Books Read 2005

1) The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
2) Motherless Brooklyn – Jonathan Lethem
3) Buried Alive – Jan Bodeson
4) All-True Adventures of Lidie Newton – Jane Smiley
5) Ironweed – William Kennedy
6) A Civil Action – Jonathan Harr
7) Angels & Demons – Dan Brown
8) DaVinci Code – Dan Brown
9) The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory
10) The Queen’s Fool – Philippa Gregory
11) The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
12) Waiting – Ha Jin
13) Pattern Recognition – William Gibson
14) River, Cross My Heart – Breena Clarke
15) Man & Wife – Tony Parsons
16) The Smoke Jumper – Nicholas Evans
17) Under the Tuscan Sun – Frances Mayes
18) Sea Glass – Anita Shreve
19) Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver
20) The Gun Seller – Hugh Laurie
21) The Family – Mario Puzo
22) The Dogs of Babel – Carolyn Parkhurst
23) Nearer than the Sky – T. Greenwood
24) The Music Lesson – Katharine Weber
25) Jewel – Brett Lott
26) Shutter Island – Dennis Lehane
27) Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling
28) Nectar from a Stone – Jane Guill
29) The Passion of Artemisia – Susan Vreeland
30) Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
31) Evidence of Love – Melissa McConnell
32) Pay it Forward – Catherine Ryan Hyde
33) The Fred Factor – Mark Sanborn
34) The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
35) Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
36) A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
37) The Art of Possibility – Rosamund and Ben Zander
38) Lighthouse Keeping – Jeanette Winterson
39) I’m a Stranger Here Myself – Bill Bryson
40) Our Lady of the Forest – David Guterson
41) The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
42) 4 Blondes – Candace Bushnell
43) Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
44) 1776 – David McCullough
45) The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
46) Anil’s Ghost – Michael Ondaatje
47) The Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing – Melissa Bank
48) Holes – Louis Sachar
49) Good Faith – Jane Smiley
50) Lucky – Alice Sebold
51) In the Cut – Susanna Moore
52) Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
53) Psalm at Journey’s End – Erik Fosnes Hansen
54) Drowning Ruth – Christina Schwarz
55) The Color of Water – James McBride
56) Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
57) My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
58) The Namesake – Jumpa Lahiri
59) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl – Harriet Jacobs (Linda Brent)
60) Floating in My Mother’s Palm – Ursula Hegi