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The Wishlist

  • Writer: Yael Ochoa
    Yael Ochoa
  • Jan 21, 2020
  • 2 min read

Updated: Jan 10, 2023

ever evolving, subject to change

4, 3, 2, 1 by Paul Astor

Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag

All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

On Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Dress Codes by Richard Thompson Ford

Dune by Frank Herbert

Educated by Tara Westover

España: A Brief History of Spain by Giles Tremlett

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov

G-d Help the Child by Toni Morrison

The G-d of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

G-d on the Rocks by Jane Gardam

The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

Home by Toni Morrison

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Infinite Country by Patricia Engel

It by Stephen King

The Joke by Milan Kundera

Of Kids and Parents by Emil Hakl

The Last Lion Trilogy by William Manchester

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Life with Picasso by Francoise Gilot

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Love by Toni Morrison

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

M/F by Anthony Burgess

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Mist by Stephen King

Moonglow by Michael Chabon

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera by Fred Plotkin

The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation by Peter France

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Paradise by Toni Morrison

The Peregrine by J.A. Baker

A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

The Plague by Albert Camus

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A Caro

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

She Would Be King by Wayetu Moore

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison

The Story of the Country House by Clive Aslet

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Strangers in their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Sula by Toni Morrison

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy by Edmund Morris

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Two Prague Stories by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Tycoons by Charles R. Morris

Ulysses by James Joyce

Valerie and her Week of Wonders by Vitezslav Nezval

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

The Wind up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami


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