Reading List 2013
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Fiction:
- The River Swimmer, Jim Harrison
- Any Human Heart, William Boyd
- The Given Day, Dennis Lehane
- Last Night at the Lobster, Stuart O’Nan
- House of Holes, Nicholson Baker
- I Curse the River of Time, Per Petterson
- Sweet Tooth, Ian McEwan
- Artful, Ali Smith
- Land of the Living, Austin Ratner
- All That Is, James Salter
- Transatlantic, Colum McCann
- &Sons, David Gilbert
Short Stories:
- Dear Life, Alice Munro
- Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson
- Tenth of December, George Saunders
- Reasons to Live, Amy Hempil
- At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Amy Hempil
- Dusk, James Salter
- The People on Privilege Hill, Jane Gardam
- Last Evenings on Earth, Robert Bolano
- The Penguin Book of English Short Stories, ed. Christopher Dolley
Reading for English 168d: Post-World War II British and American Fiction, James Wood
- Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
- Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
- Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
- The Emigrants, W. G. Sebald
- The Question of Bruno, Alexandre Hemon
- The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, Lydia Davis
- Open City, Teju Cole
- The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald
- Loving, Henry Green
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- Atonement, Ian McEwan
Classics:
- Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges
- Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney
- The Bear, William Faulkner
- The Last Tycoon, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
- To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
- Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Non-Fiction:
- Born to Run, Christopher McDougall
- Who is That Man, David Dalton
- Travels with Epicurus, Daniel Klein
- Read This!, ed. Hans Wenandt
- Jewish Jocks, eds Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy
- Eat and Run, Scott Jurek
- Good Prose, Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd
- The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment, David Malouf
- A North Country Life, Sidney Lea
- The Periodic Table, Primo Levi
- On The Map, Simon Garfield
- Walking Home: A Poet’s Journey, Simon Armitage
- The Book of My Lives, Alexander Hemon
- Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer
- Papa Hemingway, A.E. Hotchner
- Fifty Days of Solitude, Doris Grumbach
- Citizens of London, Lynne Olson
- Novellas in Three Lines, Felix Feneon
- The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
- I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place, Howard Norman
- Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh and America’s Fight Over WWII, Lynne Olson
- Home and Away: Memoir of a Fan, Scott Simon
- An Unfinished Life: JFK 1917-1963, Robert Dallek
- Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Keith Houston
- Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations, Mary Beard
- Mapping Manhattan: A Love Story in Maps, Becky Cooper
Essays:
- Both Flesh and Not, David Foster Wallace
- A Place to Live, Natalia Ginzburg
- How Literature Saved My Life, David Shields
- Best American Essays, 1999, ed. Edward Hoagland
- Best American Essays, 2012, ed. David Brooks
- Farther Away, Jonathan Franzen
- Yoga For People Who Can’t be Bothered to Do It, Geoff Dyer
- Through the Window, Julian Barnes
- Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris
- Waiting for the Barbarians, Daniel Mendelsohn
- My 1980’s and Other Essays, Wayne Koestenbaum
- Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions, Martin Amis
- Life Sentences, William Gass
- The Fun Stuff, James Wood
Art and Architecture:
- KaySays, Kay Rosen
- Kay Rosen AKAK, Kay Rosen
- Hamish Fulton: Keep Moving, Hamish Fulton
- Walking Artist, Hamish Fulton
- Hopper in Vermont, Bonnie Tocher Clause
- An Appointment with Sigmund Freud, Sophe Calle
- Ghosts, Sophie Calle
Science, Nature, and Gardening:
- The Power of Trees, Gretchen Daily and Charles Katz
- The National Parks: An American Landscape, Jan Shive
- The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, George Johnson
- Chased by the Light, Jim Brandenburg
- A Universe from Nothing, Lawrence Krause
- A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
- A Garden From 100 Packets of Seed, James Fenton
- Gertrude Jekyll: A Vision of Garden and Wood, Tankard and van Valkenburgh
Poetry:
- The Best American Poetry, 2012, ed. Mark Doty
- Almost Invisible, Mark Strand
- Writers Writing Dying, C.K. Williams
- Orphan Hours, Stanley Plumly
- The Bees, Carol Ann Duffy
- A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver
- Different Hours, Stephen Dunn
- Long Yesterday, Nathan Comfort Starr
- Green the Witch Hazel Wood, Emily Hiestand
- Facts about the Moon, Darianne Laux
- Metaphysical Dog, Frank Bedart
- The Odes of Horace, David Ferry
- Horace: The Odes, ed. J.D. McClatchy
- We Will Have Ghosts, Georganne Harmon
Mysteries:
- Portrait of a Spy, Daniel Silva
- The Black Box, Michael Connelly
- Vengeance, Benjamin Black
- Lullaby, Ace Atkins (Robert B. Parker)
- Wonderland, Ace Atkins
- Maigret Goes Home, Georges Simenon
- Suspect, Robert Crais
- The Sentry, Robert Crais
- Hit Me, Lawrence Block
- Nemesis, Jo Nesbo
- The Devil’s Star, Jo Nesbo
- The Redeemer, Jo Nesbo
- The Leopard, Jo Nesbo
- Little Green, Walter Mosley
- Bad Monkey, Carl Hiaason
- Never Go Back, Lee Child
- Three Can Keep a Secret, Archer Mayor