"He fed his spirit with the bread of books."
Reading List (Subject to Change)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Julia Alvarez
Seize the day - Saul Bellow
Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction - Luke Davies
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
China Boy - Gus Lee
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan finished
The Kitchen God's Wife - Any Tan
This Boy's Life - Tobias Wolff
The Culture of Fear - Barry Glassnery
The Concubine's Children - Denise Chang
The Hundred Secret Senses - Amy Tan
Don't Play in the Sun - Marita Golden
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellion (Couldn't Finish, Must Retry)
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend: For Every Guy Who Wants to be One- For Every Girl Who Wants to Build One - Felicity Huffman & Patricia Wolff finished
Life's Little Annoyances: True Tales of People Who Just Can't Take It Anymore - Ian Urbina
Little Children - Tom Perrotta
Death Be Not Proud - John Gunther (Reread)
The Orange Girl - Jostein Gaarder
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
1984 - George Orwell
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Five People You Met in Heaven - Mitch Alborn
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Fight Club - Chuck Palaniuk
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson - Mitch Alborn
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Loving Frank - Nancy Horan
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (Couldn't Finish, Must Retry)
The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
Blankets - Craig Thompson
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
Still Life with Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Stuart: A Life Backwards- Alexander Masters
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
The Pigman - Paul Zindel
Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing - Melissa Banks
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under - Michael Patrick MacDonald
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawerence
A Certain Slant of Light - Laura Whitcomb
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
The History of Love: A Novel - Nicole Krauss
The Drowning of Stephan Jones - Bette Greene
Maurice - E.M. Forster
The Last Day of a Man Condemned to Death - Victor Hugo
One-Night Stands with American History: Odd, Amusing, and Little-Known Incidents - Richard Shenkman & Kurt Reiger
Sex Lives of the Kings and Queens - Nigel Cawthorne
Sex Lives of the Dictators - Nigel Cawthorne
Salt: A World History - Mark Kurlansky
Notes from a Small Island, I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away, The Mother Tongue - English And How It Got That Way, Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States - Bill Bryson
The Calligrapher - Edward Docx
I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 - Victor Klemperer
I Will Bear Witness 1942-1945: A Diary of the Nazi Years - Victor Klemperer
The Amateur Marriage - Anne Tyler
About a Boy - Nick Hornby
Endless Love - Scott Spencer
English Passengers - Matthew Kneale
Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa - by Mark Mathabane
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America by John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
The Hippopotamus - Stephen Fry
Birds Without Wings - Lous de Bernieres
The Vintner's Luck - Elizabeth Knox
The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Alison Weir
The Children of Henry VIII - Alison Weir
The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century - John Brewer
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer (re-read)
Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - John Cleland
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Genet
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel - Milan Kundera
The Group - Mary McCarthy
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
Contemporary Urban Planning - John M. Levy
Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics and Literary Culture, 1630-1685 - James Grantham Turner
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Animal Farm - George Orwell (Re-read)
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
The Irony of American History - Reinhold Niebuhr
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century, Division Street: America, Chicago: City on the Make, Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession, American Dreams: Lost and Found - Studs Terkel
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America - Erik Larson
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul - Karen Abbott
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities - Janet L. Abu-Lughod
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life - Richard Hofstadter
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz
A Room With A View - E. M. Forster
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Reader - John Boyne
The Rasputin File - Edvard Radzinsky
The Romanovs: the Final Chapter - Robert K. Massie
The French Revolution: A History - Thomas Carlyle & John D. Rosenberg
Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages - Ammon Shea
Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs - David R. Roediger
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 - Virginia Nicholson
Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930 - Jerrold Seigel
Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London - Seth Koven
Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution - Anna Clark
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
Love is a Dog From Hell, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire, You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense - Charles Bukowski
Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity - bell hooks
The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
The City Reader - Richard T. LeGates
Morbo: The Story of Spanish Football - Phil Ball
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong - James W. Loewen
To Marry an English Lord - Gail MacColl & Carol Wallace
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System - Paul Fussell
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
Korea: The Impossible Country - Daniel Tudor
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago - Alex Kotlowitz
The Making of the English Working Class - E. P. Thompson3
From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law - Martha C. Nussbaum
The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) - C. Sarah Soh
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