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I don't think I'll ever complete this list. COB = currently on bookshelf.

Good authors/poets in general:

  • TS Eliot
  • Haruki Murakami
  • W.H. Auden
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Augusten Burroughs

Comics/Graphic Novels/Manga

  • InuYasha
  • Vassalord
  • The Umbrella Academy - Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá
  • Scott Pilgrim - Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • Sandman - Neil Gaiman
  • Full Metal Alchemist
  • Uta no Prince-sama
  • S.L.H. (Stray Love Hearts)
  • Pandora Hearts
  • Hellsing
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • The Wizard of Oz - Marvel
  • Psychiatric Tales - David Cunningham

Series:

  • Vampire Diaries: LJ Smith
  • Emily Novels: L.M. Montgomery
  • Phineas Poe Trilogy - Will Christopher's Baer
  • The Sword of Truth Series - Terry Goodkind (3/11) (6 COB)
  • Lord of the Rings Trilogy: J.R.R Tolkien
  • Vampire Chronicles: Anne Rice
  • Vampire Academy: Richelle Mead
  • The Millenium Trilogy - Stieg Larsson
  • The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander Mcall Smith
  • Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins (1/3) (COB)
  • The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
  • Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
  • James Bond: Ian Fleming
  • The Black Dagger Brotherhood: J.R. Ward

Plays:

  • Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare
  • Othello - Shakespeare
  • Amadeus - Peter Shaffer

Short Stories:

  • Dubliners - James Joyce (COB)
  • Don't Cry: Stories - Mary Gaitskill
  • Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times - Sara Nickles and Bob Shacochis
  • The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007: Dave Eggers
  • The Stories of Anton Chekhov: Anton Chekhov
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
  • Amphigorey: Fifteen Books - Edward Gorey
  • Haunted Short Stories - e.d. Aidan Chambers
  • The Giant Book of Science Fiction Stories
  • The short stories in the "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Short Stories - Robert Louis Stevenson (COB)

Complete Stories and Poems of / Collections of Writing:

  • Edgar Allan Poe (COB)
  • Lewis Caroll
  • Shakespeare's sonnets

E.E. Cummings Complete Poems 1904-1962

  • "Claiming the Spirit Within" edited by Marilyn Sewell.

Documentaries/Memoirs/Diaries:

  • This Is Gonna Hurt - Nikki Sixx
  • Sylvia Plath's unabridged journals
  • The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band - Motley Crue
  • She's A Rebel: The History Of Women In Rock & Roll, Gillian G. Gaar
  • Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914-1923 - Franz Kafka
  • Tommyland - Tommy Lee
  • Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
  • White Fluffy Clouds - Brandon Boyd
  • From the Murks of the Sultry Abyss - Brandon Boyd
  • Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster’s Daughter - Shoko Tendo
  • Burnt Toast by Terri Hatcher

Just Because/Others:

  • Adolphe - Benjamin Constant
  • The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
  • Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
  • Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin
  • The Rum Diary - Hunter Thompson
  • V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Alan Moore
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream - by Hunter S. Thompson
  • A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
  • The Zahir - Paulo Coelho
  • Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Mr Darcy, Vampyre - Amanda Grange
  • Dear John - Nicolas Sparks
  • The Twelve Terrors of Christmas - John Updike and Edward Gorey
  • Metaphysics - Aristotle
  • The Book - Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Wild Roses - Deb Caletti
  • The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
  • The Bishop - Steven James
  • Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
  • The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce
  • A Spy In The House of Love - Anais Nin
  • M is for Magic - Neil Gaiman
  • The Gift of Gary Busey - John Green
  • Camino Real - Tennessee Williams
  • The Shadow of the Wind - Carlo Luiz Zafón
  • Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling
  • The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
  • The Book of the City of Ladies - Christine de Pizan
  • Will Grayson, Will Grayson: John Green and David Levithan
  • Doctor Faustus: Christopher Marlowe
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring: Tracy Chevalier
  • Moby Dick - Herman Melville (COB)
  • The Vanished Child - Sarah Smith
  • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman
  • Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  • The Prophet: Kahlil Gibran
  • In Search of Lost Time: Marcel Proust
  • Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  • Ham On Rye - Charles Bukowski
  • Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
  • Chocolat by Joanne Harris
  • American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  • Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
  • The Virgin Suicides: Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Everything is Illuminated: Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Geography Of The Heart: Fenton Johnson
  • The Phantom of the Opera: Gaston Leroux
  • Persuasion: Jane Austen
  • Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  • It’s Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini
  • Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
  • American Gods - Neil Gaiman
  • Eaters of the Dead - Michael Crichton
  • Cruddy - Lynda Barry
  • Candide - Voltaire
  • Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
  • The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
  • The Aeneid - Vergil
  • Lowboy - John Wray
  • The City & The City - China Miéville
  • Arabian Nights - Anonymous
  • Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
  • After Dark by Haruki Murakami
  • Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
  • South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: L. Frank Baum
  • The Lovely Bones: Alice Sebold
  • The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Call of the Wild and White Fang: Jack London
  • The Tender Bar - J.R. Moehringer
  • Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kasey
  • A Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  • If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor
  • The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom
  • For One More Day - Mitch Albom
  • The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
  • 101 Things To Do Before You're Old And Boring -Richard Horne / Helen Szirtes
  • The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
  • Pieces - Stephen Chbosky
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  • Full Frontal Feminism - Jessica Valenti
  • An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
  • The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
  • Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Coraline - Neil Gaiman
  • The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown (COB)
  • The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
  • A Great And Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
  • Walden and Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
  • The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas - John Boyne
  • The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
  • Peter Pan - JM Barrie
  • Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
  • The Prince and Other Writings - Niccolò Machiavelli
  • The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Importance of Being Earnest: Oscar Wilde
  • Paradise Lost: John Milton
  • The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder - Stephen Elliott
  • Await Your Reply - Dan Chaon
  • Night: Elie Wiesel
  • Invisible - Paul Auster
  • Deception Point: Dan Brown
  • The Mermaid Chair: Sue Monk Kidd
  • The Confession: John Grisham
  • The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II - Iris Chang
  • After Dark - Haruki Murakami.
  • The Sound and the Fury: William Faulkner
  • American Gods: Neil Gaiman
  • Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn and David Leviathan
  • The Secret Diary of a Call Girl - Belle de Jour
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes: Ray Bradbury
  • Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
  • The Dharma Bums: Jack Kerouac
  • Running with Scissors: Augusten Burroughs
  • The Stranger: Albert Camus
  • All the King's Men - Robert Warren Penn
  • The Road - Cormac McCarthy
  • The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand
  • Beat the Reaper - Josh Bazell
  • A Separate Peace: John Knowles
  • This Side of Paradise: F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
  • The Lake of Dreams: Kim Edwards
  • What the Night Knows: Dean Koontz
  • the Book of Fires - Jane Brodale
  • One Amazing Thing - Chitra Divakaruni
  • The BFG, Roald Dahl
  • Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution - Sara E. Melzer and Leslie W. Rabine.
  • Little Bee - Chris Cleave
  • A Reliable Wife - Robert Goolrick
  • The Creation of Eve - Lynn Cullen
  • The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
  • Secrets of Paris - Luanne Rice
  • The Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
  • Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
  • Fade to Blue - Sean Beaudoin
  • Confucius from the Heart
  • Need - Carrie Jones
  • Miss Timmins' School for Girls - Nayana Currimbhoy
  • The Blind Contessa's New Machine - Carey Wallace
  • Horseradish - Lemony Snicket
  • A Wonderful Phrase - Gandhi
  • As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
  • Emily the Strange, the Lost Days - Rob Reger & Jessica Gruner
  • Perfect Chemistry - Simone Elkeles
  • You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down - Alice Walker
  • Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
  • Memoir of A Geisha - Arthur Golden (COB)
  • The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (COB)
  • Notes Left Behind - Brooke & Keith Desserich
  • The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
  • Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins
  • Fallout - Ellie Hopkins
  • Houses of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • The Goats by Brock Cole
  • Songs of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  • Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
  • The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
nov 28 2009 ∞
may 22 2012 +