My Bookshelf

[This is a list of some of the books I either have read, am reading, or plan on reading in the future, and which I thought were worthy of inclusion on this page for various reasons. Books are arranged in alphabetical order according to author's last name, with a few exceptions. As always, I don't necessarily agree with all of the content of these books or with their authors. If you have suggestions of books you think I'd enjoy, feel free to write a comment or email me at ani.sharmin@gmail.com. I'm always looking for more to read.]

Adams, Douglas

• Dirk Gently series
  1. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
  2. The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
• The Hitchhiker series
  1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  2. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  3. Life, the Universe, and Everything
  4. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
  5. Mostly Harmless
• The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Aeschylus

• The Oresteia
  • Agamemnon
  • The Libation Bearers
  • The Eumenides
• The Persians
• Prometheus Bound
• Seven Against Thebes
• The Supplicants

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi

• The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam (essay collection)
• Infidel
• Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

Alighieri, Dante (full name: Durante degli Alighieri)

• The Divine Comedy [la Divina Commedia] (translated by John Ciardi)
  1. Inferno
  2. Purgatorio
  3. Paradiso

Ames, Mildred

• Anna to the Infinite Power

Andersen, Hans Christian

• Fairy Tales (translated by Marte H. Hult, illustrated by Harry Clarke)

Anelli, Melissa

• Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon

Asimov, Isaac

• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
• The End of Eternity
• Foundation series
  1. Prelude to Foundation
  2. Forward the Foundation
  3. Foundation
  4. Foundation and Empire
  5. Second Foundation
  6. Foundation’s Edge
  7. Foundation and Earth
• The Gods Themselves
• Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection (short story and essay collection)
• I, Robot (short story collection)
• Magic: The Final Fantasy Collection (short story and essay collection)

Atwood, Margaret

• The Edible Woman
• The Handmaid’s Tale
• Oryx and Crake
• The Year of the Flood

Avalos, Hector

• The End of Biblical Studies
• Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence

Babbitt, Natalie

• Tuck Everlasting

Banks, Iain M.

• The Algebraist
• Culture series
  • Consider Phlebas
  • The Player of Games
  • Use of Weapons
  • The State of the Art (short story collection)
  • Excession
  • Inversions
  • Look to Windward
  • Matter
  • Surface Detail
• Transition

Bennett, Danielle

• Metal Dragons series (with Jaida Jones)
  1. Havemercy
  2. Shadow Magic
  3. Dragon Soul
  4. Steelhands

Blume, Judy

• Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Borges, Jorge Luis

• Collected Fictions (translated by Andrew Hurley)
• Selected Poems (edited by Alexander Coleman, various translators)

Bradbury, Ray

• Fahrenheit 451
• The Illustrated Man

Bradley, Marion Zimmer

• Avalon series
  • The Mists of Avalon
• Darkover
  • The Saga of the Renunciates
    • The Shattered Chain
    • Thendara House
    • City of Sorcery

Bujold, Lois McMaster

• Vorkosigan Saga
  • Dreamweaver’s Dilemma (short story)
  • Falling Free
  • Shards of Honor
  • Barrayar
  • The Warrior’s Apprentice
  • The Mountains of Mourning (novella)
  • The Vor Game
  • Cetaganda
  • Ethan of Athos
  • Labyrinth (novella)
  • Borders of Infinity (novella)
  • Brothers in Arms
  • Borders of Infinity collection’s framing story
  • Mirror Dance
  • Memory
  • Komarr
  • A Civil Campaign
  • Winterfair Gifts (novella)
  • Diplomatic Immunity
  • Cryoburn

Bulfinch, Thomas

• Mythology (containing The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne)

Calvino, Italo

• If on a winter’s night a traveler [Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore] (translated by William Weaver)
• Invisible Cities [Le città invisibili] (translated by William Weaver)
• Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories [Prima che tu dica 'Pronto'] (translated by Tim Parks)

Carrier, Richard

• Sense and Goodness without God

Carroll, Lewis (pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
• Through the Looking-Glass

Chabon, Michael

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
• Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands (essay collection)
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union: A Novel

Christina, Greta

• Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things Piss Off the Godless

Clarke, Arthur C.

• Childhood’s End
• The Collected Stories
• Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays, 1934-1988
• Rama series
  1. Rendezvous with Rama
  2. Rama II (with Gentry Lee)
  3. The Garden of Rama (with Gentry Lee)
  4. Rama Revealed (with Gentry Lee)
• The View from Serendip (essay collection)

Clarke, Susanna

• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
• The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

Collins, Suzanne

• The Hunger Games trilogy
  1. The Hunger Games
  2. Catching Fire
  3. Mockingjay

Comics

• V for Vendetta (writer Alan Moore, artist David Lloyd)
• Watchmen (writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, colorist John Higgins)

Corlett, William

• The Magician’s House quartet
  1. The Steps Up the Chimney
  2. The Door in the Tree
  3. The Tunnel Behind the Waterfall
  4. The Bridge in the Clouds

Coyne, Jerry

• Why Evolution is True

Dahl, Roald

• The Complete Adventures of Charlie and Mr. Willy Wonka
  1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  2. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Darwin, Charles

• The Descent of Man
• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Dawkins, Richard

• The Blind Watchmaker
• The God Delusion
• The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
• The Selfish Gene
• Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

DeCandido, Keith R. A.

• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine books
  • Demons of Air and Darkness
  • Horn and Ivory

Dennett, Daniel C.

• Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomena
• Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
• Freedom Evolves

Diamond, Jared

• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Dick, Philip K.

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• The Philip K. Dick Reader
• VALIS trilogy
  1. VALIS
  2. The Divine Invasion

Dickens, Charles

• Great Expectations
• Oliver Twist
• Our Mutual Friend
• The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (a.k.a. The Pickwick Papers)
• A Tale of Two Cities

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

• The Complete Sherlock Holmes (four novels and fifty-six short stories)
  • A Study in Scarlet (novel)
  • The Sign of Four (novel)
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (novel)
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Valley of Fear (novel)
  • His Last Bow
  • The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Dumas, Alexandre

• The Three Musketeers [Les Trois Mousquetaires] (translated by Richard Pevear)

Ehrman, Bart

• God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question — Why We Suffer
• Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible
• Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

Farmer, Philip José

• Riverworld
  1. To Your Scattered Bodies Go
  2. The Fabulous Riverboat
  3. The Dark Design

Fitzgerald, David

• Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All

Frank, Anne

• Diary of a Young Girl

Friedman, C. S.

• The Braxi/Azea duology
  1. In Conquest Born
  2. The Wilding

Gaiman, Neil

• American Gods
• Anansi Boys
• Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
• Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett)
• Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions

Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl and Wilhelm Carl (a.k.a. Brothers Grimm)

• Fairy Tales

Harris, Sam

• End of Faith
• Letter to a Christian Nation

Hawking, Stephen

• A Brief History of Time
• The Universe in a Nutshell

Hecht, Jennifer Michael

• Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

Heinlein, Robert A.

• The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners
• Friday
• Job: A Comedy of Justice
• Starship Troopers
• Stranger in a Strange Land
• Time Enough for Love: The Many Lives of Lazarus Long

Herbert, Frank

• Dune: original series
  1. Dune
  2. Dune Messiah
  3. Children of Dune
  4. God Emperor of Dune
  5. Heretics of Dune
  6. Chapterhouse: Dune
• The White Plague

Hitchens, Christopher

• God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
• Hitch-22: A Memoir
• Letters to a Young Contrarian
• The Portable Atheist (editor)
• Why Orwell Matters

Homer

• Iliad
• Odyssey

Hugo, Victor

• Les Misérables

Huxley, Aldous

• Brave New World
• Brave New World Revisited
• Island

Jacoby, Susan

• The Age of American Unreason
• Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
• Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age

Jemisin, N. K.

• The Inheritance Trilogy
  1. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
  2. The Broken Kingdoms
  3. The Kingdom of Gods

Jones, Jaida

• Metal Dragons series (with Danielle Bennett)
  1. Havemercy
  2. Shadow Magic
  3. Dragon Soul
  4. Steelhands

Juster, Norton

• The Phantom Tollbooth

King, Stephen

• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Kostova, Elizabeth

• The Historian
• The Swan Thieves

Lang, Jeffrey

• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine books
  • Abyss (with David Weddle)

Lee, Harper

• To Kill a Mockingbird

Le Guin, Ursula K.

• The Birthday of the World
• City of Illusions
• The Compass Rose
• The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Eutopia
• The Earthsea series
  1. The Wizard of Earthsea
• Four Ways to Forgiveness
• The Lathe of Heaven
• Lavinia
• The Left Hand of Darkness
• Orsinian Tales
• Planet of Exile
• Rocannon’s World
• The Telling
• The Wind’s Twelve Quarters
• The Word for World is Forest

L’Engle, Madeleine

• Time Quartet
  1. A Wrinkle in Time

Lewis, C. S.

• The Abolition of Man
• The Chronicles of Narnia
  1. The Magician’s Nephew
  2. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
  3. The Horse and His Boy
  4. Prince Caspian
  5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  6. The Silver Chair
  7. The Last Battle
• The Great Divorce
• A Grief Observed
• Mere Christianity
• Miracles
• The Problem of Pain
• The Screwtape Letters (with “Screwtape Proposes a Toast”)
• The Space Trilogy, Cosmic Trilogy, or Ransom Trilogy
  1. Out of the Silent Planet
  2. Perelandra
  3. That Hideous Strength
• Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (autobiography)
• Till We Have Faces
• The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses

Loftus, John W.

• The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails (contributor and editor)
• The End of Christianity (contributor and editor)

Lovecraft, H. P.

• At the Mountains of Madness

Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)

• On the Nature of Things [De Rerum Natura]

Manji, Irshad

• Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom
• The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith

Mehta, Hemant

• I Sold My Soul on eBay: Viewing Faith Through an Atheist’s Eyes

Miéville, China

• The City & the City
• Kraken

Milton, John

• Paradise Lost
• Paradise Regain’d

Modesitt, L. E., Jr.

• The Saga of Recluse
  1. The Magic of Recluse
  2. The Towers of the Sunset

Mugglenet.com Staff

• Mugglenet.com’s What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Fall in Love and How Will the Adventure Finally End (by Ben Schoen, Emerson Spartz, Andry Gorden, Gretchen Stull, and Jamie Lawrence)
• Mugglenet.com’s Harry Potter Should Have Died: Controversial Views from the #1 Fan Site (by Emerson Spartz and Ben Schoen)

Mukherjee, Siddhartha

• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Orwell, George (pen name of Blair, Eric Arthur)

• 1984
• Animal Farm
• Down and Out in Paris and London

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

• Metamorphoses

Paine, Thomas

• The Age of Reason
• Common Sense

Paolini, Christopher

• Inheritance Cycle
  1. Eragon
  2. Eldest
  3. Brisingr, or The Seven Promises of Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Bjartskular
  4. Inheritance, or The Vault of Souls

Peake, Mervyn

• Boy in Darkness and Other Stories
• Gormenghast series
  1. Titus Groan
  2. Gormenghast
  3. Titus Alone (unfinished)

Perry, S. D.

• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine books
  • Avatar, Book One
  • Avatar, Book Two

Plotz, David

• Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible

Pratchett, Terry

• Discworld series
  • The Color of Magic
  • Equal Rites
  • Guards! Guards!
  • Small Gods
  • Thud!
• Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)

Pullman, Philip

• His Dark Materials trilogy
  1. Northern Lights (The Golden Compass in North America)
  2. The Subtle Knife
  3. The Amber Spyglass
• His Dark Materials-Related Books
  • Lyra’s Oxford
  • Once Upon a Time in the North
• The Sally Lockheart quartet
  1. The Ruby in the Smoke
  2. The Shadow in the North
  3. The Tiger in the Well
  4. The Tin Princess

Religious Texts

• Bhagavad Gita
• Dhammapada
• New Testament
• Qur’an
• Tanakh
• Upanishads

Resnick, Laura

• The Chronicles of Sirkara
  • The Silerian Trilogy
  1. In Legend Born
  2. In Fire Forged, Part One: The White Dragon
  3. In Fire Forged, Part Two: The Destroyer Goddess

Rice, Anne

• The Vampire Chronicles
  1. Interview with the Vampire
  2. The Vampire Lestat
  3. The Queen of the Damned
  4. The Tale of the Body Thief

Rowling, J. K.

• Harry Potter series
  1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Sorcerer’s Stone in the US)
  2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Harry Potter-related works
  • Harry Potter Prequel
  • Newt Scamander’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them (Hogwarts textbook)
  • Kennilworthy Whisp’s Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts library book)
  • The Tales of Beedle the Bard (five short stories related to the Harry Potter universe)

Rushdie, Salman

• The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel
• Midnight’s Children: A Novel
• The Satanic Verses: A Novel

Russell, Bertrand

• Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Sagan, Carl

• Cosmos
• The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
• Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Savage, Dan

• The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family

Sawyer, Robert J.

• Calculating God

Schweizer, Bernard

• Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism

Shakespeare, William

• Hamlet
• Julius Caesar
• Macbeth
• Romeo and Juliet

Shelley, Mary

• Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Simmons, Dan

• Hyperion Cantos
  1. Hyperion
  2. The Fall of Hyperion
  3. Endymion
  4. The Rise of Endymion
• Ilium/Olympos duology
  1. Ilium
  2. Olympos

Spong, John Shelby

• The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible’s Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

• The Woman’s Bible (co-author)

Steinbeck, John

• East of Eden

Stevenson, Robert Louis

• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Stoker, Bram

• Dracula

Swift, Jonathan

• Gulliver’s Travels

Tolkein, J. R. R.

• The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (prelude to The Lord of the Rings)
• The Lord of the Rings
  1. The Fellowship of the Ring
  2. The Two Towers
  3. The Return of the King

Turner, Megan Whalen

• The Queen’s Thief series
  1. The Thief

Twain, Mark (pen name of Clemens, Samuel Langhorne)

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• The Bible According to Mark Twain
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
• The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress
• The Prince and the Pauper
• Tom Sawyer Abroad

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

• Aeneid

Warraq, Ibn (pen name)

• Why I Am Not a Muslim

Weddle, David

• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine books
  • Abyss (with Jeffrey Lang)

Wells, H. G.

• The Island of Doctor Moreau
• The Time Machine

Wharton, Ken

• Divine Intervention

White, T. H.

• The Once and Future King
  1. The Sword in the Stone
  2. The Queen of Air and Darkness
  3. The Ill-Made Knight
  4. The Candle in the Wind
  5. The Book of Merlyn (published separately and posthumously)

Wollstonecraft, Mary

• A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

Yolen, Jane

• The Devil’s Arithmetic

Zalon, Lily

• Dear Mr. Potter: Letters of Love, Loss, & Magic (compiler and editor)

Zusak, Markus

• The Book Thief