• 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