books

what i've read...:

CLASSICS:

1. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
2. Beowulf - Burton Raffel translation
3. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
4. Catcher In the Rye - J D Salinger
5. Dracula - Bram Stoker
6. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
7. The Fox, Captain's Doll, The LadyBird - D H Lawrence
8. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
9. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
10. The Hobbitt - J R R Tolkein *
11. Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
12. Lady Chatterly's Lover - D H Lawrence *
13. Last of the Mohicans - James Fennimore Cooper
14. The Lilies of the Field - William E. Barrett
15. Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkein
16. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
17. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco *
18. The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski *
19. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
20. various works - Edgar Allen Poe
21. Watership Down - Richard Adams *
22. Women In Love - D H Lawrence

Questions about a book I've read?
Comments on a book?
Book suggestions?
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although some of these books are common high school texts, anything listed here was adult leisure reading. there is an * by the ones i've especially enjoyed. many thanks to my friends who have recommended them!

CONTEMPORARY:

1. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt *
2. Autobiography of a Face - Lucy Grealy *
3. The Bachman Books - Richard Bachman *
4. Bag of Bones - Stephen King
5. The Bear Went Over the Mountain - William Kotzwinkle
6. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
7. Beloved - Toni Morrison
8. Black Notice - Patricia Cornwell
9. The Boys of Summer - Roger Kahn
10. Bridges of Maddison County - Robert James Waller
11. A Child Called It - David Pelzer
12. The Cider House Rules - John Irving *
13. The Clinic - Jonathan Kellerman
14. Cold Sassy Tree - Olive Ann Burns*
15. Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man - Fannie Flagg *
16. A Dangerous Woman - Mary McGarry Morris *
17. Despiration - Stephen King *
18. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells
19. Ellen Foster - Kaye Gibbons
20. The Empty Copper Sea - John D. MacDonald
21. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje *
22. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman *
23. From Potter's Field - Patricia Cornwell
24. Gerald's Game - Stephen King
25. Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
26. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King
27. The Green Mile - Stephen King *
28. How Stella Got Her Groove Back - Terry McMillan
29. Ice Bound - Jerri Nielsen *
30. I Heard The Owl Call My Name - Margaret Craven
31. In This Sign - Joanne Greenberg
32. Intensity - Dean Koontz
33. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer *
34. Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
35. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
36. Lady Sings the Blues - Billie Holiday
37. The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
38. Legacy of Silence - Belva Plain
39. Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt *
40. Misery - Stephen King
41. Monster - Jonathan Kellerman
42. Mother Earth, Father Sky - Sue Harrison *
43. Native Son - Richard Wright
44. No Shirt, No Shoes...No Problem! - Jeff Foxworthy
45. The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
46. Pet Semetary - Stephen King
47. Point of Origin - Patricia Cornwell
48. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver *
49. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant *
50. The Regulators - Stephen King
51. Riding the Silver Bullet - Stephen King
52. Rose Madder - Stephen King
53. Self-Defense - Jonathan Kellerman
54. Silent Partner - Jonathan Kellerman
55. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas - Maya Angelou
56. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
57. Southern Cross - Patricia Cornwell
58. The Stand - Stepen King *
59. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
60. Time Bomb - Jonathan Kellerman
61. 'Tis - Frank McCourt *
62. Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom *
63. Unnatural Exposure - Patricia Cornwell
64. Welcome to the World, Baby Girl - Fannie Flagg
65. Who Killed Karen Silkwood? - Howard Kohn *

CHILDREN'S:

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowling
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - JK Rowling
7. The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster*

library of congress reading room.

currently holding a bookmark:
JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Books i've tried to read but just...couldn't...get...into...and so never finished:

1.One Thousand White Women ~ The Journals of May Dodd - by Jim Fergus
(too much s.exual violence)

2. Last of the Mohicans - James Fennimore Cooper
(language was too archaic; i plodded through it and finally gave it a rest with only 7 pages left!)