HER BOOKS
Thinking About Memoir
A Three Dog Life: A Memoir
Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
An Actual Life
Herb’s Pajamas
Getting Over Tom
Lily
Pearl Paints

THE STACK

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas
The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher by Lewis Thomas
Blind Huber: Poems by Nick Flynn
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan

Jennifer Gilmore’s first novel, Golden Country, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2006, and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her work has appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies including Allure, BookForum, The Los Angeles Times, Nerve, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Self, The Seattle Weekly and Salon. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

In America: A Novel by Susan Sontag
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories by Delmore Schwartz
The Collected Stories by Leonard Michaels
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories by Grace Paley
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce
Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams by Rich Cohen

Joe Gould’s Secret by Joseph Mitchell

Sweet and Low by Rich Cohen

Negotiate This!: By Caring, But Not T-H-A-T Much by Herb Cohen

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer

Bellow: A Biography by James Atlas

Israel Is Real by Rich Cohen

The Long Haul by Amanda Stern

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

Driving the Heart and Other Stories by Jason Brown

Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Neuroses in Clinical Practice by Henry P. Laughlin

Influence by Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen

More Than It Hurts You by Darin Strauss

Forever by Judy Blume

Like Life by Lorrie Moore

Herzog by Saul Bellow

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss

The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean

Lazy Little Loafers by Susan Orlean

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell

Great Plains by Ian Frazier

Avian Medicine by by Branson Ritchie, Greg J. Harrison, Don Zantrop and Linda Harrison

Extra Extraordinary Chickens Stephen Green-Armytage

Keeping Pet Chickens by Johannes Paul

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider

The Guinea Pig Diaries by A. J. Jacobs

Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott

How Zebras Got Their Stripes by Leslie Sims and Laure Fournier

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Britannica Student Encyclopedia (16 vol.) by multiple authors

The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs

The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs

Reading the Bible Again For the First Time by Marcus J. Borg

Holy Bible by multiple authors

The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family by Kathryn Harrison

Jack the Ripper: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural by Terry Lynch

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Lost and Found: Stories from New York edited by Thomas Beller
It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs edited by Smith Magazine
Love Is a Four-Letter Word edited by Michael Taeckens
Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories about Flying edited by Dorothy Spears
Granta 91: Wish You Were Here: The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey
The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey
Before & After: Stories from New York edited by Thomas Beller

When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

The Crowned Cannibals: Writings on Repression in Iran by Reza Baraheni

The Impostor’s Daughter: A True Memoir by Laurie Sandell

Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M. Patenaude

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung by Mao Tse-Tung

Essential Works of Marxism edited by Arthur Mendel

Webster’s New World Vest Pocket Dictionary

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

A Landscape Manifesto by Diana Balmori
Moleskine Plain Pocket Notebook
Complete Works of Tacitus by Publius Tacitus
Wall and Water Gardens by Gertrude Jekyll
The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted edited by Charles E. Beveridge and Carolyn R. Hoffman
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf