… BOOKS, BOOKS, AND MORE BOOKS …

~ The Best Box in the House ~

(Those reads of only the highest priority!)

Classics

- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

- Bleak House, Great Expectations, and Little Dorrit all by Charles Dickens

- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

- Agnes Gray by Anne Bronte

- The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

- Sense & Sensibility and Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Modern

- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

- Lolita by Vladimir Nobakov

- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

- 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell

- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Contemporary

- American Godsby Neil Gaiman

- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

- A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

- Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

- The Hunger Games Trilogy , by Suzanne Collins

- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

- The Tiger’s Wife  by Tea Obreht

- Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell

- Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

- And anything by Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, or Stephen King

~ The Balcony Section ~

(Consisting of re-reads, those small things of mighty interest, and whatever else on the side & etc.)

Re-reading the Classics

- War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy

- The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett

- Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie

Purely for Pleasure

- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe & the rest of the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

- The Golden Compass & the rest of His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman

Academic

- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Sparks

- Poor Things, by Alasdair Gray

- Brick Lane, by Monica Ali

- Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens

- Lady Audley’s Secret, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

- The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde

- Sonnet from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

… I just need to work on getting more of them out and onto paper …