books on my bookshelf paitiently waiting to be read
Alex Archer Rogue Angel: Renaissance (includes Destiny, Solomon's Jar and The Spider Stone)
Isaac Asimov Foundation
Jane Austen Emma
Richard Bach Stranger to the Ground, A Gift of Wings
Dave Barry's Bad Habits
Cat Bauer Harley, Like a Person
Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
Francesca Lia Block Dangerous Angels (the entire Weetzie Bat series, which I read YEARS ago)
Francesca Lia Block Ecstasia
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Terry Brooks The Sword of Shannara, The Wishsong of Shannara
Albert Camus The Stranger
Orson Scott Card Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon
Jacqueline Carey Kushiel's Dart
George Carlin Napalm and Silly Putty
Louis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Cecil Castellucci Boy Proof
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
C. J. Cherryh Exile's Gate, Fortress in the Eye of Time
Tracy Chevalier Girl with a Pearl Earring
Mark Childress One Mississippi
Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Rachel Cohn Gingerbread
Robin Cook Acceptable Risk, Mortal Fear
Patricia Cornwell The Body Farm
Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus (I started this a long time ago and never finished it)
Michael Crichton Prey, Next
Janine Cross Forged by Fire
Sarah Dunant The Birth of Venus
Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Karen Siff Exkorn The Autism Sourcebook
Elizabeth Flock But Inside I'm Screaming
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett Good Omens (once again, started but not finished)
Alex Garland The Beach [the movie was based on the book]
Tess Gerritsen Gravity
Kaye Gibbons A Virtuous Woman, Ellen Foster
Laura Anna Gilman Staying Dead (I've started this one twice)
Jason Glover The Perception Experiment
Jo Graham Black Ships
Joanne Greenberg I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Philippa Gregory The Queen's Fool
David Guterson Our Lady of the Forest
Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles (this has footnotes at the back of the book, which makes it nearly impossible for me to get more than 25 pages into it)
Kate Hawks The Lovers (about Tristan & Isolde)
Frank Herbert Dune
Homer The Odyssey
Marya Hornbacher Wasted
Steve Jackson No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators
Henry James The Bostonians
Lisa Jewell One-Hit Wonder
Sebastian Junger The Perfect Storm [like the movie]
John Katzenbach Hart's War [yet another movie]
Ken Kasey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Stephen King Lisey's Story
Joseph T. Klempner Shoot the Moon
John Krakauer Into the Wild
Peter D. Kramer Spectacular Happiness
Lori Lansens The Girls
D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover
Dennis Lehane Mystic River
Gregory Maguire Son of the Witch (I lent my hardback out to someone and never got it back, so I bought it in paperback)
Steve Martin Shopgirl
Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus Dedication
L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea
Christopher Moore Lamb (I read part of this and then got distracted with something else, awesome book though)
Sylvia Nasar A Beautiful Mind
Katharine Noel Halfway House
George Orwell 1984 (I had about 20 pages left and quit, so now I have to start over)
John Pascucci The Manhunter
Warren Patabendi The Removal
James Patterson Sunday at Tiffany's
Nathaniel Philbrick In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Richard Power Tangled Web: Tales of Digital Crime from the Shadows of Cyberspace
Philip Pullman The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
Joel C. Rosenberg The Last Jihad
Gwyn Hyman Rubio Icy Sparks
Donald Rumbelow Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebook (this was written in 1988, not sure how accurate it'll be at this point)
John Burnham Schwartz Claire Marvel
Alice Sebold The Almost Moon (for how amazing The Lovely Bones was, I found this hard to get through, made it halfway and stopped)
Ernest Shackleton In the Heart of the Antarctic: The Farthest South Expedition
Anita Shreve The Pilot's Wife
Gary Shteyngart The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Zadie Smith White Teeth
David Sosnowski Vamped
Nicholas Sparks A Bend in the Road
Mary Stewart The Crystal Cave
Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
Barbara Thierring Jesus: The Man
J.R.R. Tolkein The Hobbit
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Nick Tosches In the Hand of Dante
Brenda Rickman Vantrease The Mercy Seller
Sarah Waters Tipping the Velvet
Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited (I bought this yesterday after seeing the movie preview)
Lauren Weisberger The Devil Wears Prada, Everyone Worth Knowing
H.G. Wells The Time Machine
Jack Whyte The Skystone
Richard Zacks Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
Misdiagnosis & Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children & Adults by a bunch of random doctors
I also have a stack of books at Drew's, which are not included on this list, since I'm not there.
Books I Am Currently Reading:
Karen Chance Embrace the Night
Laurell K. Hamilton Swallowing Darkness
Rob Sheffield Love is a Mixtape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time -- this book is AMAZING, just so everyone knows
Isaac Asimov Foundation
Jane Austen Emma
Richard Bach Stranger to the Ground, A Gift of Wings
Dave Barry's Bad Habits
Cat Bauer Harley, Like a Person
Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
Francesca Lia Block Dangerous Angels (the entire Weetzie Bat series, which I read YEARS ago)
Francesca Lia Block Ecstasia
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Terry Brooks The Sword of Shannara, The Wishsong of Shannara
Albert Camus The Stranger
Orson Scott Card Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon
Jacqueline Carey Kushiel's Dart
George Carlin Napalm and Silly Putty
Louis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Cecil Castellucci Boy Proof
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
C. J. Cherryh Exile's Gate, Fortress in the Eye of Time
Tracy Chevalier Girl with a Pearl Earring
Mark Childress One Mississippi
Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Rachel Cohn Gingerbread
Robin Cook Acceptable Risk, Mortal Fear
Patricia Cornwell The Body Farm
Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus (I started this a long time ago and never finished it)
Michael Crichton Prey, Next
Janine Cross Forged by Fire
Sarah Dunant The Birth of Venus
Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Karen Siff Exkorn The Autism Sourcebook
Elizabeth Flock But Inside I'm Screaming
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett Good Omens (once again, started but not finished)
Alex Garland The Beach [the movie was based on the book]
Tess Gerritsen Gravity
Kaye Gibbons A Virtuous Woman, Ellen Foster
Laura Anna Gilman Staying Dead (I've started this one twice)
Jason Glover The Perception Experiment
Jo Graham Black Ships
Joanne Greenberg I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Philippa Gregory The Queen's Fool
David Guterson Our Lady of the Forest
Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles (this has footnotes at the back of the book, which makes it nearly impossible for me to get more than 25 pages into it)
Kate Hawks The Lovers (about Tristan & Isolde)
Frank Herbert Dune
Homer The Odyssey
Marya Hornbacher Wasted
Steve Jackson No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators
Henry James The Bostonians
Lisa Jewell One-Hit Wonder
Sebastian Junger The Perfect Storm [like the movie]
John Katzenbach Hart's War [yet another movie]
Ken Kasey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Stephen King Lisey's Story
Joseph T. Klempner Shoot the Moon
John Krakauer Into the Wild
Peter D. Kramer Spectacular Happiness
Lori Lansens The Girls
D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover
Dennis Lehane Mystic River
Gregory Maguire Son of the Witch (I lent my hardback out to someone and never got it back, so I bought it in paperback)
Steve Martin Shopgirl
Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus Dedication
L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea
Christopher Moore Lamb (I read part of this and then got distracted with something else, awesome book though)
Sylvia Nasar A Beautiful Mind
Katharine Noel Halfway House
George Orwell 1984 (I had about 20 pages left and quit, so now I have to start over)
John Pascucci The Manhunter
Warren Patabendi The Removal
James Patterson Sunday at Tiffany's
Nathaniel Philbrick In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Richard Power Tangled Web: Tales of Digital Crime from the Shadows of Cyberspace
Philip Pullman The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
Joel C. Rosenberg The Last Jihad
Gwyn Hyman Rubio Icy Sparks
Donald Rumbelow Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebook (this was written in 1988, not sure how accurate it'll be at this point)
John Burnham Schwartz Claire Marvel
Alice Sebold The Almost Moon (for how amazing The Lovely Bones was, I found this hard to get through, made it halfway and stopped)
Ernest Shackleton In the Heart of the Antarctic: The Farthest South Expedition
Anita Shreve The Pilot's Wife
Gary Shteyngart The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Zadie Smith White Teeth
David Sosnowski Vamped
Nicholas Sparks A Bend in the Road
Mary Stewart The Crystal Cave
Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
Barbara Thierring Jesus: The Man
J.R.R. Tolkein The Hobbit
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Nick Tosches In the Hand of Dante
Brenda Rickman Vantrease The Mercy Seller
Sarah Waters Tipping the Velvet
Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited (I bought this yesterday after seeing the movie preview)
Lauren Weisberger The Devil Wears Prada, Everyone Worth Knowing
H.G. Wells The Time Machine
Jack Whyte The Skystone
Richard Zacks Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
Misdiagnosis & Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children & Adults by a bunch of random doctors
I also have a stack of books at Drew's, which are not included on this list, since I'm not there.
Books I Am Currently Reading:
Karen Chance Embrace the Night
Laurell K. Hamilton Swallowing Darkness
Rob Sheffield Love is a Mixtape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time -- this book is AMAZING, just so everyone knows