I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. ~ W.E. Henley

A Vixen's Reads: My Booklist


If anyone would pay attention to my book collection, it would be easy to conclude that I dig World War II genres.  I find that era fascinating, heart wrenching and exciting all at the same time.  My term paper back in high school, if I remember it right, was about the cruelties of that war.  Although I get horrified in reading holocaust tales, my interest and curiosity progresses exponentially.  I even got my self a hard copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf just to pick his brain.  

Not to make this post longer than it would be, I present my minuscule but fairly filling collection written in my ghastly handwriting! 


The Secret Garden - Frances Hudson Burnett
The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende

My French Whore - Gene Wilder
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The New Reich - Michael Schmidt

Getting In Touch With Your Inner Bitch - Elizabeth Hilts
The True Stella Awards - Randy Cassingham
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Real McCoy - Darin Strauss






The Woman Who Rode Away - D.H. Lawrence
The Devils Advocate - Morris West
Primary Colors - Anonymous
I Love You, Ronnie - The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan
Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler

Wall Street - Kenneth Lipper
Katharine Hepburn - Sheridan Morley
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Major Works of William Wadsworth
Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki



Japan Against the World - Russel Braddon
Tao Teh Ching - Lao Tzu
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Virgin Suicides - Jefferey Eugenides
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Rage of Angels - Sidney Sheldon
Gullivers Travels and Other Writings - Jonathan Swift
This Boy's Life - Tobias Wolff






Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Veronika Decides to Die - Paolo Coelho
The Aryan Myth - Leon Poliakov





The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
The Woman Who Had Two Navels - Nick Joaquin
Like The Flowing River - Paolo Coelho
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Chronicles of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Paboritong Libro ni Judas - Bob Ong
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Poison Wood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Always a Reckoning - Jimmy Carter






The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve
Satan's Underground - Lauren Stratford
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept - Paolo Coelho
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Politics of Law - David Kairys

The Love Spell - Phyllis Curott
Introduction to Critical Thinking - Bruce Reichenbach
The Purpose Driven Life - Rick Warren


  Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:  this is the ideal life.  ~Mark Twain







5 comments:

  1. Oh my! this is such a long list! good luck isabeau! i once looked for Mein Kampf but then i decided against it because i think it's such a "heavy" read... i can't wait to hear/read your insights... i'm not so much into these types of books because i think my brain can only take so much, haha, and complicated names and places easily confuse me. :P but i would really really love to hear from you. that way, i will not only be enticed to read, it would be as if i've read the book myself too :P

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  2. Such an interesting stash. Like Monette, I wouldn't go for those types of books because I'm more of an escapist so adventure/fantasy/YA are my cup of tea.
    But would love to read your reviews in the future. ^_^

    Btw, Beau, did you try for the school paper in HS? Sayang if wala. You would have been a nice addition to the team. The paper could have used someone of your writing caliber. :)

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  3. Such an interesting stash. Like Monette, I wouldn't go for those types of books because I'm more of an escapist so adventure/fantasy/YA are my cup of tea.
    But would love to read your reviews in the future. ^_^

    Btw, Beau, did you try for the school paper in HS? Sayang if wala. You would have been a nice addition to the team. The paper could have used someone of your writing caliber. :)

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  4. Have you selected the books na for the FFP Read-A-Thon (http://wp.me/p7Fut-v7)? Will eagerly wait for your updates as well as Monette's.
    Excited na ko. Hopefully I will last through 24 hours straight. Wish ko lang. Hehe

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  5. ahahahah this is where I salute you....you've been the bookworm since elementary and until now...I am more on the visual and talking part...ahahahha!!! but I wish I have the perseverance in finishing a book, the only book I read completely was angels and demons and some love story books remember Sweet Valley hahaha

    Kisses
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    PensandLens
    @mistytewest

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