My Bookshelf

Below are lists of books that live on my beloved bookshelves; one physical, one digital, one imaginary. Not included are the reference books and collections that I frequently browse nor the small stack of books that I have read cover to cover. The titles in bold represent which books I am currently reading and the crossed off titles are evidence that I in fact read. Admittedly, I have a lot of catching up to do.

Which books do we share in common?

The physical + digital:

• Hell’s Angels by Hunter S. Thompson 12/18
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
• An Apology for Idlers by Robert Louis Stevenson
• A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
• The Iliad by Homer
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
• Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
• The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
• In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
• Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• The Gangs of New York by Herbert Ashbury
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• Best American Essays edited by Edwidge Danticat
• Basilica by R.A. Scotti
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Prince by Machiavelli
• Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• Summer by Edith Wharton
• The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The imaginary (aka The wishlist, aka The public library):

• The Yocoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
  
• Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down by Rosecrans Baldwin
  
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  
• Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
  
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  
• Doors to Perception by Aldous Huxley
  
• Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests by Tom Wolfe
  
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  
• Swamplandia by Karen Russell
  
• Rum Diaries by Hunter S Thompson
• Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
  
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
  
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• Great Movies III by Roger Ebert
• On Writing by Stephen King

Read more about my fondness for books and my reading goals by clicking here.