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A FEW MORE BOOKS I’VE READ AND LOVED

in no particular order

Fiction/Classics

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• This is How You Lose Her - Junot Díaz

• Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

• Slowness - Milan Kundera

• Life Is Elsewhere - Milan Kundera

• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera

• Eleven Kinds of Loneliness - Richard Yates

• Roughing It - Mark Twain

• Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

• The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-ExupÌ©ry

• Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

• Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

• Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery

• Wintergirls - Laurie Halse Anderson

• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

• A Room with a View - E.M. Forster

• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

• Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer

• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers

• Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman

• Tender Is The Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

• 1984 - George Orwell

• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

• Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

• Invisible Monsters -  Chuck Palahniuk

• A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf

• Moments of Being - Virginia Woolf

• To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

• Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

• Factotum - Charles Buskowski

• Post Office - Charles Bukowski

• Journey to Ixtlan - Carlos Castaneda

• One Day My Soul Just Opened Up - Iyanla Vanzant

• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson

• Eleven Kinds of Loneliness - Richard Yates

• The Other Side Of Midnight - Sidney Shelton

• Super Sad True Love Story - Gary Shteyngart

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer

• The Fault in Our Stars - John Green

• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

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POETRY / PROSE POETRY

(click the authors to find their books)

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• Crush - Richard Siken

• Mary Oliver

• Andrea Gibson 

• Jack Gilbert

• Lunch Poems - Frank O'Hara

• Live For A Living - Buddy Wakefield

• Rainer Maria Rilke

• The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

• Zoo, Or Letters Not About Love - Viktor Shklovsky

• The Portable Beat Reader - Ann Charters

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

• The Book of Love - Rumi

• Book Of Longing - Leonard Cohen

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NON-FICTION / DIARIES / LETTERS / MEMOIRS

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• Walden - Henry David Thoreau

• Journal of a Solitude - May Sarton

• Women Who Run With the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola

• The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

• Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl // Review

• You Learn By Living - Eleanor Roosevelt

• Reborn: Journals and Notebooks - Susan Sontag

• Tiny Beautiful Things - Cheryl Strayed

• Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia - Marya Hornbacher

• Finding Ultra - Rich Roll

• The Idea of Duende - Federico Garcia Lorca

• Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson

• Economy of the Unlost - Anne Carson

• ​One Day My Soul Just Opened Up - Iyanla Vanzant

• The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

• Black Coffee Blues - Henry Rollings

• Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin 

• Tales of a Female Nomad - Rita Golden Gelman

• Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner - Dean Karnazes

• Travels With Myself - Tahir Shah

• Leonardo’s Notebooks - Leonardo da Vinci

• And the Heart Says Whatever - Emily Gould