2010 Book List

  1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  2. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  3. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickins
  4. Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancelyn Green
  5. The Tale of Troy by Roger Lancelyn Green
  6. Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
  7. Liberty and Tyranny by Mark R. Levin
  8. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman
  9. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
  10. The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
  11. The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien
  12. The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien
  13. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
  14. Mr Harrison’s Confession by Elizabeth Gaskell
  15. My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell
  16. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  17. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
  18. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  19. Persuasion by Jane Austen
  20. Spoken From the Heart by Laura Bush
  21. My Life in Paris by Julia Child
  22. The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
  23. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  24. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle Earth by Bradley J Birzer
  25. Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight by Karl Rove
  26. Emma by Jane Austen
  27. The Keepers of the Caves by Jack Mitchell
  28. The Forgotten Man by Amity Schlaes
  29. The Mormon Way of Doing Business by Jeff Benedict
  30. Beowulf: A New Telling by Robert Nye
  31. Guides to Straight Thinking by Stuart Chase
  32. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  33. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang
  34. The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White
  35. How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren
  36. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by J.R.R. Tolkien
  37. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (read aloud to Timothy and Mark)
  38. The Iliad by Homer translated by Robert Fitzgerald
  39. Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie
  40. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer retold by Geraldine McCaughrean
  41. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis
  42. John Adams by David McCullough (a real favorite and a comfort)
  43. John Adams: Reluctant Patriot of the Revolution by Leonard Falkner
  44. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White (read aloud to Timothy and Mark)
  45. George Washington by William Roscoe Thayer
  46. The Odyssey by Homer translated by Robert Fitzgerald
  47. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (in progress… reading aloud to the kids)
  48. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
  49. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare