What's On My Shelf

Here's where I keep my collection of recommendations. Have one for me? Reply with a comment and I'll add it to them list!


Fiction
by far my favorite category

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
In The Company of a Courtesan - Sarah Dunant
The Blood of Flowers - Anita Amirrezvani
The Future of Love - Shirley Abbott
The Island - Victoria Hislap
Wild Nights! - Joyce Carol Oates
Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
New Moon - Stephanie Meyer
Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer
Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
World Without End - Ken Follett
The Tale of Murasaki - Liza Dalby
Time Lottery - Nancy Moser
Dark Intergers - Greg Egan
Molokai - Alan Brennert
Love's Apprentice: The Romantic Education of a Modern Woman - Shirley Abbott
The Pilgrim's Regress - C. S. Lewis
The Virgin Queen's Daughter - Ella March Chase
Sundays at Tiffanys - James Patterson
Peach Blossom Pavilion - Mingmei Yip
After Dark - Hauruki Murakami
Handle with Care - Jodi Picoult
Snow White, Rose Red - Patricia Wrede
Lilith - George Macdonald
The Light Princess & Other Fairy Tales - George Macdonald
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
The Prestige - Christopher Priest
Tithe - Holly Black
Lilah - Marek Halter
Mary - Marek Halter
And Only To Deceive -Tasha Alexander
A Poisoned Season - Tasha Alexander
The Piano Teacher - Janice Y. K. Lee
In the Courts of the Sun - Brian D'Amato
Honolulu - Alan Brennert
Firebirds Rising (anthology)
The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
Chocolat - Joanne Harris
The Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Lavinia - Ursula K. LeGuin
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
The Dog of Marriage - Amy Hempel
The Dangerous Husband - Jane Shapiro
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Waiting - Ha Jin
Leonardo's Swans - Karen Essex
Babette's Feast - Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
Shanghai Girls - Lisa See
Rabbit Proof Fence - Doris Pilkington
The Magic Christian - Terry Southern
The White Queen - Phillipa Gregory
Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
American Fuji - Sara Backer
Invasive Procedures - Orson Scott Card
Leviathan - Scott Westerfeld
Pastworld - Ian Beck
Steampunk - Ann & Jeff Vandermeer
The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike

Non-Fiction
because all play and no work makes Ashley dumb
Blink - Malcom Gladwell
Your Brain on Music - Daniel Levitin
Letters to Malcom, Chiefly on Prayer - C. S. Lewis
All Truth is God's Truth - Arthur Holmes
The Cost of Discipleship - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Heretics - G. K. Chesterton
The Sociopath Next Door - Martha Stout
Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
Candide and The Maid of Orleans - Voltaire (B&N Classic Edition)
Love and Respect - Emerson Eggerichs
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus - John Gray
A Year in Japan - Kate T. Williamson
Mind Wide Open - Steven Johnson
The Dawkins Delusion - Alastair McGrath
When Did Jesus Become Republican - Mark Ellington
American Jesus - Stephen Prothero
The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
The Te of Piglet - Benjamin Hoff
The Philosophy of House - Henry Jacoby and William Irwin
The Philosophy of Jesus - Peter Kreeft
A Shorter Summa - Peter Kreeft
The Problem of Pain - C. S. Lewis
Miracles - C. S. Lewis
Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher
Dumbest Generation - Mark Bauerlein
A Hope in the Unseen - Ron Suskind
Picking Cotton - Jennifer Thompson-Cannino
Long Way Round - Ewan MacGregor & Charley Boorman
Lost on Planet China - J. Maarten Troost
The Sex Life of Cannibals - J. Maarten Troost
Getting Stoned with Savages - J. Maarten Troost
The Man Who Made Vermeers - Jonathan Lopez
The Untold Story of the New Testament Church - Frank Viola
Living in a Foreign Language - Michael Tucker
Nightengales - Gillian Gill
How to Read the Bible For All Its Worth
St. Basil the Great on the Holy Spirit
In Two Minds - Os Guiness
The Philosopher and the Druid - Philip Freeman
Saving Face - Andy Robin
Under the Table: Saucy Tales from Culinary School - Katherine Darling
Blossoms in the Wind - Juliet Lac
My Life in France - Julia Child
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles - Jennifer Lee
A Severe Mercy - Sheldon Vanauken
Mini-Skirts Mothers & Muslims: Modelling Spiritual Values in Muslim Culture -Christine Mallouhi
How to Cook a Dragon - Linda Furiya
The Unlikely Disciple - Kevin Roose
The World Without Us - Alan Weisman

Shakespeare:
it's a lifetime goal to read everything on this list
The Tempest
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Measure for Measure
The Comedy of Errors
Much Ado About Nothing
Love's Labour's Lost
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice
As You Like It
The Taming of the Shrew
All's Well That Ends Well*
Twelfth Night or What You Will
The Winter's Tale
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
The Two Noble Kinsmen
King John
Richard II
Henry IV, part 1
Henry IV, part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, part 1
Henry VI, part 2
Henry VI, part 3
Richard III
Henry VIII
Troilus and Cressida
Coriolanus
Titus Andronicus
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Hamlet
King Lear
Othello
Antony and Cleopatra
Cymbeline