As of today, I met my Goodreads goal of reading 50 books in 2011. I have starred the ones I read for class.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Gates by John Connolly
*The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Blindness by Jose Saramago
*Inglorious Basterds: A Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino
*Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
How to Become a Famous Writer Before You’re Dead by Ariel Gore
*Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Imre Kertesz
*Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates
l’Ile Mysterieuse (The Mysterious Island) by Jules Verne (read in French)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Undiscovered Island by Darrell Kastin
Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
The Lying Game by Sara Shephard
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Sun, Stone, and Shadows edited by Jorge F. Hernandez
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
Seven Deadly Wonders by Matthew Reilly
Twisted by Sara Shephard
Grub by Elise Blackwell
References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot and Other Plays by Jose Rivera
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
*Ubik by Philip K. Dick
*Nueromancer by William Gibson
*Timescape by Gregory Benford
*The Practical Writer: From Inspiration to Publication by Mary Gannon
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
*Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler
*Watchmen by Alan Moore
Luke and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
*Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Altar of Bones by Philip Carter
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Tesla: Man out of Time by Margaret Cheney
The Leftovers by Tom Perrota
The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Madeline is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
The Infernals by John Connolly
Straight Man by Richard Russo
Micro by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Cold Vengeance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
