My Top 50 Books (goodreads widget)

Amy’s bookshelf: best-books

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

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The Madonna of Excelsior

by Zakes Mda

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Vita Nova

by Louise Glück

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Satan Says

by Sharon Olds

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The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

by Alan W. Watts

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Fablehaven

by Brandon Mull

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The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

Favorite all-time book

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St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

by Karen Russell

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What Brings You to Del Amo

by Virginia Chase Sutton

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Bad Behavior

by Mary Gaitskill

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Tin House: Fantastic Women

by Aimee Bender

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Best of Tin House: Stories

by Tin House Books

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Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

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Welcome to My Country

by Lauren Slater

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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

by Nick Flynn

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Memory Wall

by Anthony Doerr

FAvorite. Stories. Ever.

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The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

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The Pickup

by Nadine Gordimer

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Naked Angels: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs

by John Tytell

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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

by Gregory Maguire

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Portable MFA in Creative Writing

by New York Writers Workshop

My personal favorite

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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

by David Sedaris

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What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems

by Kim Addonizio

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All-American Poem

by Matthew Dickman

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Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime from Tin House

by Rob Spillman

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The Pearl

by John Steinbeck

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The Hours

by Michael Cunningham

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Anonymous

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The Upanishads

by Anonymous

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Views From the Loft

by Daniel Slager

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The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House

by Tin House Books

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Strange Fruit

by Lillian E. Smith

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The Golden Compass

by Philip Pullman

The Golden Compass is by far, my favorite book. Of all time. I’m usually into literary fiction and poetry and even starting to get into historical fiction and lots of young adult authors like the fabulous Brandon Mull (Fablehaven seri…

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Howl and Other Poems

by Allen Ginsberg

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The Power of One

by Bryce Courtenay

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She’s Come Undone

by Wally Lamb

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Richard III

by William Shakespeare

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Lust and Other Stories

by Susan Minot

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The Essence of Jung’s Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism: Western and Eastern Paths to the Heart

by Radmila Moacanin

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The Yacoubian Building

by Alaa Al Aswany

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The Writing Life

by Annie Dillard

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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

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Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction

by Brenda Miller

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Tales of Ordinary Madness

by Charles Bukowski

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The Goffman Reader

by Erving Goffman

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Every Riven Thing: Poems

by Christian Wiman

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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

by William Styron

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Hula

by Lisa Shea

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To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

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What the Living Do: Poems

by Marie Howe

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The Portable Beat Reader

by Ann Charters

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