Virtual Memories

Here’s the list of every book I finished since I began college in the autumn of 1989. Right now, it’s a manual update process, but I’ll try to come up with a database version that makes this easier and will add Amazon hyperlinks to the book titles.

If you want the Excel version of the list for some reason, enjoy.

–Gil

PS: (r) means it’s a re-read.

2013

Bleak House – Charles Dickens (r)

Confusion – Stefan Zweig

The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War – Fred Kaplan

Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis

A Sport and a Pastime – James Salter

Engine Summer – John Crowley

The Original 1982 – Lori Carson

Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments – Michael Dirda

Distrust That Particular Flavor – William Gibson

The Other Side of the Tiber: Reflections on Time in Italy – Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

Chess Story – Stefan Zweig (r)

Moby-Dick – Herman Melville (r)

2012

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway (r)

The Learners – Chip Kidd

Money – Martin Amis

Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

Selected Stories – Anton Chekhov (tr. Pevear & Volokhonsky)

Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller (r)

Travesties – Tom Stoppard

Metropole – Ferenc Karinthy

Inherent Vice – Thomas Pynchon

Coriolanus – Shakespeare

“Family Happiness” / “Happily Ever After” – Tolstoy (tr. Edmonds) (r)

The Living End – Stanley Elkin

Darkness Visible – William Styron

Uncle Vanya – Anton Chekhov

Solaris – Stanislaw Lem

Meditations – Marcus Aurelius

Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald

Selected Stories – Flannery O’Connor

Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor (r)

Rabbit, Run – John Updike

Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson

O, How the Wheel Becomes It! – Anthony Powell

Take Time for Paradise – A. Bartlett Giamatti

The Aeneid – Virgil

The Stranger – Camus (r)

I Totally Meant To Do That – Jane Borden

The Early History of Rome (Books I-V) – Titus Livy

Cultural Amnesia – Clive James

Rome and Italy: Books VI-X of the History of Rome from its Foundation – Titus Livy

The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes

Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories – Craig Gidney

An Open Book – Michael Dirda

Metamorphoses – Ovid (tr. Mandelbaum)

The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford

King Lear – Shakespeare (r)

Capital – John Lanchester

Chess Story – Stefan Zweig

Bartleby & Co. – Enrique Vila-Matas

Seven Pleasures – Willard Spiegelman

The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald

Fifth Business – Robertson Davies (r)

The Manticore – Robertson Davies

World of Wonders – Robertson Davies

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym – Edgar Allan Poe

World War Z – Max Brooks

Journey into the Past – Stefan Zweig

How the End Begins – Ron Rosenbaum

Selected Stories – Stefan Zweig

The Silence of Trees – Valya Dudycz Lupescu

Night Train – Martin Amis

1984 – George Orwell (r)

2011

The Imperfectionists – Tom Rachman

A Question of Upbringing – Anthony Powell

The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton

A Buyer’s Market – Anthony Powell

The Acceptance World – Anthony Powell

1959: The Year Everything Changed – Fred Kaplan

Arcadia – Tom Stoppard (r)

At Lady Molly’s – Anthony Powell

Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis

Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut (r)

The Leopard – Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant – Anthony Powell

“A River Runs Through It“- Noman Maclean (r)

The Kindly Ones – Anthony Powell

Nemesis – Philip Roth

The Valley of Bones – Anthony Powell

Bespoke: Savile Row Ripped and Smoothed – Richard Anderson

The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive – Brian Christian

Everyman – Philip Roth

The Soldier’s Art – Anthony Powell

Zero History – William Gibson

The Junket (Kindle Single) – Mike Albo

The Military Philosophers – Anthony Powell

The Leopard – Giuseppe di Lampedusa (r)

Books Do Furnish a Room – Anthony Powell

The Finkler Question – Howard Jacobson

Temporary Kings – Anthony Powell

Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor

Hearing Secret Harmonies – Anthony Powell

Scoop – Evelyn Waugh

The Trial – Franz Kafka

Hitch-22 – Christopher Hitchens

2010

Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger (r)

Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson

The Ask – Sam Lipsyte

The Night of the Gun – David Carr

Indignation – Philip Roth

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) – Andy Warhol

Pattern Recognition – William Gibson (r)

Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis

Imperial Bedrooms – Bret Easton Ellis

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (r)

Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up – Bob Colacello

Fly Fishing with Darth Vader – Matt Labash

The Iliad – Homer (r)

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

The Odyssey – Homer (r)

Black Swan Green – David Mitchell

2009

The Last Good Kiss – James Crumley

The Hot Rock – Donald Westlake

The Complete Essays – Michel de Montaigne

Liar’s Poker – Michael Lewis

The Lemur – Benjamin Black

Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction – J.D. Salinger

Nine Stories – J.D. Salinger

Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger

Antony and Cleopatra – William Shakespeare

Killing Yourself To Live – Chuck Klosterman

Arcadia – Tom Stoppard (r)

The Hunter – Richard Stark (a.k.a. Donald Westlake)

Killshot – Elmore Leonard

Moby Dick – Herman Melville (r)

George, Being George – Nelson Aldrich, Jr. (ed.)

When The Shooting Stops … The Cutting Begins: A Film Editor’s Story – Ralph Rosenblum and Robert Karen

On Writing – Stephen King

Up in the Air – Walter Kirn

Gould’s Book of Fish – Richard Flanagan (r)

Hadji Murat – Tolstoy

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

Everyman – Philip Roth

2008

The Counterlife – Philip Roth (r)

The Solitudes – John Crowley

No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy

Exit Ghost – Philip Roth

A Fan’s Notes – Frederick Exley (r)

Love and Sleep – John Crowley

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (r)

Lush Life – Richard Price

The Secret Sharer – Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad

Daemonomania – John Crowley

Netherland – Joseph O’Neill

Endless Things – John Crowley

The Dunwich Horror – H.P. Lovecraft

Camp Concentration – Thomas Disch

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk – Peter L. Bernstein

A Reader’s Manifesto – B.R. Myers

The Beast in the Jungle – Henry James

The Good Rat – Jimmy Breslin

Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko – Blake Bell

When Genius Failed – Roger Lowenstein

The Death of Ivan Ilych – Leo Tolstoy (r)

The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler (r)

Samaritan – Richard Price

The Spy in the Ointment – Donald Westlake (r)

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (r)

Heyday – Kurt Andersen

2007

Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry

The One from the Other – Philip Kerr

Ella Minnow Pea – Mark Dunn

Snow – Orhan Pamuk

The Iliad – Homer (r)

Taliban – Ahmed Rashid

Then We Came to the End – Joshua Ferris

Mergers & Acquisitions – Dana Vachon

Flashman – George MacDonald Fraser

Seven Types of Ambiguity – Elliot Perlman

Aspects of the Novel – E.M. Forster

Amsterdam – Ian McEwan

Oedipus the King – Sophocles (tr. Grene) (r)

About Writing – Samuel R. Delany

The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka (r)

Oedipus at Colonus – Sophocles (tr. Grene) (r)

Saturday – Ian McEwan

The Look of Architecture – Witold Rybczynski

London Fields – Martin Amis

The Ghost Writer – Philip Roth (r)

79 Short Essays on Design – Michael Bierut

Zuckerman Unbound – Philip Roth (r)

Spook Country – William Gibson

Rock n Roll – Tom Stoppard

Middlemarch – George Eliot

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole (r)

Love is a Mix Tape – Rob Sheffield

The Anatomy Lesson – Philip Roth (r)

The Misanthrope – Moliere

The Songlines – Bruce Chatwin (r)

An American Dream – Norman Mailer

2006

The Death and Life of Great American Cities – Jane Jacobs

The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood – Edward Jay Epstein

Times Square Red, Times Square Blue – Samuel R. Delany

The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry – Legs McNeil & Jennifer Osborne

The Substance of Style – Virginia Postrel

Letters from New Orleans – Rob Walker

Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva – Patrick Dillon

Norwood – Charles Portis

Richard II – William Shakespeare (r)

Henry IV, Part 1 – William Shakespeare (r)

Masters of Atlantis – Charles Portis (r)

Henry IV, Part 2 – William Shakespeare (r)

Henry V – William Shakespeare (r)

Geek Love – Katherine Dunn

I’m Losing You – Bruce Wagner

Clockers – Richard Price

Explaining Hitler – Ron Rosenbaum

The Power Broker – Robert Caro

Arcadia – Tom Stoppard (r)

All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren (r)

The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril – Paul Malmont

Gilead – Marilynne Robinson

Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon (r)

Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen

With Nails – Richard E. Grant

Little, Big – John Crowley

Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos – Bruce Jay Friedman

Chronicles, Vol. 1 – Bob Dylan

Dark Reflections – Samuel R. Delany

Gringos – Charles Portis

Kaddish – Leon Wieseltier

March Violets – Philip Kerr

The Pale Criminal – Philip Kerr

A German Requiem – Philip Kerr

The Shakespeare Wars – Ron Rosenbaum

2005

The System of the World – Neal Stephenson

On the Natural History of Destruction – W.G. Sebald

Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust (r)

Preston Falls – David Gates (r)

Within a Budding Grove – Marcel Proust (r)

The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides

The Guermantes Way – Marcel Proust

Sodom and Gomorrah – Marcel Proust

The Captive – Marcel Proust

The Fugitive – Marcel Proust

Time Regained – Marcel Proust

The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain (r)

Perfume – Patrick Susskind

The Underminer – Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (r)

A Farewell To Arms – Ernest Hemingway (r)

A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter Miller, Jr.

How Proust Can Change Your Life – Alan De Botton

Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes (r)

Number9Dream – David Mitchell

Tender Is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald (r)

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway (r)

Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov (r)

Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke – Peter Guralnick

Why New Orleans Matters – Tom Piazza

The Future and Its Enemies – Virginia Postrel

2004

Intelligence Wars – Thomas Powers

Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer

Hadji Murat – Leo Tolstoy (r)

Radiance – Carter Scholz

The Beach – Alex Garland

We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families – David Gourevitch

The Elsewhere Community – Hugh Kenner

The Tesseract – Alex Garland

Phallos – Samuel R. Delany

Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand – Samuel R. Delany

Psychotic Reactions & Carburetor Dung – Lester Bangs

Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh

Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco

Porno – Irvine Welsh

Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes

Ajax – Sophocles

Quicksilver – Neal Stephenson

The Confusion – Neal Stephenson

2003

Prague – Arthur Phillips

Gould’s Book of Fish – Richard Flanagan

Pattern Recognition – William Gibson

The Immensity of the Here and Now – Paul West

The Business of Books – Andre Schiffrin

The Immensity of the Here and Now – Paul West (r)

The Muse Asylum – David Czuchlewski

The Coast of Utopia I: Voyage – Tom Stoppard

The Coast of Utopia II: Shipwreck – Tom Stoppard

The Coast of Utopia III: Salvage – Tom Stoppard

Master Class – Paul West

Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson

Moneyball – Michael Lewis

The Immensity of the Here and Now – Paul West (r)

Men in Black – Scott Spencer

The Plague – Albert Camus

Carter Beats the Devil – Glen David Gold

The Fall of the Towers – Samuel R. Delany

The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (r)

American Gods – Neil Gaiman

Gould’s Book of Fish – Richard Flanagan (r)

2002

Lit Life – Kurt Wenzel

Plowing the Dark – Richard Powers

Screen – Barry Malzberg

The Place In Flowers Where Pollen Rests – Paul West (r)

The Mad Man – Samuel R. Delany (r)

Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino (r)

Ravelstein – Saul Bellow

Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett

The Cheese Monkeys – Chip Kidd

Desolation Road – Ian McDonald (r)

The Counterlife – Philip Roth

Jernigan – David Gates (r)

The Dying Animal – Philip Roth

The Debt to Pleasure – John Lanchester

Why Orwell Matters – Christopher Hitchens

Atlantis: Three Tales – Samuel R. Delany

Ghostwritten – David Mitchell

2001

Book Business – Jason Epstein

Going Native – Stephen Wright (r)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter Thompson

Been Down So Long, It Looks Like Up To Me – Richard Farina (r)

The Dog of the South – Charles Portis

The Place In Flowers Where Pollen Rests – Paul West (r)

Dhalgren – Samuel R. Delany

Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare (r)

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (r)

The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen

Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust (r)

The Mad Man – Samuel R. Delany

2000

Enigma – Richard Harris

This Wild Darkness – Harold Brodkey

Loose Balls – Jayson Williams

Harlot’s Ghost – Norman Mailer

I Married a Communist – Philip Roth

The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie

The Place in Flowers Where Pollen Rests – Paul West

The Human Stain – Philip Roth

The Wonders of the Invisible World – David Gates

The Secret Parts of Fortune – Ron Rosenbaum

Richard II – William Shakespeare (r)

Ciphers – Paul Di Filippo

The Lost Scrapbook – Evan Dara

The Biographer’s Tale – A.S. Byatt

Turn of the Century – Kurt Andersen

Alcestis – Euripides

Oedipus the King – Sophocles (r)

Oedipus at Colonus – Sophocles (r)

House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski

1999

The Greek Philosophers – WKC Guthrie

Literary Lives: George Orwell

The Professor and the Madman – Simon Winchester

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carre

All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren

The Einstein Intersection – Samuel R. Delany

Masters of Atlantis – Charles Portis

The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner

History of the Peloponnesian War – Thucydides

The Designated Mourner – Wallace Shawn

The Singing Detective – Dennis Potter (r)

1984: Collected Letters – Samuel R. Delany

Shorter Views – Samuel R. Delany

1998

Preston Falls – David Gates

American Pastoral – Philip Roth

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (r)

1997

Deception – Philip Roth (r)

Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes

Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon

Idoru – William Gibson

1996

Hapgood – Tom Stoppard

Miss America – Howard Stern

Indian Ink – Tom Stoppard

Arcadia – Tom Stoppard (r)

Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline – George Saunders

Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West

Remote – David Shields

High Fidelity – Nick Hornby

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me – Richard Farina (r)

Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon (r)

Mumbo Jumbo – Ishmael Reed

Omens of Millennium – Harold Bloom

A Tomb for Boris Davidovich – Danilo Kis

1995

The Judgment – Franz Kakfa

The Porcupine – Julian Barnes

The Overcoat – Nikolai Gogol

Seize the Day – Saul Bellow

The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon (r)

Hadji Murat – Leo Tolstoy

Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth (r)

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

V. – Thomas Pynchon (r)

Zuckerman Bound – Philip Roth

Operation Shylock – Philip Roth

Arcadia – Tom Stoppard

The Recognitions – William Gaddis

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance – Richard Powers

Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth

Galatea 2.2 – Richard Powers

Travesties – Tom Stoppard

Microserfs – Douglas Coupland

City of Glass – Paul Auster

Ghosts – Paul Auster

The Locked Room – Paul Auster

Phaedrus – Plato (r)

Spring 1995 (St. John’s College)

Endgame – Samuel Beckett

Particles and Luck – Jones

Leviathan – Paul Auster

Amusing Ourselves to Death – Neil Postman

Mao II – Don DeLillo

Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog – Mark Leyner

White Noise – Don DeLillo

Meditations on First Philosophy – Rene Descartes

The Republic – Plato (r)

The Woman Lit by Fireflies – Jim Harrison

Winter Break 1994/95

The Misanthrope – Moliere

Daisy Miller – Henry James

Meno – Plato (r)

Medea – Euripides

Fall 1994 (St. John’s College)

The Nature of Things – Lucretius

The Pugilist at Rest – Thom Jones

Discourse on the Method – Rene Descartes (r)

The Odyssey – Homer (r)

Spring 1994 (St. John’s College)

VOX – Nicholson Baker

The Republic – Plato (Bloom)

Life After God – Douglas Coupland

The Prince – Machiavelli (r)

Second Treatise on Government – John Locke

Second Discourse On Inequality – Jean-Jacque Rousseau

Elements of the Philosophy of Right – Hegel

Summer 1994

Going Native – Stephen Wright

Immortality – Milan Kundera

What They Did to Princess Paragon – Rob Rodi

Winter Break 1993/94

The Divine Invasion – Philip K.Dick

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer – Philip K.Dick

Fall 1993 (St. John’s College)

Iliad – Homer (r)

Franny and Zooey – JD Salinger

Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson

Among the Dead – Michael Tolkin

Odyssey – Homer (r)

The Writing Life – Annie Dillard

King Lear – William Shakespeare (r)

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (r)

Oresteia – Aeschylus (r)

Turn of the Screw – Henry James

Oedipus the King / Antigone – Sophocles (r)

The Bakkhai – Euripides

Hippolytus – Euripides

VALIS – Philip K.Dick

Summer 1993

Neuromancer – William Gibson (r)

The Moviegoer – Walker Percy

The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe

Justine – Lawrence Durrell

Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust

The Last Gentleman – Walker Percy

Balthazar – Lawrence Durrell

Within a Budding Grove – Marcel Proust

Elvissey – Jack Womack

All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy

Mountolive – Lawrence Durrell

Last Notes from Home – Frederick Exley

Love in the Ruins – Walker Percy

Virtual Light – William Gibson

Clea – Lawrence Durrell

Spring 1993 (Hampshire)

Crito – Plato

Apology – Plato

Black Spring – Henry Miller

Animal Farm – George Orwell

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Fast Sofa – Bruce Craven

The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

1984 – George Orwell (r)

Goodbye Columbus – Philip Roth

A River Runs Through It – Norman Maclean (r)

Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller (r)

Appointment in Samarra – John O’Hara

Pages from a Cold Island – Frederick Exley

Generation X – Douglas Coupland (r)

Marco Millions – Eugene O’Neill

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare

Mostly Harmless – Douglas Adams

Winter Break 1992/93

Jernigan – David Gates (r)

Howard’s End – EM Forster

Factotum – Charles Bukowski (r)

Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut (r)

Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller (r)

Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson

Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fall 1992 (Hampshire)

Gilgamesh – Gardner / Maier

Oresteia – Aeschylus (Lattimore)

Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera (r)

Inside the Whale – George Orwell

A River Runs Through It – Norman Maclean

The Secret History – Donna Tartt

Medea – Euripides (Warner)

Euthyphro – Plato

Krazy Kat – Jay Cantor

Et Tu, Babe – Mark Leyner

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

Bright Lights, Big City – Jay McInerney

A Fan’s Notes – Frederick Exley (r)

Summer 1992

A Fan’s Notes – Frederick Exley

The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick

1984 – George Orwell

Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller (r)

The Songlines – Bruce Chatwin (r)

Camp Concentration – Thomas Disch

Factotum – Charles Bukowski

Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs (r)

Helen – Euripides (Meagher)

A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway

Neuromancer – William Gibson (r)

Generation X – Douglas Coupland

Count Zero – William Gibson (r)

Meno – Plato (r)

Mona Lisa Overdrive – William Gibson (r)

Jernigan – David Gates

Phaedo – Plato

Theaetetus – Plato

The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler (r)

A Commentary on Plato’s Meno – Jacob Klein

The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald (r)

Phaedrus – Plato (r)

Spring 1992 (Hampshire)

Gilgamesh – tr. Mason

Nature – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Signs of the Times – Carlyle

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

Typee – Herman Melville

Bleak House – Charles Dickens

Poetics of Music – Igor Stravinsky

Moby-Dick – Herman Melville (r)

The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky (Pevear / Volokhonsky) (r)

The Fall – Albert Camus

Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens

The Confidence Man – Herman Melville

Winter Break 1991/92

Candide – Voltaire (r)

The Man Who Was Thursday – GK Chesterton

Death in Venice – Thomas Mann (r)

Billy Budd – Herman Melville

Othello – William Shakespeare

Oedipus the King / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone – Sophocles

War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

The Merchant of Venice – William Shakespeare

The Consolation of Philosophy – Boethius

The Winter’s Tale – William Shakespeare

Fall 1991 (Hampshire)

The Odyssey – Homer (Fitzgerald)

Macbeth – William Shakespeare (r)

King Richard the Second – William Shakespeare

Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth – Leo Tolstoy

King Henry the Fourth, part I – William Shakespeare

King Henry the Fourth, part II – William Shakespeare

King Henry the Fifth – William Shakespeare (r)

Culture and Anarchy – Matthew Arnold

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories – Leo Tolstoy

As You Like It – William Shakespeare

Father Sergius / Master and Man / The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy

The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

Hamlet – William Shakespeare (r)

The Tempest – William Shakespeare (r)

Phaedrus – Plato

Slam – Lewis Shiner

Resurrection – Leo Tolstoy

King Lear – William Shakespeare (r)

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig (r)

Symposium – Plato

Lila – Robert Pirsig

The Prince – Machiavelli

Summer 1991

V. – Thomas Pynchon (r)

The Art of Fiction – John Gardner

The Illuminatus! Trilogy – Shea & Wilson

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town – Charles Bukowski

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

Out on Blue Six – Ian McDonald

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist – Mark Leyner

Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card

Serial Killers – Norris

Earth – David Brin

Greasy Lake and Other Stories – T. Coraghessan Boyle

The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco

Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone – Richard Farina

The Difference Engine – William Gibson, Bruce Sterling

Homeboy – Seth Morgan

Patrimony – Philip Roth

King Henry the Fifth – William Shakespeare

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

The Iliad – Homer (Fitzgerald)

Good Omens – Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

Spring 1991 (Hampshire)

Galaxies – Barry Malzberg

Poor Folk – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Clocks and Culture – Cipolla

Theory of the Novel – Georg Lukacs

Dubliners – James Joyce

The Double – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Deception – Philip Roth

Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce (r)

History of Sexuality, Vol. I – Michel Foucault

Civilization and Its Discontents – Sigmund Freud

The Moonstone – William Willkie Collins

Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert

Old Goriot – Honore De Balzac

The Possessed – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Red Dragon – Thomas Harris

The Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris

The Heart of Darkness – James Conrad (r)

Desolation Road – Ian McDonald (r)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera (r)

Winter Break 1990/91

Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs

Green Eyes – Lucius Shepard

The Bushwhacked Piano – Thomas McGuane

Junky – William S. Burroughs

Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller (r)

“Death in Venice” – Thomas Mann

Fall 1990 (Hampshire)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare

The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler

Mona Lisa Overdrive – William Gibson (r)

The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon (r)

Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov

Aura – Carlos Fuentes

Words Without Pictures – ed. Niles

Summer 1990

In Patagonia – Bruce Chatwin

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (r)

Ivory – Mike Resnick

Life During Wartime – Lucius Shepard

Moby-Dick – Herman Melville

The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger (r)

Burning Chrome – William Gibson (r)

Islands in the Net – Bruce Sterling

The Singing Detective – Dennis Potter

Been Down So Long It Seems Like Up To Me – Richard Farina (r)

Peter Pan – JM Barrie

Zen in the Art of Writing – Ray Bradbury

If the River was Whiskey – T. Coraghessan Boyle

Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon

Presumed Innocent – Scott Turow

Spring 1990 (Hampshire)

 

Concrete Island – JG Ballard

Fifth Business – Robertson Davies

Neuromancer – William Gibson (r)

Zen in the Art of Archery – Eugen Herrigel

The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett

The Songlines – Bruce Chatwin

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

Faust, part I – Goethe

Metrophage – Richard Kadrey

Winter Break 1989/90

King Lear – William Shakespeare

The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

Vineland – Thomas Pynchon

The Stranger – Albert Camus

Mother Night – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass – Lewis Carroll

Fall 1989 (Tulane)

Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky (Garnett)

Mr. Palomar – Italo Calvino

V. – Thomas Pynchon

The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul – Douglas Adams

Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

Software – Rudy Rucker

The Doors of Perception – Aldous Huxley

Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Bach

Eclipse – John Shirley

Hedda Gabler – Henrik Ibsen

Cryano de Bergerac – Rostrand

Hamlet – William Shakespeare

Oedipus the King – Sophocles

The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain

The Rubai’yat of Omar Khayyam – Fitzgerald

Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett

Frontera – Lewis Shiner

The Tempest – William Shakespeare

The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand

Candide – Voltaire

First Love and Other Sorrows – Harold Brodkey

Do the Right Thing screenplay – Spike Lee

A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams

The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams

Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller

Three Sisters – Anton Chekhov