- Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
- Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
- The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
- Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
- Nightwatch, Sergei Lukyanenko
- Daywatch, Sergei Lukyanenko
- Twilight Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
- Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marsha Pessl
- Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
- Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut
- Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
- A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
- Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
- Wifey, Judy Blume
- Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
- Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
- Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger (shut up!)
- Mirror, Mirror, Gregory McGuire
- Conjure Wife, Fritz Lieber
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
- The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
This is what I have thus far. I’ve had most of these laying about the house gathering dust, in varying stages of read (some started but never finished, some never even started, some finished but so long ago I forget them almost entirely). I’ll not necessarily be reading them in this order, though. I’ll add to it as I think of/find/hear about more. I’m still debating about adding Anna Karenina to the stack. I’ve tried 4 times, and I have never yet finished it, so we’ll see. I think I can probably find enough books to not risk it.
Goodness woman! That’s quite a list- you’ll breeze through Catcher and Steinbeck. I too have tried Anna K about 3 times. Does anyone finish it?
Good luck, let the educatin’ begin!
-Amanda47
I’ve read Catcher before, and I loved it. It seems to be one of those polarizing reads, usually.. people either love it or hate it. And I’ve got to put East of Eden on there too, that’s one I started but never finished, even though it was lovely. It’s a long, slow type read, though, so I don’t know if it’ll be good for this.
Also, I’ve heard rumors of peeps who have, in fact, finished Karenina. I’ve yet to see any of these alleged people in person, though.
Good luck to you too, Lady!