Celebrities Who Married Multiple Times

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THREE TIMES:

Alan Arkin: once married to actress Barbara Dana.

Robert Altman: five children from his marriages.

Roseanne Barr: once married to actor Tom Arnold.

Drew Barrymore: once married to comedian Tom Green.

Jim Belushi: once married to actress Marjorie Bransfield.

Halle Berry: once married to David Justice, Eric Benet, and Oliver Martinez. 

Claire Bloom: once married to Rod Steiger and Philip Roth. 

Judy Blume: has two children her marriages.

Marlon Brando: had five children from his marriages.

Erin Brockovich: blackmailed by her first husband after the success of her film.

Charles Bronson: his second wife, actress Jill Ireland died during their marriage.

Carol Burnett: once married to producer Joe Hamilton.

Art Carney: his third wife was his first.

June Carter Cash: her third husband was Johnny Cash.

David Cassidy: once married to actress Kay Lenz.

Kim Cattrall: no children from her marriages.

Phil Collins: has five children from his marriages. His daughter is Lilly Collins.

James Cromwell: once married to Julie Cobb. 

Hume Cronyn: once married to actress Jessica Tandy.

Tom Cruise: previously married to actresses Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes.

Ted Danson: married to actress Mary Steenburgen.

Sammy Davis Jr.: married once to actress May Britt.

Brian De Palma: once married to actress Nancy Allen.

Bruce Dern: once married to actress Diane Ladd.

Shannen Doherty: once married to actor Ashley Hamilton.

Richard Dreyfuss: marries non-actresses.

Nora Ephron: was once married to writers Carl Bernstein and Nicholas Pileggi.

Leif Erickson: once married to Francis Farmer.

Douglas Fairbanks: once married to actress Mary Pickford.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.: once married to actress Joan Crawford.

Craig Ferguson: suffered from drug addiction through his first two marriages.

Mick Fleetwood: once married to Jenny Boyd (Pattie Boyd's sister).

Errol Flynn: married actresses Lili Damita and Patrice Wymore.

Jane Fonda: once married to producer Ted Turner.

Peter Fonda: his first wife was in "Easy Rider".

Harrison Ford: married to actress Calista Flockhart.

John Forsythe: his first wife was actress Parker McCormick.

Bob Fosse: first two wives died before 55.

Melissa Gilbert: once married to Bo Brinkman, Bruce Boxleitner, and Timothy Busfield. 

Jackie Gleason: died during his third marriage.

Whoopi Goldberg: once married to cinematographer David Claessen.

Andy Griffith: has two adopted children from his marriages. His son died in 1996.

Dorothy Hamill: once married to Dean Martin' son Dean Paul Martin.

Oliver Hardy: had no children from his marriages.

Jean Harlow: 3 husbands, second one committed suicide, she was dead by 26.  Life in the fast lane.

Steve Harvey: has seven children with his three wives.

John Heard: his first wife was actress Margot Kidder.  His last marriage lasted 6 months. 

Tippi Hedren: only daughter is Melanie Griffith from her first marriage.

Hugh Hefner: remarried his third wife at 86. Lucky Lady!

Hal Holbrook: was married to Dixie Carter

Anthony Hopkins: once married to actress Petronella Barker.

Olivia Hussey: once married to Dean Martin's son Dean Paul Martin.

Amy Irving: once married to director Steven Spielberg.

Billy Joel: was once married to model Christie Brinkley.

Quincy Jones: was married to actress Peggy Lipton.

Tommy Lee Jones: has two children from his marriages.

Milla Jovovich: married to director Paul W.S. Anderson.

Kim Kardashian: married to Kanye West.

Elia Kazan: once married to actresses Molly Day Thatcher and Barbara Loden. Both died during their marriages to him.

Gene Kelly: once married to actress Betsy Blair.

Sam Kinison: married to his third wife for five days before he was killed in a road accident.

Kris Kristofferson: has eight children from his marriages.

Stanley Kudrick: had his wives appear in all his films.

Burt Lancaster: five children from his marriages.

Anthony LaPaglia: once married to actress Gia Carides.

Kelly LeBrock: once married to actor Steven Seagal.

Annie Lennox: once married to producer Uri Fruchtmann.

Jennifer Lopez: once married to singer Marc Anthony.

Chuck Lorre: once married to Playmate Karen Witter 

Nelson Mandela: had six children from his marriages.

Jayne Mansfield: once married to actor Mickey Hargitay.

Dean Martin: had eight children from his marriages.

Groucho Marx: once married to actress Eden Hartford.

Mary Stuart Masterson: last husband is actor Jeremy Davidson.

Paul McCartney: married once to Linda McCartney.

Malcolm McDowell: once married to actress Mary Steenburgen.

Ed McMahon: had five children from his marriages.

Steve McQueen: once married to actress Ali McGraw.

Dina Merrill: was once married to actor Cliff Robertson.

Jason Miller: was married to Jackie Gleason's daughter Linda.

Marilyn Monroe: was married to baseball player Joe DiMaggio and writer Arthur Miller.

Mary Tyler Moore: once married to producer Grant Tinker.

Anthony Newley: once married to Joan Collins.

Ric Ocasek: once married to model Paulina Porizkova.

Laurence Olivier: once married to actress Vivien Leigh.

Marie Osmond: her first husband is also her third.

Bettie Page: had no children from her marriages.

Sean Penn: once married to Madonna and Robin Wright.

Mary Pickford: once married to Douglas Fairbanks.

Christopher Plummer: married once to actress Tammy Grimes.

Vincent Price: married once to actress Edith Barrett.

Anthony Quinn: has 10 children from his marriages.

John Ratzenberger: his first marriage lasted a year. 

Donna Reed: died during her third marriage at the young age of 64.

Debbie Reynolds: once married to actor Eddie Fisher.

Dennis Rodman: once married to model Carmen Electra.

Roy Rogers: once married to actress Dale Evans.

Bob Ross: he died while married to his third wife. 

Chris Sarandon: once married to Susan Sarandon.  Currently married to Joanna Gleason. 

Telly Savalas: had five children from his marriages.

Tony Scott: married to his third wife when he committed suicide.

Charlie Sheen: once married to actress Denise Richards.

Blake Shelton: once married to Miranda Lambert.  Currently married to Gwen Stefani. 

Paul Simon: once married to actress Carrie Fisher.

Sylvester Stallone: once married to actress Brigitte Nielson.

John Steinbeck: his son Thomas from his second marriage is also an author.

Patrick Stewart: once married to producer Wendy Neuss.

Rod Stewart: once married to model Rachel Hunter.

Donald Sutherland: once married to actress Shirley Douglas.

James Taylor: his first wife was singer Carly Simon.

Rip Torn: His three wives were actresses Ann Wedgeworth, Geraldine Page and Amy Wright

Donald Trump: once married to actress Marla Maples. 

Mike Tyson: once married to actress Robin Givens.

Robert Wagner: once married to Natalie Wood. Married actress Jill St. John.

John Wayne: had seven children throughout his marriages.

Andrew Lloyd Webber: once married to singer Sarah Brightman.

Orson Welles: once married to actress Rita Hayworth.

Betty White: once married to gameshow host Allen Ludden.

Robin Williams: his second wife was also his assistant.

Vanessa Williams: once married to Rick Fox. 

Kate Winslet: once married to director Sam Mendes.

Robin Wright: once married to Sean Penn.

FOUR TIMES:

Buzz Aldrin: married for a fourth time in 2023 at age 93. 

Muhammad Ali: has seven children from his marriages.

Marc Anthony: once married to Jennifer Lopez 

Louis Armstrong: was only 16 when he got married the first time.

Tom Arnold: his first wife was actress Roseanne Barr.

Rosanna Arquette: was married to actor John Newton Howard.

Mary Astor: was married to director Kenneth Hawks.

Russell Banks: fourth wife was poet Chase Twichell 

Brigitte Bardot: was married to French director Roger Vadim.

John Barry: once married to actress Jane Birkin. 

Meredith Baxter: once married to David Birney and Michael Blodgett.  Her fourth marriage was to a woman after she announced she was gay. 

Ned Beatty: has eight children from three of his marriages.

Ralph Bellamy: once married to singer Ethel Smith

Milton Berle: he remarried his first wife twice.

Karen Black: her last husband was editor Stephen Eckelberry

Amanda Blake: she contracted the AIDS virus from her last husband.  Both died quickly from the disease.

Humphrey Bogart: was married to actresses Mayo Methot and Lauren Bacall.

Sonny Bono: one of his wives was singer Cher.

Terry Bradshaw: once married to Olympian figure skater JoJo Starbuck

Christie Brinkley: one of her husbands was musician Billy Joel.

James Brown: lost his third wife to a heart attack while she was getting plastic surgery.

Yul Brynner: once married to actress Virginia Gilmore.

James Caan: has five children throughout his marriages.

Glenn Campbell: had eight children throughout his marriages.

John Carradine: once married to actress Sonia Sorel.

Diahann Carroll: once married to producer Monte Kay and singer Vic Damone. 

Johnny Carson: his second wife was also his third.

Jack Carson: was once married to actresses Kay St. Germain Wells and Lola Albright.

Carol Channing: she has outlived her last two husbands.

Stockard Channing: no children from her marriages

Charlie Chaplin: married to actresses Mildred Harris and Paulette Goodard.  His last wife was Oona O'Neil who was Eugene O'Neil's daughter.  She was 18 when she married Chaplin who was 54. They had eight children together.

John Cleese: was once married to Fawlty Towers co-star Connie Booth.

Jackie Coogan: once married to Betty Grable

Joan Crawford: was once married to Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Bette Davis: was once married to actor Gary Merrill.

Geena Davis: once was married to actor Jeff Goldblum.

Doris Day: was married to producer Martin Melcher.

Bob Denver: was married to Dreama Perry

John Derek: once married to actresses Bo Derek, Ursula Andress and Linda Evans

Janice Dickinson: was married to producer Simon Fields.

Joanne Dru: once married to actors Dick Haymes and John Ireland

Patty Duke: once married to actor John Astin.

Robert Duvall: was married to actress Gail Youngs.

Jose Ferrer: once married to actress Rosemary Clooney.

Joan Fontaine: was once married to actor Brian Aherne.

Redd Foxx: had no children from his multiple marriages.

Gladys George: once married to Leonard Penn and Ben Erway. 

Paulette Goddard: was married to actors Charlie Chaplin and Burgess Meredith and writer Erich Maria Remarque.

Michael Gough: once married to British actress Anneke Wills 

Gloria Grahame: married to director Nicholas Ray.  Her fourth husband was her ex-step-son Anthony Ray, to much controversy.

Kelsey Grammer: was married to reality star Camille Grammar.

Melanie Griffith: married to actors Don Johnson (twice), Steven Bauer, and Antonio Banderas.

Rebekah Harkness: once married to the heir to Standard Oil, William Hale Harkness. 

George Huntington Hardford II: once married to actress Marjorie Steele. 

Isaac Hayes: had fourteen children from his marriages and mistresses. His last child was born two years before he died.

Ernest Hemingway: was married to journalist Martha Gellhorn.  Each one of his major novels is dedicated to a different wife. 

Ian Holm: was married to actress Penelope Wilton.

Max Hoffman Jr.: once married to actresses Luana Walters, Helen Kane, Thelma White and Norma Terris 

Miriam Hopkins: was married to director Anatole Litvak.

"Curly" Howard: first marriage lasted five months.

John Hurt: once married to British actress Annette Robertson.

Peter Jennings: once married to foreign actress Kati Marton.

Al Jolson: was married to actress Ruby Keeler.

Carolyn Jones: once married to Aaron Spelling

Erica Jong: was married four times.  Her last name came her second husband, Allan Jong.

Stacy Keach: did not have children until his fourth wife.

George Kennedy: his second wife was also his third.

Evelyn Keyes: married to composer Artie Shaw and director John Huston.

Carole King: her longest marriage was 10 years. 

Ben Kingsley: married to actress Daniela Lavender.

Christopher Knight: once married to model Adrienne Curry.

Veronica Lake: once married to director Andre De Toth.

Fernando Lamas: once married to actresses Arlene Dahl and Esther Williams.

Peter Lawford: his first wife was JFK's sister.

Peggy Lee: was married to actors Brad Dexter and Dewey Martin.

Janet Leigh: one of her husbands was actor Tony Curtis.

Viveca Lindfors: husbands included Harry Hasso, Don Siegel and George Tabori 

Myrna Loy: husbands included Arthur Hornblow Jr., Gene Markey and Howland Sargeant. 

Sidney Lumet: once married to Gloria Vanderbilt.

David Lynch: marries woman from his movie sets.

Lee Majors: once married to Farrah Fawcett.

William Marshall: once married to Ginger Rogers, Micheline Presie and Michele Morgan 

Hattie McDaniel: had no children from her marriages. Her first two husbands left her a widow.

Burgess Meredith: once married to actress Paulette Goddard.

Ethel Merman: was once married to Ernest Borgnine.

Liza Minnelli: at her last wedding Elizabeth Taylor was her maid of honor and Michael Jackson the best man.

Elizabeth Montgomery: was married to actors Gig Young, William Asher, and Robert Foxworth.

Dudley Moore: once married to actress Tuesday Weld.

Roger Moore: once married to foreign actress Luisa Mattioli.

Richard Mulligan: once married to actress Joan Hackett.

Willie Nelson: had seven children from his marriages.

Mike Nichols: fourth wife was Diane Sawyer.

Leslie Nielsen: died while married to his fourth wife.

Nick Nolte: his heavy drinking caused many problems in his marriages.

Warren Oates: once married to actress Vickery Turner. 

Merle Oberon: once married to producer Alexander Korda and actor Robert Wolders 

Yoko Ono: one of her husbands was musician John Lennon.  Her 2nd husband was also her 3rd. 

Eleanor Parker: once married to producer Bert Friedlob 

Donald Pleasence: was married to actress Miriam Raymond.

Lisa Marie Presley: was married to actor Nicholas Cage and singer Michael Jackson.

Dennis Quaid: once married to actresses P. J. Soles and Meg Ryan.

Richard Quine: once married to actresses Fran Jeffries and Susan Peters.

Nicholas Ray: was married to actress Gloria Grahame.

Jason Robards: one of his wives was actress Lauren Bacall.

Pernell Roberts: married to actress Judith Roberts.

Salman Rushdie: once married to writer Marianne Wiggins and actress Padma Lakshmi

Ken Russell: married once to costume designer Shirley Ann Russell.

Jill St. John: once married to a Woolworth heir. Married to Robert Wagner.

George Sanders: once married to both Zsa Zsa Gabor and Magda Gabor.

Steven Seagal: once married to actress Kelly LeBrock

Peter Sellers: was married to actress Britt Ekland.

Jane Seymour: was married to actor James Keach

William Shatner: his third wife Nerine was drunk and accidentally drowned.

Frank Sintra: some of his wives included actresses Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow.

Kim Stanley: once married to actors Curt Conway and Alfred Ryder. 

Margaret Sullavan: once married to Henry Fonda, William Wyler and Leland Hayward.

Lou Tellegen: once married to actresses Geraldine Farrar and Nina Romano

Franchot Tone: was married four times to actress Joan Crawford, Jean Wallace, Barbara Payton and Dolores Dorn.

Mel Torme: once married to Janette Scott. 

Les Tremayne: once married to actress Alice Reinheart 

Vivian Vance: once married to actor Philip Ober.

Charles Vidor: once married to actresses Karen Morley and Evelyn Keyes.

Lindsay Wagner: once married to actor Michael Brandon.

Robert Wagner: married twice to actress Natalie Wood.

Dee Wallace: once married to actor Christopher Stone.

Mike Wallace: four times a charm!

Raquel Welch: once married to cinematographer Andre Weinfeld.

James Whitmore: married once to actress Audra Lindley.

Gene Wilder: one of his wives was actress Gilda Radner.

Michael Wilding: married once to actresses Elizabeth Taylor and Margaret Leighton.

Esther Williams: was married to actor Fernando Lamas.

Mare Winningham: once married to actor A. Martinez and artist Jason Trucco.  Currently married to Anthony Edwards.  

Shelley Winters: married her last husband hours before she died

Grant Withers: once married to Loretta Young and Estelita Rodriguez

FIVE TIMES:

Tod Andrews: shortest marriage was three years 

Hal Ashby: once married to actress Joan Marshall

Sylvia Ashley: once married to actors Clark Gable and Douglas Fairbanks

Lex Barker: once married to actresses Lana Turner and Arlene Dahl

Saul Bellow: once married to Mathematician Alexandra Tulcea 

Constance Bennett: once married to Henri de la Falaise and Gilbert Roland 

Tom Berenger: has six children from three children. 

Ingmar Bergman: has eight children from five wives.

Ernest Borgnine: was married to actresses Ethel Merman and Katy Jurado.

Clarence Brown: was married to actresses Mona Maris and Alice Joyce

Richard Burton: one of his wives was actress Elizabeth Taylor whom her married twice.

Nicholas Cage: he was married to actresses Patricia Arquette and Lisa Maria Presley.

James Cameron: once married to actress Linda Hamilton and director Kathryn Bigelow.  Currently married to actress Suzy Amis. 

David Carradine: was once married to actress Marina Anderson.

Joan Collins: was married to actor Anthony Newley.

Michael Crichton: once married to actress Anne-Marie Martin. Married twice on New Year

Vic Damone: once married to actresses Pier Angeli, Judith Rawkins, and Diahann Carroll. 

Philip K. Dick: 5 times a charm!!

Stanley Donen: once married to actresses Jeanne Coyne, Marion Marshall, and Yvette Mimieux.

Paul Douglas: was married once to actresses Virginia Field and Jan Sterling.

Mel Ferrer: married once to Audrey Hepburn.

Voice actor Paul Frees: his first wife passed away.

Eddie Fisher: some of his wives included actresses Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor (left Reynolds for her).

Larry Flynt: what a catch!

Henry Fonda: his first wife was actress Margaret Sullavan.

George Foreman: has ten children through his marriages.  All the sons are named George?!?

David Foster: wives included Yolanda Hadid and Katharine McPhee.

Paul Frees: once married to actress Joyce Terry. 

Clark Gable: was married to actress Carole Lombard when she died in a plane crash.

Judy Garland: one of her husbands was director Vincente Minnelli.

Eva Gabor: well, it's four less than her older sister Zsa Zsa.

J. Paul Getty was married five times. He died in 1976 at age 83.  His last wife died in 2017 at 103.

Cary Grant: was once married to actress Dyan Cannon. His only child was with her.

Nat Goodwin: once married to actresses Maxine Elliott and Edna Goodrich. 

Leland Haywood: once married to Margaret Sullavan, Slim Keith, and married his 1st wife twice.

Rita Hayworth: one of her husbands was actor Orson Welles.

Celeste Holm: was once married to actor Wesley Addy and director Ralph Nelson.

Dennis Hooper: one of his wives was actress Michelle Phillips

John Huston: was married to actress Evelyn Keyes.

Lorenzo Lamas: once married to actress Shawna Craig and Kathleen Kinmont.

Carole Landis: her fifth marriage was failing and she was having an affair with multi-married Rex Harrison.  She committed suicide when he wouldn't marry her.

Lola Lane: once married to actors Lew Ayres and Roland West.

Stan Laurel: remarried his second wife. 

Larry Linville: once marred to Kate Geer.

Christopher Lloyd: fifth wife was his real-estate agent. 

Bela Lugosi: his son Bela Lugosi Jr. was born to his fourth wife, Lillian.

Sidney Luft: once married to actresses Judy Garland, Lynn Bari, and Camille Keaton.

Herbert Marshall: once married to actresses Edna Best and Boots Mallory

Joan Marshall: once married to Hal Ashby 

David Merrick: once married to dancer Karen Prunczik.

Henry Miller: among countless woman he also had an affair with novelist Anais Nin. 

Brigitte Nielson: once married to actor Sylvester Stallone.

Gary Oldman: once married to actress Uma Thurman.

Michael Parks: his second wife Jan Moriarty committed suicide.

George Peppard: once married to actress Elizabeth Ashley

Businessman Ron Perelman: had five wives.  One being actress Ellen Barkin

Jon Peters: married to actress Lesley Ann Warren and Pamela Anderson

Geraldo Rivera: was once married to Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s daughter Edie. His 5th wife is 30 years younger than him. Yikes!

Ginger Rogers: married to actors Lew Ayres and Jacques Bergerac.

Kenny Rogers: one of his wives was actress Marianne Gordon.

Elliott Roosevelt: once married to actress Faye Emerson.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. : once married to heiress Ethel du Pont.

Billy Rose: once married to Fanny Brice and Eleanor Holm.  He remarried his third wife. 

Katharine Ross: married to actor Sam Elliott.

Porfirio Rubirosa: once married to Doris Duke, Danielle Darrieux, Barbara Hutton and Odile Rodin. 

Singer Andy Russell: only one marriage produced a child.

Martin Scorsese: one of his wives was actress Isabella Rossellini.

George C. Scott: was married to actresses Colleen Dewhurst and Trish Van Devere.

Neil Simon: was married to actress Marsha Mason.

Danielle Steel: was married to businessman Thomas Perkins.

Rod Steiger: once married to actresses Sally Gracie and Claire Bloom.

Victor Sutherland: once married to actress Pearl White

William J. Tuttle: once married to Donna Reed.

French director Roger Vadim: was married to actresses Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda.

Jean-Claude Van Damme: his current wife was also his third wife.

Mamie Van Doren: once married to musician Ray Anthony.

Jacki Weaver: married twice to the same man. 

Johnny Weissmuller: once married to Lupe Velez. 

William Windom: once married to actress Barbara Joyce. 

Jane Wyman: was married to then actor Ronald Reagan, who became America's 40th President.

Tammy Wynette: was married to musician George Jones.

SIX TIMES: 

Pamela Anderson: some of her husbands include Kid Rock, Tommy Lee and Jon Peters.

Choreographer Busby Berkeley: once married to Esther Muir, Merna Kennedy, and Claire James.

George Brent: was married to actresses Ann Sheridan, Ruth Chatterton, and Constance Worth.

Duane "Dog" Chapman: has 13 children in total!
 

Tony Curtis: his first wife was actress Janet Leigh.

Arlene Dahl: was married to actors Fernando Lamas and Lex Barker.

Rhonda Fleming: once married to actor Lang Jeffries and director Hall Bartlett.

Georgia Frontiere: once married to Carroll Rosenbloom and Dominic Frontiere.

Magda Gabor: once married to George Sanders who also wed her sister Zsa Zsa.

Director Alfred J. Goulding: married to Diana Seaby

Rex Harrison: one of his wives was actress Lilli Palmer.

Dick Haymes: once married to Rita Hayworth, Joanne Dru, Nora Eddington and Fran Jerffries

DeWolf Hopper: once married to gossip columnist Hedda Hopper.

Actress Peggy Hopkins Joyce: all of her marriages lasted less than 10 years.

Murray the "K": his first wife died during child birth. 

Boris Karloff: once married to actress Evelyn Hope. 

Hedy Lamarr: was married to actor John Loder.

Director David Lean: once married to actresses Kay Walsh and Ann Todd.

Norman Mailer: stabbed his second wife Adele Morales.  She didn't press charges but did file for divorce. Four more lucky ladies would marry him.

Rue McClanahan: wrote a book called "My First Five Husbands".  I met her sixth husband in a bar in NYC. Said she was a "difficult" person.

Guy McElwaine: once married to actresses Pamela Austin and Leigh Taylor-Young.

Terry Moore: claims that her first husband was Howard Hughes, despite disputes.

Claude Rains: divorced his second wife shortly after marring her because he didn't know she was an alcoholic. Once married to actress Isabel James. 

Actress Lillian Roth: met her sixth husband at an AA meeting.

Lionel Stander: his marriages produced six children.

Gloria Swanson: once married to actor Wallace Beery.

Billy Bob Thornton: one of his wives was actress Angelina Jolie.

Ruth Warrick: was once married to actors Erik Rolf, Carl Neubert, and Frank Freda. She married Neubert twice.

Hollywood Reporter founder William R. Wilkerson: his first wife died in the 1918 Influenza epidemic. Once married to actress Billie Seward. 

Lana Wood: Five of her marriages lasted less than a year??!?!? 

Actor Howard Wright: buried two wives 

Gig Young: once married to actress Elizabeth Montgomery.  He killed his fifth wife and then himself.

SEVEN TIMES:

Gregg Allman: once married to Cher

Cinematographer George Barnes: once married to actresses Joan Blondell and Melba Marshall

Steve Earle: married his fourth wife twice. His shortest marriage was less than a year.

Film Producer Robert Evans: once married to actress Ali McGraw.  His shortest marriage was 10 days.  His longest was 4 years. 

Barbara Woolworth Hutton: once married to Carey Grant.

Screenwriter Monica Johnson: married seven times.  Her last husband was Charles Lohr.

Jerry Lee Lewis: his third wife was his first cousin once removed Myra Lewis. She was 13 when they married.  He buried two of his wives.

Joyce Mathews: married Milton Berle twice.  Married Billy Rose twice.

Marie McDonald: married Harry Karl twice.  He would go on to marry actress Debbie Reynolds.

Writer Robert Nathan: his 7th wife was actress Anna Lee.  He had no children.

Richard Pryor: married two of his wives Jennifer Lee and Flynn Belaine twice.

Actress Martha Raye: once married to Bud Westmore and David Rose.

Liz Renay: once married to actor Read Morgan.

Cornelius Vanderbilt IV: his longest marriage lasts seven years. 

Dinah Washington: once married to Rafael Campos and Richard Lane.

EIGHT TIMES:

Actress Lina Basquette: once married to producer Sam Warner, cinematographer Peverell Marley, and  actor Henry Mollison.

Actor Douglas Fowley: once married to actress Shelby Payne and Judy Walsh

Ty Hardin: once married to actress Andra Martin and German actress Marlene Schmidt

Larry King: he married his wife Alene Akins twice.

Mickey Rooney: some of his wives included actress Ava Gardner (I Know!) and Carolyn Mitchell (was murdered during their marriage).

Artie Shaw: some of his wives were actresses Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Doris Dowling, and Evelyn Keyes.

Elizabeth Taylor: some of her husbands included hotel heir Conrad Hilton Jr., actor Eddie Fisher, and Richard Burton (twice, actor) 

Lana Turner: one of her husbands was composer Artie Shaw. 

NINE TIMES:

Zsa Zsa Gabor: some of her husbands included hotel heir Conrad Hilton and actor George Sanders.

Kenneth Harlan: once married to actress Marie Prevost. His longest marriage lasted 12 years.

Jennifer O'Neill: at age 44 she beat out Zsa Zsa for having the most marriages failed.

TEN TIMES:

Charles "Kid" McCoy: Married the same woman three times. Once married to actress Dagmar Dahlgren. 

Bad Books by Good Authors

Unfortunately, they can't all be Winners.

Authors:

Mitch Albom

As someone who had a family member who suffered from A.L.S. Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie has a soft spot in my heart.  However, The Five People You Meet in Heaven was just non-sense.

Isabel Allende

Loved Daughter of Fortune.  Skip The Japanese Lover.  Boring 

Fredrik Backman

I adored "A Man Named Ove" but it seems to be a one hit wonder for him.  "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry" was absolute rubbish. "Britt-Marie was Here" wasn't too swell either.  "Anxious People" was another terrible story.  I'm done with him. 

Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games was a pretty decent book and a better movie, but I definitely think she had pressure to write the sequel Catching Fire because it was dreadful.  Stopped there. 

Roddy Doyle

I love most books he wrote.  However, here are some to skip.  His book of short stories The Deportees was brutal to read.  snooze fest.  Also, his sequel to "A Star Called Henry" titled "Oh, Play That Thing" was written in such a different style it was too distracting to even comprehend.  It was like a different man wrote it all together.  Read his book Love, nothing to love there.  The meaningless conversation drags from pub to pub.  Only when they shut up and go to visit his dying father does the book have purpose but 5 pages of that didn't make it worth reading.  Sorry, Laddie. 

Janet Finch

White Oleander was a very memorable book but I couldn't get through a chapter of her second novel Paint it Black.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby is a fabulous classic, but This Side of Paradise was dreadful, pretentious rubbish. 

Kaye Gibbons

Oh my, one of my most favorite writers.  I adored Ellen Foster .  Charms For the Easy Life is one of my favorite books ever.  However, The Life All Around Me which was supposed to be a sequel to Ellen Foster and was written many years later, in 2005, was just horrid.  It also is her last book ever written. Shame.  A VirtuousWoman and Diving Women were both pointless and boring. 

Ethan Hawke

I loved his first book The Hottest State and waited in anticipation for his second book. However, Ash Wednesday was a huge disappointment. Pass.

Ernest Hemingway

I enjoyed Farewell to Arms, A Moveable Feast, and Old Man and the Sea but For Whom the Bell Tolls was painfully slow. Skip it.  Didn't love the short story collection In Our Time. 

Ha Jin

His book Waiting was not a page turner but I gave him a second chance with reading War Trash and was utterly flawed.  That book taught me so much about the Second Sino-Japenese War that I never knew about. The Crazed was horrible 

Mindy Kaling

Her first book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? was funny and charming but a few years in the limelight did not do her well.  She has completely loss touch with reality in her second book Why Not Me? She suggests really expensive spa treatments, plastic surgery and getting a personal tailor.  Those ideas are not going to touch base with her fanbase. 

Barbara Kingsolver

"The Poisonwood Bible" was a masterpiece.  Skip "The Bean Trees". 

Jhumpa Lahiri

Her first book of short stories Interrupter of Maladies was amazing.  However, her second short stories book Unaccustomed Earth was not on the same level.

Wally Lamb

I enjoyed every book by him except The Hour I First Believed.  The main female character was intolerable. I'll Take You There was not so good either.

Ron McLarty

I loved The Memory of Running.  Traveler was really quite bad. Slow.

Tim O'Brien

His book The Things They Carried was one of the best books I ever read but every other book I have read by him has been a let down.  Pass on In the Lake of the Woods, Tomcat in Love, and July, July.

Stewart O'Nan

Loved Snow Angels and Last Night at the Lobster . Skip The Good Wife and especially Songs For the Missing, The Odds.  West of Sunset was so horribly boring.  And it was about F. Scoot Fitzgerald to Zelda, what could possibly be more dramatic than that topic and he made it boring?? epic fail. 

Ann Patchett

Her memoir Truth and Beauty on her friendship with fellow author Lucy Grealy was very deep.  However, Bel Canto and Run could not keep my attention.

J.K. Rowling

The first three books in the Harry Potter series were my favorite then I felt the books got repetitive.  However, her adult book The Casual Vacancy was dreadful and her other books under Pen Name Robert Galbraith are horrible.

J.D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye is worth all the fanfare but that about does it for Salinger, avoid Nine Stories.

Diane Setterfield

Absolutely loved "The Thirteenth Tale".  just fabulous. Skip "Once Upon a River" very loose storyline that goes no where.  Not even down river.

John Steinbeck

Some of my absolute favorite books are East of Eden, The Pearl, and Of Mice and Men.  His stories can be spectacular but some of Steinbeck's books have left me feeling discouraged.  Pass on The Moon is Down, The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row and The Winter of Our Discontent.  Very boring. 

Amy Tan

I highly recommend The Kitchen God's Wife but pass on her One Hundred Secret Senses.


updated 11/2023

Books by Catergory

I list some of the books I've read in simple subjects depending on what you're in the mood to read.  Biographies on different blog. 
(YA) = Young Adult

Animal Stories

Where the Red Fern Grows by Jon Rawls (YA)
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (YA)
Sounder by William H. Armstrong (YA)
Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
Marley and Me by John Grogan
All My Patients are Under the Bed by Dr. Louis J. Camuti
Boris by Cynthia Rylant (YA)
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Dewey by Vicki Myron

A Touch of Magic/Fantasy

The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain (YA)
Ice Magic by Matt Christopher (YA)
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (YA)
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield

The Terror by Dan Simmons 

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 

Holocaust Books

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry  (YA)
The Man on the Other Side by Uri Orlev (YA)
The Big Lie by Isabella Leither (YA)
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (YA)
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr (YA)
Gentlehands by M.E. Kerr (YA)
Night by Elie Wiesel

The Reader by Bernard Schlinkg
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Memory by Philippe Gimbert
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas by John Boyne (YA)
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Not Me by Michael Levine
Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
Maus I and II: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
All the Light We Can Not See by Anthony Doerr
Echoes by Danielle Steel
The Mascot by Mark Kurzem

The True Story of Hansel and Gretal by Louise Murphy 

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris 

Jewish Books (non-holocaust)

In the Beginning by Chaim Potok 

Snow in August by Pete Hamill

The Chosen by Chaim Potok 

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok 

Sweet and Low by Rich Cohen 

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon 

Last Girl Before Freeway by Leslie Bennetts 

The Promise by Chaim Potok

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman 

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss 

The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

All About Me! by Mel Brooks 

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 

Southern Books

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Liar's Club by Mary Karr

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Black Like Me by James Holding Jr.
All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
The Hottest State by Ethan Hawke
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Growing Up by Russell Baker
Jim the Boy by Tony Earley
Paris Trout by Peter Dexter
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons
Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
The Undertaker's Daughter by Kate Mayfield
A Southern Family by Gail Godwin
Run With the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams
Ava's Man by Rick Bragg
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

My Extraordinary Ordinary Life by Sissy Spacek

Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera 

The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg 

The Tobacco Wives by Adele Meyers 

Westerns/Native American/Rural Climates

True Grit by Charles Portis
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 

Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Eventide by Kent Haruf
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
Montana, 1948 by Larry Watson
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
The Teacher's Funeral by Richard Peck (YA)
The Blizzard Year by Gretel Ehrlich
Baker Tower by Jennifer Haigh
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Charms For the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry

The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Dalva by Jim Harrison
Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf
The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton
Telegraph Days by Larry McMurtry
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance 

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich 

An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg 

Heart Earth by Ivan Doig 

The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute 

The Beginning of Sorrows by David Martin 

Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot 

Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish 

On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin 

California Books

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
The Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
McTeague by Frank Norris
Women by Charles Bukowski
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Factotum by Charles Bukowski
Ask the Dust by John Fante
Hollywood by Charles Bukowski
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Then Again by Diane Keaton
Watch Me by Anjelica Huston
Name Drop by Ross Mathews
You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again by Julia Phillips

My Extraordinary Ordinary Life by Sissy Spacek

A Hell of a Life by Maureen Stapleton

The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me by Lillian Gish

Sunshine and Shadow by Mary Pickford

In the Frame by Helen Mirren 

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 

The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West 

The Chinchilla Farm by Judith Freeman 

The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans 

Oscar Wars by Michael Schulman 

The Guncle by Steven Rowley 

New York Books

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Look Up for Yes by Julia Tavalaro
Requiem for a Dream by Herbert Selby Jr.
In the Beginning by Chaim Potok
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch
North River by Pete Hamill
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Miles From Nowhere by Nami Mun
The Five Towns by Leslie Tonner
Manhattan Country Doctor by Dr. Milton Jonathan Slocum
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
Sutton by J.R. Moehringer
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
Sweet and Low by Rich Cohen
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner
Just Kids by Patti Smith
The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Ellis Island by Fred Mustard Stewart 

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles by Dominick Dunne 
Capote's Women by Laurence Leamer 

Washington Square by Henry James 

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 

The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash 

Motherless Brookyn by Jonathan Lethem 

A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke 

The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley 

Books about Africa

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Journey to Jo'Burg by Beverly Naidoo (YA)
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Patton
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
When the Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
The No. 1 Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexander Fuller
Green City in the Sun by Barbara Wood

Irish Books

The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
Patty Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
The Van by Roddy Doyle
The Snapper by Roddy Doyle
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
'Tis by Frank McCourt
Elegy for Iris by John Bayley
The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
The Mammy by Brendan O'Carroll
The Chisellers by Brendan O'Carroll
The Granny by Brendan O'Carroll
The Young Wan by Brendan O'Carroll

The Scrapper by Brendan O'Carroll

Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen 
The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey 

Foster by Claire Keegan 

Spanish Books

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins 

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 

Asian Books

Eating Chinese Food Naked by Mei Ng

Sadako and the 1,000 Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr (YA)

The House of 60 Fathers by Meindert Dejong (YA)

Water Buffalo Days by Quang Nhuong Huynh (YA)

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
When the Emperor was Devine by Julia Otsuka
The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Falling Leaves by Yen Mah
War Trash by Ha Jin
The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell
Miles From Nowhere by Nami Mun
China Dog by Judy Fong Bates
A Cab Called Reliable by Patti Kim
Ties that Bind, Ties that Break by Lensey Namioka
Rickshaw Boy by Lao She
A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama
Midnight at the Dragon Cafe by Judy Fong Bates
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka 

A Pale View of Hill by Kazuo Ishiguro 

Russian Books

We the Living by Ayn Rand 

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander 

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 

Middle East/India Books

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
1,000 Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Seduction of Silence by Bem Le Hunte
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Sold by Patricia McCormick
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Persepolis 1 & 2 by Marjane Satrapi

Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer 

The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar 

Civil Rights Books/Racism

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Black Boy by Richard Wright
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Color of Water by James McBride
Black Like Me by James Holding Jr.
Paris Trout by Peter Dexter
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Undertaker's Daughter by Kate Mayfield

Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera 

Having Our Say The Delany Sisters 

Books Dealing with Greed

The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
If Tomorrow Comes by Sidney Sheldon
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Bottled Imp by R.L. Stevenson
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
As the Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer
Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
Sweet and Low by Rich Cohen
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Ellis Island by Fred Mustard Stewart 

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles by Dominick Dunne 

Washington Square by Henry James 

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 

Family Stories or Sagas

Cheaper by the Dozen By Fred Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
We are Water by Wally Lamb
Augusta, Gone by Martha Tod Dudman
The Color of Water by James McBride
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
Growing Up by Russell Baker
Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons
Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh
A Loss For Words by Lou Ann Walker
Snow Angels by Stewart O'Nan
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls
The Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne
The Silver Star by Jeanette Walls
Baker Tower by Jennifer Haigh
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
Midnight at the Dragon Cafe by Judy Fong Bates
Sweet and Low by Rich Cohen
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Dalva by Jim Harrison
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix
The Lemon Jelly Cake by Madeline Babcock Smith
The Undertaker's Daughter by Kate Mayfield
The Mammy by Brendan O'Carroll
The Chisellers by Brendan O'Carroll
The Granny by Brendan O'Carroll
The Young Wan by Brendan O'Carroll
Don't Sing at the Table by Adriana Trigiani
My American Unhappiness by Dean Bakopoulos
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac by Kris D'Agostino
A Southern Family by Gail Godwin
Run With the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams 

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 

An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg 

Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera 

Home is Burning by Dan Marshall 

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles by Dominick Dunne 

The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg 

The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute 

The Beginning of Sorrows by David Martin 

The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey 
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott 

The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash 

Having Our Say The Delany Sisters 

The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar 

The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson 

Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish 

On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin 

A Girl From Yamhill by Beverly Cleary 

Great Mysteries/Suspense

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon  
If Tomorrow Comes by Sidney Sheldon 
Remember Me by Mary Higgens Clark

Native Son by Richard Wright

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
11/22/63 by Stephen King

The Terror by Dan Simmons 

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 

The Shining by Stephen King 

Needful Things by Stephen King 

Verity by Colleen Hoover 

The 39 Steps by John Buchan 

Motherless Brookyn by Jonathan Lethem 

A Bullet For Cinderella by Jame D. MacDonald 

The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley 

Books Dealing with Death

Mick Hart was Here by Barbara Park (YA)
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Sadako and the 1,000 Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr (YA)
Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
Final Drafts by Mark Seinfelt
Famous Last Words compiled by Ray Robinson
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Sleep Towards Heaven by Amanda Eyre Ward
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
A Necessary End by Nick Taylor
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
Mom's Cancer by Brain Fries
The Undertaker's Daughter by Kate Mayfield
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie

An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg 

Home is Burning by Dan Marshall 

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles by Dominick Dunne 

The Beginning of Sorrows by David Martin 

The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey 

On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin 

The Guncle by Steven Rowley 

They Went That-A-Way by Malcolm Forbes 

The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin 

Books Dealing with Depression

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons
Looking for Alaska by John Green
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Down Came the Rain by Brooke Shields
The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac by Kris D'Agostino

The Hilarious World of Depression by John Moe 

The Beginning of Sorrows by David Martin 

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 

Books Involving a Trial

To Kill a Mocking bird by Harper Lee
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by by John Berendt
Native Son by Richard Wright
Paris Trout by Peter Dexter
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Gutherson
Sweet and Low by Rich Cohen
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles by Dominick Dunne 

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 

Books on Woman Issues 

The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
Beauty Fades, Dumb is Forever by Judge Judith Sheindlin
We Are Water by Wally Lamb
White Oleander by Janet Finch
The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Couldn't Keep it to Myself by Wally Lamb
I'll Fly Away by Wally Lamb
Midwives by Chris Bojalian
Margaret Sanger by Elyse Topalian
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
1,000 Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
Sleep Towards Heaven by Amanda Eyre Ward
Then Again by Diane Keaton
Watch Me by Angelica Huston
This 'N That by Bette Davis
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
Down Came the Rain by Brooke Shields
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
It's my F_ _ _ _ing Birthday by Merrill Markoe
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress by Susan Jane Gilman

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner 

This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay 

The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute 

The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey 

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 

Having Our Say The Delany Sisters 

The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar 

The Chinchilla Farm by Judith Freeman 

The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin 

A Girl From Yamhill by Beverly Cleary 

Books With A Female Lead Character

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg
Look Up For Yes by Julia Tavalaro
The Body Spoken by Janice Deaner
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
Eating Chinese Food Naked by Mei Ng
If Tomorrow Comes by Sidney Sheldon
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
Augusta, Gone by Martha Tod Dudman
White Oleander by Janet Finch
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
We the Living by Ayn Rand
The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Girls' Guide to Fishing and Hunting by Melissa Bank
One Child by Torey Hayden
Limbo by A. Manette Ansay
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
Falling Leaves by Yen Mah
Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
1,000 Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Looking for Alaska by John Green
A Loss For Words by Lou Ann Walker
Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls
She Always Knew How: Mae West by Charlotte Chandler
Sleep Towards Heaven by Amanda Eyre Ward
Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner
Dalva by Jim Harrison
The Undertaker's Daughter by Kate Mayfield
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
The Mammy by Brendan O'Carroll
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera 

The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute 

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins 

Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler 

Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh 

The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey 

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 

Writers and Lovers by Lilly King 

Foster by Claire Keegan

Having Our Say The Delany Sisters 

The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar 

The Chinchilla Farm by Judith Freeman 

Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish 

The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin 

A Girl From Yamhill by Beverly Cleary 

Books Starring Outcasts

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides
Augusta, Gone by Martha Tod Dudman
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
White Oleander by Janet Finch
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
One Child by Torey Hayden
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Falling Leaves by Yen Mah
Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck
Molokai by Alan Brennert
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
1,000 Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
Snow Angels by Stewart O'Nan
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Wonder When You'll Miss Me by Amanda Davis
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Sleep Towards Heaven by Amanda Eyre Ward

The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts
Then Again by Diane Keaton
Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Bachman 

The Undertaker's Daughter by Kate Mayfield
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac by Kris D'Agostino
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

The Trouble With Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon 

The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen by himself 

2 a.m. at the Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino 

The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg 

The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute 

The Beginning of Sorrows by David Martin 
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 

Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh 

The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley 

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 

Writers and Lovers by Lilly King

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton 

The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash 

The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken 

The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar 

The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson 

Motherless Brookyn by Jonathan Lethem 

The Chinchilla Farm by Judith Freeman 

On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin 

The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin 

Post-Apocalyptic Books

The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson (YA)
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

WWI Books

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

WWII Books 

Sadako and the 1,000 Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr (YA)
The House of 60 Fathers by Meindert Dejong (YA)
Hiroshima by John Hersey
When the Emperor was Devine by Julia Otsuka
War Trash by Ha Jin
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Gutherson
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer 

Vietnam War Books

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers 

First/Forbidden Love Books

The Hottest State by Ethan Hawke
Amazing Gracie by A.E. Cannon (YA)
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Reader by Bernard Schlink
Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez

 The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer 

The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin 

Books Involving Suicide

Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
Snow Angels by Stewart O'Nan
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Drug Laced Books

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous (YA)
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
Augusta, Gone by Martha Tod Dudman
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Requiem For a Dream by Herbert Selby Jr.
Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again by Julia Phillips

The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin 

Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chappman 

Friendship Books

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
Where the Red Fern Grows by Jon Rawls (YA)
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
1,000 Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett

The Trouble With Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon 

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 

The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley 

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton 

The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg 

The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash 
The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar 

The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson 

The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin 

Disaster/Tragedy Books

Burden of Desire by Robert MacNeil
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Molokai by Alan Brennert
Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch (YA)
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
A Father's Story by Lionel Dahmer
Against Her Will by Ronald J. Watkins
Lizzie Borden by Edward D. Radin
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian

The Terror by Dan Simmons 

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer 

Books About Disabilities or Diseases

Look Up for Yes by Julia Tavalaro
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Elegy for Iris by John Bayley
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
One Child by Torey Hayden
The Ha-Ha by Dave King
Limbo by A. Manette Ansay
Molokai by Alan Brennert
A Loss For Words by Lou Ann Walker
Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
My Lobotomy by Howard Dully
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Brushing Mom's Hair by Andrea Cheng
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
All the Light We Can Not See by Anthony Doerr
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
The Promise by Chaim Potok

Home is Burning by Dan Marshall 

The Hilarious World of Depression by John Moe 

Nemesis Philip Roth 

This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay 

Hands of My Father by Myron Uhlberg 

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart 

The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar 

The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin 

Books That Will Make You Laugh

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (YA)
Seinlanguage by Jerry Seinfeld
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg
Beauty Fades, Dumb is Forever by Judge Judith Scheindlin
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
Fired! by Annabelle Gurwitch
Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
The Shepherd, the Angel and Walter the Christmas Dog by Dave Barry
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
Different Dances by Shel Silverstein
Uncle Shelby's A B Z Book by Shel Silverstein
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Official Book Club Selection by Kathy Griffin
My Mother was Nuts by Penny Marshall
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman
It's my F_ _ _ _ing Birthday by Merrill Markoe
Spending the Holidays With People I Want to Punch in the Face by Jen Mann
Name Drop by Ross Mathews

The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen by himself 

Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson 

Such Good Company by Carol Burnett 

All About Me! by Mel Brooks 

This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay 

The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin 

A Girl From Yamhill by Beverly Cleary 

Christmas Books

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

Skipping Christmas by John Grisham 

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 

Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb 

Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan 

Christmas Train by David Baldacci 

The Shepard, the Angel and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog by Dave Barry

Seven Stories of Christmas Love by Leo Buscaglia 

The Christmas Jars by Jason F. Wright 

Spending the Holidays With People I Want to Punch in the Throat by Jen Mann

Christmas Gift by Ferrol Sams 

Dashing Through the Snow by Mary Higgins Clark 

All Through the Night by Mary Higgins Clark 

Silent Night by Mary Higgins Clark 

The Paper Bag Christmas by Kevin Alan Milne 

The Hired Man's Christmas by George Givens 

The Christmas Joy Ride by Melody Carlson 

2 a.m. at the Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino 

updated 11/2023