This article inspired me to take a much-needed inventory of my bookshelves. Listed below are the books that immediately struck me upon quickly browsing to see which books I already own that I am super-anxious to get to… now that I remember that I have them.
Fiction
Nada: Carmen Laforet
On Chesil Beach: Ian McEwan
Atonement: Ian McEwan
Against the Day: Thomas Pynchon
Gone With the Wind: Margaret Mitchell
Hunger’s Brides: A Novel of the Baroque: Paul Anderson
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Muriel Spark
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Irving Stone
Academy X: Andrew Trees
The Beautiful and the Damned: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Veronica: Mary Gaitskill
Theft: Peter Carey
Wonder Boys: Michael Chabon
Rebecca: Daphne du Maurier
Nonfiction
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The Art of Love: Ovid
Virgin: the Untouched History: Hanne Blank
Shop Talk: Philip Roth
Between Women: Friendship, Desire and Marriage in Victorian England: Sharon Marcus
Women Troubadors: Magda Bogin
Misquoting Jesus: Bart D. Ehrman
Literary Feuds: Anthony Arthur
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women: Elizabeth Wurtzel
To Finish Reading
Small World: David Lodge
Pearl: Mary Gordon
Bleak House: Charles Dickens
The Madwoman in the Attic
The Last of Cheri: Colette
Mansfield Park: Jane Austen
To Re-read
Absalom, Absalom!: William Faulkner
The Puttermesser Papers: Cynthia Ozick
How to Make an American Quilt: Whitney Otto
This Side of Paradise: F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises: Ernest Hemingway
Inferno: Dante Alighieri
Catch 22: Joseph Heller
