winter reading list
Here is the list of novels I've read, at least those I can remember. As some will notice my strong suit is American Literature of the 20th century which is my love and as anyone who has been there knows its very hard to turn attention away from true love. I do try to branch out from Sinclair, Steinbeck, Bradbury and a league of other amazing American born writers; from time to time I'll dip my toes into the classics or French literature but its hard to be gone so long from the scribes who can romanticize even the darkest parts of the land of free.
Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien
The Two Towers - JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien)
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Anthem - Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead- Ayn Rand
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Stand - Stephen King
Carrie - Stephen King
Misery - Stephen King
The Green Mile - Stephen King
Gerald's Game - Stephen King
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
World's End - Upton Sinclair
Oil! - Upton Sinclair
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
The Vampire Chronicles (the first seven) - Anne Rice
Belinda - Anne Rice
Cry to Heaven - Anne Rice
Maniac Magee - Jerry Spinelli
Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli
The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
The secret Life of bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Good Earth - Pearl S Buck
Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
Hiroshima - John Hersey
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan (14)
White Oleander - Janet Finch (19)
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka (17)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (15)
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekov
Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
Farewell Summer - Ray Bradbury (25)
Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury (17)
From the Dust Returned - Ray Bradbury (19)
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Magician's Nephew - CS Lewis
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - CS lewis
The Horse and his Boy - CS Lewis
Prince Caspian - CS lewis
Alice in wonderland/Through the looking glass - Lewis Carroll
Rebeccas World - Terry Nation
The Prydain Chronicles - Lloyd Alexander
The Iron Ring - Lloyd Alexander
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson (8)
A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines (15)
Dear Mr. Henshaw - Beverly Cleary (9)
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen (9)
Henry and June - Anais Nin
Delta of Venus - Anais Nin
Winter of Artifice - Anais Nin
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen (17)
Dragonlance Chronicles - Margaret Weis,Tracy Hickman (21)
Summer Sisters - Judy Blume (22)
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume (7)
The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (15)
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White (13)
The Trumpet of the Swan - E. B. White (13)
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt (17)
The Stranger - Albert Camus (15)
The Old man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
The BFG - Roald Dahl
The Witches - Roald Dahl
Redwall - Brian Jacques
Mossflower - Brian Jacques
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
Harry potter series - J. K. Rowling
Dolls House - Henrik Ibsen
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell
The winter of our Discontent - John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence
Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence
Slaughter-House-5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
Magical Thinking - Augusten Burroughs
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Dubliners - James Joyce
White Noise - Don Delillo
Americana - Don Delillo
The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis (24)
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis (28)
The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer (24)
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (25)
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (25)
Other Voices, Other Rooms - Truman Capote (25)
The Best American Non Required Reading 2007 - ED. Dave Eggers (26)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith (26)
My Sister, My Love - Joyce Carol Oates (27)
Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie (27)
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Shanghai Girls - Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatj
Plainsong - Kent Haruf
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
The World According to Garp - John Irving
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Arabian Sands - Wilfred Thesiger
The Marsh Arabs - Wilfred Thesiger
Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
East of the Sun - Julia Gregson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngart
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien
The Two Towers - JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien)
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Anthem - Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead- Ayn Rand
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Stand - Stephen King
Carrie - Stephen King
Misery - Stephen King
The Green Mile - Stephen King
Gerald's Game - Stephen King
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
World's End - Upton Sinclair
Oil! - Upton Sinclair
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
The Vampire Chronicles (the first seven) - Anne Rice
Belinda - Anne Rice
Cry to Heaven - Anne Rice
Maniac Magee - Jerry Spinelli
Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli
The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
The secret Life of bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Good Earth - Pearl S Buck
Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
Hiroshima - John Hersey
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan (14)
White Oleander - Janet Finch (19)
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka (17)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (15)
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekov
Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
Farewell Summer - Ray Bradbury (25)
Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury (17)
From the Dust Returned - Ray Bradbury (19)
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Magician's Nephew - CS Lewis
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - CS lewis
The Horse and his Boy - CS Lewis
Prince Caspian - CS lewis
Alice in wonderland/Through the looking glass - Lewis Carroll
Rebeccas World - Terry Nation
The Prydain Chronicles - Lloyd Alexander
The Iron Ring - Lloyd Alexander
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson (8)
A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines (15)
Dear Mr. Henshaw - Beverly Cleary (9)
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen (9)
Henry and June - Anais Nin
Delta of Venus - Anais Nin
Winter of Artifice - Anais Nin
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen (17)
Dragonlance Chronicles - Margaret Weis,Tracy Hickman (21)
Summer Sisters - Judy Blume (22)
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume (7)
The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (15)
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White (13)
The Trumpet of the Swan - E. B. White (13)
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt (17)
The Stranger - Albert Camus (15)
The Old man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
The BFG - Roald Dahl
The Witches - Roald Dahl
Redwall - Brian Jacques
Mossflower - Brian Jacques
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
Harry potter series - J. K. Rowling
Dolls House - Henrik Ibsen
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell
The winter of our Discontent - John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence
Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence
Slaughter-House-5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
Magical Thinking - Augusten Burroughs
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Dubliners - James Joyce
White Noise - Don Delillo
Americana - Don Delillo
The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis (24)
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis (28)
The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer (24)
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (25)
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (25)
Other Voices, Other Rooms - Truman Capote (25)
The Best American Non Required Reading 2007 - ED. Dave Eggers (26)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith (26)
My Sister, My Love - Joyce Carol Oates (27)
Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie (27)
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Shanghai Girls - Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatj
Plainsong - Kent Haruf
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
The World According to Garp - John Irving
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Arabian Sands - Wilfred Thesiger
The Marsh Arabs - Wilfred Thesiger
Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
East of the Sun - Julia Gregson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngart
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides