Book Club

From Rachael:

I like to read. Here’s my reading list. I want recommendations – lots and lots of recommendations. Let the comments begin!

Books I like:

• The Secret Life of Bees
• Cold Sassy Tree
• The Poisonwood Bible
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
• David Copperfield
• The Bean Trees
• Truth Restored
• Speak
• Their Eyes Were Watching God
• The Bluest Eye
• Beloved
• The Scarlet Pimpernel
• All of Jane Austen (except maybe Lady Susan)
• Song of a Lark
• Ethan Frome
• Of Mice and Men
• A Christmas Carol
• Atlas Shrugged
• Jane Eyre
• Miracle of Forgiveness
• Paper Moon
• 1984
• The Accidental Tourist
• Great Expectations
• The Color Purple
• Dinner at Homesick Restaurant
• A Handmaid’s Tale
• Kite Runner
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Chosen
• Wuthering Heights
• The BFG
• Ender’s Game
• Gone with the Wind (don’t laugh)
• The Scarlet Letter
• The Only Alien on the Planet
• My Antonia

Books I am currently reading:

• The E Myth
• The Tipping Point

Books I am planning to read soon:

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Love in the Time of Cholera
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Invisible Man
• Anna Karenina
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Henry V
• The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
• The Bell Jar
• The Stranger
• Like Water for Chocolate
• A Passage to India
• Permission Marketing
• The Awakening
• Lord of the Flies
• The Short & Happy Life of Francis Macomber
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• An American Tragedy
• Walden
• Count of Monte Cristo
• Anne of Green Gables (and all the other Anne’s)
• Catch-22

Books I feel compelled and duty-bound to read but am too lazy to attempt:

• Don Quixote
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Les Mesirables
• All of Shakespeare’s plays (Adam says this is a silly idea – he thinks I should just watch the movies)

From Adam:

I sorta like to read, but am not very good at it. So I guess I will put down the books I have read recently.

• The CAREgiver, Grant Bushman
• A Business and its Beliefs, Tom Watson Jr.
• Peopleware, Tom DeMarco
• The Effective Executive, Peter Drucker
• The Art of War, Sun Tzu
• Almost Perfect, Paul Peterson
• The One Minute Manager
• All I really need to know I learned from watching Star Trek, Dave Marinaccio
• Don’t Shoot the Dog, Karen Pryor
• Customers for Life, Carl Sewell
• Love is the Killer App, Tim Sanders
• 13 Fatal Errors Managers Make and How You Can Avoid Them, W. Steven Brown
• Erik Sink on he Business of Software
• The Fall of Advertising & the Rise of PR, Al Ries & Laura Ries
• Four Days with Dr. Deming, William J. Latzko & David M. Saunder
• Our Iceberg is melting, John Kotter
• I Heard the Owl Call My Name, Margaret Craven
• The E Myth, Michael Gerber
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
• Success Built to Last, Thomas, Emery, Porras

Books I am currently reading (Note: “currently” is a loose term)

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• The Tipping Point
• Freakonomics

Books that I want to read

• The Age of Turbulence, Alan Greenspan
• The Audacity of Hope and Dreams of My Father, The Rock Obama