.Living Literate: There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. ~Bertrand Russell

Next On The Shelf (Books to Read)

1984 by George Orwell

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

A Doll's House by Henry Ibsen

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Amerika by Franz Kafka

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories by Herman Melville

Blind Date by Jerzy Kosinski

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dead Souls by Nicolai V. Gogol

Emma by Jane Austen

Four Great Plays (The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya) by Anton Chekhov

Four Short Novels by DH Lawrence

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Heart of Darkness & the Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean Paul Sartre

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kessey

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Selected Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Iliad by Homer

The Inferno by Dante

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Stories - Oscar Wilde

The Presidential Papers by Norman Mailer

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath, edited by Karen V. Kukil

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

Typee by Herman Melville

Ulysses by James Joyce

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Not Quite Classics - but Books I Want to Read

All You Who Sleep Tonight by Vikram Seth

Elephant Rocks by Kay Ryan

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Gold Set Dancing by James Liddy

Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression edited by Bill Morgan and Nancy J. Peters

Junky by William S. Burroughs

Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros

One Act: Eleven Short Plays of the Modern Theatre edited by Samuel Moon

On the Blanket: The Inside Story of the IRA Prisoners' "Dirty" Protest by Tim Pat Coogan

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman

The IRA: A History by Tim Pat Coogan

The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco & the Culture of the Night by Anthony Haden-Guest

The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1996 and the Search for Peace by Tim Pat Coogan

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We will be Killed with our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch

Writings From Prison by Bobby Sands

Coming Soon to the Shelf (Books I Want to Buy and Read)

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

Collected Poems by Langston Hughes

Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Oepidus Rex by Sophocles

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbotsky

Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello

Stopping by the Woods on a Snow Evening by Robert Frost

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman

The Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poems by John Keats

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

The Harvest Festival by Sean O'Casey

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Waste Land and Other Poems by TS Eliot

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

.Living Literate

Monday, January 16, 2012

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. ~Bertrand Russell

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