Book List

Coming from my home in America I only brought two checked bags in a regular suitcase and a large duffel bag. With a limit of 50 pounds each, I knew I wouldn’t be able to bring my most prized possession: my book collection. Now, struggling as I was to pick just a small selection of those books, I decided to cut the cord and not bring any. In this day and age I figured I’d just download them all to my iPad. Who needs all the extra weight anyway? The problem turns out, that you can toss a book around, bring it on more abusive travel, often a softcover is smaller to hold than its electronic counterpart, and you definitely can’t buy electronic books used. As assurance that I keep my English language sharp while correcting elementary level compositions, I’ve found reading a necessity to my mental health.

Thus I’ve decided to start a new collection over here of books I’ve never read. I’m posting it here more as accountability of my progress, but also for those in need of a recommendation, or who want to follow along, or even join me for a book or two.

99 Books on the Wall:

1. Dune by Frank Herbert
2. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
3. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
4. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
5. Inca Gold by Clive Cussler
6. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolf
7. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
8. Bright Lights, Big City by Ian McIntyre
9. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
10. One Hundred Years of Solidtude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
11. The Spy that Came in from the Cold by John LeCarre
12. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
13. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
14. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
15. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
16. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
17. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
18. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
19. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
20. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
21. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
22. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
23. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
24. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
25. Crime and Punishment by Foydor Dostoevsky
26. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
27. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
28. Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
29. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
30. Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
31. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
32. The World According to Garp by John Irving
33. The Mysterious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
34. Half of a Yellow Sun by Ngozi Chimamanda Adichie
35. Watership Down by Richard Adams
36. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
37. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
38. The Completely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
39. John Dies at the End by David Wong
40. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
41. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
42. The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
43. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
44. Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
45. Beloved by Toni Morrison
46. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
47. On Writing by Stephen King
48. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
49. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
50. Sphere by Michael Crichton
51. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
52. The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe
53. 1984 by Orson Welles
54. Angels in America by Tony Kushner
55. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
56. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
57. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
58. The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Conner
59. In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien
60. Don Quioxte by Miguel de Cervantes
61. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
62. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
63. MFA vs NYC edited by Chad Harbach
64. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
65. White Noise by Don Delillo
66. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
67. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
68. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
69. Maus by Art Spiegelman
70. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
71. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
72. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
73. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Adam McDouglas
74. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
75. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
76. Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
77. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
78. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
79. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
80. A Time to Kill by John Grisham
81. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
82. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
83. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
84. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
85. Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding
86. Sex on the Moon by Ben Mezrich
87. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
88. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
89. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
90. Paradise Lost by John Milton
91. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
92. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
93. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Prachett
94. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
95. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
96. Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
97. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
98. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
99. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

{ currently in my library   currently reading  finished}