I started by thinking of all the books that have stuck with me for weeks, months, or years, for whatever reason, listing all the books I could think of off the top of my head. Then, with that same requirement in mind, I reviewed the list of the 350+ books I have read and tracked (including recreational reading and required college reading) since 1993. I threw in a couple I remember from before 1993 and a couple I have edited or proofread.
I do not include works that are influential or important to literature or society unless they struck a particular personal note with me, so there’s no Shakespeare, no Chaucer, none of the other DeadWhite Guys. I also do not list any of the religions texts I am always reading, such as widely held religious texts (Bible, Quran, Book of Mormon, Baghavad Gita, miscellaneous "newly discovered lost texts," etc.). (Though that is not to say I don’t recommend the DWG or the religious texts.) All genres included, in alphabetical order by title:
1421: The Year China Discovered America, Gavin Menzies
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann
1984, George Orwell
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Angels along the Way, Della Reese
An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Anthem, Ayn Rand
At Peace in the Light, Dannion Brinkley with Paul Perry
Brother Wind, Sue Harrison
The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou (Why list them all individually, as I read them, when they exist collected now?)
The Color of Dust, Benjamin Lawless
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire
Congo, Michael Crichton
The Darkangel Trilogy, Meredith Ann Pierce
The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives, Michael Newton
The Dragonriders of Pern series, Anne McCaffrey
Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
The Elements of Style, Strunk & White
Emma, Jane Austen
Eragon, books 1-3 (4 coming soon?), Christopher Paolini
Esau, Philip Kerr
Evelina, Frances Burney
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf, Leo F. Buscaglia
Fingerprints of the Gods, Graham Hancock
Freedom series, books 1-4, Anne McCaffrey
The Green Mile, Stephen King
Harry Potter, Books 1-7, J.K. Rowling
Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom
Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme, Chris Roberts
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Jennifer Government, Max Barry
Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives, Michael Newton
The Langoliers, Stephen King
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Choderlos De Laclos
Lisa, Bright and Dark, John Neufeild
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
Mama Might Be Better off Dead, Laurie Kaye Abraham
Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
Mary Called Magdalene, Margaret George
Mary, Queen of Scotland & The Isles, Margaret George
Memnoch the Devil, Anne Rice
The Memoirs of Cleopatra, Margaret George
Misquoting Jesus, Bart D. Ehrman
Mother Earth Father Sky, Sue Harrison
Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder
The Mummy, Anne Rice
My Sister the Moon, Sue Harrison
Next, Michael Crichton
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
One Last Time, John Edward
People of the Lakes, Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear
Pope Joan, Donna Woolfolk Cross
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Real Boys, William Pollack
Saved by the Light, Dannion Brinkley with Paul Perry
The Seven Daughters of Eve, Bryan Sykes
Somewhere over the Sun, Adi Alsaid
The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima
The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
What Dreams May Come, Richard Matheson
Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung? Ajahn Brahm
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
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