Bookshelf

The two most important books on the shelf are...
and

Currently Reading: The Bone Folders by T. A. Noonan; Septimania by Jonathan Levi; Lion by Bonnie Nadzam
** denotes a great read

[For a full list (fuller than this one!) and reviews, visit me at
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Finished Reading:

The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins**

Horoscopes For The Dead by Billy Collins
Aimless Love by Billy Collins
180 Poems edited by Billy Collins
Sailing Around The Room by Billy Collins
The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins
180 More: Extraordinary Poems For Every Day edited by Billy Collins

Jazz Moon by Joe Okonkwo

Pretentious by James McAllen**
Split Rock Road by James McAllen**

Doll Studies: Forensics by Carol Guess

Too Many Humans of New York by Abigail Welhouse

 You're Never Weird On The Internet [Almost] by Felicia Day

Matter of Fact by Eamon Grennan

To Rise Again At A Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
Then We Came To The End: A Novel by Joshua Ferris **

The Mind-Body Problem by Katha Pollitt

 My Alexandria by Mark Doty
 School of the Arts by Mark Doty
Atlantis: Poems by Mark Doty
Fire To Fire: New And Selected Poems by Mark Doty

Hallelujah Time! by John L. Stanizzi

I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You by Courtney Maum

Taking The Occasion by Daniel Brown

Curves and Angles by Brad Leithauser

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life by Steve Almond
(Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits and Obsessions by Steve Almond
Which Brings Me To You by Steve Almond and Julianna Baggott
Candy Freak by Steve Almond
My Life In Heavy Metal: Stories by Steve Almond

The Learners by Chip Kidd **

When They Have Senses by Rosemarie Waldrop

Shroud of the Gnome by James Tate
Absences: New Poems by James Tate
The Oblivion Ha-Ha by James Tate
The Lost Pilot  by James Tate **
Return To The City Of White Donkeys by James Tate
The Ghost Soldiers by James Tate

Earth Tales From Around The World by Michael J. Caduto

The Hidden Folk by Lise Lunge-Larsen

Diane Goode's Book of Giants and Little People by Diane Goode

A Book of Magical Beasts by Ruth Manning-Sanders

Fantasy Encyclopedia by Judy Allen

Leprechauns and Irish Folklore by Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce

Atlas of the Mysterious in North America by Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Sag Harbor: A Novel by Colson Whitehead

 If The Tabloids Are True, What Are You? by Matthea Harvey **
Modern Life: Poems by Matthea Harvey

An Animal I Can't Name by Raegen Pietrucha

 Sweet Little Lies by Lauren Conrad
L. A. Candy by Lauren Conrad

The Great Encyclopedia of Faeries by Pierre Dubois

On The Spectrum of Possible Deaths by Lucia Perillo

The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff **

Brilliant Water by Christopher Merrill

Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman

The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Slumberland by Paul Beatty

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart **

Humiliation by Wayne Koestenbaum

 A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway**
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway **
The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway -- 57 pages about a man with a hand cramp. baaaad.
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway

The Beauty by Jane Hirshfield

 New and Collected Poems 1964-2006 by Ishmael Reed

Imperial Nostalgias by Joshua Edwards

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

 Mermaids In The Basement by Carolyn Kizer

The Making of a Poem by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland

The Lost Land: Poems by Eavan Boland
In A Time Of Violence by Eavan Boland

Pym by Mat Johnson

An Ethic by Christina Davis

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Bossypants by Tina Fey **

The Late Parade: Poems by Adam Fitzgerald

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling

Lies, Knives, and Girls In Red Dresses by Ron Koertge

Major Characters in Minor Films by Kristy Bowen
  
red doc> by Anne Carson

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain **
Ticket To Ride by Paula McLain

City of coughing and dead radiators by Martin Espada

Geography V by Emma Bolden **
Maleficae by Emma Bolden

How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley

Blue Nights by Joan Didion
The White Album by Joan Didion
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion **
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 

Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist by Tim Federle

The Summer We Read Gatsby by Danielle Ganek **

Momo by Michael Ende

Ka-Ching! by Denise Duhamel

Control Bird Alt Delete by Alexandria Pear

Belmont: Poems by Stephen Burt

California by Edan Lepucki

Elegy by Mary Jo Bang

No Accident by Dan Webb

Here In There by Angela Carr

Crixa by Megan Hudgins **

Last Call At Elaine's by Brian McDonald

We All Sleep In The Same Room by Paul Rome

Concertina by Joesph Bathani

Put Your Hands In by Chris Hosea

box of blue horses by Lisa Graley

A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
American Primitive: Poems by Mary Oliver

Once by Meghan O'Rourke

The Game Of Boxes by Catherine Barnett

A Night In Brooklyn by D. Nurske

 Silver Roses by Rachel Wetzsteon
Sakura Park: Poems by Rachel Wetzsteon **

White Egrets by Derek Walcott

The Crows Were Laughing In Their Trees by Peter Conners

After Math by Sandra M. Gilbert

The Money Class by Suze Orman

The Book of Goodbyes by Jillian Weise

Blitzkrieg by John Gosslee

Saint X by Kirk Nesset

I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max

The Last Usable Hour by Deborah Landau

Lamb by Bonnie Nadzam

My Name On His Tongue by Laila Halaby

A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Human Dark With Sugar by Brenda Shaughnessy

Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me by Chelsea's Family, Friends, and Other Victims

The Lay Of The Last Minstrel by Walter Scott

Museum of Accidents by Rachel Zucker **

The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems In Form By Contemporary Women ed. by Annie Finch 

Useless Landscape Or A Guide For Boys by D. A. Powell
  
Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms ed. by Philip Dacey and David Jauss

Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith

The Blue Hills: Poems After The Life Of Maud Gonne by Lucinda Grey

Vale Of Stars by Sean O'Brien

 Big Sur by JackKerouac

The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands by Nick Flynn 
Another Bullshit Night In Suck City by Nick Flynn **
Some Ether by Nick Flynn

Flight by Sherman Alexie
Face by Sherman Alexie **
War Dances by Sherman Alexie
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Traveling Light by Linda Pastan

Gulf Music by Robert Pinsky

Slamming Open The Door by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno

Shahid Reads His Own Palm by Reginald Dwayne Betts

 Declaration For Your Bones by Duane Esposito

Notary Public Enemy by Tony Iovino **

Thread by Michael Palmer

At The Palace of Jove by Karl Kirchwey

Crash's Law by Karen Volkman

Unincorporated Persons In The Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland
What Narcissism Means To Me by Tony Hoagland

The Living Fire by Edward Hirsh **
Special Orders: Poems by Edward Hirsch

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
An Invisible Sign of my Own by Aimee Bender

The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman
Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman **
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman **

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Reading Like A Writer by Francine Prose
Blue Angel by Francine Prose

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer

The Lady Matador's Hotel: A Novel by Cristina Garcia

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

The Likeness by Tana French

I Just Hope It's Lethal: Poems Of Sadness, Madness & Joy edited by Liz Rosenberg and Deena November

Mexican High by Liza Monroy

Drinking At The Movies by Julia Wertz

Games To Play After Dark by Sarah Gardner Borden

Spiced by Dalia Jurgensen

American Rust by Phillip Meyers

Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988--2008 by Norma Cole
If I'm Asleep by Norma Cole

Apocalyptic Swing Poems by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

A Mouth In California by Graham Foust

Knocking At The Door: Poems About Approaching The Other ed. by Lisa Sisler and Lea C. Deschenes

Careless In Red by Elizabeth George

Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems by Thomas Sayers Ellis

New and Selected Poems by Adam Schonbrun

You Were Wrong by Matthew Sharpe (I have no idea what this book was about)

All Things, All At Once by Lee K Abbott

Hole In My Life by Jack Gantos

Lucifer at the Starlite by Kim Addonizio **

The Pajama Game by Eugenei Seifer Olson

Versed by Rae Armantrout

Love The One You're With by Emily Giffin **

Wideawake Field: Poems by Eliza Griswold

The Other by David Guterson

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows

The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell

Living Room: A Novel by Rachel Sherman
The First Hurt: Stories by Rachel Sherman

South Beach: The Novel by Brian Antoni

Cocktails by D. A. Powell

Famous Last Words by Catherine Pierce

Love's Bluff by Patti See

The Mystery Guest by Gregoire Boullier, trans by Lorin Stein ** This book brought me back to life.

The Last Track by Sam Hilliard **

I'm So Happy For You by Lucinda Rosenfeld -- horrible horrible book

On The Waterfront: The Pulitzer Prize Winning Articles... by Malcolm M. Johnson

The Kid Of Coney Island by Woody Register

City At The Water's Edge by Betsy McCully

Brooklyn Was Mine edited by Chris Knutsen and Valerie Stieker

The Box: How The Shipping Container Made The World Smaller... Marc Levinson

The Brooklyn Bridge: A Cultural History by Richard Haw

Coney Island: Lost and Found by Charles Denson

The Past Is A Foreign Country by David Lowenthal

Official Book Club Selection by Kathy Griffin

In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason

Ordinary People by Judith Guest

Bullet Park by John Cheever

The Pigman by Paul Zindel

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill

Mrs. Frisbey and The Rats of NIMH by Robert C.O'Brien

Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly

Fidelity by Michael Redhill

The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan

American Smooth by Rita Dove

The Woman I Kept To Myself by Julia Alvarez

My Horizontal Life: A Collection Of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler
Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler

Personal Days: A Novel by Ed Park **

The Incognito Lounge and Other Poems by Denis Johnson

Danger On Peaks by Gary Snyder

In The Cut by Susanna Moore

Second Space: New Poemsby Czeslaw Milosz, trans by Robert Hass

The Collected Poems Of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas

Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow: Poems by August Kleinzahler

And Then You Know: New and Selected Poems by Kwame Alexander

More Than It Hurts You by Darin Strauss

Ms. Taken Identity by Dan Begley

Belonging: New Poetry By Iranians Around The World trans. Niloufar Talebi

Sun Under Wood: New Poems by Robert Hass

The Look of Things:Poems by Henri Cole

Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy **

Nietzsche's Kisses by Lance Olsen

The Will To Change by Adrienne Rich
Diving Into The Wreck by Adrienne Rich
An Atlas Of The Difficult World by Adrienne Rich
Telephone Ringing In The Labyrinth by Adrienne Rich

The Dirty Secrets Club by Meg Gardiner

Collected Poems by C. K. Williams

The Unbearable Heart by Kimiko Hahn

Testimony: A Novel by Anita Shreve

Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser

The Palm At The End Of The Mind: Selected Poems and a Play by Wallace Stevens

Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney

Smart Girls Like Me by Diane Vadino

Neon Vernacular by Yusef Komunyakaa

Only In Your Dreams: A Gossip Girl Novel by Cecily von Zeigesar

My Custom Van and 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays... by Michael Ian Black

Rules For Saying Goodbye: A Novel by Katherine Taylor

Go Ask Alice Anonymous

How To Be Alone: Essays by Jonathan Franzen

The Collected Poems Of A. E. Housman by A. E. Housman

Junky by William S. Burroughs
Queer by William S. Burroughs

Going Fast: Poems by Frederick Seidel

A Fire In My Hands: Poems by Gary Soto

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Sex And The Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown -- horrible horrible horrible

We Disappear: A Novel by Scott Heim

Rose by Lee Young-Li

[complete works] by Rod McKuen

The Member Of The Wedding by Carson McCullers

Neurotica by Sue Margolis

Loon Lake by E. L. Doctorow --I did not understand any of this book

Maraca: New And Selected Poems by Victor Hernandez Cruz

Love Is A Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song At A Time by Rob Sheffield **

Hairstyles Of The Damned by Joe Meno

The Edge Of The Bed by Lisa Palac

Whacked: A Novel by Jules Asner

Lovehampton by Sherri Rifkin

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

The End Of The Story by Lydia Davis
Almost No Memory by Lydia Davis
Break It Down by Lydia Davis

Self Help by Lorrie Moore
Like Life by Lorrie Moore
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

Manhattan Monologues by Louis Auchincloss

The Death Of The Poem and Other Paragraphs by Justin Courter

American Music by Chris Martin

Temples And Fields: Poems by Phillis Levin
May Day by Phillis Levin

When One Has Lived A Long Time Alone by Galway Kinnell

[collection by] Charles Simic

Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey by Hayden Carruth

The Terrible Stories by Lucille Clifton

Slow Dance Heartbreak Blues by Arnold Adoff

[Complete Works of] Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

[Complete Works of] Anne Sexton

Thirtha by Pramila Venkateswaran

Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

How The Other Half Hamptons by Jasmin Rosemberg **

The Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara

The Virgin Of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard

The Pajamist by Matthew Zapruder

Everyman by Philip Roth

The Summer Guest by Justin Cronin

Naked by David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty Some Day by David Sedaris
Holidays On Ice by David Sedaris
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

The Man Of My Dreams  by Curtis Sittenfeld
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld **

Dry by Augusten Burroughs

Sinners Welcome by Mary Karr

Bringing Out The Dead by Joe Connelly

Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

The Listeners by Christopher Pike
Chain Letter by Christopher Pike
Remember Me by Christopher Pike
Bury Me Deep by Christopher Pike
Scavenger Hunt by Christopher Pike
Chain Letter 2: Ancient Evil by Christopher Pike
Remember Me 2: The Return by Christopher Pike
Die Softly by Christopher Pike
See You Later by Christopher Pike
Last Vampire by Christopher Pike
Final Friends: The Party by Christopher Pike
Final Friends: The Dance by Christopher Pike
Final Friends: The Graduation by Christopher Pike
Slumber Party by Christopher Pike

No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July **

Vita Nova by Louise Gluck

Earth Shattering Poems edited by Liz Rosenberg

Collected Poems by Kenneth Koch

American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
Less Than Zero by Brett Easton Ellis

Desire by Frank Bidart
In The Western Night: Collected Poems 1965--1990 by Frank Bidart

The Short Stories of Mary Gordon by Mary Gordon

Room For Love by Andrea Meyer

Sex.Lies.Murder.Fame. by Lolita Files **

Twins Of Tribeca by Rachel Pine

School Of Fortune by Amanda Brown

MacGregor Tells The World by Elizabeth Mckenzie

Drop City by T. C. Boyle

The Year Of Yes by Maria Dahvana Headley

The Odyssey by Homer

The Aenied by Virgil

Paradise Lost by John Milton

The Decameron by Boccachio

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham **

The Pinball Theory Of The Apocolypse by Jonathan Selwood

Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

Men And Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem

Doubting Thomas by Robert Reeves
Peeping Thomas by Robert Reeves

Bitch Posse by Martha O'Connor

Forge by Ted Matthis

Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick

[a collection by] Tom Disch

[a collection by] Denise Levertov

[a collection by] Erica Jong

The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

[Sister Outsider? collection by] Audrey Lorde

[a collection by] Robinson Jeffers

Kissing God Goodbye by June Jordan **

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

[a collection ] by W. S. Merwin

Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni
Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni by Nikki Giovanni

Shopgirl by Steve Martin

The Preservationist by David Maine

Fraud by David Rakoff **

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Love In A Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano

The Red Badge Of Courage by Stephen Crane

The Five People You Meet In Hell by Rich Pablum

The Stranger by Camus

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Cathedral by Nelson DeMille

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ******** Favorite book
Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side Of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Love and Other Recreational Sports by John Dearie **

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Walking Papers by Jay Cronley

The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Lord Of The Flies by William Golding

Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
The Pearl by Johnn Steinbeck
Tortilla Flats by John Steinbeck
East Of Eden by John Steinbeck

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
[collected works] by Edgar Allan Poe

On The Road by Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac

Love In The Days Of Rage by Lawrence Ferlinghetti **
Her by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Coney Island Of The Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti ******* favorite book of poetry
A Far Rockaway Of The Heart by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poetry As Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
[complete words] Allen Ginsberg

[complete works] by Herbert Huncke

The Beat Reader edited by Ann Charters

Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski

Tracking The Serpent by Janine Pomey Vega

To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Herve Guibert

Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason by Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino

Ava Luna by Isabel Allende

Candide by Voltaire **

The Canterbury Tales [most] by Geoffrey Chaucer

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

The Cigarette Girl by Carol Wolper

Sex and the City by Candice Bushnell
4 Blondes by Candice Bushnell
Trading Up by Candice Bushnell
Lipstick Jungle by Candice Bushnell

The Girls' Guide To Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Banks

Circle Of Friends by Maeve Binchy
Light A Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy
The Lilac Bus by Maeve Binchy

The Firm  by John Grisham

Sphere by Micheal Crichton

Valley Of The Dolls by Jackie Susanne

Maus by Art Spiegelman

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage

Open House by Elizabeth Berg

That Night by Alice McDermott
At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott

Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells <--  horrible horrible

Urban Bliss by Janice Eidus **

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
The Song Of The Lark by Willa Cather

Summer by Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
A Backward Glance by Edith Wharton

The Ambassadors by Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Daisy Miller by Henry James

Jazz by Toni Morrison
Sula by Toni Morrison
Beloved by Toni Morrison

Passing by Nella Larsen

The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Between The Acts by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Waist-High In The World by Nancy Mairs

Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The Dubliners by James Joyce

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

Solar Storms by Linda Hogan

Shedding Silence by Janice Mirikitani

Beowulf

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Break, Blow, Burn ed. by Camille Paglia

100 Great Poems of the 20th Century edited by Mark Strand

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

The Wanderers by Richard Price

White Noise by Don DeLillo
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo

Running Wild by J. G. Ballard

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Watchfiends and Rackscreams by Antonin Artaud

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Peru by Gordon Lisch

Journey To The End Of The Night by Louis Ferdinand Celine

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston

Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Taming Of The Shrew by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Richard III by William Shakespeare
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Othello by William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Henry IV by William Shakespeare
Cymbaline by William Shakespeare

Some of the V. C. Andrews Dollanger Series, including Flowers In The Attic
Some of the V. C. Andrews Casteel Series and Cutler Series

Where Are The Children? by Mary Higgins Clark
Weep No More, My Lady by Mary Higgins Clark
Stillwatch by Mary Higgins Clark
Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Mary Higgins Clark
The Lottery Winner by Mary Higgins Clark
Remember Me by Mary Higgins Clark
I'll Be Seeing You by Mary Higgins Clark
A Cry In The Night by Mary Higgins Clark
All Around The Town by Mary Higgins Clark
Loves Music, Loves To Dance by Mary Higgins Clark
The Cradle Will Fall by Mary Higgins Clark
Stranger Is Watching by Mary Higgins Clark
The Anastasia Syndrome by Mary Higgins Clark
While My Pretty One Sleeps by Mary Higgins Clark

Catering To Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson
Dying For Chocolate by Diane Mott Davidson
The Cereal Murders by Diane Mott Davidson

The Babysitters' Club Series--at least 50 of them, by Ann M. Martin

The Sleepover Friends Series--at least 50 of them, by Patti Luck