On My Bookshelf

These books are currently sitting on my bookshelf or Kindle waiting to be read. Many I’ve purchased in chunks (Boston Book Festival, Harvard Bookstore Warehouse Sale, Goodwill, etc.), and others are on my Kindle as they are pre-1923 versions, and even more are childhood favorites I’ve brought up to re-read. I hope that one day they’ll all be crossed off, but let’s face it the list will probably increase much faster than it decreases!

*An asterisks (*) on either list denotes a permanent addition to my collection :-D
°A degree symbol (°) on either list denotes an autographed copy.

  1. The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Omnibus) – Douglas Adams
  2. The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
  3. Behind A Mask – Louisa May Alcott
  4. The Darcys & the Bingleys - Marsha Altman
  5. The Jedi Academy Trilogy – Kevin J. Anderson
    • Jedi Search*
    • Dark Apprentice*
    • Champions of the Force*
  6. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
  7. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
  8. Life Before Man – Margaret Atwood
  9. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
  10. Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin - Frank Bailey
  11. Gourmet Rhapsody – Muriel Barbery
  12. The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors – Juliet Barker
  13. Regeneration Trilogy – Pat Barker
    • Regeneration
    • The Eye in the Door
    • The Ghost Road
  14. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much – Allison Hoover Bartlett
  15. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
  16. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt
  17. The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
  18. The Professor – Charlotte Brontë
  19. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
  20. People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks
  21. Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks
  22. The Word & Void Trilogy – Terry Brooks
    • Running with the Demon
    • A Knight of the Word
    • Angel Fire East
  23. Babel Tower - A.S. Byatt
  24. Still Life – A.S. Byatt
  25. The Ender Saga – Orson Scott Card
    • Ender’s Game
    • Speaker for the Dead
  26. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
  27. The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare – G.K. Chesterton
  28. The Beans of Egypt, Maine – Carolyn Chute
  29. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
  30. Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho
  31. The Witch of Portobello – Paulo Coelho
  32. Sixpence House – Paul Collins
  33. No Name – Wilkie Collins
  34. A Weekend with Mr. Darcy – Victoria Connelly
  35. The Han Solo Trilogy – A.C. Crispin
    • The Paradise Snare*
    • The Hutt Gambit*
    • Rebel Dawn*
  36. The Passage - Justin Cronin
  37. A Novel Death – Judi Culbertson
  38. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
  39. Simpler Living – Jeff Davidson
  40. The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir
  41. Bel Ami – Guy De Maupassant
  42. The Count of Concord: A Novel – Nicholas Delbanco
  43. The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
  44. Meyer: A Novel – Stephen Dixon
  45. A Star Called Henry – Roddy Doyle
  46. The Woman who Walked into Doors – Roddy Doyle
  47. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
  48. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
  49. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
  50. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
  51. The Empire Trilogy – JG Farrell
    • Troubles
    • The Siege of Krishnapur
    • The Singapore Grip
  52. Gone Girl – Jillian Flynn
  53. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
  54. The Man Who Left Too Soon – Barry Forshaw
  55. A Room With A View – E.M. Forster
  56. Howard’s End – E.M. Forster
  57. The History of Sexuality – Michel Foucault
    • Volume I: An Introduction
    • Volume II: The Use of Pleasure
    • Volume III: The Care of the Self
  58. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
  59. The Feminine Mystique – Betty Friedan
  60. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskill
  61. Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks – Ethan Gilsdorf*°
  62. Boulevard – Jim Grimsley
  63. Comfort & Joy – Jim Grimsley
  64. Dream Boy – Jim Grimsley
  65. My Drowning – Jim Grimsley
  66. Winter Birds – Jim Grimsley
  67. A Painted House – John Grisham
  68. A Map of the World – Jane Hamilton
  69. Jane’s Fame – Claire Harman
  70. Chocolat – Joanne Harris
  71. I Was Jane Austen’s Best Friend – Cora Harrison
  72. The Scarlett Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  73. A Map of the Harbor Islands – J.G. Hayes
  74. Game Change – John Heilemann
  75. I Served the King of England – Bohumil Hrabal
  76. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
  77. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
  78. The World According to Garp – John Irving
  79. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
  80. All for Love – Dan Jacobson
  81. The Bostonians – Henry James
  82. The Children of Men – P.D. James
  83. Waiting – Ha Jin
  84. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
  85. Ulysses – James Joyce
  86. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
  87. The Laramie Project – Moises Kaufman
  88. The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone Quartet- Gregory Keyes
    • The Briar King*°
    • The Charnel Prince
    • The Blood Knight
    • The Born Queen
  89. 11/22/63 – Stephen King
  90. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
  91. Discovering the Boston Harbor Islands – Christopher Klein*
  92. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
  93. The Arabian Nights – Andrew Lang (trans.)
  94. The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet – Reif Larsen
  95. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir) – Jenny Lawson
  96. The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories - David Leavitt & Mark MItchell (Eds.)
  97. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  98. Time Quartet – Madeleine L’Engle
    • A Wrinkle in Time*
    • A Swiftly Tilting Planet*
    • A Wind in the Door*
    • Many Waters*
  99. The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
  100. Briefing for a Descent into Hell – Doris Lessing
  101. Boy Meets Boy – David Levithan
  102. A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian – Marina Lewycka
  103. Zami, A New Spelling of My Name – Audre Lorde
  104. Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
  105. Wolf Hall Trilogy – Hilary Mantel
    • Wolf Hall: A Novel
    • Bring Up the Bodies
    • To be named
  106. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
  107. The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  108. Clock Without Hands – Carson McCullers
  109. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
  110. Atonement – Ian McEwan
  111. The Book Lover – Maryann McFadden
  112. L’America – Martha McPhee
  113. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
  114. Tender as Hellfire – Joe Meno
  115. Twilight – Stephanie Meyer
  116. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
  117. The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
  118. The Penguin Book of International Gay Writing – Mark Mitchell (Ed.)
  119. Jane and the Damned – Janet Mullany
  120. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
  121. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
  122. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  123. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
  124. Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
  125. Suite Française – Irène Némirovsky
  126. Strings Attached – Nick Nolan
  127. In the Lake of the Woods – Tim O’Brien
  128. Willoughby’s Return – Jane Odiwe
  129. Going Rogue: An American Life – Sarah Palin
  130. The Map of Time – Félix J. Palma
  131. The Dante Club – Matthew Pearl
  132. Caveat Emptor – Ken Perenyi
  133. The Symposium – Plato
  134. The Only Alien on the Planet – Kristen Randle*
  135. City of Night – John Rechy
  136. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
  137. Lady Vernon and Her Daughter – Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway
  138. The Things You Find on the Appalachian Trail – Kevin Runolfso
  139. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
  140. The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
  141. Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
  142. Persepolis 2 – Marjane Satrapi
  143. Cleopatra: A Life – Stacy Schiff
  144. Saint Exupéry: A Biography - Stacy Schiff*°
  145. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer
  146. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
  147. My Undoing – Aiden Shaw*
  148. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
  149. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
  150. The Beautiful Miscellaneous: A Novel - Dominic Smith
  151. Galileo’s Daughter – Dava Sobel
  152. The Man Who Loved Children – Christina Stead
  153. Treasure Island – Robert Lewis Stevenson
  154. Dracula – Bram Stoker
  155. Picking Cotton – Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton
  156. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
    • The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien*
    • The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien*
    • The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien*
  157. The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien
  158. Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, Peark and Sir Orfeo – J.R.R. Tolkien
  159. Android Karenina – Leo Tolstoy, Ben H. Winters, Eugene Smith, Constance Garnett
  160. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  161. Adrian Mole Series – Sue Townsend
    • The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole*
    • The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole*
    • The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole
    • Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years*
    • Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
    • Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
    • The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole 1999-2001
    • Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
  162. The Way We Live Now – Anthony Trollope
  163. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  164. Roughing It – Mark Twain
  165. The Brontë Project – Jennifer Vandever
  166. The Bad Girl: A Novel – Mario Vargas Llosa
  167. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
  168. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
  169. Dancing with Mr. Darcy – Sarah Waters (ed.)
  170. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
  171. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
  172. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
  173. Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
  174. The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays – Oscar Wilde
  175. Oranges are not the only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
  176. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
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