| Obviously, it is my love of books that inspired this site to begin with. Below is a list of my favorite books. Check out my current book journal here, or by clicking "A Room of One's Own" from the home page. My Favorite Works *Alpha by author Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?-- Edward Albee How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents -- Julia Alvarez Time's Arrow -- Martin Amis Winesburg, Ohio -- Sherwood Anderson The Borderlands -- Gloria Anzaldua What We Talk About When We Talk About Love -- Raymond Carver The Professor's House -- Willa Cather The House on Mango Street -- Sandra Cisneros The Awakening -- Kate Chopin The Good Soldier -- Ford Maddox Ford Trifles / A Jury of Her Peers -- Susan Glaspell Tess of the D'Urbervilles -- Thomas Hardy The Man He Killed -- Thomas Hardy Travesty -- John Hawkes A Doll House -- Henrik Ibsen Bag of Bones -- Stephen King The Stand -- Stephen King One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Color of Water -- James McBride Moby Dick -- Herman Melville Death of a Salesman -- Arthur Miller Gone With the Wind -- Margaret Mitchell Lolita -- Vladmir Nabakov 1984 -- George Orwell Animal Farm -- George Orwell Betrayal -- Harold Pinter Children of the Night -- Edwin Arlington Robinson Tilbury Town -- Edwin Arlington Robinson The Harry Potter Series -- J.K. Rowling King Lear -- William Shakespeare Macbeth -- William Shakespeare The Tempest -- William Shakespeare Kolyma Tales -- Varlam Shalamov The Jungle -- Upton Sinclair The Monster Show -- David J. Skal Dracula -- Bram Stoker Arcadia -- Tom Stoppard Cane -- Jean Toomer Machinal -- Sophie Treadwell Girl in Hyacinth Blue -- Susan Vreeland The Color Purple -- Alice Walker Ethan Frome -- Edith Wharton The House of Mirth -- Edith Wharton Roman Fever -- Edith Wharton Charlotte's Web -- E.B. White When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer -- Walt Whitman The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Oscar Wilde The Ballade of Reading Gaol -- Oscar Wilde A Streetcar Named Desire -- Tennessee Williams Suddenly Last Summer -- Tennessee Williams The Professor and the Madman -- Simon Winchester A Room of One's Own -- Virginia Woolf My To Be Read Pile (mmm delish) *Books I Intend to Read in the Near Future Desert Flower -- Waris Diri The Chamomile Lawn -- Mary Wesley A Year in Provence -- Peter Mayle In the Fall -- Jeffrey Lent The Shipping News -- E. Annie Proulx In the Time of Butterflies -- Julia Alvarez The Remains of the Day -- Kazuo Ishiguro Mundo Desparado -- Patrick McCabe Cuba and the Night -- Pico Iyer Palace Walk -- Naguib Mahfouz Bodega Dreams -- Ernesto Quinonez A Handful of Dust -- Evelyn Waugh John Adams -- David McCullough Havanna Boy -- Martin Cruz Smith The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay -- Michael Chabon The Fig Eater -- Jody Sheilds Drowning Ruth -- Christina Schwartz The Corrections -- Jonathan Franzen John Adams -- David McCullough |
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