books I've read

A LIST OF SELECTED BOOKS I’VE READ (selected meaning the ones I remember):
(and here's my Amazon Wishlist)

Albee, Edward
The Zoo Story
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Alcott, Louisa May
Little Women

von Arnim, Elizabeth
Mr Skeffington

Auden, W.H.
Selected Poems

Augustine
Against the Academicians
The Teacher

Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Persuasion
Sense and Sensibility
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey

Barrie, J.M.
Peter Pan

Beckett, Samuel
Waiting for Godot (and in French: En attendant Godot)
Endgame
No Exit (and in French: Huis clos)

Beevor, Antony
The Fall of Berlin 1945
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943
Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949

Bogosian, Eric
Talk Radio
Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead
Suburbia

Bourdain, Anthony
Kitchen Confidential

Brown, Dan
Angels and Demons
The DaVinci Code

Bulgakov, Michail
*The Master and Margarita

Burgess, Anthony
A Clockwork Orange

Burnett, Frances
The Secret Garden

Buruma, Ian
The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan

*Byatt, A.S.
*Possession, A Romance
Virgin in the Garden
Still Life
Babel Tower
The Shadow of the Sun
Little Black Book of Stories

Camus, Albert
The Plague

Capote, Truman
In Cold Blood

Carey, Peter
Oscar and Lucinda

Carroll, Lewis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass

Chabon, Michael
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Chekhov, Anton
Three Sisters

Christofer, Michael
The Shadow Box

Colette
Gigi

Condillac, de, Etienne Bonnot
Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge

Conrad, Joseph
Lord Jim

Coward, Noel
Private Lives
Hay Fever
Blithe Spirit
Present Indicative

Crichton, Michael
The Andromeda Strain
Jurassic Park
Sphere
Disclosure

*Dahl, Roald
The Witches
Matilda
*The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
(various short stories)
Skin
Switch Bitch

Deary, Terry
Cruel Kings and Mean Queens
The Frightful First World War
The Woeful Second World War

Diamond, Jared M.
Guns, Germs, and Steel

Diamant, Anita
The Red Tent

Dick, Philip K.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Man in the High Castle

Dickens, Charles
Great Expectations

*Dillard, Annie
Holy the Firm

Donne, John
(selected poetry)

Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Brothers Karamozov

Durang, Christopher
The Actor's Nightmare
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
Beyond Therapy

Duras, Marguerite
Moderato cantabile
Hiroshima, mon amour

*Eco, Umberto
Misreadings
The Name of the Rose
(various essays on semiotics)
History of Beauty
On Literature

Eliot, T.S.
The Cocktail Party

Eggers, Dave
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Ellis, Bret Easton
American Psycho

Ellison, Ralph
Invisible Man

Ernaux, Annie
Une femme

Eugenides, Jefferey
Middlesex

Faulks, Sebastian
Charlotte Gray

Faulkner, William
Absalom, Absalom!
Light in August

Fforde, Jasper
The Eyre Affair
Lost in a Good Book
The Well of Lost Plots
Something Rotten

Fielding, Helen
Bridget Jones's Diary
Bridget Jones’s: The Edge of Reason
Bridget Jones’s Guide to Life
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination

Finlay, Victoria
Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Firlik, Katrina
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Great Gatsby

Forester, E.M.
A Room With a View

Fowler, Karen Joy
The Jane Austen Book Club

Frankel, Viktor E.
Man's Search for Meaning

Franzen, Jonathan
The Corrections

*Frayn, Michael
Noises Off
Headlong
Copenhagen

Fugard, Athol
Sizwe Bansi is Dead
The Road to Mecca

Funder, Anna
Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Gaiman, Neil
Stardust

Gibran, Kahil
The Prophet

Gilbreth, Frank B. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Cheaper By the Dozen
Belles on Their Toes

*Gladwell, Malcolm
The Tipping Point
blink

Golden, Arthur
Memoirs of a Geisha

Greene, Graham
*The End of the Affair
The Heart of the Matter (which I didn’t care for and didn’t finish)

Guterson, David
Snow Falling on Cedars

Haddon, Mark
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

*Hammett, Dashiel
The Maltese Falcon
The Thin Man

Hansberry, Lorraine
A Raisin in the Sun

Harr, Jonathan
The Lost Painting

Harris, Joanne
Chocolat
Blackberry Wine

Harris, Robert
Fatherland
Enigma
Pompeii

Harris, Thomas
Red Dragon
Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal

Hartley, Adain
The Zanzibar Chest

Hawks, Tony
*Round Ireland With a Fridge

Heller, Joseph
*Catch-22

Hemingway, Ernest
The Old Man and the Sea
A Farewell to Arms

Henley, Beth
Crimes of the Heart

Hoban, Phoebe
Basquiat

Hornby, Nick
About a Boy
High Fidelity

Ibsen, Henrik
A Doll's House
Hedda Gabler
The Master Builder

Idle, Eric
The Road to Mars

Ionesco, Eugene
The Bald Soprano
Jack, or The Submission

Issenberg, Sasha
The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy

Jones, Terry
Douglas Adam's Starship Titanic

Katz, Jon
A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me

Kipling, Rudyard
The Jungle Books

Knowles, John
A Separate Peace

Kundera, Milan
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Kurland, Lynn
(assorted horrible trashy novels)

Kushner, Tony
Angels in America, Part 1 (Millennium Approaches)
Angels in America, Part 2 (Perestroika)

Ladd, Brian
*The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape

Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird

Leon, Donna
Death in a Strange Country

Leonard, Elmore
Rum Punch
Out of Sight

Lesser, Wendy (ed.)
The Genius of Language

Luria, A.R.
The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book About a Vast Memory

MacDonogh, Giles
Berlin

Maguire, Gregory
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Marcues, Herbert
The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics

Marsden, Philip
The Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Adventure

Martel, Yann
Life of Pi

*Martin, Steve
Pure Drivel
Shopgirl

McCarthy, Cormac
*All the Pretty Horses

McCaslin, John
Inside the Beltway: Offbeat Stories, Scoops, and Shenanigans from around the Nation's Capital (terrible book)

Menzies, Gavin
1421: The Year China Discovered America

Miller, Arthur
The Crucible
Death of a Salesman

Minghella, Anthony
Cigarettes and Chocolate
Hang Up

Modiano, Patrick
Dora Bruder

Morike, Eduard
Mozart's Journey to Prague (trans. David Luke)

Moore, Tim
French Revolutions

Morrison, Toni
Sula

Nabokov, Vladimir
*Lolita
Speak, Memory (I haven't finished this one yet)
Pale Fire (okay, so I haven’t finished this one either)

Nadeau, Jean-Benoit and Barlow, Julie
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French

Nochlin, Linda
The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity

Norman, Marsha
'Night Mother

*Ondaatje, Michael
The English Patient
In the Skin of a Lion
Anil’s Ghost

Palahniuk, Chuck
Fight Club
Invisible Monsters

Parkhurst, Carolyn
The Dogs of Babel : A Novel

Pears, Iain
Giotto's Hand

Percy, Walker
The Second Coming (thank you, Charles, for reminding me)

*Peters, Elizabeth
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Curse of the Pharaohs
The Mummy Case
Lion in the Valley
Deeds of the Disturber
The Last Camel Died at Noon
The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog
The Ape Who Guards the Balance
The Hippopotamus Pool

Pinter, Harold
The Lover
The Dumb Waiter
The Birthday Party
The Caretaker
A Slight Ache

Plato
Cratylus
Symposium

Platt, Polly
French or Foe?: Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France

Pollan, Michael
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder

Pope, Alexander
"The Rape of the Lock"

Proulx, E. Annie
Accordion Crimes
The Shipping News

Pullman, Philip
His Dark Materials Trilogy:
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass

Pynchon, Thomas
V

Quick, Amanda
(assorted horrible trashy novels)

Rice, Anne
Interview With the Vampire
The Vampire Lestat
Queen of the Damned

Richie, Alexandra
Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin

Roberts, Nora
(assorted horrible trashy novels)

Roth, Philip
The Dying Animal

Rousseau, Jean-Jaques and Johann Gottfried Herder
On the Origin of Language

*Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Quidditch Through the Ages

Roy, Arundhati
The God of Small Things

Runyon, Damon
Guys and Dolls and Other Stories

Rutherfurd, Edward
London: The Novel

Sacks, Oliver
Seeing Voices
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Saint-Exupery, Antoine
Le Petit Prince

Salinger, J.D.
The Catcher in the Rye

Saramago, Jose
Blindness

Scarry, Elaine
On Beauty and Being Just

*Schaffer, Peter
Eqqus
Black Comedy
White Liars

Shakespeare, William
Hamlet
Taming of the Shrew
*Macbeth
Comedy of Errors
Twelfth Night
Othello
As You Like It
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest
Titus Andronicus
Merchant of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing

Shirer, William L.
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Shrady, Nicholas
Tilt: A Skewed History of the Tower of Pisa (terrible book)

Sowell, Thomas
Ethnic America: A History

Spark, Muriel
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Steinbeck, John
The Pearl
Of Mice and Men

Steinmeyer, Jim
Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear

Shepard, Sam
Buried Child
True West

Stoppard, Tom
*Arcadia
*Fifteen-Minute Hamlet
Hapgood
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Stone, Robert
A Flag for Sunrise

Szpilman, Wladyslaw
The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

Thackery, William Makepeace
Vanity Fair

Thurber, James
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Lord of the Rings (yes, I know it's all one book):
Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Return of the King

Toole, John Kennedy
A Confederacy of Dunces

Tuchman, Barbara W.
The Guns of August

Tuttle, Cameron
The Bad Girl’s Guide to the Open Road
The Bad Girl’s Guide to Getting What You Want

Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Vonnegut, Kurt
Slaughterhouse Five

Waugh, Evelyn
Decline and Fall
Brideshead Revisited

Wilde, Oscar
The Importance of Being Ernest

Williams, Tennessee
Streetcar Named Desire
Summer and Smoke

Winterson, Jeanette
*Sexing the Cherry
Written on the Body
Art & Lies

White, T. H.
The Once and Future King

Wolfe, Tom
The Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test

Woolf, Virginia
Orlando

Zigman, Laura
Animal Husbandry





IN PROGRESS:
Books I've begun and have not yet finished:

Beevor, Antony and Artemis Cooper: Paris After the Liberation: 1944-1949
de Cervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote (trans. Edith Grossman)
Eco, Umberto: Beauty, A History
Eco, Umberto: On Literature
Eco, Umberto: Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Eugenides, Jeffery: Middlesex
Foucault, Michel: The Hermeneutics of the Subject
Gribbin, John: Science: A History 1534-2001
Moore, Tim: Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair
Murakami, Haruki: Norwegian Wood
Nabokov, Vladimir: Pale Fire
Rushdie, Salman: The Satanic Verses
Saramago, Jose: Seeing
Steinmeyer, Jim: Hiding the Elephant





THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY: Books I once planned to read
(meaning books I bought and then lost or had to give away or are still in SC):

LEFT IN SCOTLAND:
Atwood, Margaret: Alias Grace
Bennett, Andrew and Nicholas Royle: Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Forester, E.M.: A Passage to India
Pears, Iain: An Instance of the Fingerpost
Poems on the Underground, Seventh Edition
Soueif, Ahdaf: The Map of Love
Vonnegut, Kurt: Cat's Cradle
Waugh, Evelyn: A Handful of Dust

BOOKS AT HOME IN SOUTH CAROLINA (I pine for you):
Bukowski, Charles: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and Other Stories
Cunningham, Michael: The Hours
Joyce, James: Ulysses (but will I ever finish it? is the question)
Rushdie, Salman: Midnight's Children
Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway (at home)