Books I Want to Read

1. 300 by Frank Miller 
2. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen 
3. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 
4. A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis 
5. A History of Violence by John Wagner 
6. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 
7. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 
8. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster 
9. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dicken 
10. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner 
11. Adverbs: A Novel by Daniel Handler 
12. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 
13. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 
14. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy 
15. Am I Not A Man? The Dred Scot Story by Mark L. Shurtleff 
16. American Zombie Gothic by Dr. Kyle William Bishop 
17. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 
18. Bachelorhood: Tales of the Metropolis by Phillip Lopate 
19. Batman: Sword of Azrael by Dennis O’Neil 
20. Beloved by Toni Morrison 
21. Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace 
22. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin 
23. Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl 
24. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote 
25. Candide by Voltaire 
26. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck 
27. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand 
28. Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Writer Should Know by Jennifer Van Sijil 
29. Come Up and See Me Sometime: Stories by Erika Krouse 
30. Confessions by Augustine 
31. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton 
32. Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 
33. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather 
34. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 
35. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 
36. Double Indemnity by James Cain 
37. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 
38. Dracula by Bram Stoker 
39. Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim by David Sedaris 
40. Dune by Frank Herbert 
41. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 
42. Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland 
43. Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler 
44. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, and other American Stories by Hunter S. Thompson 
45. Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby 
46. For the New Intellectual by Ayn Rand 
47. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 
48. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 
49. Fraud: Essays by David Rakoff 
50. Freakonomics By Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner 
51. From Here to Eternity by James Jones 
52. Fugitives & Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk 
53. Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the ‘80s by Hunter S. Thompson 
54. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland 
55. Going Native by Stephen Wright 
56. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 
57. Great Expectations by Charles Dicknes 
58. Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm 
59. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 
60. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 
61. Hip: The History by John Leland 
62. Howards End by E.M. Forster 
63. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson 
64. I, Claudius by Robert Graves 
65. In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd 
66. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust 
67. Interrogating the Real by Slavoj Zizek 
68. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice 
69. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 
70. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 
71. July’s People by Nadine Gordimer 
72. Kim by Rudyard Kipling 
73. Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century by Hunter S. Thompson 
74. Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 
75. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 
76. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 
77. Light in August by William Faulkner 
78. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 
79. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 
80. Love in a Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
81. Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems , 1974-1977 by Charles Bukowski 
82. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 
83. Madness of the Day by Maurice Blanchot 
84. Math Through the Ages by William P. Berlinghoff 
85. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis 
86. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 
87. Micro Fiction: An Anthology of Really Short Stories by Jerome Stern 
88. Middlemarch by George Eliot 
89. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 
90. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 
91. My Antonia by Willa Cather 
92. My Left Foot by Christy Brown 
93. Mysteries of Pittsburgh: A Novel by Michael Chabon 
94. Native Son by Richard Wright 
95. Neuromancer by William Gibson 
96. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy 
97. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad 
98. Nothing Feels Good by Andy Greenwald 
99. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 
100. Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac 
101. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 
102. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 
103. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 
104. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
105. Paula by Isabel Allende 
106. Pentimento by Lillian Hellman 
107. Persuasion by Jane Austen 
108. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 
109. Philosophy: Who Needs It by Ayn Rand 
110. Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley 
111. Psycho by Robert Bloch 
112. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow 
113. Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen 
114. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
115. Sin City by Frank Miller 
116. Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems by Charles Bukowski 
117. Some of the Dharma by Jack Kerouac 
118. Sons & Lovers by D.H. Lawrence 
119. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron 
120. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein 
121. Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories by Robert Shapard 
122. SuperFreakonomics By Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner 
123. Superheroes and Philosophy: Truth Justice, and the Socratic Way 
124. Take the Cannoli by Sarah Vowell 
125. Talk to Me, James Dean by H. Lee Barnes 
126. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
127. Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy 
128. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 
129. The Associate: A Novel by John Grisham 
130. The Beautiful & Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
131. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 
132. The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft 
133. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 
134. The Book of Illusions: A Novel by Paul Auster 
135. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera 
136. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 
137. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 
138. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 
139. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 
140. The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy 
141. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy 
142. The Devils: The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
143. The Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol 
144. The Dog of the Marriage: Stories by Amy Hempel 
145. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer 
146. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan 
147. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 
148. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams 
149. The Golden Bowl by Henry James 
150. The Good Life by Jay Mcinerney 
151. The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time by Hunter S. Thompson 
152. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margarat Atwood 
153. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers 
154. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 
155. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 
156. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 
157. The House of the Dead and Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
158. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
159. The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde 
160. The Inverted World by Christopher Priest 
161. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells 
162. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 
163. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 
164. The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras 
165. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 
166. The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton 
167. The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux 
168. The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs 
169. The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps: New Poems by Charles Bukowski 
170. The Outlaw Bible of American Literature 
171. The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry 
172. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 
173. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 
174. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain 
175. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 
176. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 
177. The Public Burning by Robert Coover 
178. The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein 
179. The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis 
180. The Rum Diary: A Novel by Hunter S. Thompson 
181. The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne 
182. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis 
183. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
184. The Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. Du Bois 
185. The Sound & the Fury by William Faulkner 
186. The Stranger by Albert Camus 
187. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 
188. The Thousand and One Nights by Anon. 
189. The Trial by Franz Kafka 
190. The Unabridged Journals by Sylvia Plath 
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 
192. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith 
193. The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand 
194. The Week You Weren’t Here by Charles Blackstone 
195. The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck 
196. The World According to Garp by John Irving 
197. The World’s Shortest Stories of Love & Death: Passion, Betrayal, Suspicion, Revenge All This and More... 
198. The World’s Shortest Stories: Murder, Love, Horror, Suspence, All This and Much More in the Most Amazing Short Stories 
199. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 
200. There’s No Business by Charles Bukowski 
201. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
202. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome 
203. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 
204. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 
205. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller 
206. Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose 
207. Ulysses by James Joyce 
208. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 
209. Unless by Carol Shields 
210. Utopia by Sir Thomas More 
211. V by Thomas Pynchon 
212. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore 
213. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 
214. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 
215. War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy 
216. War All the Time: Poems, 1981-1984 by Charles Bukowski 
217. Waverley by Walter Scott 
218. Ways of Escape by Graham Greene 
219. We the Living by Ayn Rand 
220. What If? by Stephen E. Ambrose 
221. What Matters Most Is how Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski 
222. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories by Raymond Carver 
223. Where I’m Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver 
224. White Noise by Don DeLillo 
225. Women by Charles Bukowski 
226. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence 
227. Wonder Boys: A Novel by Michael Chabon 
228. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks 
229. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte