On the Same Page - 2013 - Further Reading

Will and Mary Anne Schwalbe read a variety of books in their book club, ranging from classic to popular, from fantastical to spiritual. Here's a list of some of the books that they read together. And here's a list of Library staffs’ favorite books to discuss.

Books They Read Together

Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life by Tim Russert

The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara with Susan McClelland

Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey

Brooklyn: a Novel by Colm Tóibín

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

The Color of Water: a Black Man's Tribute To His White Mother by James McBride

Continental Drift by Russell Banks

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

Daily Strength for Daily Needs by Mary Tileston

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

The Etiquette of Illness by Susan P. Halpern

Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson

Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller

The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

Kokoro by Sōseki Natsume

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ismael Beah

Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk

The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith

Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot

My Father’s Tears: and Other Stories by John Updike

Night by Elie Wiesel

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham

People of the Book: a Novel by Geraldine Brooks

A Prayer for Owen Meany: a Novel by John Irving

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

Suite française by Irène Némirovsky

The Tender Bar: a Memoir by J.R. Moehringer

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Too Much Happiness: Stories by Alice Munro

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Staff Picks

1st to Die: a Novel by James Patterson

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark

And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery

Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: a Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside by Katrina Firlik

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Bel Canto: a Novel by Ann Patchet

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie

The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith

Boy’s Life by Robert R. McCammon

The Cheshire Cheese Cat: a Dickens of a Tale by Carmen Agra Deedy & Randall Wright

Cloud Atlas: a Novel by David Mitchell

Clover: a Novel by Dori Sanders

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

The Company: a Novel by Max Barry

The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard by J.G. Ballard

Crocodile on the sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

Darconville’s Cat by Alexander Theroux

Deadline by Chris Crutcher

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

Down the Mysterly River by Bill Willingham

Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas

The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: a Lakota Odyssey by Joe Starita

Edge of Midnight by Shannon McKenna

Ella Minnow Pea: a Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Follow the River by James Alexander Thom

The Forgotten Garden: a Novel by Kate Morton

Fortune’s Rocks: a Novel by Anita Shreve

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner

The Girl with Glass Feet: a Novel by Ali Shaw

The Girls: a Novel by Lori Lansens

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: a Novel by Haruki Murakami

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

The Historian: a Novel by Elizabeth Kostova

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

How Starbucks Saved My Life: a Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gill

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

Island by Aldous Huxley

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

The Jungle Book: the Mowgli Stories by Rudyard Kipling

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Emma Gelders Sterne & Barbara Lindsay

Labyrinths by Jorge Borges

The Lacuna: a Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

Last to Die: a Novel by Tess Gerritsen

Let the Great World Spin: a Novel by Colum McCann

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Life on the Color Line: the True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish

Little Women, or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser

Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Monstrumologist: William James Henry by Richard Yancey

Moonlight: Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial by John Evangelist Walsh

Motherless Daughters: the Legacy of Loss by Hope Edelman

The Name of the Wind; the Kingkiller Chronicle; Day One by Patrick Rothfuss

A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman

Neuromancer by William Gibson

The Night Circus: a Novel by Erin Morgenstern

Northern Lights by Nora Roberts

Now You See Her: a Novel by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge

The Odyssey by Homer

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

One True Thing by Anna Quindlen

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Palace Walk by Najīb Maḥfūẓ

Patty Jane's House of Curl: a Novel by Lorna Landvik

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

Persepolis: [the Story of a Childhood] by Marjane Satrapi

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Poisonwood Bible: a Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Prodigal Summer: a Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo

Sacre Bleu: a comedy d'arte by Christopher Moore

Secrets to the Grave by Tami Hoag

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

Shelter Mountain by Robyn Carr

The Shining by Stephen King

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Simple Abundance: a Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

Sisterhood Everlasting: a Novel by Ann Brashares

Skin Game by Caroline Kettlewell

Skinny by Ibi Kaslik

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Sophie's Heart by Lori Wick

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

The Stand by Stephen King

Step Out on Nothing: How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life’s Challenges by Byron Pitts

Still Life by Louise Penny

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: a Novel by David Wroblewski

Summer for the Gods: the Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: a Novel by David Mitchell

Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn

Water for Elephants: a Novel by Sara Gruen

The Way of the Peaceful Warrior: a Book that Changes Lives by Dan Millman

Weekends at Bellevue by Julie Holland

Wench: a Novel by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Where the Red Fern Grows: the Story of Two dogs and a Boy by Wilson Rawls

A Wild Sheep Chase: a Novel by Haruki Murakami

Wonderland Creek by Lynn Austin

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Zoya by Danielle Steel