book list

i love to read, especially while on vacation (such as now, where i have a week off to clean house, eat stuffing, watch football, and read). i've talked about doing so for awhile, and i've finally compiled draft one of my favorite books...

Absolute Favorites
(Books I’ve read more than once and will probably read at least once again)

House of Leaves -- Mark Z. Danielewski
Ender’s Game Series -- Orson Scott Card
Harry Potter Series -- JK Rowling
A Series of Unfortunate Events -- Lemony Snicket

Favorite Authors – I’ve read many if not all of their books, and I listed my favorites
Chuck Palahniuk -- Invisible Monsters, Choke, Survivor, Lullaby, Fight Club…
David Sedaris -- Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked…
Barbara Kingsolver -- Poisonwood Bible, The Bean Trees
Nick Hornby -- How to be Good, High Fidelity
Dean Koontz -- Mr. Murder, Hideaway, Shadow Fires, Odd Thomas…
Helen Fielding -- Bridget Jones’ Diary, Cause Celeb, Olivia Joules…
Steve Martin -- The Pleasure of My Company, Shopgirl

Books I Loved, in no particular order
East of Eden -- John Steinbeck
White Noise -- Don DeLillo
The End of the Affair -- Graham Greene
Maus I & II -- Art Spiegelman
The Frog King -- Adam Davies
The Drifters -- James Michener
The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Milan Kundera
Everything is Illuminated -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Ecotopia -- Ernest Callenbach
Sohpie's World -- Josetein Gaarder
Angels & Demons, The DaVinci Code -- Dan Brown
One-Thousand White Women -- Jim Fergus
My Life on a Plate -- India Knight
The Perks of Being a Wallflower -- Stephen Chbosky
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time -- Mark Haddon
Atlas Shrugged -- Ayn Rand
Angela's Ashes -- Frank McCourt
Girl, Interrupted -- Susanna Kaysen
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- Ken Kesey
White Oleander -- Janet Fitch
Memoires of a Geisha -- Arthur Golden
The Joy Luck Club -- Amy Tan
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Thief of Always – Clive Barker
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
The World According to Garp – John Irving