The Book List

I’m a bookworm (sometimes, at least), and I like documenting things, so here’s a list of the books I’ve read, from most recent to least.

If you ever need ideas for books to read, you’re in the right place!

Currently Reading: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

2010

  1. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell. ****
  2. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer. *****
  3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson. ****
  4. The Little Girl and The Cigarette, Benoit Duteurtre. ****
  5. Pictures at an Exhibition, Sara Houghteling. ****
  6. The Holocaust: Roots, History, and Aftermath, David M. Crowe. *****
  7. America Views the Holocaust, Robert H. Abzug. *****
  8. The Holocaust, Donald L. Niewyk. ****
  9. Memoirs of a Geisha (reread), Arthur Golden. *****
  10. Autobiography of a Geisha, Sayo Masuda. *****
  11. Rivalry: A Geisha’s Tale, Nagai Kafu. ****
  12. Forensic Detective: How I Cracked the World’s Toughest Cases, Robert Mann and Miryam Ehrlich Williamson. ****

2009

  1. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (reread), Stephen Crane. ****
  2. La casa en Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros. ***
  3. Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas L. Friedman. ****
  4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov. ****
  5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (reread), J.K. Rowling. ****
  6. The 21st Century Economy: A Beginner’s Guide, Randy Charles Epping. ****
  7. Miles from Nowhere, Nami Mun. ***
  8. The Tudors: King Takes Queen, Elizabeth Massie. ****
  9. Lock and Key, Sarah Dessen. *****
  10. Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel. ****
  11. The Au Pairs: Crazy Hot, Melissa de la Cruz. *****
  12. Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell. *****
  13. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque. ***
  14. How to Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie. ****
  15. The Little Book of Forensics: 50 of the World’s Most Infamous Criminal Cases Solved by Science, David Owen. ****
  16. Veronika Decides to Die, Paolo Coelho. ***
  17. The Reader, Bernhard Schlink. ****
  18. The Last Summer (of You & Me), Ann Brashares. ****
  19. No one belongs here more than you, stories by Miranda July. ***
  20. Private, Kate Brian. ****
  21. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky. ****
  22. Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton. ***
  23. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood. *****

2008

  1. Othello, Shakespeare. ***
  2. An Abundance of Katherines, John Green. ****
  3. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess. ***
  4. Looking for Alaska, John Green. *****
  5. Dust Tracks on a Road, Zora Neale Hurston. **
  6. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston. ***
  7. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens. ****
  8. The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory. *****
  9. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie. *****
  10. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde. ****
  11. Nosotros somos dios: pieza en dos actos. Wilberto Cantón. ***
  12. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams. **
  13. Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood. ***
  14. Pensativa, Jesús Goytortúa. **
  15. The Time of the Doves, Mercè Rodoreda. ***
  16. Style A to Zoe: The Art of Fashion, Beauty, & Everything Glamour, Rachel Zoe. ****
  17. The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire, Andrew Wheatcroft. ***
  18. Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis. **
  19. Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, Dana Thomas. ***
  20. Grotesque, Natsuo Kirino. ***
  21. The Stranger, Albert Camus. ***
  22. The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Sophocles. ****
  23. Gossip Girl: it had to be you, Cecily von Ziegesar. ***
  24. Digital Fortress, Dan Brown. ***

Summer 2004 – 2007

  1. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini. *****
  2. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown. *****
  3. El color de nuestra piel, Celestino Gorostiza. ***
  4. Atonement, by Ian McEwan. ****
  5. Red: The Next Generation of American Writers–teenage girls–on what FIRES up their lives today, edited by Amy Goldwasser. *****
  6. Demian, by Hermann Hesse. **
  7. A World Lit Only By Fire, by William Manchester. ****
  8. Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling, by Ross King. ****
  9. Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer. *
  10. Brunelleschi’s Dome, by Ross King. ***
  11. New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer. *
  12. Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer. **
  13. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling. *****
  14. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. *****
  15. East of Eden, by John Steinbeck. ****
  16. Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood, by Ann Brashares. *****
  17. Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie. *****
  18. Confessions of a Shopaholic, by Sophie Kinsella. ****
  19. Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell. ***
  20. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut. **
  21. Profiles in Courage, by John F. Kennedy. (Skipped a chapter.) **
  22. This Lullaby, by Sarah Dessen. *****
  23. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. *****
  24. The Road from Chapel Hill, by Joanna Catherine Scott. Up to p. 126. **
  25. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane. ****
  26. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe. *****
  27. The Devil Wears Prada, by Lauren Weisberger. ****
  28. Golden, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. ****
  29. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. ***
  30. The Giver, by Lois Lowry. *****
  31. The Au Pairs: Sun-kissed, by Melissa de la Cruz. *****
  32. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. **
  33. Thomas Jefferson: A Life, by Willard Sterne Randall. 708 pages. *****
  34. Black Boy, by Richard Wright. 419 pages. ****
  35. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger. 277 pages. ***
  36. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie. 414 pages (large print). *****
  37. Tenderwire, by Claire Kilroy. 294 pages. *****
  38. Monkey Town: the Summer of the Scopes Trial, by Ronald Kidd. 259 pages. *****
  39. Shock Point, by April Henry. 184 pages. ****
  40. Across a Hundred Mountains, by Reyna Grande. 255 pages. *****
  41. Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Genius, by Barbara O’Connor. 105 pages. *****
  42. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. ****
  43. Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: The Real Deal: School. 292 pages. *****
  44. True Lies of a Drama Queen, by Lee Nichols. 295 pages. *****
  45. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown. 489 pages. *****
  46. Somebody’s Daughter, by Marie Myung-Ok Lee. 264 pages. *****
  47. Mercy Unbound, by Kim Antieau. 165 pages. ***
  48. Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson. 202 pages. ***
  49. Founding Brothers, by Joseph J. Ellis. Up to page 161. ****
  50. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon. 226 pages. **
  51. Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden. *****
  52. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers. 431 pages. *
  53. Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton. 157 pages. *****
  54. Animal Farm, by George Orwell. (Centennial Edition.) 97 pages. ****
  55. The Chosen, by Chaim Potok. 291 pages. *****
  56. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. Up to page 46 (ch 5). *
  57. Second Helpings, by Megan McCafferty. 349 pages. *****
  58. Sloppy Firsts, by Megan McCafferty. 280 pages. *****
  59. The Summer of Summer (the OC), by Cory Martin. 140 pages. *****
  60. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. 281 pages. *****
  61. Fresh off the Boat, by Melissa de la Cruz. 243 pages. ****
  62. The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver. 232 pages. **
  63. Anthem, by Ayn Rand. 105 pages. ***
  64. All-American Girl, by Meg Cabot. 247 pages. ****
  65. The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, by James McBride. 228 pages. ****
  66. Lucky T, by Kate Brian. 291 pages. *****
  67. A Walk to Remember, by Nicholas Sparks. 240 pages. ****
  68. Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood, by Ann Brashares. 338 pages. *****
  69. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by JK Rowling. 652 pages. ****
  70. Girls’ Dinner Club, by Jessie Elliot. 246 pages. *****
  71. Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom. 171 pages. ****
  72. Burnt Orange, by Melody Carlson. 194 pages. ****
  73. Summer Boys, by Hailey Abbott. 214 pages. ***
  74. Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Hotties, by Katie Maxwell. 196 pages. ***
  75. Princess in Training, by Meg Cabot. 269 pages. ***
  76. Changing Faces, by Wendy Lawton. 219 pages. *****
  77. You’re the One That I Want (a Gossip Girl novel), by Cecily von Ziegesar. 230 pages. ****
  78. The Ruling Class, by Francine Pascal. 176 pages. ***
  79. Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents, by Cormac O’Brien. Up to page 181. *****
  80. The OC: The Way Back, by Cory Martin. 189 pages. *****
  81. Princess in Pink, by Meg Cabot. 256 pages. ****
  82. In My Father’s House, by Ann Rinaldi. 312 pages. *****
  83. Leslie’s Journal, by Alan Stratton. 189 pages. ***
  84. All’s Fair in Love, War, and High School, by Janette Rallison. 183 pages. ****
  85. The Becoming, by Lynne Ewing. 273 pages. *****
  86. Sammy Keyes and the Psycho Kitty Queen, by Wendelin Van Draanen. 293 pages. *****
  87. Dealing with the Stuff That Makes Life Tough, by Jill Zimmerman Rutledge. 194 pages. ****
  88. Violet’s Hidden Doubts, by Martha Finley. (Mission City Press.) 208 pages. ****
  89. The Princess & the Pauper, by Kate Brian. 266 pages. *****
  90. I am the Cheese, by Robert Cormier. 224 pages. ***
  91. When the Legends Die, by Hal Borland. 294 pages. ***
  92. The Pearl, by John Steinbeck. 90 pages. **
  93. Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck. 196 pages. **
  94. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson. 78 pages. ****
  95. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. 448 pages. ****
  96. LBD It’s a Girl Thing, by Grace Dent. 275 pages. **
  97. The Earth, My Butt, and Other BIG Round Things, by Carolyn Macker. 246 pages. ****
  98. The Year of Secret Assignments, by Jaclyn Moriarty. 340 pages. ***
  99. Look to the Hills, by Patricia C. McKissack. 188 pages. ***
  100. ttyl, by Lauren Myracle. 209 pages. ****
  101. Be Mine (#37), by Francine Pascal. 166 pages. 166 pages. *****
  102. Tearing Me Apart (#36), by Francine Pascal. 178 pages. *****
  103. Control Freak (#35), by Francine Pascal. 178 pages. *****
  104. Troublemaker (#34), by Francine Pascal. 180 pages. *****
  105. Road Trip (#32), by Francine Pascal. 181 pages. *****
  106. Stay or Go (#31), by Francine Pascal. 176 pages. *****
  107. Close to You (#30, by Francine Pascal. 181 pages. *****
  108. Where We Belong (#29), by Francine Pascal. 178 pages. *****
  109. Meant to Be (#28), by Francine Pascal. 181 pages. *****
  110. Playing Dirty (#27), by Francine Pascal. 180 pages. *****
  111. Too Late (#26), by Francine Pascal. 182 pages. *****
  112. Straight Up (#25), by Francine Pascal. 176 pages. *****
  113. Never Let Go (#24), by Francine Pascal. 179 pages. *****
  114. Nothing is Forever (#20), by Francine Pascal. 163 pages. *****
  115. It’s My Life (#19), by Francine Pascal. 178 pages. *****
  116. As If I Care (#18), by Francine Pascal. 179 pages. *****
  117. Blizzard’s Wake, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. 231 pages. ***
  118. Backstabber (#17), by Francine Pascal. 160 pages. *****
  119. Three Girls and a Guy (#16), by Francine Pascal. 179 pages. *****
  120. Split Decision (#14), by Francine Pascal. 179 pages. *****
  121. All About Love (#13), by Francine Pascal. 181 pages. *****
  122. Bad Girl (#12), by Francine Pascal. 177 pages. *****
  123. Take Me On (#11), by Francine Pascal. 176 pages. *****
  124. Broken Angel (#10), by Francine Pascal. 181 pages. *****
  125. The One That Got Away (#9), by Francine Pascal. 181 pages. *****
  126. Maria Who? (#8), by Francine Pascal. 178 pages. *****
  127. Boy Meets Girl (#7), by Francine Pascal. 179 pages. *****
  128. Your Basic Nightmare (#6), by Francine Pascal. 180 pages. *****
  129. If You Only Knew (#5), by Francine Pascal. 164 pages. *****
  130. So Cool (#3), by Francine Pascal. 179 pages. *****
  131. Say It to My Face (#2), by Francine Pascal. 180 pages. *****
  132. Infiltration (Alias), by Breen Frazier. 234 pages. *****
  133. The Lost One, by Lynne Ewing. 274 pages. *****
  134. Prom Night, by Francine Pascal. 176 pages. *****
  135. Heart on My Sleeve, by Ellen Wittinger. 219 pages. ***
  136. Away Laughing on a Fast Camel, by Louise Rennison. 276 pages. ***
  137. Girls on Film, by Zoey Dean. 250 pages. ****
  138. The Au Pairs, by Melissa de la Cruz. *****
  139. The Prophecy, by Lynne Ewing. 273 pages. *****
  140. The Choice, by Lynne Ewing. 275 pages. *****
  141. Disappeared (Alias), by Lynn Mason. 203 pages. *****
  142. A Secret Life (Alias), by Laura Peyton Roberts. 202 pages. *****
  143. Father Figure (Alias), by Laura Peyton Roberts. 226 pages. *****
  144. Free Fall (Alias), by Christa Roberts. 177 pages. *****
  145. The Perfect Age, by Heather Skyler. 394 pages. ***
  146. Confessions of a Not-It Girl, by Melissa Kantor. 247 pages. ****
  147. Pink Slip Party, by Cara Lockwood. 317 pages. ****
  148. Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants, by Louise Rennison. 214 pages. ***
  149. Sister Spy (Alias), by Laura Peyton Roberts. 218 pages. ****
  150. Guitar Girl, by Sara Manning. 217 pages. ****