


(listed alphabetically)
In 1987 Timothy began keeping a list of books he read along with quotations that spoke to him, special reference notes, and words unfamiliar. He now wishes he had started this list in elementary school. Timothy does not consider himself a voracious reader but tries to read a bit every day.
1776, David McCullough
About Grace, Anthony Doerr
About the Three Nephites, Douglas & Jewel Beardall
Across the River and into the Trees, Ernest Hemingway
After the Martyrdom: What Happened to the Family of Joseph Smith?, Jerald Johansen
All That Was Promised: St George Temple and the Unfolding of the Restoration, Blaine M. Yorgason, Richard A. Schmutz, Douglas D.Alder
All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
The Annotated Walden, Philip Van Doren Stern
The Art of Racing in the Rain, Gareth Stein
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume I, Mark Twain
Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
Badlands, C.J. Box
The Ballad of Frankie Silver, Sharyn McCrumb
Better a Dinner of Herbs, Byron Herbert Reece
The Bitterroots, C.J. Box
Blue Highways: A Journey Into America, William Least Heat Moon
The Blue Ridge Parkway, Harley E. Jolley
Blue Ridge Parkway Guide, Volumes I & II, William G. Lord
The Book of Mormon (several times)
The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge, Herbert Carter
Brave Companions: Portraits in History, David McCullough
Breathing Tokens, Carl Sandburg
Brother Brigham Challenges the Saints, Hugh Nibley
Bushwhackers: The Civil War in North Carolina: The Mountains, William R. Trotter
By Accident, Susan Kelly
The Call of the Wild, Jack London
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
Cassandra Singing, David Madden
Cataloochee, Wayne Caldwell
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Civil War in North Carolina, John G. Barrett
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (several times)
A Cold Mountain Companion, Paul Ashdown
Crooked Little Heart, Anne Lamott
Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams, Lynne Withey
Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
The Doctrine and Covenants (several times)
Dubliners, James Joyce
Edith Wharton: Collected Stories: 1891-1910, Edith Wharton
The Education of Little Tree, Forrest Carter
Eliza: The Life and Faith of Eliza R. Snow, Karen Lynn Davidson, Jill Mulvay Derr
Embraced by the Light, Betty J. Eadie
Emerson: Essays and Lectures, Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Escape Artist, Brad Meltzer
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life, Etty Hillesum
Even Now, Susan Kelly
Everything You Need to Know About Life You Can Learn in the Woods, Andrew E. Jones
Far Appalachia: Following the New River North, Noah Adams
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
The Fields: Conrad Richter
The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska’s
Arctic Wilderness, James Campbell
The First 100 Temples, Chad S. Hawkins
The First 100 Years of the Mormons at Colfax, Larry D. Christiansen
Forrest Gump, Winston Groom
From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America, James Longstreet
Gap Creek, Robert Morgan
Ghost Riders, Sharyn McCrumb
The Good Old Boys, Elmer Kelton
The Gospel at 30,000 Feet, Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail, Ben Montgomery
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Guardian, Nicholas Sparks
Hard Times, Charles Dickens
Hard Truth, Nevada Barr
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Suzanne M. Coil
The Harrows of Spring: A World Made by Hand Novel, James Howard Kunstler
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Heart of the Matter: What 100 Years of Living Have Taught Me, Russell M. Nelson
Hearts Turned to the Fathers: A History of the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1894-1994, James B. Allen, Jessie L. Embry, Kahlile B. Mehr
Hemingway in Cuba, Hilary Hemingway, Carlene Brennen
Henry Thoreau: Life of the Mind, Robert D. Richardson
The Holy Bible, King James Version (several times)
Howard W. Hunter, Eleanor Knowles
How Close We Come: A Novel of Women’s Friendships, Susan Kelly
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
I Am George Washington, Brad Meltzer
I Am Sacagawea, Brad Meltzer
I Walked to Zion: True Stories of Young Pioneers on the Mormon Trail, Susan Arrington Madsen
I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring, Henry J. Eyring, Robert Eaton
Jesus the Christ, James E. Talmage
John Adams, David McCullough
The Johnstown Flood, David McCullough
Joseph Smith’s Kirtland, Karl Ricks Anderson
Joshua: A Parable for Today, Joseph F. Girzone
Katharine and R.J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South, Michele Gillespie
The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
The King of Lies, John Hart
Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor
A Land More Kind Than Home, Wiley Cash
The Last of Something, Susan Kelly
The Last Season: The Extraordinary Biography of a Legendary Ranger and a Mysterious Disappearance in the Sierra Nevada, Eric Blehm
Latter Leaves in the Life of Lorenzo Snow, Dennis B. Horne
Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
Life With Father and Life With Mother, Clarence Day
Littlejohn, Howard Owen
A Little Trail Romance, Susan & David Roquemore
Look Away, Harold Coyle
Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
The Maine Woods, Henry David Thoreau
A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon, Colin Fletcher
Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World, Eric Metaxas
Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington’s Mother, Craig Shirley
Maximus, Richard L. Black
The Maytrees, Annie Dillard
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
More of Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story, Paul Aurandt
Mormon Doctrine, Bruce R. McConkie
Muir Among the Animals: The Wildlife Writings of John Muir, Lisa Mighetto
My Abandonment, Peter Rock
My Antonia, Willa Cather
My Daddy Was a Pistol and I’m a Son of a Gun, Lewis Grizzard
Nightwoods, Charles Frazier
North Carolina: Images of Wildness, George Humphries
The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
O Pioneers!, Willa Cather
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647, William Bradford
Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man’s Hunger in His Youth, Thomas Wolfe
The Old Man’s Love Story, Rudolfo Anaya
The Pearl, John Steinbeck
The Pearl of Great Price (several times)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, David McCullough
The Poetry of Robert Frost, E. C. Latham
Post Office, Charles Bukowski
Prairie Fever, Michael Parker
Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr.
A Prisoner of Birth, Jeffrey Archer
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey Into the Afterlife, Eben Alexander
Rabbit, Run, John Updike
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson, S.C. Gwynne
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
Requiem by Fire, Wayne Caldwell
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
The Rosewood Casket, Sharyn McCrumb
Ruin Creek, David Payne
Saints: The Standard of Truth, Volume 1, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Saints: No Unhallowed Hand, Volume 2, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Aldo Leopold
The Second Coming of the Lord, Gerald N. Lund
The Secret Keeper, Beverly Lewis
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Shadows on the Rock, Willa Cather
The Shell Collector: Stories, Anthony Doerr
The Short Novels of Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The Snow Falcon, Stuart Harrison
Snow Mountain Passage, James D. Houston
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, Ernest Hemingway
The Songcatcher, Sharyn McCrumb
St. Dale, Sharyn McCrumb
Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts & Homes, Gordon B. Hinckley
Steinbeck: Novels 1942-1952, John Steinbeck
Stock Market Primer, Claude N. Rosenberg
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit, Michael Finkel
Stuart Little, E.B. White
Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History, Anne Mitchell Whisnant
Tales from Margaritaville, Jimmy Buffett
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Dance With the White Dog, Terry Kay
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Tortilla Flay, John Steinbeck
The Town, Conrad Richter
Travels With Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
The Trees, Conrad Richter
Trials of Discipleship: The Story of William Clayton, a Mormon, James B. Allen
Truman, David McCullough
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West, Stephen E. Ambrose
Until the End, Harold Coyle
Varina, Charles Frazier
Victims: A True Story of the Civil War, Phillip Shaw Paludan
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson
Walking Man: The Secret Life of Colin Fletcher, Robert Wehrman
War and Music: A Medley of Love, Max Evans
Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
White Fang, Jack London
Why We Fight: Defeating America’s Enemies – With No Apologies, Sebastian Gorka
The Windwalker, Blaine M. and Brenton G. Yorgason
The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
The Winter of our Discontent, John Steinbeck
The Work and the Glory: Pillar of Light, Volume I, Gerald Lund
The Work and the Glory: Like a Fire is Burning, Volume II, Gerald Lund
The Work and the Glory: Truth Will Prevail. Volume III, Gerald Lund
The Work and the Glory: Thy Gold to Refine, Volume IV, Gerald Lund
The Work and the Glory: A Season of Joy, Volume V, Gerald Lund
The Work and the Glory: Praise to the Man, Volume VI, Gerald Lund
The Work and the Glory: No Unhallowed Hand, Volume VII, Gerald Lund
The Work and the Glory: So Great a Cause, Volume VIII, Gerald Lund
The Work and the Glory: All is Well, Volume IX, Gerald Lund
The Year Money Grew on Trees, Aaron Hawkins