novels/autobiographies

• 100 years of solitude - gabriel garcía márquez
• 1Q84 - haruki murakami
• a short history of nearly everything - bill bryson
• a song flung up to heaven - maya angelou
• a spy in the house of love - anaïs nin
• all god's children need traveling shoes - maya angelou
• american psycho - bret easton ellis
• americanah - chimamanda ngozi adichie
• an education - lynn barber
• an unquiet mind - kay redfield jamison
• blue highways - william least heat-moon
• caramelo - sandra cisneros
• carrie - stephen king
• choke - chuck palanhiuk
• einstein's dreams - alan lightman
• eleanor & park - rainbow rowell
• every day - david levithan
• for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf - ntozake shange
• gather together in my name - maya angelou
• geek love - katherine dunn
• ghost world - daniel clowes
• ghostwritten - david mitchell
• goldengrove - francine prose
• hopscotch - julio cortazar
• house of leaves - mark z. danielewski
• howl's moving castle - diana wynne jones
• i know this much is true - wally lamb
• kicks - janet fitch
• king, queen, knave - vladimir nabokov
• lullaby - chuck palahniuk
• mermaids - patty dann
• ocean sea - alessandro baricco
• odds against tomorrow - nathaniel rich
• on the origin of species - charles darwin
• on the road - jack keroac
• purple hibiscus - chimamanda ngozi adichie
• quiet - susan cain
• siddhartha - herman hesse
• silk - alessandro baricco
• singing' and swingin' and gettin' merry like christmas - maya angelou
• submarine - joe dunthorne
• sybil - flora rheta schreiber
• the agony and the ecstasy - irving stone
• the ballad of the sad cafe: and other stories - carson mccullers
• the blue castle - l.m. montgomery
• the book of disquiet - fernando pessoa
• the collected stories - amy hempel
• the constant gardener - john le carré
• the descent of man - charles darwin
• the eye - vladimir nabokov
• the fault in our stars - john green
• the god of small things - arundhati roy
• the great bear - ginevra bompiani
• the hanged man - francesca lia block
• the heart of a woman - maya angelou
• the interestings - meg wolitzer
• the pianist - wladyslaw szpilman
• the paris wife - paula mclain
• the purpose economy: how your desire for impact, personal growth and community is changing the world. - aaron hurst
• the secret history - donna tartt
• the tracey fragments - maureen medved
• their eyes were watching god - zora neale hurston
• valencia - michelle tea
• varieties of disturbance: stories - lydia davis
• white noise - don delillo

poetry

• ariel - sylvia plath
• leaves of grass - walt whitman
• les fleurs du mal - charles baudelaire
• my wicked wicked ways - sandra cisneros