One -- Bryce Courtenay
• Memoirs of a Geisha -- Arthur S. Golden
• The Persian Pickle Club -- Sandra Dallas
• The Sweet Hereafter -- Russell Banks
• The Poisonwood Bible -- Barbara Kingsolver
• Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- Robert Pirsig
• American Pastoral -- Philip Roth
• A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens
• East of the Mountains -- David Guterson
• The Age of Innocence -- Edith Wharton
• While I Was Gone -- Sue Miller
• Palace Walk -- Naguib Mahfouz
• Plainsong -- Kent Haruf
• Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain
• One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius -- Dave Eggers
• Bobos in Heaven -- David Brooks
• Waiting -- Ha Jin
• Ceremony -- Leslie Marmon Silko
• House of Sand and Fog -- Andre Dubus III
• The Weight of Water -- Anita Shreve
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down -- Anne Fadiman
• The Red Tent -- Anita Diamant
• The Book Borrower -- Alice Mattison
• Corelli’s Mandolin --Louis De Bernieres
• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China -- Jung Chang
• Crossing to Safety -- Wallace Stegner
• Wait Till Next Year -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Mrs. Dalloway -- Virginia Woolf
• The Hours -- Michael Cunningham
• Prodigal Summer -- Barbara Kingsolver
• Empire Falls -- Richard Russo
• Lost Horizons -- James Hilton
• Girl with the Pearl Earring -- Tracy Chevalier
• Back When We Were Grownups -- Anne Tyler
• Ahab’s Wife – Sena Jeter Naslund
• Galileo’s Daughter – Dava Sobel
• Fall On Your Knees -- Ann Marie McDonald
• Sea Biscuit -- Laura Hillenbrand
• The Secret Lives of Bees -- Sue Monk Kidd
• The Good Earth -- Pearl S. Buck
• Bel Canto -- Ann Patchett
• Mount Vernon Love Story -- Mary Higgins Clark
• The Lovely Bones -- Alice Sebold
• Five Quarters of the Orange -- Joanne Harris
• Atonement -- Ian McEwan
• Dirty Girls Social Club -- Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
• The Da Vinci Code -- Dan Brown
• Three Junes -- Julia Glass
• Devil in the White City -- Erik Larson
• I Know This Much is True -- Wally Lamb
• Middlesex -- Jeffrey Eugenides
• Life of Pi -- Yann Martel
• Mapping the Edge -- Sarah Dunant
• Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy
• The Other Boleyn Girl -- Philippa Gregory
• My Name is Red -- Orhan Pamuk/Erdag Goknar
• The Amateur Marriage -- Anne Tyler
• Namesake -- Jhumpa Lahiri
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Di Sijie
• Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• Don't let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
• Marley & Me – John Grogan
• The River of Doubt – Candice Millard
• Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
• Map of Bones - James Rollins
• Digging to America - Anne Tyler
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter - Kim Edwards
• The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
• Lost in the Forest - Sue Miller
• Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
• Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
• Truck: A Love Story - Michael Perry
• Bold Spirit - Linda Lawrence Hunt
• Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
• On the Road - Jack Kerouac
• A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah
• A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
• Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner

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