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
