Works I’ve Read

Since this blog, in its original incarnation at least, stemmed from my reading habits,  I thought it might be pertinent for me to provide a list of all the books, plays, and other extended works, I’ve read, or am currently reading. I’m sure there are, of course, omissions due to my own forgetfulness.

Any shorter works I’ve read from anthologies (a great deal of my course work) have been omitted entirely, as they are often too numerous, and brief, to recall. This list does not include any books I own of which I have at some point read excerpts, chapters, or passages, and not in their entirety.

In alphabetical order by author and work here are all the longer works I have read to this point:

Alighieri, Dante – The Divine Comedy: Inferno

Anonymous – Beowulf

Anonymous – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Atwater, Richard – Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Atwood, Margaret - Handmaid’s Tale, The

Austen, Jane – Emma

Austen, Jane – Northanger Abbey

Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice

Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility

Bacon, Francis – New Atlantis, The

Baum, L. Frank – Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

Baum, L. Frank - Marvelous Land of Oz, The

Baum, L. Frank – Ozma of Oz

Baum, L. Frank – Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The

Barrie, J.M. – Peter Pan and Wendy

Barrie, J.M. – Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

Beaumont, Francis – Knight of the Burning Pestle, The

Bennett, Alan – History Boys: A Play, The

Bergling, Tim – Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior

Boylan, Jennifer Finney – She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders

Boyne, John – The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Boyt, Susie – My Judy Garland Life

Bradbury, Ray – Fahrenheit 451

Bray, Alan – Homosexuality in Renaissance England

Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights

Brown, Dan – Angels and Demons

Brown, Dan – DaVinci Code, The

Burckhardt, Jacob – Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, The

Burt, Richard – Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares

Burroughs, Augusten – Dry: A Memoir

Burroughs, Augusten – Running With Scissors: A Memoir

Cain, James M. – Mildred Pierce

Camus, Albert- Stranger, The

Capote, Truman – Breakfast at Tiffany’s: A Short Novel

Carrol, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Cavendish, Margaret – Blazing World, The

Cavendish, Margaret – Convent of Pleasure, The

Child, Julia – My Life in France

Chbosky, Stephen – Perks of Being a Wallflower, The

Chopin, Kate – Awakening, The

Churchwell, Sarah - Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, The

Clark, Colin - My Week With Marilyn

Clark, Gerold – Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland

Clum, John – Something for the Boys: Musical Theatre and Gay Culture

Collins, Wilkie – The Woman in White

Cornwell, Patricia – Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper

Cote, David – Wicked: The Grimmerie

Cox, Stephen – Dreaming of Jeannie: TV’s Prime Time in a Bottle

Crane, Stephen – Red Badge of Courage, The

Cunningham, Michael – By Nightfall

Cunningham, Michael – Home At the End of the World, The

Cunningham, Michael – Hours, The

Dahl, Roald – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Dahl, Roald – Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Dahl, Roald – Matilda

Davis, Ronald – The Glamour Factory: Inside Hollywood’s Big Studio System

Dawkins, Richard – God Delusion, The

Delany, Samuel R. – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield

Dickens, Charles – Oliver Twist

Dion, Céline – Celine Dion: My Story, My Dream

Donihe, Kevin L. – Grape City

Douglas, Fredrick – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Downs, Alan – Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Rage of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man’s World, The

Dryer, Richard – Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society

Eugenides, Jeffery – Middlesex: A Novel

Fitch, Janet – White Oleander

Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Great Gatsby, The

Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Love of The Last Tycoon: A Western, The

Flagg, Fannie – Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe

Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary

Frank, Anne – Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Frank, Gerold – Judy

Fricke, John- The Wizard of Oz: The 50th Anniversary Pictorial History

Friedman, Milton – Capitalism and Freedom

Gardner, John -  Art of Fiction, The

Gardner, John – On Becoming a Novelist

Golden, Arthur – Memoirs of a Geisha

Golding, William – Lord of the Flies

Greenblatt, Stephen – Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare

Greenblatt, Stephen – Will in the World

Griffin, John Howard – Black Like Me

Hammett, Dashiell – Maltese Falcon, The

Harmetz, Aljean – Making of the Wizard of Oz, The: Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM – and the Miracle of Production #1060

Harris, Joanne – Chocolat

Harris, Sam – Letter to a Christian Nation

Haskell, Molly – Frankly, My Dear: Gone With the Wind Revisited

Haver, Richard - A Star Is Born: The Making of the 1954 Movie and Its 1983 Restoration

Hawthorne, Nathaniel – Scarlet Letter, The

Hemingway, Ernest – Sun Also Rises, The

Highsmith, Patricia – Price of Salt, The

Hollinghurt, Alan – Swimming-Pool Library, The

Hornbacher, Marya – Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Belimia

Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World

Hyde, Catherine Ryan – Pay It Forward

Isherwood, Christopher - Christopher and His Kind

Isherwood, Christopher – Single Man, A

Irving, John – Widow for One Year, A

Jackson, Shirley – Haunting of Hill House, The

James, Henry – Daisy Miller: A Study

Johnson, Denis – Jesus’ Son

Jonson, Ben – Epicene, or the Silent Woman

Jorgensen, Christine – Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography

Kaysen, Susanna – Girl, Interrupted

King, Stephen – Carrie

King, Stephen – Long Walk, The

King, Stephen – Misery

King, Stephen – On Writing

King, Stephen – Talisman, The

Kluger, Steve – Almost Like Being in Love: A Novel

Leavitt, David – Arkansas: Three Novellas

Leavitt, David – Lost Language of Cranes, The

Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird

Leroux, Gaston – Phantom of the Opera, The

Letts, Billie – Where The Heart Is

Lewis, Sinclair – Babbit

Lowry, Lois – Giver, The

Luft, Lorna – Me and My Shadows: A Family Story: Living With the Legacy of Judy Garland

Maguire, Gregory – Son of a Witch: A Novel

Maguire, Gregory – Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

March, Joseph Moncure – Wild Party, The

Marlowe, Christopher – Jew of Malta, The

Martínez, Tomás Eloy – Santa Evita

McCann, Richard – Mother of Sorrows

McGee, Harold – On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

Mcinerney, Jay – Bright Lights, Big City

Middleton, Thomas – Chaste Maid of Cheapside

Middleton, Thomas – Roaring Girl, The

Milton, John – Paradise Lost

Mitchell, Margaret – Gone with the Wind

More, Thomas – Utopia

Nashe, Thomas – The Unfortunate Traveller

Orgal, Stephen – Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England

Padwa, Lynette – Everything You Pretend to Know And Are Afraid Someone Will Ask

Palahniuk, Chuck – Haunted: A Novel

Palahniuk, Chuck – Invisible Monsters

Palahniuk, Chuck – Survivor: A Novel

Paris, Barry – Audrey Hepburn

Parisi, Paula – Titanic and the Making of James Cameron

Pelzer, Dave – A Child Called “It”

Pelzer, Dave – Lost Boy, The

Plath, Sylvia – Ariel

Plath, Sylvia – Bell Jar, The

Powell, Julie – Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously

Puig, Maneul – Kiss of the Spider Woman, The

Raskin, Ellen – Westing Game, The

Rawls, Wilson – Where the Red Fern Grows

Rice, Christopher – Density of Souls, A

Rice, Christopher – Light Before Day

Rice, Christopher – Snow Garden, The

Read, Kirk – How I Learned to Snap

Renault, Mary – Fire From Heaven

Rowling, J.K. – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Rowling, J.K. – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Rowling, J.K. – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Rowling, J.K. – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Rowling, J.K. – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Rowling, J.K. – Harry Potter and the Prisioner of Azkaban

Ruhlman, Michael – Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute

Ruhlman, Michael – Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection

Rushdie, Salman – Wizard of Oz, The

Salinger, J.D. – Catcher in the Rye, The

Schatz, Thomas – Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era, The

Schechter, Scott – Judy Garland: The Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Legend

Schlink, Bernhard – The Reader

Schlosser, Eric – Fast Food Nation

Schwartz, Evan – Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story

Shakespeare, William – As You Like It

Shakespeare, William – Cymbeline

Shakespeare, William – Hamlet: The Prince of Denmark

Shakespeare, William – Henry IV, Part I

Shakespeare, William – Macbeth

Shakespeare, William – Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Shakespeare, William – Merchant of Venice, The

Shakespeare, William – Othello, the Moore of Venice

Shakespeare, William – Taming of the Shrew, The

Shakespeare, William – Tempest, The

Shakespeare, William – Titus Andronicus

Shakespeare, William – Twelfth Night, Or What You Will

Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein

Shepard, Judy – The Meaning of Matthew: My Son’s Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed

Smith, Bruce R. – Homosexuality Desire in Shakespeare’s England: A Cultural Poetics

Spence, Louise – Watching Daytime Soap Operas: The Power of Pleasure

Spenser, Edmund - The Faerie Queene: Book One

Steinbeck, John – Grapes of Wrath, The

Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men

Stevenson, Robert Lewis – Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Stillman, William and Jay Scarfone - The Wizardry of Oz: The Artistry and Magic the 1939 MGM Classic

Stoker, Bram – Dracula

Strunk Jr., William – Elements of Style, The

Thackeray, William Makepeace – Vanity Fair

Thomas, Rhys – Ruby Slippers of Oz, The

Walker, Alice – The Color Purple

Walpole, Horace – Castle of Otranto

Weisberger, Lauren – Devil Wears Prada: A Novel, The

Wells, H.G. – Time Machine, The

West, Rebecca – Return of the Soldier, The

Wharton, Edith – Age of Innocence, The

White, E.B. – Charlotte’s Web

Wiesel, Elie -  Night

Wilchins, Riki – Queer Theory, Gender Theory

Wilde, Oscar – Importance of Being Earnest, The

Wilde, Oscar – Picture of Dorian Gray, The

Wilder, Laura Ingalls – Little House in the Big Woods

Wilson, Carl – Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste

Winterson, Jeanette – Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

Woolf, Virginia – Mrs. Dalloway

Woolf, Virginia – Mrs. Dalloway’s Party

Woolf, Virginia – On Being Ill

Woolf, Virginia – Orlando: A Biography

Woolf, Virginia – Room of One’s Own, A

Woolf, Virgina – To the Lighthouse

Woolf, Virginia – Women and Writing

Wurtzel, Elizabeth – Prozac Nation

Yates, Bart – Leave Myself Behind

Yates, Richard – Revolutionary Road

Yard, Sherry – The Secrets of Baking