The Bookstacks

N.B. This is a running list of the books that we are reading or have read. The titles nearest the top are those we are currently enjoying (or despising, as the case may be); C.S. Doemner’s are red, R. Hyatt’s are black, D. Carroll’s are green, and K. McDowell’s are blue. If you are interested in particular reading projects we’ve completed, search our posts for “reading lists” or “reading projects.”

Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978 — Seamus Heaney
Three Cups of Tea — Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
Middlesex –Jeffrey Eugenides
Dreams from my Father –Barack Obama
The Notebook –Nicholas Sparks
Cross Channel — Julian Barnes
All the Pretty Horses –Cormac McCarthy
Romiette and Julio –Sharon Draper
The Redress of Poetry –Seamus Heaney
Their Eyes Were Watching God –Zora Neal Hurston
Like Water for Chocolate –Laura Esquivel
The Infinities –John Banville
Cross Channel –Julian Barnes
The Ends of Our Tethers: 13 Sorry Stories –Alasdair Gray
Walks with Men –Ann Beattie
Stories: All New Tales –Edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio
The Diary of a Bad Year –J.M. Coetzee
White Noise –Don DeLillo
Waiting for the Barbarians –J.M. Coetzee
The Ghost Writer –Philip Roth
Esther’s Inheritance –Márai Sándor
Gregor the Overlander –Suzanne Collins
Looking into Classrooms –Thomas Good
Alberic the Wise –Norton Juster
The Amber Spyglass –Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife –Philip Pullman
I Saw Ramallah –Mourid Barghouti
Inkheart –Funke
Mockingjay –Suzanne Collins
Tears of the Giraffe — Alexander McCall Smith
The Ranger’s Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan –John Flanagan
The Golden Compass –Philip Pullman
M is for Magic –Neil Gaiman
Peter and Starcatchers –Dave Berry, Ridley Pearson
Catching Fire –Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games –Suzanne Collins
Nathan Coulter –Wendell Berry
An American Childhood — Annie Dillard
The Exceptional Child and Youth –Nancy Hunt
Transformative Classroom Management –John Shindler
The Art and Science of Teaching –Malzano
The Lord of the Rings –J.R.R. Tolkien
The Timeless Way of Building –Charles Alexander
In Dubious Battle –John Steinbeck
The Essential Muir –ed. Fred White
The Pastures of Heaven –John Steinbeck
The Loved One –Evelyn Waugh
A Cup of Gold –John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flat –John Steinbeck
Cannery Row –John Steinbeck
A Cool Million & The Dream Life of Balso Snell –Nathanael West
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust –Nathanael West
Ramona –Helen Hunt Jackson
California Poetry –ed. Dana Gioia
East of Eden –John Steinbeck
The Epistle to the Romans –Karl Barth
Martin Eden –Jack London
Visions from San Francisco Bay –Czeslaw Milosz
Manalive –G.K. Chesterton
One Hundred Years of Solitude –Gabriel García Márquez
The Passion According to G.H. –Clarice Lispector
The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico –Octavio Paz
Nazi Literature in the Americas –Roberto Bolano
Sunstone –Octavio Paz
By Night in Chile –Roberto Bolano
The Skating Rink –Roberto Bolano
Last Evenings on Earth –Roberto Bolano
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair –Pablo Neruda
Hopscotch –Julio Cortazar
Amulet –Roberto Bolano
Distant Star –Roberto Bolano
Ficciones –Jorge Luis Borges
Coraline — Neil Gaiman (audio)
When the Heart Waits — Sue Monk Kidd
The Power and the Glory –Graham Greene
El Presidente –Miguel Ángel Asturias
Martin Fierro –José Hernández
2666 — Roberto Bolano
The Prydain Chronicles — Lloyd Alexander
The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
War of the Worlds — H.G. Wells
The Savage Detectives — Roberto Bolano
On Beauty — Zadie Smith
The Autograph Man — Zadie Smith
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Heidi – Johanna Spyri
A Swiftly Turning Planet – Madeleine L’Engle (audio)
1984 – George Orwell
Billy Budd – Herman Melville
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
The Farsala Trilogy – Hilari Bell
I am the Clay –Chaim Potok
Wanderings: History of the Jews –Chaim Potok
In the Beginning –Chaim Potok
Davita’s Harp –Chaim Potok
Zebra and Other Stories –Chaim Potok
Treasure Island — Robert Lewis Stevenson
The Tree of Now –Chaim Potok
The Book of Lights –Chaim Potok
Holes –Louis Sachar
The Yearling — Rawling
The Dairy of a Young Girl — Anne Frank
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief — Rick Riordan
Farewell to Manzanar — Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book — Walker Percy
The Second Coming — Walker Percy
Lancelot –Walker Percy
Love in the Ruins: The Story of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World –Walker Percy
Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
Why the Rest Hates the West — Meic Pearse
Intellectuals – Paul Johnson
The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Last Gentleman –Walker Percy
Swann’s Way — Marcel Proust
The Dark is Rising Sequence — Susan Cooper
The Moviegoer –Walker Percy
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close –Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything Is Illuminated –Jonathan Safran Foer
Exiles –James Joyce
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man –James Joyce
To Kill a Mockingbird –Harper Lee
Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds –Pollock and Van Reken
What is a Family? –Edith Shaffer
Wise Blood — Flannery O’Connor
Home — Marilynne Robinson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain
The Perfect Wedding: The Selling of the American Wedding — Rebecca Mead
The Indian in the Cupboard — Lynne Reid
A Wrinkle in Time — Madeleine L’Engle (audio)
Orthodoxy — G. K. Chesterton
The One-Life Solution — Dr. Henry Cloud
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 — Bradberry, Greaves, Lencioni
The Mistmanle Chronicles: Urchin of the Riding Stars — M. I. McAllister (audio)
Baptism and Fullness — John Stott
The Elements of Style –Strunk and White
Around the World in Eighty Days –Jules Verne
Ender’s Game –Orson Scott Card
Neuromancer –William Gibson
The Left Hand of Darkness –Ursula LeGuin
Collected Poems –Theodore Roethke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? –Philip K. Dick
Matilda –Roald Dahl
All Hallow’s Eve — Charles Williams
The Graveyard Book — Neil Gaiman
The Egypt Game –Zilpha Synder
A Wind in the Door — Madeleine L’Engle
Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame
Put Your Money Where Your Morals Are — Scott Fehrenbacher
Pilgrim at Tinker’s Creek — Annie Dillard
Dune –Frank Herbert
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress –Robert Heinlein
Life of Samuel Johnson –Boswell
Stranger in a Strange Land –Robert Heinlein
A Canticle for Leibowitz — Walter M. Miller Jr.
The Idiot –Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Thanatos Syndrome –Walker Percy
The Road –Cormac McCarthy
The Truth –Terry Pratchett
The Baron in the Trees –Italo Calvino
I, Robot –Isaac Asimov
Foundation –Isaac Asimov
The Count of Monte Cristo –Alexander Dumas
Farenheit 451 –Ray Bradbury
War of the Worlds –H.G. Wells
Winnie the Pooh –A.A. Milne
If on a winters’ night a traveler –Italo Calvino