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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. --Joyce Carol Oates

Sunday, October 04, 2009



What you'll find here are lists--of books read, of stories read, of books I own but haven't yet read. I write about reading on my other blog, Pages Turned. Hope to see you there!

Saturday, June 27, 2009

The Fill in the Gaps Project



100 books to be read from this pool of 100 authors by the project's end date April 12, 2014:

Poppy Adams
The Behavior of the Moths
Grant Allen
The Woman Who Did
Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits
Majgul Axelsson
April Witch
Honore de Balzac
Cousin Betty
Nicola Barker
Darkmans
Sybille Bedford
A Favourite of the Gods
Rosalind Belben
Hound Music
Marcel Benabou
Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books
Caroline Blackwood
Great Granny Webster (April 2009)
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Fatal Eggs
The Master and Margarita
Italo Calvino
if on a winter's night a traveler
Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Anton Chekhov
Collected Stories
Wilkie Collins
No Name
The Woman in White
Ivy Compton-Burnett
The House and Its Head
Manservant and Maidservant
Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent
Jim Crace
The Pesthouse
Richmal Crompton
The Family Roundabout (July 2009)
Ingri and Edgar Perin D'Aulaire
Book of Norse Myths (April 2009)
Robertson Davies
The Cornish Trilogy
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Demons
The Eternal Husband
The Idiot
Theodore Drieser
Sister Carrie
Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers
Daphne Du Maurier
Don't Look Now (Sept 2009)
Rebecca
George Eliot
Felix Holt
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
William Faulkner
Go Down, Moses
The Snopes Trilogy
Rachel Ferguson
Alas, Poor Lady
E.M. Forster
Aspects of the Novel
William Gaddis
The Recognitions
Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South
Amitar Ghosh
Sea of Poppies
George Gissing
Born in Exile
In the Year of Jubilee
Sleeping Fires
etc.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Graham Greene
The Quiet American
George Grossman
The Diary of a Nobody
Patrick Hamilton
The Slaves of Solitude (May 2009)
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
Thomas Hardy
Far From the Madding Crowd
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Woodlanders
L.P. Hartley
The Go-Between
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Blithedale Romance
Shirley Hazzard
Transit of Venus
Herodotus
The Histories
Janet Hobhouse
The Furies
Vere Hodgson
Few Eggs and No Oranges
Richard Hughes
The Fox in the Attic
In Hazard
The Wooden Shepherdess
Henry James
The Ambassadors
James Joyce
Dubliners
Ulysses
Heinrich von Kleist
The Marquise of O-
D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Women in Love
Halldor Laxness
Independent People
Ursula K. LeGuin
The Left Hand of Darkness
Doris Lessing
The Sweetest Dream
Naguib Mahfouz
Palace Walk
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice
Doctor Faustus
Katherine Mansfield
Collected Stories
Peter Matthiessen
Shadow Country
W. Somerset Maugham
The Magician
The Painted Veil
David McCullough
John Adams
Herman Melville
The Confidence Man
The Piazza Tales
John Milton
Paradise Lost
Drusilla Modjeska
The Orchard
Iris Murdoch
The Book and the Brotherhood
Nuns and Soldiers
The Unicorn
etc.
Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire
Irene Nemirovsky
Suite Francaise
Flannery O'Connor
The Habit of Being
Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried
Ovid
The Metamorphoses
Amos Oz
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Dawn Powell
Dance Night (August 2009)
A Time to Be Born
Francine Prose
Goldengrove
Marcel Proust
The Guermantes Way
Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49
Ron Rash
One Foot in Eden (June 2009)
Serena
Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
Peter Rushforth
Kindergarten
Vita Sackville-West
All Passion Spent
Mary Lee Settle
Know Nothing
William Shakespeare
Henry V
Othello
Richard III
Ali Smith
The First Person
Girl Meets Boy
The Whole Story and Other Stories
Emma Smith
The Far Cry
Susan Sontag
In America
Christina Stead
House of All Nations
Letty Fox
Salzburg Tales
etc.
Wallace Stegner
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Stendhal
Charterhouse of Parma
William Styron
Sophie's Choice
Betsy Tobin
Ice Land
Anthony Trollope
The Bertrams (October 2009)
The Claverings
The Vicar of Bullhampton (May 2009)
The Way We Live Now
etc.
Sigrd Undset
The Wreath (October 2009)
The Wife
The Cross
Nathaniel West
The Day of the Locust
Rebecca West
The Sentinel
This Real Night
Cousin Rosamund
Edith Wharton
The Old Maid
The Reef
Dorothy Whipple
Someone at a Distance
John Williams
Stoner
Thomas Wolfe
Look Homeward Angel
Viginia Woolf
Night and Day
Orlando
The Waves
John Wyndam
The Chrysalids
Emile Zola
Germinal
Stefan Zweig
Beware of Pity
Fantastic Night and Other Stories
Marie Antoinette

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Comprehensive Reading List A-G

A-G

Edward Abbey
Desert Solitaire
Peter Ackroyd
The Lambs of London (audiobook)
Milton in America
Alice Adams
A Southern Exposure
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Life, the Universe and Everything
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish
Mostly Harmless
Richard Adams
Watership Down
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half of a Yellow Sun
James Agee
A Death in the Family
Jonis Agee
The River Wife
Strange Angels
Mitch Albom
Tuesdays With Morrie
Louisa May Alcott
Little Men
Little Women
Woody Allen
Side Effects
Without Feathers
Dorothy Allison
Bastard Out of Carolina
David Almond
Skellig
Lisa Alther
Kin Flicks
Joseph A. Amato
Dust: A History of the Small and the Invisible
David Ambrose
The Man Who Turned Into Himself
Martin Amis
The Information
Benjamin Anastas
An Underachiever's Diary
Kurt Andersen
Heyday
Sherwood Anderson
Winesburg, Ohio
Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Anonymous
The Homeric Hymns, Diane Rayor, trans.
Go Ask Alice
Karen Armstrong
A Short History of Myth
Janis Arnold
Daughters of Memory
Harriett Arnow
The Dollmaker
Ruth Arthur
A Candle in Her Room
Isaac Asimov
I, Robot
Kate Atkinson
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Case Histories
Emotionally Weird
Human Croquet (twice)
Not the End of the World
One Good Turn
When Will There Be Good News?
Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace
The Blind Assassin
Cat's Eye (twice)
Dancing Girls and Other Stories
The Edible Woman
The Handmaid's Tale
Life Before Man (twice)
Morning in the Burned House
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Oryx and Crake
The Penelopiad
The Robber Bride
Surfacing
Wilderness Tips
Jane Austen
Emma (twice)
Lady Susan
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion (twice)
Pride and Prejudice (twice)
Sense and Sensibility (twice)
Paul Auster
The Book of Illusions
Oracle Night
Trezza Azzopardi
The Hiding Place
Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Ellyn Bache
Safe Passage
Charlotte Bacon
Split Estate
Beryl Bainbridge
The Bottle Factory Outing
Alison Baker
How I Came West, and Why I Stayed
Loving Wanda Beaver
Nicholson Baker
A Box of Matches
Checkpoint
The Everlasting Story of Nory
The Mezzanine
U and I
William Baldwin
The Fennel Family Papers
Melissa Bank
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Russell Banks
The Sweet Hereafter
Muriel Barbery
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Alessandro Baricco
Silk
Anne Llewellyn Barstow
Witchcraze
Frederick Barthelme
Second Marriage
Andrea Barrett
Ship Fever
The Voyage of the Narwhal
A.L. Barker
The Haunt
Submerged: Selected Stories
Pat Barker
Another World
Sebastian Barry
The Secret Scripture
Rick Bass
The Diezmo
In the Loyal Mountains
The Lost Grizzlies
The Ninemile Wolves
The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness
The Watch
Susan Baumgartner
My Walden: Tales from Dead Cow Gulch
Charles Baxter
The Art of Subtext
The Feast of Love
First Light
Harmony of the World
A Relative Stranger
Shadow Play
Ann Beattie
Love Always
Picturing Will
x
Bernard Beckett
Genesis
Samuel Beckett
Waiting For Godot
Frank Beddor
The Looking Glass Wars
Rosalind Belben
Our Horses in Egypt
Madison Smartt Bell
Soldier's Joy
Ten Indians
Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March
The Dean's December
Herzog
Humboldt's Gift
Aimee Bender
An Invisible Sign of My Own
Sue Bender
Plain and Simple
Alan Bennett
The Clothes They Stood Up In
Arnold Bennett
The Old Wives' Tale
John Berendt
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Elizabeth Berg
Durable Goods
The Pull of the Moon
Range of Motion
Talk Before Sleep
Thomas Berger
Little Big Man
Suzanne Berne
A Crime in the Neighborhood
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
All the President's Men
Doris Betts
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories
Heading West (twice)
The River to Pickle Beach
The Sharp Teeth of Love
Souls Raised From the Dead
Mahi Binebine
Welcome to Paradise
Mark Bittner
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Sven Birkerts
The Gutenberg Elegies
Caroline Blackwood
Great Granny Webster
James Carlos Blake
Wildwood Boys
Jerry Bledsoe
Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness and Multiple Murder
Lawrence Block
a couple Bernie Rodenbarr mysteries
Amy Bloom
Come to Me
Harold Bloom
The American Religion
The Book of J
Judy Blume
Forever
Wifey
Chris Bohjalian
Midwives
Robert Boswell
American Owned Love
Century's Son
Crooked Hearts (three times)
Dancing in the Movies
Living to be 100
Mystery Ride
Shelia Bosworth
Slow Poison
Elizabeth Bowen
The Death of the Heart
Paul Bowles
The Sheltering Sky
William Boyd
Any Human Heart
The New Confessions
Ray Bradbury
Death is a Lonely Business
Fahrenheit 451 (twice)
The Martian Chronicles
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Star of Danger
Gayle Brandeis
The Book of Dead Birds
Richard Brautigan
The Abortion
In Watermelon Sugar
Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt
Wendy Brenner
Large Animals in Everyday Life
Kevin Brockmeier
The Brief History of the Dead
Anne Bronte
Agnes Grey
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Villette
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
Anita Brookner
Dolly
The Rules of Engagement
Visitors
Geraldine Brooks
March
People of the Book
Year of Wonders
Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code
Larry Brown
Joe
A Miracle of Catfish
Mary Ward Brown
Tongues of Flame
Rita Mae Brown
x
Rosellen Brown
Before and After
Tender Mercies
Steven Brust
My Own Kind of Freedom (Firefly novel)
Bill Bryson
Notes from a Small Island
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Norma Jane Bumgarner
Mothering Your Nursing Toddler
Jame MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn
The Three Roosevelts
Olive Ann Burns
Cold Sassy Tree
Beverly Butler
Light a Single Candle
Robert Olen Butler
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Mr. Spaceman
A. S. Byatt
Angels and Insects
Babel Tower
The Biographer's Tale
The Children's Book
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
The Game
Little Black Book of Stories
Possession
Still Life
Sugar and Other Stories
The Virgin in the Garden
A Whistling Woman
Mary Ann Cahill
The Heart Has Its Own Reasons
Roberto Calasso
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
Tess Callahan
April and Oliver
Italo Calvino
The Baron in the Trees
Cosmicomics
Peter Cameron
The City of Your Final Destination
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Joseph Campbell
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Myths to Live By
The Power of Myth The Way of Myth
Albert Camus
The Fall
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
The Plague
The Stranger (three times)
Joanna Cannan
Princes in the Land
Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories
The Grass Harp
In Cold Blood
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game
Edward Carey
Observatory Mansions
Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda
True History of the Kelly Gang
Ron Carlson
At the Jim Bridger
Jonathan Carroll
The Wooden Sea
Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland (multiple times)
Through the Looking-Glass (multiple times)
Willa Cather
My Antonia
My Mortal Enemy
O Pioneers!
The Professor's House
The Song of the Lark
Miguel De Cervantes
Don Quixote
Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Final Solution
A Model World and Other Stories
Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Werewolves in Their Youth
Wonder Boys
Vikram Chandra
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Dan Chaon
Among the Missing
Await Your Reply
Fred Chappell
Brighten the Corner Where You Are
Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You
The Gaudy Place
I Am One of You Forever
Look Back All the Green Valley
Joan Chase
During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
Ron Chernow
Alexander Hamilton
Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard
Tracy Chevalier
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Max Childers
The Congregation of the Dead
Kate Chopin
The Awakening
Kate Christensen
The Epicure's Lament
In the Drink
Jeremy Thrane
John Christopher
When the Tripods Came
The White Mountains
Carolyn Chute
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Nancy Clark
The Hills at Home
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Ox-Bow Incident
Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
Pearl Cleage
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day. . .
J. M. Coetzee
Disgrace
The Lives of Animals
Waiting for the Barbarians
Emily Colas
Just Checking: Scenes From the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive
Robert Coles
The Moral Intelligence of Children
James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My Brother Sam is Dead
Billy Collins
Picnic, Lightning
Laurie Colwin
Family Happiness
Happy All the Time
Ralph Compton
The Shadow of a Noose
Barbara Comyns
Our Spoons Came From Woolworths
Evan S. Connell
Mrs. Bridge
John Connolly
The Book of Lost Things
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
The Shadow-Line
Pat Conroy
The Great Santini
The Prince of Tides
Jill Ker Conway
The Road From Coorain
Karin Cook
What Girls Learn
Martha Cooley
The Archivist
Caroline B. Cooney
What Child is This?
Robert Cormier
The Chocolate War
Patricia D. Cornwell
All That Remains
Jim Crace
Being Dead
Continent
The Gift of Stones
Quarantine
Stephen Crane
Red Badge of Courage
The Poems of Stephen Crane
Harry Crews
Scar Lover
Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park
The Lost World
Richmal Crompton
Family Roundabout
Justin Cronin
Mary and O'Neil
Lorna Crozier
Small Beneath the Sky
John Crowley
Little, Big
Andrew Crumey
Sputnik Caledonia
Dave Cullen
Columbine
Michael Cunningham
A Home at the End of the World
The Hours (twice)
Specimen Days
Ron Currie, Jr.
Everything Matters!
Linda Katherine Cutting
Memory Slips
Amy Dacyczyn
Tightwad Gazette
Tightwad Gazette II
Tightwad Gazette III
Carla Damron
Keeping Silent
Partners
Spider Blue
Robertson Davies
Fifth Business
Leaven of Malice
A Mixture of Frailties
Tempest-Tost
Stevie Davies
Four Dreamers and Emily
Kathryn Davis
The Walking Tour
Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion
Clarence Day
Life With Father
Pamela Dean
Juniper, Gentian and Rosemary (twice)
Tam Lin
Alain de Botton
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Walter de la Mare
The Return
Nicholas Delbanco
The Lost Suitcase: Reflections on the Literary Life
Don DeLillo
White Noise
Rebecca McClanahan Devet
Mrs. Houdini
Robb Forman Dew
Fortunate Lives
Helen DeWitt
The Last Samurai
Pete Dexter
Deadwood (twice)
Paris Trout
Anita Diamant
The Red Tent
Charles Dickens
Bleak House
A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Hard Times
A Tale of Two Cities
Nicolas Dickner
Nikolski
Joan Didion
Play It As It Lays (multiple times)
Slouching Toward Bethlehem
The Year of Magical Thinking
x
Annie Dillard
An American Childhood
The Maytrees
The Writing Life
Barbara Dimmick
In the Presence of Horses
Isak Dinesen
Out of Africa
Michael Dirda
Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
E.L. Doctorow
The Book of Daniel
The March
Ragtime
Welcome to Hard Times
Gerard Donovan
Julius Winsome
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov (three times)
Crime and Punishment
Notes From Underground
Mark Doty
Firebird: A Memoir
Still Life With Oysters and Lemon
Michael Downing
Breakfast With Scot
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Margaret Drabble
The Garrick Year (twice)
The Gates of Ivory
The Ice Age
Jerusalem the Golden
The Middle Ground (twice)
The Millstone
A Natural Curiosity
The Needle's Eye
The Peppered Moth
The Radiant Way
The Realms of Gold (multiple times)
The Sea Lady
The Seven Sisters
A Summer Bird-Cage
The Waterfall
The Witch of Exmoor
Tom Drury
Hunts in Dreams
Ingrid and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
Book of Norse Myths
Andre Dubus III
House of Sand and Fog
John Dufresne
Louisiana Power and Light
Love Warps the Mind a Little
Requiem, Mass.
Daphne du Maurier
Don't Look Now
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Sarah Dunant
The Birth of Venus
David James Duncan
The Brothers K
Marguerite Duras
Summer Rain
David Anthony Durham
Gabriel's Story
Marilyn Durham
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Gerald Durrell
My Family and Other Animals
Tony Earley
Here We Are in Paradise
Jim the Boy
Somehow Form a Family: Stories That Are Mostly True
Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose
Clyde Edgerton
The Bible Salesman
The Floatplane Notebooks
In Memory of Junior
Killer Diller
Raney (twice)
Redeye
Walking Across Egypt
Margaret Edson
Wit
Gerald Basil Edwards
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
Dave Eggers
What is the What

Zeitoun
John Ehle
The Widow's Trial
The Winter People
Gretel Ehrlich
The Solace of Open Spaces
Max Ehrlich
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
Bart D. Ehrman
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions of the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)
Deborah Eisenberg
Twilight of the Superheroes
George Eliot
Daniel Deronda
Middlemarch (twice)
The Mill on the Floss
Silas Marner
Stanley Elkin
The Living End
Alice Thomas Ellis
The Birds of the Air
Fairy Tale
Joseph J. Ellis
American Sphinx
Founding Brothers
Gloria Emerson
Loving Graham Greene
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Cai Emmons
The Stylist
Leif Enger
Peace Like a River
Lin Enger
Undiscovered Country
Anne Enright
The Gathering
The Wig My Father Wore
Nora Ephron
Heartburn
Louise Erdrich
The Blue Jay's Dance
Love Medicine
Tracks
Gabe Essoe
Alias Smith and Jones: Alias Heyes and Curry
Laura Esquivel
Like Water For Chocolate
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides
Janet Evanovich
One For the Money
Elizabeth Evans
Doris Betts
Nicholas Evans
The Horse Whisperer
Michel Faber
The Fire Gospel
Under the Skin
Anne Fadiman
At Large and At Small
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
John Fante
1933 Was a Bad Year
West of Rome
Peter Farb
Word Play: What Happens When People Talk
J.G. Farrell
The Siege of Krishnapur
Tim Farrington
The Monk Downstairs
William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!
As I Lay Dying (twice)
Light in August
The Sound and the Fury (twice)
The Unvanquished
Eileen Favorite
The Heroines
Edna Ferber
Giant
Fanny Fern
Ruth Hall
Rachel Ferguson
The Brontes Went to Woolworths
John Ferling
Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution
Katie Fforde
The Rose Revived
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (twice)
x
Penelope Fitzgerald
The Bookshop
Louise Fitzhugh
Harriet the Spy (multiple times)
The Long Secret (multiple times)
Sport
Fannie Flagg
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
Kitty Burns Florey
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog
Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier
Richard Ford
Independence Day
The Sportswriter
E. M. Forster
Howards End (three times)
The Longest Journey
Maurice
A Passage to India
A Room With a View
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Richard Fortey
Dry Storeroom No. 1
Thomas C. Foster
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
How to Read Novels Like a Professor
Karen Joy Fowler
The Jane Austen Book Club
John Fowles
The French Lieutenant's Woman (twice)
The Magus
Brian Fox (pen name of Willis Todhunter Ballard)
Dead Ringer
The Outlaw Trail
Laurie Fox
My Sister From the Black Lagoon
Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl
Thomas Frank
What’s the Matter with Kansas? How the Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections
Michael Frayn
Spies
Charles Frazier
Cold Mountain
Lynn Freed
Home Ground
Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Page
The Servants' Quarters
Tana French
In the Woods
The Likeness
Lenemaja Friedman
Shirley Jackson
Abby Frucht
Polly's Ghost
Alexandra Fuller
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Scribbling the Cat: Travels With an African Soldier
John Fuller
Ghosts
Monica Furlong
Wise Child
Jostein Gaarder
The Solitaire Mystery
Sophie's World
Amity Gaige
The Folded World
Mary Gaitskill
Bad Behavior
Dorothy Gallagher
How I Came Into My Inheritance and Other True Stories
Tess Gallagher
At the Owl Woman Saloon
The Lover of Horses
Paul Gallico
The Snow Goose
Cristina Garcia
Dreaming in Cuban
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (twice)
Love in the Time of Cholera
Of Love and Other Demons
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Jane Gardam
The Queen of the Tambourine
John Gardner
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
On Becoming a Novelist
Alan Garner
The Owl Service
Helen Garner
The Children's Bach
The Spare Room
Elizabeth Gaskell
Cranford
Mary Barton
Wives and Daughters
Edwin S. Gaustad
Roger Williams: Prophet of Liberty
Tim Gautreaux
Same Place, Same Things
Margaret George
The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
Kaye Gibbons
Charms For the Easy Life
A Cure for Dreams
Divining Women
Ellen Foster (twice)
The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Sights Unseen
A Virtuous Woman
Stella Gibbons
Cold Comfort Farm
Wesley Gibson
Shelter
Steven Gilbar, ed.
The Reader's Quotation Book
Ellen Gilchrist
A Dangerous Age
In the Land of Dreamy Dreams
Rhoda
Tom Gilling
The Sooterkin
Susan Jane Gilman
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
Marianne Gingher
Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit
Teen Angel
George Gissing
The Emancipated
A Life's Morning
New Grub Street
The Odd Women
Susan Glaspell
Alison's House
Trifles
Julia Glass
I See You Everywhere
Victoria Glendinning
Electricity
Rebecca West: A Life
Louise Gluck
Averno
The Wild Iris
Gail Godwin
Father Melancholy's Daughter
The Finishing School
Glass People
Queen of the Underworld
Ann Goethe
Midnight Lemonade
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust, Part I
Nikolai Gogal
Dead Souls
Glen David Gold
Carter Beats the Devil
Myla Goldberg
Bee Season
William Golding
The Lord of the Flies (twice)
William Goldman
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (multiple times)
Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Book Lore
Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World
Judy Goldman
The Slow Way Back
Allegra Goodman
Intuition
Kaaterskill Falls
Brad Gooch
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
Mary Gordon
Joan of Arc
Al Gore
The Assault on Reason
Vivian Gornick
Fierce Attachments
Barbara Gowdy
The White Bone
Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows
Elizabeth Graver
The Honey Thief
Robert Graves
I, Claudius
Lucy Grealy
Autobiography of a Face
Melissa Green
Color is the Suffering of Light
Paul Green
Pete Duel: A Biography
Joanne Greenberg
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Michael Greenberg
Hurry Down Sunshine
Graham Greene
The End of the Affair
The Heart of the Matter
Andrew Sean Greer
The Confessions of Max Tivoli
John Howard Griffin
Black Like Me
John Grisham
The Firm
Tom Groneberg
The Secret Life of Cowboys
One Good Horse
Gwendolen Gross
Field Guide
Doris Grumbach
Fifty Days of Solitude
Life in a Day
Lisa Grunwald
New Year's Eve
Summer
Judith Guest
Ordinary People (twice)
Second Heaven
John Gunther
Death Be Not Proud
Allan Gurganus
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Plays Well With Others
Beth Gutcheon
Good-bye and Amen
Leeway Cottage
David Guterson
Snow Falling on Cedars

Comprehensive Reading List H-O

Alison Habens
Dreamhouse
Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
A Spot of Bother
Tessa Hadley
Accidents in the Home
The Master Bedroom
Kendall Hailey
The Day I Became an Autodidact
Brian Hall
I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company
The Saskiad
Oakley Hall
Warlock
Rachel Howzell Hall
A Quiet Storm
Jane Hamilton
The Book of Ruth
Laura Rider's Masterpiece
A Map of the World
Patrick Hamilton
The Slaves of Solitude
Dashiell Hammet
The Maltese Falcon
Earl Hamner
Spencer's Mountain
Cathi Hanauer
My Sister's Bones
Daniel Handler
The Basic Eight
Helene Hanff
84, Charing Cross Road
Barry Hannah
Hey Jack
Ron Hansen
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Desperadoes
Elizabeth Hardwick
Sleepless Nights
Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure
The Return of the Native
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Joanne Harris
Chocolat
Thomas Harris
The Red Dragon
The Silence of the Lambs
Kathryn Harrison
Exposure
The Kiss
Poison
Thicker Than Water
L.P. Hartley
The Shrimp and the Anemone
Kent Haruf
Plainsong
The Tie That Binds
John Harwood
The Ghost Writer
Adam Haslett
You Are Not a Stranger Here
Jon Hassler
The Love Hunter
Staggerford
Roger Hatfield and Paul Carter
The Private Lives of Albert Einstein
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter (three times)
Shirley Hazzard
The Great Fire
Seamus Heaney
Beowulf
The Burial at Thebes
Julie Hecht
Do the Windows Open?
Happy Trails to You
The Unprofessionals
Was This Man a Genius?
Ursula Hegi
Intrusions
Stones from the River
Jean Hegland
Into the Forest (twice)
Lillian Hellman
Pentimento
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea (twice)
The Sun Also Rises (twice)
Robin Hemley
All You Can Eat
The Big Ear
Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art and Madness
The Last Studebaker
Turning Life into Fiction
Amy Hempel
At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom
Reasons to Live
Bill Henderson, ed.
Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club
Tony Hendra
The Messiah of Morris Avenue
Phillip Hensher
The Northern Clemency
Frank Herbert
Destination Void
Dune
The Jesus Incident
The Lazarus Effect
John Hersey
Hiroshima
Hesiod
Theogony
Works and Days
Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
Susan Hill
The Woman in Black
Tobias Hill
The Hidden
Laura Hillenbrand
Seabiscuit
James Hillman
The Soul's Code
Alice Hoffman
At Risk
Local Girls
Practical Magic
Turtle Moon
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
The Blank Wall
Cecelia Holland
Railroad Schemes
Michael Holroyd
Basil Street Blues: A Memoir
Homer
The Iliad (Robert Fagles, trans.)
The Odyssey (Robert Fagles, trans.)
Mary Hood
Familiar Heat
Hooker
M*A*S*H
M*A*S*H Goes to Maine
Stacy Horn
Waiting for My Cats to Die: A Morbid Memoir
Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
Housekeeping vs. The Dirt
The Polysyllabic Spree
Shakespeare Wrote For Money
Pam Houston
Cowboys Are My Weakness
Waltzing the Cat
Bohumil Hrabal
Closely Observed Trains
David Huddle
The High Spirits
Richard Hughes
A High Wind in Jamaica
Keri Hulme

The Bone People
Josephine Humphreys
Dreams of Sleep (twice)
The Fireman's Fair
Rich in Love (twice)
Irene Hunt
Across Five Aprils
Up a Road Slowly
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World (twice)
Elspeth Huxley
Red Strangers
James Hynes
Kings of Infinite Space
The Lecturer's Tale
Henrick Ibsen
Doll's House
x
Rachel Ingalls
Mrs. Caliban
John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Setting Free the Bears (twice)
A Widow for One Year
The World According to Garp (twice)
Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
The Remains of the Day
When We Were Orphans
Tara Ison
The List
Shirley Jackson
Come Along With Me
The Haunting of Hill House
Life Among the Savages
The Lottery and Other Stories
Raising Demons
The Road Through the Wall
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Henry James
The Bostonians
Portrait of a Lady
Washington Square
The Wings of the Dove
Kay Redfield Jamison
An Unquiet Mind
Tove Jansson
The Summer Book
Gish Jen
Mona in the Promised Land
Typical American
Who's Irish?
Denis Johnson
Tree of Smoke
Diane Johnson
Lulu in Marrakech
Pat Johnson and Barbara van Tuyl
The Sweet Running Filly
Dianna Wynne Jones
The Lives of Christopher Chant
Witch Week
Edward P. Jones
The Known World
Thom Jones
Cold Snap
The Pugilist at Rest
Hillary Jordan
Mudbound
James Joyce

Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Franz Kafka
The Castle
The Metamorphosis
The Trial
Mark Kalesniko
Why Did Pete Duel Kill Himself?
James Kaplan
Two Guys From Verona
Mary Karr
The Liar's Club
Margo Kaufman
Clara, the Early Years: The Story of the Pug Who Ruled My Life
Susanna Kaysen
Asa, As I Knew Him
Far Afield
Girl, Interrupted
Nikos Kazantzakis
Last Temptation of Christ
Joe Keenan
Blue Heaven
Marjorie Kellogg
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Richard Kelly
The Donnie Darko Book
A. L. Kennedy
Everything You Need
M. E. Kerr
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! (three times)
Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Chip Kidd
The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters
Haven Kimmel
A Girl Named Zippy
She Got Up Off the Couch
The Solace of Leaving Early
Something Rising (Light and Swift)
The Used World
Nanci Kincaid
Pretending the Bed is a Raft
R.M. Kinder
An Absolute Gentleman
Lily King
The Pleasing Hour
Stephen King
Carrie (twice)
Misery
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Lee Kingman
The Year of the Raccoon (three times)
Barbara Kingsolver
The Bean Trees
Pigs in Heaven
Poisonwood Bible
James Kirkwood
P.S. Your Cat is Dead
Walter Kirn
Mission to America
She Needed Me
Ivan Klima
No Saints or Angels
Matthew Kneale
English Passengers
When We Were Romans
John Knowles
A Separate Peace
Elizabeth Knox
Daylight
Gina Kolata
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
Elizabeth Kolbert
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Gerald Kolpan
Etta
E. L. Konigsburg
Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
View from Saturday
Joyce Reiser Kornblatt
Whitewater
Jerzy Kosinski
Being There
x
x
Elizabeth Kostova
The Historian
Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild (twice)
Nicole Krauss
The History of Love
Maxine Kumin
Jack and Other New Poems
Milan Kundera
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Immortality
James Howard Kunstler
The Long Emergency
World Made By Hand
Stephen Kuusisto
Planet of the Blind
Wally Lamb
The Hour I First Believed
I Know This Much is True
She's Come Undone
John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes
Lame Deer, Seer of Visions
Anne Lamott
Bird by Bird
Operating Instructions
Deborah Larsen
The White
Reif Larsen
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Stephen and Robin Larsen
A Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell
Glen Larson and Matthew Howard
Alias Smith and Jones (script, multiple times)
Kathryn Lasky
Memoirs of a Bookbat
Jennifer Lauck
Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found
Margaret Laurence
The Fire-Dwellers
The Stone Angel
D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
The Rainbow
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (twice)
Mary Lawson
Crow Lake
David Leavitt
Family Dancing
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird (twice)
Mary Leonhardt
Parents Who Love Reading, Kids Who Don't
Wendy Lesser
The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters
Doris Lessing
The Fifth Child
The Good Terrorist
Particularly Cats. . . and Rufus
x
Jonathan Lethem
Girl in Landscape
Madeleine L'Engle
A Circle of Quiet
A Wind in the Door
A Wrinkle in Time (three times)
x
Billie Letts
Where the Heart Is
Denise Levertov
To Stay Alive
Ira Levin
Rosemary's Baby
Son of Rosemary
Judith Levine
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
Amy Levy
The Romance of a Shop
C. S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Magician's Nephew
Till We Have Faces (twice)
Sara Lewis
Trying to Smile and Other Stories
Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt
Main Street
Franz Lidz
Unstrung Heroes
Lauren Liebenberg
TheVoluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam
Alan Lightman
Einstein's Dreams
Elinor Lipman
The Family Man
Into Love and Out Again
Isabel's Bed
Then She Found Me
The Way Men Act
David Liss
The Whiskey Rebels
Penelope Lively
Passing On
Spiderweb
Margot Livesey
Eva Moves the Furniture
David Lodge
The Art of Fiction
Changing Places
Small World
James W. Loewen
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Hugh Lofting
he Story of Doctor Dolittle (twice)
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (twice)
David Long
The Daughters of Simon Lamoreaux
Christine Longford
Making Conversation
William Longgood
The Queen Must Die and Other Affairs of Bees and Men
Lois Lowry
The Giver
Alison Lurie
Imaginary Friends
Jacki Lyden
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba
Jim Lynch
The Highest Tide
Thomas Lynch
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Norman Mailer
The Executioner's Song
Karen Maitland
The Owl Killers
Andrei Makine
The Woman Who Waited
Janet Malcolm
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath
Kate Maloy
Every Last Cuckoo
William Manchester
A World Lit Only By Fire
Alberto Manguel
A History of Reading
Thomas Mann
Buddenbrooks
The Magic Mountain
Hilary Mantel
Beyond Black
A Change of Climate
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
Giving Up the Ghost
Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus
Don Marquis
Archy and Mehitabel
Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Karl Marx
The Communist Manifesto
Bobbie Ann Mason
Feather Crowns
In Country
Love Life
Shiloh and Other Stories
Spence + Lila
Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology
Alice Mattison
The Book Borrower
W. Somerset Maugham
Christmas Holiday
Of Human Bondage
The Razor's Edge
Up at the Villa
Nancy Mauro
New World Monkeys
Simon Mawer
Mendel's Dwarf
William Maxwell
They Came Like Swallows
Rollo May
The Courage to Create
The Cry for Myth
Anne McCaffrey
Crystal Singer
Decision at Doona
Dinosaur Planet
Dinosaur Planet Survivors
Dragondrums
Dragonflight
The Dragonriders of Pern
Killashandra
Moreta, Dragonlady of Pern
The White Dragon
Alexander McCall Smith
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses
The Road
Suttree
Jill McCorkle
Carolina Moon
The Cheer Leader
Crash Diet and Other Stories
Creatures of Habit
Ferris Beach
Final Vinyl Days and Other Stories
Going Away Shoes
July 7th
Tending to Virginia
Frank McCourt
Angela's Ashes
Elizabeth McCracken
The Giant's House
Sharyn McCrumb
The Rosewood Casket
Carson McCullers
Ballad of the Sad Cafe
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Alice McDermott
At Weddings and Wakes
Child of My Heart
That Night
Martin McDonagh
The Lonesome West
Ian McEwan
Amsterdam
Atonement
The Cement Garden
The Daydreamer
Enduring Love
Alison McGhee
Was It Beautiful?
Jay McInerney
Bright Lights, Big City
The Story of My Life
Tim McLaurin
The Keeper of the Moon
Larry McMurtry
All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers
By Sorrow's River
Horseman, Pass By
The Last Picture Show
Leaving Cheyenne
Lonesome Dove
Moving On
Sin Killer
Streets of Laredo
Terms of Endearment
Texasville
The Wandering Hill
John McPhee
Rising From the Plains
Tom McNeal
Goodnight, Nebraska
Martha McPhee
Bright Angel Time
Jon Meacham
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
James Meek
The People's Act of Love
Maile Meloy
Half in Love
Herman Melville
Moby Dick (twice)
Robert Merle
The Day of the Dolphin
Claire Messud
The Last Life
Carolyn Meyer
Mary, Bloody Mary
Stephenie Meyer
Twilight
James Michener
Centennial
Shelley Fraser Mickle
The Queen of October
Replacing Dad
Nancy Milford
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Collected Lyrics (multiple times)
Collected Sonnets (multiple times)
Alice Miller
The Drama of the Gifted Child
Arthur Miller
The Crucible
The Death of a Salesman (three times)
Laura Miller
The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
Sue Miller
The Distinguished Guest
Family Pictures
The Good Mother
Inventing the Abbotts and Other Stories
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
A Canticle for Leibowitz (three times)
Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
Steven Millhauser
Edwin Mullhouse
Enchanted Night
A.A. Milne
x
x
x
Christopher Milne
The Enchanted Places
Thomas Minehan
Boy and Girl Tramps of America
Susan Minot
Folly
Monkeys (twice)
Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Deep End of the Ocean
David Mitchell
Black Swan Green
Cloud Atlas
Margaret Mitchell
Gone With the Wind
Joseph Mitchell
Joe Gould's Secret
Stephen Mitchell
Gilgamesh
Jessica Mitford
Hons and Rebels
Nancy Mitford
The Pursuit of Love
Anna Mitgutsch
Jakob
Christian Moerk
Darling Jim
Ralph Moody
Little Britches
Rick Moody
The Ice Storm
Dinty Moore
The Emperor's Virtual Clothes
Michael Moore
Dude, Where's My Country?
Lorrie Moore
Anagrams (twice)
A Gate at the Stairs
Like Life
Self Help
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Ruth Moose
x
Marta Morazzoni
The Invention of Truth
Katherine Mosby
Private Altars
Mary McGarry Morris
A Dangerous Woman
Songs in Ordinary Time
Toni Morrison
Beloved
The Bluest Eye
James Morrow
The Last Witchfinder

The Philosopher's Apprentice
Brian Morton

Starting Out In the Evening
Howard Frank Moser
Northern Borders
Alice Munro
The Love of a Good Woman
Open Secrets
Runaway
Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase
Iris Murdoch
The Bell
The Black Prince
The Green Knight
Henry and Cato
Jackson's Dilemma
The Sea, the Sea
A Severed Head
Something Special
The Sovereignty of Good
Under the Net
An Unofficial Rose
A Word Child
Louise Murphy
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
Vladimir Nabokov
The Defense
Lolita
Pnin
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Azar Nafisi
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Sena Jeter Naslund
Ahab's Wife or, The Star-Gazer
Lawrence Naumoff
The Night of the Weeping Women
A Plan for Women
Rootie Kazootie
Silk Hope, N.C.
Taller Women
Antonya Nelson
Female Trouble
Living to Tell
Nobody's Girl
Dick Nelson
Alias Smith and Jones: Journey From San Juan
Sara Nelson
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
Irene Nemirovsky
Fire in the Blood
John Neufeld
Lisa, Bright and Dark (twice)
Lucia Nevai
Normal: Stories
Nigel Nicolson
Virginia Woolf
Audrey Niffenegger
Her Fearful Symmetry
Three Incestuous Sisters
The Time Traveler's Wife
Han Nolan
Dancing on the Edge
Cees Nooteboom
The Following Story
Howard Norman
The Bird Artist
Naomi Novik
His Majesty's Dragon
Sherwin B. Nuland
How We Die
Sigrid Nunez
Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury
Robert Nye
The Late Mr. Shakespeare
Joyce Carol Oates
The Gravedigger's Daughter
Solstice
Them
We Were the Mulvaneys
Barack Obama
Dreams From My Father
Patrick O'Brian
Master and Commander
Post Captain
H.M.S. Surprise
The Mauritius Command
Desolation Island
The Fortune of War
The Surgeon's Mate
The Ionian Mission
Treason's Harbour
The Far Side of the World
The Reverse of the Medal
The Letter of Marque
The Thirteen-Gun Salute
The Nutmeg of Consolation
The Truelove
Flannery O'Connor
Everything That Rises Must Converge
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Mystery and Manners
The Violent Bear It Away
Wise Blood (twice)
Stephen O'Connor
Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed
Shannon Olson
Welcome to My Planet (Where English is Sometime Spoken)
Jenny Offill
Last Things
Mary O'Hara
My Friend Flicka (three times)
Thunderhead
Green Grass of Wyoming
Bruce Olds
Bucking the Tiger
Raising Holy Hell
Stewart O'Nan
The Good Wife
Last Night at the Lobster
A Prayer for the Dying
Snow Angels
Michael Ondaatje
In the Skin of a Lion
Jerry Oppenheimer
Martha Stewart: Just Desserts
Judy Oppenheimer
Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson
Julie Orringer
How to Breathe Underwater
George Orwell
Animal Farm (three times)
Burmese Days
Down and Out in Paris and London
1984 (three times)
Howard Owen
Fat Lightning
Lara Owen
Her Blood is Gold
Cynthia Ozick
Heir to the Glimmering World

Comprehensive Reading List P-Z

Ann Packer
The Dive From Clausen's Pier
Elaine Pagels
Gnostic Gospels
The Origin of Satan
Grace Paley
Later the Same Day
Michael Palin
Hemingway's Chair
Ellen Pall
Among the Ginzburgs
Orhan Pamuk
My Name is Red
Snow
Gail Parent
Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York
Dorothy Parker
The Collected Poetry of Dorothy Parker
Ann Patchett
The Magician's Assistant
The Patron Saint of Liars
Truth & Beauty
Jill Paton Walsh
Knowledge of Angels
Jim Paul
Elsewhere in the Land of Parrots
Nancy Peacock
A Broom of One's Own
Life Without Water
T.R. Pearson
A Short History of a Small Place (twice)
Cathie Pelletier
Beaming Sonny Home
The Bubble Reputation
The Funeral Makers
A Marriage Made in Woodstock
Daniel Pennac
Better Than Life
Irene M. Pepperberg
Alex and Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
Walker Percy
Lancelot
The Last Gentleman
Lost in the Cosmos
Love in the Ruins
The Moviegoer (twice)
The Second Coming
The Thanatos Syndrome
Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Club Dumas
Elliot Perlman
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Tom Perrotta
Little Children
Marisha Pessl
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Per Petterson
Out Stealing Horses
Gin Phillips
The Well and the Mine
Jayne Anne Phillips
Lark and Termite
Kate Phillips
White Rabbit
Mary Pipher
Reviving Ophelia
John Pipkin
Woodsburner
Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Sylvia Plath
Ariel
The Bell Jar (twice)
Michael Pollan
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Chaim Potok
The Chosen
The Promise
Charles Portis
The Dog of the South
True Grit
Dannye Romine Powell
At Every Wedding Someone Stays Home
Parting the Curtains
Dawn Powell
Angels on Toast
Dance Night
Sophie Powell
The Mushroom Man
Charles T. Powers
In the Memory of the Forest
Richard Powers
The Echo Maker
Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
David A. Price
Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation
Reynolds Price
Blue Calhoun
A Generous Man
Good Hearts
A Long and Happy Life
The Tongues of Angels
Francine Prose
Blue Angel
Hunters and Gatherers
The Peaceable Kingdom
Reading Like a Writer
E. Annie Proulx
The Shipping News
Marcel Proust
Swann's Way
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Josephine Pullein-Thompson
Plenty of Ponies (twice, at least)
Six Ponies
Philip Pullman
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Diane Purkiss
At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins and Other Troublesome Things
Barbara Pym
Excellent Women
Jane and Prudence
David Quammen
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin
Anna Quindlen
Black and Blue
How Reading Changed My Life
One True Thing
Daniel Quinn
Ishmael
The Story of B
Jonathan Rabin
Waxwings
Donald Rackin
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Louise Rafkin
Other People's Dirt
Ayn Rand
Anthem
Ron Rash
One Foot in Eden
Shannon Ravenael, ed.
New Stories from the South: 1993
Thomas Rayfiel
Split-Levels
P. Carey Reid
Swimming in the Starry River
Frederick Reiken
The Lost Legends of New Jersey
The Odd Sea
Sheri Reynolds
A Gracious Plenty
The Rapture of Canaan
Anne Rice
Interview With a Vampire
Ben Rice
Pobby and Dingan
Luanne Rice
Crazy in Love
Louise Dickinson Rich
We Took to the Woods
Emma Richler
Feed My Dear Dogs
Sister Crazy
Don Robertson
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread
James Robertson
The Testament of Gideon Mack
Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
Housekeeping
Roxana Robinson
Cost
Sweetwater
Mary Robison

Believe Them
Paul Rosa
Idiot Letters
Phyllis Rose
The Year of Reading Proust
Jonathan Rosen
Joy Comes in the Morning
Judith Rossner
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Philip Roth
American Pastoral
Everyman
Goodbye, Columbus
The Human Stain
Portnoy's Complaint
Russell Rowland
In Open Spaces
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Angel's Game
Juan Rulfo
Pedro Paramo
Norman Rush
Mating
Salman Rushdie
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Midnight's Children
Peter Rushforth
A Dead Language
Pinkerton's Sister
Mary Doria Russell
Children of God
The Sparrow
Richard Russo
Bridge of Sighs
Empire Falls
Nobody's Fool
Straight Man
Vita Sackville-West
The Easter Party
Jeanne Safer
The Normal One: Life With a Difficult or Damaged Sibling
Sandra K. Sagala and JoAnne M. Bagwell
Alias Smith and Jones: The Story of Two Pretty Good Bad Men
Carl Sagan
Cosmos
Dragons of Eden
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are
H.F. Saint
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince
Lauren St. John
Hardcore Troubadour: The Life and Near Death of Steve Earle
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye (three times)
Franny and Zooey (twice)
Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters and Seymour, An Introduction (twice)
Nine Stories
Mark Salzman
Lost in Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia
Lying Awake
Ferrol Sams
Run With the Horsemen
George Sand
Indiana
B. W. Sandefur

Alias Smith and Jones: The Reformation of Harry Briscoe (script)
Dori Sanders
Clover
Robert M. Sapolsky
Monkeyluv
A Primate's Memoir
Sapphire
Push
Jose Saramago
Baltasar and Blimunda
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Jean-Paul Sarte
No Exit (twice)
Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
George Saunders
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Valerie Sayers
Brain Fever
Due East
How I Got Him Back
Who Do You Love
Helen Scales
Poseidon's Steed: The Story of Seahorses, From Myth to Reality
Timothy Schaffert
The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters
Elissa Schappell
Use Me
Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein
Identical Strangers
Bruno Schulz
The Street of Crocodiles
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Acquainted With the Night and Other Stories
Rough Strife
Cathleen Schine
Alice in Bed
The Evolution of Jane
The Love Letter
Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones
Lucky
David Sedaris
Barrel Fever
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Naked
Jaroslav Seifert
The Casting of Bells
Carolyn See
Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America
The Handyman
Eric Segal
Love Story
Susan Sellers
Vanessa and Virginia
Mary Lee Settle
The Scapegoat
Anna Sewall
Black Beauty (three times)
Anne Sexton
The Awful Rowing Toward God
Michael Shaara
The Killer Angels
Peter Shaffer
Equus (three times)
William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Hamlet (multiple times)
Julius Caesar (three times)
King Henry IV, Part I
King Lear (twice)
King Richard II
Love's Labour's Lost
Macbeth (twice)
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew (twice)
The Tempest (three times)
Twelfth Night
The Winter's Tale
Paula Sharp
The Woman Who Was Not All There
Matthew Sharpe
The Sleeping Father
Claudia Shear
Blown Sideways Through Life
Gail Sheehy
The Silent Passage
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein (twice)
Sandi Kahn Shelton
You Might as Well Laugh
David Shenk
The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic
Carol Shields
The Box Garden
Happenstance
Larry's Party
Republic of Love
Small Ceremonies
Stone Diaries
Swann
Unless
Various Miracles
Louise Shivers
Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail (twice)
A Whistling Woman
Russell Shorto
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America
Nevil Shute
On the Beach
Anne Rivers Siddons
The House Next Door
Outer Banks
Up Island
Yrsa Sigurdardottir
My Soul to Take
Joan Silber
Ideas of Heaven
Dan Simmons
Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion
The Terror
Scott Simon
Pretty Birds
Mona Simpson
Anywhere But Here
Off Keck Road
Johanna Sinisalo
Troll: A Love Story
Zecharia Sitchin
The 12th Planet
Warren Slesinger, ed.
The Whole Story: Editors on Fiction
Jane Smiley
The Age of Grief
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
Duplicate Keys
Moo
Ordinary Love and Good Will
A Thousand Acres
Ali Smith
The Accidental
Hotel World
Betty Smith
Joy in the Morning
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Diane Smith
Letters from Yellowstone
Pictures from an Expedition
Dodie Smith
I Capture the Castle
Dominic Smith
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
The Beautiful Miscellaneous
Jeffery Smith
Where the Roots Reach for Water: A Personal and Natural History of Melancholia
Lee Smith
Black Mountain Breakdown
Cakewalk and Other Stories
The Christmas Letters
The Devil's Dream
Family Linen (twice)
Fancy Strut (twice)
The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed
Me and My Baby View the Eclipse
News of the Spirit
Saving Grace
Tom Rob Smith
Child 44
Zadie Smith
On Beauty
Dava Sobel
Longitude
Sophocles
Antigone
Oedipus Rex (twice)
Ahdaf Soueif
The Map of Love
Muriel Spark
The Comforters
The Driver's Seat
The Finishing School
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (twice)
Reality and Dreams
John Shelby Spong
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism
E. C. Spykman
A Lemon and a Star (multiple times)
The Wild Angel (multiple times)
Terrible, Horrible Edie (multiple times)
Edie on the Warpath (multiple times)
Nicole Stansbury
Places to Look For a Mother
Claude and Michele Stanush
All Honest Men
Christina Stead
For Love Alone
The Little Hotel
The Man Who Loved Children
The People With the Dogs
Wallace Stegner
All the Little Live Things
Angle of Repose
Crossing to Safety
The Spectator Bird
John Steinbeck
Cannery Row
East of Eden
The Grapes of Wrath
The Long Valley
Of Mice and Men
The Pearl
The Red Pony
Sweet Thursday
The Winter of Our Discontent
Stendhal
The Red and the Black
April Stevens
Angel Angel
Adalbert Stifter
Rock Crystal
Bram Stoker
Dracula
Irving Stone
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Robert Stone, ed.
Best American Short Stories: 1993
Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly
Julia Strachey
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Elizabeth Strout
Abide with Me
Amy and Isabelle
Olive Kitteridge
Sarah Payne Stuart
Men in Trouble
My First Cousin Once Removed: Money, Madness and the Family of Robert Lowell
William Styron
Darkness Visible
Frank J. Sulloway
Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives
Melanie Sumner
Polite Society
The School of Beauty and Charm
Christina Sunley
The Tricking of Freya
Mark Swartz
Instant Karma
Julia Sweeney
God Said, "Ha!"
Marly Swick
Paper Wings
Amy Tan
The Hundred Secret Senses
The Joy Luck Club
The Kitchen God's Wife
Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove
Household Gods
Donna Tartt
The Little Friend
The Secret History
Maria Tatar
Off With Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
Peter Taylor
A Summons to Memphis
Sara Teasdale
x
Emma Tennant
Sylvia and Ted
Angela Thirkell
Cheerfulness Breaks In
The Demon in the House
High Rising
James Alexander Thom
Follow the River
Abigail Thomas
An Actual Life
Getting Over Tom
Herb's Pajamas
Eliza Thomas
The Road Home
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
The Hidden Life of Dogs
Henry David Thoreau
"Civil Disobedience"
Walden
James Thurber
Fables for Our Time
My Life and Hard Times (twice)
My World and Welcome to It
Ann Thwaite
A.A. Milne: The Man Behind Winnie the Pooh
Mirian Toews
The Flying Troutmans
Colm Toibin
The Master
J.R.R. Tolkein
The Hobbit
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Death of Ivan Ilyich
War and Peace
Claire Tomalin
Jane Austen: A Life
John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces
Sue Townsend
The Adrian Mole Diaries
Adrian Mole: The Lost Years
Barbara Trapido
Brother of the More Famous Jack
Juggling
Temples of Delight
The Travelling Hornplayer
Rose Tremain
Restoration
William Trevor
Death in Summer
David Treuer
The Translation of Dr Apelles
Anthony Trollope
The Bertrams
The Vicar of Bullhampton
The Warden
Jonathan Tropper
This is Where I Leave You
Dalton Trumbo
Johnny Got His Gun
Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Sons
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (twice)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Gilded Age
Life on the Mississippi
Roughing It, vol. I
Anne Tyler
The Accidental Tourist (multiple times)
The Amateur Marriage
Back When We Were Grownups
Breathing Lessons (multiple times)
Celestial Navigation (multiple times)
The Clock Winder (multiple times)
Digging to America
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (multiple times)
Earthly Possessions (multiple times)
If Morning Ever Comes (twice)
Ladder of Years
Morgan's Passing (multiple times)
Noah's Compass
A Patchwork Planet
Saint Maybe (twice)
A Slipping Down Life (multiple times)
Searching for Caleb (multiple times)
The Tin Can Tree (twice)
Tumble Tower (multiple times)
Brady Udall
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Brenda Ueland
If You Want to Write
Dubravka Ugresic

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
Sigrid Undset
The Wreath
Barry Unsworth
Morality Play
Priscila Uppal
The Divine Economy of Salvation
John Updike
The Centaur (twice)
Couples (twice)
In the Beauty of the Lilies
Marry Me
A Month of Sundays
Pigeon Feathers
Rabbit is Rich
Rabbit, Run
Roger's Version
Too Far to Go
Witches of Eastwick
Anne Ursu
The Disapparation of James
Spilling Clarence
Guy Vanderhaeghe
The Englishman's Boy
The Last Crossing
Dirck Van Sickle
Montana Gothic
John Vernon
A Book of Reasons
Salley Vickers
Instances of the Number 3
Miss Garnet's Angel
Nina Vida
The Texicans
Gore Vidal
Burr
Judith Viorst

Necessary Losses
Patricia Volk
To My Dearest Friends
Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions
Cat's Cradle
Galapagos
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
Player Piano
Sirens of Titan
Slapstick
Slaughterhouse - Five (twice)
Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
Welcome to the Monkey House
Mark Vonnegut
The Eden Express
Sarah Vowell
Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World
Susan Vreeland
Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Kate Walbert
The Gardens of Kyoto
Our Kind
Ayelet Waldman
Nursery Crimes
Alice Walker
The Color Purple
David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest
James Robert Waller
Bridges of Madison County
Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle
Ashley Warlick
The Distance From the Heart of Things
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman
Sarah Waters
Fingersmith
Larry Watson
Montana 1948
Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes
Something Under the Bed is Drooling
Yukon Ho!
Weirdos from Another Planet
The Revenge of the Baby-Sat
Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
The Days Are Just Packed
Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
There's Treasure Everywhere
The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
It's a Magical World
Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited
The Loved One
Katharine Weber
The Little Women
The Music Lesson
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
Triangle
David Weeks and Jamie James
Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness
Josh Weil
The New Valley
Fay Weldon
Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen
Rebecca West
H. G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Rebecca Wells
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
Little Altars Everywhere
John Welter
Begin to Exit Here (twice)
I Want to Buy a Vowel
Night of the Avenging Blowfish
Eudora Welty
A Curtain of Green and Other Stories
Delta Wedding
The Optimist’s Daughter
The Ponder Heart
Mary Wesley
The Camomile Lawn
Harnessing Peacocks
Michael Lee West
American Pie
Nathanael West
Miss Lonelyhearts
Rebecca West
The Birds Fall Down
The Fountain Overflows (twice)
Harriet Hume
The Harsh Voice
The Judge
The Return of the Soldier
The Thinking Reed
Garret Weyr
Pretty Girls
Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence
The Custom of the Country
Ethan Frome
The Glimpses of the Moon
House of Mirth
Roman Fever and Other Stories
William Wharton
Birdy
Pride
Richard S. Wheeler
Second Lives: A Novel of the Gilded Age
Bailey White
Mama Makes Up Her Mind
Sleeping at the Starlite Motel
T. H. White
The Once and Future King
James Whorton, Jr.
Frankland
Joan Wickersham
The Paper Anniversary
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order
Elie Wiesel
Night
Marianne Wiggins
Evidence of Things Unseen
James Wilcox
Guest of a Sinner
Miss Undine's Living Room
Modern Baptists
North Gladiola
Sort of Rich
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kate Wilhelm
The Good Children
Jincy Willett
The Writing Class
John Williams
Butcher's Crossing
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie
Connie Willis
Doomsday Book
Lincoln's Dreams
Passage
To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump At Last
Anna Winger
This Must Be the Place
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Sexing the Cherry
Weight
Owen Wister
The Virginian
Virginia L. Wolf
Louise Fitzhugh
Inger Ash Wolfe
The Calling
Tom Wolfe
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Thomas Wolfe
You Can't Go Home Again
Tobias Wolff
Back in the World
The Barracks Thief
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
Old School
This Boy's Life
Meg Wolitzer
The Wife
James Wood
How Fiction Works
Virginia Woolf
Between the Acts
Jacob's Room
Mrs. Dalloway (three times)
A Room of Her Own
To the Lighthouse (three times)
The Voyage Out
The Years
Richard Wright
Native Son
Stephen Wright
The Amalgamation Polka
Rafael Yglesias
Dr. Neruda's Cure for Evil
Dwight Yoakam
A Long Way Home: Twelve Years of Words
Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville
Armageddon Summer
Paul Zindel
The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
My Darling, My Hamburger (three times)
The Pigman (three times)
x
Stefan Zweig
The Post-Office Girl

Sunday, June 08, 2008

Short Stories Read in 2008

1. "The Universal Story." Ali Smith
2. "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves." Karen Russell
3. "The Specialist's Hat." Kelly Link
4. "A Boring Story." Anton Chekhov
5. "Gooseberries." Anton Chekhov
6. "Her Dog." Tobias Wolff
7. "The Famous Poll at Jody's Bar." Ellen Gilchrist
8. "Witness to the Crucifixion." Ellen Gilchrist
9. "A Lady with Pearls." Ellen Gilchrist
10. "The Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor." Ellen Gilchrist
11. "Anna, Part I." Ellen Gilchrist
12. "Pharmacy." Elizabeth Strout
13. Incoming Tide." Elizabeth Strout
14. "The Piano Player." Elizabeth Strout
15. "A Little Burst." Elizabeth Strout
16. "Starving." Elizabeth Strout
17. "A Different Road." Elizabeth Strout
18. "Winter Concert." Elizabeth Strout
19. "Tulips." Elizabeth Strout
20. "Basket of Trips." Elizabeth Strout
21. "Ship in a Bottle." Elizabeth Strout
22. "Security." Elizabeth Strout
23. "Criminal." Elizabeth Strout
24. "River." Elizabeth Strout
25. "A View of the Woods." Flannery O'Connor
26. "Over There." Julie Hecht
27. "Being and Nothingness." Julie Hecht
28. "A Little Present of This Dark November Day." Julie Hecht
29. "Thank You For the Mittens." Julie Hecht
30. "Get Money." Julie Hecht
31. "Cramp Bark." Julie Hecht
32. "Happy Trails to You." Julie Hecht
33. "Love is Blind." Julie Hecht
34. "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You." Julie Hecht
35. "The Thrill is Gone." Julie Hecht (reread)
36. "The Partridge Festival." Flannery O'Connor
37. "The Horse-Stealers." Anton Chekhov
38. "A Dead Body." Anton Chekhov
39. "A Story Without a Title." Anton Chekhov
40. "The Enduring Chill." Flannery O'Connor
41. "The Comforts of Home." Flannery O'Connor
42. Judgement Day." Flannery O'Connor
43. "A Temporary Matter." Jhumpa Lahiri
44. "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dinner." Jhumpa Lahiri
45. "Why Do the Heathen Rage?" Flannery O'Connor
46. "Everything That Rises Must Converge." Flannery O'Connor
47. "Lion and the Sun." Anton Chekhov
48. "On the Quai at Smyrna." Ernest Hemingway
49. "A White Bible." Tobias Wolff
50. "Revelation." Flannery O'Connor
51. "The Lame Shall Enter First." Flannery O'Connor
52. "Parker's Back." Flannery O'Connor
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Saturday, December 31, 2005

Short Stories Read in 2006

January
1. "Some Zombie Contingency Plans." Kelly Link
2. "In Case We're Separated." Alice Mattison
3. "The Sentinel." Arthur C. Clarke
4. "Catskin." Kelly Link
5. "The Book Club." Ali Smith
6. "The Depostion." Tobias Wolff
February
7. "Family With Young Children." A. L. Kennedy
8. "Good Morning, Again." Elliot Perlman
9. "In the Time of the Dinosaur." Elliot Perlman
10. "The Reasons I Won't Be Coming." Elliot Perlman
11. "Apocalypse." T.E. Holt (reread)
12. "The Faery Handbag." Kelly Link
13. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." Ambrose Bierce (reread)
March
14. "Gleason." Louise Erdrich
April
15. "Greenleaf." Flannery O'Connor (reread)
May
16. "The Lady with the Toy Dog." Anton Chekhov
17. "The Yellow Wallpaper." Charlotte Perkins Gilman (reread)
18. "Vanka." Anton Chekhov
July
19. "Centennial." Drena Hills (asj fanfic)
August
20. "The Lady with the Toy Dog." Anton Chekhov (reread)
September
21. "The Dead." James Joyce (reread)
October
22. "Kew Gardens." Virginia Woolf
23. "Awaiting Orders." Tobias Wolff
24. "The Ladies of Grace Adieu." Susanna Clarke
25. "On Lickerish Hill." Susanna Clarke
November
26. "At the Bay." Katherine Mansfield
27. "Paper Losses." Lorrie Moore
28. "Alice, Falling." Steven Millhauser
December
29. "Revenge of the Dinosaurs." Deborah Eisenberg
30. "Twilight of the Superheroes." Deborah Eisenberg
31. "The Night Before Christmas." Nikolai Gogol
32. "The Flaw in the Design." Deborah Eisenberg
33. "Some Other, Better Otto." Deborah Eisenberg
34. "Like It or Not." Deborah Eisenberg
35. "Window." Deborah Eisenberg

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

365 in '05?

Can I manage to read 365 short stories this year? Stay tuned. . .

January
1. "You Should Fear Us." Orhan Pamuk
2. "On the Day that E.M. Forster Died." A.S. Byatt
3. "A Memory." Eudora Welty
4. "The Third Resignation." Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. "The Dead." James Joyce (reread)
6. "My Side of the Matter." Truman Capote (reread)
7. "Why I Live at the P.O." Eudora Welty (reread)
8. "Fish." Michel Faber
9. "The Red Cement Truck." Michel Faber
10. "Toy Story." Michel Faber
11. "The Juniper Tree." Lorrie Moore
12. "Breakfast at Tiffany's." Truman Capote
13. "A Diamond Guitar." Truman Capote
14. "A Christmas Memory." Truman Capote
15. "House of Flowers." Truman Capote
16. "Runaway." Alice Munro
17. "Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden." Eudora Welty
18. "Petrified Man." Eudora Welty
19. "Chance." Alice Munro
20. "Soon." Alice Munro
21. "Silence." Alice Munro
22. "Lily Daw and the Three Ladies." Eudora Welty
23. "Psychology." Katherine Mansfield
24. "A Piece of News." Eudora Welty
25. "The Fifth Victim--Missing Scenes." Kate Ashe (asj fanfic)
26. "A Place to Call Home." Leah Anders (asj fanfic)
27. "Passion." Alice Munro
28. "Trespasses." Alice Munro
29. "Somewhere Warm and Comfortable." Michel Faber
30. "Tricks." Alice Munro
31. "The Gossip Cell." Michel Faber
February
32. "The Crust of Hell." Michel Faber
33. "Powers." Alice Munro
34. "In Case of Vertigo." Michel Faber
35. "The Parrot." Elizabeth Bowen
36. "Shoes: An International Episode." Elizabeth Bowen
37. "The Poor are Always With Us." Tobias Wolff
38. "Say Yes." Tobias Wolff
39. "The Rich Brother." Tobias Wolff
40. "Coming Attractions." Tobias Wolff
41. "Loss of Face." A.S. Byatt
42. "The July Ghost." A.S. Byatt
43. "Sister." Tobias Wolff
44. "Our Story Begins." Tobias Wolff
45. "A Mink of One's Own." Truman Capote
46. "The Cat Jumps." Elizabeth Bowen
47. "The Missing Person." Tobias Wolff
48. "Desert Breakdown, 1968." Tobias Wolff
49. "Leviathan." Tobias Wolff
50. "Soldier's Joy." Tobias Wolff
51. "Facing the Demons." JoAnn Baker (asj fanfic)
52. "Eyes of Moon Lake." Susanna Leslie (asj fanfic)
53. "Beaver City Blues." CD Roberts (asj fanfic)
54. "Cross Trained." Drena Hills (asj fanfic)
55. "The Posse That Wouldn't Quit From Memory." CD Roberts (asj fanfic)
56. "Tooth and Claw." T. Coraghessan Boyle
57. "Intervention." Jill McCorkle
58. "The Evil that Men Do--." Elizabeth Bowen
59. "Rose-Coloured Teacups." A.S. Byatt
March
60. "The Dried Witch." A.S. Byatt
61. "Racine and the Tablecloth." A.S. Byatt
62. "Children on Their Birthdays." Truman Capote (reread)
63. "The Ugliest Pilgrim." Doris Betts (reread)
64. "The Next Room." A.S. Byatt
65. "Sugar." A.S. Byatt
66. "Forget Me Not." Leah Anders (asj fanfic)
67. "The Walls Are Cold." Truman Capote
68. "The Shape of Things." Truman Capote
69. "The View from Knightsgate." Susanna Leslie (asj fanfic)
70. "The Changeling." A.S. Byatt
71. "The Widow and the Parrot: A True Story." Virginia Woolf
72. "In the Air." A.S. Byatt
73. "Precipice-Encurled." A.S. Byatt
74. "This Cell Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us." Leah Anders (asj fanfic)
75. "Never Get Involved in Another Man's Feud." Dusty Boots (asj fanfic)
76. "The Isabel Fish." Julie Orringer
77. "Pilgrim." Julie Orringer
78. "A Difficult Delivery." Kate Ashe (asj fanfic)
79. "Mountain of Agony." CD Roberts (asj fanfic)
80. "When She is Old and I am Famous." Julie Orringer
81. "The Key." Eudora Welty
82. "Note to Sixth-Grade Self." Julie Orringer
83. "The Smoothest Way is Full of Stones." Julie Orringer
84. "Old Mr. Marblehall." Eudora Welty
85. "A Visit of Charity." Eudora Welty
86. "Breakfast." Elizabeth Bowen
87. "The New House." Elizabeth Bowen
88. "A Worn Path." Eudora Welty
89. "Flowers for Marjorie." Eudora Welty
90. "The Whistle." Eudora Welty
91. "Where is the Voice Coming From?" Eudora Welty
92. "A Curtain of Green." Eudora Welty
93. "Death of a Traveling Salesman." Eudora Welty
94. "Stations of the Cross." Julie Orringer
95. "Clytie." Eudora Welty
96. "What We Save." Julie Orringer
97. "The Hitch-Hikers." Eudora Welty
98. "Powerhouse." Eudora Welty
99. "Care." Julie Orringer
100. "Stars of Motown Shining Bright." Julie Orringer
101. "Cages." Guy Vanderhaeghe
April
102. "The Tutor." Nell Freudenberger
103. "Accomplice." Sarah Sun-Lien Bynum
104. "Joining Charles." Elizabeth Bowen
105. "The Tommy Crans." Elizabeth Bowen
106. "The Apple Tree." Elizabeth Bowen
107. "What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?" Annie Proulx
May
108. "Grace." Paula Fox
109. "The Storm." Elizabeth Bowen
110. "The Easter Egg Party." Elizabeth Bowen
111. "Attractive Modern Homes." Elizabeth Bowen
112. "Written in Stone." Catherine Brady
113. "Rare Bird." Andrea Barrett
114. "The Marburg Sisters." Andrea Barrett
115. "Telling." Elizabeth Bowen
116. "Birds with No Feet." Andrea Barrett
117. "Soroche." Andrea Barrett
118. "The Littoral Zone." Andrea Barrett
119. "The English Pupil." Andrea Barrett
120. "The Behavior of the Hawkweeds." Andrea Barrett (reread)
121. "Sun and Moon." Katherine Mansfield
122. "Job History." Annie Proulx
123. "Ship Fever." Andrea Barrett
124. "Trains at Night." Alberto Alvaro Rios
125. "Saturnino el Magnifico." Alberto Alvara Rios
126. "The Road From Colonus." E.M. Forster
June
127. "Pig Cookies." Alberto Alvara Rios
128. "Waltz of the Fat Man." Alberto Alvara Rios
129. "Shower of Gold." Eudora Welty
130. "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." Dorothy M. Johnson
131. "Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?" Gina Berriault
132. "The Last Rabbit." Emma Donoghue
133. "A Mouthful of Cut Glass." Tessa Hadley
134. "Acts of Union." Emma Donoghue
135. "The Cobweb." Zona Gale
136. "Sheep." Michel Faber
137. "55 Miles to the Gas Pump." Annie Proulx
138. "The Blood Bay." Annie Proulx
139. "Haunting Olivia." Karen Russell
140. "Ed Has His Mind Improved." Walter R. Brooks
141. "The Library of Babel." Jorge Luis Borges
142. "The Story of St. Vespaluus." Saki
143. "An Ex-Mas Feast." Uwem Akpan
144. "The Second Tree from the Corner." E.B. White
145. "The Farmer's Children." Elizabeth Bishop
146. "The Point of It." E.M. Forster
147. "Mr. Andrews." E.M. Forster
148. "The Best Place for It." Richard Powers
149. "The Fox on the Line." Emma Donoghue
150. "A Nurse's Story." Peter Baida
151. "Mister Brother." Michael Cunningham
152. "The Saga of Ref the Sly." George Clark, trans.
153. "The Rabbit Hole as Likely Explanation." Ann Beattie
July
154. "Powder." Tobias Wolff
155. "Flyboys." Tobias Wolff
156. "Bullet in the Brain." Tobias Wolff (reread)
157. "A Conversation with My Father." Grace Paley
158. "A Jury of Her Peers." Susan Glaspell
159. "'Finality' in Freeport." Susan Glaspell
160. "The Anarchist: His Dog." Susan Glaspell
161. "At Twilight." Susan Glaspell
162. "From A to Z." Susan Glaspell
163. "The Life of the Body." Tobias Wolff
164. "The Public Library." Isaac Babel
165. "The Phoenix." Ursula K. LeGuin
166. "Mortals." Tobias Wolff
167. "Hills Like White Elephants." Ernest Hemingway (reread)
168. "A Day's Wait." Ernest Hemingway
169. "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio." Ernest Hemingway
170. "A Canary for One." Ernest Hemingway
171. "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot." Ernest Hemingway
172. " Lady's Dream." Tobias Wolff
173. "On the Quai at Smyrna." Ernest Hemingway
174. "My Old Man." Ernest Hemingway
175. "CommComm." George Saunders
176. "Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz." George Saunders
August
177. "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline." George Saunders
178. "Isabelle." George Saunders
179. "Downtrodden Mary's Failed Campaign of Terror." George Saunders
180. "Mrs. Smith and Jones." Karen Sumners (asj fanfic)
181. "The Mutability of Literature." Washington Irving
182. "Bounty." George Saunders
183. "The Wavemaker Falters." George Saunders
184. "The 400-Pound CEO." George Saunders
September
185. "Theories of Rain." Andrea Barrett
186. "The Devil and Tom Walker." Washington Irving
October
187. "The Black Cat." Edgar Allan Poe
188. "Chicken Little Goes Too Far." Margaret Atwood
189. "The Tent." Margaret Atwood
190. "Brokeback Mountain." Annie Proulx (reread)
191. "The Nine Billion Names of God." Arthur Clarke
192. "In Ruth's Country." Rick Bass (reread)
193. "Wild Horses." Rick Bass (reread)
194. "Apocalypse." T. E. Holt (reread)
November
195. "My Kinsman, Major Molineux." Nathaniel Hawthorne
196. "The Minister's Black Veil." Nathaniel Hawthorne
197. "The Cave." Rick Bass
198. "Eating." Rick Bass
199. "Love and Obstacles." Aleksandar Hemon
200. "True Short Story." Ali Smith
December

Monday, August 30, 2004

To Be Read List

The Paris Review Book of People With Problems.
The Monkey Wrench Gang. Edward Abbey
English Music. Peter Ackroyd
First Light. Peter Ackroyd
The Life of Thomas More. Peter Ackroyd
London: The Biography. Peter Ackroyd
Half of a Yellow Sun. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Weight of Dreams. Jonis Agee
Monsieur Proust. Celeste Albaret
The House of the Spirits. Isabel Allende
Zarafa. Michael Allin
Kit's Wilderness. David Almond
The Sagas of Icelanders. Anonymous
Buddha. Karen Armstrong
A History of God. Karen Armstrong
Through the Narrow Gate. Karen Armstrong
Hunter's Horn. Harriette Arnow
Moral Disorder. Margaret Atwood
Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon. Jane Austen
April Witch. Majgull Axelson
An Awfully Big Adventure. Beryl Bainbridge
Room Temperature. Nicholson Baker
The Size of Thoughts. Nicholson Baker
Emerson Among the Eccentrics. Carlos Baker
Lives of the Monster Dogs. Kirsten Bakis
Servants of the Map. Andrea Barrett
Giles Goat-Boy. John Barth
The Hermit's Story. Rick Bass
The Lives of Rocks. Rick Bass
Platte River. Rick Bass
Burning Down the House. Charles Baxter
The Lost Ones. Samuel Beckett
A Favorite of the Gods. Sybille Bedord
Zuleika Dobson. Max Beerbohm
Barking Man and Other Stories. Madison Smartt Bell
More Die of Heartbreak. Saul Bellow
Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books. Marcel Benabou
The Astronomer and Other Stories. Doris Betts
The Scarlet Thread. Doris Betts
Kill Your Darlings. Terence Blacker
The Creators. Daniel J. Boorstin
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
The House in Paris. Elizabeth Bowen
The Last September. Elizabeth Bowen
Brazzaville Beach. William Boyd
Year Before Last. Kay Boyle
Quicker Than the Eye. Ray Bradbury
Witches and Neighbors. Robin Briggs
The Death of Virgil. Hermann Broch
It Wasn't All Dancing. Mary Ward Brown
Little Green Men. Christopher Buckley
The Professor of Light. Marina Budhos
The Fatal Eggs. Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita. Mikhail Bulgakov
Evelina. Fanny Burney
Tabloid Dreams. Robert Olen Butler
The Matisse Stories. A.S. Byatt
The Shadow of the Sun. A.S. Byatt
Imagining Characters. A.S. Byatt and Ignes Sodre
Ka. Roberto Calasso
Literature and the Gods. Roberto Calasso
The Cloud Atlas. Liam Callahan
If on a winter's night a traveler. Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities. Italo Calvino
The Weekend. Peter Cameron
Blue River. Ethan Canin
The Palace Thief. Ethan Canin
Nine Fairy Tales and One More Thrown in for Good Measure. Karel Capek
Bliss. Peter Carey
Jack Maggs. Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda. Peter Carey
The Edge of the Sea. Rachel Carson
Under the Sea Wind. Rachel Carson
In the Stacks: Short Stories About Libraries and Librarians. Michael Cart, ed.
Death Comes For the Archbishop. Willa Cather
The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist. Michael Chabon
Summerland. Michael Chabon
The Songlines. Bruce Chatwin
The Essential Plays. Anton Chekhov
Stories. Anton Chekhov
Monkey. Wu Ch'Eng'En
The Chymical Wedding. Linday Clarke
The Backbone of the World. Frank Clifford
Foe. J.M. Coetzee
Life and Times of Michael K. J.M. Coetzee
Glass, Paper, Beans. Leah Hager Cohen
Another Marvelous Thing. Laurie Colwin
Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object. Laurie Colwin
Bringing Out the Dead. Joe Connelly
Lord Jim. Joseph Conrad
Signals of Distress. Jim Crace
Celebration. Harry Crews
Timeline. Michael Crichton
The Summer Guest. Justin Cronin
Aegypt. John Crowley
Lord Byron's Novel. John Crowley
Flesh and Blood. Michael Cunningham
The Voyage of the Beagle. Charles Darwin
The Ugliest House in the World. Peter Ho Davies
The Cornish Trilogy. Robertson Davies
The Merry Heart. Robertson Davies
Winter Range. Claire Davis
Hell. Kathryn Davis
The End of the Story. Lydia Davis
The Blind Watchmaker. Richard Dawkins
The Secret Country. Pamela Dean
The Whim of the Dragon. Pamela Dean
Birds Without Wings. Louis de Bernieres
Corelli's Mandolin. Louis de Bernieres
The Consolations of Philosophy. Alain de Botton
Robinson Crusoe. Daniel Defoe
Mao II. Don DeLillo
Guns, Germs, and Steel. Jared Diamond
The Living. Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Annie Dillard
Teaching a Stone to Talk. Annie Dillard
Waterworks. E.L. Doctorow
The Tiger in the Grass. Harriet Doerr
The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits. Emma Donoghue
Dancing at the Rascal Fair. Ivan Doig
This House of Sky. Ivan Doig
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. Michael Dorris
Demons. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sister Carrie. Theodore Dreiser
Voices from the Moon. Andre Dubus
The Way That Water Enters Stone. John Dufresne
The Three Musketeers. Alexander Dumas
The Square. Marguerite Duras
The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas. Marguerite Duras
Menagerie Manor. Gerald Durrell
A Zoo in My Luggage. Gerald Durrell
Baudolino. Umberto Eco
Foucault's Pendulum. Umberto Eco
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. Umberto Eco
The Land Breakers. John Ehle
Move Over, Mountain. John Ehle
All Around Atlantis. Deborah Eisenberg
Adam Bede. George Eliot
Daniel Deronda. George Eliot
The MacGuffin. Stanley Elkin
The Clothes in the Wardrobe. Alice Thomas Ellis
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. Joseph J. Ellis
Invisible Man. Ralph Ellison
The Beet Queen. Louise Erdrich
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse. Louise Erdrich
The Open Curtain. Brian Evenson
Some Rain Must Fall. Michel Faber
Go Down, Moses. William Faulkner
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Richard P. Feynman
Spadework. Timothy Findley
Parrots' Wood. Erma J. Fisk
Tender is the Night. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bouvard and Pecuchet. Gustave Flaubert
The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity. Richard Fletcher
Ladysmith. Giles Foden
Rock Springs. Richard Ford
Parade's End. Ford Madox Ford
Beat to Quarters. C.S. Forester
Arctic Summer. E.M. Forster
Aspects of the Novel. E.M. Forster
Strong Motion. Jonathan Franzen
The Golden Bough. James George Frazer
Thirteen Moons. Charles Frazier
Two Girls, Fat and Thin. Mary Gaitskill
Collected Stories. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Living to Tell the Tale. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Grendel. John Gardner
Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. Margaret George
Net of Jewels. Ellen Gilchrist
Golden Country. Jennifer Gilmore
Shot in the Heart. Mikal Gilmore
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories. George Gissing
Vita Nova. Louise Gluck
The Sorrows of Young Werther. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Family Markowitz. Allegra Goodman
July's People. Nadine Gordimer
A Sport of Nature. Nadine Gordimer
Falling Angels. Barbara Gowdy
Mister Sandman. Barbara Gowdy
The Tin Drum. Gunter Grass
Claudius the God. Robert Graves
Will in the World. Stephen Greenblatt
Collected Stories. Graham Greene
White People. Allan Gurganus
My Wars are Laid Away in Books. Alfred Habegger
Mariette in Ecstasy. Ron Hansen
Far From the Madding Crowd. Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge. Thomas Hardy
Selected Poems. Thomas Hardy
Two on a Tower. Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders. Thomas Hardy
The Go-Between. L.P. Hartley
Water Wings. Kristen den Hartog
Where You Once Belonged. Kent Haruf
The Blithedale Romance. Hawthorne
The Transit of Venus. Shirley Hazzard
Nowhere Man. Aleksandar Hemon
The Question of Bruno. Aleksandar Hemon
The Histories. Herodotus
I Served the King of England. Bohumil Hrabal
Only the Little Bone. David Huddle
Story of a Million Years. David Huddle
The Cowboy and the Cossack. Clair Huffaker
Hunchback of Notre Dame. Victor Hugo
Les Miserables. Victor Hugo
Publish and Perish. James Hynes
Freethinkers. Susan Jacoby
The Ambassadors. Henry James
The Golden Bowl. Henry James
Selected Tales. Henry James
What Maisie Knew. Henry James
Night Falls Fast. Kay Redfield Jamison
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. Wayne Johnston
Dubliners. James Joyce
Ulysses. James Joyce
Hyperspace. Michio Kaku
Snow Country. Yasunari Kawabata
To Dance With the White Dog. Terry Kay
Lake Wobegon Days. Garrison Keillor
The Outlaw Trail. Charles Kelly
A Visitation of Spirits. Randall Kenan
Otherwise: New and Selected Poems. Jane Kenyon
Liar's Moon. Philip Kimball
Kim. Rudyard Kipling
Still Life with Insects. Brian Kiteley
The Willow Field. William Kittredge
Black Oxen. Elizabeth Knox
Cod. Mark Kurlansky
Salt. Mark Kurlansky
Miniatures. Norah Labiner
Interpreter of Maladies. Jhumpa Lahiri
Rosie. Anne Lamott
Independent People. Halldor Laxness
Paradise Reclaimed. Halldor Laxness
World Light. Halldor Laxness
Into Thin Air. Caroline Leavitt
Hannibal. Ross Leckie
Virginia Woolf. Hermione Lee
If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name. Heather Lende
The Phantom of the Opera. Gaston Leroux
The Golden Notebook. Doris Lessing
The Sweetest Dream. Doris Lessing
As She Climbed Across the Table. Jonathan Lethem
Second Draft of My Life. Sara Lewis
Elmer Gantry. Sinclair Lewis
Kingsblood Royal. Sinclair Lewis
Flash House. Aimee Liu
Cleopatra's Sister. Penelope Lively
Heat Wave. Penelope Lively
Moon Tiger. Penelope Lively
Homework. Margot Livesey
The British Museum is Falling Down. David Lodge
Foreign Affairs. Alison Lurie
Only Children. Alison Lurie
Grace Notes. Bernard MacLaverty
Island. Alistair MacLeod
Palace Walk. Naguib Mahfouz
Handling Sin. Michael Malone
An Imaginary Life. David Malouf
Into the Looking-Glass Wood. Alberto Manguel
A Reading Diary. Alberto Manguel
Buddenbrooks. Thomas Mann
Death in Venice. Thomas Mann
Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories
An Experiment in Love. Hilary Mantel
The Giant, O'Brien. Hilary Mantel
Reader's Block. David Markson
Wittgenstein's Mistress. David Markson
Point of No Return. John Marquand
The Hunger Moon. Suzanne Matson
Hilda and Pearl. Alice Mattison
Cakes and Ale. W. Somerset Maugham
Liza of Lambeth. W. Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence. W. Somerset Maugham
The Folded Leaf. William Maxwell
Encore Provence. Peter Mayle
Tears of the Giraffe. Alexander McCall Smith
Blood Meridian. Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing. Cormac McCarthy
Word Painting. Rebecca McClanahan
Niagara Falls All Over Again. Elizabeth McCracken
Mr. Darwin's Shooter. Roger McDonald
Some Can Whistle. Larry McMurtry
Boone's Lick. Larry McMurtry
Anything for Billy. Larry McMurtry
The Metaphysical Club. Louis Menand
When the World Was Steady. Claire Messud
The River of Doubt. Candice Millard
The Barnum Museum. Steven Millhauser
Martin Dressler. Steven Millhauser
Up in the Old Hotel. Joseph Mitchell
Nathaniel's Nutmeg. Giles Milton
Paradise Lost. John Milton
Tulip Fever. Doborah Moggach
Birds of America. Lorrie Moore
The World I Made For Her. Thomas Moran
Gap Creek. Robert Morgan
Vanished. Mary McGarry Morris
Towing Jehovah. James Morrow
The Stones of Summer. Dow Mossman
Friend of My Youth. Alice Munro
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Haruki Murakami
The Bell. Iris Murdoch
The Book and the Brotherhood. Iris Murdoch
A Fairly Honourable Defeat. Iris Murdoch
The Good Apprentice. Iris Murdoch
The Message to the Planet. Iris Murdoch
The Nun and the Soldier. Iris Murdoch
Pale Fire. Vladimir Nabokov
Transparent Things. Vladimir Nabokov
Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey. V.S. Naipaul
A Bend in the River. V.S. Naipaul
Suite Francaise. Irene Nemirovsky
The Good People of New York. Thisbe Nissen
Lempriere's Dictionary. Lawrence Norfolk
The Pope’s Rhinoceros. Lawrence Norfolk
Doctors. Sherwin B. Nuland
The Falls. Joyce Carol Oates
The Reverse of the Letter. Patrick O’Brian
The Nutmeg of Consolation. Patrick O’Brian
The Hundred Days. Patrick O'Brian
The Unknown Shore. Patrick O'Brian
At Swim-Two-Birds. Flan O'Brien
The Things They Carried. Tim O'Brien
The Circus Fire. Stewart O'Nan
A World Away. Stewart O'Nan
The English Patient. Michael Ondaatje
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup. Susan Orlean
Coming Up For Air. George Orwell
A Tale of Love and Darkness. Amos Oz
The Black Book. Orhan Pamuk
Istanbul. Orhan Pamuk
Europa. Tim Parks
Carnival Evening. Linda Pastan
The Last of How It Was. T. R. Pearson
Off For the Sweet Hereafter. T.R. Pearson
Who I Was Supposed To Be. Susan Perabo
A House in Sicily. Daphne Phelps
Prague. Arthur Phillips
Omnivore's Dilemma. Michael Pollan
Gringos. Charles Portis
Davita's Harp. Chaim Potok
A Time to be Born. Dawn Powell
Galatea 2.2. Richard Powers
Highway 12. Christian Probasco
Close Range: Wyoming Stories. Annie Proulx
Postcards. E. Annie Proulx
The Guermantes Way. Marcel Proust
Sodom and Gomorrah. Marcel Proust
Quartet in Autumn. Barbara Pym
The Crying of Lot 49. Thomas Pynchon
Mason and Dixon. Thomas Pynchon
Vineland. Thomas Pynchon
Monsters of God. David Quammen
The Song of the Dodo. David Quammen
Passage to Juneau. Jonathan Raban
The Italian. Ann Radcliffe
Islands. Marta Randall
Wide Sargasso Sea. Jean Rhys
Memnoch the Devil. Anne Rice
Solomon Gursky Was Here. Mordechai Richler
Pig Cookies and Other Stories. Alberto Alvaro Rios
The Ghost Writer. Philip Roth
Fury. Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses. Salman Rushdie
Kindergarten. Peter Rushforth
Mohawk. Richard Russo
An Anthropologist on Mars. Oliver Sacks
All Passion Spent. Vita Sackville-West
The Soloist. Mark Salzman
. . . And Ladies of the Club. Helen Hooven Santmyer
Blindness. Jose Saramago
The History of the Siege of Lisbon. Jose Saramago
Rameau's Niece. Cathleen Schine
Victorian America. Thomas J. Schlereth
Max and the Cats. Moacyr Scliar
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey. Lillian Schlissel
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. David Sedaris
Celebration. Mary Lee Settle
I, Roger Williams. Mary Lee Settle
The Tale of Genji. Murasaki Shikibu (Royall Tyler, translator)
The Obituary Writer. Porter Shreve
Wickerby. Charles Siebert
Almanac of the Dead. Leslie Marmon Silko
Ceremony. Leslie Marmon Silko
A Cowboy Detective. Charles A. Siringo
At Paradise Gate. Jane Smiley
Barn Blind. Jane Smiley
The Greenlanders. Jane Smiley
Horse Heaven. Jane Smiley
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel. Jane Smiley
A Year at the Races. Jane Smiley
The Whole Story and Other Stories. Ali Smith
The Noonday Demon. Andrew Solomon
In America. Susan Sontag
The Volcano Lover. Susan Sontag
A Far Cry From Kensington. Muriel Spark
Robinson. Muriel Spark
I'm Dying Laughing. Christina Stead
Letty Fox. Christina Stead
The Man Who Loved Children. Christina Stead
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian. Wallace Stegner
Recapitulation. Wallace Stegner
East of Eden. John Steinbeck
The Charterhouse of Parma. Stendhal
The Life of Henry Brulard. Stendhal
A Sentimental Journey. Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy. Laurence Sterne
The Confessions of Nat Turner. William Styron
Sophie's Choice. William Styron
Last Orders. Graham Swift
Waterland. Graham Swift
Gulliver's Travels. Jonathan Swift
The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales. Maria Tatar
Vanity Fair. William Thackery
This Thing of Darkness. Harry Thompson
Imagining Argentina. Lawrence Thornton
History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living. Carrie Tiffany
Thomas Hardy. Claire Tomalin
Our Lady of the Circus. David Toscana
Tula Station. David Toscana
Noah's Ark. Barbara Trapido
Two Lives. William Trevor
Other People's Children. Joanna Trollope
Distant Mirror. Barbara Tuchman
The First Salute. Barbara Tuchman
Smoke. Ivan Turgenev
The Man Called Cash. Steve Turner
Lunar Men. Jenny Uglow
Kristin Lavransdatter. Sigrid Undset
The Rage of the Vulture. Barry Unsworth
The Stone Virgin. Barry Unsworth
Self-Consciousness. John Updike
The Underpainter. Jane Urquhart
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. Mario Vargas Llosa
Conversations in Sicily. Elio Vittorini
Fathers and Sons. William T. Vollman
Where She Went. Kate Walbert
Precious Bane. Mary Webb
The Life of Elizabeth I. Alison Weir
The Wars of the Roses. Alison Weir
The Collected Stories. Eudora Welty
Crazy Ladies. Michael Lee West
Cousin Rosamund. Rebecca West
The Birds Fall Down. Rebecca West
The Strange Necessity. Rebecca West
This Real Night. Rebecca West
The Glimpses of the Moon. Edith Wharton
The Old Maid. Edith Wharton
Summer. Edith Wharton
Salamander. Thomas Wharton
Jenny and the Jaws of Life. Jincy Willett
Stoner. John Williams
Saints and Strangers. George F. Willison
The Map That Changed the World. Simon Winchester
The Meaning of Everything. Simon Winchester
Sexing the Cherry. Jeanette Winterson
In Pharaoh's Army. Tobias Wolff
The Night in Question. Tobias Wolff
The Book Against God. James Wood
A Moment's Liberty: the Shorter Diary. Virginia Woolf
Night and Day. Virginia Woolf
Orlando. Virginia Woolf
The Waves. Virginia Woolf
The Easter Parade. Richard Yates
Revolutionary Road. Richard Yates
Memoirs of Hadrian. Marguerite Yourcenar
Germinal. Emile Zola