in addition to my currently checked out library books, i have these books laying around the house, waiting to be read. most of them are books my aunt says i have to read, either because they're more "culturally diverse" than stuff i normally read or because they're by or about people she finds interesting. some of them were presents from jon, though. (: and some i just bought myself for no reason and haven't gotten around to reading yet. if i italicize it, it means i started it but never finished.

• a spot of bother - mark haddon
• atonement - ian mcewan
• don't look back - karin fossum
• emma - jane austen
• extremely loud & incredibly close - jonathan safran foer
• gravity's rainbow - thomas pynchon
• his dark materials trilogy - phillip pullman
• how to talk with practically anybody about practically anything - barbara walters
• i know why the caged bird sings - maya angelou
• identity - milan kundera
• jar city - arnaldur indridason
• kallocain - karin boye
• life of pi - yann martel
• life: a user's manual - georges perec
• looking back (i don't know who it's by. i'll have to check.)
• memoirs of a geisha - arthur golden
• my years with ayn rand - nathaniel branden
• one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez
• pygmy - chuck palahniuk
• slaughterhouse-five - kurt vonnegut
• the bell jar - sylvia plath
• the doors of perception - aldous huxley
• the scarlet letter - nathaniel hawthorne
• water for elephants - sara gruen
• wild animus - rich shapero
• dreambirds - rob nixon
• twice shy - dick francis
• zorro - isabel allende
• reading lolita in tehran - azar nafisi
  • this book should come with a spoiler warning! four chapters in and the end to at least 5 books on my to read list had been spoiled!
• the little lady agency in the big apple - hester browne
• angels and demons - dan brown