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Books I’m Reading

The Works of Chekhov – Anton Chekhov
Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda
Electronic Literature – N.Katherine Hayles
Confessions – Saint Augustine
Hypertext 3.0 Critical Theory – George P. Landow
The Watchmaker

Books on The Shelf

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Aesop’s Fables
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Edward Albee
Inferno – Dante Alighieri
Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende
Portrait in Sepia – Isabel Allende
Money – Martin Amis
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
The Pocket Aristotle – Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle
Bodily Harm – Margaret Atwood
The Edible Woman – Margaret Atwood
Negotiating with the Dead – Margaret Atwood
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
The City of God – Augustine
On Christian Doctrine – Augustine
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
The Poetics of Space – Gaston Bachelard
Lost in the Funhouse – John Barth
The Denial of Death – Ernest Becker
Herzog – Saul Bellow
The Dean’s December – Saul Bellow
Beowulf
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt
Best American Non-Required Reading 2007
BASS 1995
BASS 2002
BASS 2004
BASS 2006
BASS 2008
Best American Short Stories of the Century
Complete Prose and Poetry ofWilliam Blake
Summer Sisters – Judy Blume
Are You There God? – Judy Blume
The Aleph – Jorge Luis Borges
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
The Well-Wrought Urn – Cleanth Brooks
The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown
In the Electric Mist… – James L. Burke
Running With Scissors – Augusten Burroughs
Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs
Don Juan and Other Satirical Poems – Lord Byron
The Gallic War – Julius Caesar
Cosmicomics – Italo Calvino
The Fall – Albert Camus
My Antonia – Willa Cather
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
The Wife of Bath – Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
Falconer – Jonathan Cheever
The Works of Chekhov – Anton Chekhov
Woman Hollering Creek – Sandra Cisneros
2001 A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Hopscotch – Julio Cortazar
Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
Disclosure – Michael Crichton
The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton
Next – Michael Crichton
The Roald Dahl Omnibus – Roald Dahl
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielzewski
The Origin of the Species – Charles Darwin
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
White Noise – Don DeLillo
Yarrow – Charles deLint
The Complete Short Stories – Guy DeMaupassant
Discourse on Method – Descartes
The Last Days of Dogtown – Anita Diamant
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Deliverance – James Dickey
Living the Artist’s Life – Paul Dorelle
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
Eight American Authors – A Review of Research & Criticism
Icy Clutches – Aaron Elkins
The Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Seven Types of Ambiguity – William Empson
Light in August – William Faulkner
Absalom! Absalom! – William Faulkner
Go Down Moses – William Faulkner
Intruder in the Dust – William Faulkner
Requiem for a Nun – William Faulkner
A Fable – William Faulkner
Sanctuary – William Faulkner
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
This Side of Paradise – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
A Passage to India – E. M. Forster
A Room with a View – E. M. Forster
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
The World is Flat – Thomas L. Friedman
The Long House – William Gay
Twilight – William Gay
Lord of the Flies – William Gibson
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Scratches – Got Game
The Wind in the Wilows – Kenneth Grahame
The Human Factor – Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Brothers Grimm
Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
Islands in the Stream – Ernest Hemingway
In Our Time – Ernest Hamingway
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Stories by O. Henry – O. Henry
Demian – Hermann Hesse
Godel, Escher, Bach – Douglas Hofstadter
Metamagical Themas – Douglas Hofstadter
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
A New Slant on Life – L.Ron Hubbard
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Brand – Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler – Henrik Ibsen
A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
Shining Through – Susan Isaacs
After All These Years – Susan Isaacs
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Patchwork Girl – Shelley Jackson
The Bostonians – Henry James
Daisy Miller – Henry James
Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
The Turn of the Screw -Henry James
Dubliners – James Joyce
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
Ulysses – James Joyce
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Mermaid Chair – Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
Insomnia – Stephen King
Lisey’s Story – Stephen King
The Tommyknockers – Stephen King
Homeland and Other Stories – Barbara Kingsolver
The Book of Laughter & Forgetting – Milan Kundera
The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
She’s Come Undone – Wally Lamb
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers – D. H. Lawrence
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold – John Lecarre
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Mystic River – Dennis Lehane
Immortality Defended – John Leslie
Babbit – Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry – Sinclair Lewis
Main Street – Sinciair Lewis
The Call of the Wild – Jack London
On the Nature of Things – Lucretius
The Prince – Machiavelli
The Naked and The Dead – Norman Mailer
Tough Guys Don’t Dance – Norman Mailer
Memories of My Melancholy Whores – G. Garcia Marquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold – G. Garcia Marquez
Living to Tell The Tale – G. Garcia Marquez
Of Love and Other Demons – G. Garcia Marquez
Strange Pilgrims – G. Garcia Marquez
The Autumn of the Patriarch – G. Garcia Marquez
Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx
Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
The Border Trilogy – Cormac McCarthy
The Sunset Limited – Cormac McCarthy
Outer Dark – Cormac McCarthy
Understanding Comics – Scott McCloud
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough
Thousand Pieces of Gold – RuthAnne McCunn
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
Pretty Little Mistakes – Heather Mcelhatton
I Was Amelia Earhart – Jane Mendelsohn
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
Paradise Lost – John Milton
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
Utopia – Thomas Moore
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
Paradise – Toni Morrison
Dance of the Happy Shades – Alice Munro
Lives of Girls and Women – Alice Munro
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship – Alice Munro
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland – Haruki Murakami
Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
A House for Mr. Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
Selected Odes (of) – Pablo Neruda
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Metamorphosis – Ovid
Cat & Mouse – James Patterson
The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust
The Captive – Marcel Proust
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
Phantoms in the Brain – V. S. Ramachandran
You-Forever – Lopsang Rampa
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged – Ann Rand
Stiff – Mary Roach
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
Didascalicon – Hugh of St. Victor
Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Narrative as Virtual Reality – Marie Laure Ryan
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
If Tomorrow Comes – Sidney Sheldon
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
The Pilot’s Wife – Anita Shreve
Resistance – Anita Shreve
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Gorky Park – Martin Cruz Smith
The Gulag Archipelago – Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
The Man Who Loved Children – Christina Stead
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
Travels with Charley – John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent – John Steinbeck
Tristam Shandy – Laurence Sterne
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert L. Stevenson
Treasure Island – Robert L. Stevenson
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Confessions of Nat Turner – William Styron
Sophie’s Choice – William Styron
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
The Collected Stories – Peter Taylor
A Summons to Memphis- Peter Taylor
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories – Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Space and Place – Yi-Fu Tuan
Pudd’nhead Wilson – Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
The Accidental Tourist – Anne Tyler
The Clock Winder – Anne Tyler
The Tin Can Tree – Anne Tyler
A New Collection – Anne Tyler
The Art of War – Sun Tzu
The Centaur – John Updike
S. – John Updike
QB VII – Leon Uris
Trinity – Leon Uris
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
The Aeneid – Virgil
Alphabet of Wit – Voltaire
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
Jailbird – Kurt Vonnegu
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
The Invisible Man – H. G. Wells
Island of Dr. Moreau – H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds – H. E. Wells
Little Altars Everywhere – Rebecca Wells
The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder
Theophilus North – Thornton Wilder
A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
Humoresque – Humbert Wolfe
A Man in Full – Tom Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
Orlando – Virginia Woolf
A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
The Bone Weaver – Victoria Zackheim

(Some) Books I’ve Read

Flatland – Edwin Abbott
A Death in the Family – James Agee
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
The Amityville Horror – Jay Anson
100 Jolts – Michael Arnzen
Toxophilis – Roger Ascham
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
The Pleasure of the Text – Roland Barthes
S/Z – Roland Barthes
BASS 2000
BASS 2001
BASS 2005
BASS 2007
Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
The Consolation of Philosophy – Boethius
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
The Vintage Bradbury – Ray Bradbury
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Tobacco Road – Erskine Caldwell
If on a winter’s night a traveler – Italo Calvino
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
When Rabbit Howls – Truddi Chase
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
Almost All of – Agatha Christie
The Beans of Egypt, Maine – Carolyn Chute
Many of – Patricia Cornwall
The Body Artist – Don Delilo
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
Ragtime – E. L. Doctorow
Rebecca – Daphne DuMaurier
The Life of Geronimo Sandoval – Steve Ersinghaus
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
The Reivers – William Faulkner
Silverthorn – Raymond Feist
A Darkness of Sethanon – Raymond Feist
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
provinces of night – William Gay
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Goodbye to All That – Robert Graves
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden – J. Greenberg
Mrs. Kimble – Jennifer Haigh
Hannibal – Thomas Harris
Flash Fiction – Thomas, Thomas & Hazuka
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Dune Series – Frank Herbert
Stories for Late at Night – Alfred Hitchcock
The Illiad – Homer
The Odyssey – Homer
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving
The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Afternoon, A Story – Michael Joyce
Psyche & Symbol – Carl Jung
On The Road – Jack Kerouac
My Secret Life – Anonymous & James R. Kincaid
Almost All of – Stephen King
Ishi in Two Worlds – Kroeber
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
On the Sublime – Longinus
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
100 Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Child of God – Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
The Orchard Keeper – Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy
Suttree – Cormac McCarthy
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
Black Swan Green – David Mitchell
Book and Volume – Nick Montfort
Watchmen – Moore & Griffin
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Moons of Jupiter – Alice Munro
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Pocketbook of Ogden Nash – Ogden Nash
The Prophesies of Nostradamus
April Fool’s Day – Josip Novakavich
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
Animal Farm – George Orwell
1984 – George Orwel
The Portable Parker – Dorothy Parker
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Great Dialogues of Plato – Plato
The Borzoi Poe – Edgar Allen Poe
Bows and Arrows – Pope and Young
Reading Like a Writer – Francine Prose
The Story of O -Pauline Reage
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
A Perfect Stranger – Roxana Robinson
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Blindness – Jose Saramago
Sybil – Flora Schreiber
Jamestown – Matthew Sharpe
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
The Pearl – John Steinbeck
Ghost Story – Peter Straub
Sudden Fiction
Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann
The Old Forest – Peter Taylor
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings Trilogy – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
With All Disrespect – Calvin Trillian
Rabbit, Run – John Updike
Ethics Theory and Practice – Velasquez & Rostankowski
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
The Mysterious Island – Jules Verne
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
The Bridges of Madison County – R.J. Waller
Echoes in the Darkness – Joseph Wambaugh
The Onion Fields – Joseph Wambaugh
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Books to Buy

The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
2666: A Novel – Roberto Bolanos
1001 Arabian Nights – A.S.Bryant
The Plague – Albert Camus
The School on Heart’s Content Road – Carolyn Chute
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student – Corbett/Connors
100 Days – Ersinghaus/Mack
How to Read Novels – Thomas C. Foster
How to Read Literature – Thomas C. Foster
The Lost Country – William Gay
Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Uses of Enchantment – Heidi Julavits
Collected Stories – Franz Kafka
The Executioner’s Song – Norman Mailer
A Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki Murakami
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
Foundation ActionScript Animation – Keith Peters
Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust
V. – Thomas Pynchon
Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
Poison: A Novel – Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer – Patrick Suskind