Reading List 2015

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Fiction:

  1. Family Life, Akhil Sharma (#1831)
  2. All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr (#1849)
  3. Elizabeth Costello, J.M. Coetzee (#1855)
  4. All the Old Knives, Olen Steinhauer (#1881)
  5. I Refuse, Per Petterson (#1894)
  6. Girl at War, Sara Novic (#1895)
  7. Our Souls at Night, Kent Harouf (#1913)
  8. Narrow Road to the Dark North, Richard Flanagan (#1930)
  9. Here, Richard McGuire (#1934)
  10. Missing Person, Patrick Modiano (#1945)
  11. Rogue Lawyer, John Grisham (#1947)
  12. Last Flight of Poxyl West, Daniel Torday (#1953)

Short Stories:

  1. Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett (#1908)
  2. Thirteen Ways of Looking, Colum McCann (#1949)
  3. In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway (#1889)
  4. Honeydew, Edith Pearlman (#1897)
  5. Paris Stories, Mavis Gallant (#1911)
  6. The Best American Short Stories of 2003, ed. Walter Mosley (#1937)
  7. Lucky Alan and Other Stories, Jonathan Lethem (#1861)

Classics:

  1. Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw (#1840)
  2. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton (#1859)
  3. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen (#1914)
  4. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle (#1951)

American Novels from English 178x at Harvard, Philip Fisher, Professor

  1. My Antonia, Willa Cather (#1839)
  2. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton (#1844)
  3. Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner (#1848)
  4. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner(#1854)
  5. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (#1863)
  6. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald (#1866)
  7. Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson (#1904)
  8. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (#1868)
  9. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (#1870)
  10. Waiting, Ha Jin (#1874)

Novels from English 160w: Consciousness in Fiction from Austen to Woolf, James Wood, Professor

  1. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (#1921)
  2. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (translation by Lydia Davis) (#1925)
  3. The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy (#1933)
  4. Stories, Anton Chekhov (translation by Pevear and Volokhonsky) (#1942)

Non-Fiction:

  1. The Point of Vanishing, Howard Axelrod (#1918)
  2. Being Mortal, Atul Gawande (#1924)
  3. Do No Harm, Henry Marsh (#1940)
  4. Positivity, Barbara Frederickson (#1850)
  5. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckhart Tolle (#1833)
  6. Wherever You Go There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn (#1873)
  7. The Art of Stillness, Pico Iyer (#1843)
  8. True Refuge, Tara Brach (#1905)
  9. The Dude and the Zen Master, Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman (#1959)
  10. Running with the Mind of Meditation, Sakyong Mipham (#1958)
  11. Passage to Juneau, Jonathan Raban (#1838)
  12. The Only Kayak, Kim Heacox (#1882)
  13. Coming into the Country, John McPhee (#1883)
  14. A Land Gone Lonesome, Dan O’Neill (#1884)
  15. The Year of Reading Dangerously, Andy Miller (#1842)
  16. Howards End is On the Landing, Susan Hill (#1845)
  17. Several Short Sentences About Writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg (#1880)
  18. Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, Mary Norris (#1890)
  19. Improbable Libraries, Alex Johnson (#1893)
  20. Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg (#1899)
  21. Why I Read, Wendy Lesser (#1900)
  22. Why Read Moby Dick?, Nathaniel Philbrick (#1919)
  23. Mapping it Out, Hans Ulrich Obrist (#1834)
  24. American Writers at Home, J.D. McCatchy and Erica Lennard (#1837)
  25. I Think You’re Totally Wrong, David Shields and Caleb Powell (#1841)
  26. The Long Shadow, David Reynolds (#1847)
  27. The Crisis of Zionism, Peter Beinart (#1832)
  28. The Freud Archives, Janet Malcolm (#1906)
  29. Churchill, Boris Johnson (#1887)
  30. Reading Chekhov, Janet Malcolm (#1943)
  31. The Shepherd’s Life, James Rebanks (#1944)

Essays:

  1. Latest Readings, Clive James (#1928)
  2. Poetry Notebook, Clive James (#1869)
  3. The Best American Essays, 2015: ed. Ariel Levy (#1948)
  4. Essays After Eighty, Donald Hall (#1846)
  5. Rocket and Lightship, Adam Kirsch (#1852)
  6. Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession, Ian Bostridge (#1875)
  7. The Uncollected David Rakoff, ed. Timothy G. Young (#1957)
  8. The Best American Essays, 2014, ed. John Jeremiah Sullivan (#1885)
  9. When I was a Child I Read Books, Marilynne Robinson (#1910)
  10. What Caused the Civil War, Edward Ayers (#1920)
  11. 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write, Sarah Ruhl (#1865)

Poetry/Drama:

  1. Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself, Walt Whitman as illustrated by Allen Crawford (#1853)
  2. Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World, Jane Hirshfield (#1916)
  3. Citizen, Claudia Rankine (#1867)
  4. Erratic Facts, Kay Ryan (#1946)
  5. That Said, Jane Shore (#1902)
  6. Made in Detroit, Marge Piercy (#1909)
  7. A Village Life, Louise Gluck (#1909)
  8. A New and Selected Poems, Galway Kinnell (#1835)
  9. Splitting an Order, Ted Kooser (#1836)
  10. Faithful and Virtuous Night, Louise Gluck (#1851)
  11. Once in the West, Christian Wiman (#1856)
  12. Blue Horses, Mary Oliver (#1857)
  13. A Woman Without a Country, Eavan Boland (#1858)
  14. Lighthead, Terrance Hayes (#1872)
  15. Deep Lane, Mark Doty (#1878)
  16. The Best American Poetry 2014, ed Terrance Hayes (#1879)
  17. Our Town, Thornton Wilder (#1892)
  18. Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong, David Orr (#1917)
  19. The Paper Wasp, Teresa Cader (#1936)
  20. Terrapin, Wendell Berry and Tom Pohrt (#1830)

Gardening/Nature: 

  1. Basin and Range, John McPhee (#1931)
  2. More Scenes from the Rural Life, Verlyn Klinkenborg (#1955)
  3. The Gardener’s Eye and Other Essays, Alan Lacey (#1888)
  4. The Backyard Parables, Margaret Roach (#1901)
  5. More Papers from the Potting Shed, Charles Elliott (#1903)
  6. How to Plant a Tree, Daniel Butler (#1912)
  7. The Curious Gardener, Anna Pavord (#1952)

Art and Architecture:

  1. On Kawara—Silence, ed. by Jeffrey Weiss (#1950)
  2. Before After, Anne-Margot Ramstein & Matthias Aregui (#1864)
  3. Rendez-vous with Art, Phillippe de Montebello and Martin Gayford (#1871)
  4. Spiral Jetta, Erin Hogan (#1926)
  5. The Accidental Masterpiece, by Michael Kimmelman (#1956)
  6. Two, Melissa Ann Pinney et al (#1891)
  7. Small Island, Big Picture, Alexandra De Steiguer (#1922)
  8. As Far As the Eye Can See: Lawrence Weiner 1960-2007, A. Goldstein & Donna de Salvo, editors (#1927)
  9. Ways of Seeing, John Berger (#1876)
  10. The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World, de Laubier, Bosser, and Billington (#1938)

Mysteries:

  1. Maigret and the Saturday Caller, Georges Simenon (#1860)
  2. Maigret’s Rival, Georges Simenon (#1923)
  3. Maigret and the Burglar’s Wife, Georges Simenon (#1935)
  4. Maigret and the Headless Corpse, Georges Simenon (#1954)
  5. The Glass Rainbow, James Lee Burke (#1862)
  6. The Bridge, Robert B. Parker/Robert Knott (#1877)
  7. The Phantom, Jo Nesbo (#1886)
  8. The Bat, Jo Nesbo (#1896)
  9. Sidetracked, Henning Mankell (#1907)
  10. Faceless Killers, Henning Mankell (#1915)
  11. The White Lioness, Henning Mankell (#1929)
  12. Make Me, Lee Child (#1932)
  13. The Company She Kept, Archer Mayor (#1939)
  14. The Crossing, Michael Connelly (#1941)