to read:

• are you there god its me margaret
• e.m. forster - howard's end, passage to india
• parade's end - ford madox ford
• philip roth
• alice walker - possessing the secret of joy
• bronte sisters - shirley, agnes grey, villette
• kiss of the spider woman, heartbreak tango - manuel puig
• milan kundera - ignorance, the joke, etc.
• evelyn waugh - decline & fall, others
• italo calvino - complete cosmicomics
• jane austen - mansfield park
• kurt vonnegut - while mortals sleep, a man without a country, bluebeard, look at the birdie
• labyrinths, ficciones - jorge luis borges
• roald dahl: the gremlins, the vicar of nibbleswicke
• rebecca - daphne du maurier
• cry, the beloved country - alan paton
• kokoro - natsume soseki
• the death and life of american cities - jane jacobs
• alias grace, the blind assassin - margaret atwood
• toni morrison - jazz
• uncle tom's cabin
• ada; speak, memory; invitation to a beheading - nabakov
• the heart laid bare
• alan hollinghurst - the swimming-pool library, the stranger's child, the folding star
• the beautiful room is empty, a boy's own story - edmund white
• the house of the spirits - isabel allende
• requiem for a dream
• play it as it lays, democracy - joan didion

Long Books:

• the luminaries - eleanor catton
• the golden notebook - doris lessing
• brothers karamazov - fyodor dostoyevsky
• the savage detectives, 2666 - roberto bolano
• black lamb & gray falcon - rebecca west
• shantaram
• testament of youth - vera brittain
• a peoples history of the united states
• buddenbrooks - thomas mann
• vanity fair - william makepeace thackeray
• don quixote
• the woman in white, the moonstone - wilkie collins
• salman rushdie - the satanic verses, midnight's children
• charles dickens - little dorrit, our mutual friend, the pickwick papers, nicholas nickleby, martin chuzzlewit
• gone with the wind
• the children's book - a.s. byatt
• a suitable boy - vikram seth
• U.S.A. trilogy - john dos passos
• lord of the rings
• a dance to the music of time
• the tale of genji
• a thousand and one nights

that i own:

• les miserables
• a tree grows in brooklyn (re-read)
• unaccustomed earth / interpreter of maladies (re-read)
• a thousand splendid suns (re-read)
• mysteries of pittsburgh
• rich man poor man, beggar man thief Irwin shaw
• a prayer for owen meany
• The warmth of other suns
• The overstory
• lonesome dove