you can also find this list on my storygraph profile. i try to update both at the same time – storygraph is a little slow for my tastes and i like getting to see all my books in one list, which is why this also exists.
see also: wimpy kid collection / wishlist
- 300 Arguments - Sarah Manguso
- 1984 - George Orwell
- The Adult - Bronwyn Fischer
- After the Rain, Vol. 1 - Jun Mayuzuki
- Age of Consent - Amanda Brainerd
- All Fours - Miranda July
- All Men Are Mortal - Simone de Beauvoir
- All the Lovers in the Night - Mieko Kawakami
- American Gods - Neil Gaiman
- Angels & Insects: Two Novellas - A.S. Byatt
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters - Priya Parker
- Aspects of the Novel - E.M. Forster
- Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience - Brené Brown
- Bad News - Edward St Aubyn
- Bad Vibes Only: and Other Things I Bring to the Table - Nora McInerny
- The Balance Tips - Joy Huang-Iris, Joy Huang Clark
- Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women - Renee Engeln
- The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
- Being Lolita: A Memoir - Alisson Wood
- Between Two Fires - Christopher Buehlman
- Big Swiss - Jen Beagin
- Bitter Water Opera - Nicolette Polek
- Blue Nights - Joan Didion
- Blue Period, Vol. 1 - Tsubasa Yamaguchi
- Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan
- The Boyhood of Cain - Michael Amherst
- A Book on the Table: Flash Fiction - Celeste Ng
- Brainwyrms - Alison Rumfitt
- Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- A Certain Hunger - Chelsea G. Summers
- Cheri - Colette
- Cleopatra and Frankenstein - Coco Mellors
- The Cloud Roads - Martha Wells
- The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis - Lydia Davis
- Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
- The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton
- The Dangers of Smoking in Bed - Mariana Enriquez
- Darling - Janet Inglis
- Death By a Thousand Cuts: Stories - Shashi Bhat
- Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters
- The Diary of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell
- Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 1: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures - Walt Stanchfield
- The Dreamers - Gilbert Adair
- Earthlings - Sayaka Murata
- Edgar and Lucy - Victor Lodato
- Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology - Ed Simon
- Emma - Jane Austen
- The End of Alice - A.M. Homes
- Even Though I Knew the End - C.L. Polk
- Every Last Secret - A.R. Torre
- Everything Will Be All Right - Tessa Hadley
- Evil Eye - Etaf Rum
- The Fetishist - Katherine Min
- Fiona and Jane - Jean Chen Ho
- First Lie Wins - Ashley Elston
- Flem - Rebecca Rosen
- Forbidden - Tabitha Suzuma
- Gemini - Michel Tournier
- The God of the Woods - Liz Moore
- Good Enough Job - Simone Stolzoff
- Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs - Beth Ann Fennelly
- Hirayasumi, Vol. 1 - Keigo Shinzo
- Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House - Cheryl Mendelson
- House of Incest - Anais Nin
- How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff
- How It All Ends - Emma Hunsinger
- Howl’s Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
- How to Be Both - Ali Smith
- How to Be Eaten - Maria Adelmann
- How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters - Michael Bungay Stanier
- How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids - Janice Dunn
- How to Stand Up to a Dictator - Maria Ressa
- Hungerstone - Kat Dunn
- I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive - Steve Earle
- Idol, Burning - Rin Usami
- The Iliad - Homer
- Ilustrado - Miguel Syjuco
- In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays - Anais Nin
- Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness - Catherine Cho
- An Innocent Fashion - R.J. Hernandez
- The Inseparables - Simone de Beauvoir
- Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story - John Yorke
- I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle - Jane Welsh Carlyle
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Josie and Jack - Kelly Braffet
- The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
- Kinky History - Esme Louise James
- Korean Stories for Language Learners: Traditional Folktales in Korean and English - Eunsun You, Julie Damron
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence
- The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell - Lucia Osborne-Crowley
- The Latinist - Mark Prins
- The Learning Curve - Mandy Berman
- The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Lesser Dead - Christopher Buehlman
- The Liars’ Club: A Memoir - Mary Karr
- The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers - Holly Goddard Jones, Paula Bomer, Janet Mitchell, Alissa Nutting, Shannon Cain, Kelly Luce, Karin Tidbeck, Karen Brown, Monica Drake, Amina Gautier, Stacey Levine, Richard Thomas, Ethel Rohan, Nina McConigley, Nancy Hightower, Damien Angelica Walters, Jessica Hollander, Claire Vaye Watkins, Laura Benedict, Kim Chinquee, Tina May Hall, Kathy Fish
- A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
- A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Love & Virtue - Diana Reid
- The Lovely Lady - D.H. Lawrence
- The Lover - Marguerite Duras
- Lullabies for Little Criminals - Heather O’Neill
- Made for Love - Alissa Nutting
- Madonna in a Fur Coat - Sabahattin Ali
- The Mad Scientist’s Daughter - Cassandra Rose Clarke
- Making a Scene - Constance Wu
- The Makioka Sisters - Jun’ichiro Tanizaki
- Any Man - Amber Tamblyn
- Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein - Anne Eekhout
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - Lori Gottlieb
- Men Who Hate Women - Laura Bates
- A Mere Interlude - Thomas Hardy
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Middle of the Night - Riley Sager
- Misery - Stephen King
- The Mitford Girls - Mary S. Lovell
- The Monster of Elendhaven - Jennifer Giesbrecht
- More Women Than Men - Ivy Compton-Burnett
- Mother and Son - Ivy Compton-Burnett
- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- My Darling Dreadful Thing - Johanna van Veen
- My Last Innocent Year - Daisy Alpert Florin
- My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales - Kate Bernheimer
- Natural Beauty - Ling Ling Huang
- Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
- Notice - Alan Garganus, Heather Lewis
- No Touching - Ketty Rouf
- NSFW - Isabel Kaplan
- The Odyssey - Homer
- Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All - Allan Gurganus
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Olivia - Dorothy Strachey
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Overspill - Charlotte Paradise
- Penpal - Dathan Auerbach
- The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes - Cat Sebastian
- The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
- The Pillowman - Martin McDonagh
- Plain Jane and the Mermaid – Vera Brosgol
- Please Excuse My Daughter: A Memoir - Julie Klam
- Please Look After Mom - Kyung-sook Shin
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
- Push - Sapphire
- Putney - Sofka Zinovieff
- Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams
- The Queen of the Night - Alexander Chee
- The Quiet Tenant - Clemence Michallon
- Really Good, Actually - Monica Heisey
- Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
- Rejection - Tony Tulathimutte
- The Remarkable Journey of Charlie Price - Jennifer Maschari
- Ripe - Sarah Rose Etter
- Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley - Charlotte Gordon
- Room - Emma Donoghue
- Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
- Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life - Abigail Thomas
- Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need - Blake Snyder
- Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book on Novel Writing You’ll Ever Need - Jessica Brody
- Saving Noah - Lucinda Berry
- The Screaming Staircase - Jonathan Stroud
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
- Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
- The Six Deaths of the Saint - Alix E. Harrow
- Something Childish But Very Natural - Katherine Mansfield
- Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
- So Pretty - Ronnie Turner
- So Sad Today - Melissa Broder
- Sorrow & Bliss - Meg Mason
- The Sound of Life and Everything - Krista Van Dolzer
- Still Born - Guadalupe Nettel
- The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov - Vladimir Nabokov
- Story - Robert McKee
- Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel - Lisa Cron
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Supper Club - Lara Williams
- Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm - Laura Warrell
- Sweetbitter - Stephanie Danler
- Taming the Beast - Emily Maguire
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Tete-A-Tete: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre - Hazel Rowley
- They’re Going to Love You - Meg Howrey
- Thirst for Salt - Madelaine Lucas
- This Time Tomorrow - Emma Straub
- The Tiger’s Wife - Tea Obreht
- Tiger, Tiger - Margaux Fragoso
- The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- To Raise a Boy: Classrooms, Locker Rooms, Bedrooms, and the Hidden Struggles of American Boyhood - Emma Brown
- Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
- Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence - Rachel Sherman
- Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back - Ruth Chan
- Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann
- The Virgins - Pamela Erens
- The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
- Vladimir - Julia May Jonas
- Wednesday’s Child - Yiyun Li
- What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence - Michele Filgate
- What We Talk about When We Talk about Love - Raymond Carver
- When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill
- Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? - Lorrie Moore
- Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature - Meredith Maran
- Wideacre - Philippa Gregory
- William - Mason Coile
- Wires Crossed - Beth Fantaskey
- Witch Hat Atelier, Volume 1 - Kamome Shirahama
- Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite - Suki Kim
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Xo Orpheus - Kate Bernheimer
- Xoxy: A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist) - Kimberly M. Zieselman
- Y/N - Esther Yi
- The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
- Zen in the Art of Writing - Ray Bradbury