Wednesday, January 19, 2011

the never ending list of books to buy/read

Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)*
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Legs McNeil)
The Little Locksmith (Katherine Butler Hathaway)
The Bielski Brothers (Peter Duff)
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (Sylvia Plath)*
Out of Africa (Isak Dinesen)
Howl (Allen Dinsburg)
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)

Lord of the Flies (William Golding)*
The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)*
The Count Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)*
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)*
The Wizard of Oz (Frank L. Baum)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Edward Albee)
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
Gone with the Wind (Margret Mitchell)*
A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf)
Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)*
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Vincent Bugliosi & Curt Gentry)
Looking for Alaska (John Green)*
The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux)*
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)*
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)*
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)*
The Secret Garden (Frances Hogdson Burnett)*
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Bridget Jones' Diary (Helen Fielding)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)*
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (JRR Tolkien)
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (John Borne)
Annie's Baby (Beatrice Sparks)*
Jay's Journal (Beatrice Sparks)
The Screwtape Letters (CS Lewis)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)*
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice)*
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
James and the Giant Peach (Ronald Dahl)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
The Killers Angels (Michael Sahara)*
The Castle of Oranto (Horace Walpole)
A Lifelong Passion:Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story (Sergei Mironenko & Andrei Maylunas)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Ronald Dahl)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)*
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogal)
Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
A Mango Shaped Space (Wendy Mass)
Sophie's Choice (William Styron)
The Hours (Michael Cunningham)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)*
Franny and Gooey (JD Salinger) 
Ham on Rye (Charles Bukowski) 
Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt)*
Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Patterson)
A Child Called It (Dave Pelzer)
Gathering Blue (Lois Lowry)
The Hiding Place (Corrie Ten Boom)
Night (Elie Wiesel)*
Atonement (Ian McEwan)*
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)*
The Perks of being a Wallflower (Charles Chbosky)*
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)*
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)*
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)*
The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien)*
The Chronicles of Narnia (CS Lewis)*
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)*
The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)*
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)*
Emma (Jane Austen)*
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)*
In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) *
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)*
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)*
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)*
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)*
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)*
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)*
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)*
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)*
Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)*
Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)*
Persuasion (Jane Austen)*
Lady Susan (Jane Austen)*
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)*
Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)*
Wicked (Gregory Maguire)*
Son of a Witch (Gregory Maguire)
The Complete Tales and Poems of (Edgar Allan Poe)*
Rebecca (Daphne De Maurier
Influence (Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen)
Invisible Monsters (Chuck Palahniuk)
The Freedom Writers Diary (The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell)*
The Other Boleyn Girl (Philippa Gregory)
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
Walden (Henry David Thoreau)*
Agnes Grey (Anne Bronte)*
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)*
1984 (George Orwell)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)*
Catch-22 (Joesph Heller)
Charlotte's Web (E.B White)
Purfume: The Story of a Murderer (Patrick Suskind)
Matilda (Ronald Dahl)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter)*
Speak (Laurie Halse Anderson)*
Dead Poets Society (N.H. Kleinbaum)
The Cider House Rules (John Irving)
The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Kim Edwards)
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (JK Rowling)
Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)
The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
White Oleander (Jane Fitch)
Peter Pan (JM Barrie)
The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)*
The Pianist (Wladyslaw Szpilman)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)*
The Code of the Woosters (PG Wodehouse)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Daisy Miller (Henry James)
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)*
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar (Robert Alexander)
The Catcher in the Rye*





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