Yes, I know, this list is daunting. I tried to remember every book I’ve read; I say tried because I failed. They’re many books that I checked out of the library but can’t recall the name or author. There’s nothing I can do about that. As I continue to read I will add to the list. The ones with the * are my favorites.
Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart
Adas, Michael: Turbulent Passage A Global History of the Twentieth Century
Aeschylus: the Oresteis, Prometheus Bound
Alten, Steve: Meg*
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
Aristophanes: Lysistrata
Augustine: Confessions
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice*
Barry, Sam: Write That Book Already!: The Tough Love You Need To Get Published Now*
Batson, Wayne: the Door Within trilogy*
Beckett, Samuel: Endgame
Bennett: the Solar System
Beowulf*
Berkin, Carol: Women’s Voices Women’s Lives
Blake, William: Songs of Experience, Songs of Innocence
Bloor, Edward: Tangerine*
Boccaccio, Giovanni: the Decameron
Borges, Jorge: the Garden of Forking Paths
Breverton Terry: Immortal Words*
Brown: Chemistry: The Central Science
Browne, Angela: When Battered Women Kill
Lord Byron, George: Darkness*
Caesar, Julius: Commentarii De Bello Gallico
Camus, Albert: the Guest
Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland*
Carter, Stephen L.: The Emperor of Ocean Park
Castiglione, Baldassare: the Book of the Courtier
Chaucer, Geoffrey: the Canterbury Tales*
Cheney, Theodore: Getting the Words Right
Clamp: Magic Knight Rayearth*
Clancy, Tom: The Hunt For Red October
Clark, Mary Higgins: Before I Say Good-Bye, Just Take My Heart
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
Coleridge, Samuel: Kubla Khan, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner*
Colbert, Stephen: I Am America (And So Can You!)
Colfer, Eoin: Artemis Fowl series*
Cornwell, Patricia: Postmortem
Crichton, Michael: Jurassic Park*, the Lost World*, Prey*, Timeline*
Cummings, E.E.: Poems
Dante: the Divine Comedy
Darwin, Charles: the Origin of the Species
Davis, Bryan: Dragons in our Midst*
DiCamillo, Kate: Because of Winn-Dixie*
Dickinson, Emily: Poems
DK: Universe
Donne, John: Poems
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: the Complete Sherlock Holmes*
Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Edgerton, Les: Hooked- write fiction that grabs readers at page one and never lets them go*
Editors of Writer’s Digest Books: The Complete Handbook Of Novel Writing, Everything You Need to Know About Creating & Selling Your Work*
Egri, Lajos: The Art of Dramatic Writing*
Elderdge, John: Desire
Eliot, T.S.: Poems
Euripides: Bacchae, Heracles, Hippolytus, Medea
Eutropius: breviarium Ad Urbe Condita Liber Tertius, Breviarium Historiae Romanae
Fisher, Helen: Why Him? Why Her?
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Frank, Anne: A Diary of a Young Girl*
Frost, Robert: Poems
Gibbins, David: Atlantis
Gilgamesh
Gilman, Charlotte: The Yellow Wallpaper
God: Bible*
Golden, Christopher: Body Bags*
Goldman, William: The Princess Bride*
Graff: They Say I Say
Sue Grafton: Writing mysteries : a handbook / by the Mystery Writers of America*
Grimm: Complete Fairy Tales*
Grisham, John: the Appeal, A Time to Kill*, the Broker*, the Confession*, the Firm*, the King of Torts*, the Pelican Brief*, Playing for Pizza*, the Runaway Jury*, the Summons*, the Testament*
Haddix, Margaret: Just Ella*
Halam, Ann: Dr. Franklin’s Island*
Hall, Perry: Grace Does That?*
Hawthorn, Nathaniel: the Scarlet Letter
Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
Hesiod: Theogony
Hiaasen: Hoot*
Hinton, S.E.: The Outsiders*
Hitz, Frederick: Why Spy? Espionage in an Age of Uncertainty
Hobbes, Thomas: Leviathan
Homer: Iliad, the Odyssey*
Hosp, David: Among Thieves*
The Horror Writers Association: On Writing Horror*
Hughes, Langston: Poems
Ibsen, Henrik: A Doll’s House, Hedda Gabler
Irving, Washington: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow*, Rip Van Winkle
James, P. D.: Talking About Detective Fiction
Joyce, James: the Dead
Kafka, Franz, the Metamorphosis
Keats, John: Peoms
King, Martin Luther Jr.: I Have a Dream*
King, Stephen: Danse Macabre*, the Dark Half*, Duma Key*, Nightmares and Dreamscapes*, On Writing*, ‘Salem’s Lot*
Kishimoto, Masashi: Naruto*
Koontz, Dean: Breathless*, By the Light of the Moon*, Darkfall*, Fear Nothing*, Odd Thomas series*, Seize the Night*, What the Night Knows*
Kot, Greg: Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music
The Knowledge Commons: Smart Mouths*
Kubo, Noriaki ”Tite”: Bleach*
Leighton, Paul: Criminal Justice Ethics
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird*
L’Engle, Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time
Levine, Gail Carson: Ella Enchanted*
Levitt, Steven: Freakonomics*, SuperFreakonomics*
Lewis, C.S.: the Chronicles of Narnia*
Liparulo, Robert: Comes a Horsemen*
Livy: The History of Rome, Books I-V: The Early History of Rome
Lofland, Lee: Police Procedure and Investigation: A Guide for Writers*
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: Poems
Lovecraft, H.P.: The Fiction of*
Lowry Lois: Number the Stars*
Dr. Luntz, Frank: Words That Work*
Lyda: Techne Rhetorike
M.D. Lyle, D.P.: Forensics: A Guide for Writers*
Machiavelli, Niccolo: the Prince
Marquez, Gabriel: Death Constant beyond Love
Marx, Carl: Manifesto of the Communist Party
McDougall, Christopher: Born To Run
McKinley, Robin: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast*
Miller, Arthur: The Crucible*
Milton, John: Paradise Lost
Nakamura, Yoshiki: Skip Beat!*
Nazario, Sonia: Enrique’s Journey
Ohba, Tsugumi: Death Note*
Dr. O’Mahony, Mike: World Art the Essential Illustrated History
Orwell, George: 1984
Ostebee: Calculus
Ovid: Metamorphoses
Paolini: Inheritance Cycle*
Paterson, Katherine:Bridge to Terabithia
Paulsen, Gary: Hatchet*
Petherick, Wayne: The Science of Criminal Profiling*
Phelan: What is Life? A guide to Biology
Plautus: Bacchides, Menaechmi, Miles Gloriosus
Poe, Edgar Allen: the Complete Tales and Poems of*
Polivka: Trophy Chase Trilogy*
Pope, Alexander: An Essay on Man, the Rape of the Lock
Pope, Elizabeth: the Perilous Gard*
Preston, Richard: The Hot Zone*
Proust, Marcel: Swann’s Way
Racine, Jean: Phaedra
Rankin, Ian: Exit Music
Reichs, Kathy: Death Du Jour*, Deja Dead*
Riordan: Percy Jackson series*
Rose, M.J.: The Reincarnationist
Rostand, Edmond: Cyrano de Bergerac*
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: The Social Contract
Rowling, J.K.: Harry Potter series*, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch through the Ages
Rowson, Susanna: Charlotte Temple
Sachar: Holes*
Schmalleger: Criminal Justice Today
Schwartzman: Fundamentals of Oral Communication
Shakespeare, William: Complete Works of*
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus*
Shelmerdine, Susan: The Homeric Hymns
Shelton: As the Romans Did
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sleator, William: The Boxes
Smith, Sherwood: Crown Duel*
Snicket, Lemony: A Series of Unfortunate Events*
Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus the King*
Stine, R.L.: Bad Dreams
Stoker, Bram: Dracula*
Stossel, John: Myths Lies and Downright Stupidity
Strobel: The Case for Christ*
Sullivan: Pre-calculus
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels
Takaya, Natsuki: Fruit’s Basket*
Lord Tennyson, Alfred: Charge of the Light Brigade*
Terence: Adelphoe, Hecyra
Thoreau, Henry David: Walden
Tolkin, J.R.R.: the Hobbit*, Lord of the Rings*
Tro, Nivaldo: Chemistry A Molecular Approach
Twain, Mark: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tzu, Sun: the Art of War*
Verne, Jules: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Virgil: Aeneid*
Voltaire: Candide
Webster: Dictionary
Weisel, Elie: Night*
Wells, H.G.: War of the Worlds
Whitlow, Robert: The Sacrifice*
Whitmen, Walt: Song of Myself
Wilder, Thornton: Our Town
Writers Market: 2010*, 2011*, 2012*
Wordsworth, William: Poems
Yeates, William: Poems
Yolen: The Devil’s Arithmetic*
Zimmerman, Dwight: The Book of Weapons*
