What I'm Reading
David McCullough, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone E. L. Doctorow, The Waterworks Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels Charlotte Bronte, Villette Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower Alberto Manguel, Packing My Library Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby Barbara Pam, Excellent Women Larry McMurtry, Texasville Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry W. Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters Jane Austen, Emma Ann Beattie, The New Yorker Stories Larry McMurtry, Buffalo Girls Robertson Davies, The Salterton Trilogy Daniel Mason, The North Woods John Le Carre, The Little Drummer Girl Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day Andrew Lang, The Blue Fairy Book Miranda July, All Fours Virginia Woolf, The Years Edmund White, Hotel de Dream Elizabeth Bowen, The Little Girls Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire A. S. Byatt, Possession 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
3 comments:
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.
Erika, Thank you! I wonder what NYT article you saw? The Internet is such a mysterious place. . . .
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.
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