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An ongoing project: a list of all the books I have read. This list is updated regularly and, unfortunately, there are many I have forgotten.

· The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain
· After Dark — Haruki Murakami
· The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho
· The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay — Michael Chabon
· Anarchism and Other Essays — Emma Goldman
· And Now You Can Go — Vendela Vida
· Animal Farm — George Orwell
· Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret — Judy Blume
· A Widow for One Year — John Irving
· Baby Be-Bop — Francesca Lia Block
· Being and Nothingness — Jean-Paul Sartre
· Bel Canto — Ann Patchett
· Beloved — Toni Morrison
· Blubber — Judy Blume
· The Book of Laughter and Forgetting — Milan Kundera
· Capitalism and Freedom — Milton Friedman
· Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger
· Charlotte’s Web — E.B. White
· Charokee Bat and the Goat Guys — Francesca Lia Block
· Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
· Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
· The Crucible — Arthur Miller
· The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time — Mark Haddon
· The Da Vinci Code — Dan Brown
· The Dharma Bums — Jack Kerouac
· The Doors of Perception — Aldous Huxley
· Dry: A Memoir — Augusten Burroughs
· Eat, Pray, Love — Elizabeth Gilbert
· Eichmann in Jerusalem — Hannah Arendt
· The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test — Tom Wolfe
· Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close — Jonathan Safran Roer
· Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream — Hunter S. Thompson
· Frankenstein — Mary Shelly
· Franny and Zooey — J.D. Salinger
· Girl Goddess #9 — Francesca Lia Block
· Girl, Interrupted — Susanna Kaysen
· The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing — Melissa Banks
· The Giver — Lois Lowry
· Go Ask Alice — Anonymous
· God and the State — Michael Bakunin
· The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
· Hamlet — William Shakespeare
· Harry Potter (the complete series) — J.k. Rowling
· Hatchet — Gary Paulsen
· A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius — Dave Eggers
· Heat — Bill Buford
· The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star — Nikki Sixx
· Hollywood Causes Cancer: The Tom Green Story — Tom Green
· The House of the Dead — Fyodor Dostoevsky
· The House on Mango Street — Sandra Cisneros
· How to Be Good — Nick Hornby
· I am Charolette Simmons — Tom Wolfe
· Into the Wild — Jon Krakauer
· I Was a Teenage Fairy — Francesca Lia Block
· Jane Eyre — Charolette Bronte
· The Journey to the East — Herman Hesse
· Joy Division: Piece by Piece — Paul Morley
· Kafka on the Shore — Haruki Murakami
· Kitchen Confidential — Anthony Bourdain
· Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman
· The Legacy of Luna — Julia Butterfly Hill
· Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name — Vendela Vida
· The Lovely Bones — Alice Sebold
· Magical Thinking: True Stories — Augusten Burroughs
· A Man Without a Country — Kurt Vonnegut
· Maus I — Art Spiegelman
· Maus II — Art Spiegelman
· Me Talk Pretty One Day — David Sedaris
· Memories, Dreams, Reflections — C.G. Jung
· Memoirs of a Beatnik — Diane DiPrima
· Midaq Alley — Naguib Mahfouz
· Middlesex — Jefferey Eugenides
· A Midsummer Night’s Dream — William Shakespeare
· A Million Little Pieces — James Frey
· Missing Angel Juan — Francesca Lia Block
· My Horizontal Life — Chelsea Handler
· Narcissus and Goldmund — Herman Hesse
· Naked — David Sedaris
· Necklace of Kisses — Francesca Lia Block
· Night — Elie Wiesel
· The Night Listener — Armistead Maupin
· Nine Stories — J.D. Salinger
· Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami
· Oh the Glory of it All — Sean Wilsey
· On the Road — Jack Kerouac
· The Outsiders — S.E. Hinton
· Papelucho — Marcela Paz
· Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Freire
· The Perks of Being a Wallflower — Steven Chbosky
· The Pilgrimage — Paulo Coelho
· Prep — Curtis Sittenfeld
· Prozac Nation — Elizabeth Wurtzel
· Quakeland — Francesca Lia Block
· Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction — J.D. Salinger
· Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years — Diane DiPrima
· The Reluctant Fundamentalist — Moshin Hamid
· The Republic — Plato
· Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare
· Ruby — Francesca Lia Block
· The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne
· Siddhartha — Herman Hesse
· Slam — Nick Hornby
· Special Topics in Calamity Physics — Marisha Pessel
· The Strange Files of Fremont Jones — Dianne Day
· The Stranger — Albert Camus
· Stuart Little — E.B. White
· Superfudge — Judy Blume
· Sure of You — Armistead Maupin
· Take the Cannoli — Sarah Vowell
· Tales of the City — Armistead Maupin
· The Things they Carried — Tim O’Brien
· To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
· Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair — Pablo Neruda
· The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera
· The Utopian Vision of Charles Fourier — Charles Fourier
· Veronika Decides to Die — Paulo Coelho
· The Virgin Suicides — Jefferey Eugenides
· Weetzie Bat — Francesca Lia Block
· Where the Sidewalk Ends — Shel Silverstein
· The Wind Up Bird Chronicle — Haruki Murakami
· Witch Baby — Francesca Lia Block
· The World According to Garp — John Irving
· The Wonderspot — Melissa Banks
· You Shall Know our Velocity — Dave Eggers
· Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — Robert M. Pirsig