books - favorites are in light blue (but some of these I haven't read yet)
this list started out in alphabetical order, but more recent additions are at the bottom.
Title # of sections Author Read
1 A Beautiful Mind 2 Sylvia Nasar y
2 A Bend in the Road 1 Nicholas Sparks y
3 A History of the Middle East 2 Peter Mansfield  
4 A Painted House 2 John Grisham y
5 A Short History of Nearly Everything 3 Bill Bryson y
6 A Tale of Two Valleys 1 Alan Deutschman y
7 Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori book 1) 1 Lian Hearn y
8 Advanced Energy Anatomy 1 Caroline Myss, Ph.D.  
9 Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut 1 P.J. O'Rourke  
10 Albert Einstein 1 Banesh Hoffmann  
11 All He Ever Wanted 1 Anita Shreve y
12 American Caesar 4 William Manchester read most of it, too long
13 American Pastoral 2 Philip Roth  
14 An Album of Memories 1 Tom Brokaw  
15 Anatomy of the Spirit 1 Dr. Caroline Myss  
16 Anna Karenina 4 Leo Tolstoy y
17 Arthur 3 Stephen R. Lawhead  
18 Atlas Shrugged (Unabridged), Volume 1 2 Ayn Rand  
19 Atlas Shrugged (Unabridged), Volume 2 2 Ayn Rand  
20 Atlas Shrugged (Unabridged), Volume 3 3 Ayn Rand  
21 Blessings 1 Anna Quindlen  
22 Candyfreak 1 Steve Almond y
23 Catch Me If You Can 1 Frank W. Abagnale  
24 Children Are from Heaven 1 John Gray, Ph.D.  
25 City of Bones 2 Michael Connelly  
26 Cloud of Sparrows 2 Takashi Matsuoka y
27 Cold Mountain 2 Charles Frazier y
28 Drowning Ruth 1 Christina Schwarz y
29 E=mc2 1 David Bodanis  
30 Empress Orchid 2 Anchee Min y
31 Energy Anatomy 1 Dr. Caroline Myss y
32 Entanglement 1 Amir D. Aczel  
33 Eventide 1 Kent Haruf  
34 Fast Food Nation 1 Eric Schlosser  
35 Favorite Children's Stories 1 Oscar Wilde, Beatrix Potter, and more  
36 Full Speed 1 Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes y
37 Full Tilt 1 Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes y
38 Gesundheit! 1 Patch Adams M.D.  
39 Grass for His Pillow (Tales of the Otori book 2) 1 Lian Hearn y
40 Grave Secrets 2 Kathy Reichs y
41 He's Just Not That Into You 1 Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo y
42 In a Sunburned Country (travelog of Australia) 1 Bill Bryson y
43 Inside the C.I.A 2 Ronald Kessler  
44 Jazz 1 Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns y
45 Kitchen Confidential 1 Anthony Bourdain y
46 Krakatoa 2 Simon Winchester y
47 Life of Pi 2 Yann Martel y
48 Memoirs of a Geisha 3 Arthur Golden y
49 Merrick Unabridged 1 Anne Rice  
50 Middlesex 3 Jeffrey Eugenides y
51 Mountains Beyond Mountains 2 Tracy Kidder y
52 Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot 1 Richard M. Restak y
53 Nights in Rodanthe 1 Nicholas Sparks y
54 Nothing Like It in the World 1 Stephen E. Ambrose  
55 Open House 1 Elizabeth Berg y
56 Pattern Recognition 2 William Gibson y
57 Pompeii 2 Robert Harris y
58 Pride and Prejudice 2 Jane Austen  
59 River, Cross My Heart 1 Breena Clarke  
60 Salt 2 Mark Kurlansky y interesting info a little boring
61 Shadow Divers 2 Robert Kurson y
62 Shopgirl 1 Steve Martin y
63 Split Second 2 David Baldacci y
64 The Bondwoman's Narrative 1 Hannah Crafts, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. y
65 The Bonesetter's Daughter 2 Amy Tan y
66 The Company 6 Robert Littell  
67 The DaVinci Code 2 Dan Brown y
68 The Egyptologist 2 Arthur Phillips y
69 The Five People You Meet in Heaven 1 Mitch Albom y
70 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1 Douglas Adams y
71 The Judgment 2 D.W. Buffa y
72 The Lexus and the Olive Tree 3 Thomas L. Friedman y
73 The Lion's Game 2 Nelson DeMille y
74 The Lovely Bones 2 Alice Sebold y
75 The Millionaires 2 Brad Meltzer y
76 The Namesake 2 Jhumpa Lahiri y
77 The Notebook 1 Nicholas Sparks y
78 The Pleasure of My Company 1 Steve Martin y
79 The Power of Full Engagement 1 Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz y
80 The Professor and the Madman 1 Simon Winchester y
81 The Red Tent 1 Anita Diamant y
82 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe 1 Douglas Adams  
83 The Roosevelts 2 Peter Collier y
84 The Rule of Four 2 Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason  
85 The Secret Life of Bees 2 Sue Monk Kidd y
86 The Smoke Jumper 2 Nicholas Evans  
87 The Tristan Betrayal 2 Robert Ludlum  
88 The Vampire Armand 1 Anne Rice  
89 The Wild Blue 1 Stephen E. Ambrose  
90 Three Junes 2 Julia Glass  
91 'Tis 2 Frank McCourt y not as good as Angelas Ashes
92 Tuesdays with Morrie 1 Mitch Albom  
93 Up Country 3 Nelson DeMille y
94 Working with Emotional Intelligence 1 Daniel Goleman y
95 How to Change Anybody 1 David J. Lieberman, Ph.D.  
96 Skinny Dip (Unabridged) 2 Carl Hiaasen  
97 1776 (Unabridged) 2 David McCullough  
98 The Wedding 1 Nicholas Sparks y
99 The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 1 Ann Brashares  
100 The Human Stain 1 Philip Roth  
101 The Kite Runner 2 Khaled Hosseini y
102 Night Fall 2 Nelson DeMille y
103 Pure Drivel 1 Steve Martin y
104 Bel Canto 2 Ann Patchett y
105 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! 1 Richard P. Feynman  
106 His Excellency 2 Joseph J. Ellis  
107 Blink 1 Malcolm Gladwell y
108 The Johnstown Flood 2 David McCullough y
109 Brilliance of the Moon (Tales of the Otori book 3) 2 Lian Hearn y
110 Freakonomics 1 Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner y
111 Jack: Straight from the Gut (Unabridged) 2 Jack Welch  
112 The Google Story 2 David A. Vise and Mark Malseed  
113 Why Do Men Have Nipples? 1 Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg y
114 Chinese Secrets of Health and Longevity 1 Bob Flaws  
115 Do as I Say 1 Peter Schweizer  
116 The Great Fire 2 Shirley Hazzard  
117 102 Minutes (about Sept 11th) 1 Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn  
118 Ear to the Ground: Sheep Child, Woman Scorned, All's Well 1 Corey Thrasher  
119 The Masters (history of the Masters golf tournament) 2 Curt Sampson y
120 The Wal-Mart Effect 2 Charles Fishman  
121 The Search 2 John Battelle  
122 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 2 Stephen R. Covey y
123 Ordinary Heroes 2 Scott Turow y
124 At First Sight 1 Nicholas Sparks y
125 The First Human 2 Ann Gibbons  
126 Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim 1 David Sedaris  
127 The Black Dahlia 2 James Ellroy y
128 Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them 2 Al Franken  
129 Mayflower 2 Nathaniel Philbrick y
130 Running with Scissors 1 Augusten Burroughs  
131 Lolita 2 Vladimir Nabokov y
132 Culture Warrior 1 Bill O'Reilly  
133 Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About 2 Kevin Trudeau  
134 Disease-Proof Your Child 1 Joel Fuhrman, M.D.  
135 The World Is Flat: Updated and Expanded 2 Thomas L. Friedman y
136 Stumbling on Happiness 1 Daniel Gilbert y
137 Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome 2 Robert Harris y
138 Harsh Cry of the Heron (Tales of the Otori book 4) 3 Lian Hearn y
139 The Boleyn Inheritance 3 Philippa Gregory y
140 The Memory Keeper's Daughter 2 Kim Edwards y
141 The Innocent Man 2 John Grisham y
142 Wild Fire 3 Nelson DeMille y
143 You On A Diet 1 Michael F. Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. y
144 Nineteen Minutes 3 Jodi Picoult y
145 Special Topics in Calamity Physics 3 Marisha Pessl y
146 The Tipping Point 1 Malcolm Gladwell y
147 The Thirteenth Tale 2 Diane Setterfield y
148 The Road 1 Cormac McCarthy futuristic and bleak, ugh
149 A Thousand Splendid Suns 2 Khaled Hosseini y
150 Body Surfing 1 Anita Shreve y
151 The Great Bridge 2 David McCullough y
152 Drop Dead Beautiful 3 Jackie Collins y
153 Burning Bright 2 Tracy Chevalier y
154 The Wisdom Of Your Cells 1 Bruce H. Lipton  
155 Perfect Match 2 Jodi Picoult y
156 My Sister's Keeper 3 Jodi Picoult y
157 Second Glance 4 Jodi Picoult y
158 Vanishing Acts 3 Jodi Picoult y
159 The Tenth Circle 2 Jodi Picoult y
160 Salem Falls 3 Jodi Picoult y
161 Keeping Faith 4 Jodi Picoult y
162 The Eternal Summer (Arnold Palmer bio) 1 Curt Sampson  
163 Hogan (Ben Hogan bio) 1 Curt Sampson y
164 What Was She Thinking (thanks Anne!) 1 Zoe Heller y
165 In the Heart of the Sea 1 Nathaniel Philbrick y
166 Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life 1 Steve Martin y
167 China, Inc 2 Ted Fishman y
168 Love Walked In 2 Marisa de los Santos y
169 The Cement Garden 1 Ian McEwan Yuck
170 Falling Angels 1 Tracy Chevalier y
171 The Friday Night Knitting Club 2 Kate Jacobs y
172 The Alchemist 1 Paulo Coelho y
173 Water For Elephants 2 Sara Gruen y
174 Love The One You're With 2 Emily Giffin y
175 The Black Swan 2 Nassim Nicholas Taleb  
176 Loving Frank 2 Nancy Horan y
177 What Is The What 3 Dave Eggers y
178 The Splendor of Silence 2 Indu Sundaresan y
179 The Blood of Flowers 2 Anita Amirrezvani y
180 The Time Traveler's Wife 2 Audrey Niffenegger y
181 Empire Falls 3 Richard Russo y
182 The Maytrees 1 Annie Dillard too boring to finish
183 Run 2 Ann Patchett y
184 Devil Bones 2 Kathy Reichs y
185 The Book Of Lies 2 Brad Meltzer  
186 The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle 3 David Wroblewski y
187 The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo (first in the trilogy) 2 Stieg Larsson y
188 The Gold Coast 3 Nelson DeMille y
189 The Gatehouse 3 Nelson DeMille y
190 The White Tiger 1 Aravind Adiga y
191 Outliers: The Story of Success 1 Malcolm Gladwell  
192 Fool 1 Christopher Moore y
193 The Condition 2 Lisa Haigh y
194 Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend 5 Peter Matthiessen hard to listen to
195 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 1 Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows y
196 I Feel Bad About My Neck 1 Nora Ephron y
197 The Man Who Loved China 2 Simon WInchester y
198 The Ten Year Nap 2 Meg Wolitzer y
199 The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao 2 Junot Diaz YUCK!
200 The Lace Reader 3 Brunonia Barry y
201 The Woman In White 3 Wilkie Collins y
202 Three Cups Of Tea 2 Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin y
203 The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane 2 Katherine Howe y
204 Olive Kitteridge 2 Elizabeth Strout BORING!
205 Chasing Harry Winston 2 Lauren Weisberger y
206 The End Of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite 1 David Kessler  
207 The Girl Who Played With Fire (second in the trilogy) 3 Stieg Larsson y
208 The Help 3 Kathryn Stockett y
209 Sarah's Key 2 Tatiana de Rosnay y
210 Elegance Of The Hedgehog 2 Muriel Barbery y
211 South Of Broad 3 Pat Conroy y
212 In the Woods 3 Tana French y
213 More Information Than You Require 2 John Hodgman  
214 To Try Men's Souls: A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom 2

Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen

y
215 Sea Glass 2 Anite Shreve y
216 The Heretic's Daughter 2 Kathleen Kent y
217 Very Valentine (first in a trilogy) 2 Adriana Trigiani y
218 Snow 3 Orhan Pamuk y
219 Mindfulness 1 Ellen J. Langer  
220 Shantaram 5 Gregory David Roberts y
221 Their Eyes Were Watching God 1 Zora Neale Hurston y
222 Madam Secretary 1 Madeleine Albright y
223 The Book Thief 2 Marius Zusak y
224 Some free first chapters:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Jane Austen, Steve Hockensmith
Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline
WWW: Watch by Robert J. Sawyer
     
225 Brava Valentine (second in a trilogy) 2 Adriana Trigiani y
226 Mennonite In a Little Black Dress 1 Rhoda Janzen y
226 The Shack 1 William P Young y
227 The Piano Teacher 2 Janice Y K Lee y
228 Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet 2 Jamie Ford  
229 Black Swan Green 2 David Mitchell  
230 Tinkers 1 Paul Harding  
231 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's nest (third in the trilogy) 3 Steig Larsson y