Read This List
The Official List For the Rest of Us: Must Read Books for the Twenty or Thirty-Something Career Girl With an Active Social Life and Reality TV to Watch
But, that’s a little long, right? So, I’ve shortened it to the following: Read This, You Will Not Be Sorry
Notes:
- I deserve a cocktail for compiling this list.
- Nobody seemed interested in reading my GMAT book, so I took it off. You’re welcome.
- 100 books is too many. So, there are 75 books on this list.
- That is all.
Here’s the list and contest details are to follow!
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
- East of Eden, John Steinbeck
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris
- The New Kings of Nonfiction, Ira Glass
- Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him, Danielle Ganek
- White Teeth, Zadie Smith
- Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris
- Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kinglosver
- The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
- A Girl Named Zippy, Haven Kimmel
- Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!, Fannie Flagg
- Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters, Mark Dunn
- Stupid and Contagious, Caprice Crane
- Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
- Bitter is the New Black, Jen Lancaster
- Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office, Lois P. Frankel
- I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies), Laurie Notaro
- Running in Heels, Anna Maxted
- She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb
- Sushi for Beginners, Marian Keyes
- Jemima J, Jane Green
- Something Borrowed, Emily Giffin
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
- The Gift of Fear, Gavin De Becker
- Emma, Jane Austen
- The Hours, Michael Cunningham
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- The Romance Reader, Pearl Abraham
- Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
- Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Lynne Truss
- A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
- Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky
- Swell: A Girl’s Guide to the Good Life, Ilene Rosenzweig
- I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, Amy Sedaris
- Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, Jennifer Baumgardner
- The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
- Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search…, Elizabeth Gilbert
- Bloodsucking Fiends, Christopher Moore
- The World According to Mimi Smartypants, Mimi Smartypants
- The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Melissa Bank
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver
- Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
- The Singing Creek where the Willows Grow, Opal Stanley Whitely
- I Am America (And So Can You), Stephen Colbert
- No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories, Miranda July
- Shopgirl, Steve Martin
- Marley and Me, John Grogan
- The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
- Into the Wild, John Krakauer
- Nanny Diaries, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
- Watermelon, Marian Keyes
- Summer at Tiffany, Marjorie Hart
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
- Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas, James Patterson
- The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
- Remember Me? , Sophie Kinsella
- Good in Bed, Jennifer Weiner
- My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
- Everyone Worth Knowing, Lauren Weisenberger
- A Season in Purgatory, Dominick Dunne
- The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough
- See Jane Date, Melissa Senate
- Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld
- Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott
- Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
- He’s Just Not That Into You, Greg Behrendt
- I Was Told There’d Be Cake, Sloane Crosley
- The Department of Lost & Found, Alison Winn Scotch
- Straight Up and Dirty, Stephanie Klein
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in Nighttime, Mark Haddon
- Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
