Thank you to everyone who contributed a book to this list. I greatly appreciate it.
Diane Ackerman
A Natural History of the Senses
Jorge Amado
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Jon Lee Anderson
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
Gloria Anzadula
La Frontera (Borderlands)
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Francis Bacon
Of Marriage and Single Life
Of Friendship
Of Travel
Of Studies
The Advancement of Learning, Book One
Of Truth
James Baldwin
Giovanni's Room
Another Country
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
Notes of a Native Son
John Berendt
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Elizabeth Bishop*
William Blake
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
London
The Sick Rose
The Tyger
Mock On Mock Voltaire Rousseau
London
The Sick Rose
The Tyger
Mock On Mock Voltaire Rousseau
Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Mists of Avalon
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Elizabeth Browning*
Robert Browning
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell London
The Sick Rose
The Tyger
Mock On Mock Voltaire Rousseau
Truman Capote
In Cold BloodBreakfast at Tiffany's
Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game
Ender's Shadow
Raymond Chandler
Long Goodbye
The Big Sleep
Dan Choan
Await Your Reply
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Troilus & Cressyda
Arthur C. Clarke
Childhood's End
Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Ted Conover
Coyotes
Edwidge Danticat
The Farming of Bones
Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote
Charles Dickens
Our Mutual FriendLittle Dorrit
A Christmas Carol
Bleak House
Emily Dickinson
I never lost as much but twiceHow many times these lost feet staggered
The Soul selects her own Society
This is my letter to the World
It was not Death, for I stood up
Pain--has an Element of Blank
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
A Word made Flesh is seldom
My life closed twice before its close
Joan Didion
The White Album
Annie Dillard
The Writing Life
Teaching a Stone to Talk
Teaching a Stone to Talk
John Donne
The Good-MorrowThe Canonization
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
The Sun Rising
Air and Angels
The Relic
Elegy XIX (On his Mistress' Going to Bed)
Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness
Sermon XV ("The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death")
John Dryden
Annus Mirabilis
To the Memory of Anne Killegrew
Religio Laici
Absalom and Achitophel
To My Kinsman, John Driden
Essay of Dramatic Poesy
All for Love
To the Memory of Anne Killegrew
Religio Laici
Absalom and Achitophel
To My Kinsman, John Driden
Essay of Dramatic Poesy
All for Love
T. S. Eliot
The Wasteland
Warren Ellis
Transmetropolitan
Ralph Ellison
The Invisible Man
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Divinity School Address
Self-Reliance
William Faulkner
Light in August
The Sound and the Fury
As I Lay Dying
The Hamlet
M. F. K. Fisher
The Art of Eating
Janet Fitch
White Oleander
Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly CloseEverything is Illuminated
Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique
Sho Fumimura
Sanctuary
Gabrel Garcia Marquez
100 Years of Solitude
Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers
Brandon Graham
King City
Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon
Joseph Heath & Andrew Potter
A Nation of Rebels
Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land Double Star
Time Enough for Love
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Frank Herbert
Dune
Robert Herrick
Prayer to Ben Jonson
His Grange, or Private Wealth
The Country Life
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
The Night-Piece, to Julia
Upon Julia’s Clothes
Upon Julia’s Breasts
His Grange, or Private Wealth
The Country Life
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
The Night-Piece, to Julia
Upon Julia’s Clothes
Upon Julia’s Breasts
Marya Hornbacher
Madness
James Joyce
Dubliners: Araby; Clay; Ivy Day in the Committee Room; The Dead
Ulysses
The Elgin Marbles
The Eve of St. Agnes
Bright Star
Ode on a Grecian Urn
To Autumn
Ulysses
John Keats
On First Looking Into Chapman's HomerThe Elgin Marbles
The Eve of St. Agnes
Bright Star
Ode on a Grecian Urn
To Autumn
Yukito Kishiro
Battle Angel Alita
Nicole Krauss
The History of Love
Mercedes Lackey
Magic's Promise
Magic's Pawn
Magic's Price
Wally Lamb
I Know This Much is True
Steig Larsson
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
D. H. Lawrence
Women in Love
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Random Family
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ursula K LeGuin
The Dream Machine
A Wizard of Earthsea
Jonathan Lethem
The Disappointment Artist
Lord Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Cantos 1,3,4
Don Juan: Cantos 1-5
Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress
Upon Appleton House
The Garden
The Mower Against Gardens
Frank McCourt
Angela's Ashes
John Milton
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Lycidas
Areopagetica
Of Education
Samson Agonistes
Sonnet XV (Piedmont Massacre)
Sonnet XVI (On His Blindness)
Upon Appleton House
The Garden
The Mower Against Gardens
Frank McCourt
Angela's Ashes
John Milton
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Lycidas
Areopagetica
Of Education
Samson Agonistes
Sonnet XV (Piedmont Massacre)
Sonnet XVI (On His Blindness)
Chelsey Minnis
Bad Bad
Lydia Minatoya
The Strangeness of Beauty
Greg Mortenson
Three Cups of Tea
Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Kafka on the Shore
Hardboiled Wonderland & The End of the World
Ryu Murakami
Almost Transparent Blue
Vladimir Nabokov
Pnin
Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife
Her Fearful Symmetry
Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope
Susan Orlean
The Orchid Thief
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
Dorothy Parker
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Octavio Paz
The Labrynth of Solitude
Caryl Phillips
Cambridge
The Nature of Blood
The European Tribe
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Alexander Pope
Eloisa to Abelard
The Rape of the Lock
Epistle to Burlington
Epistle to a Lady
Epistle to Arbuthnot
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Kafka on the Shore
Hardboiled Wonderland & The End of the World
Ryu Murakami
Almost Transparent Blue
Vladimir Nabokov
Pnin
Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife
Her Fearful Symmetry
Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope
Susan Orlean
The Orchid Thief
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
Dorothy Parker
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Octavio Paz
The Labrynth of Solitude
Caryl Phillips
Cambridge
The Nature of Blood
The European Tribe
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Alexander Pope
Eloisa to Abelard
The Rape of the Lock
Epistle to Burlington
Epistle to a Lady
Epistle to Arbuthnot
Samuel Richardson
Pamela
Mary Roach
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume
Philip Roth
Patrimony
Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
An Anthropologist on Mars
An Anthropologist on Mars
Thomas Sanchez
Angels Burning
Eric Schlosser
Fast Food Nation
William Shakespeare
Sonnets (esp. 12, 18, 29, 55, 71, 73, 104, 106, 116, 129, 130, 144)
Hamlet
King Lear
Othello
Macbeth
Richard II
Richard III
Henry the Fouth, Pt. I
Love's Labour's Lost
Much Ado About Nothing
The Tempest
Percy Shelley
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
England in 1819
Ode to the West Wind
Adonais
Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophil & Stella
An Apology for Poesy
Edmund Spenser
The Fairie Queen
Epithalamion
Art Spiegelman
Maus
Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
A Description of a City Shower
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift
Gulliver's Travels
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Ulysses
In Memoriam
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur
Maud
Willam Thackery
Vanity Fair
Hunter S. Thompson
Fear & Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Jennifer Toth
Mole People
Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn
Sigrid Undset
Kristin Lavransdatter
Catherynne Valente
Palimpsest
Buddy Wakefield
Live for a Living
David Foster Wallace
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Marc Weingarten
The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight
Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth
E. B. White
Essays
Walt Whitman
Song of Myself
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Whoever You are Holding Me Now in Hand
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Elie Wiesel
Night
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tom Wolfe
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Tobias Wolfe
This Boy's Life
Ashley Wood
Popbot
Brian Wood
DMZ
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
A Room of One's Own
Mrs. Dalloway
Orlando
Hamlet
King Lear
Othello
Macbeth
Richard II
Richard III
Henry the Fouth, Pt. I
Love's Labour's Lost
Much Ado About Nothing
The Tempest
Percy Shelley
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
England in 1819
Ode to the West Wind
Adonais
Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophil & Stella
An Apology for Poesy
Edmund Spenser
The Fairie Queen
Epithalamion
Art Spiegelman
Maus
Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
A Description of a City Shower
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift
Gulliver's Travels
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Ulysses
In Memoriam
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur
Maud
Willam Thackery
Vanity Fair
Hunter S. Thompson
Fear & Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Jennifer Toth
Mole People
Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn
Sigrid Undset
Kristin Lavransdatter
Catherynne Valente
Palimpsest
Buddy Wakefield
Live for a Living
David Foster Wallace
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Marc Weingarten
The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight
Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth
E. B. White
Essays
Walt Whitman
Song of Myself
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Whoever You are Holding Me Now in Hand
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Elie Wiesel
Night
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tom Wolfe
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Tobias Wolfe
This Boy's Life
Ashley Wood
Popbot
Brian Wood
DMZ
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
A Room of One's Own
Mrs. Dalloway
Orlando
William Wordsworth
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Tintern Abbey
Resolution and Independence
Yew Trees
Elegiac Stanzas (Peele Castle)
Westminster Bridge
The World is Too Much with Us
The Prelude: Books: 1, 6,8,11,13
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Richard Wright
Native Son
Black Boy
William Butler Yeats
The Rose of the World
The Fascination of What's Difficult
The Wild Swans at Coole
Easter 1916
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
Leda and The Sawn
Among School Children
Crazy Jane Talks to the Bishop
Lapis Lazuli
The Circus Animals' Desertion
Kenji Yoshino
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
* I don't have any specific writings in mind so I'm open to any suggestions.
The Fascination of What's Difficult
The Wild Swans at Coole
Easter 1916
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
Leda and The Sawn
Among School Children
Crazy Jane Talks to the Bishop
Lapis Lazuli
The Circus Animals' Desertion
Kenji Yoshino
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
* I don't have any specific writings in mind so I'm open to any suggestions.
