- source
- The Emperor’s Children, Claire Messud
- What She Saw…, Lucinda Rosenfeld
- The Deptford Trilogy, Robertson Davies: Fifth Business, The Manticore & World of Wonders
- The Secret History, Donna Tart
- Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
- A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
- Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid
- The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
- ✔ White Teeth, Zadie Smith
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
- Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
- Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney
- The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Call Me by Your Name, André Aciman
- The Rachel Papers, Martin Amis
- Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
- The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
- Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
- A Home at the End of the World, Michael Cunningham
- The Sandman Series, Neil Gaiman (somewhere in the middle)
- The Group, Mary McCarthy
- Quicksand and Passing, Nella Larsen
- Pastoralia, George Saunders
- Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
- ✔ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
- Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
- His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman
- Generation X, Douglas Coupland
- The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem
- Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
- I Love Dick, Chris Kraus
- On the Road, Jack Kerouac (read it in high school)
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami
- Bossypants, Tina Fey (have it right now)
- Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
- How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Toby Young
- The Dirt, Mötley Crüe and Neil Strauss
- Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis
- Just Kids, by Patti Smith
- Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Nick Flynn
- Oh the Glory of it All, Sean Wilsey
- I Don’t Care About Your Band, Julie Klausner
- Wild, Cheryl Strayed
- Lit, Mary Karr
- I’m with the Band, Pamela Des Barres
- Dear Diary, Lesley Arfin
- The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton
- Actual Air, David Berman
- The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch, Kenneth Koch
- Alien vs. Predator, Michael Robbins
- The Collected Poems of Audre Lord, Audre Lord
- ✔ Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
- How to Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran
- My Misspent Youth, Meghan Daum
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion***
- Up in the Old Hotel, Joseph Mitchell
- ✔ How to Cook Everything, Mark Bittman
- How’s Your Drink?, Eric Felten
- The Elements of Style, Strunk & White
- Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards
- He’s Just Not That Into You, Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
aug 22 2013 ∞
oct 25 2013 +
