| Pleasure Book Recommendations | ||||
| Title | Author | Genre | Recommender | Movie |
| Tuesdays with Morrie | Albom, Mitch | |||
| The Five
People You Meet in Heaven |
Albom, Mitch | Fiction | Carol Muro* | |
| Daughter of Fortune | Allende, Isabel | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| Heart of a Woman, The | Angelou, Maya | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| Why the Caged Bird Sings | Angelou, Maya | Non-Fiction: autobio | Melissa Allen | |
| Undaunted Courage | Ambrose, Stephen E. | Non-fiction; history (US) | John Pope | |
| Vinegar Hill | Ansay, A. Manette | Oprahs' Book Club | ||
| Open House | Berg, Elizabeth | Oprah's Book Club | ||
| Where the Heart Is | Billie Letts | Oprahs' Book Club | ||
| Tara Road | Binchy, Maeve | Oprahs' Book Club | ||
| Midwives | Bohjalian, Chris | Oprah's Book Club | ||
| Jane Eyre | Bronte, Charolette | Fiction | Laurie Miller | Yes |
| Wuthering Heights | Bronte, Emily | Fiction | Laurie Miller | Yes |
| Tarzan of the Apes | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | Fiction | Laurie Miller | Yes |
| Cards on the Table | Christie, Agatha | Fiction | Ana Gudiel | |
| Death on the Nile | Christie, Agatha | Fiction | Ana Gudiel | |
| Murder on the Orient Express | Christie, Agatha | Fiction | Ana Gudiel | |
| Spider's Web | Christie, Agatha | Fiction | Ana Gudiel | |
| A.B.C. Murders, The | Christie, Agatha | Fiction | Ana Gudiel | |
| On the Street Where You Live | Clark, Mary Higgins | Fiction | ||
| River, Cross My Heart | Clarke, Breena | Oprah's Book Club | ||
| Ghost Walker, The | Coel, Margaret | Fiction: Native American | John Pope | |
| Heart of Darkness, The | Conrad, Joseph | Fiction | Yes | |
| Best Way To Play, The | Cosby, Bill | Oprah's Book Club | ||
| Meanest Thing To Say, The | Cosby, Bill | Oprah's Book Club | ||
| Treasure Hunt, The | Cosby, Bill | Oprahs' Book Club | ||
| Jurassic Park | Crichton, Michael | Fiction | Laurie Miller | Yes |
| Breath, Eyes, Memory | Danticat, Edwidge | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| Tale of Two Citites, A | Dickens, Charles | Fiction | Laurie Miller | |
| Stones for Ibarra | Doerr, Harriet | Fiction | Laurie Miller | |
| House of Sand and Fog | Dubus, AndreIII | Fiction | Carolyn Hurwitz, | |
| Like Water for Chocolate | Esquivel, Laura | Fiction | Laurie Miller | Yes |
| Teaching with Love and Logic | Fay, Jim and David Funk | Non-Fiction: education | ||
| White Oleander | Fitch, Janet | Oprahs' Book Club | ||
| Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | Flagg, Fannie | Fiction | Laurie Miller | Yes |
| Red Bird Christmas, A | Flagg, Fannie | Fiction | Laurie Miller | Yes |
| Passage to India, A | Forster, E. M. | Fiction | Yes | |
| Lesson Before Dying, A | Gaines, Ernest J. | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| Virtuous Woman, A | Gibbons, Kaye | Fiction | Oprahs' Book Club | |
| Ellen Foster | Gibbons, Kaye | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| Writing Down the Bones | Goldberg, Natalie | Non-Fiction: writing | Laurie Miller | |
| Lord of the Flies | Golding, William | Fiction | Tak Au* | Yes |
| A is for Alibi | Grafton, Sue | Fiction | ||
| B is for Burglar | Grafton, Sue | Fiction | ||
| C is for Corpse | Grafton, Sue | Fiction | ||
| A Time to Kill | Grisham, John | |||
| Chamber, The | Grisham, John | |||
| Client, The | Grisham, John | Yes | ||
| Firm, The | Grishmam, John | Fiction | Yes | |
| Pelican Brief, The | Grisham, John | Yes | ||
| Rainmaker, The | Grisham, John | |||
| Runaway Jury, The | Grisham, John | |||
| Jumper | Gould, Steven | Fiction | Ting | Yes |
| Snow Falling on Cedars | Guterson, David | Fiction | Laurie Miller | Yes |
| A Map of the World | Hamilton, Jane | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| Book of Ruth, The | Hamilton, Jane | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| Stones from the River | Hegi, Ursula | Oprahs' Book Club | ||
| Catch 22 | Heller, Joseph | Fiction | Laurie Miller | Yes |
| Seabiscuit: An American Legend | Hillenbrand, Laura | Non-fiction: historical (US) | Laurie Miller | Yes |
| Skeleton Man | Hillerman, Tony | Fiction: Native American | John Pope | |
| Here on Earth | Hoffman, Alice | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| Kite Runner, The | Hosseini, Khaled | Fiction | Vivian Wu* | Yes |
| Spitwad Sutras: Classroom Teaching as Sublime Vocation | Inchausti, Robert | Non-Fiction; education | Laurie Miller | |
| Dark Tower Series, The (seven books) | King, Stephen | Fiction: fantasy | Laurie Miller | |
| Dreamcatcher | King, Stephen | Ana Gudiel | ||
| Prodigal Summer | Kingsolver, Barbara | Fiction | Laurie Miller | |
| Bean Trees, The | Kingsolver, Barbara | Fiction | Laurie Miller | |
| Poisonwood Bible, The | Kingsolver, Barbara | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| Metaphors We Live By | Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson | Non-Fiction: lingusitics | Laurie Miller | |
| I Know This Much Is True | Lamb, Wally | Fiction | Carolyn Hurwitz | |
| She's Come Undone | Lamb, Wally | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| Such a Pretty Fat | Lancaster, Jen | |||
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Lee, Harper | Fiction | Laurie Miller | Yes |
| Jewel | Lott, Bret | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| A River Runs Through It | MacLean, Norman | Fiction | Melissa Allen | Yes |
| West with the Night | Markham, Beryl | Non-Fiction: autobiograpahy | Melissa Allen | |
| All the Pretty Horses | McCarthy, Cormac | Fiction | Laurie Miller | Yes |
| Cities of the Plain | McCarthy, Cormac | Fiction | Laurie Miller | |
| Crossing, The | McCarthy, Cormac | Fiction | Laurie Miller | |
| Mother of Pearl | Melinda Haynes | Oprah's Book Club | ||
| While I Was Gone | Miller, Sue | Oprahs' Book Club | ||
| Deep End of the Ocean, The | Mitchard, Jacquelyn | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| Gap Creek | Morgan, Robert | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| Songs In Ordinary Time | Morris, Mary McGarry | Oprah's Book Club | ||
| Paradise | Morrison, Toni | Oprah's Book Club | ||
| Song of Solomon | Morrison, Toni | Oprah's Book Club | ||
| Bluest Eye, The | Morrison, Toni | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| Never Cry Wolf | Mowat, Farley | Non-Fiction: nature | Melissa Allen | |
| We Were The Mulvaneys | Oates, Joyce Carol | Oprahs' Book Club | ||
| Back Roads | O'Dell, Tawni | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| 1984 | Orwell, George | Fiction | Tak Au* | Yes |
| Animal Farm | Orwell, George | Fiction | Tak Au* | Yes |
| Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail | Oufkir, Malika | Oprahs' Book Club | ||
| Keeping You a Secret | Peters, Julie Anne | Fiction | Bashayer* | |
| Dragon's Teeth, The | Queen, Ellery | Fiction | Laurie Miller | |
| Hollywood Murders, The | Queen, Ellery | Fiction | Laurie Miller | |
| Tragedy of Errors and Others, The | Queen, Ellery | Fiction | Laurie Miller | |
| Tragedy of X, The | Queen, Ellery | Fiction | Laurie Miller | |
| Rapture of Canaan, The | Reynolds, Sheri | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| Wide Saragasso Sea | Rhys, Jean | Fiction | Laurie Miller | Yes |
| Interview with a Vampire | Rice, Anne | Fiction | Yes | |
| Queen of the Dammed, The | Rice, Anne | Fiction | ||
| Tale of the Body Thief, The | Rice, Anne | Fiction | ||
| Vampire Lestat, The | Rice, Anne | Fiction | ||
| Nimitz Class | Robinson, Patrick | Fiction | Jie Chen* | |
| Hunger of
Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez |
Rodriguez, Richard | Non-Fitction: autobio, language learning | Melissa Allen | |
| Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) |
Rowling, J.K. | Fiction | the world | Yes |
| Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) |
Rowling, J.K. | Fiction | the world | Yes |
| Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) |
Rowling, J.K. | Fiction | the world | Yes |
| Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) |
Rowling, J.K. | Fiction | the world | Yes |
| Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) |
Rowling, J.K. | Fiction | the world | Yes |
| Harry
Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Book 6) |
Rowling, J.K. | Fiction | the world | |
| Midnight's Children | Rushdie, Salman | Melissa Allen | ||
| Haroun and the Sea of Stories | Rushie, Salman | Fiction | Melissa Allen | |
| Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The | Sacks, Oliver | Non-Fiction | Sheng "Sheila" Qiang* | |
| Song of the Blue Ocean | Sagan, Carl | Non-Fiction: ocean biology | ||
| Dragons
of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence, The |
Sagan, Carl | Non-Fiction: science | Laurie Miller | |
| Billions
and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium |
Sagan, Carl | Non-Fiction | Mary Ann Miller | |
| Catcher in the Rye, The | Salinger, J.D. | Fiction | Tran Nguyen | |
| Reader, The | Schlink, Bernhard | Oprah's Book Club | ||
| Drowning Ruth | Schwarz, Christina | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse |
Sewell, Anna | Fiction | Laurie Miller | Yes |
| Glorious Cause, The | Sharra, Jeff | Fiction: historical (US) | John Pope | |
| Gods and Generals | Sharra, Jeff | Fiction: historical (US) | John Pope | |
| Rise to Rebellion | Sharra, Jeff | Fiction: historical (US) | John Pope | |
| Killer Angels | Sharra, Michael | Fiction: historical (US) | John Pope | |
| Errors and Expectations | Shaughnessy, Mina P. | Non-Fiction: English composition | Laurie Miller | |
| The Notebook | Sparks, Nicholas | Fiction | Sultan Alorini*, Xiolan Huang*, Pengxian Wang* | Yes |
| Pilot's Wife, The | Shreve, Anita | Oprah's Book Club | ||
| Sisters | Steel, Danielle | Fiction | Karine Boni* | |
| East of Eden | Steinbeck, John | Fiction | Laurie Miller | Yes |
| Grapes of Wrath, The | Steinbeck, John | Fiction | Laurie Miller | Yes |
| Old Man and the Sea | Steinbeck, John | Fiction (short novel) | Lang Zheng* | |
| Cane River | Tademy, Lalita | Fiction | Oprah's Book Club | |
| Bonesetter's Daughter, The | Tan, Amy | Fiction | Laurie Miller | |
| Joy Luck Club, The | Tan, Amy | Fiction | Laurie Miller | |
| Differentiated Classroom, The | Tomlinson, Carol Ann | Non-Fiction: education | ||
| Story of the Trapp Family Singers, The | Von Trapp, Maria Augusta | Non-Fiction: autobio | Laurie Miller | Yes |
| Bridges of Madison County, The | Waller, Robert James | Fiction | Yes | |
| Once and Future King, The | White, E.B. | Fiction | Laurie Miller | |
| Last Update: March 2009 | * = current or former
ELI student |
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