the books on my growing shelf, sorted by genre and organized by alphabetical order for ease of reference
⠀ ⠀ ☆⠀reading
CLASSICS
- a farewell to arms, ernest hemingway
- animal farm, george orwell
- beloved, toni morrison
- brave new world, aldous huxley
- classic tales of horror, edgar allan poe
- crime and punishment, fyodor dostoevsky
- dracula, bram stoker
- fahrenheit 451, ray bradbury
- jane eyre, charlotte bronte
- notes from underground, fyodor dostoyevsky
- pierre and jean, guy de maupassant
- slaughterhouse five, kurt vonnegut
- the brothers karamazov, fyodor dostoyevsky
- the grapes of wrath, john steinbeck
- the great gatsby, f. scott fitzgerald
- the idiot, fyodor dostoevsky
- the metamorphosis & other short stories, franz kafka
- the pearl, john steinbeck
- the picture of dorian gray, oscar wilde
- the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde, robert stevenson
- the trial, franz kafka
- their eyes were watching god, zora neale hurston
- white nights, fyodor dostoyevsky
- wuthering heights, emily bronte
HISTORY
- a soldier for napoleon, john gill
- catastrophe 1914: europe goes to war, max hastings
- kill anything that moves, nick turse
FICTION
- all the pretty horses, cormac mccarthy
- as meat loves salt, maria mccann ☆
- blood meridian, cormac mccarthy
- lonesome dove, larry mcmurtry
- memoirs of an infantry officer, seigfried sassoon
- no country for old men, cormac mccarthy
- out, natsuo kirino ☆
- scythe, neil shusterman
- true grit, charles portis
- yesteryear, caro claire burke
NONFICTION
- bury my heart at wounded knee, dee brown
- good-bye to all that, robert graves
- 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
- sketching the basics, koos eissen & roselien steur
- the art thief, michael finkel
- your brain on art, susan magsamen & ivy ross
NATURE
- the complete language of flowers, s. theresa dietz
MISC
- work clothes, chic simple
feb 12 2025 ∞
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