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T op Ten Lists of Current Faculty Members These are the lists submitted in the 2007 and 2013 surveys by people who are still on the faculty. (We

removed the entries for faculty members who have retired or moved on to other adventures.)

Josh Allen

2007 1. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger

3. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. The Collected Poems of Robert Frost, by Robert Frost

5. Where I’m Calling from: Selected Stories, by Raymond Carver

6. The Brothers K, by David James Duncan

7. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers

8. The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, and Cities of the Plain, by Cormac

McCarthy

9. The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien

10. Walden, by Henry David Thoreau

Kari Archibald

2007 1. Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury

2. A Town Like Alice, by Nevil Shute

3. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man’s Miraculous Survival, by Joe Simpson

4. Philosophy of Recreation and Leisure, by Jay Bryan Nash

5. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, by Richard Louv

6. Chase, Chance, and Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty, by James H. Austin

7. Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time, by John P. Robinson and Geoffrey

Godbey

8. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, by Jon Krakauer

9. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing

10. Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, by Steven M. Cox

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Eda Ashby

2007 1. Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, compiled by Joseph F. Smith

2. Life of Heber C. Kimball, by Orson F. Whitney

3. In the Eye of the Storm, by John H. Groberg

4. Yearning for the Living God: Reflections from the Life of F. Enzio Busche, by F. Enzio Busche

5. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

6. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, by Lew Wallace

7. The Ark of Noah, by David Fasold

8. Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo

9. A Man Called Peter: The Story of Peter Marshall, by Catherine Marshall

10. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ted Ashton

2007 1. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

2. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, by Robert M. Pirsig

3. John Adams, by David McCullough

4. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

5. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

6. The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis

7. The Greatest Generation, by Tom Brokaw

8. The Making of Robert E. Lee, by Michael Fellman

9. Poland, by James A. Michener

10. Fishing Lessons, by Paul Quinnett

Amy Baeza

2013 1. The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

2. Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck

3. Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel

4. House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III

5. House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende

6. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner

7. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy

8. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski

9. A Prayer for Owen Meaney, by John Irving

10. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

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M ark Bennion

2007 1. Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo

2. King Lear, by William Shakespeare

3. Even As I Am, by Neal A Maxwell

4. The Things That Matter Most, by Lowell L. Bennion

5. The Lord’s Question, by Dennis Rasmussen

6. All My Sons, by Arthur Miller

7. However Long and Hard the Road, by Jeffrey R. Holland

8. The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard

9. My Name Is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok

10. The Winter of Our Discontent, by John Steinbeck

Gary Benson

2007 1. East of Eden, by John Steinbeck

2. A History of the Theatre, by Edmund Kerchever Chambers

3. The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, by Robert Ed

Jones

4. How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie

5. The Interpretation of Dreams, by Sigmund Freud

6. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the

King, by J. R. R. Tolkien

7. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis

8. Wizard’s First Rule (Sword of Truth), by Terry Goodkind

9. The Mother Tongue English and How It Got That Way, by Bill Bryson

10. Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas, by Mari Sandoz and Vine Deloria, Jr.

11. Custer’s Luck, by Edgar I. Stewart

12. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, by Dee Brown

13. I Will Fight No More Forever: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War, by Merrill D. Beal

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Robyn Bergstrom

2007 1. The Chosen, by Chaim Potok

2. Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl

3. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson, by Mitch Albom


5. Leadership and Self-deception: Getting Out of the Box, by The Arbinger Institute

6. There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America, by Alex

Kotlowitz

7. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago, by Lealan Jones, Lloyd Newman, and

David Isay

8. The Giver, by Lois Lowry

9. Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse

10. Christmas Tapestry, by Patricia Polacco

2013 1. The Chosen, by Chaim Potok



4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows


6. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity, by David Allen

7. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago, by Lealan Jones, Lloyd Newman, and

David Isay


9. Gift from the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

10. Christmas Tapestry, by Patricia Polacco

Rebecca Bird

2007 1. King Lear, by William Shakespeare



4. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini

5. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

6. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel, by Barbara Kingsolver

7. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

8. Tess of the d’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy

9. Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Earle Stegner

10. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Robert Bird

2007 1. Hamlet, by William Shakespeare



4. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, by Herman Melville

5. The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

6. Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes

7. Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller

8. Antigone, by Sophocles



Robert Brown

2013 1. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller

2. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway

3. The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois

4. The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy

5. Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace

6. One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez

7. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon

8. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, by Kurt Vonnegut

9. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

10. Beloved, by Toni Morrison

Van Christman

2007 1. Leadership and Self-deception: Getting Out of the Box, by The Arbinger Institute

2. A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism, by Gregg Easterbrook

3. Priesthood and Church Government, by John A. Widtsoe

4. Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, by Edward L. Kimball

5. The American Civil War Trilogy, by Bruce Catton

6. Call It Courage, by Armstrong Sperry

7. Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson

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Julie Clark

2007 & 2013 1. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini

2. Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card



5. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte




9. The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier

10. Whale Talk, by Chris Crutcher

Ryan Dabell

2007 1. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

2. The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri



4. The Chronicles of Narnia, by C. S. Lewis

5. Hamlet, by William Shakespeare

6. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, by Stephen W. Hawking

7. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley

8. The Iliad, by Homer

9. The Messiah, by George Frideric Handel

10. The Faith of a Scientist, by Henry Eyring

JoAnn Dalling

2007 1. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder

2. True Rings the Heart, by Susan D. Smallwood

3. The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein

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Joseph Darowski

2013 1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon

2. The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss




6. Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare

7. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson

8. The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell

9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J. K. Rowling


Rick Davis

2007 1. The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli

2. Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, by E. D. Hirsch

3. Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, by Robert H. Bork

4. Intellectuals, by Paul Johnson

5. The plays of William Shakespeare

6. Civilization in the West, by Mark Kishlansky, Patrick Geary, and Patricia O’Brien

7. Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal With Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and

Nuclear Waste (Among Other Things), by Dixy Lee Ray

8. The Covenant, by James Michener

9. The Godfather, by Mario Puzo

10. A Little History of the World, by E. H. Gombrich

Susan Dicus


2. The Choice, by Og Mandino

3. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach



6. A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt

7. The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate, by Gary Chapman

8. Seeds of Greatness: The 10 Best Secrets to Total Success, by Denis Waitley

9. Christ’s Ideals for Living, by Obert C. Tanner

10. The Sonnets of William Shakespeare

11. Richest Man in Babylon, by George S. Clason

12. Captains and the Kings, by Taylor Caldwell

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Rob Eaton

2007 1. A Disciple’s Life: The Biography of Neal A. Maxwell, by Bruce C. Hafen




4. George Washington, by James Thomas Flexner

5. Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, by Parley P. Pratt

6. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

7. Counseling With Our Councils: Learning to Minister Together in the Church and in the Family, by

M. Russell Ballard

8. Good to Great, by Jim Collins

9. The Winds of War, by Herman Wouk

10. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, by Jon Krakauer

Eric Embree

2007 1. Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett

2. Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand

3. Centennial, by James A. Michener

4. The Elfstones of Shannara, by Terry Brooks

5. The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas


7. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman

8. Believing Christ, by Stephen E. Robinson

9. A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson

10. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

Caryn Esplin

2007 1. Drawing on the Powers of Heaven, by Grant Von Harrison

2. Come Unto Me, by Gerald N. Lund

3. Opening Doors to the Heart: The Journey to Timeless Virtues, by Curtis N. Van Alfen

4. How to Get Your Point Across in 30 Seconds or Less, by Milo O. Frank

5. Principle-Centered Leadership, by Stephen R. Covey

6. Return from Tomorrow, by George G. Ritchie and Elizabeth Sherrill


8. The Peacegiver: How Christ Offers to Heal Hearts and Homes, by James L. Ferrell

9. Be Thou an Example, by Gordon B. Hinckley


11. Heidi, by Johanna Spyri

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Lynn Firestone

2007 1. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time, by Jonathan Weiner

2. Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution, by

Kenneth R. Miller

3. The Company: A Novel of the CIA, by Robert Littell

4. The Stand, by Stephen King

5. Jesus the Christ, by James E. Talmage


Sherri Dew

Chieko Okazaki


8. First Things First, by Stephen R. Covey

9. Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves, by C. Terry Warner

10. Fairy Stories, by Edward W. Dolch, Marguerite P. Dolch and Beulah Jackson

Kevin Galbraith

2007 1. Jesus the Christ, by James E. Talmage

2. A Disciple’s Life: The Biography of Neal A. Maxwell, by Bruce C. Hafen

3. The Promise of Discipleship, by Neal A. Maxwell

4. The Infinite Atonement, by Tad R. Callister



7. Learning and Teaching for Exponential Growth: A Three Person Problem, by Susan Peterson Gong

8. As a Man Thinketh, by James Allen

9. Covenant Hearts: Marriage and the Joy of Human Love, by Bruce C. Hafen

10. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach

Christine Geddes

2007 1. Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis


3. Spiritual Lightening: How the Power of the Gospel Can Enlighten Minds and Lighten Burdens, by

M. Catherine Thomas


5. The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

6. The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James

7. The Alliance, by Gerald N. Lund


9. Men and Women of Christ, by Neal A. Maxwell


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Suzette Gee

2007 & 2013 1. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee


3. Gift from the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh


5. An American Childhood, by Annie Dillard

6. Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis

7. Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery

8. Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury

9. Exodus, by Leon Uris

10. A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster

Janine Gilbert

2007 1. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen


3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard

4. A Grief Observed, by C. S. Lewis

5. O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather

6. Otherwise: New and Selected Poems, by Jane Kenyon

7. Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare

8. The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde

9. The Writer on Her Work, by Janet Sternburg

10. One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers, by Gail Sher

Kristen Glenn

2013 1. The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien

2. I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson

3. Seabiscuit, by Laura Hillenbrand

4. Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog, by John Grogan

5. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand

6. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, by Frederick Douglass

7. Down the Long Hills, by Louis L’Amour


9. Follow the River, by James Alexander Thom

10. Any Kate Ross mystery novel

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Michael Godfrey

2007 1. Dune, by Frank Herbert

2. Faith Precedes the Miracle, by Spencer W. Kimball



4. The Spider and the Fly, by Mary Howitt and Tony DiTerlizzi

5. The Once and Future King, by T. H. White

6. Holes, by Louis Sachar

7. Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak

8. Piggie Pie, by Margie Palatini


10. King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub, by Audrey Wood

11. Others, by Blaine M. Yorgason and Brenton Yorgason

12. Harry Potter series, by J. K. Rowling

Shane Goodwin



3. David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory A Prince

4. The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter’s Journey to the Nobel Peace Prize, by Douglas G. Brinkley

5. Spiritual Roots of Human Relations, by Stephen R. Covey

6. Two from Galilee, by Marjorie Holmes

7. Green Grass of Wyoming, by Mary O’Hara

8. A Lawyer Looks at the Constitution, by Rex E. Lee

9. The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World’s Most Astonishing Number, by Mario Livio

10. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About

It, by Al Gore

Kathleen Gordon

2007 1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the



3. The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom




7. Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt


9. Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, by C. S. Lewis

10. Dr. Seuss Collection, by Dr. Seuss

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Terry Gorton

2007 1. King Lear, by William Shakespeare

2. The Prelude, by William Wordsworth

3. Paradise Lost, by John Milton

4. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass

5. The Oresteia, by Aeschylus


7. The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett

8. Dubliners, by James Joyce


10. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, by René Girard

Kendall Grant

2007 1. Seedfolks, by Paul Fleischman



4. Lost Boys, by Orson Scott Card

5. Five Perspectives on Teaching in Adult and Higher Education, by Daniel D. Pratt

6. A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean

7. Angle of Repose, by Wallace Earle Stegner

8. Housekeeping: A Novel, by Marilynne Robinson


10. Values of the Game, by Bill Bradley

2013 1. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson, by Mitch Albom

2. The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo, by Irving Stone


4. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

5. The Devil’s Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen


7. Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson



10. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway

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Gerald Griffin

2007 1. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens

2. My Ántonia, by Willa Cather

3. Martin Eden, by Jack London

4. The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy


6. The Razor’s Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham

7. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London


9. Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana


Susan Grover

2007 1. Wild Swans, by Jung Chang



3. Learner-Centered Assessment on College Campuses: Shifting the Focus from Teaching to Learning,

by Mary E. Huba and Jann E. Freed

4. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas S. Kuhn

5. O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather

6. Harry Potter series, by J. K. Rowling

7. Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli

8. Ender’s series, including Ender’s Children and Bean Sagas, by Orson Scott Card

9. Amy Tan

10. Barbara Kingsolver


12. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel

Jeff Hamblin

2007 1. Paradise Lost, by John Milton





6. Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy

7. Culinary Artistry, by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page

8. The Rituals of Dinner, by Margaret Visser

9. How We Eat: Appetite, Culture, and the Psychology of Food, by Leon Rappoport

10. Post-Capitalist Society, by Peter F. Drucker

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Amy Hanks

2007 1. Persuasion, by Jane Austen


3. The Goose Girl, by Shannon Hale

4. Rose Daughter, by Robin McKinley

5. Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

6. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J. K. Rowling

7. Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: Being the First Jane Austen Mystery, by

Stephanie Barron


9. Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love, by Dava Sobel


2013 1. Persuasion, by Jane Austen

2. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, by Don Miguel Ruiz

3. The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Arnim

4. Princess Academy, by Shannon Hale


6. Rose Daughter, by Robin McKinley

7. Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

8. Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maude Montgomery

9. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J. K. Rowling


Omar Hansen

2007 1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain



3. A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

4. Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens




8. The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien

9. The Last Apprentice, by Joseph Delaney

10. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo

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Ann Marie Harmon

2007 1. Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns

2. Road from Coorain, by Jill Kathryn Conway

3. The Complete Novels of Jane Austen



6. Quo Vadis, by Henryk Sienkiewicz

7. The Silver Chalice, by Thomas B. Costain

8. Green Mansions, by W. H. Hudson

9. The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran

10. From Sea to Shining Sea, by James Alexander Thom

Kip Hartvigsen




4. Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare

5. Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather



8. The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien

9. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde


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Lynda Hawkes

2007 1. The River Between Us, by Richard Peck

2. A Year Down Yonder, by Richard Peck

3. A Long Way From Chicago, by Richard Peck

4. For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

5. Copper Sun, by Sharon M. Draper

6. You Can Never Get Enough Of What You Don’t Need: The Quest For Contentment, by Mary Ellen

Edmunds

7. If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn’t Be Hard: And Other Reassuring Truths, by Sheri L. Dew

8. Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind, by Ann B. Ross

9. Miss Julia Takes Over, by Ann B. Ross

10. Miss Julia Throws a Wedding, by Ann B. Ross

2013 1. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr

2. Teach Like a Champion, by Doug Lemov

3. The Bronze Bow, by Elizabeth George Speare

4. The River Between Us, by Richard Peck

5. A Year Down Yonder, by Richard Peck

6. A Long Way from Chicago, by Richard Peck

7. For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

8. Copper Sun, by Sharon M. Draper

9. You Can Never Get Enough Of What You Don’t Need: The Quest For Contentment, by Mary Ellen

Edmunds

10. If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn’t Be Hard: And Other Reassuring Truths, by Sheri L. Dew

Karen Holt

2013 1. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

2. Bleak House, by Charles Dickens

3. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, by George Eliot


5. The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien





10. Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier

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Alan Holyoak

2007 1. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in

the Struggle for Life, by Charles Darwin




4. Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia, by Jean P. Sasson

5. Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson

6. The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe, by Edgar Allan Poe


8. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

9. The Killer Angel, by Michael Shaara

10. Sports in America, by James A. Michener

11. A Piece of Luck, by Simon Henwood

2013 1. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in


2. Merchants of Doubt, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway





6. The Unnatural History of the Sea, by Callum Roberts

7. Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy, by Ian W. Toll

8. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss

9. An Accidental Athlete: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Middle Age, by John Bingham

10. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand

Deanna Hovey

2007 1. The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom



4. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens


6. The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck

7. A Single Shard, by Linda Sue Park

8. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, by Walter Isaacson

9. Silas Marner, by George Eliot

10. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, by Candice Millard

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Steve Hunsaker

2007 1. Don Quijote, by Miguel de Cervantes

2. Os Sertões: Campanha de Canudos, by Euclides Da Cunha and M. M. Kucinski


4. The Odyssey, by Homer

5. Cien años de soledad, by Gabriel García Márquez

6. Go Down, Moses, by William Faulkner

7. Imagined Communities, by Benedict Anderson

8. Tracks, by Louise Erdrich

9. Los Pasos Perdidos, by Alejo Carpentier

10. Lost in Translation, by Eva Hoffman

Murray Hunt




The Silmarillion, by J. R. R. Tolkien

3. Discourse on Method and Related Writings, by René Descartes

Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin, by Tracy Lee Simmons

4. The Theological Foundations of the Mormon Religion, by Sterling McMurrin

Philosophical Foundations of Mormon Theology, by Sterling M. McMurrin

Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development, by James W. Fowler


Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse

6. The Best of Lowell L. Bennion: Selected Writings, 1928-1988, by Lowell Lindsay Bennion

Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo


The Complete Greek Tragedies, by Sophocles

The Tragedies of William Shakespeare

The Tragedies of Arthur Miller

The Complete Stories, by Flannery O’Connor

James Joyce

Poems, by Stephen Dunn

8. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in


Civilization and Its Discontents, by Sigmund Freud

9. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, by Stephen R. Covey

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy, by Thomas J. Stanley and

William D. Danko

The Best of Dilbert, by Scott Adams

The Complete Far Side 1980-1994, by Gary Larson

10. Dan Brown

John Grisham

11. Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tsu

Being and Time, by Martin Heidegger

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Casey Hurley

2007 1. My Ántonia, by Willa Cather



4. Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson


6. Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, by C.S. Lewis



9. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg



2. Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli




6. Charlotte’s Web, by E. B. White





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John Ivers

2007 1. Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire

2. Beyond Culture, by Edward Twitchell Hall

3. Zen and Japanese Culture, by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

4. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, by Paul Reps

5. 1984, by George Orwell

6. The American Religion, by Harold Bloom

7. Einstein’s Cosmos: How Albert Einstein’s Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and

Time, by Michio Kaku

8. How the Mind Works, by Steven Pinker



2013 1. Beyond Culture, by Edward Twitchell Hall

2. Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, by Plutarch

3. Inviting School Success: A Self-Concept Approach to Teaching, Learning, and Democratic Practice,

by William Watson Purkey and John M. Novak

4. Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire

5. Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell

6. How the Mind Works, by Steven Pinker


8. Einstein’s Cosmos: How Albert Einstein’s Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and

Time, by Michio Kaku

9. 1984, by George Orwell


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Jo Anne Kay


2. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

3. The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri

4. The Littlest Angel, by Charles Tazewell



7. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott



10. The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams


12. Chesapeake: A Novel, by James A. Michener





5. The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams



8. The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri

9. Poland, by James A. Michener

Chesapeake: A Novel, by James A. Michener

10. From Sea to Shining Sea, by James Alexander Thom

Follow the River, by James Alexander Thom

Long Knife, by James Alexander Thom



13. The Littlest Angel, by Charles Tazewell

Ann Killian

2007 1. Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl

2. Toward a Psychology of Being, by Abraham H. Maslow

3. In the Hands of the Potter, by Camille Fronk Olson

4. Love Is a Verb: And Other Thoughts on the Greatest Commandment, by Mary Ellen Edmunds

5. The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

6. David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens

7. A Single Shard, by Linda Sue Park

8. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, by Daniel Goleman

9. The Christ Commission, by Og Mandino

10. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, by Stephen R.

Covey

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Bruce Kusch

2007 1. The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett

2. Go Forward With Faith: The Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley, by Sheri L. Dew

3. Spencer W. Kimball, by Edward L. Kimball and Andrew E. Kimball

4. Good to Great, by Jim Collins

5. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, and Charles

Burck

6. Patriot Games, by Tom Clancy

7. Clear and Present Danger, by Tom Clancy

8. Sahara, by Clive Cussler


1776, by David McCullough

10. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, by Doris

Kearns Goodwin

James Lamph

2007 Sacred


2. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, by Richard Lyman Bushman

3. Articles of Faith, by James E. Talmage

4. Verse by Verse: The Four Gospels, by D. Kelly Ogden and Andrew C. Skinner

5. Mormon Doctrine, by Bruce R. McConkie

6. Hyrum Smith: A Life of Integrity, by Jeffrey S. O’Driscoll

7. Selection from Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings of Joseph Fielding Smith, by Joseph

Fielding Smith

8. Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, by Parley P. Pratt

Secular

1. Undaunted Courage, by Stephen E. Ambrose


3. 1776, by David McCullough

4. Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce, by Douglas Starr

5. Shogun, by James Clavell


7. War and Remembrance, by Herman Wouk

8. Lincoln, by David Herbert Donald

9. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, by James M. McPherson


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Chris Lowry

2007 1. The Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien

2. The Two Towers, by J. R. R. Tolkien

3. The Return of the King, by J. R. R. Tolkien

4. Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, by Antonio Damasio

5. The Great Divorce, by C. S. Lewis

6. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, by V. S. Ramachandran, Sandra

Blakeslee, and Oliver Sacks


8. Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window, by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

9. Thinking About Teaching and Learning: Developing Habits of Learning with First Year College and

University Students, by Robert Leamnson

10. Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein



2. A Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin


4. The Great Divorce, by C. S. Lewis


6. Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein

7. Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, by Antonio Damasio



10. The Infinite Atonement, by Tad R. Callister

Betty McQuain



3. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila

Heen, and Roger Fisher

4. Little House books, by Laura Ingalls Wilder

5. At Home in Mitford (and the rest of the Father Tim series), by Jan Karon



8. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows



Covey

11. The Gentle Touch, by Ardeth Greene Kapp

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Brian Merrill

2007 1. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy


3. The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri



6. The Iliad, by Homer

7. Oedipus the King, by Sophocles


9. The Republic, by Plato


Darin Merrill


Paradise Regained, by John Milton


3. The Federalist Papers, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay

4. The Collected Works of Aristotle, by Aristotle

5. Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius

6. Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville



8. The Silmarillion, by J. R. R. Tolkien

9. The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau



2. Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament

of England, by John Milton



4. The Silmarillion, by J. R. R. Tolkien

5. The Odyssey, by Homer


7. Metaphysics, by Aristotle

8. The Federalist Papers, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay

9. Metalogicon, by John of Salisbury

10. Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift

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Melissa Merrill


2. Emma, by Jane Austen


4. Our Town, by Thornton Wilder

5. The Diaries of Adam and Eve, by Mark Twain


7. The Broken Heart: Applying the Atonement to Life’s Experiences, by Bruce C. Hafen


9. His Excellency: George Washington, by Joseph J. Ellis


Mark Nygren



Covey


4. I Dare You!, by William H. Danforth



7. Fire of the Covenant: The Story of the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies, by Gerald Lund






Covey


4. I Dare You!, by William H. Danforth



7. Fire of the Covenant: The Story of the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies, by Gerald Lund



10. How Will You Measure Your Life?, by Clayton M. Christensen

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Anne Papworth



3. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison

4. The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot



7. Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett

8. The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot


10. A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf



3. The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot



6. Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett

7. The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot


9. A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf

10. Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya

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Jim Papworth

2007 1. The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo, by Irving Stone

2. The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found, by Don J. Snyder

3. His Excellency: George Washington, by Joseph J. Ellis


5. Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey

6. The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner

7. Song of the Dodo, by David Quammen

8. The Bourne Identity, by Robert Ludlum


10. Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey

2013 1. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, by Robert M. Pirsig

2. The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found, by Don J. Snyder










Leon Parson

2007 1. A Marvelous Work and a Wonder, by LeGrand Richards


3. Jesus Christ: The Only Sure Foundation, by Robert L. Millet

4. Forgiveness: The Healing Gift We Give Ourselves, by Cheryl Carson

5. Lost and Found: Reflections on the Prodigal Son, by Robert L. Millet

6. An Approach to the Book of Mormon: Course of Study for the Melchizedek Priesthood Quorums of

the Church, 1957, by Hugh Nibley

7. Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, by Bruce R. McConkie

8. If Thou Endure It Well, by Neal A. Maxwell

9. Will Power is Not Enough, by A. Dean Byrd and Mark D Chamberlain

10. The Boy Scout Handbook, by Boy Scouts of America

Some other books that I would have loved to have included are:

The Trial of the Stick of Joseph, by Jack H. West

More Holiness Give Me, by Robert L. Millet

I Will Fear No Evil: How the Lord Sustains Us in Perilous Times, by Robert L. Millet

A New Witness of the Articles of Faith, by Bruce R. McConkie

The First Two Thousand Years, by W. Cleon Skousen

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, by Stephen R. Covey

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It, by Michael E. Gerber

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Dan Pearce



3. The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

4. The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

5. Civilization and Its Discontents, by Sigmund Freud

6. The Complete Stories, by Flannery O’Connor


8. Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller

9. When Bad Things Happen to Good People, by Harold S. Kushner

10. Think a Second Time, by Dennis Prager

David Pulsipher

2007 1. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard


3. A General Theory of Love, by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon


5. A History of the American People, by Paul M. Johnson


7. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, by Mahatma Gandhi

8. The Way to Rainy Mountain, by N. Scott Momaday

9. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, by Richard Lyman Bushman

10. Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community: Eight Essays, by Wendell Berry

Rudy Puzey




4. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing

5. The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom, by Slavomir Rawicz



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Brian Pyper

2007 1. The Divine Center, by Stephen R. Covey



3. The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist, by Victor Weisskopf

4. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas S. Kuhn

5. The Game of School: Why We All Play It, How It Hurts Kids, and What It Will Take to Change It, by

Robert L. Fried

6. Banner in the Sky, by James Ramsey Ullman

7. Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch, by Eileen Spinelli

8. The Magic of Thinking Big, by David Joseph Schwartz

9. Scouting for Boys, by Robert Baden-Powell

10. To the Far Blue Mountains, by Louis L’Amour

How the West Was Won, by Louis L’Amour

Last of the Breed, by Louis L’Amour

Andrea Radke-Moss

2007 1. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by

Erik Larson

2. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, by Laurel Thatcher

Ulrich

3. Sarum: The Novel of England, by Edward Rutherfurd

4. Emma, by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

5. A Thoughtful Faith: Essays on Belief by Mormon Scholars, by Philip L. Barlow

6. The Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien


8. Seabiscuit, by Laura Hillenbrand

9. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton

10. The Alienist: A Novel, by Caleb Carr

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Jim Richards

2007 & 2013 1. Paradise Lost, by John Milton

2. The Collected Works of Shakespeare, by William Shakespeare

3. The Collected Dialogues of Plato, by Plato


5. Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996, by Seamus Heaney

6. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck

7. The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, by Emily Dickinson

8. The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger

9. Selected Tales and Sketches, by Nathaniel Hawthorne


I would include Discourses of Brigham Young and The Teachings of Joseph Smith near the top of the list, but I’ve excluded them as

scripture.

Blaine Robertson



The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

1. The Gentle Touch, by Ardeth Greene Kapp




5. Dune series, by Frank Herbert

6. The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli

7. Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbs

8. Rich on Any Income, by James P. Christensen

9. Basic Home Wiring Illustrated, by Sunset Magazine and Book Editors


2. The Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien

3. The Two Towers, by J. R. R. Tolkien

4. The Return of the King, by J. R. R. Tolkien


6. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by Jack Weatherford


8. Washington: A Life, by Ron Chernow

9. Dune, by Frank Herbert

10. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham

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Derik Robertson

2013 1. I and Thou, by Martin Buber



4. The Glass Bead Game, by Herman Hesse

5. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, by Friedrich Nietzsche

6. Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury

7. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, by Herman Melville

8. Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman

9. The Fall, by Albert Camus


Lynette Robertson

2007 1. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing

2. Jayber Crow, by Wendell Berry

3. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, by Robin McKinley

4. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe

5. The Virginian, by Owen Wister

6. The Trial, by Franz Kafka


8. Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls

9. Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival, by Velma Wallis

10. History of Joseph Smith by His Mother, Lucy Mack Smith, by Lucy Mack Smith

2013 1. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing 2. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee 3. Infidelity, by Wendell Berry (or any book by this author) 4. The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas 5. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Hour, by Candice Millard


7. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, by Robin McKinley 8. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

9. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, by Richard Louv 10. Women in the Material World, by Faith D’Aluisio and Peter Menzel

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David Rock

2013 1. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, by Herman Melville

2. Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges

3. Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes


5. Altazor o el viaje en paracaídas, by Vicente Huidobro


7. Tragic Sense of Life, by Miguel de Unamuno

8. The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, by William James

9. Rickenbacker: An Autobiography, by Edward V. Rickenbacker

10. Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy, by Simon Blackburn

Ben Romney

2007 1. The Faith of a Scientist, by Henry Eyring

2. Key to the Science of Theology, by Parley P. Pratt

3. Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes, by Gordon B.

Hinckley

4. The Things That Matter Most, by Lowell L. Bennion

5. Return from Tomorrow, by George G. Ritchie and Elizabeth Sherrill

6. The End of the Road, by Tom Bodett

7. The Trial of the Stick of Joseph, by Jack H. West

8. Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers, by Amy

Stewart

9. As a Man Thinketh, by James Allen

10. Happily Ever After? Putting Vitality and Reality into Marriage, by Jeannie Takahashi

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Rhonda Seamons




4. Our Sisters in the Bible, by Jerrie W. Hurd

5. Heroines of the Restoration, edited by Barbara B. Smith and Blythe Darlyn Thatcher

6. Once in Israel, by Emma Lou Thayne

7. The Man Who Planted Trees, by Jean Giono


9. Amos Fortune, Free Man, by Elizabeth Yates

10. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread,

by Kate DiCamillo




4. The King of Attolia, by Megan Whalen Turner (The third—and my favorite—in The Queen’s Thief

series.)

5. The Ruins of Gorlan, by John Flanagan (The whole Ranger’s Apprentice series is great!)


7. The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, by Sandy Tolan


9. A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story, by Linda Sue Park

10. The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick

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Kevin Smith

2007 1. Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, 5th Edition, by Gene Franklin, J.D. Powell, and Abbas

Emami-Naeini

2. Discrete-Time Signal Processing, 2nd Edition, by Alan V. Oppenheim, Ronald W. Schafer, and John

R. Buck

3. Signals and Systems, by Alan V. Oppenheim, Alan S. Willsky, and S. Hamid Nawab

4. Electric Circuits, 7th Edition, by James W. Nilsson and Susan Riedel

5. Fundamentals of Physics, by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, and Jearl Walker

6. General Chemistry: Theory and Description, by J. Rex Goates

7. Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Ninth Edition, by American Academy

of Orthopaedic Surgeons

8. Human Anatomy and Physiology, 7th Edition, by Elaine N. Marieb and Katja Hoehn

9. Essentials of Fire Fighting, by International Fire Service Training Association

10. CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, 31st Edition, by Daniel Zwillinger

2013 1. Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield,

Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler

2. The Proper Care & Feeding of Marriage, by Laura Schlessinger

3. The Price We Paid: The Extraordinary Story of the Willie & Martin Handcart Pioneers, by Andrew

D. Olsen

4. Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad

Behavior, by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler

5. The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict, by The Arbinger Institute


7. The 3rd

Alternative: Solving Life’s Most Difficult Problems, by Stephen R. Covey


9. Life’s Lessons Learned, by Dallin H. Oaks

Ferron Sonderegger



2. James Herriot’s Animal Stories, by James Herriot



5. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years, by Carl Sandburg

6. Washington: The Indispensable Man, by James Thomas Flexner

7. Schindler’s List, by Thomas Keneally



10. A Bridge Too Far: The Classic History of the Greatest Battle of World War II, by Cornelius Ryan

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Paula Soper

2013 1. Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett





6. Henry V, by William Shakespeare (if I have to pick only one Shakespeare – otherwise, the collected

works)

7. Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes, by Du Bose Heyward

8. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll



11. A Child’s Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas

Steve Stewart

2007 1. Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse

2. The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called The Ark, by

Mikhail Naimy

3. Popol Vuh, Translated by Dennis Tedlock




7. The Dream Songs, by John Berryman

8. Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney

9. The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick

10. Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972-1995, by Michael Palmer

2013 1. Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life, by Thich Nhat Hanh

2. El Ladrón de Atardeceres, by Rafael Pérez Estrada

3. Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse

4. Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu, by John Felstiner


6. To Touch the Sky: Poems of Mystical, Spiritual, and Metaphysical Light, by Willis Barnstone

7. The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick



10. Poemas en Prosa, by Ángel Crespo

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Steve Stokes

2007 1. The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, by Shel Silverstein

2. The Horse and His Boy, by C. S. Lewis

3. Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America’s Illegal Aliens, by Ted Conover

4. Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics, by David M. O’Brien




8. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn

9. On Liberty and Other Essays, by John Stuart Mill



11. The Sign and the Seal, by Graham Hancock

John Thomas

2007 1. Yearning for the Living God: Reflections from the Life of F. Enzio Busche, by F. Enzio Busche



4. I Am David, by Anne Holm

5. April 1865: The Month That Saved America, by Jay Winik

6. Men with a Mission: The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the British Isles, 1837-1841, by James B.

Allen, Ronald K. Esplin, and David J. Whittaker

7. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

8. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton

9. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph J. Ellis

10. The Man Who Planted Trees, by Jean Giono

Susan Thomas

2013 1. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck


3. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton


5. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard

6. All the Little Live Things, by Wallace Earle Stegner


8. A Map of the World, by Jane Hamilton

9. Friend of My Youth, by Alice Munro

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Brian Tonks

2007 1. Red Storm Rising, by Tom Clancy

2. The Cardinal of the Kremlin, by Tom Clancy

3. The Sum of All Fears, by Tom Clancy

4. Debt of Honor, by Tom Clancy

5. The Bear and the Dragon, by Tom Clancy

6. When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time, by Michael Benton

7. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe, by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee

8. T. Rex and the Crater of Doom, by Walter Alvarez

9. Beyond Natural Selection, by Robert Wesson

Stephen Turcotte

2007 & 2013 1. Life of Heber C. Kimball, by Orson F. Whitney



4. 1776, by David McCullough


6. Beautiful Evidence, by Edward R. Tufte

7. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, by Stephen W Hawking

8. Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott



Lyle Wakefield



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Eric Walz

2007 1. Tom Corbett, Space Cadet Adventures, by Carey Rockwell

2. Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana

3. HMS Ulysses, by Alistair MacLean

4. Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, by Richard Bushman

5. R. E. Lee: A Biography, by Douglas Southall Freeman

6. Young Men and Fire, by Norman Maclean

7. Frémont: Explorer for a Restless Nation, by Ferol Egan

8. The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman

9. Out of This Furnace, by Thomas Bell

10. Old Jules, by Mari Sandoz

Lee Warnick






6. A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson

7. The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer


9. Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

10. The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman

I am not including LDS writings of any type, not just scriptural. If nonscriptural works were fair game, I’d include Jesus the Christ

and choose something by Elder Neal A. Maxwell. Others that might make the list if you were to ask me next month: O! Pioneers by

Willa Cather, The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo,

Walden by Henry David Thoreau, The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas, The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn, Love in the Time of

Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Blink by Malcolm Gladwell and Conspiracy of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald.

Jaren Watson

2013 1. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, by Herman Melville

2. Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy

3. Housekeeping: A Novel, by Marilynne Robinson

4. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov

5. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard


7. Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy

8. Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak, by Maurice Herzog

9. Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, by Vladimir Nabokov


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