2010s Reading List

2010

  • Personal Reading:
    • The Hadrian Memorandum by Alan Folsom
    • Transforming Evangelism by Henry Knight & Douglas Powe
    • The Shack by William Young
    • World Without End by Ken Follet
    • This Rock by Robert Morgan
    • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
    • My Name is Mary Sutterby Robin Oliveira
    • The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell
    • Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
    • The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
    • Topsoil Road by Robert Morgan

    College Assignments:

    • An Interesting Narrative (Selections) by Olaudah Equiano
    • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
    • The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
    • The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer by Aemilia Lanyer
    • Summer by Edith Wharton
    • The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish

2011

  • Fall of Giants by Ken Follet
  • Rumors of Another World by Philip Yancey
  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Under the Sabres – Unwritten Code of Army Wives by Tanya Biank
  • Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
  • The Final Storm by Jeff Shaara
  • The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
  • Crown of Thorns by Sigmund Brouwer
  • Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
  • After America by John Birmingham
  • Prophecy by Deborah Jaeger
  • Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
  • Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  • The Hours by Michael Cunningham
  • Fallen Angel by Jeff Struecker and Alton Gansky
  • Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
  • We Belong to the Land by Elias Chacour
  • The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
  • Sarum by Edward Rutherford
  • Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
  • On Secret Service by John Jakes
  • The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
  • The Book of the Dead  by Patricia Cornwell

2012

  • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges
  • No Higher Honor by Condoleezza Rice
  • Now, It’s My Turn by Mary Cheney
  • Bush At War by Bob Woodward
  • Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
  • Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy by Martin Lindstrom
  • It’s Classified by Nicolle Wallace
  • Girl Reading by Katie Ward
  • True Grit by Charles Portis
  • The Steel Wave by Jeff Shaara
  • A Heartbeat Away by Michael Palmer
  • Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White by Adam Hamilton
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • Jackdaws by Ken Follett
  • An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
  • Effigy by Alissa York
  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
  • Winter of the World by Ken Follett
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin

2013

  • A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
  • A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
  • A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
  • Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara
  • The Oath by Jeffrey Toobin
  • The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
  • My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
  • The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
  • A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
  • The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara
  • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
  • Saturday by Ian McEwan
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  • Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  • This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
  • And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
  • A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin

2014

  • His Family by Ernest Poole
  • Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
  • The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
  • The Story of Mankind Hendrik van Loon
  • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  • The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Loftin
  • Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War by Robert M. Gates
  • Battle Ready: Memoirs of a Seal Warrior Medic by Mark L. Donald & Scott Mactavish
  • The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes
  • Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
  • One of Ours by Willa Cather
  • No Less Than Victory by Jeff Shaara
  • Tales from Silver Lands by Charles J. Finger
  • Written in My Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon
  • Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
  • Shen of the Sea: Chinese Stories for Children by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
  • The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
  • Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James
  • Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett
  • The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

2015

  • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  • The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
  •  Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  • Bones Never Lie by Kathy Reichs
  • The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
  • The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
  • United Methodist Way: Living Our Beliefs by Kenneth L. Carder
  • The Homecoming by Earl Hamner, Jr.
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • Bird Song by Sebastian Faulks
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • While We Were Watching Downton Abbey by Wendy Wax
  • The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  • A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  • And the Good News Is….by Dana Perino
  • Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America by Dick Cheney / Liz Cheney
  • Wonder by R.J. Palacio
  • The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal
  • Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien
  • A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett

2016

  • The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
  • The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
  • The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
  • The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
  • The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
  • Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
  • The Known World by Edward P. Jones
  • Empire Falls by Richard Russo
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  • The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
  • The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
  • Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
  • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  • The Years by Virginia Woolf
  • Middlemarch by George Eliot

2017

  • Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
  • The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
  • Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
  • Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
  • Mei Li by Thomas Handforth
  • They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson
  • Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
  • The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
  • Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
  • Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
  • M.C. Higgins the Great by Virginia Hamilton
  • American Pastoral by Philip Roth
  • The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
  • Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
  • Dobry by Monica Shannon
  • All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
  • The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer
  • The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer
  • The Fifth Asssassin by Brad Meltzer
  • The President’s Shadow by Brad Meltzer
  • The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherford

2018

  • Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz
  • Body of Lies by David Ignatius
  • No Time for Sergeants by Mac Hyman
  • Bloodmoney by David Ignatius
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • The View from Saturday E.L. Konigsburg
  • Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
  • One Second After by William R. Forstchen
  • Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
  • Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Call It Courage by Armstrong Perry
  • Last Kids on Earth: Zombie Parade by Max Brallier
  • Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
  • The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  • Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
  • Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

2019

  • The Quantum Spy by David Ignatius
  • Remember the Morning by Thomas Fleming
  • Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini
  • The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
  • Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
  • Last to Die by Tess Gerritson
  • State of the Union by Brad Thor

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