Below is my ever-growing list of Books to Read or Buy. Some of them Iâve read but want to revisit. My birthdayâs in September. Ahem.
Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart
Adams, Douglas: The Hitchhikerâs Guide to the Galaxy
Agee, James: A Death in the Family
Alvarez, Julia: In the Time of the Butterflies
Ambrose, Stephen: Undaunted Courage
Amis, Martin: The Rachel Papers
Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaidâs Tale
Atwood, Margaret: The Edible Woman
Austen, Jane: Pride & Prejudice
Bourdain, Anthony: Kitchen Confidential
Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451
Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Bryson, Bill: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Capote, Truman: In Cold Blood
Child, Julia: The Joy of Cooking
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
Christie, Agatha: Murder on the Orient Express
Cisneros, Sandra: The House on Mango Street
Cisneros, Sandra: Loose Woman
Clarkson, Lorna Jane: Move. Nourish. Believe.
Davies, Robertson: The Deptford Trilogy
De Cervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
De Sainte-Expury, Antoine: The Little Prince
Diaz, Junot: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Didion, Joan: Play it as it Lays
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
Egan, Timothy: The Worst Hard Time
Eggers, Dave: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Ellis, Bret Easton: American Psycho
Ellis, Bret Easton: Lunar Park
Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man
Eugenides, Jeffrey: Middlesex
Fitch, Janet: White Oleander
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Follett, Ken: Pillars of the Earth
Gaarder, Jostein: Sophieâs World
Gaines, Ernest: A Lesson Before Dying
Green, John: The Fault in our Stars
Green, John: Looking for Alaska
Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttimes
Hall, Sarah: Daughters of the North
Hawking, Stephen: A Brief History of Time
Hosseini, Khaled: The Kite Runner
Hosseini, Khaled: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
Ishiguro, Kazuo: Never Let Me Go
Kafka, Franz: Metamorphosis
Kaling, Mindy: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Kerouac, Jack: On the Road
Kingsolver, Barbara: The Prodigal Summer
Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Lewis, Sinclair: Main Street
Lord, Audre: The Complete Poems of Audre Lord
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: One Hundred Years of Solitude
McCarthy, Mary: The Group
McInerney, Jay: Bright Lights, Big City
Messud, Claire: The Emperorâs Children
Milton, John: Paradise Lost
Moran, Caitlin: How to be a Woman
Murakami, Haruki: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
Nabokov, Vladimir: Ada, or Ardor
Neruda, Pablo: The Essential Neruda
Palahniuk, Chuck: Invisible Monsters
Parker, Dorothy: The Portable Dorothy Parker
Percy, Walker: The Moviegoer
Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar
Pullman, Phillip: His Dark Materials
Robbins, Tom: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Robinson, Marilynne: Housekeeping
Rosenfeld, Lucinda: What She Saw
Saunders, George: Pastoralia
Sedaris, David: Me Talk Pretty One Day
Sexton, Anne: The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton
Simenon, Georges: The Train
Smith, Zadie: White Teeth
Vonnegut, Kurt: Catâs Cradle
Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse Five
Wallace, David Foster: Infinite Jest
Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway
Young, Toby: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People