1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. (for class) My rating: (9.5/10)
2. Mapping the Edge, by Sarah Dunant. My rating: (6/10)
3. City of God, by E. L. Doctorow. My rating: (7/10)
4.The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane (for Acadec). My rating: (2/10) 
5. The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand. My Rating: (10/10)
6. House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski. My Rating: (10/10) 
7. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. My Rating: (9/10)
8. The Elephant Vanishes, by Haruki Murakami. My Rating: (9.7/10)
9. Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch, by Dai Sijie. My Rating (9/10)
10. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd. My Rating: (9.6/10)
11. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. My Rating: (10/10 - this book changed me)
12. Diary, by Chuck Palahniuk. My Rating: (8/10)
13. Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk. My Rating: (9.5/10) 
14. Hiroshima, by John Hersey. (for class) My Rating: (3.5/10) 
15. Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck. (for class) My Rating: (I still don't know what I think about this/10) 
16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey. (for class) My Rating: (9.8/10) 
17. Twilight, by Stephanie Meyers. My Rating: (I only read this because Lourdes wanted me to/10) 
18. Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri. My Rating: (9/10) 
19. New Moon, by Stephanie Meyers. My Rating: (I don't like this series, but it's growing on me anyway. I'm sort of frustrated about that.)
20. Eclipse, by Stephanie Meyers. My Rating: (Eh/10)
21. Paradise, by Toni Morrison. My Rating: (7/10) 
22. Dracula, by Bram Stoker. My Rating (8.8/10) 
23. We the Living, by Ayn Rand. My Rating: (8/10) (I would have thought this a better book if I hadn't read Atlas Shrugged first.) 
24. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker. My Rating: (8/10)
25. That Old Ace in the Hole, by Annie Proulx. My Rating: (5/10)
26. Sputnik Sweetheart, by Haruki Murakami. My Rating: (10/10)
27. When You are Engulfed in Flames, by David Sedaris. My Rating: (4/10) (It would have been really good, if it had anything resembling a plot.)
28. Like the Red Panda, by Andrea Seigel. My Rating: (2.8/10) (I just don't understand....)
29. Only Revolutions, by Mark Z. Danielewski. My Rating: (8/10) (The wierd type arrangement wasn't as novel the second time around, and I didn't really like reading the same story twice, but it brought up some interesting thoughts.) 
30. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt (re-read). My Rating: (10/10) 
31. Night Watch, by Sergei Lukyanenko. My Rating (8.7/10)
32. The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger. My Rating (7.5/10) (At first I hated this book, and then I reached a conversation that pulled everything together for me.)
33. A Long Day's Journey into Night, by Eugene O'Neill. (for class) My Rating: (9.2/10) 
34. The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov. My Rating: (10/10) (The Devil comes to atheist Moscow? Come on.)
35. Out, by Natsuo Kirino. My Rating: (8.7/10) (Cut out all the gory parts, and it would have been a really good book....)
36. The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien. (for class) My Rating: (9.5/10)
37. The Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood. My Rating: (7/10) (the writing wasn't great, but when she hides under the bed, it was like... Oh. I get her.)
38. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee. My Rating: (9.3/10)
39. Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences, by Abraham H. Maslow (nonfiction). My Rating: (for what it was - a psychology text - I liked it. It made me think.)
40. The Iliad, by Homer. (for class) My Rating: (It was Greek literature(?). How do I rate it?)
41. Oedipus King, by Sophocles. (for class) My Rating: (reading Aristotle's Poetics before this made me see so much more....And, I'm sorry Mr Edom, but I just had to scribble that excerpt from The Secret History in the margins of Poetics :))
42. Antigone, by Sophocles (for class). My rating: (pulled off a lot of parallels to Oedipus King... I liked it, too.)
43. Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo A. Anaya (for Acadec). My Rating: (8.5/10)
44. The Manticore, by Robertson Davies. My Rating: (8.9/10)
45. Beowulf (for class). My Rating: (9/10)
46. Hamlet (for class). My Rating: (8.7/10) My favourite Shakespeare play - especially the way Edom read it :)
47. Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath, by Anne Stevenson. My rating: (9/10) It was very good. It's only the second biography I've read, and I think I need to start reading more of them. You learn a lot if they're on good people.
48. South of the Border, West of the Sun, by Haruki Murakami. My Rating: (9.2/10)
49. Number9Dream, by David Mitchell. My Rating: (9.6/10) A bizarre book, but a very good one.
50. The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States, edited by Cathy N. Davison and Linda Wagner-Martin (NF). I learned a lot through reading this. The most important thing for my purposes: Confessional poetry doesn't actually mean the poet confesses things.
51. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Johnathan Safran Foer. My Rating: (9.8/10) This was the saddest book I've read in a while. But it was good.

I am reading: The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood (much better than The Edible Woman, as far as language and writing style).

I want to read: Agamemnon, by Aeschylus
Artist of the Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
1984, by George Orwell
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel, by Haruki Murakami
Wild Sheep Chase, by Haruki Murakami
The Church of Dead Girls, by Stephen Dobyns

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This, I've decided, will (might maybe could possibly) be one of my senior project stories.

Vodka removes masks and loosens tongues;
It clears my vision, and 
I find the brains I catered to, childlike, 
Are rotting.

Once-smooth limbs move jerkily,
Stupidly;
Shrieks rip from calm throats.
I have stumbled on someone's mistake.

Please, please,
An excuse, Sir, a pardon:
We are only human,
And accident-prone.

I tried to sew myself up today;
Using books and guitar strings
I reached down to fix the wound,
A self-doctoring of
Internal bleeding.

Please sew me up, shut me up,
Stuff me with pills.
Put a stopper in me please, sir undertaker;
For a week I’d like to die.

EDIT: Alex laughed so hard when she realized this was about periods.... : )