What I'm Reading for Fun 
I absolutely adore Elvira and this autobiography gives fascinating insight into her life and career. And for a bonus: The audiobook is read by Cassandra Peterson (aka Elvira) herself!
My Big Reading List (What I'm Reading for School)
Right now I'm reading for a big exam I'll be taking in April. I'm going to keep a running list here of the books I'm reading and my overall progress on completeing the list!
=In Progress
=Finished
List 1: The Dissertation List
Literature
1. James Baldwin, Baldwin- Collected Essays
2. James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
3. Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
4. Paul Bowles, Let It Come Down
5. William S. Burroughs, Queer
6. Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
7. Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
8. Suzanna Clark, A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco
9. Teju Cole, Every Day is for the Thief
10. Teju Cole, Open City
11. Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
12. Joan Didion, Joan Didion: The 1960s and 70s
13. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
14. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
15. Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
16. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, The Heat and the Dust
17. Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
18. Hisham Matar, The Return
19. Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin
20. Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
21. Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family
22. John Rechy, City of Night
23. Phillip Roth, I Married a Communist
24. Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
Scholarly Works
1. Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture
2. James Campbell, Exiled in Paris : Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett and Others on the Left Bank
3. Ayari Cozzo, Two Questers in the Twentieth-Century North Africa: Paul Bowles and Ibrahim Alkoni
4. Amy Elias, Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin
5. Nancy Hendricks, Daily Life in 1950’s America
6. Charles Kaiser, The Gay Metropolis: 1940-1996
7. Ray Kiely, The New Political Economy of Development: Globalization, Imperialism, Hegemony
8. Wai Chee Dimock and Lawrence Buell, Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature
9. Sharon Monteith, American Culture in the 1960s
10. Marc Raeff, Russia Abroad: A Cultural History of the Russian Emigration, 1919-1939
11. David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd
12. Mark Rupert, Ideologies of Globalization : Contending Visions of a New World Order
13. Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles
14. Justin Stagl, A History of Curiosity: The Theory of Travel 1550-1800
15. Kathleen Vandenberg, Joan Didion : Substance and Style
16. Oxford UP, Cosmopolis and Beyond
List Number 2: Comprehensive Period List- 20th Century American Literature
Literature
1. Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
2. John Ashbery, The Tennis Court Oath
3. Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
4. Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
5. Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
6. Don DeLillo, White Noise
7. Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
8. William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
9. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
10. Joseph Heller, Catch-22
11. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
12. Langston Hughes, Montage of a Dream Deferred
13. Zora Neil Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
14. Henry James, The Ambassadors
15. Jack Kerouac, On the Road
16. Nella Larsen, Passing
17. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
18. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
19. Toni Morrison, Beloved
20. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
21. Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
22. Frank O’Hara, Lunch Poems
23. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
24. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
25. J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
26. Zadie Smith, White Teeth
27. Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
28. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
29. Alice Walker, The Color Purple
30. Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
31. David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
32. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
33. Thomas Wolfe, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
34. Richard Wright, Native Son
Scholarly Works
1. Jessica Schiff Berman, Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community
2. Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
3. Terry Eagleton, The Illusions of Post-Modernism
4. Teresa Heffernan, Post-Apocalyptic Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel
5. Cor Hermans, Interbellum Literature: Writing in a Season of Nihilism
6. Linda Hutcheon, A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction
7. Jason Gladstone et al., Postmodern/Postwar and After: Rethinking American Literature
8. Octavio Gonzalez, Misfit Modernism: Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel
9. Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
10. Lecia Rosenthal, Mourning Modernism: Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation
11. Michael Trask, Cruising Modernism: Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought
=In Progress=FinishedList 1: The Dissertation List
Literature
1. James Baldwin, Baldwin- Collected Essays
2. James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
3. Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
4. Paul Bowles, Let It Come Down
5. William S. Burroughs, Queer
6. Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
7. Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
8. Suzanna Clark, A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco
9. Teju Cole, Every Day is for the Thief
10. Teju Cole, Open City
11. Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
12. Joan Didion, Joan Didion: The 1960s and 70s
13. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
14. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
15. Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
16. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, The Heat and the Dust
17. Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
18. Hisham Matar, The Return
19. Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin
20. Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
21. Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family
22. John Rechy, City of Night
23. Phillip Roth, I Married a Communist
24. Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
Scholarly Works
1. Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture
2. James Campbell, Exiled in Paris : Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett and Others on the Left Bank
3. Ayari Cozzo, Two Questers in the Twentieth-Century North Africa: Paul Bowles and Ibrahim Alkoni
4. Amy Elias, Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin
5. Nancy Hendricks, Daily Life in 1950’s America
6. Charles Kaiser, The Gay Metropolis: 1940-1996
7. Ray Kiely, The New Political Economy of Development: Globalization, Imperialism, Hegemony
8. Wai Chee Dimock and Lawrence Buell, Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature
9. Sharon Monteith, American Culture in the 1960s
10. Marc Raeff, Russia Abroad: A Cultural History of the Russian Emigration, 1919-1939
11. David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd
12. Mark Rupert, Ideologies of Globalization : Contending Visions of a New World Order
13. Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles
14. Justin Stagl, A History of Curiosity: The Theory of Travel 1550-1800
15. Kathleen Vandenberg, Joan Didion : Substance and Style
16. Oxford UP, Cosmopolis and Beyond
List Number 2: Comprehensive Period List- 20th Century American Literature
Literature
1. Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
2. John Ashbery, The Tennis Court Oath
3. Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
4. Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
5. Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
6. Don DeLillo, White Noise
7. Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
8. William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
9. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
10. Joseph Heller, Catch-22
11. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
12. Langston Hughes, Montage of a Dream Deferred
13. Zora Neil Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
14. Henry James, The Ambassadors
15. Jack Kerouac, On the Road
16. Nella Larsen, Passing
17. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
18. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
19. Toni Morrison, Beloved
20. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
21. Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
22. Frank O’Hara, Lunch Poems
23. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
24. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
25. J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
26. Zadie Smith, White Teeth
27. Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
28. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
29. Alice Walker, The Color Purple
30. Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
31. David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
32. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
33. Thomas Wolfe, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
34. Richard Wright, Native Son
Scholarly Works
1. Jessica Schiff Berman, Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community
2. Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
3. Terry Eagleton, The Illusions of Post-Modernism
4. Teresa Heffernan, Post-Apocalyptic Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel
5. Cor Hermans, Interbellum Literature: Writing in a Season of Nihilism
6. Linda Hutcheon, A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction
7. Jason Gladstone et al., Postmodern/Postwar and After: Rethinking American Literature
8. Octavio Gonzalez, Misfit Modernism: Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel
9. Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
10. Lecia Rosenthal, Mourning Modernism: Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation
11. Michael Trask, Cruising Modernism: Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought