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Reading list since July 2010 in reverse chronological order.
**Indicates a Sally-recommended must-read!
  1. THE UNDISCOVERED SELF  C.G. Jung
  2. THE DREAM HOTEL  Laila Lalami
  3. DOLLY PARTON, SONGTELLER: MY LIFE IN LYRICS  Dolly Parton & Robert K. Hermann (audiobook)**
  4. GILEAD  Marilynne Robinson
  5. I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN  Jacqueline Harpman (audiobook)
  6. BORN A CRIME: STORIES FROM A SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDHOOD  Trevor Noah (audiobook)**
  7. THE PENELOPIAD  Margaret Atwood (audiobook)
  8. THE MESSAGE  Ta-Nehisi Coates (audiobook)
  9. A COURT OF WINGS AND RUIN  Sarah J. Maas
  10. ALL BOYS AREN'T BLUE  George M. Johnson** (audiobook)
  11. MEDITATIONS ON LIVING, DYING, AND LOSS: THE ESSENTIAL TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD  Graham Coleman & Dalai Lama translation
  12. FAHRENHEIT 451  Ray Bradbury
  13. CARRY ON: REFLECTIONS FOR A NEW GENERATION  John Lewis (audiobook)
  14. THE EDUCATION OF AN IDEALIST: A MEMOIR  Samantha Power (audiobook)
  15. JUST MERCY  Bryan Stevenson**
  16. FINDING MY WAY  Malala Yousafzai (audiobook)
  17. THE NICKEL BOYS  Colson Whitehead (audiobook)**
  18. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.  Martin Luther King, Jr. & Clayborne Carson (audiobook)***
  19. THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE  Kim Stanley Robinson**
  20. 1984  George Orwell** (audiobook)
  21. TRANSITIONS: MAKING SENSE OF LIFE'S CHANGES  William Bridges**
  22. BRAVE NEW WORLD  Aldous Huxley (audiobook)                                            _________________________________________________ (2025)
  23. ACROSS THAT BRIDGE: A VISION FOR CHANGE AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICA  John Lewis (audiobook)
  24. ANIMAL FARM  George Orwell (audiobook)
  25. ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS**  Omar El Akkad (audiobook)
  26. EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS  John Green** (audiobook)
  27. 107 DAYS  Kamala Harris (audiobook)
  28. BEING MORTAL  Atul Gawande
  29. ON TYRANNY  Timothy Snyder**
  30. ACTRESS OF A CERTAIN AGE Jeff Hiller** (audiobook)
  31. KINDRED  Octavia E. Butler**
  32. PARABLE OF THE TALENTS  Octavia E. Butler**
  33. PARABLE OF THE SOWER  Octavia E. Butler** (wow, one of my new faves)
  34. A COURT OF MIST AND FURY Sarah J. Maas          _________________________________________________ (2024)
  35. A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES  Sarah J. Maas _________________________________________________  (2023)
  36. YEARBOOK  Seth Rogan**
  37. HOMEGOING  Yaa Gyasi**
  38. THE HEALTHY COMPULSIVE  Gary Trosclair
  39. DIVERGENT MIND: THRIVING IN A WORLD THAT WASN'T DESIGNED FOR YOU  Jenara Nerenberg
      _________________________________________________  (2022)
  40. THE SONG OF ACHILLES  Madeline Miller
  41. POOR ECONOMICS:  A RADICAL RETHINKING OF THE WAY TO FIGHT GLOBAL POVERTY Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo (reread) 
  42. MORE THAN GOOD INTENTIONS  Dean Karlan & Jacob Appel
    ___________________________________________________  (2021)
  43. THE TESTAMENTS  Margaret Atwood
  44. CIRCE  Madeline Miller
  45. THE TRUTHS WE HOLD  Kamala Harris
  46. WORLD TRAVEL  Anthony Bourdain & Laurie Woolever 
    ___________________________________________________ (2019)
  47. MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER  Oyinkan Braithwaite 
    ___________________________________________________ (2017)
  48. WHO FEARS DEATH?  Nnedi Okorafor
  49. IS EVERYONE HANGING OUT WITHOUT ME? (AND OTHER CONCERNS)  Mindy Kaling
  50. HILLBILLY ELEGY  J.D. Vance
  51. THE HANDMAID'S TALE  Margaret Atwood**
  52. HIDDEN FIGURES  Margot Lee Shetterly
  53. I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS  Maya Angelou**
  54. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME  Ta-nehisi Coates**
  55. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD  Colson Whitehead**
  56. WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie**
    ___________________________________________________     (2016)
  57. BIG LITTLE LIES  Liane Moriarty
  58. AS I LAY DYING  William Faulkner
  59. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN  Paula Hawkins
  60. THE MARTIAN  Andy Weir**
  61. GO SET A WATCHMAN  Harper Lee
  62. WIND/PINBALL  Haruki Murakami
    ___________________________________________________     (2015)
  63. THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI  Helene Wecker**
  64. A WILD SHEEP CHASE  Haruki Murakami
  65. BOSSYPANTS  Tina Fey**
  66. LEAN IN: WOMEN, WORK, AND THE WILL TO LEAD  Sheryl Sandberg
  67. POOR NUMBERS: HOW WE ARE MISLED BY AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT STATISTICS AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT  Morten Jerven
  68. THE TENTH OF DECEMBER  George Saunders
  69. THE SUBMISSION  Amy Waldman
    ___________________________________________________      (2014)
  70. THE FAULT IN OUR STARS  John Green
  71. STORM OF SWORDS  George R.R. Martin
  72. THE LEFTOVERS  Tom Perrotta
  73. READY PLAYER ONE  Ernest Cline**
  74. WORLD WAR Z  Max Brooks
  75. AMERICANAH  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie**
  76. WHITE TEETH  Zadie Smith
  77. THE GIRLS' GUIDE TO HUNTING AND FISHING  Melissa Bank
  78. CLASH OF KINGS  George R. R. Martin
  79. WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE?  Maria Semple**
  80. BONK  Mary Roach
    ___________________________________________________     (2013)
  81. THE GAME OF THRONES  George R. R. Martin
  82. THE PRICE OF CIVILIZATION  Jeffrey Sachs
  83. MARBLES: MANIA, DEPRESSION, MICHELANGELO, AND ME   Ellen Forney
  84. DEAD EVER AFTER  Charlaine Harris
  85. THE NIGHT CIRCUS  Erin Morgenstern**
  86. GONE GIRL  Gillian Flynn (ugh, terrible...don't read it)
  87. CUTTING FOR STONE  Abraham Verghese
  88. UNHOLY NIGHT  Seth Grahame-Smith**
  89. THE BRIEF AND WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO Junot Diaz
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  90. DEADLOCKED  Charlaine Harris
  91. JUNGLE LOVERS  Paul Theroux
  92. THE ALCHEMIST  Paulo Coelho**
  93. ATLAS SHRUGGED  Ayn Rand
  94. PRODIGAL SUMMER  Barbara Kingsolver
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  95. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA   Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  96. PATHOLOGIES OF POWER: HEALTH, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE NEW WAR ON THE POOR  Paul Farmer 
  97. POOR ECONOMICS:  A RADICAL RETHINKING OF THE WAY TO FIGHT GLOBAL POVERTY Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
  98. THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY  Alexander McCall Smith
  99. LITTLE CHILDREN  Tom Perrotta**
  100. CHILD OF GOD  Cormac McCarthy
  101. THE HELP  Kathryn Stockett**
  102. MOCKINGJAY  Suzanne Collins
  103. CATCHING FIRE  Suzanne Collins
  104. THE HUNGER GAMES  Suzanne Collins
  105. ANNA KARENINA  Leo Tolstoy
  106. THE GREAT GATSBY  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  107. PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED  Paulo Freire 
  108. THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN  William Easterly 
  109. MYTHOLOGY  Edith Hamilton**
  110. THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE  Robert Louis Stephenson 
  111. THE BLOOD CANTICLE  Anne Rice 
  112. A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD  Jennifer Egan** 
  113. DEAD RECKONING  Charlaine Harris 
  114. THE VILLAGE OF WAITING  George Packer 
  115. THE SHIPPING NEWS  Annie Proulx** 
  116. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER  Gregory Maguire 
  117. ELIZABETH COSTELLO  JM Coetzee 
  118. NORWEGIAN WOOD  Haruki Murakami 
  119. FRANNY & ZOOEY  JD Salinger 
  120. BEING THERE  Jerzy Kosinski 
  121. FROM MICROSOFT TO MALAWI Michael L. Buckler 
  122. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
  123. THE MALTESE FALCON Dashiell Hammett 
  124. THE PLAGUE Albert Camus 
  125. THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE Audrey Niffenegger** 
  126. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY AND OTHER STORIES Oscar Wilde 
  127. FIERCE INVALIDS HOME FROM HOT CLIMATES Tom Robbins** 
  128. THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE Haruki Murakami** 
  129. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN Salman Rushdie 
  130. OUT OF AFRICA Isak Dinesen 
  131. ALL THE PRETTY HORSES Cormac McCarthy** 
  132. THE WITCHING HOUR Anne Rice
  133. ATONEMENT Ian McEwan**
  134. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Stieg Larsson
  135. A BEND IN THE RIVER V.S. Naipaul
  136. THE JUNGLE BOOKS Rudyard Kipling
  137. INFECTIONS & INEQUALITIES Paul Farmer
  138. THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS Lewis Carroll
  139. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND Lewis Carroll
  140. HALF A YELLOW SUN Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie***
  141. CATCHER IN THE RYE J.D. Salinger
  142. A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS Khaled Hosseini**
  143. THE INVISIBLE CURE Helen Epstein**
  144. THINGS FALL APART Chinua Achebe
  145. HALF THE SKY Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn**
  146. THE VAMPIRE ARMAND Anne Rice
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