Jan. 14th, 2015

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FICTION


  • The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje

  • In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje

  • If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin

  • Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels (using this for the reading challenge)

  • The Winter Vault, Anne Michaels

  • Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez

  • 1984, George Orwell

  • In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust

  • Flesh and Blood, Michael Cunningham

  • The Hours, Michael Cunningham

  • Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

  • The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

  • As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner (also using for the reading challenge)

  • Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson

  • The People of Paper, Salvador Plascencia

  • Bel Canto, Ann Patchett

  • The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers

  • The Princess Bride, William Goldman

  • Crapalachia: A Biography of Place, Scott McClanahan

  • A Burnt Out Case, Graham Greene

  • The Tenth Man, Graham Greene

  • White Oleander, Janet Fitch

  • Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

  • The Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (using for challenge)

  • Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

  • On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan

  • The Collector, John Fowles

  • The History of Love, Nicole Krauss

  • Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

  • The Woman in the Dunes, Kobo Abe

  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Suskind

  • The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

  • A Convergence of Birds, edited by Jonathon Safran Foer

  • Translations, Brian Friel

POETRY / ON THE SUBJECT OF POETRY


  • No, Ocean Vuong

  • Love, an Index, Rebecca Lindenberg

  • The City in Which I Love You, Li-Young Lee

  • Everything Begins Elsewhere, Tishani Doshi

  • Radical Symmetry, Katherine Larson

  • Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

  • Heavy Petting, Gregory Sherl

  • The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail, Gregory Sherl

  • i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together, mira gonzalez

  • Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, Warsan Shire

  • Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke. Translated by Stephen Mitchell

  • Here, Wislawa Szymborska

  • Bluets, Maggie Nelson

  • The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

  • Crush, Richard Siken

  • The Cinnamon Peeler, Michael Ondaatje

  • The Dream of a Common Language, Adrienne Rich

  • The Weight of Oranges / Miners Pond / Skin Divers, Anne Michaels

  • Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

  • The Poet’s Companion, Kim Addonizio & Dorianne Laux

  • The Making of a Poem, Eavan Boland & Mark Strand

NONFICTION


  • Just Kids, Patti Smith

  • Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje

  • Truth & Beauty: A Friendship, Ann Patchett

  • The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls

  • Half Broke Horses, Jeanette Walls

  • Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, Ronald Takaki

  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion

  • A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit

  • The Faraway Nearby, Rebecca Solnit

  • The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa

  • Henry and June, Anaïs Nin

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Need to try some poetry. Think I will use audiobooks for that

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