right now i am reading: the reptile room, lemony snicket

the recent bookshelf:

• the bad beginning, lemony snicket
• the secret diary of adrian mole, age 13 3/4, sue townsend
• redwall, brian jacques
• alanna series, tamora pierce
• wild magic, tamora pierce
• life among the savages, shirley jackson
• the chronicles of chrestomanci, vol. i, diana wynne jones
• coraline, neil gaiman

essential reading list:

• the hobbit, j.r.r.tolkien
• the lord of the rings, j.r.r. tolkien
• harry potter series, j.k.rowling
• the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, douglas adams
• a wizard of earthsea, ursula k. le guin
• dune, frank herbert
• ender's game, orson scott card
• the sandman comics, neil gaiman

• anna karenina, leo tolstoy
• to kill a mockingbird, harper lee
• the great gatsby, f.scott fitzgerald
• crime & punishment, fyodor dostoevsky
• memoirs of a geisha, arthur s. golden
• watership down, richard adams
• grendel, john gardner
• lolita, vladimir nabokov

• anne of green gables, l.m. montgomery
• alice's adventures in wonderland, lewis carroll
• winnie-the-pooh, a.a. milne