Books I Own and
Books On My Wish List
Novels, essays, plays:
- Barthes, Roland. S/Z: An Essay.
- Behrendt, Greg. He's Just Not That Into You.
- Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson.
- Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights.
- Brown, Dan. The Da Vinci Code.
- Burroughs, Augusten. Sellivision.
- Burroughs, William S. Junky.
- Burroughs, William S. Queer.
- Canty, Kevin. Into the Great Wide Open.
- Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game.
- Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep.
- Chupack, Cindy. The Between Boyfriends Book.
- Crichton, Michael. Sphere.
- Crichton, Michael. The Andromeda Strain.
- Clarke, Arthur C. The Sentinel.
- Cleage, Pearl. I Wish I Had A Red Dress.
- Corneille, Pierre. Illusion.
- Davies, Adam. The Frog King.
- DeBartolo, Tiffanie. God-Shaped Hole.
- DeLillo, Don. Great Jones Street.
- DeLillo, Don. White Noise.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Self-Reliance and Other Essays.
- Ephron, Delia. Big City Eyes.
- Fitzgerald, Zelda. Save Me the Waltz.
- Frey, James. A Million Little Pieces.
- Friedman, C. S. The Madness Season.
- Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization.
- Frank, Pat. Alas, Babylon.
- Gawain, Shakti. Creative Visualization.
- Gilbar, Steven (Editor). California Shorts.
- Glatt, Lisa. A Girl Becomes A Comma Like That.
- Gross, Beverly. The Shapes of Fiction; Open and Closed.
- Haddon, Mark. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
- Hawke, Ethan. The Hottest State.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter.
- Heinlein, Robert A. Stranger In a Strange Land.
- Heller, Joseph. Catch-22.
- Herbert, Frank. Dune.
- Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha.
- Hornby, Nick. About A Boy.
- Hornby, Nick. How To Be Good.
- Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner.
- Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.
- Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek.
- Klosterman, Chuck. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs.
- Kosinski, Jerzy. Being There.
- Lebert, Benjamin. Crazy.
- Levi-Strauss, Claude. The Savage Mind.
- Long, Goldberry. Juniper Tree Burning.
- Macdonald, Sarah. Holy Cow.
- Man, John. alpha beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World.
- Maxwell, William. So Long, See You Tomorrow.
- McMillan, Terry. A Day Late and a Dollar Short.
- Merlis, Mark. An Arrow's Flight.
- Moore, Lorrie. Birds of America.
- Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon.
- Murakami, Haruki. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
- Murakami, Haruki. Kafka On the Shore.
- Murakami, Haruki. Norwegian Wood.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Beyond Good and Evil.
- Orwell, George. 1984.
- Palahniuk, Chuck. Choke.
- Palahniuk, Chuck. Diary.
- Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club.
- Palahniuk, Chuck. Haunted.
- Palahniuk, Chuck. Invisible Monsters.
- Palahniuk, Chuck. Lullaby.
- Palahniuk, Chuck. Stranger Than Fiction.
- Palahniuk, Chuck. Survivor.
- Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar.
- Plato. Dialogues of Plato.
- Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
- Postman, Neil. Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future.
- Postman, Neil. Conscientious Objections.
- Postman, Neil. How To Watch TV News.
- Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology.
- Postman, Neil. The Disappearance of Childhood.
- Resnick, Rachel. Go West Young F*Cked-Up Chick: A Novel of Separation.
- Richards, Elizabeth. Rescue.
- Ruiz, Don Miguel. The Four Agreements.
- Salinger, J.D. Catcher In the Rye.
- Salinger, J.D. Franny and Zooey.
- Salinger, J.D. Nine Stories.
- Salinger, J.D. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction.
- Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night.
- Shields, Carol. Unless.
- Sparks, Nicholas. The Rescue.
- Thurman, Robert A. E. Essential Tibetan Buddhism.
- Tolkien, Simon. Final Witness.
- Vanzant, Iyanla. In the Meantime.
- Weber, Larry. The Provocateur.
- Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire.
- Yates, Richard. Revolutionary Road.
Poetry:
- Addonizio, Kim. The Philosopher's Club.
- Hayashi, Tetsumaro (Editor). The Poetry of Robert Greene.
- Hunter, J. Paul (Editor). The Norton Introduction to Poetry.
- Jenkins, Alan. The Forward Book of Poetry: a Collection of the Best Poems of the Year from the Forward Poetry Prizes: 1997.
- McCosker, Karen, et al. (Editor). A Poem a Day.
- Michie, James, et al. (Editor) The Oxford Book of Short Poems.
- Silverstein, Shel. A Light In the Attic.
- Silverstein, Shel. The Giving Tree.
- Silverstein, Shel. Where the Sidewalk Ends.
- Smith, Philip (Editor). 100 Best-Loved Poems (Dover Thrift Editions).
- Soto, Gary. New and Selected Poems.
Books On My Wish List
Stuff I've never read:
- Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind.
- Boorstin, Daniel J. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America.
- Carroll, Leslie. Temporary Insanity.
- Christensen, Kate. The Epicure's Lament.
- Clarke, Brock. The Ordinary White Boy.
- Dyson, Michael Eric. Open Mike.
- Glass, Julia. 3 Junes.
- Hawke, Ethan. Ash Wednesday.
- Herbert, Frank. Children of Dune.
- Herbert, Frank. Dune Messiah.
- Hesse, Hermann. The Glass Bead Game.
- Hirsch, E.D. Jr. Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know.
- Kosinski, Jerzy. Painted Bird.
- Leavitt, Caroline. Coming Back to Me.
- Loh, Vyvyane. Breaking the Tongue.
- Markham, Wendy. Slightly Single.
- McNally, John. The Book of Ralph.
- Millington, Mil. A Certain Chemistry: A Novel.
- Notaro, Laurie. I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies).
- Perrotta, Tom. Joe College.
- Postman, Neil. Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk: How We Defeat Ourselves by the Way We Talk and What to Do About It.
- Potok, Chaim. My Name is Asher Lev.
- Ray, Rebecca. Pure.
- Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things.
- Selby, Hubert Jr. Waiting Period.
- Strongman, Phil. Cocaine.
- Welsh, Irvine. Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance.
- Welsh, Irvine. Filth.
- Wrangham, Richard. Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence.
Stuff I've read, but need in print:
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
- Gunther, John J. Death Be Not Proud.
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