the books on my growing shelf sorted by genre for ease of reference

CLASSICS

  • animal farm, george orwell
  • crime and punishment, fyodor dostoevsky
  • dracula, bram stoker
  • jane eyre, charlotte bronte
  • notes from underground, fyodor dostoyevsky
  • the awakening, kate chopin
  • the brothers karamazov, fyodor dostoyevsky
  • the great gatsby, f. scott fitzgerald
  • the handmaid's tale, margaret atwood
  • the idiot, fyodor dostoevsky
  • the metamorphosis & other short stories, franz kafka
  • the picture of dorian gray, oscar wilde
  • their eyes were watching god, zora neale hurston
  • white nights, fyodor dostoevsky
  • slaughterhouse five, kurt vonnegut
  • the grapes of wrath, john steinbeck

HISTORY

  • a soldier for napoleon, john gill
  • catastrophe 1914: europe goes to war, max hastings
  • history of english literature, legouis & cazamian

FICTION

  • as meat loves salt, maria mccann
  • out, natsuo kirino

NONFICTION

  • bury my heart at wounded knee, dee brown
  • good-bye to all that, robert graves
  • molly, blake butler
  • storm of steel, ernst junger

ART

  • basic anatomy, ken goldman
  • evelyn & william de morgan, yale university press
  • keys to drawing, bert dodson
  • morpho, anatomy for artists, michel lauricella
    • clothing folds and creases
    • skeleton and bone reference points
  • perspective made easy, ernest r. norling
  • the art thief, michael finkel
  • your brain on art, susan magsamen & ivy ross

SELF-HELP

  • how to talk to anyone, leil lowndes

NATURE

  • the complete language of flowers, s. theresa dietz
  • the life of birds, welty and baptista

MISC

  • work clothes, chic simple
feb 12 2025 ∞
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