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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

© 2026 Timothy Pegram

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