THE List

*= I already own this book **= I already own it and have read it. 

+= I have already read it, but don’t own it yet.

The list! (In no particular order)

+The Secret Life of Salvador Dali (his autobiography)

+Gypsy Ballads by Federico Garcia Lorca (preferably a version in both spanish and english)

Any other book of poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca

The Wish by Gail Carson Levine

The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle by JRR Tolkein

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories by WIlde

A House of Pomegranates by Wilde

The Sea Fairies by L Frank Baum

The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis

The Pilgrim’s Regress by CS Lewis

Miracles by CS Lewis

Mere Christianity by CS Lewis

Out of the Silent Planet by CS Lewis

The Small Rain by Madeline L’Engle

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

The Genesis Trilogy by Madeline L’Engle

The Other Side of the Sun by L’Engle

Dance in the Desert by L’Engle

A Sphinx at Dawn by L’Engle

A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King

Phantastes by George MacDonald

Lilith by George MacDonald

The Princess and the Goblin by MacDonald

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

+Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung

+Lord of the Flies by William Golding

A Treasury of Modern Fantasy by Ray Bradbury

Something Wicked this way Comes by Bradbury

The Martian Chronicles by Bradbury

Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities by Bradbury

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card

Treasure Box by Orson Scott Card

Women of Genesis by Orson Scott Card

The Food of the Gods by HG Wells

The Time Machine by HG Wells

The Invisible Man by HG Wells

+The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

+The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

+The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

+The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman

The Firework Maker’s Daughter by Pullman

Clockwork, or All Wound Up by Pullman

Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov

Three Laws of Robotics by Asimov

The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

The Light Fantastic by Pratchett

Interesting Times by Pratchett

The Truth by Terry Pratchett

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

The Angel’s Command by Brian Jacques

Voyage of the Slaves by Brian Jacques

Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales by Jacques

**Bulfinch’s Mythology

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton

The Lost World by Michael Crichton

Rising Sun by Michael Crichton

Odd Thomas and Odd Hours by Dean Koontz

the odyssey and the illiad

jane austen

the host by stephanie meyer

*a history of the world in 6 glasses

Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice

The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin

*The Log of the HMS Beagle by Charles Darwin

Easton Press’s Books that Changed the World and 100 Greatest Books ever written and William Buckley’s Nautical Classics

The Medici Conspiracy

Learning to See 

Cinderella

Sleeping Beauty 

The Princess and the Goblin

The Water Babies

The Enchanted Castle

Arabian Nights Series (Sir Richard Burton)

Dante’s Divine Comedy

Don Quixote

The Faerie Queen (Edmund Spencer)

Gone With the Wind

*20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

*Alice in Wonderland

Robin Hood

The Scarlet Pimpernel Classics

*The Wizard of Oz

The Grapes of Wrath

Catch 22

*To Kill a Mockingbird

1984

Lamb (Christopher Moore)

Macbeth

The Life of Pi

The Wives of Henry VIII (antonia fraser)

The Secret Language of the Italian Renaissance: Decoding the Hidden Symbolism of Itaian Art (Richard Stemp)

Benedetto Croce

Plato’s Republic and Physics/Metaphysics

Aristotle

Niezche

The Japanese haiku, ts Essential Nature, History, and Possibilities in English (Yasuda)

To walk in seasons (William Howard Cohen)

Basho’s Haiku (David Landis Barnhill)

Nature’s Masterpiece :The Brain and How it Works(J. Lawrence Pool)

The Saints in Art (Tabor)

Christian Symbols and Stories of the Saints (Clara Erskine Clement)

Hall’s Dictionary of Symbols and Subjects in Art (james hall)

Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked (Catherine Orenstein)

The Mystery of the Mind (Wilder Penfield)

Poems of Robert Frost

Gods and Heroes of the Greeks (Rose)

Structure of Matter, Structure of Mind: Man’s Place in Nature, Reconsidered (William L. Abler)

*The Lost Symbol (Dan Brown)

JMW Turner’s Seascapes

Julia Margaret Cameron’s Women (Sylvia Wolf)

Annals of My Glass House (JMC)

Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll (Douglas R. Nickel)

Through an Uncommon Lens:The Life and Photography of F. Holland Day

 (Patricia J. Fanning)

World Mythology (Roy Willis, General Editor)

Lucien Clergue: Poesie Photographique (Eva-Monika Turck ed.)

Genese (photographs by clergue, poems? by Saint John Perse)

The Wreck of the Titan (or Futility)

90 Minutes in Heaven

The 5 People You Meet in Heaven

Sherlock Holmes

A Thousand Splendid Suns

The Kite Runner

Wicked

Anything on Ivan Aivazovsky

*Arthur Tress’s Teapot Sonata

Suginami