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book collection > Fiction, Plays & Memoirs

Organized alphabetically by author. Boldface items denote my favorite selections. A (*) indicates that I have actually read it already.

Sherman Alexie
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian*
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven*

Isabel Allende
Daughter of Fortune*

Jonathan Ames
Wake Up, Sir!

Jane Austen
Emma

James Baldwin
Go Tell It On the Mountain

Melissa Bank
The Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing*

Lauren Belfer
City of Light

Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights

Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden*

Truman Capote
Breakfast At Tiffany’s*
In Cold Blood*

Raymond Carver
Short Cuts*

Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep*

Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None*
Murder on the Orient Express

Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street (Autographed!)*

Cassandra Clare
The Mortal Instruments Series
      City of Bones*
      City of Ashes*
      City of Glass*
      City of Fallen Angels*
The Infernal Devices
      Clockwork Angel*

Suzanne Collins
      The Hunger Games*
      Catching Fire*
      Mockingjay*

Ally Condie
Matched*
Crossed*

Michael Connelly
Void Moon

Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer*

Peter Craig
The Martini Shot*

Justin Cronin
The Passage*

MaryJanice Davidson
Undead and Unwed*

Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man*

Laura Esquirel
Like Water For Chocolate*

Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones’s Diary*

Becca Fitzgerald
Hush, Hush*
Crescendo*

F. Scott Fitzpatrick
This Side of Paradise*
The Great Gatsby*

Fannie Flagg
I Still Dream About You*

Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary*

Gayle Forman
If I Stay*

E.M. Forster
      The Celestial Ominbus & The Eternal Moment
      A Room With a View*
      Where Angels Fear to Tread*

Tana French
In the Woods*

Jeaniene Frost
Halfway to the Grave*
One Foot in the Grave*

Nikolai Gogol
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

Winston Groom
Forrest Gump
Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl*

David Guterson
Snow Falling On Cedars*

Jennifer Haigh
Baker Towers

Dashiell Hammett
      The Maltese Falcon*
      Nightmare Town*
      The Thin Man*

Stephen Harrigan
The Gates of the Alamo*

Charlaine Harris
The Sookie Stackhouse Series
      Dead Unitl Dark*
      Living Dead in Dallas*
      Club Dead*
      Dead to the World*
      Dead as a Doornail*
      Definitely Dead*
      All Together Dead*
      From Dead to Worse*
      Dead and Gone (Personalized Autograph!) *
      A Touch of Dead*
      Dead in the Family*
      Dead Reckoning*
      Deadlocked
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries
      Real Murders*
      A Bone to Pick*
      Three Bedrooms, One Corpse*
      The Julius House*
      Dead Over Heels*
      Last Scene Alive*
      Poppy Done to Death*
Lily Bard Mysteries
      Shakespeare’s Landlord*
The Harper Connelly Series
      Grave Surprise*
      And Ice Gold Grave*
      Grave Secret*

Colin Harrison
Afterburn

William Elliott Hazelgrove
Mica Highways
Tobacco Sticks

Scott Heim
Mysterious Skin*

Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast

Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr. Ripley*

Charlie Higson
The Enemy*
The Dead

Brian Hodge
Wild Horses*

Michael Hollinghurst
The Spell

Michael Hornburg
Downers Grove*

Nick Hornby
      High Fidelity*
      A Long Way Down*
      Juliet, Naked*
      Slam*

John Irving
The Cider House Rules

Shirley Jackson
Life Among the Savages & Raising Demons*

Henry James
      A Life in Letters
      The Turn of the Screw*
      The Wings of the Dove*

Charles Johnson
Oxherding Tale

Kaylie Jones
A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries*

James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*

Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis and other Stories*

Lauren Kate
      Fallen*
      Torment*
      Passion*

Stephen King
      Desperation
      Needful Things*
      The Regulators (as Richard Bachman)
      The Stand*
      Under the Dome*

John Knowles
A Separate Peace*

Stephanie Kuehnert
Ballads of Suburbia*
I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone*

Chad Kultgen
The Lie*

Diana Laurence
How to Catch and Keep a Vampire (Personalized Autograph!)

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird*

Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry

Bernard Malamud
The Natural*

Thomas Mann
Death in Venice

Paule Marshall
Brown Girl, Brownstones

Herman Melville
Billy Budd and Other Stories

Joe Meno
      Hairstyles of the Damned*
      How the Hula Girl Sings*
      Tender as Hellfire*

Grace Metalious
Peyton Place*

Stephenie Meyer
The Host*

Margaret Mitchell
Gone With the Wind

Rick Moody
The Black Veil*
The Ice Storm*

Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye*

Vladimir Nabokov
      The Enchanter*
      King, Queen, Knave*
      Lolita*

David Nicholls
One Day

Alyson Noël
The Immortals Series
      Evermore*
      Blue Moon*
      Shadowland*
      Dark Flame*
      Night Star*
      Everlasting*

George Orwell
The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

Francine Prose
Goldengrove*

Mario Puzo
The Godfather
Fools Die

Veronica Roth
Divergent*
Insurgent

J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye*

William Shakespeare
      As You Like It*
      The Comedy of Errors*
      Julius Caesar
      Macbeth*
      The Mercant of Venice
      The Merry Wives of Windsor
      Much Ado About Nothing*
      The Tempest*
      Twelfth Night*

Shawn Shiflett
Hidden Place*

Sister Souljah
The Coldest Winter Ever*

Katheryn Stockett
The Help*

Sebastian Stuart
The Mentor

John Updike
Rabbit, Run*

Alice Walker
The Color Purple*

Robert Penn Warren
All the King’s Men

Irvine Welsh
Trainspotting*

Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence

Stefan Zeromski
The Faithful River*

Anthologies
      The Best American Short Stories of the Century*
      The Best American Short Stories of 1995*
      The Best American Short Stories of 2001*
      The Best American Short Stories of 2002*
      The Best American Short Stories of 2003*
      The Best American Short Stories of 2004*
      The Best American Short Stories of 2005*
      The Best American Essays of 2004*
      Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses*
      F Magazine (F5)