.my bookshelf.

{Current Count: 262}


These are a list of books that I have finished reading (the ones I remember anyway; I'm sure there are more from years ago I don't remember...). As books are completed, they will be added here (newest additions at the bottom). Books I highly recommend are denoted with a green "thumbs up";" books I do not recommend are denoted with a "thumbs down;" all other books are ones I don't have strong feelings about either way. Titles denoted with the books icon are books that I own.


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1.   A Dirty Job   {Christopher Moore}

2.   Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal   {Christopher Moore}

3.   The Da Vinci Code   {Dan Brown}

4.   The Bondwoman's Narrative   {Hannah Crafts}

5.   Me & Emma   {Elizabeth Flock}

6.   Things Fall Apart   {Chinua Achebe}

7.   The Hitchhiker's Trilogy   {Douglas Adams}

8.   Kane & Abel   {Jeffrey Archer}

9.   Ghost Writer   {John Harwood}

10.   The Great Gatsby   {F. Scott Fitzgerald}

11.   In The Time of the Butterflies   {Julia Alvarez}

12.   Prodigal Daughter   {F. Scott Fitzgerald}

13.   The Edible Woman   {Margaret Atwood}

14.   Emma   {Jane Austen}

15.   Pride & Prejudice   {Jane Austen}

16.   Lady Susan/The Watsons/Sandition   {Jane Austen}

17.   City of Glass   {Paul Auster}

18.   Book of Illusions   {Paul Auster}

19.   Fahrenheit 451   {Ray Bradbury}

20.   The Martian Chronicles   {Ray Bradbury}

21.   Wuthering Heights   {Emily Bronte}

22.   The Rubyfruit Jungle   {Rita Mae Brown}

23.   Jude the Obscure   {Thomas Hardy}

24.   Watership Down   {Richard Adams}

25.   Cell   {Stephen King}

26.   On Writing   {Stephen King}

27.   The Secret Life of Bees   {Sue Monk Kidd}

28.   The Lovely Bones   {Alice Sebold}

29.   Cujo   {Stephen King}

30.   Desperation   {Stephen King}

31.   Kindred   {Octavia Butler}

32.   Alice's Adventures in Wonderland   {Lewis Carroll}

33.   The Canterbury Tales   {Geoffrey Chaucer}

34.   Different Seasons   {Stephen King}

35.   Bag of Bones   {Stephen King}

36.   Two Old Women   {Velma Wallis}

37.   Thinner Than Thou   {Kit Reed}

38.   Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince   {J.K. Rowling}

39.   Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire   {J.K. Rowling}

40.   Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix   {J.K. Rowling}

41.   The Awakening   {Kate Chopin}

42.   The Lost World   {Michael Crichton}

43.   Jurassic Park   {Michael Crichton}

44.   The Secret Language of Eating Disorders   {Peggy Claude-Pierre}

45.   Inspired Sleep   {Robert Cohen}

46.   Moll Flanders   {Daniel DeFoe}

47.   Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food through Myths, Metaphors, & Storytelling   {Anita A. Johnston, PhD}

48.   Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone   {J.K. Rowling}

49.   Harry Potter & The Prizoner of Azkaban   {J.K. Rowling}

50.   Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets   {J.K. Rowling}

51.   The Virgin Suicides   {Jeffrey Eugenides}

52.   Sanctuary   {William Faulkner}

53.   The Sound and the Fury   {William Faulkner}

54.   Tom Jones   {Henry Fielding}

55.   The Memoirs of Cleopatra   {Margaret George}

56.   Herland / The Yellow Wallpaper   {Charlotte Perkins Gilman}

57.   If the Buddha Got Stuck: A Handbook for Change on a Spiritual Path   {Charlotte Kasl}

58.   Everything's Eventual: Fourteen Dark Tales   {Stephen King}

59.   Carrie   {Stephen King}

60.   Dolores Claiborne   {Stephen King}

61.   Savion: My Life in Tap   {Savion Glover}

62.   Stick Figure   {Lori Gottlieb}

63.   Hearts in Atlantis   {Stephen King}

64.   The Wastelands   {Stephen King}

65.   The Drawing of the Three   {Stephen King}

66.   Rose Madder   {Stephen King}

67.   Being There   {Jerzy Kosinski}

68.   She's Come Undone   {Wally Lamb}

69.   To Kill A Mockingbird   {Harper Lee}

70.   The Consciousness Plague   {Paul Levinson}

71.   Black Seas of Inifinity   {H.P. Lovecraft}

72.   The Giver   {Lois Lowry}

73.   The Kite Runner   {Khaled Hosseini}

74.   The Hunger Moon   {Suzanne Matson}

75.   Hunger Point   {Jillian Medoff}

76.   Moby Dick   ~ {Herman Melville}

77.   Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales   {Brothers Grimm}

78.   A Painted House   {John Grisham}

79.   My Sister's Bones   {Cathi Hanauer}

80.   Christine   {Stephen King}

81.   Garden of Eden   {Ernest Hemingway}

82.   A Farewell to Arms   {Ernest Hemingway}

83.   The Sun Also Rises   {Ernest Hemingway}

84.   The Odyssey   {Homer}

85.   The Iliad   {Homer}

86.   Things You Should Know   {A.M. Homes}

87.   The Dark Half   {Stephen King}

88.   Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia   {Marya Hornbacher}

89.   The Center of Winter: A Novel   {Marya Hornbacher}

90.   Brave New World   {Aldous Huxley}

91.   The Bostonians   {Henry James}

92.   The House of the Seven Gables   {Nathaniel Hawthorne}

93.   The Turn of the Screw & Other Stories   {Henry James}

94.   The Country of the Pointed Firs   {Sarah Orne Jewett}

95.   A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man   {James Joyce}

96.   Howard's End   {E.M. Forster}

97.   The Dead Zone   {Stephen King}

98.   The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West   {Gregory Maguire}

99.   Never Let Me Go   {Kazuo Ishiguro}

100.   The Hours   {Michael Cunningham}

101.   The Memoirs of Helen of Troy: A Novel   {Amanda Elyot}

102.   Specimen Days {Michael Cunningham}

  103.   The Rice Mother   {Rani Manicka}

104.   Misfortune   {Wesley Stace}

105.   Jazz   {Toni Morrison}

106.   The Bluest Eye   {Toni Morrison}

107.   Stupid White Men   {Michael Moore}

108.   Starting Out in the Evening   {Brian Morton}

109.   Down Second Avenue   {Ezekiel Mphahlele}

110.   We Were the Mulvaneys   {Joyce Carol Oates}

111.   Oryx & Crake   {Margaret Atwood}

112.   The Falls   {Joyce Carol Oates}

113.   Animal Farm   {George Orwell}

114.   The Scarlet Letter   {Nathaniel Hawthorne}

115.   1984   {George Orwell}

116.   Miss Muriel & Other Stories   {Ann Petry}

117.   Ginger, My Story   {Ginger Rogers}

118.   Push   {Sapphire}

119.   William Shakespear's Plays, Poems, Sonnets   {William Shakespear}

120.   Uncle Tom's Cabin   {Harriet Beecher Stowe}

121.   Evening News   {Marly Swick}

122.   Matagari   {Ngugi Wa Thiong'o}

123.   Serpentine   {Thomas Thompson}

124.   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer   {Mark Twain}

125.   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn   {Mark Twain}

126.   Candide   {Voltaire}

127.   Death of A Salesman   {Arthur Miller}

128.   The Glass Menagerie   {Tennessee Williams}

129.   A Streetcar Named Desire   {Tennessee Williams}

130.   Dreamcatcher   {Stephen King}

131.   Clarissa: Or, The History of A Young Lady   {Samuel Richardson}

132.   Firestarter   {Stephen King}

133.   Four Past Midnight   {Stephen King}

134.   Nightmares & Dreamscapes   {Stephen King}

135.   Truth & Beauty: A Friendship   {Ann Patchett}

136.   From A Buick 8   {Stephen King}

137.   Gerald's Game   {Stephen King}

138.   The Running Man   {Stephen King}

139.   Imago   {Octavia Butler}

140.   Wild Seed   {Octavia Butler}

141.   Bloodchild & Other Stories   {Octavia Butler}

142.   Fledgeling   {Octavia Butler}

143.   Written On the Body   {Jeanette Winterson}

144.   House of Mirth   {Edith Wharton}

145.   War of the Worlds   {H.G. Wells}

146.   Miss Lonelyhearts & Day of the Locusts   {Nathanael West}

147.   The Age of Innocence   {Edith Wharton}

148.   Gut Symmetries   {Jeanette Winterson}

149.   Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit   {Jeanette Winterson}

150.   Lighthouse Keeping   {Jeanette WInterson}

151.   Mrs. Dalloway   {Virginia Woolf}

152.   The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon   {Stephen King}

153.   Graveyard Shift   {Stephen King}

154.   The Green Mile (comprehensive)   {Stephen King}

155.   Hearts in Atlantis   {Stephen King}

156.   It   {Stephen King}

157.   Tristram Shandy   {Laurence Sterne}

158.   The Chocolate Wars   {Robert Cormier}

159.   The Last of the Mohicans   {James Fenimore Cooper}

160.   Salem's Lot   {Stephen King}

161.   Vinegar Hill   {A. Manette Ansay}

162.   Wide Sargasso Sea   {Jean Rhys}

163.   Jane Eyre   {Charlotte Bronte}

164.   The Robber Bride   {Margaret Atwood}

165.   The Tommyknockers   {Stephen King}

166.   The Shining   {Stephen King}

167.   Tuesdays with Morrie   {Mitch Albom}

168.   The Five People You Meet In Heaven   {Mitch Albom}

169.   Something Wicked This Way Comes   {Ray Bradbury}

170.   Magic Mountain   {Thomas Mann}

171.   The Corrections   {Jonathan Franzen}

172.   The Secret Supper   {Javier Sierra}

173.   Lunar Park   {Bret Easton Ellis}

174.   My Friend Leonard   {James Frey}

175.   The Mermaid Chair   {Sue Monk Kidd}

176.   Incidents of the Life of a Slave Girl   {Harriet Jacobs}

177.   Storm of the Century   {Stephen King}

178.   The Talisman   {Stephen King}

179.   Thinner   {Stephen King}

180.   Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story on Wall Street   {Herman Melville}

181.   The Regulators   {Stephen King}

182.   Riding the Bullet   {Stephen King}

183.   Insomnia   {Stephen King}

184.   Skeleton Crew   {Stephen King}

185.   Pet Cemetary   {Stephen King}

186.   Needful Things   {Stephen King}

187.   Misery   {Stephen King}

188.   White Oleander   {Janet Fitch}

189.   The Cider House Rules   {John Irving}

190.   Son of A Witch: A Novel   {Gregory Maguire}

191.   Fall On Your Knees   {Ann-Marie MacDonald}

192.   The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty   {Anne Rice}

Note: Explicit sexual content 193.   Songs on Bronze   {Nigel Spivey}

194.   Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt   {Anne Rice}

195.   The Devil Wears Prada   {Lauren Weisberger}

196.   The Husband   {Dean Koontz}

197.   Magical Thinking   {Augusten Burroughs}

198.  Lisey's Story   {Stephen King}

199.   The Bride of Lammermoor   {Sir Walter Scott}

200.   The Jane Austen Book Club   {Karen Joy Fowler}

201.   The Portrait of a Lady   {Henry James}

202.   Anna Karenina   {Leo Tolstoy}

203.   The Stupidest Angel   {Christopher Moore}

204.   The Brooklyn Follies   {Paul Auster}

205.   Their Eyes Were Watching God   {Zora Neale Hurston}

206.   Prodigal Summer   {Barbara Kingsolver}

207.   Practical Demonkeeping   {Christopher Moore}

208.   Upstate   {Kalisha Buckhanon}

209.   Oracle Night   {Paul Auster}

210.   The Looney Bin Trip   {Amanette Ansey}

211.   The House in Paris   {Elizabeth Bowen}

212.   Haunted   {Chuck Palahniuk}

213.   The Eyre Affair   {Jasper Fforde}

214.   Lost In A Good Book   {Jasper Fforde}

215.   The Well of Lost Plots   {Jasper Fforde}

216.   The Magician's Assistant   {Ann Patchett}

217.   Woman At Point Zero   {Nawal El Saadawi}

218.   A Thousand Splendid Suns   {Khaled Hussseini}

219.   Nicholas Nickelby   {Charles Dickens}

220.   Purple Hibiscus   {Chimananda Ngazi Adjchie}

221.   The Center of Everything   {Laura Moriarty}

222.   The Thirteenth Tale   {Diane Setterfield}

223.   Saving Fish From Drowning   {Amy Tan}

224.   The Memory Keeper's Daughter   {Kim Edwards}

225.   Rebecca   {Daphne Dumaurier}

226.   The Bell Jar   {Sylvia Plath}

227.   The Lake of Dead Languages   {Carol Goodman}

228.   The Penelopiad   {Margaret Atwood}

229.   Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell   {Susanna Clarke}

230.   Me Talk Pretty One Day   {David Sedaris}

231.   Naked   {David Sedaris}

232.   Something Rotten   {Jasper Fforde}

233.   Lord of the Flies   {William Golding}

234.   Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows   {J.K. Rowling}

235.   The Stolen Child   {Keith Donohue}

236.   The Book of the Dead   {Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child}

237.   Charlie and the Chocolate Factory   {Roald Dahl}

238.   The Grapes of Wrath   {Steinbeck}

239.   Washington Square   {Henry James}

240.   From the Dust Returned   {Ray Bradbury}

241.   Kiss Kiss   {Roald Dahl}

242.   Switch Bitch   {Roald Dahl}

243.   My Uncle Oswald   {Roald Dahl}

244.   Anywhere But Here   {Mona Simpson}

245.   But Inside I'm Screaming   {Elizabeth Flock}

246.   The Best Awful   {Carrie Fisher}

247.   Mising Mom   {Joyce Carol Oates}

248.   James and the Giant Peach   {Roald Dahl}

249.   Interview with the Vampire   {Ann Rice}

250.   Invisible Man   {Ralph Ellison}

251.   The Good Guy   {Dean Koontz}

252.   The Namesake   {Jhumpa Lahiri}

253.   Moral Disorder & Other Stories   {Margaret Atwood}

254.   Light in August   {William Faulkner}

255.   Black House   {Stephen King & Peter Straub}

256.   Mr. Timothy   {Louis Bayard}

257.   A Clockwork Orange   {Anthony Burgess}

258.   The Razor's Edge   {W. Somerset Maugham}

259.   Tess of the D'Urbervilles   {Thomas Hardy}

260.   David Copperfield   {Charles Dickens}

261.   A Christmas Carol   {Charles Dickens}

262.   The Other Boleyn Girl   {Philippa Gregory}




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