Since this is a review blog, I thought it’d be best to start out with a catalog of my collection so you all can get a feel for what’s in store. As you scroll through, you’ll likely notice that I’m really into thrillers, which is ironic considering I don’t really watch scary movies too often.
This collection is laid out by genre, then alphabetically. I was going to sort it by “finished,” “being read,” and “TBR,” but I thought it’d be best to sort it as though it’s literally an online catalog. There are a whopping 320 books in my collection as of June 16, 2019, and it only continues to grow.
The unread list is way longer than the finished list because I have a bad book shopping problem.. I just can’t stop So, every now and then, I’ll republish this blog.
KEY: Author – Book Title, Book Title, etc; Book Title* = Kindle edition; (Subscription)
(Auto) Biographies: 10 books
Barker, Travis – Can I Say
Cahalan, Susannah – Brain on Fire
Gilbert, Elizabeth – Eat Pray Love
Graham, Lauren – Talking As Fast As I Can
Kalanithi, Paul – When Breath Becomes Air
Pelzer, Dave – A Child Called It
Rhimes, Shonda – Year of Yes
Sheff, David – Beautiful Boy
Strayed, Cheryl – Wild
Taylor, Corey – America 51
Classics: 16 books
Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women
Alighieri, Dante – The Inferno of Dante
Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice
Bradbury, Ray – Fahrenheit 451
Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Other Classic Works
Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby
Grimm, The Brothers – Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter
Hinton, S.E. – The Outsiders
Maugham, William Somerset – Of Human Bondage
Orwell, George – 1984
Salinger, J.D. – The Catcher in the Rye
Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men
Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina
Wiesel, Elie – Night
Comics // Manga: 18 books
Archie:
Rosenberg, Matthew – Archie Crossover Collection
Ruiz – Archie’s Pals ‘n’ Gals Double Digest
Superstars, Archie – Archie 1000 Page Comics-Palooza, Archie Giant Comics Medley, World of Archie Comics Double Digest #72
Uslan, Michael – Archie #603-605*
Batman:
Johns, Geoff – Earth One
Miller, Frank – Batman Year One
Beetle Bailey:
Walker, Mort – I’ll Throw This Book at You, Beetle Bailey
Calvin & Hobbes:
Watterson, Bill – Something Under the Bed is Drooling, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
Death Note:
Ohba, Tsugumi – Death Note Black Edition (1-6)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Kinny, Jeff – Rodrick Rules (#2) and The Last Straw (#3)
Miscellanous Comics:
Martin, Ted – Pavlov’s Pad
Walker, Brian – The Comics
Crime // Mystery: 11 books
Blashfield, Jean F. – Why They Killed
Bosch, Pseudonymous – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, The Name of this Book is Secret, This Book is Not Good For You, This Isn’t What It Looks Like, You Have To Stop This
Carr, Caleb – The Alienist
Christie, Agatha – Murder on the Orient Express
Gray, Tyler – The Hit Charade
Murphy, Shirley Rousseau – Cat on the Edge
Fantasy: 28 books
Anderson, Hans Christian – Fairy Tales
Black, Holly – Zombies vs. Unicorns
Flinn, Alex – Beastly, Bewitching, Cloaked, A Kiss in Time
Gaiman, Neil – American Gods, Coraline, Unnatural Creatures
Lewis, C.S. – The Chronicles of Narnia (adult)
Maas, Sarah J. – A Court of Thorns and Roses
Maguire, Gregory – Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Mirror Mirror, Wicked, Son of a Witch
Martin, George R.R. – A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings
Meyers, Stephenie – Twilight
Riggs, Ransom – Hollow City
Rowling, J.K. – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince, Deathly Hallows, The Cursed Child, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Shan, Darren – The Vampire’s Assistant and Other Tales from the Cirque du Freak
Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Lord of the Rings Collection
Wesley, Kathryn – Tenth Kingdom
Fiction: 32 books
Anonymous – Diary of an Oxygen Thief
Backman, Fredrik – A Man Called Ove
Beverly-Whittemore, Miranda – June
Coehlo, Paulo – Adultery, The Alchemist
Coupland, Douglas – Worst. Person. Ever.
Donoghue, Emma – Room
Egan, Jennifer – A Visit from the Goon Squad
Eugenides, Jeffrey – The Virgin Suicides
Foer, Jonathan Safran – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Greenwood, Bryn – All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
Haddon, Mark – the curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Hilderbrand, Bruce – Summer of ’69 (BOTM)
Holbert, Bruce – Whiskey (PaheHabit)
Hopkins, Cathy – Dancing Over the Hill
Hopson, David – All the Lasting Things*
Kerman, Piper – Orange is the New Black
Kultgen, Chad – The Lie
Lovering, Carola – Tell Me Lies
Rooney, Sally – Normal People (BOTM)
Roper, Richard – How Not to Die Alone (BOTM)
Moriarty, Liane – Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers (BOTM)
Nunez, Sigrid – The Friend (PageHabit)
Roquelaure, A.N. – The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Rowling, J.K. – The Casual Vacancy
Sloan, Robin – Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Stockett, Kathryn – The Help
Sundquist, Josh – We Should Hang Out Sometime
Sweeney, Cynthia D’Aprix – The Nest
Weisberger, Lauren – The Devil Wears Prada
Yarbrough, Steve – The Realm of Last Chances
Humor: 10 books
Bombeck, Erma – All I Know About Animal Behavior I Learned in Loehmann’s Dressing Room, When You Look Like Your Passport Photo It’s Time To Go Home
Hanks, Tom – Uncommon Type
Kenemore, Scott – The Zen of Zombie
Mazzetti, Dom – The Swoly Bible
Offerman, Nick – Paddle Your Own Canoe
Ronson, Jon – Lost at Sea
Sedaris, David – Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls, Me Talk Pretty One Day
Poetry: 6 books
(Most of these are only here because of the way they’re set up.)
Hopkins, Ellen – Perfect
Kaur, Rupi – Milk and Honey
Marciuliano, Francesco – I Could Pee On This
Sones, Sonya – The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus, Saving Red, What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know
Psychology: 6 books
Haycock, Dean A. – Murderous Minds
Kaysen, Susanna – Girl, Interrupted
Kenrick, Douglas T. – Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life
Pitts, Victoria – In the Flesh
Shroder, Tom – Acid Test*
Thomas, M.E. – Confessions of a Sociopath
Reference: 13 books
Brooks, Max – The Zombie Survival Guide
Chaffey, Daniel – Dirty German
Davis, Ali – How to Love Me
Ducommun, Debbie – Rats
Frankfurt, Harry G. – On Bullshit
Gray, Henry – Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical
Horne, Charles F. – The Book of Arda Viraf*
Kellett, Jenny – Miley Cyrus*
Osborne, Rick – Luke 2:52 Bible: The Ultimate Manual
Pasterak, Annette – Skin Picking*
Smith, Hutson – The World’s Religions
Zondervan – NIV, Beautiful Word Bible, Hardcover, Multi-Color Floral Cloth
Romance: 31 books
Carpenter, Kim – The Vow
Cross, Maya – The Alpha Group Complete Collection
Day, Sylvia – After Burn*, After Shock*, Bared to You, Captivated by You, Entwined by You, One with You, Reflected in You
Fitzgerald, Penelope – The Bookshop
Gruen, Sara – Water for Elephants
Guillory, Jasmine – The Wedding Date (PageHabit)
Hannah, James – The A to Z of You and Me
Haslett, Adam – Imagine Me Gone
Honeyman, Gail – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Hughes, Anita – Rome in Love (Willow Lane)
Hughes, Kathryn – The Key
James, E.L. – Fifty Shades series, Grey
Lauren, Christina – Beautiful Bastard
McGee, C. Sean – The Time Traveler’s Wife*
Morris, Heather – The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Moyes, JoJo – Me Before You
Quick, Matthew – The Silver Linings Playbook
Shaffer, Mary Ann – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Sparks, Nicholas – Dear John, The Notebook
Wild, Meredith – Hard Limit*, Hardline*, Hardpressed*, Hardwired*
Schoolbooks (UC Denver): 7 books
(I’ve bought more than just these, these are just the one’s I kept after the class was over.)
Goodall, Jane – In the Shadow of Man
Lieberman, Daniel – The Story of the Human Body
Machado, Carmen – Her Body and Other Parties
Mill, John Stuart – On Liberty
Pinker, Steven – The Language Instinct
Weiner, Jonathan – The Beak of the Finch
Younge, Gary – Who Are We — And Should It Matter in the 21st Century?
Science Fiction: 9 books
Abnett, Dan – Doctor Who: Silent Stars Go By & Touched By An Angel
Benson, Reynolds – Metal Gear Solid
Bradbury, Ray – The Martian Chronicles
Crichton, Michael – Jurassic Park
Doescher, Ian – William Shakespeare’s Star Wars
Levitin, Sonia – The Cure
Lucas, George – Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Trilogy
Varley, John – The Barbie Murders
Self-Help: 8 books
Barron, Dr. James – Please! Don’t Marry A Caterpillar
Bethke, Jefferson – Jesus > Religion
Cain, Susan – Quiet
Cutrone, Kelly – Normal Gets You Nowhere
Fulghum, Robert – Robert Fulghum’s All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Uh-Oh
Kleon, Austin – Steal like An Artist
Wiest, Brianna – The Truth About Everything
Thrillers // Horrors: 60 books
Adams, Taylor – No Exit (BOTM)
Anson, Jay – The Amityville Horror
Bell, Darcey – A Simple Favor
Burns, Catherine – The Visitors
Collins, Megan – The Winter Sister (BOTM)
Delany, JP – The Girl Before
Fiegel, Michael – Blackbird (PageHabit)
Finn, A.J. – the woman in the window
Flynn, Gillian – Gone Girl, Sharp Objects
Frances, Michelle – The Girlfriend
Fremlin, Celia – The Hours Before Dawn
Fried, Seth – The Municipalists (BOTM)
Hawkins, Paula – The Girl on the Train, Into the Water
Hendricks, Greer – The Wife Between Us
Hill, Joe – Horns
Hunt, Margot – For Better and Worse (BOTM)
Katzenbach, John – The Analyst, The Dead Student, What Comes Next
Kepnes, Caroline – Hidden Bodies, Providence, You
Kim, Angie – Miracle Creek (BOTM)
King, Own – Sleeping Beauties
Knoll, Jessica – Luckiest Girl Alive
Larsson, Stieg – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Levin, Ira – Rosemary’s Baby, Son of Rosemary
Malerman, Josh – Bird Box, Unbury Carol (PageHabit)
Michaelides, Alex – The Silent Patient (BOTM)
Miranda, Megan – All the Missing Girls (Willow Lane)
Molloy, Aimee – The Perfect Mother (PageHabit)
Moody, David – One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning (PageHabit)
Paris, B.A. – Behind Closed Doors
Patterson, James – The President is Missing
Pinborough, Sarah – Behind Her Eyes
Rice, Anne – Interview With The Vampire
Richmond, Michelle – The Marriage Pact
Robins, Jane – White Bodies
Rollins, Danielle – Breaking, Burning
Searcy, Amanda – The Truth Beneath the Lies
Sebold, Alice – The Lovely Bones
Slaughter, Karen – Pieces of Her
Swanson, Peter – Before She Knew Him
Tartt, Donna – The Goldfinch
Tremblay, Paul – The Cabin at the End of the World (PageHabit)
Vega, Danielle – The Merciless I-IV, Survive the Night
Ware, Ruth – In A Dark, Dark, Wood
Watson, S.J. – Before I Go To Sleep
Windo, Nick Clark – The Feed (PageHabit)
Winslow, Emily – Look for Her (PageHabit)
Wong, David – John Dies at the End
Transgressive Fiction: 25 books
(Consisting mostly of Chuck Palahniuk, I actually dedicated an entire blog to this genre during my time at CUDenver last year. If you’re interested, see it here: Chuckleheads101)
Ellis, Bret Easton – American Psycho
Palahniuk, Chuck – Adjustment Day, Bait, Beautiful You, Choke, Damned, Diary, Doomed, Fight Club (signed), Fight Club 2, Fight Club 3, Fugitives and Refugees, Haunted, Invisible Monsters, Invisible Monsters Remix, Lullaby, Make Something Up, Phoenix*, Pygmy, Rant, Snuff, Stranger Than Fiction, Survivor, Tell-All
Welsh, Irvine – Trainspotting
Young Adult: 24 books
(I made this category about any characters/plots that were set in high school. I know some of my romances, thrillers, etc. could be YA, but these are mostly just fiction/fantasy YA… I think.)
Albertalli, Becky – Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Almond, Markus – Marching Band and the Expanding Universe
Benjamin, Chloe – The Immortalists (PageHabit)
Brashares, Ann – My Name is Memory
Cabot, Meg – The Princess Diaries vol. I-IV (adult)
Chbosky, Stephen – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Cormier, Robert – The Chocolate War
Forman, Gayle – If I Stay, Where She Went
Friesen, Jonathan – Both of Me
Green, John – The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns
Hinton, S.E. – That Was Then, This Is Now
Jonell, Lynne – Emmy and the Incredibly Shrinking Rat
Levithan, David – Every Day
Milne, A.A. – A Tale from Winnie-the-Pooh and a Smackerel of Verse
Rollins, Danielle – Stolen Time
Sewell, Anna – Black Beauty
Stewart, Trenton Lee – The Mysterious Benedict Society
Strayhorn, Willa – The Way We Bared Our Souls
Vizzini, Ned – It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Teen Angst? Naaah…
Yoon, Nicola – Everything, Everything