Suggested Reading List

Poetry:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Anne Sexton
The Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood
On Loving Two Equally by Aphra Behn
A Story About the Body by Robert Hass

Fiction:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Haven't read since high school, opinion may have changed)
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Women Who Run With Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D.
Harry Potter (the entire series) by J.K. Rowling
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Nonfiction:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Lying, a Metaphorical Memoir by Lauren Slater

Plays:
M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Short Stories:
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Anything by:
Sherman Alexie
Edgar Allan Poe
William Shakespeare (okay, half of anything)
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson (her later works)
Kate Chopin
J.R.R. Tolkien