I am a libro loving Libran . . . both fiction and non-fiction.  The following list of favorite fiction books alphabetized by author is always growing exponentially. Please feel free to recommend YOUR favorites!

Aeschylus • Prometheus Bound (trans: James Scully & C.J. Herington)

Sherman Alexie • The True Diary of a Part-time Indian 

Dante Alighieri • The Divine Comedy (trans: Ciardi)

Isabel Allende • Daughter of Fortune

John Alspaugh • Lost Parade • Everything Dark is a Doorway

Kingsley Amis  • The Folks That Live On the Hill

Neil Astley (ed.) • Staying Alive: Real Poems For Unreal Times

Margaret Atwood • The Handmaid’s Tale

John August • Troubled Star

Jane Austen • Pride and Prejudice

Eve Babitz • Slow Days, Fast Company • Hollywood’s Eve

Honoré de Balzac • Cousin Bette • Cesar Birotteau • Cousin Pons • Droll Stories • Pere Goriot • Eugenie Grandet

Muriel Barbery • The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Neal Barrett, Jr. • Pink Vodka Blues

Nina Bawden • Family Money

Boccaccio • The Decameron (trans: John Payne)

Ray Bradbury • The Illustrated Man 

Pearl S. Buck • The Good Earth

Samuel Butler • The Way of All Flesh

Jennifer Bell • High Maintenance

Guy Bellamy • The Nudists

Saul Bellow • Humbolt’s Gift

Mariam Borgenicht • No Duress • Still Life • Undue Influence • True or False • Fall From Grace

T. Coraghessan Boyle  • The Tortilla Curtain • East is East

Elizabeth Braddon • Lady Audley’s Secret

Ray Bradbury • Dandelion Wine

Carol Brennan • Headhunt

Charlotte Bronte  • Jane Eyre

Amanda Brookfield • A Cast of Smiles

Mikhail Bulgakov • Master & Margarita (novel;  trans by Burgin & O’Connor) • Master & Margarita (play by van Itallie; trans by Kobiakoff)

Robert A. Burton • Doc In A Box

Lord Byron • Byron’s Poetry (Norton Critical Edition)

Robert Cantwell • Laugh and Lie Down

Miguel de Cervantes • Don Quixote (trans: Grossman)

Lewis Carroll • Alice in Wonderland • Through the Looking Glass

Robert Carter • Final Edit

Willa Cather • My Antonia • The Lost Lady

Geoffrey Chaucer • Canterbury Tales (trans: R.M. Lumiansky)

Peter Cheyney • They Never Say When • Dark Wanton • The Urgent Hangman

Wensley Clarkson • A Year in La La Land

J.M. Coetzee • Disgrace

Judy Connor • Southern Fried Divorce

Patricia Cornwell • Postmortem • All That Remains • Cruel & Unusual • Hornet’s Nest

Alev Lytle Croutier • Palace of Tears • Harem: Women Behind the Veil

Liza Dalby • The Tale of Murasaki

Daniel Defoe  • Robinson Crusoe

Delacorte • Nana • Lola • Diva • Luna • Vida • Alba

Nelson DeMille • Plum Island

Peter DeVries • Sauce for the Goose • Consenting Adults • The Vale of Laughter • Peckham’s Marbles • Mrs. Wallop • The Prick of Noon • I Hear America Singing

Junto Diaz • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Charles Dickens  • Tale of Two Cities

Emily Dickenson • Bolts of Memory

Isak Dinesen • Winter’s Tales

O. Douglas • The Day of Small Things

Fyodor Dostoevsky • Crime & Punishment

Theodore Dreiser • American Tragedy

Alexandre Dumas • Count of Monte Crisco

Elaine Dundy • Dud Avocado

George Eliot •  Middlemarch • Romola • Silas Marner

Laura Esquivel • Like Water For Chocolate • Swift As Desire

The Bacchae • Euripides (trans: Gilbert Murray)

Augusta Jane Evans  • Macaria

John Fantes • Ask the Dust

Fannie Flagg – The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion: A Novel

Gustave Flaubert • Madame Bovary • Sentimental Education

Ken Follett • Eye Of The Needle

Carolyn Forche (ed.) • Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness

Paul Gallico • Mrs. ‘Arris Goes To Paris • Mrs. ‘Arris Goes To New York • Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Parliament

Earle Stanley Gardner • The Case of the Barking Dog • The Case of the Curious Bride •The Case of the Footloose Doll • The Case of the Hesitant Hostess •  The Case of the Lame Canary • The Case of the Sleepwalker’s Niece • The Case of the Terrified Typist • The Case of the Velvet Claws

Neal Barrett, Jr. • Pink Vodka Blues

Andre Gide • The Counterfeiters

Anna Gavalda • Hunting and Gathering

William “Buster” Gay • i hate to see that evening sun go down (SS)

Sarah Gilbert • Hairdo

Hollis Gillespie • Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch

Gail Godwin • Glass People • Mr. Bedford & The Muses • Mother And Two Daughters • Father Melancholy’s Daughter • The Finishing School • The Good Husband

Goethe • Faust (trans: Alice Raphael)

Nikolai Gogol • Diary of a Madman • Inspector

Arthur Golden • Memoirs Of A Geisha

William Golding • Lord of the Flies

Oliver Goldsmith • Vicar of Wakefield

Sue Grafton • B is For Burglar • C is For Corpse • E is For Evidence • F is For Fugitive

Alexander Griboedov • Woe From Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts (trans. Betsy Hulick)

Romesh Gunesekera • Reef

Lorraine Hansberry • A Raisin in the Sun (play)

Marilyn Hacker (ed.) • Poetry To Heal Your Blues

Thomas Harris • Silence of the Lambs

Carolyn Hart • Deadly Valentine • The Christie Caper

Nathaniel Hawthorne • House of Seven Gables • The Scarlet Letter

Robert A. Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land

Ernest Hemingway  Movable Feast •  Sun Also Rises

Carsten Henn • The Door-To-Door Bookstore

Patricia Highsmith • Edith’s Diary

Tony Hillerman • A Thief of Time

James Hogg • The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Homer • The Odyssey (trans: Fagles & Pope) • The Iliad (trans: Fagles & Pope)

Aldus Huxley • Brave New World

Rachel Ingalls • Mrs. Caliban

P.D. James • An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

James Joyce • A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man

Norton Juster • The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth (Illustrated by Jules Feiffer & Annotated by Leonard S. Marcus)

Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal) • The Satires of Juvenal (trans. by Rolfe Humphries)

Garrison Keillor (ed.) • Good Poems

Jerry Kennealy • Polo’s Wild Card • Polo Solo

Ken Kesey • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Sue Monk Kidd • Secret Life of Bees

Stephen King • Christine

Janet Lawrence • A Tasty Way To Die • A Deepe Coffyn

Harper Lee • To Kill A Mockingbird

Peter Lefcourt • The Deal • The Dreyfus Affair

William Le Queux • The Dangerous Game

Doris Lessing • The Golden Notebook

Ira Levin • A Kiss Before Dying

Sinclair Lewis • Arrowsmith

Shena Mackay • A Bowl Of Cherries

Adeline Yen Mah  • Chinese Cinderella • Watching the Tree • Falling Leaves

Naguib Mahfouz • Palace Walk

Bernard Malamud • The Fixer

Michael Malone • Handling Sin

Steve Martin • Shopgirl

Gabriel Garcia Marquez  • Love in the Time of Cholera

Guy de Maupassant • The Best Stories of Guy de Maupassant

Stephen McCauley  • The Object of My Affection

Thomas McGuane • Something To Be Desired

William McIlvanney  • Strange Loyalties

Ralph McInerny • Her Death of Cold • Romnesque • Connelly’s Life • Cause & Effect • Frigor Mortis • Infra Dig • Body & Soil

Michael McKinney  • A Thousand Bridges

Susanna Hoffman McShea  • The Pumpkin Shell Wife

 Sue Miller • The Good Mother • For Love

 Octave Mirbeau • Diary of a Chambermaid

Molière • The Misanthrope (trans: Richard Wilbur)

Lorrie Moore • Who Will Run The Frog Hospital?

Lucy Maude Montgomery • Anne of Green Gables

Geoffrey Morgan  •  Heavenly Body

Christopher Morley  • The Haunted Bookshop

Kate Moses • Wintering

Molly Moynahan • Parting is All We Know of Heaven

Lady Murasaki • Tale of the Genji

Vladimir Nabokov • Lolita • Pale Fire

Pablo Neruda • Absence and Presence (Alistair Reid)

E. Nesbitt – Five Children and It

Anais Nin • Waste of Timelessness

Kathleen Norris • Mother

Joyce Carol Oates • Blonde

Maxine O’Callaghan • Hit & Run

Mark O’Donnell • Getting Over Homer

O’Henry • Gift of the Magi 

George Orwell • Animal Farm • Down and Out in Paris and London • Nineteen Eighty-Four

Ovid’s Metamorphoses (trans: Pope, Dryden. et al. & Humphries)

Dorothy Parker • Enough Rope

Robert B. Parker • Looking For Rachel Wallace • Mortal Stakes

Cathie Pelletier • A Marriage Made at Woodstock

Nancy Pickard • I.O.U.

Sylvia Plath • Bell Jar • Johnny Panic • Complete Poems

Eleanor Porter • Pollyanna

Max Porter • Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

Charles Portis • True Grit

Marcel Proust • Swann’s Way

Rabelais • Gargantua & Pantagruel (trans. Samuel Putnam)

Julia Reed • Queen of the Turtle Derby

Luanne Rice • Secrets of Paris

Robert Richardson • Murder in Waiting

Tom Robbins •  Jitterbug Perfume

Francoise Sagan • A Certain Smile • Those Without Shadows

Jean-Paul Sarte • The Age of Reason

Cathleen Schine • The Grammarians

Vikram Seth • The Golden Gate

William Shakespeare • Hamlet • Merchant of Venice • Romeo & Juliet • As You Like It • Tempest • MacBeth • Midsummer Night’s Dream • Othello

Mary Shelley  • Frankenstein

Nevil Shute  • A Town Like Alice

Mona Simpson • Anywhere But Here

Betty Smith • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Lisa Russ Spaar (Ed) • Acquainted with the Night: Insomnia Poems

Sam Staggs • Sunset Boulevard • MMII • All About Eve

Sol Stein • The Best Revenge

John Steinbeck •  Cannery Row • East of Eden • The Grapes of Wrath • Of Mice and Men •  Sweet Thursday •  The Wayward Bus •  The Winter of Our Discontent 

Robert Louis Stevenson • Doctor Jekyll & Mr. Hyde • Treasure Island  • The Wrong Box (with Lloyd Osbourne)

Harriet Beecher Stowe • Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Douglas Stewart • Shuggie Bain

Jacqueline Susann • Yargo

Jonathan Swift • Gulliver’s Travels

Amy Tan • The Hundred Secret Senses

Josephine Tey • Brat Farrer • Franchise Affair • The Man In The Queue

J. R. R. Tolkien • Hobbit • Lord of the Rings

Leo Tolstoy • War and Peace

Nedra Tyre • Twice So Far

Louis Joseph Vance • Speaking of Women

John Van Druten • I Am A Camera (play)

Jules Verne • Mysterious Island 

Virgil• Aeneid (trans: Fagles)

Voltaire • Candide

Edgar Wallace • The Thief in the Night

Robert Warren • All The King’s Men

Thurman Warriner • Method In His Murder

Jessamyn West  Cress Delahanty

Nathanael West • The Day of the Locust  

Robert Westbrook • Rich Kids

James Wilcox • Guest of a Sinner

Colin Wilcox • Except for the Bones

Phillip Lee Williams • All The Western Stars

Augusta Evans Wilson • Macaria

Tom Wolfe • Bonfire of the Vanities

Jack Woodford • Tainted

Virginia Woolf • To the Lighthouse

Kevin Young (ed) • Blues Poems

Carlos Ruiz Zafon • The Shadow of the Wind