Erika's bookshelf.

2008

32. The World Without Us (Alan Weisman)
31. The Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
30. The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
29. The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri)
28. The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
27. The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog--and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Bruce Perry) 26. Principles of Trauma Therapy (Briere & Scott)
25. Trauma & Recovery: The aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Judith Herman)
24. The Lost Boy (Dave Pelzer)
23. A Child Called It (Dave Pelzer)
22. This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women (Allison & Gediman)
21. Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives (Jim Sheeler)
20. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Eckhart Tolle)
19. Teens Who Hurt: Clinical Interventions to Break the Cycle of Adolescent Violence (Hardy & Laszloffy)
18. The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur (Daoud Hari)
17. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Eckhart Tolle)
16. The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mohsin Hamid)
15. The Bookseller of Kabul (Asne Seierstad)
14. Explorations in Privilege, Oppression, and Diversity (Anderson & Middleton)
13. A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
12. Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis (Jimmy Carter)
11. The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (Mohja Kahf)
10. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (James Loewen)
9. Profiles in Courage (John F. Kennedy)
8. Running with Scissors (Augusten Burroughs)
7. The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew--Three Women Search for Understanding (Idliby, Oliver & Warner)
6. Letters to a Young Therapist (Mary Pipher)
5. Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality (Andrew Sullivan)
4. The Audacity of Hope (Barack Obama)
3. Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends (Michael White & David Epston)
2. Dreams from My Father (Barack Obama)
1. Run (Ann Patchett)

2007

Listening is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the Storycorps Project (Dave Isay)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (JK Rowling)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (JK Rowling)
Change 101 (Bill O'Hanlon)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (JK Rowling)
On Being a Therapist (Jeffrey Kottler)
Essentials of Child Psychology (Linda Wilmshurst)
An Unquiet Mind (Kay Redfield Jamison)
The Heart of Counseling (Cochran & Cochran)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (JK Rowling)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (JK Rowling)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (JK Rowling)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (JK Rowling)
Celiac Disease: A Hidden Epidemic (Peter Green)
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (John Gottman)
The Kid (Dan Savage)
A Long Way Gone (Ishmael Beah)
The Commitment (Dan Savage)
Group: Six People in Search of a Life (Paul Solotaroff)
Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind (Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, & Tarule)
What is the What (Dave Eggers)
Deception Point (Dan Brown)


2006

Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
The Family Crucible (Augustus Napier & Carl Whitaker)
A Walk in the Woods (Bill Bryson)
Angels & Demons (Dan Brown)
Ordinary Man (Paul Rusesabagina)
Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (Carolyn Myss)
Living Well with Celiac Disease (Claudine Crangle)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)
I am Not Myself These Days (Josh Kilmer-Purcell)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
The Art of Happiness (Dalai Lama)
The Davinci Code (Dan Brown)
Three Junes (Julia Glass)


2005 and earlier (in random order)

Annie on My Mind (Nancy Garden)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers)
You Shall Know Our Velocity (Dave Eggers)
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust (Susan Dworkin)
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
The Hot Zone (Douglas Preston)
The Demon in the Freezer (Douglas Preston)
The Cobra Event (Douglas Preston)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier)
Naked (David Sedaris)
The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam (Andrew Pham)
The Hours (Michael Cunningham)
Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)
The Magician's Assistant (Ann Patchett)
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar (Robert Alexander)
The Funny Thing Is (Ellen Degeneres)
Icebound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole (Jerri Nielsen)
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
Reviving Ophelia (Mary Pipher)
Written on the Body (Jeanette Winterson)
Art and Lies (Jeannette Winterson)
Gut Symmetries (Jeanette Winterson)
We the Living (Ayn Rand)
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter (Robert Massie)
Nicholas and Alexandra (Robert Massie)
The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna (Greg King)
Possessing the Secret of Joy (Alice Walker)
Paradise (Toni Morrison)
Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Middle Passage (Charles Johnson)
Black Like Me (John Howard Griffin)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
The Illustrated Man (Ray Bradbury)
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Don Miguel Ruiz)
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
There are No Children Here (Alex Kotlowitz)
Savage Inequalities (Jonathan Kozol)
Sputnik Sweetheart (Haruki Mirukami)
How to Be Good (Nick Hornby)
About a Boy (Nick Hornby)
A Long Way Down (Nick Hornby)
Shampoo Planet (Douglas Coupland)
Life After God (Douglas Coupland)
Girlfriend in a Coma (Douglas Coupland)
Microserfs (Douglas Coupland)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Max Weber)
The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx)
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (Erving Goffman)
The Prince (Niccola Machiavelli)
Sophie's World (Jostein Gaardner)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)
King Lear (Shakespeare)
Richard III (Shakespeare)
Contact (Carl Sagan)
Dangerous Minds (LouAnne Johnson)
Fatherland (Robert Harris)
The Bridge of San Luis Ray (Thornton Wilder)
Lost Horizon (James Hilton)
The Time Machine (HG Wells)
The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)

Poetry

The Fact of a Doorframe (Adrienne Rich)
Atlas of a Difficult World (Adrienne Rich)
A Wild Patience has Taken Me This Far (Adrienne Rich)
A School Among the Ruins (Adrienne Rich)
Midnight Salvage (Adrienne Rich)
Sailing Alone Around the Room (Billy Collins)
Nine Horses (Billy Collins)
Ahead of All Parting (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Song of Myself (Walt Whitman)
Shadows Like These (Marilyn Taylor)