What I'm Reading

• Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
• Olivia Laing, The Lonely City
• Lauren Groff, ed., The Best American Short Stories 2024
• Olivia Laing, The Garden against Time
• Elizabeth Taylor, A Game of Hide and Seek
• Pekka Hamalainen, Indigenous Continent
• Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America
• Elisa Gabbert, Any Person Is the Only Life
• Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
• Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
• Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
• A. S. Byatt, A Whistling Woman
• A. S. Byatt, Babel Tower
• Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
• Joan Didion, After Henry
• Iris Murdoch, In the Time of the Angels
• John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
• Walter Jackson Bate, John Keats
• Dorothy Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
• Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
• Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
• Percival Everett, James
• Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible
• Joyce Carol Oates, My Sister, My Love
• Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
• John Le Carre, A Legacy of Spies
• Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
• Horace, Odes, trans. David Ferry
• Juliet Barker, The Brontes
• Margaret Drabble, The Sea Lady
• Ruth Moore, Speak to the Winds
• S. C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
• Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
• John Le Carre, The Night Manager
• Samuel T. Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Julia de Burgos, poems
• George Herbert, poems
• 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
• F. R. & Q. D. Leavis, Dickens the Novelist
• Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales
• Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
• The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
• Orhan Pamuk, Snow
• John Stubbs, John Donne: The Reformed Soul
• 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