(no subject)
sept/oct 05
*menand - the metaphysical club
schlink - the reader
*nabokov - lolita
mccullers - the heart is a lonely hunter
salinger - franny & zooey
*erickson - tours of the black clock
*adler - pitch dark
adler - speedboat
*duras - the lover
*duras - the sailor from gibraltor
gaiman - anansi boys
huxley - the genius & the goddess
bach - jonathan livingston seagull
*dostoyevsky - the brothers karamazov
hesse - siddhartha
the bhagavad gita
nov 05
*sartre - nausea
woolf - to the lighthouse
euripides - the bacchae & other plays (ion / women of troy / helen / bacchae)
sacher-masoch - venus in furs
miller - death of a salesman
coetzee - life & times of michael k
kesey - one flew over the cuckoo's nest
vonnegut - god bless you, mr. rosewater
wiesel - night
dec 05
bradbury - the martian chronicles
lewis - a grief observed
*duras - the sailor from gibraltor [repeat]
duras - yann andrea steiner
capote - in cold blood
sedaris - dress your family in corduroy & denim
dostoyevsky - crime & punishment
*hoeg - borderliners [repeat]
nothomb - fear and trembling
hesse - demian
lao tsu - tao te ching
*beckett - waiting for godot
jan 06
woolf - a room of one's own
cogwell - chomsky for beginners
*adler - pitch dark [repeat]
salinger - nine stories
levin - mercury
raab - the probable world
*carson - glass, irony & god
palmer - sartre for beginners [repeat]
gaiman - smoke and mirrors
duras - four novels
wilde - the picture of dorian gray
smith - white teeth
thompson - kingdom of fear
feb 06
vonnegut - welcome to the monkey house
houellebecq - the elementary particles
robbins - skinny legs and all
nugent - elliott smith and the big nothing
lewis - the screwtape letters
lethem - men and cartoons
carre - the constant gardener
williams - the glass menagerie
gide - the immoralist
marquez - chronicle of a death foretold
mar 06
salinger - raise high the roof beam, carpenters / seymour - an introduction
ellis - less than zero [repeat]
*erdrich - tracks
duras - the north china lover
camus - the stranger
schlink - flights of love
byars - the burning questions of bingo brown [ya]
agee - the morning watch
mcinerney - bright lights, big city
ishiguro - an artist of the floating world
turgenev - fathers and sons
*delillo - white noise
chekhov - the major plays (ivanov, seagull, uncle v, 3 sisters, cherry orchard)
apr 06
haslett - you are not a stranger here
*dostoyevsky - the best short stories
*roy - the god of small things
alexie - the lone ranger & tonto fistfight in heaven
johnson - the middle passage
may 06
hornby (ed.) - speaking with the angel
byars - bingo brown & the language of love [ya]
*michaels - fugitive pieces
palahniuk - choke
lahiri - interpreter of maladies
dillard - for the time being
palahniuk - fugitives and refugees
cormier - i am the cheese [repeat]
huxley - brave new world
hamilton - a map of the world
jun 06
coupland - shampoo planet
englander - for the relief of unbearable urges
*haskell - i am not jackson pollock.
tolstoy - anna karenina
beckett - endgame
kundera - the unbearable lightness of being
jul 06
dunn - geek love
card - ender's game
smith - the autograph man
chabon - the final solution
*erdrich - tales of burning love
carroll - the wooden sea
aug 06
lightman - einstein's dreams
matthews - philosophy & the young child
stoppard - arcadia
*adler - pitch dark [repeat]
o'connor - everything that rises must converge
stoppard - the real thing
johnson - already dead
*erickson - the sea came in at midnight
*erickson - our ecstatic days
kundera - identity
jin - war trash
cameron - drinking to kindness
*o'connor - wise blood
sep 06
*chabon - the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay
solzhenitsyn - one day in the life of ivan denisovich
palahniuk - diary
barry - jennifer government
coupland - generation x
wagner & locke - a history of violence [gn]
hamilton - the book of ruth
gunn - rain
jones - cold snap
moore & lloyd - v for vendetta [gn]
auburn - proof
flaubert - madame bovary
*ondaatje - coming through slaughter
lethem - motherless brooklyn
oct 06
gaiman - coraline [ya]
palahniuk - lullaby
salinger - nine stories [repeat]
cunningham - the hours
shanley - doubt
cambor - in sunlight, in a beautiful garden
*haskell - american purgatorio
rilke - stories of god
edson - wit
*ondaatje - in the skin of a lion
doseone - the pelt
pamuk - snow
nov 06
prose - a changed man
wolfe - the electric kool-aid acid test
dillard - teaching a stone to talk
blake - the marriage of heaven and hell
fussel - class (a guide through the american status system)
(*?)rushdie - midnight's children
lethem - gun, with occasional music
ondaatje - anil's ghost
ondaatje - the collected works of billy the kid
klosterman - killing yourself to live
dec 06
*russel - the sparrow
lewis - a grief observed [repeat]
ondaatje - the english patient
*dostoyevsky - the idiot [rp/lv t]
ondaatje - running in the family
ondaatje - handwriting
pamuk - my father's suitcase ['06 nobel speech]
duras - the bible [st]
alexie - what you pawn i will redeem [st]
murakami - hunting knife [st]
erdrich - the plague of doves [st]
jan 07
balliett (+helquist) - chasing vermeer [ya]
*duras - the sailor from gibraltar [repeat]
picoult - my sister's keeper
lewis - main street
lahiri - the namesake
ondaatje - the cinnamon peeler
*russel - children of god
lansens - the girls
gogol - the overcoat & the nose
eliot (+gorey) - old possum's book of practical cats
feb 07
atwood - alias grace
ozick - heir to the glimmering world
orwell - keep the aspidistra flying
smith - on beauty
mar 07
*mcewan - atonement
shelley - frankenstein
chabon - the mysteries of pittsburgh
clarke - jonathan strange & mr. norrell
(*?)proust - swann's way
carroll - alice's adventures in wonderland & through the looking glass
coleridge - rime of the ancient mariner
haddon - the curious incident of the dog in the night-time
flaubert - a simple heart
apr 07
murakami - after the quake
*gogol - the collected tales of nikolai gogol [rp/lv t]
*duras - two by duras (the slut of the normandy coast, the atlantic man)
*duras - the war, a memoir
snicket - a series of unfortunate events #1, a bad beginning [ya]
snicket - a series of unfortunate events #2, the reptile room [ya]
(*?)paz - an erotic beyond: sade
gaiman + mckean - mr. punch [gn]
*hofstadter - what is it like to be a strange loop? [ar]
duras - destroy, she said
sophocles - philoctetes
may 07
*mcewan - amsterdam
*aeschylus - agamemnon
choldenko - al capone does my shirts [ya]
pynchon - the crying of lot 49
goethe - the sorrows of young werther
redhill - martin sloane
fromm - night swimming
jun 07
*atwood - oryx and crake
snicket - a series of unfortunate events #3, the wide window [ya]
*chekhov - the complete short novels [rp/lv t]
sagan - idlewild
*gilbert - refusing heaven
*gogol - dead souls, volume i [rp/lv t]
jul 07
gogol - dead souls, volume ii [rp/lv t]
*bulgakov - the master and margarita [rp/lv t]
snicket - a serious of unfortunate events #4, the miserable mill [ya]
*roy - the cost of living
aug 07
*russell - a thread of grace
moore - lamb
*erdrich - the master butchers singing club
hiaasen - hoot [ya]
snicket - a series of unfortunate events #5, the austere academy [ya]
flaubert - the temptation of st. anthony
gorey - the unstrung harp
crace - being dead
*eggers - a heartbreaking work of staggering genius
*fox - desperate characters
sep 07 // wk 139 hrs
sagan - edenborn
camus - the fall
*saramago - blindness
lethem - the disappointment artist
turgenev - a month in the country
nabokov - pnin
july - no one belongs here more than you.
*klosterman - klosterman iv
*dostoyevsky - the eternal husband and other stories [rp/lv t]
*eliot - murder in the cathedral
oct 07 // wk 143 hrs
prose - the peaceable kingdom
*voltaire - candide and other stories
mahfouz - akhenaten, dweller in truth
*camus - the plague
camus - the fall [repeat]
(*?)graham - overlord
roth - everyman
hornby - a long way down
*erickson - rubicon beach [repeat]
coetzee - slow man
miller & gibbons - give me liberty [gn]
gaiman & zulli - the last temptation [gn]
nov 07 // wk 152.5 hrs
dumas - the three musketeers [rp t]
*erickson - zeroville
moliere - tartuffe
carson - decreation
shteyngart - absurdistan
camus - exile and the kingdom
camus - reflections on the guillotine
(*?)dick - valis
marquez - the general in his labyrinth
sagan - everfree
eggers - what is the what
*haskell - i am not jackson pollock. [repeat]
dec 07 // wk 205.5 hrs
*chekhov - stories [rp/lv t]
gide - madeleine (et nunc manet in te)
kelly - song
beckett - mercier and camier
jan 08 // wk 235 hrs
fitch - white oleander
kelly - the orchard
(*?)fox - poor george
*duras - the ravishing of lol stein
plato - meno
(*?)maxwell - so long, see you tomorrow
plato - charmides
mcewan - saturday
*dostoyevsky - the double & the gambler* [rp/lv t]
*duras - the lover [repeat]
feb 08 // wk 218 hrs
bowler - midget [ya]
hass - praise
*levis - elegy
*borges - collected fictions [trans. andrew hurley]
mar 08 // wk 237 hrs
*johnson - tree of smoke
mccarthy - the sunset limited
(*?)mccarthy - no country for old men
*beckett - happy days
apr 08 // wk 246.5 hrs
snicket - a series of unfortunate events #6, the ersatz elevator [ya]
*hofstadter - i am a strange loop
snicket - a series of unfortunate events #7, the vile village [ya]
(*?)aczel - the mystery of the aleph: mathematics, the kabbalah, and the search for infinity
(*?)duras - summer rain
aeschylus - eumenides
*siken - crush
may 08 // wk 222 hrs
*woolf - mrs. dalloway
*marquez - of love and other demons
*dostoyevsky - demons [rp/lv t]
macleish - j.b.
austen - pride & prejudice
hicklin (ed.) - the revolution will be accessorized
*erickson - days between stations
jun 08 // wk 168 hrs
*robinson - housekeeping
austen - sense & sensibility
beckett - krapp's last tape
beckett - cascando
(*?)beckett - eh joe
morrison & janson - batman gothic [gn]
*robinson - gilead
jul 08 // wk 135 hrs
(*?)duras - blue eyes, black hair
chabon - gentlemen of the road
adiga - the white tiger
palahniuk - rant: an oral biography of buster casey
roy - an ordinary person's guide to empire
*barsamian - louder than bombs: interviews from the progressive magazine
aug 08 // wk 116 hrs
hammett - the maltese falcon
moore & gibbons - watchmen [gn]
hass - time and materials
*moore & campbell - from hell [gn]
miller & gibbons - martha washington dies [gn]
cohen - book of longing
sep 08 // wk 236.5 hrs
*de bernieres - the war of don emmanuel's nether parts
aeschylus - prometheus bound
aeschylus - the libation bearers / choephori
euripides - hippolytus
la rochefoucauld - maxims
(*?)conrad - heart of darkness
aristophanes - clouds
oct 08 // wk 248 hrs
*wakefield - human parts of me want to eat the flowers off of trees
plato - crito
plato - apology
*gallagher - instructions to the double
(*?)plato - gorgias
*buckler - storm drunk
ferlinghetti - a coney island of the mind
euripides - medea
frank - alas, babylon
nov 08 // wk 210 hrs
plato - symposium
shiva - stolen harvest
*woolf - jacob's room
(*?)wright - deepstep come shining
dec 08 // wk 183 hrs
*euripides - grief lessons: four plays (alkestis, herakles, hekabe, hippolytus) [trans anne carson]
garnett - lady into fox
sophocles - oedipus the king
haeg - edible estates: attack on the front lawn
(*?)arendt - on violence
david - nalda said
jan 09 // wk 185 hrs
snicket - a series of unfortunate events #8, the hostile hospital [ya]
*duras - hiroshima mon amour
sophocles - oedipus at colonus
(*?)murakami - after dark
*mccarthy - child of god
(*?)snicket - a series of unfortunate events #9, the carnivorous carnival [ya]
whitefield - permaculture in a nutshell
feb 09 // wk 186 hrs
(*?)duras - the north china lover [repeat]
(*?)chabon - the yiddish policemen's union
*duras - emily l. [repeat]
camus - the stranger [repeat]
duras - no more
*ibsen - four major plays (doll's house, ghosts, hedda gabler, the master builder)
(*?)ibsen - love's comedy
mar 09 // wk 236 hrs
roy - war talk
*weil - waiting for god
james - daisy miller
*haskell - out of my skin
(*?)milosz - fourteen poems
carver - a new path to the waterfall
austen - lady susan
didion - the year of magical thinking
apr 09 // wk 203.5 hrs
*woolf - between the acts
(*?)woolf - flush: a biography
(*?)woolf - night and day
tsunetomo - hagakure
may 09 // wk 202.5 hrs
*arnold - shells [repeat?]
strand - reasons for moving
sagan & hofstadter - that mad ache [trans dh] / translator, trader
*arnold - made flesh
*connelly - the book of lost things
(*?)christensen - alphabet
williams - something cloudy, something clear
*delillo - the body artist
jun 09
delillo - valparaiso
(*?)abe - the woman in the dunes
*dick - the man in the high castle
hickman - the nightly news #1 & #2 [gn]
(*?)mcdougal - born to run
jul 09
*simic - sixty poems
*sophocles - aias (ajax) [trans rp/golder]
hornby - shakespeare wrote for money
*kundera - the curtain
aug 09
*nabokov - the defense
mcewan - on chesil beach
___thoreau - civil disobedience & other essays
*pollan - the botany of desire
___*aeschylus - agamemnon [repeat]
___aeschylus - the libation bearers [repeat]
___chopin - the story of an hour [st, repeat]
___gilman - the yellow wallpaper [st, repeat]
___maupassant - the necklace [st, repeat]
___asimov - nightfall [st]
___allen - the whore of mensa [st]
___hemingway - hills like white elephants [st, repeat]
___king - the man in the black suit [st]
___faulkner - a rose for emily [st]
___*fitzgerald - may day [st]
___hawthorne - rappaccini's daughter [st]
sep 09 // wk 83.5 hrs // 16 crd
___aeschylus - the eumenides [repeat]
plato - euthyphro
euripides - orestes
___(*?)melville - billy budd
oct 09 // wk 78 hrs // 16 crd
*erickson - amnesiascope
garnett - aspects of love
moliere - the imaginary invalid
___*dostoyevsky - crime and punishment [repeat]
nov 09 // wk 79.5 hrs // 16 crd
fraction, brubaker, aja - the immortal iron fist, #1-7 [gn]
bastiat - the law
simic - that little something
dec 09// wk 51 hrs // 16 crd
eggers - how the water feels to the fishes
*duras - practicalities
___tolle - a new earth
*___arendt - eichmann in jerusalem
(*?)fitzgerald - the book shop
manguso - hard to admit and harder to escape
*unferth - minor robberies
jan 10 // wk 82 hrs // 21 crd
mamet - cryptogram
*___shakespeare - othello [repeat]
*sartre - existentialism and human emotions
feb 10 // wk 77.5 hrs // 21 crd
___shakespeare - the taming of the shrew
*sappho - if not, winter: fragments of sappho [trans carson]
pollan - food rules
woolf - freshwater
mar 10 // wk 78 hrs // 21 crd
(*?)tadic - dark things [trans simic]
aristotle - poetics [trans sachs]
*volkman - spar
(*?)___shakespeare - richard ii
(*?)dickman - the end of the west
glenum - the hounds of no
*___shakespeare - henry iv, pt 1
apr 10 // wk hrs // 18 crd
*wakefield - unsleep's village
*duras - writing
___shakespeare - henry iv, pt 2
___shakespeare - henry v
___shakespeare - richard iii
may 10 // wk hrs // 15 crd
___cole - best-loved folktales of the world
*___toelken - the dynamics of folklore
propp - morphology of the folktale
mark - the babies
*nabokov - invitation to a beheading
___lessing - nathan the wise
*mark - tsim tsum
jun 10 // wk hrs // 15 crd
___marx (& engels) - the communist manifesto [repeat]
___fulbrook - a concise history of germany
lahiri - unaccustomed earth
derrida - on cosmopolitanism and forgiveness
*gladman - juice
jul 10 // wk hrs // 15 crd
saint exupery - the little prince [repeat]
(*?)gilbert - the dance most of all
(*?)loncar - 66 galaxie
*gladman - to after that (toaf)
(*?)millet - the sexual life of catherine m.
aug 10 // wk hrs // 16 crd
*lévi-strauss - myth and meaning
tadic - dark things [trans simic, repeat]
*hempel - reasons to live
richie - the truth about diamonds
*mccullers - the ballad of the sad café and other stories
*tadic - night mail: selected poems [trans simic]
*gregg - too bright to see
sep 10 // wk hrs // 16 crd
___beowulf [trans heaney]
strauss - half a life
___sir gawain & the green knight
*wakefield - the void of course moon [aloud]
___everyman
___the seagull reader: poems
___sophocles - oedipus rex [trans young, repeat]
oct 10 // wk hrs // 16 crd
*woolf - orlando [aloud]
___*shakespeare - king lear
beauvoir - a very easy death
___(*?)marlowe - dr. faustus
nov 10 // wk hrs // 16 crd
*sartre - existentialism is a humanism
*lao tzu - tao te ching [trans star, repeat]
dec 10 // wk hrs // 16 crd
___defoe - robinson crusoe
___the seagull reader: stories
___the norton anthology of english literature (selections)
___hughes - christian america and the kingdom of god
*unferth - vacation
jan 11 // wk hrs // 26 crd
___proulx - brokeback mountain
___harris - letter to a christian nation
___machen - the great god pan
___russell - the devil: perceptions of evil from antiquity to primitive christianity
___kafka - the metamorphosis [repeat]
___machen - the hill of dreams
feb 11 // wk hrs // 26 crd
___douglass - narrative of the life of frederick douglass, an american slave
___blackwood - julius levallon: an episode
___chekhov - the cherry orchard [repeat]
___blackwood - the centaur
mar 11 // wk hrs // 26 crd
___*calvino - if on a winter's night a traveler
___russell - satan: the early christian tradition
apr 11 // wk hrs // 23 crd
___*dante - inferno
___james - pragmatism
___freud - civilization and its discontents
___*campbell - a brief introduction to the philosophy of mind
*swensen - magic kingdom [draft]
___yeats - selected poems and four plays [selections]
yeats - per amica silentia lunae
may 11 // wk hrs // 23 crd
___fortune - the demon lover
___stowe - uncle tom's cabin [selections]
___*sartre - transcendence of the ego
___*milton - paradise lost
___shaw - pygmalion
___woolf - the london scene: six essays on london life
___chekhov - the cherry orchard [repeat]
jun 11 // london // 6 crd
___woolf - moments of being
___*woolf - orlando [repeat]
___*woolf - mrs. dalloway [repeat]
___shakespeare - as you like it [repeat]
___gay - the beggar's opera
jul 11 // wk hrs // 6 crd
*hazzard - the transit of venus
packer - drinking coffee elsewhere
aug 11 // wk hrs // 16 crd
(*?)mcewan - the comfort of strangers
*marquez - memories of my melancholy whores
*nabokov - laughter in the dark
sep 11 // wk hrs // 16 crd
*nabokov - transparent things
*nabokov - transparent things [repeat]
oct 11 // wk hrs // 16 crd
*nabokov - the real life of sebastian knight
nov 11 // wk hrs // 16 crd
*nabokov - bend sinister
*nabokov - the eye
dec 11 // wk hrs // 16 crd
*carson - vox
(*?)rich - diving into the wreck
*duras - the sea wall
*nabokov - despair
jan 12 // 27 crd
*markson - this is not a novel
*delillo - mao ii
*dillard - the writing life
___winckelmann - reflections on the imitation of greek works in painting & sculpture
___minoru - a corpse with feet
___poe - the detective stories of edgar allen poe
___plath - the bell jar
___doyle - the hound of the baskervilles
___camus - the stranger [repeat]
___lessing - laocoon: an essay upon the limits of painting & poetry
___christie - the mysterious affair at styles
___yuknavitch - the chronology of water
feb 12 // 27 crd
___*hammett - red harvest
___(*?)acker - kathy goes to haiti
___(*?)chandler - the big sleep
___hegel - introduction to the philosophy of history
___crews - a childhood: the biography of a place
___(*?)schiller - on the aesthetic education of man
___schlegel - on the study of greek poetry
___(*?)camus - myth of sisyphus [repeat]
___*himes - cotton comes to harlem
___sartre - existentialism is a humanism [repeat]
mar 12 // 27 crd
___*sartre - nausea [repeat]
___sartre - no exit
___thompson - the killer inside me
___*tillman - american genius, a comedy
___(*?)hölderlin - the death of empedocles
*wakefield - the honeys trinity
___(*?)carrington - the hearing trumpet
___*nabokov - transparent things [repeat]
apr 12 // 27 crd
___highsmith - the talented mr. ripley
___*delillo - mao ii [repeat]
___*auster - city of glass
___*duras - the war [repeat]
___(*?)lethem - gun, with occasional music [repeat]
___*wittig - les guerilleres
___dunn - geek love [repeat]
___nietzsche - on the advantage & disadvantage of history for life
___*marx - selected writings
___*derrida - voice & phenomenon [trans lawlor]
may 12 // 27 crd
___schelling - the philosophy of art
stein - the fallback plan
jun 12 // 3 crd
___(*?)collins & pinch - dr. golem: how to think about medicine
___beauchamp & childress - principles of biomedical ethics
___murphy - case studies in biomedical research ethics
jul 12
erickson - these dreams of you
aug 12 // 19 crd
*stein - dispatch from the future
___huxley - ape & essence
___(*?)spark - the girls of slender means
sep 12 // 19 crd
___*jones - in parenthesis
___(*?)orwell - homage to catalonia
___woolf - three guineas
___nietzsche - on the advantage & disadvantage of history for life [repeat]
___*hamilton - hangover square
oct 12 // 19 crd
___*eliot - four quartets
___plato - five dialogues
___*nietzsche - on the genealogy of morals
___priestly - they came to a city
nov 12 // 19 crd
___*green - back
___aristotle - de anima
___aristotle - nicomachean ethics
dec 12 // 19 crd
___narayan - waiting for the mahatma
___*whitman - complete poetry & prose
___empiricus - selections from the major writings on skepticism, man, and god
jan 13
*hannah - ray
*adler - pitch dark [repeat]
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[abandoned jan '13 through may '14]
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jun 14
powell - dance night
powell - come back to sorrento
powell - turn, magic wheel
jul 14
powell - angels on toast
powell - my home is far away
aug 14
powell - the locusts have no king
powell - the wicked pavilion
powell - the golden spur
sep 14
chopin - the awakening [repeat]
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[abandoned sep '14 through june '15]
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jun 15
dworkin - alkali
toomer - cane [repeat]
jul 15
___ = for undergrad
[gn] = graphic novel / comic
[ya] = young adult
[ar] = article
[st] = story
[repeat] = read previously
[aloud] = entire work read aloud
* = of favorites (adjusted/debated frequently)
[rp/lv t] = translated by richard pevear & larissa volokhonsky
*menand - the metaphysical club
schlink - the reader
*nabokov - lolita
mccullers - the heart is a lonely hunter
salinger - franny & zooey
*erickson - tours of the black clock
*adler - pitch dark
adler - speedboat
*duras - the lover
*duras - the sailor from gibraltor
gaiman - anansi boys
huxley - the genius & the goddess
bach - jonathan livingston seagull
*dostoyevsky - the brothers karamazov
hesse - siddhartha
the bhagavad gita
nov 05
*sartre - nausea
woolf - to the lighthouse
euripides - the bacchae & other plays (ion / women of troy / helen / bacchae)
sacher-masoch - venus in furs
miller - death of a salesman
coetzee - life & times of michael k
kesey - one flew over the cuckoo's nest
vonnegut - god bless you, mr. rosewater
wiesel - night
dec 05
bradbury - the martian chronicles
lewis - a grief observed
*duras - the sailor from gibraltor [repeat]
duras - yann andrea steiner
capote - in cold blood
sedaris - dress your family in corduroy & denim
dostoyevsky - crime & punishment
*hoeg - borderliners [repeat]
nothomb - fear and trembling
hesse - demian
lao tsu - tao te ching
*beckett - waiting for godot
jan 06
woolf - a room of one's own
cogwell - chomsky for beginners
*adler - pitch dark [repeat]
salinger - nine stories
levin - mercury
raab - the probable world
*carson - glass, irony & god
palmer - sartre for beginners [repeat]
gaiman - smoke and mirrors
duras - four novels
wilde - the picture of dorian gray
smith - white teeth
thompson - kingdom of fear
feb 06
vonnegut - welcome to the monkey house
houellebecq - the elementary particles
robbins - skinny legs and all
nugent - elliott smith and the big nothing
lewis - the screwtape letters
lethem - men and cartoons
carre - the constant gardener
williams - the glass menagerie
gide - the immoralist
marquez - chronicle of a death foretold
mar 06
salinger - raise high the roof beam, carpenters / seymour - an introduction
ellis - less than zero [repeat]
*erdrich - tracks
duras - the north china lover
camus - the stranger
schlink - flights of love
byars - the burning questions of bingo brown [ya]
agee - the morning watch
mcinerney - bright lights, big city
ishiguro - an artist of the floating world
turgenev - fathers and sons
*delillo - white noise
chekhov - the major plays (ivanov, seagull, uncle v, 3 sisters, cherry orchard)
apr 06
haslett - you are not a stranger here
*dostoyevsky - the best short stories
*roy - the god of small things
alexie - the lone ranger & tonto fistfight in heaven
johnson - the middle passage
may 06
hornby (ed.) - speaking with the angel
byars - bingo brown & the language of love [ya]
*michaels - fugitive pieces
palahniuk - choke
lahiri - interpreter of maladies
dillard - for the time being
palahniuk - fugitives and refugees
cormier - i am the cheese [repeat]
huxley - brave new world
hamilton - a map of the world
jun 06
coupland - shampoo planet
englander - for the relief of unbearable urges
*haskell - i am not jackson pollock.
tolstoy - anna karenina
beckett - endgame
kundera - the unbearable lightness of being
jul 06
dunn - geek love
card - ender's game
smith - the autograph man
chabon - the final solution
*erdrich - tales of burning love
carroll - the wooden sea
aug 06
lightman - einstein's dreams
matthews - philosophy & the young child
stoppard - arcadia
*adler - pitch dark [repeat]
o'connor - everything that rises must converge
stoppard - the real thing
johnson - already dead
*erickson - the sea came in at midnight
*erickson - our ecstatic days
kundera - identity
jin - war trash
cameron - drinking to kindness
*o'connor - wise blood
sep 06
*chabon - the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay
solzhenitsyn - one day in the life of ivan denisovich
palahniuk - diary
barry - jennifer government
coupland - generation x
wagner & locke - a history of violence [gn]
hamilton - the book of ruth
gunn - rain
jones - cold snap
moore & lloyd - v for vendetta [gn]
auburn - proof
flaubert - madame bovary
*ondaatje - coming through slaughter
lethem - motherless brooklyn
oct 06
gaiman - coraline [ya]
palahniuk - lullaby
salinger - nine stories [repeat]
cunningham - the hours
shanley - doubt
cambor - in sunlight, in a beautiful garden
*haskell - american purgatorio
rilke - stories of god
edson - wit
*ondaatje - in the skin of a lion
doseone - the pelt
pamuk - snow
nov 06
prose - a changed man
wolfe - the electric kool-aid acid test
dillard - teaching a stone to talk
blake - the marriage of heaven and hell
fussel - class (a guide through the american status system)
(*?)rushdie - midnight's children
lethem - gun, with occasional music
ondaatje - anil's ghost
ondaatje - the collected works of billy the kid
klosterman - killing yourself to live
dec 06
*russel - the sparrow
lewis - a grief observed [repeat]
ondaatje - the english patient
*dostoyevsky - the idiot [rp/lv t]
ondaatje - running in the family
ondaatje - handwriting
pamuk - my father's suitcase ['06 nobel speech]
duras - the bible [st]
alexie - what you pawn i will redeem [st]
murakami - hunting knife [st]
erdrich - the plague of doves [st]
jan 07
balliett (+helquist) - chasing vermeer [ya]
*duras - the sailor from gibraltar [repeat]
picoult - my sister's keeper
lewis - main street
lahiri - the namesake
ondaatje - the cinnamon peeler
*russel - children of god
lansens - the girls
gogol - the overcoat & the nose
eliot (+gorey) - old possum's book of practical cats
feb 07
atwood - alias grace
ozick - heir to the glimmering world
orwell - keep the aspidistra flying
smith - on beauty
mar 07
*mcewan - atonement
shelley - frankenstein
chabon - the mysteries of pittsburgh
clarke - jonathan strange & mr. norrell
(*?)proust - swann's way
carroll - alice's adventures in wonderland & through the looking glass
coleridge - rime of the ancient mariner
haddon - the curious incident of the dog in the night-time
flaubert - a simple heart
apr 07
murakami - after the quake
*gogol - the collected tales of nikolai gogol [rp/lv t]
*duras - two by duras (the slut of the normandy coast, the atlantic man)
*duras - the war, a memoir
snicket - a series of unfortunate events #1, a bad beginning [ya]
snicket - a series of unfortunate events #2, the reptile room [ya]
(*?)paz - an erotic beyond: sade
gaiman + mckean - mr. punch [gn]
*hofstadter - what is it like to be a strange loop? [ar]
duras - destroy, she said
sophocles - philoctetes
may 07
*mcewan - amsterdam
*aeschylus - agamemnon
choldenko - al capone does my shirts [ya]
pynchon - the crying of lot 49
goethe - the sorrows of young werther
redhill - martin sloane
fromm - night swimming
jun 07
*atwood - oryx and crake
snicket - a series of unfortunate events #3, the wide window [ya]
*chekhov - the complete short novels [rp/lv t]
sagan - idlewild
*gilbert - refusing heaven
*gogol - dead souls, volume i [rp/lv t]
jul 07
gogol - dead souls, volume ii [rp/lv t]
*bulgakov - the master and margarita [rp/lv t]
snicket - a serious of unfortunate events #4, the miserable mill [ya]
*roy - the cost of living
aug 07
*russell - a thread of grace
moore - lamb
*erdrich - the master butchers singing club
hiaasen - hoot [ya]
snicket - a series of unfortunate events #5, the austere academy [ya]
flaubert - the temptation of st. anthony
gorey - the unstrung harp
crace - being dead
*eggers - a heartbreaking work of staggering genius
*fox - desperate characters
sep 07 // wk 139 hrs
sagan - edenborn
camus - the fall
*saramago - blindness
lethem - the disappointment artist
turgenev - a month in the country
nabokov - pnin
july - no one belongs here more than you.
*klosterman - klosterman iv
*dostoyevsky - the eternal husband and other stories [rp/lv t]
*eliot - murder in the cathedral
oct 07 // wk 143 hrs
prose - the peaceable kingdom
*voltaire - candide and other stories
mahfouz - akhenaten, dweller in truth
*camus - the plague
camus - the fall [repeat]
(*?)graham - overlord
roth - everyman
hornby - a long way down
*erickson - rubicon beach [repeat]
coetzee - slow man
miller & gibbons - give me liberty [gn]
gaiman & zulli - the last temptation [gn]
nov 07 // wk 152.5 hrs
dumas - the three musketeers [rp t]
*erickson - zeroville
moliere - tartuffe
carson - decreation
shteyngart - absurdistan
camus - exile and the kingdom
camus - reflections on the guillotine
(*?)dick - valis
marquez - the general in his labyrinth
sagan - everfree
eggers - what is the what
*haskell - i am not jackson pollock. [repeat]
dec 07 // wk 205.5 hrs
*chekhov - stories [rp/lv t]
gide - madeleine (et nunc manet in te)
kelly - song
beckett - mercier and camier
jan 08 // wk 235 hrs
fitch - white oleander
kelly - the orchard
(*?)fox - poor george
*duras - the ravishing of lol stein
plato - meno
(*?)maxwell - so long, see you tomorrow
plato - charmides
mcewan - saturday
*dostoyevsky - the double & the gambler* [rp/lv t]
*duras - the lover [repeat]
feb 08 // wk 218 hrs
bowler - midget [ya]
hass - praise
*levis - elegy
*borges - collected fictions [trans. andrew hurley]
mar 08 // wk 237 hrs
*johnson - tree of smoke
mccarthy - the sunset limited
(*?)mccarthy - no country for old men
*beckett - happy days
apr 08 // wk 246.5 hrs
snicket - a series of unfortunate events #6, the ersatz elevator [ya]
*hofstadter - i am a strange loop
snicket - a series of unfortunate events #7, the vile village [ya]
(*?)aczel - the mystery of the aleph: mathematics, the kabbalah, and the search for infinity
(*?)duras - summer rain
aeschylus - eumenides
*siken - crush
may 08 // wk 222 hrs
*woolf - mrs. dalloway
*marquez - of love and other demons
*dostoyevsky - demons [rp/lv t]
macleish - j.b.
austen - pride & prejudice
hicklin (ed.) - the revolution will be accessorized
*erickson - days between stations
jun 08 // wk 168 hrs
*robinson - housekeeping
austen - sense & sensibility
beckett - krapp's last tape
beckett - cascando
(*?)beckett - eh joe
morrison & janson - batman gothic [gn]
*robinson - gilead
jul 08 // wk 135 hrs
(*?)duras - blue eyes, black hair
chabon - gentlemen of the road
adiga - the white tiger
palahniuk - rant: an oral biography of buster casey
roy - an ordinary person's guide to empire
*barsamian - louder than bombs: interviews from the progressive magazine
aug 08 // wk 116 hrs
hammett - the maltese falcon
moore & gibbons - watchmen [gn]
hass - time and materials
*moore & campbell - from hell [gn]
miller & gibbons - martha washington dies [gn]
cohen - book of longing
sep 08 // wk 236.5 hrs
*de bernieres - the war of don emmanuel's nether parts
aeschylus - prometheus bound
aeschylus - the libation bearers / choephori
euripides - hippolytus
la rochefoucauld - maxims
(*?)conrad - heart of darkness
aristophanes - clouds
oct 08 // wk 248 hrs
*wakefield - human parts of me want to eat the flowers off of trees
plato - crito
plato - apology
*gallagher - instructions to the double
(*?)plato - gorgias
*buckler - storm drunk
ferlinghetti - a coney island of the mind
euripides - medea
frank - alas, babylon
nov 08 // wk 210 hrs
plato - symposium
shiva - stolen harvest
*woolf - jacob's room
(*?)wright - deepstep come shining
dec 08 // wk 183 hrs
*euripides - grief lessons: four plays (alkestis, herakles, hekabe, hippolytus) [trans anne carson]
garnett - lady into fox
sophocles - oedipus the king
haeg - edible estates: attack on the front lawn
(*?)arendt - on violence
david - nalda said
jan 09 // wk 185 hrs
snicket - a series of unfortunate events #8, the hostile hospital [ya]
*duras - hiroshima mon amour
sophocles - oedipus at colonus
(*?)murakami - after dark
*mccarthy - child of god
(*?)snicket - a series of unfortunate events #9, the carnivorous carnival [ya]
whitefield - permaculture in a nutshell
feb 09 // wk 186 hrs
(*?)duras - the north china lover [repeat]
(*?)chabon - the yiddish policemen's union
*duras - emily l. [repeat]
camus - the stranger [repeat]
duras - no more
*ibsen - four major plays (doll's house, ghosts, hedda gabler, the master builder)
(*?)ibsen - love's comedy
mar 09 // wk 236 hrs
roy - war talk
*weil - waiting for god
james - daisy miller
*haskell - out of my skin
(*?)milosz - fourteen poems
carver - a new path to the waterfall
austen - lady susan
didion - the year of magical thinking
apr 09 // wk 203.5 hrs
*woolf - between the acts
(*?)woolf - flush: a biography
(*?)woolf - night and day
tsunetomo - hagakure
may 09 // wk 202.5 hrs
*arnold - shells [repeat?]
strand - reasons for moving
sagan & hofstadter - that mad ache [trans dh] / translator, trader
*arnold - made flesh
*connelly - the book of lost things
(*?)christensen - alphabet
williams - something cloudy, something clear
*delillo - the body artist
jun 09
delillo - valparaiso
(*?)abe - the woman in the dunes
*dick - the man in the high castle
hickman - the nightly news #1 & #2 [gn]
(*?)mcdougal - born to run
jul 09
*simic - sixty poems
*sophocles - aias (ajax) [trans rp/golder]
hornby - shakespeare wrote for money
*kundera - the curtain
aug 09
*nabokov - the defense
mcewan - on chesil beach
___thoreau - civil disobedience & other essays
*pollan - the botany of desire
___*aeschylus - agamemnon [repeat]
___aeschylus - the libation bearers [repeat]
___chopin - the story of an hour [st, repeat]
___gilman - the yellow wallpaper [st, repeat]
___maupassant - the necklace [st, repeat]
___asimov - nightfall [st]
___allen - the whore of mensa [st]
___hemingway - hills like white elephants [st, repeat]
___king - the man in the black suit [st]
___faulkner - a rose for emily [st]
___*fitzgerald - may day [st]
___hawthorne - rappaccini's daughter [st]
sep 09 // wk 83.5 hrs // 16 crd
___aeschylus - the eumenides [repeat]
plato - euthyphro
euripides - orestes
___(*?)melville - billy budd
oct 09 // wk 78 hrs // 16 crd
*erickson - amnesiascope
garnett - aspects of love
moliere - the imaginary invalid
___*dostoyevsky - crime and punishment [repeat]
nov 09 // wk 79.5 hrs // 16 crd
fraction, brubaker, aja - the immortal iron fist, #1-7 [gn]
bastiat - the law
simic - that little something
dec 09// wk 51 hrs // 16 crd
eggers - how the water feels to the fishes
*duras - practicalities
___tolle - a new earth
*___arendt - eichmann in jerusalem
(*?)fitzgerald - the book shop
manguso - hard to admit and harder to escape
*unferth - minor robberies
jan 10 // wk 82 hrs // 21 crd
mamet - cryptogram
*___shakespeare - othello [repeat]
*sartre - existentialism and human emotions
feb 10 // wk 77.5 hrs // 21 crd
___shakespeare - the taming of the shrew
*sappho - if not, winter: fragments of sappho [trans carson]
pollan - food rules
woolf - freshwater
mar 10 // wk 78 hrs // 21 crd
(*?)tadic - dark things [trans simic]
aristotle - poetics [trans sachs]
*volkman - spar
(*?)___shakespeare - richard ii
(*?)dickman - the end of the west
glenum - the hounds of no
*___shakespeare - henry iv, pt 1
apr 10 // wk hrs // 18 crd
*wakefield - unsleep's village
*duras - writing
___shakespeare - henry iv, pt 2
___shakespeare - henry v
___shakespeare - richard iii
may 10 // wk hrs // 15 crd
___cole - best-loved folktales of the world
*___toelken - the dynamics of folklore
propp - morphology of the folktale
mark - the babies
*nabokov - invitation to a beheading
___lessing - nathan the wise
*mark - tsim tsum
jun 10 // wk hrs // 15 crd
___marx (& engels) - the communist manifesto [repeat]
___fulbrook - a concise history of germany
lahiri - unaccustomed earth
derrida - on cosmopolitanism and forgiveness
*gladman - juice
jul 10 // wk hrs // 15 crd
saint exupery - the little prince [repeat]
(*?)gilbert - the dance most of all
(*?)loncar - 66 galaxie
*gladman - to after that (toaf)
(*?)millet - the sexual life of catherine m.
aug 10 // wk hrs // 16 crd
*lévi-strauss - myth and meaning
tadic - dark things [trans simic, repeat]
*hempel - reasons to live
richie - the truth about diamonds
*mccullers - the ballad of the sad café and other stories
*tadic - night mail: selected poems [trans simic]
*gregg - too bright to see
sep 10 // wk hrs // 16 crd
___beowulf [trans heaney]
strauss - half a life
___sir gawain & the green knight
*wakefield - the void of course moon [aloud]
___everyman
___the seagull reader: poems
___sophocles - oedipus rex [trans young, repeat]
oct 10 // wk hrs // 16 crd
*woolf - orlando [aloud]
___*shakespeare - king lear
beauvoir - a very easy death
___(*?)marlowe - dr. faustus
nov 10 // wk hrs // 16 crd
*sartre - existentialism is a humanism
*lao tzu - tao te ching [trans star, repeat]
dec 10 // wk hrs // 16 crd
___defoe - robinson crusoe
___the seagull reader: stories
___the norton anthology of english literature (selections)
___hughes - christian america and the kingdom of god
*unferth - vacation
jan 11 // wk hrs // 26 crd
___proulx - brokeback mountain
___harris - letter to a christian nation
___machen - the great god pan
___russell - the devil: perceptions of evil from antiquity to primitive christianity
___kafka - the metamorphosis [repeat]
___machen - the hill of dreams
feb 11 // wk hrs // 26 crd
___douglass - narrative of the life of frederick douglass, an american slave
___blackwood - julius levallon: an episode
___chekhov - the cherry orchard [repeat]
___blackwood - the centaur
mar 11 // wk hrs // 26 crd
___*calvino - if on a winter's night a traveler
___russell - satan: the early christian tradition
apr 11 // wk hrs // 23 crd
___*dante - inferno
___james - pragmatism
___freud - civilization and its discontents
___*campbell - a brief introduction to the philosophy of mind
*swensen - magic kingdom [draft]
___yeats - selected poems and four plays [selections]
yeats - per amica silentia lunae
may 11 // wk hrs // 23 crd
___fortune - the demon lover
___stowe - uncle tom's cabin [selections]
___*sartre - transcendence of the ego
___*milton - paradise lost
___shaw - pygmalion
___woolf - the london scene: six essays on london life
___chekhov - the cherry orchard [repeat]
jun 11 // london // 6 crd
___woolf - moments of being
___*woolf - orlando [repeat]
___*woolf - mrs. dalloway [repeat]
___shakespeare - as you like it [repeat]
___gay - the beggar's opera
jul 11 // wk hrs // 6 crd
*hazzard - the transit of venus
packer - drinking coffee elsewhere
aug 11 // wk hrs // 16 crd
(*?)mcewan - the comfort of strangers
*marquez - memories of my melancholy whores
*nabokov - laughter in the dark
sep 11 // wk hrs // 16 crd
*nabokov - transparent things
*nabokov - transparent things [repeat]
oct 11 // wk hrs // 16 crd
*nabokov - the real life of sebastian knight
nov 11 // wk hrs // 16 crd
*nabokov - bend sinister
*nabokov - the eye
dec 11 // wk hrs // 16 crd
*carson - vox
(*?)rich - diving into the wreck
*duras - the sea wall
*nabokov - despair
jan 12 // 27 crd
*markson - this is not a novel
*delillo - mao ii
*dillard - the writing life
___winckelmann - reflections on the imitation of greek works in painting & sculpture
___minoru - a corpse with feet
___poe - the detective stories of edgar allen poe
___plath - the bell jar
___doyle - the hound of the baskervilles
___camus - the stranger [repeat]
___lessing - laocoon: an essay upon the limits of painting & poetry
___christie - the mysterious affair at styles
___yuknavitch - the chronology of water
feb 12 // 27 crd
___*hammett - red harvest
___(*?)acker - kathy goes to haiti
___(*?)chandler - the big sleep
___hegel - introduction to the philosophy of history
___crews - a childhood: the biography of a place
___(*?)schiller - on the aesthetic education of man
___schlegel - on the study of greek poetry
___(*?)camus - myth of sisyphus [repeat]
___*himes - cotton comes to harlem
___sartre - existentialism is a humanism [repeat]
mar 12 // 27 crd
___*sartre - nausea [repeat]
___sartre - no exit
___thompson - the killer inside me
___*tillman - american genius, a comedy
___(*?)hölderlin - the death of empedocles
*wakefield - the honeys trinity
___(*?)carrington - the hearing trumpet
___*nabokov - transparent things [repeat]
apr 12 // 27 crd
___highsmith - the talented mr. ripley
___*delillo - mao ii [repeat]
___*auster - city of glass
___*duras - the war [repeat]
___(*?)lethem - gun, with occasional music [repeat]
___*wittig - les guerilleres
___dunn - geek love [repeat]
___nietzsche - on the advantage & disadvantage of history for life
___*marx - selected writings
___*derrida - voice & phenomenon [trans lawlor]
may 12 // 27 crd
___schelling - the philosophy of art
stein - the fallback plan
jun 12 // 3 crd
___(*?)collins & pinch - dr. golem: how to think about medicine
___beauchamp & childress - principles of biomedical ethics
___murphy - case studies in biomedical research ethics
jul 12
erickson - these dreams of you
aug 12 // 19 crd
*stein - dispatch from the future
___huxley - ape & essence
___(*?)spark - the girls of slender means
sep 12 // 19 crd
___*jones - in parenthesis
___(*?)orwell - homage to catalonia
___woolf - three guineas
___nietzsche - on the advantage & disadvantage of history for life [repeat]
___*hamilton - hangover square
oct 12 // 19 crd
___*eliot - four quartets
___plato - five dialogues
___*nietzsche - on the genealogy of morals
___priestly - they came to a city
nov 12 // 19 crd
___*green - back
___aristotle - de anima
___aristotle - nicomachean ethics
dec 12 // 19 crd
___narayan - waiting for the mahatma
___*whitman - complete poetry & prose
___empiricus - selections from the major writings on skepticism, man, and god
jan 13
*hannah - ray
*adler - pitch dark [repeat]
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[abandoned jan '13 through may '14]
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jun 14
powell - dance night
powell - come back to sorrento
powell - turn, magic wheel
jul 14
powell - angels on toast
powell - my home is far away
aug 14
powell - the locusts have no king
powell - the wicked pavilion
powell - the golden spur
sep 14
chopin - the awakening [repeat]
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[abandoned sep '14 through june '15]
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jun 15
dworkin - alkali
toomer - cane [repeat]
jul 15
___ = for undergrad
[gn] = graphic novel / comic
[ya] = young adult
[ar] = article
[st] = story
[repeat] = read previously
[aloud] = entire work read aloud
* = of favorites (adjusted/debated frequently)
[rp/lv t] = translated by richard pevear & larissa volokhonsky