Nonfiction/Opinions:
Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
Last Child In the Woods by Richard Louv
It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff by Peter Walsh
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families by Stephen R. Covey
The Minds of Boys by Michael Gurian
The Purpose of Boys by Michael Gurian
Why Gender Matters by Leonard Sax [just loved his book Boys Adrift]
Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better by John Holt
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? By Alfie Kohn
Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality by Henry Cloud
The Mom Factor by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
Enough by Adam Hamilton
Fiction:
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Little French Girl Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Hotel on Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jaime Ford
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Ida B by Katherine Hannigan
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Time of My Life by Allison Winn Scotch
The Help by Kathryn Stockett.
My Antonia – Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
The Good Earth – Pearl Buck
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Voyagers’ Stone by Kraske
Tennyson by Lesley M. M. Blume
Airman By Eoin Colfer
Author Louisa May Alcott: Little Women [re-reading], Little Men, Jo’s Boys, Eight Cousins, An Old-Fashioned Girl, and The Inheritance.
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Princess and the Goblin by George Macdonald
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
Breaking the Silence by Diane Chamerlain
The Four Seasons by Mary Alice Monroe
Wedding Ring by Emilie Richards
Between the Tides by Patti Callahan Henry
Dogwood by Chris Fabry
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Sophie Kinsella
Angry Management by Chris Crutcher
Also like to re-read books by John Steinbeck: The Pearl, East of Eden, Sweet Thursday, and Grapes of Wrath.
Finally read aloud to the boys Robin Hood.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Evelina by Frances Burney
Biographies/Presidential:
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie DePaola
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
Triangular Road: A Memoir by Paule Marshall
Chewing the Cud by Dick King-Smith
Little Women: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen
Lady in the Tower by Alison Weir
Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
Stones Into School by Greg Mortenson [loved Three Cups of Tea]
Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller [probably to be followed by a re-reading of all Ayn Rand’s books]
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
John Adams by John McCullough and also by John McCullough: Truman and Morning on Horseback.
There is No Me Without You by Melissa Faye Greene
U.S. Grant by Joan Waugh
Easy Company Soldier by Don Malarkey
Beyond Band of Brothers by Dick Winters
Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper Jr.
Horse Soldier by Dough Stanton
King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher
Science Fiction/Fantasy
The Soldier’s Son Trilogy by Robin Hobb
With the Lightnings by David Drake
Glory Road by Robert Heinlein
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Otherness by David Brin
The Robin Hood series by Stephen Lawhead [Hood, Scarlet and Tuck]
Empire and Hidden Empire books by Orson Scott Card
Poetry:
Walt Whitman
Langston Hughes
Robert Frost
Kahlil Gibran
Anna Akhmatova
William Blake
If you haven’t read it yet, you should add “That’s My Son: How Moms Can Influence Boys to Become Men of Character” by Rick Johnson to your list. It’s extremely worthwhile!