since i generally live and die by lists—and since i happen to be surrounded by both books and lists (lists of books to read, lists of books to buy, list of books to study for certain purposes, etc)—i am going to attempt to amalgamate and consolidate here, so you and i both know what i’ve read and what i’m still planning to read.

any suggestions, please ask box me!

perhaps you, too, may find this inspiring.

Consider the Lobster (David Foster Wallace)
The Notebooks of Albert Camus [1942-1951]
Welcome to the Monkey House (Kurt Vonnegut)
At the Mountains of Madness (HP Lovecraft)
Let the Great World Spin (Colum McCann)*
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death:  Essays (Albert Camus)
The Fall (Camus) 
The Myth of Sisyphus (Camus)
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (David Foster Wallace)
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (David Foster Wallace)
Girl with Curious Hair (David Foster Wallace)
3 Stories (Gertrude Stein)
Major Works & Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein)*
The Dialogic Imagination (M.M. Bakhtin)* 
On Moral Fiction (John Gardner)
The Art of Fiction (Gardner)
Alone with All that Could Happen:  Rethinking the Craft of Fiction (Jauss)
The Ascent of Money:  A Financial History of the World (Niall Ferguson)
Travels (Michael Crichton)
Brothers and Sons (Turgenev)
The Collected Stories of V. Nabokov
Demons (F.M. Dostoevsky)
The Essential Poems of Rumi
After the Quake (Haruki Murakami)
Nocturnes (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Nine Stories (JD Salinger)
Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters (Salinger)
Day (Elie Wiesel)
Everything in this Country Must (Colum McCann)*
The Sorrows of Young Werther (J.W. von Goethe)
How to be Alone (Jonathan Franzen)
Freedom (Franzen)
The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
Following the Equator (Mark Twain)
The Brief History of the Dead (Kevin Brockmeier)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (M. Kundera)
Madness and Civilization (M. Foucault)
Discipline and Punish (M. Foucault)
The Gulag Archipelago (A. Solzhenitsyn)
The Journals of Syvia Plath

* the asterisks note a work that has involvement in my thesis