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Today, I'm sharing Joe's Book List. He wanted to keep track of the books he read following his diagnosis. The list isn't complete... as Joe read a few more books that he didn't get a chance to add to the list. But, I've chosen to present the list as is.

The books that are highlighted are ones that Joe particularly enjoyed.

It's a pretty eclectic list - there should be something for everyone on here.

Fiction

1. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
2. “B” is for Burglar (Sue Grafton)
3. Christ the Lord (Anne Rice)
4. The Solitaire Mystery (Jostein Gaarder)
5. Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
6. Waiting (Ha Jin)
7. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night (Mark Hadden)
8. The Lake House (James Patterson)
9. Hide and Seek (James Patterson)
10. 1st to Die (James Patterson)
11. The Surgeon (Tess Gerritsen)
12. Harvest (Tess Gerritsen)
13. Body Double (Tess Gerritsen)
14. Chill Factor (Sandra Brown)
15. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
16. The Red Tent (Anna Diamant)
17. Bleachers (John Grisham)
18. Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
19. Case Histories (Kate Atkinson)
20. The Kite Runner (Khalid Husseini)
21. Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
22. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Saffran Foer)
23. The Bonesetter’s Daughter (Amy Tan)
24. My Friend Leonard (James Frey)
25. A Million Little Pieces (James Frey)
26. Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
27. The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
28. The Thanksgiving Visitor (Truman Capote)
29. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Michael Chabon)
30. Espresso Tales (Alexander McCAll Smith)
31. The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisburger)
32. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
33. The World According to Garp (John Irving)
34. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
35. Slow Man (J.M. Coetzee)
36. No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy)
37. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Sie Dajie)
38. Maybe a Miracle (Bryan Strause)
39. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
40. House of Sand and Fog (Andre Dubus III)
41. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (Kim Edwards)
42. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J.K. Rowling)
43. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J.K. Rowling)
44. A Lesson Before Dying (Earnest J. Gaines)
45. No-No Boy (John Okada)
46. A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khalid Husseini)
47. The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri)
48. The Best of O. Henry (O. Henry)




Nonfiction

1. The Great Influenza (John Barry)
2. Kitchen Confidential (Anthony Bourdain)
3. Al on America (Al Sharpton)
4. The God Factor (Cathleen Falsani)
5. The Case for Christ (Lee Stroebel)
6. It’s Not About the Bike (Lance Armstrong)
7. Flags of Our Fathers (James Bradley)
8. Marley and Me (John Grogan)
9. The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)
10. Stiff (Mary Roach)
11. My Struggle with Faith (Joseph Girzone)
12. Freakonomics (Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner)
13. Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser)
14. Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond)
15. Collapse (Jared Diamond)
16. The Pursuit of Happyness (Christopher Gardner)
17. Night (Elie Weisel)
18. Bringing Down the House (Ben Mezrich)
19. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
20. Now I Can Die in Peace (Bill Simmons)
21. City of Fallen Angels (John Berendt)
22. Without Pity (Anne Rule)
23. Every Breath You Take (Anne Rule)
24. The World is Flat (Thomas L. Friedman)
25. Running with Scissors (Augusten Burroughs)
26. Magical Thinking (Augusten Burroughs)
27. Possible Side Effects (Augusten Burroughs)
28. A Child Called “It” (David Pelzer)
29. Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity (John Stossel)
30. The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
31. The Rape of Nanking (Iris Chang)
32. Jesus Land (Julia Scheeres)
33. Dave Barry’s Money Secrets (Dave Barry)
34. Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway (Dave Barry)
35. In a Sunburned Country (Bill Bryson)
36. A Walk in the Woods (Bill Bryson)
37. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (Bill Bryson)
38. A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
39. Three Weeks with My Brother (Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks)
40. Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers (Robert Sapolsky)
41. A Hidden Wholeness (Parker Palmer)
42. Spontaneous Healing (Andrew Weil)
43. Complications (Atul Gawande)
44. Naked (David Sedaris)
45. Amazing Grace (Eric Metaxas)
46. Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
47. Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris)
48. The Art of Happiness (HH the Dalai Lama)
49. Nickel and Dimed (Barbara Ehrenreich)
50. A Peace to End All Peace (David Fromkin)
51. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Ishmael Beah)
52. Blink (Malcolm Gladwell)
53. Hate Mail From Cheerleaders (Rick Reilly)
54. Why Do Men Have Nipples? (Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg)



Books I’m working on

1. Paradise (Toni Morrison)
2. Snow (Orhan Pamuk)
3. The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
4. Andrew Carnegie (David Nasaw)
5. Dry (Augusten Burroughs)
6. From Paris to the Moon (Adam Gopnik)
7. The Shipping News (Annie Proulx)
8. The Hotel New Hampshire (John Irving)
9. The Wisdom of Crowds (James Surowiecki)
10. Go in Peace: A Gift of Enduring Love (Pope John Paul II)
11. Crossing the Threshold of Hope (Pope John Paul II)
12. The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
13. The Echo Maker (Richard Powers)
14. The Happiness Hypothesis (Jonathan Haidt)
15. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)
16. Stumbling on Happiness (Daniel Gilbert)
17. The Looming Tower (Lawrence Wright)
18. Dispatches From the Edge (Anderson Cooper)
19. The Known World
20. I Thought My Father was God