I've settled on just around 30 (less than 10% of my total) and thought I'd post them here. Some are old favorites, some are books I haven't read and am planning on reading imminently. I'll indicate those not yet read with an "(NR)". All of those that have been read are highly recommended.
Fiction and Poetry:
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Answered Prayers by Truman Capote
Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor (NR)
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (NR)
Kensington Gardens by Rodrigo Fresan
The Mentor Book of Major American Poets edited by Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig
Les Fleur du Mal par Charles Baudelaire
L'Etranger par Albert Camus
Nonfiction:
Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote by Truman Capote (almost done reading)
The Kings and Queens of Britain by John Cannon and Anne Hargreaves
The Making of a Poem by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland
The Novel Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture by Franco Moretti (NR)
The Novel Volume 2: Forms and Themes by Franco Moretti (NR)
A Handbook to Literature by C. Hugh Holman and William Harmon
Littérature Francophone par Nathan (publisher) (NR)
The Art of the Surrealists by Edmund Swinglehurst
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt (NR)
The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath (foreward by Ted Hughes) (NR)
Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker (NR)
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction by P.H. Matthews
Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel by Robert Humphrey (NR)
I suppose I loaded up pretty heavily on the nonfiction. It makes sense, as I think the majority of my library is nonfiction (although I've read more fiction). And the nonfiction books are much more useful for reference, just in case I need them.
Kaitlin
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