What I'm Reading

  • Paul Johnson, The Birth of the Modern
  • Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
  • John Updike, Rabbit Remembered
  • John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich
  • Joan Collins, Love & Desire & Hate
  • Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Terrible Sonnets
  • Anny Thackeray, Madame de Sevigne
  • Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock
  • Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing
  • Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights
  • Alan Simpson and Mary McQueen Simpson, eds., "I too am here": Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
  • Patrick White, The Aunt's Story
  • Elizabeth Hardwick, Seduction and Betrayal
  • Anne Sexton, poems
  • Emily Dickinson, poems
  • Alfred Tennyson, poems
  • Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
  • Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
  • Anne Raeff, Winter Kept Us Warm
  • Marguerite Henry, Misty of Chincoteague
  • Chris Bachelder & Jennifer Habel, Dayswork
  • John Fowles, The Ebony Tower
  • Daniel Mason, The North Woods
  • Mark Kurlansky, The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
  • Lloyd Alexander, The House of Llyr, Taran Wandered, and The High King
  • A. S. Byatt, The Children's Book
  • John Fowles, The Magus
  • Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
  • Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero
  • William Trevor, Selected Stories
  • Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris
  • Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three and The Black Cauldron
  • Andres Resendez, A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
  • Louise Penny, mystery novel whose title I've forgotten
  • Zadie Smith, On Beauty
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • Scott Zesch, The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
  • Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds
  • Peter Taylor, Stories, 1960-1992
  • John Le Carre, Call for the Dead
  • V. S. Pritchett, A Careless Widow and Other Stories
  • E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
  • Tessa Hadley, The Past
  • George Eliot, Middlemarch
  • Edward Said, Late Style
  • John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps
  • Kate O'Brien, That Lady
  • Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, At Freddie's
  • Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard
  • Meg Stout, "Citizen Science"
  • Gretchen Berg, So Far
  • Robertson Davies, The Rebel Angels
  • Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
  • Dorothy Sayers, Clouds of Witness
  • Dorothy Sayers, Murder Must Advertise
  • Dorothy Sayers, The Nine Tailors
  • Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
  • Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins/Rose in Bloom
  • Margaret Drabble, The Seven Sisters
  • Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
  • Louisa May Alcott, Little Men
  • John LeCarre, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  • M. Lesy and L. Stoffer, Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New Century, 1900-1910
  • Colm Toibin, Brooklyn
  • Zane Gray, Wildfire
  • A. Conan Doyle, facsimile Sherlock Holmes stories
  • Elizabeth Bowen, A World of Love
  • Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
  • Maureen Thorson, Share the Wealth
  • Jane Austen, Emma
  • John Le Carre, The Russia House
  • Idra Novey, Take What You Need
  • David S. Reynolds, Walt Whitman: A Cultural Biography
  • Antony Alpers, The Life of Katherine Mansfield
  • Kenneth Roberts, Northwest Passage
  • Tim O'Brien, July, July
  • Ali Smith, how to be both
  • George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
  • George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
  • Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez
  • Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism
  • Dashiell Hammett, Crime Stories and Other Writings
  • Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
  • Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington
  • William Trevor, After Rain
  • Louis Martz, ed., English Seventeenth-Century Verse, vol. 1
  • Eudora Welty, "Henry Green: Novelist of Imagination"
  • Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen
  • Dorothy Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
  • Dante, Inferno
  • Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
  • Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway
  • John Fowles, A Maggot
  • Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle
  • Betsy Sholl, As If a Song Could Save You
  • Richard Potter, Banbury Cross
  • Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
  • Alice Munro, stories
  • John Le Carre, Smiley's People
  • A. S. Byatt, A Whistling Woman
  • Margaret Atwood, various
  • Joan Aiken, Black Hearts in Battersea
  • Sappho, fragments, translated by Anne Carson
  • Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise
  • Mary J. Holmes, Millbank
  • Kenneth Roberts, Arundel
  • Javier Marias, Thus Bad Begins
  • John Le Carre, The Secret Pilgrim
  • Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter
  • Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet
  • T. S. Eliot, The Four Quartets
  • Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honorable Defeat
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, The Beginning of Spring
  • Lori Ostlund, After the Parade
  • Lori Ostlund, The Bigness of the World
  • Roger Angell, Game Time
  • Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
  • Mrs. Oliphant, The Perpetual Curate
  • Richard Russo, ed., Best American Short Stories 2010
  • David Halberstam, October 1964
  • Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge
  • Muriel Spark, Reality and Dreams
  • Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  • Sue Scavo, Buried [A Place]
  • Lily Greenberg, The Shape of a Woman
  • Margaret Drabble, The Witch of Exmoor
  • Barbara Pym, various
  • Edna O'Brien, Wild Decembers
  • Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
  • Diana Goetsch, This Body I Wore
  • A. S.  Byatt, Possession
  • Tessa Hadley, Free Love
  • Jane Austen, Persuasion
  • Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf: A Life
  • Brian Doyle, Chicago
  • James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • Iris Murdoch, The Sandcastle
  • Shirley Hazzard, The Bay of Noon
  • Larry McMurtry, Sin Killer
  • Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
  • Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man
  • Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
  • John Le Carre, A Perfect Spy
  • Wendell Berry, Port William Stories and Novels
  • Monica Wood, When We Were the Kennedys
  • Raymond Carver, stories
  • John Le Carre, The Little Drummer Girl
  • Barbara Pym, And the Sweet Dove Died
  • Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
  • Flannery O'Connor, stories
  • Maurice Manning, poems
  • Vievee Francis, poems
  • Virgil, The Aeneid, trans. Sarah Ruden
  • Barbara Pym, The Sweet Dove Died
  • Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves
  • Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
  • S. Weidensaul, A World on the Wing
  • V. Nabokov, Pnin
  • V. Nabokov, Pale Fire
  • Mavis Gallant, The Cost of Living
  • Vievee Francis, Forest Primeval
  • Brian Doyle, Chicago
  • Kapka Kassabova, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
  • Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Russell Hoban, The Mouse and His Child
  • Nancy Drew, [I can't remember the title!]
  • Elizabeth Bowen, The Little Girls
  • Lucille Clifton, Generations
  • Louise Dickinson Rich, We Took to the Woods
  • Maurice Manning, Bucolics
  • Sappho's fragments, translated by Anne Carson
  • Dante, The Inferno, multiple translators
  • Margaret Drabble, The Gates of Ivory
  • Margaret Drabble, The Radiant Way
  • John Cheever, stories
  • John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle
  • John Fowles, Daniel Martin
  • Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
  • Frances Burney, The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties
  • Margaret Drabble, A Natural Curiosity
  • Daphne Du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel
  • Iris Murdoch, In the Time of the Angels
  • M. E. Braddon, Aurora Floyd
  • Alice Oswald, Falling Awake
  • Carolyn Keene, The Bungalow Mystery
  • Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man
  • Susan Strasser, Never Done: A History of American Housework
  • W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair
  • New Yorker articles
  • stories of Tessa Hadley
  • Susan Matt, Homesickness: An American History
  • Tessa Hadley, The London Train
  • Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
  • poems of Nancy Willard
  • poems of Richard Wright
  • poems of Laura Riding
  • Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield
  • Homer, The Iliad, trans. Caroline Alexander
  • Tessa Hadley, Everything Will Be All Right
  • Tessa Hadley, The Master Bedroom
  • Tessa Hadley, The Past
  • John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
  • Tessa Hadley, Coda
  • Jack Zipe, ed., Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1812 edition
  • Mary Norton, The Borrowers
  • Henry Green, Nothing
  • Henry Green, Party Going
  • Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
  • Margaret Drabble, The Peppered Moth
  • Kate O'Brien, The Ante-Room
  • Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
  • Barbara Pym, Some Tame Gazelle
  • John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
  • Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
  • Claire Tomalin, Jane Austen: A Life
  • Raymond Chandler, various
  • Hilary Spurling: Ivy: The Life of I. Compton-Burnett
  • Kerrin McCadden, American Wake
  • Donald Hall, Seasons at Eagle Pond
  • Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, Deke Dangle Dive
  • Linda Aldrich, Ballast
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, Innocence
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, The Beginning of Spring
  • Tommy Orange, There There
  • Charlotte Bronte, Shirley
  • John Updike, Memories of the Ford Administration
  • Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
  • Diane Seuss, Frank: Sonnets
  • Homer, The Odyssey, trans. Emily Wilson
  • Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
  • Stevie Smith, Holiday
  • E. Gaskell, Cousin Phillis
  • E. Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
  • M. Lesy and L. Stoffer, Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910
  • Anthony Trollope, Lady Anna
  • Virginia Woolf, Essays on the Self
  • Willa Cather, My Antonia
  • G. T. di Lampedusa, The Leopard
  • L. I. Wilder, Little House books
  • poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
  • Dorothy Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
  • Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
  • Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
  • Virginia Woolf, The Years
  • many, many sonnets
  • Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
  • Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight
  • Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good
  • Anthony Trollope, Ralph the Heir
  • Louisa May Alcott, Little Men
  • Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
  • Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock
  • Meg Kearney, The Ice Storm
  • Muriel Spark, The Finishing School
  • Hayden Carruth, poems
  • Jane Kenyon, poems
  • Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
  • David Treuer, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
  • Larry McMurtry, Texasville
  • Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country
  • Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light
  • Baron Wormser, Songs from a Voice
  • Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
  • L. T. Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
  • Muso Soseki, Sun at Midnight, trans. W. S. Merwin
  • Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers
  • Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
  • Toni Morrison, Love
  • Iris Murdoch, The Bell
  • Barbara Pym, Excellent Women
  • Toni Jensen, From the Hilltop
  • Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
  • Mary Karr, Cherry
  • Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter, trans. Tiina Nunnally
  • Margaret Drabble, The Needle's Eye
  • Alice Munro, Carried Away
  • Philip Roth, Deception
  • Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
  • Eudora Welty, Losing Battles
  • E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
  • Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale
  • William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience
  • John Le Carre, The Secret Pilgrim
  • Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
  • Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness
  • Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
  • Junichiro Tanizaki, Some Prefer Nettles
  • John Updike, Rabbit Remembered
  • John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich
  • H. W. Longfellow, poems
  • George Saunders, The Tenth of December
  • Peter Carey, A Long Way from Home
  • Junichiro Tanizaki, The Makioka Sisters, trans. E. G. Seidensticker
  • Margaret Drabble, A Natural Curiosity
  • Kate Barnes, The Rhetoric of Fiction
  • Haldor Laxness, Independent People
  • Kate O'Brien, The Land of Spices
  • Haldor Laxness, The Fish Can Sing
  • Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
  • Edgar Johnson, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, vol. 1
  • John Le Carre, A Most Wanted Man
  • R. M. Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus
  • Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
  • Ezra Pound, Canto 1
  • Charlotte Bronte, Villette
  • E. M. Forster, Howards End
  • Morgan Parker, Magical Negro
  • John Guy, Queen of Scots
  • Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec
  • A. S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden
  • A. S. Byatt, Possession
  • Stacy R. Nigliazzo, Sky the Oar
  • Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
  • P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins Comes Back
  • Denise Bergman, Three Hands None
  • Eavan Boland, Domestic Violence
  • Rene Descartes, Rules for the Direction of the Mind
  • Iris Murdoch, Nuns and Soldiers
  • Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations
  • Janice Miller Potter, Thoreau's Umbrella
  • Henry James, The Ambassadors
  • Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
  • The Complete Poems of Cavafy, trans. Rae Dalven
  • Eavan Boland, Object Lessons
  • F. S. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
  • Leah Umansky, The Barbarous Century
  • John le Carre, The Little Drummer Girl
  • William Trevor, Last Stories
  • Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
  • Alice Munro, Runaway
  • Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
  • Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom
  • Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins
  • Charles Coe, Memento Mori
  • John Barth, Tidewater Tales
  • John Le Carre, Absolute Friends
  • Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
  • Orhan Pamuk, Snow
  • Elizabeth Bowen, The Hotel
  • Margaret Drabble, The Seven Sisters
  • Jane Austen, Emma
  • Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  • Francine Prose, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
  • Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat
  • Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown
  • Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land
  • Richard Ford, Independence Day
  • Alice Munro, Dear Life
  • Jacques Rancourt, poems
  • Maudelle Driskell, poems
  • Jean Stafford, stories
  • Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
  • Robertson Davies, The Salterton Trilogy
  • Robertson Davies, The Cornish Trilogy
  • Iris Murdoch, An Unofficial Rose
  • George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
  • Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
  • Kate O'Brien, That Lady
  • Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
  • Betsy Sholl, House of Sparrows
  • Jane Austen, Persuasion
  • John Fowles, The Magus
  • John Updike, Bech at Bay
  • Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness
  • Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
  • Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • Maurice Manning, Bucolics
  • Colm Toibin, The Empty Family
  • Colm Toibin, Mothers and Sons
  • Anthony Trollope, Dr. Wortle's School
  • Robert Pinget, The Libera me Domine
  • E. B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan
  • Paul Johnson, The Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815-1830
  • Barbara Pym, Crampton Hodnet
  • Scholastique Mukasonga, "Cattle Praise Song"
  • Walter Jackson Bate, John Keats
  • Diane Middlebrook, Her Husband: Hughes and Plath--A Marriage
  • Dante Alighieri, The Inferno, trans. multiple contemporary poets
  • George Herbert, poems
  • Frank O'Hara, poems
  • George Eliot, Middlemarch
  • A. S. Byatt, The Children's Book
  • Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
  • Jane Hamilton, Disobedience
  • William Shakespeare, Richard III
  • Charles Dickens, Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
  • Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
  • Desmond Seward, The Wars of the Roses: Through the Eyes of Five Men and Women of the Fifteenth Century
  • William Blake, writings
  • Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
  • Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Supernatural Love
  • Dorothy Sayers, Hangman's Holiday
  • Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
  • Mary J. Holmes, Millbank
  • Julia Blumenreich, Blue Angel of a Day
  • Canese Jarboe, dark acre
  • Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
  • Hans Christian Andersen, fairy tales
  • John Banville, The Blue Guitar
  • Jacques J. Rancourt, In Time of PrEP
  • poems, poems, poems, poems
  • Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale
  • Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
  • Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • John Fowles, The Ebony Tower
  • Larry McMurtry, Duane's Depressed
  • Adam Gopnik, ed., The Best American Essays, 2008
  • Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
  • George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie
  • Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke
  • Virginia Woolf, The Years
  • Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems, trans. Judith Hemschemeyer
  • L. I. Wilder, By the Shores of Silver Lake
  • Anna Akhmatova, Twenty Poems, trans. Jane Kenyon
  • Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
  • Anna Akhmatova, Selected Poems, trans. Lyn Coffin
  • Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt
  • Baron Wormser, Tom o' Vietnam
  • W. S. Merwin, Travels
  • P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves
  • Cheryl Strayed, ed., The Best American Essays, 2013
  • Anita Brookner, Look at Me
  • Irene Nemirovsky, The Courilof Affair
  • Irene Nemirovsky, Snow in Autumn
  • Irene Nemirovsky, The Ball
  • John Berryman, Sonnets to Chris
  • Anna Akhmatova, Selected Poems, trans. Lyn Coffin
  • Irene Nemirovsky, David Golder, trans. Sandra Smith
  • Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
  • Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne
  • Margaret Drabble, The Red Queen
  • R. B. Wills, Better Houses for Budgeteers
  • Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
  • J. N. Lensink, ed., "A Secret to Be Burried": The Diary and Life of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858-1888
  • W. D. Barry and P. M. Anderson, Deering: A Social and Architectural History
  • Albert Camus, The Stranger
  • Edmund White, The Married Man
  • John Le Carre, Smiley's People
  • Philip Levine, Breath
  • John Le Carre, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
  • Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
  • John Le Carre, The Perfect Spy
  • John Le Carre, The Secret Pilgrim
  • Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend
  • David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist
  • Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
  • Maurice Manning, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions
  • Maurice Manning, Bucolics
  • Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
  • Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split
  • Muriel Spark, The Takeover
  • Rosalind Creasy, Edible Landscaping
  • Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms
  • Jean Rhys, The Complete Short Stories
  • William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus
  • Kenneth Roberts, Arundel
  • Iris Murdoch, The Flight from the Enchanter
  • Henning Mankell, The Man Who Smiled
  • Muriel Rukeyser, Waterlily Fire
  • J. Zipes, trans., The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
  • Stephanie Cohen, The Nonstop Garden
  • V. Gardner Nagel, Understanding Garden Design
  • James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
  • Tim O'Brien, Going after Cacciato
  • D. Johnson-Davies, ed., The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction
  • Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, The Means of Escape
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, The Golden Child
  • Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater
  • Kerrin McCadden, poems
  • Kamilah Aisha Moon, poems
  • Matthew Lippmann, poems
  • Matthew Olzmann, poems
  • Deszo Kosztolanyi, Skylark
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, Human Voices
  • Henry Green, Blindness
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
  • Frances FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
  • Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman
  • A. Bloom and W. Breines, eds., Takin' It to the Streets: A Sixties Reader
  • Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
  • Marilynne Robinson, Home
  • John Prados, The Blood Road
  • Yusef Komunuyakaa, Warhorses
  • Hayden Carruth, The Birds of Vietnam
  • Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
  • Michael Casey, Check Points
  • Tracy Kidder, My Detachment
  • Andrew Carroll, ed., War Letters
  • Hayden Carruth, Vermont
  • J. C. McManus, Grunts
  • D. Bradley and C. Werner, We Gotta Get Out of This Place
  • M. A. Bellesiles, A People's History of the U.S. Military
  • Doug Anderson, Keep Your Head Down
  • Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History
  • Lorrie Goldensohn, ed., American War Poetry
  • Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
  • Tom Lowenstein, Ancient Land, Sacred Whale: The Inuit Hunt and Its Rituals
  • Julia Bouwsma, Work by Bloodlight
  • Jacques Rancourt, Novena
  • Aracelis Girmay, The Black Maria
  • John Updike,The Music Room
  • Iris Murdoch, An Unofficial Rose
  • Margaret Drabble, The Sea Lady
  • Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time
  • Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
  • Margaret Drabble, The Complete Short Stories
  • Margaret Atwood, The Tent
  • A. S. Byatt, The Biographer's Tale
  • Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder
  • R. Roberts & J. Smith, Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship between Muhammad Ali & Malcolm X
  • Lucille Clifton, Collected Poems
  • John Updike, all four Rabbit books in mixed-up order
  • J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy
  • Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good
  • V. Nabokov, Ada
  • Henry Green, Back
  • Andrew Lang, ed., The Crimson Fairy Book
  • David Lodge, Thinks . . .
  • G. T. di Lampedusa, The Leopard
  • John Fowles, The Ebony Tower
  • K. Roberts, Boone Island
  • Geoffrey Hill, poems
  • A. Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
  • P. Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower
  • Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore
  • D. du Maurier, The House on the Strand
  • E. Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
  • Barbara Pym, No Fond Return of Love
  • A. Conan Doyle, Strand Magazine stories
  • R. M. Rilke, poems
  • Robert Lowell, poems
  • Christina Hutchins, Tender the Maker
  • Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
  • Larry McMurtry, The Evening Star
  • The Poems of Paul Celan, trans. M. Hamburger
  • Afaa M. Weaver, City of Eternal Spring
  • Margaret Drabble, The Ice Age
  • Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
  • Kerrin McCadden, Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes
  • L. M. Alcott, Rose in Bloom
  • L. M. Alcott, Eight Cousins
  • V. Nabokov, Pale Fire
  • Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
  • George Herbert, poems
  • Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
  • Elizabeth Bowen, The Little Girls
  • John Fowles, The Magus
  • Anthony Trollope, Ralph the Heir
  • Margaret Powell, My Mother and I
  • Thomas Rayfiel, Genius
  • Kate O'Brien, The Last of Summer
  • Gray Jacobik, poems
  • Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
  • Ted Hughes, Selected Translations
  • Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness
  • Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You
  • I. Compton-Burnett, The Last and the First
  • H. Spurling, Ivy: The Life of I. Compton-Burnett
  • Richard Foerster, poems
  • Philip Roth, The Plot against America
  • Dorothy Sayers, Five Red Herrings
  • J. T. Rimer and V. C. Gessel, eds., Modern Japanese Literature, vol. 1
  • Larry McMurtry, Moving On
  • Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle
  • A. S. Byatt, The Matisse Stories
  • Donald Hall, Willow Temple
  • Rick Moody, Hotels of North America
  • Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
  • Sylvia Plath, Ariel
  • Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
  • Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day
  • L. I. Wilder, works
  • George Moore, Esther Waters
  • Larry McMurtry, Dead Man's Walk
  • Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  • Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor
  • Philip Roth, The Great American Novel
  • Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
  • Robertson Davies, World of Wonders
  • Robertson Davies, The Manticore
  • Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
  • Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust
  • Philip Roth, The Human Stain
  • L. R. Ulrich, Good Wives: Image & Reality in the Lives of Northern New England Women, 1650-1750
  • Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
  • Mary McCarthy, Birds of America
  • Joan Didion, The White Album
  • J. Shapiro, ed., Shakespeare in America
  • Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
  • Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate
  • P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins Comes Back
  • Seamus Heaney, poems
  • Jane Kenyon, poems
  • John Fowles, Daniel Martin
  • K. Rexroth, 100 Poems from the Chinese
  • William Trevor, Felicia's Journey
  • Langston Hughes, An African Treasury
  • C. H. Nichols, ed., Arna Bontemps & Langston Hughes: Letters, 1925-1967
  • John Le Carre, The Tailor of Panama
  • Dorothy Sayers, Clouds of Witness
  • Tim O'Brien, In the Lake of the Woods
  • Judith Jesch, Women in the Viking Age
  • Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
  • F. M. Ford, The Fifth Queen
  • Margaret Drabble, The Middle Ground
  • Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn
  • Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • L. McMurtry, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen
  • Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney
  • Czeslaw Milosz, Bells in Winter
  • Alice Munro, Carried Away
  • Hayden Carruth, Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett, Manservant and Maidservant
  • George Eliot, Adam Bede
  • Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
  • Hayden Carruth, Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey
  • L. M. Alcott, Little Woman
  • Diane Middlebrook, Her Husband
  • Harold Pinter, Night
  • K. Frank, A Chainless Soul: A Life of Emily Bronte
  • John Luther Adams, Winter Music
  • Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris
  • Charlotte Bronte, Shirley
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, The Beginning of Spring
  • A. S. Byatt, The Game
  • The Complete Grimms' Fairy Tales, ed. J. Zipe
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, Innocence
  • Virgil, The Aeneid, trans. R. Fagles
  • Margaret Drabble, The Waterfall
  • Best American Essays, 2013, ed.R. Atwan and C. Strayed
  • The Lewis and Clark journals
  • E. L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
  • Margaret Drabble, The Peppered Moth
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower
  • Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
  • Barbara Pym, Crampton Hodnet
  • Dorothy Sayers, The Nine Tailors
  • Samuel Pepys, diary
  • Jane Austen, Emma
  • Adrienne Rich, poems
  • Red Pine, trans., The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain
  • A. Trollope, Framley Parsonage
  • L. M. Alcott, Little Men
  • Mark Twain, A Pen Warmed Up in Hell: Mark Twain in Protest
  • Roddy Doyle, The Woman Who Walked into Doors
  • Czeslaw Milosz, A Treatise on Poetry
  • Elizabeth Bowen, The Collected Stories
  • Henry Green, Party Going
  • D. S. Reynolds, Walt Whitman's America
  • Charles Dickens, Dombey & Son
  • A. S. Byatt, The Children's Book
  • Linda Gray Sexton, Rituals
  • Peter Mathiessen, Shadow Country
  • Don Paterson, Rain
  • Denise Levertov, poems
  • F. H. Burnett, The Secret Garden
  • E. L. Doctorow, The Waterworks
  • Grimms' fairy tales
  • A. S. Byatt, Elementals
  • F. S. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
  • Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
  • Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man
  • May Swenson, poems
  • J. Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
  • W. Bynner, trans., The Way of Life according to Laotzu
  • Iris Murdoch, The Bell
  • Jhumpa Lahiri, The Interpreter of Maladies
  • Frank O'Hara, poems
  • Zadie Smith, White Teeth
  • Betsy Sholl, Otherwise Unseeable
  • Margaret Drabble, The Witch of Exmoor
  • Nicholson Baker, Vox
  • John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps
  • Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf: A Biography
  • P. G. Wodehouse, Mulliner Nights
  • Teresa Carson, My Crooked House
  • Charles Portis, True Grit
  • Meg Kearney, Home by Now
  • Wallace Stevens, poems
  • Jeffrey Harrison, Into Daylight
  • Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
  • John Updike, Licks of Love
  • Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
  • Iain Haley Pollock, Spit Back a Boy
  • Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
  • Henry James, What Maisie Knew
  • Ian Harrow, Words Take Me
  • John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's WomanGarth Greenwell, Mitko
  • Elizabeth Bowen, The Little Girls
  • E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime
  • W. S. Merwin, Unchopping a Tree
  • S. Strasser, Never Done: A History of American Housework
  • Larry McMurtry, Texasville
  • Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  • M. Atwood, Morning in the Burned House
  • K. Z. Derounian-Stodola, ed., Women's Indian Captivity Narratives
  • Margaret Drabble, The Gates of Ivory
  • D. H. Fisher, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
  • M. Aronson, Nickelodeon City: Pittsburgh at the Movies, 1905-1929
  • Margaret Drabble, The Middle Ground
  • Franklin Toker, Fallingwater Rising
  • Willa Cather, A Lost Lady
  • E. L.Doctorow, The March
  • Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd's Calendar
  • Virginia Woolf, The Waves
  • Edward P. Jones, Aunt Hagar's Children
  • T. H. Slaughter, The Whiskey Rebellion
  • Baron Wormser, Give Us That Peace
  • Teresa Carson, My Crooked House
  • R. Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica
  • Natalia Ginzburg, The Little Virtues
  • Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
  • Philip Roth, American Pastoral
  • J. Reston, Jr., Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade
  • Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
  • Red Pine, trans., The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain
  • Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
  • Pearl S. Buck, Pavilion of Women
  • Joan Didion, After Henry
  • Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good
  • Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
  • Siegfried Sassoon, poems
  • K. Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
  • Donald Hall, Principle Products of Portugal
  • Katherine Mansfield, stories
  • Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry
  • John Le Carre, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  • Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
  • Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Colm Toibin, Mothers and Sons
  • Thomas Rayfiel, In Pinelight
  • W. Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
  • Gray Jacobik, Little Boy Blue
  • L. I. Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie
  • Charles Dickens, Bleak House
  • Barbara Pym, The Sweet Dove Died
  • L. I. Wilder, These Happy Golden Years
  • V. S. Pritchett, stories
  • S. T. Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Pale Rider
  • Alan Jenkins, Revenants
  • C. S. Lewis, A Preface to Paradise Lost
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost
  • William Blake, poems
  • A. S. Byatt, A Whistling Woman
  • A. S. Byatt, Babel Tower
  • John Donne, poems
  • Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
  • Joe Bolton, The Last Nostalgia
  • A. S. Byatt, Still Life
  • Jane Austen, Persuasion
  • Willa Cather, My Antonia
  • Joan Didion, Democracy
  • Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Virginia Woolf, The Years
  • Christina Stead, The Little Hotel
  • Kenneth Roberts, Lydia Bailey
  • Robert Hayden, poems
  • V. W. Brooks, The Flowering of New England
  • Colm Toibin, Brooklyn
  • Frances Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans
  • Amy Lowell, poems
  • Alice Munro, stories
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins, poems
  • Ruth Brandon, Governess
  • Margaret Drabble, The Red Queen
  • Raymond Chandler, Playback
  • Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
  • Dickinson, Shakespeare, Shelley, poems
  • Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake
  • Bill Roorbach, Life among Giants
  • Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat
  • Linda Wolfe, The Professor and the Prostitute
  • Clifford Thompson, Love for Sale and Other Essays
  • P. G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith
  • A. S. Byatt, Possession
  • Phillip Lopate, ed., The Art of the Personal Essay
  • William Shakespeare, sonnets
  • Rick Mullin, Soutine
  • R. L. Stevenson, Catriona
  • Kate O'Brien, The Land of Spices
  • Marie de France, Lais, trans. Hanning & Ferrante
  • Lorrie Moore, Like Life
  • J. Severa, Dressed for the Photographer
  • John Fowles, The Ebony Tower
  • V. Nabokov, Pnin
  • E. S. Connell, Mr. Bridge
  • E. S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge
  • E. S. Connell, Son of the Morning Star
  • C. Beha, What Happened to Sophie Wilder
  • V. Nabokov, Pale Fire
  • Robert Frost, poems
  • The Gospel of John, KJV
  • Ted Hughes, poems
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay, poems
  • Emily Dickinson, poems
  • Sybille Bedford, A Legacy
  • James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name
  • Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn
  • J. M. Potter, Meanwell
  • Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
  • L. M. Alcott, Rose in Bloom
  • L. M. Alcott, Eight Cousins
  • Jeff Kass, Knuckleheads
  • Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout
  • Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
  • I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle, ed. A. and M. McQueen Simpson
  • Robertson Davies, The Salterton Trilogy
  • Muriel Spark, The Comforters
  • Howard Levy, poems
  • Colm Toibin, The Empty Family
  • Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
  • Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
  • Phillip Lopate, "The Future of the Essay"
  • Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
  • Dorothy Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
  • Johanna Spyri, Heidi
  • Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
  • R. M. Rilke, poems
  • Jane Kenyon, poems
  • Dylan Thomas, poems
  • Brigit Pegeen Kelly, poems
  • Gary Snyder, poems
  • John Haines, poems
  • P. Johnson, The Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815-1830
  • Beryl Bainbridge, According to Queeney
  • Selected Letters of R. M. Rilke, 1902-26, trans. R.F.C. Hull
  • Barbara Pym, Crampton Hodnet
  • James Baldwin, Another Country
  • Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney
  • H. D. Thoreau, The Maine Woods
  • J. H. Buckley, The Victorian Temper
  • John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich
  • A. S. Byatt, The Children's Book
  • I. Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
  • Robert Frost, poems
  • Ted Hughes, poems
  • William Blake, poems
  • Anne Carson, Nox
  • L. M. Alcott, Little Men
  • Anne Carson, The Glass Essay
  • V. Nabokov, Stories
  • Iris Murdoch, Under the Net
  • Henry Green, Loving
  • C. Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe
  • Margaret Drabble, The Seven Sisters
  • Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
  • John Fowles, The Magus
  • Barbara Pym, various
  • John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
  • Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
  • D. F. Wallace, Infinite Jest
  • B. Pym, Jane and Prudence
  • R. Holmes, Shelley: The Pursuit
  • A. S. Byatt, Elementals
  • John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle
  • Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality
  • A. S. Byatt, The Shadow of the Sun
  • Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
  • B. Pym, A Few Green Leaves
  • T. Rayfiel, Split-Levels
  • Louisa May Alcott, Work
  • Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
  • Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight
  • Margaret Drabble, The Ice Age
  • P. Matthiessen, Shadow Country
  • Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son
  • D. Brestensky et al., Patch/Work Voices
  • I. Compton-Burnett, A House and Its Heritage
  • Muriel Spark, Reality and Dreams
  • F. H. Burnett, The Shuttle
  • F. Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
  • V. Nabokov, Speak, Memory
  • Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  • Zbigniew Herbert, poems
  • A. S. Byatt, A Whistling Woman
  • Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
  • Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone
  • Czeslaw Milosz, Facing the River
  • Lord Byron, poems
  • Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • Robertson Davies, The Lyre of Orpheus
  • George Vecsey, Stan Musial: An American Life
  • Jay Parini, Robert Frost: A Life
  • Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm
  • R. L. Stevenson, Kidnapped
  • F. M. Ford, The Fifth Queen
  • Anna Akhmatova, poems
  • Rainer Maria Rilke, poems
  • Robert Frost, poems
  • Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show
  • Jane Austen, Emma
  • David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie
  • S. M. Humphrey, Show Me Good Land
  • S. Buck and E. Buck, The Planting of Civilization in Western Pennsylvania
  • Andrew Lang, The Green Fairy Book
  • K. Warren, Wealth, Waste, and Alienation: Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry
  • Charles Dickens, American Notes
  • Richard Foerster, Penetralia
  • S. C. Martin, Killing Time: Leisure and Culture in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1800-1850
  • F. Anderson, The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War
  • Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book
  • Wesley McNair, The Ghosts of You and Me
  • J. W. Harpster. ed., Crossroads: Descriptions of Western Pennsylvania, 1720-1829
  • L. Standiford, Meet You in Hell
  • D. Rottenberg, In the Kingdom of Coal
  • A. Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Strand Stories
  • Margaret Drabble, The Middle Ground
  • Hayden Carruth, Letters to Jane
  • Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros
  • Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land
  • Virginia Woolf, The Years
  • Richard Ford, Independence Day
  • Philip Sidney, poems
  • Bret Lott, "Humble Flannery"
  • Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
  • Samuel Pepys, diary
  • John Updike, Memories of the Ford Administration
  • Joe Bolton, poems
  • F. S. Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
  • Sylvia Plath, Ariel
  • G. T. di Lampedusa, The Leopard
  • R. L. Stevenson, essays
  • J. Berryman, His Toy, His Dream, His Rest
  • P. B. Shelley, A Defence of Poetry
  • T. L. Peacock, The Four Ages of Poetry
  • Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
  • Jane Austen, Persuasion
  • Muriel Spark, Memento Mori
  • Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives
  • NY Review of Books
  • Johan Huizinga, The Autumn of the Middle Ages
  • Colm Toibin, Mothers and Sons
  • Charlotte Bronte, Villette
  • Bill Evans, liner notes to Kind of Blue
  • P. Currier, The Jails of Lincoln County
  • Sheila Kohler, Becoming Jane Eyre
  • W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
  • Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow
  • W. Shakespeare, King Lear
  • Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night
  • Dorothy Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
  • Hayden Carruth, poems
  • Margaret Drabble, The Red Queen
  • NY Review of Books, maybe
  • I tried to read Elmore Leonard's Pronto but failed. Why does he get so much press? This book was boring.
  • Out-of-date New Yorker
  • Larry McMurtry, Texasville
  • V. Nabokov, Pale Fire
  • V. Nabokov, Lectures on Literature
  • Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
  • Robert Frost, "Blueberries"
  • V. Nabokov, Lolita
  • P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime
  • Robert Frost, "The Black Cottage"
  • V. S. Pritchett, A Careless Widow
  • Robert Frost, "Home Burial"
  • Virginia Woolf, letters
  • Kate O'Brien, The Ante-Room
  • Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
  • Rumer Godden, The Greengage Summer
  • Baron Wormser, Frost Place Whitman-Dickinson talk
  • J. M. Beaumont, Burning of the Three Fires
  • Luray Gross, The Perfection of Zeros
  • L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between
  • Martin Amis, The War against Cliche
  • George Eliot, Middlemarch
  • A. S. Byatt, The Children's Book
  • Thomas Hardy, poems
  • W. J. Bate, John Keats: A Biography
  • D. W. Middlebrook, Anne Sexton: A Biography
  • Robert Frost, poems
  • R. Faggen, ed., The Notebooks of Robert Frost
  • Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock
  • Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
  • Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand
  • Carolyn Keene, The Secret in the Old Attic
  • John Fowles, Daniel Martin
  • William Wordsworth, The Prelude
  • John Fowles, A Maggot
  • F. S. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
  • Larry Gonick, The Cartoon History of the Universe
  • Gordon Haight, George Eliot: A Biography
  • Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From
  • Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
  • Barbara Pym, Some Tame Gazelle
  • L. I. Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie
  • L. I. Wilder, The Long Winter
  • Kate O'Brien, That Lady
  • Jane Austen, The History of England
  • Philip Roth, American Pastoral
  • Thomas Rayfiel, Time among the Dead
  • Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women
  • Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist
  • New York Review of Books
  • Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
  • Meg Kearney, Home by Now
  • William Blake, America: A Prophecy
  • Hayden Carruth, Toward the Distant Islands
  • Rosalie Mander, Mrs. Browning: A Biography
  • Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
  • Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
  • E. B. Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
  • Philip Roth, Letting Go
  • I. Compton-Burnett, The Last and the First
  • Robert Browning, poems
  • S. T. Coleridge, poems
  • Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
  • Seed catalogs
  • W. Shakespeare, A Winter's Tale
  • D. S. Reynolds, Walt Whitman's America
  • Autobiography of Malcolm X
  • Mary J. Holmes, Millbank
  • NY Review of Books
  • H. C. Andersen's fairy tales
  • Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge
  • A. S. Byatt, The Children's Book
  • Gelpi & Gelpi, eds., Adrienne Rich's Poetry
  • Ted Hughes, poetry
  • NY Review of Books
  • Hayden Carruth, poems
  • Henry James, The Ambassadors
  • Robert Lowell, poems
  • Anne Sexton, poems
  • Sylvia Plath, poems
  • E. M. Forster, Howards End
  • Joe Bolton, poems
  • 100 Poems from the Chinese, trans. K. Rexroth
  • D. S. Reynolds, Walt Whitman's America
  • Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
  • Sir Philip Sidney, poems
  • G. Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
  • P. Wilmot, Adolescent Boys in East London
  • A. S. Byatt, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
  • William Blake, poems
  • Michael Casey, Raiding a Whorehouse
  • Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock
  • Walt Whitman, poems
  • NY Review of Books
  • Dave Morrison, poems
  • Virginia Woolf, The Years
  • James Joyce, Dubliners
  • Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
  • Henry Green, Loving
  • Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day
  • Charlotte Gordon, The Woman Who Named God
  • Brigit Pegeen Kelly, The Orchard
  • Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler
  • W. J. Bate, John Keats: A Biography
  • Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
  • Larry McMurtry, When the Light Goes
  • John Keats, poems
  • John Fowles, "I Write, Therefore I Am"
  • Kenneth Roberts, Northwest Passage
  • Philip Roth, My Life As a Man
  • L.H. Morgan, The American Beaver
  • Robert Froese, The Origins of Misgiving
  • Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
  • Psalms (KJV and RSV)
  • John Berryman, "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet"
  • Henry Green, Party Going
  • Henry Green, Loving
  • Shakespeare, sonnets
  • Charlotte Gordon, Anne Bradstreet: America's First Poet
  • The Notebooks of Robert Frost, ed. Robert Faggen
  • Baron Wormser, poems
  • Robert Lowell, poems
  • Elizabeth Bishop, poems
  • Robert Frost, poems
  • The Letters of E. B. White
  • Franz Kafka, Amerika
  • NY Review of Books
  • Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma, trans. Richard Howard
  • John Donne, poems
  • Iris Murdoch, The Book and the Brotherhood
  • Joan Arden [Milly Jourdain], Unfulfilment
  • I. Compton-Burnett, The Past and the Present
  • Hilary Spurling, Ivy: The Life of I. Compton-Burnett
  • Donald Justice, Night Light
  • J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
  • Barbara Pym, Excellent Women
  • E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
  • F. M. Ford, The Good Soldier
  • S. T. Coleridge, poems
  • NY Review of Books
  • Thomas Carlyle, An Essay on Burns
  • Mary Karr, Cherry
  • Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
  • William Trevor, Death in Summer
  • NY Review of Books
  • Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
  • S. T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
  • P. B. Shelley, "The Triumph of Life"
  • Robert Frost, "Acquainted with the Night"
  • Walt Whitman, poems
  • E. Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
  • Hayden Carruth, Letters to Jane
  • Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
  • Ben Jonson, poems
  • John Updike, Rabbit, Run
  • NY Review of Books
  • Virginia Woolf, essays
  • Geoffrey Chaucer, poems
  • Ezra Pound, poems
  • "East of the Sun and West of the Moon," retold by A. Lang
  • P. B. Shelley, poems
  • W. B. Yeats, poems
  • G. M. Hopkins, poems, letters, notebooks
  • William Blake, poems
  • Daphne du Maurier, Don't Look Now
  • James Baldwin, Going to Meet the Man
  • Hart Crane, The Bridge
  • Robert Browning, poems
  • Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
  • George Eliot, Adam Bede
  • L. M. Alcott, Rose in Bloom
  • L. M. Alcott, Eight Cousins
  • Amy Clampitt, Collected Poems
  • Emily Dickinson, Complete Poems
  • Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
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  • Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales
  • Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
  • The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
  • Orhan Pamuk, Snow
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Bronte
  • Anne Sexton, Complete Poems
  • R. M. Rilke, Selected Poetry, trans. S. Mitchell
  • Charlotte Bronte, Shirley
  • John Fowles, The Ebony Tower
  • NY Review of Books
  • S. T. Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
  • Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Collected Poems
  • Iris Murdoch, The Philosopher's Pupil
  • The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English, ed. M. Atwood
  • Joe Bolton, The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
  • Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
  • NY Review of Books
  • Andrew Lang, The Blue Fairy Book
  • Horace, Odes, trans. D. Ferry
  • Virgil, The Aeneid, trans. R. Fagles
  • Joe Arthur, You in the 21st Century (published in 1989)
  • Barlett's Familar Quotations, 1939 edition, ed. Christopher Morley (very good book to keep in the bathroom, along with The Golden Bough)
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Merlin and the Gleam"
  • William Matthews's translation of the satires of Horace
  • Robertson Davies, The Deptford Trilogy
  • John Keats, "Hyperion"
  • Robert Graves, The Greek Gods
  • John Chapman's 1614-15 translation of the Odyssey
  • Ovid, Metamorphoses
  • Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth
  • Shakespeare, sonnets (again)
  • John Donne,"Divine Poems"
  • Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
  • Genesis
  • NY Review of Books
  • Frank O'Hara, poems
  • England's Helicon
  • R. L. Stevenson, Kidnapped
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost, book 7 (yes, again . . . )
  • Grimms' fairy tales
  • S. T. Coleridge, "Christabel"
  • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, canto 1
  • Zbigniew Herbert, The Collected Poems, 1956-1998
  • Pierre de Ronsard, "Fay refraischir mon vin de sorte"
  • Louise Labe, "Ne reprenez, Dames, si j'ay ayme"
  • Jeremy Miller, "Tyranny of the Test," in Harper's
  • Foxcroft Academy instructions for safe bus riding
  • Samuel Pepys, diary
  • George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical
  • Sir Thomas Malory, Merlin
  • My son's list of all the major-league catchers he can think of (he plans to make me write a sonnet in catchers)
  • Somerset County arrest log
  • Seamus Heaney, The Government of the Tongue
  • Charles d'Orleans, "Le temps a laissie son manteau"
  • Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, vol. 2
  • Harmony Free Fair schedule of events
  • Sophocles, Ajax
  • Stevie Smith, The Holiday
  • W. Shakespeare, sonnets
  • Seamus Heaney, Poems, 1965-1975
  • Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, vol. 1

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Aha! I have found someone , you, who reads as voraciously as I do. Mind you I have a head start, being 80 years old.

I read very few blogs and you are now one of them; found from a side remark in an old New York Times article on line.

Best wishes to you, Erika W.

Dawn Potter said...

Erika, Thank you! I wonder what NYT article you saw? The Internet is such a mysterious place. . . .

Lyn Coffin said...

This is a little delayed- but I was delighted to find my translation of Anna Akhmatova on your Reading List-- twice! There's another translation there, too. The more, the merrier. Anyway- you might be interested in my latest collection of poetry- The Artwork on the Backs of Gargoyles from Transcendent Zero press- If you send me your address, I'll send you a copy. It's a colleciton of sestinas and villanelles (with a couple of paradelles thrown in for spice.) Anyway- I thank you for the nod.