Currently Reading--
Sherwood Anderson | Winesburg, Ohio
JK Rowling | Harry Potter y la orden del fenix
To Read
Marilynne Robinson | Housekeeping
Kevin Brockmeier | The Brief History of the Dead
Raymond Carver | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? [own]
The Best American Short Stories, 2005 [own]
The Best American Short Stories, 1992 [own]
Amy Hempel | Collected Stories
Jonathan Fazin | Freedom
Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass [own]
Sappho | If not, then winter
Books Read in--
2011
Toni Morrison | Beloved
Isabel Allende | Los Cuentos de Eva Luna
William Golding | Lord of the Flies [reread]
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | A Study in Scarlet
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Sign of the Four
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
JK Rowling | Harry Potter y la camara de secretos
JK Rowling | Harry Potter y el prisionero de Azkaban
Oscar Wilde | Ballad of Reading Goal
Mark Twain | The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
Isabel Allende | Of Love and Shadows
JK Rowling | Harry Potter y el caliz de fuego
Dorianne Laux | Facts About the Moon: Poems
Dorianne Laux | The Book of Men: Poems
Michael Chabon | A Model World and Other Stories
Michael Chabon | Werewolves in Our Youth
Suzanne Collins | The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins | Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins | Mockingjay
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2010
Jumpta Lahiri | Unaccustomed Earth
Junot Diaz |The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Bernardo Atxaga | Obabakoak
Isabel Allende | The House of the Spirits
Becquer | La Promesa & El Rayo de Luna
Don Juan Tenorio
Tobias Wolff | Back in the World
George Orwell | Animal Farm (reread)
Adolous Huxley | Brave New World
Ernest Hemmingway | The Old Man and the Sea
Michael Chabon | Wonderboys
Oscar Wilde | A Picture of Dorian Gray
Levitt & Dubner | Superfreakonomics
Michael Cunningham | The Hours
Julia Alvarez | How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
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2009
Franz Kafka | The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka |The Judgement
Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre
J.D. Salinger | Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger | Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
Milan Kundera | The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Joseph Heller | Catch 22
Margaret Atwood | Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on Writing (didn't finish)
Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights
Milan Kundera | The Unbearable Lightness of Being (reread)
(Ed.) Joyce Carol Oats | The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (selections)
Toni Morrison | A Mercy
The Best American Short Stories 2008
Michael Chabon | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Michael Chabon | The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon | Mysteries of Pittsburg
JD Salinger | Franny & Zooey (reread)
JD Salinger | Hapworth 16, 1924
(Ed. Tobias Wolff) | The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories
Khaled Hosseini | A Thousand Splendid Sons
Malcolm Gladwell | Outliers
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2008
Virginia Wolf | Mrs. Dalloway
Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner
J.D. Salinger | Franny and Zooey
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude
(Ed. Tobias Wolff) | The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories
Toni Morrison | The Bluest Eye
Kate Chopin | The Awakening (reread)
Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse Five
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2007
Willa Cather | My Ántonia
Ernest J. Gaines | A Lesson Before Dying
Nadine Gordimier | July's People
Nicole Krauss | The History of Love
Jhumpa Lahiri | Interpreter of Maladies
JK Rowling | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Sophocles | Antigone
Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina
Thornton Wilder | The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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2006
Leif Enger | Peace Like A River
Alice Sebold | Lovely Bones
Milan Kundera | The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Malcolm Gladwell | Blink
Mitch Albom | The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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2005
Yann Martel | The Life of Pi
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Malcolm Gladwell | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Herman Hesse | Siddhartha
Gregory Maguire | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
JK Rowling | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Diane Ackerman | An Alchemy of Mind : The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
Anthony Burgess | A Clockwork Orange
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004
Augusten Burroughs | Running With Scissors: A Memoir
David Leviathan | The Realm of Possibility
Patricia Mccormick | Cut
Louisa Luna | Brave New Girl
Lynne Truss | Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Thomas C. Foster | How to Read Literature Like a Professor : A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Shakespeare | Hamlet
Oscar Wilde | The Importance of Being Earnest
Jonathan Safran Foer | Everything is Illuminated
Chuck Klosterman | Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs : A Low Culture Manifesto
Arthur Golden | Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel
George Orwell | Animal Farm
Ken Kesey | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Anne Lamott | Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
J.D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye
Feel free to leave recommendations and ask me about the books listed above!
See also my
top ten favorite novels and short stories.