My Reading List

Biographies / Memoirs 

• A Traveler in Rome – H.V. Morton
• Not That Kind of Girl – Lena Dunham
• I Am Malala – Malala Yousafzai
• Wild – Cheryl Strayed
• Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (and other concerns) – Mindy Kaling
• Yes Please – Amy Poehler
• Bossypants – Tina Fey
• Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier – Ishmael Beah
• Living History – Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life – Jon Lee Anderson
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami
• Bad Feminist – Roxane Gay
• #Girlboss – Sophie Amoruso
• The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Lost – Rachel Friedman
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft – Stephen King
• Bad Trips – Keath Fraser
• The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet’s Lost Paradise – Ian Baker

Business and Economics

• Capital in the Twenty-First Century – Thomas Piketty

Classics

• The Master and the Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
• Animal Farm – George Orwell
• Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
• The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde
• Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
• Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
• Moby Dick – Herman Melville
• Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
• East of Eden – John Steinbeck
• The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
• Don Quixote – Miguel Cervantes
• A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
• For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
• The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
• Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• This Side of Paradise – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Beloved – Toni Morrison
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
• Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
• The Color Purple – Alice Walker
• On the Road – Jack Kerouac
• Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
• Middlemarch – George Eliot
• Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
• A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
• Inferno – Dante Alighieri
• Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
• The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
• A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
• The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
• All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
• Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
• The Awakening – Kate Chopin
• Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
• Wideacre – Philippa Gregory
• All the King’s Men – Robert Louis Stevenson
• Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez

Contemporary Fiction

• Half of A Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
• We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• This is Where I Leave You – Jonathan Tropper
• Panic in a Suitcase – Yelena Akhtiorskaya
• The History of Love – Nicole Krauss
• All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
• Orphan Train – Christina Baker Kline
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne
• Where’d You Go Bernadette – Maria Semple
• The Vacationers – Emma Straub
• Beautiful Ruins – Jess Walter
• Girls in White Dresses – Jennifer Close
• Wonder – R.J. Palacio
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before – Jenny Han
• I’ll Give You the Sun – Jandy Nelson
• Life of Pi – Yann Martel
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
• The Casual Vacancy – J.K. Rowling
• Since You’ve Been Gone – Morgan Matson
• Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
• The Road – Cormac McCarthy
• American Gods – Neil Gaiman
• Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage – Haruki Murakami
• Death Comes to Pemberley – P.D. James
• The Art Forger – B.A. Shapiro
• The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• The Sky is Everywhere – Jandy Nelson
• The Silver Linings Playbook – Matthew Quick
• Dark Places – Gillian Flynn
• Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn
• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman – Haruki Murakami
• Disgrace – J.M. Coetze
• Harbor – John Ajvide Lindqvist
• Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
• Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
• The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clarke

Non-fiction

• The Opposite of Loneliness – Marina Keegan
• The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx
• The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East – Robert Fisk
• Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City – Russell Shorto
• Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East – Martin Sixsmith

Young Adult

• Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore – Robin Sloan
• The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
• Landline – Rainbow Rowell
• Fangirl – Rainbow Rowell
• Looking for Alaska – John Green
• The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman
• The Subtle Knife – Philip Pullman
• The Amber Spyglass – Philip Pullman