How Reading Changed My Life

The Reading Lists from Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life:10 Big Thick Wonderful Books that Could Take You a Whole Summer to Read (But Aren't Beach Books)Gone With the Wind by Margaret MitchellVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Forstyte Saga by John GalsworthyBuddenbrooks by Thomas MannCan You Forgive Her? by Anthony TrollopeSophie's Choice by William StyronHenry and Clara by Thomas MallonUnderworld by Don DeLilloLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry10 Non Fiction Books That Help Us Understand the WorldThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by GibbonsThe Best and the Brightest by David HalberstamLenin's Tomb by David RemnickLincoln by David Herbert DouglasSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteHow We Die by Sherwin NulandThe Unredeemed Captive by John DemosThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirThe Power Broker by Robert Caro10 Books that will Help a Teenager Feel More HumanCatcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA Separate Peace by John KnowlesLost In Place by Mark SalzmanWhat's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter HedgesThe World According to Garp by John IrvingBloodbrothers by Richard PriceA Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty SmithTo Kill A Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersThe Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullersThe 10 Books I Would Save in a Fire (If I Could Only Save 10)Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenBleak House by Charles DickensAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingMiddlemarch by George EliotSons and Lovers by D.H. LawrenceThe Collected Works of W. B. YeatsThe Collected Plays of William ShakespeareThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonTen Books for a Girl Who is Full of Beans (Or Ought to Be)Little Women by Louisa May AlcottJulius the Baby of the World by Kevin HenkesBetsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart LovelaceAnne of Green Gables by L. M. MontgomeryThe Diary of A Young Girl by Anne FrankThe BFG by Ronald DahlA Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'EngleMadeline by Ludwig BemelmansCatherine Known As Birdy by Katherine PatersonThe True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by AviTen Mystery Novels I'd Most Like to Find in a Summer RentalAn Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P. D. JamesGaudy Night by Dorothy SayersThe Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie KingRebecca by Daphne du MaurierGet Shorty by Elmore LeonardDancers in Mourning by Margery AllinghamThe Way Through the Woods by Colin DexterThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleBrat Farrar by Josephine TeyThe Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre10 Books Recommended by a Really Good Elementary School LibrarianThe View From Saturday by E.L. KoningsburgFrindle by Andrew ClementsMy Daniel by Pan ConradThe Houdini Box by Brian Selznick Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle MagorianNo Flying in the House by Betty BrockMy Father's Dragon by Ruth Gannett StilesHabibi by Naomi NyeMudpies and Other Recipes: A Cookbook for Dolls by Marjorie WinslowThe Story of May by Mordecai Gerstein10 Good Book Club SelectionsFraud by Anita BrooknerCharming Billy by Alice McDermottThe Book of Ruth by Jane HamiltonThe Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean HowellsThe Stone Diaries by Carol ShieldsMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Patron Saint of Liars by Ann PatchettSister Carrie by Theodore DreiserParis Trout by Pete DexterEden Close by Anita Shreve10 Modern Novels that Made Me Proud to be a WriterThe Sweet Hereafter by Russell BanksWhite Noise by Don DeLilloMartin Dressler by Steven MillhauserTrue Confessions by John Gregory DunneThe Death of the Heart by Elizabeth BowenThe French Lieutennant's Woman by John FowlesFalconer by John CheeverThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonThe Information by Martin AmisPortnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth10 of the Books My Exceptionally Well-Read Friend Ben says He's Taken the Most FromHerzog by Saul BellowComing Up for Air by George OrwellSomething of an Achievement by Gwyn GriffinLucky Jim by Kingsley AmisThe Collected Poems of William Butler YeatsWalden by Henry David ThoreauThe Moon and a Sixpence by Somerset MaughamRiders of the Purple Sage by Zane GreyHeretics by G.K. ChestertonThe Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever(With addendum: Now I can't believe I settled for that list. What about William Maxwell's The Folded Leaf, or Elizabeth Bowen's The House in Paris? )Books I Just Love to Read, And Always WillMain Street by Sinclair Lewis My Antonia by Willa CatherThe Lion, the Witch and Wardrobe by C.S. LewisWuthering Heights by Emily BronteJane Eyre by Charlotte BronteThe Group by Mary McCarthyThe Blue Swallows by Howard Nemerov (poetry)The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman JusterA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensScoop by Evelyn Waugh