MMD Summer Reading 2012-2014

1.
Calico Joe
Calico Joe 3.88 avg rating — 49,097 ratings
2.
Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection 3.75 avg rating — 14,917 ratings
3.
Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream
Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream 3.49 avg rating — 261 ratings
4.
Gone Girl
Gone Girl 4.14 avg rating — 3,358,354 ratings
5.
168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think
168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think 3.60 avg rating — 11,026 ratings
6.
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert 4.25 avg rating — 33,916 ratings
7.
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard 4.03 avg rating — 54,270 ratings
8.
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had 3.99 avg rating — 3,780 ratings
9.
EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches
EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches 4.19 avg rating — 13,834 ratings
10.
Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job
Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job
by: Jon Acuff
3.91 avg rating — 6,967 ratings
11.
Imagine: How Creativity Works
Imagine: How Creativity Works 3.97 avg rating — 51,926 ratings
12.
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures 3.83 avg rating — 10,207 ratings
13.
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts 4.01 avg rating — 5,565 ratings
14.
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History 3.88 avg rating — 3,003 ratings
15.
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollbooth 4.20 avg rating — 301,792 ratings
16.
Holes (Holes, #1)
Holes (Holes, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 1,332,931 ratings
17.
The Search for Delicious
The Search for Delicious 3.96 avg rating — 4,424 ratings
18.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking 4.08 avg rating — 465,701 ratings
19.
The Happiness Project
The Happiness Project 3.65 avg rating — 179,134 ratings
20.
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,159 ratings
21.
The Help
The Help 4.47 avg rating — 2,961,977 ratings
22.
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster 4.26 avg rating — 550,932 ratings
23.
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen 4.30 avg rating — 228,775 ratings
24.
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea 4.12 avg rating — 117,722 ratings
25.
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier 4.23 avg rating — 66,329 ratings
26.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,731,045 ratings
27.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 3.98 avg rating — 18,160 ratings
28.
The Screwtape Letters
The Screwtape Letters 4.27 avg rating — 499,640 ratings
29.
Jayber Crow
Jayber Crow 4.40 avg rating — 21,217 ratings
30.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,632,880 ratings
31.
Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 123,553 ratings
32.
The Poisonwood Bible
The Poisonwood Bible 4.11 avg rating — 779,743 ratings
33.
You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life 3.99 avg rating — 4,894 ratings
34.
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise 3.94 avg rating — 47,448 ratings
35.
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life 4.13 avg rating — 31,785 ratings
36.
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter 3.84 avg rating — 4,024 ratings
37.
My Life in France
My Life in France 4.16 avg rating — 92,229 ratings
38.
Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed 4.10 avg rating — 29,657 ratings
39.
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation 4.08 avg rating — 25,637 ratings
40.
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work 3.96 avg rating — 18,032 ratings
41.
What It Is Is Beautiful: Honest Poems for Mothers of Small Children
What It Is Is Beautiful: Honest Poems for Mothers of Small Children 4.05 avg rating — 37 ratings
42.
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead 3.95 avg rating — 266,945 ratings
43.
Bossypants
Bossypants
by: Tina Fey
3.96 avg rating — 1,041,934 ratings
44.
Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life 3.55 avg rating — 20,069 ratings
45.
Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected--A Memoir
Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected--A Memoir 3.87 avg rating — 6,101 ratings
46.
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead 4.29 avg rating — 236,421 ratings
47.
Surprised by Oxford
Surprised by Oxford 4.31 avg rating — 7,682 ratings
48.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation 3.87 avg rating — 106,065 ratings
49.
The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life
The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life 4.32 avg rating — 1,552 ratings
50.
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader 4.10 avg rating — 13,933 ratings
51.
The War of Art
The War of Art 3.98 avg rating — 113,850 ratings
52.
The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life 4.19 avg rating — 2,100 ratings
53.
Emma
Emma 4.05 avg rating — 950,046 ratings
54.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,227 ratings
55.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,703 ratings
56.
The Likeness
The Likeness 4.06 avg rating — 175,245 ratings
57.
The Great Train Robbery
The Great Train Robbery 3.89 avg rating — 34,079 ratings
58.
What Alice Forgot
What Alice Forgot 4.07 avg rating — 503,528 ratings
59.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Where'd You Go, Bernadette 3.87 avg rating — 592,706 ratings
60.
Get Lucky
Get Lucky 3.68 avg rating — 10,353 ratings
61.
Rules of Civility
Rules of Civility 4.09 avg rating — 262,563 ratings
62.
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
Gilead (Gilead, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 121,013 ratings
63.
The Kid from Tomkinsville
The Kid from Tomkinsville 4.02 avg rating — 325 ratings
64.
The Wednesday Wars
The Wednesday Wars 4.12 avg rating — 46,364 ratings
65.
When You Reach Me
When You Reach Me 4.08 avg rating — 115,214 ratings
66.
The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars 4.12 avg rating — 5,580,338 ratings
67.
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table 3.94 avg rating — 16,699 ratings
68.
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks 4.09 avg rating — 5,327 ratings
69.
The Main Dish
The Main Dish 3.81 avg rating — 153 ratings
70.
Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes 4.22 avg rating — 15,748 ratings
71.
Attachments
Attachments 3.87 avg rating — 206,945 ratings
72.
Someday, Someday, Maybe
Someday, Someday, Maybe 3.53 avg rating — 58,746 ratings
73.
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 584,648 ratings
74.
Eve in Hollywood
Eve in Hollywood 3.71 avg rating — 3,271 ratings
75.
Honeymoon in Paris
Honeymoon in Paris 3.58 avg rating — 12,690 ratings
76.
Parnassus on Wheels (Parnassus, #1)
Parnassus on Wheels (Parnassus, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 10,835 ratings
77.
Any Day a Beautiful Change: A Story of Faith and Family
Any Day a Beautiful Change: A Story of Faith and Family 4.21 avg rating — 156 ratings
78.
The Lost Husband
The Lost Husband 3.82 avg rating — 21,929 ratings
79.
The Invention of Wings
The Invention of Wings 4.26 avg rating — 328,051 ratings
80.
Evensong
Evensong 3.76 avg rating — 2,091 ratings
81.
Bel Canto
Bel Canto 3.94 avg rating — 312,354 ratings
82.
The Funeral Dress
The Funeral Dress 3.95 avg rating — 4,536 ratings
83.
The Silver Linings Playbook
The Silver Linings Playbook 3.98 avg rating — 161,892 ratings
84.
Beautiful Ruins
Beautiful Ruins 3.68 avg rating — 182,954 ratings
85.
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
The Giver (The Giver, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 2,732,938 ratings
86.
Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage
Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage 3.69 avg rating — 7,861 ratings
87.
The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute
The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute 4.10 avg rating — 8,111 ratings
88.
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City 3.84 avg rating — 15,593 ratings
89.
The Time in Between
The Time in Between 4.20 avg rating — 49,544 ratings
90.
The Language of Flowers
The Language of Flowers 4.09 avg rating — 230,237 ratings
91.
Glittering Images (Starbridge, #1)
Glittering Images (Starbridge, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 3,660 ratings
92.
The Secret Keeper
The Secret Keeper 4.16 avg rating — 171,031 ratings
93.
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book 3.71 avg rating — 3,251 ratings
94.
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal 4.04 avg rating — 18,911 ratings
95.
Wait Till Next Year
Wait Till Next Year 4.05 avg rating — 11,205 ratings
96.
The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis 3.87 avg rating — 1,493 ratings
97.
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration 4.21 avg rating — 100,162 ratings