Needs ordering, currently in an abstract state. Long list of books that I have heard of/want to read/have been recommended/etc. Crossed off as I finish them. Note: only new books or unfinished books; not rereads will be added to this list.
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- Swordpoint - Ellen Kushner
- Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
- The Perks of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
- American Gods - Neil Gaiman
- Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
- Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
- Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale
- Rebel Angels - Libba Bray
- The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray
- The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
- The Monsters of Templeton - Lauren Groff
- The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Kate Summerscale
- Middlesex
- Paper Towns - John Green
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
- We regert to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
- The Last Kiss
- Thomas Gray: A Life - Robert L. Mack
- The Partly Cloudy Patriot - Sarah Vowell
- Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell
- I Just Hope It's Lethal
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing - M. T. Anderson
- Presidential Secrecy and the Law - Robert Pallitto
- Happier - Tal Ben-Shahar
- The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
- The Future of Afghanistan - US Peace something
- Flight 2 (Graphic Novel)
- The Edge of Disaster - Stephen Flynn
- The War Within - Bob Woodward (1/2 DONE)
- The Limits of Power - Andrew J Bacevich (1/2 DONE)
- Hot, Flat, and Crowded - Thomas L. Friedman
- Nixonland - Rick Perstein
- The Big Sort
- America Between the Wars
- The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
- The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders - Colin Henry Wilson
- God in the Whitehouse - Randall Balmer
- A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit
- Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America - Brian Francis Slattery
- Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them - Al Franken
- Pretty Monsters - Kelly Link
- Magic for Beginners - Kelly Link
- The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
- Thirteenth Child - Patricia C Wrede
- Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is Another Way for Africa - Dambisa Moyo
- The Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria
- From Colony to Superpower: U. S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 - George C. Herring
- Watchmen - Alan Moore
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Tithe
- The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
- The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
- The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
- A Concise History of U.S. Foreign Policy - Joyce P. Kaufman
- Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman
- The New Kings of Nonfiction - Ira Glass
- Hubris - Michael Isikoff and David Corn
- The Magician - Michael Scott
- The Alchemyst - Michael Scott
- The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
- Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
- Dhalgren - Samuel Delaney
- The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey - Trenton Lee Stewart
- The Red Parts: A Memoir - Maggie Nelson
- Goest - Cole Swensen
- We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive - Laurie Notaro
- Asterios Polyp - David Mazzucchelli
- Dante's Inferno - Dante Alighieri
- Le Morte d'Arthur - Thomas Malory
- The Water Mirror - Kai Meyer
- The Stone Light - Kai Meyer
- The Glass Word - Kai Meyer
- Last Words of Notable People - William B. Brahms