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Reading 2024

1-January-2024: McPhee, John, Tabula Rasa (2023, USA)

7-January-2024: Zweig, Stefan, The World of Yesterday (1943, Austria)

21-January-2024: Kempowski, Walter, Tadellöser & Wolff (An Ordinary Youth) (1971, Germany)

26-January-2024: Han Suyin, Winter Love (1962, England)

30-January-2024: Thoreau, Henry David, Walden (1854, USA)

3-February-2024: brown, adrienne maree, Grievers (2021, USA)

8-February-2024: brown, adrienne maree, Maroons (2023, USA)

10-February-2024: Ernaux, Annie, Look at the Lights, My Love (2014, France)

18-February-2024: Ehle, John, The Land Breakers (1964, USA)

28-February-2024: Stille, Alexander, The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune (2023, USA)

9-March-2024: Flaubert, Gustave, Sentimental Education (1869, France)

12-March-2024: Brophy, Brigid, Hackenfeller’s Ape (1953, England)

18-March-2024: Maclean, Will, The Apparition Phase (2020, England)

25-March-2024: Malaparte, Curzio, Diary of a Foreigner in Paris (1966, Italy)

26-March-2024: Holm, Sven, Termush (1967, Denmark)

29-March-2024: DiPrima, Diane, Memoirs of a Beatnick (1969, USA)

1-April-2024: Klein, Naomi, Doppelgänger: A Trip Into the Mirror World (2023, USA)

12-April-2024: Yamazaki, Paul, Reading the Room: A Bookseller’s Tale (2024, USA)

17-April-2024: Zola, Émile, La Débâcle (1892, France)

22-April-2024: Clark, J. Carroll (pseud), Julia Valentine (2020, USA)

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Reading 2023

5-January-2023: Tanizaki, Junichirō, The Maids (1963, Japan)

13-January-2023: Tevis, Walter, Mockingbird (1980, USA)

22-January-2023: Snyder, Michael, James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Writer (2022, USA)

29-January-2023: Pressburger, Emeric, The Glass Pearls (1966, England)

31-January-2023: Mac Orlan, Pierre, A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer (1951, France)

5-February-2023: Runciman, Steven, The First Crusade (Vol I: A History of the Crusades) (1951, England)

11-February-2023: Babitz, Eve, I Used to be Charming (1975-1997, USA)

15-February-2023: Indiana, Gary, Rent Boy (1994, USA)

26-February-2023: Zola, Émile, The Sin of Abbé Mouret (1875, France)

2-March-2023: Bennett, Alice, Alarm (Object Lessons), (2023, USA)

9-March-2023: Wyndham, John, The Kraken Wakes (1953. England)

17-March-2023: Manchette, Jean-Patrick, The Prone Gunman (1981, France)

17-March-2023: Shawn, Wallace, Night Thoughts: An Essay (2017, USA)

19-March-2023: Runciman, Steven, The Kingdom of Jerusalem (Vol II: A History of the Crusades) (1953, England)

26-March-2023: Carr, David, Final Draft: The Collected Work of David Carr (2020, USA)

5-April-2023: Manzoni, Alessandro, The Betrothed (1840, Italy)

10-April-2023: Childs, Craig, Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession (2010, USA)

16-April-2023: Butler. Octavia, Kindred (1979, USA)

22-April-2023: Liming, Sheila, Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time (2023, USA)

24-April-2023: Manchette, Jean-Patrick, Three to Kill (1976, France)

30-April-2023: Keefe, Patrick Radden, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (2021, USA)

7-May-2023: Le Carré, John, Agent Running in the Field (2019, England)

10-May-2023: Dederer, Claire, Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma (2023, USA)

13-May-2023: Mortimer, Penelope, Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting (1956, England)

26-May-2023: Morrison, Toni, Beloved (1987, USA)

30-May-2023: McCarthy, Cormac, The Passenger (2022, USA)

1-June-2023: Lewis, Herbert Clyde, Gentleman Overboard (1937, USA)

6-June-2023: Miéville, China, Embassytown (2011, England)

10-June-2023: McCarthy, Cormac, Stella Maris (2022, USA)

16-June-2023: Ambler, Eric, The Light of Day (1962, England)

23-June-2023: Ambler, Eric, Dirty Story (1967, England)

25-June-2023: Runciman, Steven, The Kingdom of Acre (Volume III, A History of the Crusades) (1954, England)

27-June-2023: Hartley, L.P., The Harness Room (1971, England)

4-July-2023: Motley, Willard, Knock on Any Door (1947, USA)

8-July-2023: Duras, Marguerite, The North China Lover (1991. France)

10-July-2023: Carr, J. L., A Month in the Country (1980, England)

14-July-2023: Thoreau, Henry David, Cape Cod (1865, USA)

18-July-2023: Modiano, Patrick, Missing Person (1978, France)

22-July-2023: Prime-Stevenson, Edward, Left to Themselves: The Ordeal of Philip and Gerald (1891, USA)

24-July-2023: Shakespeare, William, King Lear (1606, England)

6-August-2023: Whitehead, Colson, Crook Manifesto (2013, USA)

11-August-2023: Hampson, John, Last Night at the Greyhound (1931, England)

16-August-2023: Wyndham, John, The Midwich Cuckoos (1957, England)

19-August-2023: Ballard, J. G., The Drought (1965, England)

22-August-2023: Hines, Barry, A Kestrel for a Knave (1968, England)

31-August-2023: McPherson, William, Testing the Current (1984, USA)

10-September-2023: Pamuk, Orhan, Nights of Plague (2021, Turkey)

17-September-2023: Thoreau, Henry David, The Maine Woods (1864, USA)

20-September-2023: Thoreau, Henry David, A Plea for Captain John Brown (and other essays on abolition) (1859, USA)

24-September-2023: Kirino, Natsuo Real Life (2006, Japan)

30-September-2023: Renouard, Maël, Fragments of an Infinite Memory: My Life with the Internet (2016, France)

7-October-2023: Hamilton, Patrick, The Midnight Bell (1929, England)

12-October-2023: Hamilton, Patrick, The Siege of Pleasure (1932, England)

15-October-2023: Hamilton, Patrick, The Plains of Cement (1934, England)

21-October-2023: Kayama, Shigeru, Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again (1955, Japan)

25-October-2023: Malcolm, Janet, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory (2023, USA)

30-October-2023: Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969, USA)

5-November-2023: Warner, Sylvia Townsend, Lolly Willowes (1926, England)

26-November-2023: Ainsworth, William Harrison, The Lancashire Witches (1848, England)

2-December-2023: Ginzburg, Carlo, Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath (1989, Italy)

10-December-2023: Baum, Vicki, Grand Hotel (1929, Germany)

16-December-2023: Sinykin, Dan, Big Fiction: How Conglomerates Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature (2023, USA)

24-December-2023: Warner, Sylvia Townsend, T.H. White: A Biography (1967, England)

29-December-2023: Undset, Sigrid, Olav Audunssøn, Vol 4: Winter (1927, Norway)

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Reading 2022

4-January-2022: Hardy, Thomas, The Well-Beloved (1897, England)

9-January-2022: Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris, Hard to be a God (1964, Russia)

23-January-2022: Tanizaki, Junichirō, The Makioka Sisters (1948, Japan)

28-January-2022: Goodman, Gary, The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade (2021, USA)

29-January-2022: Modiano, Patrick, Ring Roads (1972, France)

13-February-2022: London, Jack, Martin Eden (1909, USA)

20-February-2022: Butler, Octavia, Dawn (1987, USA)

27-February-2022: Butler, Octavia, Adulthood Rites (1988, USA)

10-March-2022: Butler, Octavia, Imago (1989, USA)

14-March-2022: Simenon, Georges, The Hitchhiker (1953, France)

19-March-2022: Mulisch, Harry, The Procedure (1998, Holland)

24-March-2022: Isherwood, Christopher, Liberation: Diaries 1970-1983 (2012, USA)

1-April-2022: Nescio, Amsterdam Stories (1910-1942, Holland)

5-April-2022: Pheby, Alex, Mordew (2020, England)

16-April-2022: Jansson, Tove, The True Deceiver (1982, Finland)

30-April-2022: Zola, Émile, Earth (1887, France)

5-May-2022: Herlihy, James Leo, All Fall Down (1960, USA)

10-May-2022: Peyrefitte, Roger, The Exile of Capri (1959, France)

15-May-2022: Carrington, Leonora, The Hearing Trumpet (1976, Mexico)

21-May-2022: Welsh, Louise, The Cutting Room (2002, Scotland)

24-May-2022: Chesnutt, Charles W., The House Behind the Cedars (1900, USA)

29-May-2022: James, Henry, The Reverberator (1888, USA)

31-May-2022: Logue, Mary, The Streel (2020, USA)

6-June-2022: Hemingway, Ernest, The Sun Also Rises (1926, USA)

11-June-2022: Hellman, Lillian, Maybe: A Story (1980, USA)

17-June-2022: Keefe, Patrick Radden. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2019, USA)

23-June-2022: Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker), Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (1859, Holland)

25-June-2022: Tey, Josephine, The Singing Sands (1952, Scotland)

3-July-2022: Cahan, Abraham, The Rise of David Levinsky (1917, USA)

4-July-2022: Warren, Robert Penn, Brother to Dragons (1953/1979, USA)

19-July-2022: Stafford, Jean, Boston Adventure (1944, USA)

26-July-2022: Tey, Josephine, The Man in the Queue (1929, Scotland)

29-July-2022: Ballard, J. G., Rushing to Paradise (1994, England)

6-August-2022: Le Carré, John, Absolute Friends (2003, England)

13-August-2022: Okada, John, No-No Boy (1957, USA)

15-August-2022: Dick, Kay, They (1977, England)

19-August-2022: Reed, Adolph, The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (2022, USA)

2-September-2022: James, Henry, The Portrait of a Lady (1881, USA)

9-September-2022: Cable, George Washington, The Grandissimes (1880, USA)

15-September-2022: Sabatini, Rafael, Scaramouche (1921, England)

21-September-2022: Laxness, Haldór, Under the Glacier (1968, Iceland)

24-September-2022: James, M. R., More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911, England)

2-October-2022: Fallada, Hans, Every Man Dies Alone (1947, Germany)

5-October-2022: Schnitzler, Arthur, Late Fame (1895, Austria)

23-October-2022: Rhodes, David, Rock Island Line (1975, USA)

30-October-2022: Sloane, William, To Walk the Night (1937, USA)

25-November-2022: Mantel, Hilary, A Place of Greater Safety (1992, England)

29-November-2022: Sloane, William, The Edge of Running Water (1939, USA)

7-December-2022: Hochschild, Adam, American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis (2022, USA)

13-December-2022: Simenon, Georges, The Bells of Bicêtre (1963, France)

22-December-2022: Reck, Friedrich, Diary of a Man in Despair (1947, Germany)

26-December-2022: Undset, Sigrid, Olav Audunssøn, Vol 3: Crossroads (1927, Norway)

29-December-2022: Stifter, Adalbert, Motley Stones (1853, Germany)

31-December-2022: Diaz, Hernan, Trust (2022, USA)

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Reading 2021

3-January-2021: Zola, Émile, A Love Story (1878, France)

9-January-2021: Stapledon, Olaf, Odd John (1935, England)

16-January-2021: Chesnutt, Charles W., The Marrow of Tradition (1901, USA)

19-January-2021: Johnson, Joyce, Minor Characters (1983, USA)

24-January-2021: Herrndorf, Wolfgang, Sand (2011, Germany)

31-January-2021: Gibson, William, Pattern Recognition (2003, USA)

31-January-2021: Schwob, Marcel, Imaginary Lives (1896, France)

7-February-2021: James, Henry, The Aspern Papers (1888, USA)

15-February-2021: Shaw, Nate (Ned Cobb), All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, edited by Theodore Rosengarten (1974, USA)

19-February-2021: Dukes, Hunter, Signature (Object Lessons) (2020, USA)

20-February-2021: James, Henry, Daisy Miller (1879, USA)

21-February-2021: Reve, Gerard, Childhood: Two Novellas (“Werther Nieland” and “The Fall of the Boslowits Family”) (1949/1950, Holland)

24-February-2021: Shapland, Jenn, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (2020, USA)

26-February-2021: Gissing, George, Will Warburton (1905, England)

1-March-2021: Gibson, William, Spook Country (2007, USA)

5-March-2021: Lowe, Scott, Hair (Object Lessons) (2016, USA)

7-March-2021: Rampo, Edogawa, Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1956, Japan)

13-March-2021: Sledge, E.B., With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (1981, USA)

26-March-2021: Balzac, Honore, Lost Souls (1847, France) (reread)

29-March-2021: Banks, Russell, Foregone (2021, USA)

4-April-2021: Gibson, William, Zero History (2010, USA)

8-April-2021: Orwell, George, Homage to Catalonia (1938, England)

11-April-2021: Kelley, William Melvin, A Different Drummer (1959, USA)

13-April-2021: Simenon, Georges, The Grandmother (1959, France)

15-April-2021: Allain, Marcel and Pierre Souvestre, The Silent Executioner (Juve contre Fantômas) (1911, France)

16-April-2021: Didion, Joan, Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021, USA)

18-April-2021: O’Brien, Tim, The Things They Carried (1990, USA)

26-April-2021: McGilligan, Patrick, Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane (2015, USA)

4-May-2021: Bunch, David R., Moderan (1971, USA)

6-May-2021: Mech, L. David, Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal (2020, USA)

11-May-2021: Maupassant, Guy, Alien Hearts (1890, France)

17-May-2021: Blakeslee, Nate, American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West (2017, USA)

25-May-2021: Laxness, Halldør, The Fish Can Sing (1957, Iceland)

31-May-2021: Greenlee, Sam, The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969, USA)

5-June-2021: Jansson, Tove, The Summer Book (1972, Finland)

8-June-2021: Ishiguro, Kazuo, Klara and the Sun (2021, England)

9-June-2021: Jansson, Tove, Fair Play (1982, Finland)

13-June-2021: Cronon, William, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991, USA)

17-June-2021: Plante, David, Difficult Women: A Memoir of Three (1983, USA)

21-June-2021: MacDonald, Ross, The Underground Man (1971, USA)

30-June-2021: Howells, William Dean, The Landlord at Lion’s Head (1897, USA)

4-July-2021: Himes, Chester, Yesterday Will Make You Cry (1953, USA)

7-July-2021: MacDonald, Ross, The Goodbye Look (1969, USA)

11-July-2021: Slaght, Jonathan C., Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl (2020, USA)

18-July-2021: MacDonald, Ross, The Instant Enemy (1968, USA)

25-July-2021: Hansen, Thorkild, Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767 (1962, Denmark)

31-July-2021: Xenophon, The Expedition of Cyrus, or The March Up Country (Anabasis) (370 BC, Greece)

8-August-2021: Bell, Matt, Appleseed (2021, USA)

11-August-2021: Lem, Stanisław, Highcastle: A Remembrance (1966, Poland)

14-August-2021: Manchette, Jean-Patrick, Nada (1972, France)

20-August-2021: Moravia, Alberto, The Conformist (1951, Italy)

24-August-2021: Duras, Marguerite, The Ravishing of Lol Stein (1964, France)

28-August-2021: Bernhard, Thomas, The Cheap-Eaters (1980, Austria)

3-September-2021: Nathan, Patrick, Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist (2021, USA)

10-September-2021: Conrad, Joseph, Nostromo (1904, England)

15-September-2021: Bailey, Blake, The Splendid Things We Planned (2014, USA)

22-September-2021: Kono, Taeko, Toddler Hunting, and other stories (1961, Japan)

29-September-2021: Whitehead, Colson, Harlem Shuffle (2021, USA)

4-October-2021: Morand, Paul, Venices (1971, France)

10-October-2021: Friedrich, Otto, Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet (1992, USA)

23-October-2021: Mezzrow, Mezz and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues (1946, USA)

25-October-2021: Manchette, Jean-Patrick, Ivy Pearl (1996, France)

31-October-2021: Millet, Lydia, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (2005, USA)

7-November-2021: LeCarré, John, Silverview (2021, England)

21-November-2021: Scott, Walter, The Fair Maid of Perth (1828, Scotland)

25-November-2021: Mulisch, Harry, The Assault (1982, Holland)

26-November-2021: James, M.R., Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904, England) (reread)

4-December-2021: Hamilton, Patrick, The Slaves of Solutude (1947, England)

25-December-2021: Eliot, George, Middlemarch (1872, England)

28-December-2021: Friedman, Sanford, Conversations with Beethoven (2014, USA)

31-December-2021: Undset, Sigrid, Olav Audunssøn, Vol 2: Providence (1925, Norway)

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Reading 2020

6-January-2020: Beaumont, Matthew, Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London (2015, England)

9-January-2020: Otsuka, Julie, When the Emperor was Divine (2002, USA)

12-January-2020: Lehmann, John, In a Purely Pagan Sense (1976, England)

12-January-2020: Modiano, Patrick, Little Jewel (2001, France)

19-January-2020: Dickens, Charles, Hard Times (1854, England)

20-January-2020: Didion, Joan, The Year of Magical Thinking (2005, USA)

28-January-2020: Hunt, Laird, In the House in the Dark of the Woods (2018, USA)

2-February-2020: Hardy, Thomas, Under the Greenwood Tree (1872, England)

5-February-2020: Lehman, David, One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir (2019, USA)

15-February-2020: Oshinsky, David M., “Worse Than Slavery”: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow (1996, USA)

17-February-2020: Zola, Émile, His Excellency Eugène Rougon (1876, France)

22-February-2020: King, Dean, Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival (2004, USA)

29-February-2020: Graves, Robert, They Hanged My Saintly Billy (1957, England)

8-March-2020: Wyndham, John, The Day of the Triffids (1951, England)

14-March-2020: Ginsberg, Allen, South American Journals (1960, USA)

29-March-2020: Mantel, Hilary, Wolf Hall (2009, England)

5-April-2020: Butler, Octavia, Parable of the Sower (1993, USA)

12-April-2020: Butler, Octavia, Parable of the Talents (1998, USA)

15-April-2020: O’Brien, Glenn (ed), The Cool School: Writing from America’s Hip Underground (2013, USA)

16-April-2020: Moravia, Alberto, Agostino (1943, Italy)

19-April-2020: Ross, Lillian, Picture (1952, USA)

25-April-2020: Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring (1962, USA)

3-May-2020: Mantel, Hilary, Bring Up the Bodies (2012, England)

6-May-2020: Duras, Marguerite, The Lover (1984, France)

10-May-2020: Ma, Ling, Severance (2018, USA)

14-May-2020: Hale, Grace Elizabeth, Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture (2020, USA)

17-May-2020: Kadare, Ismael, The Traitor’s Niche (1978, Albania)

20-May-2020: Saikaku, Ihara, Comrade Loves of the Samurai (Anthology) (1687, Japan)

14-June-2020: Mantel, Hilary, The Mirror and the Light (2020, England)

20-June-2020: Ballard, J. G., The Kindness of Women (1991, England)

25-June-2020: Orikuchi, Shinobu, The Book of the Dead (1943, Japan)

27–June-2020: Jefferson, Margot, Negroland: A Memoir (2015, USA)

30-June-2020: Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845, USA)

5-July-2020: Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man (1952, USA)

6-July-2020: LeCarré, John, Call for the Dead (1961, England)

11-July-2020: LeCarré, John, A Murder of Quality (1962, England)

14-July-2020: LeCarré, John, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963, England)

18-July-2020: LeCarré, John, The Looking Glass War (1965, England)

24-July-2020: LeCarré, John, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974, England)

1-August-2020: LeCarré, John, The Honourable Schoolboy (1977, England)

7-August-2020: LeCarré, John, Smiley’s People (1979, England)

10-August-2020: Pendarvis, Jack, Cigarette Lighter (Object Lessons) (2016, USA)

14-August-2020: Greenwell, Garth, Cleanness (2020, USA)

29-August-2020: Perlstein, Rick, Reaganland: America’s Right Turn, 1976-1980 (2020, USA)

4-September-2020: Burnside, John, A Lie About My Father (2006, Scotland)

6-September-2020: Massini, Stefano, The Lehman Trilogy (2016, Italy)

7-September-2020: Tevis, Walter, The Man Who Fell to Earth (1963, USA)

9-September-2020: Thompson, Kara, Blanket (Object Lessons) (2019, USA)

11-September-2020: Howard, Jennifer, Clutter: An Untidy History (2020, USA)

15-September-2020: Tuan, Yi-Fu, Landscapes of Fear (1979, USA)

29-September-2020: Balzac, Honore, Lost Illusions (1843, France) (reread)

7-October-2020: Bowen, Elizabeth, Eva Trout (1969, Ireland)

14-October-2020: Gary, Romain, The Company of Men (1949, France)

24-October-2020: Brontë, Charlotte, Villette (1853, England)

24-October-2020: De Lillo, Don, The Silence (2020, USA)

30-October-2020: Krúdy, Gyula, The Adventures of Sindbad (1917, Hungary)

3-November-2020: Kehlmann, Daniel, Tyll (2017, Germany)

8-November-2020: Undset, Sigrid, Olav Audunssøn, Vol 1: Vows (1925, Norway)

15-November-2020: Pullman, Philip, The Secret Commonwealth (2019, England)

23-November-2020: Baker, Nicholson, Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act (2020, USA)

27-November-2020: Kempowski, Walter, All for Nothing (2006, Germany)

29-November-2020: Ainsworth, William Harrison, Auriol (1844, England)

29-November-2020: Modiano, Patrick, Pedigree (2005, France)

1-December-2020: Liming, Sheila, Office (Object Lessons) (2020, USA)

13-December-2020: Baker, J.A., The Peregrine (1967, England)

18-December-2020: Allain, Marcel and Pierre Souvestre, Fantômas (1911, France)

23-December 2020: Szerb, Antal, The Queen’s Necklace (1942, Hungary)

23-December-2020: Leys, Simon, The Death of Napoleon (1986, Australia)

25-December-2020: MacLeod, Alistair, No Great Mischeif (2000, Canada)

27-December-2020: Chateaubriand, François-Rene, Memoirs from Beyond the Grave (1846, France)

29-December-2020: Anonymous, The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes: His Fortunes and Adversities (1554, Spain)

30-December-2020: Stifter, Adalbert, Rock Crystal (1846, Austria)

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Reading 2019

2-January-2019: Blackwood, Algernon, Day and Night Tales (1917, England)

2-January-2019: Modiano, Patrick, Sleep of Memory (2017, France)

17-January-2019: Schulberg, Budd, The Disenchanted (1950, USA)

20-January-2019: Whitehead, Colson, The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death (2014, USA)

29-January-2019: Crowley, John, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruins of Ymr (2017, USA)

3-February-2019: Ginsberg, Allen, Iron Curtain Diaries (1965, USA)

8-February-2019: LeCarré, John, A Legacy of Spies (2017, England)

12-February-2019: Hagy, Alyson, Boleto (2012, USA)

16-February-2019: Sciascia, Leonardo, The Council of Egypt (1963, Italy)

20-February-2019: Druon, Maurice, The Iron King (1956, France)

3-March-2019: Le Fanu, J. Sheridan, In a Glass Darkly (1872, Ireland)

10-March-2019: Lee, Christopher J., Jet Lag (Object Lessons) (2017, USA)

13-March-2019: Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1818, England)

16-March-2019: Stewart, Angus, Sandel (1968, England)

17-March-2019: Schwob, Marcel, The King in the Golden Mask (1892, France)

24-March-2019: Hamilton, Patrick, Hangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl’s Court (1941, England)

31-March-2019: Druon, Maurice, The Strangled Queen (1956, France)

5-April-2019: Sellars, Simon, Applied Ballardianism (2018, Australia)

10-April-2019: Modiano, Patrick, Such Fine Boys (1982, France)

17-April-2019: Tanizaki, Junichiro, The Key (1956, Japan)

27-April-2019: Powers, Richard, The Overstory (2018, USA)

5-May-2019: Boyle, Kay, The Smoking Mountain: Stories from Postwar Germany (1951, USA)

8-May-2019: Eve, Martin Paul, Pasword (Object Lessons) (2016, England)

12-May-2019: Stafford, Jean, The Catherine Wheel (1952, USA)

16-May-2019: Druon, Maurice, The Poisoned Crown (1957, France)

27-May-2019: Zola, Émile, Zest for Life (1884, France)

2-June-2019: Luiselli, Valeria, Lost Children Archive (2019, USA)

7-June-2019: Brennan, Summer, High Heel (Object Lessons) (2019, USA)

9-June-2019: Dery, Mark, Born to be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey (2018, USA)

16-June-2019: Druon, Maurice, The Royal Succession (1958, France)

1-July-2019: Catling, Brian, The Vorrh (2012, England)

7-July-2019: James, Henry, The Ambassadors (1903, USA)

20-July-2019: Zacks, Richard, Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York (2012, USA)

25-July-2019: Besson, Philippe, Lie With Me (2017, France)

31-July-2019: Ballard, J.G., Concrete Island (1973, England)

4-August-2019: Whitehead, Colson, The Nickel Boys (2019, USA)

9-August-2019: Simenon, Georges, The Couple from Poitiers (1946, France)

13-August-2019: Summerscale, Kate, The Wicked Boy: An Infamous Murder in Victorian London (2016, England)

18-August-2019: Le Guin, Ursula K., A Wizard of Earthsea (1968, USA)

22-August-2019: Andreae, Johann Valentin (ed. by John Crowley), The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz (1616, Germany)

29-August-2019: Berkson, Bill, Since When: A Memoir in Pieces (2018, USA)

1-September-2019: Bradbury, Ray, The October Country (1955, USA)

2-September-2019: Howells, William Dean, The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885, USA)

7-September-2019: Louis, Édouard, Who Killed My Father (2018, France)

10-September-2019: Le Guin, Ursula K., The Tombs of Atuan (1970, USA)

14-September-2019: Le Guin, Ursula K., The Farthest Shore (1972, USA)

28-September-2019: Sinclair, Upton, Oil! (1927, USA)

29-September-2019: Genoways, Ted, This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm (2017, USA)

13-October-2019: Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen and Jørgen Moe, Norwegian Folktakes (1852, Norway)

14-October-2019: Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi, The Professor and the Siren (1961, Italy)

22-October-2019: Cellini, Benvenuto, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (1562, Italy)

23-October-2019: Womersley, Chris, City of Crows (2018, Australia)

3-November-2019: Dostoevsky, Fyodor, Notes from a Dead House (1862, Russia)

10-November-2019: O’Hara, John, Butterfield 8 (1935, USA)

14-November-2019: Schwob, Marcel, The Children’s Crusade (1896, France)

27-November-2019: Druon, Maurice, The She Wolf of France (1959, France)

30-November-2019: Druon, Maurice, The Lily and the Lion (1960, France)

11-December-2019: Hogg, James, The Three Perils of Woman (1823, Scotland)

26-December-2019: Ellmann, Lucy, Ducks, Newburyport (2019, USA)

27-December-2019: Paulson, Gary, Hatchet (1987, USA)

27-December-2019: Davis, Richard Harding, In the Fog (1901, USA)

29-December-2019: Falkner, J. Meade, Moonfleet (1898, England)

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Reading 2018

7-January-2018: Vandermeer, Jeff, Annihilation (2014, USA)

30-January-2018: Tuhus-Dubrow, Rebecca, Personal Stereo (Object Lessons) (2017, USA)

31-January-2018: Reynolds, George W.M., Mysteries of London (First Series, Vol 2) (1846, England)

5-February-2018: Shriver, Lionel, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 (2016, USA)

11-February-2018: Rae, John, The Custard Boys (1960, England)

13-February-2018: Thacker, Eugene, Cosmic Pessimism (2015, USA)

24-February-2018: Zola, Émile, Money (1890, France)

4-March-2018: Nathan, Patrick, Some Hell (2018, USA)

11-March-2018: Ishiguro, Kazuo, The Buried Giant (2015, England)

17-March-2018: Martin, Craig, Shipping Container (Object Lessons) (2016, Scotland)

21-March-2018: Vandermeer, Jeff, Authority (2014, USA)

22-March-2018: Modiano, Patrick, The Night Watch (1969, France)

26-March-2018: Hughes, Dorothy, In a Lonely Place (1947, USA)

3-April-2018: Meyer, Philipp, The Son (2013, USA)

6-April-2018: Vandermeer, Jeff, Acceptance (2014, USA)

8-April-2018: Liebling, A.J., Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris (1962, USA)

15-April-2017: Kadare, Ismael, A Girl in Exile (2009, Albania)

22-April-2017: Rothstein, Richard, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (2017, USA)

29-April-2018: Maupassant, Guy, Like Death (1889, France)

13-May-2018: Disch, Thomas, The Genocides (1965, USA)

20-May-2018: Desmond, Matthew, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016, USA)

21-May-2018: Burroughs, William S, The Cat Inside (1986, USA)

25-May-2018: Duvert, Tony, Odd Jobs and The District (1978, France)

31-May-2018: Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle (1906, USA)

4-June-2018: Offutt, Chris, My Father the Pornographer: A Memoir (2016, USA)

9-June-2018: Mishima, Yukio, Sun and Steel (1970, Japan)

17-June-2018: Ward, Jesmyn, Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017, USA)

28-June-2018: Doctorow, E.L., World's Fair (1985, USA)

2-July-2018: Schulberg, Budd, The Harder They Fall (1947, USA)

2-July-2018: Lawrence, D.H., The Fox (1922, England)

4-July-2018: Luiselli, Valeria, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (2017, USA)

4-July-2018: Zellar, Brad, House of Coates (2012, USA)

14-July-2018: Ōhara, Mariko, Hybrid Child (1990, Japan)

16-July-2018: Didion, Joan, Democracy (1984, USA)

29-July-2018: Schumacher, Michael, The Contest: The 1968 Election and the War for America's Soul (2018, USA)

6-August-2018: Ballard, J.G., The Drowned World (1962, England)

11-August-2018: Highsmith, Patricia, The Price of Salt (1952, USA)

25-August-2018: Perlstein, Rick, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001, USA)

28-August-2018: Castile, Meredith, Driver's License (Object Lessons) (2015, USA)

2-September-2018: Diaz, Hernan, In the Distance (2017, USA)

3-September-2018: Lawrence, D.H., The Virgin and the Gipsy (1926, England)

6-September-2018: Simenon, Georges, Aunt Jeanne (1950, France)

27-September-2017: Cooper, James Fenimore, The Last of the Mohicans (1826, USA)

7-October-2018: Jackson, Shirley, The Haunting of Hill House (1959, USA)

14-October-2018: Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (1908, England)

18-October-2018: Modiano, Patrick, In the Cafe of Lost Youth (2007, France)

19-October-2018: Saba, Umberto, Ernesto (1957, Italy)

27-October-2018: Shriver, Lionel, We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003, USA)

29-October-2018: Kindley, Evan, Questionnaire (Object Lessons) (2016, USA)

7-November-2018: Wharton, Edith, Hudson River Bracketed (1929, USA)

11-November-2018: Babitz, Eve, Eve's Hollywood (1974, USA)

17-November-2018: Wyndham, John, Trouble with Lichen (1960, England)

23-November-2018: Reve, Gerald, The Evenings: A Winter's Tale (1947, Holland)

26-November-2018: Lesage, Alain-René, The Devil on Two Sticks (1707, France)

4-December-2018: Stonich, Sarah, Shelter: Off the Grid in the Mostly Magnetic North (2011, USA)

6-December-2018: Chaze, Elliott, Black Wings Has My Angel (1953, USA)

7-December-2018: Burroughs, William S, The Revised Boy Scout Manual (1970, USA)

18-December-2018: Murakami, Haruki, Killing Commendatore (2017, Japan)

28-December-2018: Dickens, Charles, Little Dorrit (1857, England)

30-December-2018: Browne, Sir Thomas, Urne-Buriall (1658, England)

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Reading 2017

8-January-2017: Herlihy, James Leo, Midnight Cowboy (1965, USA)

19-January-2017: Zola, Emile, The Conquest of Plassans (1874, France)

22-January-2017: Brooke, Jocelyn, The Scapegoat (1949, England)

24-January-2017: Wharton, Edith, Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910, USA)

10-February-2017: Ainsworth, William Harrison, Old Saint Paul’s (1841, England)

11-February-2017: Vidal, Gore, A Thirsty Evil (1956, USA)

14-February-2017: Perec, Georges, La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams (1973, France)

15-February-2017: Modiano, Patrick, Young Once (1981, France)

21-February-2017: De la Roche, Mazo, A Boy in the House (1952, Canada)

27-February-2017: Stapleton, Olaf, Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord (1944, England)

1-March-2017: Modiano, Patrick, La Place De L'Étoile (1968, France)

3-March-2017: Golding, William, Darkness Visible (1979, England)

5-March-2017: Whitman, Walt, The Life and Adventures of Jack Engle (1852, USA)

17-March-2017: Clébert, Jean-Paul, Paris Vagabond (1952, France)

26-March-2017: Gaiman, Neil, The Ocean at the End of the World (2013, England)

1-April-2017: Crowley, John, Beasts (1976, USA)

5-April-2017: Reeves, James A., The Road to Somewhere: An American Memoir (2011, USA)

16-April-2017: Stacton, David, The People of the Book (1965, USA)

26-April-2017: Jünger, Ernst, Storm of Steel (1920, Germany)

20-May-2017: Schumacher, Michael, Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg (1992, USA)

25-May-2017: Modiano, Patrick, So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood (2014, France)

29-May-2017: Powers, Richard, Gain (1998, USA)

9-June-2017: Lawrence, D.H., St Mawr (1925, England)

11-June-2017: Kinney, Alison, Hood (Object Lessons) (2016, USA)

15-June-2017: Vidal, Gore, The City and the Pillar (1948, USA)

18-June-2017: Saunders, George, Lincoln in the Bardo (2017, USA)

27-June-2017: Carrington, Leonora, Down Below (1944, England)

2-July-2017: Coover, Robert, The Public Burning (1977, USA)

4-July-2017: Traver, Robert, Anatomy of a Murder (1958, USA)

13-July-2017: Al, Stefan, The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream (2017, USA)

16-July-2017: Aramaki, Yoshio, The Sacred Era (1978, Japan)

18-July-2017: Lawrence, D.H., The Man Who Died (1929, England)

23-July-2017: Wharton, Edith, The Mother’s Recompense (1925, USA)

23-July-2017: Wharton, Edith, Madame De Treymes (1907, USA)

27-July-2017: Kipnis, Laura: Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus (2017, USA)

27-July-2017: Louis, Édouard, The End of Eddy (2014, France)

29-July-2017: Didion, Joan, South and West: From a Notebook (2017, USA)

7-August-2017: Kerouac, Jack, The Sea is My Brother (1943, USA)

12-August-2017: Bishop, John Peale, Act of Darkness (1936, USA)

21-August-2017: Burgess, Anthony, Nothing Like the Sun (1964, England)

28-August-2017: Alexie, Sherman, You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me (2017, USA)

26-September-2017: James, Henry, The Princess Casamassima (1886, USA)

29-September-2017: Kapuściński, Ryszard, The Emperor (1978, Poland)

5-October-2017: Beachy, Stephen, The Whistling Song (1991, USA)

7-October-2017: Grann, David, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (2017, USA)

21-October-2017: Hardy, Thomas, The Woodlanders (1887, England)

24-October-2017: Simenon, Georges, The Hatter’s Phantoms (1948, France)

25-October-2017: Brainard, Joe, I Remember and Self Portrait (1970-1979, USA)

25-October-2017: Duvert, Tony, Atlantic Island (1979, France)

28-October-2017: Modiano, Patrick, Paris Nocturne (2003, France)

1-November-2017: Germano, William, Eye Chart (Object Lessons) (2017, USA)

7-November-2017: Tanizaki, Junichiro, Devils in Daylight (1918, Japan)

13-November-2017: Pullman, Philip, The Book of Dust (Volume One: La Belle Sauvage) (2017, England)

19-November-2017: Sundstøl, Vidar, The Devil’s Wedding Ring (2015, Norway)

26-November-2017: Ainsworth, William Harrison, Guy Fawkes (1841, England)

12-December-2017: Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome and Linda Elkins-Tanton, Earth (Object Lessons) (2017, USA)

18-December-2017: Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations (1861, England)

21-December-2017: Carrington, Leonora, The Complete Stories (2017, England)

24-December-2017: Babel, Isaac, The Red Cavalry (1926, Russia)

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Reading 2016

2-January-2016: Barrie, J.M., The Little White Bird (1902, Scotland)

3-January-2016: Doyle, Arthur Conan, The Lost World (1912, England)

7-January-2016: Thill, Brian, Waste (Object Lessons) (2015, USA)

11-January-2016: Crompton, Louis, Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in 19th-Century England (1985, USA)

18-January-2016: Doyle, Arthur Conan, The Poison Belt (1913, England)

2-February-2016: Zola, Emile, The Fortunes of the Rougons (1871, France)

3-February-2016: Gordon, Kim, Girl in a Band (2015, USA)

10-February-2016: Evenson, Brian, The Open Curtain (2006, USA)

13-February-2016: Wyndham, John, Chocky (1968, England)

21-February-2016: Grass, Günter, The Tin Drum (1959, Germany)

25-February-2016: Shiffer, James Eli, The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis (2016, USA)

26-March-2016: Reade, Charles, The Cloister and the Hearth (1861, England)

27-March-2016: Miéville, China, The Census-Taker (2016, England)

31-March-2016: Roueché, Berton, Feral (1974, USA)

7-April-2016: Boothby, Guy, Enter Dr. Nikola (aka, A Bid for Fortune) (1895, Australia)

15-April-2016: Hughes, Richard, The Fox in the Attic (1961, England)

19-April-2016: Friedrich, Otto, Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s (1972, USA)

23-April-2016: Kästner, Erich, Emil and the Detectives (1931, Germany)

24-April-2016: Weil, Simone, On the Abolition of All Political Parties (1943, France)

25-April-2016: Weil, Simone, The Iliad, or the Poem of Force (1940, France)

30-April-2016: Finnegan, William, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (2015, USA)

5-May-2016: Rolfe, Frederick (Baron Corvo), Don Tarquinio (1905, England)

28-May-2016: Euripides, trans. by Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays (455 B.C., Greece)

29-May-2016: Ōe, Kenzaburō, Seventeen (1961, Japan)

31-May-2016: Ōe, Kenzaburō, J. (aka: Sexual Humans) (1963, Japan)

2-June-2016: Hofstadter, Richard, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, and Other Essays (1965, USA)

4-June-2016: Wolcott, James, Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs (2013, USA)

11-June-2016: Paignton, John, Out of Sickness (1950, England)

19-June-2016: Radiguet, Raymond, The Devil in the Flesh (1923, France)

30-June-2016: Pamuk, Orhan, Silent House (1983, Turkey)

3-July-2016: Simenon, Georges, The Family Lie (1940, France)

7-July-2016: Rosenkrantz, Linda, Talk (1968, USA)

31-July-2016: Hofstadter, Richard, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963, USA)

31-July-2016: Wharton, Edith, The Touchstone (1900, USA)

7-August-2016: DeLillo, Don, Zero K (2016, USA)

10-August-2016: Boothby, Guy, A Prince of Swindlers (1900, Australia)

25-August-2016: Whitehead, Colson, The Underground Railroad (2016, USA)

27-August-2016: Thurber, James, The 13 Clocks (1950, USA)

3-September-2016: Bester, Alfred, The Demolished Man (1953, USA)

16-September-2016: Proulx, Annie, Barkskins (2016, USA)

25-September-2016: Isenberg, Nancy, White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America (2016, USA)

10-October-2016: Jackson, Shirley, We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962, USA)

21-October-2016: Carr, David, The Night of the Gun (2009, USA)

24-October-2016: Jackson, Charles, The Outer Edges (1948, USA)

29-October-2016: Bogost, Ian, Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games (2016, USA)

6-November-2016: Lewis, Sinclair, It Can’t Happen Here (1935, USA)

18-November-2016: Willingham, Calder, End as a Man (1946, USA)

26-November-2016: Dumas, Alexandre, Tales of the Caucasus (1859, France)

27-November-2016: Nabokov, Vladimir, Transparent Things (1972, USA)

14-December-2016: O'Brian, Patrick, Master and Commander (1969, England)

17-December-2016: Wharton, Edith, The Children (1928, USA)

23-December-2016: Buchwald, Henry, Let Me Tell You a Story: Beginnings, 1932-1971 (2015, USA)

25-December-2016: Hoffmann, E.T.A., The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1819, Germany)

31-December-2016: Shikibu, Murasaki, The Tale of Genji (1021, Japan)

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Reading 2015

3-January-2015: Aries, Philippe, Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life (1960, France)

4-January-2015: Wharton, Edith, Ethan Frome (1911, USA)

23-January-2015: Peyrefitte, Roger, Special Friendships (1945, France)

25-January-2015: Jefferies, Richard, After London (1885, England)

31-January-2015: Friendly, Fred W., Minnesota Rag: Corruption, Yellow Journalism, and the Case That Saved Freedom of the Press (1981, USA)

1-February-2015: Sundstøl, Vidar, The Land of Dreams (2008, Norway)

4-February-2015: Sundstøl, Vidar, Only the Dead (2009, Norway)

8-February-2010: Auster, Paul, Sunset Park (2010, USA)

15-February-2015: Ballard, J.G., Millennium People (2003, England)

21-February-2015: Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, The Lord Chandos Letter (1902, Austria)

1-March-2015: Smollett, Tobias, Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753, Scotland)

15-March-2015: Nabokov, Vladimir, Speak, Memory (1966, USA)

20-March-2015: Macdonald, Helen, H is for Hawk (2014, England)

22-March-2015: Gordon, Caroline, Aleck Maury, Sportsman (1934, USA)

28-March-2015: Gotthelf, Jeremias, The Black Spider (1842, Switzerland)

29-March-2015: Rabinowitz, Paula, American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street (2014, USA)

4-April-2015: Household, Geoffrey, Rogue Male (1939, England)

11-April-2015: Sologub, Fyodor, The Kiss of the Unborn, and other stories (1911, Russia)

12-April-2015: Sundstøl, Vidar, The Ravens (2011, Norway)

19-April-2015: Purdy, James, The House of the Solitary Maggot (1974, USA)

19-April-2015: Herzog, Werner, Of Walking in Ice (1978, Germany)

30-April-2015: Mitchell, David, Black Swan Green (2006, England)

30-April-2015: Beachy, Stephen, Some Phantoms/No Time Flat (2006, USA)

3-May-2015: Friedman, Michael Jan, The Wolf Man: Hunter’s Moon (2007, USA)

10-May-2015: Wharton, Edith, Old New York (1924, USA)

13-May-2015: Pasquale, Frank, The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information (2015, USA)

17-May-2015: Ibuse, Masuji, The Waves: A War Diary (1938, Japan) and Isle-on-the-Billows (1946, Japan)

21-May-2015: Hemingway, Ernest, A Moveable Feast (1964, USA)

26-May-2015: Balzac, Honore (as Hector Saint-Aubin), The Vicar’s Passion (1822, France)

31-May-2015: Jackson, Charles, The Sunnier Side (1950, USA)

13-June-2015: Hellman, Lillian, Scoundrel Time (1976, USA)

14-June-2015: Hammett, Dashiell, The Thin Man (1934, USA)

18-June-2015: Kaiko, Takeshi, Darkness in Summer (1972, Japan)

21-June-2015: Mann, Sally, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs (2015, USA)

29-June-2015: Wharton, Edith, The Custom of the Country (1913, USA)

30-June-2015: Carco, Francis, Streetcorners (1912, France)

5-July-2015: Motley, Willard, Let No Man Write my Epitaph (1958, USA)

8-July-2015: Böll, Heinrich, What is to Become of the Boy? (1981, Germany)

12-July-2015: Hellman, Lillian, An Unfinished Woman (1969, USA)

19-July-2015: Hammett, Dashiell, The Continental Op (1930, USA)

22-July-2015: Bartlett, Jamie, The Dark Web: Inside the Digital Underworld (2014, England)

29-July-2015: Hellman, Lillian, Pentimento (1973, USA)

4-August-2015: Hammett, Dashiell, The Dain Curse (1929, USA)

16-August-2015: Ainsworth, William Harrison, Jack Sheppard (1839, England)

17-August-2015: Murakami, Haruki, Hear the Wind Sing (1979, Japan)

23-August-2015: Wharton, Edith, Glimpses of the Moon (1922, USA)

29-August-2015: Bryson, Bill, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (1998, USA)

30-August-2015: Murakami, Haruki, Pinball, 1973 (1980, Japan)

7-September-2015: Bach, Steven, Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend (1992, USA)

20-September-2015: Percy, Benjamin, The Wilding (2010, USA)

24-September-2015: Hemingway, Ernest, True at First Light (1954, USA)

29-September-2015: Jackson, Charles, The Fall of Valor (1946, USA)

11-October-2015: Woolf, Virginia, Orlando (1928, England)

18-October-2015: Houghton, Claude, I am Jonathan Scrivener (1930, England)

21-October-2015: Ballard, J.G., A User’s Guide to the Millennium (1996, England)

22-October-2015: Boyd, Danah, It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (2014, USA)

29-October-2015: Simenon, Georges, The Widower (1959, France)

30-October-2015: Coates, Ta-Nehisi, Between the World and Me (2015, USA)

31-October-2015: Ainsworth, William Harrison, Rookwood (1834, England)

7-November-2015: James, Henry, The Turn of the Screw (1898, USA)

15-November-2015: Phillips, Thomas Hal, The Bitterweed Path (1950, USA)

19-November-2015: Smith, Patti, M Train (2015, USA)

2-December-2015: Dickens, Charles, Martin Chuzzlewit (1844, England)

16-December-2015: Byron, Don Juan (1824, England)

20-December-2015: Restif de la Bretonne, Paris Nights (1794, France)

25-December-2015: Scott, Walter, Castle Dangerous (1831, Scotland)

27-December-2015: Rees, Jonathan, Refrigerator (Object Lessons) (2015, USA)

28-December-2015: Knausgaard, Karl Ove, My Struggle: Book One (2009, Norway)

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Reading 2014

5-January-2014: Morrissey, Autobiography (2013, England)

12-Jaunary-2014: Marshall, James Vance, Walkabout (1959, Australia)

19-January-2014: Wells, H.G., Tono-Bungay (1909, England)

26-January-2014: Tolstaya, Tatyana, The Slynx (2000, Russia)

6-February-2014: London, Jack, Yukon Stories (1900-1909, USA)

13-February-2014: Zola, Emile, The Masterpiece (1886, France)

19-February-2014: Kastner, Erich, Going to the Dogs (1931, Germany)

25-February-2014: Goyen, William, The Faces of Blood Kindred: Stories (1960, USA)

27-February-2014: Simenon, Georges, The Cat (1967, France)

10-March-2014: Catton, Eleanor, The Luminaries (2013, New Zealand)

15-March-2014: Cocteau, Jean, The Holy Terrors (1929, France)

21-March-2014: Hofler, Robert, The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson (2005, USA)

28-March-2014: Tanizaki, Junichiro, Seven Japanese Tales (1910-1959, Japan)

30-March-2014: Bulgakov, Mikhail, The White Guard (1925, Russia)

5-April-2014: Radiguet, Raymond, Count D’Orgel’s Ball (1924, France)

11-April-2014: Orwell, George, Books v Cigarettes (1946, England)

13-April-2014: London, Jack, The Sea-Wolf (1904, USA)

18-April-2014: Conrad, Joseph, The Duel (1909, England)

19-April-2014: Villon, François, The Testament (1461, France)

20-April-2014: Wyndham-Lewis, D.B., François Villon: A Documented Survey (1928, England)

4-May-2014: Scott, Walter, St. Ronan’s Well (1824, Scotland)

4-May-2014: Reid, Forrest, Brian Westby (1934, Ireland)

11-May-2014: Kitchin, C.H.B., Ten Pollitt Place (1957, England)

20-May-2014: Miéville, China, The Scar (2002, England)

30-May-2014: Miéville, China, Iron Council (2004, England)

1-June-2014: Arnott, Jake, He Kills Coppers (2001, England)

4-June-2014: Giedion, Sigfried, Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History (1948, Switzerland)

5-June-2014: Jarman, Derek, Chroma (1994, England)

19-June-2014: Guthrie, A.B. Jr., The Way West (1949, USA)

22-June-2014: Doyle, Arthur Conan, The Maracot Deep (1929, England)

27-June-2014: Hamilton, Patrick, The West Pier (1951, England)

29-June-2014: Hamilton, Patrick, Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse (1953, England)

1-July-2014: Hamilton, Patrick, Unknown Assailant (1955, England)

5-July-2014: Faulkner, William, The Sound and the Fury (1929, USA)

6-July-2014: Mosley, Walter, Always Outmanned, Always Outgunned (1997, USA)

13-July-2014: Ostergaard, Josh, Devil’s Snake Curve: A Fan’s Notes from Left Field (2014, USA)

19-July-2014: Tanizaki, Junichiro, Secret History of the Lord of Musashi (1932, Japan)

23-July-2014: Burroughs, William S, edited by Bill Morgan, Rub Out the Words: The Letters of William S Burroughs, 1959-1974 (2012, USA)

27-July-2014: Ballard, J.G., Empire of the Sun (1984, England)

8-August-2014: Zola, Emile, The Dream (1888, France)

11-August-2014: Tegui, Lascano, On Elegance While Sleeping (1925, Argentina)

13-August-2014: Simenon, Georges, The Night Club (1933, France)

16-August-2014: Malaparte, Curzio, The Skin (1949, Italy)

17-August-2014: Baldwin, James, The Fire Next Time (1963, USA)

21-August-2014: Baldwin, James, No Name in the Street (1972, USA)

1-September-2014: Perlstein, Rick, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan (2014, USA)

8-September-2014: Murakami, Haruki, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2013, Japan)

14-September-2014: Levi, Primo, If Not Now, When? (1982, Italy)

21-September-2014: Jackson, Charles, The Lost Weekend (1944, USA)

22-September-2014: Reid, Forrest, Denis Bracknell (1947, Ireland)

22-September-2014: Martin, Gregory, Stories for Boys: A Memoir (2012, USA)

9-October-2014: Maugham, Robin, Behind the Mirror (1955, England)

12-October-2014: Kennedy, Raymond, Ride a Cockhorse (1991, USA)

19-October-2014: Scott, Walter, Anne of Geierstein (1829, Scotland)

26-October-2014: Sassoon, Siegfried, Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man (1928, England)

27-October-2014: Maugham, Robin, The Second Window (1968, England)

31-October-2014: Burroughs, William S, edited by Oliver Harris, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959 (1993, USA)

2-November-2014: Gautier, Theophile, The Quartette (1848, France)

9-November-2014: Chambers, Robert W., The King in Yellow (1895, USA)

15-November-2014: Sassoon, Siegfried, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930, England)

19-November-2014: Sassoon, Siegfried, Sherston’s Progress (1936, England)

5-December-2014: Dickens, Charles, Our Mutual Friend (1865, England)

9-December-2014: Maugham, Robin, Line on Ginger (1949, England)

13-December-2014: Walpole, Hugh, The Killer and the Slain (1942, England)

15-December-2014: Norris, Frank, The Pit (1902, USA)

16-December-2014: Murakami, Haruki, The Strange Library (2005, Japan)

25-December-2014: Wallace, David Foster, The Pale King (2011, USA)

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Reading, 2013

1-Jan-13: Turgenev, Ivan, Diary of a Superfluous Man (1850, Russia)

12-Jan-13: Genet, Jean, Miracle of the Rose (1943, France)

27-Jan-13: Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume the First) (1776, England)

29-Jan-13: Verne, Jules, Castle of the Carpathians (1892, France)

3-Feb-13: London, Jack, The Iron Heel (1908, USA)

8-Feb-13: Hughes, Dorothy, The Expendable Man (1963, USA)

10-Feb-13: Norris, Frank, McTeague (1899, USA)

11-Feb-13: Kerouac, Jack, Dr. Sax (1959, USA)

17-Feb-13: Morris, Errol, A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald (2012, USA)

24-Feb-13: Cromwell, John, A Grain of Sand (1953, USA)

3-Mar-13: Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume the Second) (1781, England)

9-Mar-13: Wolcott, James, Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York (2011, USA)

11-Mar-13: Kadare, Ismael, The Fall of the Stone City (2008, Albania)

23-Mar-13: Lathom, Francis, The One Pound Note (1820, Scotland)

14-Apr-13: Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume the Third) (1781, England)

21-Apr-13: Homes, A.M., May We Be Forgiven (2012, USA)

23-Apr-13: Lewis, Matthew, Tales of Wonder (1801, England)

29-Apr-13: Reid, Forrest, The Spring Song (1916, Ireland)

7-May-13: Simenon, Georges, Act of Passion (1947, France)

8-May-13: Sjon, The Whispering Muse (2005, Iceland)

12-May-13: Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume the Fourth) (1788, England)

19-May-13: Zweig, Stefan, Journey Into the Past (1942, Austria) 

22-May-13: Gilbert, Stephen, The Burnaby Experiments (1952, Ireland)

29-May-13: Kirino, Natsuo, Grotesque (2003, Japan)

9-June-13: MacLane, Mary, I Await the Devil's Coming (1902, USA)

23-June-13: Kerouac, Jack and Allen Ginsberg, The Letters (2010, USA)

3-July-13: Ballard, J.G., High-Rise (1975, England)

25-July-13: Shawn, Wallace, The Designated Mourner (1996, USA)

27-July-13: Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume the Fifth) (1788, England)

5-August-13: Arnott, Jake, The House of Rumor (2012, England)

6-August-13: Manchette, Jean-Patrick, Fatale (1977, France)

9-August-13: De Mille, James, A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888, Canada)

14-August-13: Bradbury, Ray, Dandelion Wine (1957, USA)

18-August-13: Hardy, Thomas, The Trumpet Major (1880, England)

25-August-13: Lindsay, David, A Voyage to Arcturus (1920, Scotland)

15-September-13: Glauser, Friedrich, Thumbprint (1936, Switzerland)

20-September-13: Margolick, David, Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns (2013, USA)

5-October-13: Lundgren, Eric, The Facades (2013, USA)

17-October-13: Fuller, Henry Blake, The Cliff-Dwellers (1893, USA)

19-October-13: Ward, Jesmyn, Men We Reaped: A Memoir (2013, USA)

26-October-13: Sologub, Fyodor, The Created Legend (Part I: Drops of Blood) (1916, Russia)

28-October-13: Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume the Sixth) (1788, England)

10-November-13: Percy, Benjamin, Red Moon (2013, USA)

12-November-13: Grenier, Jean, Considerations on the Death of a Dog (1957, France)

15-November-13: Baldwin, James, The Devil Finds Work (1976, USA)

18-November-13: Conrad, Joseph and Ford Maddox Ford, The Inheritors (1901, England)

25-November-13: Verne, Jules, Michael Strogoff (1876, France)

12-December-13: Lippard, George, The Quaker City; Or, The Monks of Monk Hall (1845, USA)

15-December-13: Flaubert, Gustave, November (1842, France)

19-December-13: Banks, Russell, A Permanent Member of the Family (2013, USA)

31-December-13: Scott, Walter, The Heart of Midlothian (1818, Scotland)

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Abbey to Zweig: 101 Favorite Books and Authors

Below, as a way of abridging the reading logs that follow, is my attempt at a list of 101 favorite books.  Or, perhaps more accurately, 101 favorite authors as I limited myself to one book per author (cheating a bit by counting multivolume series as single books).  

Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

Chris Bachelder, U.S.

Nicholson Baker, Double-Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

James Baldwin, Another Country

J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes

Nanni Ballestrini, Sandokan

Russell Banks, Rule of the Bone

Nicola Barker, The Behindlings

Honore de Balzac, Lost Illusions

Frederick and Stephen Barthelme, Double Down

Thomas Bernhardt, Gargoyles

Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn

Mikhail Bugalkov, The Master and Marguerita

John Horne Burns, The Gallery

Edward Bunker, Education of a Felon

William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys

Robert Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Four Volumes)

Alejo Carpentier, Explosion in a Cathedral

Giacomo Casanova, Memoirs of My Life

Anton Chekhov, The Duel

Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

John Crowley, Aegypt (Four Volumes)

Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

Samuel Delaney, Dhalgren

Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

E.L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel

Feodor Dostoevsky, The Double

Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy

Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

James Elroy, American Tabloid

Michael Faber, Under the Skin

William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Andre Gide, The Vatican Cellars (Lafcadio's Adventures)

George Gissing, New Grub Street

Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule

William Goyen, Come the Redeemer

Kenneth Grahame, Dream Days and The Golden Age

Graham Greene, The Human Factor

Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

James Hogg, Private Confessions and Memoirs of a Justified Sinner

Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica

Christopher Isherwood, Berlin Stories

Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire

Ismael Kadare, The Three Arched Bridge

William Kennedy, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Rudyard Kipling, Kim

Heinrich von Kleist, Michael Kohlhaas

D.H. Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent

T.E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

J. Anthony Lukas, Big Trouble

Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys

Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

Alistair MacLeod, Island

Arthur Machen, The Terror

Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song

Herman Melville, The Confidence Man

Stephen Millhauser, Edward Mullhouse

Abdelramin Munif, Cities of Salt

Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles

Frank Norris, The Octopus

Kenzaburo Oe, Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids

Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

Georges Perec, Life: A User's Manual

Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time (Twelve Volumes)

Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (Three Volumes)

James Purdy, Eustace Chisholm

Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

Forrest Reid, Demophon

Walter Scott, Old Mortality

Georges Simenon, The Brothers Rico

Fyodor Sologub, The Petty Demon

Matthew Stadler, Allan Stein

Stendhal, Red and Black

Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Eugene Sue, The Mysteries of Paris

Junichiro Tanizaki, Some Prefer Nettles

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Nick Tosches, Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams

Michel Tournier, The Four Wise Men

Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger (No. 44)

Jules Verne, Mysterious Island and In Search of the Castaways

William Vollman, The Royal Family

H.G. Wells, Island of Dr. Moreau

T.H. White, The Goshawk

Edmund Wilson, The Wound and the Bow

Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days

Marguerite Yourcenar, An Ordinary Man

Yevgeny Zamatyn, We

Emile Zola, The Belly of Paris

Stefan Zweig, The Royal Game

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Reading, 2012

6-Jan-12: Garner, Alan, Red Shift (1973, England)

11-Jan-12: Wilson, Kevin, The Family Fang (2011, USA)

15-Jan-12: Trollope, Anthony, The Duke’s Children (1880, England)

16-Jan-12: Hardy, Thomas, A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873, England)

22-Jan-12: Krudy, Gyula, Sunflower (1918, Hungary)

29-Jan-12: Sartre, Jean-Paul, The Words (1964, France)

4-Feb-12: Lippard, George, The Killers: A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia (1850, USA)

5-Feb-12: Zola, Emilie, For a Night of Love (1883, France)

12-Feb-12: Childs, Craig, Secret Knowledge of Water (2000, USA)

14-Feb-12: Stacton, David, Judges of the Secret Court (1961, USA)

19-Feb-12: Duffy, Bruce, Disaster Was My God: A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud (2011, USA)

6-Mar-12: Torres, Justin, We the Animals (2011, USA)

10-Mar-12: Kawamata, Chiaki, Death Sentences (1984, Japan)

13-Mar-12: Aries, Philippe, The Hour of Our Death (1977, France)

18-Mar-12: Atwood, Margaret, Oryx and Crake (2003, Canada)

5-Apr-12: Westcott, Glenway, The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story (1940, USA)

8-Apr-12: Mason, Zachary, Lost Books of the Odyssey (2010, USA)

16-Apr-12: Collins, Wilkie, No Name (1862, England)

19-Apr-12: Alexander. Michelle, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010, USA)

4-May-12: Mieville, China, City and the City (2009, England)

13-May-12: Gresham, William Lindsay, Nightmare Alley (1946, USA)

27-May-12: Caro, Robert, Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, v4) (2012, USA)

28-May-12: Shawn, Wallace, The Fever (2004, USA)

31-May-12: Downs, Michael, The Greatest Show (2012, USA)

10-Jun-12: Disch, Thomas M., 334 (1974, USA)

13-Jun-12: Endo, Shusako, Scandal (1986, Japan)

3-Jul-12: Bengtsson, Frans, Long Ships (1945, Sweden)

5-Jul-12: Dery, Mark, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts (2012, USA)

12-Jul-12: Boorstin, James, The Newsboys Lodging House ( 2004, USA)

17-Jul-12: Lewis, Sinclair, Kingsblood Royal (1947, USA)

29-Jul-12: Baldwin, James, Another Country (1962, USA)

5-Aug-12: Ballard, J. G.,  Crystal World (1966, England)

7-Aug-12: Simenon, Georges, Brothers Rico (1954, France)

13-Aug-12: Willerslev, Rane, On the Run in Siberia (2012, Denmark)

31-Aug-12: Clarke, Marcus, For the Rest of His Natural Life (1874, Australia)

1-Sep-12: Proulx, Annie, Bird Cloud: A Memoir (2011, USA)

4-Sep-12: Kerouac, Jack, The Dharma Bums (1958, USA) reread

8-Sep-12: Dick, Philip K., Man in the High Castle (1962, USA)

21-Sep-12: Simenon, Georges, The Train (1958, France)

23-Sep-12: Baker, Nicholson, The Way Things Work (2012, USA)

26-Sep-12: Hochschild, Adam, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 (2011, USA)

30-Sep-12: Kadare, Ismael, The Accident (2008, Albania)

7-Oct-12: Fielding, Henry, Jonathan Wild (1743, England)

14-Oct-12: Hitchens, Robert, The Green Carnation (1894, England)

21-Oct-12: Baldwin, James, Giovanni’s Room (1956, USA)

27-Oct-12: Ginzburg, Carlo, Cheese and the Worms (1976, Italy)

28-Oct-12: Isherwood, Christopher, The Sixties: Diaries 1960-1969 (2012, USA)

4-Nov-12: Stevenson, Robert Louis, Prince Otto (1885, Scotland)

10-Nov-12: Haldeman, Joe, The Forever War (1974, USA)

20-Nov-12: Hogg, James , The Three Perils of Man (1822, Scotland)

9-Dec-12: Reynolds, George W.M., Mysteries of London (First Series, Vol 1) (1844, England)

16-Dec-12: Crowley. John, Novelty: Four Stories (1989, USA)

16-Dec-12: Kirk, Robert  Secret Commonwealth (1692, Scotland)

19-Dec-12: Sullivan, Luke Longstreet, Thirty Rooms to Hide In (2012, USA)

23-Dec-12: Barrie, J.M., Peter Pan ( 1911, England)

25-Dec-12: unknown, Death of King Arthur (Alliterative King Arthur) (1400, England)

27-Dec-12: Scott, Walter, The Surgeon’s Daughter (1827, Scotland)

30-Dec-12: Reid, Forrest, Demophon (1927, Ireland)

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Reading, 2011

1-Jan-11: Pushkin, Alexander, Eugene Onegin (1833, Russia)

8-Jan-11: Duvert, Tony, Diary of an Innocent (1976, France)

14-Jan-11: Spring, Justin, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward (2010, USA)

17-Jan-11: Scott, Walter Legend of Montrose (1819, Scotland)

22-Jan-11: Brand, Millen, The Outward Room (1937, USA)

24-Jan-11: Carrere, Emanuel, I am Alive and You are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick (1993, France)

7-Feb-11: Defoe, Daniel, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724, England)

12-Feb-11: Baker, Nicholson, The Anthologist (2009, USA)

13-Feb-11: Pushkin, Alexander, The Queen of Spades and Tales of Belkin (1834, Russia)

17-Feb-11: Steinbeck, John, Tortilla Flat (1935, USA)

28-Feb-11: Crowley. John, Little, Big (1981, USA)

8-Mar-11: Rhodes, David, Easter House (1974, USA)

22-Mar-11: Laxness, Haldor, Independent People (1946, Iceland)

27-Mar-11: Marsh, Richard, A Spoiler of Men (1905, England)

7-Apr-11: Collins, Wilkie, Hide and Seek (1854, England)

10-Apr-11: Ginzburg, Carlo, Night Battles (1966, Italy)

10-Apr-11: Marlowe, Christopher, Doctor Faustus (1592, England)

17-Apr-11: Hemon, Aleksandar, Lazarus Project (2008, Bosnia)

19-Apr-11: Robb, Graham, Parisians (2010, England)

1-May-11: Simenon, Georges, Bottom of the Barrel (1954, France)

1-May-11: Zola, Emilie, Ladies' Delight (1883, France)

3-May-11: Harding, Paul, Tinkers (2009, USA)

7-May-11: Smith, Patti, Just Kids (2010, USA)

11-May-11: Marlowe, Christopher, Edward II (1592, England)

14-May-11: Stafford, Jane, Mountain Lion (1947, USA)

22-May-11: Gordon, Jaimy, Lord of Misrule (2010, USA)

28-May-11: Zamyatin, Yevgeny, We (1921, Russia)

30-May-11: Marlowe, Christopher, Tamburlaine the Great, Parts I and II (1588, England)

14-Jun-11: Delany, Samuel, Fall of the Towers (1965, USA)

26-Jun-11:  Scott, Walter, The Pirate (1821, Scotland)

3-Jul-11: Faulkner, William, As I Lay Dying (1930, USA)

4-Jul-11: Dinesen, Isak, Shadows on the Grass (1960, Denmark)

6-Jul-11: Bartlett, Allison Hoover, The Man who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (2009, USA)

10-Jul-11: Godwin, William, Fleetwood, or the New Man of Feeling (1805, England)

16-Jul-11: Corvo, Baron (Fr Rolfe), Stories Toto Told Me  (1898, England)

17-Jul-11: Reid, Forrest, Pirates of the Spring (1919, Ireland)

20-Jul-11: Kerouac, Jack and William S. Burroughs, And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks (1945, USA)

25-Jul-11: Arnott, Jake, The Devil's Paintbrush (England, 2009)

1-Aug-11: Grant, Ulysses Simpson, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (1886, USA)

4-Aug-11: Johnson, Dorothy M., The Hanging Tree (and other stories) (1957, USA)

14-Aug-11: Kerouac, Jack, On the Road (The Original Scroll) (1951, USA)

21-Aug-11: Goyen, William, The House of Breath (1960, USA)

22-Aug-11: Tanizaki, Junichiro, The Gourmet Club (stories) (1919, Japan)

29-Aug-11: Hynes, James, Next (2010, USA)

8-Sep-11: Zola, Emilie, Germinal (1885, France)

11-Sep-11: Bachelder, Chris, Abbott Awakes (2011, USA)

18-Sep-11: Jensen, Johannes, Fall of the King (1901, Denmark)

25-Sep-11: Disch, Thomas M., Camp Concentration (1968, USA)

8-Oct-11: Mailander, Joseph, Plasma of Terror (2011, USA)

18-Oct-11: Scott, Walter, Peveril of the Peak (1823, Scotland)

21-Oct-11: Banks, Russell, The Lost Memory of Skin (2011, USA)

29-Oct-11: Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir Nigel (1906, England)

31-Oct-11: Whitehead, Coulson, Zone One (2011, USA)

20-Nov-11: Murakami, Haruki, 1Q84 (2011, Japan)

25-Nov-11: Millard, Candice, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President  (2011, USA)

27-Nov-11: Wilde, Oscar, Portrait of Dorian Gray (1890, England)

4-Dec-11: Pushkin, Alexander, Captain's Daughter (with The Negro of Peter the Great) (1836, Russia)

8-Dec-11: Collodi, Carlo, Pinocchio (1883, Italy)

11-Dec-11: Eddison, E.R., Styrborn the Strong (1926, England)

26-Dec-11: Scott, Walter, The Fortunes of Nigel (1822, Scotland)

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Reading, 2010

9-Jan-10: White, T.H., The Once and Future King (1958, England)

24-Jan-1: Scott, Walter, Redgauntlet (1824, Scotland)

25-Jan-10: Marsh, Richard, The Joss: A Regeneration (1901, England)

7-Feb-10: Balzac, Honore,  About Catherine De Medici (1841, France)

13-Feb-10: Purdy, James, I am Elijah Thrush (1972, USA)

14-Feb-10: Doyle, Arthur Conan, Rodney Stone (1896, England)

19-Feb-10: Balestrini, Nanni, Sandokan (2004, Italy)

20-Feb-10: Bolano, Roberto, Nazi Literature in the Americas (1996, Chile)

28-Feb-10: Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein (1818, England)

3-Mar-10: Steinbeck, John,  Cannery Row (1945, USA)

14-Mar-10: Schenkar, Joan, The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith (2009, USA)

21-Mar-10: Burnside, John, The Glister (2008, Scotland)

21-Mar-10: May, Karl, In the Desert (1892, Germany)

26-Mar-10: Childs, Craig, House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization across the American Southwest (2006, USA)

29-Mar-10: Dickens, Charles, A Tale of Two Cities (1859, England)

10-Apr-10: Hardy, Thomas, Two on a Tower (1882, England)

13-Apr-10: Auster, Paul, Invisible (2009, USA)

17-Apr-10: Verne, Jules, The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875, France)

19-Apr-10: Hall, Oakley, Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades (1998, USA)

20-Apr-10: Hall, Oakley, Ambrose Bierce and the Ace of Shoots (2005, USA)

30-Apr-10: Norris, Frank, The Octopus (1901, USA)

2-May-10: Disch, Thomas M., The Businessman (1984, USA)

6-May-10: Behan, Brendan, Borstal Boy (1959, Ireland)

12-May-10: Scott, Walter, The Betrothed (1825, Scotland)

16-May-10: Disch, Thomas M., The M.D. (1991, USA)

29-May-10: Mieville, China, Perdido Street Station (2000, England)

31-May-10: Goyen, William, Come, the Restorer (1974, USA)

5-Jun-10: Pullman, Philip, Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (2010, England)

30-Jun-10: Pamuk, Orhan, The Museum of Innocence (2008, Turkey)

3-Jul-10: Melville, Herman, Billy Budd, Sailor (1891, USA)

5-Jul-10: Melville, Herman, Piazza Tales (1856, USA)

11-Jul-10: Braley, Malcolm, On the Yard (1967, USA)

24-Jul-10: Carpentier, Alejo, Explosion in a Cathedral (1962, Cuba)

1-Aug-10: Burns, John Horne, Cry of Children (1952, USA)

4-Aug-10: Duteurtre, Benoit, Customer Service (2003, France)

11-Aug-10: Okrent, Daniel, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (2010, USA)

14-Aug-10: Simenon, Georges, The Death of Belle (1952, France)

23-Aug-10: Mitchell, David, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet (2010, England)

27-Aug-10: Hughes, Richard, A High Wind in Jamaica (1929, England)

30-Aug-10: Kafka, Franz, Amerika (1914, Czech)

8-Sep-10: Virgil  Aeneid (19 BC, Rome)

9-Sep-10: Skloot, Rebecca, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010, USA)

12-Sep-10: Reimringer, John, Vestments (2010, USA)

25-Sep-10: Disch, Thomas M., The Priest (1995, USA)

27-Sep-10: Jarman, Derek, At Your Own Risk (1993, England)

4-Oct-10: Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre (1847, England)

10-Oct-10: Stern, Jessica, Denial: A Memoir of Terror (2010, USA)

14-Oct-10: Rich, Simon, Elliot Allagash ( 2010, USA)

17-Oct-10: Kingsley, Charles, The Water Babies (1863, England)

2-Nov-10: Scott, Walter, The Monastery (1820, Scotland)

14-Nov-10: Scott, Walter, The Abbot (1820, Scotland)

20-Nov-10: Oe, Kenzaburo, Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (1958, Japan)

21-Nov-10: Disch, Thomas M., The Sub (1999, USA)

28-Nov-10: Eddison, E.R., The Worm Ouroboros (1923, England)

4-Dec-10: Spark, Muriel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1962, Scotland)

12-Dec-10: Chistiansen, Rupert, Paris Babylon: Grandeur, Decadence, and Revolution, 1869-75 (1995, England)

19-Dec-10: Mieville, China, Kraken (2010, England)

25-Dec-10: Dickens, Charles, A Christmas Carol (1843, England) reread

30-Dec-10: Trollope, Anthony, The Prime Minister (1876, England)

31-Dec-10: Dinesen, Isak, Anecdotes of Destiny (1956, Denmark)

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Reading, 2009

1-Jan-09: Wyndham, John, The Chrysalids (1955, England)

4-Jan-09: LeFanu, Sheridan, Uncle Silas (1864, England)

6-Jan-09: Baker, Nicholson, A Box of Matches (2003, USA)

19-Jan-09: Scott, Walter, Old Mortality (1816, Scotland)

25-Jan-09: Roeder, Ralph, Man of the Renaissance: Four Lawgivers (1933, USA)

7-Feb-09: Doyle, Arthur Conan, Micah Clarke (1889, England)

15-Feb-09: Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels (1726, Ireland)

17-Feb-09: Proulx, Annie, Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (2009, USA)

21-Feb-09: Purdy, James, Narrow Rooms (1978, USA)

27-Feb-09: Ong, Han, Fixer Chao (2001, USA)

3-Mar-09: Gibson, William and Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine (1991, USA)

13-Mar-09: Kadare, Ismael, The Siege (1970, Albania)

23-Mar-09: Trollope, Anthony, The Eustace Diamonds (1873, England)

26-Mar-09: Maugham, Robin, The Servant (1949, England)

29-Mar-09: McCullers, Carson, Clock without Hands (1961, USA)

8-Apr-09: Styron, William, Confessions of Nat Turner (1967, USA)

11-Apr-09: O'Brien, Tim, In the Lake of the Woods (1994, USA)

19-Apr-09: Hardy, Thomas, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891, England)

24-Apr-09: Purdy, James, 63: Dream Palace (1956, USA)

3-May-09: Whitehead, Coulson, Sag Harbor (2009, USA)

4-May-09: Kitchin, C.H.B., The Book of Life (1960, England)

7-May-09: Simenon, Georges, The Widow (1942, France)

16-May-09: Crowley. John, The Solitudes (Book One of The AEgypt Cycle) (1987, USA)

19-May-09: Bailey, Blake  John Cheever: A Life (2009, USA)

20-May-09: Aciman, Andre, Call Me by Your Name (2007, USA)

26-May-09: Crowley. John, Love & Sleep (Book Two of the AEgypt Cycle) (1994, USA)

5-Jun-09: Kirino, Natsuo, Out (1997, Japan)

7-Jun-09: McCarthy, Cormac, Suttree (1979, USA)

9-Jun-09: Ballard, J. G.,  Crash (1973, England)

16-Jun-09: Murakami, Haruki, Underground (1997, Japan)

28-Jun-09: Hemingway, Ernest, Men without Women (1927, USA)

28-Jun-09: Klein, Naomi, The Shock Doctrine (2007, Canada)

3-Jul-09: Terrell, Whitney, King of Kings County (2005, USA)

19-Jul-09: Crowley. John, Daemonomania (Book Three of The AEgypt Cycle) (2000, USA)

1-Aug-09: Crowley. John, Endless Things (Book Four of the AEgypt Cycle) (2007, USA)

3-Aug-09: Guthrie, A.B., The Big Sky (1947, USA)

16-Aug-09: Meyer, Philipp, American Rust (2009, USA)

20-Aug-09: Butler, Octavia, The Fledgling (2005, USA)

23-Aug-09: Hemingway, Ernest, Across the River and Into the Trees (1950, USA)

26-Aug-09: White, T.H., The Goshawk (1951, England)

30-Aug-09: Zola, Emilie, Belly of Paris (1873, France)

5-Sep-09: Doctorow, E. L., Homer & Langley (2009, USA)

10-Sep-09: Melville, Herman, The Confidence Man (1857, USA)

12-Sep-09: Purdy, James, In a Shallow Grave (1975, USA)

20-Sep-09: Ishiguro, Kazuo, When we were Orphans (2000, England)

24-Sep-09: Price, Richard, Lush Life (2008, USA)

27-Sep-09: Sabatini, Rafael, The King's Minion (England)

10-Oct-09: Ellroy, James, Blood's a Rover (2009, USA)

18-Oct-09: Scott, Walter, The Black Dwarf (1816, Scotland)

24-Oct-09: MacLeod, Alastair, Island (2000, Canada)

1-Nov-09: Zola, Emilie, L'Assommoir (1877, France)

8-Nov-09: Carpenter, Don, Hard Rain Falling (1966, USA)

9-Nov-09: De Kay, James Tertius, Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian, 1809-1922 (1995, USA)

15-Nov-09: Prokosch, Frederic, The Missolonghi Manuscript (1968, USA)

25-Nov-09: Daudet, Alphonse, The Nabob (1878, France)

29-Nov-09: Byatt, A.S., The Children's Story (2009, England)

5-Dec-09: Isherwood, Christopher, A Single Man (1964, USA) reread

6-Dec-09: Stoker, Bram, Lair of the White Worm (1911, Ireland)

10-Dec-09: Priest, Christopher,  Inverted World (1974, England)

21-Dec-09: Trollope, Anthony, Phineas Redux (1874, England)

27-Dec-09: Dumas, Alexandre, The Corsican Brothers (1844, France)

30-Dec-09: Manning, Olivia, School for Love (1951, England)