• The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
• Design and Crime by Hal Foster
• This Shape We're In by Jonathan Lethem
• It's Too Late to Say I'm Sorry by Joey Comeau
• The Verificationist by Donald Antrim
• The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes
• Genes, Girls, and Gamow by James D. Watson
• July, July by Tim O'Brien
• A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert
• Feeding Frenzy by Will Self
• Comedy by the Numbers by Eric Hoffman and Gary Rudoren
• Stiff by Mary Roach !
• Cradle to Cradle by Wiliam McDonough and Michael Braungart
• The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt
• Arthur and George by Julian Barnes !
• Holy Bible king james version
• All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
• Stevie Might Be A Bear Maybe by John Campbell
• IV by Chuck Klosterman
• This Book Will Change Your Life by A.M. Homes
• Nonzero by Robert Wright
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
• Et Tu, Babe by Mark Leyner !
• Notes from Underground/The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Pooh's Little Etiquette Book by A.A. Milne
• Post Office by Charles Bukowski
• Writers' Gallery by Donald Brook
• My Idea of Fun by Will Self
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• I by Stephen Dixon
• Small g by Patricia Highsmith
• A Dictionary of Architecture {Fleming, Honour, Pevsner} !
• Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
• 5000 Years of Popular Culture by Fred E.H. Schroeder
• The Middle Stories by Sheila Heti
• Pacific Modern by Raul A. Barraneche
• Housekeeping VS. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond !
• Five California Architects by Esther McCoy
• The Pharmacist's Wife by Amy Fusselman
• Beginning Theory by Peter Barry
• Classic New York by Ada Louise Huxtable
• On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson !
• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
• The Witches by Roald Dahl
• Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
• On Writing Well by William Zinsser
• The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
• Dorian by Will Self
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
• Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J.A. Cuddon
• Something to Declare by Julian Barnes
• The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner
• Odysseus to Columbus by C. Warren Hollister !
• Vocational English book 1 by Jochen and Shapiro
• Postmodern Existential Sociology by Joseph Kotarba and John Johnson
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
• The Shaping of Black America by Lerone Bennett, jr
• The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of The US
• My Idea of Fun by Will Self
• Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
• A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
• Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
• Music for Torching by A.M. Homes
• Twelve Men of Action by Arnold J. Toynbee
• Life at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse
• The Palace Thief Stories by Ethan Canin
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon !
• The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
• The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Fargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman !
• The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• Waiting for Foucault and Other Aphorisms by Marshall Sahlins
• The Space Ship Returns to the Apple Tree by Louis Slobodkin
• The Reasons I Won't Be Coming by Elliot Perlman
• After Dark by Haruki Murakami
• The Book of Dave by Will Self
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• The Tale of the Unknown Island by Jose Saramago
• Coleridge Poetry and Prose by Carlos Baker
• Dom Juan by Moliere
• Great Dialogues of Plato {W.H.D. Rouse}
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Odyssey by Homer
• Great American Short Stories from Hawthorne to Hemingway {Corinne Demas}
• The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
• Anton Chekhov selected stories
• Adverbs by Daniel Handler
• Social Contract by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander !
• A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• The Enchafed Flood by W.H. Auden
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galazy by Douglas Adams
• The Best American Short Stories 1994 {Tobias Wolff}
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
• Where I'm Calling from by Raymond Carver
• Vocational English book 2
• How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
• Blindness by Jose Saramago
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
• Utopia Now by Dan Cahill
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• How To Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
• Mysterious Tales of Japan by Rafe Martin
• Marc Chagall by Howard Greenfeld
• The Runaway Duck by David Lyon
• The Copyeditor's Handbook by Amy Einsohn
• Tell the Children by Dora Apsan Sorell
• Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart
• The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

plus a few dozen others hiding places like my "coffee table" and under the bookcase