Books

Alright, so I've had this notepad filled with books I want to purchase and read sometime in the future. I figure I might as well put it on here, incase anything would happen to it. These are in no particular order. Forgive me if I spell the author's name wrong or completely come up with a book that isn't real haha, most of these book ideas were picked up at random. :)

*Books crossed out have recently been purchased.*

The List:
Cirque 9-12 - Darren Shan ( Loved the first 8 and never finished it. *sigh* )
I am Legend - Richard Matheson
I, Lucifer - Glen Duncan
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
Walden and Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau (There are other Waldens, apparently)
Self-Reliance & other essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Looking Backward - Edward Bellamy
Giants in the Earth - O.E. Rolvaag
Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill (Note to self: He has other books, look them up sometime.)
Various books by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (some of his other books, too)
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
1984 & Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
An Abundance of Katherines & Looking for Alaska - John Green
Twilight, etc - Stephenie Meyer (If only to make fun of the terrible.)
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Giver - Lois Lowry (You have this somewhere, find it)
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
William Blake Poetry (A Poison Tree)
Various Shakespeare
The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Various C.S. Lewis books
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Demons, The Brothers Karamazov, and others (Graham says to take notes)
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Road & No Country for Old Men- Cormac McCarthy
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer
The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
Blindness - Jose Saramago
The First Law trilogy - Joe Abercrombie
The Realm of Possibility - David Levithan

The Children of Men - P. D. James

Stephen Crane
T. S. Eliot and E. E. Cummings

Yes Man - Danny Wallace

Michael Crichton

The Postman Always Rings Twice - James Cain

Ghost Story - Peter Straub
H. P. Lovecraft

The Best American Short Stories 2007/2008

Various Joseph Heller

"The Lies My Teacher Told Me."

And The Earth Did Not Devour Him - Tomas Rivera

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The Things They Carried

Just an Ordinary Day, and other stories - Shirley Jackson

Various Tim O'Brien

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse & The Living Dead

Mark Z. Danielewski

Rudyard Kipling

"The Bear" - William Faulkner

Philosophy-esque Books (Heard of during my AP US History, Humanities, & Philosphy courses):
Biblical Paradigm Shift - Jason Bourne
God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
Atheism: The Case Against God - George. H. Smith
The End of Faith & Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris
Social Contract - Rousseau
Critique of Pure Reason & Critique of Judgement - Kant
The Communist Manifesto & Das Kapital - Karl Marx
Summa Theologica - St. Thomas Aquinas