READING LIST.

I have this same list written on a sheet of paper and stuck to the wall next to my study table. Basically, for books that aren’t author-specific, I have a few easy and flexible rules. I don’t mind old or new, but if the book is older than me, the writing shouldn’t reflect it. I like twisted. I like messed-up, graphic (with or without a prefix), you’ll-go-to-hell-for-this kinds of stories. But I also like an escape. I like Twilight and Harry Potter. I like funny, I like pop culture references. I don’t mind love stories, but I get really picky over romances and dramas. I don’t like World War I/II fiction of pretty much any genre, or stories about the Holocaust or the Jewish or Yiddish (my aplologies to Jonathan Safran Foer for that). I like books that make me think, but I don’t mind brainless as long as they’re not in the Chick Lit section (I got over that stage in middle school). I like authors with a distinct voice. I don’t care much for books about discrimination (of any kind) but I might like it, depending on the premise.

ETA: I need more classics and am interested in early 20th century, beatnik literature. Come at me!!

PALAHNIUK

• Fight Club
• Invisible Monsters
• Snuff
• Lullaby
  
• Choke
• Survivor
• Haunted
• Rant
• Pygmy
• Diary
• Stranger than Fiction

MURAKAMI

• After Dark
• Norwegian Wood
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
• Kafka on the Shore
• Birthday Stories
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
  
• Dance Dance Dance
• A Wild Sheep Chase
• After the Quake

MEYER (basically the Twilight series)

• Twilight
• New Moon
• Breaking Dawn
• Eclipse

WELSH

• Trainspotting
• Glue
• Porno
• The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chiefs

OTHER AUTHORS
some of these are recs, others are just.. well I’m browsing through Fully Booked and Powerbooks right now..

• Bleed by Laurie Faria Stolarz
• Winkie by Clifford Chase
• Adverbs by Daniel Handler
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
• Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
• A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquéz
• God is Dead by Ron Currie
• Gone to the Crazies by Alison Weaver
• Hospital by Toby Litt
• Body and Blood by Michael Schiefelbein
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
• Siddartha by Herman Heese

RANDOM WRITER PEOPLES that i still have to shi stuff by

• Ian McEwan
• Dan Brown
• Chuck Klosterman (nonfic)
• Paulo Coelho (loved River Piedra, hates The Alchemist — should I read Brida?)
• Kurt Vonnegut
• William Shakespeare

BLACKLIST

• Sophie Kinsella
• Cecily von Ziegesar
• Mitch Albom
• anything more than 1000 pages long
• inspirational novels
• Nicholas Sparks