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“I cannot live without books.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

Every year I aspire to read a number of books simply because I love to read. My house if full of books of all sorts – non-fiction, fiction, self-improvement, biographies and autobiographies, classics, spiritual, informative, and so on. I have a love affair with books. They educate me, entertain me, and even comfort me.

My Favorite Books Ever (Year Read)

(1) The Color of  Water – James McBride (2002)

(2) A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini (2008)

(3) The Help – Kathryn Stockett (2010)

(4) My American Journey – Colin Powell (1997)

(5) Life on the Color Line – Gregory Howard Williams (1995)

(6) The Value in the Valley – Iyanla VanZant (1999)

(7) The Road Less Traveled – M. Scott Peck (5 times and counting)

(8) Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert (2008)

(9) Roots – Alex Haley (1990)

(10) Savage Inequalities – Jonathan Kozol (2001)

2011 Reading List

1. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
2. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
3. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
4. The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
5. The Known World – Edward Jones
6. Khaffir Boy – Mark Mathabane
7. The Winner’s Manual: For the Game of Life – Jim Tressel
8. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders – Daniyal Mueenuddin
9. Have a Little Faith: A True Story – Mitch Albom
10. When You Are Engulfed in Flames – David Sedaris
11. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
12. The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
13. Lolita – Vladmir Nabokov
14. Cane River – Lalita Tademy
15. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
16. Night – Elie Wiesel
17. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
18. Beautiful Boy – David Sheff
19. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day – Pearl Cleage
20. Drowning Ruth – Christina Schwarz
21. The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
22. The Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff
23. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
24. A Lesson Before Dying – Earnest Gaines

2010 Reading List

1. The Gospel According to Starbucks – Leonard Sweet
2. The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
3. Native Son – Richard Wright
4. The Hour I First Believed – Wally Lamb
5. The Alchemist – Paulo Coehlo
6. The Help – Kathryn Stockett
7. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
8. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
9. A Hope in the Unseen – Ron Suskind
10. Push: A Novel – Sapphire

2009 Reading List

(1) Blink – Malcolm Gladwell

(2) Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell

(3) The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch

(4) A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini

(5) The Shack – William Paul Young

(6) Such a Pretty Fat – Jen Lancaster

(7) Bitter is the New Black – Jen Lancaster

(8) The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

(9) The Giver – Lois Lowry

(10) The Pact – Jodi Piccoult

(11) My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Piccoult

(12) Perfect Match – Jodi Piccoult

(13) Vanishing Acts -  Jodi Piccoult

(14) Picture Perfect – Jodi Piccoult

(15) Harvesting the Heart – Jodi Piccoult

(16) Handle with Care – Jodi Piccoult

(17) The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls

(18) Stealing Buddha’s Dinner – Bich Minh Nguyen

(19) Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson

2008 Reading List

(1) Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert

(2) The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom

(3) How Starbucks Saved My Life – Michael Gates Gill

(4) The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz

(5) Leadership – Rudy Giuliani

(6) The Measure of a Man – Sidney Poitier

(7) The Art of Happiness – His Holiness the Dalai Lama

(8) How to Practice the Way to a Meaningful Life – His Holiness the Dalai Lama

(9) The Five Love Languages – Gary Chapman

(10) Now You’re Speaking My Language – Gary Chapman

(11) The Secret – Rhonda Byrne

(12) Change of Heart – Jodi Piccoult

(13) Keeping Faith – Jodi Piccoult

(14) 19 Minutes – Jodi Piccoult

(15) Mercy – Jodi Piccoult

(16) Second Glance – Jodi Piccoult

(17) Plain Truth – Jodi Piccoult

(18) Songs of the Humpback Whale – Jodi Piccoult

(19) Salem Falls – Jodi Piccoult

(20) The Tenth Circle – Jodi Piccoult

(21) Leadership – John C. Wooden

(22) The Art of Seduction – Robert Greene