(*strikethrough = have read)

poetry collections

• a.r. ammons - the selected poems (1951-77)
• allen ginsberg - howl & other poems (1956) ♡
• anne sexton - the complete poems (1999) ♡
• charles bukowski - what matters most... (1999) ♡
• daniel halpern - american poetry anthology (1953)
• dylan thomas - collected poems (2010) ♡
• e.e. cummings - selected poems (1994) ♡
• elaine equi - sentences & rain (2016) ♡
• emily dickinson - selected poems (1960)
• emily dickinson - the complete poems (1976)
• ezra pound - selected poems (1957)
• frank o'hara - lunch poems (1964) ♡
• frank o'hara - meditations in an emergency (1957) ♡
• frank o'hara - retrieved poems (2013) ♡
• frank o'hara - the collected poems (1995) ♡
• galway kinnell - a new selected poems (2000) ♡
• gary snyder - turtle island (1975)
• john donne - collected poems
• john keats - selected poems &bletters (1959)
• oscar williams - immortal poems (1983) ♡
• oscar williams - major american poets (1962)
• pablo neruda - 20 love poems + a song of despair (1924)
• philip larkin - collected poems (1988)
• rainer maria rilke - possibility of being (1977)
• rainer maria rilke - the selected poetry (1989)
• robert frost - new england pocket anthology (1946)
• robert frost - the selected poems (1962)
• robert lowell - selected poems (2006)
• ruth gordon - pierced by a ray of sun: poems (1995)
• sandra cisneros - loose woman (1994) ♡
• shel silverstein - where the sidewalk ends (1974) ♡
• stanley kunitz - poems 1928-78 (1979)
• sylvia plath - ariel (1965)
• t.s. eliot - collected poems 1909-62 (1963)
• t.s. eliot - the waste land + other poems (1930)
• ted hughes - birthday letters (1998)
• walt whitman - leaves of grass (1855) ♡
• william carlos williams - collected poems (1985) ♡
• william wordsworth - selected poems (1959)

biographies, autobiographies, memoirs

• anne frank - the diary of a young girl (1947) ♡
• benjamin franklin - autobiography + other writings (1986)
• charles bukowski - screams from the balcony (1993) ♡
• d.t. max - every love-story is a ghost-story (2012) ♡
• dave eggers - heartbreaking work/staggering genius (2000)
• david f. wallace - the dfw reader (2015)
• david sedaris - me talk pretty one day (2000)
• david sedaris - naked (1997)
• david sedaris - when you are engulfed in flames (2008)
• elie wiesel - night (1956) ♡
• emily dickinson - letters (1894) ♡
• fernando de pessoa - the book of disquiet (1982) ♡
• frank mccourt - angela's ashes (1996)
• frederick douglass - narrative/life of american slave (1845)
• harriett jacobs - incidents: life of a slave girl (1861)
• henry d. thoreau - walden/civil disobedience (1854) ♡
• jesse jarnow - big day coming: yo la tengo (2012) ♡
• joan didion - the year of magical thinking (2005)
• john moe - the hilarious world of depression (2020) ♡
• kay redfield jamison - an unquiet mind (1995) ♡
• marya hornbacher - madness: a bipolar life (2009) ♡
• marya hornbacher - wasted (1998) ♡
• maya angelou - i know why the caged bird sings (1969) ♡
• michael azerrad - our band could be your life (2001) ♡
• mitch albom - tuesdays with morrie (1997) ♡
• paul auster - the invention of solitude (1982)
• portia de rossi - unbearable lightness (2010) ♡
• rainer maria rilke - letters to a young poet (1929)
• sylvia plath - the bell jar (1963) ♡
• sylvia plath - the unabridged journals (2000)
• tobias wolff - this boy's life: a memoir (1989)

plays, drama, etc.

• arthur laurents - west side story (1957)
• arthur miller - death of a salesman (1949) ♡
• arthur miller - the crucible (1953)
• august wilson - fences (1983) ♡
• george bernard shaw - saint joan (1923)
• james baldwin - blues for mister charlie (1964)
• lorraine hansberry - a raisin in the sun (1959)
• michael frayn - copenhagen (1941)
• oscar wilde - lady windermere's fan
• oscar wilde - the dover reader anthology (2015)
• tennessee williams - cat on a hot tin roof (1958)
• tennessee williams - the glass menagerie (1945)
• william shakespeare - a midsummer night's dream (1596)
• william shakespeare - henry v (1599)
• william shakespeare - macbeth (1611) ♡
• william shakespeare - othello (1603) ♡
• william shakespeare - richard iii (1633) ♡
• william shakespeare - romeo + juliet (1597)
• william shakespeare - twelfth night (1602)

short story collections

• alice munro - runaway (2004)
• charles bukowski - hot water music (1983)
• david f. wallace - brief interviews w/hideous men (1999) ♡
• david f. wallace - girl w/curious hair (1996) ♡
• david f. wallace - oblivion: stories (2004) ♡
• dylan thomas - collected stories
• ernest hemingway - in our time (1925)
• flann o'brien - at swim-two birds (1939)
• flannery o'connor - the complete stories (1971) ♡
• franz kafka - the complete stories (1971)
• haruki murakami - after the quake (2000) ♡
• haruki murakami - blind willow sleeping woman (2009) ♡
• haruki murakami - south of border/west of sun (1992) ♡
• haruki murakami - the elephant vanishes (1993) ♡
• j.d. salinger - nine stories (1953) ♡
• james joyce - dubliners (1914) ♡
• james joyce - the portable james joyce (1976)
• jhumpa lahiri - the interpreter of maladies (1999)
• john barth - coming soon!!! (2001)
• john barth - lost in the funhouse (1968) ♡
• john barth - on with the story (1996)
• k.wells - floating off the page: wsj (2002)
• langston hughes - the best of simple (1990)
• lydia davis - the collected stories (2009)
• miranda july - no1 belongs here more than u (2005) ♡
• raymond carver - where i'm calling from (1988)
• ryūnosuke akutagawa - rashomon (1915)
• sandra cisneros - woman hollering creek (1991) ♡
• sherman alexie - lone ranger/tonto fistfight in heaven (1993)
• sherwood anderson - winesburg, ohio (1919) ♡
• tim o'brien - the things they carried (1990) ♡

non-fiction works + essays, etc.

• alain de bolton - the architecture of happiness (2006) ♡
• albert tobler - the rough guide to mindfulness (2013)
• aristotle - ethics (322-384 b.c.)
• betty friedan - the feminine mystique (1963)
• beverley tatum - why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? + other conversations about race (1997)
• bill bryson - a short history of nearly everything (2003)
• bill simmons - the book of basketball : nba (2009)
• bruce weinstein - the good ones (2015)
• charles darwin - evolutionary writings (1845)
• charles duhigg - the power of habit (2012) ♡
• chuck klosterman - fargo rock city (2001)
• chuck klosterman - sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs: a low-culture manifesto (2003) ♡
• confucius - analects (475-221 b.c.)
• dale carnegie - how to stop worrying & start living (1948)
• dale carnegie - the quick/easy way to effective speaking (1937)
• daniel goleman - social intelligence (2007)
• daniel levitin - this is your brain on music (2006) ♡
• david f. wallace - a supposedly fun thing (1998) ♡
• david f. wallace - both flesh & not (2012) ♡
• david f. wallace - consider the lobster (2005) ♡
• david f. wallace/mark costello - signifying rappers (1990) ♡
• david mamet - writing in restaurants (1987)
• edward de bono - the use of lateral thinking
• eric kandel - the disordered mind (2018)
• eric rauchway - murdering mckinley (2003)
• eric schlosser - fast food nation (2001)
• fuscia dunlop - shark's fin & sichuan pepper (2008)
• g.bowker - sorting things out: classification/consequences (2000)
• g.marcus/w.sollors - new literary history of america (2009)
• g.polya - how to solve it: new mathematical method (2014)
• holly george-warren - rolling stone book of the beats (1999) ♡
• jared diamond - collapse: how societies fail/succeed (2005)
• jared diamond - guns, germs & steel (1997)
• jenni schaefer - life w/o ED (2003)
• joe dominguez - your money or your life (1999) ♡
• john leland - hip: the history (2001)
• john medina - brain rules: principles (2008)
• jon krakaeur - into the wild (1996) ♡
• jonah berger - contagious: why things catch on (2013)
• kay redfield jamison - touched with fire: manic-depressive illness & the artistic temperament (1993) ♡
• l.lessig - free culture: nature/future of creativity (2004)
• lao tzu - tao te ching (6th cent. b.c.)
• malcolm gladwell - outliers (2008) ♡
• marie kondo - the life-changing magic of tidying up (2011) ♡
• maxwell maltz - the new psycho-cybernetics (2002) ♡
• nancy cobb - in lieu of flowers (2000)
• neil postman - amusing ourselves to death (1985)
• oliver sacks - the man who mistook his wife for a hat & other clinical tales (1985)
• paul tillich - the courage to be (1952)
• sigmund freud - a general introduction to psychoanalysis (1915)
• slavoj zizek - absolute recoil: towards a new foundation of dialectical materialism (2014)
• sogyal rinpoche - the tibetan book of living + dying (1992)
• stephen d. levitt - freakonomics (2005) ♡
• stephen d. levitt - superfreakonomics
• stephen hawking - a brief history of time (1998)
• thich nhat hanh - the heart of buddha's teachings (1999) ♡
• truman capote - in cold blood (1966)
• virginia woolf - a room of one's own (1929) ♡
• william strunk jr. - the elements of style (1918) ♡

graphic novels/comic collections/collectibles

• alan moore - watchmen (1987) ♡
• angus croll - if hemingway wrote javascript (2014) ♡
• bill watterson - something under the bed is drooling (1988) ♡
• christian dior - the little dictionary of fashion (2007)
• d.remnick - fierce pajamas: ny humor writing anthology (2002)
• d.smith - do 1 thing that scares you every day (2008)
• david byrne - the new sins (2001)
• frank warren - postsecret: confessions (2009)
• ines de la fressange - parisan chic: style guide (2010) ♡
• john allison - giant days (2015)
• marcelline delbecq - close-up (2006)
• marjane satrapi - persepolis (2005)
• robert munsch - love you forever (1986) ♡
• scott schuman - the sartorialist: closer (2012) ♡
• wil huygen - gnomes (1976) ♡

foreign language books

• chinese (oxford mini dictionary)
• chinese mandarin (textbooks)
• french (webster's mini dictionary)
• russian (mini dictionary)
• spanish: berlitz self-teacher
• swedish (large dictionary)

novels + novellas (pre-1920)

• aesop - aesop's fables (620-564 b.c.)
• charles dickens - a christmas carol (1843)
• charles dickens - a tale of two cities (1859)
• charles dickens - david copperfield (1850)
• charles dickens - great expectations (1860)
• charlotte bronte - jane eyre (1847)
• daniel defoe - fortunes/misfortunes of moll flanders (1722)
• dante - the divine comedy (1472)
• edith wharton - ethan frome (1911)
• emily bronte - wuthering heights (1847)
• frank norris - mcteague (1899)
• franz kafka - the castle (1926)
• franz kafka - the trial (1925)
• fyodor dostoyevsky - crime + punishment (1866) ♡
• fyodor dostoyevsky - notes from underground (1864)
• fyodor dostoyevsky - the brothers karamazov (1880) ♡
• fyodor dostoyevsky - the house of the dead (1860-2)
• fyodor dostoyevsky - the idiot (1869)
• geoffrey chaucer - the canterbury tales (1475)
• george eliot - middlemarch (1874) ♡
• george grossmith - the diary of a nobody (1892) ♡
• gustave flaubert - madame bovary (1856)
• harriet beecher stowe - uncle tom's cabin (1852)
• henry james - the american (1877)
• henry james - the bostonians (1885)
• henry james - the portrait of a lady (1881)
• herman melville - moby dick (1851) ♡
• homer - the odyssey (8th century b.c.)
• jack london - the call of the wild (1903)
• james f. cooper - the last of the mohicans (1826)
• james joyce - portrait of the artist as a young man (1915) ♡
• jane austen - emma (1815)
• jane austen - pride + prejudice (1813)
• jane austen - sense + sensibility (1811)
• john milton - paradise lost (1667)
• jonathan swift - gulliver's travels (1726)
• joseph conrad - heart of darkness (1899)
• jules verne - 20,000 leagues under the sea (1870)
• kenneth grahame - the wind in the willows (1908)
• leo tolstoy - anna karenina (1877)
• leo tolstoy - war + peace (1869)
• lewis carroll - alice's adventures in wonderland (1865) ♡
• louisa may alcott - little women (1880)
• margaret mitchell - gone with the wind (1936)
• mark twain - adventures of huckleberry finn (1884) ♡
• mark twain - the complete/unabridged works (1982)
• mary shelley - frankenstein, or modern prometheus (1818) ♡
• miguel de unamuno - mist (1914) ♡
• nathaniel hawthorne - the scarlet letter (1850) ♡
• oscar wilde - the picture of dorian gray (1890) ♡
• pierre c. de laclos - les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
• stephen crane - the red badge of courage (1895)
• theodore dreiser - sister carrie (1900)
• thomas hardy - tess of the d'ubervilles (1891) ♡
• victor hugo - les miserables (1862)
• victor hugo - the hunchback of notre dame (1831)
• virgil - the aenid (29-19 b.c.)
• voltaire - candide (1759) ♡
• willa cather - my antonia (1918)

novels + novellas (post-1920)

• aharon appelfeld - badenheim 1939 (1978) ♡
• albert camus - the fall (1956)
• albert camus - the plague (1947)
• albert camus - the stranger (1942) ♡
• alduous huxley - brave new world (1932)
• alexai galaviz-budziszewski - painted cities (2014) ♡
• alice walker - the color purple (1982)
• amitav ghosh - the shadow lines (1988)
• andrew davies - conrad's war (1978)
• ann petry - the street (1946)
• anonymous - go ask alice (1971)
• antoine saint de exupery - the little prince (1943) ♡
• ayn rand - the fountainhead (1943)
• barbara kingsolver - the bean trees (1988)
• betty smith - a tree grows in brooklyn (1943)
• carmen laforet - nada (1944) ♡
• carson mccullers - the heart is a lonely hunter (1940) ♡
• charles bukowski - ham on rye (1982) ♡
• charles bukowski - hollywood (1989) ♡
• charles bukowski - post office (1971)
• charles bukowski - women (1978)
• chinua achebe - things fall apart (1958)
• chuck palahniuk - invisible monsters (1999)
• cormac mccarthy - blood meridian (1985)
• cormac mccarthy - the road (2006) ♡
• d.e. stevenson - miss buncle's book (1934)
• d.h. lawrence - lady chatterly's lover (1928)
• d.h. lawrence - sons + lovers (1913)
• dave eggers - you shall know our velocity! (2002)
• david f. wallace - infinite jest (1996) (re) ♡
• david f. wallace - the broom of the system (1987)
• david f. wallace - the pale king (2011)
• david huddle - the tenorman (1995)
• don delillo - libra (1988)
• don delillo - white noise (1985)
• doris lessing - the golden notebook (1962)
• doug dorst - s. (ship of theseus) (2013)
• douglas adams - hitchiker's guide to the galaxy (1996)
• e.b. white - charlotte's web (1952)
• erich remarque - all quiet on the western front (1929)
• ernest hemingway - a farewell to arms (1929) ♡
• ernest hemingway - fiesta: the sun also rises (1926) ♡
• ernest hemingway - for whom the bell tolls (1940) ♡
• ernest hemingway - the old man & the sea (1952) ♡
• f. scott fitzgerald - tender is the night (1934)
• f. scott fitzgerald - the beautiful + the damned (1922)
• f. scott fitzgerald - the great gatsby (1925) ♡
• f. scott fitzgerald - this side of paradise (1920)
• flannery o'connor - wise blood (1952)
• gabriel garcia marquez - 100 years of solitude (1967)
• gabriel garcia marquez - love in the time of cholera (1985)
• gabriel josipovici - goldberg: variations (2005) ♡
• george orwell - 1984 (1949) ♡
• george orwell - animal farm (1945) ♡
• graeme gibson - five legs (1969)
• harper lee - to kill a mockingbird (1960) ♡
• haruki murakami - norwegian wood (1987)
• haruki murakami - sputnik sweetheart (1999)
• haruki murakami - the wind-up bird chronicle (1997)
• henry miller - tropic of cancer (1934)
• henry roth - call it sleep (1934)
• herman hesse - steppenwolf (1927) ♡
• hermann hesse - narcissus + goldmund (1930) ♡
• hermann hesse - siddhartha (1922) ♡
• hunter s. thompson - fear & loathing in las vegas (1971)
• italo calvino - if on a winter's night a traveler (1979) ♡
• j.d. ballard - high-rise (1975)
• j.d. salinger - franny & zooey (1961) ♡
• j.d. salinger - raise high the roof beams... (1963)
• j.d. salinger - the catcher in the rye (1951) ♡
• jack kerouac - big sur (1962) ♡
• jack kerouac - desolation angels (1965) ♡
• jack kerouac - maggie cassidy (1959) ♡
• jack kerouac - on the road (1957) ♡
• jack kerouac - the dharma bums (1958) ♡
• jamaica kincaid - annie john (1985)
• james baldwin - go tell it on the mountain (1953)
• james joyce - finnegans wake (1939)
• jean rhys - good morning, midnight (1939)
• jean-paul sartre - nausea (1938) ♡
• jeffrey eugenides - middlesex (2002)
• jerry spinelli - love, stargirl (2007)
• jerry spinelli - maniac magee (1990) (re)
• jerzy kosinski - steps (1968) ♡
• jhumpa lahiri - the namesake (2003)
• john g. brown - decorations in a ruined cemetery (1994) ♡
• john hodgman - the areas of my expertise (2005)
• john o'hara - appointment in samarra (1934) ♡
• john steinbeck - east of eden (1952)
• john steinbeck - of mice and men (1937) ♡
• john steinbeck - the grapes of wrath (1939) ♡
• john updike - rabbit, run (1960)
• jonathan franzen - freedom: a novel (2010) ♡
• jonathan franzen - the corrections (2001) ♡
• jonathan franzen - the twenty-seventh city (1988)
• joseph heller - catch-22 (1961)
• joyce carol oates - foxfire (1993)
• juan rulfo - pedro paramo (1955)
• judith guest - ordinary people (1976) ♡
• julia alvarez - how the colored girls lost their accents (1991)
• junot diaz - the brief wondrous life of oscar wao (2007) ♡
• khaled hosseini - the kite runner (2003)
• kurt vonnegut - cat's cradle (1963)
• kurt vonnegut - slaughterhouse-five (1969)
• langston hughes - not without laughter (1930)
• lawrence durrell - justine (1957)
• leon uris - exodus (1958)
• leon uris - QB VII (1970)
• lois lowry - the giver (1993) (re)
• mark leyner - my cousin, my gastroenterologist (1990) ♡
• mark z. danielewski - only revolutions (2006) ♡
• markus zusak - i am the messenger (2002)
• michael chabon - the yiddish policemen's union (2007)
• mikhail bulgakov - the master & margarita (1967)
• milan kundera - immortality (1988)
• milan kundera - the book of laughter & forgetting (1979)
• milan kundera - the festival of insignificance (2015)
• milan kundera - the unbearable lightness of being (1984)
• nathanael west - miss lonelyhearts/day of the locust (1939)
• nick hornby - high fidelity (1995)
• norman mailer - the naked & the dead (1948)
• orhan pamuk - my name is red (1998)
• patrick chamoiseau - school days (1994)
• paul auster - moon palace (1989) ♡
• paul auster - the new york trilogy (1987)
• ralph ellison - invisible man (1952)
• ray bradbury - fahrenheit 451 (1953) ♡
• richard wright - black boy (1945)
• richard wright - native son (1940)
• ruth ozeki - a tale for the time being (2013) ♡
• s.e. hinton - rumblefish (1975)
• s.e. hinton - the outsiders (1967) ♡
• sandra cisneros - caramelo (2002) ♡
• sandra cisneros - the house on mango street (1984) ♡
• saul bellow - herzog (1964)
• saul bellow - the bellarosa connection (1989)
• stephen chbosky - the perks of being a wallflower (1999)
• stephen king - cujo (1981)
• s.yapa - your heart is a muscle (2016)
• tao lin - richard yates
• tao lin - taipei (2013) ♡
• thomas pynchon - inherent vice (2009)
• thomas pynchon - the crying of lot 49 (1966)
• thornton wilder - the bridge of san luis rey (1927) (re)
• tim o'brien - in the lake of the woods (1995)
• tim robbins - skinny legs & all (1990)
• tom robbins - even cowgirls get the blues (1974)
• toni morrison - beloved (1987) ♡
• toni morrison - jazz (1992)
• toni morrison - sula (1973)
• toni morrison - tar baby (1981)
• toni morrison - the bluest eye (1970)
• truman capote - breakfast at tiffany's (1958)
• virginia woolf - jacob's room (1922) ♡
• virginia woolf - mrs. dalloway (1925) ♡
• virginia woolf - orlando: a biography (1928)
• virginia woolf - to the lighthouse (1927) ♡
• virginia woolf - waves (1931)
• vladimir nabokov - lolita (1955) ♡
• vladimir nabokov - pale fire (1962)
• walker percy - the moviegoer (1961) ♡
• william burroughs - naked lunch (1959)
• william faulkner - absolom, absolom! (1938)
• william faulkner - as i lay dying (1930) ♡
• william faulkner - light in august (1932)
• william faulkner - the sound and the fury (1929) ♡
• william faulkner - the unvanquished (1938)
• william gaddis - the recognitions (1955)
• william golding - lord of the flies (1954)
• zadie smith - nw (2012)
• zadie smith - on beauty (2005)
• zadie smith - swing time (2016)
• zadie smith - the book of other people (2008) ♡
• zadie smith - white teeth (2000) ♡
• zora n. hurston - their eyes were watching god (1937) ♡

textbooks/anthologies/manuals

• a pocket style manual: clarity, grammar, punctuation + mechanics, research, mla/apa/chicago/cse, usage/grammatical terms (2014)
• fundamentals of abnormal psychology (2004)
• norton anthology of eng lit-vol ii: romantic period-20th c. (2006)
• norton introduction to lit (1987)
• phr study guide 2016 (2016)
• the skillful teacher: building teaching skills (2008)