Books

Read a thousand books and words will flow like a river.
Lisa See

It probably comes as no surprise that I am obsessed with books. Piles of them fill my home and walking around with no lights means risking tripping over a stack of them. And yet, there are never enough! I keep rare books and the ones that have inscriptions.  The rest are donated to charity after I finish reading them.

If you wish to send me a book, here is my reading wish list. Books not on this list are welcome as well! Contact me for my shipping address. Please understand I can’t promise to read them in a timely manner. Sometimes life keeps me busy, sometimes I’m catching up on the books I already have.

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Authors of General Interest: 
Murasaki Shikibu
Virginia Wolf
Keith Oatley
William Sydney Porter/O. Henry
Jeff Vandermeer
Henry James
Shirley Jackson
Alice Munro
Philip K Dick
Robertson Davies

Books:

Aspects of the Novel, Em FosterLadder to the Sky, John Boyne
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
I’m Perfect, You’re Doomed, By Kyria Abrahams
The Night Library of Strenendach, Jessica Levai
The Pale King, David Foster Wallace
The Almond: The Sexual Awakening of a Muslim Woman, Nedjma
Faust, Goethe
The Marketplace, Laura Antoniou
Talen, Shay Savage
Diaries and Selected Letters, Mikhail Bulgakov 
Bared By You, Sylvia Day
The Quest, Wilbur Smith
Leonardo Da Vinci, Walter
The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
Isaacson
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Anne Rice
The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged, C.D Yonge
Master of the Mountain, Cherise Sinclair
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Circe, Madeline Miller
100 Love Sonnets, Pablo Neruda
The Fragrance of Guava, Gabriel García Márquez
Celibacy In the Ancient World, Dale Launderville
An Indecent Proposition, Stephanie Julian
Gather Yourselves Together, Philip K Dick
Vox, Nicholson Baker 
Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill 
Storm Front, Jim Butcher
The Sexual Life of Catherine M., Catherine Millet
Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy 
The Storyteller, Jodi Picoult
Call Me By Your Name, André Aciman
The Pillars Of The Earth: Kingsbridge, Ken Follett
A Sport and a Pastime, James Salter
The Woman Who Named God, Charlotte Gordon
The Wise Man’s Fear,  Patrick Rothfuss
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Naked In Death, Nora Roberts & J.D Robb
The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson
Forever, Judy Blume
Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Hagar, Mary Johnston
Outlander, Diana Galbaldon
The King Killer: The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
I am A Woman, Ann Banon
The Assassin’s Blade, Maas
Ancient Sisterhood: The Lost Traditions of Hagar and Sarah, Savina J. Teubal
The Crossfire Series: Bared To You, Sylvia Day
The Torrents of Spring, Ernest Hemingway
The Siren, Riffany Reisz
1984, George Orwell
Open Me, Lisa Locascio
Dune, Frank Herbert
Face The Fire, Nora Roberts
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Dark Lover, J.R. Ward
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, A.N Roquelaure
The Power of Ritual in Prehistory, by Brian Hayden 
Emmanuelle, Emmanuelle Arsan
The Letters of Alexander Pushkin 
The Viking Spirit, Daniel McCoy
The Remembrance of Earth Past, Cixiu Liu
Endurance: A Year In Space, Scott Kelly
The Lost City of Z, David Grann
I’ll be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara
The Expanse Series, Michael Lewis
Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi
On the Trails of Genghis Khan, Tim Cope
Tip of the Iceberg, Mark Adams
The Lost City of the Monkey Gods, Douglas Preston
Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
What I Think Happened, Evany Rosen
Men Without Women, Haruki Murakami
The History of Witchcraft and Demonology, Montague Summers
Bad Behaviour, Mary Gaitsill
Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling, Charles Godfrey Leland
The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries By Charles William Heckethorn
Etruscan Magic and Occult Remedies, Charles Godfey Leland
Curious Myths of The Middle Ages, Sabine Baring-Gould
Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell
God loves Hair, Vivek Shraya
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Sestina, Elizabeth Bishop
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Wolf
Naked City, Aurthur Fellig Weegee
Apeirogon, Column McCann
Girl, Edna O’Brien
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character,  Samuel Noah Kramer 

 

The Books I've Read

Well, Some of them.