TBR

This is the Starving Artist current TBR. Not much more to say about that.

TBR (that means “to be read” to all you bloggers and blogophiles; Currently Reading in bold; the symbols folling the first several books ($, 0, ?) indicate to me whether or not they are already in my library):

SLIP IN HOLIDAY BOOKS (Easter: Ben-Hur 0; Halloween: Dracula, Bram Stoker 0, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 0; Thanksgiving: How to Bake the Perfect Pecan Pie $; Christmas: Litle Women, Louisa May Alcott 0, Christmas Pig, J. K. Rowling $, On This Holy Night, compilation 0; New Years: Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell $; Valentines: North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell)
SLIP IN BOOKS RELATED TO CURRENT WRITING PROJECT (NDEs: FICTION: How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu; The Hummingbird’s Daughter, Urrea; Where the Forest Meets the Stars, Verdanah; Meet Me in Another Life?; The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin; The Singularities, John Banville?; Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel; All the Salt in the Sea?; The Last Cuentista, Heguera; In Another Light, A. J. Banner; To The Bright Edge of the World, Eowyn Ivey; A Flicker in the Dark, Stacey Willingham. NONFICTION: Erasing Death, Parnia and Young; Imagine Heaven, John Burke; Between Life and Death, Dolores Cannon; Life After Life (old), Raymond Moody and Journey of Souls, Michael Newton; We Never Die, Matt Fraser; Evidence of the Afterlife, Long and Perry; Afterlife, the While Truth, Stephen Hawley Martin; Haunted Healthcare, Richard Estep; The Purpose of Life, David Sunfellow. MEMOIRS: To Heaven and Back; Dying to Be Me; Embraced by the Light; Heaven: An Unexpected Journey; Heaven is for Real; Return from Tomorrow…)
SLIP IN CURRENT PROJECT WRITING BOOKS (How to Grow a Novel; The Art of Revision; How to Make a Living with Your Writing; (Shorts:) How to Write a Short Story, Fielding; A Swim in the Pond in the Rain; Thrill Me; Steering the Craft; How Fiction Works; Craft in the Real World; Dreyer’s English)
SLIP IN FAN FIC/ADAPTATIONS: 1932: Pride and Prejudice Revisited, Karen Cox; Unmarriageable, Soniah Kamal; An Assembly Such as This: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman, Pamela Aidan; Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe, Melizza de la Cruz; Ayesha at Last, Uzma Jalaluddin; Mr. Darcy’s Diary, Amanda Grange; Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith; Longbourn, Jo Baker; The Forgotten Sister: Mary Bennet’s Pride and Prejudice, Jennifer Paynter; The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet, Bernie Su and Kate Rorick; Pride, Ibi Zoboi.

Step T-3, YA Reading for Current Project Plus a Couple Christmas Gifts

The Business of Being a Writer, Jane Friedman (wishlist)
Creating Short Fiction, Damon Knight
Revelations in Air: A Guidebook to Smell, Jude Stewart
52 Uncommon Dates, Southern and Chapman (wishlist)
Plot & Structure, James Scott Bell
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir, Matthew Perry
Sex, God and the Conservative Church, Sellars 0
The Raven King, Maggie Stiefvater (Raven Boys 4) 0
The Messy Lives of Book People, Phaedra Patrick 0
City of Bones, Cassandra Clare (Mortal Instruments 1) 0
The Only World-Building Workbook You’ll Ever Need 0
Rethinking Sexuality, Slattery 0
City of Ashes, Cassandra Clare (Mortal Instruments 2) 0

Sababa cookbook 0
The Most Fun We Ever Had, Claire Leonardo 0
City of Glass, Cassandra Clare (Mortal Instruments 3) 0
The Battle of the Labyrinth, Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson 4) 0
John Derrian Sticker Book, John Derrian 0
Wonderbook, Jeff Vandermeer 0
Will Grayson, Will Grayson 0
Meander, Spiral, Explode, Jane Alison (writing conference)
Proof of Heaven, Eben Alexander 0
Verity (Windsor) 0
Shadow and Bone 1 0
His Dark Materials 1 0
Hush, Hush 0
Shadow and Bone 2 0
Open Pages 0
The Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (Windsor) 0
Creating Character Arcs Workbook, K. M. Weiland $
City of Fallen Angels, Cassandra Clare (Mortal Instruments 4) 0
If I Stay 0
Shadow and Bone 3 0
Percy Jackson 5 0
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Windsor) 0
Daughter of Smoke and Bone 0
The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith 0
The Only Fantasy Workbook You’ll Ever Need 0
His Dark Materials 2 0
A Separate Peace 0
City of Lost Souls, Cassandra Clare (Mortal Instruments 5) 0
Something Wicked This Way Comes $
Strange New World, Truman $
His Dark Materials 3 0
Novel in a Year (wishlist) $
Blue Sword $
City of Heavenly Fire, Cassandra Clare (Mortal Instruments 6) 0
House of the Scorpion 0
Good, Christian Sex, McClanahan $
Infernal Devices 1 $
Shiver $
How to Novel Using the Snowflake Method $
Old Kingdom 1 $
A Monster Calls 0
Artist’s Painting Techniques (and other art books already purchased) $
Infernal Devices 2 0
Every Day $
Old Kingdom 2 $
Boy Proof $
Pure, Linda Kay Klein $
Infernal Devices 3 0
Eleanor & Park $
Old Kingdom 3 $
Immortal Rules $
The Portable MFA in Creative Writing $
Love Thy Body, Nancy R. Pearcy $
Infernal Devices 4 0
All the Bright Places $
Old Kingdom 4 $
A Winter’s Promise $
Dark is Rising 1 0
The Furious Longing of God, Brennan Manning $
Sex God, Rob Bell $
Modern Library’s Writer’s Workshop $
Gideon the Ninth $
Old Kingdom 5 $
The Deathless Girls $
Dark is Rising 2 0
God and the Gay Christian, Matthew Vines $
Lonely Castle in the Mirror $
The Emotional Craft of Fiction $
Old Kingdom 6
Strange the Dreamer
Dark is Rising 3 $
Transforming, Matthew Hartke
The Cat Who Saved Books
Bartimaeus 1
Story Structure
Children of Blood and Bone 1
Dark is Rising 4 $
Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel
Children of Blood and Bone 2
Bartimaeus 2
Uprooted (add new years book and rest of list plus go to individual books from below)
Story Genius
Dark is Rising 5 0
Why We Love, Helen Fisher
The Night Circus
Bartimaeus 3
Monstress
Bloodlines (continue?, 8)
Steering the Craft
The Business of Writing for Children, Aaron Shepherd
Fallen (continue? 6)
Immortals 1
Wilder Girls
Daughter of the Lioness 1
re-read Hunger Games
Writing Picture Books, Ann Whitford Paul
How to Write Best-Selling Fiction
Immortals 2

Step T-2, combine above list with list below (Finish my Goodreads Clear the Shelves Book Club Reads and then list below):

My Bright Abyss, Christpher Wyman
Daughter of the Lioness 2
Swing Time, Zadie Smith
books by James S. Spiegel
Immortals 3
Writing Down the Bones
Grand Union, Zadie Smith
re-read Harry Potter
How Nonviolence Protects the State
Free of Me, Sharon Hodde Miller 0
On Beauty, Zadie Smith
Myths of the Norsemen, Roger Lancelyn Green
Word Work
Chronicles of Narnia 1
Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
Paper Girls, Bryan K. Vaughn
Immortals 5
The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte
Chronicles of Narnia 2
Aspects of the Novel
Mycophilia
Travelling Mercies, Ann Lamott
Immortals 6
Mythos, Stephen Fry
Chronicles of Narnia 3
An Insular Possession
Atlas of the Heart, Brene Brown
Pity the Reader
Enchanted Forest 1
Beowulf
Chronicles of Narnia 4
Wild Words
Homecoming, Yaa Gyasi
Dracula, Bran Stoker
Enchanted Forest 2
Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
Chronicles of Narnia 5
Little, Big
Blue Castle, L. M. Montgomery
Murder Your Darlings
Enchanted Forest 3
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Hello, Molly!, Molly Shannon
Chronicles of Narnia 6
How to Grow Your Novel
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Enchanted Forest 4
The Complete Persepolis
The Art of Receiving and Giving, Betty Martin
Chronicles of Narnia 7
Paper Towns, John Green
Re-read Miss Peregrine
The Science of Storytelling
re-read Sherlock Holmes
Chaos Walking 1
Come as You Are, Emily Nagoski
The Yearling
Chronicles of Crestomanci 1
A Separate Peace
Daily Rituals
The Daevebad Trilogy
Fostered, Terry Hope Peterson
Chaos Walking 2
The Hate U Give
Chronicles of Crestomanci 2
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
Story Engineering
Nice, Sherry Hodde Miller
Chaos Walking 3
Gulliver’s Travels
Chronicles of Crestomanci 3
Romeo and Juliet
Gone 1
The Liturgy of Politics, Kaitlynn Schiess
On Writing, Bukowski
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Chronicles of Crestomanci 4
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Gone 1
Breaking Free from Body Shame, Jess Connoly
The Midnight Library
Nobody Wants to Read This Sh*t
Chronicles of Crestomanci 5
Hatchet
Gone 3
9 Thoughts That Can Change Your Marriage, Sheila Wray Gregoire
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Chronicles of Crestomanci 6
About Writing
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Gone 4
Myth Atlas, de Moraes
The Grapes of Wrath
Chronicles of Crestomanci 7
Dune
Gone 5
If You Want to Write
Poe: Stories and Poems, Gareth Hinds
What Jane Austen Knew and Charles Dickens Ate
Shatter Me 1
Two kids’ mythology books
Gone 6
The Odyssey
Jules Verne leatherbound classic
Kick-Ass Writer
Shatter Me 2
The Iliad
A Court of Thorns and Roses 1
The Aeneid
The Winged Watchman, van Stockham
Shatter Me 3
Paris Review Interviews 1-4
Antigone
A Court of Thorns and Roses 2
Oedipus Rex
The Boy Why Harnessed the Wind, Komkwamba
Shatter Me 4
A Thousand Ships
On Writing, Welty
A Court of Thorns and Roses 3
The Penelopiad
The Actual Star, Monica Byrne
Shatter Me 5
Beowulf
A Court of Thorns and Roses 4
The Lie That Tells the Truth
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
The Lost Queen, Signe Pike
Shatter Me 6
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonegut
A Court of Thorns and Roses 5
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Art of Fiction
Getting the Love You Want, Hendricks
Under the Never Sky 1
The Yearling
Atlas 1
A Separate Peace
Under the Never Sky 2
Hold Me Tight, Johnson
The One Year Novelist, L. M. Lilly
The House of the Scorpion 0
Atlas 2
This One Summer
Under the Never Sky 3
Cold-Case Christianity, Wallace
Structuring Your Novel, K. M Weiland
I Am the Messenger
Atlas 3
Monster
Half a King 1
Looking for Alaska, John Green
Structuring Your Novel Workbook, K. M. Weiland
Bible Infographics, Harvest House
Atlas 4
Nothing
Half a King 2
Amos Fortune, Free Man
Atlas 5
The World Jesus Knew, Marc Olson
Long Way Down
Half a King 3
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
Atlas 6
The Outsiders
Howl’s Moving Castle
An Ember in the Ashes 1
Fangirl
Red Queen 1
Gulliver’s Travels, George MacDonald
An Ember in the Ashes 2
The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Red Queen 2
The Road, Jack Kerouac
An Ember in the Ashes 3
Night, Elie Wiesel
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Red Queen 3
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
An Ember in the Ashes 4
The House of the Scorpion 0
Red Queen 4
The Book of Unusual Knowledge
A Long Way Gone
The Beast Player (continue?, 11)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Red Queen 5
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer
50 States, 5000 Ideas
Red Queen 6
Farewell to Manzanar
Red Queen 7
The Bean Trees
Red Queen 8
Farm Anatomy and Ocean Anatomy, Julia Rothman
The Time Machine
The Beast Warrior (after, 4)
Great Expectations
re-read Twilight
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
The Big, Bad Book of Beasts and Botany, Michael Largo
Some Mistakes Were Made, Kristin Dwyer
Pride and Premeditation and Sense and Second-Degree Murder, Tirzah Price
See You Yesterday, Rachel Lynn Solomon
Gallant, V. E. Schwaab
The Inheritance Games (1-3 available), Jennifer Lynne Barnes

Step One: A ton of (old) reading for home school co-op planning:

The Midnight Library
Hatchet
Treasure Island
Lord of the Flies
Call of the Wild
The New Jim Crow, Alexander
Captain’s Courageous
Red Badge of Courage
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinback
Thomas Wolf’s books

Continue Reading from 2021 (and somewhere maybe add stuff for projects, like steam punk):

Wreck This Journal, Keri Smith
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein (writing conference)
Daevabad Trilogy, S. A. Chakroborty
Open Page, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (writing conference)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
Younger Next Year, Crowley
Universal Love, Alexander Weinstein (writing conference)
The Creative Writer’s Notebook, John Gillard
If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, Christopher Citro (writing conference)
The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker
The Green Ember series (original 4, or all 8)
Food, Dr. Mark Hyman
Adult Activity Book
Making Shapely Fiction, Jerome Stern (writing conference)
According to Hoyle
The Art of Fiction, John Gardner (writing conference)
The Describer’s Dictionary and The Chicago Manual of Style
My Bright Abyss, Christopher Wiman
Imaginative Writing, Janet Burroway (writing conference)
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
“Where the Face Becomes a Plant” (writing conference)
642 Things to Draw
Vex Hex Smash Smooch, Constance Hale
“The Crane Wife,” C. J. Hauser (writing conference)
The Kite Runner, Khaled Housseini
Tassajara Bread Book, Edward Espe Brown

Craft in the Real World, Matthew Salesses (writing conference)
The Case of the Missing Moonstone
Best Remembered Poems, Martin Gardner
“How to Talk to Your Mother,” Lorrie Moore (writing conference)
The House at Pooh Corner, A. A. Milne
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino (writing conference)
Wired for Love, Stan Tatkin
All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Jenny Han
The Night Circus, Eric Morgenstern (writing conference)
Winning the War in Your Mind, Craig Groeschel (church, on shelf)
Winter Birds, Jim Grimsley ? (writing conference)
One Thing, Sam Storms
The Fifth Season, Jamesin ? (writing conference)
Cross Stitching Guide for Beginners, Faye Fetters
The One Thing, Gary Keller
Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon (writing conference)
Think Like a Monk, Jay Shetty
A Pagan Place, Edna O’Brien (writing conference)
New Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual, Reader’s Digest
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
Deep Work, Cal Newport (writing conference)
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansbery (with daughter)
The Life, Carrie Fountain (writing conference)
Before and After the Book Deal, Courtney (writing conference)
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks, Gwendolyn Brooks
A Pop-Up Guide to Hogwawrts
Exhalation, Ted Chiang (Goodreads)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larrson (added from bookstore)
Fool’s Talk (Goodreads)
Let Me Be a Woman, Elisabeth Eliott
Every Riven Thing: Poems, Christian Wiman
March (Goodreads)
Dare, Barry McDonaugh
They Called Us Enemy (Goodreads)
365 Days of Art/Creativity/Art in Nature
Four Thousand Weeks (the Times)
In Love, Amy Bloom
King Lear, William Shakespeare
Calling for a Blanket Dance, Oscar Hokeah (SA follower)
The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey
On Writing Well, William Zinnser
Build the Perfect Bug-Out Bag, Creek Stewart
Human Anatomy for the Artist, Sarah Simblet
The Lost Queen, Signe Pike
Pipi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren
Matilda, Roald Dahl 0
Emperor of All Maladies, Sidhartha Mukerjhee
Lives of the Stoics, Stephen Hanselman
Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
399 Games, Puzzles, and Trivia
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
How Nonviolence Protects the State, Peter Gelderloos
The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
Burnout, Emily Nagoski
The School for Good Mothers, Chann
Ottolenghi Simple, Ottolenghi
Litte, Big, John Crowley
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch, Leo Tolstoy
God Came Near, Max Lucado
Overwhelmed, Bridget Schulte
Pug, Actually, Matt Dunn
The Surprise Date Challenge: Home Edition, Dana Lam
Dune, Frank Herbert (science fiction list, movie release)
The Color Purple, Alice Walker (social passion series, movie)
Discovering God, Dennis McCallum
Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman
Rising Strong, Brene Brown
The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It, Louise Harvey
Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington (social passion series)
The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
The Greatest Gift, Ann Voskamp
Honest Advent, Scott Erikson
The Road Back to You, Ian Morgan Cron
The Kindness Challenge, Shaunti Feldhahn
Full Catastrophe Living, Jon Kabat-Zin
Cooked, Jeff Henderson
The Bone People, Keri Hulme
The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis

Small List of Books Begun but Not Finished (Yet):

The Brontes: Wild Genius on the Moors, Juliet Barker
The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte, Daphne de Maurier
Mycophilia, Eugenia Bone
[World Travel, Anthony Bourdain]
An Insular Possession, Timothy Mo
(The Guide to Fifth Grade, Scholastic)
(The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas)
Rhythms of Grace, Kerri Wheems
Who Am I?, Jeff Little
[The Art of the Short Story, Gwynn]
Comparison Trap, Sandra Stanley
The One Year Chronological Bible
How Nonviolence Protects the State, Peter Gelderloos
Little, Big, John Crowley
My Bright Abyss, Christian Wiman
[Unglued, Zuckerman]
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snickett
Experiencing God, Blackaby and King (with church)

AND LET’S START FOLDING IN HERE. (Every un-marked title is ALREADY ON MY BOOK SHELF):

Mother and Son, Emerson Eggerichs
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tolkarczuk (writing group)
What Every Child Should Know About Prayer, Nancy Guthrie
The 1662 Book of Common Prayer (wishlist)
Bossypants, Tina Fey (comedy)
Knowing God, Charles Colson
Amazing Grace, Eric Metaxes (biography)
They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway (travel)
Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler (wishlist)
Divergent series, Veronica Roth
A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn (history)
The Killer Across the Table, Douglas and Olshaker
The Sympathizer, Viet Than Nguyen (historical fiction)
The Mask of Sanity, Hervey M. Cleckley
Funster 500+ Word Search Puzzles (wishlist)
Matilda, Roald Dahl (childrens) 0

The Zookeeper’s Wife, Diane Ackerman
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (middle grades)
This Is Not a Book, Keri Smith
Earthsea (series), Ursula K. Leguin (YA)
Marine Biology, Mladenov (wishlist)
Celebration of Discipline, Richard Foster
The Sonnets, William Shakespeare (poetry)
Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg
Maya Angelou (poet)
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Graham
Reef Life, Callum Roberts (wishlist)
Through Our Eyes, Little, Brown and Company (poetry anthology)
Victorian and Later English Poets, Beck Snow
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking (nonfiction/journalism)
Complete Shakespeare
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot(science)
Astronomy, Moche (wishlist)
English Drama 1580-1642, Brooke and Paradise
The Year of Eating Dangerously, Tom Parker Bowles (food memoir)
The Book of Virtues, William J. Bennett
American Psycho, Brett Easton Ellis (food fiction)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
18 Miles, Dewdney (wishlist)
The Cuban Table, Anna Sofia Palaez (cookbook)
An Insular Possession, Timothy Mo
Sandman, Neil Gaiman (graphic novels)
The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
The Complete Maus, Art Spiegelman (comics)
Field Guide to the Weather, Henning (wishlist)
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
The Road, Cormac McCarthy (literary fiction)
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell (popular fiction)
The Complete Winne-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne
Get Out of Your Head, Jennie Allen (wishlist)
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams (play)
The Nick Adams Stories, Ernest Hemingway
Momento (screenplay)
Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George
Global Voices (world)
I Wrote a Book About You (wishlist)
Endurance, Alfred Lansing
Beer in the Snooker Club, Gali (Middle East)
The Color of Water, James McBride
Disgrace, Coetzee (Africa)
QPB Treasury of North American Folktales, Catherine Peck
NET Abide Bible (wishlist)
The Thousand and One Nights, Scheherezade (South Asia)
The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron
Rashomon, Akutagawa (East Asia)
The Beloved Works of C. S. Lewis
A Hero of Our Time, Lemontov (Balkans)
John Everett Millais, Rosenfeld (wishlist)
Hunger, Knut Hamsen (Scandinavia)
Praying the Names of God, Ann Pangler
Like Water for Chocolate, Lara Esquivel (Latin America)
We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates
The Tin Flute, Gabriel Roy (Canada)
Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate (wishlist)
Confessions, Augustine
1491 and 1493, Charles C. Mann (Native America)
Flyboys, James Bradley
March, Geraldin Brooks (Oceania)
The Chosen, Chiam Potok
Earth Children Are Weird, Kim Smith (wishlist)
Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown (picture books)
Telling Stories?
Maps, Mizielinska (read-aloud)
1421, Gavin Menzies
Atonement, Ian Mcewan (2000s)
Ocean, Dinwiddie and Eales (wishlist)
Middlesex, Eugenides
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo (2010s)
Saving Fish from Drowning, Amy Tan
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Browne and King (writing)
A History of the Private Life I, Samuel Pepys
The Kingdom of Fungi, Petersen (wishlist)
The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp (Christianity)
Overwhelmed, Brigid Schulte
Ye Shall Be as Gods, Erich Fromm (religion)
Walking the Bible, Bruce Feiler
A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell (philosophy)
Snow Art, Simon Beck (wishlist)
Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver
100 Selected Poems, e. e. cummings
“The Tribute,” Jane Gordan (short stories)
Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Story, Max Lucado etc (wishlist)
Dubliners, James Joyce (compilations)
Coming to Light, Brian Swann
The Martian, Andy Weir (self pubbed)
Queen Bees and Wannabes, Rosalind Wiseman
Decomposition notebooks (journals)
Thou Spleeny Swag-Bellied Miscreant (wishlist)
The Emperor of Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee
Kokoyu Jibon Techo Diary (planners)
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Paul Kennedy
The Keri Smith Deluxe Boxed Set (creative journals)
1491, Charles C. Mann
The Philosophy, Shakespeare and Literature Book, DK, Canton, Buckingham (wishlist)
Wonderbook (reference)
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
The Book of Symbols, Taschen (art)
The Last Lion, William Manchester
At Home in the South, Veranda (coffee table)
Gadsby, Wright (wishlist)
Islands of the World ?
Martha Stewart’s Encyclopedia of Crafts (crafts)
The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
The Moth Presents: A Game of Storytelling (activities)
Poems by Emily Dickinson
Feelings Flash Cards, Todd Parr (wishlist)
The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern (book lovers)
The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw
A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick and 2006 (pairings)
When God Doesn’t Make Sense, James Dobson
Maurice, E. M. Forster (romance)
Story, Robert McKee (wishlist)
Who Am I?, Jeff Little
Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie (mystery)
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
“Annabel Lee,” Edgar Allan Poe and “Annabel Lee,” Tiger Army (pairings)
African American Poetry
The Valley of Amazement, Amy Tan (wishlist)
Cold Comfort Farm, Stall Gibbons (comedy)

Dream of the Red Chamber, Tsao Hsuehlchin
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (autobiography/memoir)
Whitefang, Jack London
Into Thin Air, John Krakauer (travel)
Wayfarer, K. M. Weiland (wishlist)
Rules, Cynthia Lord
A History of the Arab Peoples, Albert Hourani (history)
The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte, Daphne du Maurier
The Kite Runner, Khaled Houssini (historical fiction)
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
Good and Beautiful and Kind (wishlist)
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (childrens)
Household Stories, Brothers Grimm
The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznik (middle grades)
Mycophilia, Eugenia Bone
The Golden Compass (and His Dark Materials series), Philip Pullman (YA)
Glass Sentence (wishlist)
Mindhunter, Douglas and Olshaker
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman (poetry)
Serafina and the Black Cloak, Robert Beatty
Shel Silverstein (poet)
Everything, Everything, Nicola Yoon
Nature Anatomy Notebook (wishlist)
Around the World in 80 Poems, Chronicle (poetry anthology)
One of Us Is Lying, Karen M. McManus
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvior (nonfiction/journalism)
Almost Home, Joan Bauer
Freakonomics, Dubner and Leavitt (science)
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (wishlist)
One Year Chronological Bible
Yes, Chef, Michael Samuellson (food memoirs)
Search the Scriptures, Alan M. Stibbs
Chocolat, Joanna Harris (food fiction)
Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (wishlist)
The Art of Simple Food, Alice Waters (cookbooks)
Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson
Ghost World Daniel Clowes (graphic novels)
Poems, Maya Angelou
Peanuts, Larry Schultz (comics)
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
The Time Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger (literary fiction)
Comparison Trap, Sandra Stanley
And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie (popular fiction)
The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Edward Albee (plays)
In the Name of Salome, Julia Alvarez
Forrest Gump (screenplays)
Yo!, Julia Alvarez
The Norton Anthology of World Literature (world)
The War of the Saints, Jorge Amado
The Blue Aubergine, Miral al-Tahary (Middle East)
Israel, My Beloved, Kay Arthur
A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul (Africa)
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
A Fine Balance, Rohinto Mistry (South Asia)
The Complete Works of Jane Austen
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (East Asia)
Midwives, Chris Bohjalian
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky (Balkans)
Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury
Faustus, Paavo Rintala (Scandinavia)
American Triptych, Pearl S. Buck
Time Among the Maya, Ronald Wright (Latin America)
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino
The Stone Carvers, Jane Urqhart (Canada)
Reading in the Dark, Seamus Deane
Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko (Native)
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
The Magic Pudding, Normal Lindsay (Oceania)
The Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats (picture books)
Hard Times, Charles Dickens
A Little History of the World, E. H. Gombrich (read-aloud)
Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2000s)
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wild, Cheryl Strayed (2010s)
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pity the Reader, Kurt Vonnegut (writing)
The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tyranny of the Urgent, Charles Hummel (Christianity)
Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Dance of Time, Michael Judge (religion)
House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus
Sophie’s World, Jostein Gardner (philosophy)
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes (classics)
The Brothers K, David James Duncan
“The Stone Boy,” Gina Barriaux (short stories)
Middlemarch, George Eliot
The Weslyan Anthology of Science Fiction (compilations)
Silas Marner, George Eliot
Eragon, Christopher Paolini (self pubbed)
Commodore Hornblower, C.S. Forster
Lechtuurn bullet (or other) journal (journals)
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Little More Daily Organizer (planners)
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
The List Journal, Owl and Zebra Press (creative journals)
None to Accompany Me, Nadine Gordimer
Stuff You Should Know (reference)
River Woman, Donna Hemans
Odd Apples, William Mullan (art)
The Iliad, Homer
Accidentally Wes Anderson (coffee table)
How to Be Good, Nick Hornby
Edgy Embroidery, Renee Rominger (crafts)
The 158 Pound Marriage, John Irving
You’re Wierd: a Creative Journal for Misfits (activities)
The Fourth Hand, John Irving
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloane (book lovers)
A Prayer for Own Meany, John Irving
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, 1994, and 2019 (pairings)
Setting Free the Bears, John Irving
Tess of the D’Ubervilles, Thomas Hardy (romance)
A Widow for a Year, John Irving
The Alienist, Caleb Carr (mystery)
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
“The Lighthouse,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and “The Lighthouse’s Tale,” Nickle Creek (pairings)
Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Nasland
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, George Saunders (writing group)
The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
Happy Accidents, Jane Lynch (comedy)
The Secret Lives of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein (autobiography/memoir)
The Stand, Stephen King
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The Beach Alex Garland (travel)
Shoeless Joe, W. P. Kinsella
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond (history)
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah (historical fiction)
Zen Shorts, John J. Muth (childrens)
She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb
Out of a Silent Planet, C. S. Lewis
Perelandra, C. S. Lewis
Phantastes, C. S. Lewis
A Joyful Noise, Paul Fleishman (middle grades)
Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell (YA)
The Baronets Song, George McDonald
Autobiography of Red, Ann Carson (poetry)
The Highlander’s Last Song, George McDonald
Ben Johnson (poet)
Sir Gibbie, Geroge McDonald
Big, Bad, and a Little Scary, Viking (poetry anthology)
Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz
Walden, H. D. Thoreau (nonfiction/journalism)
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
The Emporer of All Maladies, Mukherjee (science)
Songs in Ordinary Time, Mary McGarry Morris
The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten (food memoirs)
The Nanny Diaries, Emma McLaughlin
Babette’s Feast, Isaac Denison (food fiction)
Wicked series, Gregory McGuire
How to Cook Everything, Mark Bittman (cookbooks)
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Alice in Sunderland Brian Talbott (graphic novels)
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Little Lulu, John Stanley (comics)
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
The Curious Incident of the Dogin the Nighttime, Mark Haddon (literary fiction)
We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates
The Help, Catherine Stockett (popular fiction)
The Gift, Patrick O’Leary
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller (plays)
A Perfect Peace, Amos Oz
When Harry Met Sally (screenplays)
A Severe Mercy, Sheldon Van Auken (does Sam have this?)
Animal Tales, Sanderson (world)
The Prophet, Frank Peretti
Tablet and Pen, Reza Aslan (Middle East)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
My Traitor’s Heart, Riah Milan (Africa)
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy (South Asian)
My Name is Asher Lev, Chiam Potok
Spring Snow, Yukio Mishima (East Asia)
Accordion Crimes, E. Annie Proulx
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (Balkans)
Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
Requiem, Peer Hulberg (Scandinavia)
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories (Latin America)
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Dance Me Outside, W. P. Kinsella (Canada)
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
In Mad Love and War, Joy Harjo (Native)
The Pilot’s Wife, Anita Shreve
Whale Rider, Witi Ahamaera (Oceania)
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
Knuffle Bunny, Mo Willems (picture book)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Tales from Shakespeare, Charles and Mary Lamb (read-aloud)
A Simple Plan, Scott Smith
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami (2000s)
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward (2010s)
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
Tell It Slant, Miller and Paola (writing)
The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Amy Tan
Wild at Heart, John Eldridge (Christianity)
The Opposite of Fate, Amy Tan
Gautama Buddha, Betty Kelen (religion)
Saving Fish from Drowning, Amy Tan
Philosophy as a Way of Life, Pierre Hadot (philosophy)
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
The Odyssey, Homer (classics)
“The Love of a Good Woman,” Alice Munro (short stories)
Kurt Vonnegut: Bluebeard, Deadeye Dick, Galapagos, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Jailbird, Mother Night, The Sirens of Titan, Slapstick, Welcome to the Monkey House
The Complete Stories, Flannery O’Connor (compilations)
Shelf Life of Happiness, Virginia Pye (self pubbed)
The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
Dotted Grid Notebook (journals)
I am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe
Moleskin Classic 12 Month (planners)
A Late Divorce, A. B. Yehoshua
I Wrote a Book About You, Clarke and Edge (creative journals)
Mani, A. B. Yehoshua
Remarkable Diaries (reference)
The Shack, William Paul Young
The Story of Art (special edition), E. H. Gombrich (art)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
200 Women Who Will Change the Way You See the World (coffee table)
The Mysterious Benedict Society, Carol Alexander
Punch Needle Embroidery for Beginners, Davidson (crafts)
The Secret Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
Sherlock Holmes Puzzles, Brain Games (activities)
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Ffjord (book lovers)
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan and 1993 (pairings)
The Penderwicks, Jeanne Birdsall
A Walk to Remember, Nicholas Sparks (romance)
My Amish Story, Rebecca Borntrager Graber
Mr. Mercedes, Stephen King (mystery)
The Education of Little Tree, Forrest Carter
“Song of Myself,” Walt Whitman and “Sake of the Song,” Blackmore Night (pairings)
Where the Lilies Bloom, Very Cleaver
The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, Kazo Ishiguro (writing group)
Artemis Fowl, Eioin Colfer
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs (comedy)
Over Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank (autobiophraphy/memoir)
The Trouble with Chickens, Doreen Cronin
Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene (travel)
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy (history)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque (historical fiction)
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM, Robert C. O’Brien (childrens)
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
Percy Jackson (series), Rick Riordan (middle grades)
Incident at Hawk’s Hill, Allan W. Eckert
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabott (YA)
The Black Stallion, Walter Farley
The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton (YA)
Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George
Metamorphoses, Ovid (poetry)
The 39 Clues, Rick Riordan
Silivia Plath (poet)
Spy School, Stuart Gibbs
William Butler Yeats (poet)
Diary of a Penguin-Napper, Sally Harris
Word of Mouth, Vintage Books (poetry anthology)
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
Eight Keys, Suzanne LeFleur
The Golden Bough, James George Frazier (nonfiction/journalism)
Because Internet, McCulloch (science)
The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis
Julie and Julia, Julie Powell (food memoirs)
Whitefang, Jack London
Eat Cake, Jean Ray (food fiction)
The Call of the Wild¸ Jack London
How to Eat, Nigella Lawson (cookbooks)
Pipi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren
Tank Girl One, Hewlett and Martin (graphic novels)
Anastasia Krupnick and series, Lois Lowry
Through the Woods, Emily Carroll (comics)
Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks (litearary fiction)
Chocolate Covered Ants, Stephen Manes
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bolgakov (popular fiction)
The Candymakers, Wendy Mass
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles (plays)
Eragon series, Christopher Paolini
Shakespeare in Love (screenplays)
Captain Underpants, Dav Pilkey
An Anthology of World Poetry (world)
Junie B. Jones, Barbara Park
Stealth, Sonallah Ibrahim (world)
Finding Ruby Starling, Carrie Rivers
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (Africa)
Sideways Stories from Wayside School series, Louis Sachar
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (South Asia)
The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden
The Art of War, Sun Tzu (East Asia)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov (Balkans)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Doctor Glas, Hjalmer Sodorberg (Scandinavia)
Stuart Little, E. B. White
Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene (Latin America)
Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje (Canada)
The Trumpet of the Swan, E. B. White
American Indian Myths and Legends (Native)
Essays of E. B. White 0
Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea, Ben Clanton
Erewhon, Samuel Butler (Oceania)
Mistress Masham’s Repose, T. H. White
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Judith Viorst (picture book)
American Girl series
Our Island Story, H. E. Marshal (read-aloud)
Fancy Nancy series, Jane O’Connor
Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Soer (2000s)
Many other picture books
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (2010s)
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Cash: The Autobiography
On Writing, Eudora Welty (writing)
The Anthropolgy of Turquoise
Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis (Christianity)
Gandhi on Non-violence
The Great Transformation, Helen Armstrong (religion)
The Walk West
Aristotle’s Way, Edith Hall (philosophy)
Adrift
The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde (classics)
Julie and Julia, Julie Powell
“The Siren,” Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampidusa (short stories)
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Sour Heart, Jenny Zhang (compilations)
Memiors, Elie Wiesel
The Alligators of Abraham, Robert Kloss (self pubbed)
Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Minimalism Art CLassic Dotted Notebook (journals)
The Man Comes Around, Dave Uranski
Leuchtuurn 1917 Weekly Planner (planners)
Parallel Lives, Phyllis Rose
Q&A a Day, Potter Gift (creative journals)
Little Girl Lost, Drew Barrymore
For the Love of Books (reference)
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
Art: The Definitive Visual Guide (art)
A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut
Great Maps, The Smithsonian (coffee table)
Joel, Joel Sonnenberg
Knitting without Needles, Anne Weil (crafts)
The Making of a Chef, Michael Ruhlman
Harry Potter: The Ultimate Quiz (activities)
Holy the Firm, Annie Dillard
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino (book lovers)
Beyond the Four Corners of the World
The Pursuit of Happyness, Chris Gardner and 1996 (pairings)
The Story of My Life, Helen Keller
Normal People, Sally Rooney (romance)
The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler (mystery)
The Roosevelts, Peter Collier
“Richard Cory,” Edwin Arlington Robinson and “Eleanor Rigby,” The Beatles (pairings)
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (mood-chosen)
A Light in the Attic, Shel Silverstein
Thank You, Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse (comedy)
Archy and Mehitabel, Marquis
A Long Way Gone, Ismael Beah (autobiography/memoir)
Sailing Alone Around the Room, Billy Collins
The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain (travel)
The Love Poems of Elizabeth and Robert Browning
The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman (history)
Archyology, Marquis
The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett (histrical fiction)
Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems, Amachai
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein (childrens)
Best Remembered Poems, Dover
The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan (middle grades)
Immortal Poems, Oscar Williams
Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist, Rachel Cohn (YA)
Early Poems of Robert Frost
Howl and Other Poems, Alan Ginsberg (poetry)
Blue Horses Rush In, Tapahonso
Emily Dickinson (poet)
O Lord!, John Gowans
Poetry by Heart, Scholastic (poetry anthology)
Oh Lord! Now What? John Gowans
The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzenietsyn (nonfiction/journalism)
The Complete Collected Poems, Maya Angelou
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson (science)
Sonnets, Shakespeare
Cooked, Michael Pollan (food memoirs)
Maus, Spiegelman
The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood (food fiction)
Kiki’s Delivery Service II (Do I own I, as well?)
Good Things in England, Florence White (cookbooks)
Alciphron, George Berkeley
Scott Pilgrim 1, Brian Lee O’Halley (graphic novels)
Bioethics
Fables, Wilingham (comics)
A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie (literary fiction)
Bioethics and the Future of Medicine
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes (popular fiction)
Ethics: Selections from Classical and Contemporary Writers
Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill (plays)
Sing a Song of Popcorn
Annie Hall (screenplays)
Home Comforts, Cheryl Mendelson
The Art of the Tale (world)
Query and Cover Letters
The Heron, Ibrahim Aslan (Middle East)
Review of my favorite reference books
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith (Africa)
The Practical Writer, Eiben and Gannon
Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jabvala (South Asia)
Writing Made Easy, Dorothy Cora Moore
The Tale of Genji, Marusaki Shikubu (East Asia)
The Fine Print of Self-Publishing, Marh Levin
Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev (Balkans)
Writing Tools, Roy Peter Clark
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, Selma Lagerlof (Scandinavia)
The Writer’s Notebook
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, Julia Alvarez (Latin America)
Plot and Structure
Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro (Canada)
The Secret Miracle
House Made of Dawn, Scott Momaday (Native)
How to Get Happily Published, Judith Applebaum
Australian Literature, Edelson (Oceania)
Writing for Screen and Television, Tobias
The Monster at the End of the Book, Jon Stone (picture book)
The New Well-Tempered Sentence, Gordon
Tales of Hans Christen Andersen, Naomi Lewis (read-aloud)
The Elements of Style, Strunk and White
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2000s)
Essentials of English, Hopper
The Nickle Boys, Colson Whitehead (2010s)
The Working Writer
The Portable MFA in Creative Writing, New York Writers Workshop (writing)
What’s the Big Idea?, Reeves
How to Read the Bible, James L. Kugel (Christianity)
The Writer’s Digest Character-Naming Sourcebook
Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl (religion)
Becoming a Writer, Brande
What Does It All Mean?, Thomas Nagel (philosophy)
The Complete Works, William Shakespeare
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier (classics)
Euripides
“A Simple Heart,” Gustave Flaubert (short stories)
The Dead, James Joyce
Will You Be Quiet Please?, Raymond Carver (compilations)
Three Plays, Thornton Wilder
Let Me Clear My Throat, Elena Passarello (self pubbed)
The Purgitario, Dante
Simple Elephant Organizing Notebook (journals)
King Lear, Shakespeare
MiGoals Goal Digger (planners)
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
Complete the Story, Piccadilly (creative journal)
The Complete Plays of Sophocles
The Book of Unusual Knowledge (reference)
Aristophanes
An Introduction to Art Techniques (art)
The Paradiso, Dante
Animal: The Difinitive Visual Guide (coffee table)
The Classic Theatre, Eric Bentley
Literary Yarns, Cindy Wang (crafts)
Beowulf
Wheel of Fortune Word Puzzles (activities)
The Literature of the United States
Inkheart, Cornelia Funke (book lovers)
The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature
“The Boys in the Bank,” Life Magazine article and Dog Day’s Night (pairings)
Global Voices, Biddle
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Jenny Han (romance)
The Nortan Anthology of English Literature I and II
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Raymond Chandler (mystery)
The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces
“Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” Emily Dickinson and “Seasons in the Sun,” Terry Jacks
Falling Into Theory, David Richer
Infinite Jest
AND THEN CONTINUE TO FOLD IN (BELOW LISTS) WITH BOOK ON MY SHELF (ALSO BELOW)…
MAIN LIST
COMEDY
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
TRAVEL
HISTORY, HISTORICAL FICTION
PICTURE BOOK
MIDDLE GRADES
YA
POETRY BOOK, POET, POETRY ANTHOLOGY
NONFICTION/JOURNALISM
SCIENCE
FOOD MEMOIRS
FOOD FICTION
COOKBOOKS
GRAPHIC NOVELS
COMICS
LITERARY FICTION
POPULAR FICTION
PLAYS
SCREENPLAYS
WORLD
MIDDLE EAST
AFRICA
SOUTH ASIA
EAST ASIA
BALKANS
SCANIANDIA
LATIN AMERICA
CANADA
NATIVE AMERICA
OCEANIA
PICTURE BOOKS
READ-ALOUD
2010s
2020s
WRITING
CHRISTIANITY
RELIGION
PHILOSPHY
CLASSICS
SHORT STORIES
STORY COLLECTIONS
SELF- and INDIE-PUBBED
JOURNALS
PLANNERS
ALT/CREATIVE JOURNALS
CRAFTING
BRAIN GAMES/ACTIVITIES
ART
COFFEE TABLE BOOKS
HOME REFERENCE
BOOKS FOR BOOK LOVERS
BOOK AND MOVIE PAIRINGS
ROMANCE
DETECTIVE/MYSTERY/CRIME
POETRY AND SONG PAIRINGS
When it makes sense: Holidays and whole book clubs

Books in My Personal Library I Have Not Reviewed (and In Some Cases Haven’t Read):

Dictionary of World Myth
Writing Poetry, Drake
Sound and Sense, Perrine
The Essential Tales of Chekhov
The Roald Dahl Omnibus
Fiction, Gasarch
Nine Stories, J. D. Sallinger
American Indian Mythology, Alice Marriott
Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories, Herman Melville
American Indian Myths and Legends
Mythology, Edith Hamilton
The Stories of Eva Luna, Isabel Allende
Myths of the Norsemen
A Book that Was Lost, S. Y. Agnon
The Complete Stories, Flannery O’Connor
Naguib Mahfouz
Fitzgerald: The Crack-Up
American Colonies, Alan Taylor
The Communist Manifesto, Marx
The Oxford History of Britain, Morgan
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
Red Carolinians, Chapman J. Milling
War Without End, Anton la Guardia
Twentieth Century, J. M. Roberts
Selkirk’s Island, Diana Souhami
Galileo’s Daughter, Dava Sobel
Columbine, Dave Cullen
A History of Ancient Egypt, Nicholas Grimal
The British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt
What Jane Austen Wore and Charles Dickens Knew
A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
A History of the Modern World Since 1815
A History of the Jews
Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick
The Panic of 1907, Bruner
China Inc., Ted C. Fishman
The Holy Land, Murphy-O’Connor
Harmonies of the World, Kepler
Darwin’s Black Box, Michael J. Behe
Dig, Meredith Kirton
The Reluctant Weekend Gardener, Wallace
Rocks & Minerals
Night Sky
Physics Demystified
How to Stay Alive in the Woods, Anger
The Tao of Pooh and Te of Piglet, Benjamin Hoff
20^th Century Philosophy, Morris Weitz
The Philosophy of the 16^th and 17^th Century, Richard H. Poplin
Christian Ethics
Basic Issues in Aesthetics
Matter and Consciousness, Churchland
A Primer on Postmodernism, Grens
The Philosophy of Art, Neill
Does the Center Hold?, Palmer
Looking at Philosophy, Palmer
Philosophy: The Power of Ideas
A History of Philosophy, Jones
The Theory of Knowledge, Pojman
Classics of Philosophy, Pojman
Philosophical Explorations, French
Neighboring Faiths, Corduan
Scriptures of the East and West
Anthology of World Scriptures, Van Voorst
Experiencing the World’s Religions
Days of Awe, Agnon
Aspects of Rabbinic Theology, Solomon Schechter
Sayings of the Fathers, Hertz
The Message
The Liberated Imagination, Leland Ryken
Essential Home Tips
Everyday Home Repairs
The Everything Card Games Book
Brain Teasers
The Family Book
Logic: 200 Puzzles
Games Magazine Big Book of Games
The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Complete Guide to Money, Jeff Yeager
Capitalism, Ayn Rand
The Millionaire Mind, Stanley
Who Took My Money?, Kiyosaki
Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
Celebrate Recovery Daily Devotional
I Stand with Christ, Zhang Rongland
On the Anvil, Max Lucado
And the Angels Were Silent, Max Lucado
Sings of the Spirit, Sam Stoms
Where Is God When It Hurts?, Philip Yancey
The Gospel According to the Simpsons, Pensky
No Wonder They Call Him the Savior, Max Lucado
Adam, Nouwen
Answers to Tough Questions, McDowell
The Final Week of Jesus, Max Lucado
Faith and Reason, Swinburne
The Savior of Science, Jaki
Letting to of Perfect, Amy Spiegel
Open My Heart, Lord, Oates
Celtic Daily Prayer
Steer, J. Hudson Taylor
Lord Bless This Marriage, Carmichael
The Case for Faith, Strobel
He Still Moves Stones, Max Lucado
The God Hypothesis, Corey
Daily Light
Pleasures Evermore, Sam Storms
Life’s Healing Choices, Baker
The Bible Jesus Read, Philip Yancey
Total Truth, Pearcey
Fresh Air, Hodges
The Pleasure of a Loving God, Mike Bickle
One Month to Live, Kerry and Chris Shook
Vintage Church, Driscoll
Galatians, Morris
Reading the Bible with Heart and Mind, Longman
The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom
Generous Justice, Timothy Keller
Don’t Waste Your Life, Piper
The Sacred Romance, Curtis and Eldredge
The Blessed Life, Robert Morris
Women of the Bible, Spangler
How Good Is Good Enough?, Andy Stanley
The Knowledge of the Holy, Tozer
Acts, Max Lucado
Convergence, Sam Storms
Galatians, Max Lucado
Soul Detox, Groeschel
The Christian Atheist, Groeschel
The Measure of a Man, Gene A. Getz
The Case for Christ, Strobel
The Fingerprint of God, Hugh Ross
Whiteman’s Gospel, Craig Smith
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, Piper
In the Face of God, Michael Horton
My Utmost for His Highest
Reasons of the Heart, Edgar
God’s Global Mosaic, Chandler
Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller
After God’s Own Heart, Mike Bickle
The Inspirational Writings, Billy Graham
Beyond Words
The Great House of God¸ Max Lucado
The Christian Theology Reader
Old Testament Survey, House
Abandoned to God, Oswald Chambers
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, Sider
Desiring God, Piper
Freedom of Simplicity, Richard Foster
A Faith for All Seasons, Dorman
The Joyful Christian, C. S. Lewis
A Jonathan Edwards Reader
Orthodoxy, Chesterton
Prayer, Foster
Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis
The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis
I Was Just Wondering, Philip Yancey
Grace Walk, Steve McVey
Discovering God, Philip Yancey
Parenting by the Book, John Rosemond
Through Gates of Splendour, Elliot
What on Earth Are We Here For?, Warren
God Came Near, Max Lucado
The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey
Strangers to These Shores
Let Me Be a Woman, Elizabeth Elliot
The Sociopath Next Door
Race and Ethnicity, Monk
Too Small to Ignore, Stafford
Out of the Shadows, Carnes
Five Signs of a Loving Family, Chapman
The Corner
Building Successful Relationships
The Five Love Languages
Counselling for Anger
The American Paradox, Myers
Love and Respect, Eggerichs
Simple Abundance
Review pregnancy and birth and other self help books
Best Friends, Worse Enemies, Michael Thompson
An Unquiet Mind, Kay
Our America, Leland Jones
Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
Codependent No More, Beatty
The Gift of Fear, Gavin de Becker
When Helping Hurts, Corbett
The Triumphant Marriage, Neil Clark
The Age of Consent, Knight
Something More
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Living the 7 Habits
Man’s Search for Meaning
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
From This Day Forward
Margin, Swenson
Real Marriage, Driscoll
Diet for a New America
The Killer Across the Table, Douglas and Olshaker
Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
Me Before You, Jojo Moyes
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
The Rest of Us Just Live Here, Ness
Last of the Mohicans, James Fennimore Cooper
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
The Dutch House¸ Ann Patchett
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
The Mask of Sanity, Cleckley
Spin, Robert Charles Olsen
The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton
1493, Charles C. Mann
Here and Now and Then
Devolution, Max Brooks
The Great Influenze, John M. Barry
Dark Matter, Blake Crouch
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Up from Slavery, Washington
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
Ben Hur, Lew Wallace
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseni
The Kingdom of Copper, Chakrobarty
Dune, Frank Herbert
Little, Big, John Crowley
Les Miserable, Victor Hugo
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, E. Schwab
They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
Searching for Caleb, Anne Tyler
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl
The Waves (and Jacob’s Room), Virginia Woolf
Son of Laughter, Buechner
The Color of Water, James McBride
Winning the War in Your Mind, Groeschel
Jesus Calling for Kids
Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Scotland, France, Poland
Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Dr. Jeklyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Lewis Stevenson
The Firekeeper’s Daughter
Pooh’s Workout Book, Ethan Mordden
Mama Bear Apologetics
big white book from the thrift store
books from Windsor

Continuation of the TBR:

(Take one from shelf (list above) and one from TBR, back and forth)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tolkarczuk (writing group)
The Sympathizer and The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen (writing group)
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, George Saunders (writing group)
The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, Kazo Ishiguro (writing group)
A few mood-chosen books: The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss, A Darker Shade of Magic, V.E. Schwab, The Philosopher’s Flight, Tom Miller, The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang)
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (movies)
Time travel and sasquatch stuff I bought Kevin (including Max Brooks)
Laurie Colwin: More Home Cooking, A Big Storm Knocked It Over, Another Marvelous Thing and maybe more. (Happy All the Time, Family Happiness, Goodbye without Leaving, Shine On Bright and Dangerous Object, The Lone Pilgrim, Passion and Effect…)
Roots, Alex Haley (social passion series)
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander (social passion series)
The Invisible Man (social passion series)
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (poster challenge)
Younger Next Year, Chris Crowley (Made Strong series)
Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon (social passion series)
In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan (Made Strong series)
Justice, Michael Sandel (social passion series)
Brain Warrior’s Way, Amen and Amen (Made Strong series)
The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene (social passion series)
The Zookeeper’s Wife, Diana Ackerman (world list, little library)
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz
The Nick Adams Stories, Ernest Hemingway (short stories list, little library)
Everything is F*cked, Mark Manson (social passion series)
Save the Cat!, Blake Snyder
Reasons and Persons, David Parfit (social passion series)
The Kindness Challenge
The Chronicles of Narnia (series, poster challenge)
Factfulness, Hans Rosling (social passion series)
Seraphina and the Black Cloak, Robert Beatty
Seraphina and the Twisted Staff, Robert Beatty
Seraphina and the Splintered Heart, Robert Beatty
A Theory of Justice, John Rawls
White Too Long, Robert P. Jones (social justice series)
Homeschool Supermom… Not!, Susan Kemmerer
Violence and the Word, Robert Cover (social passion series)
Less Than Human, David Livingstone Smith (social passion series)
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
Ulysses, James Joyce (poster)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Making Sense of Human Rights, James Nickel (social passion series)
The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
The Ordeal of Integration, Orlando Patterson (social passion series)
11/22/63, Stephen King
Sharp’s Dictionary of Power and Struggle (social passion series)
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas (social passion series)
Out of My Mind, Sharon Draper
All American Boys, Reynolds and Keily (social passion series)
Wish Girl, Nikki Loftin
Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Davis, Barat and West (social passion series)
Rules, Cynthia Lord
The Fire This Time, Jesmyn Ward (social passion series)
Citizen, Claudia Rankin (social passion series)
Quiet, Susan Cain
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Raising White Kids, Jennifer Harvey (social passion series)
La Morte d’Arthur, Malory
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (social passion series)
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
White Fragility, DiAngelo and Dyson (social passion series)
Over Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper
How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi (social passion series)
Small Acts of Amazing Courage, Gloria Whelan
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (social passion series)
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (social passion series)
Unworthy Republic (social passion series)
A Broom of One’s Own, Nancy Peacock
The Earth Is Weeping (social passion series)
The Food Lab, J. Lopez Kenji-Alt
Decolonizing American History (social passion series)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
A Shorthand Account of the Deconstruction of the Indies (social passion series)
Horton Halfpott, Tom Angelberger
1491 (social passion series)
Inheritance series, Christopher Paolini
An Indigenous People’s History of the United States (social passion series)
Wreck This Journal series
Bury My Knee at Wounded Knee (social passion series)
642 Things to Draw, Chronicle Books
Empire of the Summer Moon (social passion series)
Trail of Tears (social passion series)
A Tale Dark and Grimm, Adam Gidwitz
American Indian Myths and Legends (social passion series)
Overwhelmed, Brigid Schulte (NPR)
Life’s Work (social passion series)
The Key to Extraordinary, Nathalie Lloyd
A Spark of Light (social passion series)
Emily Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
The Girls Who Went Away (social passion series)
Catch Your Death, Feel the Fear, Pick Your Poison, and Blink and You Die, Lauren Child
Subverted (social passion series)
Walking the Bible, Bruce Felier (Dickey books)
Handbook for a Post-Roe America (social passion series)
Rules for Virgins, Amy Tan and other Amy Tan
Book of American Martyrs (social passion series)
Queen Bees and Wannabees, Rosalind Wiseman (Dickey books)
Odd Girl Out, Rachel Simmons
Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments (social passion series)
The Christian Atheist, Craig Groeschel ($1 books)
The Mothers (social passion series)
The Gift (Kevin)
Shout Your Abortion (social passion series)
Aurelia’s Colors
Pour Your Soul (social passion series)
Wollstonecraft (series), Jordan Stratford
Killing the Black Body (social passion series)
My Name is Malala (Windsor)
All the Boys I Loved Before (Windsor)
When She Woke (social passion series)
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (Dickey books)
Unplanned (social passion series)
Soul Detox, Craig Groeschel ($1 books)
Why Pro Life? (social passion series)
Animal Dreams and The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (and other books?) (Dickey books)
Hand of God (social passion series)
The Greek Myths, Robert Graves
Mythology, Edith Hamilton
The Ethics of Abortion (social passion series)
The Walls Are Talking (social passion series)
all my old faves and authors (John Irving, Jane Austen, The Things They Carried, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julia Alvarez, etc.)
Confessions, Augustine ($1 books)
Not for Sale, David Batstone (social passion series)
The Chosen, Chaim Potok (Dickey books)
The Slave Next Door, Kevin Bales (social passion series)
Real Marriage, Mark and Grace Driscoll ($1 books)
Blood and Earth, Kevin Bales (social passion series)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Kinney (Dickey books)
Hidden in Plain Sight, Simon and Hepburn (social passion series)
Margin, Richard A. Swenson ($1 books)
Girls Like Us, Rachel Lloyd
writing books on my shelves (Becoming a Writer, The Elements of Style, Essentials of English, The Working Writer, The Well-Tempered Sentence, Writing for Screen, The Secret Miracle, The Writer’s Notebook, Plot and Structure, Writing Tools, What’s the Big Idea?, The Fine Print of Self Publishing, Writing Made Easy, The Practical Writer)
Sold, Patricia McCormick (social passion series)
A Crime So Monstrous, E. Benjamin Skinner (social passion series)
Galatians and Acts, Max Lucado ($1 books)
A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah (social passion series)
Middlesex, Eugenides (Dickey books)
A Promise to Nadia, Zana Muhsen (social passion series)
Through Gates of Splendour, Elliot ($1 books)
A History of the Private Life (Dickey books)
Divergent series
Signs of the Spirit, Sam Storms ($1 books)
Poems, Maya Angelou (Dickey books)
Knowledge of the Holy, Tozer ($1 books)
The Wings of the Dove, Henry James (Dickey books)
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Daneilewski
Reading the Bible with Heart and Soul ($1 books)
Telling Stories, Joan Didion (Dickey books)
Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Dickey books)
Generous Justice, Timothy Keller ($1 books)
Philip K. Dick: Ubik, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, and VALIS
The Sacred Romance, Curtis and Elderidge ($1 books)
100 Selected Poems, E.E. Cummings (Dickey books)
Vintage Church, Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears ($1 books)
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson (Dickey books)
I’m Just No Good at Rhyming, Chris Harris
Total Truth, Pearcey ($1 books)
Columbine, Dave Cullen (Dickey books)
The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom ($1 books)
Mythology, Edith Hamilton (Dickey books)
The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah
One Month to Live, Kerry and Chris Shook ($1 books)
Coming to Light: Contemporary Translation of the Native Literatures of North America (Dickey books)
The Pleasures of Loving God, Mike Bickle ($1 books)
She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb (Dickey books)
What Luck, This Life, Kathryn Schwille
Convergence, Sam Storms ($1 books)
2030, Albert Brooks (comedy list)
Fresh Air, Hodges ($1 books)
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester (sci-fi/fantasy list)
Don’t Waste Your Life, John Piper ($1 books)
Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom (biography list)
Dreamland, Sam Quinones
The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Ibn Battuta (travel list)
The Histories, Herodotus (history list)
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame (C/MG/YA list)
The Woman in the Window, A.J. Finn
Cooked, The Belly of Paris, and Smitten Kitchen Cookbook (food list)
The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. (nonfiction list)
The Underwater Welder, Jeff Lemire (graphic novel list)
The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt (2000s list)
The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010s list)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips, James Hilton
Roald Dahl everything
The Norton Anthology of World Literature (world list)
Beer In the Snooker Club, Waguih Gali (world list, Middle East)
Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (world list, Africa)
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry (world list, South Asia)
Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin (world list, Asia)
The Book of Heroes, Miyuki Mayabe
A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov (world list, Balkans)
Pan, Knut Hamsun (world list, Scandinavia)
Genesis, Eduardo Geleano (world list, Latin America)
The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai
2018 Best American Short Stories
The Overstory, Richard Powers 0
The Stone Carvers, Jane Urquhart (world list, Canada)
The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie (world list, Native America)
The Bone People, Keri Hulme (world list, Oceania)
Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown (children’s list)
The Essential Chekov (shorts collections list)
The Talmud (and a Talmud exposition)
America, John Stewart (comedy list)
The Goose Girl, Shannon Hale (and the rest of the existing series)
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi (biography and memoir list)
Secret Garden, Johanna Bosford
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain (travel list)
Complete Poems, Giacomo Leopardi
The History of the Decline and the Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon (history list)
Lanark: A Life in Four Books, Alasdair Gray
The Thought Readers, Dima Zale (sci-fi list)
The Farm, Haven Kimmel
A Game of Thrones series, George R.R. Martin (fantasy list)
The Story of Life, Konstantin Puakovsky
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein (children’s list)
Jefferson and His Times, Dumas Malone
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank (MG list)
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, and some other Rand books
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, Michael Paxton
I Am the Messenger, Markus Zusak (YA list)
Fear, L. Ron Hubbard
Lighthead, Terrence Hayes (poetry list)
Killshot, Elmore Leonard
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Mark A. Noll
Cooked, Michael Pollan (food list)
Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, Deb Perelman (cookbook list)
On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
100 Bullets, Azarello and Risso (graphic novel list)
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Galileo Galilei
The Kite Runner, Khaled Housseni (literary fiction list)
Coraline, Neil Gaiman
Sandman, Neil Gaiman
Stardust, Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
Animal Tales, Sanderson (world literature list)
The Ancient Near East, anthology (Middle East list)
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (Africa list)
A Fine Balance, Rohinto Mistry (Southeast Asia list)
One hundred years of solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Emma, Jane Austen
A Prayer for Own Meany, John Irving
Pipi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren)
The Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xeuqin (Asia list)
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Galileo Galilei
A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov (Russia list)
Writings, Epicurus
The Norse Myths, anthology (Scandinavia list)
Man in the Woods, Scott Spencer
The Borzoi Anthology of Latin American Literature, anthology (Latin America list)
A Short History of Decay, Emil M. Cioran
The Stone Carvers, Jane Urqhart (Canada list)
Misery, Stephen King
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie (Native American list)
The Secret of Roan Innish, John Sayles
The Bone People, Kerri Hulme (Oceania list)
A Life of One’s Own, David Kelley
The Corrections and Freedom, Jonathan Franzen (2000s list)
Poems and Songs, Robert Burns
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo (2010s list)
Hungarian Short Stories and Folktales of Hungary
The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats (picture books list)
Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke
Hamlet, William Shakespeare (plays list)
Guys and Dolls (musical list)
Annie (musical movies list)
Some Like It Hot (screenplay list)
Little Novels of Sicily, Giovanni Verga
Polish Post-War Poetry
The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp (Christianity list)
The Room, Harold Pinter
History of the Church in England, J.R.H. Moorman (religion list)
The High King series, Lloyd Alexander
A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell (philosophy list)
Private Parts, Howard Stern
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (classics list)
Pig Earth, John Berger
Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaardner (philosophy list)
Poems, St. John Perce
“The Tribute,” Jane Gardham (short stories list)
The Conference of Birds, Farid ad-Din Attar
His Best, Howlin’ Wolf
(add a couple favorite re-reads, here)
The Areas of My Expertise, John Hodgman (comedy list)
Poems, Sylvia Plath
A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah (memoirs list)
The Underdogs, Mariano Azuela
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Elizabeth West (travel list)
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
The History of England, Thomas Babington MacCaulay (history list)
The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper
Foundation, Isaac Asimov (sci-fi list)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rossfuss (fantasy list)
Sources of Indian Tradition
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Grace Lin (children’s list)
Ordinarily Sacred, Lynda Sexson
Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret, Judy Bloom (MG list)
Florence Nightingale, Cecil Woodham-Smith
Uglies, Scott Westerfield (YA list)
Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
The Book of Nightmares, Galway Kinnell (poetry list)
Handbook for Spiritual Warfare, Ed Murphy
The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould
Yes, Chef, Michael Samuelsson (food list)
Sonnets, William Shakespeare
The Belly of Paris, Emille Zola (food fiction list)0
Unless: A Novel, Carol Shields
Baking, Dory Greenspan (cookbook list)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
Batman, The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller (graphic novel list)
Autobiography, John Stuart Mill
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco (literary fiction list)
Selected Plays, Henrik Ibsen
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee (plays list)
Gypsy (musicals list)
Newsies (musical movies list)
The City in History, Lewis Mumford
Casablanca (screenplays list)
The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James
An Anthology of World Poetry (world list)
Emotionally Weird, Atkinson
Beer in the Snooker Club, Waguih Gali (N. Africa and Mid-East list)
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul (Africa list)
Being and Nothingness, John-Paul Sartre
The Thousand and One Nights, Sheherezade (S. Asia and India list)
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Rashomon, Ryanosuke Akutugawa (Asia list)
The Bartimeaus Trilogy, Johnathan Stroud
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol (E. Europe and Russia list)
The Tiger’s Wife, Tea Obreht
The Prose Edda (Scandinavia list)
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
Genesis, Eduardo Galeano (Latin list)
Le Celestina, Fernando de Rojas
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood (Canada list)
Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko (Native list)
Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, Evliya Celebi
Whale Rider, Witi Ihamaera (Oceania list)
The Memorandum, Vaclav Havel
Never Let Me Go, Kazua Ishigiro (2000s list)
The Waves, Virginia Woolf
Wild, Cheryl Strayed (2010s list)
Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Browne and King (writing list)
Christabel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Knuffle Bunny, Mo Willems (picture books list)
Fifth Business, Robertson Davies
Uninvited, Lysa Terkhurst (Christian list)
The True Believer, Eric Hoffer
The Indestructible Jews, Max Dimont (religion list)

Mysteries, Knut Hamsun
Philosophy As a Way of Life, Pierre Hadot (philosophy list)
The Federalist Papers, Hamilton and Madison
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes (classics list)
Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
“The Stone Boy,” Gina Barriault (short story list)
The Ecology of Fear, Davis
Blow-Up and Other Stories, Julio Cortazar (shorts collections list)
The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(add more lists here)
Christy, Catherine Marshall
The Love Department, William Trevor
Managing Your Time, Ted W. Engstrom
Eugenie Grandet, Honore de Balzac
Dare to Discipline, James Dobson
Man and Superman, George Bernard Shaw
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Austerlitz, Winfried Georg Sebald
Hard Times, Charles Dickens
Poems, Po Chu-i
Autobiography, Anthony Trollope
Historical Plays, William Shakespeare
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, James Joyce
The Age of Jackson, Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Border Crossing, Pat Barker
Sweet Land Stories, E. L. Doctorow
Silas Marner, George Elliot
Records of the Grand Historian of China, Ssu-ma Chi’en
The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations, Miguel de Unanmuno
Three Plays, Sean O’Casey
The Shadow University, Alan Charles Kors
Tracticus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Driftless, David Rhodes
The Double Helix, James D. Watson
The Autobiography, William Butler Yeats
The Book of Ramayana, Valmiki
Walking and Dreaming, Joseph Hart
Effi Briest, Theodor Fontane
Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
Odes, John Keats
Moonheart, Charles de Lint
The Aztecs
Alabama Moon, Watt Key
Works, Gottfried William Liebniz
Clementine, Sara Pennypacker
Ulysses, James Joyce
Pilgrim At Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
Essays in Idleness, Kenko
The Makoika Sisters, Tanizaki Junichiro
The Devil in Silver, Victor LaValle
The Gift of a Cow, Premchand
The Periodic Table, Primo Levi
The Presocratic Philosophers
Music and Silence, Rose Tremain
Complete Letters, Vincent VanGogh
The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman
Selected Poems, Osip Emilievich Mandelstam
Tragedies, Sophocles
Neuromancer, William Gibson
In a Mellotone, Duke Ellington
Libellis, St. Thomas Moore
Dianetics, L. Ron Hubbard
Hunger, Knut Hamsun
Rebecca, Daphne de Maurier
Up From the Country, Pierre Marivaux
The Beach, Alex Garland
Fast Food Nation, Schlosser
Selected Works, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goodbye to All That, Graves
America’s Great Depression, Murray N. Rothbard
Othello, William Shakespeare
The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendahl
Selected Poems, Walt Whitman
The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett
West with the Night, Berly Markham
Odes, Horace
The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
Continue with Best Books List and additions from lists below….

Possible TBR additions:

(The Brontes: A Life in Letters)
(The Brontes, Patricia Ingram)
(Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal, Christine Alexander)
(The Oxford Companion to the Brontes, Christine Alexander)
The Stages, Thom Saterlee
Parenting the Enneagram
The Penguin Galaxy Series
unread books from our shelves
books that Kevin, Windsor, or Eamon read

To Fold In, Periodically:

Books from my own bookshelf (list above–at a higher rate)
Books from the comedy list, Laugh On Hold
Books from autobiography and memoir list
Books from travelogue list: Hittin’ the Road
Books from history list: His (and Her) Story
Books from C/MG/YA list
Books from poetry list
Books from Nonfiction and Journalism list
Books from Food and Cookbooks list
Books from Graphic Novels list
Books from Literary Fiction list
Books from Plays and Screenplays list
Books from World Literature list
Books from Picture Books list
Books from Modern list: 2010s, 2020s, 2030s, 2040s…
Books from Writing on Writing list
Books from Christianity and Religion list
Books from Philosophy list
Books from the Classics list
Books from Short Stories and Compilations list
Books from Holiday lists
Books from Self- and Indie-Published list
Journals/Planners/Alternative Journals
Books about Crafting
Books for doing Brain Games/Activities
Books from Science list
Books from Art list
Books from Coffee Table book list
Books from the Home Reference list
Favorite books that need a re-write and review (see shelf, like Little, Big, Yo!, etc.)
Potential books from list directly above
Books I might read with my son, directly below
Book lovers‘ books
Book and movie pairings
Books from Romance
Books from Detective/Mystery/Crime
Whole book clubs
Poetry and song pairings