Below are the books mentioned in season 2, as collated by Amanda here. The effort she has put in is amazing, with notes telling you the exact reference and episode.
I will highlight any I have read in green. Any that are crossed out I do not intend on reading, either because it is a topic I have no interest in (Cookery, etc.), a biography of someone I have no interest in or it is going to be a struggle for me to read, or just something I will not enjoy.
Have you read any? What are your thoughts?
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
Macbeth – William Shakespeare
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
Richard III – William Shakespeare
The Scarecrow of Oz (Oz, #9) – L. Franj Baum
Personal History – Katherine Graham
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
One the Road – Jack Kerouac
Who Moved My Cheese? – Spencer Johnson
Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Alborn
Howl and Other Poems – Allen Ginsberg
The Iliad – Homer
The Collected Stories – Eudora Welty
Othello – William Shakespeare
Contact – Carl Sagan
Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
The Lottery – Shirley Jackson
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay – Nancy Milford
Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke
The Bhagavad Gita – Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
The Children’s Hour – Lillian Hellman
Candide – Voltaire
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter – Simone de Beauvoir
Inherit the Wind – Jerome Lawrence
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk – Legs McNeil
The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band – Tommy Lee
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country – Mark Twain
What Color is your Parachute? 2000: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career Changers – Richard N. Bolles
The Portable Nietzsche – Friedrich Nietzsche
Ham on Rye – Charles Bukowski
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ – Jose Sarmago
The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 – Gore Vidal
Unfinished Business: Memoirs: 1902-1988 – John Houseman
Summer of Fear – T. Jefferson Parker
Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies – Laura Esquivel
The Protocol – April Christofferson
James Joyce’s Ulysses – Stuart Gilbert
The Little Locksmith – Katherine Butler Hathaway
Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Night/ Come Bac to Sorrento/ Turn, Magic Wheel/ Angels on Toast/ A Time to be Born – Dawn Powell
