Books I’ve Read

A look through my bookshelves.

Books I’ve finished, with my personal ratings.

★★★★★ Five stars is my highest rating. “Not rated” means I haven’t assigned one.

Listed by Author (Last Name)
Open a letter to browse.

A · 9 books

Annabel Abbs

Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen

★★★☆☆

Shawn Achor

The Happiness Advantage

★★★★★

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker’s Guide, #1)

★★★★☆

Taylor Adams

No Exit

★★★★★

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

★★★★★

David Almond

Skellig

★★★★☆

Hans Christian Andersen

The Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen – Complete Collection (Illustrated and Annotated) (Illustrated and Annotated) (Literary Classics Collection Book 18)

★★★★☆

Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey

★★★★☆

Pride and Prejudice

★★★★★

B · 27 books

Natalie Babbitt

Tuck Everlasting

★★★★★

David Baldacci

The Camel Club (Camel Club, #1)

★★★☆☆

L. Frank Baum

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz #1)

★★★★☆

Jeanne-Marie Leprince Beaumont

Beauty and the Beast

★★★★★

James BeauSeigneur

Acts of God (The Christ Clone Trilogy, #3)

★★★★☆

Birth of an Age (The Christ Clone Trilogy, #2)

★★★★☆

In His Image (The Christ Clone Trilogy, #1)

★★★★☆

David Benioff

City of Thieves

★★★★★

Wendell Berry

Jayber Crow

★★★★★

Melissa Bianco

Everyday Heroes

Not rated

Real Life

★★★★☆

Judy Blume

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

★★★★☆

Blubber

★★★★★

Forever…

★★★★☆

It’s Not the End of the World

★★★★★

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great (Fudge, #2)

★★★★★

Summer Sisters

★★★★★

Superfudge (Fudge, #3)

★★★★★

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Fudge, #1)

★★★★★

Then Again, Maybe I Won’t

★★★★★

Chris Bohjalian

The Flight Attendant

★★★★☆

Ray Bradbury

Dandelion Wine (Green Town, #1)

★★★★☆

Fahrenheit 451

★★★★★

The Martian Chronicles

★★★★★

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre

★★★★★

Don Brown

Treason (Navy Justice #1)

★★★★☆

Jim Butcher

Battle Ground (The Dresden Files, #17)

★★★☆☆

C · 15 books

Truman Capote

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

★★★☆☆

Orson Scott Card

Children of the Mind (Ender’s Saga, #4)

★★★★☆

Ender’s Game (Ender’s Saga, #1)

★★★★★

Speaker for the Dead (Ender’s Saga, #2)

★★★★☆

Xenocide (Ender’s Saga, #3)

★★★★☆

Lewis Carroll

Alice in Wonderland

★★★☆☆

Alice in Wonderland

★★★☆☆

Ed Catmull

Creativity, Inc.

★★★★☆

Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None

★★★★★

Susanna Clarke

Piranesi

★★★☆☆

Ernest Cline

Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)

★★★★☆

Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)

★★★★☆

Mark Cotta Vaz

New Moon (The Twilight Saga : Illustrated Movie Companion Book 2)

★★★★☆

Michael Crichton

The Andromeda Strain

★★★★★

Timeline

★★★☆☆

D · 10 books

Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

★★★★★

Peter David

The Gunslinger Born (Stephen King’s The Dark Tower

★★★★★

Chuck DeGroat

When Narcissism Comes to Church

★★★★☆

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

★★★★★

A Tale of Two Cities

★★★★★

Anthony Doerr

All the Light We Cannot See

★★★★★

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

★★★★★

Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca

Not rated

Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

★★★★★

The Man in the Iron Mask (Le vicomte de Bragelonne #3/3)

★★★☆☆

E · 1 books

Florentino F. Elgin

How To Stop Talking Too Much

★★☆☆☆

F · 10 books

Jasper Fforde

The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

★★★★★

Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)

★★★★★

The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)

★★★★★

Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)

★★★★★

First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)

★★★★★

One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)

★★★★★

The Woman Who Died a Lot (Thursday Next, #7)

★★★★★

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

★★★★★

Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl

★★★☆☆

John Fowles

The Collector

★★★★☆

G · 12 books

Diana Gabaldon

A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander, #6)

★★★★★

Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)

★★★★★

Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)

★★★★★

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)

★★★★☆

Outlander (Outlander, #1)

★★★★★

The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5)

★★★★★

Voyager (Outlander, #3)

★★★★☆

William Gibson

Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

★★★☆☆

William Golding

Lord of the Flies

★★★★★

Genevieve Graham

The Forgotten Home Child

★★★★☆

Jacob Grimm

Grimm’s Fairy Stories

★★★★☆

Kathleen Grissom

The Kitchen House

★★★★★

H · 20 books

Kristin Hannah

The Nightingale

★★★★★

Charlaine Harris

All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7)

★★★★☆

Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #3)

★★★★★

Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse, #5)

★★★★★

Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4)

★★★★★

Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)

★★★★★

Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #6)

★★★★☆

From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse, #8)

★★★☆☆

Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)

★★★★★

Alix E. Harrow

The Ten Thousand Doors of January

★★★★☆

Dallas Hartwig

It Starts with Food

★★★★☆

Scott Hawkins

The Library at Mount Char

★★★★☆

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

★★★★☆

Robert A. Heinlein

Stranger in a Strange Land

★☆☆☆☆

Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls

★★★★☆

Georgette Heyer

The Convenient Marriage

★★★☆☆

Patricia Highsmith

The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)

★★★★★

Antonia Hodgson

The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy, #1)

★★★★★

Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns

★★★★☆

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

★★★★★

I · 4 books

John Irving

A Prayer for Owen Meany

★★★★☆

Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

★★★☆☆

James Islington

The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)

★★★★★

The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)

★★★★★

K · 16 books

Jan Karon

At Home in Mitford

★★★★★

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

★★☆☆☆

Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon

★★★★☆

Stephen King

11/22/63

★★★★☆

Fairy Tale

★★★★★

Song of Susannah (Dark Tower, #6)

★★★☆☆

The Dark Tower (Dark Tower, #7)

★★★★☆

The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower, #2)

★★★★☆

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)

★★★★★

The Institute

Not rated

The Waste Lands (Dark Tower, #3)

★★★★☆

Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4)

★★★★☆

Wolves of the Calla (Dark Tower, #5)

★★★☆☆

Rudyard Kipling

The Man Who Would Be King

★★★☆☆

N.H. Kleinbaum

Dead Poets Society

★★★★☆

T.J. Klune

The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)

★★☆☆☆

L · 9 books

Madeleine L’Engle

A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)

★★★★★

Erik Larson

In the Garden of Beasts

★★★★★

The Devil in the White City

★★★★★

The Splendid and the Vile

★★★★★

Stieg Larsson

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)

★★★★★

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

★★★★★

Gaston Leroux

The Phantom of the Opera

★★★★★

C.S. Lewis

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, #2) (The Chronicles of Narnia, #2) (Publication Order, #1)

★★★★☆

The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1)

★★★★★

M · 17 books

Sarah J. Maas

The Assassin’s Blade (Throne of Glass, #0.1-0.5)

★★★★★

Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #0.1–0.5, 1–7)

★★★★☆

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

★★★☆☆

George R.R. Martin

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

★★★★★

Madeline Martin

The Booklover’s Library

★★★★☆

The Last Bookshop in London

★★★★★

James Maxwell

Golden Age (The Shifting Tides, #1)

★★★★☆

Colleen McCullough

The Thorn Birds

★★★★★

Freida McFadden

Never Lie

★★☆☆☆

Christina McKenna

The Misremembered Man (Tailorstown #1)

★★★☆☆

Stephenie Meyer

Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)

★★★★★

Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)

★★★★☆

New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)

★★★★★

Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)

★★★★☆

Alex Michaelides

The Silent Patient

★★★★☆

Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles

★★★★★

Erin Morgenstern

The Night Circus

★★★★★

N · 1 books

David Nicholls

One Day

★★★★☆

O · 3 books

Eugene O’Neill

Long Day’s Journey into Night

★★★☆☆

George Orwell

1984

★★★★★

Animal Farm

★★★★☆

P · 11 books

James Patterson

1st to Die (Women’s Murder Club, #1)

★★★☆☆

2nd Chance (Women’s Murder Club, #2)

★★★☆☆

3rd Degree (Women’s Murder Club, #3)

★★★☆☆

4th of July (Women’s Murder Club, #4)

★★★☆☆

Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports (Maximum Ride, #3)

★★★☆☆

School’s Out—Forever (Maximum Ride, #2)

★★★☆☆

The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)

★★★☆☆

The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, #4)

★★★☆☆

Kristen Perrin

How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

★★★★★

Andrew Peterson

Adorning the Dark

★★★★★

Howard Pyle

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

★★★★★

Q · 1 books

Kate Quinn

The Alice Network

★★★★☆

R · 6 books

Clara Reeve

The Old English Baron

★★★★☆

Frank Riley

The Executioner

★★★★☆

Rick Riordan

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)

★★★★☆

Paul Robertson

The Heir

★★★☆☆

Tatiana de Rosnay

Sarah’s Key

★★★☆☆

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter #1)

★★★★☆

S · 25 books

J.D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

★★★★★

Brandon Sanderson

Mistborn (Mistborn, #1)

★★★★★

Diane Sanfilippo

The 21-Day Sugar Detox

Not rated

Andrzej Sapkowski

Baptism of Fire (The Witcher, #3)

★★★★☆

Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #1)

★★★★★

Season of Storms (The Witcher, #8)

★★★★★

Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)

★★★★★

The Lady of the Lake (The Witcher, #5)

★★★★☆

The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)

★★★★★

The Time of Contempt (The Witcher #2)

★★★★☆

The Tower of Swallows (The Witcher, #4)

★★★★☆

John Scalzi

Old Man’s War (Old Man’s War, #1)

★★★★☆

V.E. Schwab

A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)

★★★★☆

Lisa See

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

★★★★★

Meg Shaffer

The Wishing Game

★★★★★

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

★★★★☆

Betty Smith

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

★★★★★

Nicholas Sparks

Remain

★★★☆☆

John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men

★★★★★

Robert Louis Stevenson

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

★★★★☆

Treasure Island

★★★★☆

Mary Stewart

Rose Cottage

★★★☆☆

Kathryn Stockett

The Help

★★★★☆

Bram Stoker

Dracula

★★★★★

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver’s Travels

★★★☆☆

T · 8 books

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair

★★★★★

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

★★★★★

The Hobbit

★★★★☆

Amor Towles

A Gentleman in Moscow

★★★★★

Rules of Civility

★★★★★

The Lincoln Highway

★★★★★

A.W. Tozer

The Attributes of God Volume 1 with Study Guide

★★★★★

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

★★★★★

U · 1 books

Melissa Urban

The Whole30

★★★★★

V · 3 books

Simon Van Booy

Sipsworth

★★★★★

J.D. Vance

Hillbilly Elegy

★★★★☆

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Slaughterhouse-Five

★★★★☆

W · 10 books

David Weber

On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)

★★★★☆

Brent Weeks

The Black Prism (Lightbringer, #1)

Not rated

The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)

★★★★★

H.G. Wells

The Invisible Man

★★★★☆

The Island of Dr. Moreau

★★★★☆

The Time Machine

★★★★☆

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

★★★★☆

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)

★★★★★

Lisa Wingate

Before We Were Yours

★★★★★

Monica Wood

How to Read a Book

★★★★★

Z · 2 books

Markus Zusak

Bridge of Clay

★★★★☆

The Book Thief

★★★★★

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