Books Read 2024

Ode to Unread Books on my Bookshelf

Goals:

read a lot more classic books finish the three volume series, 50 books You Need to Read Before You DIe and Harvard Classics

Read A Lot More Poetry

Read At Least One Book A Year in Spanish starting with Pablo Neruda poems.

Read At Least One Book A Year in Korean starting with bilingual short stories

This year I read a lot of books, and lots of individual poems and stories. I kept track of all my reviews I do daily on fan story and writing com but did not list them here as that was too unreadable and boring to post.

Total Numerical listing

books read

The List – fiction/non-fiction/poetry

Fiction

Classics

Virginia Woolf Jacob’s Room
Alcot Little Woman
Balzac, Honoré DE: Father Goriot
Lucy Maud Montgomery The Story Girl
Willa Cather My Antonia
Author Connor Doyle’s The Lost World
Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno REVIEW DUE
Butler, Samuel: The Way OF All Flesh
Brontë, Anne: The Tenant OF Wildfell Hall
Peston and Child the Pharoch Key
Liz Wiehl The Candidate
Grisholm Camino Island

Flashman Novels

George Mac Donald Fraser Flashman And The Redskins
George Macdonald Fraser Flashman And The Angel Of The Lord
George Macdonald Fraser Flashman On The March
George Mac Donald Frazer Flashman And The Dragon

Thrillers/Crime

Janet Evanovich To Nines
Liz Wiehl The Candidate Medford Library
John Grisham Camino Ghosts Medford Library
Harlan Coben Think Twice Medford Library
David Baldacci The 6:20 Man Camp H Library

Frederick Pohl Collected Stories Medford Library
1. THE Merchant OF Venus
2. The Thing That Happen
3. The Hight Test
4. My Lady Greensleeves
5. The Kindly Isle
6. The Middle OF Nowhere
7. I REMEMBER A Winter
8. The Greening OF Bed Stuv
9. The Map Makers
10. Spending A Day AT THE Lottery Fair
11. Celebrating No Hit Inning
12. Some Joys Under The Star
13. Servant Of The People

Anderson Stories

1. Anderson FABLES THE Almshouse
2. Anderson FABLES THE Angel

Poetry

Total: 3,000 poems including fan story review, writing com review and selected classic poems -some listed below.

Selected Poems by Famous Writers etc

Christopher Micheal Nuclear Orange Cupid is the Devil

I received this book last year for participating in the Poetry Superhighway annual poetry contest.

Christopher Michael is a published poet who lives in Austin, Texas and has been winning poetry slams since 1989 when he entered his first slam.

the book contains the following poems ==

Tea Em Eye

Haiku

Father

Imagine

The Boys

Not A Thief

The Gravityof Pity

Job Application

Plugs To Give

Fakery

Political Stuff

Glass House

Mr. Bullet Goes To Work

Zombie Swarm

Bee Swarm

Eye Am Here For You

The October Menace

Herbicide Maniac

Bacon

She’s Black

Flash And America

The Flash and the Fireball

Feeling Her

SIN

Theoretical Love

Baby

The Muse

Love And Landmines

Skeletons And Corny Jokes

Dookie Man

Belly Buttons

Severed Fingers And Heavy Bags

The Firestorm

Razors And Regrets

The Relapse

Love Turns Cowards Into Lions

The Fall Out

Nuclear Orange

Fields Of Flammable Fantasies

Zombie Loss

I Warned You

BJ Buckley In January the Geese

I received this book last year for participating in the Poetry Superhighway annual poetry contest. Everyone who enters gets a book of poetry for participating. The contest opens in July and closes around labor day, winners are announced in October. I have also participated in the annual poetry chapbook give away challenge which is held in November.

There are 26 poems in this book. The poems are based on the author’s lived experience growing up on a farm in rural Wyoming and Montana. A number of the poems are written from the animal’s point of view. For example, In January the geese, first bear, long division. box with bugs, night herding, pronghorn elegy, rescue last rites.

the poems are:

Upthrust
in January, the geese
first bear
long division
gates
C store 5:00 AM
fields
burn pile
Sunriver
slamming
hard frost
seed
on Sunday morning
box with bugs
Watchman
Funeral
night herding
Instrument
almost July
instrument
pronghorn Elegy
rescue
towards evening Teton river
infinite haze
September
bad shot
last rites

Wade Riddle

I received this book for entering the Poetry Superhighway annual contest

Groove Power Of Summer
Wade Riddle Summer In Santa Monica Power Of Summer
Wade Riddle The Tom Hardy Party Power Of Summer
Wade Riddle Kiss Me Chris Pine Power Of Summer
Wade Riddle Dance To The Beat Of The Beach Boy’s Power Of Summer
Wade Riddle The Power Of Summer Power Of Summer
Wade Riddle L.A. Blue Power Of Summer
Wade Riddle Take Me Home To Venice Beach Power Of Summer
Wade Riddle’s An Ode To A Summer’s Song
Wade Riddle Chocolate Man Children Horror

Lawrence Ferlinghetti A Coney Island of the Mind

I Am Waiting

Junkman’s Obbligat0
In Goya’s Gardens
Autobiography
The Changing Ligh
Sometime During Eternity
The World Is a Beautiful Place to Drown In
The Great American Poem

9 Poem #1 10

TS Elliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ,

The Waste Land

Franz Kafka Surreal Prose Poems

Maya Angelous

Insomniac

When You Come

Passing Time

A Conceit

The

Gwendolyn Brooks

We Real Cool

Charles Bukowsk

i And The Moon And The Stars And The World

Emily Dickison

A Book

Faith” Is A Fine Invention

Ronald Dahl

Hot and Cold

Robert Frost

Two Roads Diverge

Road Not Taken

Nothing Gold Can Stay

A Question

The Rose Family

After Apple-Picking)

The Death Of The Hired Man.

Mending Wall.

Birches

Stopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening.

Tree In My Window.

Directive.

Langton Hughes

My People

Dreams

Suicide’s Note

Mother to Son

Spike Milligan

A Silly Poem

Ogden Nash

Word To Husbands

Dorothy Parker

A Very Short Song

Edgar Allen Poe

Anabel Lee

Vikram Seith

All You Who Sleep Tonight

William Carlos Williams

the red wheel barrel

This Is Just To Say

Villanelle

W.H. Auden’s

“If I Could Tell You”

Elizabeth Bishop’s

“One Art”

Leonard Cohen

“A Villanelle for Our Time”

Edmund Gosse “

Villanelle”

Dylan Thomas

“Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”

Vision and Prayer

Jean Passerat’s poem

“Villanelle (I Lost My Turtledove),

Wilde’s

“A Villanelle”

Interlocking Rubiyat

Carol Ward Day

Fitzgerald

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Mike Montreuil

Yesterday

Jainrohit

Rubaiyat

concrete Poems

Lewis Carrol

l The Mouse’s Tail

E.E. Cumming

sr-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r

Senryu

Al Pizzarelli

the Fat Lady

Anon. Senryu

(early 18th century)The bird set free,

He shuts His Eyes

(early 18th century) Last Night

Sazanka

Losing his job

(early 18th century) “Make a profit

Alexis Rotella

Trying to forget him

George Swede

Unhappy wife

Marlene Mountain

The leans on the gate going staying

Anita Virgil

After the child’s funeral –

Jack Kerouac’s Kicking the Icebox

Chatuska Russian LImerick

Annyomous Mother, Spare Me, Don’t Scold Me
Kolkhoz Life

Time Got Shifted By An Hour

Political And Anti-Religious Propaganda

We Remember Lenin’s Words

Margaret Atwood

Siren Song

Robert Hayden

a Plague of Starlings

Ava Hofmann’s

[A woman wandered into a thicket] ,

Natalie Diaz

From the Desire Field

Ruth Fainlight

The Prism

B. Shelley

Ozymandias

Shakespeare

Sonnet 138

.Annyomous

Beowulf ,

William Blake

The Tyger

Robert Burns

A Red, Red Rose

John Keats.

Ode to a Nightingale

Daddy

Dr love Jesus

ABC to my imaginary friend

Camusat

Finding Truth

Stuart Witt

Precedent

George Herbert

Easter Wings

Patty Mazurka

Your Last September

Ubi Sunt Poems

Francis VIllon ubi sunt “Ballade des dames du temps jadis” (“Ballad of the Ladies of Times Past”)

“Where are the snows of yesteryear?”

Thomas Nashe’s

“Adieu, Farewell, Earth’s Bliss,”

Sir Philph Sidney

“Astrophel Stella CII: ‘Where be the roses gone, which sweetened so our eyes?’”,

Mark Strang

“Where Are the Waters of Childhood?”

James Macpherson‘s

” translation” of Ossian. The eighth of Macpherson’s Fragments of Ancient Poetry (1760)

Fingal (1761)

Temora (1763),

Pete Seeger

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”

Paula Cole’s 1997 hit song

“Where Have All the Cowboys Gone.”

Bonnie Tyler’s 1984 hit,

“Holding Out for a Hero”,

Joseph Heller’s 1961

novel Catch-22,

Martin Amis’

The War Against Cliché

Irish Rose

Frosted Fantasy ABC Poem

Ava Hofmann’s

[A woman wandered into a thicket] ,

Natalie Diaz

From the Desire Field

Ruth Fanlight

The Prism

Choka Yamanoue no Okura

Eating Melons

Limericks

Dayton Voorhees

There Once Was A Man From Nantucket

Edward Lear

There Was An Old Man In A Tree,

There Was An Old Man With A Beard,
There Was A Young Lady Of Ryde,
There Was An Old Man Of Quebec,
There Was A Young Lady Whose Bonnet,
There Was A Young Belle Of Old Natchez

There Was A Young Lady Of Station,

Hickory Dickory Dock

There Was A Small Boy Of Quebec,
A Demi-Young Author Named Jong

Our Novels Get Longa And Longa

WH Auden

Limerick

Lewis Carroll

Lucy O’Finner

William Shakespeare

Othello

Japanese death poems

As the Nigerian Naira steadily falls, the economy crumbles

Yuan Chonghuan

A life’s work totals to nothing

Xia Wanchun

I have been on the path of the war for three years

Yang Jisheng Bear

righteousness and the way on a shoulder of iron,

Wen Tianxiang

Confucius speaks of perfecting nobility

— Zen monk Kozan Ichikyo (1283–1360)[11]

Fujiwara no Teishi,

If you remember the promises between us,

Tadamichi Kuribayashi

Unable to complete this heavy task for our country

Takarai Kikaku

Falling ill on a journey

Moriya Sen’an

Bury me when I die

Korean death poems

Seong Sam-mun

What shall I become when this body is dead and gone?
As the sound of drum calls for my life,

Jo Gwang-jo (조광조;

I loved the king as if he were my father

Chŏng Mong-ju

Should this body die and die again a hundred times over,

Hwang Hyun

Birds and beasts cry in sorrow and the mountains and oceans frown

Matsuo Basho

Old Pond

Groot

Piet Hein

Missing Link

Road To Wisdom

Prescription

Timing Toast
Circumscripture

Best American Poetry 2023

Will Alexander the Polish mathematics

Michael Ania covering standups.

Ray Armitage fortune

WHR then we get the dialectic fairly well.

Martin Bell and a definite player

Charles Bernstein people

Mark Bibbins from 13 balloons

Lee Ann Brown as an American

Kamryn Alexa Castro Yes

Mariane Chan the shape of Biddle City

Victoria Chang World’s End

Maxi ne Chernoff the Songbird Academy

Kwame Dawes Photo Shoot

Alex Demetrio the years

Stuart Disc hell after the exhibition

Timothy Daniel Instagram

Boris Dayak Days at the Races

Joana Fuhrman 330 College Avenue

Amy Gerstle Night Herons

Peter Gizzi revisionary

Herbert Gold’s other news

Terrene Hayes Strange as the rule of grammar

Robert Herston All Right

Paul Hoover abominations, afternoon

Shirley Jackson’s Best Original Enigma

Patrica Spears Jones the Devil’s wife explains 45.

Ilay Kaminsky, I ask that I not die.

Vincent Katz’s A Marvelous Sky

John Keen Straight No Chaser

Miho Kinas’ Three Shrimp Boats

Wayne kepstrum Misran Master Craftsman

Yusef Komunyakaa from the autobiography

Michale Lay I meant to

Dorothea Lasky Green Moon John Yao zone

Bernadette Ayer Pi Day

Maureen Mc Lane Moonrise

Yusef Michael tablet 6

Stephen Paul Miller dating Buddha

Susan Mitchell Chaplin in Palma

Backus more extraordinary life

diesel to social in several invoices

Elliot Mullen as I wander lonely in the cloud Kathy and also the facts.

Eugene Austin Husky from the fainting feeling Sonnets You Go Out Tomorrow.

Sunday game

Marine Owen in space surface tensional force

John Phillips’s film theory

Catholic bullet round front shirt

Caroline Marie Rodgers phone number two my kind of feminism

Jerome Sarah’s Something I’m Not Hot takes in Spiderman her dark drama.

Turkey Tim civils all the time

Diana’s success little few state

David Shapiro lost all of Jesus.

Mitch Siskin only tough woes

Amanda Smeltz Green goddess girls in blacks Cole Swensen’s various gloves out

Arthur Sze wildlife season OK

Diane Thiel Listening in Deep Space

Rodrigo Toscano Full House

Tony Trigilio The Steeplejack

David Trinidad the poems attributed to Him May Be by Different poets.

Anne Waldman’s three poems form 13 Moon Kora

Sarah Anne Wallen, I can see Mars.

Elizbeth Winch and What My Species Did

Terrence Winch Gear Sizzle

Jeff Cyphers Wright Sweepstakes

John Yau Song for Mie Yum

Geoffrey Young Parrel Bars

Jeffrey Young parallel bars

Matthews’sZaprudar the empty grave of Zza Zaza Gabor

Harvard Classics

The volumes are:

Bolded read

Franklin, Woolman, Penn

Plato, Epictetus,

Marcus, Aurelius Meditations

(3) Bacon,

Milton’s Prose,

Thomas Browne

(4) Complete Poems in English: Milton

(5) Essays and English Traits: Emerson (

6) Poems and Songs: Burns (7)

Confessions of St. Augustine. Imitation of Christ

(8) Nine Greek Dramas (9) Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny

(10) Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith

(11) Origin of Species: Darwin

(12) Plutarch’s Lives (13)

Aeneid Virgil (14)

Don Quixote Part 1: Cervantes

(15) Pilgrim’s Progress. Donne

Herbert. Bunyan, Walton

(16) The Thousand and One Night

(17) Folk-Lore and Fable. Aesop, Grimm,

Andersen

Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairy Tales

(18) Modern English Drama

(19) Faust, Egmont Etc. Doctor Faustus, Goethe, Marlowe

(20) The Divine Comedy: Dante

(21) I Promessi

Sposi,

Manzoni

(22) The Odyssey: Homer

(23) Two Years Before the Mast. Dana

(24) On the Sublime French Revolution Etc. Burke

(25) Autobiography Etc. Essays and Addresses:

J.S. Mill,

T. Carlyle

(26) Continental Drama

(27) English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay

(28) Essays. English and American

(29) Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin (

30) Faraday,

Helmholtz,

Kelvin,

Newcomb,

Geikie

(31) Autobiography: Benvenuto,

Cellini

(32) Literary and Philosophical Essays: Montaigne,

Sainte Beuve,

Renan,

Lessing,

Schiller,

Kant,

Mazzini

(33) Voyages and Travels

(34) Descartes,

Voltaire,

Rousseau,

Hobbes

(35) Chronicle and Romance:

Froissart,

Malory,

Holinshed (36)

Machiavelli,

More,

Luther

(37) Locke,

Berkeley

, Hume

(38) Harvey,

Jenner,

Lister,

Pasteur

(39) Famous Prefaces

(40) English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray

(41) English Poetry 2: Collins to Fitzgerald

(42) English Poetry 3: Tennyson to Whitman

(43) American Historical Documents

(44) Sacred Writings 1

(45) Sacred Writings 2

(46) Elizabethan Drama 1

(47) Elizabethan Drama 2

(48) Thoughts and Minor Works: Pascal

(49) Epic and Saga (

Federalist Papers

50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die

Started reading the first one of Volume 3

Bolded indicates I have read it.

Vol 1 starts with Volume One

Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane: Emma
Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
Cleland, John: Fanny Hill
Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Eliot, George: Middlemarch
Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View
Forster, E. M.: Howard End
Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon’s Mines
Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Homer: The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables
Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady

Volume 2

– Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]
– Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen]
– Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie]
– Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower]
– The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
– A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
– Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll]
– The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers]
– The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
– The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]
– Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
– On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]
– The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]
– David Copperfield [Charles Dickens]
– Oliver Twist [Charles Dickens]
– A Tale of Two Cities [Charles Dickens]
– The Double [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
– A Room with a View [E. M. Forster]
– Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]
– Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy]
– Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse]
– Dubliners [James Joyce]
– The Fall of the House of Usher [Edgar Allan Poe]
– The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]
– The Sea Wolf [Jack London]
– The Call of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
– Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
– Beyond Good and Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
– The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]
– The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe]
– The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]
– Swann’s Way [Marcel Proust]
– Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare]
– Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]
– The Elements of Style [William Strunk Jr.

Vol 3 finished keeping for the historical record

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names.

Started with volume 3 then will go back and do volumes one, two, and the Harvard classics. The goal is to finish all of these by the end of next year. I almost finished Volume One. Will do some of the WC reading books as well.

– What’s Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen]
– The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius]
– Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]
– Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]
– Lady Susan [Jane Austen]
– The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum]
– The Art of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie]
– The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish]
– The Wisdom of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– Heretics [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– The Innocence of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [John Cleland]
– The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]
– Lord Jim [Joseph Conrad]
– The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
– The Pickwick Papers [Charles Dickens]
– A Christmas Carol [Charles Dickens]
– Notes From The Underground [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
– The Gambler par Fyodor [Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
– The Lost World [Arthur Conan Doyle]
– The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]
– The Sign of the Four [Arthur Conan Doyle]
– The Man in the Iron Mask [Alexandre Dumas]
– The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]
– This Side of Paradise [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
– Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
– King Solomon’s Mines [Henry Rider Haggard]
– The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Victor Hugo]
– Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
– Captain Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
– The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
– Lady Chatterley’s Lover [David Herbert Lawrence]
– The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]
– The Einstein Theory of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]
– The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
– At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
– The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli]
– The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
– The Antichrist [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
– The Republic [Plato]
– The Last Man [Mary Shelley]
– Life On The Mississippi [Mark Twain]
– The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]
– In the Year 2889 [Jules Verne]
– Around the World in Eighty Days [Jules Verne]
– Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]
– Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ [Lewis Wallace]
– Jacob’s Room [Virginia Woolf]

Sci-Fi short stories

Goal read one to four stories per week

The Big Book of Science Fiction is a massive anthology of science fiction stories edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. It covers the history and evolution of the genre from the early 20th century to the end of the millennium, featuring works from over 30 countries and many languages. The book contains 105 stories, ranging from classics by H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula K. Le Guin, to lesser-known gems by W.E.B. Du Bois, David R. Bunch, and Liu Cixin. The book also includes comments from the editors and the authors, offering insights into their creative process and vision. The book is divided into 11 sections, each with a thematic focus and a chronological order. Here is the table of contents for the book 1:

Introduction: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

The Lens of Time: Science Fiction as a Way of Seeing

H.G. Wells: “The Star” (1897)

Lu Xun: “The New Overworld” (1902)

Sultana’s Dream: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1905)

Albert Robida: “The Triumph of Mechanics” (1908)

Miguel de Unamuno: “Mechanopolis” (1913)

W.E.B. Du Bois: “The Comet” (1920)

Claude Farrère: “The Fate of the Poseidonia” (1923)

Edmond Hamilton: “The Star Stealers” (1929)

David H. Keller: “The Lost Language” (1934)

Stanislaw Lem: “Solaris” (1961) excerpt

Jorge Luis Borges: “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (1940)

Cixin Liu: “The Poetry Cloud” (1997)

Invasions

Edgar Rice Burroughs: “A Princess of Mars” (1912) excerpt

Leslie F. Stone: “The Conquest of Gola” (1931)

Stanley G. Weinbaum: “A Martian Odyssey” (1934)

John W. Campbell Jr.: “Who Goes There?” (1938)

Ray Bradbury: “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” (1949)

Katherine MacLean: “Pictures Don’t Lie” (1951)

William Tenn: “The Liberation of Earth” (1953)

J.G. Ballard: “The Voices of Time” (1960)

Dino Buzzati: “Catastrophe” (1966)

James Tiptree Jr.: “And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side” (1972)

Joanna Russ: “When It Changed” (1972)

Arkady & Boris Strugatsky: “The Spontaneous Reflex” (1973) excerpt

Octavia Butler: “Bloodchild” (1984)

James Patrick Kelly: “Think Like a Dinosaur” (1995)

Monsters

H.P. Lovecraft: “The Dunwich Horror” (1929)

Ray Bradbury: “The Foghorn” (1951)

Jerome Bixby: “It’s a Good Life” (1953)

Julio Cortázar: “Axolotl” (1956)

J.G. Ballard: “The Drowned Giant” (1964)

R.A. Lafferty: “Nine Hundred Grandmothers” (1966)

Terry Carr: “The Dance of the Changer and the Three” (1968)

Harlan Ellison®: “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” (1967)

Lisa Tuttle & George R.R. Martin: “The Storms of Windhaven” (1975)

John Varley: “Air Raid” (1977)

William Gibson: “New Rose Hotel” (1984)

Ted Chiang: “Story of Your Life” (1998)

Experiments

Alfred Jarry: “Elements of Pataphysics” (1911)

Karel Čapek: “R.U.R.” (1920) excerpt

Stanisław Lem: “How Erg the Self-Inducting Slew a Paleface” (1955)

William S. Burroughs: “Excerpt from Naked Lunch” (1959)

J.G. Ballard: “Chronopolis” (1960)

Philip K. Dick: “Beyond Lies the Wub” (1952)

Boris Vian: “Froth on the Daydream” (1947) excerpt

Joanna Russ: “Useful Phrases for the Tourist” (1970)

George Alec Effinger: “Two Sadnesses” (1973)

John Sladek: “Solar Shoe Salesman” (1974)

Dafydd ab Hugh: “The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk” (1986)

Generation Ships

Don Wilcox: “The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years” (1940)

Judith Merril: “Daughters of Earth” (1952)

Brian W. Aldiss: “Non-Stop” (1958) excerpt

Robert Silverberg: “Sundance” (1969)

Pamela Zoline: “The Heat Death of the Universe” (1967)

Gene Wolfe: “A Cabin on the Coast” (1984)

Bruce Sterling: “Swarm” (1982)

Geoff Ryman: “The Unconquered Country” (1984)

New Worlds

Cordwainer Smith: “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard” (1961)

Samuel R. Delany: “Aye, and Gomorrah …” (1967)

Ursula K. Le Guin: “Vaster Than Empires and Slower” (1971)

James Tiptree Jr.: “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” (1976)

Frederik Pohl: “The Gold at the Starbow’s End” (1972)

Angélica Gorodischer: “Of Navigators and Traitors” (1973) excerpt

John Crowley: “Snow” (1985)

Iain M. Banks: “A Gift from the Culture” (1987)

Greg Egan: “Learning to Be Me” (1990)

Future War

Jack London: “The Unparalleled Invasion” (1910)

Edward Bulwer-Lytton: “The Coming Race” (1871) excerpt

George Griffith: “The War of the Viruses” (1895)

Philip Francis Nowlan: “Armageddon 2419 A.D.” (1928)

E.E. “Doc” Smith: “The Skylark of Space” (1928) excerpt

Olaf Stapledon: “Star Maker” (1937) excerpt

Robert A. Heinlein: “Solution Unsatisfactory” (1941)

C.M. Kornbluth: “Two Dooms” (1958)

Joe Haldeman: “Hero” (1972)

Harry Harrison: “The Streets of Ashkelon” (1962)

David R. Bunch: “Moderan” (1967)

Harlan Ellison®: “A Boy and His Dog” (1969)

James S.A. Corey: “Rates of Change” (2011)

Virtual Reality

Stanisław Lem: “The Seventh Sally or How Trurl’s Own Perfection Led to No Good” (1965)

Philip K. Dick: “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (1966)

John Brunner: “The Vitanuls” (1967)

Roger Zelazny: “For a Breath I Tarry” (1966)

Robert Silverberg: “Passengers” (1968)

Rudy Rucker: “Software” (1982) excerpt

William Gibson: “Burning Chrome” (1982)

Pat Cadigan: “Pretty Boy Crossover” (1986)

Neal Stephenson: “Snow Crash” (1992) excerpt

Humanity 2.0

Olaf Stapledon: “Odd John” (1935) excerpt

C.L. Moore: “No Woman Born” (1944)

Cordwainer Smith: “Scanners Live in Vain” (1950)

Algis Budrys: “Who?” (1955)

James Blish: “Surface Tension” (1952)

Gregory Benford: “Blood Music” (1983)

Bruce Sterling: “Mozart in Mirrorshades” (1985)

Vernor Vinge: “True Names” (1981)

Ted Chiang: “Understand” (1991)

Alien Minds

Arthur C. Clarke: “The Sentinel” (1951)

Isaac Asimov: “The Last Question” (1956)

Clifford D. Simak: “Desertion” (1944)

James H. Schmitz: “Grandpa” (1955)

Frank Herbert: “Try to Remember!” (1961)

Philip José Farmer: “Sail On! Sail On!” (1952)

Stanisław Lem: “Solaris” (1961) excerpt

Arkady & Boris Strugatsky: “Roadside Picnic” (1972) excerpt

Karen Joy Fowler & Pat Murphy: “Rachel in Love” (1987)

Ian McDonald: “The Tear” (2008)

After the End

Walter M. Miller Jr.: “The Darfsteller” (1955) J.G. Ballard: “The Terminal Beach” (1964) John Wyndham: ”

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Books Read 2024

Books Read 2024

Ode to Unread Books on my Bookshelf

Goals:

read a lot more classic books finish the three volume series, 50 books You Need to Read Before You DIe and Harvard Classics

Read A Lot More Poetry

Read At Least One Book A Year in Spanish starting with Pablo Neruda poems.

Read At Least One Book A Year in Korean starting with bilingual short stories

Total Numerical listing

The List – fiction/non-fiction/poetry

Fiction

Classics

Flashman Novels

Thrillers/Crime

Frederick Pohl Collected Stories Medford Library

Anderson Stories

Poetry

Christopher Micheal Nuclear Orange Cupid is the Devil

BJ Buckley In January the Geese

Wade Riddle

Lawrence Ferlinghetti A Coney Island of the Mind

TS Elliot

Franz Kafka Surreal Prose Poems

Maya Angelous

Gwendolyn Brooks

Charles Bukowsk

Emily Dickison

Ronald Dahl

Robert Frost

Langton Hughes

Spike Milligan

Ogden Nash

Dorothy Parker

Edgar Allen Poe

Vikram Seith

William Carlos Williams

Villanelle

W.H. Auden’s

Elizabeth Bishop’s

Leonard Cohen

Edmund Gosse “

Dylan Thomas

Jean Passerat’s poem

Wilde’s

Interlocking Rubiyat

Carol Ward Day

Fitzgerald

Mike Montreuil

Jainrohit

concrete Poems

Lewis Carrol

l The Mouse’s Tail

E.E. Cumming

sr-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r

Al Pizzarelli

Anon. Senryu

Sazanka

Alexis Rotella

George Swede

Marlene Mountain

Anita Virgil

Chatuska Russian LImerick

Robert Hayden

Ava Hofmann’s

Natalie Diaz

Ruth Fainlight

B. Shelley

Shakespeare

.Annyomous

William Blake

Robert Burns

John Keats.

Dr love Jesus

Camusat

Stuart Witt

George Herbert

Patty Mazurka

Ubi Sunt Poems

Pete Seeger

Paula Cole’s 1997 hit song