• alcott, louisa may - little women
  • aurelius, marcus - meditations (gregory hays)
  • austen, jane - emma
  • auster, paul - sunset park
  • baldwin, james - go tell it on the mountain
  • baudelaire, charles - les fleurs du mal
  • bellow, saul - herzog / adventures of augie march
  • blume, judy - are you there, god? it's me, margaret
  • bronte, charlotte - jane eyre
  • bukowski, charles - factotum / notes of a dirty old man
  • bukowski, charles - poems written before jumping...
  • bukowski, charles - you get so alone at times...
  • burgess, anthony - a clockwork orange (re-read)
  • burroughs, william s. - naked lunch
  • carver, raymond - what we talk about...
  • carver, raymond - will you be quiet, please
  • chandler, raymond - the big sleep
  • cheever, john - bullet park / the wapshot chronicles
  • cisneros, sandra - hairs = pelitos
  • coelho, paulo - the alchemist
  • crane, stephen - maggie: a girl of the streets
  • danielewski, mark z. - house of leaves
  • delillo, don - libra/underworld
  • dickens, charles - a tale of two cities / david copperfield
  • dostoyevsky, fyodor - the idiot / notes from underground
  • dreiser, theodore - sister carrie / an american tragedy
  • fitzgerald, f. scott - tales of the jazz age
  • fitzgerald, f. scott - the love of the last tycoon
  • flaubert, gustave - madame bovary
  • forrest, leon - there is a tree more ancient than eden
  • forster, e.m. - a passage to india / a room with a view
  • franzen, jonathan - farther away / purity / stop motion
  • gaddis, william - the recognitions
  • gibson, william - neuromancer (sprawl, #1)
  • giovanni, nikki - cotton candy on a rainy day
  • golden, arthur - memoirs of a geisha
  • golding, william - lord of the flies
  • greene, graham - brighton rock
  • hemingway, ernest - a moveable feast
  • hesse, hermann - journey to the east
  • hughes, langston - not without laughter
  • hugo, victor - les miserables / the hunchback of notre dame
  • irving, john - the world according to garp
  • james, henry - daisy miller / the bostonians
  • james, henry - the portrait of a lady
  • jarrell, randall - pictures from an institution
  • joyce, james - finnegans wake
  • july, miranda - the first bad man: a novel / corpse tale
  • kerouac, jack - visions of cody / book of dreams
  • klosterman, chuck - downtown owl: a novel
  • kundera, milan - the book of laughter & forgetting
  • larkin, phillip - collected poems
  • larsen, nella - passing / quicksand
  • lessing, doris - the golden notebook
  • lin, tao - you are a little bit happier than i am
  • lorde, audre - the collected poems
  • lowry, lois - the giver (re-read)
  • mailer, norman - the naked & the dead
  • marquez, gabriel garcia - 100 years of solitude
  • miller, henry - tropic of cancer
  • mitchell, margaret - gone with the wind
  • morrison, toni - tar baby
  • munro, alice - runaway
  • murakami, haruki - 1q84/wild sheep chase/after dark/bday stories
  • murakami, haruki - hard-boiled wonderland + end of the world
  • murakami, haruki - the wind-up bird chronicle
  • murray, albert - train whistle guitar
  • naipaul, v.s. - a house for mr. biswas
  • norris, frank - mcteague
  • o'brien, tim - if a die in a combat zone/in the lake of the woods
  • o'connor, flannery - wise blood
  • o'hara, frank - love poems
  • oates, joyce carol - foxfire / you must remember this
  • plath, sylvia - the colossus & other poems
  • plath, sylvia - the unabridged journals
  • proust, marcel - in search of lost time
  • pynchon, thomas - gravity's rainbow / v.
  • rhys, jean - good morning, midnight
  • richardson, samuel - clarissa
  • robbins, tom - skinny legs & all
  • roth, henry - call it sleep
  • roth, philip - goodbye columbus / american pastoral / p's complaint
  • roy, arundhati - the god of small things
  • rushdie, salman - midnight's children
  • sedaris, david - naked
  • shakespeare, william - king lear / titus andronicus
  • shaw, bernard - pygmalion / saint joan
  • smith, betty - a tree grows in brooklyn
  • smith, zadie - the autograph man / the embassy of cambodia
  • steinbeck, john - east of eden
  • stevens, wallace - collected poems
  • stoppard, tom - rosencrantz & guildenstern are dead
  • styron, william - sophie's choice
  • swift, jonathan - gulliver's travels
  • thackeray, william makepeace - vanity fair
  • tolstoy, leo - anna karenina / war & peace
  • uris, leon - exodus/qb vii
  • wallace, david foster - the broom of the system
  • wallace, david foster - the pale king
  • wharton, edith - ethan frome
  • woolf, virginia - orlando: a biography/the waves
  • yates, richard - revolutionary road

completed:

  • adams, douglas - the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
  • alborn, mitch - tuesdays with morrie
  • austen, jane - persuasion
  • barth, john - lost in the funhouse
  • bukowski, charles - what matters most is...
  • carver, raymond - where i'm calling from
  • cisneros, sandra - caramelo, or, puro cuento
  • cisneros, sandra - my wicked, wicked ways
  • cisneros, sandra - woman hollering creek & other stories
  • dante alighieri - the divine comedy
  • dickens, charles - great expectations
  • didion, joan - the year of magical thinking
  • duhigg, charles - the power of habit
  • eliot, t.s. - prufrock & other observations
  • eliot, t.s. - the waste land & other poems
  • emerson, ralph waldo - self-reliance
  • eugenides, jeffrey - middlesex
  • fitzgerald, f. scott - the beautiful & the damned
  • franzen, jonathan - the 27th city
  • galaviz-budziszewski, alexai - painted cities
  • gladwell, malcolm - blink
  • gladwell, malcolm - david & goliath
  • hemingway, ernest - for whom the bell tolls
  • hesse, hermann - steppenwolf
  • jarnow, jesse - big day coming: ylt/the rise of indie rock
  • josipovici, gabriel - goldberg: variations
  • kafka, franz - the trial
  • kahneman, daniel - thinking fast & slow
  • kerouac, jack - desolation angels
  • kerouac, jack - maggie cassidy
  • klosterman, chuck - fargo rock city
  • klosterman, chuck - sex, drugs, & cocoa puffs (re-read)
  • levitt, steven d. - freakonomics
  • lowell, robert - the selected poems
  • melville, herman - moby dick
  • milton, john - paradise lost
  • montgomery, l.m. - anne of green gables
  • morrison, toni - song of solomon
  • morrison, toni - the bluest eye
  • murakami, haruki - south of the border, west of the sun
  • murakami, haruki - sputnik sweetheart
  • nabokov, vladimir - pnin
  • o'brien, flann - at twim-two birds
  • o'hara, frank - meditations in an emergency
  • o'hara, frank - the collected poems
  • o'hara, john - appointment in samarra
  • pynchon, thomas - inherent vice
  • smith, zadie - nw
  • steinbeck, john - the grapes of wrath
  • thompson, hunter s. - fear & loathing in las vegas
  • updike, john - rabbit, run
  • wallace, david foster - a supposedly fun thing i'll nvr do again
  • wallace, david foster - consider the lobster
  • wallace, david foster - girl with curious hair
  • west, nathanael - miss lonelyhearts
  • west, nathanael - the day of the locust
  • williams, oscar - immortal poems
  • williams, oscar - mentor book of major american poets
  • woolf, virginia - to the lighthouse
oct 22 2012 ∞
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