Books That Have Made Their Mark on Me…For Better or For Worse

A work in progress —

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch
To Be A Slave by Julius Lester
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri J.M. Nouwen
Herland and Selected Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Adulterers Anonymous by Exene Cervenka and Lydia Lunch
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs (“Linda Brent”)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch (Clearly, I’m a fan.)
The Father by Sharon Olds
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Violence: A National Epidemic by James Gilligan
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates
Passing by Nella Larsen
Black Tickets by Jayne Ann Phillips
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
The Stand by Stephen King
The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Stop-Time by Frank Conroy
For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing & The Roots of Violence by Alice Miller