Best Books

March 2007
Here is a list I made for a friend of mine with all my favorite books....

The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Dan Millman

The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Pecked to Death by Ducks
Tim Cahill

The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger

Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand

The Handmaid’s Tail
Margaret Atwood

Prozac Nation
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card

The World According to Garp
John Irving

Forever
Judy Bloom

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt (then go visit Savannah, GA!)



Illusions
Richard Bach

The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver

The Drifters
James Michener

One Hundred Years Of Solitude
And
Love in the Time of Cholera
and
Living to Tell the Tale
Gabriel García Márquez

Memoirs Of A Geisha
Arthur Golden

The Rule of Four
Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason

The Godfather
Mario Puzo

The Book of Miracles
The Meaning of the Miracle Stories in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam
Kenneth L. Woodward

The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler

A Separate Peace
John Knowles

White Oleander
Janet Fitch



Andromeda Strain
and
Travels
Michael Crichton

Tanamera
Noel Barber

A Workbook on Becoming a Leader
Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith

The Mummy
Anne Rice

Difficult Loves
and
Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino

The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho

The Divine Comedy
and
The Inferno
Dante Alighieri

The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley

The Partner
John Grisham

The Accidental Buddhist
Dinty Moore


Ya Ya Sisterhood
and
Little Alters Everywhere
Rebecca Wells

Grendel
John Gardner
(But only if you read Beowulf)

Cowboys Are My Weakness
Pam Houston

The Way and its Power
Lao-Tzu

Go Ask Alice
Anonymous

The Jungle
Upton Sinclair

A Separate Peace
John Knowles

A Death in Brazil
Peter Robb

The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini

Eva Luna
And
More Stories of Eva Luna
Isabel Allende

Tales of the City (set of 4 or 5 books)
Armistead Maupin

Gabriella, Clove and Cinnamon
And
The Beach Waifs (dumb translation… Captains of the Sand…)
Jorge Amado

Operating Instructions
Anne Lamott

The Red Tent
Anita Diamant

The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell

Microserfs
Douglas Coupland