Roy was my college roommate at UOP in Stockton, California from 1976 to 1978 when we lived at the Euclid House with Sara, Sharon, Kevin (now Karen) Jeff C, and others. We had a wild two-year ride with weekly parties every Friday night. Roy introduced me to the Grateful Dead, the beatnik writers, and so much more. We lost touch over the years but became Face Book friends and zoom friends about seven years ago. I miss our time together. Here are some of his recent Facebook musings re-posted with his permission.
THE 7TH ANNUAL EDITION OF ROY’S BEST BOOKS,
wherein I muse, perhaps entirely for my own entertainment, on some books I read or heard this year that landed somewhere in the vicinity of my heart and stayed there for whatever reason.
This year, I get to start with a special category I’ve never officially included before: GREAT BOOKS BY NICE PEOPLE I ACTUALLY KNOW.
LIVE CAUGHT
R Cathey Daniels is swampy and dank, with a magnetic, lyrical voice and a lead character who is properly mystified by life and desperate to rescue one little girl, if not himself, from its worst inclinations. You’ll want to save everyone in the book. Well, almost everyone.
ATTRIBUTION
Linda Moore, is an engaging mystery set in the world of art history scholars, with a smart, idealistic heroine to root on toward empowerment and recognition and self-acceptance. And romance!
BESTSELLING FICTION
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY
Amor Towles, who came to critical acclaim with ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ several years ago. This newer one feels like a charming thought-provoking coming of age period piece, encased in wonderful and evocative prose, until it all slides sideways into darkness and finally ends with a couple slackmouth twists, the kind that seem shocking yet inevitable at the same time.
NON-FICTION
MUSIC: A SUBVERSIVE HISTORY
Ted Gioia, who is considered by some as one of America’s (if not the world’s) leading writers on music history. This is Gioia’s most far-reaching work yet. The overarching thesis of the book is that innovation in music has always come from outsiders, usually those kept outside the mainstream by self-appointed and self-interested gatekeepers. Nonetheless, over and over, the greatest talents and their ideas somehow find a way to slip past the gates and change everything. It’s a huge book, covering a lot of information; I listened to it on audio, and in spurts, over a few months. Well worth the stretched-out journey! (Also: Ted Gioia writes on many other topics as well, and is one of my favorites on substack.) And BTW, it’s pronounced Joy-uh.
WORDCRAFT
I read lots of books on writing craft. I don’t always get a wealth of useful info from them, but I read for the odd bit that resonates and, more than that, for the constant nudge to think deeply about my own reading and writing. Because of that, my favorite craft book is often the one I’m reading right now, and that happens to be THE NUTSHELL TECHNIQUE by Jill Chamberlain. This is actually a screenwriting book, but also offers fiction writers an interesting no-frills framework to analyze the basic ingredients of all stories and their interrelationships.
ALRIGHT, THAT’S IT FOR THIS YEAR. Make room in your life for a book. Each one is a world on paper.
(Disclaimer: no books were harmed in the making of this post.)
////////////Random observation about baseball
HARD TO EXPLAIN how MLB teams are signing guys for 20-30-40 million a year right now, but just a couple months ago, they were saying the game’s popularity is slipping so far they have to change the rules to make it faster and more exciting. WTF?!
The Giants sure are killin’ it on the free agent market so far, right?
Long before TJ Holmes and Amy Robach there was Kelfy Couric and Gumby Damnit. Big time front page tabloid stuff back in the day.
Well Christmas
I’m dreaming of a well Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where there is no sneezing
And lungs aren’t wheezing
And masks aren’t needed when you go
I’m dreaming of a well Christmas
Without a fever or the chills
May your tests have nothing to tell
And may all your Christmases be we
Look, Santa: yes I’ve been a naughty boy, but only in the best possible way
This is my first guest blog piece. I got to know Douglas’s work through Fan Story. I will be posting from time to time other guest posts from my Fan Story, Writing Com, and other writing groups. I hope you enjoy his work as much as I have.
Bio
Douglas Richard Colthurst was born in 1955 on a farm in Cabery, a tiny town in central Illinois. Received a Bachelor’s in Biology from the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign and a Doctorate in Dentistry from the University of Illinois at Chicago (I think?). published dentist with prison dentistry experience published poet and amateur painter novice wine sommelier comic book collector bilingual in English and German amazing father – bowler, golfer, chef motorcycle license, and Harley owner
Victor Touche ? A 59-plus eight-year imposition on this planet. Who…. always wanted to slow down, explore the other side of his brain, and amount to something other than a paycheck. Of course, the other side of me would argue paycheck first you dolt, there’s time for the other later. Ah well, as Jackson Browne once said, something like I wake up every day to the great compromise. I have a lovely daughter of 21. (senior college, (oh me, oh my). Which fulfilled and completed my life to a degree I shall be ever grateful for. As all of you parents know. Love to cook. Wine. Wine Cellar at last. Harley Davidson. Rebel. Always did resent authority.
Setting the scene.
The Walk
hate standing in lines. But there I was, happy as a clam, standing in line; for a fake diploma. (The real one came later by mail.) But it did represent the culmination of four years of pure hell, dental school. Some people didn’t seem to mind it. But for most of us, it was a long grind. One must study continuously. This is interrupted only by eating, sleeping, and lab work. Seriously. I am not inviting sympathy. One’s time is simply occupied until graduation. I finally learned of shortcuts that many students knew, but it was too late to use them. And I don’t think I would have anyway, but that is for another story; my dental school experiences.
Since there was no time to assess my coming work situation, I graduated needing a job, housing, and money. My parents still lived in a rural town in central Illinois. They had seen an advertisement in the local paper for a dentist at Pontiac Maximum Security Prison. What? As in, what was I thinking? I know. I thought the same thing. I mean the same thing. But I could earn a little money, live with my parents, and buy a car. You know, start living.
I interviewed and unfortunately got the job. Now, this was done by an “administrative company,” responsible for hiring all the healthcare professionals for Illinois’ prisons. This is pertinent because before, each dentist contracted with the state. This may not seem significant. It didn’t happen to me either. But, oh boy, was it ever. The only thing that matters in prison is power. Yeah, to be sure, the prisoners are in a stark Darwinian experiment. Yes, but all that matters to the guards is power. And to the multiple wardens. Think I exaggerate? Read on, gentle reader. So the dentist before me was there for some thirty years. And he had his self to answer to. I didn’t realize how irritated the wardens were with this setup. Petty? Absolutely. But we’re just getting started. Turns out there was a lot of built-up, pent-up resentment over the dental area not being under the direct control of the prison officer hierarchical system. Guess what? I wasn’t informed of all the myriad political land mines I was soon to step on. I firmly believe if I had listened only to the advice from my administrators, I wouldn’t be alive today.
So I pull into the prototypical gravel parking lot at 7:30 AM. Pontiac was one of my old stomping grounds from high school. Quik’s was still there. Used to polish up the car or pick-up truck and drive around Quik’s. Over and over until we almost lost our minds. Cruisin’. Yep, we used to cruise Quik’s for hours. Good burgers. Probably not, but hey, we were teenagers. Big parking lot. Multiple lots for several businesses. All shut down after five or on weekends. Cruise, check out chicks. Repeat, ad infinitum. Once every hour or so, a new set of mounds bounced around. Gas was thirty cents a gallon. Gear heads. Pot heads. A little head now and then just to get by. Never got in trouble. Don’t know how.
Oh yes, the Pontiac Prison gravel parking lot. Cool morning. The crunch of old familiar sounds as I stepped out onto the gravel. Almost brought a subconscious recognition of fear. The only time we heard those sounds, (of crunching gravel beneath our feet), was getting out of a car for a fight or a friend. I looked towards the prison.
Simple barbed wire outer fence, with a small guard house. Grass lay after this for twenty feet or so, and then the administrative complex which housed everything, basically, except the prisoners. Long and rectangular, looked like a school. Ran the entire north side of the prison complex. Enter through glass doors and then proceed ten feet to the oldest, biggest, most intimidating steel gate that I had ever seen. Auguste Rodin’s “Gate of Hell,” without the ornament. Just swung grudgingly open momentarily, before slamming shut momentously on those huge groaning hinges. Shut. Silence, every time. For a moment, just made one reflect on the “end.” Period. Never have had quite the same feeling about gates since. Shudder, groan, goodbye is all they ever said.
As I said, just stepped out onto the dewy morning gravel. A new day. A new life. Whoa there, cowboy, probably not what was said on the “inside,” eh? I have tried to tell people about this…” feeling” one notices emanating from Pontiac Prison. No one pays much mind until you’ll be going in. Ancient. Evil. Stark. Mania. Insanity. Loneliness. Despair. Hopelessness. A forever feel to these piled up, reeked up, soiled up rock confines. One feels the cement used is from Roman times. Filth, eking out of this place and contaminating you as you watched, mesmerized. Yes, I know. My assistant used to laugh at my exaggeration of these elements in the story of Pontiac. Till I took her there one day. Parked in the old gravel parking lot. Saw her laughs turn to that first recognition of fear.
“Maybe we should go,” she said.
“Why? We just got here. Come on, get out and take a look. Wanna go in?”
She just shuddered and got back in the car. We talked about it later. She wasn’t laughing. She also felt that creeping nausea, that evil reach out to…
Yep, that’s Pontiac alright…the parking lot.
So, here I was on my first day. Boots on the gravel. Built like the proverbial “Brick …. House.” No, I’m not kidding. Thought I should mention this. It’s from dental school and the sick environments created there. But applies here too. Helps almost anytime, anyplace, as far as I can figure. Now, I wasn’t going in here to prove my manhood or fight or anything like that. Just the same, Darwinian is Darwinian. Went to the little gatehouse.
“Hi,” the guard said. The guards get, and security in general gets, progressively surlier as one goes inside and/or their rank goes up. Not that the guards treated me badly, they didn’t.
“Hi, uh, I’m new…”
” Dentist, aren’t you? Yes, I can see that.”
He may not have even asked me for ID, after all, what were the chances some young punk would come here on the day the new dentist was, and falsely announce himself? Also, I don’t believe they ever searched for me. It was a courtesy. They may have once for a lockdown.
“Just check in at administration. They’ll take it from there.”
Walked up about twenty feet, went through the administrative-looking doors, and voila, instant prison life. Like switching on a light. Someone young, or white, stands out. Period. You better hope you’re standing out because you are NOT in prison blues. Just stopped to catch my breath.
“Who you think you lookin’ at? Huh? You better get your pearly white back up the hall where it belongs. Fish.”
“Ahem, me?”
“Yea, YOU. Who the hell you think I talkin’ to?”
A guard appears, “Alright Marcus, ain’t you s’posed to be somewhere? Best be gettin’ there.”
Guard: “Can I help you, sir?”
“Uh, yes, looking for administration?”
“Healthcare or Prison?”
“Healthcare.”
“Right around that corner. You the new dentist?”
“Yes, yes, that’s right.”
As I rounded the corner I couldn’t help peeking into the room where the inmates made their phone calls or met with people and visitors. Just pure chaos. Boyfriend arguin’ with a girlfriend.
“You know I didn’t. You tell Jackie his ass be mine.”
And so on. And then I ran into that big fake smiling face I had seen so many times in the salesmen who frequented my father’s hardware store. The typical, seedy, untrustworthy, lyin’ when I can, and then some, the face of my immediate superior in the health administration. A job with little beginning and similar education, and soon representing nothing to me but a pain in the ass. I just wish I wasn’t always right on these matters.
“Hello, you must be Victor.”
“Uh, yes, you just interviewed me, remember?”
“Oh, yes, of course, I do. We’re just excited to have you join us and start your career, aren’t you?”
“Yes, about that. I don’t have my license back from the state yet. It’s just procedural, but don’t you think I should have it?”
“Oh, don’t worry about it. You’re under our malpractice umbrella.”
Now, at this time, I was so naive, I thought if he says so, it must be alright. Fortunately, my license arrived that week and all was well.
“I think all your paperwork has been signed. Now, do you remember where the dental clinic is?”
“Sure.” I kind of half thought to myself.
“Ok, already? Here we go.”
He walks me back down the hallway, where this other prisoner is now back again looking at me with defiance. Then turns right to the “gate.” Tells the guard to open it, this is the new Doc. As I’m still travailing the length of the door upwards with my eyes, I vaguely recognize…
“Do you need anything else?”
I felt like I was just ready to go under anesthesia. Dreamlike. Then the guard slammed the ton gate closed and my world reverberated. Boom. Unimaginable stopping-retaining power. I shuddered for a moment. Was just going to say something to the guard when I noticed he was on the other side of the gate. I stumbled a little on the interior cement steps then caught my balance. Turned around into the sun. 8:15 AM. The yard. Full of prisoners mowing, clipping, hoeing, scything, (I kid you not) the grass. Maybe two or three hundred of them.
ALL came to a dead stillness. Not a sound. Not a twitch of a muscle. Uh-huh? Well, this was a bad decision and I turned back for the gate. The guard just smiled. Ok, ahem…ahem, ahem. Wasn’t ready for this today. Just a simple little two-block walk to the dental clinic, through these boys. Now, you may think what you like, but every man knows intrinsically what’s going down here. I had NO doubts. Ladies, you’ll just have to believe me, there are certain moments in a man’s life that cannot be misinterpreted.
Besides, I still had Ronnie R., in the tower to protect me. Yes, sir, he would shoot down any gang member trying to do me bad. If he got permission to load his gun. If he wasn’t looking the other way on purpose. Ronnie would level that gun and shoot a gang member to save me. Hahaha. Yes, it was a pretty good joke, on me. Ronnie would no more do this than…I don’t know what. He works there. Hello. Even if he quit that day, there would be a contract out on the street for him to be dead. And the best part about it was I knew Ronnie, from high school. Yep, he was our local drug dealer and all-around Charlie Manson look-alike. (And if you need a psychiatrist to tell you Charlie Manson’s crazy, you might as well ask your priest if it’s time for an affair.) Yes, sir, I was…screwed and tattooed.
So I took a deep breath, let it out, took my Goddamned testosterone Superman pill, and started to walk a walk, I would remember for a very long time. See, this was about not showing fear. Believe me, ladies, I know what I say. These men could easily kill me, beat me, etc. But that wasn’t it now. Now was to see if the boy could walk the walk. Remember, I told you I was built like a brick shit house. And thank God for me, psychologically at least. These guys hadn’t moved a muscle since I came in. Some on the sidewalks. Some are on the grass. Leaning on hoes. Foot in my way. Chest in my way. You get it. Oh, by the way, the game is played like this: Must stay on the sidewalk. That’s where one would normally walk. Walking around or in the grass is a big mistake. Of course, walking into someone is a big mistake also. Therein lies the crux.
I walk down the few remaining steps to the yard. No movement but the eyes. They follow me. Test me. Judge me. Dare me. I come up to the first man who is in my way, partly, on the sidewalk. I’m getting pissed off. This helps me. I know where I am, but this intimidating, bully-stuff never set well with me. So, I mumble an excuse me, and do a combo go around (a little), push him away,(a little), and stare at him, (a little.) He says nothing, but there is no retaliation. This goes on in several similar confrontations, but mostly “eye fu..ing” as they say. Although one guy just had to not move and I was forced to push a little more than I wanted. You don’t push as much as take your shoulder and bump him out of the way. I thought things had been going well. One block-two hours. It seemed. Then this guy, and I thought there would be a little trouble. (uh, yeah…I accidentally knocked him over), (oh, BTW, that’s a no-no).
But who should come to my rescue at that opportune moment? Ronnie R? No, even better. The cell blocks were just huge. All cement. Facing the yard, all one could see was oblong filth. The one I currently was in front of was like that. Complete silence still. Then a BOOMING BIG BLACK VOICE rang out from the empty cement cell block…
“Hey, hey…I know what you need boy. (Just reverberating and booming in the silence.) You need someone that’s been locked up for a LONG time. Hey, hey.”
Oh yeah, that just made my cracker-ass day. Then all hell broke loose. Everybody cat-callin’. Whistlin’ what a nice ass I had. You get it. To the clinic. Everybody was laughin’ now.
Uh-huh? First-day jitters? Tell me about it.
Casablanca
And you flick another ash-
mesmerized,
her stockings pass.
Stockings so seemed
hands in your hair,
tears…
not really there.
Shoes
just for you…
Hmm, perhaps
another glass,
another year,
another lass.
The memory,
alive again…
another chance-
hands in your hair,
you flick another ash.
Jimmy Keane
Played professional football,
the forties, our beloved Bears.
Big bear, big hands.
Sweet, broke man.
Not broken,
just broke.
Entertaining.
Stories…
oh, the stories he could tell.
Best “hrmmph” I ever heard.
Charm-when he wanted to-
I’ve never seen better.
Golf hustler,
big, life-filled laugh.
Truly, a man’s man.
Memories-
oh, to access them.
He drifted in and out
of memories, reality,
at the end.
Random brain perfusion?
Dilaudid induced delusion?
We all have perfect memory.
Of this, I’m sure-
just can’t access it.
But we will,
someday we will.
Dilaudid,
the dear medical establishment,
induces random, multiple
memory trails-not delusions.
The patient actually gets
a whiff of…
eternity,
peace,
ecstasy.
He reached out for me,
tubes an’ all-
my little hand
and his big paw.
Let me part
with a little something
we men, can’t admit.
I loved this man.
Try holding the hand
of someone passing.
It doesn’t get
any more real,
than this.
The ignorance,
lifted from your shoulders,
is almost worth…
What you miss
Whenever you said something to him, or reprimanded him,
(ha ha), all he ever said was-” Ok, Coach.”
placed in storage
Closet Bound
Before the full length mirror
stands the reflection of
pressing matters.
Parasitic woman
presses her dresses,
lays them in boxes
alongside her letters.
Pretty, pretty closets
stacked full of dreams,
and the empathy she lacks.
Sees her future
much clearer
through crystal
liquored glass.
Parasitic woman
presses her dresses,
leaving her messes
lay.
From yesterday and before,
it’s been forever for
an arm to reach
the children
and not the glass.
Languid mirror
of narcissistic visions
without means…
Still, she presses on.
The End
Innocence must pass
An Easel and A Quay
My measured stroke seems smaller,
but quicker by same measure.
An innocence long squandered,
as innocence must be.
Unrolled another canvas
and sat a new study.
I thought perhaps she liked me,
her legs she moved with ease.
I began,
but quickly saddened.
Still, I painted
the picture bound to be.
An innocence so brilliant,
colours that touched her,
my hand just seemed to know.
I paid her rather quickly,
she asked if she could see.
I smiled but said, “Come later,
much later in the day.”
Brushes against the easel…
the paint had its way.
Her innocence, those colours,
splattered across the canvas,
and tracked the quay.
I walk a path familiar
as I see her up the way.,
This piece is fictional.
Figurative, and fumbling. LOL
Read Classics
One Thriller Per Month
One history/politics book per month
Read A Lot More Poetry
Read At Least One Book A Year in Spanish
Read At Least One Book A Year in Korean
I will year try to finish reading classic books. I have a collection from Kindle of 50 books to read before you die, in three volumes – 15O books in total see the list below. I have read many of them already which I have noted. As I read them, I will add them to the chronological listing below, also have the Harvard classic. Had a hard copy set but donated it, have to read it on Kindle alas. I will also continue to read lots of poetry from the Mod Po class, will do the slo-mo courses then re-do it in September focusing on
Reading the additional poems, I did not last time in Mod Po Plus.
The List
January
Books
George Elliot Middlemarch
Dale Brown Starfire
AC Fuller Crime Beat # 4 Las Vegas
Poems
Writing com Basic Haiku
Basho The Short Night Ending
Basho A Morning Of Snow
Basho Old Village
Jane Reichhold The Whole Sky
Jane Reichhold Lightning
Jane Reichhold Goldfish
Jane Reichhold The Poet’s Hand
Other Poems
Paula T. Calhoun A New Hope
Christina Rossetti Up-Hill
Sarah Howe (for Stephen Hawking) Relativity
Shel Silverstein Frozen Dream
Marie Elena Good MARIES ENTRANCE:
Walter J. Wojtanik REMEMBER
Stacia M Flee “Post-Apocalyptic”
Tempus Ambigua (Rhyme Royal)
Lady and Louis Two Silver Rings
Mountainwriter49 Forever in my Heart
Judi Van Gorder Press Conference
Stark Carousel Ride
Robert E Brewer The Day After
Marie Elena Good First, Do No Harm
Walter J. Wojtanik Change of Pace
Walt Whitman Song of Myself
Julius Norton Phantom Tollbooth
Pantoum Form
Sally-Ann Roberts, It All Started With A Packet of Seeds
Chellie Wood Dance in The Rain
Dendrobia Osprey
Marie Summers Seasonal Whispers
Four Haiku
Basho The Poet’s Hand
Basho Lightning Stabs the Darkness
Basho A Crow Sits on a Bare Branch
a Grassy Meadow
Mod Po mini-course poems
Caroline Bergal Cat in One’s Throat
Caroline Bergal Not Tale
Writing Com
Alfred Lord Tennyson Summer Night
Langton Hughes Calm Sea
Emily Bronte Spell Bound
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Fredericksburg VA Civil War
Poem
Jeff W. Watson Ghosts of the Past
Joyce Kilmer Fairyland
Writing Com Laturne
Crystal Rose Swift Winds Blow Laturne
Crystal Rose Opens Revealing Laturne
Crystal Rose Sun rises Laturne
February
Books
– What’s Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen]
Poems
Tannka writing com 2-3-2022
Philip Appleman Somber Girl
Beman Books on Shelf
Machi Tawara Freezing My Smile
Yukitsuna Sasaki The Bloom Finished
Takuboku Ishikawa Lying on the Dune Sand
Masaoka Shiki “The bucket’s water
Tekkan Yosano it cries and cries
Akiko Yosano “into a pair of stars
Shūji Miya Slowly Inside Me
Yoshimi Kondō Casting Shadows
Writing com Say It Eight Reading List
Karina Borowicz September Tomatoes
William Carlos Williams Red Wheel Barrel
John Donne’s No Man Is an Island
Anais Nin Risk
Lucille Clifton blessing the boats
Zegel Writing com
Judi Van Gorder An Old Hymn Still Singing
Robert Lee Brewer Give Me A Reason
Lee Li-Young Immigrant Blues
Paul Celan Microliths”
Sappho To My Mother
Eavan Boland Habitual Grief
Eavan Boland A Different Light
3/23/2022 Writing Com
Gwendolyn Brooks To Be In Love
Gwendolyn Brooks A Sunset of the City
Gwendolyn Brooks The Mother
March
Jules Verne in the year 2899
Grant Allen – What’s Bred in the Bone
Lucius Apuleius The Golden Ass
Writing com examples
Edgar Allen Poe The Raven
Robert Service The Cremation of Sam Mc Gee
Oscar Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol
John Keats The Poetry of Earth Is Never Dead
Amy Lowell Wind
Dorothea MacKellar Fire
Hex Sonnetta form Andrea Dietrich The Bringer of Spring’s Cheer Jan Turner Under the Canopy
Haiku Sonnet writing com examples
David Marshall Haiku Crown: Fall
Departures
Signal to Noise
Meeting
Crowds
Talking Together
Channels
Common Regard
North and Sedgewick
First Girlfriend
Remembering
The Big Top
The Other Room
from Writing com newsletter 4/23/2022
Edith Wharton An Autumn Sunset
Edith Wharton Life
Edith Wharton Chartres
Longfellow’s Prologue to Evangeline
Elizabeth Bishop” Cape Breton Island.
Even Rudyard Kipling “The Song of the Cities”
Robert Frost” The Mountain”.
E Pauline Johnson “Guard of the Eastern Gate”
~Judi Van Gorder. Villanelle for Scottie
Jane Kenyon February: Thinking of Flowers
Jane Kenyon Let Evening Come
Jane Kenyon, Briefly It Enters and Briefly Speaks
Famous Limericks
Anonymous There Once Was A Lady From Lynn
Lewis Carrol Lady Of Station From Alice In Wonderland
Judi Van Gorder The Parrot Was Messy And Loud;
Judi Van Gorder An Irishman Came To My City–Judi Van Gorder
Edward Lear Young Lady Of Dorking
Edward Lear’s There Was An Old Man With A Beard
Edward Lear There Was A Young Person Of Crete,
Dixon Lanier Merrit A Wonderful Bird Is The Pelican
Mark Twain A Man Hired By John Smith And Co:”
Ron Rubin There Was An Old Drunkard Of Devon,
Matt Salter’s There Was A Young Lady Of Nice
Matt Salter That Very Same Lady
Matt Salter But Her Husband Cried “Cease” Monica Sharman Relentless, Insatiable Deadlines!
Unknown There Was A Young Lady Of Niger
NaPoWriMo
Kay Ryan Token Loss
Kay Ryan Blue China Doornob
Kay Ryan Houdini
Writing Com Newsletter
William Blake Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
Goerge Cooper’s “Come, Little Leaves”.
George Cooper “ I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.”
RL Stevenson “Child Garden of Verse -How do you like to go up in a swing,”
Lord Alfred Tennyson “Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!”
Love Poems Poetry Foundation source poem for Love Cento
Jake Cosmos Aller Million Ways to Say I Love You Joshua Beckman Lying in bed I think about you,
Anne Bradstreet To my husband
Valentine Lorna Dee Cervantes Ben Jonson Song: to Celia [“Drink to me only with thine eyes”]
Morris Egan Bar Napkin Sonnet #11
Jennifer Michael Hecht Love Explained Robert Herrick Upon Julia’s Breasts John Keats‘s The Day is Gone
William Shakespeare Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all: William Shakespeare‘s The Spring
(from Love’s Labours Lost) William Shakespeare
Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
John Updike Penumbrae
Articles
WP Organization of the US – very powerful analysis
Books
Ted Bell Warlord
Ted Bell Warriors
Poems
Poets Place Writing Com 5-20-2022
Examples
George Gordon (Lord) Byron, 1820 Francesca Of Rimini
Robert Frost, I Have Become Acquainted With The Night
George Gordon (Lord) Byron, 1820 Francesca Of Rimini
Dusty Grein, 2015 Loud Today
Dusty Grein, 2016 A Mist Shrouded Path
Lord Shelly Oh Wild West
Linda Newman Faith (Terza Rima Sonnet)
Robert Duncan the Horse
Ode Sappho
Mod Po mini-course poems
Clerihew Poems James Dean Chase Dickie Dare James Dean Chase Lady Gaga
Judi Van Gorder King of Pop
Frank Gibbard Royal Kate Middelton
James Dean Chase Corporal Klinger,
Personification poems Writing com
Nancy Willard Two Sunflowers
William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Paul Revere’s Ride
Shel Silverstein What If
June
Books
Jane Austin Northanger Abbey
Jane Austin- Lady Susan
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Lyman Frank Baum
The Art of Public Speaking Dale Breckenridge Carnegie
The Blazing World Margaret Cavendish
Stuart Woods Class Act
Poems
Frosted Fantasy Irish Rain
Camp 39 David Schneider
Robert Frost Going for Water
Poetry Newsletter Story Lady
Wilfred Owen The End
Wilfred Owen Winter Song
Wilfred Owen Spring Offensive
Glenda L. Hand Autumn
Glenda L. Hand Love
Cynthia Kay Armstrong Cards
Glenda L. Hand Change of Seasons (Mirror Oddquain)
Glenda L. Hand Celebration (Butterfly Oddquain)
Claire Litchfield, At Last, I’ve Let Go (Crown Oddquain)
Parallelogram de Crystalline is a poetry form created by Karan Naidu. This form consists of 4 verses of 3 lines each. The syllable count for each stanza is 3, 6, and 9. In this style of poem, the beauty of a lover is compared with nature and described…
Writing com Poetry newsletter Stormy Lady’s Poems
Walter de la Mare’s The Song Of Shadows
Walter de la Mare Alone
Walter de la Mare When the Rose is Faded
Walter de la Mare Fare Well
Rictameter Poems Poets Place
Beauty Jason Wilkins
Satin Jason Wilkins
Mrs. Aubrey Steedman’s Childhood
Marinela Reka Valentine’s Day
Tri-Fall
Jan Turner Destiny’s Starway*
Jan Turner Winter’s Passing (Tri-Fall)
Poetics A. R. Ammons
After Yesterday A. R. Ammons
R. Ammons A. R. Ammons
The City Limits A. R. Ammons
Rapids A. R. Ammons
R. Ammons
August Books
The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]
– Lord Jim [Joseph Conrad]
Daniel De Foe Robinson Crusoe’s Second Voyage
Elmer Leonard Djibouti
James Roman demon crown E
Poems
Jack Kerouac Haiku
SeptemberBooks-
Daniel Defore The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Charles Dickens -The Pickwick Papers
Volcanoes are in Sicily
I never saw a moor
The brain within its groove
I taste a liquor never brewed
The brain—is wider than the sky
Tell all the truth
We learned the whole of love
Wild nights & she rose to his requirement
Alone and in a circumstance
The way hope builds his house
There is solitude in space
Love reckons by itself alone
The soul unto itself
A man may make a remark
From blank to blank
Much madness is a most divine sense
I felt a funeral, in my brain
The fairest home I ever knew
“he fumbles at your soul”:
Whitman
Canto 5 of “song of myself”:
Canto 14 of “song of myself”:
“out of the cradle endlessly rocking”:
“on the beach at night alone”:
“I hear it was charged against me”:
Divya victor’s “w is for Walt whitman’s soul”:
Mod Po Plus Week Two and Three PART ONE: CID CORMAN
Enuresis”
It isn’t for want”: PART TWO: WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
2.1 read William Carlos Williams’s “Catholic Bells”: LINK TO TEXT2.2 listen to Williams perform “Catholic Bells”: LINK TO AUDIO2.3 watch discussion of “Catholic Bells”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]2.4 re-read Williams’s “Danse Russe”: LINK TO TEXT2.5 listen to the discussion of “Danse Russe” led by Al in New York (Sept. 2015): LINK TO AUDIO [OFFSITE COPIES: 1, 2 ]RAE ARMANTROUTThe Way”:
Second Person”
Speech Acts”:LORINE NIEDECKER“A Country’s Economics Sick”
Wilderness”
“Foreclosure”:
Easter Greeting
I married”Popcorn-can cover”
My Life by Water”:
Linnaeus in Lapland” NNAH SANGHEE PARKDear Sir— JASON ZUZGA
Connected”: ELIZABETH WILLIS
Survey”
Address”:
September 9″:
“The Similitude of This Great Flower” FRANCISCO X. ALARCÓN
From the Other Side of Night” KIT ROBINSON
“Leaves of Class” KATE COLBY
Middleman”:
Theory”
Homing” JOHN PHILLIPS
This” ALLEN GINSBERG
A Supermarket in California” EVE L. EWING
I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store” YOLANDA WISHER
From Imhotep’s Kundalini” ANGELA CARR
Straight as an Arrow” WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
Young Woman at a Window”
“Lines”
The Attic Which Is Desire”:
Spring and all Spring and All (1923):
To Elsie”
The Red Wheelbarrow
Flowers by the Sea
Between Walls”
This Is Just to Say”
The Last Words of My English Grandmother EZRA POUND
Ezra Pound’s “Portrait d’une Femme”: LINK TO TEXT
Cantico del Sol”: LINK TO TEXT
The River-Merchant’s Wife”: LINK TO TEXT
“In a Station of the Metro” AMY LOWELL
Amy Lowell
The Letter” RAE ARMANTROUT
“Anti-Short Story”
Postcards”
“Cheshire Poetics”
Emily Dickinson
“A narrow fellow in the grass” (#1096): H.D.
“Sea Poppies”
“Epigram”:
“Moonrise”:
H.D.’s “Sheltered Garden”:
5.10 read H.D.’s “Night” T.S. ELIOT
S. Eliot’s The Waste Land:
HUGH MacDiarmid“A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”: LINK TO TEXT WALLACE STEVENS
The Snow Man
“Large Red Man Reading”
“The Plain Sense of Things
The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain”
Thirteen Ways.
“Disillusionment of 10 O’Clock”:
Anecdote of the Jar”
“Gray Room”
Lytle Shaw’s ”
The Confessions 2,” WALLACE STEVENS
Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself”: PETER GIZZI
Not Ideas
Archeophonics”: MICHIYO NAKAMOTO & JAPANESE NEO-IMAGISM
Michiyo Nakamoto’s “Vernal Equinox”
Ayukawa’s “Man on a Bridge” H.D.’s “OREAD” JUNZABURO NISHIWAKI’S “RAIN” EILEEN TABIOS & THE HAY(NA)KU
As If”: PIERRE REVERDY
Pierre Reverdy’s “Still Life—Portrait”
Reverdy’s “Still Life—Portrait”: MARIANNE MOORE
Marianne Moore’s “To a Snail”
imaginary gardens with real toads” TONYA FOSTER
A Swarm of Bees in High Court KEN TAYLOR
“Cloud in the Shape of Misunderstanding Haiku: ROBERT CREELEY
“The Language”: POET TOM LEONARD
Just to Let Yi No”: CHRISTIE WILLIAMSON
Nantucket”
St. Catherine’s ROSA ALCALÁ
Adventures in Food Processing” from Rosa Alcalaá’s Undocumentaries:
Land Art in the Silk City”
In documentary”
Stormy Lady’s Poetry Newsletter
Jean Toomer Georgia Dusk
Jean Toomer Evening Song
Jean Toomer November Cotton Flower
Tell Me, Jean Toomer
Writing Com Roundeau
Elliot Napier All Men Are Free
Judi Van Gorder Falling for the French
Judi Van Gorder Palette
Judi Van Gorder Wind on the Terrace
Henry Austin Dobson’s The Wanderer
Barbara Hartman August’s end
John Mc Crae Flanders Fields
Robert Murtaugh,(Fader) Loneliness
Pam Murray Springtime Air
Paul Murray As I Was Warmed
Marie Summer Winds of Chickamauga
Ed Whidmer Lincoln on the Verge
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Poet Unknown Set The World Rejoicing
Walt Whitman When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
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William Allingham’s The Fairies
William Allingham Down On The Shore
William Allingham A Gravestone
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Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
Elizbeth Bhishop One Art
Julie Wright RunawayAli Saad A Temple on Her BedNovemberBooksDicken Pickwick Papers
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky the Gambler
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Notes from the Underground
Arthur Conan Doyle- The Sign of the Four
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hounds of the Baskerville
From Camp H
Stephen Coonts Hong Kong
Poems Newsletter Writing com
Conrad Aiken All Lovely Things
Conrad Aiken Haunted Chambers
Conrad Aiken Nocturne Of Remembered SpringI.
II.
III.Edward Lear
Imitation of The Olden Poets
Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Edward Lear’s The Dong With A Luminous Nose
Poems Writing com
PS Cottier Amorphous Solid
Robert Frost My November
Guest Poetry Place
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Emile Romano Sky Flowers
Emile Romano Gardening The Rose*
Books to read
George Martin a knight of the seven kingdoms
Brad Meltzer the 5th assassin
Stephen Coonts Assassin
John Grisham The Summons
James Rollins Map of Bones
Robert Ludlum The Jansen Directive
Michael Crichton Sphere
William Trevor Fools of Fortune
Christopher Michael Nuclear Orange Cupid is the Devil poems
Baldacci King and Maxwell
Bj Buckely’s In January, the Geese PSH contest award
Harvard Classics
The volumes are: Bolded read
1) Franklin, Woolman, Penn (2) 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 Nights
(17) Folk-Lore and Fable. Aesop, Grimm, Andersen
(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
50) Introduction, Readers Guide,
Federalist papers
50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die
Started reading the first one of volume 3Bolded indicated I have read it .
Vol 1
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.: Howards 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 Two
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]
– On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin] – Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
– 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
This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names-
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]
– Captains 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] – Tales of Space and Time [H. G. Wells]
– Jacob’s Room [Virginia Woolf]
The books on Boxall’s list, which is found in the 5 editions of the published book
with a TOTAL NUMBER OF 1318 books.
These books are mostly NOVELS. That is why there are no holy books, Shakespeare, etc.
THIS LIST IS COMPLETE. DO NOT ADD ANY BOOKS AND ALSO DO NOT REMOVE ANY. In case of doubt post a comment here and the people maintaining this list will take a look at it!
The list can be found at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/c…flag
BOLD read
1 To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
1984 1984
by George Orwell
The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Eyre Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
The Little Prince The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Hobbit (The Lord of the… The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Animal Farm Animal Farm by George Orwell The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Little Women Little Women
b Louisa May Alcott
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to t… The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #1) by Douglas Adams
Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 17
Brave New World Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
The Count of Monte Cristo The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Les Misérables Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Ha… The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid’s Tale, #1)
by Margaret Atwood
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dracula Dracula by Bram Stoker
Anna Karenina Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Geisha Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
The Adventures of Huckleber… The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Great Expectations Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Life of Pi Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
The Adventures of Sherlock … The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Curious Incident of the… The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Lolita Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Rebecca Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
The Bell Jar The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
Catch-22 Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by Anne Rice
Perfume: The Story of a Mur… Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
The Stranger The Stranger
by Albert Camus
Treasure Island Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
The Shining The Shining
by Stephen King
Never Let Me Go Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Poisonwood Bible The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
In Cold Blood In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote The Hound of the Baskervill… The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) by Arthur Conan Doyle Moby-Dick or, the Whale Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Time Machine The Time Machine by H.G. Wells The Godfather (The Godfathe… The Godfather (The Godfather, #1) by Mario Puzo 66
Madame Bovary Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert A Prayer for Owen Meany A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Master and Margarita The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and … Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
by Truman Capote
Through the Looking-Glass a… Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, #2)
by Lewis Carroll
Atonement Atonement
by Ian McEwan
Oliver Twist Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Middlesex Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Robinson Crusoe (Robinson C… Robinson Crusoe (Robinson Crusoe, #1)
by Daniel Defoe
The Unbearable Lightness of… The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
Gulliver’s Travels: Travels… Gulliver’s Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
by Jonathan Swift
The Three Musketeers (The D… The Three Musketeers (The D’Artagnan Romances #1)
by Alexandre Dumas
Watchmen Watchmen
by Alan Moore
On the Road On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
Don Quixote Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The House of the Spirits The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Uncle Tom’s Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Trial The Trial
by Franz Kafka
Love in the Time of Cholera Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi L… Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by Astrid Lindgren
The Reader The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink
The World According to Garp The World According to Garp
by John Irving
The Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
Candide Candide
by Voltaire
The Call of the Wild The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
Notre-Dame de Paris | The H… Notre-Dame de Paris | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
The Arabian Nights The Arabian Nights
by Anonymous
Doctor Zhivago Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
The Idiot The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mansfield Park Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
The Virgin Suicides The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Tess of the D’Urbervilles Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
The Plague The Plague
by Albert Camus
Things Fall Apart (The Afri… Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by Chinua Achebe
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Fahrenheit 451
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Twilight
The Alchemist
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Book Thief
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Little House in the Big Woods
The Secret Life of Bees
Black Beauty
My Sister’s Keeper
The books on Boxall’s list, which is found in the 5 editions of the published book
with a TOTAL NUMBER OF 1318 books.
These books are mostly NOVELS. That is why there are no holy books, Shakespeare, etc.
THIS LIST IS COMPLETE. DO NOT ADD ANY BOOKS AND ALSO DO NOT REMOVE ANY. In case of doubt post a comment here and the people maintaining this list will take a look at it!
BOLD read
1 To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
1984 1984
by George Orwell
4
The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6
Jane Eyre Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
The Little Prince The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Hobbit (The Lord of the… The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Animal Farm Animal Farm
by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
Little Women Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
15
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to t… The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by Douglas Adams
Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
17
Brave New World Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
18
Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
The Count of Monte Cristo The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
Les Misérables Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Ha… The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid’s Tale, #1)
by Margaret Atwood
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dracula Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Anna Karenina Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Geisha Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
The Adventures of Huckleber… The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Great Expectations Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Life of Pi Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
The Adventures of Sherlock … The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Curious Incident of the… The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Lolita Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Rebecca Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
The Bell Jar The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
Catch-22 Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
41
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s … One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
42
The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Color Purple The Color Purple
by Alice Walker War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Ema by Jane Austen
Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by Anne Rice
b
Perfume: The Story of a Mur… Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
y Albert Camus
52
Treasure Island Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
ll Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
The Shining The Shining
by Stephen King
Never Let Me Go Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro Persuasion Persuasion by Jane Austen Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson The Poisonwood Bible The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
In Cold Blood In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
The Hound of the Baskervill… The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Moby-Dick or, the Whale Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville
The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Time Machine The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Godfather (The Godfathe… The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
by Mario Puzo
Madame Bovary Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert A Prayer for Owen Meany A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
The Master and Margarita The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and … Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
by Truman Capote
Through the Looking-Glass a… Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, #2) by Lewis Carroll
Atonement Atonement
by Ian McEwan Oliver Twist Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Middlesex Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides Robinson Crusoe (Robinson C… Robinson Crusoe (Robinson Crusoe, #1) by Daniel Defoe The Unbearable Lightness of… The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera Gulliver’s Travels: Travels… Gulliver’s Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. by Jonathan Swift
The Three Musketeers (The D… The Three Musketeers (The D’Artagnan Romances #1) by Alexandre Dumas
Watchmen Watchmen
by Alan Moore On the Road On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Don Quixote Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Love in the Time of Cholera Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi L… Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by Astrid Lindgren
The Reader The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink World According to Garp The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Candide Candide by Voltaire The Call of the Wild The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Notre-Dame de Paris | The H… Notre-Dame de Paris | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
The Arabian Nights The Arabian Nights
by Anonymous
Doctor Zhivago Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak The Idiot The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mansfield Park Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
The Virgin Suicides The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Tess of the D’Urbervilles Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Plague The Plague
by Albert Camus
Things Fall Apart (The Afri… Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by Chinua Achebe
The Diary of Anne Frank The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Fahrenheit 451 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets The Metamorphosis and Other Stories Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Twilight
The Alchemist Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire The Book Thief Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Little House in the Big Woods
The Secret Life of Bees
Black Beauty
My Sister’s Keeper Charlotte’s Web The Call of the Wild Water for Elephants The Princess Bride The Kite Runner The Pillars of the Earth Illusions Watership Down
Nice Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Where the Sidewalk Ends Harry Potter Box Set
Tuesdays with Morrie
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Ender’s Game
The Valley of Horses
It The Chronicles of Narnia The Screwtape Letters Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee The Clan of the Cave Bear American Gods The Stand
– “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” – Jean-Dominique Bauby – “Hamlet” – William Shakespeare
– “Goodnight Opus” – Berkeley Breathed
– “The Devil in the White City” – Erik Larson
– “The Thief Lord” – Cornelia Funke
– “Indigo” – Alice Hoffman
– “Mythology” – Edith Hamilton
– “The Outsiders” – S.E. Hinton
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, by Franz Kafka (there is Kafka on the list, but this isn’t one of them) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl The Stranger, by Albert Camus Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde (if it’s a play, it’s probably not on the list, which is mostly novels)
The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales, by Jacob Grimm East of Eden, by John Steinbeck The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry Dune, by Frank Herbert
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho (again)
Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan (the list is, I believe, strictly fiction)
New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke Ringworld by Larry Niven Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven by Larry Niven
The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton by Larry Niven Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov Doorways in the Sand by Robert Zelazny Creatures of Light and Darkness by Rober Zelazny
Portrait of a Killer: Jack The Ripper – Case Cl… by Patricia Cornwell The Nine Billion Names of God: The Best Short S… by Arthur C. Clarke
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges
Carried Away: A Selection of Stories by Alice Munro
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
The Immaculate Conception by Gaetan Soucy The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Double Helix by J. Watson The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White H… by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Broken Government: How the Republi…by John W. Dean Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase… by James L. Swanson Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Pianist: The Extraordinary True… by Wladyslaw Szpilman
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier
Leviathan by Paul Auster
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths by Ingri D’Aulaire
Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe (Poe is on the list three times, but not for this one.) The Bible Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown Shogun, by James Clavell
The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
A Child Called It, by Dave Pelzer
The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
White Oleander, by Janet Fitch
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller The Lottery and Other Stories, by Shirley Jackson Love Story, by Erich Segal
Love You Forever, by Robert N. Munsch
John Adams, by David McCullough
Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt Othello, by William Shakespeare The Aeneid, by Virgil Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman The World of Pooh, by A.A. Milne
Katherine, by Anya Seton
The Stand, by Stephen King (Mr. King is on, but only for The Shining.)
Daughter of the Forrest, by Juliet Marillier World Without End, by Ken Follett The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins Freakonomics, by Stephen D. Levitt
World War Z, by Max Brooks The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini Roots, by Alex Haley House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III The Canterbury Tales, by Barbara Cohen
The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, by J.K. Rowling
The Ruins, by Scott B. Smith The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
Farmer Boy, by Laura Ingalls Wilder Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom The Mammoth Hunters, by Jean Auel
Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
100 Love Sonnets, by Pablo Neruda Watership Down, by Richard Adams
Shadow Kiss, by Richelle Mead The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins The Shack, by William Young
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
Coraline, by Neil Gaiman A Wizard of Earthsea, by Urusula K. Le Guin The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx
Le Morte d’Arthur, by Thomas Malory
Fail Safe, by Eugene Burdick
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
Graceling, by Kristin Cashore
Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein
Ripley’s Game, by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley is on, but this one isn’t.) Watchers, by Dean Koontz
Paradise Lost, by John Milton
The Twentieth Wife, by Indu Sundaresan
Angels in America, by Tony Kushner
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke 1776, by David McCullough
The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
Zorba the Greek, by Nikos Kazantzakis The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov (Foundation is on, but the other two are not.)
Into the Wild, by Erin Hunter The Republic, by Plato The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer
If I Die in a Combat Zone, by Tim O’Brien (The Things They Carried is on; this isn’t.)
Blood Promise, by Richelle Mead
Final Exit, by Derek Humphry Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
Eleven Minutes, by Paulo Coelho
Guards! Guards!, by Terry Pratchett
Frostbite, by Richelle Mead
The Zahir, by Paulo Coelho The Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexandre Dumas (Monte Cristo, Reine Margot, and Three Musketeers are in; this isn’t.)
Burned, by P.C. Cast Ender’s Shadow, by Orson Scott Card The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare (There is no Shakespeare on this list.)
Vampire Academy, by Richelle Mead
The Elephant Vanishes, by Haruki Murakami
The Painted Veil, by Somerset Maugham
The History of the Pelopponnesian War, by Thucydides
Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card
Le Grand Meaulnes, by Henri Alain-Fournier
Amadeus, by Peter Shaffer
Dark Rivers of the Heart, by Dean Koontz The Dancing Wu Li Masters, by Gary Zukav
Starman Jones, by Robert Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land is on.)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne
The Last Olympian, by Rick Riordan
Maurice, by E.M. Forster The Tale of Gilgamesh, by Anonymous The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak
A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah
Chasing Vermeer, by Blue Balliett
Poison Study, by Maria V. Snyder
When Nietzsche Wept, by Irvin D. Yalom
Child of the Prophecy, by Juliet Marillier
Marley & Me, by John Grogan
The Color of Water, by James McBride
On Death and Dying, by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffennegger
The Onion Field, by Joseph Wambaugh Insomnia, by Stephen King
Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous
The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty
Amazing Grace, by Kathleen Norris Battlefield Earth, by L. Ron Hubbard
The Three Questions, by Jon J. Muth
The Bonesetter’s Daughter, by Amy Tan
The Demigod Files, by Rick Riordan
The Study Series Bundle, by Maria V. Snyder
The Tea Rose, by Jennifer Donnelly
Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh
Free Speech for Me, by Nat Hentoff
Moloka’i, by Alan Brennert
From a Buick 8, by Stephen King
The Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
The Robe, by Lloyd C. Douglas
Nobody’s Fool, by Richard Russo like A Clockwork Orange.
Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
The March, by E.L. Doctorow
A Lesson Before Dying, by Earnest Gaines
The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls
Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
The Histories, by Herodotus
Rabbit at Rest, by John Updike (Oddly enough, the other three are on the list)
Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain The Essential Rumi, by Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
Duma Key, by Stephen King
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski
Ahab’s Wife, by Sena Jeter Naslund
Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika, by Tony Kushner (plays aren’t generally on this list)
American Nightmare, by Jerrold M. Packard
The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara
Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
The Color of Magic, by Terry Pratchett
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, by Barbara Kingsolver Richard III, by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare is not on this list) The Plains of Passage, by Jean M. Auel QB VII, by Leon Uris
The Shelters of Stone, by Jean M. Auel
Rain of Gold, by Victor Villasenor
Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke
Neither Here Nor There, by Bill Bryson The Lightening Thief, by Rick Riordan
Sunshine, by Robin McKinley The Sea of Monsters, by Rick Riordan The Titan’s Curse, by Rick Riordan The Battle of the Labyrinth, by Rick Riordan
The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks
The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams Time Enough for Love, by Robert Heinlein Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke
The Mutiny on the Bounty Trilogy, by Charles Nordhoff
The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman
The Voyage of the Star Wolf
The War Against the Chtorr 1: A Matter For Men
by David Gerrold
The Holy Man
by Susan Trott
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Tiger Eyes
by Judy Blume
Song of the Sound
by ADAM ARMSTRONG
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
by Michael E. Porter
Atlantis Found
by Clive Cussler
Hellboy Volume 1: Seed of Destruction
by Mike Mignola
The Girlfriends’ Guide to Pregnancy: Second Edi…
by Vicki Iovine
NO: Why Kids–of All Ages–Need to Hear It and …
by David Walsh
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of …
by Robert A. Caro
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary C…
by Jim Collins
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of Presid…
by Vincent Bugliosi
Magic Study
Fire Study
Assassin Study
Storm Glass
Ice Study
by Maria V. Snyder
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Id…
by Gary Paulsen
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
by Douglas Coupland
Angels In America
by Joseph Kushner
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
by Alberto Manguel
A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry
by Mark Hertsgaard
The Power of One, by Bryce Courtenay
The Solitaire Mystery, by Jostein Gaarder
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
Runaway: Stories, by Alice Munro
First They Killed My Father, by Loung Ung
Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo
Floyd on France, by Keith Floyd
“The Agony And The Ecstasy.”
“Dragon Slippers” by Jessica Day George.
A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
The Agony and the Ecstasy, by Irving Stone
Dragon Slippers, by Jessica Day George
Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris
L’Espoir, by Andre Malraux
The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Maid, by Teresa Pierce Williston
Egyptian Sinuhet, by Mika Waltari
Princess of the Midnight Ball, by Jessica Day George
As some of you know I have been reading the classics. I found a three-volume series on Kindle titled 50 books you must read before you die, and also found the Harvard classics.
I will write a review of each book as I finish it. This will probably take me until next year but I have finished about half of the 150 books. Some are fast reads, and some are very slow because the 19th century writers wrote too damn long books for modern readers.
Not all the classics are in the list below. I will add those to the list at the end of the list.
I have written reviews on G Chesterton’s work (below)
(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 (
50) Introduction, Readers Guide,
50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before you Die
Started reading the first one of volume 3
Bolded indicated I have read it .
Vol 1
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.: Howards 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]
– 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]
– On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin] – Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
– 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] – 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
– 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] – This Side of Paradise [Francis Scott Fitzgerald] – Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
– Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
– Captains 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]
These lists are somewhat duplicative so I have tried to combine into one list.
The books on Boxall’s list, which is found in the 5 editions of the published book
with a TOTAL NUMBER OF 1315 books.
1001 Books Basic list (combined lists)
Book Title
Author
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Adams, Douglas
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Adams, Douglas
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
Adams, Douglas
Aesop’s Fables
Aesopus
Little Women
Alcott, Louisa May
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou, Maya
The Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous
I, Robot
Asimov, Isaac
Foundation
Asimov, Isaac
The Handmaid’s Tale
Atwood, Margaret
Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane
Emma
Austen, Jane
Aesop’s Fables
Aesopus
Novel With Cocaine
Ageyev, M.
In The Heart of the Seas
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
Rashomon
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
The Regent’s Wife
Alas, Leopoldo
Little Women
Alcott, Louisa May
Broad and Alien is the World
Alegria, Ciro
The Man With the Golden Arm
Algren, Nelson
Fantômas
Allain, Marcel
The House of the Spirits
Allende, Isabel
Of Love and Shadows
Allende, Isabel
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Amado, Jorge
Tent of Miracles
Amado, Jorge
Cause for Alarm
Ambler, Eric
Lucky Jim
Amis, Kingsley
The Green Man
Amis, Kingsley
The Old Devils
Amis, Kingsley
Dead Babies
Amis, Martin
Money: A Suicide Note
Amis, Martin
London Fields
Amis, Martin
Time’s Arrow
Amis, Martin
The Information
Amis, Martin
I’m Not Scared
Ammaniti, Niccolo
Untouchable
Anand, Mulk Raj
The Commandant
Anderson, Jessica
The Bridge on the Drina
Andrić, Ivo
Bosnian Chronicle
Andrić, Ivo
Ashes and Diamonds
Andrzejewski, Jerzy
The Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Anonymous
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
Anonymous
Fado Alexandrino
Antunes, Antonio Lobo
The Bells of Basel
Aragon, Louis
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
Arbuthnot, John et al
Before Night Falls
Arenas, Reinaldo
Deep Rivers
Arguedas, José María
The Twilight Years
Ariyoshi, Sawako
The Green Hat
Arlen, Michael
Surfacing
Atwood, Margaret
Cat’s Eye
Atwood, Margaret
The Robber Bride
Atwood, Margaret
Alias Grace
Atwood, Margaret
The Blind Assassin
Atwood, Margaret
Obabakoak
Atxaga, Bernardo
The New York Trilogy
Auster, Paul
Moon Palace
Auster, Paul
The Music of Chance
Auster, Paul
Mr. Vertigo
Auster, Paul
Timbuktu
Auster, Paul
The Book of Illusions
Auster, Paul
Invisible
Auster, Paul
The Underdogs
Azuela, Mariano
Foucault’s Pendulum
Eco, Umberto
So Long a Letter
Ba, Mariama
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Baldwin, James
Giovanni’s Room
Baldwin, James
The Drowned World
Ballard, J.G.
The Atrocity Exhibition
Ballard, J.G.
Crash
Ballard, J.G.
High Rise
Ballard, J.G.
Cocaine Nights
Ballard, J.G.
Super-Cannes
Ballard, J.G.
Eugénie Grandet
Balzac, Honoré de
Père Goriot
Balzac, Honoré de
Lost Illusions
Balzac, Honoré de
The Wasp Factory
Banks, Iain
The Crow Road
Banks, Iain
Complicity
Banks, Iain
Dead Air
Banks, Iain
The Player of Games
Banks, Iain M.
Cloudsplitter
Banks, Russell
The Newton Letter
Banville, John
The Book of Evidence
Banville, John
The Untouchable
Banville, John
Shroud
Banville, John
The Sea
Banville, John
Elegance of the Hedgehog
Barbery, Muriel
The Inferno
Barbusse, Henri
Under Fire
Barbusse, Henri
Silk
Baricco, Alessandro
H(A)PPY
Barker, Nicola
Regeneration
Barker, Pat
The Ghost Road
Barker, Pat
Another World
Barker, Pat
Nightwood
Barnes, Djuna
Flaubert’s Parrot
Barnes, Julian
The Sense of an Ending
Barnes, Julian
The Floating Opera
Barth, John
The End of the Road
Barth, John
Come Back, Dr. Caligari
Barthelme, Donald
The Dead Father
Barthelme, Donald
Amateurs
Barthelme, Donald
Alamut
Bartol, Vladimir
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Bassani, Giorgio
Story of the Eye
Bataille, Georges
The Abbot C
Bataille, Georges
Blue of Noon
Bataille, Georges
The Mandarins
Beauvoir, Simone de
Jacob the Liar
Becker, Jurek
Murphy
Beckett, Samuel
Molloy
Beckett, Samuel
Malone Dies
Beckett, Samuel
Watt
Beckett, Samuel
The Unnamable
Beckett, Samuel
How It Is
Beckett, Samuel
Mercier and Camier
Beckett, Samuel
Worstward Ho
Beckett, Samuel
Vathek
Beckford, William Thomas
Borstal Boy
Behan, Brendan
Oroonoko
Behn, Aphra
Dangling Man
Bellow, Saul
The Victim
Bellow, Saul
The Adventures of Augie March
Bellow, Saul
Seize the Day
Bellow, Saul
Humboldt’s Gift
Bellow, Saul
The Old Wives’ Tale
Bennett, Arnold
G
Berger, John
Under Satan’s Sun
Bernanos, Georges
Correction
Bernhard, Thomas
Yes
Bernhard, Thomas
Concrete
Bernhard, Thomas
Wittgenstein’s Nephew
Bernhard, Thomas
Old Masters
Bernhard, Thomas
Extinction
Bernhard, Thomas
Death Sentence
Blanchot, Maurice
Savage Detectives
Bolaño, Roberto
2666
Bolaño, Roberto
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Böll, Heinrich
Group Portrait With Lady
Böll, Heinrich
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Böll, Heinrich
The Safety Net
Böll, Heinrich
Ficciones
Borges, Jorge Luis
Labyrinths
Borges, Jorge Luis
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Borowski, Tadeusz
The Last September
Bowen, Elizabeth
To the North
Bowen, Elizabeth
The House in Paris
Bowen, Elizabeth
The Heat of the Day
Bowen, Elizabeth
A World of Love
Bowen, Elizabeth
Eva Trout
Bowen, Elizabeth
World’s End
Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Drop City
Boyle, T. Coraghessan
In Watermelon Sugar
Brautigan, Richard
Willard and His Bowling Trophies
Brautigan, Richard
Threepenny Novel
Brecht, Bertolt
Nadja
Breton, André
Arcanum 17
Breton, André
A Dry White Season
Brink, Andre
Testament of Youth
Brittain, Vera
The Death of Virgil
Broch, Hermann
The Guiltless
Broch, Hermann
Agnes Grey
Brontë, Anne
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Brontë, Anne
Shirley
Brontë, Charlotte
Villette
Brontë, Charlotte
A World for Julius
Bryce Echenique, Alfredo
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Buchan, John
The Master and Margarita
Bulgakov, Mikhail
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Bunyan, John
A Clockwork Orange
Burgess, Anthony
Inside Mr. Enderby
Burgess, Anthony
Evelina
Burney, Fanny
Cecilia
Burney, Fanny
Camilla
Burney, Fanny
Junkie
Burroughs, William
The Wild Boys
Burroughs, William
Queer
Burroughs, William
Erewhon
Butler, Samuel
The Way of All Flesh
Butler, Samuel
The Tartar Steppe
Buzzati, Dino
The Virgin in the Garden
Byatt, A.S.
Possession
Byatt, A.S.
The Children’s Book
Byatt, A.S.
Three Trapped Tigers
Cabrera Infante, Guillermo
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Cain, James M.
House in the Uplands
Caldwell, Erskine
The Path to the Nest of Spiders
Calvino, Italo
Our Ancestors
Calvino, Italo
Invisible Cities
Calvino, Italo
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Calvino, Italo
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Calvino, Italo
The Lusiads
Camões, Luís de
The Outsider
Camus, Albert
The Plague
Camus, Albert
The Rebel
Camus, Albert
Auto-da-Fé
Canetti, Elias
A Dream of Red Mansions
Cao, Xueqin
War with the Newts
Capek, Karel
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Capote, Truman
In Cold Blood
Capote, Truman
Oscar and Lucinda
Carey, Peter
Jack Maggs
Carey, Peter
Kingdom of This World
Carpentier, Alejo
The Lost Steps
Carpentier, Alejo
The Passion of New Eve
Carter, Angela
Nights at the Circus
Carter, Angela
Wise Children
Carter, Angela
Bebo’s Girl
Cassola, Carlo
Solitude
Catala, Victor
The Professor’s House
Cather, Willa
Journey to the Alcarria
Cela, Camilo Jose
The Hive
Cela, Camilo Jose
Journey to the End of the Night
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
Soldiers of Salamis
Cercas, Javier
The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Chabon, Michael
The Big Sleep
Chandler, Raymond
Farewell My Lovely
Chandler, Raymond
The Long Goodbye
Chandler, Raymond
Wild Swans
Chang, Jung
Chaireas and Kallirhoe
Chariton
On the Black Hill
Chatwin, Bruce
The Riddle of the Sands
Childers, Erskine
The Awakening
Chopin, Kate
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Christie, Agatha
On the Heights of Despair
Cioran, Emil
2001: A Space Odyssey
Clarke, Arthur C.
The Sorrow of Belgium
Claus, Hugo
The Holy Terrors
Cocteau, Jean
What a Carve Up!
Coe, Jonathan
Veronika Decides to Die
Coelho, Paulo
The Devil and Ms. Prym
Coelho, Paulo
Dusklands
Coetzee, J.M.
In the Heart of the Country
Coetzee, J.M.
Waiting for the Barbarians
Coetzee, J.M.
The Life and Times of Michael K
Coetzee, J.M.
Foe
Coetzee, J.M.
The Master of Petersburg
Coetzee, J.M.
Disgrace
Coetzee, J.M.
Youth
Coetzee, J.M.
Elizabeth Costello
Coetzee, J.M.
Slow Man
Coetzee, J.M.
Belle du Seigneur
Cohen, Albert
Claudine’s House
Colette
The Woman in White
Collins, Wilkie
The Lion of Flanders
Conscience, Hendrik
Pricksongs and Descants
Coover, Robert
The Public Burning
Coover, Robert
Eline Vere
Couperus, Louis
Arcadia
Crace, Jim
The Enormous Room
Cummings, E.E.
A Home at the End of the World
Cunningham, Michael
The Hours
Cunningham, Michael
Disappearance
Dabydeen, David
Nervous Conditions
Dangarembga, Tsitsi
House of Leaves
Danielewski, Mark Z.
The Child of Pleasure
D’Annunzio, Gabriele
Fifth Business
Davies, Robertson
The End of the Story
Davis, Lydia
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
De Bernières, Louis
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
De Bernières, Louis
On Love
De Botton, Alain
Hebdomeros
De Chirico, Giorgio
The Viceroys
De Roberto, Federico
Roxana
Defoe, Daniel
The Heretic
Delibes, Miguel
Ratner’s Star
DeLillo, Don
The Names
DeLillo, Don
White Noise
DeLillo, Don
Libra
DeLillo, Don
Mao II
DeLillo, Don
Underworld
DeLillo, Don
The Body Artist
DeLillo, Don
Falling Man
DeLillo, Don
Thomas of Reading
Deloney, Thomas
Clear Light of Day
Desai, Anita
The Inheritance of Loss
Desai, Kiran
All About H. Hatterr
Desani, G.V.
Small Remedies
Deshpande, Shashi
The Conquest of New Spain
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Díaz, Junot
Martin Chuzzlewit
Dickens, Charles
Our Mutual Friend
Dickens, Charles
Jacques the Fatalist
Diderot, Denis
The Nun
Diderot, Denis
Rameau’s Nephew
Diderot, Denis
Play It As It Lays
Didion, Joan
Democracy
Didion, Joan
The Bitter Glass
Dillon, Eilís
Out of Africa
Dinesen, Isak
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Döblin, Alfred
The Book of Daniel
Doctorow, E.L.
Ragtime
Doctorow, E.L.
Billy Bathgate
Doctorow, E.L.
City of God
Doctorow, E.L.
Stone Junction
Dodge, Jim
Asphodel
Doolittle, Hilda
Manhattan Transfer
Dos Passos, John
U.S.A.
Dos Passos, John
Fool’s Gold
Douka, Maro
Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture
Doxiadis, Apostolos
The Radiant Way
Drabble, Margaret
The Red Queen
Drabble, Margaret
As If I Am Not There
Drakulić, Slavenka
Sister Carrie
Dreiser, Theodore
Rebecca
Du Maurier, Daphne
Queen Margot
Dumas, Alexandre
Hallucinating Foucault
Duncker, Patricia
Paradise of the Blind
Duong, Thu Huong
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein
Duras, Marguerite
The Vice-Consul
Duras, Marguerite
The Lover
Duras, Marguerite
Justine
Durrell, Lawrence
The Judge and His Hangman
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
The Crime of Father Amaro
Eça de Queirós, José Maria
The Name of the Rose
Eco, Umberto
Foucault’s Pendulum
Eco, Umberto
Castle Rackrent
Edgeworth, Maria
The Absentee
Edgeworth, Maria
Ormond
Edgeworth, Maria
The Quest
Eeden, Frederik van
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Egan, Jennifer
The Circle
Eggers, Dave
The Life of a Good-for-Nothing
Eichendorff, Joseph von
Woman at Point Zero
El Saadawi, Nawal
Silence
Endo, Shusaku
Deep River
Endo, Shusaku
The Book about Blanche and Marie
Enquist, Per Olov
The Gathering
Enright, Anne
The Interesting Narrative
Equiano, Olaudah
Love Medicine
Erdrich, Louise
Moscow Stations
Erofeyev, Venedikt
Like Water for Chocolate
Esquivel, Laura
Celestial Harmonies
Esterházy, Péter
The Virgin Suicides
Eugenides, Jeffrey
Middlesex
Eugenides, Jeffrey
The Marriage Plot
Eugenides, Jeffrey
Under the Skin
Faber, Michel
Astradeni
Fakinou, Eugenia
Troubles
Farrell, J.G.
The Siege of Krishnapur
Farrell, J.G.
The Singapore Grip
Farrell, J.G.
The Sound and the Fury
Faulkner, William
Absalom, Absalom!
Faulkner, William
The Hamlet
Faulkner, William
Go Down, Moses
Faulkner, William
Birdsong
Faulks, Sebastian
Troubling Love
Ferrante, Elena
The Story of the Lost Child
Ferrante, Elena
Joseph Andrews
Fielding, Henry
Amelia
Fielding, Henry
The Wars
Findley, Timothy
Sentimental Education
Flaubert, Gustave
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Flaubert, Gustave
Bouvard and Pécuchet
Flaubert, Gustave
Effi Briest
Fontane, Theodor
The Stechlin
Fontane, Theodor
The Good Soldier
Ford, Ford Madox
Parade’s End
Ford, Ford Madox
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Forster, E.M.
The Collector
Fowles, John
The Magus
Fowles, John
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Fowles, John
A Maggot
Fowles, John
Faces in the Water
Frame, Janet
Thais
France, Anatole
The Blind Side of the Heart
Franck, Julia
The Corrections
Franzen, Jonathan
Freedom
Franzen, Jonathan
Simon and the Oaks
Fredriksson, Marianne
Hideous Kinky
Freud, Esther
I’m Not Stiller
Frisch, Max
Homo Faber
Frisch, Max
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Fuentes, Carlos
The Recognitions
Gaddis, William
Memory of Fire
Galeano, Eduardo
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris
Gallico, Paul
The Trick is to Keep Breathing
Galloway, Janice
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
Gardonyi, Geza
Thursbitch
Garner, Alan
The Roots of Heaven
Gary, Romain
Promise at Dawn
Gary, Romain
Mary Barton
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Cranford
Gaskell, Elizabeth
North and South
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Legend
Gemmell, David
The Triple Mirror of the Self
Ghose, Zulfikar
The Shadow Lines
Ghosh, Amitav
Sunset Song
Gibbon, Lewis Grassic
Cold Comfort Farm
Gibbons, Stella
Fruits of the Earth
Gide, André
The Immoralist
Gide, André
Strait is the Gate
Gide, André
The Counterfeiters
Gide, André
The Yellow Wallpaper
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
New Grub Street
Gissing, George
Born in Exile
Gissing, George
The Adventures of Caleb Williams
Godwin, William
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Elective Affinities
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
The Nose
Gogol, Nikolay
Dead Souls
Gogol, Nikolay
The Vicar of Wakefield
Goldsmith, Oliver
Ferdydurke
Gombrowicz, Witold
Oblomov
Goncharov, Ivan
Burger’s Daughter
Gordimer, Nadine
July’s People
Gordimer, Nadine
Mother
Gorky, Maxim
The Artamonov Business
Gorky, Maxim
Marks of Identity
Goytisolo, Juan
The Opposing Shore
Gracq, Julien
The Tin Drum
Grass, Günter
Cat and Mouse
Grass, Günter
Dog Years
Grass, Günter
Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Gray, Alasdair
Blindness
Green, Henry
Living
Green, Henry
Party Going
Green, Henry
Caught
Green, Henry
Loving
Green, Henry
Back
Green, Henry
England Made Me
Greene, Graham
Brighton Rock
Greene, Graham
The Power and the Glory
Greene, Graham
The Heart of the Matter
Greene, Graham
The Adventurous Simplicissimus
Grimmelshausen, Hans von
Diary of a Nobody
Grossmith, George
Memoirs of Rain
Gupta, Sunetra
Dirty Havana Trilogy
Gutierrez, Pedro Juan
Forever a Stranger
Haasse, Hella
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Haddon, Mark
She
Haggard, H. Rider
The Well of Loneliness
Hall, Radclyffe
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Hamid, Mohsin
Hangover Square
Hamilton, Patrick
The Red Harvest
Hammett, Dashiell
The Maltese Falcon
Hammett, Dashiell
The Glass Key
Hammett, Dashiell
The Thin Man
Hammett, Dashiell
Hunger
Hamsun, Knut
Growth of the Soil
Hamsun, Knut
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Handke, Peter
The Left-Handed Woman
Handke, Peter
The Afternoon of a Writer
Handke, Peter
The Art of Fielding
Harbach, Chad
Far from the Madding Crowd
Hardy, Thomas
The Hand of Ethelberta
Hardy, Thomas
The Good Soldier Švejk
Hašek, Jaroslav
The Blithedale Romance
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Marble Faun
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Love in Excess
Haywood, Eliza
A Question of Power
Head, Bessie
The First Garden
Hébert, Anne
The Blind Owl
Hedayat, Sadegh
Stranger in a Strange Land
Heinlein, Robert
An Ethiopian Romance
Heliodorus
Margot and the Angels
Hemmerechts, Kristien
Nowhere Man
Hemon, Aleksandar
Reasons to Live
Hempel, Amy
Martin Fierro
Hernandez, Jose
Dispatches
Herr, Michael
The New World
Heruy Wolde Selassie
Camera Obscura
Hildebrand
Blind Man With a Pistol
Himes, Chester
A Kestrel for a Knave
Hines, Barry
The House on the Borderland
Hodgson, William Hope
Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Høeg, Peter
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
Hoffman, E.T.A.
The Parable of the Blind
Hofmann, Gert
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Hogg, James
Hyperion
Hölderlin, Friedrich
The Swimming Pool Library
Hollinghurst, Alan
The Folding Star
Hollinghurst, Alan
The Line of Beauty
Hollinghurst, Alan
The Cathedral
Honchar, Oles
Whatever
Houellebecq, Michel
Elementary Particles
Houellebecq, Michel
Platform
Houellebecq, Michel
Closely Watched Trains
Hrabal, Bohumil
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hurston, Zora Neale
What I Loved
Hustvedt, Siri
Crome Yellow
Huxley, Aldous
Antic Hay
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Huxley, Aldous
Eyeless in Gaza
Huxley, Aldous
Against the Grain
Huysmans, Joris-Karl
Down There
Huysmans, Joris-Karl
Carry Me Down
Hyland, M.J.
The Last of Mr. Norris
Isherwood, Christopher
Goodbye to Berlin
Isherwood, Christopher
A Pale View of Hills
Ishiguro, Kazuo
An Artist of the Floating World
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Remains of the Day
Ishiguro, Kazuo
The Unconsoled
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Never Let Me Go
Ishiguro, Kazuo
The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry
What Maisie Knew
James, Henry
The Turn of the Screw
James, Henry
The Wings of the Dove
James, Henry
The Ambassadors
James, Henry
The Golden Bowl
James, Henry
A Day Off
Jameson, Storm
The Summer Book
Jansson, Tove
The Piano Teacher
Jelinek, Elfriede
Leaden Wings
Jie, Zhang
Platero and I
Jiménez, Juan Ramón
The Taebaek Mountains
Jo, Jung-rae
Albert Angelo
Johnson, B.S.
Trawl
Johnson, B.S.
House Mother Normal
Johnson, B.S.
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Johnson, Samuel
Jahrestage
Johnson, Uwe
In Parenthesis
Jones, David
Fear of Flying
Jong, Erica
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James
Ulysses
Joyce, James
Finnegans Wake
Joyce, James
Storm of Steel
Junger, Ernst
The Glass Bees
Junger, Ernst
Broken April
Kadare, Ismail
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
Kadare, Ismail
The Successor
Kadare, Ismail
A Thousand Cranes
Kawabata, Yasunari
Zorba the Greek
Kazantzákis, Nikos
The Last Temptation of Christ
Kazantzákis, Nikos
Measuring the World
Kehlmann, Daniel
Green Henry
Keller, Gottfried
The Busconductor Hines
Kelman, James
A Disaffection
Kelman, James
How Late It Was, How Late
Kelman, James
Kieron Smith, boy
Kelman, James
Schindler’s Ark
Keneally, Thomas
Looking for the Possible Dance
Kennedy, A.L.
Everything You Need
Kennedy, A.L.
On the Road
Kerouac, Jack
Fatelessness
Kertész, Imre
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kesey, Ken
Sometimes a Great Notion
Kesey, Ken
Annie John
Kincaid, Jamaica
The Shining
King, Stephen
The Water-Babies
Kingsley, Charles
Kim
Kipling, Rudyard
Garden, Ashes
Kis, Danilo
Michael Kohlhaas
Kleist, Heinrich von
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light
Klima, Ivan
The Hothouse
Koeppen, Wolfgang
Death in Rome
Koeppen, Wolfgang
The Case Worker
Konrad, Gyorgy
A Day in Spring
Kosmac, Ciril
Smell of Sadness
Kossmann, Alfred
The Fan Man
Kotzwinkle, William
The Midnight Examiner
Kotzwinkle, William
The Melancholy of Resistance
Krasznahorkai, László
The Last Days of Humanity
Kraus, Karl
The History of Love
Krauss, Nicole
The Return of Philip Latinowicz
Krleža, Miroslav
On the Edge of Reason
Krleža, Miroslav
Professor Martens’ Departure
Kross, Jaan
The Joke
Kundera, Milan
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kundera, Milan
Ignorance
Kundera, Milan
The Buddha of Suburbia
Kureishi, Hanif
Intimacy
Kureishi, Hanif
Gabriel’s Gift
Kureishi, Hanif
The Flamethrowers
Kushner, Rachel
The Princess of Clèves
La Fayette, Madame de
Dangerous Liaisons
Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de
Nada
Laforet, Carmen
Barabbas
Lagerkvist, Par
Gösta Berling’s Saga
Lagerlöf, Selma
The Namesake
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Rickshaw Boy
Lao, She
Quicksand
Larsen, Nella
Passing
Larsen, Nella
The Diviners
Laurence, Margaret
Maldoror
Lautréaumont, Comte de
The Fox
Lawrence, D.H.
Aaron’s Rod
Lawrence, D.H.
Independent People
Laxness, Halldór
The Dark Child
Laye, Camara
Uncle Silas
Le Fanu, Sheridan
In a Glass Darkly
Le Fanu, Sheridan
The Dispossessed
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lost Language of Cranes
Leavitt, David
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lee, Harper
Cider With Rosie
Lee, Laurie
Solaris
Lem, Stanislaw
The Female Quixote
Lennox, Charlotte
The German Lesson
Lenz, Siegfried
City Primeval
Leonard, Elmore
La Brava
Leonard, Elmore
Get Shorty
Leonard, Elmore
A Hero of Our Times
Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich
10:04
Lerner, Ben
The Enchanted Wanderer
Leskov, Nikolai
The Grass is Singing
Lessing, Doris
The Golden Notebook
Lessing, Doris
Shikasta
Lessing, Doris
The Diary of Jane Somers
Lessing, Doris
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Levi, Carlo
If This Is a Man
Levi, Primo
If Not Now, When?
Levi, Primo
The Drowned and the Saved
Levi, Primo
Small Island
Levy, Andrea
The Monk
Lewis, M.G.
Monica
Lewis, Saunders
Main Street
Lewis, Sinclair
Babbitt
Lewis, Sinclair
Tarr
Lewis, Wyndham
The Childermass
Lewis, Wyndham
The Apes of God
Lewis, Wyndham
The Revenge for Love
Lewis, Wyndham
Self-Condemned
Lewis, Wyndham
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Lewycka, Marina
Pippi Longstocking
Lindgren, Astrid
The Unknown Soldier
Linna, Vaino
The Passion According to G.H.
Lispector, Clarice
The Hour of the Star
Lispector, Clarice
The Kindly Ones
Littell, Jonathan
The Call of the Wild
London, Jack
The Iron Heel
London, Jack
Martin Eden
London, Jack
The Twins
Loo, Tessa de
Under the Volcano
Lowry, Malcolm
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid
Lowry, Malcolm
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Luo, Guanzhong
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
Lyly, John
Fall on Your Knees
MacDonald, Ann-Marie
H is for Hawk
Macdonald, Helen
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria
Dom Casmurro
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria
Absolute Beginners
MacInnes, Colin
The Man of Feeling
Mackenzie, Henry
Wild Harbour
MacPherson, Ian
Midaq Alley
Mahfouz, Naguib
Miramar
Mahfouz, Naguib
Remembering Babylon
Malouf, David
Man’s Fate
Malraux, André
Faceless Killers
Mankell, Henning
Professor Unrat
Mann, Heinrich
Buddenbrooks
Mann, Thomas
Death in Venice
Mann, Thomas
The Magic Mountain
Mann, Thomas
Joseph and His Brothers
Mann, Thomas
Doctor Faustus
Mann, Thomas
Her Privates We
Manning, Frederic
The Garden Party
Mansfield, Katherine
Adjunct: An Undigest
Manson, Peter
The Betrothed
Manzoni, Alessandro
Embers
Marai, Sandor
All Souls
Marias, Javier
A Heart So White
Marias, Javier
Your Face Tomorrow
Marias, Javier
The Late-Night News
Markaris, Petros
Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Markson, David
Vanishing Point
Markson, David
The Back Room
Martin Gaite, Carmen
Santa Evita
Martinez, Tomas Eloy
Time of Silence
Martín-Santos, Luis
Tirant lo Blanc
Martorell, Joanot
The Daughter
Matesis, Pavlos
Cigarettes
Mathews, Harry
Melmoth the Wanderer
Maturin, Charles Robert
The Albigenses
Maturin, Charles Robert
A Woman’s Life
Maupassant, Guy de
Bel-Ami
Maupassant, Guy de
Pierre and Jean
Maupassant, Guy de
Vipers’ Tangle
Mauriac, Francois
Don’t Move
Mazzantini, Margaret
Blood Meridian
McCarthy, Cormac
All the Pretty Horses
McCarthy, Cormac
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
McCoy, Horace
The Cement Garden
McEwan, Ian
The Comfort of Strangers
McEwan, Ian
The Child in Time
McEwan, Ian
Black Dogs
McEwan, Ian
Enduring Love
McEwan, Ian
Amsterdam
McEwan, Ian
Atonement
McEwan, Ian
Saturday
McEwan, Ian
Amongst Women
McGahern, John
That They May Face the Rising Sun
McGahern, John
Schooling
McGowan, Heather
The Heart of Redness
Mda, Zakes
Billy Budd, Foretopman
Melville, Herman
A Light Comedy
Mendoza, Eduardo
The Manila Rope
Meri, Veijo
Day of the Dolphin
Merle, Robert
American Rust
Meyer, Philipp
Fugitive Pieces
Michaels, Anne
The Sound of Waves
Mishima, Yukio
The Sea of Fertility
Mishima, Yukio
The Romantics
Mishra, Pankaj
A Fine Balance
Mistry, Rohinton
Family Matters
Mistry, Rohinton
Cloud Atlas
Mitchell, David
Gone With the Wind
Mitchell, Margaret
The Pursuit of Love
Mitford, Nancy
Love in a Cold Climate
Mitford, Nancy
Crossfire
Miyabe, Miyuki
Chaka the Zulu
Mofolo, Thomas
Amadis of Gaul
Montalvo, Garci Rodríguez de
Watchmen
Moore, Alan
Anagrams
Moore, Lorrie
Like Life
Moore, Lorrie
A Gate at the Stairs
Moore, Lorrie
The Time of Indifference
Moravia, Alberto
Disobedience
Moravia, Alberto
A Ghost at Noon (aka Contempt)
Moravia, Alberto
Anton Reiser
Moritz, Karl Philipp
News from Nowhere
Morris, William
The Bluest Eye
Morrison, Toni
Sula
Morrison, Toni
Down Second Avenue
Mphahlele, Es’kia
The Holder of the World
Mukherjee, Bharati
The Discovery of Heaven
Mulisch, Harry
Max Havelaar
Multatuli
Lives of Girls and Women
Munro, Alice
The Beggar Maid
Munro, Alice
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Murakami, Haruki
Sputnik Sweetheart
Murakami, Haruki
After the Quake
Murakami, Haruki
Kafka on the Shore
Murakami, Haruki
Almost Transparent Blue
Murakami, Ryu
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki, Shikibu
Under the Net
Murdoch, Iris
The Bell
Murdoch, Iris
A Severed Head
Murdoch, Iris
The Nice and the Good
Murdoch, Iris
The Black Prince
Murdoch, Iris
The Sea, The Sea
Murdoch, Iris
Inland
Murnane, Gerald
Young Törless
Musil, Robert
The Man Without Qualities
Musil, Robert
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Mutis, Alvaro
Lolita
Nabokov, Vladimir
Pnin
Nabokov, Vladimir
Pale Fire
Nabokov, Vladimir
Ada
Nabokov, Vladimir
In A Free State
Naipaul, V.S.
A Bend in the River
Naipaul, V.S.
Enigma of Arrival
Naipaul, V.S.
The Guide
Narayan, R.K.
The Unfortunate Traveller
Nashe, Thomas
Kokoro
Natsume, Soseki
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy
Neira Vilas, Xosé
Suite Française
Nemirovsky, Irene
The River Between
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Petals of Blood
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Matigari
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Delta of Venus
Nin, Anaïs
Rituals
Nooteboom, Cees
All Souls Day
Nooteboom, Cees
Fear and Trembling
Nothomb, Amélie
Henry of Ofterdingen
Novalis
Them
Oates, Joyce Carol
Marya
Oates, Joyce Carol
Black Water
Oates, Joyce Carol
Blonde
Oates, Joyce Carol
The Country Girls
O’Brien, Edna
Girl With Green Eyes
O’Brien, Edna
August is a Wicked Month
O’Brien, Edna
In the Forest
O’Brien, Edna
At Swim-Two-Birds
O’Brien, Flann
The Poor Mouth
O’Brien, Flann
The Third Policeman
O’Brien, Flann
The Things They Carried
O’Brien, Tim
Wise Blood
O’Connor, Flannery
The Violent Bear it Away
O’Connor, Flannery
Everything That Rises Must Converge
O’Connor, Flannery
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring
Oe, Kenzaburo
The Talk of the Town
O’Hanlon, Ardal
The English Patient
Ondaatje, Michael
At Swim, Two Boys
O’Neill, Jamie
The Shipyard
Onetti, Juan Carlos
Burmese Days
Orwell, George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Orwell, George
Coming Up for Air
Orwell, George
Animal Farm
Orwell, George
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Orwell, George
Cataract
Osadchyi, Mykhailo
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Black Box
Oz, Amos
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Oz, Amos
Life is a Caravanserai
Özdamar, Emine
The Year of the Hare
Paasilinna, Arto
Manon des Sources
Pagnol, Marcel
Choke
Palahniuk, Chuck
The Laws
Palmen, Connie
Snow
Pamuk, Orhan
Life of Christ
Papini, Giovanni
The Manors of Ulloa
Pardo Bazan, Emilia
Land
Park,, Kyŏng-ni
Ballad for Georg Henig
Paskov, Viktor
The Ragazzi
Pasolini, Pier Paulo
Doctor Zhivago
Pasternak, Boris
Marius the Epicurean
Pater, Walter
Cry, the Beloved Country
Paton, Alan
The Harvesters
Pavese, Cesare
The Moon and the Bonfires
Pavese, Cesare
Dictionary of the Khazars
Pavic, Milorad
The Labyrinth of Solitude
Paz, Octavio
Nineteen Seventy Seven
Peace, David
Titus Groan
Peake, Mervyn
Gormenghast
Peake, Mervyn
The Clay Machine-Gun
Pelevin, Victor
The Life of Insects
Pelevin, Victor
Things: A Story of the Sixties
Perec, Georges
A Man Asleep
Perec, Georges
A Void
Perec, Georges
W, or the Memory of Childhood
Perec, Georges
Life: A User’s Manual
Perec, Georges
Fortunata y Jacinta
Pérez Galdós, Benito
Compassion
Pérez Galdós, Benito
The Dumas Club
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
The Book of Disquiet
Pessoa, Fernando
Vernon God Little
Pierre, D.B.C.
Money to Burn
Piglia, Ricardo
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
Pirandello, Luigi
The Bell Jar
Plath, Sylvia
The Trusting and the Maimed
Plunkett, James
The Fall of the House of Usher
Poe, Edgar Allan
The Pit and the Pendulum
Poe, Edgar Allan
The Purloined Letter
Poe, Edgar Allan
Here’s to You, Jesusa
Poniatowska, Elena
A Dance to the Music of Time
Powell, Anthony
Typical
Powell, Padgett
The Shipping News
Proulx, E. Annie
Remembrance of Things Past
Proust, Marcel
Pharoah
Prus, Boleslaw
Exercises in Style
Queneau, Raymond
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Rabelais, François
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Radcliffe, Ann
The Devil in the Flesh
Radiguet, Raymond
The Last World
Ransmayr, Christoph
The Story of O
Réage, Pauline
The Forest of the Hanged
Rebreanu, Liviu
All Quiet on the Western Front
Remarque, Erich Maria
Quartet
Rhys, Jean
Good Morning, Midnight
Rhys, Jean
Wide Sargasso Sea
Rhys, Jean
Interview With the Vampire
Rice, Anne
Pilgrimage
Richardson, Dorothy
Pamela
Richardson, Samuel
Clarissa
Richardson, Samuel
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel
Rios, Julian
Jealousy
Robbe-Grillet, Alain
Home
Robinson, Marilynne
Cost
Robinson, Roxana
La Celestina
Rojas, Fernando de
Hadrian the Seventh
Rolfe, Frederick
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Rosa, João Guimarães
Love’s Work
Rose, Gillian
Call it Sleep
Roth, Henry
The Radetzky March
Roth, Joseph
Portnoy’s Complaint
Roth, Philip
The Breast
Roth, Philip
Operation Shylock
Roth, Philip
Sabbath’s Theater
Roth, Philip
Julie; or the New Eloise
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Émile; or, On Education
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Reveries of a Solitary Walker
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Confessions
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Impressions of Africa
Roussel, Raymond
Locus Solus
Roussel, Raymond
The God of Small Things
Roy, Arundhati
The Tin Flute
Roy, Gabrielle
The Burning Plain
Rulfo, Juan
Grimus
Rushdie, Salman
The Deadbeats
Ruyslinck, Ward
The 120 Days of Sodom
Sade, Marquis de
Justine
Sade, Marquis de
The Witness
Saer, Juan Jose
Contact
Sagan, Carl
Bonjour Tristesse
Sagan, Françoise
The Little Prince
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem
Salgari, Emilio
Season of Migration to the North
Salih, Tayeb
The Catcher in the Rye
Salinger, J.D.
Franny and Zooey
Salinger, J.D.
The Devil’s Pool
Sand, George
Alberta and Jacob
Sandel, Cora
Baltasar and Blimunda
Saramago, Jose
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Saramago, José
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
Saramago, José
The Double
Saramago, José
Cain
Saramago, Jose
Facundo
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino
Nausea
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Pastoralia
Saunders, George
Murder Must Advertise
Sayers, Dorothy L.
The Nine Tailors
Sayers, Dorothy L.
The Swarm
Schatzing, Frank
The Reader
Schlink, Bernhard
None but the Brave
Schnitzler, Arthur
Memoirs of my Nervous Illness
Schreber, Daniel Paul
The Street of Crocodiles
Schulz, Bruno
To Each His Own
Sciascia, Leonardo
Rob Roy
Scott, Sir Walter
Ivanhoe
Scott, Sir Walter
The Monastery
Scott, Sir Walter
Vertigo
Sebald, W.G.
The Emigrants
Sebald, W.G.
The Rings of Saturn
Sebald, W.G.
Austerlitz
Sebald, W.G.
Transit
Seghers, Anna
Requiem for a Dream
Selby, Jr. Hubert
Great Apes
Self, Will
How the Dead Live
Self, Will
Death and the Dervish
Selimovic, Mesa
The Lonely Londoners
Selvon, Sam
God’s Bits of Wood
Sembene, Ousmane
The Case of Comrade Tulayev
Serge, Victor
A Suitable Boy
Seth, Vikram
Retreat Without Song
Shahnour, Shahan
An Obedient Father
Sharma, Akhil
Frankenstein
Shelley, Mary
The Water Margin
Shi, Nai’an
The Stone Diaries
Shields, Carol
Unless
Shields, Carol
A Town Like Alice
Shute, Nevil
Quo Vadis
Sienkiewicz, Henryk
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Sillitoe, Chinua
Downriver
Sinclair, Iain
London Orbital
Sinclair, Iain
Dining on Stones
Sinclair, Iain
Life and Death of Harriett Frean
Sinclair, May
The Jungle
Sinclair, Upton
The Magician of Lublin
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
The Manor
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Animal’s People
Sinha, Indra
The Engineer of Human Souls
Skvorecky, Josef
The Forbidden Realm
Slauerhoff, Jan Jacob
Islands
Sleigh, Dan
The Accidental
Smith, Ali
There But For The
Smith, Ali
Winter
Smith, Ali
White Teeth
Smith, Zadie
On Beauty
Smith, Zadie
Roderick Random
Smollett, Tobias George
Peregrine Pickle
Smollett, Tobias George
Humphry Clinker
Smollett, Tobias George
The Port
Šoljan, Antun
The Real Charlotte
Somerville and Ross
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
Somerville and Ross
Lady Number Thirteen
Somoza, Jose Carlos
Memento Mori
Spark, Muriel
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Spark, Muriel
The Girls of Slender Means
Spark, Muriel
The Driver’s Seat
Spark, Muriel
Mother’s Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
The Man Who Loved Children
Stead, Christina
Three Lives
Stein, Gertrude
The Making of Americans
Stein, Gertrude
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Stein, Gertrude
Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck, John
The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John
Cannery Row
Steinbeck, John
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal
The Charwoman’s Daughter
Stephens, James
Tristram Shandy
Sterne, Laurence
A Sentimental Journey
Sterne, Laurence
Kidnapped
Stevenson, Robert Louis
The Master of Ballantrae
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Indian Summer
Stifter, Adalbert
Dracula
Stoker, Bram
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Couples, Passerby
Strauss, Botho
The Young Man
Strauss, Botho
The Red Room
Strindberg, August
The People of Hemsö
Strindberg, August
By the Open Sea
Strindberg, August
Perfume
Süskind, Patrick
The Pigeon
Süskind, Patrick
As a Man Grows Older
Svevo, Italo
Zeno’s Conscience
Svevo, Italo
Waterland
Swift, Graham
The Light of Day
Swift, Graham
A Tale of a Tub
Swift, Jonathan
Gulliver’s Travels
Swift, Jonathan
A Modest Proposal
Swift, Jonathan
The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman
Szczypiorski, Andrzej
Pereira Declares: A Testimony
Tabucchi, Antonio
The Home and the World
Tagore, Rabindranath
The Third Wedding
Taktsis, Costas
Some Prefer Nettles
Tanizaki, Junichiro
The Secret History
Tartt, Donna
The Goldfinch
Tartt, Donna
Blaming
Taylor, Elizabeth
Vanity Fair
Thackeray, William Makepeace
The Great Indian Novel
Tharoor, Shashi
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Thompson, Hunter S.
The Killer Inside Me
Thompson, Jim
Walden
Thoreau, Henry David
Cutter and Bone
Thornburg, Newton
The 13 Clocks
Thurber, James
The Wonderful “O”
Thurber, James
The Invention of Curried Sausage
Timm, Uwe
Pallieter
Timmermans, Felix
The Heather Blazing
Tóibín, Colm
The Master
Tóibín, Colm
The Hobbit
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Lord of the Rings
Tolkien, J.R.R.
War and Peace
Tolstoy, Leo
Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tolstoy, Leo
The Kreutzer Sonata
Tolstoy, Leo
The Leopard
Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
Confederacy of Dunces
Toole, John Kennedy
Cane
Toomer, Jean
City Sister Silver
Topol, Jáchym
The Ogre
Tournier, Michael
The Colour
Tremain, Rose
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Tressell, Robert
Fools of Fortune
Trevor, William
Felicia’s Journey
Trevor, William
The Story of Lucy Gault
Trevor, William
Castle Richmond
Trollope, Anthony
The Last Chronicle of Barset
Trollope, Anthony
Phineas Finn
Trollope, Anthony
He Knew He Was Right
Trollope, Anthony
Summer in Baden-Baden
Tsypkin, Leonid
The Christmas Oratorio
Tunstrom, Goran
On the Eve
Turgenev, Ivan
Fathers and Sons
Turgenev, Ivan
King Lear of the Steppes
Turgenev, Ivan
Spring Torrents
Turgenev, Ivan
Virgin Soil
Turgenev, Ivan
B
Twain, Mark
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
Ugresic, Dubravka
Kristin Lavransdatter
Undset, Sigrid
Rabbit, Run
Updike, John
Rabbit Redux
Updike, John
Rabbit is Rich
Updike, John
Pepita Jimenez
Valera, Juan
Our Lady of the Assassins
Vallejo, Fernando
Ancestral Voices
van, Heerden, Etienne
The Time of the Hero
Vargas Llosa, Mario
The Cubs and Other Stories
Vargas Llosa, Mario
The War of the End of the World
Vargas Llosa, Mario
The Feast of the Goat
Vargas Llosa, Mario
Z
Vassilikos, Vassilis
Under the Yoke
Vazov, Ivan
Southern Seas
Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel
The House by the Medlar Tree
Verga, Giovanni
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Verne, Jules
Around the World in Eighty Days
Verne, Jules
The Birds
Vesaas, Tarjei
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played
Vestdijk, Simon
Froth on the Daydream
Vian, Boris
Myra Breckinridge
Vidal, Gore
Bartleby and Co.
Vila-Matas, Enrique
Conversations In Sicily
Vittorini, Elio
In Search of Klingsor
Volpi, Jorge
Candide
Voltaire
Cat’s Cradle
Vonnegut, Kurt
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Vonnegut, Kurt
Slaughterhouse Five
Vonnegut, Kurt
Breakfast of Champions
Vonnegut, Kurt
The Color Purple
Walker, Alice
The Temple of My Familiar
Walker, Alice
Possessing the Secret of Joy
Walker, Alice
Infinite Jest
Wallace, David Foster
The Castle of Otranto
Walpole, Horace
Halftime
Walser, Martin
Morvern Callar
Warner, Alan
Indigo
Warner, Marina
Summer Will Show
Warner, Sylvia Townsend
After the Death of Don Juan
Warner, Sylvia Townsend
The House with the Blind Glass Windows
Wassmo, Herbjorg
Billy Liar
Waterhouse, Keith
Tipping the Velvet
Waters, Sarah
Fingersmith
Waters, Sarah
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Watson, Winifred
Decline and Fall
Waugh, Evelyn
Vile Bodies
Waugh, Evelyn
A Handful of Dust
Waugh, Evelyn
Brideshead Revisited
Waugh, Evelyn
The Graduate
Webb, Charles
The Time Machine
Wells, H.G.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Wells, H.G.
The Invisible Man
Wells, H.G.
The War of the Worlds
Wells, H.G.
Tono-Bungay
Wells, H.G.
Trainspotting
Welsh, Irvine
The Optimist’s Daughter
Welty, Eudora
Miss Lonelyhearts
West, Nathanael
The Return of the Soldier
West, Rebecca
Harriet Hume
West, Rebecca
The Thinking Reed
West, Rebecca
The Birds Fall Down
West, Rebecca
The House of Mirth
Wharton, Edith
Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith
Bunner Sisters
Wharton, Edith
Summer
Wharton, Edith
The Age of Innocence
Wharton, Edith
The Glimpses of the Moon
Wharton, Edith
A Boy’s Own Story
White, Edmund
The Beautiful Room is Empty
White, Edmund
The Living and the Dead
White, Patrick
The Tree of Man
White, Patrick
Voss
White, Patrick
The Once and Future King
White, T.H.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
Tarka the Otter
Williamson, Henry
No Laughing Matter
Wilson, Angus
I Thought of Daisy
Wilson, Edmund
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Winterson, Jeanette
The Passion
Winterson, Jeanette
Sexing the Cherry
Winterson, Jeanette
Written on the Body
Winterson, Jeanette
Insatiability
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy
Thank You, Jeeves
Wodehouse, P.G.
The Quest for Christa T.
Wolf, Christa
Patterns of Childhood
Wolf, Christa
Look Homeward, Angel
Wolfe, Thomas
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Wolfe, Tom
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Wolfe, Tom
Back to Oegstgeest
Wolkers, Jan
The Voyage Out
Woolf, Virginia
Night and Day
Woolf, Virginia
Jacob’s Room
Woolf, Virginia
Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf, Virginia
To The Lighthouse
Woolf, Virginia
Orlando
Woolf, Virginia
The Waves
Woolf, Virginia
The Years
Woolf, Virginia
Between the Acts
Woolf, Virginia
Native Son
Wright, Richard
Monkey: Journey to the West
Wu, Cheng’en
Day of the Triffids
Wyndham, John
The Midwich Cuckoos
Wyndham, John
Chocky
Wyndham, John
Half of Man is Woman
Xianliang, Zhang
Kitchen
Yoshimoto, Banana
Memoirs of Hadrian
Yourcenar, Marguerite
We
Zamyatin, Yevgeny
Thérèse Raquin
Zola, Émile
Drunkard
Zola, Émile
Nana
Zola, Émile
Germinal
Zola, Émile
La Bête Humaine
Zola, Émile
Gimmick!
Zwagerman, Joost
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Zweig, Arnold
Amok
Zweig, Stefan
Chess Story
Zweig, Stefan
Missing but should be on the list
WD Auden Poems
Emerson Essays
Emerson Poems
Edgar Allen Poe complete stories and Poems
Tolstoy War and Peace
Mark Twain complete stories and novels
Shakespeare complete plays and poems
Bible
Koran
Buddhist Writings
Hindu Writings
Tao De Ching
Book of Mormon
Federalist Papers
US constitution
Declaration of Independence
As some of you know I have been reading the classics. I found a three-volume series on Kindle titled 50 books you must read before you die, and also found the Harvard classics.
I started with volume three and am almost finished
Here’s the list of books read – bolded I have finished,
As some of you know, I have been reading the classics. I started last year on my 65th birthday, and have enjoying it. I found a three-volume series on Kindle titled 50 books you must read before you die, and also found the Harvard classics. Three years ago, I figured out I have read about 100 books per year since I was ten years old, which would mean I have read about 6,000 books all told and about the same number of movies/TV shows seen. See the following partial lists
I will write a review of each book as I finish it. This will probably take me until next year but I have finished about half of the 150 books. Some are fast reads, and some are very slow because the 19th century writers wrote too damn long books for modern readers. and most are problematic from a racist, sexist and ablest point of view.
Not all the classics are in the list below. I will add those to the list at the end of the list.
I have written reviews on G Chesterton’s work (below)
(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 (
50) Introduction, Readers Guide,
50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before you Die
Started reading the first one of volume 3
Bolded indicated I have read it .
Vol 1
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.: Howards 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
Vlume 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]
– 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]
– On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin] – Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
– 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]
– 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
– 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] – This Side of Paradise [Francis Scott Fitzgerald] – Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
– Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
– Captains 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]
These lists are duplicative so I have tried to combine into one list. The books on Boxall’s list, which is found in the 5 editions of the published book with a TOTAL NUMBER OF 1315 books. I have read about 600 or so. I bolded the books I have read.
1001 Books Basic list (combined lists)
Book Title
Author
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Adams, Douglas
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Adams, Douglas
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
Adams, Douglas
Aesop’s Fables
Aesopus
Little Women
Alcott, Louisa May
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou, Maya
The Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous
I, Robot
Asimov, Isaac
Foundation
Asimov, Isaac
The Handmaid’s Tale
Atwood, Margaret
Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane
Emma
Austen, Jane
Novel With Cocaine
Ageyev, M.
In The Heart of the Seas
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
Rashomon
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
The Regent’s Wife
Alas, Leopoldo
Little Women
Alcott, Louisa May
Broad and Alien is the World
Alegria, Ciro
The Man With the Golden Arm
Algren, Nelson
Fantômas
Allain, Marcel
The House of the Spirits
Allende, Isabel
Of Love and Shadows
Allende, Isabel
Time’s Arrow
Amis, Martin
The Information
Amis, Martin
I’m Not Scared
Ammaniti, Niccolo
Untouchable
Anand, Mulk Raj
The Commandant
Anderson, Jessica
The Bridge on the Drina
Andrić, Ivo
Bosnian Chronicle
Andrić, Ivo
Ashes and Diamonds
Andrzejewski, Jerzy
The Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Anonymous
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
Anonymous
Fado Alexandrino
Antunes, Antonio Lobo
The Bells of Basel
Aragon, Louis
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
Arbuthnot, John et al
Before Night Falls
Arenas, Reinaldo
Deep Rivers
Arguedas, José María
The Twilight Years
Ariyoshi, Sawako
The Green Hat
Arlen, Michael
Surfacing
Atwood, Margaret
Cat’s Eye
Atwood, Margaret
The Robber Bride
Atwood, Margaret
Alias Grace
Atwood, Margaret
The Blind Assassin
Atwood, Margaret
Obabakoak
Atxaga, Bernardo
The New York Trilogy
Auster, Paul
Moon Palace
Auster, Paul
The Music of Chance
Auster, Paul
Mr. Vertigo
Auster, Paul
Timbuktu
Auster, Paul
The Book of Illusions
Auster, Paul
Invisible
Auster, Paul
The Underdogs
Azuela, Mariano
Foucault’s Pendulum
Eco, Umberto
So Long a Letter
Ba, Mariama
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Baldwin, James
Giovanni’s Room
Baldwin, James
The Drowned World
Ballard JG
The Atrocity Exhibition
Ballard, J.G.
Crash
Ballard, J.G.
High Rise
Ballard, J.G.
Cocaine Nights
Ballard, J.G.
Super-Cannes
Ballard, J.G.
Eugénie Grandet
Balzac, Honoré de
Père Goriot
Balzac, Honoré de
Lost Illusions
Balzac, Honoré de
The Wasp Factory
Banks, Iain
The Crow Road
Banks, Iain
Complicity
Banks, Iain
Dead Air
Banks, Iain
The Player of Games
Banks, Iain M.
Cloudsplitter
Banks, Russell
The Newton Letter
Banville, John
The Book of Evidence
Banville, John
The Untouchable
Banville, John
Shroud
Banville, John
The Sea
Banville, John
Elegance of the Hedgehog
Barbery, Muriel
The Inferno
Barbusse, Henri
Under Fire
Barbusse, Henri
Silk
Baricco, Alessandro
H(A)PPY
Barker, Nicola
Regeneration
Barker, Pat
The Ghost Road
Barker, Pat
Another World
Barker, Pat
Nightwood
Barnes, Djuna
Flaubert’s Parrot
Barnes, Julian
The Sense of an Ending
Barnes, Julian
The Floating Opera
Barth, John
The End of the Road
Barth, John
Come Back, Dr. Caligari
Coraghessan
Drop City
Boyle, T.
In Watermelon Sugar
Brautigan, Richard
Willard and His Bowling Trophies
Brautigan, Richard
Threepenny Novel
Brecht, Bertolt
Nadja
Breton, André
Arcanum 17
Breton, André
A Dry White Season
Brink, Andre
Testament of Youth
Brittain, Vera
The Death of Virgil
Broch, Hermann
The Guiltless
Broch, Hermann
Agnes Grey
Brontë, Anne
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Brontë, Anne
Shirley
Brontë, Charlotte
Villette
Brontë, Charlotte
A World for Julius
Bryce Echenique, Alfredo
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Buchan, John
The Master and Margarita
Bulgakov, Mikhail
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Bunyan, John
A Clockwork Orange
Burgess, Anthony
Inside Mr. Enderby
Burgess, Anthony
Evelina
Burney, Fanny
Cecilia
Burney, Fanny
Camilla
Burney, Fanny
Junkie
Burroughs, William
The Wild Boys
Burroughs, William
Queer
Burroughs, William
Erewhon
Butler, Samuel
The Way of All Flesh
Butler, Samuel
The Tartar Steppe
Buzzati, Dino
The Virgin in the Garden
Byatt, A.S.
Possession
Byatt, A.S.
The Children’s Book
Byatt, A.S.
Three Trapped Tigers
Cabrera Infante, Guillermo
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Cain, James M.
House in the Uplands
Caldwell, Erskine
The Path to the Nest of Spiders
Calvino, Italo
Our Ancestors
Calvino, Italo
Invisible Cities
Calvino, Italo
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Calvino, Italo
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Calvino, Italo
The Lusiads
Camões, Luís de
The Outsider
Camus, Albert
The Plague
Camus, Albert
The Rebel
Camus, Albert
Auto-da-Fé
Canetti, Elias
A Dream of Red Mansions
Cao, Xueqin
War with the Newts
Capek, Karel
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Capote, Truman
In Cold Blood
Capote, Truman
Oscar and Lucinda
Carey, Peter
Jack Maggs
Carey, Peter
Kingdom of This World
Carpentier, Alejo
The Lost Steps
Carpentier, Alejo
The Passion of New Eve
Carter, Angela
Nights at the Circus
Carter, Angela
Wise Children
Carter, Angela
Bebo’s Girl
Cassola, Carlo
Solitude
Catala, Victor
The Professor’s House
Cather, Willa
Journey to the Alcarria
Cela, Camilo Jose
The Hive
Cela, Camilo Jose
Journey to the End of the Night
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
Soldiers of Salamis
Cercas, Javier
The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Chabon, Michael
The Big Sleep
Chandler, Raymond
Farewell My Lovely
Chandler, Raymond
The Long Goodbye
Chandler, Raymond
Wild Swans
Chang, Jung
Chaireas and Kallirhoe
Chariton
On the Black Hill
Chatwin, Bruce
The Riddle of the Sands
Childers, Erskine
The Awakening
Chopin, Kate
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Christie, Agatha
On the Heights of Despair
Cioran, Emil
2001: A Space Odyssey
Clarke, Arthur C.
The Sorrow of Belgium
Claus, Hugo
The Holy Terrors
Cocteau, Jean
What a Carve Up!
Coe, Jonathan
Veronika Decides to Die
Coelho, Paulo
The Devil and Ms. Prym
Coelho, Paulo
Dusklands
Coetzee, J.M.
In the Heart of the Country
Coetzee, J.M.
Waiting for the Barbarians
Coetzee, J.M.
The Life and Times of Michael K
Coetzee, J.M.
Foe
Coetzee, J.M.
The Master of Petersburg
Coetzee, J.M.
Disgrace
Coetzee, J.M.
Youth
Coetzee, J.M.
Elizabeth Costello
Coetzee, J.M.
Slow Man
Coetzee, J.M.
Belle du Seigneur
Cohen, Albert
Claudine’s House
Colette
The Woman in White
Collins, Wilkie
The Lion of Flanders
Conscience, Hendrik
Pricksongs and Descants
Coover, Robert
The Public Burning
Coover, Robert
Eline Vere
Couperus, Louis
Arcadia
Crace, Jim
The Enormous Room
Cummings, E.E.
A Home at the End of the World
Cunningham, Michael
The Hours
Cunningham, Michael
Disappearance
Dabydeen, David
Nervous Conditions
Dangarembga, Tsitsi
House of Leaves
Danielewski, Mark Z.
The Child of Pleasure
D’Annunzio, Gabriele
Fifth Business
Davies, Robertson
The End of the Story
Davis, Lydia
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
De Bernières, Louis
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
De Bernières, Louis
On Love
De Botton, Alain
Hebdomeros
De Chirico, Giorgio
The Viceroys
De Roberto, Federico
Roxana
Defoe, Daniel
The Heretic
Delibes, Miguel
Ratner’s Star
DeLillo, Don
The Names
DeLillo, Don
White Noise
DeLillo, Don
Libra
DeLillo, Don
Mao II
DeLillo, Don
Underworld
DeLillo, Don
The Body Artist
DeLillo, Don
Falling Man
DeLillo, Don
Thomas of Reading
Deloney, Thomas
Clear Light of Day
Desai, Anita
The Inheritance of Loss
Desai, Kiran
All About H. Hatterr
Desani, G.V.
Small Remedies
Deshpande, Shashi
The Conquest of New Spain
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Díaz, Junot
Martin Chuzzlewit
Dickens, Charles
Our Mutual Friend
Dickens, Charles
Jacques the Fatalist
Diderot, Denis
The Nun
Diderot, Denis
Rameau’s Nephew
Diderot, Denis
Play It As It Lays
Didion, Joan
Democracy
Didion, Joan
The Bitter Glass
Dillon, Eilís
Out of Africa
Dinesen, Isak
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Döblin, Alfred
The Book of Daniel
Doctorow, E.L.
Ragtime
Doctorow, E.L.
Billy Bathgate
Doctorow, E.L.
City of God
Doctorow, E.L.
Stone Junction
Dodge, Jim
Asphodel
Doolittle, Hilda
Manhattan Transfer
Dos Passos, John
U.S.A.
Dos Passos, John
Fool’s Gold
Douka, Maro
Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture
Doxiadis, Apostolos
The Radiant Way
Drabble, Margaret
The Red Queen
Drabble, Margaret
As If I Am Not There
Drakulić, Slavenka
Sister Carrie
Dreiser, Theodore
Rebecca
Du Maurier, Daphne
Queen Margot
Dumas, Alexandre
Hallucinating Foucault
Duncker, Patricia
Paradise of the Blind
Duong, Thu Huong
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein
Duras, Marguerite
The Vice-Consul
Duras, Marguerite
The Lover
Duras, Marguerite
Justine
Durrell, Lawrence
The Judge and His Hangman
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
The Crime of Father Amaro
Eça de Queirós, José Maria
The Name of the Rose
Eco, Umberto
Foucault’s Pendulum
Eco, Umberto
Castle Rackrent
Edgeworth, Maria
The Absentee
Edgeworth, Maria
Ormond
Edgeworth, Maria
The Quest
Eeden, Frederik van
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Egan, Jennifer
The Circle
Eggers, Dave
The Life of a Good-for-Nothing
Eichendorff, Joseph von
Woman at Point Zero
El Saadawi, Nawal
Silence
Endo, Shusaku
Deep River
Endo, Shusaku
The Book about Blanche and Marie
Enquist, Per Olov
The Gathering
Enright, Anne
The Interesting Narrative
Equiano, Olaudah
Love Medicine
Erdrich, Louise
Moscow Stations
Erofeyev, Venedikt
Like Water for Chocolate
Esquivel, Laura
Celestial Harmonies
Esterházy, Péter
The Virgin Suicides
Eugenides, Jeffrey
Middlesex
Eugenides, Jeffrey
The Marriage Plot
Eugenides, Jeffrey
Under the Skin
Faber, Michel
Astradeni
Fakinou, Eugenia
Troubles
Farrell, J.G.
The Siege of Krishnapur
Farrell, J.G.
The Singapore Grip
Farrell, J.G.
The Sound and the Fury
Faulkner, William
Absalom, Absalom!
Faulkner, William
The Hamlet
Faulkner, William
Go Down, Moses
Faulkner, William
Birdsong
Faulks, Sebastian
Troubling Love
Ferrante, Elena
The Story of the Lost Child
Ferrante, Elena
Joseph Andrews
Fielding, Henry
Amelia
Fielding, Henry
The Wars
Findley, Timothy
Sentimental Education
Flaubert, Gustave
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Flaubert, Gustave
Bouvard and Pécuchet
Flaubert, Gustave
Effi Briest
Fontane, Theodor
The Stechlin
Fontane, Theodor
The Good Soldier
Ford, Ford Madox
Parade’s End
Ford, Ford Madox
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Forster, E.M.
The Collector
Fowles, John
The Magus
Fowles, John
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Fowles, John
A Maggot
Fowles, John
Faces in the Water
Frame, Janet
Thais
France, Anatole
The Blind Side of the Heart
Franck, Julia
The Corrections
Franzen, Jonathan
Freedom
Franzen, Jonathan
Simon and the Oaks
Fredriksson, Marianne
Hideous Kinky
Freud, Esther
I’m Not Stiller
Frisch, Max
Homo Faber
Frisch, Max
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Fuentes, Carlos
The Recognitions
Gaddis, William
Memory of Fire
Galeano, Eduardo
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris
Gallico, Paul
The Trick is to Keep Breathing
Galloway, Janice
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
Gardonyi, Geza
Thursbitch
Garner, Alan
The Roots of Heaven
Gary, Romain
Promise at Dawn
Gary, Romain
Mary Barton
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Cranford
Gaskell, Elizabeth
North and South
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Legend
Gemmell, David
The Triple Mirror of the Self
Ghose, Zulfikar
The Shadow Lines
Ghosh, Amitav
Sunset Song
Gibbon, Lewis Grassic
Cold Comfort Farm
Gibbons, Stella
Fruits of the Earth
Gide, André
The Immoralist
Gide, André
Strait is the Gate
Gide, André
The Counterfeiters
Gide, André
The Yellow Wallpaper
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
New Grub Street
Gissing, George
Born in Exile
Gissing, George
The Adventures of Caleb Williams
Godwin, William
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Elective Affinities
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
The Nose
Gogol, Nikolay
Dead Souls
Gogol, Nikolay
The Vicar of Wakefield
Goldsmith, Oliver
Ferdydurke
Gombrowicz, Witold
Oblomov
Goncharov, Ivan
Burger’s Daughter
Gordimer, Nadine
July’s People
Gordimer, Nadine
Mother
Gorky, Maxim
The Artamonov Business
Gorky, Maxim
Marks of Identity
Goytisolo, Juan
The Opposing Shore
Gracq, Julien
The Tin Drum
Grass, Günter
Cat and Mouse
Grass, Günter
Dog Years
Grass, Günter
Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Gray, Alasdair
Blindness
Green, Henry
Living
Green, Henry
Party Going
Green, Henry
Caught
Green, Henry
Loving
Green, Henry
Back
Green, Henry
England Made Me
Greene, Graham
Brighton Rock
Greene, Graham
The Power and the Glory
Greene, Graham
The Heart of the Matter
Greene, Graham
The Adventurous Simplicissimus
Grimmelshausen, Hans von
Diary of a Nobody
Grossmith, George
Memoirs of Rain
Gupta, Sunetra
Dirty Havana Trilogy
Gutierrez, Pedro Juan
Forever a Stranger
Haasse, Hella
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Haddon, Mark
She
Haggard, H. Rider
The Well of Loneliness
Hall, Radclyffe
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Hamid, Mohsin
Hangover Square
Hamilton, Patrick
The Red Harvest
Hammett, Dashiell
The Maltese Falcon
Hammett, Dashiell
The Glass Key
Hammett, Dashiell
The Thin Man
Hammett, Dashiell
The Hand of Ethelberta
Hardy, Thomas
The Good Soldier Švejk
Hašek, Jaroslav
The Blithedale Romance
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Marble Faun
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Love in Excess
Haywood, Eliza
A Question of Power
Head, Bessie
The First Garden
Hébert, Anne
The Blind Owl
Hedayat, Sadegh
Stranger in a Strange Land
Heinlein, Robert
An Ethiopian Romance
Heliodorus
Margot and the Angels
Hemmerechts, Kristien
Nowhere Man
Hemon, Aleksandar
Reasons to Live
Hempel, Amy
Martin Fierro
Hernandez, Jose
Dispatches
Herr, Michael
The New World
Heruy Wolde Selassie
Camera Obscura
Hildebrand
Blind Man With a Pistol
Himes, Chester
A Kestrel for a Knave
Hines, Barry
The House on the Borderland
Hodgson, William Hope
Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Høeg, Peter
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
Hoffman, E.T.A.
The Parable of the Blind
Hofmann, Gert
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Hogg, James
Hyperion
Hölderlin, Friedrich
The Swimming Pool Library
Hollinghurst, Alan
The Folding Star
Hollinghurst, Alan
The Line of Beauty
Hollinghurst, Alan
The Cathedral
Honchar, Oles
Whatever
Houellebecq, Michel
Elementary Particles
Houellebecq, Michel
Platform
Houellebecq, Michel
Closely Watched Trains
Hrabal, Bohumil
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hurston, Zora Neale
What I Loved
Hustvedt, Siri
Crome Yellow
Huxley, Aldous
Antic Hay
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Huxley, Aldous
Eyeless in Gaza
Huxley, Aldous
Against the Grain
Huysmans, Joris-Karl
Down There
Huysmans, Joris-Karl
Carry Me Down
Hyland, M.J.
The Last of Mr. Norris
Isherwood, Christopher
Goodbye to Berlin
Isherwood, Christopher
A Pale View of Hills
Ishiguro, Kazuo
An Artist of the Floating World
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Remains of the Day
Ishiguro, Kazuo
The Unconsoled
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Never Let Me Go
Ishiguro, Kazuo
The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry
What Maisie Knew
James, Henry
The Turn of the Screw
James, Henry
The Wings of the Dove
James, Henry
The Ambassadors
James, Henry
The Golden Bowl
James, Henry
A Day Off
Jameson, Storm
The Summer Book
Jansson, Tove
The Piano Teacher
Jelinek, Elfriede
Leaden Wings
Jie, Zhang
Platero and I
Jiménez, Juan Ramón
The Taebaek Mountains
Jo, Jung-rae
Albert Angelo
Johnson, B.S.
Trawl
Johnson, B.S.
House Mother Normal
Johnson, B.S.
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Johnson, Samuel
Jahrestage
Johnson, Uwe
In Parenthesis
Jones, David
Fear of Flying
Jong, Erica
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James
Ulysses
Joyce, James
Finnegans Wake
Joyce, James
Storm of Steel
Junger, Ernst
The Glass Bees
Junger, Ernst
Broken April
Kadare, Ismail
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
Kadare, Ismail
The Successor
Kadare, Ismail
A Thousand Cranes
Kawabata, Yasunari
Zorba the Greek
Kazantzákis, Nikos
The Last Temptation of Christ
Kazantzákis, Nikos
Measuring the World
Kehlmann, Daniel
Green Henry
Keller, Gottfried
The Busconductor Hines
Kelman, James
A Disaffection
Kelman, James
How Late It Was, How Late
Kelman, James
Kieron Smith, boy
Kelman, James
Schindler’s Ark
Keneally, Thomas
Looking for the Possible Dance
Kennedy, A.L.
Everything You Need
Kennedy, A.L.
On the Road
Kerouac, Jack
Fatelessness
Kertész, Imre
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kesey, Ken
Sometimes a Great Notion
Kesey, Ken
Annie John
Kincaid, Jamaica
The Shining
King, Stephen
The Water-Babies
Kingsley, Charles
Kim
Kipling, Rudyard
Garden, Ashes
Kis, Danilo
Michael Kohlhaas
Kleist, Heinrich von
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light
Klima, Ivan
The Hothouse
Koeppen, Wolfgang
Death in Rome
Koeppen, Wolfgang
The Case Worker
Konrad, Gyorgy
A Day in Spring
Kosmac, Ciril
Smell of Sadness
Kossmann, Alfred
The Fan Man
Kotzwinkle, William
The Midnight Examiner
Kotzwinkle, William
The Melancholy of Resistance
Krasznahorkai, László
The Last Days of Humanity
Kraus, Karl
The History of Love
Krauss, Nicole
The Return of Philip Latinowicz
Krleža, Miroslav
On the Edge of Reason
Krleža, Miroslav
Professor Martens’ Departure
Kross, Jaan
The Joke
Kundera, Milan
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kundera, Milan
Ignorance
Kundera, Milan
The Buddha of Suburbia
Kureishi, Hanif
Intimacy
Kureishi, Hanif
Gabriel’s Gift
Kureishi, Hanif
The Flamethrowers
Kushner, Rachel
The Princess of Clèves
La Fayette, Madame de
Dangerous Liaisons
Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de
Nada
Laforet, Carmen
Barabbas
Lagerkvist, Par
Gösta Berling’s Saga
Lagerlöf, Selma
The Namesake
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Rickshaw Boy
Lao, She
Quicksand
Larsen, Nella
Passing
Larsen, Nella
The Diviners
Laurence, Margaret
Maldoror
Lautréaumont, Comte de
The Fox
Lawrence, D.H.
Aaron’s Rod
Lawrence, D.H.
Independent People
Laxness, Halldór
The Dark Child
Laye, Camara
Uncle Silas
Le Fanu, Sheridan
In a Glass Darkly
Le Fanu, Sheridan
The Dispossessed
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lost Language of Cranes
Leavitt, David
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lee, Harper
Cider With Rosie
Lee, Laurie
Solaris
Lem, Stanislaw
The Female Quixote
Lennox, Charlotte
The German Lesson
Lenz, Siegfried
City Primeval
Leonard, Elmore
La Brava
Leonard, Elmore
Get Shorty
Leonard, Elmore
A Hero of Our Times
Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich
10:04
Lerner, Ben
The Enchanted Wanderer
Leskov, Nikolai
The Grass is Singing
Lessing, Doris
The Golden Notebook
Lessing, Doris
Shikasta
Lessing, Doris
The Diary of Jane Somers
Lessing, Doris
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Levi, Carlo
If This Is a Man
Levi, Primo
If Not Now, When?
Levi, Primo
The Drowned and the Saved
Levi, Primo
Small Island
Levy, Andrea
The Monk
Lewis, M.G.
Monica
Lewis, Saunders
Main Street
Lewis, Sinclair
Babbitt
Lewis, Sinclair
Tarr
Lewis, Wyndham
The Childermass
Lewis, Wyndham
The Apes of God
Lewis, Wyndham
The Revenge for Love
Lewis, Wyndham
Self-Condemned
Lewis, Wyndham
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Lewycka, Marina
Pippi Longstocking
Lindgren, Astrid
The Unknown Soldier
Linna, Vaino
The Passion According to G.H.
Lispector, Clarice
The Hour of the Star
Lispector, Clarice
The Kindly Ones
Littell, Jonathan
The Call of the Wild
London, Jack
The Iron Heel
London, Jack
Martin Eden
London, Jack
The Twins
Loo, Tessa de
Under the Volcano
Lowry, Malcolm
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid
Lowry, Malcolm
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Luo, Guanzhong
Chaka the Zulu
Mofolo, Thomas
Amadis of Gaul
Montalvo, Garci Rodríguez de
Watchmen
Moore, Alan
Anagrams
Moore, Lorrie
Like Life
Moore, Lorrie
A Gate at the Stairs
Moore, Lorrie
The Time of Indifference
Moravia, Alberto
Disobedience
Moravia, Alberto
A Ghost at Noon (aka Contempt)
Moravia, Alberto
Anton Reiser
Moritz, Karl Philipp
News from Nowhere
Morris, William
The Bluest Eye
Morrison, Toni
Sula
Morrison, Toni
Down Second Avenue
Mphahlele, Es’kia
The Holder of the World
Mukherjee, Bharati
The Discovery of Heaven
Mulisch, Harry
Max Havelaar
Multatuli
Lives of Girls and Women
Munro, Alice
The Beggar Maid
Munro, Alice
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Murakami, Haruki
Sputnik Sweetheart
Murakami, Haruki
After the Quake
Murakami, Haruki
Kafka on the Shore
Murakami, Haruki
Almost Transparent Blue
Murakami, Ryu
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki, Shikibu
Under the Net
Murdoch, Iris
The Bell
Murdoch, Iris
A Severed Head
Murdoch, Iris
The Nice and the Good
Murdoch, Iris
The Black Prince
Murdoch, Iris
The Sea, The Sea
Murdoch, Iris
Inland
Murnane, Gerald
Young Törless
Musil, Robert
The Man Without Qualities
Musil, Robert
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Mutis, Alvaro
Lolita
Nabokov, Vladimir
Pnin
Nabokov, Vladimir
Pale Fire
Nabokov, Vladimir
Ada
Nabokov, Vladimir
In A Free State
Naipaul, V.S.
A Bend in the River
Naipaul, V.S.
Enigma of Arrival
Naipaul, V.S.
The Guide
Narayan, R.K.
The Unfortunate Traveller
Nashe, Thomas
Kokoro
Natsume, Soseki
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy
Neira Vilas, Xosé
Suite Française
Nemirovsky, Irene
The River Between
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Petals of Blood
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Matigari
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Delta of Venus
Nin, Anaïs
Rituals
Nooteboom, Cees
All Souls Day
Nooteboom, Cees
Fear and Trembling
Nothomb, Amélie
Henry of Ofterdingen
Novalis
Them
Oates, Joyce Carol
Marya
Oates, Joyce Carol
Black Water
Oates, Joyce Carol
Blonde
Oates, Joyce Carol
The Country Girls
O’Brien, Edna
Girl With Green Eyes
O’Brien, Edna
August is a Wicked Month
O’Brien, Edna
In the Forest
O’Brien, Edna
At Swim-Two-Birds
O’Brien, Flann
The Poor Mouth
O’Brien, Flann
The Third Policeman
O’Brien, Flann
The Things They Carried
O’Brien, Tim
Wise Blood
O’Connor, Flannery
The Violent Bear it Away
O’Connor, Flannery
Everything That Rises Must Converge
O’Connor, Flannery
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring
Oe, Kenzaburo
The Talk of the Town
O’Hanlon, Ardal
The English Patient
Ondaatje, Michael
At Swim, Two Boys
O’Neill, Jamie
The Shipyard
Onetti, Juan Carlos
Burmese Days
Orwell, George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Orwell, George
Coming Up for Air
Orwell, George
Animal Farm
Orwell, George
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Orwell, George
Cataract
Osadchyi, Mykhailo
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Black Box
Oz, Amos
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Oz, Amos
Life is a Caravanserai
Özdamar, Emine
The Year of the Hare
Paasilinna, Arto
Manon des Sources
Pagnol, Marcel
Choke
Palahniuk, Chuck
The Laws
Palmen, Connie
Snow
Pamuk, Orhan
Life of Christ
Papini, Giovanni
The Manors of Ulloa
Pardo Bazan, Emilia
Land
Park,, Kyŏng-ni
Ballad for Georg Henig
Paskov, Viktor
The Ragazzi
Pasolini, Pier Paulo
Doctor Zhivago
Pasternak, Boris
Marius the Epicurean
Pater, Walter
Cry, the Beloved Country
Paton, Alan
The Harvesters
Pavese, Cesare
The Moon and the Bonfires
Pavese, Cesare
Dictionary of the Khazars
Pavic, Milorad
The Labyrinth of Solitude
Paz, Octavio
Nineteen Seventy Seven
Peace, David
Titus Groan
Peake, Mervyn
Gormenghast
Peake, Mervyn
The Clay Machine-Gun
Pelevin, Victor
The Life of Insects
Pelevin, Victor
Things: A Story of the Sixties
Perec, Georges
A Man Asleep
Perec, Georges
A Void
Perec, Georges
W, or the Memory of Childhood
Perec, Georges
Life: A User’s Manual
Perec, Georges
Fortunata y Jacinta
Pérez Galdós, Benito
Compassion
Pérez Galdós, Benito
The Dumas Club
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
The Book of Disquiet
Pessoa, Fernando
Vernon God Little
Pierre, D.B.C.
Money to Burn
Piglia, Ricardo
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
Pirandello, Luigi
The Bell Jar
Plath, Sylvia
The Trusting and the Maimed
Plunkett, James
The Fall of the House of Usher
Poe, Edgar Allan
The Pit and the Pendulum
Poe, Edgar Allan
The Purloined Letter
Poe, Edgar Allan
Here’s to You, Jesusa
Poniatowska, Elena
A Dance to the Music of Time
Powell, Anthony
Typical
Powell, Padgett
The Shipping News
Proulx, E. Annie
Remembrance of Things Past
Proust, Marcel
Pharoah
Prus, Boleslaw
Exercises in Style
Queneau, Raymond
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Rabelais, François
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Radcliffe, Ann
The Devil in the Flesh
Radiguet, Raymond
The Last World
Ransmayr, Christoph
The Story of O
Réage, Pauline
The Forest of the Hanged
Rebreanu, Liviu
All Quiet on the Western Front
Remarque, Erich Maria
Quartet
Rhys, Jean
Good Morning, Midnight
Rhys, Jean
Wide Sargasso Sea
Rhys, Jean
Interview With the Vampire
Rice, Anne
Pilgrimage
Richardson, Dorothy
Pamela
Richardson, Samuel
Clarissa
Richardson, Samuel
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel
Rios, Julian
Jealousy
Robbe-Grillet, Alain
Home
Robinson, Marilynne
Cost
Robinson, Roxana
La Celestina
Rojas, Fernando de
Hadrian the Seventh
Rolfe, Frederick
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Rosa, João Guimarães
Love’s Work
Rose, Gillian
Call it Sleep
Roth, Henry
The Radetzky March
Roth, Joseph
Portnoy’s Complaint
Roth, Philip
The Breast
Roth, Philip
Operation Shylock
Roth, Philip
Sabbath’s Theater
Roth, Philip
Julie; or the New Eloise
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Émile; or, On Education
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Reveries of a Solitary Walker
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Confessions
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Impressions of Africa
Roussel, Raymond
Locus Solus
Roussel, Raymond
The God of Small Things
Roy, Arundhati
The Tin Flute
Roy, Gabrielle
The Burning Plain
Rulfo, Juan
Grimus
Rushdie, Salman
The Deadbeats
Ruyslinck, Ward
The 120 Days of Sodom
Sade, Marquis de
Justine
Sade, Marquis de
The Witness
Saer, Juan Jose
Contact
Sagan, Carl
Bonjour Tristesse
Sagan, Françoise
The Little Prince
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem
Salgari, Emilio
Season of Migration to the North
Salih, Tayeb
The Catcher in the Rye
Salinger, J.D.
Franny and Zooey
Salinger, J.D.
The Devil’s Pool
Sand, George
Alberta and Jacob
Sandel, Cora
Baltasar and Blimunda
Saramago, Jose
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Saramago, José
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
Saramago, José
The Double
Saramago, José
Cain
Saramago, Jose
Facundo
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino
Nausea
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Pastoralia
Saunders, George
Murder Must Advertise
Sayers, Dorothy L.
The Nine Tailors
Sayers, Dorothy L.
The Swarm
Schatzing, Frank
The Reader
Schlink, Bernhard
None but the Brave
Schnitzler, Arthur
Memoirs of my Nervous Illness
Schreber, Daniel Paul
The Street of Crocodiles
Schulz, Bruno
To Each His Own
Sciascia, Leonardo
Rob Roy
Scott, Sir Walter
Ivanhoe
Scott, Sir Walter
The Monastery
Scott, Sir Walter
Vertigo
Sebald, W.G.
The Emigrants
Sebald, W.G.
The Rings of Saturn
Sebald, W.G.
Austerlitz
Sebald, W.G.
Transit
Seghers, Anna
Requiem for a Dream
Selby, Jr. Hubert
Great Apes
Self, Will
How the Dead Live
Self, Will
Death and the Dervish
Selimovic, Mesa
The Lonely Londoners
Selvon, Sam
God’s Bits of Wood
Sembene, Ousmane
The Case of Comrade Tulayev
Serge, Victor
A Suitable Boy
Seth, Vikram
Retreat Without Song
Shahnour, Shahan
An Obedient Father
Sharma, Akhil
Frankenstein
Shelley, Mary
The Water Margin
Shi, Nai’an
The Stone Diaries
Shields, Carol
Unless
Shields, Carol
A Town Like Alice
Shute, Nevil
Quo Vadis
Sienkiewicz, Henryk
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Sillitoe, Chinua
Downriver
Sinclair, Iain
London Orbital
Sinclair, Iain
Dining on Stones
Sinclair, Iain
Life and Death of Harriett Frean
Sinclair, May
The Jungle
It Can’t Happen here
Sinclair, Upton
Sinclair, Upton
The Magician of Lublin
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
The Manor
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Animal’s People
Sinha, Indra
The Engineer of Human Souls
Skvorecky, Josef
The Forbidden Realm
Slauerhoff, Jan Jacob
Islands
Sleigh, Dan
The Accidental
Smith, Ali
There But For The
Smith, Ali
Winter
Smith, Ali
White Teeth
Smith, Zadie
On Beauty
Smith, Zadie
Roderick Random
Smollett, Tobias George
Peregrine Pickle
Smollett, Tobias George
Humphry Clinker
Smollett, Tobias George
The Port
Šoljan, Antun
The Real Charlotte
Somerville and Ross
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
Somerville and Ross
Lady Number Thirteen
Somoza, Jose Carlos
Memento Mori
Spark, Muriel
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Spark, Muriel
The Girls of Slender Means
Spark, Muriel
The Driver’s Seat
Spark, Muriel
Mother’s Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
The Man Who Loved Children
Stead, Christina
Three Lives
Stein, Gertrude
The Making of Americans
Stein, Gertrude
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Stein, Gertrude
Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck, John
The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John
Cannery Row
Steinbeck, John
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal
The Charwoman’s Daughter
Stephens, James
Tristram Shandy
Sterne, Laurence
A Sentimental Journey
Sterne, Laurence
Kidnapped
Stevenson, Robert Louis
The Master of Ballantrae
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Indian Summer
Stifter, Adalbert
Dracula
Stoker, Bram
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Couples, Passerby
Strauss, Botho
The Young Man
Strauss, Botho
The Red Room
Strindberg, August
The People of Hemsö
Strindberg, August
By the Open Sea
Strindberg, August
Perfume
Süskind, Patrick
The Pigeon
Süskind, Patrick
As a Man Grows Older
Svevo, Italo
Zeno’s Conscience
Svevo, Italo
Waterland
Swift, Graham
The Light of Day
Swift, Graham
A Tale of a Tub
Swift, Jonathan
Gulliver’s Travels
Swift, Jonathan
A Modest Proposal
Swift, Jonathan
The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman
Szczypiorski, Andrzej
Pereira Declares: A Testimony
Tabucchi, Antonio
The Home and the World
Tagore, Rabindranath
The Third Wedding
Taktsis, Costas
Some Prefer Nettles
Tanizaki, Junichiro
The Secret History
Tartt, Donna
The Goldfinch
Tartt, Donna
Blaming
Taylor, Elizabeth
Vanity Fair
Thackeray, William Makepeace
The Great Indian Novel
Tharoor, Shashi
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Thompson, Hunter S.
The Killer Inside Me
Thompson, Jim
Walden
Thoreau, Henry David
Cutter and Bone
Thornburg, Newton
The 13 Clocks
Thurber, James
The Wonderful “O”
Thurber, James
The Invention of Curried Sausage
Timm, Uwe
Pallieter
Timmermans, Felix
The Heather Blazing
Tóibín, Colm
The Master
Tóibín, Colm
The Hobbit
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Lord of the Rings
Tolkien, J.R.R.
War and Peace
Tolstoy, Leo
Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tolstoy, Leo
The Kreutzer Sonata
Tolstoy, Leo
The Leopard
Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
Confederacy of Dunces
Toole, John Kennedy
Cane
Toomer, Jean
City Sister Silver
Topol, Jáchym
The Ogre
Tournier, Michael
The Colour
Tremain, Rose
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Tressell, Robert
Fools of Fortune
Trevor, William
Felicia’s Journey
Trevor, William
The Story of Lucy Gault
Trevor, William
Castle Richmond
Trollope, Anthony
The Last Chronicle of Barset
Trollope, Anthony
Phineas Finn
Trollope, Anthony
He Knew He Was Right
Trollope, Anthony
Summer in Baden-Baden
Tsypkin, Leonid
The Christmas Oratorio
Tunstrom, Goran
On the Eve
Turgenev, Ivan
Fathers and Sons
Turgenev, Ivan
King Lear of the Steppes
Turgenev, Ivan
Spring Torrents
Turgenev, Ivan
Virgin Soil
Turgenev, Ivan
B
Twain, Mark
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
Ugresic, Dubravka
Kristin Lavransdatter
Undset, Sigrid
Rabbit, Run
Updike, John
Rabbit Redux
Updike, John
Rabbit is Rich
Updike, John
Pepita Jimenez
Valera, Juan
Our Lady of the Assassins
Vallejo, Fernando
Ancestral Voices
van, Heerden, Etienne
The Time of the Hero
Vargas Llosa, Mario
The Cubs and Other Stories
Vargas Llosa, Mario
The War of the End of the World
Vargas Llosa, Mario
The Feast of the Goat
Vargas Llosa, Mario
Z
Vassilikos, Vassilis
Under the Yoke
Vazov, Ivan
Southern Seas
Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel
The House by the Medlar Tree
Verga, Giovanni
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Verne, Jules
Around the World in Eighty Days
Verne, Jules
The Birds
Vesaas, Tarjei
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played
Vestdijk, Simon
Froth on the Daydream
Vian, Boris
Myra Breckinridge
Vidal, Gore
Bartleby and Co.
Vila-Matas, Enrique
Conversations In Sicily
Vittorini, Elio
In Search of Klingsor
Volpi, Jorge
Candide
Voltaire
Cat’s Cradle
Vonnegut, Kurt
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Vonnegut, Kurt
Slaughterhouse Five
Vonnegut, Kurt
Breakfast of Champions
Vonnegut, Kurt
The Color Purple
Walker, Alice
The Temple of My Familiar
Walker, Alice
Possessing the Secret of Joy
Walker, Alice
Infinite Jest
Wallace, David Foster
The Castle of Otranto
Walpole, Horace
Halftime
Walser, Martin
Morvern Callar
Warner, Alan
Indigo
Warner, Marina
Summer Will Show
Warner, Sylvia Townsend
After the Death of Don Juan
Warner, Sylvia Townsend
The House with the Blind Glass Windows
Wassmo, Herbjorg
Billy Liar
Waterhouse, Keith
Tipping the Velvet
Waters, Sarah
Fingersmith
Waters, Sarah
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Watson, Winifred
Decline and Fall
Waugh, Evelyn
Vile Bodies
Waugh, Evelyn
A Handful of Dust
Waugh, Evelyn
Brideshead Revisited
Waugh, Evelyn
The Graduate
Webb, Charles
The Time Machine
Wells, H.G.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Wells, H.G.
The Invisible Man
Wells, H.G.
The War of the Worlds
Wells, H.G.
Tono-Bungay
Wells, H.G.
Trainspotting
Welsh, Irvine
The Optimist’s Daughter
Welty, Eudora
Miss Lonelyhearts
West, Nathanael
The Return of the Soldier
West, Rebecca
Harriet Hume
West, Rebecca
The Thinking Reed
West, Rebecca
The Birds Fall Down
West, Rebecca
The House of Mirth
Wharton, Edith
Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith
Bunner Sisters
Wharton, Edith
Summer
Wharton, Edith
The Age of Innocence
Wharton, Edith
The Glimpses of the Moon
Wharton, Edith
A Boy’s Own Story
White, Edmund
The Beautiful Room is Empty
White, Edmund
The Living and the Dead
White, Patrick
The Tree of Man
White, Patrick
Voss
White, Patrick
The Once and Future King
White, T.H.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
Tarka the Otter
Williamson, Henry
No Laughing Matter
Wilson, Angus
I Thought of Daisy
Wilson, Edmund
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Winterson, Jeanette
The Passion
Winterson, Jeanette
Sexing the Cherry
Winterson, Jeanette
Written on the Body
Winterson, Jeanette
Insatiability
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy
Thank You, Jeeves
Wodehouse, P.G.
The Quest for Christa T.
Wolf, Christa
Patterns of Childhood
Wolf, Christa
Look Homeward, Angel
Wolfe, Thomas
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Wolfe, Tom
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Wolfe, Tom
Back to Oegstgeest
Wolkers, Jan
The Voyage Out
Woolf, Virginia
Night and Day
Woolf, Virginia
Jacob’s Room
Woolf, Virginia
Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf, Virginia
To The Lighthouse
Woolf, Virginia
Orlando
Woolf, Virginia
The Waves
Woolf, Virginia
The Years
Woolf, Virginia
Between the Acts
Woolf, Virginia
Native Son
Wright, Richard
Monkey: Journey to the West
Wu, Cheng’en
Day of the Triffids
Wyndham, John
The Midwich Cuckoos
Wyndham, John
Chocky
Wyndham, John
Half of Man is Woman
Xianliang, Zhang
Kitchen
Yoshimoto, Banana
Memoirs of Hadrian
Yourcenar, Marguerite
We
Zamyatin, Yevgeny
Thérèse Raquin
Zola, Émile
Drunkard
Zola, Émile
Nana
Zola, Émile
Germinal
Zola, Émile
La Bête Humaine
Zola, Émile
Gimmick!
Zwagerman, Joost
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Zweig, Arnold
Amok
Zweig, Stefan
Chess Story
Zweig, Stefan
Missing but should be on the list
these list are mostly novels so it is light on poetry, and drama and spiritual writing. I would have include the following
Ginzberg and Beat Poets and Writers
Whitman Poems
Dickison Poems
TS Elliot poems
WD Auden Poems
Emerson Essays
Emerson Poems
Edgar Allen Poe complete stories and Poems
Tom Robbins Complete Novels
Tolstoy War and Peace
Mark Twain complete stories and novels
Shakespeare complete plays and poems
Bible
Koran
Buddhist Writings
Hindu Writings
Tao De Ching
Book of Mormon
Federalist Papers
US constitution
Declaration of Independence
Magna Carter
SInclair Lewis It Can’t Happen Here
CS Lewis Narnia Series
CS Lewis Out of the Silent Planet Series
Rowlings Harry Potter series
Classic SF writers are under represented on these lists as well.
Comments welcome let me know which ones you’ve read and I will add it to the list
One of my favorite writers is Stuart Woods. Boy, can the dude pump them out! In the last count, he has written over 80 books almost all of the best sellers and he has been pumping out one to two a year since he first got published in the late ’70s.
He died this week at age 83. He wrote over 90 books in his life and I have read most of them.
He started out writing “Chiefs” which became a movie as well. The main character is a police chief in a small town in Georgia. The character reappears in many later novels, eventually becoming a two-term president, and in town, Delgado also appears as a place in many of his later novels. Most of his novels are set in NYC, Maine, Key West, Los Angeles, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Most of his books feature the exploits of Stone Barrington, an NYC high-society type who is a James Bond-like character. He is a retired NYC cop, a lawyer, a real estate investor, a part-time CIA agent, and a player with many love interests. He is also best friends with three presidents and the not-so-secret lover of the current President. He introduced me to Knob Creek bourbon which is now one of my favorite bourbons, and he is also partial to Martinis-made James Bond style.
In this alternative universe, the President serves two terms, his wife serves two terms, and her secretary of State is elected President. Stone is friends with them all.
Stone’s best friend is Dino Bachetti, his old NYC homicide partner who became NYC Police Commissioner and helps Stone out officially and unofficially over the years. He has had a lot of love interests including Holly Barker who was a former secretary of state and president.
Another recurring character is Ed Lee who is a friend of Stone who lives and works out of Santa Fe New Mexico. Ed Lee is a 6’8 former college basketball player who becomes an attorney.
My only criticism is that his books are very formalistic. At some point, someone is going to be able to program a computer to write novels and his novels would be a great place to start because I am sure that a computer could generate believable Stone Barrington novels. Having said that, his novels are still enjoyable.
He has written a few non-Stone Barrington novels stand-alone novels. One I enjoyed recently was Palindrome which is a psychological thriller set on an island off the South Carolina coast. Written in the mid 90’s I believe.
I often start a novel of his while waiting around in the PX for my wife to finish up, and throughout several visits, often finish the novel.
The following is a list of his novels, I bolded the ones I have read. One of my bucket list reading goals is to finish reading all of his novels, including the last two coming out this fall..
I have often thought that someday an AI program will be able to write an effective thriller. I write to Stuart Woods and IBM proposing a challenge.
Big Blue and Stuart Woods would both write a Stone Barrington novel. A jury of readers and critics would read the result and determine which one was the computer version and which was the human version.
Stuart Woods took the challenge and IBM big blue went to work. IBM won the contest as the jurry thought the computer version was better.
About Stuart Woods:
Stuarts Woods is an American novelist. He was born in Georgia in 1938, and died in August, 2022. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1959. He then enrolled in the National Guard before moving to New York to start a career.
He then moved to London and spent a further 3 years working in advertising before deciding that he wanted a change and he began writing his first novel. It is at this time that he decided to move to Ireland where he lived a solitary lifestyle, only leaving his home to make money writing adverts for local television.
SailingWoods moved to Ireland in the 70s and this was where he fell in love with sailing. He spent many years competing in sailing competitions and learning how to be a better sailor. He finally bought his boat when his grandfather died and left him some money, so he could afford it. It was then that he took sailing more seriously and spent most of 1974 learning more about sailing.WritingWoods began writing about his experiences in his yacht races and he published 1977, the book Blue Water, Green Skipper. It seemed like he had found an ideal career based on the thing he loved most, sailing.Changing PlansHis second book was supposed to be about another boat race that he was due to take part in, but the race was canceled due to inclement weather, so he decided to drive around the UK and write a book about his adventures in the county inns.ChiefsWoods then went on to write his first novel called Chiefs. He made the mistake of selling the book to publishers unfinished because he thought he would have gotten a lot more for it had he waited until the book was finished.Norton was the company to publish the hardback, but he felt like the company let him down because they didn’t do much to promote the book. He then contacted Bentham Books, who published the paperback and it was much more successful.Charlton HestonIn 1983, the book was made into a tv series starring Charlton Heston and Danny Glover. It was aired by CBS over three nights and it ended up being nominated for three Emmy Awards.The popularity of the tv show meant that more people wanted to read the books and there was renewed interest in the paperback version of the books Woods won the Edgar Award for the Best First Novel.Series Over StandalonesWoods is one of those authors who are more focused on the series of novels over the standalone. His most popular series is the Stone Barrington Novels. He has just released his 27th novel in the series and he has written 3 more novels, which are set to be released in 2014.Who is Stone Barrington?Stone Barrington is a counsel for a law firm. After he finished college, he joined the police and served 14 years on the force. He left after disagreeing with his superiors and then got a job with the law firm. The novels tell the story of his exploits so far.In the Stone Barrington novels, Woods is often congratulated for getting the law procedures correct when he has no background in law himself. It is noticed a lot and one fan asked how he gets it all right. He indicates that he is a massive fan of law procedurals such as LA Law and Law & Order, so gets all of his knowledge from there. He has made a few friends who are Lawyers, so if he gets anything wrong, they tell him.Holly BarkerHolly Barker is a character in another series of books that he writes. She is an ex-army officer and navy brat. She left the army because of a sex scandal and she has to learn how to live a civilian life. She begins her new life as the Chief of Police and she learns just how dangerous her new life is.Even though Woods has written several series, which focus on the life of a single character, the characters from each of the novels do crossover into other series. For example, Stone Barrington appears in the second Holly Barker novel and he also appears in the second novel of the Rick Barron novels.Rick BarronThe Rick Barron novels are only two books deep at the moment. Rick Barron was a police detective and he was demoted after a run-in with a higher officer. He gets the job as security for Centurion Pictures but finds himself in the middle of a double murder case in the period that is said to be the golden age of Hollywood cinema.The first Rick Barron novel, The Prince of Beverly Hills, was meant to be a standalone novel but Woods ended up writing a sequel after he was bombarded with emails from fans asking him to write another. He has no plans to write another at this moment in time.After Chiefs was made into a TV series, one of his other books was adapted for TV as well. Grass Roots was made into a TV series in 1993. Since then, no other books have been made for TV.Woods indicates that he would love it for his other books to be made into movies and if a director has read one of the books and wants to buy the rights, then he encourages the writer to get in touch with his agent.
As some of you might know, I am reading the classics these days. I picked a three-volume series called “50 Books You Must Read Before You Die” (free Kindle classic collection item) and started with volume three, and the Harvard classic collection (also a free Kindle classic item). I recently finished reading the Gilbert Keith Chesterton selections. Specifically, I read the following four items.
The Wisdom of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– Heretics [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] another Father Brown story
– The Innocence of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
He was a towering figure in British intellectual life – a social conservative who became a Catholic. He was friends with George Bernard Shaw and HG Wells and engaged in spirited debates with both during his life. He wrote over 80 books on a wide range of topics. He was described as a big man who was very absent-minded, leaving his wife to take care of most mundane things. I can relate to that.
Reading these selections, particularly the three Father Brown selections from the viewpoint of the early 21st century, presents some challenges. Like most writers of his era -late 19th century -mid 20th century, his writing sounds very ablest, anti-Semitic, colonist, elitist, racist, and sexist. Of course, a writer in that era would simply not recognize the ablest, anti-Semitic, colonist, elitist, racist, and sexist aspects of his work, nor would he or she particularly care. So, I noted that and moved on.
comments greatly appreciated.
He is perhaps most famous for his Father Brown stories. (i had heard of these stories a long time ago). There is a BBC mini-series based on these stories that I would love to track down and watch someday. Father Brown is an interesting fictional detective. He reminds me a bit of Hercules Perot of Agatha Christie fame, or perhaps a bit of Sherlock Holmes as well. Father Brown is a Catholic priest in England who develops a reputation as an amateur detective as he solves cases through his superior analytical ability, as well as his thinking outside the box to use a more modern idiom. He travels around England, and France often with his friend, Flambeau who is a French detective, whom Father Brown convinces to turn away from a life of crime and go straight.
Each of the stories is both a stand-alone story and fits a larger narrative as the characters evolve through time.
I suppose my favorites were
“The Wrong Shape”, The Saturday Evening Post, 10 December 1910.
“The Sins of Prince Sardine”, The Saturday Evening Post, 22 April 1911.
The Hammer of God (as “The Bolt from the Blue”, The Saturday Evening Post, 5 November 1910.
“The Eye of Apollo”, The Saturday Evening Post, 25 February 1911.
“The Sign of the Broken Sword”, The Saturday Evening Post, 7 January 1911.
“The Fairy Tale of Father Brown”
My least favorite was
“The God of the Gongs” – because the racism in this story is just too much to deal with. The main murderer is a half-African from somewhere in the US who is a fighter but is accused of being a member of a Voodoo cult. They used the N-word throughout to describe him and his cult members.
The complete list follows:
. The Innocence of Father Brown, 1911
“The Blue Cross”, The Story-Teller, September 1910; first published as “Valentin Follows a Curious Trail”, The Saturday Evening Post, 23 July 1910
“The Secret Garden”, The Story-Teller, October 1910. (The Saturday Evening Post, Sep 3, 1910)
“The Queer Feet”, The Story-Teller, November 1910. (The Saturday Evening Post, Oct 1, 1910)
“The Flying Stars”, The Saturday Evening Post, 20 May 1911.
“The Invisible Man”, The Saturday Evening Post, 28 January 1911. (Cassell’s Magazine, Feb 1911)
The Honour of Israel Gow (as “The Strange Justice”, The Saturday Evening Post, 25 March 1911.
“The Wrong Shape”, The Saturday Evening Post, 10 December 1910.
“The Sins of Prince Saradine”, The Saturday Evening Post, 22 April 1911.
The Hammer of God (as “The Bolt from the Blue”, The Saturday Evening Post, 5 November 1910.
“The Eye of Apollo”, The Saturday Evening Post, 25 February 1911.
“The Sign of the Broken Sword”, The Saturday Evening Post, 7 January 1911.
“The Three Tools of Death”, The Saturday Evening Post, 24 June 1911.
(I have not read these stories, but might track it down someday, mainly to see how these stories differ from his earlier stories, as they were written after World War 1 and the previous stories were written pre-war).
“The Vanishing of Vaudrey” (Harper’s Magazine, Oct 1925)
“The Worst Crime in the World”
“The Red Moon of Meru”
“The Chief Mourner of Marne” (Harper’s Magazine, May 1925)
“The Secret of Flambeau” (framing story)
The Scandal of Father Brown (1935)
“The Scandal of Father Brown”, The Story-Teller, November 1933
“The Quick One”, The Saturday Evening Post, 25 November 1933
“The Blast of the Book/The Five Fugitives” (Liberty Aug 26, 1933)
“The Green Man” (Ladies Home Journal, November 1930)
“The Pursuit of Mr. Blue”
“The Crime of the Communist” (Collier’s Weekly, Jul 14, 1934)
“The Point of a Pin” (The Saturday Evening Post, Sep 17, 1932)
“The Insoluble Problem” (The Story-Teller, Mar 1935)
“The Vampire of the Village” (Strand Magazine, August 1936); included in later editions of The Scandal of Father Brown
Uncollected Stories (1914, 1936)
“The Donnington Affair” (The Premier, November 1914; written with Max Pemberton)
(read)
“The Mask of Midas” (1936)
Wiki Summation
Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer,[2]philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the “prince of paradox“.[3]Time magazine observed his writing style: “Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out.”[4]
K. Chesterton (2nd cousin) Signature. Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, [2] philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the “prince of paradox “. [3]
Jun 10, 2022, · G.K. Chesterton, in full Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (born May 29, 1874, London, England—died June 14, 1936, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire), English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories, known also for his exuberant personality and rotund figure.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, better known as G. K. Chesterton, was a prominent literary figure in 20th-century London. He was a highly versatile individual who was as respected as a writer as he was for being an orator and Christian apologist.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories. He is probably best known for his series about the priest-detective Father Brown who appeared in 50 stories. Between 1900 and 1936 Chesterton published some one hundred books.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere ‘rollicking journalist,’ he was a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the critically acclaimed English novelists, orator, poet, journalist, biographer, philosopher, art and literary critic, and dramatist. He was better known by the name G.K. Chesterton and was often regarded as the ‘paradox prince’.
Jun 14, 2017, · Gilbert K. Chesterton Life, Hate, Passion 126 Copy quote But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the Government. Once abolish God is, the Government becomes God. Gilbert K. Chesterton Believe, Russia, Government “Christendom in Dublin”.
The complete list of the classics I am reading follows – bolded means I have read them.
“50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die”
Started reading the first one of volume 3
Bolded indicated I have read it.
Vol 3
This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names
– 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]
– Captains 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]
– Tales of Space and Time [H. G. Wells] – Jacob’s Room [Virginia Woolf]
Vol 1
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 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.: Howards 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]
– On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin] – Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
– 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 Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald] – Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud] – Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy] – Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse] – 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.
Harvard Classics
(1) Franklin, Woolman, Penn
(2) 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 Nights
(17) Folk-Lore and Fable. Aesop, Grimm, Andersen
(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
Sam Adams one night
Met some space aliens
In the Cosmos Bar.
The first inter-planetary bar
Located in Berkeley, California
A known hangout for UFO nuts
And assorted true believers,
Where the sign
proudly proclaims
Aliens drink for free.
The alien asked Sam
To explain humanity
To them.
Sam said,
Sure. Here’s what makes us human
We are evolved from tribal apes
From distant Africa.
Conditioned by our God
Created in his image
According to his will.
We believe in family values
Except for when do not
Believe in such values.
More importantly than anything else
Is the search for love and happiness,
Few of us ever met our soul mates
We are always looking for the one
The one that will make us complete,
The aliens smiled, Said,
Well, that was interesting
But there is one thing
We can agree on,
You earth people
Sure are crazy
The craziest species
In the known universe.
But you make the best brew
And the best coffee
And play the best blues
In the universe.
Sam said,
Thanks, I’ll drink to that.
Last but not least, here is today’s prompt (optional, as always). It’s based on Faisal Mohyuddin’s poem “Five Answers to the Same Question.” Today, I’d like to challenge you to write your poem that provides five answers to the same question – without ever specifically identifying the question that is being answered.
Dew Drop inn
Sam Adams Met His Fate
Sam Adams
Often thought that his life
Truly began on September 7, 1982
When he met his Dreamgirl
Who walked out of his dreams
He has been having it since 1974
She walked out of his dreams
Into his life
Two months later
She became his wife.
Sam thought
When she became his mate,
That was the date
He had met his fate.
April 18—April 18 Prompt: “Stop! In the name of love, before you break my heart!”—write a poem where love turns everything around somehow, or stops a course of action, or stops everything!
Based on my true love story. See “Dreamgirl” postings on my web page, Dreamgirl re-published
It all began in Berkeley, California
In the springtime of 1974
One fateful afternoon
I was sleeping in my high school Physics class.
I looked up and saw a tall,
beautiful Asian woman
standing there looking at me.
She was the most beautiful women
in the universe to me
I screamed out, who are you?
She disappeared
as if she was beamed
away from my dream.
I knew that someday
I would meet the girl
In the dream.
Little did I know
I would have to wait until 1982
Starting that month
I began having the same dream
Month and month and month.
Always the same.
She was saying something
in a strange language.
Then one day.
I had the dream
and knew that
She was in Korea.
So, I chose to go
to Korea
In the Peace Corps,
Somehow knowing
That I would meet her there.
One day
A year after the Peace Corps ended
A month before I planned
to leave to return
to the U.S. for graduate school.
That morning early in the morning
I had the last of these dreams.
This time I understood her.
She said, “Don’t worry.
We’ll meet soon.”
That evening
As I was getting off the bus
To go to my class
I saw getting off the bus
The girl in my dream.
It was she!
I was speechless.
I did not know what to do.
Throughout the evening
I ran into her several times.
Finally, I was introduced to her.
I muttered some lame excuse
About wanting to find a Korean tutor
and got her number.
The next day she came to the gate
At my base where I was teaching
ESL to Koreans
She said that she
had to speak with me.
I told to wait in the library
for about an hour,
and I would cancel the class
and meet her then.
We went out for coffee.
She told me that she was madly
in love with me
And simply had to have me.
I told her I felt the same way.
I proposed five days later,
And got married one month later.
Does she believe this story?
She claims she does not believe it
Because it is impossible to be true.
But I know that there
are other worlds and other times.
In a past life
We must have been together somehow.
And our love was so strong
That it crossed over the barrier
of time and space.
She found me in 1974,
But it took until 1982
For us to meet.
And it has been 36 years
Since we met in the physical sphere
Or 45 years since the dream began.
And I still recall the dream
And meeting her.
I had no choice
When I met her
We were fated to be together,
Until the end of this lifetime
And the next and the next.
April 18, 2022: Poetry Writing Prompt – jake Aller
This poetry writing prompt submitted by jake Aller:
Write a poem about a premonition of something that would happen in your life, that came true. What was the premonition? How did it occur? How did it come true?
Example: I dreamt of meeting my wife eight years before I met her. I knew that the dream was a premonition of a future event. and in that case, my dreams did indeed come true.
We the People Will Wake Up Soon
gun
We the people someday soon
Will wake up and demand
That the government and society
Stop the gun carnage in our streets
Enough, no more gun madness
The people have had enough,
The NRA and their stooges
Will continue to insist
That the solution to gun violence.
Is more guns for everyone
Only then can we be free
From the fear of constant violence.
The only solution is for everyone
To be armed to the teeth
With the latest weapons of war.
Then we will all be afraid
Of each other
And no one will take a chance,
That the other will pull out
A gun to end their dispute.
The people have had enough
They are sick and tired
Of the constant fear.
And they don’t buy the NRA lies
Anymore.
In short,
It is time for the people
To stand up,
And demand an end
To the gun violence
In our streets.
Politicians are a craven lot
If the public speaks loud enough
They will do something
To shut them up.
Until that happens
Every day
We will watch
Another day of massive gun incidents.
Just ten more
This easter weekend alone
as I wrote this poem.
For today’s prompt, take the phrase “We (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: “We the People,” “We Want It Now,” “We in the Royal Sense,” and/or “We vs. Wii.”
“Don’t fall in love with me”
Sam Adams told his latest flame
Maria Lee
Whom he met at the Cosmos Club
In Bangkok, Thailand
She was a drop–dead gorgeous
Korean woman on the lam
From her husband
She smiled demurely
And said
“Don’t worry I won’t fall in love again
Already done that thing once is enough
But I could use a little loving
If that is okay by you.”
“Sure,” Sam Adams said.
Falling in love with her
Despite his spider–sense
Tingling red alert.
Today’s featured online journal is The Cortland Review, which has published nearly ninety issues over more than twenty years. In their newest issue, I’ll point you to Justin Janisse’s “Missing You, Expensively” and Grace Q. Song’s “Birthday.”
And now for our daily (optional) prompt! Today’s challenge is to write a poem that starts with a command. It could be as uncomplicated as “Look,” as plaintive as “Come back,” or as silly as “Don’t you even think about putting that hot sauce in your hair.” Whatever command you choose, I hope you have fun ordering your readers around.
Good Golly, Ms. Molly Rhyming Poem
Good Golly, Ms. Molly
Good golly
Ms. Molly
Let’s have some folly
And go to Bali
Or Raleigh
Someplace holly
strong>Where we can get jolly
Eating a tamale
Or a Canali.
April 19—Write a silly rhyming poem!
PSH prompt
Three poems about our times Legal
Three poems about our times Medical
Three poems about our time’s Energy
One the legal system faces challenges
In this day and age
Of fear of crime
Crime and punishment
Is everywhere
Hanging and lynching
No longer just historical terms
Judge and jury form the basis
Of our Legal systems
Based on Lies and truth
And justice is not free
Those that have money
Have justice
Those that do not
Face constant injustice
Two Medical Fears Abound
Every day I am afraid
Afraid I might get
The big Alzheimer’s
That took my mother
And my father-in-law
The dreaded cancer
That killed my father
And his father
Dementia that haunted my mother
Fibromyalgia that fills me with constant pain
Three Energy Blues
wind-turbine-11
The world needs energy
Needs renewable energy
Needs to get beyond
carbon-based energy
that is destroying the world
needs to end fracking
needs to end nuclear power
needs to seek the energy
of the future.
Look up an industry completely foreign to you. This could be anything: medical, timber, steel, tech/IT, cosmetics, coatings, pharmaceuticals, office supplies, etc. Pick one and generate a list of industry-specific jargon using a minimum of twenty-five words.
Pick three different industries, so your list is a minimum of 75 words (or phrases, phrases are okay). Write a poem that uses 1 word or phrase per line for the duration of the poem, however long you choose to make it. Mix industries! Write the poem in multiple parts!
This is a time-consuming exercise, but it’s a wonderful one because it so frequently spawns more than one poem, and the exercise is great at pulling writers out of their respective comfort zones.
Writers com
Writer’s Digests What’s Out There – Secret Societies
In Frederick Tennyson’s Atlantis (1888), an ancient Greek mariner sails west and discovers an inhabited island which is all that remains of the former kingdom.
Sam Adams, an old man
Recently returning to his hometown,
Was walking in the Berkeley Hills.
Ended up at Tilden Park
Where he had been hiking
Ever since he was a child.
He was hoping to getaway.
From all the turmoil,
The dismal news of the day
The constant chattering on his TV.
He was often lost in thought
Thinking back on his favorite books
Re-reading the classics
Of his youth.
He loved the Chronicles of Narnia
Often thought
That Narnia was real
That Oz was real
And that Middle earth
Happened as well.
And Harry Potter
Existed in an alternate universe
He imagined finding
Portals to other worlds.
While lost in thought
He came upon an unusual site
An open door in the air
With a note
Narnia is calling you.
He laughed having thought
About Narnia reality
All week long.
He jumped through the portal
Sam Adams disappearance
Remained a mystery.
April 20—Book report—subtly (or overtly) incorporate a book report or response into a poem about something else. (If you name the book, avoid spoilers!)
I like to start my day with a hot cup of coffee
I pound down the coffee
First thing I do every day as the dawning sunlight
Lights up my lonesome room
Yeah, but not just a simple cup of java Joe, but God damn coffee
I mean, – we are talking about an alcoholic, all speed ahead, always hot, always fresh, always there when I need it, angry, attitude talk to the hand Ztude, bad, bad assed, beats breaking, beatnik, bluesy, bitter, bitchy, bombs away, capitalistic, caffeinated up the ass, cinematic, communistic, Colombian grown, Costa Rican inspired, Cowabunga to the max, crazy assed, devilishly angelic, divine, divinely inspired, dyslexic, epic, extreme vetting, evil eye, expensive, erotic vision inducing, Ethiopian coffee house brewed, euphoric, freaky, freazoid, foxy, Frenched kissed, French brewed, funkified, foxy lady, graphic, GOD in my coffee, with Allah, Ganesh, Jesus, Kali, Buddha, Christians, Durga, Hindus, Mohamed, Jesus and Mo and their friend, the cosmic bar maid, Sai Babai, Shiva, Taoists, Zoroastrians, drinking my god damned coffee in Hell; growling, gnarly, happy, hard as ice, Hawaian blessed, high as a kite, hippie, hip, hipster, hip hoppy, hot as hell yet strangely sweet as heaven, jazzy, jealous, Kerouac approved, kick ass, kick my god damn ass to Tuesday, kick down the doors and take no prisoners, grown in the Vietnam highlands by ex Vietcong, Guatemalan grown, kiss ass, illegal in every state, imported from all over the god damn world, insane, lovely, loony, lonely, lonesome, malodorous mean old rotten, motherfucking, nasty, narcotic, never whatever, never meh, never cold, not approved by the CIA, not approved by DHS, not approved for human consumption by the FDA, not your daddy’s sissified corporate cup of coffee, NOT DECAFE coffee, not your Denny’s truck driver weak as brown water cup of fake coffee, not your establishment friendly cup of coffee, Not your FBI coffee, Not FAKE Herbal coffee substitute, but a real cup of coffee, not your farmer brothers dinner crap, not made in America for Americans, not safe for work, not your Starbucks average expensive overpriced crappy corporate chain cup of coffee, Not pretentious, Not White House approved, not State Department safe, nuclear, Not Patriotic, operatic, Peets’s coffee approved, paranoid, pornographic, psychotic, pontific, politically aware, rapping, rhyming, right here, right now in River city, rock and roll up the Yazoo, sad, sadistic, sarcastic, sassy, satanic, schizoid, shitting, silly, sexy, smarmy, smelly, smooth, snarky, snarling, stupid, stinking, sweet as honey, sweat inducing, symphonic, Trump can’t handle this coffee, vengeful, Wagnerian, wicked, with nutmeg and cinnamon swirls, with a hint of stevia, with a hint of vanilla, with a hint of rum, with a hint of whisky, with a hint of cherry, with a hint of fruit overtones, with a hint of drugs spicing up the coffee, spendific, speeding, splendid, superior accept no substitutes, survived the Vietnam war, the Iraq war, the Afghan war, the first and Second Korean war, World War 11, the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on black people, the sexual revolution, Soulful as a summer’s night in MOTOWN- James Brown approved, TOP approved, Berkeley approved, the coffee that Jimmy Hendrix drank before he died, the coffee that Elvis drank on his last breakfast, the coffee that Barry White crooned as he drank his cup of coffee – and the coffee that made the white boy play stand up and play that funky music, the coffee that made Jonny B Goode play his guitar, and made Jonny bet the devil his soul after he drank his morning cup of righteous coffee and the coffee that make the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll, the coffee your mother warned you against drinking, the coffee that Napoleon drank when he became the Emperor of all Europe, the Coffee that Beethoven drank when he wrote the Ninth symphony, the coffee that Mozart drank as he wrote his last symphony, the coffee that Lincoln drank before he was killed, the Hemingway drank before he killed himself, the coffee that started the 60’s, and ended the 20th century, the coffee that Lenin drank as he plotted revolution, the coffee that Hitler and Stalin drank with FDR as they divided up the world after World War 11, the cup that JFK drank before he was blown away, the coffee Jerry drinks while driving in cars with random celebrities and political figures, the coffee that Jon Stewart drinks before he goes on an epic take down of some foolish politico, the cup of Arabic coffee that Sadaam drank the day he was executed, the coffee that GW and Cheney drank when they bombed Baghdad, the Indian cup of coffee that Bid Laden drank before 9-11 and just before the seals blew his ass to hell, the cup of coffee that Tiger Woods drank with his mistresses while playing a 3, 000 dollar round of golf at Sandy Lane golf course in Barbados, the last legal drug that does what drugs should do, the cup of coffee that Obama drank when he became President, Vietnamese, Vienna brew, wacky, whimsical, Whisky Tango Foxtrot, wild, weird, wonderful, WOW, Yabba dabba doo! Yada Yada yada Zappa’s favorite cup of cosmic coffee, and Zorro’s last cup of coffee, Good to the last drop rolled into one simple cup of hot coffee
As I pound down that first cup of coffee
And fire up my synaptic nerve endings with endless supplies
Of caffeine-induced neuron enhancing chemicals
I face the dawning day with trepidation and mind-numbing fear
I turn on the TV and watch the smarmy newscasters in their perfect hair
Lying through their teeth about the great success the government is having
Following the great leader’s latest pronouncements
I want to scream and shoot the TV
And run outside
Shouting “Stop the world.
I want to get off this fucking crazy planet”
The earth does not care a whit about my attitude
It merely shrugs and moves around the Sun
In its appointed daily run
And I sit down
The madness dissipates a bit
And enjoy my second cup
Of heaven and hell
In my morning cup of Joe/
And now for today’s (optional) prompt. Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that anthropomorphizes a kind of food. It could be a favorite food of yours, or maybe one you feel conflicted about. I feel conflicted about Black Forest Cake, for example. It always looks so pretty in a bakery window, and I want to like the combination of cherries and chocolate . . . but I don’t. But how does the cake feel about it?
PSH prompt
To Friends I Have Lost Along The Way
If you have been around
As long as I have
More than 66 years
On this planet,
You would no doubt
Lost a few friends
Along the way
And family members too.
I recall all my friends
Who have left this mortal plane
Spending way too little time
in my life.
I recall Demel Tucker
My high school black friend
From the debate team
Who died of AIDS
All alone in the end.
I remember Jon Weber
My Austrian born college roommate
Who died of prostate cancer
At age 45,
We had lost touch
Over the years
Last saw him
In the 80s.
I recall Paul Simon
Who shared the visa line
With me in Korea
Went out for a walk
One morning
Did not come back.
I mourn Chris Richards
My boss in Bangkok, Thailand
We were due to have lunch
When he died of an heart attack
That morning.
I recall Julian Bartley
My boss in Seoul
Died in the terrorist bombing
In Kenya.
I recall Judy
From my days in Mumbai
Died suddenly too soon.
I recall my sister Inga
Who died of a mysterious illness
When she turned 45.
I recall my mother
Who died of Alzheimer’s
And my father
Who died of cancer.
And there were many more
And sadly, many more
Will join them
Before I leave this mortal plane.
The curse of getting old
I suppose.
This poetry writing prompt submitted by Joan Fingon:
Prompt word: remembrance
In this exercise, focus on writing about a specific loss of a loved one or dear friend, recent or from your past. What is the essence of your loss and how might you express and honor their memory? What did the individual mean to you?
To inspire your writing be guided by these words as an example…
I have completed 40 flash fiction pieces so far for this February challenge, 30 for the Writers Digest challenge, 8 for two Writers Digest challenges, and two bonus flash pieces based on dreams. Also completed 15 haiku for the Poetry Mangum Opus but did not post them.
Day 1 Keys
Day Two Prompt Circular
Day three Prompt limitations
Day four mystery
Day Five: A Dream that Came true
Day Six: a character who tries to be
Heartful”
Day Seven: Workplace conflict
Day Eight: re-gifting
Day Nine Grim reaper
Day ten romance story
Day 11 Hoarding TBC
Day 12 magic
Day 13 grim reaper
Day 14 animal
Day 16 hobby
Day 17 Book
Day18 Time the first Terran Emperor
Day 19 Horror
Day 20 Lost
Day 21 Confronting one’s Fears
Day 22 Open the Door
Day 23 Ten minute Story
Day 24 Very Short Story
Day 25 Promises
Day 25 Rise and Fall of the Fake Indian Casino bonus
Day 26 Structure Story as a List
Day 27 Idea Take Shape
Day 28 Endless Beginnings
The List
Hidden Keys to The Universe.
End of The Beginning, Beginning of The End.
A Man Has to Know His Limitations.
Where Did All the Blacks Go?
Dream That Came True.
Sam Adams Crisis of Conscious
Sam Adams Workplace Conflict Leads to a Bad Day.
Sam Adams reignites the War on Christmas
Timeless Love story
Sam Adams the Hoarder (TBC)
World domination but at a terrible price
Conversation with the grim reaper
Sam Adams first Contact
The Demon Car Attack
Cosmic Cat from Berkeley
Sam Adams Discovers the Cosmic Conspiracy
Sam Adams Meets Gloria Magnolia Shah (Bonus from dream)
Time Police TBC
Sam Adams Battles the Zombie Hoard
Earthquake refugees (bonus)
Lost in the Mountains (TBC)
The First Terran Emperor
Jason the Dog that Saved Sam’s Soul
Open the Door
Ten Minutes to Doomsday
World 111 Goes Nuclear
Maria Keeps Her Promise of Revenge
Rise and Fall of the Fake Indian Casino bonus
69 Days of 69 Sex X rated Flash
Put a Ring on It
The Beginning of the End/End of the Beginning
four flash fiction for writing com micro-fiction contest -100 words drabble
My Bag is Packed and Ready to Go.
Bullsye.
Open the Key to Other Worlds.
The Shadow Knows.
The Temple of Doom Opens a Portal to Other Worlds
Sam Adams worked at the Cosmos Research center in Berkeley, California. They considered themselves the real “X files” and consulted with governments, corporations, and private citizens around the world. They sent a team to the field to investigate each claim submitted for verification and charged fees for their investigation. 90 percent of the time they uncovered an elaborate hoax. They published their findings on their website,” The Cosmos Institute Investigates – The Truth Is Out There, Out There.”
Most times they published a detailed analysis of the claim and their finding which usually stated this is a hoax. Among the claims that they left “ pending” were Bigfoot, Yeti, Loch Ness Monster, the existence of aliens.
One of the pending cases that intrigued the world was what exactly happened to Sam Adams, James Jones, and Maria Shah? Where did they disappear and was there foul play involved?
Maria Lee the founder of the institute finally had to hold a press conference to announce their preliminary findings.
She was a plain-spoken woman who carried a lot of respect as she used to be with both the CIA and FBI working in their “X Files” shops – which did exist but were secret agencies. She knew a lot of things that she could not talk about.
She had a team of experienced researchers. But no one knew her true mission.
One of her key researchers was Sam Adams. He had been there since the beginning and she knew that he had some suspicions about their work but so far he seemed loyal and trustworthy.
Sam Adams had received a mysterious message claiming that they had found the
location of the legendary Temple of Doom located in the mountains of madness
near the Himalayas. Inside the temple were gateways to other worlds, portals left
over by the ancient Lemurians who had come to earth from Sirius.
Sam Adams organized an expedition to locate the Temple of Doom. They started
in the jungles of the golden triangle engaging some dodgy characters.
It was a hot day and they had to constantly wipe the bugs off their hair, and hats and wipe the sweet off their sleeves.
The bugs gave way as they climbed into cooler mountain climes. The way got rougher as they climbed. They spent the night.
When they got up they found that their local guides had all run off with their supplies, and there were tiger tracks all around the camp and they found the body of James Jones badly mauled but with his head missing.
The next morning they saw the temple at the top of the mountain.
In front of the temple were hung the heads of all their missing party and the head of the tiger who had killed them.
When they got there about noon, giant talking apes stopped them and said
“Wait here.”
an old monk welcomed them. He gave them a tour of the compound and they came to the gateways. Each was a glass door with a title next to it.
He said
Sam
You have come to the gateway to other worlds. Be careful when you go through the gate. Some are one-way gates. You had best go through one at a time and wait for a half-hour, if they don’t return you know it is a one-way gate. I don’t know where half of these gates go. I’ve only been through a few. Narnia is my favorite.
Sam and his party went through the Narnia gate. A few hours later, Maria returned alone and said that Sam and the others had opted to stay. She left with the five remaining staffers and reported back to Maria Lee.
She said,
“Well, we found the portals and confirmed the long rumored story that both Oz and Narnia were based on true stories – someone had been there probably CS Lewis and Frank Baum.
We went to Narnia five people three women and two women and found ourselves in a battle for control – the white witch had returned. In the end there can only be two kings and Queens of Narnia and I opted to return to report the success of the mission. Sam left me his official resignation with instructions that his final pay check be sent to his ex-wife.
Maria responded
“That tracks with what our operatives told us , especially that Narnia and Oz existed, but we had to be sure ourselves.”
She and the old monk went out to announce to the world the opening of the ancient gateway to other worlds. He merely said
I have been waiting for this moment for 5,000 thousand years. I am the last of the Lemurians, and was born 5,000 years ago. I am from the planet Sirius and will be returning home through the gateway.
Writers HQ is based in England and is a good writer resource site. They offer lots of free courses and advice. I like their snarky attitude. They are asking for donations as a grant they had counted on dried up. It is a worthy organization to support.
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Hey hey Jake
This email is a small change from the scheduled entertainment.
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As you know the pandemic has proper knackered arts orgs and artists all over the shop and that, unfortunately, includes us. For the last 18 months, we’ve been unable to run our live events safely, honestly? It’s left a huge hole in our beeswax. Add to the nightmare with the cowboy web developers and things at WHQ HQ are a little on the precarious side.
Recently the Arts Council decided we weren’t allowed to apply for the Culture Recovery Fund because we asked for both too much and too little (we don’t understand either)*. We have maxed out all available credit and aren’t eligible for any of the other covid support packages and eeesh it has left us in a very bum-clenched situation.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have run hundreds of free online workshops and courses for writers stuck in covid hell and worked our little butts off to make sure no one missed out on the community they needed during the weird-ass timeline we forked into in early 2020.
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God Does Not Talk To Idiots Triferta Poem A Thon
Huricanes From Hell Triferta Poem A Thon
It Can’t Happen Here Triferta Poem A Thon
Kim Vs. Trump Twitter War -In Memorial Of Kim Il Sung’s The Great Leader’s Birthday Triferta Poem A Thon
Masters Of The Universe Triferta Poem A Thon
Microsoft How I Hate You Triferta Poem A Thon
More Coffee Blues Triferta Poem A Thon
No More Coffee Blues Triferta Poem A Thon
Triferta Poem A Thon
Rambling Man Triferta Poem A Thon
Rambling Man -Where Do I Belong? Triferta Poem A Thon
Rapid City Nowhere Triferta Poem A Thon
Suburban Laundromat Blues Triferta Poem A Thon
The Storm Is Coming Triferta Poem A Thon
Facing Life’s Challenges Together Triferta Poem A Thon
Fires Buring Bright Triferta Poem A Thon
God Drinks Coffee Triferta Poem A Thon
Imagining End Of The World Triferta Poem A Thon
Incheon 2016 Triferta Poem A Thon Triferta Poem A Thon
Looking Out My Window Triferta Poem A Thon
Lost And Found Triferta Poem A Thon
My Soul Wants To Fly Triferta Poem A Thon
Rapid City Nowhere Triferta Poem A Thon
The Revolution Is Coming Triferta Poem A Thon
Wagontire, Oregon Triferta Poem A Thon
Walking Through The Woods Of Time Triferta Poem A Thon
Zombie Apocalypse Triferta Poem A Thon
Heading To Memphis Triferta Poem A Thon
One Mystic Shrouded Night Triferta Poem A Thon
Idiots In High Places Triferta Poem A Thon
Cosmos’s Cosmic Calendar Triferta Poem A Thon
. Landlord Blues Triferta Poem A Thon
. Berkeley California Triferta Poem A Thon
. Chains That Bind Us Triferta Poem A Thon
. Changes Triferta Poem A Thon
. Coffee Revolution Triferta Poem A Thon
. COSTCO Triferta Poem A Thon
. Dental Torture Blues Triferta Poem A Thon
. Emperor Donald The Ist Triferta Poem A Thon
. Everything Will Be All Right Triferta Poem A Thon
. Ghosts From World War 11 Triferta Poem A Thon
. Life Is Wonderful Triferta Poem A Thon
. Lithia Springs Triferta Poem A Thon
. Love Jones Triferta Poem A Thon
. My Daily Hot Coffee Fix Triferta Poem A Thon
. No More Coffee Blues Triferta Poem A Thon
. Pane E Circus 2017 Redux Triferta Poem A Thon
. Sandwich Choices Triferta Poem A Thon
. Secret Agency Man Triferta Poem A Thon
. The Decline Of America Triferta Poem A Thon
. The Dogs Of War Are Howling Triferta Poem A Thon
. Voices Of My Doom Triferta Poem A Thon
. Walls Triferta Poem A Thon
. Watching Cats Hunt Triferta Poem A Thon
. Where Do You And I Begin? Triferta Poem A Thon
. Why I Am Not A Christian Easter Thoughts Triferta Poem A Thon
. August Moods Triferta Poem A Thon
. Capitol Hill In The Spring Triferta Poem A Thon
. Spring Love Thoughts Triferta Poem A Thon
. Spring Time In Oregon Triferta Poem A Thon
. The Falling Rain Triferta Poem A Thon
“Dental Blues” Triferta Poem A Thon
“Meeting God In The Lake” Triferta Poem A Thon
“The Cosmic Cat In Berkeley” Triferta Poem A Thon
“The God Dog In Goa” Triferta Poem A Thon
Lost And Found Triferta Poem A Thon
1984 Lives On Triferta Poem A Thon
Decline Of America Scarlet Leaf Review
Dogs Of War Howling Scarlet Leaf Review
My Mother’s History Scarlet Leaf Review
Donald Trump And The Vulgarians Rise To Power Tuck
Imagining The End Of The World Tuck
No More Coffee Blues * Hill Rag
A Million Ways To Say I Love You Blessed Love Poems
American Dream Your One Phone Call
Best Friend In The Universe Whisphers
Black Vultures Scryptic
Additional Publication Vendue Need to be Confirmed
Conversation With Teddy Roosevelt
Strong Wine
Watching Cats Hunt
Dragon Flies In My Mind
The Shape Of History
Voices Of My Doom
Cats
Rapid City Nowhere
Reflections
. Yesterday Morning
Suburban Laundromat Blues
Blue Blues
Brain Fever
Capital Hill In The Spring
Cats Hunting
Chains That Bind
Charles Bukowski Road Not Chosen
Coffee My Secret Lover
Coffee Revolution
Coffee The Drink Of Revolutionaries
Confucian Thought For The Modern Era
Decline Of America
Dogs Of War Howling
Donald Trump Our Compassionate Dear Leader
Dream Girl
Enemy Of The People
Fallen Dreams Litter The Ground
God Drinks Coffee
How I Married Girl Of My Dreams
Howling At The Moon
I Like My Coffee
Jesus Must Die Again
Lost And Found
Donald Trump And The Vulgarians Rise To Power
Strong Wine
The Shape Of History
Yesterday Morning
Corona Ghosts Stalk The President
Corona Virus Stalks Me
General Corona Leads His Troops
A New Year’S Visit To The Oregon Coast
Love Conquers Hate
Bus Fantasy
Snarling Cup of Coffee Chapbook Poetry Superhighway
April 2021 chapbook Poetry Superhighway
Writers Digest April 2021 contest
April 2020 contest
All poetry
Duane’s poetry
Fan story
Poetry Circle
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Poetry Nook
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Sweek
Writing com
I will year try to finish reading classic books. I have a collection from Kindle of 50 books to read before you die, in three volumes – 15O books in total see list below. I have read many of them already which I have noted. As I read them, I will add them to the chronological listing below.
Glass by Robert Francis Writing com
Blue Winter by Robert Francis Writing com
encounter writing com
Where I Belong – Contest winner Feb 24, 2021, writing com
Edna St. Vincent Millay -Pastoral writing com
Lorraine Marguerite Gasrel Black -Pastoral Rhapsody writing com
Daniel Miltz -Pastoral Day writing com
Henry Kirke White -A Pastoral Songwriting com
Carl Sandberg Passers-By
Poetry Corner, writing com Poetry corner
Randall Jarrell The Olive Garden Writing com poetry
Randall Jarrell The Breath of Night Writing com poetry
Randal Jarrell The Orient Express Writing com poetry
Abdul Ala armada Rafi I poem Friend, this world is like an unburied corpse
Ali Ahmad Saeed poem
Alton David translation of a man and a woman white
Andre Breton Man and Woman Absolutely White
Mary Bernard, translation of Sofia he is more than a hero
Ingeborg Bachman poem
Anne Bradstreet letter to her husband 1650 first Published woman poet in The US
Willis Barnstone translation of Mother’s song if snow
Charles Bernstein writing exercises
William Blake Sick Rose
Elizabeth Browning Sonnets from The Portuguese #43 how Do I love Thee
Elizabeth Bishop one art Britain
Andre Carter Stephen D translation lady is shichimi if someone would come
William Barnstone she is at island me turn off
Maxine Chernoff writing exercises
Chilam Balam poem
Chiyo various lines
William Corbett Vermont Apollinaire
Robert Creely The business
EE Cummings In Jest
Bel Dao Listen, I Don’t Believe Chinese poet mid-20th century
David Wagner lines and since a call since Elam since summer
Thomas Campion When to her lute Corinna sings
Jon Donne Holly Sonnet 14
Lucile Clifton, I don’t know how to do
Emily Dickinson lines and poems 214
Emily Dickinson poem 262
Emily Dickinson poem 640
Emily Dickinson poem 986
Emily Dickinson poem 1732
Enhenduanna The Exaltation of Inanna, antiphonal Hymns Praise of Inanna
Egyptian Poem, untitled
Fanny Howe About Face
Imr El Quais The Great Ode
Elaine Feinstein excerpt from translation Marina TSvetayeva poems of The end Lawrence Ferlinghetti excerpt from constantly risking absurdity Coney Island of The mind
Donald Finkel excerpt from a translation of Bel Dao
Roberts Elizabeth silent poems
Frances Kathleen vanishing point third black quartet from Wayne
Robert Frost Nothing Gold can stay
Robert Clark translation departure by Pierre Reverdy
Jorie Graham In what matter is The body united with The soul
Barbara Guest Lines from red lilies
HD Dread
HD Sea Rose
HD Oread
Allen Hibbert translation of Adonis desire moving through The Maps of The material
Ronald Hoffman excerpt from deceptively like a solid
Kelly Holt writing exercises
Bible, Ecclesiastes for everything There is a season
Homer Odyssey
Homer Iliad
Edward Arlington Robinson Richard Corey
Fanny Howe About Face
George Herbert Death
Linda jarkesy The bed
John K
Randall Jarred The death of The Bell turret gunner
John Keats The Eve of St Agnes
Lao Tzu Rule a Large Nation
DH Lawrence Bavarian Gentians
LiPo Moonlight Pools
Liu Tsung-yuan From One thousand mountains
Audre Lorde lines from coal
Hugh MacDiarmid Another epitaph on The army of mercenaries
Jackson Mac Lou excerpt from antic quartans
Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat excerpt
Alexander Pope Essay on Criticism
Bernadette Mayer writing exercises
WS Merwin excerpts from leviathan
Pablo Neruda leaning into afterworlds
Pablo Neruda and walking around
John Milton excerpts from Allegro
John Milton excerpts from paradise lost
Mariana Moore experts from the monkeys
Laura Moriarty The mouth
Bridge Mullins writing exercises
Ellen Myles honey bear
Lorraine Niedecker now in one year
Charles North excerpt from shooting for line
George Oppen excerpt from psalm
Dorothy Parker resume
Bob Pearlman speaker vibrates through the entire house after from AK
Ezra Pound in a station in The Metro
David Ray translation lines from Chiyo
Kenneth Rexroth translation of Midnight songs
Pierre Reverdy Departure
Christopher Sawyer Le is More Than an Hericenone translation Flight of The Itza
Dominion Searls translation of a kind of loss
Shelly Love Philosophy 19th Century
Sappho He is more than a Hero
Jack Spicer lines for imaginary elegies part 1-111
John Tipane translation Abu Hamza al online from this world
Dante in the middle of the road
Anonymous Egyptian poem only one matchless sister
manioc If snow falls on the left field
Issa Morning
Beowulf soon saw
Homer Then wide ruling Agamemnon
Homer infinite terror
Homer wars spears
In El Qis here was the place I watched her
Arthur Rimbaud Bateau Ivre if I desire
Arthur Rimbaud memory
Arthur Rimbaud longing for young arms
Rig Veda There were no such things
Sappho The moon has set
Charles Thomasson lines from Mr. Birdy
David Trinidad monster mash
TS Elliot Excerpt from The Wasteland
Mariana Tsvetanyana Poem of The End
Alfred Tennyson Now Sleep the Crimson Petal
Anne Waldman excerpt for Iovis 19
William Carlos Williams except for The descent
Walt Whitman excerpts from Leaves of Grass
William Butler Yeats the second coming
William Wordsworth The Solitary Reaper
Louis Zukofsky in Arizona from 729 songs
Richard Lovelace 17th Century British Poet, “To Lucasta, Going to War”
Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 Call complaint to His Purs (Purse)
Parody Poems from NaPoWrMo April 27 Prompt
Lewis Carroll Crocodile
Isaac Watts How Doth the Little
Lewis Carroll This the Voice of The Lobster
Isaac Watts The Sluggard
Lewis Carroll Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat
Other poems from Writing com and Elsewhere
Abandoned Farmhouse
by Ted Kooser Wooden Boats
Judy Serum Brown
Denise Levertov Celebration
Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream
Poetic blooming
Heal The World with Marigolds poetic blossoming entry
Midnight encounters a poetic blossoming entry
David S The All-Mighty Thresher
Sally Ann Roberts example #1:it All Started with A Packet of Seeds
William Seaman Higgledy-piggledy
Arthur W. Monks Higgledy-piggledy
Paul Pascal
Higgledy-piggledy
stink in God’s nose.” by Anthony Hecht
Higgledy-piggledy
scraped off The tracks. by John Hollander
“Higgledy-piggledy
Andrea Doria
GLUB”. . . (end of quote). by John Hollander
The dactyl meter is a three-syllable foot with a stress pattern of DUM-da-da, as explained and demonstrated in The following link: https://literarydevices.net/dactyl/
Example #1: The Charge of The Light Brigade (By Alfred Lord Tennyson)
Example #2: Evangeline (By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Example #3: The Lost Leader (By Robert Browning)
Example #4: (Out of The Cradle Endlessly Rocking (By Walt Whitman)
Example #5: Higgledy Piggledy (By Ian Lancashire)
Sidney Lanier The Song Of The Chattahoochee
Sidney Lanier (Written for The Art Autograph during The Irish Famine, 1880.)
Sidney Lanier A Sunrise Song “Where Grandpa Died”
Robert Hayden ~” A Plague of Starlings”
Robert Frost ~” The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost{/pre}
Jack Kerouac Daydreams for Ginsberg
Mini-Monoverse and Double Mini-Monoverse
How Many Times? Emily
Louisa May Alcott
The Short Story A Christmas Dream, And How It Came True
Louisa May Alcott
The Rock and The Bubble
Louisa May Alcott
The Short Story Shadow-Children
Marcus Manilius Sagittarius
Rudyard Kipling’s Centaurs
Mary Swenson The Centaur
ODES
Genethliacum Ode, is a poem written in honor of the birth of a child. Usually, these lofty odes were reserved for the birth of nobility. However, technically any poem written in honor of the birth of a child would qualify as a Genethliacum.
Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.
Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
In a drafty museum, your nakedness
Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.
I’m no more your mother
Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow
Effacement at the wind’s hand.
All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
A far sea moves in my ear.
One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
In my Victorian nightgown.
Your mouth opens clean as a cat’s. The window square
Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons.
Encomium or Coronation Ode is a Greek choral lyric celebrating a person’s achievements. This can be expanded to the length and formality of an ode as in honor of the coronation of a king, but most often is a simple poem as would be spoken at a banquet in an introduction in the category of occasional poetry. It specifically celebrates a man rather than a god. This genre of verse usually has 5 elements, prologue, birth and development, accomplishments, comparisons with which to praise, and an epilogue.Just a Man
Palinode Ode is an apologetic ode, that retracts or recants something said in a previous poem by the same poet. It is usually written as a retraction of an invective statement or offensive remark made in satire.
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a palinode at the end of the Canterbury Tales, recanting and apologizing for any bawdy or offensive statements previously made. It is really unclear if this palinode was part of the original Tales or if it was tacked on later as either an advertisement of his works or as a death bed confessional.
Wherfore I biseke yow mekely,
for the mercy Of God, that ye preye
for me that crist have Mercy on me
and foryeve me my giltes; and Namely
of my translacions and enditynges
of Worldly vanitees, the whiche I revoke
in My retracciouns:as is the book of Troilus;
the book also of Fame; the book of
The xxv. Ladies; the ;
The book of seint valentynes day
of the parlement of briddes; the tales of counterbury,
Thilke that sownen into synne; the book
of the Leoun; and many another book. This was found at Wikipedia.
Panegyric or Paean is an ode that celebrates something from its inception or the life of a person, not just the accomplishments. It is usually written about someone still alive and celebrates the who rather than the what of the person. “Paean” should not be confused with the metric foot “paeon”.
Triumphal Ode, is an ode to celebrate a victory. Also called an Epinicia when specifically celebrating a sports victory. The Epinician Ode said to be created by Simonides of Ceos, Greek lyrical poet, 556BC to 468BC though the most prolific user of the theme was Pindar of Pindaric Ode fame. Originally written to honor a victor the Hellenic games and sung in a procession for the winner and connecting him with a great hero of the past. The frame at the discretion of the poet. Victory by S.J. Duncan-Clark
The Chicago Evening Post, November 11, 1918 Great Poems about the World War
OUT of the night it leaped the seas–
—The four long years of night!
“The foe is beaten to his knees,
—And triumph crowns the fight!”
It sweeps the world from shore to shore,
—By wave and wind ’tis flung,
It grows into a mighty roar
—Of siren, bell and tongue.
Where little peoples knelt in fear,
—They stand in joy today;
The hour of their redemption here,
—Their feet on Freedom’s way.
The kings and kaisers flee their doom,
—Fall bloody crown and throne!
Room for the people! Room! Make room!
—They march to claim their own!
Now God be praised we lived to see
—His Sun of Justice rise,
His Sun of Righteous Liberty,
—To gladden all our skies!
And God be praised for those who died,
—Whate’er their clime or breed,
Who, fighting bravely side by side,
—A world from thraldom freed!
And God be praised for those who, spite
—Of woundings sore and deep,
Survive to see the Cause of Right
—O’er all its barriers sweep!
God and the people–This our cry!
—O, God, thy peace we sing!
The peace that comes through victory,
—And dwells where Thou art King.
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Death and the Lady
Canon Dixon’s Last Poems in 1905.
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge The Other Side of a Mirror
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge After St. Augustine
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Imaging The End Of The World Ariel Chart: International Literary Journal
No More Coffee Blues Ariel Chart: International Literary Journal
What Am I DNA Results Ariel Chart: International Literary Journal
End Times Ariel Chart: International Literary Journal
Imagining End Of The World Ariel Chart
Just Another Night In The City Of Angels Ariel Chart
The Revolution Is Coming Beatnik Cowboy,
I’d Rather Not Mess With Sam Between Hangovers
A Million Ways To Say I Love You Blessed With Love Poems
I Still Want You Blessed With Love Poems
Ode To Valentine Day Blessed With Love Poems
Love Explained To A Space Alien Blessed With Love Poems
Slime Patrol To The Rescue Blue Nib Literary Magazine,
The Fog Blue Nib Literary Magazine,
Dream Girl Cherry-House Press Dreams Anthology
Dream Girl Chicken Soup For The Soul Series
Chains That Bind Me City Limits Publication
Dream Girl City Limits Publication
Various Creative Talents Unleashed
How I Married the Girl Of My Dreams Creativity Webzine
Meeting God in The Lake Creativity Webzine
Cosmic Cat from Berkeley Creativity Webzine
Meeting God in Bombay Creativity Webzine
Cosmic Dog from Goa Creativity Webzine
Buddha Cat Creativity Webzine
The Story of How We Met Creativity Webzine
Fate Intertwined Creativity Webzine
Wild Things Happen Creativity Webzine
God Drinks Coffee Creativity Webzine
Requiem for an Era Creativity Webzine
Howling at the Moon Creativity Webzine
Creativity Webzine
The Truth Shall Set You Free Creativity Webzine
My Name Is Nobody Down In The Dirt
Strangeness In The Air Down In The Dirt
Snarling Cup Of Coffee Down In The Dirt
Charles Bukowski Road Not Taken Down In The Dirt
Fallen Dreams Litter The Ground Down In The Dirt
Hitchhiking Tales Down In The Dirt
Howling at the Moon Down In The Dirt
3-5-7 Love Poem Down In The Dirt
If You Have Been Around Down In The Dirt
Foreigner Walking The Seoul Wall Down In The Dirt
Old Man Visiting His Wife’s Grave Down In The Dirt
Awaiting The Judgement Every Writer Horror Contest
Mad Bag Piper Of Berkeley Every Writer Horror Contest
Coffee Poem
Bad Craziness *
Kimchi Blues Eskimo Pie
Kimchi Blues Friends of Korea website
A New Year’S Visit To The Oregon Coast Excavation
Casino Thoughts Excavation
Winter Haiflu Failed Haiku
Indian Casino Thoughts Fiends Of Korea
Lone Foreigner Walking The Wall Of Seoul Former People, a Journal of Bangs and Whimpers
A New Year’s Visit To The Oregon Coast Former People: A Journal Of Bangs And Whimpers
Indian Casino Thoughts Former People: A Journal Of Bangs And Whimpers
Casino Thoughts Former People: A Journal Of Bangs And Whimpers
Former People: A Journal Of Bangs And Whimpers
Four Coffee Poems Former People: A Journal Of Bangs And Whimpers
Four Coffee Poems Former People: A Journal Of Bangs And Whimpers
Four Coffee Poems Former People: A Journal Of Bangs And Whimpers
Four Coffee Poems
Fiction Dream
Fiction Dream
Corona Virus Haiku Fiction Dream
Fiction Dream
Just Enough For Coffee
One Moment, One Day Fourxfour Poetry Journal
Met My Fate In Bar Room Face From Addict To Advocate
Various Haiku Journal
Hill Rag Hello Bonzai
One Night In Bombay Hello Poetry
Cosmic Cat Ode To Coffee
Cosmic Dogs
Meeting God In A Lake Horror Sleaze Trash
Meeting God In Bombay
Signs Of The Apocalypse Hypertexts, The
Hypertexts, The
Getting Lucky Hypertexts, The
Waiting For The Day Hypertexts, The
Rising Storm Hypertexts, The
All Tired And Burned Out 2020 Go Away
Toilet Gate Fitting Metaphor For Trump Era Ink Pantry (Website)
A Dream Journey Ink Pantry (Website)
Insanity Lives Ink Pantry (Website)
Interview Ink Pantry (Website)
Morning Bright, Evening Delight Ink Pantry (Website)
Reality Hits Ink Pantry (Website)
Cheating Death 22 Times Ink Pantry (Website)
Cheating Death 22 Times Ink Pantry Acadamy of Hearts and Minds ‘
Cthulhu’s Revenge Ink Pantry (Website)
Escape From Hell Ink Pantry (Website)
Ghoul Haunted Woodlands Of Weir Ink Pantry (Website)
The Bench Ink Pantry (Website)
2019 The Year That Was Ink Pantry (Website)
Dreams Ink Pantry (Website)
Fate Ink Pantry (Website)
The Oyster Speaks Up Ink Pantry (Website)
The Terrifying Teens Ink Pantry (Website)
Ink Pantry (Website)
Just An Unhinged Lunatic Ink Pantry (Website)
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Total Successor Or Total Failure Ink Pantry (Website)
2021 Haiku
General Corona Appears In A Vision Inner Circle Writers’ Group Anthology Series
Cancel Culture Run Amuck
Journal Of Expressive Writing
Journal Of Expressive Writing
Ghosts Of Old Saigon Journal Of Expressive Writing
Ghosts Of The Chu Chi Tunnels Journal Of Expressive Writing
Seeing Ghosts
The Cosmic Cat From Berkeley
The Cosmic Dog From Goa Kelp Journal
Cosmic Cat Kelp Journal
Kelp Journal
Agnostic Dyslectic Wonders If There Is A Dog Kelp Journal
Cosmos’s Cosmic Calendar Kelp Journal
It’s A Dog’s Life For Me Kelp Journal
The Cosmic Dog From Goa
2021 Dawns 21 Haiku Literary Yard
Dear Republicans, What Is Wrong With You? Literary Yard
The Revolution Next Time Literary Yard
Zombie Ideas Do Not Die Literary Yard
There Is A Great Sense Of Unrest Literary Yard
Lone Foreigner Hiking The Seoul City Walls Literary Yard
Literary Yard
Literary Yard
Dream Love Questions Sekoku Local Gem
15 Day Challenge Local gem
Halloween poetry collection Local Gem
Dear Microsoft Why I Left You Lotus Eater
Local Gems Poetry Press
A Million Ways To Say I Love You Blessed with Love
Ode To Love On Valentine’s Day Blessed with Love
One Night in Bangkok Man in the Street
Market Rules Us All Minnie’s Diary: A Southern Literary Review
White Lady
The Opiate
God’s Confession Scarlet Leaf
Opiate
Bad Craziness
Otherwise Engaged
Cats
In Seach Of America Outlaw Poetry
It Is A Gun Situation, Mr. President Outlaw Poetry
Prayer Works Outlaw Poetry
I Don’t Get It Outlaw Poetry
Dear Governor Abbot Outlaw Poetry
When Will This Madness End – Short Version Outlaw Poetry
Lost And Found Outlaw Poetry
My Mother’s History Outlaw Poetry
Conversation With Teddy Roosevelt Outlaw Poetry
Watching Cats Hunt Outlaw Poetry
End of America Outlaw Poetry
Watching The News As 110,000 Americans Die Plethora Blogazine
Wearing A Mask Is Not A Political Statement Plethora Blogazine
Wearing Masks Saves Life Plethora Blogazine
Who Are You Going To Believe, Me Or Your Lying Eye Plethora Blogazine
Back Of The Bus The Poet on the Road
Bus Ride The Poet on the Road Poet The Poet on the Road
Cross Country Trip Part One The Poet on the Road
Hitchhiking Tales The Poet on the Road
Buddha Cat Poet, The
Meeting God In A Lake Poet, The
Best Friend For 60 Years Poet, The
My Memory Bank Poet, The
Best Friend In The Universe Poet, The
Cats Poetryezine
Buddha Cat Poetryezine
Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay Poetryezine
Walking By A Winter’s Frozen Lake Poetryezine
Playing The Piano At The End Of Time Poetryezine
Mad Mask Fear Poetryezine
News Is Grim Poetryezine
Poetry And Covid
Various Poetry And Covid
Snarling Cup Of Coffee Chapbook Poetry Nook Weekly Contest
Merry Christmas From ATT Poetry 24
Mr. President, It Is A Gun Situation Poetry 24
Poetry 24
The Best Is Yet To Come Found Poem Poetry 24
One Night in Bombay Horror, Slease, Trash
Old Man in Mirror Must Die
Evergreen Trees Pure Haiku
Falling Rain Qutub Minar Review
Qutub Minar Review
Gathering Storm Clouds Random Poetree
Nebulous Night Of Darkness Random Poetree
Dejavu All Over Again Random Poetree
Failure Is Not An Option Random Poetree
General Failure Reading Disk Drive Raven Cage Zine
On Failure Raven Cage Zine
Raven Cage Zine
270,000 Corona Ghosts Crash The President’s Party Raven Cage Zine
Corona Ghosts Crash The Party Raven Cage Zine
Partying While People Die Raven Cage Zine
Fake Calls Rejected Manuscripts
Hell Is Here To Stay Rejected Manuscripts
Rejected Manuscripts
Fake Mosquitos
Lost River Sandha Review
Old Cars Are King Of The Road Again River Sandha Review
Reflections Rosette Maleficarum
Dragon Flies In My Mind Rosette Maleficarum
One Crazy Day Rosette Maleficarum
2019 The Year That Was Rosette Maleficarum
Dreams Scarlet Leaf Review
Fate Scarlet Leaf Review
The Oyster Speaks Up Scarlet Leaf Review
The Terrifying Teens Scarlet Leaf Review
Scarlet Leaf Review
Green Trees Don’t Make It Scarlet Leaf Review
Slowly Unperceived Reality Scarlet Leaf Review
Slowly Unperceived Reality Scarlet Leaf Review
Brain Fever Scryptic defunct
Evil Within Scryptic defunct
Mocking Laughter Scryptic defunct
Black Vultures Scryptic defunct
Green Trees Don’t Make It Sick Lit Magazine
Siren Song Of Doom Sick Lit Magazine
Various Sixfold
Corona Poems Soft Cartel
Dora The Galactic Explorer Soft Cartel
Every Day I Turn On The News
Chaos Spillwords Press
Mocking Faces Spillwords Press
Just Enough For Coffee Spillwords Press
Waiting For The Grim Reaper’S Decision Spillwords Press
The Virus King Cried Subterranean Blue Poetry
Cosmic Cat From Berkeley Swenk
Cats Swenk
The Buddha Cat Of Edsall Road Swenk
Demon Cat Swenk
Cat Fight In Incheon Swenk
Love Haiku The Universe Journal
Night Terrors The Universe Journal
Jack Daniels Failed Intervention Unlikely Story
The Trial Of The Poet Tiger Shark
Life In-Between Tiger Shark
Love Haiku Tigershark
I Like My Coffee Tigershark
Love Haku 1 Tigershark
Lost And Found Tigershark
The Virus King Cried Tigershark
1984 Is Here To Stay Tuck
The Dogs Of War Are Howling Tuck
Just Enough For Coffee Tuck
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In my 66 years on this earth, I have learned a few things, because I have seen a few things. I grew up n a very secular town, in a very secular era. The late 60s in Berkeley was a time when everything was being challenged, questioned, debated and the issue of God came up frequently. Was God still relevant in this modern era?
Most of my friends were agnostic at best, don’t recall having any Christian friends, Most were Jewish though and one was a Mormon. Most were white, but I had a few black friends as well, a few of them were Christian.
My mother was born a southern baptist, she was kicked out of church for asking the forbidden question, “If God created the universe, who created God?” the preacher was not amused and kicked her out for being a “free thinker” which to a Baptist was a very bad thing indeed, especially in Arkansas in the late 30s.
My father was a devote athiest, grew up in Yakima in a Methodist family, but just did not see God anywhere. An economist believing in economic laws, he was materialistic and deterministic, God simply did not compute for him.
They told us it was up to us to determine what to believe because they disagreed. But in the end, it came down to this, “Do the right thing” but it was up to us to determine what that might be.
I went to a few church services. but it just did not stick, did not get the whole shebang, did not believe in the Virgin Mary, the crucifixion, and other Christian dogma felt it was all just ancient irrelevant fairy tales. I shared my father’s materialistic worldview and my mother’s skepticism regarding Church teachings. She was pleased though when I told her I had started reading the bible.
For a while, I became a militant athiest, hung out at a, debating with Holly Hubert and the street preachers who were there. I shocked the Christian fanatics with my athiest stand-up comedy routines.
One day Jehovah’s witness came to my house. I told them I would love to talk with them but I was late for a Satanist meeting and invited them to join me. They fled in terror.
Later in college, I had a roommate, who took too much acid and became convinced he was God. We spend many nights smoking weed and debating the existence or non-existence of God. He had grown up as a Jehovah witness. His parents blamed us for their son’s descent into madness and promised to pray for us but said we would go to hell for the sin of questioning God’s will.
In college, I took a course on modern religions. As a sociology student, I studied the Unification church’s recruitment practices and went to their recruitment dinner, but wisely did not go their weekend retreat, otherwise, perhaps I might have been converted and become a Moonie.
I even went to a Scientology center took their free personality test and concluded it was all a scam. Liked to hang out with Hari Krishna dudes joining them for public chanting.
Started reading the bible in my world religion class, but took me almost 30 years before I finished reading the bible, and all the other spiritual texts, on the eve of my 50th year. Started with the Book of Mormon and ended with the Koran after reading the Buddhist writings, the Hindu scriptures, the Confucian classics, and the Tao De Ching.
Had to finally skip over the entire genesis begat stories, saying to myself
“What’s the point?”
Concluding the bible was badly edited. Just a collection of fairy tales, not fit for the modern world, but revelations fascinated me.
When I went to Korea in the Peace Corps, I became fascinated by the subtle interplay between traditional Buddhism, shamanism, neo-Confucianism principles
And the resurgence of aggressive Christianity, and the new religious fervor of Reverend Moon, the unification church, and other new religions.
Spend some time at Buddhist temples, even spend a few nights hanging out with the monks decades before the formal temple stay programs became popular among foreign tourists.
I had an encounter with shamanism when my uncle-in-law died, they did a shaman “kut” ritual. the shaman a female channeled his spirit. He came to the room berated us all, cursed us all from his perch in hell, That was such a freaky experience we had to flee the demented scene.
I had a few mystical experiences, once in college I saw God in a lake, But that was probably just the magic of the magic mushrooms, doing its mushroom thing.
Once while I was hanging out in Berkeley, I encountered a cosmic cat, I saw the divine spark In his eyes, as he followed me everywhere. I told my mother who was suffering from Alzheimer’s about the cosmic cat, she concurred he was indeed a cosmic cat.
Later in Goa, I encountered a cosmic dog who followed me everywhere. I asked the cosmic dog once,
“Say, Cosmic dog, are you god? Bark once if yes, two if no.”
He barked once.
“Are you Allah? Bark once if yes, two if no.”
He barked once.
“Are you Buddha? Bark once if yes, two if no”
He barked once.
“Are you the great spirit of the American indians? Bark once if yes, two if no”
He barked once.
“Are you Satan? Bark once if yes, two if no.”
He growled at me and I knew I had gone too far.
When I was in Thailand, I continued my exploration of Buddhism visiting most of the famous Buddhist sites there, later in Taiwan, Vietnam, and India as well.
When I lived in India, I became immersed in the spiritual energy all around me
I became a fan of the big Ganesh, he removed spiritual obstacles, allowing me to connect to the divine spirit all around me. I felt that cosmic vibe, just flowing through the world.
While in India, I attended a few Catholic services, other Christian services, went to Hindu temples, Jain temples, Sikh temples and even a few Muslim pilgrim sites. I also fasted during Rammadam and went totally vegan to observe lent.
Now that I am an old man, I think back on what I have learned from my spiritual journeys. I think I can sum it up as follows:
I believe that the universe is alive, and I am part of the divine mind, the universe God if you would, flows through us all. If only we have the eyes, to see the divine all around us.
The Christian faith, like all other faiths, is just an attempt to discover the God of the universe. It is all the same path we are on, trying to connect to the cosmic overmind of the universe.
Whether you are an atheist, a Buddhist, a Christian, a Jain, a Jew, a Harri Krishna, a humanist, a Hindu, a Moonie, a Mormon, a Muslim, a Pagan or a Wiccan devote, we are all cosmic fools, seekers of the truth. The truth is out there for us to discover it for ourselves.
But in the end, it comes down to this simple principle, we have to decide
to always do the right thing, but that is a decision, only we can make deep in our soul.
Whether heaven or hell is awaiting us I do not know. Whether Jesus is the son of God I do not know. Whether Mohammed was the last prophet of God I do not know. Whether Allah is waiting for me, I do not know. Whether the grim reaper will be coming for me I do not know.
But I am ready for the final stage of my life. In the end, I also know this: I knew my wife in a prior life, and I will see her in my next life. That is the operation of fate, of karma, and reincarnation, which I do believe in. The adage, what goes around comes around is a simple basic fact of the universe.
That is all that I know for sure. That is what I believe. In the end, always
I know there’s more to that Scientology personality test story because I was there. Those tests were top secret, and they never published them or allowed anyone to carry them outside of the Scientology Center. You and (I think) Robert and I went into the Center and started taking the test. Then you told the people administering the test that you wanted to go outside for a minute for a smoke. You surreptitiously slipped the test into your pocket and we walked out, not intending to return. About a block away, one of the Scientology people came running after us, demanding the test back, and you gave it to him. So we (you) were foiled in the attempt to steal the test.
You’ve been on a fascinating journey, Jake! It all makes perfectly good sense.
I was raised a Catholic, but I respect all religions and non-believers. Reconciling science and the history of men with the biblical Adam and Eve, as well as noting that there are so many people with different beliefs, have made me question my beliefs. I agree that we need to do the right thing (as our conscience dictates). I’m not sure of reincarnation, but I watch Korean dramas and am fascinated by reincarnation stories. May I share your story with my friends?
Thank you for sharing that, Cosmo! I have also sought to deconstruct what was given me and see what’s under the hood, so to speak. And that’s not just a Berkeley thing. It might have to do with having parents of different beliefs. My father too was a fairly strict atheist, a scientist, and a researcher who had studied history and concluded religion was mainly a tool for control. Whereas my mother was always a seeker who came from a non-religious family and churched herself as a teenager, then turned to the church when her child died. She became something of a pantheist, utilizing Christianity, Scientology, and various forms of unity consciousness and Native American beliefs in her journey. Years later I concluded my impulse to bridge the scientific and faithful outlooks was an expression of the child wanting to bring his divorced parents back together, but now it’s just important to me to remain open to possibilities and alternative explanations. Via some of the people I’ve known, I’ve witnessed a few things my skeptical impulse can never entirely explain. Your conclusions and mine are the same.
Hello uncle- I have always loved listening/reading about your travels and experiences. My Mom loved you and looked up to you as well. I relate as someone who’s Dad was excommunicated Catholic and whose mom said “choose for yourself”. I visited many churches/religious events, still do, and have read a lot. There are many things I do not know, but the things I feel I do know- are relatable. I remember being with Grandma when dementia set in and I was losing “my person” I remember reading your early college work and thinking “if he can do it, so can I” as I was struggling with adult ADHD & dyslexia recently discovered but had been there the entire time. I struggled in some areas but I persevered. Part of my love for other cultures came from you, and despite “and because of” living in a small racist county
One of my “guilty pleasures” is reading my favorite writer, Stuart Woods. Boy, can the dude pump them out! In the last count, he has written over 80 books almost all of the best sellers and he has been pumping out one to two a year since he first got published in the late ’70s.
He started out writing “Chiefs” which became a movie as well. The main character is a police chief in a small town in Georgia. The character reappears in many later novels, eventually becoming a two-term president, and in town, Delgado also appears as a place in many of his later novels. Most of his novels are set in NYC, Maine, Key West, Los Angeles, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Most of his books feature the exploits of Stone Barrington, an NYC high-society type who is a James Bond-like character. He is a retired NYC cop, a lawyer, a real estate investor, a part-time CIA agent, and a player with many love interests. He is also best friends with three presidents and the not-so-secret lover of the current President. He introduced me to Knob Creek bourbon which is now one of my favorite bourbons, and he is also partial to Martinis-made James Bond style.
In this alternative universe, the President serves two terms, his wife serves two terms, and her secretary of State is elected President. Stone is friends with them all.
Stone’s best friend is Dino Bachetti, his old NYC homicide partner who became NYC Police Commissioner and helps Stone out officially and unofficially over the years. He has had a lot of love interests including Holly Barker who was a former secretary of state and president.
Another recurring character is Ed Lee who is a friend of Stone who lives and works out of Santa Fe New Mexico. Ed Lee is a 6’8 former college basketball player who becomes an attorney.
My only criticism is that his books are very formalistic. At some point, someone is going to be able to program a computer to write novels and his novels would be a great place to start because I am sure that a computer could generate believable Stone Barrington novels. Having said that, his novels are still enjoyable.
He has written a few non-Stone Barrington novels stand-alone novels. One I enjoyed recently was Palindrome which is a psychological thriller set on an island off the South Carolina coast. Written in the mid 90’s I believe.
I often start a novel of his while waiting around in the PX for my wife to finish up, and throughout several visits, often finish the novel.
The following is a list of his novels, I bolded the ones I have read. One of my bucket list reading goals is to finish reading all of his novels.
The list
Stuart Woods Books in Order (Bold indicates I have read it)
Stuarts Woods is an American novelist. He was born in Georgia in 1938 and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1959. He then enrolled in the National Guard before moving to New York to start a career in Advertising.
He then moved to London and spent a further 3 years working in advertising before deciding that he wanted a change and he began writing his first novel. It is at this time that he decided to move to Ireland where he lived a solitary lifestyle, only leaving his home to make money writing adverts for local television.
Sailing
Woods moved to Ireland in the 70s and this was where he fell in love with sailing. He spent many years competing in sailing competitions and learning how to be a better sailor. He finally bought his boat when his grandfather died and left him some money, so he could afford it. It was then that he took sailing more seriously and spent most of 1974 learning more about sailing.
Writing
Woods began writing about his experiences in his yacht races and he was published in 1977, with the book Blue Water, Green Skipper. It seemed like he had found an ideal career based on the thing he loved most, sailing.
Changing Plans
His second book was supposed to be about another boat race that he was due to take part in, but the race was canceled due to inclement weather, so he decided to drive around the UK and write a book about his adventures in the county inns.
Chiefs
Woods then went on to write his first novel called Chiefs. He made the mistake of selling the book to publishers unfinished because he thought he would have gotten a lot more for it had he waited until the book was finished.
Norton was the company to publish the hardback, but he felt like the company let him down because they didn’t do much to promote the book. He then contacted Bentham Books, who published the paperback and it was much more successful.
Note: the main character resurfaces in the Stone Barrington novels as a politician and eventually two-term president. his wife then serves as president after he retires.
Charlton Heston
In 1983, the book was made into a tv series starring Charlton Heston and Danny Glover. It was aired by CBS over three nights and it ended up being nominated for three Emmy Awards.
The popularity of the tv show meant that more people wanted to read the books and there was renewed interest in the paperback version of the books and Woods won the Edgar Award for the Best First Novel.
Series Over Standalones
Woods is one of those authors who are more focused on the series of novels over the standalone. His most popular series is the Stone Barrington Novels. He has just released his 27th novel in the series and he has written 3 more novels, which are set to be released in 2014.
Who is Stone Barrington?
Stone Barrington is a counsel for a law firm. After he finished college, he joined the police and served 14 years on the force. He left after disagreeing with his superiors and then got a job with the law firm. The novels tell the story of his exploits so far.
In the Stone Barrington novels, Woods is often congratulated for getting the law procedures correct when he has no background in law himself. It is noticed a lot and one fan asked how he gets it all right. He indicates that he is a massive fan of law procedurals such as LA Law and Law & Order, so gets all of his knowledge from there. He has made a few friends who are Lawyers, so if he gets anything wrong, they tell him.
Holly Barker
Holly Barker is a character in another series of books that he writes. She is an ex-army officer and navy brat. She left the army because of a sex scandal and she has to learn how to live a civilian life. She begins her new life as the Chief of Police and she learns just how dangerous her new life is.
Update: she eventually becomes Stone Barington’s main love interest, joines the CIA and becomes Secretary of State and later the second Female President. These are all chronicalled in the Stone Barington Novels, the Holly Barker novel focus on her earlier life as the chief of police. end updated note
Even though Woods has written several series, which focus on the life of a single character, the characters from each of the novels do crossover into other series. For example, Stone Barrington appears in the second Holly Barker novel and he also appears in the second novel of the Rick Barron novels.
Rick Barron
The Rick Barron novels are only two books deep at the moment. Rick Barron was a police detective and he was demoted after a run-in with a higher officer. He gets the job as security for Centurion Pictures but finds himself in the middle of a double murder case in the period that is said to be the golden age of Hollywood cinema.
The first Rick Barron novel, The Prince of Beverly Hills, was meant to be a standalone novel but Woods ended up writing a sequel after he was bombarded with emails from fans asking him to write another. He has no plans to write another at this moment in time.
After Chiefs was made into a TV series, one of his other books was adapted for TV as well. Grass Roots was made into a TV series in 1993. Since then, no other books have been made for TV.
Woods indicates that he would love it for his other books to be made into movies and if a director has read one of the books and wants to buy the rights, then he encourages the writer to get in touch with his agent.
In his personal life, Woods loves to fly, having his planes and he still sails regularly on his private yacht. He had married before but it ended in divorce and little is known about this marriage. He has stated that he preferred to live the life of a bachelor, but in 2013 he fell in love and married Jeanmarie Cooper. They have three homes, which they travel between, with their dog Fred.
End Stuart Wood com excerpt.
Note: Teddy Fey
Teddy Fay first appears as a domestic terrorist taking out corrupt political leaders. He is a disgruntled ex CIA agent and the master of covert action. He is eventually pardoned by President Lee and moves to LA where he works as a actor/producer for Stone Barington’s son who is a movie producer. He continues to occasionally engage in assasinations as a free lancer taking out those who need to be killed.
Note: Herbie Fisher
Herbie Fisher appears as Stone’s newphew who is sort of like a smary, “Wally Cleaver” kind of young man. He eventually passes the bar on the 5th try, and becomes a lawyer, but a bit on the shady side of the street.
I will year try to finish reading classic books. I have a collection from Kindle of 50 books to read before you die, in three volumes – 15O books in total see list below. I have read many of them already which I have noted. As I read them, I will add them to the chronological listing below.
The List
The List
Best American Poetry 2018
Allison Adair Miscarriage
Kaveh Akbar Against Dying
Julia Alvarez American Dream
David Barber Sherpa Song
AR Amnov Finishing Up
Andrew Bertaina A Translator’s Note
Frank Bidart Mourning What We Thought We Were
Bruce Bond Anthem
George Bradley Those Were the Days
Joyce Clement Birds Punctuate the Days
Brennan Constantine The Opposite Games
Marianne Cobbett Prayer Concerning the New More Accurate Translation of Certain Prayers
Robert Cording Toast to My Dead Parents
Cynthia Cruz Artaud
Dick Davis A Personal Sonnet
Warren Decker Today’s Special
Susan De Sola the Wives of The Poets
Dante De Stefano Reading Dostoyevsky At 17
Nausheen Eusuf Pied Beauty
Jonathan Galasso Oriental Epithalamion
Jessica Goodfellow Test
Sonia Greenfield Ghost Ship
Joy Harjo an American Sunrise
Terrance Hayes American Sonnet from My Past and Future Assassins
Ernest Hilbert Mars Ultor
Nemo Hill the View from The Bar
Tony Hoagland Into the Mystery
Anna Maria Hong Yonder a Rental
Paul Hoover, I Am the Size of What I see
Maria Howe Walking Home
Mandy Kahn Ives
Ilya Kaminski, We Lived Happily During the War
Stephan Kampa The Quiet Boy
Denika Kelly Love Poem Chimera
Mary Jo Salter We Will Always Have Parents
Jason Schneiderman Voxel
Nicole Sealy Violence
Michael Schumacher Advent
Carmen Gimenez Smith Dispatch from Midlife
Tracy K Smith an Old Story
Gary Snyder Why California Will Never Be Like Tuscany
An E Stallings Pencil
Anne Stevenson How Poems Arrive
Adriene Su Substitutions
Natasha Trethewey Shooting Wild
Agniezeku Tworek Grief Runs Untamed
Waldrep Dear Office in Which I Must Account for Tears
Wang Ping Lao Jia
James Matthew Wilson on A Palm
Ryan Wilson Face It
Best American Poetry 2017
Christian Wiman Assembly
Dan Allerbotti Weapons Exchange Report
David Barber on A Shaker Admonition
Dan Beachy-Quick Apophatic
Bruce Bond Homage to a Painter of Small Things
John Brennan Intrigue in The Trees
John Ashbery Commotion of Birds
Jericho Brown Bullet Points
Nicole Brown The Dead
Cyrus Cassells Elegy with A Gold Cradle
Isaac Cates Fidelity and The Dead Singer
Allison Cobb, I Forgive You
Leonard Cohen Steer Your Way
Michael Collier a Wild Tom Turkey
Billy Collins Presence
Carl Dennis Two Lives
Katia Claudia Emerson Spontaneous Emission
David Feinstein Kaddish
Carolyn Fouche The Boatman
Viva Francis Given to Those proclivities By God
Amy Gerstler Dead Butterfly
Reginald Gibbons Canasta
Margaret Given Passage
Aracelis Girmay From the Black Maria
Jeffrey Harrison Higher Education
Terrace Hayes Ars Poetica with Bacon
RJ Herbert Mounting the Dove Box
Tony Hoagland Cause of Death Fox News
John Hogan Hamlet Texts Guildenstern About Paying Upon the Pipe
David Brendan Hopes Certain Things
Major Jackson Trends a Well Light Summer Cocktail
John James History
Rodney Jones Homecoming
Fatty Judah Progress Notes
Meg Kearney Crackle
John Koethe the Age of Anxiety
Yusef Komunyakaa from the last bohemian of Avenue A
Danusha Lammers The Watch
Jordan Laux Lapse
Phillip Le Van Rain in Winter
Amit Majumdar Kill List
Jamal May Things That Break
Judson Mitchem White
John Murillo Upon reading that Eric Dolphy transcribed Even the calls of certain species of birds
Joyce Carol Oates to Marlon Brando in Hell
Sharon Olds Ode to The Glands
Matthew Bozeman Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czeslaw Milosz
Gregory Orr Three Dark Proverb Sonnets
Carl Phillips Rockabye
Rowan Picado Phillips Halo
Robin Robert Pinksy Names
Stanley Plumly Poliomyelitis
Paisley Rekdal Assemblage of ruined Plane Parts Vietnam Military Museum
Michael Ryan the Mercy Home
David St John Emanations
Cheryl Santos, I Went for A Walk in Winter
Taiji Silverman Where to Put It
Charles Simic Seeing Things
Danny Smith Last Summer of Innocence
Maggie Smith Good Bones
RT Smith Maricon
RE Stallings Shattered
Pamela Sutton Afraid to Pray
Chase Twitchell Sad Song
James Valvis Something
Emily Van Kley Dear Skull
Wendy Videlock Deconstruction
Lucy Waigner Scheherazade
Crystal Williams Double Helix
Christian Wiman Prelude
Monica Yoan Green acre
C Dale Young Precatico Simplex
Dean Young Infinitives
Kevin Young Money Road
Matthew Zapruder Poem for Vows
Best American Poetry 2019
Dilruba Ahmed Phase One
Rosa Alclad You and The Raw Bullets
Margaret Atwood Updates on Werewolves
Catherine Barnett Center Park
Joshua Bennett America Will Be
Fleda Brown Afternoons on The Lake
Sumitra Chakraborty Essay on Joy
Victoria Chung Six Orbits
Glen Chan, I Invite My Parents to A Dinner Party
Leonard Cohen, I Drank a Lot
Laura Cronk Like a Cat
Kate Daniels Metaphor Less
Carol Dennis Armed Neighbor
Tori Derricotte Apology to The Reader
Thomas Devaney Brilliant Corners
Natalie Diaz Skin- Light
Jean Dominique Duryer Declined in The Adoration of Jack in The Pulpits
Martin Espada, I Now Pronounce You Dead
Nausheen Eusurf The Analytic Hour
Vievere Francis Cazonian Blue Than Bluer
Gabriela García Guantanamera
Amy Gerstler Update
Camila Guthrie Virgil
Yona Harvey Dark and Lonely After Takeoff A Future
Robert Hass Dancing
Terrance Hayes American Silent My Past and Future Assassin
Juan Felipe Herrera Roll Under the Waves
Edward Hirsch Stranger by Night
Jane Hershfield Ledger
James Hock Sunflowers
Bob Homan All Praise Cecil Taylor
Garrett Hongo The Brothers Cassia
Ishion Hutchison Sympathy of a Clear Day
Major Jackson in Memory of Derek Alton Walcott
Ilya Kaminski from testament
Ruth Ellen Kocher We May No Longer Considered the End
Deborah Landau Soft Targets
Quraysh Ali Lansana Higher Calling
Li-Young Lee the Undressing
David Lehman, It Could Happen to You
Ada Limon Cannibal Women
Rebecca Lynn Berry a Brief History of The Future Apocalypse
Nubile Lovelace the S in I Love You Porgy
Clarence Major Hair
() Gail Mazur At a Lands End
() Shane Mcrae The President Visits the Storm
() Jeffrey Mcdonald Fired from A Parallel World
() Campbell Mcgrath Gray Miles Davis Birth of The Cool at The Founding in Brasilia
Ange Milinko Sleepwalking in Venice
Kamela Aisha Moon
The Last of England
Paul Moulton Aubade
John Murio on Confessionalism
Naomi Shihab Nye My Own State Department
Sharon Olds Rasputin Aria
Michael Palmer Nord-Sur
Morgan Parker The Black Saint, And the Sinner Lady, The Dead, and The Truth
William Perdomo Head Crack Head Crack
Carl Philip Star Map with Action Figures
Ishmael Reed Just Rolling Along
Paisley Rekdal Four Marys
Sonia Sanchez Belly, Buttons and Straight Spines
Nicole Santalucia #Me Too
Philip Schultz Encore
Jane Shore Who Knows One
The Greatest Personal Privation
Ae Stallings Harms Way
Arthur Sze The White Orchard
Natasha Trethewey Through Her a Duty
Ocean Voong Partly True Phone Reflecting in A Mirror
David Wojahn Still Life Stevens Wallet and Key West Hotel Dresser
Kevin Young High
In the following poems, poets use different types of imagery to express their concepts.
Visual imagery …
Blazing in Gold and Quenching in Purple
by Emily Dickinson
Glass by Robert Francis Writing com
Blue Winter by Robert Francis Writing com
encounter writing com
Where I Belong – Contest winner Feb 24, 2021, writing com
Edna St. Vincent Millay -Pastoral writing com
Lorraine Marguerite Gasrel Black -Pastoral Rhapsody writing com
Daniel Miltz -Pastoral Day writing com
Henry Kirke White -A Pastoral Songwriting com
Carl Sandberg Passers-By
Poetry Corner, writing com Poetry corner
Randall Jarrell The Olive Garden Writing com poetry
Randall Jarrell the Breath of Night Writing com poetry
Randal Jarrell the Orient Express Writing com poetry
Abdul Ala armada Rafi I poem Friend, this world is like an unburied corpse
Ali Ahmad Saeed poem
Alton David translation of a man and a woman white
Andre Breton Man and Woman Absolutely White
Mary Bernard, translation of Sofia he is more than a hero
Ingeborg Bachman poem
Anne Bradstreet letter to her husband 1650 first Published woman poet in the US
Willis Barnstone translation of mother’s song if snow
Charles Bernstein writing exercises
William Blake Sick Rose
Elizabeth Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese #43 how Do I love Thee
Elizabeth Bishop one art Britain
Andre Carter Stephen D translation lady is shichimi if someone would come
William Barnstone she is at island me turn off
Maxine Chernoff writing exercises
Chilam Balam poem
Chiyo various lines
William Corbett Vermont Apollinaire
Robert Creely the business
EE Cummings In Jest
Bel Dao Listen, I Don’t Believe Chinese poet mid-20th century
David Wagner lines and since a call since Elam since summer
Thomas Campion When to her lute Corinna sings
Jon Donne Holly Sonnet 14
Lucile Clifton, I don’t know how to do
Emily Dickinson lines and poems 214
Emily Dickinson poem 262
Emily Dickinson poem 640
Emily Dickinson poem 986
Emily Dickinson poem 1732
Enhenduanna The Exaltation of Inanna, antiphonal Hymns Praise of Inanna
Egyptian Poem, untitled
Fanny Howe About Face
Imr El Quais The Great Ode
Elaine Feinstein excerpt from translation Marina TSvetayeva poems of the end Lawrence Ferlinghetti excerpt from constantly risking absurdity Coney Island of the mind
Donald Finkel excerpt from a translation of Bel Dao
Roberts Elizabeth silent poems
Frances Kathleen vanishing point third black quartet from Wayne
Robert Frost Nothing Gold can stay
Robert Clark translation departure by Pierre Reverdy
Jorie Graham In what matter is the body united with the soul
Barbara Guest Lines from red lilies
HD Dread
HD Sea Rose
HD Oread
Allen Hibbert translation of Adonis desire moving through the Maps of the material
Ronald Hoffman excerpt from deceptively like a solid
Kelly Holt writing exercises
Bible, Ecclesiastes for everything there is a season
Homer Odyssey
Homer Iliad
Edward Arlington Robinson Richard Corey
Fanny Howe About Face
George Herbert Death
Linda jarkesy the bed
John K
Randall Jarred the death of the Bell turret gunner
John Keats The Eve of St Agnes
Lao Tzu Rule a Large Nation
DH Lawrence Bavarian Gentians
LiPo Moonlight Pools
Liu Tsung-yuan From One thousand mountains
Audre Lorde lines from coal
Hugh MacDiarmid Another epitaph on the army of mercenaries
Jackson Mac Lou excerpt from antic quartans
Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat excerpt
Alexander Pope Essay on Criticism
Bernadette Mayer writing exercises
WS Merwin excerpts from leviathan
Pablo Neruda leaning into afterworlds
Pablo Neruda and walking around
John Milton excerpts from Allegro
John Milton excerpts from paradise lost
Mariana Moore experts from the monkeys
Laura Moriarty the mouth
Bridge Mullins writing exercises
Ellen Myles honey bear
Lorraine Niedecker now in one year
Charles North excerpt from shooting for line
George Oppen excerpt from psalm
Dorothy Parker resume
Bob Pearlman speaker vibrates through the entire house after from AK
Ezra Pound in a station in the Metro
David Ray translation lines from Chiyo
Kenneth Rexroth translation of Midnight songs
Pierre Reverdy Departure
Christopher Sawyer Le is More Than an Hericenone translation Flight of the Itza
Dominion Searls translation of a kind of loss
Shelly Love Philosophy 19th Century
Sappho He is more than a Hero
Jack Spicer lines for imaginary elegies part 1-111
John Tipane translation Abu Hamza al online from this world
Dante in the middle of the road
Anonymous Egyptian poem only one matchless sister
manioc If snow falls on the left field
Issa Morning
Beowulf soon saw
Homer then wide ruling Agamemnon
Homer infinite terror
Homer wars spears
Imr El Qis here was the place I watched her
Arthur Rimbaud Bateau Ivre if I desire
Arthur Rimbaud memory
Arthur Rimbaud longing for young arms
Rig Veda there was no such things
Sappho the moon has set
Charles Thomasson lines from Mr. Birdy
David Trinidad monster mash
TS Elliot Excerpt from the Wasteland
Mariana Tsvetanyana Poem of the End
Alfred Tennyson Now Sleep the Crimson Petal
Anne Waldman excerpt for Iovis 19
William Carlos Williams except for the descent
Walt Whitman excerpts from Leaves of Grass
William Butler Yeats the second coming
William Wordsworth the Solitary Reaper
Louis Zukofsky in Arizona from 729 songs
Richard Lovelace 17th Century British Poet, “To Lucasta, Going to War”
Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 Call complaint to His Purs (Purse)
Parody Poems from NaPoWrMo April 27 Prompt
Lewis Carroll Crocodile
Isaac Watts How Doth the Little
Lewis Carroll This the Voice of The Lobster
Isaac Watts The Sluggard
Lewis Carroll Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat
Other poems from Writing com and Elsewhere
Abandoned Farmhouse
by Ted Kooser Wooden Boats
Judy Serum Brown
Denise Levertov Celebration
Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream
Heal the World with Marigolds poetic blossoming entry
Midnight encounters a poetic blossoming entry
David S the All-Mighty Thresher
Sally Ann Roberts example #1:it All Started with A Packet of Seeds
Walt Whitman When I Heard the Learned Astronomer Sight DYI MFA
Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth Sound DYI MFA
Barry Cornwall A Petition to Time Touch DYI MFA
Emily Dickinson, I Like to See It Lap the Miles Taste DYI MFA
Walter Prichard Eaton the Lilac Smell DYI MFA
Space
T.E. Hume the Embankment
E.E. Cummings in Just
The Mouse’s Tale, By Lewis Carroll
Explanation
John Gillespie Magee, Jr. HIGH FLIGHT
Jeffrey Harrison Nest
Ted Kooser Abandoned Farmhouse
Randall Jarrell The Olive Garden
Randall Jarrell the Breath of Night
Randal Jarrell the Orient Express
William Seaman Higgledy-piggledy
Arthur W. Monks Higgledy-piggledy
Paul Pascal Higgledy-piggledy
Juliet Capulet Higgledy-piggledy
John Hollander Higgledy-piggledy
Alfred Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade (By Alfred Lord Tennyson)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline
Robert Browning The Lost Leader
Walt Whitman Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Ian Lancashire Higgledy Piggledy
Sidney Lanier Poems
Sidney Lanier The Song Of The Chattahoochee
Sidney Lanier, Ireland
(Written for the Art Autograph during the Irish Famine, 1880.)
Sidney Lanier A Sunrise Song
Steve Smith Poems
Stevie Smith My Heart Goes Out
Stevie Smith My Heart Was Full
Stevie Smith Alone In The Woods
To read
Harvard Classics
50 books to read before you DIe
1000 books to read before you die
Elliot Novels
Poets Companion Finish
Art and Craft of Poetry Finish
Whitman Leaves of Grass
Dickenson Collected Poems
Robert Service Poems (From Alaskan Gold Rush Period)
I will year try to finish reading classic books. I have a collection from Kindle of 50 books to read before you die, in three volumes – 15O books in total see list below. I have read many of them already which I have noted. As I read them, I will add them to the chronological listing below.
Glass by Robert Francis Writing com
Blue Winter by Robert Francis Writing com
encounter writing com
Where I Belong – Contest winner Feb 24, 2021, writing com
Edna St. Vincent Millay -Pastoral writing com
Lorraine Marguerite Gasrel Black -Pastoral Rhapsody writing com
Daniel Miltz -Pastoral Day writing com
Henry Kirke White -A Pastoral Songwriting com
Carl Sandberg Passers-By
Poetry Corner, writing com Poetry corner
Randall Jarrell The Olive Garden Writing com poetry
Randall Jarrell the Breath of Night Writing com poetry
Randal Jarrell the Orient Express Writing com poetry
Abdul Ala armada Rafi I poem Friend, this world is like an unburied corpse
Ali Ahmad Saeed poem
Alton David translation of a man and a woman white
Andre Breton Man and Woman Absolutely White
Mary Bernard, translation of Sofia he is more than a hero
Ingeborg Bachman poem
Anne Bradstreet letter to her husband 1650 first Published woman poet in the US
Willis Barnstone translation of mother’s song if snow
Charles Bernstein writing exercises
William Blake Sick Rose
Elizabeth Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese #43 how Do I love Thee
Elizabeth Bishop one art Britain
Andre Carter Stephen D translation lady is shichimi if someone would come
William Barnstone she is at island me turn off
Maxine Chernoff writing exercises
Chilam Balam poem
Chiyo various lines
William Corbett Vermont Apollinaire
Robert Creely the business
EE Cummings In Jest
Bel Dao Listen, I Don’t Believe Chinese poet mid-20th century
David Wagner lines and since a call since Elam since summer
Thomas Campion When to her lute Corinna sings
Jon Donne Holly Sonnet 14
Lucile Clifton, I don’t know how to do
Emily Dickinson lines and poems 214
Emily Dickinson poem 262
Emily Dickinson poem 640
Emily Dickinson poem 986
Emily Dickinson poem 1732
Enhenduanna The Exaltation of Inanna, antiphonal Hymns Praise of Inanna
Egyptian Poem, untitled
Fanny Howe About Face
Imr El Quais The Great Ode
Elaine Feinstein excerpt from translation Marina TSvetayeva poems of the end Lawrence Ferlinghetti excerpt from constantly risking absurdity Coney Island of the mind
Donald Finkel excerpt from a translation of Bel Dao
Roberts Elizabeth silent poems
Frances Kathleen vanishing point third black quartet from Wayne
Robert Frost Nothing Gold can stay
Robert Clark translation departure by Pierre Reverdy
Jorie Graham In what matter is the body united with the soul
Barbara Guest Lines from red lilies
HD Dread
HD Sea Rose
HD Oread
Allen Hibbert translation of Adonis desire moving through the Maps of the material
Ronald Hoffman excerpt from deceptively like a solid
Kelly Holt writing exercises
Bible, Ecclesiastes for everything there is a season
Homer Odyssey
Homer Iliad
Edward Arlington Robinson Richard Corey
Fanny Howe About Face
George Herbert Death
Linda jarkesy the bed
John K
Randall Jarred the death of the Bell turret gunner
John Keats The Eve of St Agnes
Lao Tzu Rule a Large Nation
DH Lawrence Bavarian Gentians
LiPo Moonlight Pools
Liu Tsung-yuan From One thousand mountains
Audre Lorde lines from coal
Hugh MacDiarmid Another epitaph on the army of mercenaries
Jackson Mac Lou excerpt from antic quartans
Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat excerpt
Alexander Pope Essay on Criticism
Bernadette Mayer writing exercises
WS Merwin excerpts from leviathan
Pablo Neruda leaning into afterworlds
Pablo Neruda and walking around
John Milton excerpts from Allegro
John Milton excerpts from paradise lost
Mariana Moore experts from the monkeys
Laura Moriarty the mouth
Bridge Mullins writing exercises
Ellen Myles honey bear
Lorraine Niedecker now in one year
Charles North excerpt from shooting for line
George Oppen excerpt from psalm
Dorothy Parker resume
Bob Pearlman speaker vibrates through the entire house after from AK
Ezra Pound in a station in the Metro
David Ray translation lines from Chiyo
Kenneth Rexroth translation of Midnight songs
Pierre Reverdy Departure
Christopher Sawyer Le is More Than an Hericenone translation Flight of the Itza
Dominion Searls translation of a kind of loss
Shelly Love Philosophy 19th Century
Sappho He is more than a Hero
Jack Spicer lines for imaginary elegies part 1-111
John Tipane translation Abu Hamza al online from this world
Dante in the middle of the road
Anonymous Egyptian poem only one matchless sister
manioc If snow falls on the left field
Issa Morning
Beowulf soon saw
Homer then wide ruling Agamemnon
Homer infinite terror
Homer wars spears
Imr El Qis here was the place I watched her
Arthur Rimbaud Bateau Ivre if I desire
Arthur Rimbaud memory
Arthur Rimbaud longing for young arms
Rig Veda there was no such things
Sappho the moon has set
Charles Thomasson lines from Mr. Birdy
David Trinidad monster mash
TS Elliot Excerpt from the Wasteland
Mariana Tsvetanyana Poem of the End
Alfred Tennyson Now Sleep the Crimson Petal
Anne Waldman excerpt for Iovis 19
William Carlos Williams except for the descent
Walt Whitman excerpts from Leaves of Grass
William Butler Yeats the second coming
William Wordsworth the Solitary Reaper
Louis Zukofsky in Arizona from 729 songs
Richard Lovelace 17th Century British Poet, “To Lucasta, Going to War”
Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 Call complaint to His Purs (Purse)
Parody Poems from NaPoWrMo April 27 Prompt
Lewis Carroll Crocodile
Isaac Watts How Doth the Little
Lewis Carroll This the Voice of The Lobster
Isaac Watts The Sluggard
Lewis Carroll Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat
Other poems from Writing com and Elsewhere
Abandoned Farmhouse
by Ted Kooser Wooden Boats
Judy Serum Brown
Denise Levertov Celebration
Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream
Heal the World with Marigolds poetic blossoming entry
Midnight encounters a poetic blossoming entry
David S the All-Mighty Thresher
Sally Ann Roberts example #1:it All Started with A Packet of Seeds
Starting a few years ago, I decided I would over the next few years read as many of the classics as I could, before I get too old to be able to do so. Last year I started conquering the George Elliot novels. I wanted to read them a long time ago, but never got around to it. I am glad I am finally getting to it. Reading George Elliot novels is a bit of a chore, well worth it in the end, but they are too long for modern readers. She is a master of getting into the psychology and innermost thoughts of complex characters, and describing the reality of life in rural England at the turn of the 19th century. Some of her themes are universal regarding male-female relations, male-dominated society, and rigid class rules are still relevant. She was a proto-feminist novelist and quite controversial in her time due to her living happily with her married lover. She died in 1880, and was way ahead of her time in many respects. She has been re-discovered in recent years. Her novels are being re-published under her real name, Mary Evans.
I have enjoyed reading these novels so far. My favorite is “Silas Marner”, the second favor is the Mill on the Floss, and her SF horror novella, “The Lifted Veil”. “Adam Bede” her first novel was good, but a bit too long and tedious, as are all her novels. Just too long for modern reader’s tastes.
My commentary follows along with additional information on George Elliot. This is a work in progress, I will update it as I get through these novels.
Silas Marner
(Amazon preview)
George Eliot’s tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics.
Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. His fate, and that of Eppie, the little girl he adopts, is entwined with Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire, who, like Silas, is trapped by his past. Silas Marner, George Eliot’s favorite of her novels, combines humor, rich symbolism, and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural life.
‘I think Silas Marner holds a higher place than any of the author’s works. It is more nearly a masterpiece; it has more of that simple, rounded, consummate aspect … which marks a classical work’
Personal Comments:
In Silas Marner, she delves into the life of a lonely man who withdraws from society while working as a weaver in a small English town upcountry. Over time, the villagers eventually accept him, and he becomes part of the community. then something happens that changes his life for good. I won’t go into details, but the ending of the novel is a happy ending unlike in some of her other novels. She was the first feminist novelist, and her female characters are well developed.
Adam Bede is about a carpenter and his neighbors in an area in England during the early eighteenth century. The story is slow-going at times because the author writes in the local dialect, so it is a bit difficult to understand, but relevant to the tale. Descriptions of the characters, the countryside, and the town are well-drawn and colorful.
Adam Bede Quotes
So many great lines in this book. Here are some of them:
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heartstrings to the beings that jar us at every movement.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult…Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings — much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“Because, dear, trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn’t God’s will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing; the people we love are taken from us, and we can joy in nothing because they are not with us; sickness comes, and we faint under the burden of our feeble bodies; we go astray and do wrong and bring ourselves into trouble with our fellow men. There is no man or woman born into this world to whom some of these trials do not fall, and so I feel that some of them must happen to you; and I desire for you, that while you are young you should seek for the strength from your Heavenly Father, that you may have support which will not fail you in the evil day.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
More Quotes
“She hates everything that is not what she longs for.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“Her misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people’s sorrow.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—the only saw the brightness of the Lord.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence and act as if we were not suffering.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy’s flute-like voice has its spring charm; but the man should yield richer, deeper music.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it tomorrow.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“In bed, our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it is but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“These fellow-mortals, everyone, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people — amongst whom your life is passed — that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people, whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire — for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“It’s easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future,”
“If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you because you’d think I should like to share those good things; but I should like better to share in your trouble and your labor.”
“We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our little hurts will be made much of – to be content with little nurture and caressing and help each other the more.”
“Yes! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it… There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes. I can’t afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great deal of those feelings for my everyday fellow-men, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude, whose faces I know, whose hands I touch, for whom I have to make way with kindly courtesy.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“How can a man’s candor be seen in all its luster unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
“We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede
Personal Comments:
Her first book, Adam Bede, sets out the themes that most of her other novels explore, Male-Female relations in a male-dominated rural English society. She explores the double standards that prevailed back then, and sadly persists to this day. She was the first feminist novelist. She explores life in a small English town at the turn of the industrial era. She also explores the corruption and injustice of life for tenant farmers who were at the mercy of the local landlords. Also, like a lot of her novels, it features a love triangle that ends badly for the lower class, but the upper-class man gets away with it.
After reading other reviews of Adam Bede, I revisited my initial thoughts about it and realize that it was quite good, but like most of her novels, too long.
The Mill on the Floss
(Amazon Preview)
‘If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?’
Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, the clash between their expectations and her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her proud and stubborn brother, a close friend who is also the son of her family’s worst enemy, and a charismatic but dangerous suitor. With its poignant portrayal of sibling relationships, The Mill on the Floss is considered George Eliot’s most autobiographical novel; it is also one of her most powerful and moving.
Personal Comment:
The Mill on the Floss, like most of George Elliot’s novels, is way too long for modern readers. It is a slow burn, but worth it if you keep at it as she delves into the inner thoughts of her characters living in a small English town at the dawn of the industrial age. They reflect the double standard of the time in the character’s lives. And like most of her novels -the ones I have read- there are love triangles that end badly. Her female characters are complex and reflect the complexities of life in England at the time she wrote her novels. There is also an undercurrent of unintended racism in the novel, as the main female heroine is constantly being described as “brown skin” and therefore not attractive a marriage prospect. She is also a free thinker and questions orthodox views. I think this is perhaps my favorite of the novels I have read so far. The novel does not end well for the main characters!
The Lifted Veil
(Amazon preview)
Published the same year as her first novel, Adam Bede, this overlooked work displays the gifts for which George Eliot would become famous—gritty realism, psychological insight, and idealistic moralizing. It is unique from all her other writing, however, in that it represents the only time she ever used a first-person narrator, and it is the only time she wrote about the supernatural.
The tale of a man who is incapacitated by visions of the future and the cacophony of overheard thoughts, and yet who can’t help trying to subvert his vividly glimpsed destiny, it is easy to read The Lifted Veil as being autobiographically revealing—of Eliot’s sensitivity to public opinion and her awareness that her days concealed behind a pseudonym were doomed to a tragic unveiling (as indeed came to pass soon after this novella’s publication). But it is easier still to read the story as the exciting and genuine precursor of a moody new form, as well as an absorbing early masterpiece of suspense.
Personal Comment:
I liked this one the best, as I am a fan of the early SF explorations, and it is vaguely like an Edgar Allen Poe story, or a gothic nightmare story. Very different from her other novels, both in setting and in her characters. I liked the exploration into ESP and mental telephony, The heroine is an anti-hero and is truly an evil person. Very unlike her other female characters.
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Middlemarch
(amazon preview)
Taking place in the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Middlemarch explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel’s rich comic vein.
Romola
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One of George Eliot’s most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years following the expulsion of the powerful Medici family, during which the zealous religious reformer Savonarola rose to control the city. At its heart is Romola, the devoted daughter of a blind scholar, married to the clever but ultimately treacherous Tito, whose duplicity in both love and politics threatens to destroy everything she values, and she must break away to find her path in life. Described by Eliot as ‘written with my best blood’, the story of Romola’s intellectual and spiritual awakening is a compelling portrayal of a Utopian heroine, played out against a turbulent historical backdrop.
Daniel Deronda
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A beautiful young woman stands poised over the gambling tables in an expensive hotel. She is aware of, and resents, the gaze of an unusual young man, a stranger, who seems to judge her and find her wanting. The encounter will change her life.
The strange young man is Daniel Deronda, brought up with his origins shrouded in mystery, searching for a compelling outlet for his singular talents and remarkable capacity for empathy. Deronda’s destiny will change the lives of many.
Félix Holt the Radical
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When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold’s opportunistic values and Holt’s profound beliefs becomes apparent. Forthright, brusque, and driven by a firm desire to educate the working-class, Felix is at first viewed with suspicion by many, including the elegant but vain Esther Lyon, the daughter of the local clergyman. As she discovers, however, his blunt words conceal both passion and deep integrity. Soon the romantic and over-refined Esther finds herself overwhelmed by a heart-wrenching decision: whether to choose the wealthy Transome as a husband or the impoverished but honest Felix Holt.
More on George Eliot
From Wikipedia:
Born in South Farm, Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, The United Kingdom
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She was born in 1819 at a farmstead in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, where her father was estate manager. Mary Ann, the youngest child, and a favorite of her father’s received a good education for a young woman of her day. Influenced by a favorite governess, she became a religious evangelical as an adolescent.
Her first published work was a religious poem. Through a family friend, she was exposed to Charles Hennell’s “An Inquiry into the Origins of Christianity”. Unable to believe, she conscientiously gave up religion and stopped attending church. Her father shunned her, sending the broken-hearted young dependent to live with a sister until she promised to reexamine her feelings. Her intellectual views did not, however, change. She translated “Das Leben Jesu”, a monumental task, without signing her name to the 1846 work.
After her father died in 1849, Mary Ann traveled, then accepted an unpaid position with The Westminster Review. Despite a heavy workload, she translated “The Essence of Christianity”, the only book ever published under her real name. That year, the shy, respectable writer scandalized British society by sending notices to friends announcing she had entered a free “union” with George Henry Lewes, editor of The Leader, who was unable to divorce his first wife. They lived harmoniously together for the next 24 years, but suffered social ostracism and financial hardship. She became salaried and began writing essays and reviews for The Westminster Review.
Renaming herself “Marian” in private life and adopting the pen name “George Eliot,” she began her impressive fiction career, including: “Adam Bede” (1859), “The Mill on the Floss” (1860), “Silas Marner” (1861), “Romola” (1863), and “Middlemarch” (1871). Themes included her humanist vision and strong heroines. Her poem, “O May I Join the Choir Invisible” expressed her views about nonsupernatural immortality: “O may I join the choir invisible/ Of that immortal dead who live again/ In minds made better by their presence. . .” D. 1880.
Her 1872 work Middlemarch has been described by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.
I will year try to finish reading classic books. I have a collection from Kindle of 50 books to read before you die, in three volumes – 15O books in total see list below. I have read many of them already which I have noted. As I read them, I will add them to the chronological listing below. I also have the Harvard 50 volume Classics books collection, I will read from both sets, and from the 1001 books to read before you die list.
Accomplishments:
books read
Loving Words Anthology – published Chains that Bind Me and Dream Girl, Ink Pantry, Two Drops of Ink, Spill Words, and Creativity Webzine have published recent poems.
Cosmos’s Reading List 2021
The List
Best American Poetry 2018
Allison Adair Miscarriage
Kaveh Akbar Against Dying
Julia Alvarez American Dream
David Barber Sherpa Song
AR Amnov Finishing Up
Andrew Bertaina A Translator’s Note
Frank Bidart Mourning What We Thought We Were
Bruce Bond Anthem
George Bradley Those Were the Days
Joyce Clement Birds Punctuate the Days
Brennan Constantine The Opposite Games
Marianne Cobbett Prayer Concerning the New More Accurate Translation of Certain Prayers
Robert Cording Toast to My Dead Parents
Cynthia Cruz Artaud
Dick Davis A Personal Sonnet
Warren Decker Today’s Special
Susan De Sola the Wives of The Poets
Dante De Stefano Reading Dostoyevsky At 17
Nausheen Eusuf Pied Beauty
Jonathan Galasso Oriental Epithalamion
Jessica Goodfellow Test
Sonia Greenfield Ghost Ship
Joy Harjo An American Sunrise
Terrance Hayes American Sonnet from My Past and Future Assassins
Ernest Hilbert Mars Ultor
Nemo Hill the View from The Bar
Tony Hoagland Into the Mystery
Anna Maria Hong Yonder a Rental
Paul Hoover, I Am the Size of What I see
Maria Howe Walking Home
Mandy Kahn Ives
Ilya Kaminski, We Lived Happily During the War
Stephan Kampa The Quiet Boy
Denika Kelly Love Poem Chimera
Mary Jo Salter We Will Always Have Parents
Jason Schneiderman Voxel
Nicole Sealy Violence
Michael Schumacher Advent
Carmen Gimenez Smith Dispatch from Midlife
Tracy K. Smith an Old Story
Gary Snyder Why California Will Never Be Like Tuscany
An E Stallings Pencil
Anne Stevenson How Poems Arrive
Adriene Su Substitutions
Natasha Trethewey Shooting Wild
Agnieszka Tworek Grief Runs Untamed
Waldrep Dear Office in Which I Must Account for Tears
Wang Ping Lao Jia
James Matthew Wilson On A Palm
Ryan Wilson Face It
Best American Poetry 2017
Christian Wiman Assembly
Dan Allerbotti Weapons Exchange Report
David Barber on A Shaker Admonition
Dan Beachy-Quick Apophatic
Bruce Bond Homage to a Painter of Small Things
John Brennan Intrigue in The Trees
John Ashbery Commotion of Birds
Jericho Brown Bullet Points
Nicole Brown The Dead
Cyrus Cassells Elegy with A Gold Cradle
Isaac Cates Fidelity and The Dead Singer
Allison Cobb, I Forgive You
Leonard Cohen Steer Your Way
Michael Collier A Wild Tom Turkey
Billy Collins Presence
Carl Dennis Two Lives
Katia Claudia Emerson Spontaneous Emission
David Feinstein Kaddish
Carolyn Fouche The Boatman
Viva Francis Given to Those proclivities By God
Amy Gerstler Dead Butterfly
Reginald Gibbons Canasta
Margaret Given Passage
Aracelis Girmay From the Black Maria
Jeffrey Harrison Higher Education
Terrace Hayes Ars Poetica With Bacon
RJ Herbert Mounting the Dove Box
Tony Hoagland Cause of Death Fox News
John Hogan Hamlet Texts Guildenstern About Paying Upon the Pipe
David Brendan Hopes Certain Things
Major Jackson Trends A Well Light Summer Cocktail
John James History
Rodney Jones Homecoming
Fatty Judah Progress Notes
Meg Kearney Crackle
John Koethe the Age of Anxiety
Yusef Komunyakaa from the last bohemian of Avenue A
Danusha Lammers The Watch
Jordan Laux Lapse
Phillip Le Van Rain in Winter
Amit Majumdar Kill List
Jamal May Things That Break
Judson Mitchem White
John Murillo Upon reading that Eric Dolphy transcribed Even the calls of certain species of birds
Joyce Carol Oates To Marlon Brando In Hell
Sharon Olds Ode to The Glands
Matthew Bozeman Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czeslaw Milosz
Gregory Orr Three Dark Proverb Sonnets
Carl Phillips Rockabye
Rowan Picado Phillips Halo
Robin Robert Pinksy Names
Stanley Plumly Poliomyelitis
Paisley Rekdal Assemblage of ruined Plane Parts Vietnam Military Museum
Michael Ryan the Mercy Home
David St John Emanations
Cheryl Santos, I Went for A Walk in Winter
Taiji Silverman Where to Put It
Charles Simic Seeing Things
Danny Smith Last Summer of Innocence
Maggie Smith Good Bones
RT Smith Maricon
RE Stallings Shattered
Pamela Sutton Afraid to Pray
Chase Twitchell Sad Song
James Valvis Something
Emily Van Kley Dear Skull
Wendy Videlock Deconstruction
Lucy Waigner Scheherazade
Crystal Williams Double Helix
Christian Wiman Prelude
Monica Yoan Green acre
C Dale Young Precatico Simplex
Dean Young Infinitives
Kevin Young Money Road
Matthew Zapruder Poem for Vows
Best American Poetry 2019
Dilruba Ahmed Phase One
Rosa Alclad You and The Raw Bullets
Margaret Atwood Updates on Werewolves
Catherine Barnett Center Park
Joshua Bennett America Will Be
Fleda Brown Afternoons on The Lake
Sumitra Chakraborty Essay on Joy
Victoria Chung Six Orbits
Glen Chan, I Invite My Parents to A Dinner Party
Leonard Cohen, I Drank A Lot
Laura Cronk Like A Cat
Kate Daniels Metaphor Less
Carol Dennis Armed Neighbor
Tori Derricotte Apology to The Reader
Thomas Devaney Brilliant Corners
Natalie Diaz Skin- Light
Jean Dominique Duryer Declined in The Adoration of Jack in The Pulpits
Martin Espada, I Now Pronounce You Dead
Nausheen Eusurf The Analytic Hour
Vievere Francis Cazonian Blue Than Bluer
Gabriela García Guantanamera
Amy Gerstler Update
Camila Guthrie Virgil
Yona Harvey Dark and Lonely After Takeoff A Future
Robert Hass Dancing
Terrance Hayes American Silent My Past and Future Assassin
Juan Felipe Herrera Roll Under the Waves
Edward Hirsch Stranger by Night
Jane Hershfield Ledger
James Hock Sunflowers
Bob Homan All Praise Cecil Taylor
Garrett Hongo The Brothers Cassia
Ishion Hutchison Sympathy of a Clear Day
Major Jackson In Memory of Derek Alton Walcott
Ilya Kaminski from testament
Ruth Ellen Kocher We May No Longer Considered the End
Deborah Landau Soft Targets
Quraysh Ali Lansana Higher Calling
Li-Young Lee the Undressing
David Lehman, It Could Happen to You
Ada Limon Cannibal Women
Rebecca Lynn Berry A Brief History of The Future Apocalypse
Nubile Lovelace The S in I Love You Porgy
Clarence Major Hair
Gail Mazur At A Lands End
Shane McRae The President Visits the Storm
Jeffrey Mcdonald Fired from A Parallel World
Campbell McGrath, Gray Miles Davis Birth of The Cool at The Founding in Brasilia
Ange Milinko Sleepwalking in Venice
Kamela Aisha Moon
The Last of England
Paul Moulton Aubade
John Murio on Confessionalism
Naomi Shihab Nye My Own State Department
Sharon Olds Rasputin Aria
Michael Palmer Nord-Sur
Morgan Parker The Black Saint, And the Sinner Lady, The Dead, and The Truth
William Perdomo Head Crack Head Crack
Carl Philip Star Map with Action Figures
Ishmael Reed Just Rolling Along
Paisley Rekdal Four Marys
Sonia Sanchez Belly, Buttons and Straight Spines
Nicole Santalucia #Me Too
Philip Schultz Encore
Jane Shore Who Knows One
The Greatest Personal Privation
Ae Stallings Harms Way
Arthur Sze The White Orchard
Natasha Trethewey Through Her A Duty
Ocean Voong Partly True Phone Reflecting in A Mirror
David Wojahn Still Life Stevens Wallet and Key West Hotel Dresser
Robert Service Poems (From Alaskan Gold Rush Period)
Milton Collected Poems
Mira Nair Beyond and Back Indian short stories
Robert Buswell The Zen Monastic Tradition
50 Books to Read Before You Die – three volumes 150 books total. I have read the following
Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy
Jane Austen Emma
Jane Austen Persuasion
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders
Charles Dickens Bleak House
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers –
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Gambler –
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from The Underground –
Marcus Aurelius Meditations –
Frank Baum the Wonderful Wizard of Oz –
Dale Carnegie the Art of Public Speaking –
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four
Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World –
Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers
-F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise
Henry Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines
Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Jack London the Son of the Wolf
HP Lovecraft The Dun ich Horror
HP Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness
Plato The Republic –
Mary Shelley The Last Man –
The Complete List, Volume One
Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy
Jane Austen Emma
Jane Austen Persuasion
Honoré de Balzac Father Gorgio
Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights
Samuel Butler the Way of All Flesh
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad Nostromo
Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders
Charles Dickens Bleak House
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot
Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
George Eliot Middlemarch
George Eliot Daniel Deronda
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper
Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls
The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Homer the Odyssey
Homer the Iliad
Victor Hugo Les Misérables
Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Henry James the Portrait of a Lady
James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers
Gaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera
Jack London The Call of The Wild
Herman Melville The Great God Pan Moby Dick
Marcel Proust Swann’s Way
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Stendhal The Red and the Black
Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Bram Stoker Dracula
Sun Tzu the Art of War
Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
Grant Allen What’s Bred in the Bone –
Lucius Apuleius The Golden Ass –
Marcus Aurelius Meditations –
Jane Austen Lady Susan
Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
Frank Baum, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz –
Dale Carnegie the Art of Public Speaking –
Margaret Cavendish The Blazing World –
G. K. Chesterton The Innocence of Father Brown –
G. K. Chesterton Heretics –
G. K. Chesterton -The Dennington Affair
G. K. Chesterton The Wisdom of Father Brown –
John Cleland Fanny Hill –
Wilkie Collins The Moonstone –
Joseph Conrad Lord Jim –
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Gambler –
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from The Underground –
Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four
Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskerville ,
Arthur Conan Doyle the Lost World
Alexandre Dumas the Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas, the Man in the Iron Mask
-F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise
Elizabeth Gaskell Curious, if True, Strange Tales
Henry Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines
Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling Captains Courageous
Rudyard Kipling -Kim –
D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Jack London The Son of the Wolf
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz The Einstein Theory of Relativity
HP Lovecraft The Dun ich Horror
HP Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness
Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince –
Lucy Maud Montgomery The Story Girl
The Antichrist – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Plato The Republic –
Mary Shelley The Last Man –
Mark Twain Life on The Mississippi –
Vats Ayana The Kama Sutra
Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days
Volume two
Grant Allen What’s Bred in the Bone –
Lucius Apuleius The Golden Ass –
Marcus Aurelius Meditations –
Jane Austen Lady Susan
Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
Frank Baum the Wonderful Wizard of Oz –
Dale Carnegie the Art of Public Speaking –
Margaret Cavendish The Blazing World –
The Innocence of Father Brown – G.K Chesterton
G.K Chesterton Heretics –
G.K Chesterton -The Dennington Affair
G.K Chesterton The Wisdom of Father Brown –
John Cleland Fanny Hill –
Wilkie Collins The Moonstone –
Joseph Conrad Lord Jim –
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Gambler –
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from The Underground –
Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four
Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World –
Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas The Man in the Iron Mask
-F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise
Elizabeth Gaskell Curious, If True: Strange Tales
Henry Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines
Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling Captains Courageous
Rudyard Kipling -Kim –
D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Jack London the Son of the Wolf
Hendrik Anton Lorentz The Einstein Theory of Relativity
HP Lovecraft The Dun ich Horror
HP Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness
Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince –
Lucy Maud Montgomery The Story Girl
The Antichrist – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Plato The Republic –
Mary Shelley The Last Man –
Mark Twain Life on The Mississippi –
Vats Ayana The Kama Sutra
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne In the Year 2889 –
Edgar Wallace Four Just Men –
Lew Wallace Ben-Hurl: A Tale of the Christ
H.G. Wells Tales of Space and Time –
Virginia Woolf Jacob’s Room –
Volume Three
Louisa May Alcott Little Women
Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
M. Barrie Peter Pan
M. Bower Cabin Fever
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett, a Little Princess
Lewis Carroll Alice In Wonderland
Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables
Vatsyayana The Kama Sutra
Jules Verne A Journey into the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
H, G. Wells the War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells The Time Machine
Oscar Wilde The Centerville Ghost
Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out
William Chambers the King in Yellow
William Chesterton the Man Who Knew Too Much
Wilkie Collins The Woman in White
HG Wells the Star
Dorothy Leigh Sayers Whose Body?
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Margaret Deland the Iron Woman
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens David Copperfield
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Double
Arthur Conon Doyle the Hounds of the Baskerville
Arthur Conan Doyle Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Alexandre Dumas the Three Musketeers
F Scott Fitzgerald The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
EM Foster a Room with a View
Sigmund Freud Dream Psychology
Thomas Hardy Tess
Hermann Hesse Siddhartha
James Joyce Dubliners
Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher
Andrew Lang the Arabian Nights
Jack London The Sea Wolf
HP Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu
Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables
William Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
Edgar Allan Poe the Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe the Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe The Raven
Michael Proust Swan’s Way
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island
William Strunk the Elements of Style
Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain The Prince and the Pauper
Poetry for Dummies
Abdul Ala Armada Rafi I poem
Ali Ahmad Saeed poem
Alton David translation of a man and a woman white
Mary Bernard, translation of Sofia he is more than a hero
Ingeborg Bachman poem
Willis Barnstone translation of mother’s song if snow
Charles Bernstein writing exercises
Elizabeth Bishop one art Britain
Andre Carter Stephen D translation lady is shichimi if someone would come
William Barnstone she is at island me turn off
Maxine Chernoff writing exercises
Chilam Balam poem
Chiyo various lines
William Corbett Vermont Apollinaire
Robert Creeley the business
EE Cummings In Jest
David Wagner lines and since a call since Elam since summer
Emily Dickinson lines and poems 214
Emily Dickinson poem 262
Emily Dickinson poem 640
Emily Dickinson poem 986
Emily Dickinson poem 1732
TS Eliot excerpt from the wasteland
Enheduanna The Exaltation of Inanna, antiphonal Hymns Praise of Inanna
Elaine Feinstein excerpt from translation Marina Tsvetayeva poems of the end Lawrence Ferlinghetti excerpt from constantly risking absurdity Coney Island of the mind
Donald Finkel excerpt from a translation of Bel Dao
Roberts Elizabeth silent poems
Frances Kathleen vanishing point third black quartet from Wayne
Robert Frost Nothing Gold can stay
Robert Clark translation departure by Pierre Reverdy
Jorie Graham In what matter is the body united with the soul
Barbara Guest Lines from red lilies
HD Dread
HD Sea Rose
Allen Hibbert translation of Adonis desire moving through the Maps of the material
Ronald Hoffman excerpt from deceptively like a solid
Kelly Holt writing exercises
Homer Odyssey
Homer Iliad
Fanny Howe About Face
Linda Jarkesy the bed
Randall Jarred the death of the Bell turret gunner
John Keats absents from the eyes of Saint Agnes
Daniel Langston writing exercise
Lao TZU Rule a Large Nation
DH Lawrence Bavarian Gentians
LiPo Moonlight Pools
Liu Tsung-yuan From One thousand mountains
Audre Lorde lines from coal
Hugh MacDiarmid Another epitaph on the army of mercenaries
Jackson Mac Lou excerpt from antic quartans
Bernadette Mayer writing exercises
WS Merwin excerpts from leviathan
Pablo Neruda leaning into afterworlds
Pablo Neruda and walking around
John Milton excerpts from Allegro
John Milton excerpts from paradise lost
Mariana Moore experts from the monkeys
Laura Moriarty the mouth
Bridge Mullins writing exercises
Ellen Miles honey bear
Lorraine Niedecker now in one year
Charles North excerpt from shooting for line
George Oppen excerpt from psalm
Dorothy Parker resume
Bob Pearlman speaker vibrates through the entire house after from AK
Ezra Pound in a station in the Metro
David Ray translation lines from Chiyo
Kenneth Rexroth translation of Midnight songs
Christopher Sawyer Lucano translation Flight of the Itza
Dominion Searls translation of a kind of loss
Jack Spicer lines for imaginary elegies part 1-111
John Tipán translated Abu Hamza Al online from this world
The books on Boxall’s list, which is found in the 5 editions of the published book with a TOTAL NUMBER OF 1315 books.
These books are mostly NOVELS. That is why there are no holy books, Shakespeare, etc.
THIS LIST IS COMPLETE. DO NOT ADD ANY BOOKS AND ALSO DO NOT REMOVE ANY. In case of doubt post a comment here and the people maintaining this list will take a look at it! The list can be found at https://docs.google.com/ spreadsheet/c…
My reading list
I have read the following 226 books from the 1315 books on the list
I have read the following 226 books form the 1315 books on list
Book Title
Author
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Adams, Douglas
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Adams, Douglas
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
Adams, Douglas
Aesop’s Fables
Aesopus
Little Women
Alcott, Louisa May
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou, Maya
The Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous
I, Robot
Asimov, Isaac
Foundation
Asimov, Isaac
The Handmaid’s Tale
Atwood, Margaret
Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane
Emma
Austen, Jane
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Baldwin, James
Empire of the Sun
Ballard, J.G.
Giles Goat-Boy
Barth, John
Henderson the Rain King
Bellow, Saul
Herzog
Bellow, Saul
Jane Eyre
Brontë, Charlotte
Shirley
Brontë, Charlotte
Villette
Brontë, Charlotte
Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Emily
A World for Julius
Bryce Echenique, Alfredo
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Buchan, John
The Master and Margarita
Bulgakov, Mikhail
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Bunyan, John
A Clockwork Orange
Burgess, Anthony
Inside Mr. Enderby
Burgess, Anthony
Evelina
Burney, Fanny
Cecilia
Burney, Fanny
Camilla
Burney, Fanny
Tarzan of the Apes
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Junkie
Burroughs, William
Naked Lunch
Burroughs, William
The Wild Boys
Burroughs, William
Queer
Burroughs, William
Erewhon
Butler, Samuel
The Way of All Flesh
Butler, Samuel
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Capote, Truman
In Cold Blood
Capote, Truman
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis
Through the Looking Glass
Carroll, Lewis
Don Quixote
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
2001: A Space Odyssey
Clarke, Arthur C.
Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph
The Secret Agent
Conrad, Joseph
Last of the Mohicans
Cooper, James Fenimore
Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel
Moll Flanders
Defoe, Daniel
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dick, Philip K.
Oliver Twist
Dickens, Charles
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Dickens, Charles
A Christmas Carol
Dickens, Charles
David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles
Bleak House
Dickens, Charles
Hard Times
Dickens, Charles
A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles
Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles
Out of Africa
Dinesen, Isak
Ragtime
Doctorow, E.L.
Billy Bathgate
Doctorow, E.L.
U.S.A.
Dos Passos, John
Notes from the Underground
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Idiot
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Devils
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre
The Count of Monte-Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre
Foucault’s Pendulum
Eco, Umberto
Adam Bede
Eliot, George
The Mill on the Floss
Eliot, George
Silas Marner
Eliot, George
Middlemarch
Eliot, George
Daniel Deronda
Eliot, George
Less Than Zero
Ellis, Bret Easton
American Psycho
Ellis, Bret Easton
Glamorama
Ellis, Bret Easton
The Black Dahlia
Ellroy, James
Like Water for Chocolate
Esquivel, Laura
The Sound and the Fury
Faulkner, William
Absalom, Absalom!
Faulkner, William
The Hamlet
Faulkner, William
The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Tender is the Night
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Casino Royale
Fleming, Ian
Everything is Illuminated
Foer, Jonathan Safran
A Room With a View
Forster, E.M.
A Passage to India
Forster, E.M.
The Forsyte Saga
Galsworthy, John
No One Writes to the Colonel
García Márquez, Gabriel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
García Márquez, Gabriel
The Autumn of the Patriarch
García Márquez, Gabriel
Love in the Time of Cholera
García Márquez, Gabriel
Neuromancer
Gibson, William
Memoirs of a Geisha
Golden, Arthur
Lord of the Flies
Golding, William
The Tin Drum
Grass, Günter
The Third Man
Greene, Graham
The End of the Affair
Greene, Graham
The Quiet American
Greene, Graham
The Honorary Consul
Greene, Graham
King Solomon’s Mines
Haggard, H. Rider
The Thin Man
Hammett, Dashiell
Far from the Madding Crowd
Hardy, Thomas
Return of the Native
Hardy, Thomas
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hardy, Thomas
Jude the Obscure
Hardy, Thomas
The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The House of the Seven Gables
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Stranger in a Strange Land
Heinlein, Robert
Catch-22
Heller, Joseph
The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway, Ernest
A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest
To Have and Have Not
Hemingway, Ernest
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hemingway, Ernest
The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway, Ernest
Rosshalde
Hesse, Herman
Siddhartha
Hesse, Herman
Steppenwolf
Hesse, Herman
The Glass Bead Game
Hesse, Herman
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Highsmith, Patricia
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor
Les Misérables
Hugo, Victor
Brave New World
Huxley, Aldous
The World According to Garp
Irving, John
The Cider House Rules
Irving, John
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Irving, John
Fear of Flying
Jong, Erica
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James
The Trial
Kafka, Franz
The Castle
Kafka, Franz
Amerika
Kafka, Franz
Zorba the Greek
Kazantzákis, Nikos
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kesey, Ken
Sometimes a Great Notion
Kesey, Ken
The Poisonwood Bible
Kingsolver, Barbara
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kundera, Milan
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kundera, Milan
Sons and Lovers
Lawrence, D.H.
The Rainbow
Lawrence, D.H.
Women in Love
Lawrence, D.H.
The Plumed Serpent
Lawrence, D.H.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Lawrence, D.H.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Le Carré, John
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Le Carré, John
Smiley’s People
Le Carré, John
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lee, Harper
Babbitt
Lewis, Sinclair
The Call of the Wild
London, Jack
At the Mountains of Madness
Lovecraft, H.P.
Vanishing Point
Markson, David
Pavel’s Letters
Maron, Monika
Life of Pi
Martel, Yann
The Back Room
Martin Gaite, Carmen
Santa Evita
Martinez, Tomas Eloy
Time of Silence
Martín-Santos, Luis
Tirant lo Blanc
Martorell, Joanot
The Daughter
Matesis, Pavlos
Cigarettes
Mathews, Harry
Melmoth the Wanderer
Maturin, Charles Robert
The Albigenses
Maturin, Charles Robert
Of Human Bondage
Maugham, W. Somerset
Cakes and Ale
Maugham, W. Somerset
The Razor’s Edge
Maugham, W. Somerset
A Woman’s Life
Maupassant, Guy de
Bel-Ami
Maupassant, Guy de
Pierre and Jean
Maupassant, Guy de
Vipers’ Tangle
Mauriac, Francois
Don’t Move
Mazzantini, Margaret
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
McBride, Eimear
The Butcher Boy
McCabe, Patrick
Blood Meridian
McCarthy, Cormac
All the Pretty Horses
McCarthy, Cormac
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
McCoy, Horace
Moby-Dick
Melville, Herman
Tropic of Cancer
Miller, Henry
Tropic of Capricorn
Miller, Henry
Cloud Atlas
Mitchell, David
Gone With the Wind
Mitchell, Margaret
Song of Solomon
Morrison, Toni
Beloved
Morrison, Toni
Jazz
Morrison, Toni
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki, Shikibu
The English Patient
Ondaatje, Michael
Animal Farm
Orwell, George
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Orwell, George
Doctor Zhivago
Pasternak, Boris
Cry, the Beloved Country
Paton, Alan
Remembrance of Things Past
Proust, Marcel
Pharoah
Prus, Boleslaw
Heartbreak Tango
Puig, Manuel
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Puig, Manuel
Eugene Onegin
Pushkin, Alexander
The Godfather
Puzo, Mario
Excellent Women
Pym, Barbara
Quartet in Autumn
Pym, Barbara
V.
Pynchon, Thomas
The Crying of Lot 49
Pynchon, Thomas
Gravity’s Rainbow
Pynchon, Thomas
Vineland
Pynchon, Thomas
Mason & Dixon
Pynchon, Thomas
Against the Day
Pynchon, Thomas
The Plot Against America
Roth, Philip
The God of Small Things
Roy, Arundhati
Midnight’s Children
Rushdie, Salman
The Satanic Verses
Rushdie, Salman
The Moor’s Last Sigh
Rushdie, Salman
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Rushdie, Salman
The Catcher in the Rye
Salinger, J.D.
Ivanhoe
Schnitzler, Arthur
Frankenstein
Sembene, Ousmane
The Jungle
Sillitoe, Chinua
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Smith, Zadie
Cancer Ward
Smollett, Tobias George
The First Circle
Smollett, Tobias George
Of Mice and Men
St Aubyn, Edward
The Grapes of Wrath
Stead, Christina
Cannery Row
Stein, Gertrude
Cryptonomicon
Steinbeck, John
Treasure Island
Stendhal
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stephenson, Neal
Dracula
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Gulliver’s Travels
Svevo, Italo
A Modest Proposal
Svevo, Italo
Vanity Fair
Taktsis, Costas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Tartt, Donna
The Hobbit
Thurber, James
The Lord of the Rings
Timm, Uwe
War and Peace
Timmermans, Felix
Anna Karenina
Tóibín, Colm
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tóibín, Colm
Fathers and Sons
Trollope, Anthony
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Turgenev, Ivan
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Vargas Llosa, Mario
Around the World in Eighty Days
Vassilikos, Vassilis
Cat’s Cradle
Vidal, Gore
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Vila-Matas, Enrique
Slaughterhouse Five
Vittorini, Elio
Breakfast of Champions
Volpi, Jorge
The Color Purple
Voltaire
The Time Machine
Waugh, Evelyn
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Waugh, Evelyn
The Invisible Man
Waugh, Evelyn
The War of the Worlds
Waugh, Evelyn
The Once and Future King
White, Edmund
The Picture of Dorian Gray
White, Edmund
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Wodehouse, P.G.
Native Son
Woolf, Virginia
Monkey: Journey to the West
Woolf, Virginia
Day of the Triffids
Woolf, Virginia
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Things Fall Apart
Achebe, Chinua
Arrow of God
Achebe, Chinua
Blood and Guts in High School
Acker, Kathy
Hawksmoor
Ackroyd, Peter
The House of Doctor Dee
Ackroyd, Peter
The Lambs of London
Ackroyd, Peter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Adams, Douglas
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Adams, Douglas
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
Adams, Douglas
Half of a Yellow Sun
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Americanah
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
The White Tiger
Adiga, Aravind
Aesop’s Fables
Aesopus
Novel With Cocaine
Ageyev, M.
In The Heart of the Seas
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
Rashomon
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
The Regent’s Wife
Alas, Leopoldo
Little Women
Alcott, Louisa May
Broad and Alien is the World
Alegria, Ciro
The Man With the Golden Arm
Algren, Nelson
Fantômas
Allain, Marcel
The House of the Spirits
Allende, Isabel
Of Love and Shadows
Allende, Isabel
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Amado, Jorge
Tent of Miracles
Amado, Jorge
Cause for Alarm
Ambler, Eric
Lucky Jim
Amis, Kingsley
The Green Man
Amis, Kingsley
The Old Devils
Amis, Kingsley
Dead Babies
Amis, Martin
Money: A Suicide Note
Amis, Martin
London Fields
Amis, Martin
Time’s Arrow
Amis, Martin
The Information
Amis, Martin
I’m Not Scared
Ammaniti, Niccolo
Untouchable
Anand, Mulk Raj
The Commandant
Anderson, Jessica
The Bridge on the Drina
Andrić, Ivo
Bosnian Chronicle
Andrić, Ivo
Ashes and Diamonds
Andrzejewski, Jerzy
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou, Maya
The Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Anonymous
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
Anonymous
Fado Alexandrino
Antunes, Antonio Lobo
The Golden Ass
Apuleius, Lucius
The Bells of Basel
Aragon, Louis
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
Arbuthnot, John et al
Before Night Falls
Arenas, Reinaldo
Deep Rivers
Arguedas, José María
The Twilight Years
Ariyoshi, Sawako
The Green Hat
Arlen, Michael
I, Robot
Asimov, Isaac
Foundation
Asimov, Isaac
Surfacing
Atwood, Margaret
The Handmaid’s Tale
Atwood, Margaret
Cat’s Eye
Atwood, Margaret
The Robber Bride
Atwood, Margaret
Alias Grace
Atwood, Margaret
The Blind Assassin
Atwood, Margaret
Obabakoak
Atxaga, Bernardo
Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane
Emma
Austen, Jane
Persuasion
Austen, Jane
Northanger Abbey
Austen, Jane
The New York Trilogy
Auster, Paul
Moon Palace
Auster, Paul
The Music of Chance
Auster, Paul
Mr. Vertigo
Auster, Paul
Timbuktu
Auster, Paul
The Book of Illusions
Auster, Paul
Invisible
Auster, Paul
The Underdogs
Azuela, Mariano
So Long a Letter
Ba, Mariama
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Baldwin, James
Giovanni’s Room
Baldwin, James
The Drowned World
Ballard, J.G.
The Atrocity Exhibition
Ballard, J.G.
Crash
Ballard, J.G.
High Rise
Ballard, J.G.
Empire of the Sun
Ballard, J.G.
Cocaine Nights
Ballard, J.G.
Super-Cannes
Ballard, J.G.
Eugénie Grandet
Balzac, Honoré de
Père Goriot
Balzac, Honoré de
Lost Illusions
Balzac, Honoré de
The Wasp Factory
Banks, Iain
The Crow Road
Banks, Iain
Complicity
Banks, Iain
Dead Air
Banks, Iain
The Player of Games
Banks, Iain M.
Cloudsplitter
Banks, Russell
The Newton Letter
Banville, John
The Book of Evidence
Banville, John
The Untouchable
Banville, John
Shroud
Banville, John
The Sea
Banville, John
Elegance of the Hedgehog
Barbery, Muriel
The Inferno
Barbusse, Henri
Under Fire
Barbusse, Henri
Silk
Baricco, Alessandro
H(A)PPY
Barker, Nicola
Regeneration
Barker, Pat
The Ghost Road
Barker, Pat
Another World
Barker, Pat
Nightwood
Barnes, Djuna
Flaubert’s Parrot
Barnes, Julian
The Sense of an Ending
Barnes, Julian
The Floating Opera
Barth, John
The End of the Road
Barth, John
Giles Goat-Boy
Barth, John
Come Back, Dr. Caligari
Barthelme, Donald
The Dead Father
Barthelme, Donald
Amateurs
Barthelme, Donald
Alamut
Bartol, Vladimir
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Bassani, Giorgio
Story of the Eye
Bataille, Georges
The Abbot C
Bataille, Georges
Blue of Noon
Bataille, Georges
The Mandarins
Beauvoir, Simone de
Jacob the Liar
Becker, Jurek
Murphy
Beckett, Samuel
Molloy
Beckett, Samuel
Malone Dies
Beckett, Samuel
Watt
Beckett, Samuel
The Unnamable
Beckett, Samuel
How It Is
Beckett, Samuel
Mercier and Camier
Beckett, Samuel
Worstward Ho
Beckett, Samuel
Vathek
Beckford, William Thomas
Borstal Boy
Behan, Brendan
Oroonoko
Behn, Aphra
Dangling Man
Bellow, Saul
The Victim
Bellow, Saul
The Adventures of Augie March
Bellow, Saul
Seize the Day
Bellow, Saul
Henderson the Rain King
Bellow, Saul
Herzog
Bellow, Saul
Humboldt’s Gift
Bellow, Saul
The Old Wives’ Tale
Bennett, Arnold
G
Berger, John
Under Satan’s Sun
Bernanos, Georges
Correction
Bernhard, Thomas
Yes
Bernhard, Thomas
Concrete
Bernhard, Thomas
Wittgenstein’s Nephew
Bernhard, Thomas
Old Masters
Bernhard, Thomas
Extinction
Bernhard, Thomas
Death Sentence
Blanchot, Maurice
Savage Detectives
Bolaño, Roberto
2666
Bolaño, Roberto
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Böll, Heinrich
Group Portrait With Lady
Böll, Heinrich
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Böll, Heinrich
The Safety Net
Böll, Heinrich
Ficciones
Borges, Jorge Luis
Labyrinths
Borges, Jorge Luis
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Borowski, Tadeusz
The Last September
Bowen, Elizabeth
To the North
Bowen, Elizabeth
The House in Paris
Bowen, Elizabeth
The Heat of the Day
Bowen, Elizabeth
A World of Love
Bowen, Elizabeth
Eva Trout
Bowen, Elizabeth
World’s End
Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Drop City
Boyle, T. Coraghessan
In Watermelon Sugar
Brautigan, Richard
Willard and His Bowling Trophies
Brautigan, Richard
Threepenny Novel
Brecht, Bertolt
Nadja
Breton, André
Arcanum 17
Breton, André
A Dry White Season
Brink, Andre
Testament of Youth
Brittain, Vera
The Death of Virgil
Broch, Hermann
The Guiltless
Broch, Hermann
Agnes Grey
Brontë, Anne
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Brontë, Anne
Jane Eyre
Brontë, Charlotte
Shirley
Brontë, Charlotte
Villette
Brontë, Charlotte
Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Emily
A World for Julius
Bryce Echenique, Alfredo
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Buchan, John
The Master and Margarita
Bulgakov, Mikhail
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Bunyan, John
A Clockwork Orange
Burgess, Anthony
Inside Mr. Enderby
Burgess, Anthony
Evelina
Burney, Fanny
Cecilia
Burney, Fanny
Camilla
Burney, Fanny
Tarzan of the Apes
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Junkie
Burroughs, William
Naked Lunch
Burroughs, William
The Wild Boys
Burroughs, William
Queer
Burroughs, William
Erewhon
Butler, Samuel
The Way of All Flesh
Butler, Samuel
The Tartar Steppe
Buzzati, Dino
The Virgin in the Garden
Byatt, A.S.
Possession
Byatt, A.S.
The Children’s Book
Byatt, A.S.
Three Trapped Tigers
Cabrera Infante, Guillermo
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Cain, James M.
House in the Uplands
Caldwell, Erskine
The Path to the Nest of Spiders
Calvino, Italo
Our Ancestors
Calvino, Italo
Invisible Cities
Calvino, Italo
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Calvino, Italo
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Calvino, Italo
The Lusiads
Camões, Luís de
The Outsider
Camus, Albert
The Plague
Camus, Albert
The Rebel
Camus, Albert
Auto-da-Fé
Canetti, Elias
A Dream of Red Mansions
Cao, Xueqin
War with the Newts
Capek, Karel
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Capote, Truman
In Cold Blood
Capote, Truman
Oscar and Lucinda
Carey, Peter
Jack Maggs
Carey, Peter
Kingdom of This World
Carpentier, Alejo
The Lost Steps
Carpentier, Alejo
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis
Through the Looking Glass
Carroll, Lewis
The Passion of New Eve
Carter, Angela
Nights at the Circus
Carter, Angela
Wise Children
Carter, Angela
Bebo’s Girl
Cassola, Carlo
Solitude
Catala, Victor
The Professor’s House
Cather, Willa
Journey to the Alcarria
Cela, Camilo Jose
The Hive
Cela, Camilo Jose
Journey to the End of the Night
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
Soldiers of Salamis
Cercas, Javier
Don Quixote
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Chabon, Michael
The Big Sleep
Chandler, Raymond
Farewell My Lovely
Chandler, Raymond
The Long Goodbye
Chandler, Raymond
Wild Swans
Chang, Jung
Chaireas and Kallirhoe
Chariton
On the Black Hill
Chatwin, Bruce
The Riddle of the Sands
Childers, Erskine
The Awakening
Chopin, Kate
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Christie, Agatha
On the Heights of Despair
Cioran, Emil
2001: A Space Odyssey
Clarke, Arthur C.
The Sorrow of Belgium
Claus, Hugo
Fanny Hill
Cleland, John
The Holy Terrors
Cocteau, Jean
What a Carve Up!
Coe, Jonathan
Veronika Decides to Die
Coelho, Paulo
The Devil and Miss Prym
Coelho, Paulo
Dusklands
Coetzee, J.M.
In the Heart of the Country
Coetzee, J.M.
Waiting for the Barbarians
Coetzee, J.M.
The Life and Times of Michael K
Coetzee, J.M.
Foe
Coetzee, J.M.
The Master of Petersburg
Coetzee, J.M.
Disgrace
Coetzee, J.M.
Youth
Coetzee, J.M.
Elizabeth Costello
Coetzee, J.M.
Slow Man
Coetzee, J.M.
Belle du Seigneur
Cohen, Albert
Claudine’s House
Colette
The Woman in White
Collins, Wilkie
The Moonstone
Collins, Wilkie
Lord Jim
Conrad, Joseph
Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph
Nostromo
Conrad, Joseph
The Secret Agent
Conrad, Joseph
The Shadow Line
Conrad, Joseph
The Lion of Flanders
Conscience, Hendrik
Last of the Mohicans
Cooper, James Fenimore
Pricksongs and Descants
Coover, Robert
The Public Burning
Coover, Robert
Eline Vere
Couperus, Louis
Arcadia
Crace, Jim
The Enormous Room
Cummings, E.E.
A Home at the End of the World
Cunningham, Michael
The Hours
Cunningham, Michael
Disappearance
Dabydeen, David
Nervous Conditions
Dangarembga, Tsitsi
House of Leaves
Danielewski, Mark Z.
The Child of Pleasure
D’Annunzio, Gabriele
Fifth Business
Davies, Robertson
The End of the Story
Davis, Lydia
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
De Bernières, Louis
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
De Bernières, Louis
On Love
De Botton, Alain
Hebdomeros
De Chirico, Giorgio
The Viceroys
De Roberto, Federico
Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel
Moll Flanders
Defoe, Daniel
Roxana
Defoe, Daniel
The Heretic
Delibes, Miguel
Ratner’s Star
DeLillo, Don
The Names
DeLillo, Don
White Noise
DeLillo, Don
Libra
DeLillo, Don
Mao II
DeLillo, Don
Underworld
DeLillo, Don
The Body Artist
DeLillo, Don
Falling Man
DeLillo, Don
Thomas of Reading
Deloney, Thomas
Clear Light of Day
Desai, Anita
The Inheritance of Loss
Desai, Kiran
All About H. Hatterr
Desani, G.V.
Small Remedies
Deshpande, Shashi
The Conquest of New Spain
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Díaz, Junot
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dick, Philip K.
Oliver Twist
Dickens, Charles
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Dickens, Charles
A Christmas Carol
Dickens, Charles
Martin Chuzzlewit
Dickens, Charles
David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles
Bleak House
Dickens, Charles
Hard Times
Dickens, Charles
A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles
Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles
Our Mutual Friend
Dickens, Charles
Jacques the Fatalist
Diderot, Denis
The Nun
Diderot, Denis
Rameau’s Nephew
Diderot, Denis
Play It As It Lays
Didion, Joan
Democracy
Didion, Joan
The Bitter Glass
Dillon, Eilís
Out of Africa
Dinesen, Isak
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Döblin, Alfred
The Book of Daniel
Doctorow, E.L.
Ragtime
Doctorow, E.L.
Billy Bathgate
Doctorow, E.L.
City of God
Doctorow, E.L.
Stone Junction
Dodge, Jim
Asphodel
Doolittle, Hilda
Manhattan Transfer
Dos Passos, John
U.S.A.
Dos Passos, John
Notes from the Underground
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Idiot
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Devils
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Fool’s Gold
Douka, Maro
Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture
Doxiadis, Apostolos
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Radiant Way
Drabble, Margaret
The Red Queen
Drabble, Margaret
As If I Am Not There
Drakulić, Slavenka
Sister Carrie
Dreiser, Theodore
Rebecca
Du Maurier, Daphne
The Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre
Queen Margot
Dumas, Alexandre
The Count of Monte-Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre
Hallucinating Foucault
Duncker, Patricia
Paradise of the Blind
Duong, Thu Huong
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein
Duras, Marguerite
The Vice-Consul
Duras, Marguerite
The Lover
Duras, Marguerite
Justine
Durrell, Lawrence
The Judge and His Hangman
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
The Crime of Father Amaro
Eça de Queirós, José Maria
The Name of the Rose
Eco, Umberto
Foucault’s Pendulum
Eco, Umberto
Castle Rackrent
Edgeworth, Maria
The Absentee
Edgeworth, Maria
Ormond
Edgeworth, Maria
The Quest
Eeden, Frederik van
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Egan, Jennifer
The Circle
Eggers, Dave
The Life of a Good-for-Nothing
Eichendorff, Joseph von
Woman at Point Zero
El Saadawi, Nawal
Adam Bede
Eliot, George
The Mill on the Floss
Eliot, George
Silas Marner
Eliot, George
Middlemarch
Eliot, George
Daniel Deronda
Eliot, George
Less Than Zero
Ellis, Bret Easton
American Psycho
Ellis, Bret Easton
Glamorama
Ellis, Bret Easton
Invisible Man
Ellison, Ralph
The Black Dahlia
Ellroy, James
Elsschot, Willem
Silence
Endo, Shusaku
Deep River
Endo, Shusaku
The Book about Blanche and Marie
Enquist, Per Olov
The Gathering
Enright, Anne
The Interesting Narrative
Equiano, Olaudah
Love Medicine
Erdrich, Louise
Moscow Stations
Erofeyev, Venedikt
Like Water for Chocolate
Esquivel, Laura
Celestial Harmonies
Esterházy, Péter
The Virgin Suicides
Eugenides, Jeffrey
Middlesex
Eugenides, Jeffrey
The Marriage Plot
Eugenides, Jeffrey
Under the Skin
Faber, Michel
Astradeni
Fakinou, Eugenia
Troubles
Farrell, J.G.
The Siege of Krishnapur
Farrell, J.G.
The Singapore Grip
Farrell, J.G.
The Sound and the Fury
Faulkner, William
Absalom, Absalom!
Faulkner, William
The Hamlet
Faulkner, William
Go Down, Moses
Faulkner, William
Birdsong
Faulks, Sebastian
Troubling Love
Ferrante, Elena
The Story of the Lost Child
Ferrante, Elena
Joseph Andrews
Fielding, Henry
Tom Jones
Fielding, Henry
Amelia
Fielding, Henry
The Wars
Findley, Timothy
The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Tender is the Night
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave
Sentimental Education
Flaubert, Gustave
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Flaubert, Gustave
Bouvard and Pécuchet
Flaubert, Gustave
Casino Royale
Fleming, Ian
Everything is Illuminated
Foer, Jonathan Safran
Effi Briest
Fontane, Theodor
The Stechlin
Fontane, Theodor
The Good Soldier
Ford, Ford Madox
Parade’s End
Ford, Ford Madox
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Forster, E.M.
A Room With a View
Forster, E.M.
Howards End
Forster, E.M.
A Passage to India
Forster, E.M.
The Collector
Fowles, John
The Magus
Fowles, John
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Fowles, John
A Maggot
Fowles, John
Faces in the Water
Frame, Janet
Thais
France, Anatole
The Blind Side of the Heart
Franck, Julia
The Corrections
Franzen, Jonathan
Freedom
Franzen, Jonathan
Simon and the Oaks
Fredriksson, Marianne
Hideous Kinky
Freud, Esther
I’m Not Stiller
Frisch, Max
Homo Faber
Frisch, Max
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Fuentes, Carlos
The Recognitions
Gaddis, William
Memory of Fire
Galeano, Eduardo
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris
Gallico, Paul
The Trick is to Keep Breathing
Galloway, Janice
The Forsyte Saga
Galsworthy, John
No One Writes to the Colonel
García Márquez, Gabriel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
García Márquez, Gabriel
The Autumn of the Patriarch
García Márquez, Gabriel
Love in the Time of Cholera
García Márquez, Gabriel
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
Gardonyi, Geza
Thursbitch
Garner, Alan
The Roots of Heaven
Gary, Romain
Promise at Dawn
Gary, Romain
Mary Barton
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Cranford
Gaskell, Elizabeth
North and South
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Legend
Gemmell, David
The Triple Mirror of the Self
Ghose, Zulfikar
The Shadow Lines
Ghosh, Amitav
Sunset Song
Gibbon, Lewis Grassic
Cold Comfort Farm
Gibbons, Stella
Neuromancer
Gibson, William
Fruits of the Earth
Gide, André
The Immoralist
Gide, André
Strait is the Gate
Gide, André
The Counterfeiters
Gide, André
The Yellow Wallpaper
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
New Grub Street
Gissing, George
Born in Exile
Gissing, George
The Adventures of Caleb Williams
Godwin, William
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Elective Affinities
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
The Nose
Gogol, Nikolay
Dead Souls
Gogol, Nikolay
Memoirs of a Geisha
Golden, Arthur
Lord of the Flies
Golding, William
Rites of Passage
Golding, William
The Vicar of Wakefield
Goldsmith, Oliver
Ferdydurke
Gombrowicz, Witold
Oblomov
Goncharov, Ivan
Burger’s Daughter
Gordimer, Nadine
July’s People
Gordimer, Nadine
Mother
Gorky, Maxim
The Artamonov Business
Gorky, Maxim
Marks of Identity
Goytisolo, Juan
The Opposing Shore
Gracq, Julien
The Tin Drum
Grass, Günter
Cat and Mouse
Grass, Günter
Dog Years
Grass, Günter
Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Gray, Alasdair
Blindness
Green, Henry
Living
Green, Henry
Party Going
Green, Henry
Caught
Green, Henry
Loving
Green, Henry
Back
Green, Henry
England Made Me
Greene, Graham
Brighton Rock
Greene, Graham
The Power and the Glory
Greene, Graham
The Heart of the Matter
Greene, Graham
The Third Man
Greene, Graham
The End of the Affair
Greene, Graham
The Quiet American
Greene, Graham
The Honorary Consul
Greene, Graham
The Adventurous Simplicissimus
Grimmelshausen, Hans von
Diary of a Nobody
Grossmith, George
Memoirs of Rain
Gupta, Sunetra
Dirty Havana Trilogy
Gutierrez, Pedro Juan
Forever a Stranger
Haasse, Hella
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Haddon, Mark
King Solomon’s Mines
Haggard, H. Rider
She
Haggard, H. Rider
The Well of Loneliness
Hall, Radclyffe
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Hamid, Mohsin
Hangover Square
Hamilton, Patrick
The Red Harvest
Hammett, Dashiell
The Maltese Falcon
Hammett, Dashiell
The Glass Key
Hammett, Dashiell
The Thin Man
Hammett, Dashiell
Hunger
Hamsun, Knut
Growth of the Soil
Hamsun, Knut
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Handke, Peter
The Left-Handed Woman
Handke, Peter
The Afternoon of a Writer
Handke, Peter
The Art of Fielding
Harbach, Chad
Far from the Madding Crowd
Hardy, Thomas
The Hand of Ethelberta
Hardy, Thomas
Return of the Native
Hardy, Thomas
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hardy, Thomas
The Woodlanders
Hardy, Thomas
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hardy, Thomas
Jude the Obscure
Hardy, Thomas
The Go-Between
Hartley, L.P.
The Good Soldier Švejk
Hašek, Jaroslav
The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The House of the Seven Gables
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Blithedale Romance
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Marble Faun
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Love in Excess
Haywood, Eliza
A Question of Power
Head, Bessie
The First Garden
Hébert, Anne
The Blind Owl
Hedayat, Sadegh
Stranger in a Strange Land
Heinlein, Robert
An Ethiopian Romance
Heliodorus
Catch-22
Heller, Joseph
The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway, Ernest
A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest
To Have and Have Not
Hemingway, Ernest
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hemingway, Ernest
The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway, Ernest
Margot and the Angels
Hemmerechts, Kristien
Nowhere Man
Hemon, Aleksandar
Reasons to Live
Hempel, Amy
Martin Fierro
Hernandez, Jose
Dispatches
Herr, Michael
The New World
Heruy Wolde Selassie
Rosshalde
Hesse, Herman
Siddhartha
Hesse, Herman
Steppenwolf
Hesse, Herman
The Glass Bead Game
Hesse, Herman
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Highsmith, Patricia
Camera Obscura
Hildebrand
Blind Man With a Pistol
Himes, Chester
A Kestrel for a Knave
Hines, Barry
The House on the Borderland
Hodgson, William Hope
Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Høeg, Peter
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
Hoffman, E.T.A.
The Parable of the Blind
Hofmann, Gert
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Read about 100 books, (380 stories, poems included as part of the total). I read a lot of classics this year, finishing Dante’s Inferno and the first couple of volumes of the Harvard classics. Also read a lot of poetry, completed Mod Po, and read the best American Poetry 2019, 2018 and 2017, and the first two George Elliot Novels.
Anthologies Where My Work Has Been Published
Anatomy of The Beatnik Cowboy
Horror/Sleaze/Trash Poems
Otherwise Engaged Volume 1
On the Road the Poet Volume 1
Poets Facing the Wall
I have about 100 poems and short stories published this year. See separate worksheet coming for complete list.
Horror/Sleaze/Trash Poems
Otherwise Engaged Volume 1
On the Road the Poet Volume 1
Poets Facing the Wall
I have about 100 poems and short stories published this year. See separate worksheet coming for complete list.
Books Read
Dante The Divine Comedy Own Library
John Burnet Bangkok Haunts
Micah Caida Time Trap Red Moon Trilogy Vol 1
Demelza Carlton See You in Hell
Lee Child Jack Reacher 61 Hours Own Library
Lee Child Jack Reacher the Enemy Own Library
Cs Lewis The Lion, The Witch, And the Wardrobe in Spanish
Theresa Crater Under the Stone Paw
Charles Cuming A Foreign Country
Earnest Dempsey The Secrets of The Stones
Earnest Dempsey The Templar Curse
Brandon Ellis Atlantis Quadrilogy
Sterling E Lanier Hiero’s Journey Own Library
George Elliot Adam Bede
Ts Elliot Complete Poems and Plays Own Library
Milos Fowler Captain Bartholomew Quasar
AC Fuller
Ac Fuller the Cutline an Alex Vance Novel Own Library
Ac Fuller the Inverted Pyramid Own Library
Ac Fuller the Anonymous Source Own Library
Ac Fuller the Mockingbird Drive Own Library
Ac Fuller the Shadow File Own Library
Ac Fuller the Last Journalist
Jeschonek The Greatest Serial Killer in The Universe
Jeschonek The Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake
Dieter Kellen Enigma What Lies Below
Harvard classics Vol one
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
William Penn Fruits of Solitude
The Journals of John Woolman
Harvard Classics Volume Two
Plato The Apology, Phaedo And Crito
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
The Mediations of Marcus Aurelius
Warren Hately Reporting the Appocalypse
Jim Heskett Museum Attack
John Ling Fallen Angel
Robert Ludlum The Cry of The Haledon
Lincoln Cole Second Chances
Mathew Mather Dark Net
Kyle Mills the Utopia Experiment
James Rollins Map of Bones Own Library
Nick Thacker the Depths
Nick Thacker the Enigma Strain
Nick Thacker the Relics
Nick Thacker the Atlantis Stone
Elizabeth Williamson Tokyo Firewall
Clark Aston Smith Abominations of Yondo
Clark The Nameless Offspring
Clark The Witchcraft of Ulua
Clark The Devotee of Evil
Clark The Epiphany of Death
Clark A Vintage from Atlantis
Clark The Abominations of Yonda
Clark The White Sybil
Clark The Ice Demon
Clark The Voyage of King Eurovan
Clark The Master of The Crabs
Clark The Enchantress of Sylaire
Clark The Dweller in The Gulf
Clark The Dark Age
Clark The Third Episode of Vahek
Clark Chinoiseries
Clark The Mirror in The Hall of Ebony
Clark The Passing of Aphrodite
Mod Po Week One
Mod Po Poems – Week One- Emily Dickinson The Brain in Its Groove
Emily Dickinson Tell the Truth Slant
Emily Dickson, I Dwell in Possibility Second Favorite
Whitman Songs of I Favorite Note to Self-Read Entire Leaves of Glass in December After Mod Po
Vanek Whitman’s Soul
William Carlos Williams Smell
William Carlos Williams Dance Russe Second Favorite
One thriller per month
One history or current affairs book per month
one to do book per month
Read a lot more Poetry
>Read at least one book a year in Spanish
Read at least one book a year in Korean
Anthologies where my work has been published
Anatomy of the Beatnik Cowboy
Horror/Sleaze/Trash Poems
Otherwise Engaged Volume 1
On the Road the Poet Volume 1
Poets Facing the Wall
Books read
Close up of books on desk in library.
Books Read 2020
Goals: 100 books
Read classics
One thriller per month
Read a lot more Poetry
Read at least one book a year in Spanish
Read at least one book a year in Korean
Anthologies where my work has been published
Anatomy of the Beatnik Cowboy
Horror/Sleaze/Trash Poems
Otherwise Engaged Volume 1
On the Road the Poet Volume 1
Poets Facing the Wall
Best American Poetry 2017
Best American Poetry 2018
Best American Poetry 2019
Books Read
Dante the Divine Comedy own library
John Burnet Bangkok Haunts
Micah Caida Time Trap Red Moon Trilogy Vol 1
Demelza Carlton See You In Hell
Lee Child Jack Reacher 61 Hours own library
Lee Child Jack Reacher the Enemy own library
CS Lewis The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in Spanish
Theresa Crater Under the Stone Paw
Charles Cuming A Foreign Country
Earnest Dempsey the Secrets of the Stones
Earnest Dempsey The Templar Curse
Brandon Ellis Atlantis Quadrilogy
Sterling E Lanier Hiero’s Journey own library
George Elliot Adam Bede
TS Elliot Complete Poems and Plays own library
Milos Fowler Captain Bartholomew Quasar
AC Fuller The Cutline an Alex Vance Novel own library
AC Fuller The Inverted Pyramid own library
AC Fuller The Anonymous Source own library
AC Fuller the Mockingbird Drive own library
AC Fuller the Shadow File own library
AC Fuller the Last Journalist
Jeschonek The Greatest Serial Killer in the Universe
Jeschonek the Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake
Dieter Kellen Enigma What Lies Below
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin HC Volume One
William Penn Fruits of Solitude HC Volume One
The Journals of John Woolman HC Volume One
Plato the Apology, Phaedo and Crito HC Volume Two
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus HC Volume Two
The Mediations of Marcus Aurelius HC Volume Two
Warren Hately Reporting the Appocalypse
Jim Heskett Museum Attack
John Ling Fallen Angel
Robert Ludlum the Cry of the Haledon
Lincoln Cole Second Chances
Mathew Mather Dark Net
Kyle Mills the Utopia Experiment
James Rollins Map of Bones own library
Nick Thacker the Depths
Nick Thacker the Enigma Strain
Nick Thacker The Relics
Nick Thacker the Atlantis Stone
Elizabeth Williamson Tokyo Firewall
Clark Ashton Smith that Abominations of Yondo
Clark the nameless offspring
Clark the witch craft of Ulua
Clark the devotee of evil
Clark the Epiphany of death
Clark a vintage from Atlantis
Clark The Abominations of Yonda
Clark The white Sybil
Clark the ice demon
Clark the voyage of King Eurovan
Clark the master of the crabs
Clark the enchantress of Sylaire
Clark the dweller in the Gulf
Clark the dark age
Clark the third episode of Vahek
Clark Chinoiseries
Clark the mirror in the Hall of Ebony
Clark the passing of Aphrodite
Mod Po poems – week one- Emily Dickinson the brain in its groove
Emily Dickinson tell the truth slant
Emily Dickson I dwell in possibility second favorite
Whitman Songs of Myself favorite note to self read entire Leaves of Glass in December after MOD PO
Vanek Whitman’s Soul
Week Two William Carlos Williams Smell
William Carlos Williams Dance Russe second favorite
Allen Ginsberg Supermarket in California favorite
Lorraine Neidecker Grandfather Advised Me
Lorraine Neidecker You are my Friend
Lorraine Neidecker Foreclosure
Cid Corman It isn’t for Want
Ray Armantrout The Way
Week Three HD Sea Rose
Ezra Pound (EP) in a station of the metro
EP the Encounter
Tony Foster Haiku
William Carlos Williams (WCM) lines
WCM Between Walls
WCM this is Just to Say
WCM Red Wheelbarrow
WCW The Rose is Obsolete
WCM Portrait of a Lady
Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Stairway
MP Fountain
Week Four Mod Po Gertrude Stein Tender Buttons
Water Raining (from tender buttons)
Malachite (from tender buttons)
A Carafe that is a Blind Glass
Long Dress
Composition as Explanation
Let Us Describe – my second favorite
If I told Him would he like it completed portrait of Picasso – my favorite
Baroness Elsa Von Freytag Lorringhoven A Dozen Cocktails
Tristan Tzara How to Make a Dadist Poem
John Peal Bishop A recollection Sonnet
Week Five Communist Poets Ruth Lectlitian Lines for an Abortionist Office
Genevieve Taggard Intern
Harlem Renaissance Poets Countee Cullen Yet I Do Marvel]
Incident
Claud McKay If we must Die
Langston Hughes Dinner Guest Me
Gwendolyn Brooks Boy Breaking Glass
Gwendolyn Brooks Truth
Robert Frost Mending Well
Week Six Beats Robert Creeley I Know a Man
Jayne Cortez She Got It He Got It
Ginsberg Howl
Fereghetthi Baseball Canto
Le Roi Jones Incident
Le Roi Jones How You Sound
Jack Kerouac Belief and Techniques for Modern Prose
Jack Kerouac Essentials of Spontaneous Prose
Jack Kerouac Ideas About Prose
Jack Kerouac Old Angel Midnight
Jack Kerouac Babble Flow
Bob Kaufman Jail Poems
Anne Waldman Rogue State
Week seven NY School Harrif Abdurraqib USA V Cuba
John Ashbury Instruction Manual
Some Trees
Barbara Guest 20
Frank O Hara the Day Lady Died
Kenneth Koch Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
Bernadette Madeline Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Eileen Myers Mount St Helens
Patrick Rosal Uptown Ode
James Schuler February
Week Eight Lyn Hejinian My Life
Bob Pearlman Chronic Meaning
Charles Bernstein In a Restless World Like this
Emily Dickinson My Life Has Stood a Loaded Gun
Susan Howe My Emily Dickinson
Harriette Muller Sleeping with the Dictionary
Tyrone Williams Can’t Tyrone Williams Written By Him
John Keens Persons and Places
Week Nine John Cage Writing Through Howl
John Cage Adagio Jackson Mac Law a Vocabulary for Peter Innisfree Moore
Jackson Mac Law version of Stein’s a grass carafe
Jackson Mac Law version of Stein 100 Feather Justice Chair
Jeana Osman Dropping Leaflets
Bernadette Myers Writing experiments
Realtak Not a Cage
Week Ten Christin Bur Chapter E of Eudora
Erica Baumgart Catalogue
Erica Baumgart dog ears
Caroline Bergville VIA
Michael Magee the Pledge
Michael Magee My Emily Dickinson
Michael Magee FARF poetry
Rose Marie Waldrops Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence
Naser Hussain Sky Write NGS
Jordan Abel Place of Scraps
Terrae Morris African Emily Dickinson the Poet Lights the Lamp Essay One
William Carlos Williams the Attic Which is desire essay two
James Schuller the Day Gets Started Slowly essay three
post mod po additional reading: Jack Carr The Terminal List
George Elliot The Lifted Veil
Jeffrey Sypeck Becoming Charlemagne
To Read
Elliot Novels
Mod Po 2020 Poems (to be listed as I read them)
Harvard classics through Volume Six
Poets Companion finish
Art and Craft of Poetry finish
Poetry for Dummies
Whitman Leaves of Grass Dickenson Collected Poems Robert Service Poems (from Alaskan gold rush period)
About a year ago I started reading classic books, starting with books on the Good Read’s list of a 1001 books to read before you die. I also have been reading books in the Harvard Classics books which were published decades ago – I bought a complete set from the State Department book sale for 10 dollars a few years ago and vowed that I would start reading them some day and just completed volume one – the autobiography of Ben Franklin and William Penn’s reflections.
I completed 13% of the list. Lots more to read this year and in the coming years.My goal is to finish the list before I die so hopefully I will have enough time.
here’s the list. How many have you read? I’d love to know and will include your comments here. And you can join the Good Reads list as well.
three books I have read recently that are not on the list but should be on the list include Dante’s Divine Comedy, Ben Franklin’s autobiography and William Penn’s reflections. The Ben Franklin autobiography and William Penn’s reflections are from part one of the Harvard Classic books list published decades ago. I was moved by all three pieces. The Dante Divine comedy is a moving epic masterpiece and is at times terrifying and inspirational. the autobiography of Ben Franklin was powerful as was William Penn’s reflections on life written just before he died. Enjoy the list and discussions on it.
Every year at this time a year I like to reflect back on the year before what I had done what movies I had seen what books I had read where I have traveled and what I have accomplished this year for the first time I’m going to blog about this so here are my end-of-the-year book list movie list and travel list.
First let’s look at the book list. This is the list of books I have read this year.
reading goal for this year included
5 to 6books per month-2 from library one from Kindleone from own library 1 SF or thriller 1 world lit including Korean, Latin American, Indian novels 1 poetry 1 history or current event Read 19th classic novels Read all my classic books as well One Korean history book One writing craft book One Spanish language book One Korean book
for next year continue as before but read more Korean and Spanish books
The List
AC Fuller The Anonymous Source
AC Fuller the Inverted Pyramid
AC Fuller the Mocking Bird Drive
AC Fuller the Shadow File
AC FullerThe Last Journalist
AC Fuller Cutline
Earnest Howard The Atlantis Stone
Down in the Dirt 2018 Anthology Natural Light includes my poem
Down in the Dirt 2019 Literary Review my poem Strangeness in the Air appears November
Snarling Cup of Coffee My Chapbook as published in Poetry Superhighway give away
David Balladaci Winner
Making Out in Korean
Vietnam Lonely Planet
.Vietnam Cambodia Lonely Planet
.Vietnam Easy Travel Guide
.Continuing Korean
.Advanced Korean
Conspiracy Theory JD OlivaKindle
.Museum Attack Jim Heskett Kindle
.Jamie Thornton Germination did not finish Kindle
Steve Konkoly Red Dragon Kindle
Nathan Van Cooper In Times Like These Kindle
Earnest Dempsey The Secret of the Stones Kindle
Braddon Ellis Atlantis Quadrilogy Kindle
.Bida Ernie Howard Kindle
.Howard Finn Adventures of Robin Hood Kindle
.Nick Jones The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman Kindle
.Stephen Tharp the Western DMZ Paju
.Icebergs Alistair Morgan
An Ordinary Soldier Gramma Joyce erotic shorts
The Camera and the Cobraerotic shorts
.Substitutes Viet Dinh erotic shorts
The Nursery Kirstein Sundberg erotic shorts
Tell Him About Brother Joe Manuel Munoz erotic shorts
Isabelle’s Daughter Karin Brown erotic shorts
Purple Bamboo Park EV Slate erotic shorts
This is Not Your CityCaitlin Horroks erotic shorts
The Visitor Marisa Silver erotic shorts
.The Bell Ring John Burnside erotic shorts
.The House Behind A Weeping Cherry Ha Jin erotic shorts
. And We Will Be HerePaul Yoon erotic shorts
Uncle Musto Takes A Mistress erotic shorts
.DarknessAndrew Sean Greer erotic shorts
.Kind LE Miller erotic shorts
.The Order of Things Judy Troy erotic shorts
Wildwood Junot Diaz erotic shorts
A Beneficiary Nadine Gordimer erotic shorts
Blasphemy Douglas Preston erotic shorts
.Michael Robinson The Alpha Plague erotic shorts
.The Enigma Stain Nick Thacke erotic shorts
. Captain Bartholomew QuasarMiles James Fowl erotic shorts
.Kill Switch Steve N Lee – did not finish – a bit too violent for my taste
.Second Chances Lincoln Cole Gripping emotional family drama – quite well done
The Alpha Plague Michael Robinson – so so Zombie thriller
Strike Jim Heskett Did not finish
Tech Fall Austin Drago
TS Elliot Complete poems and Plays
Stuart Woods Skin Game – finishedYS Library
.Stuart Woods Desperate Measures
John Grisham The Reckoning YS
.David Poyer Deep Water
.Bill Clinton/James Paterson The President Is Missing
James Elroy This Story
.Lindsay Buroker Star Nomad
.Nick Thacker the Depths
The Green Ghost Johnston Mc Cullety Shadow Justice
Mr Death Takes the Wheel G Wyman Jones Shadow Justice
The Emperor Runs the Gauntlet Charles Lee Jackson Shadow Justice
the Shadow Smith Investigations Owen Fox Jerome Shadow Justice
Fireball Charles Lee Jackson Shadow Justice
the Crimson Mask Scorpion Trail Frank Johnson Shadow Justice
The Reaper City of Thirst William Glass Shadow Justice
The Mask of Cypher fireball adventure Shadow Justice
The emperor Marked for Death Shadow Justice
.Milo James Captain Bartholomew Quasar
.Lincoln Cole Second Chances
.Steve Lee Kill Switch
.Michale Robinson the Alpha Plague
.Micha Caridad Time Trap
.Jim Hesket Strike
.Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
.Ransom Riggs Hollow City
.Ransom Riggs library of Souls
.James Elroy American Tabloid
.James Elroy The Cold Six Thousand
.James Elroy Blood Requiem
.David Poyer Deep Water
.Lindsay Buroker Star Nomad
.Nick Thacker the Depths
Micha Caridad Time Trap
.Minnie’s Diary my poem included the Market Rules Us All
Poetry Explosion News letter – My poem Fears included
.Poets Against the Wall – my poem Take Down this Wall included
.Best American Poetry 2017
.Best American Poetry 2018
.Best American Poetry 2019
Easy Thai
.Fundamentals of Thai Language
.Thai Phrasebook
Scales Fall All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
the Ant Tower All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
Heft All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
the first acolyte of the Upshot All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
Bronwells Dowry All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
the Spider and the Darkness All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
The Dowager’s Largress All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
Therjiac All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
the Red Flame of Death All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
The Blue Breeze All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
The Rakam All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
Arthur Doyle Lost World
Franklin Autobiography
Craig McDonnough Destination Roswell
Clare Littermore FLow
Incheon Travel Guide
Gangnam style Yangchechong Stream
His forbidden touch ten Shades of Sexy
Heaven’s fire ten Shades of Sexy
just Perfect ten Shades of Sexy
the Games ten Shades of Sexy
Taken by the Cowboy ten Shades of Sexy
Lips that Touch Mine ten Shades of Sexy
Justin ten Shades of Sexy
Hidden Crimes ten Shades of Sexy
Trust Me ten Shades of Sexy
Ten Shades of Sexy ten Shades of Sexy
Mathew Mather Dark Net
Austin Dragon Tek Fail
Austin Dragon Liquid Cool
Dean F WIlson Cool Hand Luke
Austin Dragon Hollow Blood
Duncan Simpson Dark Horizon
AJ Ramsey Apocalypse Rise of the Machines
Bobby Adair Freedom Fire
Bobby Adair Slow Burn
Alice May Bell Hot Wife
Robert Peace Scout
Other
Other James Elroy read
The Underworld USA Trilogy
American Tabloid
the Cold Six Thousand
Blood Requiem
LA Quartet
black Dahlia
The Big Nowhere
LA Confidential
To read
Whitman Leaves of Grass
Dickenson Collected Poems
the Wrinkle in Time five volume Series Robert Service Poems (from Alaskan gold rush period) Poetry for dummies
The Poets Companion
Art and Craft of Poetry
Crafting Scenes
Creating Plot
Ben Nyberg One Way to Write Short Stories
James n Frey How to Write Damn Good Novel
Rittenberg Your First Novel
Myeongo’s korean reader
the lion the witch and the ward-row in Spanish and english
Kim Soo Sijo In Korean and English
Robert Collins North Korean Organization and Guidance Department
Robert Collins Denied Human Rights at the Local Level
Courtland Robinson Lost Generation
Federalist Papers
Writers HQ is based in England and is a good writer resource site. They offer lots of free courses and advice. I like their snarky attitude. They are asking for donations as a grant they had counted on dried up. It is a worthy organization to support.
