My 25 Favorite Books

1. Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alastair Gray
2. The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers
3. House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
4. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
5. The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
6. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
8. The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison
9. Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
10. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
11. This Book Needs No Title by Raymond Smullyan
12. The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
13. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
14. Demian by Hermann Hesse
15. Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem
16. Cigarettes by Harry Matthews
17. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
18. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
19. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
20. Slapstick, or Lonesome No More by Kurt Vonnegut
21. Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
22. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
23. Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
24. Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
25. Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec

... and the top 10 books I'd like to read, when I'm done studying for my exam:
1. Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
2. Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
3. William T. Vollmann, The Atlas
4. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
5. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
6. Alan Lightman, The Diagnosis
7. Carlton Mellick III, Satan Burger
8. Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang
9. Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (embarrassing that I haven't read this yet!)
10. Cynthia Ozick, The Puttermesser Papers