just the ones i want to read - including the books i already read. full list here

• 1984, george orwell
• a christmas carol, charles dickens
• a clockwork orange, anthony burgess
• a comedy of errors, william shakespeare
• a streetcar names desire, tennesee williams
• a tale of two cities, charles dickens
• alice in wonderland, lewis carroll
• anna karenina, leo tolstoi
• as i lay dying, william faulkner
• atonement, ian mcewan
• carrie, stephen king
• christine, stephen king
• crime and punishment, fiodor dostoevski
• cujo, stephen king
• daughter of fortune, isabel allende
• david copperfield, charles dickens
• death of a salesman, arthur miller
• demons, fiodor dostoyevski
• don quixote, cervantes
• dr. jekyll & mr. hyde, robert louis stevenson
• driving miss daisy, alfred uhrv
• edgar allan poe: complete tales & poems
• emma, jane austen
• eva luna, isabel allende
• fahrenheit 451, ray bradbury
• fahrenheit 9/11, michael moore
• fiddler on the roof, joseph stein
• frankenstein, mary shelley
• franny and zooey, j. d. salinger
• girl, interrupted, susanna kaysen
• gone with the wind, margaret mitchell
• hamlet, william shakespeare
• harry potter and sorcerer's stone, j. k. rowling
• harry potter and the goblet of fire, j. k. rowling
• helter skelter: the true story of the manson murders, vincent bugliosi & curt gentry
• henry iv: part i, william shakespeare
• henry iv: part ii, william shakespeare
• henry v, william shakespeare
• high fidelity, nick hornby
• howl, allen ginsberg
• in cold blood, truman capote
• inferno, dante
• jane eyre, charlotte brontë
• julius caesar, william shakespeare
• life of pi, charles dickens
• lord of the flies, william golding
• macbeth, william shakespeare
• madame bovary, gustave flaubert
• middlesex, jeffrey eugenides
• mrs. dalloway, virginia woolf
• notes of a dirty old man, charles bukowski
• of mice and man, john steinbeck
• on the road, jack kerouac
• one flew over the cuckoo's nest, ken kesey
• one hundred years of solitude, gabriel garcia marquez
• othello, william shakespeare
• pride and prejudice, jane austen
• reading lolita in tehran: a memoir in books, azar nafisi
• rita hayworth, stephen king
• roman holiday, edith wharton
• romeo and juliet, william shakespeare
• rosemary's baby, ira levin
• sense and sensibility, jane austen
• songbook, nick hornby
• sophie's choice, william styron
• sun also rises, ernest hemingway
• tender is the night, f. scott fitzgerald
• the art of fiction, henry james
• the art of war, sun tzu
• the bell jar, sylvia plath
• the bhagava gita
• the bielski brothers: the true story of three men who defied the nazis, built a village in the forest, and saved 1,200 jews, peter duffy
• the canterbury tales, chaucer
• the catcher in the rye, j. d. salinger
• the children's hour, lilian hellman
• the count of monte cristo, alexandre dumas
• the da vinci code, dan brown
• the divine comedy, dante
• the fall of the athenian empire, donald kagan
• the fellowship of the ring, j. r. r. tolkien
• the godfather: book 1, mario puzo
• the graduate, charles webb
• the grapes of wrath, john steinbeck
• the great gatsby, f. scott fitzgerald
• the house of spirits, isabel allende
• the iliad, homer
• the merry wives of windsor, william shakespeare
• the metamorphosis, franz kafka
• the outsiders, s.e. hinton
• the perks of being a wallflower, stephen chbosky
• the polysyllabic spree, nick hornby
• the raven, edgar allan poe
• the return of the king, j. r. r. tolkien
• the scarlet letter, nathaniel hawthrone
• the second sex, simone de beauvoir
• the shining, stephen king
• the sonnets, william shakespeare
• the sound and the fury, william faulkner
• the tragedy of richard iii, william shakespeare
• the virgin suicides, jeffrey eugenides
• the wizard of oz, frank l. baum
• to have and have not, ernest hemingway
• to kill a mockingbird, harper lee
• valley of the dolls, jacqueline susann
• waiting for godot, samuel beckett
• war and peace, leo tolstoi
• what happened to baby jane, henry farrell
• who's afraid of virginia woolf, edward albee
• wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west, gregory maguire
• wuthering heights, emily brontë