Vasilly's List

Disclaimer: It wasn't until after I compiled my list that I realized I actually have 112 books down. I couldn't figure out which books to take off my life, so I kept all of them. My completion rate is still 75% but now I have to read 84 books instead of 75.

A

• Agee, James - A Death in the Family
• Allende, Isabel - The House of Spirits
• Anderson, Laurie Halse - Speak
• Austen, Jane - Sense and Sensibility

B

• Beagle, Peter S. - A Fine and Private Place
• Beagle, Peter S. - We never talk about my brother
• Beowulf
• Boyle, T.C. - The Tortilla Curtain
• Bragg, Richard - All over but the shoutin’
• Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre

C

• Carter, Angela - Nights at the Circus
• Carter, Angela - The Bloody Chamber
• Chandler, Raymond - The Big Sleep
• Chaon, Dan - You remind me of me
• Cheever, John - The Stories of John Cheever
• Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
• Chekhov, Anton - 40 Stories
• Cisneros, Sandra - Carmelo
• Cleaver, Eldridge - Soul on Ice
• Colwin, Laurie - Home Cooking
• Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness

D

• Dante - The Inferno
• Datlow, Ellen - Black Swan, White Raven
• Didion, Joan - The White Album
• Dillard, Annie - An American Childhood
• Dog, Mary Crow - Lakota Woman
• Doyle, Arthur Conan - The Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1

E

• Eliot, George - Middlemarch
• Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
• Erdrich, Louise - Love Medicine
• Erdrich, Louise - Tales of Burning Love
• Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Virgin Suicides

F

• Faulker, William
• Fisher, M F K -
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gasby
• Friedan, Betty - The Feminine Mystique
• Funke, Cornelia - Inkheart

G

• Gaines, Ernest - A Lesson Before Dying
• Green, John - Looking for Alaska (Printz 2006)
• Greene, Graham - The End of the Affair

H

• Hamilton, Edith - Mythology
• Hansberry, Lorraine - A Raisin in the Sun
• Harjo, Joy - She had some horses
• Heat-Moon, William Least - Blue Highways
• Hemingway, Ernest - Green Hills of Africa
• Hemingway, Ernest - Old Man and the Sea
• Hempel, Amy - Collected Stories
• Hoffman, Alice - The Ice Queen
• Hoffman, Nina Kiriki - A Fistful of Sky
• Homer - The Odyssey (this time finish it)
• Horn, Dara - The World to Come
• Houston, Pam - Cowboys are my weakness

I

• Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
  

J

• Jelloun, Tahar Ben - This Blinding Absence of Light (Impac Dublin 2004)
• Jones, Edward - The Known World (2005 Pulitzer in Fiction)

K

• Karr, Mary - Sinners Welcome
• Kennedy, William J.- Ironweed ( 1984 Pultizer in Fiction)
• King, Laurie R. - The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
• Kingston Maxine Hong - Woman Warrior
• Kushner, Tony - Angels in America (1993 Pultizer in Drama)

L

• Lesser, Elizabeth - The Seeker’s Guide
• Li, Yiyun - The Vagrants
• Li, Yiyun - A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

M

• Mansfield, Katherine - The Collected Stories
• Mattiessen, Peter - Shadow Country (National Book Award)
• McCarthy, Cormac - Blood Meridan
• McCarthy, Mary - The Group
• Medley, Laura - Castle Waiting
• Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
• Millay, Edna St. Vincent - Selected Poems
• Momaday, N. Scott - House Made of Dawn (1969 Pulitzer)
• Morrison, Toni - Beloved
• Munro, Alice - The View from Castle Rock
• Murakami, Haruki - Norwegian Wood

N

O

• Obama, Barack - Dreams from my father
• O’Brien, Tim - The things they carried
• O’Connor, Flannery - Collected Stories
• Oliver, Mary - Red Bird

P

• Paley, Grace
• Pattou, Edith - East *completed 3/30/09
• Parks, Suzan-Lori - Topdog/Underdog (2002 Pulitzer in Drama)
• Pollock, Donald Ray - Knockemstiff
• Potok, Chaim - The Chosen
• Proulx, Annie

Q

R

• Robinson, Marilynne - Housekeeping
• Russo, Richard - Empire Falls
• Rylant, Cynthia - Missing May (1993 Newbery Medal)
  

S

• Said, Edward W. -Orientalism
• Sexton, Anne
• Shakespeare, William - Othello
• Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
• Smith, Zadie
• Spiegelman, Art - The Complete Maus
• Stein, Steve - The Angel of Forgetfulness
• Suskind, Patrick - Perfume: The story of a murderer

T

• Tan, Amy - The Joy Luck Club
• Taylor, Peter - A Summons To Memphis (1987 Pulitzer)
• Teasdale, Sara - Love Poems
• Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace

U

V

W

• Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
• Wallace, David Foster - Consider the Lobster
• Wells, H. G. - War of the Worlds
• Wells, H.G. - The Invisible Man
• Welty, Eudora - 13 stories
• White, T.H. - The Sword in the Stone
• Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself
• Williams, Tennesse - A Streetcar Named Desire
• Woolf, Virginia - A Room of One’s Own
• Wright, Richard - Native Son

X

• X, Malcolm - Autobiography of Malcolm X

Y

• Yezierska, Anzia - Bread Givers
• Yolen, Jane - Briar Rose
• Yolen, Jane - Favorite Folktales from Around the World

Z

• Zafron, Carlos Ruiz - The Shadow of the Wind