• Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Ciao, America! by Beppe Severgnini
• Crush by Richard Siken
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Factotum by Charles Bukowski
• Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared David
• Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
• Hollywood by Charles Bukowski
• ✔ Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• La Nausee/Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• ✔ Looking for Alaska by John Green
• ✔ Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
• Odd Thomas by Dean Kootz
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Post Office by Charles Bukowski
• Pulp by Charles Bukowski
• Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost
• The Age of Anxiety by W.H. Auden
• The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
• The Collected Stories of Grace Paley
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• The Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold*
• ✔ The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Windup Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami
• Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann ♠
• Women by Charles Bukowski
• The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Waves by Virginia Woolf
• The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
• A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (re-read)
  • The Austere Academy
  • The Bad Beginning
  • The Carnivorous Carnival
  • The End
  • The Ersatz Elevator
  • The Grim Grotto
  • The Hostile Hospital
  • The Miserable Mill
  • The Penultimate Peril
  • The Reptile Room
  • The Slippery Slope
  • The Vile Village
  • The Wide Window

♠ = abandoned