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  Jeanne Averill Andrew Bricker Margene Brohammer
  Mike Carriger John Catlin Shannon Draper-Gard
  Ann Foster Adam Green Jon Harrison
  Jack Hood Karen Hyde Jeff Kuhr
  Keri Lauxman Jason Lichte Stephanie Magnuson
  Bonnie Mills Bradley Page Bill Patterson
  David Raney Aaron Saoirse Art Sloan
  Brad Stoll Lori Stussie Shelley Vann
  Tim Urich Lisa Werner Pat Wittry
  Nick Wood
Jeanneaveril
Jeanne Averill's Favorite Books
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Barretts of Wimpole Street – Rudolf Besier
Bernard Shaw's plays – Bernard Shaw
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court – Mark Twain
The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Deathtrap : a thriller in two acts – Ira Levin
The Divine comedy – Alighieri Dante
Doctor Faustus – Christopher Marlowe
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
The Emperor Jones : Anna Christie The hairy ape – Eugene O’Neill
The gift – John Steinbeck
The glass menagerie – Tennessee Williams
The grapes of wrath - John Steinbeck
Great expectations – Charles Dickens
The hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
The Iliad of Homer - Homer
Inherit the wind- Jerome Lawrence
"J. B."; : a play in verse – Archibald MacLeish
Les miserables – Victor Hugo

Little men- Louisa May Alcott
Little women – Louisa May Alcott
A man for all seasons; : a play in two acts – Robert Bolt
The miracle worker – William Gibson
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
The portable Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
The scarlet letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shakespeare's scribe – Gary L. Blackwood
Sons and lovers – D. H. Lawrence
A streetcar named desire – Tennessee Williams
A tale of two cities – Charles Dickens
Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The three musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
Three plays : Blithe spirit, Hay fever, Private lives – Noel Coward
Twentieth century interpretations of Walden – Richard Ruland
The two towers : being the second part of The lord of the rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Uncle Tom's cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Shakespeare : a study of facts and problems – E.K. Chambers
Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence

Jackhood
Jack Hood's Favorite Books -- Updated List

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

Atlas Shrugged - Ann Rand
Break In - Dick Francis
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Eye of the Needle - Ken Follett
The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
A Game of Thrones - George Martin
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J. K. Rowling
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
Iceberg - Clive Cussler
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
Magician, Apprentice: the Author's Preferred Edition - Raymond Feist
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
On a Pale Horse - Piers Anthony
President Reagan: the Role of a Lifetime - Lou Cannon
Raise the Titanic! - Clive Cussler
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon - Richard M. Nixon
Rumble Fish - S. E. Hinton
Sahara - Clive Cussler
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
The Sword of Shannara - Terry Brooks
The Swords of Night and Day - David Gemmell
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Two Towers - J. R. R. Tolkien

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sloan  
Art Sloan's Favorite Books
4 Plays - William Inge
Annotated Art - Robert Cumming
Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern - Carol Strickland
Cold Mountain: A Novel - Charles Frazier
Dance Hall of the Dead - Tony Hillerman
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler
Exodus - Leon Uris
Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers
Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play - David Mamet
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Happy Birthday, Wanda June - Kurt Vonnegut
I'm Nobody! Who Are You?: Poems of Emily Dickinson for Children - Emily Dickinson
In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien
Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence
My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
The Piano Lesson - August Wilson
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry
Redwall - Brian Jacques
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
The Stand: Complete and Uncut - Stephen King
A Streetcar Named Desire: The Moth and the Lantern - Thomas P. Adler
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Vietnam: A History - Stanley Karnow
Vincent by Himself: A Selection of Van Gogh's Paintings and Drawings Together with Extracts from His Letters - Vincent Van Gogh
The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawling

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Aaron Saoirse'sxc Favorite Books
Animal Farm and 1984 -- by George Orwell
Bartholomew Cubbins and The Butter Battle Book -- by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
Azul Cuentos Poemas en Prosa (Blue Stories, Poems and Prose) -- by Ruben Dario (Nicaragua)
Brave New World -- by Aldous Huxley
Canto general -- by Pablo Neruda (Chile)
Cat in the Hat
, Green Eggs and Ham, The Lorax, Horton Hears a Who!, Sneetches, The 500 Hats o
   Egalia's Daughters
: A Satire of the Sexes -- by Gerd Brantenberg
Children of Men -- by P. D. James
Ficciones / El Aleph -- by Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina
Gerald's Game -- by Stephen King
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest -- by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire -- by Steig Larsson
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo -- by Stieg Larsson
The Handmaid's Tale -- by Margaret Atwood
The Harry Potter series -- by J. K. Rowling
Huasipungo -- by Jorge Icaza (Ecuador)
The Janus Affair -- by Pip Ballantine
El laberinto de la soledad (The Labrynth of Solitude) -- by Octavio Paz (Mexico)
Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) -- by Laura Esquivel (Mexico)
Los pasos perdidos (The Lost Paths) -- by Alejo Carpentier (Cuba)
Lucifer's Hammer -- by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven
The Martian Chronicles
/ The Illustrated Man -- by Ray Bradbury
Mirage -- by Mark W. Tiedeman
No Blade of Grass -- by John Christopher
Cien anos de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) -- by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia)
Pedro Paramo -- by Juan Rulfo (Mexico)
Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel -- by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris
The Sherlock Holmes series -- by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Slatewiper -- by Lewis Perdue
The Stand -- by Stephen King
Steampunk/Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded/Steampunk III Steampunk Revolution -- by
   VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
The Temperance Brennan novel series -- by Kathy Reichs
To Kill a Mockingbird -- by Harper Lee
Triple Ought by James Wesley Rawles
2001: A Space Odyssey / 2010: Odyssey Two / 2061 Oddyssey Three / 3001: The Final Odyssey – by
     Arthur C. Clarke
Unintended Consequences -- by John Ross
V for Vendetta graphic novel -- by David Lloyd and Alan Moore
The Walking Dead series -- by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore
Watchmen graphic novel -- by Alan Moore
The works of Michael Crichton -- Eaters of the Dead, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Andromeda Strain, Congo, Prey, Next, Rising Sun
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values -- by Robert M. Persig



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Vann  
Shelley Vann's Favorite Books
2001, a Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
2010: Odyssey Two - Arthur C. Clarke
Blinded by the Light - Robin F. Brancato
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
Celine - Brock Cole
Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
The Fantastic Voyage - Isaac Asimov
Fantastic Voyage II - Isaac Asimov
Farewell, I’m Bound to Leave You - Fred Chappell
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
A Hero Ain’t Nothin But a Sandwich - Alice Childress
In Search of Satisfaction - J. California Cooper
Inheritance of Strangers - Nash Ccandelaria
Jacob’s Ladder - Alan Collins
Jaws - Peter Benchley
The Long Pursuit - Jon Cleary
One-Way to Ansonia - Judie Angell
Quest of the Snow Leopard - Roy Chapman Andrews
Sounder - William H. Armstrong
Sour Land - William H. Armstrong
Spell for Chameleon - Piers Anthony
Strange Intruder - Arthur Catherall
The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
What You Don’t Know Can Kill You - Fran Arrick

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Werner  
Lisa Werner's Favorite Books
All I Know About Animal Behavior I Learned in Lohmann's Dressing Room - Bombeck
And Then There Were None - Christie
At Wits End - Bombeck
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit - Danziger
Christine - King
A Christmas Carol - Dickens
A Cry in the Night - Clark
Giant - Ferber
The Gift - Steel
Gone with the Wind - Mitchell
Great Expectations - Dickens
Larry Hatteberg's Kansas People - Hatteberg
A Light in the Attic - Silverstein
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - Lewis
The Miracle Worker - Gibson
Mists of Avalon - Bradley
National Velvet - Bagnold
Needful Things - King
The Shining - King
A Stranger is Watching - Clark
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
True Grit - Portis
Where are the Children - Clark
Where the Heart Is - Letts
While My Pretty One Sleeps - Clark

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Yadon  
Margene Brohammer Favorite Books




Fiction:
Rifles for Watie - Harold Keith (I've loved it since the 6th grade!!)
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Hope is an Open Heart - Lauren Thompson
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney
You are Special - Max Lucado

Non-fiction:
Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz - Burger & Starbird
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
Mindset - Carol Dweck
Working on the Work - Phillip Schlechty
Yellow Brick Roads - Janet Allen

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carriger  
Mike Carriger's Favorite Books
Absalom, Absalom - William Faulkner
The Adventures of Augie March: a novel - Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
All the Pretty Horses : volume one, the Border Trilogy - Cormac McCarthy
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Basic Writings of Nietzsche - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Breakfast of Champions, or, Goodbye Blue Monday! - Kurt Vonnegut
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger.
The Cider House Rules : a novel - John Irving
The Civil War, a narrative (3 vols.) - Shelby Foote
The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg - Carl Sandburg.
The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
The Edge - Ben Bo
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
The Fixer - Bernard Malamud
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
Friday Night Lights : a town, a team, and a Dream - H.G. Bissinger
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Jazz - Toni Morrison
Kierkegaard : a Collection of Critical Essays - Sprem Aabye Kierkegaard
The Langston Hughes Reader - Langston Hughes
Leaves of Grass
- Walt Whitman
Light in August - William Faulkner
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert
Marx in 90 minutes - Paul Strathern
Metamorphoses - Ovid
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Native Son - Richard Wright
The Natural - Bernard Malamud
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Power and the Glory - Graham Green
A Prayer for Owen Meany : a novel - John Irving
Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse : Bosnia and the Failure of the West - David Rieff
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The United States of Poetry
Walden or, Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig

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KarenHyde  
Karen Hyde's Favorite Books
Cat's Eye - Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
The Color Purple - Alice Walker

East of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Eleanor
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Julia Alvarez
In the Time Of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan
The Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry.

Mexico - James A. Michener
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Painted Bird - Jerzy N. Kosinski
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel - Barbara Kingsolver
Presumed innocent - Scott Turow
Savage Inequalities : Children in America's Schools - Jonathan Kozol
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Sophie's Choice - William Styron
West of Eden - Harry Harrison

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Jason Lichte's Favorite Books

The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
e BouThe Magicians Nephew -- The Lion, the Witch and the xxxxWardrobe -- The Horse and His Boy -- Prince Caspian - xxxxThe Voyage of the Dawn Treader -- The Silver Chair -- xxxxThe Last Battle.rne Identity - Robert L
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier.
Complete Poems - Emily Dickinson
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose - John Donne.
The Iliad - Homer
I'm Nobody! Who Are You? : Poems - Emily Dickinson
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo.
Neither Wolf Nor Dog - Nerburn
Poems - Emily Dickinson
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Silas Marner - George Eliot
The Trial & Death of Socrates
e Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier.
Complete Poems - Emily Dickinson
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose - John Donne.
The Iliad - Homer
I'm Nobody! Who Are You? : Poems - Emily Dickinson
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo.
Neither Wolf Nor Dog - Nerburn
Poems - Emily Dickinson
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Silas Marner - George Eliot
The Trial & Death of Socrates

xxxxPlato's Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and death scene from xxxxPhaedo - Plato

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Bill Patterson's Favorite Books
19 Varieties of Gazelle - Naomi Shihab Nye
The Annie Dillard Reader - Annie Dillard
Auden : Poems - W.H. Auden
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Billy Budd - Herman Melville
Blues - Nikki Giovanni
Brave New World Revisited- Aldous Huxley
The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams - William Carlos Williams.
Collected Stories - Carson McCullers
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes : The Poems: 1921-1940, Volume 1
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes : The Poems: 1941-1950, Volume 2
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes : The Poems: 1951-1967, Volume 3
The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Complete Poems - Emily Dickinson
The Complete Stories - Flannery O'Connor
Demian - Hermann Hesse
Dien Cai Dau - Yusef Komunyakas
Dubliners - James Joyce.
Emily Dickinson - Richard Benson Sewall, editor
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Go Tell It On the Mountain - James Baldwin
Grendel - John Gardner
Her Blue Body Everything We Know - Alice Walker
Iliad - Homer
Man and His Symbols
Metamorphoses - Ovid
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays - Albert Camus
Native Son and How "Bigger" was Born - Richard Wright
Neon Vernacular - Yusef Komunyakaa
Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Odyssey - Homer
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
A Pen Warmed-Up in Hell - Mark Twain
The People, Yes - Carl Sandburg
The Portable Dante - Dante Alighieri
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
Portable World Bible
The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
The Return of Simple - Langston Hughes
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Love Poems - Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Spoken Word Revolution : (Slam, Hip Hop, & the Poetry of a New Generation)
Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Tales from Ovid - Ovid
Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck
The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe.
Unsettling America : an Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry
Very Far Away From Anywhere Else - Ursula K. Le Guin.
The Vintage Book of African American Poetry
Walden and Other Writin
gs - Henry David Thoreau
The Wisdom of Confucius - Confucius

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Adam Green's Favorite Books    

A Season on the Brink - John Feinstein
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X
The Basketball Man, James Naismith - Bernice Larson Webb.
Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden
Deaner : Fifty years of University of Kansas Athletics - Mike Fisher
Friday Night Lights - H. G. Bissinger
Knight : My Story - Bobby Knight.
Personal Fouls - Peter Golenbock.
Profiles in Courage - John F. Kennedy
The Pyramid of Success (Video) - John Wooden
Road Less Traveled - M. Scott Peck
Sacred Hoops - Phil Jackson
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M Pirsig.


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Pam Barnett's Favorite Books


 
Ann Foster's Favorite Books

___My 5 Top Favorite Books___


To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice 



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John Catlin's Favorite Books



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Brad Stoll's Favorite Books
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
To Kill a Mockingbird –
Harper Lee
Moneyball –
Michael Lewis
Scouts Honor –
Bill Shanks
Prophets of the Sandlot –
Mark Winegardner
Of Mice and Men –
John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath -
John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby –
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Friday Night Lights –
H.G. Bissinger
The Firm –
John Grisham
Green Eggs and Ham –
Dr. Seuss
The Greatest Generation –
Tom Brokaw
Dollar Sign on the Muscle –
Kevin Kerrane

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Lori Stussie's Favorite Books
Second Glance - Jodi Picoult
The Stephanie Plum Mysteries - Janet Evonovich
Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Love - Toni Morrison
Paradise - Toni Morrison
The Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
The Harry Boeshe novels - Michael Connelly
I Know this Much to be True - Wally Lamb
Night - Elie Wiesel
Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean Auel
The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
The Foxfire series - Eliot Wigginton, ed.

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Jeff Kuhr's Favorite Books
My Top 11 Books (as of today-could change tomorrow)

Non-Fiction

Some of Us Did Not Die by June Jordan
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
What Is Found There by Adrienne Rich
The Public and Its Problems by John Dewey
Danse Macabre by Stephen King
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy, edited by James B. South

Fiction

Angels in America by Tony Kushner
The Plague by Albert Camus
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

 
Tim Urich's Favorite Books

__Tim Urich's Most Recent Favorite Reads__

 

A Prayer For Owen Meany -- John Irving

Peace Like a River -- Leif Enger

Marley and Me -- John Grogan

The Seven Habits -- Stephen R. Covey

A Thousand Acres -- Jane Smiley

 

 
David Raney's Favorite Books

__My Favorite Books__

A Time to Kill by John Grisham
DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss
Tuesday with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Of Mice and Men by James Steinbeck
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper


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Pat Wittry's Favorite Books

My favorite books are hard to limit to 10,
Here are some:

Wicked - Gregory Maguire

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley

Poisonwood Bible - Babara Kingsolver

Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak

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Stephanie Magnuson's Favorite Books

10 books...tough one!!!

Five Smooth Stones
- Ann Fairbairn
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller
The Guardian - Nicholas Sparks
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Left Behind (series) - Tim Lahaye
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
Any John Grisham novel
Any Nicholas Sparks novel

 
Shannon Draper-Gard's Favorite Books

10 Great Books

The Handmaid's Tale--Margaret Atwood
Middlesex--Jeffrey Eugenides
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister--Gregory Maguire
The Ice Storm--Rick Moody
The Time Traveller's Wife--Audrey Niffenegger
The Things They Carried--Tim O'Brien
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart--Joyce Carol Oates
Skinny Legs & All--Tom Robbins
The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton
Uglies--Scott Westerfeld

 
Jon Harrison's Favorite Books

10 Books I Love, In No Particular Order

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O'Connor
Archy and Mehitabel - Don Marquis
The Historical Baseball Abstract- Bill James
The Trouser Press Record Guide - Ira Robbins, Ed.
Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 - Simon Reynolds
The Complete Peanuts - Charles M. Schulz
Ghost World - Daniel Clowes
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline - George Saunders
You Know Me Al - Ring Lardner

 
Keri Lauxman's Favorite Books

A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah
A Raisin in the SunLorraine Hansberry
A Room of One’s OwnVirginia Woolf
A Tree Grows in BrooklynBetty Smith
China’s Son – Da Chen
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
East of EdenJohn Steinbeck
Flight to Freedom – Ana Veciana-Suarez
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Madhumalati - Manjhan
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
On the RoadJack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Beautiful and Damned – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The OdysseyHomer
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner
The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemmingway
The Things They CarriedTim O’Brien
This Side of ParadiseF. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

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Nick Wood's Favorite Books

__Five Books that I’ve Enjoyed__


Who Moved My Cheese?  by Spencer Johnson

Playing for Pizza    by John Grisham

Roth IRA Book   by Gobind Daryanani, Ph.D.

Hollywood Hulk Hogan  by Hulk Hogan, Michael Jan Friedman

A Time to Kill   by John Grisham

 
Bonnie Mills' Favorite Books

 

__My Favorite Books__

Broker by John Grisham

The Street Lawyer by John Grisham

Bleachers by John Grisham

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by
y J. K. Rowling

Any book by J. K. Rowling


 
Andy Bricker's Favorite Books

 

My Favorite Reads...

 

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

Copenhagen by Michael Frayn

 

 




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