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2009 Reading List

  1. ** Benjamin Franklink: The autobiography and other writings, Benjamin Franklin, 1961
  2. ** While You Were Sleeping, Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric LeBow, 1994
  3. *** Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), Jerome K. Jerome, 1889
  4. ** Weekend at Bernies, Robert Klane, 1988
  5. *** Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary
  6. *** Chinatown, Robert Towne, 1973
  7. *** Grosse Point Blank, Tom Jankiewicz, D.V. deVincentis , S.K. Boatman , John Cusack, 1994
  8. *** The Bookman’s Promise, John Dunning, 2004
  9. *** Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need, Blake Snyder, 2005
  10. *** The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd, 2002
  11. *** The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman, 2005
  12. *** Candide, Voltaire, 1759
  13. *** Marriage Lines, Ogden Nash, 1948
  14. *** The Last Olympian, Rick Riordan, 2009
  15. *** The Hero’s Two Journeys, Michael Hauge & Christopher Vogler, 2009
  16. **** Story, Robert McKee, 1996
  17. *** Marriage Lines, Ogden Nash, 1948
  18. *** Blinding Light, Paul Theroux, 2005
  19. ** Writing the Modern Mystery, Barbara Norville, 1992
  20. ** Weird Texas, Wesley Treat, Heather Shades, Rob Riggs, and Mark Moran, 2005
  21. ** The Better Angels, Charles McCarry, 1979
  22. ** The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton, 1925
  23. *** Havah, Tosca Lee, 2008
  24. *** The Night Watchman, Mark Mynheir, 2009
  25. *** Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade–and How We Can Fight It, David Batstone, 2007
  26. ** Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyon, 1678
  27. ** The Last Templar, Raymond Khoury, 2005
  28. *** Welcome to the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut, 1968
  29. ** The Miernik Dossier, Charles McCarry, 1973
  30. *** The Closers, Michael Connelly, 2005
  31. *** A Thousand Splendid Suns, Kaled Hosseini, 2007
  32. *** The Passion of Mary-Margaret, Lisa Samson, 2009
  33. *** Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, 1865
  34. *** Mildred Pierced, Stuart Kaminsky, 2003
  35. *** Empire Falls, Richard Russo, 2001
  36. *** A Few Minutes After Midnight, Stuart Kaminsky, 2001
  37. *** The Mysterious West, edited by Tony Hillerman, 1995
  38. **** The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski, 2008
  39. *** Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert T. Kiyosaki, 1998
  40. *** The Bookwoman’s Last Fling, John Dunning, 2006
  41. *** Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl, 2008