Books to Read

Collected Poetry

  1. E.E. Cummings
  2. Dark Hours - Conchitina Cruz
  3. Howl, Kaddish, and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
  4. The Captain’s Verse - Pablo Neruda **
  5. Robert Frost
  6. Selected Poems - Elizabeth Barrett Browning **
  7. Robert Browning
  8. The Cinnamon Peeler - Michael Ondaatje **
  9. Federico García Lorca

Fiction

  1. An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
  2. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (Peaver & Volokhonsky translation)
  3. After Dark - Haruki Murakami
  4. The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irvine Stone
  5. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
  6. Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
  7. Atonement - Ian McEwan **
  8. Beatrice & Virgil - Yann Martel
  9. Birds of America - Lorrie Moore **
  10. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  11. Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It - Maile Meloy **
  12. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
  13. The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
  14. Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote **
  15. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières
  16. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
  17. The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
  18. The Color of Water - James McBride
  19. The Complete Stories - Flannery O’Connor
  20. Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins - Carlos Fuentes
  21. Dimanche and Other Stories - Irene Nemirovsky **
  22. Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
  23. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje (re-read) **
  24. Fire in the Blood - Irene Nemirovsky
  25. The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Carrie Ryan
  26. The Four Loves - C.S. Lewis **
  27. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
  28. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
  29. Frenchman’s Creek - Daphne du Maurier
  30. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
  31. The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis **
  32. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald **
  33. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
  34. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
  35. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
  36. How To Breathe Underwater - Julie Orringer
  37. How We Are Hungry - Dave Eggers
  38. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
  39. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins **
  40. In The Skin Of A Lion - Michael Ondaatje **
  41. Ishmael - Daniel Quinn (re-read)
  42. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  43. Jayber Crow - Wendell Berry **
  44. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
  45. Journey Into the Past - Stefan Zweig
  46. The Last Station - Jay Parini
  47. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  48. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
  49. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  50. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
  51. Mountains on Mountains - Tracy Kidder
  52. My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead - Jeffrey Eugenides **
  53. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
  54. Next World Novella - Matthias Politycki
  55. No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
  56. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
  57. One Day - David Nicholls
  58. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  59. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
  60. The Perks of Being a Wall Flower - Stephen Chebosky
  61. The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
  62. Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
  63. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen **
  64. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
  65. Sarah’s Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
  66. The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis **
  67. Severance - Robert Olen Butler
  68. Sherlock Holmes Selected Stories - Arthur Conan Doyle
  69. The Short Stories - Ernest Hemingway
  70. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
  71. The Spirit Catches You & You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman
  72. The Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters
  73. The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov ** In progress
  74. Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
  75. To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
  76. Too Much Happiness - Alice Munroe **
  77. Veronika Decides To Die - Paulo Coelho
  78. What He’s Poised to Do - Ben Greenman **
  79. Winter’s Tale - Mark Helprin **
  80. Wish Her Safe at Home - Stephen Benatar
  81. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte **
  82. The Yellow Wallpaper, and other stories - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  83. 1984 - George Orwell

Non-Fiction

  1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby
  2. The Elements of Style - William Strunk and E.B. White
  3. Gluten-free Girl - Shauna Janice Ahern **
  4. The Inner Voice - Renee Fleming
  5. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
  6. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks **
  7. Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin **

Theology

  1. Allah: A Christian Response - Miroslav Volf
  2. Atheist Delusions - David Bentley Hart
  3. Blue Like Jazz - Don Miller
  4. Captivating - John & Stasi Eldredge 
  5. The Four Loves - C.S. Lewis **
  6. Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
  7. The Practice of the Presence of God - Brother Lawrence **
  8. The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis
  9. The Rise of Christianity - Rodney Stark **
  10. Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community - Wendell Berry

*subject to endless revisions and expansions

** denotes owned copy