All the Books I’ve Read

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Here’s the list of every book I finished since I began college in the autumn of 1989. If you want the Excel version of the list for some reason, enjoy.

You want gigantic writeups about all these books? Here you go!

–Gil

Note: (r) means it’s a re-read.

2024

Bleeding Edge – Thomas Pynchon (r)

Remotely: Travels in the Binge of TV – David Thomson • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2022 podcast)

The Lover – Marguerite Duras

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss – Amy Bloom

Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor – Donald J. Robertson • Listen to our podcast

The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice – Elizabeth Flock • Listen to our podcast

Plastic – Scott Guild • Listen to our podcast

Underworlds: A Compelling Journey Through Subterranean Realms, Real and Imagined – Stephen Ellcock

My Struggle: Book 1 – Karl Ove Knausgaard

Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring – Brad Gooch • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2015 and 2017 podcasts)

Facing Down The Furies: Suicide, The Ancient Greeks, and Me – Edith Hall • podcast coming soon!

My Struggle: Book 2 – Karl Ove Knausgaard

Reading Shakespeare Reading Me – Leonard Barkan • podcast coming soon!

2023

The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty – Dave Hickey

Septology I-II: The Other Name – Jon Fosse (tr. Damion Searle)

Boundless As The Sky – Dawn Raffel • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2019 podcast)

Septology III-V: I Is Another – Jon Fosse (tr. Damion Searle)

The Critic’s Daughter – Priscilla Gilman • Listen to our podcast

Septology VI-VII: A New Name – Jon Fosse (tr. Damion Searle)

The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return To Lovecraft Country – Matt Ruff • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2017 and 2020 podcasts)

Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt – Willard Spiegelman • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2013, 2016, and 2018 podcasts)

The Lost Americans – Christopher Bollen • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2015 podcast)

On The Road – Jack Kerouac

Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness – Stevan Weine • Listen to our podcast

Faith, Hope and Carnage – Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan

On Christopher Street: Life, Sex, and Death After Stonewall – Michael Denneny • We were going to record a podcast, but he was dead when I arrived at his apartment; here’s the podcast I recorded about that & the followup a week later

V. – Thomas Pynchon (r)

Gone To The Wolves – John Wray • Listen to our podcast

Color Capital of the World: Growing Up with the Legacy of a Crayon Company – John W. Kropf • Listen to our podcast

Suppose A Sentence – Brian Dillon • Listen to our podcast

Affinities: On Art & Fascination – Brian Dillon • Listen to our podcast

The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon (r)

Rome as a Guide to the Good Life: A Philosophical Grand Tour – Scott Samuelson • Listen to our podcast

Gallery of the Disappeared Men – Jonathan Papernick • Listen to our podcast

The Disappeared – Andrew Porter • Listen to our podcast

Goodbye to Clocks Ticking: How We Live While Dying – Joseph Monninger • Listen to our podcast

The Black Locomotive – Rian Hughes • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2020 conversation)

To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse – Howard Fishman • Listen to our podcast

The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson

A Haunting on the Hill – Elizabeth Hand • podcast coming soonish! (and listen to our 2015, 2017, and 2019 conversations)

The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments – Kelly Grovier • podcast coming someday! (I think)

In Defense of Love: An Argument – Ron Rosenbaum • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2013 and 2014 conversations)

Ravage & Son – Jerome Charyn • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2019, 2021, and 2022 conversations)

Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon (r)

Vineland – Thomas Pynchon (r)

Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disruptor – Rachel Shteir • Listen to our podcast

When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalinithi

In Gratitude – Jenny Diski

John Le Carré: The Biography – Adam Sisman • Listen to our podcast

The Secret Life of John Le Carré – Adam Sisman • Listen to our podcast

A Year And A Day: An Experiment In Essays – Phillip Lopate • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2013, 2017 and 2020 conversations)

Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon (r)

Piranesi – Susanna Clarke

Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin – Danny Fingeroth • Listen to our podcast

Valid Until Sunset – Jarrett Earnest • Listen to our podcast

My Bright Abyss: Meditations of a Modern Believer – Christian Wiman • Listen to our podcast

Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair – Christian Wiman • Listen to our podcast

He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, The Faith of Art – Christian Wiman • Listen to our podcast

Inherent Vice – Thomas Pynchon (r)

2022

Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf (r)

Disaster Mon Amour – David Thomson • Listen to our podcast (r)

The Floundering Founder – Raman Sehgal • Listen to our podcast

Murder And The Movies – David Thomson • Listen to our podcast

The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford (r)

Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film – Glenn Kurtz • Listen to our podcast

From Hollywood With Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy – Scott Meslow • Listen to our podcast

Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino (r)

Old Poets: Reminiscences and Opinions – Donald Hall

What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An (Auto)Biography of Niki de Saint Phalle – by Nicole Rudick • Listen to our podcast

What’s So Funny?: A Cartoonists’ Memoir – David Sipress • Listen to our podcast

The Latinist – Mark Prins • Listen to our podcast

Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine – Anna Della Subin • Listen to our podcast

Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy

Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return – Rebecca Mead • Listen to our podcast

My Life In Middlemarch – Rebecca Mead • Listen to our podcast

The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art – Sebastian Smee • Listen to our podcast

Why Writing Matters – Nicholas Delbanco • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2017 podcast)

Flint and Mirror – John Crowley • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2013 and 2017 podcasts)

Blindness – Jose Saramago

Letters to Gwen John – Celia Paul • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2020 podcast)

The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem – Julie Phillips • Listen to our podcast

Dark Factory – Kathe Koja • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2015 and 2020 podcasts)

Our Laundry, Our Town – Alvin Eng • Listen to our podcast

What Artists Wear – Charlie Porter • Listen to our podcast

Philip Roth: A Counterlife – Ira Nadel • Listen to our podcast

Franz Kafka: The Drawings – Andreas Kilcher & Judith Butler • Listen to our podcast

Transit – Rachel Cusk

Meet Me By The Fountain: An Inside History of The Mall – Alexandra Lange • Listen to our podcast

Kudos – Rachel Cusk

Dirty Pictures: How Nerds, Feminists, Bikers, and Potheads Revolutionized Comix – Brian Doherty • Listen to our podcast

Ways of Seeing – John Berger

Napoleon: A Life Told In Gardens and Shadows – Ruth Scurr • Listen to our podcast

Rare Stuff – Brett Ashley Kaplan

The End Of Solitude – William Deresiewicz • Listen to our podcast

All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life’s Work – Hayley Campbell • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2016 podcast

Big Red – Jerome Charyn • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2019 and 2021 podcasts)

Against The Day – Thomas Pynchon • podcast coming soon (haha)

A Man Called Doll – Jonathan Ames • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2018 podcast)

The Wheel of Doll – Jonathan Ames • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2018 podcast)

John Aubrey: My Own Life – Ruth Scurr • Listen to our podcast

When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect – Eva Hagberg • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2019 podcast)

The Adventurists and Other Stories – Richard Butner • Listen to our podcast

I Dream With Open Eyes: A Memoir About Reimagining Home • George Prochnik • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2014 and 2017 podcasts)

Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change – W. David Marx • Listen to our podcast

Joseph Anton: A Memoir – Salman Rushdie

Gratitude – Oliver Sacks

Intoxicated By My Illness – Anatole Broyard

Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan – by Darryl Pinckney • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2020 podcast)

Art Is Life – Jerry Saltz • Listen to our podcast

How To Be An Artist – Jerry Saltz • Listen to our podcast

Crassus: The First Tycoon – Peter Stothard • Listen to our podcast

Esmond & Ilia: An Unreliable Memoir – Marina Warner • Listen to our podcast

Sleepless Nights – Elizabeth Hardwick

Walker Evans: Last Photographs & Life Stories – Michael Lesy • Listen to our podcast

The Future is Analog: How To Create a More Human World – David Sax • Listen to our podcast

Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs – Greil Marcus • podcast coming soon!

Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York – Steven Heller • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2018, 2019, and 2020 podcasts)

Paint By Numbers – Dmitry Samarov • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2014, 2015, 2018, 2020, COVID Check-In, and 2021 podcasts)

LECH – Sara Lippmann • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2014 podcast)

Travels With My Aunt – Graham Greene

2021

God of Nothingness: Poems – Mark Wunderlich • Listen to our podcast

The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene

Stories I Forgot To Tell You – Dorothy Gallagher • Listen to our podcast

Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory: Bookmarked – Sven Birkerts • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2016 podcast and our COVID Check-In)

How I Came Into My Inheritance – Dorothy Gallagher • Listen to our podcast

Strangers In The House – Dorothy Gallagher • Listen to our podcast

Aftershocks – Nadia Owusu • Listen to our podcast

Lost Property: Memoirs & Confessions of a Bad Boy – Ben Sonnenberg • Listen to my podcast with his widow, Dorothy Gallagher

Fierce Attachments – Vivian Gornick • Listen to our podcast

Keats’ Odes: A Lover’s Discourse – Anahid Nersessian • Listen to our podcast

“Family Solstice” – Kate Maruyama • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2019 podcast and our COVID Check-In)

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader – Vivian Gornick • Listen to our podcast

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (r)

Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time – Vivian Gornick • Listen to our podcast

Play It As It Lays – Joan Didion

We Play Ourselves – Jen Silverman • Listen to our podcast

A Month In The Country – JL Carr (re)

My Friend Natalia – Laura Lindstedt • Listen to our podcast

The Free World: Art & Thought in The Cold War – Louis Menand • Listen to our podcast

A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube – Patrick Leigh Fermor

The Pigeon Tunnel – John Le Carré

Stories I Forgot To Tell You – Dorothy Gallagher • Listen to our podcast (r)

Old Style – Dmitry Samarov • Listen to our podcast (And listen to our 2014, 2015, 2018, 2020 and COVID Check-In podcasts)

BALD: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts – Simon Critchley • podcast coming soon! (And listen to our 2019 podcast)

Notes on Suicide – Simon Critchley • podcast coming soon! (And listen to our 2019 podcast)

The Drowned World – JG Ballard

My Life As A Man – Philip Roth

Our Endless and Proper Work – Ron Hogan • Listen to our podcast (And listen to our 2015 podcast)

Empire of the Sun – JG Ballard

How To Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education – Scott Newstok • Listen to our podcast

Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light: 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 – Peter Schjeldahl • Listen to our podcast

Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life – Heather Cass White • Listen to our podcast

Drafted: A Memoir of the ’60s – Heywood Gould • Listen to our podcast

Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient Arts of Living – Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn • Listen to our podcast

Pietr the Latvian – Georges Simenon

Meditations – Marcus Aurelius (r)

Rock & Roll – Tom Stoppard (r)

Nemesis – Philip Roth (r)

How To Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education – Scott Newstok (r) • Listen to our podcast

Every Third Thought: On Life, Death and the Endgame – Robert McCrum • Listen to our podcast

Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption – Robert McCrum • Listen to our podcast

My Year Off: Recovering Life After A Stroke – Robert McCrum • Listen to our podcast

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien – Georges Simenon

The Philip Roth We Don’t Know: Sex, Race, and Autobiography – Jacques Berlinerblau • Listen to our podcast

The Humbling – Philip Roth (r)

Based on a True Story – Norm Macdonald (r)

Deception – Philip Roth (r)

Love’s Work – Gillian Rose

Vertigo – WG Sebald (r)

This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death – Harold Brodkey (r)

The Art of Dramaturgy – Anne Cattaneo • Listen to our podcast

The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Tolstoy (r)

Molloy – Samuel Beckett

The Fall – Albert Camus

Albert Camus and the Human Crisis – Robert Emmet Meagher • Listen to our podcast

Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett

Profusely Illustrated: A Memoir – Edward Sorel • Listen to our podcast

The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett

On Tyranny – Timothy Snyder (ill. Nora Krug) • Listen to my podcast w/Nora

A Field Guide To Getting Lost – Rebecca Solnit

Disaster Mon Amour – David Thomson • Listen to our podcast

Death In The Afternoon – Ernest Hemingway

Dying: A Memoir – Cory Taylor

Silence and Silences – Wallis Wilde-Menozzi • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2013 and 2017 podcasts)

The White Album – Joan Didion

2020

Food of the Gods – Cassandra Khaw • Listen to our podcast

Hammers on Bone – Cassandra Khaw • Listen to our podcast

The Grand Dark – Richard Kadrey • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2018 podcast)

Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern, 1950-1995 – Terry Southern

The Dairy Restaurant – Ben Katchor • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2013 and 2016 podcasts)

Philosophy, Pussycats & Porn – Stoya • Listen to our podcast

Reading Backwards – John Crowley • podcast coming soon! (and listen to our 2013 and 2017 podcasts)

The Peripheral – William Gibson

Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian – Sato Moughalian • Listen to our podcast

And Go Like This: Stories – John Crowley • podcast coming soon! (and listen to our 2013 and 2017 podcasts)

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History – Kurt Andersen • Listen to our podcast

88 Names: A Novel – Matt Ruff • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2017 podcast)

Masters of Atlantis – Charles Portis (r)

Crash – JG Ballard (r)

Agency – William Gibson

Screwball! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny – Paul C. Tumey • Listen to our podcast

Velocities – Kathe Koja • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2015 podcast)

The Anti-Romantic Child – Priscilla Gilman

The Fox and Dr. Shimamura – Christine Wunnicke (tr. Philip Boehm – listen to our podcast)

Mavericks, Mystics and Misfits: Americans Against the Grain – Arthur Hoyle • Listen to our podcast

Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity – David Lynch

The Periodic Table – Primo Levi

Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life – Zena Hitz • Listen to our podcast

The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety – Alan Watts

Essays After Eighty – Donald Hall (r)

Three Fifths – John Vercher • Listen to our podcast

A Perfect Spy – John Le Carré

Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth – Benjamin Taylor • Listen to our podcast

Proust: The Search – Benjamin Taylor • Listen to our podcast

Naples Declared – Benjamin Taylor • Listen to our podcast

Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble – Judy Gold • Listen to our podcast

The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford (r)

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America – A Recent History – Kurt Andersen • Listen to our podcast

Looking for Miss America: A Pageant’s 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood – Margot Mifflin • Listen to our podcast

Failed State • Christopher Brown • Listen to our podcast (and listen to 2018 and 2019 podcasts)

Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker – David Mikics • Listen to our podcast

The Rings of Saturn – WG Sebald (r)

Counternarratives – John Keene • Listen to our podcast

The Book of Atlantis Black – Betsy Bonner • Listen to our podcast

Orphic Paris – Henri Cole • Listen to our podcast

Blizzard: Poems – Henri Cole • Listen to our podcast

Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate – Daniel Mendelsohn • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our podcast from earlier this year)

Annihilation (Area X, book 1) – Jeff VanderMeer (r)

Experience – Martin Amis

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America – Laila Lalami

Entanglements: Tomorrow’s Lovers, Families and Friends – Sheila Williams (ed.) • Listen to our podcast

Authority (Area X, book 2) – Jeff VanderMeer (r)

Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy – Darryl Pinckney • Listen to our podcast

Acceptance (Area X, book 3) – Jeff VanderMeer (r)

Busted in New York and Other Essays – Darryl Pinckney • Listen to our podcast

Inside Story – Martin Amis

The Odd Woman and The City – Vivian Gornick • Listen to our podcast

Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention – David Shields • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our podcasts from 2019 about The Trouble With Men and Marshawn Lynch: A History)

XX – Rian Hughes • Listen to our podcast

The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World – Virginia Postrel • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our podcast from 2013)

Self Portrait – Celia Paul • Listen to our podcast

Speak, Memory – Vladimir Nabokov

The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative – Vivian Gornick • Listen to our podcast

Churchill & Orwell: The Fight For Freedom – Thomas E. Ricks

Essayism – Brian Dillion (r)

To The Moon and Back: A Childhood Under The Influence – Lisa Kohn • Listen to our podcast

Our Man In Havana – Graham Greene

The Last Samurai – Helen DeWitt

Agent Running in the Field – John Le Carré

Sergeant Salinger – Jerome Charyn • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our podcasts from 2018 and 2022)

2019

The Kindly Ones – Anthony Powell (r)

How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship – Eva Hagberg Fisher – Listen to our podcast

The Valley of Bones – Anthony Powell (r)

The Soldier’s Art – Anthony Powell (r)

The Military Philosophers – Anthony Powell (r)

Books Do Furnish a Room – Anthony Powell (r)

Temporary Kings – Anthony Powell (r)

Hearing Secret Harmonies – Anthony Powell (r)

Jimmy Neurosis: A Memoir – James Oseland • Listen to our podcast

This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom – Martin Hägglund • Listen to our podcast

The Climb from Salt Lick: A Memoir of Appalachia – Nancy L. Abrams • podcast coming someday

A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety – Donald Hall

The Book of Dirt – Bram Presser • Listen to our podcast

kaddish.com: A novel – Nathan Englander • Listen to our podcast

The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power – David Shields • Listen to our podcast

Reality Hunger: A Manifesto – David Shields • Listen to our podcast

Stella Maris: And Other Key West Stories – Michael Carroll • Listen to our podcast

My Young Life – Frederic Tuten • Listen to our podcast

The Green Hour – Frederic Tuten • Listen to our podcast

Essays After Eighty – Donald Hall

What’s Left of the Night – Ersi Sotiropoulos • Listen to our podcast

Dating Tips for the Unemployed – Iris Smyles

Iris Has Free Time – Iris Smyles

A Replacement Life: A Novel – Boris Fishman • Listen to our podcast

Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (a Memoir with Recipes) – Boris Fishman • Listen to our podcast

When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History – Hugh Ryan • Listen to our podcast

The Portrait of a Lady (New York revision) – Henry James

A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel – Amor Towles • Listen to our podcast

Rules of Civility: A Novel – Amor Towles • Listen to our podcast

The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles

Mapping the Interior – Stephen Graham Jones

Rule of Capture: A Novel – Christopher Brown • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2018 podcast)

Curious Toys – Elizabeth Hand • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2017 podcast, our 2016 one and our 2015 one!)

Old Man’s War – John Scalzi

I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution – Emily Nussbaum • Listen to our podcast

Harrowgate – Kate Maruyama • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2021 followup and our 2020 COVID Check-In)

My Year of Rest and Relaxation – Ottessa Moshfegh

The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies – Dawn Raffel • Listen to our podcast

Overthrow: A Novel – Caleb Crain • Listen to our podcast

The Songlines – Bruce Chatwin (r)

Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us – Simon Critchley • Listen to our podcast

Drag: The Complete Story – Simon Doonan • Listen to our podcast

Confessions of a Window Dresser – Simon Doonan • Listen to our podcast

Vertigo – WG Sebald

Charleston Fancy: Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City – Witold Rybczynski • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2015 podcast!)

Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction – Brian Dillon • Listen to our podcast

Slow Horses (Slough House #1) – Mick Herron

Pedro Paramo – Juan Rulfo

Just Kids – Patti Smith

Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel – John Le Carré

A Murder of Quality: A George Smiley Novel – John Le Carré

The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 2: 1964–1977: The Beatles, the Stones, and the Rise of Classic Rock – Ed Ward • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2016 podcast!)

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: A George Smiley Novel – John Le Carré (r)

The Looking Glass War: A George Smiley Novel – John Le Carré

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A George Smiley Novel – John Le Carré

The Swastika and Symbols of Hate: Extremist Iconography Today – Steven Heller • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2018 podcast!)

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic – Daniel Mendelsohn • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our podcast from later in 2020)

Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones – Daniel Mendelsohn • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our podcast from later in 2020)

Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It – Adam Savage

The Honourable Schoolboy: A George Smiley Novel – John Le Carré

Smiley’s People: A George Smiley Novel – John Le Carré

The River in the Sky: A Poem – Clive James • Listen to our podcast

Mysterious Obsession – Otto Penzler • Listen to our podcast

The Secret Pilgrim: A George Smiley Novel – John Le Carré

Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines – Walter Bernard & Milton Glaser • Listen to my podcast about it with Walter (and listen to my podcast from earlier in 2019 with Milton)

A Legacy of Spies: A George Smiley Novel – John Le Carré

Blonde: A Novel – Joyce Carol Oates

2018

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays – Joan Didion

The Rings of Saturn – WG Sebald

Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies – Ann Hulbert • Listen to our podcast

Normal: A Novel – Warren Ellis

A Conversation Larger Than the Universe: Readings in Science Fiction and the Fantastic, 1762-2017 – Henry Wessells • Listen to our podcast

My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One – Elena Ferrante

The Other Paris – Luc Sante

Last Song Before Night – Ilana Myer • Listen to our podcast

The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster, illustrations by Jules Feiffer • Listen to my podcast with Jules Feiffer

Lloyd: What Happened: A Novel of Business – Stanley Bing

You Were Never Really Here – Jonathan Ames • Listen to our podcast

The Double Life Is Twice as Good: Essays and Fiction – Jonathan Ames • Listen to our podcast

What’s Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer – Jonathan Ames • Listen to our podcast

A Reader on Reading – Alberto Manguel • Listen to our podcast

Fire Dance: A Novel – Ilana Myer • Listen to our podcast

Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions – Alberto Manguel • Listen to our podcast

Urn Burial – Sir Thomas Browne

Tropic of Kansas: A Novel – Christopher Brown • Listen to our 2018 podcast (and check out our 2019 followup)

The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger • Listen to our podcast

Sandman Slim – Richard Kadrey • Listen to our podcast

Kill the Dead: A Sandman Slim Novel – Richard Kadrey • Listen to our podcast

Victory: An Island Tale – Joseph Conrad

Everything Is Borrowed – Nathaniel Popkin • Listen to our podcast

Neapolitan Chronicles – Anna Maria Ortese • podcast coming someday w/translators Jenny McPhee & Ann Goldstein!

Infomocracy: Book One of the Centenal Cycle – Malka Older

House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row – by Lance Richardson • Listen to our podcast

My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues – Pamela Paul

Porcelain: A Memoir – Moby • Listen to our podcast

I Will Be Complete: A Memoir – Glen David Gold • Listen to our podcast

The Ashtray: (Or the Man Who Denied Reality) – Errol Morris

Believing Is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography – Errol Morris

Her Fearful Symmetry – Audrey Niffenegger • Listen to our podcast

The Goat Getters: Jack Johnson, the Fight of the Century, and How a Bunch of Raucous Cartoonists Reinvented Comics – Eddie Campbell • Listen to our podcast

The Line of Beauty: A Novel – Alan Hollinghurst

Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life – Steve Martin

Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey – Mark Dery • Listen to our podcast

A River Could Be a Tree: A Memoir – Angela Himsel • Listen to our podcast

A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture – Shachar Pinsker • Listen to our podcast

Paradise Man – Jerome Charyn • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2021 and 2022 followups)

A Widow’s Story: A Memoir – Joyce Carol Oates

City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ’70s – Edmund White • Listen to our podcast

The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading – Edmund White • Listen to our podcast

Blue Eyes – Jerome Charyn • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2021 and 2022 followups)

The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt and His Times – Jerome Charyn • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2021 and 2022 followups)

A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White • Listen to our podcast

Marilyn The Wild – Jerome Charyn • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2021 and 2022 followups)

The Education of Patrick Silver – Jerome Charyn • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2021 and 2022 followups)

Secret Isaac – Jerome Charyn • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2021 and 2022 followups)

A Question of Upbringing: A Novel – Anthony Powell (r)

A Buyer’s Market – Anthony Powell (r)

The Acceptance World – Anthony Powell (r)

At Lady Molly’s – Anthony Powell (r)

Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant – Anthony Powell (r)

2017

Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love – Brad Gooch • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2015 podcast)

The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries – Jessa Crispin • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2014 podcast)

The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song – Ben Yagoda • Listen to our podcast

Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist ManifestoListen to our podcast (and listen to our 2014 podcast)

Memoir: A History – Ben Yagoda • Listen to our podcast

A Mother’s Tale – Phillip Lopate • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2013 podcast and our 2020 podcast)

Note Book – Jeff Nunokawa • Listen to our podcast

Private Citizens: A Novel – Tony Tulathimutte • Listen to our podcast

What Belongs to You – Garth Greenwell • Listen to our podcast

Snowed Under – Antje Ravic Strubel

Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives – Sarah Williams Goldhagen • Listen to our podcast

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway (r)

Moving the Palace – Charif Majdalani • Listen to our podcast

Toscanelli’s Ray – Wallis Wilde-Menozzi • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2013 podcast)

Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem – George Prochnik • Listen to our podcast! (and listen to our 2014 podcast)

Dear James: Letters to a Young Illustrator – R.O. Blechman • Listen to our podcast

Mary Astor’s Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936 – Edward Sorel

Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

This Is How You Lose Her – Junot Diaz

This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information – Kyle Cassidy • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2012 podcast!)

Lovecraft Country: A Novel – Matt Ruff • Listen to our podcast

Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance – Jeff VanderMeer

Bad Monkeys: A Novel – Matt Ruff • Listen to our podcast

Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr – John Crowley • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2013 one)

Totalitopia – John Crowley • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2013 one)

Playboy Laughs: The Comedy, Comedians, and Cartoons of Playboy – Patty Farmer • Listen to our podcast

After Henry: Essays – Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion

The Merchant of Venice – William Shakespeare

Survival In Auschwitz – Primo Levi

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories – Nathan Englander • Listen to our podcast

The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered – Benjamin Taylor • Listen to our podcast

The Ministry of Special Cases – Nathan Englander • Listen to our podcast

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories – Nathan Englander • Listen to our podcast

The Peregrine – JA Baker

Three Floors Up – Eshkol Nevo • Listen to our podcast

Behind Her Eyes – Sarah Pinborough

A Man Lies Dreaming – Lavie Tidhar • Listen to our podcast

Central Station – Lavie Tidhar • Listen to our podcast

Lastingness: The Art of Old Age – Nicholas Delbanco • Listen to our podcast

Curiouser and Curiouser: Essays – Nicholas Delbanco • Listen to our podcast

The Years – Nicholas Delbanco • Listen to our podcast

The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts – Nicholas Delbanco • Listen to our podcast

The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox – Vanda Krefft • Listen to our podcast

Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press – Eddy Portnoy • Listen to our podcast

Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe – Cullen Murphy • Listen to our podcast

Dinner at the Center of the Earth: A novel – Nathan Englander • Listen to our podcast

Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America – Cullen Murphy • Listen to our podcast

How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels – Paul Karasik & Mark Newgarden • Listen to our podcast

Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old – John Leland • Listen to our podcast

Exit Ghost – Philip Roth (r)

Everyman – Philip Roth (r)


2016

The Friends of Eddie Coyle – George V. Higgins

Dept. of Speculation – Jenny Offill

The Leopard: A Novel – Giuseppe di Lampedusa (r)

Willful Disregard: A Novel About Love – Lena Andersson

Talking To The Dead – Rachel Hadas • Listen to our 2016 podcast and check out our podcast from 2014

Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West

Almost Everything Very Fast: A Novel – Christopher Kloeble • Listen to our podcast

The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West

Delicious Foods – James Hannaham

At the Existentialist Café – Sarah Bakewell

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War – Fred Kaplan • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2013 podcast about The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War)

The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures – Phoebe Gloeckner • Listen to our podcast

Shadow Ops: Control Point – Myke Cole • Listen to our podcast

Nitro Mountain – Lee Clay Johnson

The Hirschfeld Century: Portrait of an Artist and His Age – David Leopold • Listen to our podcast

The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy – Kliph Nesteroff • Listen to our podcast

Bellow’s People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art – David Mikics • Listen to our podcast

Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy – Matt Ruff • Listen to our podcast

Galaxies – Barry Malzberg (r)

Anna Karenina – Tolstoy (tr. Pevear & Volokhonsky) (r)

Beyond Apollo – Barry Malzberg

Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin – Ann Patty • Listen to our podcast

The Plot Against America – Philip Roth

Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer – Arthur Lubow • Listen to our podcast

Engines of the Night / Breakfast in the Ruins – Barry Malzberg

Senior Moments: Looking Back, Looking Ahead – Willard Spiegelman • Listen to our 2016 podcast (and check out our 2013 podcast)

Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art – Virginia Heffernan • Listen to our podcast

Play All: A Bingewatcher’s Notebook – Clive James • Listen to our podcast

Holy Resilience: The Bible’s Traumatic Origins – David M. Carr • Listen to our podcast

Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker’s Greatest Cartoonist – Michael Maslin • Listen to our podcast

Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age – Sven Birkerts • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2021 podcast)

In Love – Alfred Hayes

The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford (r)

Solaris – Stanislaw Lem (r)

Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers – Bob Eckstein • Listen to our podcast

Avid Reader: A Life – Robert Gottlieb

The Hard Problem: A Play – Tom Stoppard

Based on a True Story: A Memoir – Norm Macdonald

Shadow Ops: Fortress Frontier – Myke Cole • Listen to our podcast

When Memory Comes – Saul Friedländer

Where Memory Leads: My Life – Saul Friedländer

The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology: A Memoir – Thomas Dolby • Listen to our podcast

The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963 – Ed Ward • Listen to our podcast

Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White – Michael Tisserand • Listen to our podcast

Sword of Honor Trilogy (Men At Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrender) – Evelyn Waugh

Everyman – Philip Roth (r)

2015

How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer – Sarah Bakewell

Third Rail – Rory Flynn • Listen to our podcast

Unreliable Memoirs – Clive James • Listen to our podcast

Happy are the Happy – Yasmina Reza • Listen to our podcast

The Tourmaline – Paul Park

Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity – Prue Shaw • Listen to our podcast

Gamify Your Classroom: A Field Guide to Game-Based Learning (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies) – Matthew Farber • Listen to our podcast

La Ronde – Arthur Schniztler

Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language – Clive James • Listen to our podcast

Falling Towards England – Clive James • Listen to our podcast

May Week Was In June – Clive James • Listen to our podcast

The Third Man – Graham Greene

Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever – Walter Kirn • Listen to our podcast

North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs – Clive James • Listen to our podcast

How Architecture Works: A Humanist’s Toolkit – Witold Rybczynski • Listen to our podcast (and check out the one we recorded in 2019!)

Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the ’70s & the ’80s – Brad Gooch • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2017 podcast)

In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China – Michael Meyer • Listen to our podcast

Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers – Edward Mendelson • Listen to our podcast

How Sweet It Is! – Thane Rosenbaum • Listen to our podcast

Look Who’s Back – Timur Vermes • Listen to our podcast

Chronicles – Bob Dylan (r)

Where Women Are Kings – Christie Watson • Listen to our podcast

Muse: A novel – Jonathan Galassi • Listen to our podcast

James Merrill: Life and Art – Langdon Hammer • Listen to our podcast

Orient: A Novel – Christopher Bollen • Listen to our podcast

A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me: Stories and a novella – David Gates • Listen to our podcast

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty: A Novel – Amanda Filipacchi • Listen to our podcast

Our Brothers at the Bottom of the Bottom of the Sea – Jonathan Kranz • Listen to our podcast

Generation Loss – Elizabeth Hand • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2017 podcast and our 2019 podcast)

Available Dark – Elizabeth Hand • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2017 podcast and our 2019 podcast)

Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point – Elizabeth Samet • Listen to our podcast

No Man’s Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America – Elizabeth Samet • Listen to our podcast

Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History – Rhonda K. Garelick • Listen to our podcast

The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins: A Novel – Irvine Welsh • Listen to our podcast

Latest Readings – Clive James • Listen to our podcast

Lionel Asbo: State of England – Martin Amis

The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books – John Carey

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale – Joseph Conrad

Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books – Michael Dirda • Listen to our podcasts: 1, 2, 3

Everyman – Philip Roth (r)

Katherine Carlyle – Rupert Thomson • Listen to our 2014 podcast and our 2015 podcast

Under the Poppy – Kathe Koja • Listen to our podcast

Memory Theater – Simon Critchley • Listen to our podcast

The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World – David Jaher • Listen to our podcast

Montaigne – Stefan Zweig

The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime – Harold Bloom • Listen to our podcast

As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner

The Peace Process: A Novella and Stories – Bruce Jay Friedman • Listen to our podcast

Beware of Pity – Stefan Zweig

Drawing Blood – Molly Crabapple • Listen to our podcast

2014

Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry – Rachel Hadas • Listen to our podcast

Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora – Emily Raboteau • Listen to our podcast

Comics Art – Paul Gravett • Listen to our podcast

Black Cracker – Josh Alan Friedman • Listen to our podcast

Stern – Bruce Jay Friedman • Listen to our podcast

About Harry Towns – Bruce Jay Friedman • Listen to our podcast

The Current Climate – Bruce Jay Friedman • Listen to our podcast

Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir – Bruce Jay Friedman (r) • Listen to our podcast

A Mother’s Kisses – Bruce Jay Friedman • Listen to our podcast

The World of Yesterday – Stefan Zweig (tr. Anthea Bell)

Visible City – Tova Mirvis • Listen to our podcast

The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880 – D.G. Myers • Listen to our podcast

Hyde – Daniel Levine • Listen to our podcast

The Bookshop – Penelope Fitzgerald

The Cold Song – Linn Ullmann • Listen to our podcast: part 1 & part 2

Mortality – Christopher Hitchens

This Is Where We Came In: Intimate Glimpses – Lynne Sharon Schwartz • Listen to our podcast

All That Is – James Salter

The Divine Comedy, Vol. 1: Inferno – Dante Alighieri (tr. Durling)

The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2: Purgatorio – Dante Alighieri (tr. Durling)

The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World – George Prochnik • Listen to our podcast

Secrecy – Rupert Thomson • Listen to our podcast

The Divine Comedy, Vol. 3: Paradiso – Dante Alighieri (tr. Durling)

Solaris – Stanislaw Lem (r)

Nose Down, Eyes Up – Merrill Markoe • Listen to our podcast

Bleeding Edge – Thomas Pynchon

Never Mind – Edward St. Aubyn

The Incentive of the Maggot: Poems – Ron Slate • Listen to our podcast

Bad News – Edward St. Aubyn

The Great Wave: Poems – Ron Slate • Listen to our podcast

Some Hope – Edward St. Aubyn

Mother’s Milk – Edward St. Aubyn

At Last – Edward St. Aubyn

My Face for the World to See – Alfred Hayes

The Horned Man – James Lasdun

The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor – Jonathan Rose • Listen to our podcast

Doll Palace – Sara Lippmann • Listen to our podcast

Last Night – James Salter

Where To?: A Hack Memoir – Dmitry Samarov • Listen to our podcast

The Wife – Meg Wolitzer

The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton

Backing Into Forward: A Memoir – Jules Feiffer • Listen to our podcast

I Only Read It for the Cartoons: The New Yorker’s Most Brilliantly Twisted Artists – Richard Gehr • Listen to our podcast

Mr. Wicker – Maria Alexander • Listen to our podcast

The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany – Donald Westlake (ed. Levi Stahl)

Give + Take – Stona Fitch • Listen to our podcast

Senseless – Stona Fitch • Listen to our podcast

All Those Vanished Engines – Paul Park

Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade – Walter Kirn • Listen to our podcast

A Princess of Roumania – Paul Park

Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather

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 • Listen to our podcast

Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis

A Sport and a Pastime – James Salter

Engine Summer – John Crowley • Listen to our podcast

The Original 1982 – Lori Carson • Listen to our podcast

Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments – Michael Dirda • Listen to our podcast

Distrust That Particular Flavor – William Gibson

The Other Side of the Tiber: Reflections on Time in Italy – Wallis Wilde-Menozzi • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2017 podcast)

Chess Story – Stefan Zweig (r)

Moby-Dick – Herman Melville (r)

Little, Big – John Crowley (r) • Listen to our podcast

Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth (r)

Portrait Inside My Head: Essays – Phillip Lopate • Listen to our podcast

To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction – Phillip Lopate • Listen to our podcast

Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise – David Rothenberg • Listen to our podcast

The Oresteia – Aeschylus (tr. Lattimore) (r)

Payback: The Case for Revenge – Thane Rosenbaum • Listen to our podcast

A Month in the Country – JL Carr

Checkpoint – Nicholson Baker

Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth (r)

The Death of Ivan Ilych – Leo Tolstoy (r)

Stoner – John Williams

A Month in the Country – JL Carr (r)

Vineland – Thomas Pynchon (r)

The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran – Hooman Majd • Listen to our podcast

Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir – Bruce Jay Friedman • Listen to our podcast

The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning – Peter Trachtenberg • Listen to our podcast

Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons – Peter Trachtenberg • Listen to our podcast

Everyman – Philip Roth (r)

The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion – Virginia Postrel • Listen to our podcast (and listen to our 2020 podcast)

The Fifty-First State – Lisa Borders • Listen to our podcast

The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism – Daniel Goldhagen • Listen to our podcast

Solo Faces – James Salter

Getting Personal: Selected Essays – Phillip Lopate • Listen to our podcast

Barracuda in the Attic – Kipp Friedman • Listen to our podcast

Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad – Brett Martin • Listen to our podcast

The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman – Bruce Jay Friedman • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

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

Cultural Amnesia – Clive James • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

An Open Book – Michael Dirda • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

Selected Stories – Stefan Zweig

The Silence of Trees – Valya Dudycz Lupescu • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy

Exit Ghost – Philip Roth

A Fan’s Notes – Frederick Exley (r)

Love and Sleep – John Crowley • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

Netherland – Joseph O’Neill

Endless Things – John Crowley • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos – Bruce Jay Friedman • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

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) • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco

Porno – Irvine Welsh • Listen to our podcast

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) • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

The Secret Parts of Fortune – Ron Rosenbaum • Listen to our podcast

Richard II – William Shakespeare (r)

Ciphers – Paul Di Filippo • Listen to our podcast

The Lost Scrapbook – Evan Dara

The Biographer’s Tale – A.S. Byatt

Turn of the Century – Kurt Andersen • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

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) • Listen to our podcast

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 • Listen to our podcast

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

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