- 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Everyday edited by Billy Collins
- 1984 (1949) George Orwell
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- After Dark by Haruki Marakami
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- All Creatures Great and Small by James Herrott
- All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulgham
- All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
- American Vampire by Scott Snyder and Stephen King
- Angelica by Arthur Phillips
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Anne of Green Gables
- Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
- Apocalypse 2012 by Lawrence E. Joseph
- Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
- The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins
- The Art of War by Mao Tse-Tung
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- Aztec by Gary Jennings
- Backlash by Susan Faludi
- The Bhagavad Gita translated by Eknath Easwaran
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Beyond the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- Blood Child and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler
- Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
- Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
- Brick Lane by Monica Ali
- The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God: And Other Stories by Etgar Keret
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Catcher in the Rye (1951) J.D. Salinger
- Cat’s Cradle (1963) Kurt Vonnegut
- Cat vs Human by Yasmine Surovec
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
- The Compromise by Sergei Dovlatov
- Confessions of a Former Dittohead by Jim Derych
- Convince Them in 90 Seconds by Nicholas Boothman
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- The Dhammapada introduced and translated by Eknath Easwaran
- Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
- Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
- Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Dreamlife of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Ecology for Beginners by Stephen Croall & William Rankin
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White
- Embers by Sandor Marai
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
- Failed States by Noam Chomsky
- Farnham’s Freehold by Robert Heinlein
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- The First 50 Pages by Jeff Gerke
- The Flower in the Skull by Kathleen Alcala
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
- Flying at Night by Ted Kooser
- A Foreign Woman by Sergei Dovlatov
- Forever by Judy Blume
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
- Getting the Words Right: How to Revise, Edit & Rewrite by Theodore A. Rees Cheney
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- Glory by Vladimir Nabokov
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- God Bless You Mr. Rosewater or Pearls Before Swine by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Gold Cell by Sharon Olds
- The Good Earth (1931) Pearl S. Buck
- Grain Brain (2013) by Dr. David Perlmutter, MD
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank by Erma Bombeck
- The Great Enigma by Tomas Transtromer
- The Great Gatsby (1925) F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
- Hate Mail by M. M. Garcia
- Have Space Suit Will Travel by Robert Heinlein
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Heaven by V.C. Andrews
- A Hero of Our Time by M. Lermontov
- The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
- How Green Was My Valley (1939) by Richard Llewellyn
- Hungry for the World by Kim Barnes
- Identity by Milan Kundera
- If There Be Thorns by V.C. Andrews
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- The Illiad by Homer
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- In an Instant by Bob and Lee Woodruff
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- In the Land of Invisible Women by Qanta A. Ahmed
- Into the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country by Kim Barnes
- It Is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We’d Come to See by Michele Glazer
- Job a Comedy of Justice by Robert Heinlein
- The Joke by Milan Kundera
- Journey Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg
- Joy of Zentangle by Suzanne McNeill, Sandy Steen Bartholomew, and Marie Browning
- King Lear by William Shakespeare
- Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes From the Midlife Underground by Twenty Five Women Over Forty edited by Kim Barnes and Claire Davis
- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
- Life is Like a Bowl of Cherries by Erma Bombeck
- Life After Death by Deepak Chopra
- Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
- Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome by J.P.V.D. Balsdon
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
- The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler
- Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
- Lust and Other Stories by Susan Minot
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Magic Kingdom for Sale—SOLD! by Terry Brooks
- Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers by Carolyn See
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Memories by Mike McQuay
- The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka
- Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- The Myrtle’s Plantation: The True Story of America’s Most Haunted House by Francis Kermeen
- My Traitor’s Heart by Rian Malan
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
- The New Crusade by Rahul Mahajan
- The New Diary by Tristine Rainer
- A New Earth: Awakening Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
- The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol
- Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
- Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Penguin Lost by Andrei Kurkov
- Pushkin Hills by Sergei Dovlatov
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck
- The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
- On the Road by Jack Keroac
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Soltzenitzen
- One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- Ours: A Russian Family Album by Sergei Dovlatov
- The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
- A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
- Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov
- Personal History by Katharine Graham
- Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews
- Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
- Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry edited by Billy Collins
- Prisons We Choose to Live Inside by Doris Lessing
- The Prophet by Kalil Grabran
- Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle
- Rant: The Life of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
- The Rough Hewn Table by Henry Carlile
- Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
- The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Send: The Essential Guide for Email for Office and Home by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Franklin Covey
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- Skins on the Earth by Primus St. John
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- So Long and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
- Stop Clutter From Stealing Your Life by Mike Nelson
- Straight Man by Richard Russo
- The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
- The Suitcase by Sergei Dovlatov
- Sula by Toni Morrison
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle
- Take Charge Product Management by Greg Geracia
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- There’s Nothing in the Middle of the Road But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos by Jim Hightower
- Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
- Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill
- This Moment on Earth by John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry
- The Thousand and One Nights
- Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva
- Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
- Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- The Upanishads, translated by Eknath Easwaran
- Very Short Stories by Sean Hill
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems by William Stafford
- We (1988) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- Where River Meets the Sky by Gregg Kleiner
- Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart
- Wicked Bugs by Amy Stewart
- A Wind in the Door by Madeline L’Engle
- Winter is Coming by Gary Kasparaov
- Work Would Be Great If It Weren’t for the People by Ronna Lichtenberg
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
- Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- You Don’t Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem
- Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
- Y: The Last Man: Book One by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, and José Marzán
- The Zone by Sergei Dovlatov
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I hope you didn’t try to create this entire list in alphabetical order from memory before writing them down. Thanks for following my blog. I definitely appreciate new readers.
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Ow, that hurts my brain! No, I started thinking about what I’d read, and then I’d remember more, and more, and so on. Finally, I couldn’t remember anything else. Although, today I was remembering some vampire book I read last year; no clue what it was called though. —Cheers!
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I envy you. Your memory is great! I am so thankful they came up with goodreads… it’s easier to track and trace those books! Do you have one? 🙂
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I just got on Good Reads. Thank you for telling me about it. It’s a little daunting, but definitely cool to have some suggestions for new reading. Thanks again!
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I get excited every time I add a new book in my Goodreads bookshelf. Goodreads is a massive site for finding a new book. I seek recommendations there to see what might interest me. Next to Facebook I think my favorite site is Goodreads.
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Wow ! I’ve read a lot of books, and halves of many more…and a chapter or less of too many more. There’s a list…books I’ve read a chapter or less of.
Later…
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Yep, I’ve finally come to grips with the fact that I will probably never read all the books I want to read or feel I should read. 🙂
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Hi! Really impressive list this one of yours… but if you allow me, I’d like to make a suggestion: Love in the time of cholera (one of my favorites).
Thanks for sharing all this stuff with us and also for passing by my blog!
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Thank you for your suggestion. I find Gabriel Garcia Marquez very interesting (even though I didn’t love One Hundred Years of Solitude). I’ll put that one on my list. 🙂
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I like One Hundred Years of Solitude, but Love in the Time of Cholera is a wonderful love story… Hope you like it too. When you read it, let me know your opinion!
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Will do!
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