“Reading, real reading is a strenuous and pleasurable contact sport.”
~Maureen Howard

A few years ago, a friend of mine started keeping a list of the books she read each year on her blog.  I often look to her list when I am searching for book recommendations.  So here is my list.  It begins below with the list of good reads from years past that I can recall, then transitions to a year by year list beginning with 2013 found in the Reading Room menu.

Years Past (in no particular order)

• The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
• Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
• You Are Not a Stranger Here (short stories) by Adam Haslett
• Push by Sapphire
• The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
• The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins
• The Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer
• Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• And To Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
• The Dogs of Bedlam Farm by Jon Katz
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• Insurgent by Veronica Roth
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green