Books I Covet

Lately I've realized I'm relatively illiterate, considering I stopped reading anything other than Sparknotes at the start of my junior year. I made a list of books I should read - tell me if you've read any of them. I want to know if they're worth my time.

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov

Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing

The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson

The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek

Summer - Edith Wharton

The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan