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I probably own over 500 books. Luckily they don’t all fit on my luxurious shelves so I won’t be listing all of them, just my favorites and to-reads and strays, which I cram on my bookshelves along with taxidermy and naked Strawberry Shortcake dolls. HOORAYFOREVERYONE.

In no order.

  1. 1.
    Myra Breckinridge
    by Gore Vidal

  2. 4.
    Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
    by Leonard Cohen

  3. 5.
    Of Love And Other Demons (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  4. 6.
    The Magus
    by John Fowles

  5. 8.
    Alias Grace: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

  6. 9.
    Blueberries for Sal (Picture Puffins)
    by Robert McCloskey

  7. 10.
    Testament of Youth (Penguin Classics)
    by Vera Brittain

  8. 11.
    Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
    by Richard T. Wright

  9. 12.
    The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
    by Marquis De Sade

  10. 13.
    Dame Darcy's Meatcake Compilation
    by Dame Darcy

  11. 14.

  12. 15.
    The End Of Alice
    by A.M. Homes

  13. 16.
    One Day of Life
    by Manlio Argueta

  14. 17.
    ?
    Henry Miller: The Rosy Crucifixion : Sexus, Plexus, Nexus
    by Henry Miller

  15. 18.
    Her
    by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  16. 19.
    Sons and Lovers
    by D.H. Lawrence

  17. 20.
    Ignorance: A Novel
    by Milan Kundera

  18. 21.
    The Best of Lewis Carroll
    by Lewis Carroll

  19. 22.
    The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order
    by Marcelle Karp

  20. 23.
    Cat's Cradle: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  21. 24.
    Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
    by Vincent Bugliosi

  22. 25.
    ?
    Secret of Red Gate Farm
    by Carolyn Keene

  23. 26.
    Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood (York Notes Advanced)
    by Margaret Atwood

  24. 27.
    Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Modern Library)
    by Hunter S. Thompson

  25. 28.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers

  26. 29.
    God's Snake
    by Irini Spanidou

  27. 30.
    The Ice Storm: A Novel
    by Rick Moody

  28. 31.
    The Little Friend
    by Donna Tartt

  29. 32.
    Smilla's Sense of Snow
    by Peter Hoeg

  30. 33.
    Machiavelli's The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

  31. 34.
    Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  32. 35.
    The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions)
    by T. S. Eliot

  33. 36.
    Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas De Quincey

  34. 37.
    ?
    The Collected Stories of Colette
    by Colette

  35. 38.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  36. 39.
    Under A Glass Bell (Swallow Paperbook)
    by Anais Nin

  37. 40.
    The Good Earth (Enriched Classics (Pocket))
    by Pearl S. Buck

  38. 41.
    The Collector (Back Bay Books)
    by John Fowles

  39. 42.
    The Robber Bride
    by Margaret Atwood

  40. 43.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  41. 45.
    The Informers
    by Bret Easton Ellis

  42. 46.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

  43. 47.
    Beautiful Losers
    by Leonard Cohen

  44. 48.
    Ghost World
    by Daniel Clowes

  45. 49.
    Boys from Brazil
    by Ira Levin

  46. 50.
    Collected Poems 1947-1980
    by Allen Ginsberg

  47. 51.
    Notes From Underground: 150th Anniversary Edition
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  48. 52.
    Jesus Saves
    by Darcey Steinke

  49. 53.
    She's Come Undone

  50. 54.
    Good As Gold
    by Joseph Heller

  51. 55.
    Libra (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Don DeLillo

  52. 56.
    Choke
    by Chuck Palahniuk

  53. 57.
    Black Spring
    by Henry Miller

  54. 58.
    The Lover
    by Marguerite Duras

  55. 59.
    Outside Over There (Caldecott Collection)
    by Maurice Sendak

  56. 60.
    Heat and Other Stories (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
    by Joyce Carol Oates

  57. 61.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  58. 62.
    Tales of the Night
    by Peter Hoeg

  59. 63.
    a: A Novel
    by Andy Warhol

  60. 64.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

  61. 66.
    Dogeaters
    by Jessica Hagedorn

  62. 67.
    Immortality (Perennial Classics)
    by Milan Kundera

  63. 68.
    Maia
    by Richard Adams

  64. 69.
    Zombie
    by Joyce Carol Oates

  65. 70.
    Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
    by Mary Pipher

  66. 71.

  67. 72.
    Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Modern Library Classics)
    by Friedrich Nietzsche

  68. 73.
    Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
    by Tom Robbins

  69. 74.
    Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by Thomas Pynchon

  70. 75.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

  71. 76.

  72. 77.
    Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid: Stories
    by Tibor Fischer

  73. 78.
    A Young Girl's Diary
    by A Young Girl

  74. 79.
    Without a Hero: Stories
    by T. Coraghessan Boyle

  75. 80.
    Winter's Tale
    by Mark Helprin

  76. 81.
    Thus Spake Zarathustra (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Friedrich Nietzsche

  77. 82.
    Despair
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  78. 83.
    The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 2: 1934-1939
    by Anais Nin

  79. 84.
    ?
    Haunted : Tales of the Grotesque
    by Joyce Carol Oates

  80. 86.
    Mao II: A Novel
    by Don DeLillo

  81. 88.
    The Secret History
    by Donna Tartt

  82. 89.
    Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
    by Jorge Luis Borges

  83. 90.
    Breakfast of Champions: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  84. 91.
    Prozac Nation (Movie Tie-In)
    by Elizabeth Wurtzel

  85. 92.
    Kiss of the Spider Woman
    by Manuel Puig

  86. 93.
    The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  87. 94.
    ?
    Thesaurus of American Slang

  88. 95.
    The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense
    by Edward Lear

  89. 96.

  90. 97.
    Amphigorey: Fifteen Books

  91. 98.
    Amphigorey Too (Perigee)
    by Edward Gorey

  92. 99.
    Amphigorey Also
    by Edward Gorey

  93. 100.
    Lady Chatterly's Lover
    by D. H. Lawrence

  94. 101.
    Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  95. 102.
    The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
    by Anais Nin

  96. 103.
    Survivor: A Novel
    by Chuck Palahniuk

  97. 104.
    ?
    The Assignation: Stories (Perennial Fictional Library)
    by Joyce Carol Oates

  98. 105.
    Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: A Novel
    by Mario Vargas Llosa

  99. 107.

  100. 108.
    Cat's Eye
    by Margaret Atwood

  101. 109.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  102. 110.
    The Woman and the Ape
    by Peter Hoeg

  103. 111.
    The Plague (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Albert Camus

  104. 112.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne duMaurier

  105. 113.
    ?
    Cohen: Selected Poems
    by Leonard Cohen

  106. 114.
    1984
    by George Orwell

  107. 115.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

  108. 116.
    Greasy Lake and Other Stories (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by T.Coraghessan Boyle

  109. 117.
    ?
    The Girl in a Swing
    by Richards Adams

  110. 119.
    Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (Plume)
    by Joyce Carol Oates

  111. 120.
    Three By Tennessee
    by Tennessee Williams

  112. 121.
    Laughable Loves
    by Milan Kundera

  113. 122.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  114. 123.

  115. 124.
    In the Night Kitchen (Caldecott Collection)
    by Maurice Sendak

  116. 125.
    The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Simone de Beauvoir

  117. 126.
    Hiroshima (Vintage)
    by John Hersey

  118. 127.
    Beasts (Otto Penzler Books)
    by Joyce Carol Oates

  119. 128.
    Amok Journal Sensurround Edition
    by Stewart Swezey

  120. 129.
    Apocalypse Culture

  121. 130.
    Apocalypse Culture II

  122. 131.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  123. 132.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  124. 133.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  125. 134.
    Franny and Zooey
    by J. D. Salinger

  126. 135.
    Less Than Zero
    by Bret Easton Ellis

  127. 136.

  128. 137.
    The Odyssey
    by Robert Fagles

  129. 138.
    The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series, No. 17)
    by Joseph Campbell

  130. 139.

  131. 140.
    Glamorama (Vintage Contemporaries)
    by Bret Easton Ellis

  132. 141.
    In the Shadow of Man
    by Jane Goodall

  133. 142.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  134. 144.
    The Fasting Girl
    by Michelle Stacey

  135. 145.
    The day of St Anthony's Fire
    by John Grant Fuller

  136. 146.
    The Rum Diary: A Novel
    by Hunter S. Thompson

  137. 147.
    Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
    by Allen Ginsberg

  138. 148.
    Nightwood
    by Djuna Barnes

  139. 149.
    Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel
    by Lynda Barry

  140. 150.
    The Beautiful Side of Evil
    by Johanna Michaelsen

  141. 151.
    Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir
    by Lisa Crystal Carver

  142. 152.
    Borderliners
    by Peter Hoeg

  143. 153.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics)
    by Muriel Spark

  144. 154.
    Collected Novellas (Perennial Classics)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  145. 155.
    Bridget Jones's Diary
    by Helen Fielding

  146. 156.
    Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn: Boxed Set
    by Henry Miller

  147. 158.
    ?
    Georgia: my life in burlesque (A Signet book)
    by Georgia Sothern

  148. 159.
    ?
    Soul on ice /Elridge Cleaver ; (Ramparts books)
    by Eldridge Cleaver

  149. 160.
    ?
    The Book of Laughter & Forgetting: A Novel
    by Milan Kundera

  150. 161.
    The Tortilla Curtain
    by T. Coraghessan Boyle

  151. 162.
    The Vagabond (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Colette

  152. 164.
    Gigi
    by Colette

  153. 165.
    Venus In Furs
    by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

  154. 166.
    Roustabout: A Fiction
    by Michelle Chalfoun

  155. 167.
    ?
    Garden State: A Novel
    by Rick Moody

  156. 168.
    House of the Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories
    by Yasunari Kawabata

  157. 169.
    Girl, 20
    by Kingsley Amis

  158. 170.
    The Beautiful and Damned (Enriched Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  159. 171.
    Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
    by William S. Burroughs

  160. 172.
    Butterfly Revolution
    by William Butler

  161. 173.
    ?
    Best of Aubrey Beardsley
    by Kenneth Clark

  162. 174.
    Index
    by Peter Sotos

  163. 175.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

  164. 176.

  165. 177.
    ?
    The Edible Woman
    by Margaret Atwood

  166. 178.
    TICKET TO RIDE
    by Dennis Potter

  167. 179.
    Like a Hole in the Head
    by Jen Banbury

  168. 180.
    A Streetcar Named Desire.
    by Tennessee Williams

  169. 181.
    Look Homeward, Angel (Scribner Classics)
    by Thomas Wolfe

  170. 182.
    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

  171. 184.
    East of Eden
    by John Steinbeck

  172. 185.
    Innocence
    by Jane Mendelsohn

  173. 186.
    The Cement Garden
    by Ian McEwan

  174. 187.
    The Erotomaniac
    by Ian Gibson

  175. 188.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

  176. 189.
    Jitterbug Perfume
    by Tom Robbins

  177. 190.

  178. 191.
    Suicide Blonde
    by Darcey Steinke

  179. 192.
    Duplex Planet

  180. 193.
    The Collector Collector: A Novel
    by Tibor Fischer

  181. 194.
    Fasting, Feasting
    by Anita Desai

  182. 195.
    The Beach
    by Alex Garland

  183. 196.
    Confederacy of Dunces (Essential Penguin 2)
    by John Kennedy Toole

  184. 197.
    The Rise of Life on Earth
    by Joyce Carol Oates

  185. 198.
    I Know This Much Is True (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Wally Lamb

  186. 199.
    Goodnight Moon
    by Margaret Wise Brown

  187. 200.
    East Is East (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by T.C. Boyle

  188. 201.
    Collected Stories
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  189. 202.
    Master Masochist (The erotica series)
    by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  190. 203.
    Demonized
    by Christopher Fowler

  191. 204.

  192. 205.
    Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
    by Joyce Carol Oates

  193. 207.
    The Corrections: A Novel
    by Jonathan Franzen

  194. 208.
    Quiet Days in Clichy

  195. 209.
    Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
    by Ray Bradbury

  196. 212.
    The Pearl (Steinbeck "Essentials")
    by John Steinbeck

  197. 213.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  198. 214.
    The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  199. 215.

  200. 216.
    The Crying of Lot 49
    by Thomas Pynchon

  201. 217.
    ?
    Ballad of Typhoid Mary
    by J.F. Federspiel

  202. 218.
    God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  203. 219.
    Jesus' Son: Stories by
    by Denis Johnson

  204. 220.
    No Longer at Ease
    by Chinua Achebe

  205. 221.
    ?
    For the Love of Cheese
    by Might Magazine editors

  206. 222.
    Private Parts
    by Howard Stern

  207. 223.
    A Doll's House and Other Plays
    by Henrik Ibsen

  208. 225.
    Metroland
    by Julian Barnes

  209. 226.
    Expensive People: A Novel
    by Joyce Carol Oates

  210. 227.
    Surfacing
    by Margaret Atwood

  211. 228.

  212. 229.
    The Farewell Party: Revised Edition
    by Milan Kundera

  213. 230.
    Colossus of Maroussi
    by Henry Miller

  214. 231.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    by Tom Wolfe

  215. 232.
    ?
    A Seperate Peace
    by MorganTepsic

  216. 233.
    Ordinary People
    by Judith Guest

  217. 234.
    The Basic Kafka
    by Franz Kafka

  218. 235.
    Scum Manifesto
    by Valerie Solanas

  219. 236.
    Myths to Live By
    by Joseph Campbell

  220. 237.
    The Land of Laughs
    by Jonathan Carroll

  221. 238.
    Something Happened
    by Joseph Heller

  222. 239.
    Saint Francis
    by Nikos Kazantzakis

  223. 240.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  224. 241.
    We the Living
    by Ayn Rand

  225. 242.
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Modern Library)
    by John Berendt

  226. 244.
    Magic
    by William Goldman

  227. 245.
    The Stepford Wives
    by Ira Levin

  228. 246.
    All Men Are Mortal
    by Simone de Beauvoir

  229. 247.
    Strange Pilgrims: Stories (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Gabriel García Márquez

  230. 248.
    ?
    Blackeyes
    by Dennis Potter

  231. 249.
    First Fruits
    by Penelope Evans

  232. 250.
    ?
    THE BLOOD OF OTHERS (Pantheon Modern Writers)
    by Simone De Beauvoir

  233. 251.
    Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything
    by James Gleick

  234. 252.
    The Life and Work of Dennis Potter
    by W. Stephen Gilbert

  235. 253.
    ?
    Readings from Emile Durkheim (Key Sociologists)
    by Emile Durkheim

  236. 255.
    The Genealogy of Morals (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Friedrich Nietzsche

  237. 256.
    ?
    The goddess and other women (A Fawcett Crest book)
    by Joyce Carol Oates

  238. 257.
    Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
    by Anton Chekhov

  239. 258.
    The Free-Lance Pallbearers
    by Ishmael Reed

  240. 259.
    Heartbreak Tango (Twentieth Century Classics)
    by Manuel Puig

  241. 260.
    Down and Out in Paris and London
    by George Orwell

  242. 261.
    Where Is Here
    by Joyce Carol Oates

  243. 262.
    Man in the Holocene (A Harvest Book)
    by Max Frisch

  244. 263.
    Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics)
    by L. M. Montgomery

  245. 264.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  246. 265.
    ?
    Gora and Other Stories
    by Rabindranath Tagore

  247. 266.
    American Psycho
    by Bret Easton Ellis

  248. 267.
    Fight Club: A Novel
    by Chuck Palahniuk

  249. 269.
    Dali (Great Modern Masters)
    by Salvador Dali

  250. 270.
    Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New))
    by Patrick McCarthy

  251. 271.
    Dame Darcy's Frightful Fairy Tales
    by Poppy Z. Brite

  252. 272.
    The Kiss and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
    by Anton Chekhov

  253. 273.
    Man's Search for Meaning
    by Viktor E. Frankl

  254. 274.
    Wisconsin Death Trip
    by Michael Lesy

  255. 275.
    This is Blythe
    by Blythe

  256. 276.
    ?
    Comatose Kids
    by Seymour Simckes

  257. 277.
    ?
    The dark angel: Aspects of Victorian sexuality
    by Fraser Harrison

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