Past Reading Lists

2008 Reading List

1. The 7 Stages of Motherhood – Ann Pleshette Murphy
2. 90 Minutes in Heaven – Don Piper
3. Atonement – Ian McEwan
4. The Five Love Languages of Children – Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell
5. I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids – Trisha Ashworth
6. Keeping Faith – Jodi Picoult
7. The Kite Runner – Khaled Housseini
8. The Nanny Diaries – Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
9. The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks
10. Plain Truth – Jodi Picoult
11. My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
12. Tenth Circle – Jodi Picoult
13. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
14. A Walk To Remember – Nicholas Sparks
15. Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
16. The Wedding – Nicholas Sparks
17. Where the River Ends – Charles Martin

2007 Reading List

1. 14 Hours ‘Til Bedtime – Jen Singer
2. A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother – Rachel Cusk
3. An Arsonist’s Guide to Writer’s Homes in New England – Brock Clarke
4. At First Sight – Nicholas Sparks
5. Babyproofing Your Marriage – Stacie Cockrell, Cathy O’Neill, and Julia Stone
6. Beyond One : Growing a Family – Jennifer Bingham Hull
7. Bitten – Kelley Armstrong
8. Blessing of a Skinned Knee – Wendy Mogel
9. Chicken Soup for the Mothers of Preschooler’s Soul – Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield, Maria Nickless, and Elisa Morgan
10. Clean and Simple Scrapbooking – Cathy Zielske for Simple Scrapbooks
11. Confessions of a Slacker Mom – Muffy Mead Ferro
12. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
13. Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult
14. Petticoat Ranch – Mary Connealy
15. Real. Life. Scrapbooking. – Rebecca Cooper
16. The 5 Love Languages of Children – Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell
17. The Other Mother – Gwendolen Gross
18. The Read-Aloud Handbook – Jim Trelease
19. The Syndrome – John Case
20. The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
21. Up High In The Trees – Kiara Brinkman
22. When Crickets Cry – Charles Martin
23. Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson