The Good Book List

There is nothing I love more than books. Each of these comes with my highest reccomendation, and many of them are linked to their own quotes pages. If you have any book you think I should read please tell me.

This list is alphabetized according to author, but you may search for an exact or partial title in the search box. Enjoy!

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Albert Camus: The Stranger
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexandra Sellers: How to Speak Cat - The Essential Primer of Cat Language
Allan Kaufman: The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (edited by)
Allan Sillitoe: The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner
Anaïs Nin: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3, 1923-1927; Henry and June: From 'A Journal of Love': The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932; Fire: From 'A Journal of Love': The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1939
Andrew Kaufman: All My Friends Are Superheroes
Ann Charters: The Portable Sixties Reader (edited by)
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Lewis: Gideon's Trumpet
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince
Dr. Atul Gawande: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Audre Lorde: Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Ben Shahn: The Shape of Content
Beverly Cleary: Beezus and Ramona; Ramona and Her Father; Ramona and Her Mother; Ramona Forever; Ramona Quimby, Age 8; Ramona the Brave; Ramona the Pest

Carlos Castaneda: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
Cherríe Moraga: This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (edited by)
Chrystos: In Her I Am
Craig Lesley: Dreamers and Desperadoes: Contemporary Fiction of the American West (edited by)
Cormac McCarthy: The Road
C.S. Lewis: Prince Caspian; The Horse and His Boy; The Last Battle; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; The Magician's Nephew; The Silver Chair; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

David Arkin: Black and White
Dennis Hamley: Hare's Choice
David Helwig: Coming Through
D.H. Laurence: Lady Chatterly's Lover
Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

E.B. White: Charlotte's Web; Stuart Little
E.M. Forster: A Passage to India
Edmund Routledge: Every Boy's Book (edited by)
Edward Lazarus: Closed Chambers - The Rise, Fall, and History of the Modern Supreme Court
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus: The Nanny Diaries
Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man And The Sea; The Sun Also Rises
Esther Veritoef: Encyclopedia of Cats

Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden
Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment

George Orwell: 1984; Animal Farm; Homage to Catalonia
Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands / La frontera; This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (edited by)
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary

Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer
Homer: The Odyssey (Robert Fagles translation)

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Jack Gilbert: Refusing Heaven
Jack London: The Call of the Wild
Jaco Benavente: Los intereses creados
Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
Javier Cercas: Soldados de Salamina
J.D. Salinger: Catcher In The Rye
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit
Jack Kerouac: On The Road; Tristessa
James Joyce: The Dead
Jean Brown Wagner: Jane Addams - Little Lame Girl
Jean-Paul Sarte: No Exit
Jeff Rovin: Cat Angels (edited by)
Jenó Barcsay: Anatomy for the Artist
John Grisham: A Time to Kill; The Firm; The Rainmaker; The Street Lawyer; The Summons
John Irving: The Cider House Rules
John Locke: Two Treatise of Government
John Steinbeck: Cannery Row; Of Mice and Men; Sweet Thursday; The Grapes of Wrath; The Log From The Sea of Cortez; The Old Man and the Sea; The Pearl; The Red Pony; The Wayward Bus; The Winter of Our Discontent; Tortilla Flat; Travels With Charley: In Search of America

Kate Chopin: The Awakening
Katherine Paterson: Bridge to Terabithia
Ken Kesey: Sometimes A Great Notion; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions; Cat's Cradle

Lama Mipham: Great Gift and the Wish Fulfilling Gem
Laura Ingalls Wilder: By the Shores of Silver Lake; Farmer Boy; Little House in the Big Woods; Little House on the Prarie; Little Town on the Prarie; On the Banks of Plum Creek; The First Four Years; The Long Winter; These Happy Golden Years
Leo Lionni: Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse; Frederick; Swimmy
Lee Epstein and Thomas G. Walker: Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice
Lesley O'Mara: Great Cat Tales (edited by)
Lois Lowry: Number the Stars; The Giver
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun; The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women; Little Men

Madelein L'Engle: A Wrinkle In Time; A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Margery Williams: The Velveteen Rabbit
Mary Roach: Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers
Max Aguilera-Hellweg: The Sacred Heart

Nancy Garden: Annie on My Mind
Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Niccolo Machiavelli: Discourses on Livy; The Prince
Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth
Nick Bantock: Griffin & Sabine; Sabine's Notebook; The Golden Mean
Nicole Krauss: The History of Love

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Pablo Neurda: The Yellow Heart; El mar y las campanas; Libro de preguntas; Odes to Common Things; Vente poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
Phyllis Flower: Barn Owl
Plato: The Republic

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Radclyffe Hall The Well of Lonliness
Rand Miller with David Wingrove: Myst The Book of Atrus; Myst The Book of D'Ni; Myst The Book of Ti'Ana
Ray Bradbury: All Summer In A Day; Dandelion Wine; Fahrenheit 451
Reader's Digest: Animals You Will Never Forget (compiled by)
Rebecca L. Grumbo: Mountain Lion (photographs by Daniel L. Cox)
Rebecca Solnit: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Wells: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Richard Bach: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah; Johathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Goldstein: The Poetry of Rock
Richard P. Feynman: Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman
Richard Rodriguez: Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
Riki Anne Wilchins: Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender
Roald Dahl: Boy - Tales of Childhood; Lamb to the Slaughter; Matilda; The BFG; The Twits; The Witches
Robert A. Heinlein: Citizen of the Galaxy; Farnham's Freehold; Green Hills of Earth; I Will Fear No Evil; Job: A Comedy of Justice; Podkayne of Mars; Red Planet; Starman Jones; Starship Troopers; Stranger in a Strange Land; The Cat Who Walks Through Walls; The Door Into Summer; The Notebooks of Lazarus Long; The Number of the Beast; The Puppet Masters; The Starbeast; The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag; Time for the Stars; Tunnel in the Sky
Robert Bringhurst: The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert C. O'Brien: Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH
Robert C. Tucker: Marx-Engels Reader (edited by)

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Sam Hamill
A Dragon in the Clouds
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
Sheila Burnford
The Incredible Journey
Shelly Jackson
The melancholy of Anatomy
Sophocles
Oedipus Rex
Stephen Kellogg
The Island of the Skog
Steven Saylor
Roman Blood: A Novel of Ancient Rome

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Terry Goodkind
Wizard's First Rule
The Brother's Grimm
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Harris
Hannibal
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
Thorton Wilder
Our Town
Tom Robbins
Another Roadside Attraction
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Jitterbug Perfume
Skinny Legs And All
Still Life With Woodpecker
Toni Morrison
Beloved
Tony Hoagland
Donkey Gospel
Sweet Ruin
What Narcissism Means to Me
Tracy Kidder
Mountains Beyond Mountains

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Ursula K. LeGuin
Always Coming Home
The Dispossessed

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Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
Voltaire
Candide

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W. Somerset Maugham
The Razor's Edge
Wally Lamb
I Know This Much Is True
William Gerald Golding
Lord of the Flies
William S. Burroughs
Queer
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
Romeo And Juliet

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Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God