The following is a compilation of reading selections chosen by the members of the Pleasant Hill Book Club as "must reads."
This is an evolving list and books may be added or removed over time. If at any point you complete reading the entire list you will receive an imaginary trophy that would look great anywhere in your home.
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1. Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
2. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
3. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Foerer
4. Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
5. Matilda by Roald Dahl
6. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
7. Anthem by Ayn Rand
8. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
9. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
10. Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
11. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
12. Ana Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
13. The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman
14. The Dirty Parts of The Bible by Sam Torode
15. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
16. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
17. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Greene-Smith
18. Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
19. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
20. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by
Christopher Moore
21. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
22. Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by John
Coatsworth
23. Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien
24. Alicia: My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
25. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
26. Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer
by Tracy Kidder
27. Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey:The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
28. City of Thieves by David Beinoff
29 .Uncommon by Tony Dungy
30. John Adams by David McCullogh
31. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
32. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
33. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
34. Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer
35. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
36. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
37. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
38. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
39. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
40. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
42. The Inferno (The Divine Comedy, Part 1) by Dante Alighieri
43. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
44. Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
45. 1984 by George Orwell
46. Animal Farm by George Orwell
47. A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
48. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
49. Pimp by Iceberg Slim
50. What is the What by Dave Eggers
51. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
52. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
53. Maus I and II by Art Spiegelman
54. Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta
55. Freakonomics & Super Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen L
56. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
57. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
58. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
59. The Best Non-Required Reading of 2006 by Various
60. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
61. Johnny Got His Gun by Dylan Trumbo
62. Nine Stories by JD Salinger
63. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
64. Next by Michael Crichton
65. Life of Pi by Yan Martel
66. Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett
67. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
