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If a title is not on my Well-Educated Mind List, then it may be here. Some reviews are not available.

classic fiction

Alcott: Little Women

Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale

Austen: Persuasion / Sense and Sensibility

Bedier: The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

Brontë: Wuthering Heights

Buck: Sons (The Good Earth Trilogy)

Cather: The Song of the Lark / O Pioneers! / My Antonia / Death Comes for the Archbishop

Clark: The Ox-Bow Incident

DeFoe: Robinson Crusoe

Dickens: "The Cricket on the Hearth" /A Christmas Carol / A Tale of Two Cities

Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov 

Forster: Howards End / A Room With a View

Gaskell: North and South

Golding: Lord of the Flies

Grahame: The Wind in the Willows

Hardy: A Pair of Blue Eyes / Far From the Madding Crowd / Jude the Obscure / The Mayor of Casterbridge / Tess of D'Urbervilles / Under the Greenwood Tree

Hemingway: The Old  Man and the Sea / A Farewell to Arms / The Sun Also Rises

Hugo: Les Misérables

Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Irving: Old Christmas

Kafka: The Metamorphosis

Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

Lewis: Babbitt

Lewis: The Screwtape Letters / The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Mitchell: Gone With the Wind

Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables

Orwell: Animal Farm

Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago

Pyle: The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur

Rand: Anthem

Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front

Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Steinbeck: The Pearl

Tolstoy: War and Peace

Wells: The Time Machine

Wharton: The Age of Innocence / Ethan Frome

Woolf: To the Lighthouse / Night and Day

Zola: The Fortune of the Roúgons / Germinal

contemporary / historical fiction

Blake: Dances With Wolves

Burgess: A Clockwork Orange

Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns / The Kite Runner / And the Mountains Echoed

Lemmon: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

McCarthy: The Road

Miller: Caroline: Little House, Revisited

Shaffer / Barrow: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Turner: These is My Words

Vonnegut, Jr.: Slaughterhouse-Five

biographies / memoirs

Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Beamer: Let's Roll!: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage

Boom: The Hiding Place: the Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom, Second review 2022

Brittain: Testament of Friendship / Testament of Youth

Dodds: Marriage to a Difficult Man: the Uncommon Union of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards

Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave / My Bondage and My Freedom 

Equiano: The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings

Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Frankl: Man's Search for Meaning

Haley: Roots

Hanff: 84, Charing Cross Road

Hemingway: A Moveable Feast

Hillenbrand: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Hillman: I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor

Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Jiang: Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution

Johnson: A History of the American People

Kennedy: The Real Anthony Fauci

Metaxas: Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery / Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Morris: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex

Murphy: Eight Twenty Eight: When Love Didn't Give Up

Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books / Republic of Imagination 

Park: In Order to Live

Popov: Tortured for His Faith, (reread) review

Spiegleman: Maus I & II

Steinbeck: Travels with Charley

Stewart: Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Thomas: My Grandfather's Son

Tomalin: Thomas Hardy

Van Fleet: Mao's America: A Survivor's Warning

Weiss: Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp

Wells: Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells 

Wilder: On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip From South Dakota / On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip From South Dakota (reread) / West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915 

Wurmbrand: Tortured for Christ

Yousafzai: I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

histories

Bailey: The American Spirit, Vol. One

Bergreen: Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647

Brown: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Capote: In Cold Blood

Coffin: Sweet Land of Liberty

Columbus: The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives (analysis) The Four Voyages (opine)

Fraser: Prairie Fires

Grant: The Patriot's Handbook

Metaxas: If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

Popper: Covid Operation

Rodell: 55 Men, The Story of the Constitution: Based on the Day-by-Day Notes of James Madison

Schwab: Covid 19: The Great Reset

Various: Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrim's of Plymouth

education

Conway: A Woman's Education: The Road From Coorain Leads to Smith's College

DeMille: A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation for the Twenty-first Century

Gatto: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation into the Prison of Modern Schooling

Mason: Home Education  Parents and Children 

Prior: On Reading Well

Woolf: A Room of One's Own

Christian

Ash: Married for God: Making Your Marriage the Best it Can Be

Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Discipleship

Calvin: The Institutes of Christian Religion

Chambers: If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer

Edwards: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" 

Ham: Creation to Babel: A Commentary for Families

Jankovic: You Who? Why You Matter & How to Deal With It

 

Lewis: The Abolition of Man / A Grief Observed / Mere Christianity 

Merkle: Eve in Exile

Reinke: Lit! A Christian Guide to Reading Books

Richards: Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism is the Solution and Not the Problem

Thomas: Change Me: The Ultimate Life-Changing Handbook

Vincent: A Gospel Primer for Christians: Learning to see the Glories of God's Love

children's / juvenile / YA

Collins:  Catching Fire / The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

DeJong: The House of Sixty Fathers

Hautzig: The Endless Steppe

Hinton: The Outsiders

Kovaciny: Cloaked / One Bad Apple

Laurent: Watchman Nee: Man of Suffering

Lowry: The Giver

Newsom: Polycarp: The Crown of Fire

Tolkien: The Hobbit

Torrey: To the Edge of the World

Wartski: A Boat to Nowhere

Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods / Little House on the Prairie / Farmer Boy / On the Banks of Plum Creek / By the Shores of Silver Lake / Little Town on the Prairie / The Long Winter: First Review Second Review / These Happy Golden Years: First Review Second Review  / The First Four Years: First Review Second Review / A Bonus Review: The Little House Series

plays / poetry

Anonymous: The Song of Roland

Miller: The Crucible

Shakespeare: Hamlet