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Teachers Share Their Favorite Books


  BethAnn Atchley Jeanne Averill
  Mike Carriger Sahja Cove
  Jason Crawford   Jeanette DeVilbiss
  Jeff Dolezal Shannon Draper-Gard
  Donald Durkin Jeanene Goodwin
  Charles Goolsby   Adam Green
  Jon Harrison Brandon Hernandez
  Matthew Hillmer Jack Hood
  Bob Hubert Mendy Hutson
  Karen Hyde Rita Kendagor
  Jeff Kuhr   Nancy Keller
  Keri Lauxman   Jason Lichte
  Angie Logan   Randall Logan
  Stephanie Magnuson   Jeremy Milne
  Sue Neverve   Beryl New
  Bill Patterson   David Raney
  Janette Schwartzburg   Susan Siler
  Art Sloan   Brad Stoll
  Lori Stussie   Shelley Vann
  Bruce Wellman   Lisa Werner
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
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom S
awyer - Mark Twain

Break In - Dick Francis
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
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 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
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Iceberg - Clive Cussler
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
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
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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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  
Mary Yadon's Favorite Books
All the Pretty Horses: Volume One,
The Border Trilogy - Cormac McCarthy
American Dreams, Lost and Found - Studs Terkel
The Beet Queen: A Novel - Louise Erdrich
Billy Bathgate: A Novel - E. L. Doctorow
Cities of the Plain - Cormac McCarthy
Claudius, the God and His Wife Messalina: The Troublesome Reign of Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Emperor of the Romans - Robert Graves
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake - William Blake
The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
A Death in the Family - James Agee
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980 - Lucille Clifton
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
The Iliad of Homer - Homer
Ishi, Last of His Tribe - Theodora Kroeber
A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Lives of X - John Ciardi
Lonesome Dove: A Novel - Larry McMurtry
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love Medicine: A Novel - Louise Erdrich
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began - Art Spiegelman
Moby-Dick, or, The Whale - Herman Melville
Poems - Emily Dickinson
The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
Prairie: Images of Ground and Sky - Terry Evans
Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow
The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Road to Memphis - Mildred D. Taylor
Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
Tales from Watership Down - Richard Adams
Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today's Latino Renaissance
Tracks: A Novel - Louise Erdrich
The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
West of Wichita: Settling the High Plains of Kansas, 1865-1890 - Craig Miner

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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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neverve  
Sue Neverve's Favorite Books
Beloved : a novel - Toni Morrison
Chance - Robert B. Parker
The Clan of the Cave Bear : a novel - Jean M. Auel
The Client - John Grisham
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Coyote Waits - Tony Hillerman
Crystal Singer - Anne McCaffrey
Druids - Morgan Llywelyn
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Eye of the Needle - Ken Follett
Hot Money - Dick Frances
King Hereafter : a Novel - Dorothy Dunnett
The Last Enchantment - Mary Stewart
The Left Hand Of Darkness - Ursula Le GuinF Kin
Needful Things - Stephen King
Patriot Games - Tom Clancy
Rebecca - Du Maurier
Troubling a Star - Madeleine L'Engle
We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle

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Schwartzburg  
Janette Schwartzburg's Favorite Books
The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Black Stallion Mystery - Walter Farley
A Bloodsmoor Romance - Joyce Carol Oates
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Dialogues of Plato - Plato
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Frames of Mind : the Theory of Multiple Intelligences - Howard Gardner
The Handmaid's Tale - Eleanor Margaret Atwood
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Imperial Woman - Pearl BuckF Har
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Lad of Sunnybank - Albert Payson Terhune.
Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse..
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
The Song of the Lark - Willa Cather
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Trinity - Leon Uris
The Western Intellectual Tradition - Jacob Bronowski
Wolf - Albert Payson Terhune
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

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Jason Lichte's Favorite Books
The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
  The Magicians Nephew -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -- The Horse and His Boy -- Prince Caspian - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader -- The Silver Chair -- The Last Battle.
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
  Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and death scene from Phaedo - 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 Writings - 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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Beryl New's Favorite Books
Beloved : a Novel - Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Dust Tracks on a Road - Zora Huston
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Jazz - Toni Morrison
Novels and Stories - Zora Hurston
Paradise - Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Tar Baby - Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Hurston
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine - B
ebe Moore
 
Jeff Dolezal's Favorite Books
Bitter Medicine - Sara Paretsky
Blood Shot - Sara Paretsky
Burn Marks - Sara Paretsky
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Guardian Angel - Sara Paretsky
Killing Orders - Sara Paretsky
My Antonia - Willa Cather
Travels With Charley - John Steinbeck
Truman - David McCullough

Other favorite authors are:

James Patterson
Leonard Elmore
James Elmore


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Pam Barnett's Favorite Books
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
The Art of Happiness - Dalai Lama
The Art of Loving - Erich Fromm
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor
Dostoyevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Escape from Freedom - Erich Fromm
Evangeline - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Guided Imagery for Self-Healing - Martin Rossman
Hamlet - Shakespeare

Health and Healing - Andrew Weil
Homer's The Odyssey - translation by Robert Fitzgerald
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Innumeracy - John Allen Paulos
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
A Light in the Attic - Shel Silverstein
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
The Narnia Chronicles - C. S. Lewis
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
Redwall - Brian Jacques
Reviving Ophelia - Mary Pipher
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Space Trilogy - C. S. Lewis
Sweet Thursday - John Steinbeck
The Universe and the Teacup - K. C. Cole
Wherever You Go, There You Are - Jon Kabbat-Zinn
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engl
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Mendy Hutson's Favorite Books



Blue Like Jazz
- Donald Miller,
A Chance to Die: Biography of Amy Carmichael
Complete novels - Jane Austen
Emma - Jane Austen
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Lady Susan - Jane Austen
National Geographic field photography guide (not for literature but for practical purposes!)
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

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Bob Hubert's Favorite Books

And the Waters Turned to Blood
- Rodney
Baker
Chemistry: Its Role in Society -James Chickos
Douglas County Historic Building Survey - Douglas County Historical Society
Family First: Your Step - by Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family - Phil McGraw
Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State, 1854-2003 - Craig Miner
Point Blank: An FBI Thriller - Catherine Coulter
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality - Dalai Lama
Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plaques
- Frank Ryan
A World Waiting to be Born - M. Scott Peck
 
BethAnn Atchley's Favorite Books

What I'm Reading Now:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
Surprise Me: A Thirty Day Faith Experiment - Terry Esau

My Ultimate Favorites… SoFar:
Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel

Also on my bookshelf
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Deception Point - Dan Brown
Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
Eragon - Christopher Paolini
Giants in the Earth - O.E. Rolvaag
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Harry Potter Series (1-6) - J.K. Rowling
MacBeth - William Shakespeare
Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters
The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide - Douglas Adams
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire



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Nancy Keller's Favorite Books
The Giver – Lois Lowry 
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut  
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 
The Last Book in the Universe – Rodman Philbrick
Jennifer Government – Max Barry
The Harry Potter Series - J.K.Rowling 
The Agony and the Ecstasy – Irving Stone
Hope for the Flowers – Trina Paulus
A Series of Unfortunate EventsLemony Snicket
Ishmael
- Daniel Quinn 

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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

 
Jason Crawford's Favorite Books
The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership by Steve B. Sample, Warren G. Bennis
QBQ! The Question Behind the Question
Practicing Personal Accountability in Life and Work
by John Q. Miller
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Built to Last by Jim Collins, James Collins, and Jerry Porras
Visioneering by Andy Stanley
Kotler on Marketing by Philip Kotler
Leadership 101, What Every Leader Needs to Know by John C Maxwell
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
100 Ways to Motivate Others; How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results without Driving People Crazy by Steve Chandler and Scott Richardson
 
Rita Kendagor
My Favorite Books

I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Invisible Man by Ralph Elison
other poetry books by Maya Angelou
Black Writers of America; an Anthology - excellent resource
Beverly Lewis Books (a quirky twist to my quirky personality)
Mystery books by Patricia Sprinkle (another quirky twist)
The Bible


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Brandon Hernandez's Favorite Books

Left Behind Series by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim F. LaHaye
Song in a Nazi Night
by James D. Yoder
The Way I was Made by Chris Tomlin
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Johnny Got his Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Five people You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Apology by Plato
Geometry - Prentice Hall Math

Precalculus
- A graphing Approach


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Jeremy Milne's Favorite Books

My Favorite Books

Fountain Head by Any Rand
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Sphere by Michael Crighton
Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger
They said it couldn't be Done by Bill Snyder

 
Charles Goolsby's Favorite Books
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Stories of Ray Bradbury

When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed by Ray Bradbury
Oklahoma! by by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Night by Elie Wiesel
Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

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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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Jeanette DeVilbiss' Favorite Books
Books I Like:

The Namesake: A Novel
by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer
Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Lonesome Cities by Rod McKuen
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Colorado State Parks by Philip Ferranti
Wilderness Survival by Suzanne Swedo
Monet
(Art in Hand) by Birgit Zeidler
Founding Mothers by C
okie Roberts


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Bruce Wellman's Favorite Books

List of favorite books (No special order)

Hobbit and Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
This Present Darkness - Frank E. Peretti
Piercing the Darkness - Frank E. Peretti
Building Expertise: Cognitive Methods for Training and Performance Improvement - Ruth Clark
Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
Systematic Theology - Way
ne Grudem
9 Inside Out by Lawrence J. Crabb
10. The Search for Significance by Robert S. McGee


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Donald Durkin's Favorite Books

My Favorite Books

Floor Burns – Jerod Haase
Free to Trade – Michael Ridpath
Prime Witness – Steve Martin
Raising Your Spirited Child – Mary Kurcinka
Skipping Christmas – John Grisham
The Last Juror – John Grisham
The Strong Willed Child – James Dobson

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Susan Siler's Favorite Books


My Favorite Books

All seven Harry Potter books
I Love You Forever - Robert Munsch
Memory Keepers DaughterKim Edwards
Danielle Steel Novels


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Angie Logan's Favorite Books



She's Come Undone
- Wally Lamb
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Man's Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl
Dreaming In Cuban -  Christina Garcia
The Women of Brewster Place -  Gloria Naylor
Their Eyes Were Watching God -  Zorna Neale Hurston
Nickel and Dimed -  Barabara Ehrenreich
The Bluest Eye -  Toni Morrison
Bright Light -  Danielle Steel
To Kill a Mockingbird -  Harper Lee
Catcher In the Rye -  J.D. Salinger

 
Matthew Hillmer's Favorite Books


Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
News of a Kidnapping - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Watership Down: A Novel - Richard Adams
My Life in the Mafia - Vincent Charles Teresa
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman - Richard P. Feynman
The Foundation Series – Isaac Asimov
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley
The Green Imperative - Victor Papanek
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

 
Sahja Cove's Favorite Books

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

Gandhi the Man - Eknath Easwaran
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Plainsong - Kent Harut
Light on Yoga - B. K. S. Lyengar
The Master Butchers Singing Club - Louise Erdrich
The Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting -  Jalaloddin Rumi
Estravagaria: A Bilingual Edition -  Pablo Neruda
Start Where You Are -  Pema Chodron
Harry Potter Series -  J. K. Rowling

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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