Books Read

SoVLBC Composite List thru 2021

Abbey, Edward, Monkey Wrench Gang
Ackerman, Diane, The Zookeeper’s Daughter

Alam, Rumaan - Leave the World Behind
Allende, Isabel, House of Spirits
Allende, Isabel, My Invented Country
Amiga, Arvin, The White Tiger

Atkinson, Kate - Life After Life
Atkinson, Kate, Started Early, Took My Dog
Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey
Bachman, Fredrik, A Man Called Ove

Baldwin, James - The Fire Next Time
Barberry, Muriel, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Barr, Nevada, Firestorm
Bartlett, Allison Hoover, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
Benedict, Marie, The Only Woman in the Room
Berger John, Little Big Man
Berney, Lou, November Road
Boo, Kathleen, Behind the Beautiful Forever
Boyle, T. C., The Women
Brooks, Geraldine, Caleb’s Crossing
Brown, Daniel, The Boys in the Boat
Bryson, Bill, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bryson, Bill, In a Sunburned Country
Bryson, Bill, One Summer: America 1927
Burnham, Terry & Jay Phelan, Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food
Cather, Willa, My Antonia
Cather, Willa, O Pioneers
Chabon, Michael, The Final Solution
Cheever, Susan, American Bloomsbury
Cheever, John, The Stories of John Cheever
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness
Conroy, Pat, The Death of Santini
Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe
De Waal, Frans, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Diamant, Anita, The Las Days of Dogtown
Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations
Dijie, Dai, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Grayson, Nicholas, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa
Eco, Umberto, The Name of the Rose
Edson, Margarte, Wit
Edwards, Kim, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Elliot, George, Middlemarch
Englander, Nathan, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Ephron, Nora, I Feel Bad About My Neck
Erdrich, Louise, The Round House
Eugenides, Jeffrey, Middlesex
Faulkner, William, As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William, Light in August
Finkel, Michael, The Stranger in the Woods
Ferris, Joshua, The Unnamed
Fitzgerald, Penelope, The Blue Flower
Flynn, Gillian, Gone Girl
Forster, E. M., A Room with a View
Frazier, Charles, Varina
Friedman, Thomas L., The World Is Flat
Grann, David, Killers of the Flower Moon
Grogan, John, Marley and Me
Gruen, Sara, Water for Elephants
Hammett, Dashiell, The Maltese Falcon
Harding, Paul, Tinkers
Harper, Jane, The Dry 
Hassan, Tupelo, Girl Child
Hillenbrand, Laura, Unbroken
Hoag, Tami, Kill the Messenger

Homer - The Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation)
Horowitz, Anthony, The World Is Murder
Irving, John, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Ishiguro, Kazuo, Never Let Me Go
Ishiguro, Kazuo, Remains of the Day,
Ishiguro, Kazuo, The Buried Giant
Jacoby, Susan, The Age of American Unreason
James, P. D., Death Comes to Pemberley
Jenoff, Pam, The Lost Girls of Paris
Johnson, Adam, The Orphan Master’s Son
Jones, Edward P., All Aunt Hagar’s Children
Joyce, James, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kerasote, Ted, Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Free Thinking Dog
Kerr, Philip, Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton
Kidd, Sue Monk, The Mermaid Chair
Kidder, Tracy, My Detachment
King, Lily, Euphoria
Krakauer, Jon, Under the Banner of Heaven
Kurlansky, Mark, The Basque History of the World
Kurson, Robert, Crashing Through
Lamb, Wally, I Know This Much Is True
Larsen, Erik, The Devil in the White City
Larsson, Stieg, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Lawrence, D. H., Women in Love
Laxalt, Robert, The Basque Hotel
Laxalt, Robert, Sweet Promised Land

Luiselli, Valeria - Lost Children Archive
Lynch, Jim, The Highest Tide
Macdonald, Helen, H is for Hawk
Malantes, Karl, Matterhorn
Maron, Margaret, Bootlegger’s Daughter
Matzen, Robert, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
Matthews, Jason, Red Sparrow
Maynard, Mark, Grind
McBride, James, The Color of Water
McBride, Laura, We Are Called to Rise
McCarthy, Cormac, The Road
McDougall, Christopher, Born to Run
McEwan, Ian, Amsterdam
McGuane, Gallatin County
McLain, Paula, The Paris Wife
McPhee, John, Irons in the Fire
Meacham, Jon, The Soul of America
Merle, Roland, Breakfast with the Buddha
Mistry, Rohinton, A Fine Balance
Montefiore, Santa, The French Gardener
Morre, Graham, Last Days of Night
Morrison, Toni, The Bluest Eye
Mortenson, Greg & David Relin, Three Cups of Tea
Munro, Alice, Too Much Happiness
Murakami, Haruki, Kafka on the Shore
Nafisi, Azsar, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Naslund, Sena Jeter, Ahab’s Wife: Or, The Star-gazer
Nesbo, Jo, Nemesis
O’Connor, Flannery, Selected Short Stories
O’Neill, Joseph, Netherland
O’Nan, Stewart, Last Night at the Lobster
Orange, Tommy, There, There
Owens, Delia, Where the Crawdads Sing
Pamuk, Orhan, Snow
Patchett, Ann, Bel Canto
Penney, Stef, The Tenderness of Wolves
Peterson, Jordan, 12 Rules for Life
Phillips, Christopher, Six Questions of Socrates
Picoult, Jodi, My Sister’s Keeper
Pollen, Michael, The Botany of Desire
Pouncey, Peter, Rules for Old Men Waiting
Preston, Richard, The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Desire
Quindlen, Anna, Alternate Side
Roberts, Coke, Founding Mothers. The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Robinson, Marilyn, Gilead
Rock, Peter, My Abandonment
Ronald, Ann, Friendly Fallout, 1953
Rosoff, Meg, How I Live Now
Roth, Philip, The Plot Against America
Rushdie, Salman, Midnight’s Children
Scheuer, Michael, Through Our Enemies Eyes
See, Lisa, Snow Flower & the Secret Fan

See, Lisa - The Island of Sea Women
Seierstad, Asne, The Bookseller of Kabul
Silko, Marmon, Ceremony
Skloot, Rebecca, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Smiley, Jane, Ten Days in the Hills
Smith, Alexander McCall, The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency
Smith, Thomas Rob, Child 44

Snyder, Timothy - The Road to Unfreedom

Solnit, Rebecca - Recollections of My Nonexistence

St. John, Emily Mandel St. - Station Eleven: A Novel

Standage, Tom, An Edible History of Humanity
Stedman, M. L., The Light Between the Oceans
Stegner, Wallace, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
Stein, Garth, The Art of Racing in the Rain
Steinbeck, John, East of Eden
Steinbeck, John, Cannery Row
Stockett, Kathryn, The Held
Strayed, Cheryl, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Tobin, Colm, Brooklyn
Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina
Tracy, P. J., The Monkeewrench
Trigiani, Adriana, Big Stone Gap
Vance, J.D., Hillbilly Elegy
Verges, Abraham, Cutting for Stone
Walls, Jeannette, Glass Castle
Walls, Jeannette, Half Broken Horses
Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence
Whitehead, Colson, The Underground Railroad
Wiesel, Elie, Night
Woolf, Virginia, To the Lighthouse
Wulf, Anfrea, The Invention of Nature
Zusak, Marcus, The Book Thief