recommendations are welcome and appreciated. (: i have this list in a notebook, but i want to make sure i have a back-up if i lose it.

• aimee bender
• jodi picoult
• memoirs of a geisha
• a million little pieces
• the perks of being a wallflower
• poppy z. brite
• running with scissors
• the handmaid's tale by margaret atwood
• fortress in the eye of time by c. j. cherryh
• fortress of eagles by c. j. cherryh
• ryu murakami
• haruki murakami
• lord jim by joseph conrad
• mythago wood by robert holdstock
• melusine by sarah monette
• the last of the wine by mary renault
• fire from heaven by mary renault
• funeral games by mary renault
• the nature of alexander by mary renault
• the mask of apollo by mary renault
• the line of beauty by alan hollinghurst
• body and blood by michael schiefelbein
• light before day by christopher rice
• wuthering heights
• andrew holleran
  • grief
• death in venice by thomas mann
• colm toibin
• the elegance of the hedgehog by muriel barbery
• the post-american world by fareed zakaria
• the wrecking ball and what's the matter with kansas by thomas frank
• looking for alaska by john green
• among the cannibals
• the lost city of z by david grann
• persepolis by marjane satrapi
• joe sacco
• noam chomsky
• billy lee brammer
• primary colors
• al franken
• the federalist by alexander hamilton
• russell kirk
• edmund burke
• william f. buckley
• karl marx
• jean baudrillard
• mein kampf
• friedrich nietzsche
• conservatives without conscience by john dean
• the true believer by eric hoffer
• thieves in high places by jim hightower
• bushwacked by molly ivins
• the best democracy money can buy by greg palast
• democracy in america by alexis de tocqueville
• john adams by david g. mccullough
• benjamin franklin's autobiography
• a people's history of the united states
• working by studs terkel
• nickel and dimed by barbar ehrenreich
• let me in by ajvide
• the secret magdalene by ki longfellow
• maus i & ii
• my lobotomy by howard dully
• tracy chevalier
  • the virgin blue
• sunshine by robin mckinley
• the big con by jonathon chait
• cashing the devil's tail by david fulmer
• sepulchre by kate mosse
• outlander by diana gabaldon
• the romanov prophecy by steve berry
• the name of the rose by umberto eco
• marcel proust
• the hunger games by suzanne collins
• christopher moore
• king tut by james patterson
• dracula by bram stoker
• jonathan lethem
• kazuo ishiguro
• the story of edgar sawtelle by david wroblewski
• philip roth
• joseph kanon
• crippen by john boyne
• daniel tammet
• carl hiaasen
• escape by carolyn jessop
• let me in by john ajvide lindqvist
• roberto arlt
• the american way of death by jessica mitford