GENTLE SOUL, YOU'LL FLY
whitney.
twenty-three.
books, art, film
& baseball.

"but you know the worst thing about her? she works for the library."



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Books

Books Read in 2012:

  1. Sandman: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman
  2. The Death-Ray by Daniel Clowes
  3. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  4. The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume One edited by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
  5. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
  6. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
  7. Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
  8. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins**
  9. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins**
  10. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins**
  11. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
  12. The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
  13. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
  14. The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein
  15. The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
  16. Epileptic by David B.
  17. Midnighters: The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
  18. Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler
  19. Chicken With Plums by Marjane Satrapi
  20. Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman
  21. The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
  22. Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
  23. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
  24. Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
  25. Green Girl by Kate Zambreno
  26. It Chooses You by Miranda July
  27. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  28. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
  29. Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
  30. Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder
  31. The Hunger Games Official Illustrated Movie Companion
  32. Sleepwalk and Other Stories by Adrian Tomine
  33. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  34. Fire Study by Maria V. Snyder
  35. Where She Went by Gayle Forman
  36. Sickened by Julie Gregory
  37. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
  38. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
  39. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  40. Leonardo’s Lost Princess: One Man’s Quest to Authenticate an Unknown Portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci by Peter Silverman

**= re-read

Favorite books/plays/graphic novels:

  • The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  • The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
  • Endgame - Samuel Beckett
  • Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
  • Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  • The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
  • The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
  • Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
  • The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
  • In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O’Brien
  • Jellicoe Road - Melina Marchetta
  • Little Children - Tom Perotta
  • The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
  • Paper Towns - John Green
  • Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
  • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
  • The Trial - Franz Kafka
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
  • White Noise - Don DeLillo
  • White Oleander - Janet Fitch
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