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"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness." -Helen Keller
2012 Reading List
Strikethrough means I’ve read it in 2012.
* Means I’ve read it before 2012.
Italicized means I’m currently reading.
Fiction
  • Side Effects by Woody Allen
  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen
  • Emma by Jane Austen
  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  • Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
  • Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  • Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks*
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury*
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks
  • Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
  • The Straner by Albert Camus
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky*
  • Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  • Little Bee by Chris Cleave
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • And Warhol by Arthur C. Danto
  • The Red Tent by Anita Diamant*
  • The Keep by Jennifer Egan*
  • A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
  • The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
  • American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer*
  • Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer*
  • Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
  • Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories by Ben Fountain
  • The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
  • The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George
  • Mary Called Magdalene by Margaret George*
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
  • Looking for Alaska by John Green*
  • The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  • The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne*
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  • Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
  • High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • The Cider House Rules by John Irving
  • Carrie by Stephen King
  • The Shining by Stephen King
  • Wicked by Gregory Maguire
  • An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • Saturday by Ian McEwan
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • Utopia by Sir Thomas Moore
  • The Wind-Up Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
  • 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
  • Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuck*
  • Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuck
  • Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Peterson
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  • The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • Witch Child by Celia Rees
  • The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
  • The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
  • The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  • Dracula by Gram Stoker
  • Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
  • Candide by Voltaire
  • Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
  • The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
  • The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates*
  • I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak*
  • The Book Theif by Markus Zusak*


Non Fiction

  • Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
  • The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
  • A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary by Alain de Botton
  • Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
  • Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
  • Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • Zelda Fitzgerald by Nancy Milford
  • A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
  • The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
  • Paris Was Ours by Penelope Rowlands
  • Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol by Tony Scherman
  • Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto
  • Defiance by Nechama Tec
  • Popism: The Warhol Sixties by Andy Warhol


Series
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  • The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
  • Harry Potter
  • Lord of the Rings
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