1. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie n+#
2. A Bird in the House by Margaret Laurence s#
3. The Two-Headed Calf by Sandra Birdsell s+
4. Contentment: wisdom from around the world by Gillian Stokes nf+
5. The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties edited by Shannon Ravenel as
6. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown f+
7. East of Eden by John Steinbeck f#
8. Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters by John Steinbeck nf#
9. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides f+#
10. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs m+#
11. Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir by Janice Erlbaum m+
12. House of Smoke by JF Freedman n+
13. Double Vision by Pat Barker n#*
14. Claire’s Head by Catherine Bush n#
15. Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux nf#

Read/Reading For School:

• The Subject of Semiotics by Kaja Silverman
• The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis by Barbara Creed
• The History of Sexuality: An Introduction by Michel Foucault
• Discipline & Punish by Michel Foucault
• Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit

Ratings Code:

a anthology
e essays
m memoir
n novel
nf non-fiction
s short stories
+ first book by this author
# will read more by this author
* best on this list