Reading List
This is the stuff that I want to start working my way through. I’ll just strike-through the ones that I’ve read recently enough that I don’t want to re-read them and color them by my rating (green - yay, red - not so yay, blue - have/reading). When I write a review of something I’ll link to it from this list also.
- Abbey, Edward - Desert Solitaire
- Abbott, Edwin - Flatland
- Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Adams, Douglas - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy- Adams, Henry - The Education of Henry Adams
Adams, Richard - Watership Down(review)- Aesop - Aesop’s Fables
- Agee, James - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women
- Aligheri, Dante - The Divine Comedy
- Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim
- Anderson, Sherwood - Winesburg, Ohio
- Asimov, Isaac - Gold
- Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid’s Tale
- Austen, Jane - Emma
- Baldwin, James - Giovanni’s Room
- Barth, John - Lost in the Funhouse
- Baum, L. Frank - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
- Bellow, Saul - Herzog
- Berger, Thomas - Little Big Man
- Bester, Alfred - The Stars My Destination
- Bissinger, H.G. - Friday Night Lights
- Borges, Jorge Luis - Ficciones
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan - The Tortilla Curtain
Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451- Bradley, Marion Zimmer - The Mists of Avalon
- Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
- Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
- Brown, Dee - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- Buck, Pearl S. - The Good Earth
- Bukowski, Charles - Post Office
- Burgess, Anthony - A Clockwork Orange
- Burroughs, William S. - Naked Lunch
- Calvino, Italo - If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
- Camus, Albert - The Stranger
- Capote, Truman - In Cold Blood
Card, Orson Scott - Ender’s Game- Carroll, Jim - The Basketball Diaries
- Carroll, Lewis - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Carroll, Peter - Liber Null
- Carson, Rachel - Silent Spring
- Cather, Willa - My Antonia
- Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote
- Chabon, Michael - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Chandler, Raymond - The Long Goodbye
- Cheever, John - The Stories of John Cheever
- Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
- Clarke, Arthur C. - Childhood’s End
- Confucius - The Analects
- Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
- Pat Conroy - The Prince of Tides
- Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
- Coupland, Douglas - Microserfs
- Cunningham, Michael - The Hours
- Dahl, Roald - Danny the Champion of the World
- Danielewski, Mark - House of Leaves
- Davies, Robertson - The Deptford Trilogy
- Dawkins, Richard - The Blind Watchmaker
- Delany, Samuel - Dhalgren
- De Beauvoir, Simone - The Second Sex
- DeLillo, Dom - Underworld
- Dick, Philip K. - The Man in the High Castle
- Dickens, Charles - David Copperfield
- Dickey, James - Deliverance
- Dickinson, Emily - The Complete Poems
- Dinesen, Isak - Out of Africa
- Doctorow, E.L. - World’s Fair
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Brothers Karamazov
- Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
- DuBois, W.E.B. - The Souls of Black Folk
- Dumas, Alexandre - The Count of Monte Cristo
- du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca
- Eco, Umberto - Foucault’s Pendulum
- Eggers, Dave - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- Eliot, George - Silas Marner
- Eliot, T.S. - The Waste Land
- Ellis, Bret Easton - American Psycho
- Ellison, Harlan - The Essential Ellison
- Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
- Ellroy, James - L.A. Confidential
- Euclid - The Elements
Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Virgin Suicides- Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
- Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
- Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
- Fo, Dario - Accidental Death of an Anarchist
- Ford, Richard - The Sportswriter
- Forster, E.M. - A Room With A View
- Fowles, John - The Magus
- Gaarder, Jostein - Sophie’s World
- Gabaldon, Diana - Outlander
Gaiman, Neil - American Gods- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Gibran, Kahlil - The Prophet
- Gibson, William - Count Zero
- Ginsberg, Allen - Howl
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies- Grahame, Kenneth - The Wind in the Willows
- Grass, Günter - The Tin Drum
- Greene, Graham - The Power and the Glory
- Grimm, Wilhelm and Jacob - The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales
- Haggard, H. Rider - She
- Haley, Alex - Roots
- Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d’Urbervilles
- Hamilton, Edith - Mythology
- Hammett, Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon
- Hansberry, Lorraine - A Raisin in the Sun
- Harris, Mark - Bang the Drum Slowly
- Hawking, Stephen - A Brief History of Time
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
- Heinlein, Robert - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
- Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell To Arms
- Henry, O. - 41 Stories
- Herbert, Frank - Dune
- Hesse, Herman - Siddharta
- Hofstadter, Douglas - Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- Homer - The Odyssey
- Hornby, Nick - High Fidelity
- Hughes, Langston - The Collected Poems
- Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables
- Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
- Ibsen, Henrik - The Wild Duck
- Irving, John - A Prayer For Owen Meany
- Jackson, Shirley - The Lottery and Other Stories
- James, William - The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Jin, Ha - War Trash
- Jones, Edward P. - The Known World
- Jones, James - From Here to Eternity
- Joyce, James - Ulysses
- Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
- Keats, John - The Complete Poems
- Kerouac, Jack - On the Road
- Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
- Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algernon
- King, Stephen - It
- Kingsolver, Barbara - The Poisonwood Bible
- Kinsella, W.P. - Shoeless Joe
- Kipling, Rudyard - Kim
- Knowles, John - A Separate Peace
- Koestler, Arthur - Darkness at Noon
- Kohn, Alfie - No Contest
- Kristol, Irving - Neoconservatism
- Kundera, Milan - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Lahiri, Jhumpa - Interpreter of Maladies
- Larson, Erik - The Devil in the White City
- Larson, Gary - The Complete Far Side
- Lawrence, D.H. - Sons and Lovers
- Lee, Harper - To Kill A Mockingbird
- LeGuin, Ursula K. - The Left Hand of Darkness
- Lem, Stanislaw - Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
- Leonard, Elmore - Swag
- Leopold, Aldo - A Sand County Almanac
- Levy, Steven - Hackers
- Lewis, C.S. - Mere Christianity
- Lewis, Meriwether and Clark, William - The Journals of Lewis and Clark
- Lewis, Michael - Moneyball
- Lewis, Sinclair - It Can’t Happen Here
- London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
- Lowry, Lois - The Giver
- Mailer, Norman - The Executioner’s Song
- Marlowe, Christopher - Doctor Faustus
- Martin, George R.R. - A Game of Thrones
- Marx, Karl - The Communist Manifesto
- Masters, Edgar Lee - Spoon River Anthology
- McCarthy, Cormac - The Border Trilogy
- McCourt, Frank - Angela’s Ashes
- McMurtry, Larry - Lonesome Dove
- Mellick, Carlton III - Razor Wire Pubic Hair
- Miller, Arthur - Death of a Salesman
- Miller, Henry - Tropic of Cancer
- Miller Jr., Walter M. - A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Milne, A.A. - Winnie the Pooh
- Milton, John - Paradise Lost
- Moore, Alan - The Watchmen
- More, Thomas - Utopia
- Morris, Edmund - Dutch
- Morrison, Toni - Beloved
- Murakami, Haruki - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
- Nietzsche, Friedrich - The Portable Nietzsche
- Oates, Joyce Carol - We Were The Mulvaneys
- O’Nan, Stewart - A Prayer for the Dying
- Orczy, Baroness Emmuska - The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Orwell, George - 1984
- Palahniuk, Chuck - Fight Club
- Perez, Richard - The Loser’s Club
- Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
- Plato - The Republic
- Poe, Edgar Allan - Collected Tales and Poems
- Pound, Ezra - Selected Poems
- Pullman, Philip - Northern Lights
- Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
- Quinn, Daniel - Ishmael
- Rand, Ayn - The Fountainhead
- Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
- Rhys, Jean - Wide Sargasso Sea
- Robbins, Tom - Still Life With Woodpecker
- Roberts, J.M. - The New History of the World
- Robinson, Kim Stanley - The Years of Rice and Salt
- Robinson, Marilynne - Housekeeping
- Roth, Philip - Portnoy’s Complaint
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban- Rushdie, Salman - The Satanic Verses
- Russo, Richard - Empire Falls
- Sachar, Louis - Holes
- Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
- Schlosser, Eric - Fast Food Nation
- Scott, Walter - Ivanhoe
- Sedaris, David - Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
- Shakur, Tupac - The Rose That Grew From Concrete
- Shaw, Bernard - Pygmalion
- Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
- Shirer, William - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- Shute, Nevil - On the Beach
- Simmons, Dan - Hyperion
- Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle
- Spark, Muriel - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Spiegelman, Art - Maus
- Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
- Stephenson, Neal - Quicksilver
- Stevenson, Robert Louis - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Stoker, Bram - Dracula
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Styron, William - Sophie’s Choice
- Sundman, John F.X. - Acts of the Apostles
- Svevo, Italo - Confessions of Zeno
- Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver’s Travels
- Takami, Koushun - Battle Royale
- Tan, Amy - The Joy Luck Club
- Tartt, Donna - The Secret History
- Thomas, Dylan - The Collected Poems
- Thompson, Craig - Blankets
- Thompson, Hunter S. - Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ‘72
- Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
- Tocqueville, Alexis de - Democracy in America
- Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Lord of the Rings
- Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina
- Toole, John Kennedy - A Confederacy of Dunces
- Trumbo, Dalton - Johnny Got His Gun
- Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher - A Midwife’s Tale
- Updike, John - Rabbit, Run
- Vergil - The Aeneid
- Vinge, Vernor - A Deepness in the Sky
- Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse Five- Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
- Wallace, David Foster - Infinite Jest
- Warren, Robert Penn - All The King’s Men
- Watterson, Bill - The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
- Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited
- Webb, Mary - Precious Bane
- Wells, H.G. - The War of the Worlds
- Welsh, Irvine - Trainspotting
- Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence
- White, E.B. - Charlotte’s Web
- White, T.H. - The Once and Future King
- Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
- Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Wilder, Thornton - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Williams, Tennessee - A Streetcar Named Desire
- Wolff, Tobias - This Boy’s Life
- Wolfe, Tom - The Right Stuff
- Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
- Wordsworth, William - The Major Works
- Wright, Richard - Native Son
- Yeats, William Butler - The Collected Works, Volume I
Zinn, Howard - A People’s History of the United States
Last updated: 11/16/2006
