1001 Books to Read Before You Die List
Cosmos Books Read 2020
RevisedBooks Read 2020
Books read 2019books read during 2018
books read
Cosmos’s Reading List 2021
Goals: 100 Books
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 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:

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
Kevin Young High
Frederick Forsythe Icon
George Elliot The Mill on the Floss (1860),
To Read
Elliot Novels
Adam Bede (1859) read,
The Lifted Veil read
The Mill on the Floss (1860), read
Silas Mariner (1861),
Romola (1862–63),
Felix Holt, the Radical (1866),
Middlemarch (1871–72)
and Daniel Deronda (1876).
Harvard Classics
Poets Companion Finish
Art and Craft of Poetry Finish
Whitman Leaves of Grass
Dickenson Collected Poems
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
Dante in the middle of the road ,
anonymous Egyptian poem only one matchless sister
Issa Morning
Beowulf soon saw
Homer then wide ruling Agamemnon
Homer infinite terror
Homer wars spears
Imr el Quais 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
Anne Waldman excerpt for Lovis 19
William Carlos Williams except for the descent
William Butler Yeats the second coming
Louis Zukofsky in Arizona from 729 songs
The End