Reading List
I'm keeping a list of books that I've read (completely) since enrolling in college. In this list, I include book title, author if there is one specific one, and reason for reading it. It is organized by author's last name. All books that I've completed and appear on this list were enjoyed by me and are heartily recommended.
Book Title |
Author |
Reason for Reading |
| The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul | Douglas Adams | Pleasure |
| Animorphs #11 | K.A. Applegate | Pleasure |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | Pleasure |
| Beyond Ebonics | John Baugh | Class (Sociolinguistics) |
| Out of the Mouths of Slaves | John Baugh | Class (Sociolinguistics) |
| Antrax | Terry Brooks | Pleasure |
| Druid of Shannara | Terry Brooks | Pleasure |
| Elfstones of Shannara | Terry Brooks | Pleasure |
| Elf Queen of Shannara | Terry Brooks | Pleasure |
| First King of Shannara | Terry Brooks | Pleasure |
| Ilse Witch | Terry Brooks | Pleasure |
| Jarka Ruus | Terry Brooks | Pleasure |
| Morgawr | Terry Brooks | Pleasure |
| Scions of Shannara | Terry Brooks | Pleasure |
| Straken | Terry Brooks | Pleasure |
| Sword of Shannara | Terry Brooks | Pleasure |
| Talismans of Shannara | Terry Brooks | Pleasure |
| Tanequil | Terry Brooks | Pleasure |
| Wishsong of Shannara | Terry Brooks | Pleasure |
| Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | Pleasure |
| La Dama del Alba | Alejandro Casona | Class (Intermediate Spanish II) |
| Sofia Petrovna | Lydia Chukovskaya | Class (Survey II/Modern Russian Novel) |
| The Hours | Michael Cunningham | Pleasure |
| White Nights | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Pleasure |
| Notes from the Underground | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Class (Survey of Russian Lit I) |
| Stardust | Neil Gaiman | Pleasure |
| Diary of a Madman | Nikolai Gogol | Class (Survey of Russian Lit I) |
| Nevsky Prospekt | Nikolai Gogol | Class (Survey of Russian Lit I) |
| Agents of Light and Darkness | Simon Green | Pleasure |
| Hell to Pay | Simon Green | Pleasure |
| Hex and the City | Simon Green | Pleasure |
| Nightingale's Lament | Simon Green | Pleasure |
| Paths Not Taken | Simon Green | Pleasure |
| Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth | Simon Green | Pleasure |
| Something from the Nightside | Simon Green | Pleasure |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemmingway | Pleasure |
| The Know-It-All | A.J. Jacobs | Pleasure |
| Poor Liza | Nikolai Karamzin | Class (Survey of Russian Lit I) |
| Semantics | Kate Kearns | Class (Advanced Linguistics) |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | Pleasure |
| Letter from a Birmingham Jail | Martkin Luther King, Jr. | Class (WACT) |
| Passing | Nella Larson | Class (Queer Theory) |
| Day Watch | Sergei Lukyanenko | Pleasure |
| Night Watch | Sergei Lukyanenko | Pleasure |
| Twilight Watch | Sergei Lukyanenko | Pleasure |
| I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell | Tucker Max | Pleasure |
| Gap Creek | Robert Morgan | Pleasure |
| Ninteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | Pleasure |
| The Amber Spyglass | Philip Pullman | Pleasure |
| The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman | Pleasure |
| The Subtle Knife | Philip Pullman | Pleasure |
| The Bronze Horseman | Alexandr Pushkin | Class (Survey of Russian Lit I) |
| Eugene Onegin | Alexandr Pushkin | Class (Survey of Russian Lit I) |
| The Tales of Belkin | Alexandr Pushkin | Class (Survey of Russian Lit I) |
| The Queen of Spades | Alexandr Pushkin | Class (Survey of Russian Lit I) |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | Pleasure |
| Long Voyage Back | Luke Rhinehart | Class (Nuclear Weapons) |
| Spoken Soul | John Rickford | Class (Sociolinguistics) |
| Aria: Memoirs from a Bilingual Childhood | Richard Rodriguez | Class (WACT) |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J.K. Rowling | Pleasure |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows | J.K. Rowling | Pleasure |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J.K. Rowling | Pleasure |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | J.K. Rowling | Pleasure |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | J.K. Rowling | Pleasure |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J.K. Rowling | Pleasure |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | J.K. Rowling | Pleasure |
| Empire Falls | Richard Russo | Pleasure |
| Holidays on Ice | David Sedaris | Pleasure |
| Me Talk Pretty One Day | David Sedaris | Pleasure |
| Equus | Peter Shaffer | Pleasure |
| Farmer Giles of Ham | J.R.R. Tolkien | Pleasure |
| Silmarillion | J.R.R. Tolkien | Pleasure |
| Smith of Wootton Major | J.R.R. Tolkien | Pleasure |
| Death of Ivan Ilych | Leo Tolstoy | Class (Survey of Russian Lit I) |
| God Sees the Truth, But Waits | Leo Tolstoy | Class (Survey of Russian Lit I) |
| Master and Man | Leo Tolstoy | Class (Survey of Russian Lit I) |
| Sevastopol Stories | Leo Tolstoy | Class (Survey of Russian Lit I) |
| Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev | Class (Survey of Russian Lit I) |
| Homeward Bound | Harry Turtledove | Pleasure |
| I Am My Own Wife | Doug Wright | Class (Queer Theory) |
| Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut | Class (Nuclear Weapons) |
| We | Yevgeny Zamyatin | Class (Survey II/Modern Russian Novel) |
| Annual Editions: Anthropology 06/07 | Class (Anthropological Inquiry) | |
| Live from Moscow: Volume 1 | Class (Elementary Russian I) | |
| Live from Moscow: Volume 2 | Class (Elementary Russian II) | |