27 Books

my favorite books (in order)
1 Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
2 The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
3 The Black Opal by Victoria Holt
4 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
5 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
6 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodson Burnett
8 The Help by Kathryn Stockett
9 The Giver by Lois Lowry
10 Tao te Ching by Lao Tzu
11 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
12 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Bonus sciencey book: Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain by Sharon Begley

books I have read this year

1 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

2 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

3 Animal Farm by George Orwell (time #2 for me)

4 Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (time #2)

5 Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence

6 Miracles and Massacres by Glenn Beck (currently reading)

Also I’ve read The American Scholar and Self Reliance by Emerson, along with both Communist Manifestos and Humanist Manifestos. We read weird crap in school. 2, 3, 5, and 6 were all for school as well.

books I am going to read this year (not a complete list)
1 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
2 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
3 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
4 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
5 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
6 Contact by Carl Sagan

7 1984 by George Orwell (time #2)

8 Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury (time #5)