Books I Read at Age 32

Age 32 Reading List

This list begins on Nov. 4, 2009 and continues for exactly one year. Every book that I read or listened to within the year is included. This list does not include books that I've simply highlighted on my blog or written about based on previous readings.

For books I've reviewed in previous years, follow these links: age 31, age 30.

Note: If a title/author is not linked it means that book is one I plan to read within the next month; check back soon and it will likely be reviewed by then.


By Title

• A Christmas Carol
  
• Ace of Cakes: Inside the World of Charm City Cakes
  
• A Darker Place
  
• Affinity
• Alex and Me
• Alias Grace
• Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean 
• American Widow
• A Morbid Taste for Bones
• Beatrice and Virgil
• Between Friends
• Beyond Smart
  
• Bill Bryson's African Diary
  
• Black Hills
• Black Wave
• Blizzard: The Storm That Changed America
  
• Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It
• Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
• Candide
• Catch 22
• Children of God
  
• Cleopatra's Daughter
• Crazy for the Storm
• Crocodile on the Sandbank
• Finny
• Genesis
  
• Half Broke Horses
• Half of a Yellow Sun
• Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
  
• Isak Dineson: The Life of a Storyteller
• Ivy and Bean: Doomed to Dance
• Kindred
• Kon-Tiki
• Linger
• Little Brother
  
• Medea
• Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
• Misty of Chincoteague
  
• My Life In France
• Naked In Eden
• Old Man's War
• Once A Warrior King
• One Amazing Thing
• On the Road
• Outcasts United
  
• Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
• Outliers: The Story of Success
• Persuasion
• Remarkable Creatures
  
• Shanghai Girls
• Shiver
• Silver: My Tale As Written By Me ...
• Smile
  
• Steve and Me
• Stranger in a Strange Land
• Star Trek
• Suite Scarlett 
• Teacher Man
• The Basque History of the World 
• The Battle of the Labyrinth
  
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
• The Better To Hold You
• The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
• The Burning Land
• The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1
• The Color Purple
  
• The Cruelest Miles
  
• The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, book 1)
  
• The Eyes of Willie McGee
• The Fox in the Dark
• The Gathering Storm (The Wheel of Time, book 12)
• The Golden Ass, or Metamorphosis
• The Greatest Generation Speaks
• The Handmaid's Tale
• The Help
  
• The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
• The Hunger Games
• The Invention of Morel
• The Invisible Man
• The Kings of New York
  
• The Language of Bees
• The Last of the Mohicans
• The Little Stranger
• The Lost City of Z
• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
• The Old Man and the Sea
  
• The Pearl
  
• The Saint and the Fasting Girl
  
• The Sea of Monsters
• The Sparrow
• The Things They Carried
• The Time In Between
  
• The Titan's Curse
  
• The Wet Nurse's Tale
• The Wind in the Willows
• The Wives of Henry Oades
  
• The Woodstock Storybook
• Three Cups of Tea
  
• Time Bandit: Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs
• To Kill A Mockingbird
• Treasure Island
• Unsigned Hype
  
• Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show
  
• Volsungasaga
  
• Warbreaker
• We Are Soldiers Still
• We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young
  

By Author

• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
• Apuleius, Lucius "Africanus"
• Atwood, Margaret, book 2
• Austen, Jane, book 2, book 3
  
• Barrows, Annie
• Beckett, Bernard
• Bergen, David
• Brokaw, Tom
• Brown, Dee
• Butler, Octavia
  
• Bryson, Bill
  
• Casares, Adolfo Bioy
• Chevalier, Tracy
• Child, Julia
• Chupack, Edward
• Collins, Suzanne
  
• Cooper, James Fenimore
• Cornwell, Bernard
• Delany, Frank
  
• Dickens, Charles
• Dinesen, Isak
• Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
• Doctorow, Cory
• Donovan, David
• Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, book 2,
  
• Eastman, Charles
• Easton, Robin 
• Eisdorfer, Erica
• Euripides
• Foster, Alan Dean
• Gladwell, Malcolm
  
• Goldman, Duff and Willie
• Grahame, Kenneth
• Grann, David 
• Green, Alison
  
• Heard, Alex
• Heinlein, Robert A.
  
• Heller, Joseph
• Hemingway, Ernest
• Henry, Marguerite
• Heyerdahl, Thor
  
• Hillstrand, Andy and Jonathan, with Malcolm MacPherson
  
• Irwin, Terri
• Janzen, Rhoda
• Johnson, Maureen
  
• Jordan, Robert
  
• Jordan, Robert and Brandon Sanderson
• Kamkwamba, William, and Bryan Mealer
• Kerouac, Jack
• Kiernan, Kristy
  
• King, Laurie R., book 2
• Kramon, Justin
• Kurlansky, Mark
• Lee, Harper
• Logan, Richard and Tere Duperrault Fassbender
• Martel, Yann 
• Mattison, Booker T.
• McCourt, Frank
• Melloy, Maile
• Moore, Col. Harold, and Joseph Galloway, book 2
  
• Moran, Johanna
  
• Moran, Michelle
• Morgan, Linda
• Mortensen, Greg
• Murphy, Jim
• O'Brien, Tim
• Ollestad, Norman
  
• Pepperberg, Irene
• Peters, Elizabeth
• Peters, Ellis
  
• Preston, Richard
  
• Richenda, Anna
  
• Riordan, Rick, book 2, book 3, book 4
• Robinson, Barbara
• Russell, Mary Doria, book 2
  
• Sackett, Linanne G. and Barry Z. Levine
• Salisbury, Gay and Laney
  
• Sanderson, Brandon
  
• Scalzi, John
  
• See, Lisa
• Sheckley, Alisa
• Silverwood, John and Jean
  
• Simmons, Dan
• Smith, Alexander McCall
  
• Steinbeck, John
• Stevenson, Robert Louis
• St. John, Warren
  
• Stiefvater, Maggie, book 2
• Stockett, Kathryn
• Telgemeier, Raina
  
• Thurman, Judith
• Torres, Alissa
  
• unknown
• Voltaire
• Walker, Alice
  
• Walls, Jeannette
  
• Waters, Sarah, book 2
• Weinreb, Michael
• Wells, HG