Books Enjoyed

I spend a lot of time reading but I often forget the titles, authors, and even the moral of story. This is my attempt to remember and organize those thoughts. I'll keep adding to this list as I remember titles and keep reading.     (* are my favorites)

Novels

• Mitch Albom
• Tuesdays with Morrie
• Jane Austen
• Emma
• Ray Bradbury
• Fahrenheit 45- Reading is a crime and firemen burn books in this futuristic society.
• Charlotte Bronte
• Jane Eyre *
• Emily Bronte
• Wuthering Heights- Catherine and Heathcliff are the tempestuous lovers in this tale of passion and revenge on the Yorkshire moors.
• Orson Scott Card
• Ender Saga
• Shadow Saga
• Women of Genesis Series *
• Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations * - The moving story of the rise, fall, and rise again of a humbly-born young orphan.
• Oliver Twist
• Alexandre Dumas
• The Three Musketeers
• William Faulkner
•  As I Lay Dying- The Bundren family takes the ripening corpse of Addie, wife and mother, on a gruesomely comic journey.
• F Scott Fitzgerald
• The Great Gatsby- A young man corrupts himself and the American Dream to regain a lost love.
• Elizabeth Gilbert
• Eat, Pray, Love
• William Golding
• Lord of the Flies -English schoolboys marooned on an uninhabited island test the values of civilization when they attempt to set up a society of their own.
• Lee Harper
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Scarlet Letter- An adulterous Puritan woman keeps secret the identity of the father of her illegitimate child.
•  Homer
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey *
• Aldous Huxley  
• Brave New World * -A bitter satire of the future, in which the world is controlled by advances in science and social changes.
• Ken Kesey
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- A novel about a power struggle between the head nurse and one of the male patients in a mental institution.
• Sue Monk Kidd
• Secret Life of Bees
• Harper Lee 
• To Kill a Mockingbird- At great peril to himself and his children, lawyer Atticus Finch defends an African-American man accused of raping a white woman in a small Alabama town.
• CS Lewis
• Chronicles of Narnia *
• Till We Have Faces
• Jack London
• Call of the Wild
• Arthur Miller
• Death of a Salesman -The tragedy of a typical American who, at age 63, is faced with what he cannot face: defeat and disillusionment.
•  George Orwell
• 1984
• Animal Farm * -Animals turn the tables on their masters.
• Ayn Rand
• Anthem *
• J.K. Rowling
• The Harry Potter Series
•  William Shakespeare
• As You Like It
• Comedy of Errors 
• Hamlet 
• Julius Caesar
• Macbeth
• Much Ado About Nothing 
• Othello 
• Romeo and Juliet
• Taming of the Shrew 
• The Tempest 
• Sophocles
• Oedipus Rex- Classical tragedy of Oedipus who unwittingly killed his father, married his mother and brought the plague to Thebes.
•  John Steinbeck
• Of Mice and Men -George and Lenny, itinerant Depression-era farm laborers, have their dream of attaining the good life shattered on a troubled ranch in the the Salinas Valley in Steinbeck's monumental novella of social realism.
•  J.RR. Tolkien
• The Hobbit *
• Lord of the Rings Trilogy * 
  
• Jeanette Walls
• The Glass Castle *
• H.G. Wells
• The Time Machine

Other

•  Karen Fowler
•  Jane Austen Book Club
• Tony Hillerman
• Skeleton Man

Childbirth/Motherhood

Murder Mysteries/Secret Vice

•  Lilian Jackson Braun
•  The Cat Who... Series
• Janet Evanovich
•  Stephanie Plum Series
•  Full Series
• Joanna Fluke
• Hannah Swensen Mysteries
• J.A. Jance
• Beaumont Series
• Brady Series
• Stefanie Meyer
• Twilight Series