Mommy Brain

North River by Pete Hamill

Stealing Athena by Karen Essex

Charming Billy by Alice McDermott

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Jewel by Brett Lott

The Dive From Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer

Love Walked In by Marisa De Los Santos

Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America by Fergus Bordewich

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen Ambrose

The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman

Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchard

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Secrets of a Fire King by Kim Edwards

The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell

Dinner With a Perfect Stranger by David Gregory

The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright

Here if You Need Me: A True Story by Kate Braestrup

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon

The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Last Summer of You and Me by Ann Brashares

Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell

The Camel Club by David Baldacci

The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger

The Portable Edith Wharton

The Sense of Paper by Taylor Holden

Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

Italian Lessons by Peter Pezzelli

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies

A Widow for a Year by John Irving

Essays of the Masters edited by Charles Neider

An Irish Country Village by Patrick Taylor

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners by James Joyce

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Intellectual Devotional: American History by David S. Kidder & Noah D. Oppenheim

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss–and the Myths and Realities of Dieting by Gina Kolata

Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence

Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Novel by Jasper Fforde

My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman

Keeping the House by Ellen Baker

Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy

Digging to America by Anne Tyler

Rumspringa: To Be or Not To Be Amish by Tom Shachtman

The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates

The Dowry: A Novel of Ireland by Walter Keady

‘Isms & ‘Ologies: The 453 Basic Tenets You’ve Only Pretended to Understand by Arthur Goldwag

The Best American Short Stories 2001

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

An Equal Music by Vikram Seth

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Most Wanted by Jacquelyn Mitchard

The Black Tower by P.D. James

The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts by Douglas Adams (re-read)

Mother and Daughter: Closer to God and to Each Other by Susie Shellenberger

‘Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Ain’t No River by Sharon Ewell Foster

The Light of Evening by Edna O’Brien

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis

The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis

The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis

Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

Peter and the Shadow Thieves by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt

Alibi by Joseph Kanon

The Observations by Jane Harris

Seven Loves by Valerie Trueblood

After This by Alice McDermott

Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak

Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Father Melancholy’s Daughter by Gail Godwin

A Salty Piece of Land by Jimmy Buffett

We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

The Irish Famine by Colm Toibin & Diarmaid Ferriter

A Slipping Down Life by Anne Tyler

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Songs Without Words by Ann Packer

Lottery by Patricia Wood

The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeanette Walls

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult

Watching the Tree Limbs by Mary E. DeMuth

Wishing on Dandelions by Mary E. DeMuth

Tipperary by Frank Delaney

Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney

Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson

The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman

Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand

My Antonia by Willa Cather

House by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker

The Recognitions by William Gaddis

Doting by Henry Green

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

The Evidence Against Her by Robb Forman Dew

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett

The Shaping of a Life: A Spiritual Landscape by Phyllis Tickle

A Girl in Parts by Jasmine Paul

Kingdom of Lies by Lee Wood

The Sea by John Banville

The Illuminator by Brenda Rickman Vantrease

Me and Emma by Elizabeth Flock

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman

The Third Translation by Matt Bondurant

The Geographer’s Library by Jon Fasman

The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook

Open Secrets: Stories by Alice Munro

The Fugitive Wife by Peter C. Brown

The Time In Between by Peter Bergen

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Indelible Ink: 22 Prominent Christian Leaders Discuss the Books That Shape Their Faith by Scott Larsen

Shelf Life: Stories by the Book by Gary Paulsen

Aunt Dimity’s Death by Nancy Atherton

The Once and Future King by Terence Hanbury White

This Heavy Silence by Nicole Mazzarella

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

The Josephine Bonaparte Trilogy by Sandra Gulland

Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi

The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery

Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life by Michael Dirda

London Calling by Edward Bloor

Feather Castles by Patricia Veryan

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya

American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans Eve LaPlante

The Door in the Wall Marguerite De Angeli

They Loved to Laugh by Kathryn Worth

Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm

Cordelia Underwood: Or the Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath League by Van Reid

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood

In This Sign by Joanne Greenberg

Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres

A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin

Silence by Shusako Endo

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West

Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie by Ole Edvert Rolvaag

The Wall by John Hersey

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

Gone for Soldiers by Jeff Shaara

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Oliver Twist

Les Miserables

Will Mrs. Major Go to Hell? - Heath

Letters Never Sent - Van Reken

Surprised by Joy - Lewis

A Southern Woman’s Story - Pender

Angela’s Ashes - McCourt

The Road from Coorain - Conway

When the Snow Comes, They Will Take You Away - Newby

My American Adventure - Burritt

Blood Brothers - Chacour

The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be - Mowat

Windbreak - Hasselstrom

Tottering in My Garden - Keeble

We Die Alone - Howarth

The Seamstress - Bornstein

Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed - Hallie

Killing Fields, Living Fields - Cormach

Life Path - Shaw

A Long Obedience in the Same Direction - Peterson

The Lost Child - Atkins

The Great Influenza - Barry

His Excellency, George Washington - Ellis

Lincoln’s Avengers - Leonard

The Oregon Trail - Dary

Jane of Lantern Hill - Montgomery

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Dillard

Unseen Companian - Orenstein

Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God - Coomer

The Testament - Lustbader

A Prayer for Owen Meany - Irving

Disobedience - Alderman

The Second Coming - Percy

The Birth House - McKay

Death of a Writer - Collins

Quartet in Autumn - Pym

A Drinking Life - Hamill

Ada Blackjack - Niven

The Last Town on Earth - Mullen

Penny from Heaven - Holm

The Professor and the Madman - Winchester

The Hawk and the Dove - Wilcock

How the Irish Saved Civilization - Cahill

Madman - Groot

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice - King

The Ghost at the Table - Berne

The Sea Captain’s Wife - Hodes

The Summer of the Great Grandmother - L’Engle

The Irrational Season - L’Engle

Two-Part Invention - L’Engle

Meet the Austins - L’Engle

Certain Women - L’Engle

A Severed Wasp - L’Engle

Love Letters - L’Engle

A Live Coal in the Sea - L’Engle

Winter Birds - Turner

Light a Penny Candle - Binchy

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Doyle

Star of the Sea - O’Connor

Four Letters of Love - Williams

Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Atkinson

Inklings - Jeschke

Gravity’s Rainbow - Pynchon

Interpreter of Maladies - Lahiri

Between the Lines - Morrell

The Speed of Dark - Moon

Girl With a Pen - Kyle

The Liar’s Diary by Patry Francis

Girl Meets God: A Memoir by Lauren F. Winner

The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian

The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald

A Woman’s Place by Lynn Austin

Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey

Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

Every Mother is a Daughter - Klass

Fifty Acres and a Poodle - Laskas

Cold Comfort Farm - Gibbons

Middlemarch

The Count of Monte Cristo

1984

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) - Jerome

Singing Boy - MacFarland

Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution by Patrick McGrath

Edwin of the Iron Shoes by Marcia Muller

The Green Hour by Frederic Tuten

Lost and Old Rivers: Stories by Alan Cheuse

The Summer Book - Jansson

Cloud Atlas - Marshall

The Miracle of Language - Federer

Wendell Berry’s Port William novels:

1. Nathan Coulter
2. A World Lost
3. A Place on Earth
4. The Memory of Old Jack
5. Remembering
6. Jayber Crow
7. Hannah Coulter

The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins

Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading by Eugene H. Peterson

The Sunday Wife by Cassandra King

Cape Fear Rising by Gerard

Memoirs of a Geisha

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Shakespeare’s Kitchen - Lore Segal

Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris

Last Night at the Lobster - Stewart Nan

A Free Life - Ha Jin

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz

No Graves as Yet - Anne Perry