All My Books (alphabetized by title)

Alex & Me by Irene M. Pepperberg

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon


Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Articles of War by Nick Arvin

The Art of Racing in the Rain
by Garth Stein


Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

Barron's Firefighter Exams


Beautiful Boy by David Sheff

The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Behind the Bedroom Door ed. by Paula Derrow

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors


The Best American Short Stories ed. by Salman Rushdie

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Black Powder War by Naomi Novik (Temeraire Book 3)

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Bonk by Mary Roach

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Born to Be Good by Dacher Keltner

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Book 4)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz


Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich

The Brutal Language of Love by Alicia Erian

Call Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

Children of God by Mary Doria Russell


Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy

Club Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Book 3)

Columbine by Dave Cullen

Consider the Lobster And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

Cry of the Kalahari by Mark and Delia Owens

The Dangerous World of Butterflies by Peter Laufer

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Book 1)

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Doc by Mary Doria Russell


Dune by Frank Herbert (Book 1)

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Book 3)

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee

Emma by Jane Austen


Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik (Temeraire Book 4)


EMT Prehospital Care by Mark C. Henry and Edward R. Stapleton


The Engine 2 Diet by Rip Esselstyn


Enter the Zone by Barry Sears

Essentials of Fire Fighting

Everyday Survival by Laurence Gonzales

The Eye of the Elephant by Delia and Mark Owens


The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx


Fire and Ice by Julie Garwood

Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

Ghosts of Chicago by John McNally

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson


Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing by Mignon Fogarty

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman


Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik (Temeraire Book 1)

The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving


The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton


I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

Idyll Banter by Chris Bohjalian


If I Am Missing or Dead by Janine Latus

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

Indignation by Philip Roth

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahira

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

Introduction to Sports Medicine & Athletic Training by Robert C. France

The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World by Marti Olson Laney


The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

A Journal for Jordan by Dana Canedy

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver


Lady Susan by Jane Austen


The Language of Emotional Intelligence by Jeanne Segal

Life in Rewind by Terry Weible Murphy

Lincoln by Richard Carwardine

Living Dead In Dallas by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Book 2)

Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold


The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Mars and Venus on a Date by John Gray, Ph.D.

Merle's Door by Ted Kerasote

Middle Passage by Charles Johnson

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Migration by W.S. Merwin


My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (Book 2)

The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

On Writing by Stephen King

Othello by William Shakespeare

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

The Paleo Diet for Athletes by Loren Cordain and Joe Friel

Paris-Roubaix: A Journey Through Hell by Philippe Bouvet, et al.

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger


The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb

The Permanent Pain Cure by Ming Chew, PT

Personal History by Katharine Graham

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

The Pinochet File by Peter Kornbluh

Planet India by Mira Kamdar

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark


Princess Academy by Shannon Hale


The Protector by Marliss Melton

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson


Pursuit by Karen Robards

Queen of the Road by Doreen Orion

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

The Reason for God by Timothy Keller

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The Romance Writer's Handbook by Rebecca Vinyard

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman (Sally Lockhart Book 1)

The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

Secrets of the Savanna by Mark & Delia Owens

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman (Sally Lockhart Book 2)

Show No Fear by Marliss Melton

Show No Mercy by Cindy Gerard

Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists by Jean H. Baker

Sizzle by Julie Garwood

Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin

Snoop by Sam Gosling, Ph.D.

The South Beach Diet Super Charged by Arthur Agatston, MD

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Spook by Mary Roach

The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John Le Carré

Stiff by Mary Roach

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

Things That Make Us [sic] by Martha Brockenbrough

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

This Land is Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich

Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik (Temeraire Book 2)

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Too Far Gone by Marliss Melton

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (Book 1)

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman

Versailles: A Biography of a Palace by Tony Spawforth

Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik


A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

War by Sebastian Junger

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen


What I Did for Love by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

When Everything Changed by Gail Collins

Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer


The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Working Fire by Zac Unger

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

X by JD Glass

Yes Man by Danny Wallace

You Are Here by Thomas M. Kostigen

Zorro by Isabel Allende