Sunday, October 8, 2017

What's Left? 193 books, that's what.

This is an updated version of the Rory List, should I be in a bookstore and feel the need to acquire a title ... because the stack of unread books on my bedside table doesn't grow by itself. (Titles I already own are bolded.)
  1. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  2. Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
  3. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  4. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  5. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  6. Bambi by Felix Salten
  7. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  8. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  9. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
  10. The Bhagava Gita
  11. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
  12. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
  13. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
  14. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
  15. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
  16. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
  17. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
  18. Christine by Stephen King
  19. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
  20. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
  21. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
  22. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
  23. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
  24. Cujo by Stephen King
  25. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
  26. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
  27. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
  28. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  29. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
  30. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
  31. The Divine Comedy by Dante
  32. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
  33. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
  34. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
  35. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
  36. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
  37. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
  38. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
  39. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
  40. Ethics by Spinoza
  41. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
  42. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
  43. Extravagance by Gary Krist
  44. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
  45. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
  46. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
  47. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
  48. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
  49. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
  50. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
  51. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
  52. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
  53. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
  54. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
  55. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
  56. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  57. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
  58. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
  59. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
  60. The Graduate by Charles Webb
  61. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  62. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
  63. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
  64. Henry V by William Shakespeare
  65. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
  66. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  67. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
  68. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
  69. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
  70. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
  71. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
  72. How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland
  73. Howl by Allen Ginsburg
  74. I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres
  75. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  76. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence
  77. It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
  78. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
  79. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
  80. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
  81. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
  82. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  83. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
  84. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
  85. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
  86. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  87. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
  88. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
  89. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
  90. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  91. Marathon Man by William Goldman
  92. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  93. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
  94. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  95. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
  96. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken from Season 1, Episode
  97. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
  98. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  99. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
  100. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
  101. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
  102. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
  103. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
  104. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  105. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
  106. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken, Season 1 Episode
  107. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
  108. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
  109. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  110. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
  111. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
  112. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
  113. Night by Elie Wiesel
  114. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  115. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan
  116. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
  117. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
  118. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  119. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
  120. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
  121. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  122. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
  123. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
  124. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
  125. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
  126. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
  127. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
  128. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
  129. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
  130. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
  131. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
  132. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
  133. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
  134. Property by Valerie Martin
  135. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
  136. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
  137. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
  138. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
  139. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
  140. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
  141. "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King
  142. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
  143. Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
  144. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin from Season 1 Episode (I believe this is the movie)
  145. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
  146. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
  147. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
  148. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
  149. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
  150. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  151. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
  152. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
  153. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  154. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
  155. Sexus by Henry Miller
  156. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  157. Shane by Jack Shaefer
  158. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  159. Small Island by Andrea Levy
  160. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
  161. "Snow White and Rose Red" by the Brothers Grimm
  162. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
  163. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
  164. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
  165. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
  166. Songbook by Nick Hornby
  167. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
  168. Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  169. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
  170. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  171. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
  172. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  173. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
  174. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
  175. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
  176. Time and Again by Jack Finney
  177. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  178. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
  179. The Trial by Franz Kafka
  180. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
  181. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
  182. Unless by Carol Shields
  183. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
  184. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
  185. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
  186. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  187. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
  188. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
  189. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
  190. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
  191. Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
  192. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
  193. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

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