This blog was born in a conversation I had with Mallory. We were talking about reading and good books and pregnancy and new motherhood and basically how great it is to be reading something compelling no matter what is happening in your life. It occurred to me that I wanted to give her a recommended book list for her birthday. There are some avid readers among the people I love most (my family) so I enlisted their help. The response was great and now I have this list that everyone wants a copy of because face it, everyone wants to know what you're reading.
ROBERT MILLER: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
JANET MILLER: Fiction- Les Miserables, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Random Harvest by James Hilton.
Children's-Willy Nilly, Cinderella, Snow White, and Lassie Come Home by Eric M. Knight.
LAURIE STOKER: Classic Fiction- Persuasion by Jane Austen, Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emma Orczy, Silas Marner by George Eliot, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas.
Fiction-Elantris by Brandon Sanderson,The Help by Kathryn Stockett, These is My Words by Nancy E. Turner,
Memoirs-A Girl Named Zippy by Havel Kimmel
YA fiction-Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer, Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, Faith, Hope and Ivy June by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling and Blackmoore by Juliane Donaldson
Newberry-A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle, a Single Shard by Linda Sue Park, A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck and Crispin the Cross of Lead by Avi, Seven Alone by Honore Morrow.
Childhood favorites-Brenda Brave helps Grandmother by Astrid Lingren, Raggedy Ann and Andy by Johnny Gruelle, Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lingren, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle by Betty MacDonald, and The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes by Dubse Heyward and Marjorie Flack, (Thank you Ashley for reminding my about that wonderful book.) Horton Hatches an Egg, The Giving Gift, Old Bones the Wonder Horse, Fifteen, Harry the Dirty Dog, etc. Nana gave us a beautiful picture book with stories about the Czars. I loved it.
PAUL STOKER:
The Hobbit.
Lord of the Rings
The Ranger Apprentice books
Everything written by Clancy (Red October, Patriot Games, Executive Orders, Etc.)
Everything written by Daniel Silva
Everything written by Clive Cussler (Dirk Pitt series)
Books by the mystery writer, Steven Berry
Harry Potter books
The Little Prince
Trouble for Trumpets
Trumpets in Grumpet Land
Hunger games
The first book Divergent is good.
St.George and the Dragon
Dr Seuss (Favorite is the Turtle book, Big Brag, and Lola Lee-Loo
Non-Fiction:
Sports books. Check the shelf.
DANIEL STOKER: Abhorsen series by Garth Nix and Tim Curry, Muirwood series by Jeff Wheeler, Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson, Enders Game series, Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein, Harry Potter.
Nonfiction-Freakonomics, Super Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Childhood favorites-St. George and the Dragon, Yertle the Turtle, Trouble for Trumpets
BRANDON STOKER: Fiction-Anything by Brandon Sanderson-Mistborn, Elantris, The Way of Kings, Steelheart, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Harry Potter, The Foundation by Isaac Asimov, To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis, Divergent by Veronica Roth, The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, Hunger Games, Twilight, The Host by the same author, Pride and Prejudice, A wizard of earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin, Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, Princess Academy, Ranger's Apprentice by John Flanagan.
Children's fiction-The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo, Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins, How to Train your Dragon by Cressida Crowell,
Childhood favorites-St. George and the Dragon, Grumpets and Trumpets, Tilli Tilli Tembo, Follow My Leader, The Hobbit, Maniac McGee, Choose Your Own Adventure, Chronicles of Narnia, The Giver.
MALLORY STOKER:
True Stories:
Heaven is Here by Stephanie Nelson
Unbroken
Bloom by Kelle Hampton
(I really like this one, but she isn't Mormon so when she tells some of her back story she has some experiences that wouldn't fit into the FSOY. I didn't feel like it detracted from the message of her book and still felt uplifted by her story.
Set back in the day:
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer. (I hear many of her books are good but this is the only one I have read)
The Importance of Being Ernest
The Scarlet Pimpernel
A tale of Two Cities
Parenting/Psychology:
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
Parenting with Love and Logic (both the regular one and the early years version)
The Child Whisperer
Young Adult:
Ella Enchanted
Shannon Hale Books
The Giver (and the sequels)
Oh and also The Peacemaker.
The kids current favorites are the Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Williams. They make me chuckle and got Annabelle to read on her own for over a half hour!
NATHAN STOKER: Ender's Game and all accompanying books, Warbreaker, Elantris, Mistborn trilogy, Star Wars, and Dracula by Bram Stoker
ARIANE STOKER-Warbreaker, Mistborn trilogy, Divergent, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexamder Dumas, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, The Host, Harry Potter, Narnia, Screwtape Letters, etc. by C. S. Lewis, The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, etc. by Dan Brown.
AARON STOKER: There's an Alligator Under the Bed, Grumpets in Trumpetland, Green Eggs and Ham, Yertle the Turtle.
CLARISSA STOKER:
Kids Books
Amelia Bedlia books
The Little Critter books
Old Hat, New Hat, Dr. Seuss
Church BooksThe Continuous Atonement, Brad Wilcox
Fishers of Men series, Gerald Lund
Mary and Joseph, Robert Marcum
fictional stories of Ammon, Alma (both of them!) and others --these are store good, Moore
The Beginning of Better Days (for women) from Joseph Smith, Sheri Dew & Virginia Pearce
The Infinite Atonement, Tad Callister
Young-ish Readers
Artemis Fowl series, Eoin Colfer
Fablehaven series, Brandon Mull
Percy Jackson series, Rick Riordian
Nancy Drew series, Carolyn Keene
Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine
Older Readers
History
Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe, Nancy Goldstone
The Jefferson Lies, David Barton
Fiction
Runaway Jury, John Grisham
The Broker, John Grisham
The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy
**Ladies, if you love Pride and Prejudice, read Pamela Aidan's books written from Mr Darcy's point of view!
An Assembly Such as This, Duty and Desire, These Three Remain
SciFi/Fantasy
Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card
The Goose Girl & series, Shannon Hale
Book of a Thousand Days, Shannon Hale
The Hero and The Crown, The Blue Sword, & Rose Daughter, Robin McKinley
JACOB STOKER: Elantris, Alloy of Law, Mistborn series, Ender's Game, Harry Potter.
Children: Runaway Bunny, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, Hop on Pop, If you give a Mouse a Cookie, Fancy Nancy, Berenstain Bears Ride a Bike.
ALEXA STOKER: The Help, The Hunger Games, The Chronicles of Narnia, Little Women.
Children-A Bad Case of the Stripes by David Shannon, Stella Luna, Four Foxes and Fosdyke, Hungry Caterpillar, Milk and Cookies, Corderoy, Is Your Mama a Llama?, Little House Series.
ELIZA ERICKSON: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Anne of Green Gables, Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry, The Alliance by Gerald Lund, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Michael Vey by Richard Paul Evans, Harry Potter, The Storyteller's daughter by Cameron Dokey, Elantris and the Mistborn series, and Uncle Tom's Cabin.
JOSEPH ERICKSON: Alliance by Gerald Lund,
Childhood favorites- Hardy Boys, Shannara series by Terry Brooks, Westing Game, The Bronze Bow, The Giver, Mossflower series by Brian Jacques, Little Men by Louisa May Alcott, Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Hatchet, Artemus Fowl
ANDREW STOKER: Fiction- Divergent, The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, Rangers Apprentice, The Black Cauldron Series by Lloyd Alexander, Eragon series by Christopher Paolini, Harry Potter
Childhood favorites-Trouble for Trumpets, The King and 6 Friends, Yertle the Turtle, St. George and The Dragon, Arthur's Nose, A Fox Jumped up One Winter's Night, Berenstein Bears, The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash, Where's Waldo
REBECCA STOKER: Inkheart, Tennis Shoes series, Peter and the Starcatchers, Ella Enchanted, Fairest, Princess Academy, Tao of Pooh, Ivanhoe, Sisters Grimm.
Biographies- Condoleeza Rice, The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky (Farah Ahmedi)
GABE STOKER: How to Train Your Dragon, Rngers Apprentice, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Animorphs, Outernet, Yertle the Turtle and St. George and the Dragon.
SUSIE JOHNSON: Classic Fiction-Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Fiction-Christy by Catherine Marshall, The Mitford Series by Jan Karon, The Guernsey Literary and Patato Peel Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
YA Fiction- The Little House Collection by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Books of Bayern by Shannon Hale, Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene, The Cay by Theodore Taylor and the Harry Potter Series.
Newberry: Lizzy Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt, Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson, Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis, and Hope Was Here By Joan Bauer
Childhood favorites: Beverly Cleary books
AMY DESPAIN: Classic Fiction-Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Fiction- Edenbrooke, The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte by Syrie James, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, The Red Tent by Anita Diamont, The Help, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Angels and Demons, The Da Vinvi Code, Anne of Green Gables
Non-fiction- Into Thin Air by John Krakauer, The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown,
YA fiction- The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices series by the same author, Twilight series, Hunger Games trilogy, The Uglies series by Scott Westerfield, The Books of Bayern series, Princess Academy by Shannon Hale, Book of A Thousand Days by the same author, Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan, Ender's Game, Harry Potter, The Giver, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman.
Childhood favorites:
Dr. Seuss books
Berenstain Bears books
The Fox Jumped Up One Winter's Night
Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson
Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
Aesops Fables
Corduroy
Eric Carle books
books by Jan Brett
(especially The Mitten)
Goodnight Moon
Frog and Toad are
Friends
Little Critter books by
Mercer Mayer
The Monster at the End
of this Book
The Polar Express
Little Bear
Babar
Max Lucado books
The Giving Tree
Where the Wild Things
Are
Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm
A Little Princess
Ramona books by Beverly Cleary
Anne of Green Gables
Nancy Drew books
Winnie the Pooh
The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Charlotte's Web
The Boxcar Children
Amelia Bedelia
Bridge to Terabithia
The Giver
A Wrinkle in Time
Hatchet
Walk Two Moons
Arthur books
The Velveteen Rabbit
Judy Blume books
Magic School Bus books
Where's Waldo
Madeline
AMANDA JOHNSON:
Fiction- Extremely Loud and Incredibly close by Jonathan Safran Foer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, To Kill a Mockingbird, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, The Help, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, These is My Words, World War Z by Marc Forster.
Classic: Les Miserables, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Count of Monte Cristo, Screwtape Letters, Chronicles of Narnia.
Nonfiction- The Anatomy of Peace by Emery Reves, Americana by Don DeLillo, Born to Run by Christopher McDougal, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain, Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.
YA fiction-The Goose Girl and the Books of Bayern series, Hunger Games Trilogy, Harry Potter series, Divergent trilogy, Mortal Instruments series, Book of a Thousand Days.
Newberry-The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt, The Evolution of Capernia Tate by Jaqueline Kelley, Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, Close to Famous by Joan Bauer, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler by E. L. Konisburg, When You Reach Me by Rebecca E. Stead, Elijah of Buxton, Crispin: the Cross of Lead
Children's Books-
Where the Wild Things Are
Dr. Suess books
Berenstein Bears
Corduroy
The Boxcar Children
Amelia Bedelia
Arthur books
Goodnight Moon
Eric Carle books
Frog and Toad are Friends
Madeline
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Little Critter books
Hatchet
Nancy Drew
Little House on the Prairie
Charlotte's Web
Stellaluna
The Velveteen Rabbit
Beatrix Potter books
The Monster at the End of This Book
Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Are You My Mother?
The Stinky Cheeseman
Wayside School books
The Polar Express
Little Bear
Babar
A Bad Case of Stripes
Stone Soup
Max Lucado books
Chrysanthemum
Curious George books
Maurice Sendak books
The Rainbabies
Patricia Polacco books
Judy Blume books
Henry and Mudge books
The Great Brain
The Magic School Bus books
I Spy books
Where's Waldo books
Richard Scarry books
The Fox Jumped Up One Winter's Night
Roald Dahl books:
Matilda
The BFG
The Witches
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
James and the Giant Peach
The Twits
Danny the Champion of the World
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Shel Silverstein poetry:
A Light in the Attic
Where the Sidewalk Ends
The Giving Tree
Falling Up
Sharon Creech:
Chasing Redbird
Walk Two Moons
Beverly Cleary:
Ramona books
Ralph S. Mouse books
Jan Brett books:
The Mitten
The Trouble with Trolls
Beauty and the Beast
TREVOR JOHNSON:.
Anatomy of Peace.
MELINDA CHRISTENSEN
RACHEL CALLAN: Uncle Tom's Cabin
TESSA EGAN: Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough or anything by him, the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Harry Potter, The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom, Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird.
ASHLEY CHRISTENSEN: The Hiding Place, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Count of Monte Cristo, Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter, Ella Enchanted, Maus by Art Spiegelman.
Children's Books-Actually I Used to Be a Princess by Unada, Heckedy Peg by Audrey Wood and Don Wood, The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes.
TYLER CHRISTENSEN: Fiction- Lorna Doone by Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Harry Potter, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dufoe, Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, The Help, The Sherlock Holmes short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the DiVinci Code.
MARY JONES: Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Spear, Blackmoore and Edenbrooke, Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites by Chris Heimerdinger and The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball by Edward L. Kimball.
HEIDI JO MILLER: Non-fiction-The Holy Secret, The Peacegiver, and Falling to Heaven by James L. Ferrell, The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, Change your Questions, Change your Life by Wendy L. Watson, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, In the Eye of the Storm by John H. Groberg,
Fiction-The Walk series and everything else by Richard Paul Evans,
Childhood favorites-Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, The Yearling, Monster at the End of This Book, Superfudge, Junie B. Jones, Little House series.
CARRIE STEPHANI: Fiction- Anything written by Jane Austen, Harry Potter, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Biographies: Bob Newhart, Ellen Degeneres, Betty White, Gary Marshall, JFK, Steve Jobs
Non-fiction-The Secret
GABE STEPHANI AND KIDS-Rangers Apprentice
MEGAN LISTON: The Count of Monte Cristo, The Scarlett Pimpernel, Jane Eyre, Ella Enchanted, Fairest, The Two Princesses of Bamarre, all by Gail Carson Levine, Jane Austen's books, Blackmoore, The Undaunted, Michael Vey, Fablehaven, Cookies: Bite sized lessons.
Biographies-Jimmy Stewart, Fred Astaire, Donny Osmond
From Childhood: The Teaspoon Tree, The Little House
MEG MILLER: Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull, Broken Things to Mend by Jeffrey R. Holland, Alicia My Story by Alicia
