all of:
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Rain Storm by Barry Eisler
Hard Rain by Barry Eisler
Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial by Mark Harris
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (abridged audio version read by the author)
The Comics Go to Hell: A Visual History of the Devil in Comics by Fredrik Stromberg
The Pleasure of My Company: A Novel by Steve Martin
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (read by Susan Erickson)
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison (performed by Peter J. Fernandez)
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (performed by Sam Dastor)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (performed by Geoffrey Howard)
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Paradise by Toni Morrison (performed by Lynne Thigpen)
This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers edited by Elizabeth Merrick
Rain Fall by Barry Eisler
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism by Cornel West (read by the author)
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
The Last Assassin by Barry Eisler
Race Matters by Cornel West
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie (performed by Aasif Mandvi)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Best of O. Henry
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Power Rangers Treasury Storybook
Nelson's Brand by Diana Palmer
Silas Marner by George Eliot
On the Road by Jack Kerouac (performed by Matt Dillon)
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
The Surrounded by D'arcy McNickle
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas by Sara Lorimer
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Winter in the Blood by James Welch
Motherhood and Hollywood: How to Get a Job Like Mine by Patricia Heaton
The Dead Fathers Club by Matt Haig
Bayou Stories by Kate Chopin
Faces in the Moon by Betty Louise Bell
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
The Tempest by William Shakespeare

most of:
Retired Racing Greyhounds for Dummies by Lee Livingood
Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace by Sara Ruddick
Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx
The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

and significant parts (two or more chapters) of:
In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward
Kill Me by Stephen White
Death is Not the End by Ian Rankin
The Liar's Diary by Patry Francis
Passionate Marriage: Love, Sex, and Intimacy in Emotionally Committed Relationships by David Schnarch
The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance by Bruce Fink
Ecrits by Lacan
Everyone Can Write: Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing by Peter Elbow
Nobody's Children: Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative by Elizabeth Bartholet
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Face by Cecile Pineda
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault

plus plenty of TPR materials
lots of children's stories
a number of articles and essays
and plenty of students' writing

for a total of about 66 whole books, or an average of 5 1/2 per month


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