Books to Read
Collected Poetry
- E.E. Cummings
- Dark Hours - Conchitina Cruz
- Howl, Kaddish, and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
- The Captain’s Verse - Pablo Neruda **
- Robert Frost
- Selected Poems - Elizabeth Barrett Browning **
- Robert Browning
- The Cinnamon Peeler - Michael Ondaatje **
- Federico García Lorca
Fiction
- An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (Peaver & Volokhonsky translation)
- After Dark - Haruki Murakami
- The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irvine Stone
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
- Atonement - Ian McEwan **
- Beatrice & Virgil - Yann Martel
- Birds of America - Lorrie Moore **
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It - Maile Meloy **
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
- The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote **
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières
- The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
- The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
- The Color of Water - James McBride
- The Complete Stories - Flannery O’Connor
- Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins - Carlos Fuentes
- Dimanche and Other Stories - Irene Nemirovsky **
- Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
- The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje (re-read) **
- Fire in the Blood - Irene Nemirovsky
- The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Carrie Ryan
- The Four Loves - C.S. Lewis **
- Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
- Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
- Frenchman’s Creek - Daphne du Maurier
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
- The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis **
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald **
- The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
- The Hours - Michael Cunningham
- House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
- How To Breathe Underwater - Julie Orringer
- How We Are Hungry - Dave Eggers
- Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
- The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins **
- In The Skin Of A Lion - Michael Ondaatje **
- Ishmael - Daniel Quinn (re-read)
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Jayber Crow - Wendell Berry **
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
- Journey Into the Past - Stefan Zweig
- The Last Station - Jay Parini
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
- Mountains on Mountains - Tracy Kidder
- My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead - Jeffrey Eugenides **
- The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
- Next World Novella - Matthias Politycki
- No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
- On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
- One Day - David Nicholls
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Perks of Being a Wall Flower - Stephen Chebosky
- The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
- Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
- Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen **
- The Road - Cormac McCarthy
- Sarah’s Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
- The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis **
- Severance - Robert Olen Butler
- Sherlock Holmes Selected Stories - Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Short Stories - Ernest Hemingway
- Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Spirit Catches You & You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman
- The Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters
- The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov ** In progress
- Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
- To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
- Too Much Happiness - Alice Munroe **
- Veronika Decides To Die - Paulo Coelho
- What He’s Poised to Do - Ben Greenman **
- Winter’s Tale - Mark Helprin **
- Wish Her Safe at Home - Stephen Benatar
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte **
- The Yellow Wallpaper, and other stories - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- 1984 - George Orwell
Non-Fiction
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby
- The Elements of Style - William Strunk and E.B. White
- Gluten-free Girl - Shauna Janice Ahern **
- The Inner Voice - Renee Fleming
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
- Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks **
- Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin **
Theology
- Allah: A Christian Response - Miroslav Volf
- Atheist Delusions - David Bentley Hart
- Blue Like Jazz - Don Miller
- Captivating - John & Stasi Eldredge
- The Four Loves - C.S. Lewis **
- Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
- The Practice of the Presence of God - Brother Lawrence **
- The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis
- The Rise of Christianity - Rodney Stark **
- Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community - Wendell Berry
*subject to endless revisions and expansions
** denotes owned copy