Books from this list that I've read.

• From Ritual to Romance by Jessie Weston [essay (July 17, 2003)]
• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller [essay (August 17, 2003)]
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Books I'd like to read, in no specific order.

• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
• On the road by Jack Kerouac
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
• The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
• The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
• A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
• A House for Mr. Biswas by V S Naipaul
• The Day of the Locust by Nathaneal West
• A Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemingway
• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
• A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
• The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
• Loving, Living, Party going by Henry Green
• Ironweed by William Kennedy
• Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
• Sophies Choice by William Styron
• The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
• The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
• The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
• The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
• All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
• The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
• Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Less is More by Goldia Vandenbroeck
• The Waste Land (Norton Critical Edition) by T.S. Eliot
• The Art of Living by Epictetus
• The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot by A. David Moody (editor)
• Geometry, Relativity, and the Fourth Dimention by Rudolf Rucker
• The Annotated Flatland by Edwin Abbott
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace [I might skip the footnotes]
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• The Essential Kierkegaard by Soren Kierkegaard
• Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Rule of the Bone by Russel Banks
• The Courage to Start by John Bingham
• It's not about the Bike by Lance Armstrong
• No Finish Line by Marla Runyan

Books I would recommend

• Summerland by Michael Chabon
• House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski
• The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer
• The Plague by Alber Camus
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman