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The War of the Worlds
The Time Machine
The War in the Air
Marriage
Ann Veronica
The New Machiavelli
There are also a few mentions of books by other authors:
Rosmersholm
The Great God Pan
And finally, there's an annoyingly contradictory reference to "a copy of the latest book by Henry James, a collection of his late short fictions, sent to him by the author himself". Since this is set in 1915, the latest Henry James was in fact his second autobiography, Notes of a son & brother. His last pre-War short story collection was the 24-volume The New York Edition of Henry James: The Aspern Papers/The Turn of the Screw/The Liar/The Two Faces, published in 1909. So if you were wanting to read the autobiography or any of those 24 volumes, I guess you can take this as your prompt to do so.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Peter Pan
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
A Christmas Carol
The Chronicles of Narnia
A History of Western Philosophy
A Room of One’s Own
1984
To the Lighthouse
Mrs. Dalloway
Wuthering Heights
and "a new Agatha Christie just out", which based on the chronology must be either The Hollow or Taken at the Flood (aka There is a Tide...) by Agatha Christie

Nonfiction:
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
The Official Preppy Handbook
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
Alt.Culture
Prozac Nation
I Lost It At the Video Store: A Filmmakers' Oral History of a Vanished Era
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection
1995: The Year the Future Began
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond
Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead End Kids
Educated
Fiction:
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Infinite Jest
American Psycho
The Sun Also Rises
Underworld
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Jurassic Park
The Outsiders
Graphic Novel:
Ghost World

"He was currently arranging for Barry White, whom he’d met when they worked on Bob & Earl’s classic 1963 single “Harlem Shuffle.� Doing more and more solo work on movies. Zippo showed him a rough cut in the Grotto when Page came to town for the release of Can’t Get Enough."
Whitehead, Colson. Crook Manifesto (pp. 204-205). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.



So, as long as it is one published in 1933 or earlier, you could use it.


Afterparties
Erasure
The Sympathizer
The Refugees
The Committed
Interpreter of Maladies
A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest;' Adaptation for a Black Theatre
The Tempest
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
Sông I Sing
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
I'll try to remember to add more as they come up

Austerlitz
2666
The Savage Detectives
The Science of Right
A Heart So White
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear / Dance and Dream / Poison, Shadow, and Farewell
A Tale of Two Cities
Invisible Cities
The Cinnamon Shops
The Conformist
As I Lay Dying
Goodbye, Columbus
A Moveable Feast
Fear of Flying
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Lolita
The Shipping News
The Ashley Book of Knots
The Magic Mountain
The Emigrants
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Murphy
Waiting for Godot
Giovanni’s Room
Corydon
Sepharad
Sophie’s Choice
Old Masters: A Comedy
The Wasteland
Nightwood
The Leopard
Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Crime and Punishment
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
The Brothers Karamazov
The Waves
Anna Karenina
The Book of Disquiet
The Fall
Lana: the Lady, the Legend, the Truth
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Microcosms
Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea
The Metamorphosis
The English Patient
Swann’s Way
The Guermantes Way
Lives of the Saints: For Every Day in the Year
Dubliners
Herzog
Hills Like White Elephants
The Encyclopedia of the Dead
A Short History of Decay
Duino Elegies
The Iliad
Ransom
The Color Purple
Paradise Lost (quoted)
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Fatelessness
How I Came to Know Fish
Richard II
The Sonnets to Orpheus
The Charterhouse of Parma
Le monde comme volonté et comme représentation
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Hunger
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Flight Without End
Rosemary’s Baby
A Book of Memories
A House for Mr Biswas
Midnight’s Children
Mrs. Dalloway
A Room of One’s Own
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Memoirs of Hadrian
Waiting for the Barbarians

A Little Life
A Man Called Ove
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Gone Girl
The Devil Wears Prada
Anne of Green Gables
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Everyone Poops
The BFG
And vaguely:
The Chronicles of Narnia
11/22/63

There was a list of books, made by the character, which she titled "Suggested Reading List for Incoming Seventh Graders". If you are in the mood for a middle grade book, or possibly classics or YA,
she lists:
The War That Saved My Life
Brown Girl Dreaming
Among the Hidden - and the rest of the series
Refugee
The Outsiders
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
One Crazy Summer
Fish in a Tree
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
Orphan Island
Amal UnboundIsland of the Blue Dolphins
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Rebound
March
The Seventh Wish
The Bridge Home
The Thing About Jellyfish
Jellicoe Road
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Echo
Ghost
Genesis Begins Again
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
A Night Divided
Amina's Voice
The Ethan I Was Before
Breadcrumbs
Julie of the Wolves
The Parker Inheritance
Front Desk

The Giver
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Handmaid's Tale
The Hunger Games
Tuck Everlasting
The Catcher in the Rye
Atonement
Lolita

The Call of the Wild
White Fang
Moby-Dick or, The Whale

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating. I read this book years ago & enjoyed it. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. I think I'll use this book for the prompt.

In the Bell Jar, the protagonist complains about having to read Finnigan's Wake. So, I'm sure characters complaining about James Joyce happens in other fiction.
Unlike everyone else recommending the book they read, I do not recommend this book.

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The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work
To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
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