My Library

1. Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2. Lost Names by Richard E. Kim
3. Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
4. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
5. PUSH by Sapphire
6. Why Kids Kill by Peter Langman
7. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
8. If We Were Villians by M.L. Rio
9. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
10. Original Sin by Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson
11. Being Lolita by Alisson Wood
12. It's Kind Of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
13. Aesop's Fables (Edited by Jack Zipes)
14. Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
15. Night by Elie Wiesel
16. All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
17. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
18. If I Must Die: Prose & Poetry by Refaat Alareer
19. Susan Sontag: Reborn: 1947 - 1963
20. Seven Brief Lessons On Physics by Carlo Rovelli
21. Man's Search For Meaning by Victor E. Frankl
22. The Price of Silence by Liza Long
23. The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonia Iturbe
24. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
25. Hiroshima by John Hersey
26. The Acharnians by Aristophanes
27. Lysistrata by Aristophanes
28. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
29. The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carrol
30. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
31. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
32. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
33. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
34. The Body Artist by Don DeLillo

1. On Writing Well by William Zensser
2. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
3. Gothic Fantasy: Chilling Horror Short Stories: A Collection
4. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
5. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
6. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
7. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
8. 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
9. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
10. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
11. Educated by Tara Westover
12. The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
13. Goodnight Punpun by Inio Asano, Volumes 1-6
14. Emma by Jane Austen
15. Good Poems: A Collection, edited by Garrison Keillor
16. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
17. George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl
18. In The Lives of Puppets by TJ Kune
19. From Monsters To Patients: A History of Disability by Matthew Parry
20. Brief Answers To The Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
21. The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
22. Red Comet: The Short Life And Blazing Art Of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
23. Dog Songs by Mary Oliver
24. Black Out Loud: An Anthology of Modern Poems by Black Americans
25. Dracula by Bram Stoker
26. Ariel by Sylvia Plath
27. The Journals of Sylvia Plath, edited by Ted Hughes
28. The Bad Seed by William March
29. How To Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann
30. We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
31. The Asylum Confessions by Jack Steen
32. The Haunting of Hill House
33. The Collectors: Stories by A.S. King
34. The Putrescent Vein by Dorian Bridges
35. Exit Note by Dorian Bridges
36. The Frightful First World War by Terry Deary
37. Rotten Romans by Terry Deary
38. Groovy Greeks by Terry Deary

1. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
2. My Year Of Rest And Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
3. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
4. Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle
5. A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
6. A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
7. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
8. Songs In Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
9. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
10. Millennium Gothic: The Nostalgia Project, Vol. 1 by Dorian Bridges
11. Each Of Us Is A Book by David Drake
12. Zorba The Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
13. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
14. The Haiku Anthology, 3rd Edition, edited by Cor Van Den Heuvel
15. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
16. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
17. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
19. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
20. Harmony House by Nic Sheff
21. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
22. The Wind-Up Bird by Haruki Murakai
23. One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
24. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
25. The Time Traveler by H.G. Wells
26. Little Women by Louis May Alcott
27. Sapiens: A Graphic History by Yuval Noah Harari
28. The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani
29. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
30. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
31. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
32. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
33. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
34. Bastard Out Of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
35. The Wind In The Willows, Illustrated by Kenneth Grahame
36. American Sniper by Chris Kyle
37. Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
38. My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
39. Oliver Twists (Illustrated Classic Edition) by Charles Dickens
40. Columbine by Dave Cullen
41. A Good Girl's Guide To Murder by Holly Jackson

I keep at least three notebooks at all times:

• A commonplace — used for quotes, notes, vocabulary, lists, and recordkeeping.
• A bujo planner — for planning, scheduling, to-do lists, project management, and overall productivity.
• A personal journal — basically just a diary.
• Sometimes: a memo book — for miscellaneous notes, lists, and general braindump.

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
• Life of Pi by Yanna Martel
• Pandora by Anne Rice
• A Secret History by Donna Tart
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
• Why Kids Kill by Peter Langman
• School Shooters by Peter Langman
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Lost Names by Richard E. Kim
• The Yanks Are Coming by Albert Marrin
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• America & Vietnam: The Elephant & The Tiger by Albert Marrin

• Warning Signs by Peter Langman
• The Boy Crisis by John Gray
• Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves
• The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer
• The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté
• The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté

• The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Educated by Tara Westover
• No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
• My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
• Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
• Goodnight Punpun (Full Series) by Inio Asano
• Bastard Out Of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
• We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
• Exit Note by Dorian Bridges
• Millennium Gothic: The Nostalgia Project, Vol I, by Dorian Bridges
• One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• PUSH by Sapphire
• Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

• "Go child, who is my sin and nothing more." — Unknown Girl In Maternity Ward by Anne Sexton.
• "Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through." — Daddy by Sylvia Plath.
• "Parting is such a sweet sorrow/That I shall say goodnight 'till it be morrow." — Juliet (Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare).
• "It came upon him in a flash: he didn't want anyone to die, not even his enemy." — Patrick (We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates).
• "There is no good on Earth; and sin is but a name. Come devil! for to thee the world is given." — Goodman Brown (Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne).
• "The beginning is fire; the end is a heap of ashes; and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world. Let me sleep, since I cannot die." — Nurse Mcdonald (The Dead Smile by F. Marion Crawford).
• "Hell has nothing to do with fire pits or brimstone. Hell is knowing plainly that heaven is forever out of reach." — Leonora by Elise Forier Edie.
• "We lived for a reason, to tell the tales of loss, of survival, and of hope." — If I Must Die: Poetry & Prose by Refaat Alareer
• When I was a kid growing up, music was the escape. That's the only thing that had no judgments. You know, you put on a record, and it's not going to yell at you for dressing the way you do. It's going to make you feel better about it. — Marilyn Manson.