Reading list
(Last updated: 01/26/2005)
I'm making this entry public in the hopes that people will read it and discuss these stories and books with me:
And on a completely unrelated note, I've become inspired in the process of reading someone else's reading list that dates all the way back to 2002. I'm going to try to list all the texts I read from now on, just for my own future reference (like any of this is read by anyone else anyway). Of course, I'm going to forget a lot of them, especially from the beginning of the school year, but I'm going to do the best I can to remember them all. And, also of course, I'm procrastinating on writing an English paper that's due tomorrow. But, really, I'm being serious here; this will eventually help me to understand and reflect on my own intellectual development. I think I'm going to put an asterisk by the books I read outside of class. Unfortunately, I usually never keep track of these in any kind of formal way, so even if it seems like I never read for fun it's probably just because I can't remember them all. So, without further ado, here is my reading list:
August 2004
"What is a Nation?" Ernest Renan
"La gallina degollada" Horacio Quiroga
"Narrative" J. Hillis Miller
Tembladera José Ramos
The Business of Fancydancing Sherman Alexie
The Essential Iliad Homer (translated by Stanley Lombardo)
Antigone Sophocles (translated by Robert Fagles)
*Blindness José Saramago (translated by Juan Sager)
September 2004
"Palabras a mi madre", "De mi padre se cuenta", "El hijo" Alfonsina Storni
"Poema del hijo", "Madre mía", "Pan" Gabriela Mistral
"Balada de los abuelos" Nicolás Guillén
"Race" Kwame Anthony Appiah
Vejigantes Francisco Arriví
"La cena" Nancy Morejón
Killing Custer: the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians James Welch
The Way to Rainy Mountain N. Scott Momaday
The Trial and Death of Socrates Plato (translated by G. M. A. Grube)
The Politics Aristotle (translated by T. A. Sinclair)
Scipio's Dream Cicero (translated by Moses Hadas)
Letters from a Stoic Seneca (translated by Robin Campbell)
selections from The Hebrew Bible (Jewish Publication Society translation)
*"The Smoker" David Schickler
*Azarel Károly Pap (translated by Paul Olchvary)
October 2004
"Paseo" José Donoso
"Es que somos muy pobres" Juan Rulfo
"La salud de los enfermos" Julio Cortázar
Maldito amor Rosario Ferré
"Gender" Myra Jehlen
"Ethnicity" Werner Sollors
"La espera" Alejandra Basualto
"Golpe" Pia Barros
"Historia para ventana" Pia Barros
"How to Write the Great American Indian Novel" Sherman Alexie
"Crazy Horse Speaks" Sherman Alexie
"Rain" Leslie Marmon Silko
"The Man to Send Rain Clouds" Leslie Marmon Silko
"Yellow Woman" Leslie Marmon Silko
"Tony's Story" Leslie Marmon Silko
"Storytelling" Leslie Marmon Silko
"The Killing of a State Cop" Tony Ortíz
"Aunt Moon's Young Man" Linda Hogan
Tracks Louise Erdrich
selections from The Christian Scripture (Revised Standard Version translation)
The Confessions Augustine (translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin)
selections from The Koran (translated by N. J. Dawood)
*The Athenian Murders José Carlos Somoza (translated by Sonia Soto)
*Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
*Life at These Speeds Jeremy Jackson
November 2004
Dreaming in Cuban Cristina García
"El reflejo de la luna" Rosario Sanmiguel
On Politics and Ethics Thomas Aquinas (translated by Paul E. Sigmund)
The Prince Machiavelli (translated by David Wootton)
The Canterbury Tales Chaucer (translated by A. Kent Hieatt and Constance Hieatt)
Truth and Bright Water Thomas King
*Gathering Evidence Thomas Bernhard (translated by David McLintock)
*The Voice Imitator Thomas Bernhard (translated by Kenneth J. Northcott)
*Four Souls Louise Erdrich
December 2004
Bone Dance Wendy Rose
*The Chin Kiss King Ana Veciana-Suarez
*The Luzhin Defense Vladimir Nabokov (translated by Michael Scammell)
*Fernando Pessoa: The Genesis of the Heteronyms J. C. R. Green
*Great Literature of the Eastern World Ed. Ian P. McGreal
*Sightlines Terry Osborne
*La caverna de las ideas José Carlos Somoza
*Historia y geografía hispanoamericano del voseo Iraset Páez Urdaneta
*Budapeste Chico Buarque
*An Unquiet Mind Kay Redfield Jamison
January 2005
*Dark Matters Paul M. Levitt
*Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi
*Arráncame la vida Ángeles Mastretta
Representation and Reality Hilary Putnam
Semantics Kate Kearns
Soldaderas in the Mexican Military: Myth and History Elizabeth Salas
Mexico: Biography of Power: a History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996 Enrique Krauze (translated by Hank Heifetz)
I'm making this entry public in the hopes that people will read it and discuss these stories and books with me:
And on a completely unrelated note, I've become inspired in the process of reading someone else's reading list that dates all the way back to 2002. I'm going to try to list all the texts I read from now on, just for my own future reference (like any of this is read by anyone else anyway). Of course, I'm going to forget a lot of them, especially from the beginning of the school year, but I'm going to do the best I can to remember them all. And, also of course, I'm procrastinating on writing an English paper that's due tomorrow. But, really, I'm being serious here; this will eventually help me to understand and reflect on my own intellectual development. I think I'm going to put an asterisk by the books I read outside of class. Unfortunately, I usually never keep track of these in any kind of formal way, so even if it seems like I never read for fun it's probably just because I can't remember them all. So, without further ado, here is my reading list:
August 2004
"What is a Nation?" Ernest Renan
"La gallina degollada" Horacio Quiroga
"Narrative" J. Hillis Miller
Tembladera José Ramos
The Business of Fancydancing Sherman Alexie
The Essential Iliad Homer (translated by Stanley Lombardo)
Antigone Sophocles (translated by Robert Fagles)
*Blindness José Saramago (translated by Juan Sager)
September 2004
"Palabras a mi madre", "De mi padre se cuenta", "El hijo" Alfonsina Storni
"Poema del hijo", "Madre mía", "Pan" Gabriela Mistral
"Balada de los abuelos" Nicolás Guillén
"Race" Kwame Anthony Appiah
Vejigantes Francisco Arriví
"La cena" Nancy Morejón
Killing Custer: the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians James Welch
The Way to Rainy Mountain N. Scott Momaday
The Trial and Death of Socrates Plato (translated by G. M. A. Grube)
The Politics Aristotle (translated by T. A. Sinclair)
Scipio's Dream Cicero (translated by Moses Hadas)
Letters from a Stoic Seneca (translated by Robin Campbell)
selections from The Hebrew Bible (Jewish Publication Society translation)
*"The Smoker" David Schickler
*Azarel Károly Pap (translated by Paul Olchvary)
October 2004
"Paseo" José Donoso
"Es que somos muy pobres" Juan Rulfo
"La salud de los enfermos" Julio Cortázar
Maldito amor Rosario Ferré
"Gender" Myra Jehlen
"Ethnicity" Werner Sollors
"La espera" Alejandra Basualto
"Golpe" Pia Barros
"Historia para ventana" Pia Barros
"How to Write the Great American Indian Novel" Sherman Alexie
"Crazy Horse Speaks" Sherman Alexie
"Rain" Leslie Marmon Silko
"The Man to Send Rain Clouds" Leslie Marmon Silko
"Yellow Woman" Leslie Marmon Silko
"Tony's Story" Leslie Marmon Silko
"Storytelling" Leslie Marmon Silko
"The Killing of a State Cop" Tony Ortíz
"Aunt Moon's Young Man" Linda Hogan
Tracks Louise Erdrich
selections from The Christian Scripture (Revised Standard Version translation)
The Confessions Augustine (translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin)
selections from The Koran (translated by N. J. Dawood)
*The Athenian Murders José Carlos Somoza (translated by Sonia Soto)
*Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
*Life at These Speeds Jeremy Jackson
November 2004
Dreaming in Cuban Cristina García
"El reflejo de la luna" Rosario Sanmiguel
On Politics and Ethics Thomas Aquinas (translated by Paul E. Sigmund)
The Prince Machiavelli (translated by David Wootton)
The Canterbury Tales Chaucer (translated by A. Kent Hieatt and Constance Hieatt)
Truth and Bright Water Thomas King
*Gathering Evidence Thomas Bernhard (translated by David McLintock)
*The Voice Imitator Thomas Bernhard (translated by Kenneth J. Northcott)
*Four Souls Louise Erdrich
December 2004
Bone Dance Wendy Rose
*The Chin Kiss King Ana Veciana-Suarez
*The Luzhin Defense Vladimir Nabokov (translated by Michael Scammell)
*Fernando Pessoa: The Genesis of the Heteronyms J. C. R. Green
*Great Literature of the Eastern World Ed. Ian P. McGreal
*Sightlines Terry Osborne
*La caverna de las ideas José Carlos Somoza
*Historia y geografía hispanoamericano del voseo Iraset Páez Urdaneta
*Budapeste Chico Buarque
*An Unquiet Mind Kay Redfield Jamison
January 2005
*Dark Matters Paul M. Levitt
*Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi
*Arráncame la vida Ángeles Mastretta
Representation and Reality Hilary Putnam
Semantics Kate Kearns
Soldaderas in the Mexican Military: Myth and History Elizabeth Salas
Mexico: Biography of Power: a History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996 Enrique Krauze (translated by Hank Heifetz)