one day, i was bored, and made a list of all the books in my room. enjoy!
(note: a plus means i've actually read the book, and a star means 
i'm currently working on it. an x means i tried, and gave up half way 
because of declining interest, but that i might try again at any time.)
the number in parentheses is my estimate of it's difficulty. based on
my observed reading patterns, i've included some estimates as to how long
until all unread books below become read.

weighted todo total.
lit = 86, nonfiction = 79 (eta: July 2009).
math = 33 (eta: Apr 2010).

  literature and poetry (todo: lit=86)
  ---------------------
+ abha dawesar - that summer in paris
+ abha dawesar - the three of us
. adrienne rich - the fact of a doorframe (3)
. aeschylus - prometheus bound (1)
+ alexander solzhenitsyn - one day in the life of ivan denisovich
x alisa valdez-rodriguez - jugando con chicos
+ amy tan - joy luck club
+ andre gide - the immoralist
+ andrea seigel - like the red panda
+ anton chekhov - five great short stories
+ armistead maupin - tales of the city
+ arundhati roy - the god of small things
+ buchi emecheta - the joys of motherhood
+ bret easton ellis - american psycho
+ camilo jose cela - the family of pascual duarte
+ cormac mccarthy - blood meridian
+ dave eggers - what is the what
+ david foster wallace - the broom of the system
. david foster wallace - infinite jest (11)
+ d.h. lawrence - lady chatterley's lover
+ d.h. lawrence - sons and lovers
. d.h. lawrence - the rainbow (5)
+ douglas adams - the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
. dylan thomas - the collected stories (4)
+ edith wharton - ethan frome
+ elfriede jelinek - the piano teacher
+ erich maria remarque - all quiet on the western front
+ fyodor dostoevsky - crime and punishment
+ fyodor dostoevsky - notes from the underground
+ gabriel garcía márquez - innocent eréndira
+ gabriel garcía márquez - love in the time of cholera
+ gao xingjian - soul mountain
+ gautam malkani - londonstani
x george eliot - middlemarch (7)
. george orwell - 1984 (3)
+ george orwell - animal farm
+ goethe - faust
+ gustave flaubert - madame bovary
+ gustave flaubert - the temptation of saint anthony
x günter grass - the tin drum (5)
+ halldor laxness - independent people
+ honoré de balzac - old goriot
+ isaac bashevis singer - enemies, a love story
+ ivo andric - the bridge on the drina
+ james joyce - dubliners
+ james joyce - portrait of the artist as a young man
x james joyce - ulysses (8)
+ j.d. salinger - franny and zooey
+ j.d. salinger - the catcher in the rye
+ jeanette winterson - oranges are not the only fruit
. jeanette winterson - sexing the cherry (2)
+ jeanette winterson - weight
+ jeanette winterson - written on the body
+ jhumpra lahiri - the namesake
+ john fante - ask the dust
+ john kennedy toole - a confederacy of dunces
. john steinbeck - grapes of wrath (6)
+ john steinbeck - of mice and men
+ john steinbeck - pearl
+ john steinbeck - tortilla flat
+ john steinbeck - travels with charley
+ john updike - rabbit, run
+ jorge luis borges - collected fictions
+ joyce carol oates - the oxford book of american short stories
+ j.p. dunleavy - the ginger man
+ juan rulfo - pedro páramo
+ kurt vonnegut - hocus pocus
+ kurt vonnegut - mother night
. leo tolstoy - anna karenina (8)
+ marcel proust - swann's way
+ marcel proust - in the shadow of young girls in flower
+ marcel proust - the guermantes way
+ marge piercy - sex wars, a novel of gilded age new york
+ marilynne robinson - gilead
. marilynne robinson - housekeeping (2)
+ mitch albom - tuesdays with morrie
+ nick flynn - another bullshit night in suck city
+ nick hornby - how to be good
+ nikolai gogol - the overcoat and other short stories
+ orhan pamuk - snow
+ orson scott card - ender's game
. paris review book of heartbreak (anthology) (9)
+ pearl s buck - the good earth
+ philip k. dick - do androids dream of electric sleep?
+ philip roth - american pastoral
+ rainer maria rilke - possibility of being
+ ralph ellison - invisible man
+ raymond queneau - zazie in the metro
+ r.k. narayan - the ramayana
+ salman rushdie - midnight's children
+ sandra cisneros - the house on mango street
+ saul bellow - ravelstein
+ saul bellow - the adventures of augie march
+ sylvia plath - ariel
+ sylvia plath - the bell jar
+ tom wolfe - i am charlotte simmons
+ toni morrison - tar baby
+ t.s. eliot - the waste land and other poems
. virginia woolf - mrs dalloway (2)
+ virginia woolf - the waves
. virginia woolf - three guineas (2)
+ virginia woolf - to the lighthouse
. walt whitman - leaves of grass (5)
+ william faulkner - as i lay dying
+ william faulkner - the sound and the fury

  graphic novels
  --------------
+ alan moore and dave gibbons - watchmen
+ alison bechdel - fun home
+ art spiegelman - maus I
+ art spiegelman - maus II
. fillbach brothers, the - maxwell strangewell
+ fred van lenta, ryan dunlavey - action philosophers vol. 1
+ fred van lenta, ryan dunlavey - action philosophers vol. 2
+ gilbert hernandez - human diastrophism
. joe sacco - palestine
+ joe sacco - safe area goražde, the war in eastern bosnia 1992-95
+ marjane satrapi - persepolis, the story of a childhood
+ marjane satrapi - persepolis 2, the story of a return
+ marjane satrapi - embroideries
+ osamu tezuka - apollo's song
+ robert crumb, david zane mairowitz - kafka
. toufic el rassi - arab in america

  philosophy and religion (todo: nonfiction=32)
  -----------------------
+ bart d. ehrman - misquoting jesus
+ bertrand russell - the problems of philosophy
x cornel west - the cornel west reader (4)
x friedrich nietzsche - basic writings of nietzsche (6)
+ friedrich nietzsche - the gay science
+ heinrich domoulin - zen enlightenment
. immanuel kant - critique of pure reason (7)
+ introducing - linguistics
. james c. edwards - the plain sense of things (2)
. john dewey - art as experience (4)
. king james holy bible (8)
+ lao tzu - tao te ching
+ michael cook - the koran, a very short introduction
+ philip b. yampolsky - the platform sutra of the sixth patriarch
x simone de beauvoir - the ethics of ambiguity (1)

  history and biography (todo: nonfiction=26)
  ---------------------
+ anna politkovskaya - a russian diary
+ anna politkovskaya - a small corner of hell, dispatches from chechnya
+ azadeh moaveni - lipstick jihad
x howard zinn - a people's history of the united states (6)
+ introducing - chomsky
. jean-benoit nadeau and julie barlow - the story of french (5)
+ john pinder - the european union, a very short introduction
. lisa mintz messinger - georgia o'keefe (2)
+ niccolo machiavelli - the prince
x octavio paz - the labyrinth of solitude (4)
+ rebecca goldstein - incompleteness
+ robin wright - the last great revolution
+ roland penrose - miró
. ronald takaki - a different mirror (4)
+ swedish academy - the nobel prize in literature
. tim weiner - legacy of ashes: the history of the cia (5)
+ xinran - the good women of china

  math (todo: math=27)
  ----
. arne broman - introduction to partial differential equations (2)
. b.a. davey & h.a. priestley - introduction to lattices and order (3)
+ clio cresswell - mathematics and sex
+ colin c. adams - the knot book
+ david cox and john little and donal o'shea - ideals, varieties, and algorithms
+ david s. dummit and richard m. foote - abstract algebra
+ douglas hofstadter - gödel, escher, bach
. evar d. nering - linear algebra and matrix theory (3)
+ herbert b. enderton - a mathematical introduction to logic
+ introducing - mathematics
+ jerrold e. marsden and michael j. hoffman - elementary classical analysis
x j.h. van lint & r.m. wilson - a course in combinatorics (5)
. john stillwell - mathematics and its history (5)
+ karel hrbacek and thomas jech - introduction to set theory
. michael potter - set theory and its philosophy (3)
* paul benacerraf & hilary putnam - philosophy of mathematics (2)
. paul r. halmos - finite dimensional vector spaces (2)
+ thomas h. barr and c. henry edwards and david e. penney - multivariable calculus
+ w.s. massey - algebraic topology
. yukio matsumoto - an introduction to morse theory (2)

  cs (todo: math=5)
  --
+ brian w. kernighan & dennis ritchie - the c programming language
. christos papadimitriou - combinatorial optimization (5)
+ christos papadimitriou - computational complexity
+ david m. beazley - python essential reference
+ erich gamma & richard helm & ralph johnson & john vlissides - design patterns
+ gene golub and james ortega - scientific computing
+ rajeev motwani and prabhakar raghava - randomized algorithms
+ r. durbin & s. eddy & a. krogh & g. mitchison - biological sequence analysis
+ robert sedgewick - algorithms in c++
+ scott meyers - effective c++

  physics (todo: math=1)
  -------
+ jenna levin - how the universe got its spots
. nigel calder - einstein's universe (1)
+ richard p. feynman - six not-so-easy pieces

  biology
  -------
+ a.m. winchester - heredity
+ j.d. hawkins - gene structure and expression

  psychology
  ----------
+ philip g. zimbardo - shyness
+ steven levenkron - cutting
+ thomas lewis, fari amini, richard lannon - a general theory of love
+ wardell b. pomeroy - boys and sex

  politics and social sciences (todo: nonfiction=21)
  ----------------------------
+ amartya sen - development as freedom
+ barbara ehrenreich - nickel and dimed
. boyæ lafayette de mente - the chinese have a word for it (5)
+ joel bakan - the corporation
+ michael pollan - the omnivore's dilemma
. lisa jervis and andi zeisler - bitchfest (3)
. mancur olson - the logic of collective action (2)
. naomi klein - no logo (5)
. ralph nader - the ralph nader reader (4)
+ susan j. douglas & meredith w. michaels - mommy myth: the idealization of motherhood and how it has undermined women
. w.e.b. dubois - the souls of black folk (2)

  reference
  ---------
  berlitz - danish phrase book
  cathy winks & anne semans - the good vibrations guide to sex
  debbie stoller - stitch 'n bitch nation
  jennie shapter - bread machine, how to prepare and bake the perfect loaf
  john bartlett - familiar quotations
  larousse spanish-english college dictionary
  lonely planet - french phrasebook
  lonely planet - italian phrasebook
  paul hollywood - 100 great breads
  williams sonoma - the wine guide

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