Inspired by Sonya Huber’s “Writers Read” blog post, I decided to start this list. I’ll use Goodreads to track my latest reads, but will most likely update this page as I go. I’m finding that I remember more titles by concentrating on my emotions during that time.
Books To Read
- The Art of Subtext
- Room
- The Children’s Crusade
- The Gay Revolution (ongoing)
- Tuesday Nights in 1980
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Books I’ve Read
- Running Out of Time
- Fever 1793
- Shade’s Children
- Hatchet
- Call Me By Your Name
- Sideways Stories from Wayside School
- Among The Hidden
- Harry Potter series
- The Hunger Games series
- Twilight series
- I’ll Give You The Sun
- Find Me
- The Gathering
- Blindness
- Lolita
- Firmament
- Fahrenheit 451
- The Giver
- In Praise of The Stepmother
- Body of Evidence thrillers
- Fearless series (most of them)
- The Demonologist
- The Damned
- Unteachable
- Find You In The Dark
- Sarah’s Key
- The Boy Who Drew Monsters
- Stolen Child
- We Are Called To Rise
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Opposite of Loneliness
- Nobody True
- The Music of the Spheres
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Discipline and Punishment
- The Glittering World
- The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
- Brother
- The Mediator series
- Where The Red Fern Grows
- Holes
- The Cement Garden
- The Lord of the Flies
- The Little Princess
- Stiff
- Borderlands/La Frontera
- The She
- Night (Elie Wiesel)
- The Book Thief
- What Happened to Lani Garver
- Defining Normal
- The Geography Club
- The Da Vinci Code
- Digital Fortress
- Boy Meets Boy
- Be More Chill
- The Body of Christopher Creed
- Violet Eyes
- Shattering Glass
- A Separate Peace
- Speak
- Stitches
- Fun Home
- The Counterfeit Son
- The Only Alien on the Planet
- The Stolen Child
- A Certain Slant of Light
- Did You Ever Have A Family
- In A Dark, Dark Wood
- I’m Thinking of Ending Things
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Snow
- The Forest for the Trees
- The Serial Killer Whisperer
- The Hundred-Foot Journey
- Chasers of Light
- In The Forests of The Night
- Jesus’ Son
- The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
- The Old Man and The Sea
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- Help for The Haunted
- Sister
- You Take It From Here
- A Different Blue
- The Fire Sermon
- The Heaven of Animals
- The Cabinet of Curiosities
- Kill Me First
- Jude
- A Crack in the Line
- American Psycho
- The Scarlet Letter
- Ethan Frome
- The Custom of The Country
- Nineteen Minutes
- Forbidden Love
- The Pact: A Love Story
- The Outsiders
- Wallbanger
- Screwdrivered
- A Child Called It
- Into The Wild
- My Sister’s Keeper