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  • Cosmos’s Reading List 2025

    Cosmos’s Reading List 2025

    Cosmos’s Reading List 2025

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    Books Read 2024
    Cosmos Books Read 2021 Update
    1001 Books to Read Before You Die List

    Cosmos Books Read 2020

    Books read 2019

    books read during 2018

    Reading the Clasics Updated

    Cosmos Reading List 2022 Final Updates
    Reading TS Elliot
    Reading G Keith Chesterton

     

    2025 Reading Goals:

    200 books, 2,000 poems, etc total 3,000 to 4,000 books/poems/stories listed numerically and chronologically by month

    Read Classics finish reading books. You Must read series

    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

    While in the States, get books from Little River Turnpike library,DC Library and from the Medford library using the following criteria

    One classic book

    One poetry book

    One Sci-fi book

    One history/politics book

    One current event book

    One thriller

     

    Buy the 2024 best SciFi read in the fall

    Buy the 2024 Best Poetry read in the fall

     

    Re-do Mod Po following Mod Po plus poems

    Start a different poetry course on Coursea

    Start and complete All poetry poetry courses

     

    Alternate between reading Kindle classics, poetry and other books

    I will 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 by bolding.  As I read them, I will add them to the chronological listing below, and also have the Harvard classic.  I had a hard copy set, but donated it, I have to read it on Kindle.  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.

    Numerical Listing

    Note: after reading each book, write a review for Bach’s Reading List and for Goodreads copy to my blog entry and cc Substack, Medium, Wattpad, Fan Story, and Writing.com.

    Then save under Review when posting on the blog post, Zamzar audio clip into the blog piece, and do Spotify and Substack podcasts, later Threads and YouTube vblog starting in the fall

     Before reading ask Co-pilot the following questions

    Please provide a synopsis, list of characters, author bio and list of books by the author, plus literary reputation.   please do not format to make it easier to cut and paste

    The List

     

    Fiction

     

    Cather, Willa: My Ántonia From 50 Books Volume One

    Chopin, Kate: The Awakening From 50 Books Volume One

    Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room. From 50 Books Volume One

    Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie  From 50 Books Volume One

    Janet Evanovich Plum Lucky Camp H library In Progress

    Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg,  the Job – Camp H Library

    Bobby Palmer Isaac and the Egg

    Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones TBC

    Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary TBC  From 50 Books Volume One

    Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education TBC  From 50 Books Volume One

    Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier TBC  From 50 Books Volume One

    Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls TBC  From 50 Books Volume One

    Gorky, Maxim: The Mother TBC  From 50 Books Volume One

    Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow TBC  From 50 Books Volume One

    James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady TBC  From 50 Books Volume One

    JM Baarre  Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) TBC From 50 Books Volume Two

    BM Bower – Cabin Fever  TBC   TBC From 50 Books Volume Two

    Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden TBC  TBC From 50 Books Volume Two

    Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess  TBC  TBC From 50 Books Volume Two

    -Robert William Chambers  The King in Yellow  TBC  TBC From 50 Books Volume Two

    Wilkie Collins  The Woman in White  TBC  TBC From 50 Books Volume Two

    Richard Connell The Most Dangerous Game  TBC  TBC From 50 Books Volume Two

    Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition. TBC  TBC From 50 Books Volume Two

    Margaret Deland The Iron Woman  TBC  TBC From 50 Books Volume Two

    Andrew Lang  The Arabian Nights  TBC  TBC From 50 Books Volume Two

    Michael Proust- Swann’s Way   TBC  TBC From 50 Books Volume Two

    Emerson American Civilization (1862)

    Upton Sinclair It Can’t Happen Here 

    James Rollins Arkangel fairfax library

    Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child The Wheel of Darkness fairfax library

    Kaline Bradley the Ministry of Time fairfax library

    Preston and Child Relic (1995)

    Preston and Child Relic Reliquary (1997)

    Preston and Child Relic The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002)

    Preston and Child Relic The Book of the Dead (2006) 

    Preston and Child Relic The Obsidian Chamber (2016)

    Preston and Child Relic Riptide (1998)

    James Rollins Map of Bones (2005)

    James Rollins Black Order (2006)

    James Rollins The Judas Strain (2007)

    James Rollins The Last Oracle (2008)

    James Rollins The Doomsday Key (2009)

    James Rollins The Devil Colony (2010)

    James Rollins The Eye of God (2013)

    James Rollins The 6th Extinction (2014)

    James Rollins The Bone Labyrinth (2015)

    James Rollins The Seventh Plague (2016)

    James Rollins The Demon Crown (2017)

    James Rollins The Last Odyssey (2020)

    James Rollins Kingdom of Bones (2022)

    James Rollins Arkangel (2024)

    James Rollins Subterranean (1999)

    James Rollins Excavation (2000)

    James Rollins Deep Fathom (2001)

    James Rollins Amazonia (2002) 

    James Rollins Riptide (1998)

    John Connolly and Jenifer Ridyard Conquest Chronicles of the Invasion Medford Library

    John Connolly and Jenifer Ridyard Empire Medford Library

    John Connolly and Jenifer Ridyard  Dominon Medford Library

     

     

    Harlan Corbin Books

     Think Twice (2024)

    🔹 Tell No One (2001)]

    Gone for Good (2002)

    The Innocent (2005)

    The Stranger (2015)

     

    O Henry Stories Medford Library

                                 

    From the four Million

    Gift Of The Magi

    A Cosmopolitan In A Cafe.

    The Skylight Room.

    Man About Town.

    The Love Philtre Of Ikey Schoenstein

    Mammon And The Archer 

    Springtime Ala Carte.

    From The Cabbie Seat.  

    An Unfinished Story.

    The Romance Of A Busy Broker.

    After 20 Years.

    The Furnished Room.

    From Heart of the West

    Hearts And Crosses.

    The Ransom Of Mack.

    Telemachus, Friend .

    Handbook Of Hymen.

    Hygeia At The Solito.

    From the Gentle Grafter

    The Hand That Riles  The World.

    The Exact Science Of Matrimony

    Conscience In Art.

    From Cabbages and Kings

    The Lotus and the bottle.

    Shoes.

    Ships.

    Masters of Arts.

    From Options

    The Rose of Dixie.

    A poor rule.

    On the Sixes and Sevens

     

    The Last Troubadours.

    Makes The Whole World Kin

    Jimmy Hayes And Muriel

    The Adventures Of Shamrock Jolnes.

    From Rolling Stones.

     

    The Friendly Call.

    Sound and fury.

    From the Whirlgigs

    The Theory And The Hound.

    The Ransom Of Red Chief 

    The Whirligig Of Life.

    Have Back Blackjack Order.

    $1.00 Worth

    From the Voice of the City

     

    A Lickpenny Lover.

    Doughtery’ eye Opener.

    The Defeat Of The City.

    The Shocks Of Doom.

    Squaring The Circle.

    The Momento.

    From the Trimmed Lamp

    From the trimmed lamp.

    The Trimmed Lamp 

    Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen.

    The Making Of A New Yorker.

    A Harlem Tragedy.

    The Last Leaf.

    The Count And The Wedding Guest

    From Strictly Business

    .The Robe of Peace.

    A Ramble in Aphasia

    A Night In New Arabia.

    Proof Of The Pudding.

    From Waifes and Strays

     

    Hearts and Hands

     

    Non-Fiction

     

    Declaration of Independence

    Judge Luttridge 27 Principles from the Declaration of Independence

     

    DC Library December 10, 2025

     

    George Stewart Earth Abides

    Joseph Finder The Oligarch’s Daughter

    Ward Larsen Deep Fake

    Robert Charles Wilson Julian Comstock A Story of 20th Century America

     

    Poetry

    Anne Frank

    1. Anne Frank’s Tree
    2. Anne Frank’s Tree

    Entou

    1. Thunder and Lightning
    2. Almost Dead

    Lawrencealot

    1. Throw Away Jay’s Way

    Linda Varsell Smith

    1. Pathway

    Robert Brewer Writers Digest

    1. Robert Lee Brewer – Give Me a Reason Zejel
    2. An Old Hymn Still Singing Zejel

    Elegy

    1. David Romano’s “When Tomorrow Starts With Me”
    2. H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues”
    3. John Milton’s “Lycidas”
    4. Mary Oliver’s “In Blackwater Woods”
    5. Ocean Vuong’s “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”
    6. Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain”

    Haiku

    1. Gypsy Blue Rose – Cows Wander at Night
    2. Zebras Zeal Gallop

    Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century Poetry

    1. Edward Lee Masters – The Hill
    2. Fiddler Jones
    3. Petite The Poet

    Edwin Arlington Robinson

    1. Edwin Arlington Robinson
    2. Miniver Cheevy
    3. Flood’s Party

    James Weldon Johnson

    1. James Weldon Johnson
    2. The Creation

    Paul Laurence Dunbar

    1. The Poet
    2. Life
    3. Life’s Tragedy

    Robert Frost – Mod Po Selection

    1. The Death of the Hired Man
    2. Mending Wall
    3. Birches
    4. Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
    5. Tree in My Window
    6. Directive

    Amy Lowell

    1. Patterns

    Gertrude Stein – Mod Po Selections

    1. Susie Asado
    2. From Tender Buttons – A Box
    3. From Tender Buttons – A Plate

    Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson

    1. I Sit and Sew

    Carl Sandburg

    1. Grass
    2. Cahoots

    Wallace Stevens – Mod Po Selections

    1. Peter Quince at the Clavier
    2. Disillusionment of 10:00
    3. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
    4. The Emperor of Ice Cream
    5. A Mere Being

    Angelina Weld Grimke

    1. Angelina Weld Grimke
    2. Fragment

    William Carlos Williams – Mod Po Selections

    1. Tact
    2. Dance Ruse
    3. The Yachts
    4. From Apostle that Greeny Flower Book 1, Lines 1 to 92

    Sara Teasdale

    1. Moonlight
    2. There Will Come Soft Rains

    Ezra Pound

    1. The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance
    2. The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
    3. In a Station of the Metro
    4. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
    5. From Cantos: 56 Libretto – Yet Ere This Season Died A Cold

    Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) – Mod Po Selections

    1. Sea Rose
    2. Helen
    3. From The Walls Do Not Fall – An Incident Here and There
    4. From Hermeneutic Definition Red Rose and A Beggar – Why Did You Come?
    5. Take Me Anywhere
    6. Venus

    Robinson Jeffers

    1. Gala in April
    2. Shine, Perishing Republic
    3. Clouds at Evening
    4. Credo

    Marianne Moore

    1. Fish
    2. Poetry

    T.S. Eliot

    1. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
    2. The Wasteland

    Claude McKay

    1. If We Must Die
    2. The Harlem Dancer

    Archibald MacLeish

    1. Ars Poetica

    Edna St. Vincent Millay

    1. First Fig
    2. Recuerdo
    3. E. Cummings
    4. In Just-
    5. Buffalo Bill
    6. The Cambridge Ladies Who Lived in Furnished Souls
    7. Next to, Of Course, God, America
    8. Somewhere I’ve Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond
    9. Rpophessagr

    Jean Toomer

    1. Reapers
    2. November Cotton Flower
    3. Portrait in Georgia

    Louise Bogan

    1. Medusa
    2. New Moon

    Melvin B. Tolson

    1. Dark Symphony
    2. From Harlem Gallery: Psi – Black Boys, Let Me Get Up From The White Man’s Table

    Hart Crane

    1. From The Bridge
    2. Poem: To Brooklyn Bridge
    3. From The Bridge – Section XI: Powhatan’s Daughter – The River

    Robert Francis

    1. Silent Poem

    Langston Hughes

    1. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
    2. I, Too, Sing America
    3. Dream Boogie
    4. Harlem

    Countee Cullen

    1. Incident
    2. To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time
    3. Yet Do I Marvel
    4. From The Dark Tower

    Stanley Kunitz

    1. Father and Son
    2. The Portrait
    3. Touch Me
    4. H. Auden
    5. Musée des Beaux arts
    6. Epitaph on a Tyrant

    Theodore Roethke

    1. My Papa’s Waltz
    2. The Waking
    3. In a Dark Time

    Charles Olson

    1. From The Maximus Poems: One – Maximus of Gloucester, To You
    2. The Distances

    Elizabeth Bishop

    1. The Fish
    2. Sestina
    3. First Death in Nova Scotia
    4. Visit to St. Elizabeths
    5. One Art

    Robert Hayden

    1. Middle Passage
    2. Those Winter Sundays
    3. Frederick Douglass

    Muriel Rukeyser

    1. Effort at Speech Between Two People
    2. Then I Saw What the Calling Was
    3. The Poem as Mask

    Delmore Schwartz

    1. The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me

    John Berryman

    1. From The Dream Songs
    2. Feeling Your Compact and Delicious Body
    3. Life, Friends, Is Boring. We Must Not Say So
    4. There Shut Down Once
    5. This World is Gradually Becoming a Place
    6. Henry’s Understanding

    Randall Jarrell

    1. 90 North
    2. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
    3. The Woman at the Washington Zoo
    4. Next Day

    Weldon Kees

    1. To My Daughter

    Dudley Randall

    1. A Different Image

    William Stafford

    1. Traveling through the Dark
    2. At the Bomb Testing Site

    Ruth Stone

    1. Scars

    Margaret Walker

    1. For My People

    Gwendolyn Brooks – Mod Po Selection

    1. The Mother
    2. A Song in the Front Yard
    3. The Bean Eaters
    4. The Lovers of the Poor
    5. We Real Cool
    6. The Blackstone Rangers

    Robert Lowell

    1. To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage
    2. Skunk Hour
    3. For the Union Dead

    Robert Duncan

    1. Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
    2. My Mother Would Be a Falconress

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    1. Populist Manifesto

    William Meredith

    1. Parents

    Howard Nemerov

    1. Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry

    Hayden Carruth

    1. The Hyacinth Gardens in Brooklyn
    2. August 1945

    Richard Wilbur

    1. Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
    2. Cottage Street
    3. The Writer

    James Dickey

    1. The Sheep Child

    Allen Ginsberg

    1. Howl

    Richard Hugo

    1. Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg
    2. The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field
    3. The Poem Unwritten
    4. Cademon
    5. Swan in Falling Snow
    6. Who Is Simpson?
    7. American Poetry

    Carolyn Kizer

    1. A Muse of Water

    Kenneth Koch

    1. Fresh Air

    Maxine Kumin

    1. Morning Swim

    Gerald Stern

    1. Behaving Like a Jew
    2. The Dancing
    3. Another Insane Devotion
    4. R. Ammons
    5. The City Limits
    6. Corsons Inlet

    Robert Bly

    1. Snowfall in the Afternoon
    2. Driving into Town to Mail a Letter
    3. Walking from Sleep

    Robert Creeley

    1. The Flower
    2. I Know a Man
    3. The Language
    4. The Rain
    5. Bresson’s Movies

    John Merrill

    1. Victor Dog
    2. Steps

    Frank O’Hara – New York School

    1. Lana Turner Has Collapsed
    2. The Day Lady Died

    John Ashbery – New York School

    1. Some Trees
    2. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
    3. What Is Poetry?

    Galway Kinnell

    1. The Bear
    2. After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
    3. Saint Francis and the Sow
    4. S. Merwin
    5. Air
    6. For the Anniversary of My Death
    7. Yesterday
    8. Chord

    James Wright

    1. A Blessing
    2. Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
    3. Lying in a Hammock at

    Wes Merwin

    1. Air
    2. For the Anniversary of My Death

     

    1. Yesterday
    2. Chord
    3. A Blessing

     

    1. Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, OH
    2. Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, MN
    3. In Response to the Rumor That Otis Warehouse in Wheeling, WV Has Been Condemned
    4. My Son, My Executioner
    5. Digging
    6. Rowing

     

    1. Orion Planetarium
    2. A Valedictorian Forbidding Mourning
    3. From 21 Love Poems 13 The Rules of Break Like a Thermometer

    Gregory Corsa

    1. Marriage

    Gary Snyder

    1. Hay for the Horses
    2. Riprap
    3. Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout

    Derek Walcott

    1. A Far Cry from Africa
    2. Sea Grapes
    3. Find the Schooner Flight Part 11 After the Storm. There’s a Fresh Light That Follows
    4. The Light of the World
    5. From Omeros Book. 7. 44 I Sing of Quiet, Achilles, Afrolabe’s Son

    Miller Williams

    1. Let Me Tell You

    Etheridge Knight

    1. Idea of Ancestry

    Amira Baraka, Leroy Jones

    1. Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
    2. Agony As Now
    3. SOS
    4. Black Art

    Ted Berrigan

    1. Wrong Rain
    2. A Final Sonnet

    Audre Lorde

    1. Power

    Sonia Sanchez

    1. Poetry at 30

    Mark Strand

    1. The Prediction
    2. The Night, The Porch

    Russell Edson

    1. A Stone Is Nobody’s

    Mary Oliver

    1. Singapore
    2. The Summer Day

    Charles Wright

    1. Reunion
    2. Dead Color
    3. California Dreaming

    Lucille Clifton

    1. Homage to My Hips
    2. At Least at Last We Killed the Roaches
    3. The Death of Fry, Alfred Clifton

    June Jordan

    1. Home About My Rights

    Frederick Seidel

    1. 1968
    2. K. Williams
    3. Find My Window
    4. Blades

    Tony Hoagland

    1. The Mechanic

    Michael S. Harper

    1. Dear John, Dear Coltrane
    2. Last Affair. Bessie’s Blues Song
    3. Grandfather
    4. Nightmare Begins Responsibility

    Charles Simic

    1. Stone
    2. Fork
    3. Classic Ballroom Dances

    Paula Gunn Allen

    1. Grandmother

    Frank Bidart

    1. Ellen West

    Carl Dennis

    1. Spring Letter
    2. Two or Three Wishes

    Stephen Dunn

    1. Allegory of the Cave
    2. Tucson

    Robert Pinsky

    1. History of My Heart
    2. The Questions
    3. Samurai Song

    James Welch

    1. Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat

    Billy Collins

    1. Introduction to Poetry
    2. The Dead

    Toi Derricotte

    1. The Weakness

    Stephen Dobyns

    1. How to Like It?
    2. Lullaby

    Robert Hass

    1. Song
    2. That Photographer?
    3. Return of Robinson Jeffers

    Lyn Hejinian

    1. From My Life: Trim with Colored Ribbons
    2. H. Fairchild
    3. The Machinist Teaching His Daughter to Play the Piano

    Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee)

    1. But He Was Cool or Even Stopped for Green Lights
    2. Upon To Compliment Other Poems

    William Matthews

    1. In Memory of the Utah Stars
    2. The Accompanist

    Sharon Olds

    1. The Language of the Brag
    2. The Lifting

    Henry Taylor

    1. Barbed Wire

    Tess Gallagher

    1. Black, Silver
    2. Under Stars

    Michael Palmer

    1. I Do Not

    James Tate

    1. The Lost Pilot

    Norman Dubie

    1. Elizabeth’s War with the Christmas Bear
    2. The Funeral

    Carol Muske Dukes

    1. August, Los Angeles Lullaby

    Kay Ryan

    1. Turtle
    2. Bestiary

    Larry Levis

    1. Childhood Ideogram
    2. Winter Stars

    Adrian C. Louis

    1. Looking for Judas
    2. How Much Lux?
    3. The People of the Other Village

    Marilyn Nelson

    1. The Ballad of Aunt Geneva
    2. Star Fix

    Ai

    1. Cuba 1963
    2. The Kid
    3. Finished

    Yusef Komunyakaa

    1. Thanks
    2. To Do Street
    3. Facing It
    4. Nude Interrogation

    Nathaniel Mackey

    1. Song of the Andoumboulou

    Gregory Orr

    1. Gathering the Bones Together
    2. Two Lines from the Brother Grimm
    3. Origin of the Marble Forest

    Robert Hill Long

    1. Reaching Yellow River

    Albert Goldbarth

    1. Away

    Heather McHugh

    1. Language Lesson 1976
    2. What He Thought

    Leslie Marmon Silko

    1. In Cold Storm Light

    Olga Broumas

    1. Calypso

    Victor Hernández Cruz

    1. Latin & Soul

    Jane Miller

    1. Miami Heart

    David St. John

    1. Iris
    2. D. Wright
    3. Why Ralph Refuses to Dance
    4. Girlfriend Poem #3
    5. Crescent

    Carolyn Forché

    1. Taking Off My Clothes

    Jorie Graham

    1. San Sepolcro

    Marie Howe

    1. What the Living Do

    Joy Harjo

    1. She Had Some Horses
    2. My House Is the Red Earth

    Garrett Hongo

    1. The Legend

    Andrew Hudgins

    1. Begotten
    2. We Were Simply Talking

    Brigit Pegeen Kelly

    1. Imaging Their Own Hymns
    2. Song

    Paul Muldoon

    1. Meeting the British
    2. Errata
    3. The Throwback

    Judith Ortiz Cofer

    1. Quinceanera

    Rita Dove

    1. Parsley
    2. Daystar
    3. After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed

    Alice Fulton

    1. Our Calling

    Barbara Hamby

    1. Thinking of Galileo
    2. Hatred

    Mark Jarman

    1. Unholy Sonnet

    Naomi Shihab Nye

    1. The Traveling Onion
    2. Arabic
    3. Wedding Cake

    Alberto Ríos

    1. Nani
    2. England Finally Like My Mother Always Said We Would

    Laurie Sheck

    1. Nocturne Blue Waves
    2. The Unfinished

    Gary Soto

    1. Field Poem
    2. Oranges
    3. Black Hair

    Susan Stewart

    1. Yellow Star and Ice
    2. The Forest

    Mark Doty

    1. Brilliance
    2. Esta Noche
    3. Bill’s Story

    Harryette Mullen

    1. Black Nikes

    Franz Wright

    1. Alcohol

    Lorna Dee Cervantes

    1. To My Brother
    2. Love of My Flesh, Living Death

    Sandra Cisneros

    1. My Wicked, Wicked Ways
    2. Little Clowns, My Heart

    Cornelius Eady

    1. Jack Johnson Does the Eagle Rock
    2. Crows in a Strong Wind
    3. I’m a Fool to Love You

    Louise Erdrich

    1. Indian Boarding School: The Runaways

    David Mason

    1. Spooning

    Marilyn Chin

    1. How I Got That Name
    2. Compose Near the Bay Bridge
    3. The Survivor

    Cathy Song

    1. The Youngest Daughter

    Annie Finch

    1. Another Reluctance
    2. Insert

    Li-Young Lee

    1. The Gift
    2. Eating Together

    Carl Phillips

    1. Our Lady
    2. As from a Quiver of Arrows

    Nick Flynn

    1. Bag of Mice
    2. Cartoon Physics

    Elizabeth Alexander

    1. The Venus Hottentot

    Reetika Vazirani

    1. From White Elephants
    2. A Million Balconies
    3. Train Windows

    Sherman Alexie

    1. What the Orphan Inherits
    2. The Powwow at the End of the World

    Natasha Trethewey

    1. Hot Combs
    2. Amateur Fighter
    3. Flounder
    4. E. Stallings
    5. The Tantrum

    Joana Klink

    1. Spare

    Brenda Shaughnessy

    1. Postfeminism
    2. Your One Good Dress

    Kevin Young

    1. Quivira City Limits
    2. Everywhere is Out of Town
    3. Whatever You Want

    Terrance Hayes

    1. At Pegasus
    2. Lady Sings the Blues

    Terrance Hayes

    1. At Pegasus
    2. Lady Sings the Blues

    Pablo Neruda

    1. Viente Poemas De Amor Poems of Love 1924
    2. Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
    3. Cuerpo De Mujer (Body of a Woman)
    4. Ah Vastness of Pines
    5. Leaning Into the Afternoon
    6. Every Day You Play
    7. Thinking, Tingling Shadows
    8. Tonight I Write
    9. Pablo Neruda, “Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines”

    Gypsy Blue Rose

    1. Gypsy Blue Rose Light of the Bright Moon
    2. Gypsy Blue Rose Love Birds
    3. Gypsy Blue Rose I see you dance across life’s stage
    4. Gypsy Blue Rose Adrift Cherita

    Jejeu

    1. Gypsey Blue Rose Over Green Hills a limpid brook flows
    2. Pillow Woman
    3. Steady Breathing warms my Neck
    4. Brian Compton Might I Interject AHD

     

    Judi Van Godner

    Sioux

    1. Mask
    429.               Angel’s Dilemma

    430.               Where Frogs Are

    431.               Garland Seox

    Quin Jejeu Chinese Form

    432.               Ishikawa Jozan Mount Fuji

    433.               Cheng Hao Autumn Moon

    434.               Gyspy Rose BLue

    Waka

    Gyspy Rose blue Geologist

    435.

    Free Verse

    436.               Sierra Scribbler BLISS

    437.               Crookston 2 Daffodil

    438.               Noland Reflections

    Bragi

    439.               Judi Van Gorder Persimmon

    440.               Linda Versa Smith The snowplow heaves snow banks so high

    Lune

    441.               Robert Brewster  Trees Never Wander Lune

    Rondel

    442.               Lady And Louis Two Silver Rings Rondel

    443.               Mountainwriter49 Forever In My Heart Rondel

    Abhanga

    444.               Judi Can Gorder Incomplete Abhanga

    445.               Judi Can Gorder  Magic Moment abhanga

    446.               Rachael the Library is Wwhere Abhanga

    447.               Astrologically Speaking Aghanga

    448.               Tukaram, Words Are The Only Jewels I possess Ahanga

    Writing Com reviews

    449.               Dean Koontz Dragon Tears

    450.                Harlan Ellison“A Boy And His Dog.”

    451.               Fritz Leiber“Spacetime For Springers,”

    452.               Matt Griffin “Schrodinger’s Cat”

    453.                Larry Niven, Rescue Party,

    454.               Azimuth R. Daneel Olivaw

    455.               Roger Zelazny For A Breath I Tarry

    456.                Genesis

    457.                Goethe’s Faust

    458.               E. Housman A Shropshire Lad

    459.                     Keith Laumer“Combat Unit”

    460.                                                           Eregon Proofreading Hell

    461.                                                             Christine B Demonstration of Proof

    462.               Allen Charles A Love Beyond Pain

    463.               Professor Moriatty’s True Confession

    464.               Bobby Lou Steveson Vanwolf

    465.               Beholden Seven

    466.               WD Wilcox Valkyrie

    467.               Kare Enga Pasta Alfredo Please

    468.               Gervic A Hawk’s Gift

    469.               Sumojo Vexatious Valentine

    470.               Cubby on the Road Again, Clinging Hearts

    471.               Peris Throckmortorf Hearts and Darts

    472.               Fye a Simple Blue Note Book

    Manardina

    473.                                                            Lawrencealot – Do All Deceive (Form: Manardina)

    Free Verse

    474.               Kafka The Metamorpousis

    475.               John Gardner Grendel Old English Beowulf

    476.               John Gardner, The Art Of Fiction

    477.                Walt Whitman“Song of Myself.”

    478.                William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow”

    479.                William Carlos Williams’“This Is Just to Say”

    480.               Gwendoly Brooks’ “We Real Cool.”

    481.               TS Elliot the Waste Land

    482.               Sylvia Plath Daddy

    483.               Wallace Stevens Disissluionment of Ten O Clock

    484.               Allen Ginsberg America

    485.               David Ryan Do Not Resuscitate

    Etheree

    486.               Judi Van Gorder Etheree

    487.               Andrea Dietrich Your Wild Awakening

    488.               Andrea Dietrich Anonymous Solitude

    489.               Andrea Dietrich The Lair

    490.               Marie Summer Red Poppy

    491.               Marie Summer Blurred Vision (Double Reversed Etheree)

    492.               Marie Summer Ashen Despair (Double Reversed Etheree)

    Zen Haiku

    493.                ]

    494.               Gypsy Blue Rose at night zen haiku

    495.                Gypsy Blue Rose at the Bay zen Haiku

    Japanese Love Poems

     

    496.                Gypsy Blue Rose When I am Gone Japanese Love Poem

    knitelvers

    497.               Judi Van Gorder How Many Times  Knitelvers

    498.               Larencealot Riskless Investment (Knittelvers)

    499.               EE Cummings 24 Xaipe One Day a Nigger Caught in his Hand

    500.                EE Cummings 48 Xiaipe A kite is the Most Dangerous Machine

    TH Palmer

    501.               TH Palmer  Try Again

    Clerihew

    502.               E Clerihew Bentley Sir Humphrey Davy

    503.               Dan, I Am Taylor Swift

    504.               Alan Mc Alpine Douglas The Road Runner

    505.               James Dean Chase Diana Dalton

    506.               James Dean Chase Corporal Klinger

    507.               Judi Van Gorder  The King Of Pop

    508.               Judi Van Gorder Ms. Amber Heard

    509.               Frank Gibbard  Royal

    510.               Jay O Toole Clerihew Bob Denver

    511.                     James And Marie Summers Garfield The Cat

    512.                     Linda Varsell Smith Supreme Wordster

    513.                   Linda Varsell Smith Electrifying Inventor

     

    Tanka  

    514.                   Princess Nukada I wait for you

    515.                   Takuboku I Shut My Eyes

    516.                   Judi Van Gordner Chill of Soundless Night

    517.                   Dendrobia A cool wind blows in

    518.                   Can Sonmez Subtle hints of spring

    519.                   Cheri L. Ahner Peaceful solitude

    520.                   Ono no Komachi (825-900) Tanka –

    521.                   Ono No Komachi See how the blossoms

    522.                    Tada Chimako

    523.                A Spray of Water: Tanka

    524.                 June Jordan On Time Tanka

    525.                                                           Ono No Komachi The Ink Dark Moon Tanaka

    526.                                                           Mrs. KT Early Spring Rains Thrum

    Other famous poems

     

    527.                John Donne, “The Sun Rising”

    528.                 Emily Dickinson, “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain 

    529.                 Richard Brautigan Gee You’r So Beautiful That is starting to rain

    530.                 Chief Seattle Man Does not weave this web of life he is merely a strand of it What he does to the web, he does to himself

    531.                   Anita Shreve A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.

    532.                   Anita Shreve A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.

    533.                   Benjamin Franklin You may delay, but time will not

    534.                   Bill Keane Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present

    535.                   Geoffrey Chaucer Time and tide wait for no man.

    536.                   Horrace Mann Lost – yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

    537.                     Nora Robert’s Three Fates The past is but a thread in the tapestry of our future

    Mad Cow Pastoral Poem

    538.                     Lawrencealot (December 18, 2014) Waiting for Us

    539.                     John Keats’s Odes to a Nightingale

    540.                     Joyce Kilmer Trees

    541.               Anonymous They Learn What We Live

    542.                Edward Lear’s the Owl and the Pussy Cat

    TS Elliot

    543.               T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock  “   

    Allen Ginsberg

    544.               Allen Ginsberg Howl

    Lune

    545.               Robert Brewster Trees Never Wander Kelly Lune

    546.               Robert Brewster  An Envelope Labeled Collum Lune

    Pantoum

     

    547.               John Ashberry Hotel Lautréamont

    548.               Natalie Diaz My Brother At 3 A.M

    549.               Denrobia Osprey

    550.               Natalie E Illum Curious George Can’t Swim: A Pantoum

    551.               Blass Falconer A Ride in the Rain

    552.               Judi Van Gorder the Wanderer’s Return

    553.               Judi Van Gorder Seamrog

    554.               Judi Van Gorder Hello Goodbye

    555.               Maria Hummel Station

    556.               Kiandra Jimenez Halcyon Kitchen

    557.               Donald Justice Pantoum of the Great Depression

    558.               Chip Liningston Punta Del Este Pantoum

    559.               Hailey Leithauser O, She Says

    560.               Randal Mann Politics

    561.               Randal Mann Pantoum

    562.               Sally Ann Roberts It All Started with a Packet of Seeds

    563.               Clinton Scollard In The Sultan’s Garden

    564.               David Scheider Pins and Needles

    565.               Evie Shockl

    566.               ey Pantoum Landing, 1975

    567.               Linda Vsrsell Smith Our Changing Cosmic Fabric

    568.               Linda Varsell Smith Grandchildren are Rainbow-light

    569.                   Linda Varsell Smith an Eccentric Grandma

    570.                   Linda Varsell Smith Mole Hole Mode

    571.                   Linda Varsell Smith When Saturn Returned

    572.                   Linda Varsell Smith In Gardens of Earthly Delights

    573.                      Linda Varsell Smith Pantoum: Western version of a Malaysian

    574.                     E Stallings Another Lullaby For Insomniacs

    575.                     Marie Summers Celestial Dreams

    576.                     Marie Summers Seasonal Whispers

    577.                     Sasha Steensen Pantoum

    578.                   Chellie Wood Dance In The Rain

    579.                   Robert Lukeman Life – A Marriane Poem

    580.                   Gypsy Rose Blue Billowing Clouds Chain Haiku’

    581.                     Yamanoue no Okura When I eat Mellons Choka

    582.               anonymous They Learn What We Live

    Acrostic 

    583.               Gabriella 2 Masqueraders

    584.               .Dportwood Rejoice in Life

    585.                .Dportwood Boots and Spur

    Funny Poems

    586.               Anne Scott Missing

    587.               Shel Silverstein Messy Room

    588.               My One-Eyed Love” by Andrew Jefferson

    589.               Larry Huggins Doggy Heaven

    590.               Cynthia C. Naspinksi Our Imperfect Dog”

    591.                    Shelby Greer “The Life of a Cupcake”

    592.                    Joanna Fuchs Yes! No!”

    593.                    Cecilia L. Goodbody “Tinkle, Tinkle, Little Car”

    594.                   Robert Lewis Stevenson My Shadow”

    595.                   “I Atte a Chili Pepper” by Barbara Vance

    596.                   Snap, Crackle, Pop” by Catherine Pulsifer

    597.                    Ogden Nash “The People Upstairs”

    598.                   Spike Milligan “Granny”

    599.                    Julie Hebert ” Dessert Last”

    600.                     Richard Leavesley “Belly Button Magic”

    601.                   Anonymous  “Have You Ever Seen”

    602.                    Laura Elizabeth Richards “Ele telephony”

    603.                    Anonymous “Do You Carrot All For Me?”

    604.                     Darren Sardelli “My Doggy Ate My Essay”

    605.                   Jack Prelutsky “Be Glad Your Nose is On Your Face”

    606.                   Gelett Burgess “My Feet”

    607.                     Inna Renko “Home Alone”

    608.                     Nandita Shailesh Shanbhag Not Smart Enough For a Smart Phone”

     

    LImericks

    609.                   Edwar Lear Sit variorum megrim evacuation

    610.                    Unknown There was a young lady of Niger

    611.                   Judi Van Gorder The parrot was messy and loud.

    612.                   Judi Van Gorder An Irishman came to my city

    613.                   Judi Van Gorder In the flick of an eye she went down.

    614.                   Judi Van Gorder There once was a poet called Tinker

    615.                   Limericks I cannot compose,

    616.                    There was a young woman named Bright,

    617.                   There was an odd fellow named Gus,

    618.                   There once was a fly on the wall

    619.                   There once was a man from Tibet,

    620.                   There was a young woman named Bright,

    621.                   I need a front door for my hall,

    622.                   There once was a boy named Dan,

    623.                    A newspaperman named Fling,

    624.                    I know an old owl named Boo,

    625.                   I once fell in love with a blonde,

    626.                   I’d rather have Fingers than Toes,

    627.                   There was a Young Lady whose chin

    628.                   Hickory Dickory Dock,

    629.                   There was a faith healer of Deal

    630.                   My dog is really quite hip,

    631.                   A painter, who lived in Great Britain,

    632.                   There is a young schoolboy named Mason,

    633.                   There was a young schoolboy of Rye,

    634.                   An elderly man called Keith

    635.                   There was an old man of Peru,

    636.                   The Incredible Wizard of Oz,

    637.                    Once I visited France,

    638.                   It goes quickly, you know,

    639.                    Is it me or the nature of money,

    640.                   There once was a farmer from Leeds

    641.                   A fellow jumped off a high wall,

    642.                   A man and his lady-love, Min,

    643.                    There was a young lady of Cork,

    644.                    There once was a Martian called Zed

    645.                   There once was a girl named Sam

    646.                   Said the man with a wink of his eye

    647.                   A wonderful bird is the Pelican.

    648.                   There was once a great man in Japan

    649.                   There was a young man so benighted

    650.                   There was an old man from Sudan,

    651.                    A maiden at college, Miss Breeze,

    652.                    A canner, exceedingly canny,

    653.                    A mouse in her room woke Miss Dowd

    654.                    There was a young woman named Kite,

    655.                   A flea and a fly in a flue,

    656.                    A major, with wonderful force,

    657.                    A nifty young flapper named Jane

    658.                    “There’s a train at 4:04,” said Miss Jenny.

    659.                    A canny young fisher named Fisher

    660.                    Here’s to the chigger,

    661.                   A cheerful old bear at the Zoo

    662.                    The bottle of perfume that Willie sent

    663.                    I bought a new Hoover today,

    664.                    A crossword compiler named Moss

    665.                    I’m papering walls in the loo

    666.                    There once was an old man of Esser,

    667.                    To compose a sonata today,

    668.                    There was a young lady named Perkins,

    669.                    There was an old man of Nantucket

    670.                   There was a young lady of Kent,

    671.                   There was a young lady named Hannah

    672.                    There was a dear lady of Eden,

    673.                    A certain young fellow named Bee-Bee

    674.                    Remember when nearly sixteen

    675.                    There was an old person of Fratto

    676.                    There was a young man from Dealing

    677.                    As 007 walked by

    678.                   A tutor who tooted the flute

    679.                    No woodsman would cut a wood, would he

    680.                    There once was a man from the sticks

    681.                    A poet whose friends called him Steve

    682.                    If you catch a chinchilla in Chile

    683.                    There once was a man named Mauvette

    684.                   There once was a beautiful nurse

    685.                    There was a young girl from Flynn

    686.                There once was a man from Gorem

    687.                Dylan Thomas

    688.               The Hand that Signed the Paper

    689.

    690.                W. H. Auden

    691.

    692.               2

    866666

    693.               8Political Poetry

     

     

    Dylan Thomas, ‘The Hand That Signed the Paper’

    W. H. Auden, ‘Epitaph on a Tyrant’

    Audre Lorde, ‘Power’

    Maxine Kumin, ‘Woodchucks’

    “Bloody Halos and Porcelain Chains”  from “The Lie Within The Line”   [18+] by Jeremy (704)
    “Hidden Bruises”   [E] by Sumojo (759)

    “Run From the Devil”   [18+] by Jayne (1,493)

    “Death’s Spell”   [E] by DMCarroll (66)

    “Light’s Labor Lost”   [E] by ChristineB (99)

    “Motherhood, Lost ”   [13+] by Robin:TheRhymeMaven (211)

     

    Monotetra

     

    Linda Newman Paper Dreams

    Michael Walker An Angel Spoke To Me Today

     

    Allan J Wight A Poet On The Launching Pad

    Robert Brewster No Chance

    Robert Lee Brewer “Waiting for April Showers,”

     

    Jan Turner Spring Eternal

    The Senses of Spring   Jan Turner

    SP Quill Magazine Spring 2006, Vol. #10

    Andrea Ditrich A Summer Alouette

    Judi Can Gorder Month of August

    Linda Varsell Smith Future Possibilities

    Linda Varsell Smith Fourth Dimensional Blueprint

     

    Lune

     

    Robert Brewster Trees Never Wander Kelly Lune

    Robert Brewster  An Envelope Labeled Collum Lune
    71. There once was a man from the city

    694.                   72. There once was a gal from Decatur

    695.                   73. What happens when you retire?

    696.                   74. At times I’m so mad that I’m hopping.

    697.                   75. One Saturday morning at three,

     

    Political Poetry

     

    1.      Dylan Thomas, ‘The Hand That Signed the Paper 

    2.      W. H. Auden, ‘Epitaph on a Tyrant’

    3.      Audre Lorde, ‘Power

    4.      Maxine Kumin, ‘Woodchucks’

    5.
    “Bloody Halos and Porcelain Chains”  from “The Lie Within The Line”   [18+] by Jeremy (704)6.
    “Hidden Bruises”   [E] by Sumojo (759)7.
    “Run From the Devil”   [18+] by Jayne (1,493)8.
    “Death’s Spell”   [E] by DMCarroll (66)9.
    “Light’s Labor Lost”   [E] by ChristineB (99)

    10.
    “Motherhood, Lost ”   [13+] by Robin:TheRhymeMaven (211)

    Monotetra

     

    11. Linda Newman Paper Dreams

    12. Michael Walker An Angel Spoke To Me Today

    13. Allan J Wight A Poet On The Launching Pad

    14. Robert Brewster No Chance

    15. Robert Lee Brewer “Waiting for April Showers,”

    Aloulette

     

    16. Jan Turner Spring Eternal

    17. The Senses of Spring   Jan Turner

    18. SP Quill Magazine Spring 2006, Vol. #10

    19. Andrea Ditrich A Summer Alouette

    20. Judi Can Gorder Month of August

    21. Linda Varsell Smith Future Possibilities

    22. Linda Varsell Smith Fourth Dimensional Blueprint

    Lune

    23. Robert Brewster Trees Never Wander Kelly Lune

    24. Robert Brewster  An Envelope Labeled Collum Lune

     

    Writing com

     

    Capuchine Safety Dance

    Solang Bring Be Careful Out There

    Solang Bring Bermudagrass

     

    Robert Brewer “Semantically Speaking,”

    Robert Brewer  Full Throated

    Donald Justice“There is a gold light in certain old paintings,”

    Edgar Allan Poe The Philosophy of Composition

    Robert Lee Brewer Property

    Robert Lee Brewer What I gained

     

    Pantoum Poems

     

    1. Natalie E Illum Curious George Can’t Swim
    2. Kiandra Jimenez Halcyon Kitchen
    3. Chip Livingston Punta del Este Pantoum
    4. Donald Justice Pantoum
    5. Pantoum of the Great Depression
    6. Natlie Diaz Hotel Lautréamont
    7. Natlie Diaz My Brother at 3 A.M.
    8. Randall Mann Politics
    9. Randall Mann Pantoum Landing 1976
    10. Evie Shockley pantoum: landing, 1976
    11. Sasha Steensen Pantoum
    12. Hailey Leithauser O she Says Pantoum
    13. Randal Mann Politics Pantoum
    14. Blas Falconer Station Pantoum
    15. AE Stallings Another Lullaby for Insomnias
    16. Another Lullaby for Insomniacs
    17. Linda Varsell Smith Mole Hole Mode
    18. Kiandra Jimenez Halcyon Kitchen
    19. Chip Livingston Punta Del Este Pantoum
    20. Donald Justice Pantoum of the Great Depression
    21. Linda Varsell Smith Mole Hole Mode

     

    John Donne, “The Sun Rising”   – Yelling at the sun to go away because his love is more important. Close the curtains, man.

    Emily Dickinson, “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain”   – Emotional distress is a funeral procession inside her head. A great poem worthy of an awkward “Can I, uh, get you a glass of water or something?”

    Pablo Neruda, “Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines”   – This one is a bit meta since he knows he’s being overwrought, claiming his love was so powerful that even the stars shivered in response.

    Richard Brautigan, “Gee, You’re So Beautiful That It’s Starting to Rain”   –

    David Schnider The Art of Presumption  (E)

    Lyrette Form

     

    Anonymous lyrette meta poem

    Gypsy Blue Rose  Sunrise and Sunset Lyrette Poem

    Lawrencealot Our Store circa 1949 (Lyrette)-

     

    Pantoum

    Chain Haiku

     

    Gypsy Rose Blue Billowing Clouds Chain Haiku

    Choka

     

    Yamanoue no Okura When I eat Mellons Choka

    Other famous Poems

     

    Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat”   may seem like whimsical nonsense, but its playful rhymes and surreal imagery also gently mock the seriousness of courtship traditions. Plus, let’s be honest, it takes a bold poet to toss “runcible” around like it meant something.

    T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”   flirts with the absurd by pairing profound existential musings with questions about eating peaches and rolling one’s trousers. A reasonable exploration if one is both profoundly sad and struggling with fruit logistics.

    “Howl” by Allen Ginsberg   uses surreal and absurd imagery to critique societal norms, capitalism, and conformity. Moloch is especially absurd, depicting a monstrous deity that consumes individuality. “Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies!” Nothing like some Lovecraftian capitalism to keep my nightmares consistent

    Richard Brautigan, “Gee, You’re So Beautiful That It’s Starting to Rain”   –
    John Donne, “The Sun Rising”

     Emily Dickinson, “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain”   –

    Pablo Neruda, “Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines” 

    T.S. Eliot Hollow Man

    John Keats Ode to a Nightingale

    Langston Hughes  I, Too

    Langston Hughes Mother To Son  .

    If

    Rudyard Kipling  “Is You?” .
    Rudyard Kipling  IF

     

    Other

     

    Eragon Proofreading Hell

    Christine B Demonstration of Proof

    Jay O Toole Quality Assurance Each Day

         

    Mandarina Form

     

    Lawrencealot – Do All Deceive? December 19, 2014 (Form: Mandarina)

    Tanka

     

    Ono No Komachi The Ink Dark Moon

    David Smith ‘Night Pleasures’

    Dave Scheider Snowflake

    Mrs. Kt Early Spring Rains Thrum

    Dendrobia A cool wind blows in Tanka

    Can Sonmez Subtle hints of spring Tanka

    Cheri Abner Peaceful solitude Tanka

    Ono no Komachi (825-900) Tanka –

    Tada Chikako A Spray of Water:

    June Jordan On Time Tanka –

    Princess Nakada I wait for you

    Takatoku I Shut My Eyes

    Judi Van Gordner Chill of Soundless Night

    Dendrobia A cool wind blows in

    Can Sonmez Subtle hints of spring

    Cheri L. Ahner Peaceful solitude

    Ono no Komachi (825-900) Tanka –

    Ono No Komachi See how the blossoms

    Tada Chikako

    A Spray of Water: Tanka

    June Jordan On Time Tanka

     

     

     

    Marie Summers Celestial Dreams

    Marie Summers Seasonal Whispers

    Sasha Steensen Pantoum

    Chellie Wood Dance In The Rain

     

    Acrostic

     

    Gabriella 2 Masqueraders

    Dportwood Rejoice in Life

    Dportwood Boots and Spurs

     

    Other

     

    Bandit’s Mama City Sorrow About 9-11

    Dr Israel Newman, I Wish

     

    Octain Refrain

    Lawrencealot  Octain Refrain (Abb aca bA)
    Showers Wash the Stars (A bba cab A)
    New Year’s Eve (High Octain) (Abb aca bA Abb aca bA)

    Octain

    Lawrencelot  Octawhat?
    PK Roy Feeling

     

     

    David Schneider Adrift WC Poets Place

     

    Herman Melville Art

    Occhtfochlach

    (Author Unknown) The Ochtfochlach
    Fochlach It (Ochtfochlach)
    © Lawrencealot – December 4, 2013
    Pen Allen Of Allpoetry Sixteen Thirty-Four Door — Double Ochtfochlach

    Alliteration Haiku

     

    Be-Bopping Bluebirds In The Birdbath
    A Banjo Busker’s Ballad Bobbing In The Breeze
    Shooting Star
    Rush Hour In The Rain –
    Beachside Birds
    Long Afternoon

    Japan’s 2011 Shake-Up Octodil
    Wake-Up Call Octodil

    Epistle

     

     Epistles Of St. Paul

    Note To Neighbor:

    Robert Burns Epistle To A Young Friend,

    Horace

    Ovid’s Heroides,

    Alexander Pope’s Moral Essays

    Alexander Pope’s Epistle To Dr. Arbuthnot,

     Elizabeth Bishop’s “Letter To N.Y.,”

     Langston Hughes’s “Letter,”

    Mark Jarman’s  Epistles .

     Bernadette Mayer’s The Desires Of Mothers To Please Others In Letters

    Laynie Browne’s  The Desires Of Letters

    Elana Bell’s Epistolary Poems, Letter To Palestine,”

    Read More Epistolary Poems

    Samuel Daniel Letter From Octavia To Marcus Antonius (1599) In

     Certain Epistles (1601–1603). 

    Ben Jonson The Forest (1616),

    John Dryden Epistles To Congreve (1694)

    Epistles Duchess Of Ormond (1700).

     Alexander Pope Eloisa To Abelard” (1717)

     And Adapted The Horatian Epistle In His Moral Essays (1731–1735) And

     An Epistle To Dr. Arbuhnot (1735).

    1. W. H. Auden/Louis Macneice’s Letters From Iceland (1937).

     Richard Hugo  31 Letters And 13 Dreams (1977). 

    Robert Lowell Elizabeth Hardwick

    Ezra Pound’s Li Po, “The River–Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” (1915).

    Auden’s “Letter To Lord Byron” (1937),

    . Alexander Pope  “Epistle To Dr. Arbuthnot,”

    Stepanie A Cephas  Angel Light (Rhyming) Mirror Sestat Shelley A. Cephas His Pristine Robes (Non-rhyming)

     

    ~ Emily Dickinson There is no Frigate like a Book
    ~ Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death,
    ~ Emily Dickinson Fame is a bee.

     

     

    Stepanie A Cephas  Angel Light (Rhyming) Mirror Sestat Shelley A. Cephas His Pristine Robes (Non-rhyming)

     

     

    Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it’s easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience’s trust.
    -Damon Lindelof

    The more secrets and twists in a character, the better.
    -Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

    Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what’s going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their own, and I always go with the character’s choices. Most of the time I discover plot twists and directions that are better than what I originally had planned.

    -Neal Shusterman

     

     

     

    Edgar Allen Poe The Raven

    Samuel T Colleridge ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by Samuel T. Coleridge
    Louis Mac Niece ‘The Sunlight on the Garden’

    Edgar Allen Poe ‘Lenore’

    Thomas Hood ‘The Double Knock’

    David Scheider Writer Stuff

    David Scheider Footprints in Time

    David Schenider “Snowflake” .

     

    gogyohka

     

    Gypsy Blue Rose Under the blooming Tree

    Gypsy Blue Rose you come over me

     

    2 D acrostic

     

     

    Harambe GO

    Harambe Cat

    Haarambe DOG
    Pookietoo Dog
    Julie GI God

    Harambe Test

    Julie GI Aunt

    Tempste Apes
    Harambe diet by Tempeste hate
    Harry T lead
    Terry Riley love
    Karen Cherry test
    Cupa Tea time
    Harambe PUTIN by Harambe:
    Wils birth
    Tid100 robin

    Lana Marie sport
    Julia Helms steam Terry Reily Trump

    Harambe censor
    gothic by Julie Helms **contest #2 winner**
    Gloria Hamlet

    Terry mother

    Tresischel repose
    Terry Riley scream
    John Cranford spring
    Nicki Nance tears
    Wils Travel
    Lisa May writer

    Helvi 2 Flowers
    Harambe gorilla
    YM Roger magical
    Hrambe weather
    Karen Cherry winning

    Harambe acrostic

    Wils harmonic

    Dragonskulls challenge
    Harambe Democrats by Harambe

    Harambe Republicans

     

    Solage

     

     

    1. Kathryn Abel It’s so cold
    2. Kathryn Abel Don’t Understand Cricket
    3. Kathryn Abel A Man Without Care
    4. Kathryn Abel Wrote a Line
    5. Kathryn Abel Soaring Too High
    6. David Schenider October Charm

    Silly Solage

    September 5, 201518

    I’m a little late with poetry Friday this week… but here ’tis. A quick-grab how-to on the fabulously fun solage. For those of you who like a joke – or know some kids who do.

     

    Foodie one:

    Soaring so high
    my pie in the sky.
    Plomp!

    “October’s Charm”

     

     

    Cherita [b. 22 June 1997]
    Gembun [b. 12 June 1997]
    Dua [b. 4 March 2022]

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    i get lost again
    cherita 96
    edited by ai li

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    blue sky
    dua anthology 13
    edited by ai li

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    updates on all forthcoming dua and gembun anthologies
    and our exciting the cherita award

     

    For those of you who missed reading ai li’s essay i, storyteller on Cherita, Gembun and Dua on Rhyvers and viewing her You Tube Cherita video interview for The Wise Owl by Neena Singh, for their special issue on Cherita, here are both links again below.

    Here are ai li’s You Tube interview link : www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnGmkKKQvqo
    and the link for her essay i, storyteller on Cherita, Gembun and Dua
    rhyvers.com/hk22/

    The full transcripts for both can be found on www.thecherita.com/lectures/ as well on the Rhyvers and The Wise Owl’s websites.

    There are now over 4300 views for my Rhyvers essay on Cherita, Gembun and Dua, which appeared on 16 September 2023, with 2600 views the last time I looked, for my You Tube video Cherita interview, which appeared on 30 September 2023, and which The Wise Owl’s Editor Rachna Singh called ‘insightful’.

     

    It is almost a year since I visited Thimphu, Punakha, Gantey, Bumthang and Paro in the Kingdom of Bhutan. I still feel that I left a part of me behind as residual energy, dancing with genius loci under a tall Indian silk tree.

    How can I forget struggling to get out of bed at the unearthly hour of 2 am to catch our only flight of the day from New Delhi to Paro. Paro airport is one of the most dangerous airports of the world akin to Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport which closed in 1998. It is located between Himalayan peaks and deep valleys and rely on only a limited number of highly skilled pilots who are certified to land, particularly in atrocious weather, as they mainly rely on landmarks to land due to limited radar capabilities.

    Our amazing Drukair pilots not only got us safely there and back, but gifted us with the jewel of a dawn, and our very first glimpse of Everest on our side of the aircraft. The early morning light was perfect and the flight turbulence free. Saying that it was a spiritual moment for me is an understatement.

    my first view, from my window seat, of Sagarmartha [the peak of heaven], its Sanskrit name

    Everest holds a special place in my consciousness. My younger nephew David led the very first Singapore expedition to Everest in 1998, and is the author of several motivational books. Shortly after his momentous expedition, he was in a coma for almost two years with Guillain-Barré syndrome. I remember him mentioning to me that he believed he had contracted GBS in Katmandu. His immune system attacked his peripheral nervous system which caused his paralysis and muscle weakness from this rare neurological disorder. If memory serves, he was only able to communicate with his parents with his eye movements.

    After his long recovery, he returned to his love of mountaineering and led over 15 more expeditions though disabled in one lower leg from GBS. What he has been through, and the way he re-started both his personal and professional life still leaves me in awe of the indomitability of the human spirit.

    One Bhutanese individual also came to mind as I’m writing this month’s newsletter.

    In one of the major draughty Paro monasteries, a child monk was bent over his small desk repeating his sutras. I was fully cocooned in fleece from the cold when I saw him with just his prayer robe on. I felt his aloneness. I went over quietly and asked him what he missed most from, and, of home. He looked up at me, and in perfect English, replied that what he missed most was his grandmother cooking her homemade sausages for him every morning for breakfast. We then shared a moment of silent understanding before I apologised for disturbing him, thanked him for speaking with us, and left him to return to his prayers. On my way out of the monastery, I turned around briefly to mentally wish him a long life of learning, freedom from too much suffering, with a hope that his family, particularly his grandmother, would one day be even more proud of him when he emerges as a compassionate and adult Buddhist monk.

    It was only when I returned to our lodge and sat by our clear pristine stream under an impossibly clear blue sky that I remembered I had forgotten to ask his name.

    I have always believed that Hope finds us, when and if, we really need it most.

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    February 2025 sees the launch of i get lost again, cherita 96 and blue sky, dua Anthology 13.

    There are now 96 anthologies of the cherita, and are available on Amazon in paperback and kindle, along with 17 Gembun Anthologies, and 13 Dua Anthologies, with more coming your way.

    www.thecherita.com/bookshop/

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    i get lost again is our 96th book in the cherita series of storytelling books, with 90 virgin cherita of more timeless stories to hopefully inspire our readers and poets to join our caravanserai of storytellers.

    i get lost again showcases 90 fine cherita and cherita terbalik from writers and poets who hail from UK, USA, Singapore, India, Canada and Germany.

    i get lost again, currently 96th on the list, belongs to the ongoing the cherita series, as do my personal ongoing writing in one breath series of virgin Cherita, Cherita and Tanka, Cherita and Haiku, and Cherita, Tanka and Haiku books, and lastly my poems for inner rooms series with its 18 Tanka and Haiku books. All these books are available in paperback and kindle on Amazon.

    Two of my own books of virgin Gembun, the weight of rain and blank screen, and my two books of Dua, the journey east and dancing shoes, and now arriving nowhere, my first cherita, gembun and dua book, have all been added to my writing in one breath series.

    I have edited this book as I have all the other anthologies of the cherita, to be experienced two ways. It can be read as one storybook but also as an anthology of individual poems. Two reading experiences within one book, filled with stories of Life, Love, Loss and Renewal.

    cherita terbalik continues to capture the imagination of poets and there are again fine examples in this edition.

    Featured Poets as they appear in this anthology :-

    ai li/ Joanna Ashwell/ Barun Saha/ Ceri Marriott/ Jan Stretch/ Neena Singh/ Partha Sarkar/ Biswajit Mishra/ C.X. Turner/ Barun Saha/ Daniel W. Brown/ Teri Messmer/ Vidya Premkumar/ Nolcha Mir Fox/ Lisa Ann Sparaco/ Taura Scott/ Ram Chandran/ john zheng/ Isabella Kramer/ Larry Kimmel/ Laughing waters/ Sigrid Saradunn/ Lee Hudspeth/

    Six sample virgin Cherita from this anthology :-

    young windows
    paint the wall
    with summer

    an old ceiling
    hanging
    beyond sight

    Barun Saha

    *

    from my deck chair
    the softening
    colours of the sky

    the stillness of the air

    the peace
    I wish for all

    Jan Stretch

    *

    fallen blossoms

    I pause
    to listen
    for the echo

    of familiar
    footsteps

    Neena Singh

    *

    my collection
    of designer sunglasses

    now retirees

    trying
    to remember
    the sun

    ai li

    *

    floating
    like mist across the bridge

    from her world
    to mine
    we touch

    but only briefly

    C.X. Turner

    *

    this morning
    rain

    on the field

    breathe in, breathe out
    the duet
    of existence

    Daniel W. Brown


    the cherita lighthouse     has been awarded to the following writers and poets in this anthology for their timeless Cherita :

    Jan Stretch/ Neena Singh/ C.X. Turner/ Daniel W. Brown/ Teri Messmer/ Partha Sarkar/ Isabella Kramer/

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    blue sky is our dua anthology 13, and it appears alongside i get lost again this month.

    https://www.thecherita.com/dua-bookshop/

    blue sky, our 13th Dua Anthology with 90 virgin Dua poems, has attracted writers and poets from UK, USA, Singapore, Germany, India and Canada.

    I would like to thank all the contributing poets and writers for their patience and hope they will find blue sky a worthy read.

    Featured Poets as they appear in this edition:

    Pitt Büerken/ Prashanth V/ Ceri Marriott/ ai li/ Richa Sharma/ Vidya Premkumar/ Bryan Rickert/ Jan Stretch/ Allison Douglas-Tourner/ Karina Klesko/ nivy/ Partha Sarkar/

     

    A dua bella has been awarded to the following writers and poets in this edition :

    Vidya Premkumar/ Pitt Büerken/ Partha Sarkar/ Allison Douglas-Tourner/ nivy/ Jan Stretch/

    Six sample virgin dua from this anthology :-

    dipped a toe in the river

    now part of the sea

    Jan Stretch

    *

    rainbow-coloured

    the smallest umbrella

    Richa Sharma

    *

    a lake

    that autumn colours

    ai li

    *

    a rendezvous

    with his scent

    Karina Klesko

    nursery

    a bud calls out

    nivy

    *

    the writing on the wall,

    was it always there?

    Ceri Marriott

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    This is the March update on the cherita award :

    Someone asked me the other day what a cherita lighthouse was.

     

    These are timeless pieces of cherita that resonate with me, and hopefully with our readers as well, was my answer, and which are worthy of a special award which the cherita lighthouse, as well as a gem and dua bella are, for gembun and dua respectively. These are pieces that can be read in your mind or aloud.

    Here are six beautiful virgin Cherita which I awarded the Lighthouse awards to from home for the wind, dream journal and wondering where, three titles from our cherita anthologies collection, to hopefully inspire and guide you to the many possibilities possible with my storytelling genre in 6 lines.

    If anyone is seriously considering writing Cherita well, my advice is for you to get hold of a copy of either one or both of our Cherita Award books or any of my own books which will help as reference guides for widening the storytelling scope for creating timeless Cherita.

    I hope this cherita will further inspire you, should you decide to submit your virgin cherita for the cherita award? We also now have Joanna Ashwell and Ceri Marriott, our first two Cherita Award recipients, with River Lanterns and soiree, their respective books. Who will be our next Cherita Award poet?

    dandelion
    wish
    hides

    in a spider web
    waiting

    to be blown away

    Pat Geyer
    from home for the wind
    the cherita

    *

    unfettered

    I let
    myself go

    a red kite’s wings
    measure the width
    of this loneliness

    Debbie Strange
    from home for the wind
    the cherita

    *


    a way out

    perhaps
    or is this

    another sliding door
    where time jars
    between a dream

    Joanna Ashwell
    from dream journal
    the cherita

    *

    the butterfly

    in me
    in you

    let’s see
    where . . .
    the breeze takes us

    Caroline Skanne
    from dream journal
    the cherita

    *

    this time again

    I prepare my mind
    to study harder

    but then
    my eyes fell on the world outside,
    playing with the wind

    Muskaan Ahuja
    from wondering where
    the cherita

    *

    searching
    for an apple

    to curl up in

    and
    give birth
    to the rain

    Réka Nyitrai
    from wondering where
    the cherita

    For all new entrants, please be aware that fewer words in your cherita are always more, and to not repeat a subject matter often, unless of course you are able to come to it from a very different angle or perspective, rendering it anew. You want your portfolio to be one of timelessness and wonder, and to avoid a sameyness of subject matter which would inevitably make your portfolio bland and yawn inducing.

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    Here’s March 2025’s update on the forthcoming Gembun Anthologies 18-20:

    With a bit of luck, Anthology 18 should be the next anthology to appear soon.

    Anthology 19 is very nearly there with just a few spots left to fill.

    Meanwhile, Anthology 20 is filling up with your timeless gembun.

    Do please keep sending in your wonderful gembun stories but be aware that I do not read simultaneous submissions. Please do not send in work you have submitted elsewhere.

    The Gembun Anthologies 1 – 17 [snow clouds, evening, paper talisman, windswept rain, deepening night, the old, white flowers, coming home, bedtime story, rain song, ice storm, belonging, the water, dancing silhouette, empty bottles, i remember and just before dark] are now available on Amazon in paperback and kindle, thanks to all your amazing enthusiasm and strong faith for, and in this genre.

    Careful collating and editing are crucial for each anthology, for it to be a timeless work of short stories in the gembun format.

    Meanwhile, if you have written gembun that you consider to be special, please do not hesitate to send them in.

    Full details on the link below if you have not, as yet, sent in your Gembun/Gembun Terbalik for consideration.

    www.thecherita.com/gembun-anthos/

    Fine examples by Larry Kimmel, Joanna Ashwell and myself can be found, along with Gembun’s original guidelines on my personal website www.aili.co.uk/gembun/

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    Here too, is March 2025’s update on the other forthcoming Dua Anthologies 14-16 :

    Anthology 14 is now complete and wating for me to give it a  final proof reading.

    Anthology 15 is very nearly there.

    Meanwhile Anthology 16 is steadily filling up with more and more of with your timeless dua.

    Writing good Dua requires a different mental discipline to Gembun and Cherita but it can be just as good a workout for our brain cells. Your storytelling skills are kept honed when you write all these three unique short form poetry genres. Seriously though, can we resist a challenge to tell our stories in a timeless fashion? I know I can’t. All these three genres challenge me to become a better storyteller in 6, 4 and 2 lines.

    All Dua Anthologies 1 – 13 [remembering, I know the way, the light dying, the rain, something rare, all is dark, listening to the ocean, no longer sky, home in rain wildflowers were here, in the room, hammock afternoon and blue sky] are now available on Amazon in paperback and kindle, thanks to all your faith in Dua and your creative flair for telling stories even more minimally than Cherita and Gembun.

    Tough editing is essential for each anthology, for it to be a strong and timeless book of minimal stories in the dua format.

    You will find full info for this dua and its guidelines on www.thecherita.com/dua
    and on www.aili.co.uk/dua

    If you have written dua that you consider to be special, please do not hesitate to send them in stories but be aware that I do not read simultaneous submissions. Please do not send in work you have submitted elsewhere.

    Full details on the link below if you have not, as yet, sent in your Dua for consideration.

    www.thecherita.com/dua

    Fine examples by ai li can be found, along with Dua’s original guidelines on my personal website www.aili.co.uk

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    NEW SUBMISSION GUIDELINES JANUARY 2025

    Please can you now submit all of your submissions in Arial 11 font size, left justified with no italics, and also use our standard submission email for all our genres. This will be in effect as of now.

    You will still be required to fill in your hometown/city and country with all submissions [this info is for our files] but only your country will be published in our books from this edition onwards. This will help speed up my proof reading.

    There are also no longer any deadlines for submissions which are now on an ongoing basis.

    Edition # 8.7 will be the last book numbered this way. From January 2025, all our books will be simply numbered, starting with Cherita 94, Cherita 95, Cherita 96 and so forth. This new numbering style will be incorporated in all the acceptance letters.

    from sandalwood dreaming by ai li

     

    rain
    has come

    to
    my night
    i step into

    the mirror

     

    ai li
    from sandalwood dreaming by ai li

     

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    ai li

    CHERITA [1 — 2 — 3]
    [pronounced CHAIR-rita]

     

     

    temple bell

    through fog
    dawn

    is still
    a
    haunting away

    from paper flowers by ai li

     

     

     

    General Information on the Gembun and Dua Anthologies

    All our anthologies have 90 poems within.

    In the next few months or so, I will endeavour to launch the finished anthologies which I hope to launch alternating with the dua anthologies, where possible, as you have all been saints with your inspirational patience.

    I would also like to profusely thank all the poets whose gembun and dua have been selected for the forthcoming anthologies for being so patient.

    My wish, as I have indicated before, is for the both Anthologies to become a fluid and ongoing series for showcasing the best of the Gembun and Dua genres with the gems from your writing. That has not changed.

    Gembun and Cherita share the same year of birth and hopefully they will continue to celebrate storytelling with Life, Love, Loss and Renewal into and beyond their third decade.

    Dua may not have been around as long as Gembun and Cherita, but it is part and parcel of a storytelling trio which perpetuates the stories of Life, Love, Loss and Renewal.

     

    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”

    Mother Teresa

     

    Stephen King “The secret about writing, is sit down and write.”

     

    Other

     

    Robert Lee Brewer “Comfort Killers,”

    Robert Lee Brewer “summer song,

     

    Gypsy Blue Rose Today

     

    Solage

     

     

    1. Kathryn Abel It’s so cold
    2. Kathryn Abel Don’t Understand Cricket
    3. Kathryn Abel A Man Without Care
    4. Kathryn Abel Wrote a Line
    5. Kathryn Abel Soaring Too High
    6. David Schenider October Charm

     

    Oddquain

     

    Cynthia Kay ArmstrongAutumn Cynthia Kay Armstrong Hope Cynthia Kay Armstrong Cards Cynthia Kay ArmstrongGlenda L. Hand Change of Seasons (Mirror Oddquain)Glenda L. Hand Celebration (Butterfly Oddquain)Glenda L. Hand At Last I’ve Let Go (Crown Oddquain)

    Claire Litchfield  Glad
    Linda Smith Tidbits Seen Through a Window

    Linda Smith Nnibble Dove dark chocolate

    JVG They Keep Coming

    Gypsy Rose Blue A rose represents

    Gypsy Rose Blue wilted rose bouquet

    Gypsy Rose Blue roses stand erect

     

    Gypsy Blue Rose under the blooming tree TWO GOGYOHKA EXAMPLE

    Gypsy Blue Rose you come over me
    Gypsy Blue Rose Roses stand erect

    Lawrencealot A piaku
    C.W. Bryan a piaku-

    Gypsy Blue Rose Today

    Stephanie Abney New Born La Pensee
    Stephanie Abney Grandkids La pense

    Stephanie Abney Freedom

    Stephene Abney Ice Cream

     

    Eric Golner Rick form creator’s example

    Lawrencealot Captive Form Rick’s 32

     

    John Barr the south China Sea

    John Baar Gloria Visits the Fry House

    John Baar Chant for a Hurricane

     

    Lee-jae-Young From Blossoms

    Rictameter

     

     

    Jason Wilkins Beauty

    Jason Wilkins Satin

    Aubrey Steedman Childhood

    Judi Van Gorder Listening

    Judi Van Gorder Memo To Hotshot

     

    Qoute  “The secret about writing, is sit down and write.” – Stephen King

    Memento

     

    Emily Romano Gardening The Rose*

    Jan Turner  *Commemorating The Holiday Of Roses

    Graduation By Judi Van Gorder
    Holiday At Low Tide By Judi Van Gorder

     

    Payar

     

    Judi Van Gorder Temptation
    Lawrencealot Non Pro Se (Form: Payar) –

     

    7-7-7-7

     

    Gypsy Blue Rose Love the Black Widow Spider

     

    Gypsy Blue Rose Today I Wrote a Love Poem for You

    Cinquin

     

    Jeanne Cassir’s First Visit to the Ocean

    Quotes

    Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.~~Robert Frost

    Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity — it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.~~John Keats

    Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.~~Carl Sandburg

    Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.~~Plutarch

    With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.~~Edgar Allan Poe

    If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.~~David Carradine

    To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.~~Octavio Paz

    Stephen King “The secret about writing, is sit down and write.”

     

    Nove Otto

     

    Scott J. Alcorn Canebrake WhispersScott J. Alcorn Caribbean Nights

    Tybun

     

    Marion Gibson  Sowing tyburn

    Japanese haiku:

     

    Bachao Old pond

    Gypsy Blue Rose Sunday morning light
    Lawrencealot We Missed the Dance

     

    Rictameter

    Jason Wilkins Beauty

    Jason Wilkins Satin

    Aubrey Steedman Childhood

    Judi Van Gorder Listening

    Judi Van Gorder Memo To Hotshot

     

    Robert Brewer

     

    Robert Brewer Better yet

    Robert Brewer AI Did Not Write This Poem

    1.    Robert Lee Brewer The Last Thing

     

    Anonymous She left the porch light on.
    Maya Angelo Still I RiseRobert Frost ~ Fire and Ice Rudyard Kipling If

    Lai

     

    Mike Montreuil March 2026

    Judi Van Gorder Aliens

     

    The Perseids
    Crowning a Fairy
    Staying In

     

    Trimeric Poem

     

    Robert Lee Brewer About Superheroes,

    Judi Van Gorder Customer Service

    Alan J Wright Inkblock

    Linda Versa Smith Crows and Ravens

     

    1st Place ~ “Gone Things”  by

    2nd Place ~ “Lost in One’s Own Mind”  by

    3rd Place ~ “Crossing Sevens”  by

    HM ~ “Pad Thai ผัดไทย”   by  (941)

    HM ~ “Taps For Claire”   by  (3,180)

    HM ~ “Hello Memories — Goodbye, Immutable ”  by

     

    Acrostic monorhyme

     

    Bianca More for the fun, than for the need

     

    La Pensee

     

     Stephanie Abney New Born
    Stephanie Abbey Grandkids

    Stephanie Abbie Freedom

    Stephanie Abbey Ice Cream

     

     

    Fan Story Review

    Tikok Poem: The Moon Rises Slowly Above The Still Sea

     

     

    Epic Epitat

     

    Merv Griffin: “I Will Not Be Right Back After This Message.”
    John Yeast: “Here Lies Johnny Yeast. Pardon Me For Not Rising.”
    Jane Doe: “Just Close Your Eyes And You Will See

     

    Sparrowlet

     

    Judi Van Gorder Lets Talk

    Ron Rowland Facing The Storm

    Katheen Sparrow Deer In Winter

     

     

     

    Estonian Haiku

    Jürgen Rooste Nordic Walk

     

    Author unknown, In complete darkness we are all the same.

     

    JD Gorder Dance with Wind

    Linda Versa Smith new techno gizmos

     

     

     

    Cascade

     

    Judi Van Gorder Vote
    Udit Bhatia  Cascade Poem

    Cascade Anxious Inquiry

     

    Quotes to Ponder

    Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.~~Neale Donald Walsh

    If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.~~John C. Maxwell

    You will never improve in life if you’re always living on easy street. Strength and progress can be gained if only you just step outside of your comfort zone.~~Dee Waldeck

    Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it.~~Kyra Davis

    As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.~~Robin Sharma

    If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.~~Thomas Jefferson

    Quotes to Ponder

    Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.~~Neale Donald Walsh

    If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.~~John C. Maxwell

    You will never improve in life if you’re always living on easy street. Strength and progress can be gained if only you just step outside of your comfort zone.~~Dee Waldeck

    Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it.~~Kyra Davis

    As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.~~Robin Sharma

    If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.~~Thomas Jefferson

     

    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

    1. At Christmas, all roads lead home.~~Marjorie Holmes“It’s not what’s under the Christmas tree that matters, it’s who’s around it.~~Charlie BrownChristmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.~~Dr. Seuss

     

     

    Lotus Tasseri  Scribblings

    Lancelot Backyard

    Fan Story review

     

    1. Annoymous be here for a while
    2. Annoymous beautiful butterflies
    3. John Crawford My Wee Abode
    4. Pearl Edwards Nature’s Recycler’s
    5. Evelinne a Fan Story Halloween
    6. Cecilia A Heiskary Ghoul’s Night Out
    7. Rama Devi Meditation
    8. Cecilia Hesikary
    9. Private Face
    10. Debbie D’Arcy Mary Shelley
    11. Debbie D’Arcy Lord Bryon
    12. Debbie D’Arcy Volodymyr Zelensky
    13. Karen Cherry Common Sense for Seniors 337-348
    14. Rick Gardner Innocent of Guilty
    15. Harry Craft A Kangaroo from Baraboo
    16. Nicki B Robin Williams
    17. Harry Craft, the Cell Phone
    18. Estory In this Autumn Time
    19. Cecilia a Heiskary Watcher at the Window
    20. Cecilia A Heiskary Panda
    21. Janet Foor God’s Back Yard
    22. Mrs Anna Howard: Difficult Decisions
    23. Harambe iz ur Daddy rejected
    24. Sally Law, Blood Moon and Blood Rain
    25. Robert Lukeman Life – A Marriane Poem
    26. Pam Lonsdale Descent
    27. Kentucky Sweet Pea My Dogma
      Debbie Pick Marquette Thelma and Louise
    28. Debbie Pick Marquette Finding the Bright Side
    29. Debbie Pick Marquette March
    30. Debi Pick Marquette My Bedroom Window
    31. Debi Pick Marquette, Happy St Patrick’s Day
    32. Debbie Pick Marquette The Need to Share
    33. Nancy Jam Love in the w
    34. jacquelyn popp Mom’s Love
    35. Jaquelyn Poop Living the Dream, No Thank You
    36. Iraven Prayers for Eva
    37. Pam Respa Humanity
    38. Pam Respa, Renowned Violinist
    39. Pamusart I am Helpless
    40. Pamusart Colorful world
    41. Pamusart the Kidnapping
    42. Pamusart the Kidnapping Chapter Two
    43. Pamusart Sturdy Roots
    44. Pamusart Your Golden Aura
    45. Pamusart The Sword
    46. Pamusart The Planet Earth
    47. Barry Penfold Slow Dance with You
    48. Pam Respa Humanity
    49. Sanku the Woods
    50. Stacy MS Vanishing Points
    51. YM Roger Always For Now
    52. Fan Story Review
    53. Debbie D’ Arcy Bee Gees
    54. Debbie D’Arcy Shotgun Willie Nelson
    55. Janet Floor Daybreak
    56. Anna Howard How to Move On
    57. Nicki Nance Emotional Support
    58. Pamusart On Finding Peace
    59. Pamusart Jean Marie Lane
    60. Pamusart the Empty Notebook
    61. Winter Bard Ode to Night
    62. Rachael Allen Proud to Be His Daugther
    63. Rick Gardner Wishes to Have
    64. Cecilia A Heiskary Sumatran Orangutan
    65. Cecilia A Heiskary Guiana Red-Face Monkey
    66. Dolly’s Poems the Witching Hour
    67. Kapot Swimming in Pain
    68. Debbie Pick Marquette Men are From Mars, Women from Venus
    69. Miss Merrie This Love
    70. Nancyjam the meadow
    71. Gypsy Blue Rose Billowing Clouds
    72. Pamusart The Kidnapping Chapter 3
    73. Tea for Two It was the Shoes
    74. Tea for Two Wordsmiths with Big Faces
    75. Anonymous Today
    76. Anonymous Cougar on the Prowl
    77. Anonymous Cougar on the Prowl
    78. Debbie D’Arcy Mary Shelley
    79. Cecilia, a Heiskary Watcher at the Window
    80. Cecilia Heiskary Janguars
    81. Cecilia A Heiskary Insane
    82. Anonymous I am Fire
    83. Anonymous Ode to My Scrunchies
    84. Anonymous Wildfire Naani
    85. Anonymous – A Tick A Tock
    86. Anonymous – To Shelter Feathered Songs
    87. Anonymous Even the Odds contest Carl Sanberg
    88. Anonymous Nonesense
    89. Anonymous Female Strength in Nature
    90. Anonymous Loon
    91. Anonymous – Owl on the Hunt
    92. Anonymous the Wild Side
    93. Patrick Bernady Her Rage
    94. Jamison Brown Before the Wind Calls
    95. lJbutterfly Prayer for Debbie Pick Marquette
    96. Debbie D’Arcy Anne Frank
    97. Debie D’arcy James Baldwin
    98. Debbie D’Arcy – Jimmy Carter
    99. Harry Craft I Was a Spy
    100. Harry Craft What Happened to the Word Groovy
    101. Harry Craft What Does Freedom Mean to You?
    102. Harry Craft – Peace
    103. John Crawford Rudyard Kipling
    104. Donald Saacca Forever friends
    105. Donaldandvicki – Tender Trap
    106. Rick Gardner the Sun, the Desert, the One
    107. Douglas Goff – Perspective
    108. Dolly Poems Granite Island
    109. Elias Noor The Whispher of Time
    110. Finback Never
    111. Finback When Shadows Creep
    112. Gypsey Rose Blue Gardens of Delight
    113. Cecilia a Heikary Bobcat
    114. Cecila Heiskary – Brown Bear
    115. Cecilia A Hiskary Horses
    116. Ceclia A Heiskary The Magic
    117. Cecilia A Heiskary – Night Life
    118. Cecila Heiskary – Snow
    119. Christy 710 – Happy New Year from Aus
    120. Marylyn Hamilton Darkness Descends
    121. Marylyn Hamilton He Waits
    122. Marylyn Hamilton Winging It
    123. Tom Hormoz A Griever’s Prayer
    124. Tom Horonzy Rumpelstilskin Unleashed
    125. Kaput howling at Moon Haiku
    126. Kt Silent Dancers
    127. KT Shades of Blue –
    128. Mrs KTEnding Pain’s Servitude
    129. 5 fish JM Jenca
    130. Debbie Pick Marquette Believe in Miracles
    131. Debi Pick Marquette My Cornea Disease
    132. Debbie Pick Marquette – Keeping Gypsy in Prayers
    133. Debbie Pick Marquette – My Lifetime
    134. Debbie Pick Marquette Romance on the Beach
    135. Me and Erin G – Long Gone Away
    136. Lana Marie Hairy Nipple
    137. Paul McFarland January
    138. JUMBO 1 Shame
    139. Pam (respa) Black History Month
    140. Tea for Two Eclectic Wordsmiths
    141. Ean Black I Write
    142. Richard Frohm Dreams
    143. KiwiSteveh Sudden Tears
    144. Lana Marie The Dash Between
    145. Pamusart – The Kirby Part 1
    146. Pamusart – The Kirby Part 2
    147. Pamusart – The Kirby Part 3
    148. Pamusart – The Kirby Part 4
    149. Pamusart – The Kirby Case Part 5
    150. Pamusart – The Kirby Case Part 6
    151. Pamusart – The Kirby Case Part 7
    152. Pamusart – The Kirby Case Part 8
    153. Pamusart Rembering the Past
    154. Pamusart Old Man at the River
    155. Pamusart The Great Apes
    156. Pamusart cooing doves
    157. Pamusart Exploding Star
    158. Pamusart Purple Flowers Wake
    159. Pamusart the Search
    160. Pamusart On Finding Peace
    161. Pamusart Jean Marie Lane
    162. Pamusart the cavesweet
    163. Pamusart Independence
    164. Pamusart the Broken Man
    165. Lea Tonin – Famitree Flames
    166. Lea Tonin1 – Humiston
    167. Lea Toni1 – Mansion
    168. Lea Toni1 – The Meet
    169. Alexandra Trovato A Monster Schemes Under Your Bed
    170. Alexandra Trovato A Timely Trump Limerick
    171. Willie P Smith – Sleigh Ride
    172. Willie P Smith – Walk with Me
    173. Teafor2 – Last Night of the Year
    174. Jessica Wheller – Waking Daisy
    175. Jessica Wheller – January Wind
    176. Nicki Nance Emotional Support
    177. Cecilia A Heiskary Daffodils
    178. Cecila A Heiskary Jaguaurs
    179. Cecila A Heiskary Insane
    180. Cecilia A Heiskary Insane
    181. Cecilia Heiskary Daffodils
    182. Debbie D’arcy Rest
    183. Annonymous Golden Years
    184. Anonymous AI Future
    185. D’Arcy Rest
    186. Cecilia A Heiskary Jagaurs
    187. Cecilia A Heiskary Insane
    188. Gyspy Rose blue Geologist Waka
    189. Annoymous AI Future
    190. Annoymous Tiny Puppy
    191. Karen Cherry Common Sense for Seniors 337-348
    192. Rick Gardner Innocent of Guilty

     

    1. Harry Craft A Kangaroo from Baraboo
    2. Nancyjam Love in the winter
    3. Debbie Pick Marquette Finding the Bright Side
    4. Debbie Pick Marquette March
    5. Pamusart The Sword
    6. Pamusart The Planet Earth
    7. Barry Penfold Slow Dance with You
    8. YM Roger Always For Now
    9. Arabellesom Mom Truest Love Ever Known
    10. Debbie D’Arcy Lord Bryon
    11. Nicki B Robin Williams
    12. Harry Craft the Cell Phone
    13. Estory in this Autumn Time
    14. Mrs Anna Howard Difficult Decisions
    15. Debbie Pick Marquette Thelma and Louise
    16. Pamusart Your Golden Aura
    17. Rachell Allen Public Face/Private Face
    18. Anonymous Today
    19. Rachael Allen Exceptional Teacher
    20. Debbie D’Arcy Voldymyr Zelensky
    21. Kentucky Sweet Pea My Dogma
    22. Pamusart The Kidnapping
    23. Pamusart the Kidnapping Chapter Two
    24. Pam Respa Rennoved Violinst
    25. Rachael Allen Proud to Be His Daugther
    26. Rick Gardner Wishes to Have
    27. Cecilia A Heiskary Sumatran Orangutan
    28. Cecilia A Heiskary Guiana Red-Face Monkey
    29. Dolly’s Poems the Witching Hour
    30. Kapot Swimming in Pain
    31. Debbie Pick Marquette Men are from Mars, Women from Venus
    32. Miss Merrie This Love
    33. Nancyjam the Meadow
    34. Gypsy Blue Rose Billowing Clouds
    35. Pamusart the Kidnapping Chapter 3
    36. Pamusart Colorful world
    37. Pamusart the World Around Lavenders
    38. Annoymous Maladorous
    39. Tea for Two It Was the Shoes
    40. Tea for Two Wordsmith with Big Faces
    41. Iraven Prayers for Eva
    42. Sally Law Blood Moon and Blood Rain
    43. Jaquelyn Poop Living the Dream, No Thank You
    44. Debi Pick Marquette My Bedroom Window
    45. Debi Pick Marquette Happy St Patrick’s Birthday
    46. Debi Pick Marquette My Bedroom Window
    47. Debi Pick Marquette Happy St Patrick’s Birthday
    48. Rven Prayers for Eva
    49. Jennifer Secret Rendezvous
    50. Sally Law’s Blood Moon and Blood Rain
    51. Jaquelyn Poop Living the Dream, No Thank You
    52. Sanku A New Day
    53. Aiona I Am Photine
    54. Annyomous Too Many Boyfriends For This Is Serious
    55. Annyomous Cary Hope
    56. Annyomous Cicada Watch
    57. Annyomous Ned the Postman
    58. Brad Bennett I Saw A Man Walking Crying
    59. Carasdreams Betrayal
    60. Cullen Bob I Just Want To Leave Things Be
    61. Chris Davies Irish
    62. Iza Dealeanu The Wandering Queen
    63. Dolly’s Poems Graveyard Shift
    64. Cecilia A Heiskary Fun Time
    65. Rick Gardner April Is Today And The Next Day
    66. Brenda Strauser Early Signs Of Spring
    67. Alexandra Trovato Real Love
    68. Rachell Allen’s Perception Of Time
    69. Dolly’s Poems Speak Up: A Sonnet
    70. Jim Vechio   The House Of The Raison Bun
    71. Stu Harrel Columbus Calls To Me
    72. Pam Respa Delicate Blossoms
    73. Gypsy Blue Rose The The Treasure Inside
    74. Rsport Daunting Chasm
    75. Debbie Pick Marquette Regina’s Birthday
    76. Jessizero In Memoriam
    77. Roy Owen Love’s Measure
    78. JLR DO Over
    79. Ricahrd E Parkison Life in an Hourglass
    80. Jamison Brown The Declaration Then and Now
    81. Rama Devi writing rhymes
    82. Rama Devi Extinction
    83. Stoncosos1 Sunset Sleeps
    84. Richard E Parkison Life In an Hourglass
    85. Lancellot An Old Man’s Folly
    86. Clockwise Grief in Gray
    87. Cecillia A Heiskary The Forest
    88. Miss Merri Out of the Winter
    89. Jim Wille Streaming Woe
    90. Jim Wille Trolling the Bureaucrats
    91. Anonymous My Guiding Light
    92. Anonymous Shingles
    93. Beth Shelby Spring Sonnet
    94. Harry Croft A Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer
    95. Dolly’s Poem Bee Business
    96. Dolly’s Poem: Life is Short
    97. Dolly’s Poems Contemp of Youth
    98. Dolly’s Poem: The Arabian Sea
    99. Dolly’s Poem: Shadows Lurk Sonnet
    100. Dolly’s Poems: He Changed
    101. Pearl Edwards Lavender Mist
    102. Pearl Edwards I Remember When
    103. Evilynne, Do You Remember Me
    104. Gypsy Rose Blue When I Look At You
    105. Marylyn Hamilton Monday Mona Lisa
    106. Harmony 13 Before You Speak
    107. Kahpot Misplace Bravery
    108. Kahpot Rain
    109. Cecilia A Heiskary
    110. Shelly Kaye The Forest is Watching
    111. Pookietoo, I Felt Lost
    112. Penofire Dreams
    113. Poem Lover Story Time
    114. Mrs Kt, When Faith is Tested
    115. Samandlancelot Unexpected Outcome
    116. Jessica Wheller Called
    117. Lo Anne Beery, Finally I See Her
    118. Dazed and Confused The Witch’s Jar
    119. Phil Doran Andalusia A Lachesis Poem
    120. Debbie Pick Marquette A Butterfly’s Birthday
    121. Richard Frohm’s Out Last Flight
    122. Jessizero My Lost Love
    123. Beth Shelby Desire for Life’s Best
    124. Zanya Searching
    125. Anonymous Grandkid’s Treasure Chest
    126. Anonymous Aging
    127. Carol Clark First Look
    128. Harambe iz ur Daddy Go Pro
    129. Marlyn Hamilton Dreaming
    130. Ceilia Heiskarry Sneer
    131. Ceilia Heiskarry Harpy Eagle
    132. Debi Pick Marquette
    133. Mintybee Our Silence is Full
    134. Rami Devi Forest Songs and Dances
    135. Brenda Strauser Scavenger Hunt
    136. Alexandra Trovato: Emotions and Writing
    137. Jessica Wheller Witness
    138. Yardier No Reason Why
    139. Anonymous the Serpent’s Kiss
    140. Lo Ann Berry About Me
    141. Blossom Chime Mondays Should be Illegal
    142. Cecilia A Heiskary My Angel Dog
    143. Cecilia A Heiskary Fall’s Coming
    144. Cecilia A Heiskary Venus Fly Trap
    145. Mrs Anna Howard Longing
    146. Dazed and Confused Blooming in the Night
    147. Hitcher Whisphered Words
    148. Rama Devi Book Mirrors
    149. Brenda Straser Tricky Squirell
    150. Jim Wile Goat Yoga
    151. Lo Ann Berry Answers
    152. Jumbo Internal Examination
    153. Mrs KT along the lakeshore
    154. Debbie Pick Marquette Auto-immune Family reunion
    155. Dragon poet feeding faith

    349.               Alexandra Trovato, Answers

    1. Jamison Brown changes
    2. Anonymous A Season In Love
    3. Anonymous If You Cut Us, Do We Not Bleed?
    4. Amy Lynn Child, Mom, and Young Grandmother
    5. Amy Lynn Her Wish
    6. Karenina Emilyn’s Dream
    7. Debbie Pick Marquette Patch and Ruby Become Famous
    8. Debbie Pick Marquette, I see a Dove
    9. Pam Respa Nature’s harmony
    10. Hitcher Queen of the Damn
    11. Debbie Pick Marquette Assassinate
    12. Reso22 Paint Pour
    13. Resso Writer’s Right
    14. Teafor2 Unforgettable and Unforgivable
    15. Annyomous the dead
    16. Christmas candy. (found on Google – author unknown)

    366.            Philip Doran Sepia

    1. Gypsy Blue Rose the Monster Among US
    2. Pearl Edwards Peace in the Mase minute poem
    3. Evilyne, that Magic Moment
    4. Ready to Fly, Hilda the Name
    5. Marlyn Hamilton Fan Story
    6. Cecilia A. Hesikary Halloween Crew
    7. Cecilia A. Hesikary, the Maze
    8. Kahlani Where Serenity Lives
    9. Kahlani, a Harvest Moon
    10. Khapot Acrostic
    11. Debbie Pick Marquette Happy Birthday, Bill
    12. Tea for the Last two
    13. Alexandra Trovato, the Porch Swing
    14. Alexandra Trovato Peace On Earth
    15. Debbie Pick Marquette A Birthday for Debora Dey
    16. Lancelot Inside Her Room
    17. Harmony 13 Getting Through This Life
    18. Iyenocka True Loyalty
    19. Tea for Two Individually and Collectively
    20. Cedar A birthday Tribute to Cedar
    21. Janet Floor Melancholy Day
    22. Mrs Kt To Dance Among the Maple Tees
    23. Sally Law Just the Way You Are
    24. Debbie Pick Marquette My Life in Rhyme
    25. Sammielwf Life on a Potao Farm In Main
    26. Anonymous Never Again
    27. Mrs KT On a Winter’s Morning
    28. Nommi 1331 Ebenezer’s Awakening
    29. Sammielwf the Forgotten
    30. Anonymous Asleep
    31. Anonymous Supergirl
    32. Walt Brown Water, Friend Or Foe
    33. Debbie Pick Marquette Sally And Jack’s 50th
    34. Mrs Anna Howar American Moon
    35. Sammielwf My Aunt Angelina
    36. Alexandra Trovato Animal Court
    37. Themarfbard_Michael Hospice Heroine
    38. L Raven Merry Christmas All
    39. Cogiator Touched By Angel
    40. Cecilia A Heiskrary Angel Dog
    41. Cecilia A Heiskrary Happy Birthday Eean
    42. Debbie Pick Marquette Happy Birthday Kylie

     

     

    David Scheider

     

    David Schnider Footprints in Time

    Did Schinder Soldiers

    David Schinder Together Forever

    David Schinder The all Mighty Threasher Pantoum

     

    Sonnet

    1. Starkafi Romantic Interlude
    2. Shakespear Sonnet for a Poet Grieving

     

     

    Torque Poems

    1. ,Lawrencealot Anxious (Torque)
    2.  Michael Romani September 11, 2018 Big and Vicious

    Tea Cup  Poems

    1. Sheley Keyes ILLUMINATION (5 syllables)
    2. Sheley Keyes Chatoyant (3
    3. Sheley Keyes Poetry (3
    4. Sheley Keyes Fuddy-duddy (4)
    5. Christmas Angel

     

    The White Book Poems by Han Kang

     

    Spring

    Door

    Swadlling Bands

    Newborn Gown

    Moon Shape Rice Cake

    Fog

    White City

    Certain Objects

    The Direction of the Light

    Breast Milk

    She

    Candle

    She

    Rime

    Frost

    Wings

    Fist

    Snow

    Snow Flakes

    Perpetual Snow

    Wave

    Sleet

    White Dog

    Blizzard

    Ashes

    Salt

    Moon

    Lace Curtain

    Breath Cloud

    White Bird

    Hankerchief

    Milky Wave

    Laughing Whitely

    Yulan

    Small White Pills

    Sugar Cubes

    Lights

    A Thousand Points of Silver

    Glittering

    White Pebble

    White Bone

    Sand

    White Hair

    Clouds

    Incandescent Bulb

    White Nights

    Island of Light

    Black Writing Through White paper

    Scattering

    TO the Stillness

    Bondary

    Reedbed

    White Butterfly

    Spirit

    Rice Raw and Cook

    All Whiteness

    Your Eyes

    Shroud

    Onni

    Like a Clutch of Words Strewn Over White Petals

    Morning robes

    Smoke

    Silence

    Lower Teeth

    Parting

    All Whiteness

     

    Korean Literature of Washington

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    End Poetry

     

     

     

     

    Begin Harvard Classics

     

    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

    Pliny

    (10) Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith

    (11) Origin of Species: Darwin

    (12) Plutarch’s Lives (13)

     Aeneid Virgil (14)

    Don Quixote Part 1: Cervantes

    (15) Pilgrim’s Progress. Donne

    Herbert. Bunyan, Walton

    (16) The Thousand and One Night

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

    Andersen

    Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairy Tales

    (18) Modern English Drama

    (19) Faust,

    Egmont Etc.

    Doctor Faustus,

    Goethe,

    Marlowe

    (20) The Divine Comedy: Dante

    (21) I Promessi

    Sposi,

    Manzoni

    (22) The Odyssey: Homer

    (23) Two Years Before Mast. Dana

    (24) On the Sublime French Revolution Etc. Burke

    (25) Autobiography Etc. Essays and Addresses: J.S. Mill,

    1. 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, the Prince

    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

    Federalist Papers

    Constitution

    Bill of Rights

    Declaration of Indepedence

    (44) Sacred Writings 1

    (45) Sacred Writings 2

    The Bible

    The Quaran

    The Analect of Confucius

    Mencius

    Buddist Writing

    Bhaga Vita

    Lao Tzo The Tao

     

    (46) Elizabethan Drama 1

    (47) Elizabethan Drama 2

    (48) Thoughts and Minor Works: Pascal

    (49) Epic and Saga (

    50) Introduction, Readers Guide,

     

    50 Books to Read Before You Die

    Vol 1 starts with Volume One


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

     

    Volume 2


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

     

    Vol 3  finished keeping for the historical record

     

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

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

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

     

    Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025

     

    Caroline M Yanchen We Would Teach You How To Read.

    Rachale Swirsky The Cat

    Olivia Blake, The Audit.

    Keji Johnson. Country Birds.

    Tatiya Oberb Flock Them Kids.

    SI Huaag, The River Judge

    .Charlie. Saint George. The Weight Of Your Own Ashes.

    Xavier Garcia An Ode To The.Minor Arcana in a Tripple Flow

    Kathryin Ross. The Forgotten Room.

    Dominique Dickey, Look At The Moon.

    Isabel Kim, Why Don’t We Just Kill The Kid?

    Jennifer Hudock, The Witch Trap.

    Susan Palwick Yarns.

    Pemmie Aguda The Wonders Of The World

    TJ Klune Reduce, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

    Tannarive Due  A Stranger Knocks?

    Thomas Hardy, The Sort.

    Russell Nichols What Happened To The Crooners? Adam Troy Castro, The 3420 Third Laws Of Robotics.

    Joe Hill Ushers.

     

    Sci-Fi short stories

     

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

    Here is the table of contents for the book1:

    Goal read one to five per week alternating with Kindle classics and reading poetry collections finish by end of the year

     

    Introduction: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

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

    H.G. Wells: “The Star” (1897)

    Lu Xun: “The New Overworld” (1902)

    Sultana’s Dream: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1905)

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

    Miguel de Unamuno: “Mechanopolis” (1913)

    W.E.B. Du Bois: “The Comet” (1920)

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

    Edmond Hamilton: “The Star Stealers” (1929)

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

    Stanislaw Lem: “Solaris” (1961) excerpt

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

    Cixin Liu: “The Poetry Cloud” (1997)

    Invasions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Dino Buzzati: “Catastrophe” (1966)

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

    Joanna Russ: “When It Changed” (1972)

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

    Octavia Butler: “Bloodchild” (1984)

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

    Monsters

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

    Ray Bradbury: “The Foghorn” (1951)

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

    Julio Cortázar: “Axolotl” (1956)

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

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

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

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

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

    John Varley: “Air Raid” (1977)

    William Gibson: “New Rose Hotel” (1984)

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

    Experiments

    Alfred Jarry: “Elements of Pataphysics” (1911)

    Karel Čapek: “R.U.R.” (1920) excerpt

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

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

    J.G. Ballard: “Chronopolis” (1960)

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

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

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

    George Alec Effinger: “Two Sadnesses” (1973)

    John Sladek: “Solar Shoe Salesman” (1974)

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

    Generation Ships

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

    Judith Merril: “Daughters of Earth” (1952)

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

    Robert Silverberg: “Sundance” (1969)

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

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

    Bruce Sterling: “Swarm” (1982)

    Geoff Ryman: “The Unconquered Country” (1984)

    New Worlds

    Cordwainer Smith: “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard” (1961)

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

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

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

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

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

    John Crowley: “Snow” (1985)

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

    Greg Egan: “Learning to Be Me” (1990)

    Future War

    Jack London: “The Unparalleled Invasion” (1910)

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

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

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

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

    Olaf Stapledon: “Star Maker” (1937) excerpt

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

    C.M. Kornbluth: “Two Dooms” (1958)

    Joe Haldeman: “Hero” (1972)

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

    David R. Bunch: “Moderan” (1967)

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

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

    Virtual Reality

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

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

    John Brunner: “The Vitanuls” (1967)

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

    Robert Silverberg: “Passengers” (1968)

    Rudy Rucker: “Software” (1982) excerpt

    William Gibson: “Burning Chrome” (1982)

    Pat Cadigan: “Pretty Boy Crossover” (1986)

    Neal Stephenson: “Snow Crash” (1992) excerpt

    Humanity 2.0

    Olaf Stapledon: “Odd John” (1935) excerpt

    C.L. Moore: “No Woman Born” (1944)

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

    Algis Budrys: “Who?” (1955)

    James Blish: “Surface Tension” (1952)

    Gregory Benford: “Blood Music” (1983)

    Bruce Sterling: “Mozart in Mirrorshades” (1985)

    Vernor Vinge: “True Names” (1981)

    Ted Chiang: “Understand” (1991)

    Alien Minds

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

    Isaac Asimov: “The Last Question” (1956)

    Clifford D. Simak: “Desertion” (1944)

    James H. Schmitz: “Grandpa” (1955)

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

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

    Stanisław Lem: “Solaris” (1961) excerpt

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

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

    Ian McDonald: “The Tear” (2008)

    Walter M Miller, Jr After the End

    Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century Poetry

     

    BOLD read

     

    Edward Lee Masters.

    The Hil

    Fiddler. Jones,

    Petite the Poet

     

    Edwin Arlington Robinson

    Miniver Cheevy

    Mr. Flood’s Party.

     

    James Weldon Johnson

    The Creation

    Paul Laurence  Dunbar.

     

    The Poet

    Life

    Life’s Trajedy

     

    Robert Frost.

    The Death Of The Hired Man.

    Mending Wall.

    Birches

              Stopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening.

              Tree In My Window.

    Directive.

    Amy Lowell

    Patterns.

     

    Getrude Stein

    Susie Asado.

    From Tender Buttons A Box.

     From Tender Buttons, A Plate.

     

    Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson

    I sit and sew .

    Carl Sandburg.

    Grass.

    Cahoots.

     

    Wallace Stevens.

    Peter Quince at the Clavier.

    Disillusionment of 10:00.

    13 Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird.

              Emperor Of Ice Cream.

    A Mere  Being.

    Angelina Weld Grimke

    Fragment.

    William Carlos Williams.

    Tact.

               Dance Ruse

    The Yachts.

    From Apostlethat Greeny  Flower Book 1, Lines 1 To 92.

     

    Sarah Teasdale.

    Moonlight.

    There Will Come Soft Rains.

     

    Erza Pound

    The Jewel Stairs Grievance.

    The River Merchants Wife Letter.

    In A Station At The Metro.

    Hugh  Selwyn Mulberry.

    From Conto. 56 Libretto Yet Ere This Season Died A Cold

     

    Hilda Doolittle, HD.

    Sea Rose.

    The Helen.

    From The Walls Do Not Fall An Incident Here And There.

    From Hermeneutic Definition Red Rose And A Beggar. Why Did You Come?

    Take Me Anywhere.

    Venicc. Venus.

     

    Robinson, Jeffers.

    Gala in April.

    Shine, Perishing Republic.

    Cloudss at Evening.

    Credo

    Mararane Moore

    Fish.

    Poetry.

    Poetry.

     

    TS, Elliott.

    Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

     The Wasteland.

     

    Claude McKay.

              If We Must Die.

    Harlem Dancer.

     

    Archibald MacLeash,

              Arts Poetica 

    Edna, Saint Vincent Millay.

    First Fig

    Recuerdo

    E E Cummings.

    In Just.

    Buffalo Bill

    The Cambridge Ladies Have Lived In Furnished Souls.

    Next To, Of Course, God, America.

    Somewhere I’ve Never Travelled Gladly Beyond.

    Rpophessagr

    Gene Toomor.

    Reapers.

    November Cotton Flowers.

    Portrait in Georgia.

    Louise Bogan

    Medusa.

    New moon.

    Melvin B Tolson

    Dark Symphony.

    From Harlem Gallery PSI Black Boys, Let Me Get Up From The White Man’s Table.

     

    Hart Crane

    From the Bridge

    Poem to Brooklyn Bridge

    From 11  Powhatan’s Daughter the River.

     

    Robert Francis.

    Silent Poem

    Langston Hughes

    Nego speaks of rivers.

    I, Too.

    Dreams Boogie.

    Harlem

    Countee Cullan

    Incident

    To John Keats Poet at Springtime

    Yes I Do Marvel

    From the Dark Tower

    Stanley Kutitz

    Father and Son

    The Protrait

    Touch Me

    WH Auden

    Mussee Des Beaux Arts

    Epitah on a Tryant

    Theordore Roethke

    My Papa’s Waltz

    The Waking

    In a Dark Time

     

    Charles Olson.

    From The Maximum Poems One Maximum Of Gloucester To You.

    The Distances.

    Elizabeth Bishop.

    The Fish

    Sestina

    First Death In Nova Scotia.

    Visit  To Saint Elizabeths.

    One Art.

    Robert Hayden.

    Morning Poem For The Queen Of Sunday.

    Those Winter Sundays.

    Frederick Douglass.

    Middle Passage.

    Muriel  Rukeyser?

    Effort At Speech Between Two People.         ‘

    Then I Saw What The Calling  Was.

    The Poem as Mask

    Delmore  Swartz.

    The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me.

    John Barryman.

    From Dream Songs.

    Feeling Your Compact And Delicious Body. ‘

    Life, Friends, Is Boring. We Must Not Say So.

    There Shut Down Once.  ‘

    This World Is Gradually Becoming A Place.

    Henry’sUnderstanding

     

    Randall, Jarell.

    90 North.

    The Death Of The Bell Turret Gunner.

    The Woman At The Washington Zoo.

    Next Day.

    Weldon Kees.

    To My Daughter?

     

    Dudley Randall

    A Different Image

    William Stafford.

    Traveling Through The Dark.

    At The Bomb Testing Site.

     

    Ruth Stone.

    Scars.

    Margaret Walker.

    For My People

    Gwendolyn Brooks.

    The Mother.

    A Song In The Front Yard.         ‘

    The Bean Eaters

    The Lovers Of The Poor.

    We  Real Cool.      ‘

    The Blackstone Rangers.

     

    Robert Lowell.

    To Speak Of Woe That Is In Marriage.

    Skunk Hour .

    For The Union Dead.

    Robert Duncan.

    Often I’m Permitted To Return To A Medow.

    My Mother Would Be A Falconress

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    Populist Manifesto.

    William Meredith.

    Parents. Howard Nemeroff.

    Because You Asked About The Line Between Prose And Poetry.

    Hayden Caruth.

    The  Hyacinth Gardens In Brooklyn.

    August 1945.

    Richard Wilber

    Love Calls Us to the Things of This World

    Cottage Street

    The Writer

    James Dickey

    The Sheep Child

    Alan Duncan.

    Love song I And Thou

    Anthony Act.

    More light, More light.

    Richard Hugo.

    The Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg.

    The Freaks at Spring General Rd. Field.

    Dennis Levertov.

    The Unwritten Poem

    Cademon.

    Swan in Falling snow.

    Who is Simpson?

    American Poetry.

    Carolyn Kaiser.

    A Muse of water.

    Kenneth Koch.

    Fresh air.

    Permanently.

    Maxine Coleman.

    Morning Swim.

    How Is It?

    Gerald Stern.

    Behaving Like A Jew.

    The Dancing.

    Another Insane Devotion.

    AR Ammons.

    The City Limits.

    Corson Inlet.

    Robert Blye.

    Snowfall In The Afternoon.

    Driving Into Town Late To Mail A Letter.

    Walking From Sleep.

    Robert Creeley.

    The Flower.

    I Know A Man.

    The Language.

    The Rain.

    Bresson’s Movies.

    James Merrill.

    Victor Dog.

    Frank O’Hara New York School.

    Steps.

    Poem Lana Turner Has Collapsed.

    The Day Lady Died.

    John Ashberry. New York School

    Some Trees.

    Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror.

    What Is Poetry?

    Galway, Kennel.

    The Bear.`

    After Making Love, We Hear Footsteps.

    Saint Francis And The Soul.

    Ws Merwin.

    Air.

    For The Anniversary Of My Death.

    Yesterday.

    Chord .

    James Wright.

    A Blessing.

    Autumn  Begins In Martins Ferry, Oh.

    Lying In A Hammock At William Duffy’s Farm In Pine Island, Mn.

    In Response To The Rumor That Otis Warehouse In Wheeling, Wv Has Been Condemned.

    Donald Hall.

    My Son, My Executioner.

    Digging.

    Philip Levine.

    Animals Are Passing From Our Lives.

    They Feed They Lion.

    You Can Have It.

    The  Simple Truth.

     

    Anne Sexton.

    Her Kind

    Adoption.

    Waiting To Die.

    In Celebration Of My Uterus.

    Rowing

    Adrienne Rich.

    Orion

    Planetarium.

    A Valedictorian Forbidding Mourning.

    From 21 Love Poems 13 The Rules Of Break Like A Thermometer.

    Gregory Corso.

    Marriage

    Gary Snyder.

    Hay, For The Horses.

    Riprap.

    Mid August As Sourdough Mountain Lookout.

    Dereck  Walcott.

    A Far Cry From Africa.

    Sea Grapes.

    Find The Schooner Flight Part 11 After The Storm. There’s A Fresh Light That Follows.

    The Light Of The World.

    From Omeros Book. 7. 44 I Sing Of Quiet,Achiles, Afrolabe’s Son.

    Miller Williams.

    Let Me tell you.

    Etheridge Knight

    Idea Of Ancestry.

    Amira Baraka, Leroy Jones.

    Preface To A 20 Volume Suicide Note.

    Agony As Now.

    SOS.

    Black Art.

    Ted Berrigon .

    Wrong Rain.

    A Final Sonnet

    Andre Lorde.

    Power.

    Sonia Sanchez.

    Poetry at 30.

    Mark Strand.

    The Prediction.

    The Night, The Porch.

    Russell Edson.

    A Stone Is Nobody’s.

     

    Mary Oliver.

    Singapore.

    The Summer’s Day.

    Charles Wright.

    Reunion.

    Dead Color.

    California Dreaming.

    Lucile  Clifton.

    Homage To My Hips.

    At Least At Last We Killed The Roaches.

    The Death Of Fry, Alfred Clifton.

    To My Last.

    June, Jordan.

    Home About My Rights.

    Frederick Seidel.

    1968.

    CK Williams.

    Find My Window.

    Blades

    Tynan Wilkowski.’

    The Mechanic.

    Michael S Harper.

    Dear John. Dear Coltrane.

    Last Affair. Bessies Blues Song.

    Grandfather.

    Nightmare Begins Responsibility.

    Charles Simik .

    Stone.

    Fork.

    Classic Ballroom Dances.

    Paula Gunn Allen.

     

    Grandmother.

    Frank Bidart.

    Ellen West.

    Carl Dennis.

    Spring Letter.

    Two Or Three Wishes.

    Stephen Dunn.

    Allegory Of The Cave.

    Tucson.

    Robert Pensky.

    History Of My Heart.

    The Questions.

    Samurai Song.

    James Welch.

    Christmas Comes To Moccasin Flat.

    Billy Collins.

    Introduction To Poetry.

    The Dead.

    Toi Derricote .

    Allen Ginsberg.

    The Weakness.

    Stephen Dobyns.

    How To Like It?

    Lullaby.

    Robert Hass.

    Song.

    That Photographer?

    Return Of Robinson Jeffers.

    Lyn Hejinian

    From My Life trim With Colored Ribbons.

    BH  Fairchild.

    The Machinist Teaching His Daughter To Play The Piano.

    Haik R Madhubuti Don L Lee.

    But He Was Cool Or Even Stopped For Green Lights.

    Upon To Compliment Other Poems.

    William Matthews.

    In Memory Of The Utah Stars.

    The  Accompanist

    . Sharon Olds

    The Language Of The Brag.

    The Lifting.

    Henry Taylor.

    Barbed Wire.

    Tess Gallagher.

    Black, Silver.

    Under Stars.

    Michael Palmer.

    I Do Not.

    James Tate.

    The Lost  Pilot.

    Norman Dubie.

    Elizabeth War With The Christmas Bear.

    The Funeral.

    Carol Muske Dukes,.

    August, Los Angeles Lullaby.

    Kay Ryan.

    Turtle

    Bestiary

    Larry Levis.

    Childhood Ideogram

    Winter Stars

    Adrian C Lousis

    Looking For Judas

    How much lux?

    The People of the Other  Village.

    Marilyn Nelson.

    The Ballad of Aunt Geneva.

    Star Fix.

    Run Stilleman

    Albany

    AI

    Cuba 1963

    The Kid

    Finished

    Yusef Komunyakaa

    Thanks

    To Do Street

    Facing It

    Nude Interogation

    Nathaniel Mc Kay

    Song of the Aduumboulou

    Gregory Orr

    Gathering the Bones Together

    Two Lines From the Brother Grimm

    Origin of the Marble Forrest

    Robert Hill Whiteman

    Reaching Yellow River

    Albert Goldbarth

    Away

    Heather Mc Hugh

    Language Lesson 1976

    What He Thought

    Leslie Marmon Silko

    In  Cold Storm Light

    Olga Boumas

    Calypso

    Victor Hernadez Soul

    Latin and Soul

    Jane Miller

    Miami Heart

    David St. James

    Iris

    CD Wright

    Why Ralph Refuses to Dance

    Girl Friend Poe # 3

    Crescent

    Carolyn Forche

    Taking Off My Clothes

    Jorie Graham

    San Sepolcro

    Marie Howe

    What the Living Do

    Joy Harjo

    She Had Some Horses

    My House is Red Earth

    Garret Honjo

    The Legend

    Andrew  Hugins

    Beggoten

    We Were Simply Talking

    Brigit Peggen Kelly

    Imaging Their Own Hyms

    Song

    Paul Muldoon

    Meeting the British

    Errata

    The Throwback

    Judith Orez Coffer

    Quinceanera

    Rita Dove

    Parsley

    Day Star

    After Reading Mikey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed

    Alice Fulton

    Our Calling

    Barbara Hamby

    Thinking of Galileo

    Hatred

    Mark Jarman

    Unholy Sonnet

    Naomi Shihab Nye

    The Traveling Onion

    Arabic

    Wedding Cake

    Alberto Rios

    Nani

    England Finally like My Mother Always Said We Would

    Laurie Sheck

    Nocturne Blue Waves

    The Unfinished

    Gary Sotto

    Field Poem

    Oranges

    Black Hair

    Susan Stewart

    Yellow Star and Ice

    The Forrest

    Mark Dotty

    Brillance

    Esta Noche

    Bill’s Story

    Harryette Mullen

    Black Nikes

    Franz Wright

    Alcohol

    Lorna Dee Cervantes

    To My Brother

    Love of My Flesh, Living Death

    Sandra Cisneros.

    My Wicked, Wicked Ways.

    Little Clowns, My Heart.

    Cornelius, Eady.

    Jack Johnson Does The Eagle Rock.

    Crows In A Strong Wind.

    I’m A Fool To Love You.

     

    Louise Eldritch

    .         Indian Boarding School. The Runaways.

    David Mason.

    Spooning.

    Marilyn Chin.

    How I Got That Name?

    Compose Near The Bay Bridge

    The Survivor

    Cathy Song .

    The Youngest Daughter.

    Ann Finch.

    Another Reluctance.

    Insert

    Lee Young Lee.

    The Gift

    Eating Together.

    Carl Phillips

    Our Lady

    As From a Quiver of Arrows

    Nick Flynn

    Bag of Mice

    Cartoon Physics

    Elizabeth Alexander

    The Viena Hott not

    Reetika Vazirani

    From White Elephants

    A million Balconies

    Train Windows

    Sherman Alexie

    What the Orphan Inherits

    The Pow Wow at the End of the World

    Natasha Trethewey

    Hot Combs

    Amateur Fighter

    Flounder

    A E Stallings

    The Tantrum

    Joana Klink

    Spare

    Brenda Shaughnessy

    Post feminism

    Your One Good Dress

    Kevin Young

    Quivira City Limits

    Everywhere is Out of Town

    Whatever You Want

    Terrance Hayes

    At Pegasus

    Lady Sings the Blues

    Sci-Fi short stories

     

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

    Here is the table of contents for the book1:

    Introduction: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

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

    H.G. Wells: “The Star” (1897)

    Lu Xun: “The New Overworld” (1902)

    Sultana’s Dream: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1905)

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

    Miguel de Unamuno: “Mechanopolis” (1913)

    W.E.B. Du Bois: “The Comet” (1920)

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

    Edmond Hamilton: “The Star Stealers” (1929)

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

    Stanislaw Lem: “Solaris” (1961) excerpt

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

    Cixin Liu: “The Poetry Cloud” (1997)

    Invasions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Dino Buzzati: “Catastrophe” (1966)

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

    Joanna Russ: “When It Changed” (1972)

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

    Octavia Butler: “Bloodchild” (1984)

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

    Monsters

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

    Ray Bradbury: “The Foghorn” (1951)

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

    Julio Cortázar: “Axolotl” (1956)

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

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

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

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

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

    John Varley: “Air Raid” (1977)

    William Gibson: “New Rose Hotel” (1984)

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

    Experiments

    Alfred Jarry: “Elements of Pataphysics” (1911)

    Karel Čapek: “R.U.R.” (1920) excerpt

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

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

    J.G. Ballard: “Chronopolis” (1960)

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

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

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

    George Alec Effinger: “Two Sadnesses” (1973)

    John Sladek: “Solar Shoe Salesman” (1974)

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

    Generation Ships

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

    Judith Merril: “Daughters of Earth” (1952)

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

    Robert Silverberg: “Sundance” (1969)

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

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

    Bruce Sterling: “Swarm” (1982)

    Geoff Ryman: “The Unconquered Country” (1984)

    New Worlds

    Cordwainer Smith: “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard” (1961)

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

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

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

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

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

    John Crowley: “Snow” (1985)

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

    Greg Egan: “Learning to Be Me” (1990)

    Future War

    Jack London: “The Unparalleled Invasion” (1910)

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

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

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

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

    Olaf Stapledon: “Star Maker” (1937) excerpt

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

    C.M. Kornbluth: “Two Dooms” (1958)

    Joe Haldeman: “Hero” (1972)

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

    David R. Bunch: “Moderan” (1967)

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

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

    Virtual Reality

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

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

    John Brunner: “The Vitanuls” (1967)

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

    Robert Silverberg: “Passengers” (1968)

    Rudy Rucker: “Software” (1982) excerpt

    William Gibson: “Burning Chrome” (1982)

    Pat Cadigan: “Pretty Boy Crossover” (1986)

    Neal Stephenson: “Snow Crash” (1992) excerpt

    Humanity 2.0

    Olaf Stapledon: “Odd John” (1935) excerpt

    C.L. Moore: “No Woman Born” (1944)

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

    Algis Budrys: “Who?” (1955)

    James Blish: “Surface Tension” (1952)

    Gregory Benford: “Blood Music” (1983)

    Bruce Sterling: “Mozart in Mirrorshades” (1985)

    Vernor Vinge: “True Names” (1981)

    Ted Chiang: “Understand” (1991)

    Alien Minds

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

    Isaac Asimov: “The Last Question” (1956)

    Clifford D. Simak: “Desertion” (1944)

    James H. Schmitz: “Grandpa” (1955)

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

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

    Stanisław Lem: “Solaris” (1961) excerpt

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

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

    Ian McDonald: “The Tear” (2008)

    After the End

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

    Sci-Fi short stories

     

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

    Here is the table of contents for the book1:

    Introduction: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

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

    H.G. Wells: “The Star” (1897)

    Lu Xun: “The New Overworld” (1902)

    Sultana’s Dream: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1905)

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

    Miguel de Unamuno: “Mechanopolis” (1913)

    W.E.B. Du Bois: “The Comet” (1920)

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

    Edmond Hamilton: “The Star Stealers” (1929)

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

    Stanislaw Lem: “Solaris” (1961) excerpt

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

    Cixin Liu: “The Poetry Cloud” (1997)

    Invasions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Dino Buzzati: “Catastrophe” (1966)

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

    Joanna Russ: “When It Changed” (1972)

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

    Octavia Butler: “Bloodchild” (1984)

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

    Monsters

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

    Ray Bradbury: “The Foghorn” (1951)

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

    Julio Cortázar: “Axolotl” (1956)

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

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

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

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

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

    John Varley: “Air Raid” (1977)

    William Gibson: “New Rose Hotel” (1984)

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

    Experiments

    Alfred Jarry: “Elements of Pataphysics” (1911)

    Karel Čapek: “R.U.R.” (1920) excerpt

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

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

    J.G. Ballard: “Chronopolis” (1960)

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

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

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

    George Alec Effinger: “Two Sadnesses” (1973)

    John Sladek: “Solar Shoe Salesman” (1974)

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

    Generation Ships

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

    Judith Merril: “Daughters of Earth” (1952)

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

    Robert Silverberg: “Sundance” (1969)

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

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

    Bruce Sterling: “Swarm” (1982)

    Geoff Ryman: “The Unconquered Country” (1984)

    New Worlds

    Cordwainer Smith: “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard” (1961)

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

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

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

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

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

    John Crowley: “Snow” (1985)

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

    Greg Egan: “Learning to Be Me” (1990)

    Future War

    Jack London: “The Unparalleled Invasion” (1910)

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

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

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

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

    Olaf Stapledon: “Star Maker” (1937) excerpt

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

    C.M. Kornbluth: “Two Dooms” (1958)

    Joe Haldeman: “Hero” (1972)

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

    David R. Bunch: “Moderan” (1967)

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

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

    Virtual Reality

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

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

    John Brunner: “The Vitanuls” (1967)

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

    Robert Silverberg: “Passengers” (1968)

    Rudy Rucker: “Software” (1982) excerpt

    William Gibson: “Burning Chrome” (1982)

    Pat Cadigan: “Pretty Boy Crossover” (1986)

    Neal Stephenson: “Snow Crash” (1992) excerpt

    Humanity 2.0

    Olaf Stapledon: “Odd John” (1935) excerpt

    C.L. Moore: “No Woman Born” (1944)

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

    Algis Budrys: “Who?” (1955)

    James Blish: “Surface Tension” (1952)

    Gregory Benford: “Blood Music” (1983)

    Bruce Sterling: “Mozart in Mirrorshades” (1985)

    Vernor Vinge: “True Names” (1981)

    Ted Chiang: “Understand” (1991)

    Alien Minds

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

    Isaac Asimov: “The Last Question” (1956)

    Clifford D. Simak: “Desertion” (1944)

    James H. Schmitz: “Grandpa” (1955)

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

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

    Stanisław Lem: “Solaris” (1961) excerpt

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

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

    Ian McDonald: “The Tear” (2008)

    After the End

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

     

    Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century Poetry

    BOLD read

    Edward Lee Masters.

    The Hil

    Fiddler. Jones,

    Petite the Poet

     

    Edwin Arlington Robinson

    Miniver Cheevy

    Mr. Flood’s Party.

     

    James Weldon Johnson

    The Creation

    Paul Laurence  Dunbar.

     

    The Poet

    Life

    Life’s Trajedy

     

    Robert Frost.

    The Death Of The Hired Man.

    Mending Wall.

    Birches

              Stopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening.

              Tree In My Window.

    Directive.

    Amy Lowell

    Patterns.

     

    Getrude Stein

    Susie Asado.

    From Tender Buttons A Box.

     From Tender Buttons, A Plate.

     

    Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson

    I sit and sew .

    Carl Sandburg.

    Grass.

    Cahoots.

     

    Wallace Stevens.

    Peter Quince at the Clavier.

    Disillusionment of 10:00.

    13 Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird.

              Emperor Of Ice Cream.

    A Mere  Being.

    Angelina Weld Grimke

    Fragment.

    William Carlos Williams.

    Tact.

    Dance Ruse

    The Yachts.

    From Apostlethat Greeny  Flower Book 1, Lines 1 To 92.

     

    Sarah Teasdale.

    Moonlight.

    There Will Come Soft Rains.

     

    Erza Pound

    The Jewel Stairs Grievance.

    The River Merchants Wife Letter.

    In A Station At The Metro.     

              Hugh  Selwyn Mulberry.

    From Conto. 56 Libretto Yet Ere This Season Died A Cold

     

    Hilda Doolittle, HD.

    Sea Rose.

    The Helen.

    From The Walls Do Not Fall An Incident Here And There.

    From Hermeneutic Definition Red Rose And A Beggar. Why Did You Come?

    Take Me Anywhere.

    Venicc. Venus.

     

    Robinson, Jeffers.

    Gala in April.

    Shine, Perishing Republic.

    Cloudss at Evening.

    Credo

    Mararane Moore

    Fish.

    Poetry.

     

    TS, Elliott.

    Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

              The Wasteland.

     

    Claude McKay.

    If We Must Die.

    Harlem Dancer.

     

    Archibald MacLeash,

    Arts Poetica

    Edna, Saint Vincent Millay.

    First Fig

    Recuerdo

    E E Cummings.

    In Just.

    Buffalo Bill

    The Cambridge Ladies Have Lived In Furnished Souls.

    Next To, Of Course, God, America.

    Somewhere I’ve Never Travelled Gladly Beyond.

    Rpophessagr

    Gene Toomor.

    Reapers.

    November Cotton Flowers.

    Portrait in Georgia.

    Louise Bogan

    Medusa.

    New moon.

    Melvin B Tolson

    Dark Symphony.

    From Harlem Gallery PSI Black Boys, Let Me Get Up From The White Man’s Table.

     

    Hart Crane

    From the Bridge

    Poem to Brooklyn Bridge

    From 11  Powhatan’s Daughter the River.

     

    Robert Francis.

    Silent Poem

    Langston Hughes

    Nego speaks of rivers.

    I, Too.

    Dreams Boogie.

    Harlem

    Countee Cullan

    Incident

    To John Keats Poet at Spring Time

    Yes I Do Marvel

    From the Dark Tower

    Stanley Kutitz

    Father and Son

    The Protrait

    Touch Me

    WH Auden

    Mussee Des Beaux Arts

    Epitah on a Tryant

    Theordore Roethke

    My Papa’s Waltz

    The Waking

    In a Dark Time

     

    Charles Olson.

    From The Maximum Poems One Maximum Of Gloucester To You.

    The Distances.

    Elizabeth Bishop.

    The Fish

    Sestina

    First Death In Nova Scotia.

    Visit  To Saint Elizabeths.

    One Art.

    Robert Hayden.

    Morning Poem For The Queen Of Sunday.

    Those Winter Sundays.

    Frederick Douglass.

    Middle Passage.

    Muriel  Rukeyser?

    Effort At Speech Between Two People.         ‘

    Then I Saw What The Calling  Was.

    The Poem as Mask

    Delmore  Swartz.

    The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me.

    John Barryman.

    From The Dream Songs.

    Feeling Your Compact And Delicious Body. ‘

    Life, Friends, Is Boring. We Must Not Say So.

    There Shut Down Once.  ‘

    This World Is Gradually Becoming A Place.

    Henry’sUnderstanding

     

    Randall, Jarell.

    90 North.

    The Death Of The Bell Turret Gunner.

    The Woman At The Washington Zoo.

    Next Day.

    Weldon Kees.

    To My Daughter?

     

    Dudley Randall

    A Different Image

    William Stafford.

    Traveling Through The Dark.

    At The Bomb Testing Site.

     

    Ruth Stone.

    Scars.

    Margaret Walker.

    For My People

    Gwendolyn Brooks.

    The Mother.

    A Song In The Front Yard.         ‘

    The Bean Eaters

    The Lovers Of The Poor.

              We  Real Cool.      ‘

    The Blackstone Rangers.

     

    Robert Lowell.

    To Speak Of Woe That Is In Marriage.

    Skunk Hour .

    For The Union Dead.

    Robert Duncan.

    Often I’m Permitted To Return To A Medow.

    My Mother Would Be A Falconress

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    Populist Manifesto.

    William Meredith.

    Parents. Howard Nemeroff.

    Because You Asked About The Line Between Prose And Poetry.

    Hayden Caruth.

    The  Hyacinth Gardens In Brooklyn.

    August 1945.

    Richard Wilber

    Love Calls Us to the Things of This World

    Cottage Street

    The Writer

    James Dickey

    The Sheep Child

    Alan Duncan.

    Love song I And Thou

    Anthony Act.

    More light, More light.

    Richard Hugo.

    The Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg.

    The Freaks at Spring General Rd. Field.

    Dennis Levertov.

    The Poem Unwritten

    Cademon.

    Swan in Falling snow.

    Who is Simpson?

    American Poetry.

    Carolyn Kaiser.

    A Muse of water.

    Kenneth Koch.

    Fresh air.

    Permanently.

    Maxine Coleman.

    Morning Swim.

    How It Is?

    Gerald Stern.

    Behaving Like A Jew.

    The Dancing.

    Another Insane Devotion.

    AR Ammons.

    The City Limits.

    Corson Inlet.

    Robert Blye.

    Snowfall In The Afternoon.

    Driving Into Town Late To Mail A Letter.

    Walking From Sleep.

    Robert Creeley.

    The Flower.

    I Know A Man.

    The Language.

    The Rain.

    Bresson’s Movies.

    James Merrill.

    Victor Dog.

    Frank O’Hara New York School.

    Steps.

    Poem Lana Turner Has Collapsed.

    The Day Lady Died.

    John Ashberry. New York School

    Some Trees.

    Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror.

    What Is Poetry?

    Galway, Kennel.

    The Bear.`

    After Making Love, We Hear Footsteps.

    Saint Francis And The Soul.

    Ws Merwin.

    Air.

    For The Anniversary Of My Death.

    Yesterday.

    Chord .

    James Wright.

    A Blessing.

    Autumn  Begins In Martins Ferry, Oh.

    Lying In A Hammock At William Duffy’s Farm In Pine Island, Mn.

    In Response To The Rumor That Otis Warehouse In Wheeling, Wv Has Been Condemned.

    Donald Hall.

    My Son, My Executioner.

    Digging.

    Philip Levine.

    Animals Are Passing From Our Lives.

    They Feed They Lion.

    You Can Have It.

    The  Simple Truth.

     

    Anne Sexton.

    Her Kind

    Adoption.

    Waiting To Die.

    In Celebration Of My Uterus.

    Rowing

    Adrienne Rich.

    Orion

    Planetarium.

    A Valedictorian Forbidding Mourning.

    From 21 Love Poems 13 The Rules Of Break Like A Thermometer.

    Gregory Corso.

    Marriage

    Gary Snyder.

    Hay, For The Horses.

    Riprap.

    Mid August As Sourdough Mountain Lookout.

    Dereck  Walcott.

    A Far Cry From Africa.

    Sea Grapes.

    Find The Schooner Flight Part 11 After The Storm. There’s A Fresh Light That Follows.

    The Light Of The World.

    From Omeros Book. 7. 44 I Sing Of Quiet,Achiles, Afrolabe’s Son.

    Miller Williams.

    Let Me tell you.

    Etheridge Knight

    Idea Of Ancestry.

    Amira Baraka, Leroy Jones.

    Preface To A 20 Volume Suicide Note.

    Agony As Now.

    SOS.

    Black Art.

    Ted Berrigon .

    Wrong Rain.

    A Final Sonnet

    Andre Lorde.

    Power.

    Sonia Sanchez.

    Poetry at 30.

    Mark Strand.

    The Prediction.

    The Night, The Porch.

    Russell Edson.

    A Stone Is Nobody’s.

     

    Mary Oliver.

    Singapore.

    The Summer’s Day.

    Charles Wright.

    Reunion.

    Dead Color.

    California Dreaming.

    Lucile  Clifton.

    Homage To My Hips.

    At Least At Last We Killed The Roaches.

    The Death Of Fry, Alfred Clifton.

    To My Last.

    June, Jordan.

    Home About My Rights.

    Frederick Seidel.

    1968.

    CK Williams.

    Find My Window.

    Blades

    Tynan Wilkowski.’

    The Mechanic.

    Michael S Harper.

    Dear John. Dear Coltrane.

    Last Affair. Bessies Blues Song.

    Grandfather.

    Nightmare Begins Responsibility.

    Charles Simik .

    Stone.

    Fork.

    Classic Ballroom Dances.

    Paula Gunn Allen.

     

    Grandmother.

    Frank Bidart.

    Ellen West.

    Carl Dennis.

    Spring Letter.

    Two Or Three Wishes.

    Stephen Dunn.

    Allegory Of The Cave.

    Tucson.

    Robert Pensky.

    History Of My Heart.

    The Questions.

    Samurai Song.

    James Welch.

    Christmas Comes To Moccasin Flat.

    Billy Collins.

    Introduction To Poetry.

    The Dead.

    Toi Derricote .

    Allen Ginsberg.

    The Weakness.

    Stephen Dobyns.

    How To Like It?

    Lullaby.

    Robert Hass.

    Song.

    That Photographer?

    Return Of Robinson Jeffers.

    Lyn Hejinian

    From My Life trim With Colored Ribbons.

    BH  Fairchild.

    The Machinist Teaching His Daughter To Play The Piano.

    Haki  R Madhubuti Don L Lee.

    But He Was Cool Or Even Stopped For Green Lights.

    Upon To Compliment Other Poems.

    William Matthews.

    In Memory Of The Utah Stars.

    The  Accompanist

    . Sharon Olds

    The Language Of The Brag.

    The Lifting.

    Henry Taylor.

    Barbed Wire.

    Tess Gallagher.

    Black, Silver.

    Under Stars.

    Michael Palmer.

    I Do Not.

    James Tate.

    The Lost  Pilot.

    Norman Dubie.

    Elizabeth War With The Christmas Bear.

    The Funeral.

    Carol Muske Dukes,.

    August, Los Angeles Lullaby.

    Kay Ryan.

    Turtle

    Bestiary

    Larry Levis.

    Childhood Ideogram

    Winter Stars

    Adrian C Lousis

    Looking For Judas

    How much lux?

    The People of the Other  Village.

    Marilyn Nelson.

    The Ballad of Aunt Geneva.

    Star Fix.

    Run Stilleman

    Albany

    AI

    Cuba 1963

    The Kid

    Finished

    Yusef Komunyakaa

    Thanks

    To Do Street

    Facing It

    Nude Interogation

    Nathaniel Mc Kay

    Song of the Aduumboulou

    Gregory Orr

    Gathering the Bones Together

    Two Lines From the Brother Grimm

    Origin of the Marble Forrest

    Robert Hill Whiteman

    Reaching Yellow River

    Albert Goldbarth

    Away

    Heather Mc Hugh

    Language Lesson 1976

    What He Thought

    Leslie Marmon Silko

    In  Cold Storm Light

    Olga Boumas

    Calypso

    Victor Hernadez Soul

    Latin and Soul

    Jane Miller

    Miami Heart

    David St. James

    Iris

    CD Wright

    Why Ralph Refuses to Dance

    Girl Friend Poe # 3

    Crescent

    Carolyn Forche

    Taking Off My Clothes

    Jorie Graham

    San Sepolcro

    Marie Howe

    What the Living Do

    Joy Harjo

    She Had Some Horses

    My House is the Red Earth

    Garret Honjo

    The Legend

    Andrew  Hugins

    Beggoten

    We Were Simply Talking

    Brigit Peggen Kelly

    Imaging Their Own Hyms

    Song

    Paul Muldoon

    Meeting the British

    Errata

    The Throwback

    Judith Orez Coffer

    Quinceanera

    Rita Dove

    Parsely

    Day Star

    After Reading Mikey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed

    Alice Fulton

    Our Calling

    Brbar Hamby

    Thinking of Galieo

    Hatred

    Mark Jarman

    Unholly Sonnet

    Naomi Shibab Nye

    The Traveling Onion

    Arabic

    Wedding Cake

    Alberto Rios

    Nani

    Enland Finally like My Mother Always Said We Would

    Laurie Sheck

    Nocturne Blue Waves

    The Unfinished

    Gary Sotto

    Field Poem

    Oranges

    Black Hair

    Susan Stewart

    Yellow Star and Ice

    The Forrest

    Mark Dotty

    Brillance

    Esta Noche

    Bill’s Story

    Harryette Mullen

    Black Nikes

    Franz Wright

    Alcohol

    Lorna Dee Cervantes

    To My Brother

    Love of My Flesh, Living Death

    Sandra Cisneros.

    My Wicked, Wicked Ways.

    Little Clowns, My Heart.

    Cornelius, Eady.

    Jack Johnson Does The Eagle Rock.

    Crows In A Strong Wind.

    I’m A Fool To Love You.

     

    Louise Eldritch

    .         Indian Boarding School. The Runaways.

    David Mason.

    Spooning.

    Marilyn Chin.

    How I Got That Name?

    Compose Near The Bay Bridge

    The Survivor

    Cathysong .

    The Youngest Daughter.

    Ann Finch.

    Another Reluctance.

    Insert

    Lee Young Lee.

    The Gift

    Eating Together.

    Carl Philiphs

    Our Lady

    As From a Quiver of Arrows

    Nick Flynn

    Bag of Mice

    Cartoon Physics

    Elizabeth Alexander

    The Viena Hottenot

    Reetivka Vazisrani

    From White Elephants

    A million Balconies

    Train Windows

    Sherman Alexie

    What the Orphan Inherits

    The Pow Wow at the End of the World

    Natasha Trethevey

    Hot Combs

    Amateur Fighter

    Flounder

    A E Stallings

    The Tantrum

    Joana Klink

    Spare

    Brenda Shaughnessy

    Postfeminism

    Your One Good Dress

    Kevin Young

    Quivra City Limits

    Everywhere is Out of Town

    Whaatever You Want

    Terrance Hayes

    At Pegasus

              Lady Sings the Blues

     

     

     

     

    Monthly Themes enter one review per month

    January

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    Part two reading recommendations until July 15, 2025

     

    Part three Reading recommendations July to August

     

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    15 Masterpieces of American Literature to Read at Least Once in Your Life

     

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    Goodreads lists top 100 books released every year in the last century

    Good reads  top book of last hundred years

    1957 – On the Road by Jack Kerouac.

    1958 – Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.

    1959 – The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.

    1960 – To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

    1961 – Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.

    1962 – A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L’Engle.

    1963 – The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

    1964 – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.

    1965 – Dune by Frank Herbert.

    1966 – Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.

    1967 – One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

    1968 – A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin.

    1969 – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.

    1970 – The Bluest Eye by Tony Morrison.

    1971 – The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty.

    1972 – The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin.

    1973 – The Princess Bride by William Goldman.

    1974 – If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin.

    1975 – Shogun by James Clavell.

    1976 – Roots by Alex Haley.

     

    Rest of the List

    1925 – Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.

    1926 – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie.

    1927 – Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.

    1928 – All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.

    1929 – Passing by Nella Larsen.

    1930 – As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.

    1931 – The Waves by Virginia Woolf.

    1932 – Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

    1933 – Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain.

    1934 – Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

    1935 – Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers.

    1936 – Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot.

    1937 – Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.

    1938 – Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.

    1939 – The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.

    1940 – Native Son by Richard Wright.

    1941 – The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges.

    1942 – The Stranger by Albert Camus.

    1943 – The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry.

    1944 – No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre.

    1945 – The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.

    1946 – The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers.

    1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.

    1948 – I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.

    1949 – 1984 by George Orwell.

    1950 – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.

    1951 – The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger.

    1952 – Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.

    1953 – Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

    1954 – The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien.

    1955 – Lolita by Vladimr Nabokov.

    1956 – Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin.

    1977 – The Shining by Stephen King.

    1978 – The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin.

    1979 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

    1980 – The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

    1981 – Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

    1982 – The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende.

    1983 – The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett.

    1984 – The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros.

    1985 – The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood.

    1986 – Maus by Art Spiegelman.

    1987 – Beloved by Tony Morrison.

    1988 – The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushtie.

    1989 – The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.

    1990 – V for Vendetta by Alan Moore.

    1991 – Possession by A. S. Byatt.

    1992 – The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

    1993 – Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler.

    1994 – The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa.

    1995 – Wicked by Gregory Maguire.

    1996 – A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin.

    1997 – Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer.

    1998 – A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.

    1999 – all about love by bell hooks.

    2000 – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon.

    2001 – Atonement by Ian McEwan.

    2002 – Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides.

    2003 – The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

    2004 – Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.

    2005 – Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

    2006 – The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

    2007 – In The Woods by Tana French.

    2008 – The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

    2009 – Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese.

    2010 – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.

    2011 – The Martian by Andy Weir.

    2012 – Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.

    2013 – Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan.

    2014 – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.

    2015 – The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin.

    2016 – The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.

    2017 – Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.

    2018 – Circe by Madeline Miller.

    2019 – On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong.

    2020 – The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett.

    2021 – Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner.

    2022 – Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsoliver.

    2023 – Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros.

    2024 – James by Percival Everett.

     

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    📺 Series Overview: Gone for Good (2021)

    Premise:
    Guillaume Lucchesi thought he had moved past the tragedy that claimed his brother Fred and first love Sonia. But ten years later, his girlfriend Judith vanishes during his mother’s funeral, triggering a desperate search that unearths buried secrets and forces him to confront the past he tried to forget.

    Format:

    • 5 episodes
    • Released on Netflix
    • French title: Disparu à jamais
    • Created by David Elkaïm and Vincent Poymori
    • Executive Producer: Harlan Coben

    📽️ Episode Synopses

    Episode Title Summary
    1️⃣ Guillaume Guillaume’s life is upended when Judith disappears. Flashbacks reveal the trauma of losing Fred and Sonia.
    2️⃣ Inès Guillaume investigates his mother’s finances and uncovers clues about Judith’s past. Inès hides a key piece of evidence.
    3️⃣ Daco Daco’s neo-Nazi past resurfaces as he helps Guillaume track Judith’s daughter Alice. A funeral reveals a shocking twist.
    4️⃣ Nora Judith’s real identity as Nora is revealed. Flashbacks to Italy show her escape from an abusive husband and Fred’s involvement.
    5️⃣ Fred Fred returns, seeking revenge and redemption. Guillaume learns the truth about Sonia’s death and confronts his brother in a deadly showdown.

    🎭 Cast List

    Actor Character
    Finnegan Oldfield Guillaume Lucchesi
    Nicolas Duvauchelle Fred Lucchesi
    Nailia Harzoune Judith Conti / Nora
    Garance Marillier Sonia & Inès Kasmi
    Guillaume Gouix Daco
    Tómas Lemarquis Ostertag
    Grégoire Colin Kesler
    Jacques Bonnaffé Mr. Lucchesi
    Mila Ayache Alice
    Sonia Bonny Awa

    🗣️ Notable Quotes from the Book

    “You want the good guys on one side, the bad on the other. It doesn’t work that way, does it? It is never that simple.”
    — Gone for Good, Harlan Coben

    “The mind does that. It tries to find a way out. It makes deals with God. It makes promises.”
    — Gone for Good

    These quotes reflect the novel’s central theme: the murky moral terrain of love, loss, and redemption.

    📚 Literary Reputation

    Harlan Coben is widely regarded as one of the most successful thriller writers of his generation. His novels are known for:

    • Twist-heavy plots
    • Ordinary people in extraordinary danger
    • Themes of buried secrets and family trauma

    Gone for Good was praised for its emotional depth and suspense, and its adaptation continues Coben’s streak of successful international Netflix series.

    👤 Author Bio: Harlan Coben

    • Born: January 4, 1962, Newark, NJ
    • Education: Amherst College (Political Science)
    • Awards: Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony — the only author to win all three
    • Books in print: Over 90 million
    • Known for: Myron Bolitar series, standalone thrillers, and Netflix adaptations
    • Lives in: Ridgewood, NJ with his wife and four children

    📖 Book List (Selected)

    🔹 Myron Bolitar Series

    • Deal Breaker (1995)
    • Fade Away (1996)
    • Darkest Fear (2000)
    • Home (2016)
    • Think Twice (2024)

    🔹 Mickey Bolitar Series (YA)

    • Shelter (2011)
    • Seconds Away (2012)
    • Found (2014)

    🔹 Standalone Novels

    • Tell No One (2001)
    • Gone for Good (2002)
    • The Innocent (2005)
    • The Stranger (2015)
    • I Will Find You (2023)

    🎬 Movie & TV Adaptations

    Title Country Year Notes
    Tell No One France 2006 Acclaimed film adaptation
    Safe UK 2018 Netflix original
    The Stranger UK 2020 Netflix original
    The Innocent Spain 2021

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    20 Books That Predicted the Future – And Got It Scarily Right

    1. “1984” by George Orwell (1949)
    2. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley (1932)
    3. “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury (1953)
    4. “Neuromancer” by William Gibson (1984)
    5. “Stand on Zanzibar” by John Brunner (1968)
    6. “The Machine Stops” by E.M. Forster (1909)
    7. “Looking Backward” by Edward Bellamy (1888)
    8. “The Shockwave Rider” by John Brunner (1975)
    9. “Earth” by David Brin (1990)
    10. “The Space Merchants” by Pohl & Kornbluth (1953)
    11. “Future Shock” by Alvin Toffler (1970)
    12. “Player Piano” by Kurt Vonnegut (1952)
    13. “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson (1992)
    14. “The World Set Free” by H.G. Wells (1914)15. “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood (1985)
    15. “Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson (1962).
    16. “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand (1957)
    17. “Cryptonomicon” by Neal Stephenson (1999)©wikimed
    18. “The Diamond Age” by Neal Stephenson (1995)©wiki
    19. “Red Mars” by Kim Stanley Robinson (1992)

     

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     The Bible

    The Bible is widely considered the most read and distributed book in human history. It has been translated into over 3,500 languages, and billions of copies have been printed and shared. With its combination of spiritual guidance, historical narrative, and moral instruction, it’s central to Christianity and has influenced countless aspects of literature and law worldwide.

    2. The Quran

    The Quran, the holy book of Islam, is another one of the most widely read texts in the world. It has been memorized, studied, and recited by millions of Muslims daily for centuries. Its poetic style, teachings, and laws form the foundation of Islamic belief and practice.

    3. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (The Little Red Book)

    This collection of quotes by the former Chinese leader Mao Zedong was published in the 1960s during the Cultural Revolution. It was required reading in China and distributed to over a billion people. The book was considered a symbol of loyalty to Mao’s communist ideals.

    4. The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

    This seven-book fantasy series has captivated audiences across generations and countries. With over 500 million copies sold globally, Harry Potter’s influence extends beyond literature into film, merchandise, and theme parks. Its universal themes of friendship, courage, and good vs. evil have made it a modern classic.

     

    5. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

    Published in the 1950s, this epic high-fantasy trilogy revolutionized the genre. Tolkien’s richly detailed world of Middle-earth, filled with hobbits, wizards, and dark lords, continues to inspire generations of readers and writers. The books have sold over 150 million copies and remain popular worldwide.

    6. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

    This philosophical novel about a shepherd’s journey to find treasure has touched readers with its messages about destiny, faith, and purpose. Originally published in Portuguese in 1988, it has been translated into over 80 languages and sold more than 65 million copies.

    7. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

    This poignant account of a young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis during World War II is one of the most powerful memoirs ever written. It has been translated into dozens of languages and remains required reading in many schools, emphasizing the importance of tolerance and remembrance.

    Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

    First published in the early 1600s, Don Quixote is one of the earliest and most influential novels ever written. The story of an aging man’s quest to become a knight is both humorous and tragic, and its themes continue to resonate. It has sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide.

    9. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

    Before The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien introduced readers to Middle-earth with The Hobbit. This tale of Bilbo Baggins’ adventure with dwarves and dragons is beloved for its humor, heart, and moral lessons. It has sold over 100 million copies and remains a staple in children’s and fantasy literature.

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    10. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

    Published in 1937, this self-help classic on success and wealth-building has sold over 100 million copies. It’s credited with inspiring generations of entrepreneurs and motivational speakers. Its influence remains strong in business and personal development communities.

     

    100 of the Best Books of All Time

     

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    1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1878)

    Ah, Anna Karenina. Lusty love affair or best romance of all time? Most critics pin it as one of most iconic literary love stories, and for good reason. Leo Tolstoy’s sweeping Russian tale of star-crossed lovers is littered with swoon-worthy love quotes like, “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” Described by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” this one belongs on any book collector’s shelf.

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    2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

    Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird upends the quiet solitude of a segregated Southern town with a story of innocence and virtue, bigotry and hate, love and forgiveness. Eight-year-old Scout Finch and her father, Atticus, find themselves enmeshed in the trial of a Black man accused of raping a White woman. In one of the most deeply sad books, Lee tells the events, revelations, and lessons through the eyes of a young child. Widely read and widely taught, To Kill a Mockingbird continues to spark discussions of race in classrooms and libraries across the country.

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    3. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (1974)

    The imagination and artistry of Shel Silverstein are on full display in this classic collection of short stories and poems. Where the Sidewalk Ends is truly one of the best poetry books of all time because of its staying power for children and adults alike. Whimsical and masterful, the stories of this American poet, author, singer, and folk artist have something for everyone.

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    4. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (1966)

    Sex and drugs have a common allure, but they also have a common endgame: a downward spiral. In Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann offers in lurid detail the stories of three young women who want nothing more than to reach the pinnacle of life. But just as they see it in their grasp, they lose it all in a coil of sex, lust, romance, and abandonment. This page-turner is one of those classic beach reads you won’t be able to put down, and it paved the way for similar scintillating vacation books.

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    5. The Shining by Stephen King (1977)

    The master of suspense must be included in any list of books you should read in a lifetime. That’s why you’ll find Stephen King’s The Shining here. Brought to life in cinematic perfection by Jack Nicholson, Jack Torrance is a middle-aged man looking for a fresh start. He thinks he’s found it when he lands a job as the off-season caretaker at an idyllic old hotel, the Overlook. But as snow piles higher outside, the secluded location begins to feel more confining and sinister, less freeing and more provoking. Horror fans, take note: This is one of the scariest and best Stephen King books of all time.

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    6. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)

    The Little Prince is a timeless tale of a prince’s journey from planet to planet in search of adventure. What he finds, however, are interactions with adults who leave him frustrated or dismayed. In the Sahara Desert, he runs into the book’s narrator, and the two start an eight-day journey filled with lessons. Don’t let this book’s size fool you—it’s one of the most compelling short books we’ve ever read. It’s also one of the most widely read classics all over the world. Whether you prefer reading in English, French, or another language, you’re bound to find a copy.

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    7. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)

    In The Fellowship of the Ring, the first book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, journey to Middle-earth and into the world of Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Gandalf the Grey, the dark lord Sauron, and the entire assemblage of Tolkien’s most famous characters and story lines. Frodo is tasked with destroying the One Ring, the most powerful Ring in Mordor, but along the way, his quest is filled with many of Tolkien’s unique and captivating characters, as well as an adventure of epic proportions. Though the world of Middle-earth is entirely made up, the trilogy teases out universal themes of good versus evil that have resonated with readers of all ages and backgrounds. It’s widely regarded as one of the best fantasy books of all time and a must-read for lovers of the genre.

     

    8. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)

    Offred, a handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, has been removed from the home, family, and life that she knew only to be forced into service as a housemaid—and a working pair of ovaries. As the population of Gilead falls, a woman’s value becomes contingent upon her fertility and ability to reproduce, and those who can procreate are stripped of their independence. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is one part cautionary tale and one part enthralling narrative. Though written decades ago, it remains chillingly compelling for our time as was proven by audience reactions to it’s on-screen adaptation. While Season 6 of The Handmaid’s tale is yet to be released, you can binge the rest of the show on Hulu if you like both watching and reading. There’s a reason Reader’s Digest counts it among the best feminist books.

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    9. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (1962)

    While this book may have seen an uptick in interest thanks to the 2018 film starring Oprah Winfrey, Mindy Kaling, and Reese Witherspoon, Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time has long been held as a must-read for its fantastical telling of splitting the fabric of time and space. A Newbery Medal winner, this science-fantasy novel follows troublesome and stubborn Meg Murry as she confronts her father’s mysterious disappearance with a collection of peculiar neighbors: Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which. Elements of love, trust, and overcoming fear are woven into this enchanting coming-of-age story. We always recommend reading the book before pressing “play,” so once you’ve thoroughly devoured this story, check out the other stellar books made into movies.

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    10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)

    Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice adorned shelves of many a learned reader in the 1800s and 1900s, but its timeless story and lessons earn it a spot in many home libraries (and on many school reading lists) even today. When eligible young men arrive in their neighborhood, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett must prepare their five eager daughters for the role of a lifetime: wife. While the Bennett sisters’ wit and humor keep the pages flipping, the classic story, which is widely considered one of the best romance novels, also serves as a harbinger for hasty mistakes and erred judgments.

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    11. All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (1974)

    Political junkies of all stripes will relish the words of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they recount the experiences and events of Watergate. Published just months before President Richard Nixon’s 1974 resignation, the book outlines all the evidence against Nixon and his cohort of political operatives that the two accomplished reporters unearthed during their investigations. It also marks the genesis of Deep Throat (later revealed to be Mark Felt, the associate director of the FBI), the secretive government informant who helped take down Nixon in the end.

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    12. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (1946)

    Between 1942 and 1945, Viktor Frankl labored in four Nazi death camps. His parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Later in life, Frankl became a psychiatrist and practiced what he coined logotherapy, a theory that our lives are primarily driven by the discovery and pursuit of what we find meaningful. In Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl shares the horrors he faced in those concentration camps. But in this extraordinary Holocaust book, he also shares the lessons he learned—and later taught his patients—about spiritual revival in the face of such great suffering. Here are some more drama book recommendations to add to your reading list.

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    13. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)

    Toni Morrison’s Beloved stares down the horrors of slavery and transforms a narrative you think you’ve read a hundred times into a towering tale of pain, agony, triumph, and freedom. The story of Sethe, the novel’s protagonist, is gut-wrenchingly honest and simultaneously beautiful and hideous. She wears the worries of past decisions and strives longingly toward freedom, the arc for which her entire life story bends. The suspense wears heavy on the reader, and the choices you must weigh alongside Sethe are haunting. The book is a cultural landmark for breaking through the monotony of textbook descriptions and offering a human glimpse at a shameful season in history.

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    14. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1965)

    On Nov. 15, 1959, the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, was turned on end by the savage murder of four members of the Clutter family. The police had no suspects and almost no evidence. Truman Capote’s book In Cold Blood recounts in chilling detail the deaths of the family and the investigation that ultimately led to the arrest of two recently paroled ex-convicts. Capote’s work may be a story stuck in time, but its nonfiction narrative reveals a lot about violence and evil that resonates even today. This is often considered a model for the best true crime books, regardless of the time period.

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    15. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (2007)

    It’s a story so painful, you’d prefer to think it is fiction. But Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone is an entirely true recounting of his years as a child soldier in Sierra Leone, West Africa. With this book, you’ll get a firsthand look at what life is like for the world’s 300,000 child soldiers, many of whom are stolen from their homes and forced into a world of drugs, guns, and murder. In a world made small by 24-hour news and lightning-speed technology, this is a must-read for understanding the plight of fellow humans.

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    16. Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)

    A science fiction novel for the ages, Frank Herbert’s Dune tells the adventures of Paul Atreides—who will become known as Muad’Dib—as he and his family strive to bring humankind’s greatest dream to life while living on a desert planet. Though written in 1965, much of Dune‘s story may be more relevant to 21st-century readers than it was to bookworms who picked it up in the ’60s. It has sparked countless other works in the collection of stellar science fiction books.

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    17. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)

    When Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations, he gave life to some of literature’s most colorful and enduring characters: Pip, Miss Havisham, and Uncle Pumblechook, to name a few. His penultimate novel, Great Expectations details the life and stories of an orphan named Pip, growing up in Kent and London in the early to mid-1800s. It’s a classic and a must-read quite simply because it’s been described as one of Dickens’ best works, an appraisal to which Dickens himself agreed.

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    18. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown (2012)

    Brené Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston, throws everything we know about vulnerability and emotional exposure to the wind in Daring Greatly, one of the most groundbreaking self-help books of our time. After more than a decade of research, Brown wrote this book to dispel the myth that vulnerability is a weakness. Instead, she argues, it’s one of the most accurate measures of courage and the only path to true experiences.

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    19. 1984 by George Orwell (1949)

    George Orwell certainly couldn’t have known how prophetic his words might have been when he wrote the dystopian novel 1984 in the mid-20th century. Great Britain has fallen and given way to Airstrip One, a province of the fictional superstate Oceania. Airstrip One is ruled by perpetual war and Big Brother, a mysterious leader who uses omnipresent government surveillance and a cult of personality to enforce law and order. Winston Smith, the book’s leading character, must navigate the Party, Big Brother, and his thoughts, which grow more criminal by the day.

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    20. Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (1996)

    In his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, Angela’s Ashes, author Frank McCourt recounts his childhood spent in the slums of Limerick, Ireland: “When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.” McCourt battled poverty, near-starvation, neglect, and cruelty but manages to tell his story with humor, compassion, and self-perpetuating power. His award-winning book is widely considered one of the best memoirs of all time.

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    21. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (1988)

    Most science books, even well-written ones, read a bit too much like textbooks. But renowned English physicist, cosmologist, and author Stephen Hawking manages to turn some of the world’s most profound questions—How did the universe begin? What happens in the end?—into captivating reading. A modern physics guide, this book was perhaps the first to make the most mysterious elements of the universe (black holes and quarks) entirely accessible for the general public.

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    22. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)

    Guy Montag’s existence in Fahrenheit 451 might hit a little close to home: He’s a fireman in a futuristic dystopian world whose job is to find and destroy the illegal commodities of a world whose sole focus is television: books. Indeed, Montag believes the printed word is dangerous—until a mysterious neighbor, Clarisse, shows up and opens his eyes to the wonder of the written word. This spellbinding story explores questions about the importance of literature and free speech. If you oppose banning books, this is the novel for you.

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    23. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (2000)

    First released in 2000, Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius became a national best seller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a heartwarming classic. This masterpiece is the memoir of a college senior whose life is turned upside down when he loses both of his parents within the span of five weeks and finds himself the guardian of his eight-year-old brother. Despite that ominous start, the book manages to be wildly funny with an irreverently honest take on learning to live with death.

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    24. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (1997)

    Welcome to the wizarding world, muggles. In J.K. Rowling’s first installment of the beloved series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, you will be introduced to many of the story’s most important—and entrancing—characters: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Dumbledore, Hagrid, and more. But before you get settled into the fun of spells and potions, the action starts right away as Harry finds himself troubled by the feeling his destiny is intertwined with his past. This book landed on our list for its explosive popularity and deep impression on the fantasy genre, as well as its many memorable quotes that will stay with you.

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    25. Selected Stories, 1968–1994 by Alice Munro (1996)

    Alice Munro, one of the most prolific writers of the modern era, captures life’s most honest feelings and moments in these 28 magnificent short stories. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, this short story collection will never cease to surprise you with its eloquent story lines, captivating characters, and endlessly wonderful realism. It’s a book that belongs on any bibliophile’s home bookshelf.

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    26. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (2012)

    She thought a cancer diagnosis had sealed her fate and written her life story, but a chance meeting with Augustus Waters turns Hazel Lancaster’s life upside down. Irreverent and bold, The Fault in Our Stars is a funny, captivating, and gut-wrenching story. It’s about learning to feel love, enjoy being alive, and live a bold life despite circumstances beyond your control. No wonder it’s ranked among the best sad books (have the tissue box handy) and best books for teens.

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    27. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (1865)

    If all you know of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland is the zany but sanitized version of the 1951 Walt Disney animation, it’s time to flip your perspective on its head—much like the Cheshire Cat might flip himself. Scholars have tried to apply political, historical, and ideological theories to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, but it’s quite simply the dreamlike story of learning to grow (or shrink) and explore, told through the eyes of a curious child. Still, its cultural effects have rippled so far that it’s a must-read for anyone with even a hint of literary interest.

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    28. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)

    A winner of the National Book Award for fiction, Ralph Ellison’s first novel, Invisible Man, spent an admirable 16 weeks atop the New York Times best-seller list. Its early success is due in large part to the relatable nature of its narrator, a young, nameless Black man who has to navigate levels of 1950s American culture that are fraught with hate and bias. Eager for a place in time to call his own, the narrator finds that what he hopes for himself will ultimately remain elusive, just as the truth behind the events that surround him remains ambiguous. The 581-page tome is a bit much for younger readers, but you can still introduce them to issues of race and equality with these children’s books about diversity.

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    29. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (1970)

    If you read this as an adolescent—and considering it’s often taught in schools, there’s a good chance you did—it’s time to reread Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. Awkward and inelegant as they may be, sixth-grader Margaret’s questions and quests (to grow bigger breasts, for example, while also seeking out her preferred religion) lead her to greater understanding and self-appreciation. The book will make you cringe as you recall your own experiences and desires to throw off the chains of childhood while budding into young adulthood. It’s a coming-of-age story that sparked dozens after it, but isn’t the original always the best?

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    30. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)

    According to the New York Times Book Review, this masterpiece by Gabriel García Márquez is “the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race.” One Hundred Years of Solitude recounts the evolution of an entire fictitious town, Macondo. Through tales of men and women, boys and girls, the author—father of the magical realism literary style—offers a striking picture of the heartbreaking beauty and pain of the human race. Though it also landed on our list of the best books by Latinx authors, its true place is here, among the best books of all time.

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    31. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)

    If all you know of this American literature classic is the colloquial expression about decision-making, pick up Catch-22 for a dark and comedic good read. Yossarian, a member of an Italian bomber crew during World War II, is desperate to excuse himself from the increasingly high number of suicidal missions his commanders force him and his servicemen to fly. The catch comes when he realizes the sinister bureaucratic rule, Catch-22, classifies him as sane—and thus ineligible for relief—if he requests to be removed from duty. The book made waves as an anti-war anthem and representation of the individual versus society.

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    32. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (2000)

    Through this powerful graphic novel, Satrapi tells the story of her childhood in Tehran during the overthrow of the Shah, the rise of the Islamic Revolution, and the destruction of the Iran-Iraq war. As the daughter of two Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran’s last emperors, Satrapi holds a unique perspective and position in recounting stories of daily life in Iran. Learn, alongside Satrapi, about the history and heroes that define this fascinating country. The book captured readers’ attention for both its modern form—a graphic novel—and important, close-up peek at a country most Americans only know about from the news.

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    33. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White (1952)

    You’re never too old to visit with Charlotte, Wilbur, and Templeton. This heartwarming tale of friendship and dedication follows young Wilbur, a runt of a pig, as he’s spared from one death but subsequently sent to another almost-certain death. Desperate to help the petite porker, Charlotte, a barn spider, hatches a plan that proves genius and life-altering for young Wilbur. Charlotte’s Web remains a touching, great read for families.

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    34. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)

    Slaughterhouse-Five is a science-fiction-infused, anti-war novel that follows American soldier Billy Pilgrim. A central event in the story—as well as Vonnegut’s own life—is the firebombing of Dresden. Pilgrim begins to see many of the events in his life as repercussions of that deathly event. Much of Slaughterhouse-Five is autobiographical, but that hasn’t stopped pushes for censorship because of the book’s irreverent tone and unfiltered depictions of sex and profanity. One part futuristic storytelling, one part reflective memoir, Slaughterhouse-Five is often held as Vonnegut’s most important piece of writing.

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    35. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (2009)

    Abraham Verghese weaves multiple lush story lines into an opus of secrets, betrayal, love, and redemption in Cutting for Stone. Marion and Shiva Stone, twin brothers born of a secret union between an Indian nun and a British surgeon, are orphaned at a young age by their mother’s death and father’s disappearance. The two, bound together by blood and bond, leave war-seized Ethiopia for New York City only to return later to discover their fates and futures are intertwined with their pasts. The novel was groundbreaking for its depiction of medicine as primarily focused on people rather than procedures.

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    36. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X and Alex Haley (1965)

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X stands as the definitive work of an era in American history when cultural, racial, and religious ideologies met at a pinnacle. Malcolm X, a firebrand, Muslim, and anti-integrationist leader, reveals the limits he sees in the American Dream and the changes that can be made through a force of will and effort. Fun fact: Coauthor Alex Haley was once an editor at Reader’s Digest.

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    37. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson (1971)

    Even if you’ve never consumed a hallucinogenic drug in your life, you’ll likely feel a deep relationship to the wild ride many drug users describe after you read Hunter S. Thompson’s rollicking Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The book is the recounting of a wild, long weekend in Las Vegas, where he and his Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, are sent to cover a biker’s race in the deserts of Nevada. The drug-addled duo never gets the story—not much of a spoiler—but what did come of the journey is a tour de force of a bygone era.

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    38. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1999)

    In this collection of short stories, Jhumpa Lahiri outlines the complex dynamics that exist when Indian traditionalism meets an American culture that often offers little respect for complex cultural dynamics it doesn’t understand. Each character’s story traces recognizable themes—longing, lust, betrayal—but they’re told in a complex story line that’s rich with detail. It’s an important read in our modern, multicultural world.

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    39. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)

    Reading The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is a rite of passage for many adolescents and young adults, but older adults will find a lot to appreciate in this young woman’s wise words. Written during World War II as Nazis carried out their campaign of death and destruction, this journal is a day-by-day accounting of what life was like when a family was forced into hiding. Frank’s humanity and grace in light of her circumstances are inspiring and heartbreaking at once. It’s a deeply moving nonfiction book for kids and adults alike.

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    40. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

    Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita may have first gained fame and notoriety for its infamous accounting of the protagonist’s unnatural (and, many argue, predatory) erotic predilections, but its staying power rests squarely on the breathtaking story that belies the most controversial elements. It’s a requiem about love (and, yes, lust), in all its maddening forms.

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    41. Love Medicine by Louise Eldrich (1984)

    Shakespeare’s Montagues and Capulets can barely hold a handle to Louise Eldrich’s Kashpaws and Lamartines. Love Medicine, a dazzling work of storytelling that takes place on and around a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, shares the intertwined fates of two multigenerational families. Themes of injustice, betrayal, magic, and mystique surround a beautiful story that, in the end, is all about the power of love. For more entertainment from this era, turn on one of these fantastic ’80s movies.

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    42. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (2000)

    This laugh-out-loud collection of short stories makes for great leisurely reading. In Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris shares the absurd and hysterical twists he was able to tease out of life’s more mundane and boring events growing up in Raleigh, North Carolina. The book continues as Sedaris moves to France, where he also shares the awkwardly charming stories of learning to live in a city and country that’s not at all familiar.

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    43. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)

    Calliope Helen Stephanides was born in Detroit in 1960, the heyday of Motor City, to a Greek American family who lived a quintessentially suburban American life. Moving out of the city, Calliope is faced with the realization that she’s not like other girls. It takes uncovering a family secret (and an astonishing genetic history) to understand why. Middlesex made waves as an audacious story of sexuality that transcends stereotypes of gender, sex, and identity.

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    44. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)

    Saleem Sinai was born at midnight on August 15, 1947. That is precisely the moment India became an independent state. Greeted with fireworks and fanfare, Sinai and 1,000 other “midnight’s children” across India soon find their health, well-being, thoughts, and capabilities are preternaturally linked to one another—and to their country’s national affairs, health, and power. In this magical realism novel, Salman Rushdie offers a timeless, enchanting story of family, heritage, and duty.

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    45. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)

    We’d be remiss to leave out one of the most beloved American authors of the 20th century: John Steinbeck. In East of Eden, he presents a masterpiece that highlights the tension between good and evil through three generations of the Trasks and Hamiltons. You’ll be swept away by the complex characters and their similarities to Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel. Though Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath is assigned more often in high school classrooms, East of Eden takes the cake for its sweeping timeline and broader themes. It’s one of the best historical fiction books in existence.

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    46. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (2003)

    The Oakland Athletics were written off, discarded, and ignored. Yet somehow they became one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. Was it their throwing talent or their ERA? No, not at all. Instead, as Michael Lewis reveals, the real secret to winning baseball has little to do with skills and more to do with statistics. In what’s been described as “the single most influential baseball book ever,” Lewis reveals the secrets of the A’s and an unusual brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts who’ve identified the real secret to being a winning ball team. This book, which features a decidedly American story about an American tradition, belongs on the bookshelf of any American reader.

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    47. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (1915)

    You might not walk away with a big life lesson after reading W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage, and perhaps that’s what makes this novel so irresistible. The orphaned protagonist, Philip Carey, is raring for adventure and love outside his brief stays in Heidelberg and Paris. Soon, he lands in London, eager to explore, and stumbles upon his greatest adventure yet: Mildred. The irresistible waitress and roaming orphan embark on a wildly fanciful but tortured and tormented affair. This book is widely considered a 20th-century English classic.

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    48. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)

    On the Road recounts a hedonistic cross-country road trip between friends in the aftermath of World War II, a story line inspired by Jack Kerouac’s adventures with friend Neal Cassady. Eager to find meaning and true experiences along the way, the duo seeks pleasures in drug-fueled escapades and counterculture experiences. The book is a must-read for its ubiquitous place among American countercultural classics (much like Catcher in the Rye).

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    49. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (1937)

    Isak Dinesen—a pen name for Danish author Karen Blixen—recounts life in British East Africa, just after World War II. While the collection of stories is not free of the racial bias and colonial attitudes of the time, Out of Africa gives a glimpse into an area of the world that’s largely overlooked when telling the coming-of-age narrative of modern countries. Fanciful and fascinating, Dinesen’s book portrays stories of lion hunts and life with native populations and European colonizers alongside a beautiful story of raising and freeing an orphaned antelope fawn. It offers readers a glimpse of a very specific place and time in history.

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    50. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1939)

    In a world rife with paperback mysteries and e-books, Agatha Christie remains one of the most popular, well-known mystery writers of all time. In her vast collection, And Then There Were None frequently rises to the top. It’s a classic whodunit. Ten strangers are invited to a remote mansion on a desolate island. Once they’ve arrived, each guest is accused of murder. So what really happened? And who is responsible? Pick up a copy to find out; it makes a great summer read, after all.

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    51. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969)

    Deemed highly controversial and too explicit when it was first published, Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint is a vividly brash look at sexuality, obscenities, masturbation, and identity. The novel is a monologue of “a lust-ridden, mother-addicted young Jewish bachelor” that details many awkward and cringeworthy moments alongside quests for identity. It remains a landmark published piece in American literature, and after you read it, you’ll most certainly never look at a piece of liver the same way.

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    52. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)

    Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published as three installments in the New Yorker in the summer of 1962. The stories—and the book that followed in September of that year—launched the American environmental revolution, as the horrors of DDT, a pesticide commonly used at the time, made their way into the American mainstream. While Carson’s work was successful at eliminating the toxin, her story serves as a lasting reminder—and a good read—about the need for protecting our land, water, and air.

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    53. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2005)

    Abraham Lincoln upended the political landscape of the 1850s when he won the Republican presidential nomination over a field of well-known, privileged men. Facing a divided nation and a crumbling war effort, Lincoln soon turned to those exact politicians to help build a team of rivals, a group of people he could turn to for honest accountability, effort, and eventually support and friendship. Team of Rivals is a deeply personal biography of one of America’s most respected leaders, told to show how he humbled himself in order to lead and govern.

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    54. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (2016)

    Don’t miss this historical fiction masterpiece that also landed on our list of the best books by Black authors. Readers will fall in love with the riveting story of two sisters with very different fates. One was kidnapped and enslaved. The other married an Englishman and built a life of wealth and prestige. The award-winning book (it won the Hemingway Foundation PEN Award and the American Book Award, among others) delves deep into generational trauma and colonization. It is a must-read for modern bibliophiles.

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    55. The Age of Innocence by Edith Warton (1920)

    This is a tale of love in the time of rigid societal requirements of New York City’s upper class. Newland Archer, an attorney from a respected family, is engaged to May Welland. Despite his betrothal, Archer finds himself taken by Countess Ellen Olenska, Welland’s unconventional cousin. Despite his own personal desires, Archer marries Welland as he has promised but continues to see Olenska. This best-of-both-worlds approach seems to please Newland, but his dreams ultimately come to an end as he’s forced to face the life he wants versus the life society expects him to lead. The book has sparked discussions in book clubs and classrooms for a century.

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    56. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2000)

    You don’t need pirates and boats to have a swashbuckling thriller of a book. In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, the lives and adventures of a curious and meddlesome pair of cousins are explored in exuberant detail. Cousins Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay swing through the glittering streets of pre–World War II Brooklyn, spinning up comic books to feed America’s growing craze. Their hero, Escapist, fights fascists and falls hard for Luna Moth, an ethereal, mysterious, and desirous paramour. Their lives—and their careers—are equally bright and fanciful. The book received an incredible amount of praise from readers and critics. It also became a New York Times best seller.

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    57. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2005)

    If you’re reading this list, you likely understand the power that a book has to feed and nurture a soul. In that case, Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief will be right at home in your hands. In 1939 Nazi Germany, Liesel Meminger seeks meaning and life amid the bombings and death. Her “weapon” of choice? Books and the written word. This is a beautiful, riveting tale that helped make the horrors of World War II fresh again for readers who learned about it from history books. Our editors agree that it’s one of the 100 best books of all time. Want great fiction like this mailed to you every month? Sign up for one of these book subscription boxes.

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    58. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown (1973)

    Every reader should take the time to read a few of the best LGBTQ books ever published. Rubyfruit Jungle is the perfect place to start. This is Rita Mae Brown’s semi-autobiographical novel about fumbling through her first relationship in sixth grade, landing in New York City’s queer society, and more. It’s a personal, poignant look at what it meant to belong to the LGBTQ+ community in the mid- to late 20th century. The award-winning book is widely recognized as an important contribution to LGBTQ+ and lesbian literature.

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    59. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (2007)

    Oscar Wao is a pleasant nerd living in New Jersey, far removed from the comforts and traditions of the Dominican Republic his mother knows and loves. Wao wants nothing more than to find love—and to be the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien. His quest for both plunges readers into mythologies of family curses, immigrant journeys, and the American experience. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a page-turner that’ll find a home with anyone who lusts for love and the human experience.

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    60. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)

    Originally meant for an adult audience, The Catcher in the Rye has become a favorite among adolescent readers and high school literature teachers. The theme of teenage angst and alienation imbue a story of rebellion as the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, looks for acceptance, recognition, and appreciation. Like so many teenagers, Caulfield finds himself facing the decision to leave everything behind, only to face the realization that perhaps his life isn’t as dreadful as it seems. For something totally different, take a bite out of one of these vampire books.

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    61. The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride (1995)

    “God is the color of water,” Ruth McBride taught her children, expressing her belief that God’s blessings, values, and grace rise above skin color and race. McBride, a “light-skinned” mother to 12 Black children, brought up her kids in the all-Black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn, sending them to Jewish schools, shuttling them to free cultural events, and eventually shepherding all of them through college and beyond. But McBride’s son, James, discovers that she’s actually a White woman who was born in Poland, and he unearths the many painful reasons she has for hiding from that truth in this powerful, National Book Award–winning memoir.

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    62. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (1989)

    Any fan of women’s fiction has likely read Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. This debut novel tells the story of four Chinese women who move to the United States in search of a better life. As their American-born daughters grow up, the women struggle to reconcile their identities, cultures, and more. It’s a beautiful, important book about mothers and daughters, motherlands and adopted lands. As the world gets smaller and smaller, as more families pack up their belongings to move to a new place, books like these are critical to fostering empathy.

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    63. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001)

    After 50 years of marriage, Enid Lambert is looking for a little excitement, but it seems the universe is working against her goals. Her husband is frail from disease, and her children’s lives are falling apart or swirling down the drain. In The Corrections, Enid wants nothing more than to bring her whole family together for one last Christmas so she has something to look forward to. What unfolds, however, is nothing short of an emotional roller coaster. The book is brimming with characters who will stick with you, which is what makes it one of the best books to read when you want to deeply feel something.

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    64. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (2003)

    The 1893 World’s Fair brought the globe to Chicago—but it also brought a cunning serial killer, H.H. Holmes. In The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson combines meticulous historical research with a bit of period storytelling to generate a truly captivating nonfiction murder mystery that also shares a lot of history about one of the world’s greatest marvels.

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    65. The Giver by Lois Lowry (1993)

    Jonas lives in a Utopian world. Everyone’s role is clear, and everyone fulfills those roles blissfully. Life is a set path that’s followed precisely. When he turns 12, however, Jonas begins to learn the reason his world is very fragile. The Giver is a dystopian story about what you’re willing to give up—and what you’re not—to live a life that’s free of emotions, pain, and suffering.

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    66. The Night Watchmen by Louise Erdrich (2020)

    The Night Watchmen snagged the top spot on our list of the best Native American books for a reason. Based on Louise Erdrich’s grandfather’s life, the story is about one Native American night watchman who fights for his right to land and identity in the United States. The book brims with beautiful sentences and a riveting story, but it also received critical acclaim for its important themes and depiction of cultural identity.

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    67. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (1995)

    Lyra, a bold and brave young woman, takes off into uncharted territories to rescue her friend and other young children from kidnapping by the Gobblers. She also has to help her uncle build a bridge to a parallel world. What she doesn’t realize, however, is that she will face choices that challenge her and require grit she doesn’t know she has. The first in the His Dark Materials series, The Golden Compass is captivating from word one.

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    68. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

    The roaring twenties still captivate the imagination of many, so dive into The Great Gatsby for a fantastic story and a historical trip that will leave you reeling. Rich characters and detailed imagery ensconce you in the era and whisk you into a beautiful story of the Jazz Age’s glitzy parties and lusty affections. The book is arguably the most well-known work depicting this time. That’s what places it among the books everyone should read. Not sure what to pick up after you close the book on Gatsby and friends? Choose the best book for you based on your zodiac sign.

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    69. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (2010)

    Henrietta Lacks, a poor Black tobacco farmer, died of cervical cancer shortly after giving birth to her fifth child in 1951. During her treatment, Lacks’ cells were taken without her knowledge, and they became the first immortalized cell line. That cell line has been used by doctors, researchers, and medical companies to develop everything from the polio vaccine to clones. Her cells are one of the most vital health tools of the 20th and 21st centuries and have made companies millions. Lacks’ family, however, knew nothing about this. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a riveting story about race, medicine, ethics, and the search for life.

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    70. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)

    Kazuo Ishiguro is on our list of contemporary writers you should have read by now. He won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, and his 2005 publication of Never Let Me Go is at least one reason why. The science fiction story centers on cloned humans living in a boarding school who await their future as forced organ donors. But, of course, clones are humans, too, and the students’ lives intertwine with friendship, love, and lust even as they grow more entrapped by their inevitable role in society. This is a must-read for its portrayal of enduring friendship, its questions about medical science, and its masterful writing.

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    71. The Liars’ Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr (1995)

    Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club is a darkly humorous story of life in east Texas in the 1960s with a family that could give anyone’s family a run for its money. A daddy who drinks too much, a mother who marries too much, and a sister whose mouth could make a grown man blush—these characters are brilliant depictions of hilarious, horrific human foibles.

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    72. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (1953)

    The Long Goodbye is a murder mystery wrapped up in thrill and suspense. Philip Marlowe befriends a down-on-his-luck veteran, but several clever plot twists later, Marlowe’s friendship with the vet leaves him in the eye of investigators and a gangster. Deeply dark and fascinating, The Long Goodbye belongs to a series of novels about investigator Marlowe, and critics quibble about which are the best. You can’t go wrong with any—they’re all must-read books. Next, check out these book recommendations based on TV shows you might’ve watched.

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    73. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (2006)

    You think you know the events that led to September 11, 2001, but The Looming Tower is a history lesson that is as profound as it is infuriating and painful. In the five decades leading up to one of America’s darkest hours, you will trace the beginning elements of fundamental Islam, the rise of Osama bin Laden, and the terrorist groups that sought to bring down a country.

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    74. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Olive Sacks (1985)

    Physicians and health care providers could likely fill volumes with the strange, heartbreaking, and obscene things they experience in their practices. In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, one doctor finally did commit those episodes to paper. Oliver Sacks recounts stories of patients with a variety of neurological disorders—including, as the name suggests, a man who mistook his wife for a hat—that leave them physically here but mentally miles away. It’s captivating and heartbreaking, and it helps you understand how doctors connect with the humans behind the diagnoses. For more medical dramas, check out our list of the best doctor shows on TV.

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    75. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (2006)

    Michael Pollan may ultimately be one of the biggest forces for changes in food systems, sustainability, and healthful living. In The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Pollan shows how the meals we choose to eat impact everything from our health to the world’s ultimate outlook. Nearly a decade after he first published this book, Pollan’s call to deeper thought and conversation about our food systems continues to shift the way we eat, grow, and share our food.

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    76. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (1974)

    New York City has been home to big personalities, but perhaps none have been quite as powerful as Robert Moses. He established much of what the city is today, from its bureaucratic utility companies to its physical layout and infrastructure. He was a force to be reckoned with, taking into his control much of the city’s development and prosperity—that is, until he finally met his match in Nelson Rockefeller. We’ve deemed this essential reading for understanding the history and politics of the Big Apple.

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    77. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (1979)

    Many words have been committed to paper to commemorate and honor the United States’ race to the moon and the men and women behind those missions. But perhaps no other book can take you deep into the mindset and the tenacity, grit, and courage it took to complete the Apollo missions the way Tom Wolfe did in The Right Stuff.

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    78. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (1953)

    As a gay Black man in the 20th century, James Baldwin inspired generations of readers who relate to any one of his identities. Despite—and sometimes spurred by—the discrimination he faced, he wrote prolifically. While there are many, many Baldwin texts to recommend, Go Tell It on the Mountain landed on this list because of its semi-autobiographical nature. This American classic tells the story of one Harlem man’s spiritual and sexual reckoning.

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    79. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006)

    The Road is a deeply poetic and haunting tale of a father and son, “each the other’s world entire,” and the journey they take across a burned and destroyed America. They have little to their names, save each other, some scavenged food, and a pistol, yet they must fend off the worst of post-apocalyptic America—roaming gangs of thieves, isolation, desolation, and devastation—as they make their way to the coast, where they hope to figure out what’s next.

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    80. The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)

    Albert Camus’ The Stranger has long lived a dual life of meaning: In one way, it’s a story of mystery, murder, death, and destruction. In another, it’s a sermon on the absurd and the power of human thought. Camus, for his part, wrote, “I summarized The Stranger a long time ago with a remark I admit was highly paradoxical: ‘In our society, any man who does not weep at his mother’s funeral runs the risk of being sentenced to death.’ I only meant that the hero of my book is condemned because he does not play the game.”

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    81. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)

    Ernest Hemingway wrote stories filled with powerful emotions and unforgettable characters in a strikingly simple manner. The Sun Also Rises, which examines the disillusionment, angst, and apprehension of the post–World War I generation, is one of his finest works. In this novel, readers follow the tales and adventures of Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley as they swing through Europe with bewildered expats, seeking out the next great thrill.

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    82. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)

    Our list of the best books of all time filled up quickly with fiction. But there are a few nonfiction tomes, including Ta-Nehisi Coates’ bible for the Black Lives Matter movement, that cannot be left out. This important book about racism offers a clear understanding of how Black men and women have been ostracized and exploited by formal systems throughout history. What makes the book even more compelling is how it mashes together history and modern memoir. The result is a bold, clear call to upend current racist systems and strive for a truly fair society.

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    83. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (1990)

    Perhaps the greatest book of fiction on Vietnam, The Things They Carried is a powerful story about war, memory, death, imagination, the importance of storytelling, and the human spirit. Tim O’Brien moves beyond the pain of war to examine the sensitivity and nature that each soldier brought with him on that long journey to Vietnam and the scars that returned with them. It’s a raw, honest look at a war that changed the country.

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    84. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (1994)

    A search for a lost cat turns into a search for a lost wife in this prescient, engrossing, and humorous novel. At the intersection of a failing marriage, a dark past, and a secretive underground, Toru Okada encounters an untold number of bizarre people and experiences as he longs for answers that may never come for him—or even for you, the reader. Reviewers have said that though this magical realism book takes time and attention to read, the magnificent tome is absolutely worth it.

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    85. The World According to Garp by John Irving (1978)

    Leave any puritan tendencies at the door when you pick up a copy of John Irving’s The World According to Garp. This story highlights the life of T.S. Garp, the bastard son of a feminist and activist. Garp’s world is a roller coaster of extremes—emotional, physical, and sexual. He faces scenarios so outlandishly awful and painful, you can’t help but laugh, cringe, cry, and cheer. Enjoy the journey!

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    86. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1603) plus rest of the plays

    If you only ever read one of Shakespeare’s plays, let it be this, the tragic tale of a son on a quest to avenge his murdered father. Part of what makes Hamlet so iconic is how it has been retold and referenced in the centuries since it was first written. This work has spawned an entire collection of other pop culture, from Disney’s The Lion King to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard. If you haven’t read it already, grab a copy of this slim little work and prepare to be swept away by madness, intrigue, and bitter fate.

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    87. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)

    One of life’s truest axioms is that there will be good times and there will be bad times. If you can relate to both, or even if you can’t, Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking is a heart-wrenching story of a marriage, a family, a relationship, and a life that’s good, great, bad, awful, and everything in between. And in the end, isn’t that just a story about life?

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    88. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)

    More than a century ago, worlds collided on the African continent when European colonizers arrived to establish outposts for their respective queens, kings, and presidents. What happened to the countries, the natives, and the settlers was nothing short of cataclysmic and tragic. Things Fall Apart tells the story of pre-colonial Africa and the great loss the world suffered when these civilizations and traditions were wiped away.

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    89. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (2010)

    The story behind Unbroken is so unbelievable and so improbable, it’s difficult to accept that it’s the real story of Louis Zamperini. Rebellious teenage years gave way to an Olympic career and eventually a stint as a U.S. airman. Zamperini soon found himself stranded in the Pacific Ocean and adrift thousands of miles from help. Where other men may have accepted their fate, he fought with hope, toughness, and humor to triumph. It’s an inspiring read for all.

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    90. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)

    Is there any other mother-daughter book as iconic as Little Women? Louisa May Alcott’s story of the March sisters—Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy—traverses their lives from childhood to adulthood. It’s a coming-of-age story that remains relevant for women everywhere because of its themes of love, career, and budding identity. No list of the best books of all time would be complete without this truly classic novel.

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    91. White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2000)

    Zadie Smith’s debut novel tells the tale of two women whose lives are forever changed by what they experienced together during World War II. This fast-paced historical fiction story covers a lot of ground: race, ethnicity, religion, class struggles, and more. The powerhouse novel landed on our list for its overwhelming praise from readers and critics alike.

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    92. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)

    When Alice Walker’s award-winning novel was first published in the 1980s, it was quickly censored. The author has said that most of the criticisms come from those who never even cracked open the book. So, what’s all the hubbub about? The Color Purple tells the story of a Black teen in 1930s rural Georgia. It centers around Celie, who writes about her day-to-day life in letters addressed to God. Yes, the book contains sexual themes, profanity, and violence. But its powerful prose has won awards, resulted in film and musical adaptations, and earned a spot on “best of” lists everywhere.

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    93. Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001)

    Set in World War II–era England, Ian McEwan’s award-winning Atonement also landed on our list of the best historical fiction of all time. The novel tells the story of Briony Tallis and how her childhood accusation against a family friend changes three lives forever. It’s a romance. It’s a war novel. It’s historical fiction that will grab hold of your 21st-century heart and squeeze it till you cry. Though it’s not a light read, you’ll find yourself flying through the pages until you reach the gut-wrenching finale.

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    94. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)

    Could a book you read in high school really be considered one of the best books of all time? In the case of Wuthering Heights, yes. Emily Brontë’s classic novel takes a simple love story and smashes it to pieces with deft psychology and a dark Gothic atmosphere. Handsome Heathcliff falls head over heels for his foster sister, Catherine. But when another man enters the scene, their love story takes a manipulative, violent turn. The ripple effects of his jealousy even carry over into the next generation. Whether you end up loving or detesting this classic, dark romance, it’s worth a read.

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    95. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (1950) plus rest of the Narnia stories

    C.S. Lewis wrote and published numerous nonfiction and fiction books throughout his lifetime, but none have seeped so soundly into pop culture as those in the Chronicles of Narnia series. In this, the first installment, Lewis whisks readers through the wardrobe and into a vivid allegory that children and adults have fallen in love with again and again. You’ll see good and evil clash in the fight between Aslan and the White Witch. You’ll see compassion and forgiveness bloom between the Pevensie siblings. And you’ll certainly whet your appetite for more fantastical adventures as you reach the final page. This book is a children’s classic for a reason.

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    96. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)

    If you haven’t yet read something by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, it’s time to start. Americanah won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction (joining the likes of Ian McEwan’s Atonement) and captured the imagination of readers all over the world. It’s the story of love, regret, and identity, as experienced by a Nigerian immigrant to the United States. The book simultaneously weaves a beautiful tale while revealing truths about the African diaspora that many American readers might not already know. It’s a new classic and truly one of the best fiction books you’ll read all year.

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    97. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

    This groundbreaking novel by Zora Neale Hurston took years to get the praise it deserved. Now it’s widely regarded as a landmark book in African American literature. It reveals themes of fate versus free will, gender, and race in the story of Janie Crawford, a young Black girl who must make her own way in 1930s Florida.

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    98. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)

    Walk either through the best bookstores in each state or your local bookstore and it won’t take long to find a shelf full of dystopian fiction. From The Hunger Games and Divergent to The Handmaid’s Tale and The Giver, twisted tales of societies gone wrong have practically become de rigueur. But once upon a time, that wasn’t the case. When Aldous Huxley penned the story of the World State, in which humans were conditioned out of their emotions and ability to bond with others, his ideas were new and somewhat shocking. The parallels to today—medicating oneself to stop feeling, genetic engineering, and instant gratification—make it all the more compelling for modern readers.

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    99. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003)

    Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel has been read by millions of people all over the world, clearly marking it as one of the best books of all time. It tells the touching story of two boys in modern-day Afghanistan: one wealthy, the other poor. The timing of the book (published at the height of the country’s presence in American news) buoyed its popularity, but the story is powerful enough to stand on its own. Themes of friendship, redemption, and familial love make it a universal chronicle that will keep readers of all ages riveted until the end. For more deeply moving fiction, join an online book club and discuss your reads with like-minded book lovers.

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    100. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (2010)

    This 2011 Pulitzer Prize–winning book is a series of 13 stories. All are connected by a record company exec named Bennie Salazar (and his assistant, Sasha). The stories intersect through time, revealing each character’s past—and the way time changes us all. It stands apart for its form, quietly shocking characters, and acknowledgment of how the world keeps spinning madly, whether we keep up with the pace or not. It’s a must-read for its insight and trajectory toward modern-day classic status. Need something else to keep you entertained when you finish this book? Press Play on one of the best movies from the past 100 years.

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    Fiction is there to drive us out of our heads, and science fiction even more so: it makes the wildest notions seem pressingly relevant to us, extends our imaginations and our sympathies.

    I’ve not only written many science-fiction (SF) novels myself, but for years I’ve written about SF, championed it, criticised it, taught it (whatever that means) and – God help me – edited it.

    Feminist SF never quite shook off Russ’s influence – ponderous imitations abound – and it’s easy to forget how much sheer fun Russ had with her foundational novel. Long ignored by the anti-feminist crowd, its anti-trans passages are now winning it new opprobrium. Well, to hell with people who won’t let their bubbles be pricked.

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    17. Cat’s Cradle (1963)

    by Kurt Vonnegut

    To write a good spoof, you need a truly hare-brained imagination; SF arises where invention takes on a peculiar life of its own. In Kurt Vonnegut’s fourth novel, a Cold War skit, a writer investigating the development of the atomic bomb uncovers “ice-nine”, a catastrophic polymer capable of solidifying all water. This uncomfortably believable idea – look it up: H2O is odd – pushes Vonnegut beyond satire and into a doomed and hilarious world all of his own.

     

    16. Camp Concentration (1968)

    by Thomas M Disch

    America has declared war on the rest of the world, and sinister army doctors have infected Sacchetti, an incarcerated poet, with a strain of syphilis, seeking to boost his intelligence. On these satirical foundations, Thomas Disch, one of the genre’s great jokers, built a terrifying enquiry into the relationship between language and perception, genius and pain. Anyone tempted to plug a chip into their brain, or microdose their way up to a pressing deadline (ahem), is well advised to nail this book to their desk.

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    15. Neuromancer (1984)

    by William Gibson

    It’s hard to say whether William Gibson wanted to satirise his times, or had got drunk on the Kool-Aid. Either way, Neuromancer defined the 1980s. Case, a hacker, is washed-up and neurologically crippled from accessing cyberspace. With nothing to lose, he signs up for one last job: breaking into the heavily guarded computer systems of a powerful corporate dynasty.

    Little does he know, he has become the tool of Wintermute, a rogue artificial intelligence striving to merge with its more powerful sibling and achieve true sentience. Any attempt to précis Neuromancer makes it sound like a bad copy of itself, so let’s try this: before Tenet and The Matrix, before Ready Player One and The Windup Girl, there was this odd, twisted, noirish beast, its skin the colour of television tuned to a dead channel.

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    14. The Dispossessed (1974)

    by Ursula K Le Guin

    By the time you’re taking pot-shots at the human condition itself, you’re less a commentator than a species of philosopher. We follow Shevek, a brilliant physicist (based on Robert Oppenheimer, a family friend of Le Guin), who travels to the capitalist hell-hole planet Urras, while pining for Anarres, his socialist homeworld.

    Yet we don’t: the more Shevak remembers, the more stultifying Anarres seems. Urras is no picnic either: adrift in its shallowness and brutality, Shevak’s loneliness is visceral. How, then, should we live? No point asking Le Guin, who drove critics mad with a novel that insists readers think for themselves.

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    13. Last and First Men (1930)

    by Olaf Stapledon

    Let’s start at the end. Barely warmed by the light of an ageing Sun, the last man reflects on his species’ history: how it evolved, blossomed, speciated and died. Last and First Men isn’t merely a novel; it’s an imaginative history of the solar system across two billion years, detailing the dreams and aspirations, achievements and failings of 17 different kinds of future Homo. At last, extinction beckons: “It is very good to have been man… And so we may go forward together with laughter in our hearts, and peace, thankful for the past, and for our own courage.”

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    12. Station Eleven (2014)

    by Emily St John Mandel

    Bring that thousand-yard stare back down to earth, and turn it upon our 21st-century lives, and you wind up with books like this one – not that there’s anything quite like Station Eleven. A few days before a flu pandemic ravages humanity, celebrated actor Arthur Leander dies on stage. His friends and family remember and misremember him, living as much in their versions of the past and conceptions of the present as they do the future – and it begins to dawn on us that Leander, by his passing, may just have saved humanity.

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    11. Engine Summer (1979)

    by John Crowley

    In this melancholy and uplifting vision, Rush That Speaks, a young man dedicated to “Truthful Speaking” (harder than it sounds), goes in pursuit of his lost love Once A Day. His quest takes him across strange lands, and among peoples transfigured by disaster and alien visitation into attitudes of rare gentleness. Humanity has adapted in fascinating ways to what, at first, seems a quite hostile environment. Crowley makes a poignant and often heartbreaking drama out of our happy future.

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    10. The Time Machine (1895)

    by HG Wells

    On the other hand, you could just frighten the life out of people: The Time Machine is one of the genre’s great, foundational shockers. HG Wells’s nameless narrator builds a machine to take him to the year 802701 AD, where he finds humanity split into gentle, stupid Eloi and cruel, clever Morlocks.

    The Eloi are beautiful, gentle, charming – and tasty, which is why the Morlocks are farming them. Despite what you might have been told, The Time Machine isn’t a political fable. Wells trained under the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, and this is a powerful, well-informed novel about evolution, as Huxley’s generation understood it. Time annihilates any attribute that proves useless to survival – even beauty and intelligence.

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    9. Plague of Pythons (1965)

    by Frederik Pohl

    As society succumbs to a plague of madness, an engineer called Chandler, who committed rape and murder while out of his mind, must fight to clear his name. The plague, in reality, is the doing of mysterious “possessors” who inhabit and manipulate other people as though they were living costumes to be shed at will.

    Chandler falls in with a cult that uses pain to ward off possession, and learns that the possessors are hackers who’ve developed technology that can penetrate the human psyche. But, having fallen under their control once again, how can he stop them? Social media has given this agelessly nasty idea new life: Plague of Pythons is an inadvertent parable for our age.

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    8. The Islanders (2011)

    by Christopher Priest

    So much for moral angst. Sometimes you just want your imagination to let rip. In prose that could be pernickety to the point of bizarrerie, Christopher Priest monomaniacally rearranged two or three foundational ideas into brilliant, haunting sui generis novels such as this. The Islanders is his mischievous and magical gazetteer of the Channel Islands, recast as the Dream Archipelago, in which we drift through a chain of fragmentary consciousnesses, and both time and space prove unreliable. It must be the strangest shaggy-dog story ever written.

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    7. The Stars My Destination (1956)

    by Alfred Bester

    Gully Foyle is uneducated, unskilled, unambitious, cowardly, venal and weak. He’s trapped aboard a derelict spaceship, and the company that should rescue him is leaving him to die. But, after surviving his ordeal, Gully plots a revenge as transformative as it is terrible, as he leaps from world to world, acquiring strength after strength and skill after skill. No one, before or since, matched Alfred Bester for energy or economy; no one, with the possible exception of Quentin Tarantino, has ever shown such love for or commitment to pulp fiction.

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    6. Rogue Moon (1960)

    by Algis Budrys

    Give the imagination enough rope, and you soon end up in a place about which you can’t even ask sensible questions, never mind receive comfortable answers. Thrill-seeker Al Barker is repeatedly copied and his copies teleported into an alien artefact on the Moon, which kills him again and again and again.

    Maybe it’s trying to communicate, but who knows? “Perhaps it’s the alien equivalent of a discarded tomato can. Does a beetle know why it can enter the can only from one end as it lies across the trail to the beetle’s burrow? […] Would the beetle be a fool to assume the human race put the can there to torment it – or an egomaniac to believe the can was manufactured only to mystify it?”

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    5. Roadside Picnic (1972)

    by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

    In 1957, a massive explosion at a nuclear waste dump in the eastern Urals contaminated several hundred square kilometres of land. To prevent people wandering into the forbidden zone, the Soviet government turned it into a nature reserve. Fifteen years later, two Russian brothers wrote Roadside Picnic.

    Aliens have visited Earth and left their rubbish behind. Redrick “Red” Schuhart, is a stalker, one of many who illegally brave these abandoned and overgrown “picnic spots” in search of powerful, transformative, toxic and often deadly litter. In some cases, the weirder SF gets, the more it comes to resemble reality.

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    4. Dune (1965)

    by Frank Herbert

    Cast into the wilderness of planet Arrakis by invading House Harkonnen, young Paul Atreides learns the ways of the desert and becomes in one swoop a focus for royalist hopes and religious fanaticism – all while riding on the back of an enormous sand-worm. Dune’s several film and TV adaptations all do a splendid job of conveying the novel’s epic scale. What they can’t do so easily is convey its oddness: like much of Herbert’s best work, Dune is set in a world that has overthrown its own thinking machines, and must now, and for its own survival, breed, drug and otherwise warp individual humans into becoming something very like gods.

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    3. Fiasco (1986)

    by Stanisław Lem

    The trouble with becoming divine is that there’s no finishing line: no point beyond which you magically acquire the wisdom and patience you need to govern your new power. In Lem’s great novel, first published in German translation before it appeared in the original Polish in 1987, idealistic human explorers approach the planet Quinta, which seems to harbour intelligent life. They try to establish contact, but the Quintans are engaged in a war, and refuse to pay any attention to the humans’ arrival. The explorers’ efforts to force the aliens to engage grow increasingly violent, in this bleak, brilliant account of good intentions gone horribly awry.

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    2. Ubik (1969)

    by Philip K Dick

    In the end, wherever we go, we’re stuck with ourselves. Technician Joe Chip is caught in a corporate ambush, and his boss, Glen Runciter, is killed. Reality quickly unravels: objects regress in time, deteriorating into earlier forms, and Joe and his friends find themselves moving backward through the decades. Maybe they’re dead, and Runciter is alive. Runciter certainly seems to think so: he’s constantly turning up in advertisements, pushing “Ubik”, a substance that can temporarily reverse the universal decay. In Dick’s world, we only have each other. The very fabric of reality depends on other people.

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    1. The Day of Creation (1987)

    by JG Ballard

    Mallory is a WHO doctor in war-torn central Africa, where he dreams of bringing water to the parched land. Funnily enough, while digging, he unleashes a powerful, ever-growing river. Becoming obsessed, he names the river after himself and embarks on a journey upstream, through Edenic lands that grow steadily more poisonous and feverish, while the river turns into a force only Mallory can stop.

    The Day of Creation caps a formidable series of explorations of psychological “inner space”, that began with 1962’s The Wind from Nowhere. Ballard’s central insight was that no one experiences reality, only those bits of it that seem relevant. That’s where science fiction starts.

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      1. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
      2. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
      3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
      4. Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
      5. *The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on my list to read
      6. . East of Eden by John Steinbeck.
      7. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
      8. 1984 by George Orwell
      9. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
      10. Watership Down by Richard Adams
      11. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
      12. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
      13. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
      14. *The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
      15. *The Stranger by Albert Camus
      16. 16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
      17. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
      18. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

    19.                Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

    20.                The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

    21. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

    22. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

    23. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

    24. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    25. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

    26. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

    27.* Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert on my list to read

    28.* Ulysses by James Joyce On my list to read not on the basic list though

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    30. A Tale of Two Cities Novel by Charles Dicken

     

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    Douglas Adams In the Salmon of Doubt Hitchiking the Galaxy One Last Time

     

    “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.” ~ Douglas Adams in “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”

    Neil Armstrong quote

    In 1969, Neil Armstrong described the earth as a “tiny pea, pretty and blue,” which could be obscured by his thumb as he looked down upon us during his mission to the moon. Today, I can see Mars as a bright speck in the night sky and then go inside, turn on my computer and view images sent down from the Mars rover Curiosity, which show vivid scenes of the sprawling landscape up close and personal, bringing to mind the alien terrain I saw during my first voyage on the way to Auburn. http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/24/tech/mars-curiosity-anniversary/

    Anne Kagan in the After life of Billy Finger

    “A shift in perspective makes the particles in your universe dance to new possibilities.” ~ Annie Kagan in “The Afterlife of Billy Finger”

    Waiting for Us by Lawrencealot (December 18, 2014)
    Joyce Kilmer Trees

     

    “What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you’re a poet. But there isn’t one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn’t any formula for it.”
    ~ Erica Jong“One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is: “Whatever you do, don’t be boring.”
    ~ Anne Sexton“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
    ~ Emily Dickinson“Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You’ve got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you’ve got to burn away all the peripherals.”
    ~ Sylvia Plath

    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you,”
    -Maya Angelou

    “Find the key emotion; this may be all you need to know to find your short story.”
    – F. Scott Fitzgerald

    “I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who try to start with a novel right off, or a trilogy, or even a nine-book series. That’s like starting in rock climbing by tackling Mt. Everest. Short stories help you learn your craft.”
    – George R.R. Martin

    Qoutes

    Find yourself someone who talks about you the way he talks about Marcia. Expect your friends to be jealous. Or perhaps a bit concerned.

    An emptiness so vast, the night screams in envy—
    It devours the stars yet still hungers for my sorrow.

    Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.~~ Chief SeattleA house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house. ~~Anita Shreve

    (What a fantastic idea for a book! Hmmmm)

    You may delay, but time will not. ~~Benjamin Franklin

    Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present. ~~Bil Keane

    Time and tide wait for no man. ~~Geoffrey Chaucer

    Lost – yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. ~~Horace Mann

    The past is but a thread in the tapestry of our future. ~~Nora Roberts, Three Fates

    Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.~~ Chief Seattle

    A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house. ~~Anita Shreve

    (What a fantastic idea for a book! Hamm)

    You may delay, but time will not. ~~Benjamin Franklin

    Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present. ~~Bil Keane

    Time and tide wait for no man. ~~Geoffrey Chaucer

    Lost – yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. ~~Horace Mann

    The past is but a thread in the tapestry of our future. ~~Nora Roberts, Three Fates

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  • Review of EE Cummings the Enormous Room

    Review of EE Cummings the Enormous Room

     

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    E E CUmmings
    EE Cummings

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    classics

    I recently read EE Cummings’s anti-war novel the “Enormous Room” as part of my reading the classics efforts.  EE Cummings is best known for his wonderful and quirky poems but he wrote many other works during his prolific literary career in the the early to mid-20th century.

    This book was written based on his experience as a prisoner in a French prison during World War 1.  He had gone to France to serve as an ambulance driver and got into trouble with the French authorities because of anti-war comments made by his fellow American friend.  He served three months in a detention camp filled with mostly foreigners who had been accused of espionage, hampering the war effort, or associating with people so accused.  He was never formally charged and after three months was released.

    Co-Piot provided some more background information:

    “E.E. Cummings’ The Enormous Room is indeed rooted in his real-life experiences during World War I. Here’s what I found:

    Cummings’ Role in the War and Imprisonment: During World War I, Cummings volunteered as an ambulance driver for the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in France. However, his service was cut short when he and his friend William Slater Brown were arrested by French authorities. They  were suspected of espionage due to Brown’s anti-war sentiments expressed in letters. Cummings, who stood by his friend, was detained at the La Ferté-Macé internment camp for over three months.  This harrowing experience became the foundation for The Enormous Room, where he vividly recounts his
    time in captivity and critiques bureaucracy and Authoritarianism”

    I found his critique of authoritarianism,  bureaucracy,  the French prison system, and anti-war sentiments to be still quite relevant over one hundred years later. His novel is filled with details about the many different prisoners from all over the world he met and became friends with during his stay in the French detention center.  The novel also filled my literary references as EE Cummings studied classics at Harvard before volunteering to go to France to help in the war effort as an ambulance driver.  He quotes Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Bunyan’s The Pilgrims Progress throughout the novel, particularly calling some of his fellow prisoners “delectable mountains” referencing their defiance of the petty and absurd rules of the prison.

    In reading the classics, one thing that can be offputting to modern English readers is the liberal use of untranslated foreign language phrases. The Enormous Room is set in a French prison in World War 1. The writer uses a lot of untranslated French phrases throughout. Most modern literature provides English translations in parentheses of foreign phrases.  Older literature usually does not not put translations of foreign text assuming perhaps that their readers would understand the foreign phrases or skip over them.

    Fortunately we now have Kindle and Kindle does offer translations on the fly which is a very useful feature as well as dictionary definitions.

    Of course, the other problem that I have addressed elsewhere is the causal racism, sexism etc in much older literature which can be off-putting to modern readers.  The solution is to simply note it, and read on taking into account the novel or story was written in the context of its time when racism and sexism were just not concerns for most writers or readers.

    In this novel, he befriends three African prisoners and discusses how one of the prisoners had been imprisoned due to the racist attitude of the police against Africans residing in France.

    The prison had a women’s section and a male section, and fraternization was prohibited but still occurred.  Many of the women prisoners had been imprisoned for suspected prostitution and carried out that trade in prison.  Several of the male prisoners had been imprisoned for being pimps, and some for smuggling and other crimes.

    The conditions in the prison were quite stark and brutal. All the prisoners slept in one large “enormous room” that contained around 100 prisoners at a time.  they were allowed out once a day to go for a walk in the yard and were assigned chores His duty was as a water carrier taking water from a communal well and taking it to the kitchen where they prepared soup for the prisoners. Prisoners were fed twice a day soup and bread for the most part, and horrid coffee in the morning.   He did get one cup of real coffee per day from the cook grateful for his assistance in hauling water and helping in the Kitchen from time to time.  Prisoners were able to afford wine cigarettes and chocolate from the Canteen.

    Most prisoners lost a lot of weight, and many became sick from scurvy and STDs picked up from visiting the women prisoners or contracted before their arrival.  A few had TB and other serious illnesses.  The doctor was a bit of a quack and did not have adequate supplies.

    Most prisoners stayed for three to four months before the Commission in charge decided to either send them to a real prison after a trial or release them.  EE Cummins was released and with the help of the US Embassy, allowed to leave France without any charges ever being filed against him.

    Quotes from The Enormous Room

    > “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

    “I imagine that yes is the only living thing.”

    > “Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence
    to buy a drink.”

    E.E. Cummings: A Brief Biography

    Full Name: Edward Estlin Cummings

    Born: October 14, 1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Died: September 3, 1962, in North Conway, New Hampshire, USA

    Education: Cummings graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in  Classics in 1915 and an M.A. in 1916.

    Career Highlights:

    Early Life:

    Cummings was born into a well-educated, upper-class family in Cambridge, Massachusetts1. His father was a professor at Harvard University and later became a minister

    World War I:

    During the war, Cummings served as an ambulance driver in France. He was briefly imprisoned in a French detention camp, an experience that inspired his novel “The Enormous Room.”

    Literary Career:

    Cummings published his first collection of poetry, “Tulips and
    Chimneys”, in 1923. He is known for his unconventional use of punctuation,
    syntax, and capitalization, which became hallmarks of his poetic style

    Notable Works: Cummings wrote approximately 2,900 poems, several novels, and plays. Some of his most famous works include Tulips and Chimneys, The
    Enormous Room, EIMI, and the play HIM1.

    Here are some of E.E. Cummings’ notable works:

    Poetry Collections:

    Tulips and Chimneys (1923)
    ViVa (1931)
    No Thanks (1935)
    1 x 1 (1944)
    XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950)
    95 Poems (1958)

    Novels:

    The Enormous Room (1922)
    EIMI (1933)

    Plays:

    Him (1927)
    Santa Claus: A Morality (1946)

    For more information see the following:

    1. E. Cummings – Wikipedia

    ‘A TWILIGHT SMELLING OF VERGIL’: E. E. CUMMINGS, CLASSICS, AND THE GREAT WAR on JSTOR

    1. E. Cummings: Biography, Most Famous Poems & Facts

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    classics

    I recently read EE Cummings’s anti-war novel the “Enormous Room” as part of my reading the classics efforts.  EE Cummings is best known for his wonderful and quirky poems but he wrote many other works during his prolific literary career in the the early to mid-20th century.

    This book was written based on his experience as a prisoner in a French prison during World War 1.  He had gone to France to serve as an ambulance driver and got into trouble with the French authorities because of anti-war comments made by his fellow American friend.  He served three months in a detention camp filled with mostly foreigners who had been accused of espionage, hampering the war effort, or associating with people so accused.  He was never formally charged and after three months was released.

    Co-Piot provided some more background information:

    “E.E. Cummings’ The Enormous Room is indeed rooted in his real-life experiences during World War I. Here’s what I found:

    Cummings’ Role in the War and Imprisonment: During World War I, Cummings volunteered as an ambulance driver for the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in France. However, his service was cut short when he and his friend William Slater Brown were arrested by French authorities. They  were suspected of espionage due to Brown’s anti-war sentiments expressed in letters. Cummings, who stood by his friend, was detained at the La Ferté-Macé internment camp for over three months.  This harrowing experience became the foundation for The Enormous Room, where he vividly recounts his
    time in captivity and critiques bureaucracy and Authoritarianism”

    I found his critique of authoritarianism,  bureaucracy,  the French prison system, and anti-war sentiments to be still quite relevant over one hundred years later. His novel is filled with details about the many different prisoners from all over the world he met and became friends with during his stay in the French detention center.  The novel also filled my literary references as EE Cummings studied classics at Harvard before volunteering to go to France to help in the war effort as an ambulance driver.  He quotes Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Bunyan’s The Pilgrims Progress throughout the novel, particularly calling some of his fellow prisoners “delectable mountains” referencing their defiance of the petty and absurd rules of the prison.

    In reading the classics, one thing that can be offputting to modern English readers is the liberal use of untranslated foreign language phrases. The Enormous Room is set in a French prison in World War 1. The writer uses a lot of untranslated French phrases throughout. Most modern literature provides English translations in parentheses of foreign phrases.  Older literature usually does not not put translations of foreign text assuming perhaps that their readers would understand the foreign phrases or skip over them.

    Fortunately we now have Kindle and Kindle does offer translations on the fly which is a very useful feature as well as dictionary definitions.

    Of course, the other problem that I have addressed elsewhere is the causal racism, sexism etc in much older literature which can be off-putting to modern readers.  The solution is to simply note it, and read on taking into account the novel or story was written in the context of its time when racism and sexism were just not concerns for most writers or readers.

    In this novel, he befriends three African prisoners and discusses how one of the prisoners had been imprisoned due to the racist attitude of the police against Africans residing in France.

    The prison had a women’s section and a male section, and fraternization was prohibited but still occurred.  Many of the women prisoners had been imprisoned for suspected prostitution and carried out that trade in prison.  Several of the male prisoners had been imprisoned for being pimps, and some for smuggling and other crimes.

    The conditions in the prison were quite stark and brutal. All the prisoners slept in one large “enormous room” that contained around 100 prisoners at a time.  they were allowed out once a day to go for a walk in the yard and were assigned chores His duty was as a water carrier taking water from a communal well and taking it to the kitchen where they prepared soup for the prisoners. Prisoners were fed twice a day soup and bread for the most part, and horrid coffee in the morning.   He did get one cup of real coffee per day from the cook grateful for his assistance in hauling water and helping in the Kitchen from time to time.  Prisoners were able to afford wine cigarettes and chocolate from the Canteen.

    Most prisoners lost a lot of weight, and many became sick from scurvy and STDs picked up from visiting the women prisoners or contracted before their arrival.  A few had TB and other serious illnesses.  The doctor was a bit of a quack and did not have adequate supplies.

    Most prisoners stayed for three to four months before the Commission in charge decided to either send them to a real prison after a trial or release them.  EE Cummins was released and with the help of the US Embassy, allowed to leave France without any charges ever being filed against him.

    Quotes from The Enormous Room

    > “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

    “I imagine that yes is the only living thing.”

    > “Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence
    to buy a drink.”

    E.E. Cummings: A Brief Biography

    Full Name: Edward Estlin Cummings

    Born: October 14, 1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Died: September 3, 1962, in North Conway, New Hampshire, USA

    Education: Cummings graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in  Classics in 1915 and an M.A. in 1916.

    Career Highlights:

    Early Life:

    Cummings was born into a well-educated, upper-class family in Cambridge, Massachusetts1. His father was a professor at Harvard University and later became a minister

    World War I:

    During the war, Cummings served as an ambulance driver in France. He was briefly imprisoned in a French detention camp, an experience that inspired his novel “The Enormous Room.”

    Literary Career:

    Cummings published his first collection of poetry, “Tulips and
    Chimneys”, in 1923. He is known for his unconventional use of punctuation,
    syntax, and capitalization, which became hallmarks of his poetic style

    Notable Works: Cummings wrote approximately 2,900 poems, several novels, and plays. Some of his most famous works include Tulips and Chimneys, The
    Enormous Room, EIMI, and the play HIM1.

    Here are some of E.E. Cummings’ notable works:

    Poetry Collections:

    Tulips and Chimneys (1923)
    ViVa (1931)
    No Thanks (1935)
    1 x 1 (1944)
    XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950)
    95 Poems (1958)

    Novels:

    The Enormous Room (1922)
    EIMI (1933)

    Plays:

    Him (1927)
    Santa Claus: A Morality (1946)

    For more information see the following:

    1. E. Cummings – Wikipedia

    ‘A TWILIGHT SMELLING OF VERGIL’: E. E. CUMMINGS, CLASSICS, AND THE GREAT WAR on JSTOR

    1. E. Cummings: Biography, Most Famous Poems & Facts

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  • Review of the Awakening

    Review of the Awakening

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    The Awakening Poetic Summary

    The awakening

    A proto feminist novel

    By Kate Chopin.

     

    Shocked the world

    Back at the turn

    Of the 20th century.

     

    With its depiction

    Of a young woman

    Awakening to desire

    Awakening to eroticism.

     

    Throwing off conventional

    Morality and all that entails.

     

    In a futile search

    For self-fulfillment

    That she could achieve.

     

    And in the end

    She takes her life

    Unfulfilled desires

    Awakening her fears

    in the end.

    My commentary

    • Kate Chopin’s novel, the Awakening is a proto-feminist novel written by Kate Chopin set in Grand Isle Louisiana and New Orleans in the late 1880’s.

    It tells the story of Edna Pontellier who is married with two children to a Creole businessman although she had grown up in a protestant family and faced social pressure against the marriage from her family who did not want her to marry a French-speaking Catholic.

    She is a sensitive, unhappy soul seeking self-fulfillment and not finding it within the convention of marriage and motherhood. She has an affair with Robert, a young man she meets on vacation. The affair awakens erotic desires in her that ultimately can not be reconciled with the ideal of being a married woman with children in an upper class family at the turn of the 20th century.

    The novel ends with her drowning herself.

    A powerful novel about a woman trying to free herself from the shackles of conventional morality. The novel was widely condemned at the time for its anti-family and anti-Christian themes. But it has remained an influential early feminist icon of a novel.

    Note: when reading the classics written prior to the middle part of the 20th century, one is struck by the casual colonialism, racism, sexism and other isms that can be jarring to modern readers such as frequent use of ethnic slurs like the N word.  The key to enjoying the classics is to ignore all of that and read the novel as it was written in the context of the time it was written, avoiding the sins of what Bill Maher and others call “presentism” or the tendency of reading classic literature from earlier times in the context of contemporary moral values.  In this novel, blacks appear as servants only without a name often described as “a quadroon  or as a black, and not otherwise part of the story.”

    Other than that, not too much racism or sexism involved.

    • Qoutes

    • “The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
    • “The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.”
    • “but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.”
    • “I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn’t give myself.”
    • “The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.”
    • “I love the sea in the morning. I can watch the white sails of a boat with a
    • long, lingering look.”

    • Co-pilot provides more background

    Synopsis

     

    “The Awakening” is set in the late 19th century and follows Edna Pontellier, a young woman vacationing with her husband, Léonce, and their children at a resort on Grand Isle1. Edna begins to question her life and societal roles after forming a close bond with Robert Lebrun and Mademoiselle Reisz. She embarks on a journey of self-discovery, exploring her desires and independence, which leads to conflicts with her family and

    society.

    Literary Reputation

     

    Initially, “The Awakening” was met with harsh criticism for its themes of female sexuality and independence. It was considered controversial and even “poisonous” by some critics3. However, it has since been recognized as a feminist classic and a significant work in American literature3. The novel’s exploration of female autonomy and its lyrical, impressionistic style have earned it a lasting place in literary history.

    Author Bio

    Kate chopin 4

    Kate Chopin (born Katherine O’Flaherty, February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author known for her short stories and novels set in Louisiana5. She was a forerunner of feminist literature, and her works often focused on the lives of sensitive, intelligent women.

    Author’s Works

    The Awakening
    The Awakening

    Chopin’s most notable works include “Bayou Folk” (1894), “A Night in Acadie” (1897), and her two novels, “At Fault” (1890) and “The Awakening” (1899).

    Novels:

    The Awakening 3
    The Awakening 3

    “At Fault” (1890)

    “The Awakening” (1899)

    Short Story Collections:

    “Bayou Folk” (1894)

    “A Night in Acadie” (1897)

    Notable Short Stories:

    “Désirée’s Baby” (1893)

    “The Story of an Hour” (1894)

    “The Storm” (1898)

    Adaptations

    “The Awakening” was adapted into a film titled “Grand Isle” in 1991, directed by Mary Lambert and starring Kelly McGill as Edna.

    For more info see the following

    www.sparknotes.com

    www.literaryladiesguide.com

    www.cambridge.org

    www.katechopin.org

    Reading the Classics  Project

    Note: I read this book as part of my retirement project of reading the classics, starting with the following collections.  I bolded the ones I have completed.

     Reading the Classics Updated
    Reading the Classics Updated Lists

    Reading the Classics

    Rewiew of WIla Cather’s “My Antonio”

    Books Read 2024

    Harvard Classics

    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

    Pliny

    (10) Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith

    (11) Origin of Species: Darwin

    (12) Plutarch’s Lives (13)

     Aeneid Virgil (14)

    Don Quixote Part 1: Cervantes

    (15) Pilgrim’s Progress. Donne

    Herbert. Bunyan, Walton

    (16) The Thousand and One Night

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

    Andersen

    Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairy Tales

    (18) Modern English Drama

    (19) Faust,

    Egmont Etc.

    Doctor Faustus,

    Goethe,

    Marlowe

    (20) The Divine Comedy: Dante

    (21) I Promessi

    Sposi,

    Manzoni

    (22) The Odyssey: Homer

    (23) Two Years Before Mast. Dana

    (24) On the Sublime French Revolution Etc. Burke

    (25) Autobiography Etc. Essays and Addresses: J.S. Mill,

    1. 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, the Prince

    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

    Federalist Papers

    Constitution

    Bill of Rights

    Declaration of Indepedence

    (44) Sacred Writings 1

    (45) Sacred Writings 2

    The Bible

    The Quaran

    The Analect of Confucius

    Mencius

    Buddist Writing

    Bhaga Vita

    Lao Tzo The Tao

     

    (46) Elizabethan Drama 1

    (47) Elizabethan Drama 2

    (48) Thoughts and Minor Works: Pascal

    (49) Epic and Saga (

     

    50 Books to Read Before You Die

    Vol 1 starts with Volume One

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

     Volume 2


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

     

    Vol 3  finished keeping for the historical record

     

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

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

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

     

    Sci-Fi short stories

     

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

    Here is the table of contents for the book1:

    Goal read one to five per week alternating with Kindle classics and reading poetry collections finish by end of the year

     

    Introduction: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

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

    H.G. Wells: “The Star” (1897)

    Lu Xun: “The New Overworld” (1902)

    Sultana’s Dream: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1905)

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

    Miguel de Unamuno: “Mechanopolis” (1913)

    W.E.B. Du Bois: “The Comet” (1920)

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

    Edmond Hamilton: “The Star Stealers” (1929)

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

    Stanislaw Lem: “Solaris” (1961) excerpt

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

    Cixin Liu: “The Poetry Cloud” (1997)

    Invasions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Dino Buzzati: “Catastrophe” (1966)

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

    Joanna Russ: “When It Changed” (1972)

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

    Octavia Butler: “Bloodchild” (1984)

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

    Monsters

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

    Ray Bradbury: “The Foghorn” (1951)

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

    Julio Cortázar: “Axolotl” (1956)

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

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

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

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

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

    John Varley: “Air Raid” (1977)

    William Gibson: “New Rose Hotel” (1984)

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

    Experiments

    Alfred Jarry: “Elements of Pataphysics” (1911)

    Karel Čapek: “R.U.R.” (1920) excerpt

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

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

    J.G. Ballard: “Chronopolis” (1960)

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

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

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

    George Alec Effinger: “Two Sadnesses” (1973)

    John Sladek: “Solar Shoe Salesman” (1974)

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

    Generation Ships

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

    Judith Merril: “Daughters of Earth” (1952)

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

    Robert Silverberg: “Sundance” (1969)

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

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

    Bruce Sterling: “Swarm” (1982)

    Geoff Ryman: “The Unconquered Country” (1984)

    New Worlds

    Cordwainer Smith: “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard” (1961)

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

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

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

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

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

    John Crowley: “Snow” (1985)

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

    Greg Egan: “Learning to Be Me” (1990)

    Future War

    Jack London: “The Unparalleled Invasion” (1910)

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

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

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

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

    Olaf Stapledon: “Star Maker” (1937) excerpt

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

    C.M. Kornbluth: “Two Dooms” (1958)

    Joe Haldeman: “Hero” (1972)

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

    David R. Bunch: “Moderan” (1967)

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

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

    Virtual Reality

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

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

    John Brunner: “The Vitanuls” (1967)

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

    Robert Silverberg: “Passengers” (1968)

    Rudy Rucker: “Software” (1982) excerpt

    William Gibson: “Burning Chrome” (1982)

    Pat Cadigan: “Pretty Boy Crossover” (1986)

    Neal Stephenson: “Snow Crash” (1992) excerpt

    Humanity 2.0

    Olaf Stapledon: “Odd John” (1935) excerpt

    C.L. Moore: “No Woman Born” (1944)

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

    Algis Budrys: “Who?” (1955)

    James Blish: “Surface Tension” (1952)

    Gregory Benford: “Blood Music” (1983)

    Bruce Sterling: “Mozart in Mirrorshades” (1985)

    Vernor Vinge: “True Names” (1981)

    Ted Chiang: “Understand” (1991)

    Alien Minds

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

    Isaac Asimov: “The Last Question” (1956)

    Clifford D. Simak: “Desertion” (1944)

    James H. Schmitz: “Grandpa” (1955)

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

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

    Stanisław Lem: “Solaris” (1961) excerpt

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

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

    Ian McDonald: “The Tear” (2008)

    Walter M MIller, JrAfter the End

     

    Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century Poetry

     

    BOLD read

    Edward Lee Masters.

    The Hil

    Fiddler. Jones,

    Petite the Poet

     

    Edwin Arlington Robinson

    Miniver Cheevy

    Mr. Flood’s Party.

     

    James Weldon Johnson

    The Creation

    Paul Laurence  Dunbar.

     

    The Poet

    Life

    Life’s Trajedy

     

    Robert Frost.

    The Death Of The Hired Man.

    Mending Wall.

    Birches

              Stopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening.

              Tree In My Window.

    Directive.

    Amy Lowell

    Patterns.

     

    Getrude Stein

    Susie Asado.

    From Tender Buttons A Box.

     From Tender Buttons, A Plate.

     

    Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson

    I sit and sew .

    Carl Sandburg.

    Grass.

    Cahoots.

     

    Wallace Stevens.

    Peter Quince at the Clavier.

    Disillusionment of 10:00.

    13 Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird.

              Emperor Of Ice Cream.

    A Mere  Being.

    Angelina Weld Grimke

    Fragment.

    William Carlos Williams.

    Tact.

    Dance Ruse

    The Yachts.

    From Apostlethat Greeny  Flower Book 1, Lines 1 To 92.

     

    Sarah Teasdale.

    Moonlight.

    There Will Come Soft Rains.

     

    Erza Pound

    The Jewel Stairs Grievance.

    The River Merchants Wife Letter.

    In A Station At The Metro.

    Hugh  Selwyn Mulberry.

    From Conto. 56 Libretto Yet Ere This Season Died A Cold

     

    Hilda Doolittle, HD.

    Sea Rose.

    The Helen.

    From The Walls Do Not Fall An Incident Here And There.

    From Hermeneutic Definition Red Rose And A Beggar. Why Did You Come?

    Take Me Anywhere.

    Venicc. Venus.

     

    Robinson, Jeffers.

    Gala in April.

    Shine, Perishing Republic.

    Cloudss at Evening.

    Credo

    Mararane Moore

    Fish.

    Poetry.

    Poetry.

     

    TS, Elliott.

    Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

    The Wasteland.

     

    Claude McKay.

    If We Must Die.

    Harlem Dancer.

     

    Archibald MacLeash,

    Arts Poetica

    Edna, Saint Vincent Millay.

    First Fig

    Recuerdo

    E E Cummings.

    In Just.

    Buffalo Bill

    The Cambridge Ladies Have Lived In Furnished Souls.

    Next To, Of Course, God, America.

    Somewhere I’ve Never Travelled Gladly Beyond.

    Rpophessagr

    Gene Toomor.

    Reapers.

    November Cotton Flowers.

    Portrait in Georgia.

    Louise Bogan

    Medusa.

    New moon.

    Melvin B Tolson

    Dark Symphony.

    From Harlem Gallery PSI Black Boys, Let Me Get Up From The White Man’s Table.

     

    Hart Crane

    From the Bridge

    Poem to Brooklyn Bridge

    From 11  Powhatan’s Daughter the River.

     

    Robert Francis.

    Silent Poem

    Langston Hughes

    Nego speaks of rivers.

    I, Too.

    Dreams Boogie.

    Harlem

    Countee Cullan

    Incident

    To John Keats Poet at Springtime

    Yes I Do Marvel

    From the Dark Tower

    Stanley Kutitz

    Father and Son

    The Protrait

    Touch Me

    WH Auden

    Mussee Des Beaux Arts

    Epitah on a Tryant

    Theordore Roethke

    My Papa’s Waltz

    The Waking

    In a Dark Time

     

    Charles Olson.

    From The Maximum Poems One Maximum Of Gloucester To You.

    The Distances.

    Elizabeth Bishop.

    The Fish

    Sestina

    First Death In Nova Scotia.

    Visit  To Saint Elizabeths.

    One Art.

    Robert Hayden.

    Morning Poem For The Queen Of Sunday.

    Those Winter Sundays.

    Frederick Douglass.

    Middle Passage.

    Muriel  Rukeyser?

    Effort At Speech Between Two People.         ‘

    Then I Saw What The Calling  Was.

    The Poem as Mask

    Delmore  Swartz.

    The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me.

    John Barryman.

    From Dream Songs.

    Feeling Your Compact And Delicious Body. ‘

    Life, Friends, Is Boring. We Must Not Say So.

    There Shut Down Once.  ‘

    This World Is Gradually Becoming A Place.

    Henry’sUnderstanding

     

    Randall, Jarell.

    90 North.

    The Death Of The Bell Turret Gunner.

    The Woman At The Washington Zoo.

    Next Day.

    Weldon Kees.

    To My Daughter?

     

    Dudley Randall

    A Different Image

    William Stafford.

    Traveling Through The Dark.

    At The Bomb Testing Site.

     

    Ruth Stone.

    Scars.

    Margaret Walker.

    For My People

    Gwendolyn Brooks.

    The Mother.

    A Song In The Front Yard.         ‘

    The Bean Eaters

    The Lovers Of The Poor.

    We  Real Cool.      ‘

    The Blackstone Rangers.

     

    Robert Lowell.

    To Speak Of Woe That Is In Marriage.

    Skunk Hour .

    For The Union Dead.

    Robert Duncan.

    Often I’m Permitted To Return To A Medow.

    My Mother Would Be A Falconress

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    Populist Manifesto.

    William Meredith.

    Parents. Howard Nemeroff.

    Because You Asked About The Line Between Prose And Poetry.

    Hayden Caruth.

    The  Hyacinth Gardens In Brooklyn.

    August 1945.

    Richard Wilber

    Love Calls Us to the Things of This World

    Cottage Street

    The Writer

    James Dickey

    The Sheep Child

    Alan Duncan.

    Love song I And Thou

    Anthony Act.

    More light, More light.

    Richard Hugo.

    The Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg.

    The Freaks at Spring General Rd. Field.

    Dennis Levertov.

    The Unwritten Poem

    Cademon.

    Swan in Falling snow.

    Who is Simpson?

    American Poetry.

    Carolyn Kaiser.

    A Muse of water.

    Kenneth Koch.

    Fresh air.

    Permanently.

    Maxine Coleman.

    Morning Swim.

    How Is It?

    Gerald Stern.

    Behaving Like A Jew.

    The Dancing.

    Another Insane Devotion.

    AR Ammons.

    The City Limits.

    Corson Inlet.

    Robert Blye.

    Snowfall In The Afternoon.

    Driving Into Town Late To Mail A Letter.

    Walking From Sleep.

    Robert Creeley.

    The Flower.

    I Know A Man.

    The Language.

    The Rain.

    Bresson’s Movies.

    James Merrill.

    Victor Dog.

    Frank O’Hara New York School.

    Steps.

    Poem Lana Turner Has Collapsed.

    The Day Lady Died.

    John Ashberry. New York School

    Some Trees.

    Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror.

    What Is Poetry?

    Galway, Kennel.

    The Bear.`

    After Making Love, We Hear Footsteps.

    Saint Francis And The Soul.

    Ws Merwin.

    Air.

    For The Anniversary Of My Death.

    Yesterday.

    Chord .

    James Wright.

    A Blessing.

    Autumn  Begins In Martins Ferry, Oh.

    Lying In A Hammock At William Duffy’s Farm In Pine Island, Mn.

    In Response To The Rumor That Otis Warehouse In Wheeling, Wv Has Been Condemned.

    Donald Hall.

    My Son, My Executioner.

    Digging.

    Philip Levine.

    Animals Are Passing From Our Lives.

    They Feed They Lion.

    You Can Have It.

    The  Simple Truth.

     

    Anne Sexton.

    Her Kind

    Adoption.

    Waiting To Die.

    In Celebration Of My Uterus.

    Rowing

    Adrienne Rich.

    Orion

    Planetarium.

    A Valedictorian Forbidding Mourning.

    From 21 Love Poems 13 The Rules Of Break Like A Thermometer.

    Gregory Corso.

    Marriage

    Gary Snyder.

    Hay, For The Horses.

    Riprap.

    Mid August As Sourdough Mountain Lookout.

    Dereck  Walcott.

    A Far Cry From Africa.

    Sea Grapes.

    Find The Schooner Flight Part 11 After The Storm. There’s A Fresh Light That Follows.

    The Light Of The World.

    From Omeros Book. 7. 44 I Sing Of Quiet,Achiles, Afrolabe’s Son.

    Miller Williams.

    Let Me tell you.

    Etheridge Knight

    Idea Of Ancestry.

    Amira Baraka, Leroy Jones.

    Preface To A 20 Volume Suicide Note.

    Agony As Now.

    SOS.

    Black Art.

    Ted Berrigon .

    Wrong Rain.

    A Final Sonnet

    Andre Lorde.

    Power.

    Sonia Sanchez.

    Poetry at 30.

    Mark Strand.

    The Prediction.

    The Night, The Porch.

    Russell Edson.

    A Stone Is Nobody’s.

     

    Mary Oliver.

    Singapore.

    The Summer’s Day.

    Charles Wright.

    Reunion.

    Dead Color.

    California Dreaming.

    Lucile  Clifton.

    Homage To My Hips.

    At Least At Last We Killed The Roaches.

    The Death Of Fry, Alfred Clifton.

    To My Last.

    June, Jordan.

    Home About My Rights.

    Frederick Seidel.

    1968.

    CK Williams.

    Find My Window.

    Blades

    Tynan Wilkowski.’

    The Mechanic.

    Michael S Harper.

    Dear John. Dear Coltrane.

    Last Affair. Bessies Blues Song.

    Grandfather.

    Nightmare Begins Responsibility.

    Charles Simik .

    Stone.

    Fork.

    Classic Ballroom Dances.

    Paula Gunn Allen.

     

    Grandmother.

    Frank Bidart.

    Ellen West.

    Carl Dennis.

    Spring Letter.

    Two Or Three Wishes.

    Stephen Dunn.

    Allegory Of The Cave.

    Tucson.

    Robert Pensky.

    History Of My Heart.

    The Questions.

    Samurai Song.

    James Welch.

    Christmas Comes To Moccasin Flat.

    Billy Collins.

    Introduction To Poetry.

    The Dead.

    Toi Derricote .

    Allen Ginsberg.

    The Weakness.

    Stephen Dobyns.

    How To Like It?

    Lullaby.

    Robert Hass.

    Song.

    That Photographer?

    Return Of Robinson Jeffers.

    Lyn Hejinian

    From My Life trim With Colored Ribbons.

    BH  Fairchild.

    The Machinist Teaching His Daughter To Play The Piano.

    Haik R Madhubuti Don L Lee.

    But He Was Cool Or Even Stopped For Green Lights.

    Upon To Compliment Other Poems.

    William Matthews.

    In Memory Of The Utah Stars.

    The  Accompanist

    . Sharon Olds

    The Language Of The Brag.

    The Lifting.

    Henry Taylor.

    Barbed Wire.

    Tess Gallagher.

    Black, Silver.

    Under Stars.

    Michael Palmer.

    I Do Not.

    James Tate.

    The Lost  Pilot.

    Norman Dubie.

    Elizabeth War With The Christmas Bear.

    The Funeral.

    Carol Muske Dukes,.

    August, Los Angeles Lullaby.

    Kay Ryan.

    Turtle

    Bestiary

    Larry Levis.

    Childhood Ideogram

    Winter Stars

    Adrian C Lousis

    Looking For Judas

    How much lux?

    The People of the Other  Village.

    Marilyn Nelson.

    The Ballad of Aunt Geneva.

    Star Fix.

    Run Stilleman

    Albany

    AI

    Cuba 1963

    The Kid

    Finished

    Yusef Komunyakaa

    Thanks

    To Do Street

    Facing It

    Nude Interogation

    Nathaniel Mc Kay

    Song of the Aduumboulou

    Gregory Orr

    Gathering the Bones Together

    Two Lines From the Brother Grimm

    Origin of the Marble Forrest

    Robert Hill Whiteman

    Reaching Yellow River

    Albert Goldbarth

    Away

    Heather Mc Hugh

    Language Lesson 1976

    What He Thought

    Leslie Marmon Silko

    In  Cold Storm Light

    Olga Boumas

    Calypso

    Victor Hernadez Soul

    Latin and Soul

    Jane Miller

    Miami Heart

    David St. James

    Iris

    CD Wright

    Why Ralph Refuses to Dance

    Girl Friend Poe # 3

    Crescent

    Carolyn Forche

    Taking Off My Clothes

    Jorie Graham

    San Sepolcro

    Marie Howe

    What the Living Do

    Joy Harjo

    She Had Some Horses

    My House is Red Earth

    Garret Honjo

    The Legend

    Andrew  Hugins

    Beggoten

    We Were Simply Talking

    Brigit Peggen Kelly

    Imaging Their Own Hyms

    Song

    Paul Muldoon

    Meeting the British

    Errata

    The Throwback

    Judith Orez Coffer

    Quinceanera

    Rita Dove

    Parsley

    Day Star

    After Reading Mikey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed

    Alice Fulton

    Our Calling

    Barbara Hamby

    Thinking of Galileo

    Hatred

    Mark Jarman

    Unholy Sonnet

    Naomi Shihab Nye

    The Traveling Onion

    Arabic

    Wedding Cake

    Alberto Rios

    Nani

    England Finally like My Mother Always Said We Would

    Laurie Sheck

    Nocturne Blue Waves

    The Unfinished

    Gary Sotto

    Field Poem

    Oranges

    Black Hair

    Susan Stewart

    Yellow Star and Ice

    The Forrest

    Mark Dotty

    Brillance

    Esta Noche

    Bill’s Story

    Harryette Mullen

    Black Nikes

    Franz Wright

    Alcohol

    Lorna Dee Cervantes

    To My Brother

    Love of My Flesh, Living Death

    Sandra Cisneros.

    My Wicked, Wicked Ways.

    Little Clowns, My Heart.

    Cornelius, Eady.

    Jack Johnson Does The Eagle Rock.

    Crows In A Strong Wind.

    I’m A Fool To Love You.

     

    Louise Eldritch

    .         Indian Boarding School. The Runaways.

    David Mason.

    Spooning.

    Marilyn Chin.

    How I Got That Name?

    Compose Near The Bay Bridge

    The Survivor

    Cathy Song .

    The Youngest Daughter.

    Ann Finch.

    Another Reluctance.

    Insert

    Lee Young Lee.

    The Gift

    Eating Together.

    Carl Phillips

    Our Lady

    As From a Quiver of Arrows

    Nick Flynn

    Bag of Mice

    Cartoon Physics

    Elizabeth Alexander

    The Viena Hott not

    Reetika Vazirani

    From White Elephants

    A million Balconies

    Train Windows

    Sherman Alexie

    What the Orphan Inherits

    The Pow Wow at the End of the World

    Natasha Trethewey

    Hot Combs

    Amateur Fighter

    Flounder

    A E Stallings

    The Tantrum

    Joana Klink

    Spare

    Brenda Shaughnessy

    Post feminism

    Your One Good Dress

    Kevin Young

    Quivira City Limits

    Everywhere is Out of Town

    Whatever You Want

    Terrance Hayes

    At Pegasus

    Lady Sings the Blues

     

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  • Review of Willa Cather’s “My Antonio”

    Review of Willa Cather’s “My Antonio”

    Review of Willa Cather’s “My Ántonia”

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    When I retired a few years ago, I embarked on a goal of reading as many of the great classics as I could, including writing reviews of the books as I read them.

    One thing to bear in mind when reading the classics is that many of the classics to a modern reader appear ablest, colonist, racist, sexist,  and all the other isms that some modern readers might find objectionable, including freely use the N word and other pejorative words.  The key is to acknowledge that fact, and then read and enjoy the novel on its own terms in its own time and place and not get too hung up on dealing with the racism etc that may be found in the book.

    Fortunately, “My Antonio” does not contact much sexism, racism or other issue to distract the jaded modern reader.

    This is my review of the classic novel, “My Ántonia” published in 1918 by the American woman author, Willa Cather. This novel is considered Cather’s first masterpiece. Cather was praised for bringing the American West to life and making it personally interesting. The novel is part of Cather’s “Prairie Trilogy,” which includes “O Pioneers!” and “The Song of the Lark.”

    The novel takes place in the late 19th century in Nebraska and details the life of immigrants in the settlement of Nebraska. The protagonist is an orphan, Jim Burden, who is sent to live with his grandparents who are pioneer farmers. Jim befriends Ántonia, a local Bohemian immigrant and her family who settled next door. Ántonia is a free-spirited woman who runs the farm for her mother and brother after their father commits suicide. Life in the Nebraskan frontier was difficult. Ántonia eventually moves into the nearby town and works for a local family. She eventually has a child out of wedlock, then marries another Bohemian immigrant and has eventually ten children.

    . Throughout it all, she keeps up her free spirit and emerges as a strong, determined woman. Jim finishes high school, goes to Harvard, and becomes a lawyer. Twenty years later, he returns to Nebraska and befriends Ántonia and her family again.

    The highlight of the novel for me is the characters and their relationships with each other, and the hardships that they all faced together in the settlement of Nebraska. The main characters are all immigrants, some from Germany, some from Hungary, some from Norway and Sweden, and others who are from back east, like Jim and his grandparents.

    The action takes place on Jim’s grandparents’ farm, in the nearby settlements, and in the nearby town where the grandparents move after finding managing a farm too difficult for them. There is even a murder, and assorted scandals in the small Nebraskan settlements.

    Co-Pilot provided the following bio and list of Willa Cather’s works:

    Biography of Willa Cather

     

    Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer known for her novels about frontier life on the Great Plains. Born in Virginia, she moved to Nebraska with her family when she was ten years old. She attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and later worked as a journalist before turning to full-time writing. Cather’s works often explore themes of the American frontier and the immigrant experience. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 for her novel “One of Ours.”

    List of Willa Cather’s Works

    • “O Pioneers!” (1913) part of Prairie trilogy
    • “The Song of the Lark” (1915) part of Prairie trilogy
    • “My Ántonia” (1918)  part of Prairie trilogy
    • “One of Ours” (1922) – Pulitzer Prize winner
    • “A Lost Lady” (1923)
    • “The Professor’s House” (1925)
    • “Death Comes for the Archbishop” (1927)
    • “Shadows on the Rock” (1931)
    • “Lucy Gayheart” (1935)
    • “Sapphira and the Slave Girl” (1940)
    • “The Prairie” (1941)

    Quotes from “My Ántonia”

    “Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”

    “If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry.”

    “I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”

    “The country girls were considered a menace to the social order. Their beauty shone out too boldly against a conventional background.”

    “The sky was growing pale, and that forgotten plow had sunk back to its own littleness somewhere in the prairie.”

    “Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”

    “She’d always believe him. That’s Ántonia’s failing, you know; if she once likes people, she won’t hear anything against them.”

    “The idea of you is part of my mind … you really are a part of me.”

    “I was convinced that man’s strongest antagonist is the cold.”

    “This is reality, whether you like it or not — all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.”

    “Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”

    “That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”

    “There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.”

    “The prayers of all good people are good.”

    “As I went back alone over that familiar road, I could almost believe that a boy and girl ran along beside me, as our shadows used to do, laughing and whispering to each other in the grass.”

    “This was enough for Ántonia. She liked me better from that time on, and she never took a supercilious air with me again. I had killed a big snake – I was now a big fellow.”

    “More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood.”

    End Quotes

    I have been reading books from the collection titled “50 Books You Must Read Before You Die” which consists of three volumes. I finished all of Volume Three first and am working my way through Volume One and Two. Hope to finish it all by the end of the year.

    I am currently reading “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin and will write a review when I am finished with it.

    Here’s the list of the books I am reading, with the ones I completed in bold:.

    Here’s the list of the books I am reading, bolded are the ones I completed

    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

    Pliny

    (10) Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith

    (11) Origin of Species: Darwin

    (12) Plutarch’s Lives (13)

     Aeneid Virgil (14)

    Don Quixote Part 1: Cervantes

    (15) Pilgrim’s Progress. Donne

    Herbert. Bunyan, Walton

    (16) The Thousand and One Night

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

    Andersen

    Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairy Tales

    (18) Modern English Drama

    (19) Faust,

    Egmont Etc.

    Doctor Faustus,

    Goethe,

    Marlowe

    (20) The Divine Comedy: Dante

    (21) I Promessi

    Sposi,

    Manzoni

    (22) The Odyssey: Homer

    (23) Two Years Before Mast. Dana

    (24) On the Sublime French Revolution Etc. Burke

    (25) Autobiography Etc. Essays and Addresses: J.S. Mill,

    1. 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, the Prince

    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

    Federalist Papers

    Constitution

    Bill of Rights

    Declaration of Indepedence

    (44) Sacred Writings 1

    (45) Sacred Writings 2

    The Bible

    The Quaran

    The Analects of Confucius

    Mencius

    Buddist Writing

    Bhaga Vita

    Lao Tzo The Tao

    (46) Elizabethan Drama 1

    (47) Elizabethan Drama 2

    (48) Thoughts and Minor Works: Pascal

    (49) Epic and Saga (

    50) Introduction, Readers Guide,

     

    50 Books to Read Before You Die

    Vol 1 starts with Volume One

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

    Volume 2

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

    Vol 3  finished keeping for the historical record

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

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  • Books Read 2024

    Books Read 2024

    Books Read 2024

    Close up of books on desk in library.
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    BN 2024 Best List

    time list of best books for 2024

    Books Read 2024

    Cosmos Books Read 2021 Update

    1001 Books to Read Before You Die List

    Cosmos Books Read 2020 Revised

    Books Read 2020Books read 2019

    books read during 2018

    books read

    Ode to Unread Books on my Bookshelf

    Goals:

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

    Read A Lot More Poetry

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

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

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

    Total Numerical listing

    books read

    The List – fiction/non-fiction/poetry

    Fiction

    Classics

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

    Flashman Novels

    1. George Mac Donald Fraser Flashman And The Redskins
    2. George Macdonald Fraser Flashman And The Angel Of The Lord
    3. George Macdonald Fraser Flashman On The March
    4. George Mac Donald Frazer Flashman And The Dragon

    Thrillers/Crime

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

     

    1. Frederick Pohl Collected Stories Medford Library

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

    Anderson Stories

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

    Poetry

     

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

    Selected Poems by Famous Writers  etc

    Christopher Micheal Nuclear Orange Cupid is the Devil

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

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

    the book contains the following poems ==

    Tea Em Eye

    Haiku

    Father

    Imagine

    The Boys

    Not A Thief

    The Gravityof Pity

    Job Application

    Plugs To Give

    Fakery

    Political Stuff

     

    Glass House

    Mr. Bullet Goes To Work

    Zombie Swarm

    Bee Swarm

    Eye  Am Here For You

    The October Menace

    Herbicide Maniac

    Bacon

    She’s Black

    Flash And America

     

    The Flash and the Fireball

     

    Feeling Her

    SIN

    Theoretical Love

    Baby

    The Muse

    Love And Landmines

    Skeletons And  Corny Jokes

    Dookie Man

    Belly Buttons

    Severed Fingers And Heavy Bags

    The Firestorm

    Razors And Regrets

    The Relapse

    Love Turns Cowards Into Lions

    The Fall Out

    Nuclear Orange

    Fields Of Flammable Fantasies

    Zombie Loss

    I Warned You

    BJ Buckley In January the Geese

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

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

    the poems are:

    1. Upthrust
    2. in January, the geese
    3. first bear
    4. long division
    5. gates
    6. C store 5:00 AM
    7. fields
    8. burn pile
    9. Sunriver
    10. slamming
    11. hard frost
    12. seed
    13. on Sunday morning
    14. box with bugs
    15. Watchman
    16. Funeral
    17. night herding
    18. Instrument
    19. almost July
    20. instrument
    21. pronghorn Elegy
    22. rescue
    23. towards evening Teton river
    24. infinite haze
    25. September
    26. bad shot
    27. last rites

    Wade Riddle

    I received this book for entering the Poetry Superhighway annual contest

    1. Groove Power Of Summer
    2. Wade Riddle Summer In Santa Monica Power Of Summer
    3. Wade Riddle The Tom Hardy Party Power Of Summer
    4. Wade Riddle Kiss Me Chris Pine Power Of Summer
    5. Wade Riddle Dance To The Beat Of The Beach Boy’s Power Of Summer
    6. Wade Riddle The Power Of Summer Power Of Summer
    7. Wade Riddle L.A. Blue Power Of Summer
    8. Wade Riddle Take Me Home To Venice Beach Power Of Summer
    9. Wade Riddle’s An Ode To A Summer’s Song
    10. Wade Riddle Chocolate Man Children Horror

    Lawrence  Ferlinghetti A Coney Island of the Mind

    I Am Waiting

    1. Junkman’s Obbligat0
    2. In Goya’s Gardens
    3. Autobiography
    4. The Changing Ligh
    5. Sometime During Eternity
    6. The World Is a Beautiful Place to Drown In
    7. The Great American Poem

    9 Poem #1 10

    TS Elliot

    The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock  ,

    The Waste Land

    Franz Kafka Surreal Prose Poems

    1. An Imperial Message
    2. Pekin And The Emperor
    3. The News Of The Building Of The Wall: A Fragment
    4. The Great Wall And The Tower Of Babel
    5. The Building Of The Temple
    6. Prometheus
    7. Poseidon
    8. The Sirens
    9. The New Attorney
    10. The Building Of A City
    11. The Imperial Colonel
    12. The Green Dragon
    13. The Tiger
    14. The Truth About Sancho Panza
    15. Robinson Crusoe
    16. My Destination

    Maya Angelous

    Insomniac

    When You Come

    Passing Time

    A Conceit

    The

    Gwendolyn Brooks

    We Real Cool

    Charles Bukowsk

    i And The Moon And The Stars And The World

    Emily Dickison

    A Book

    Faith” Is A Fine Invention

    Ronald Dahl

    Hot and Cold

     

    Robert Frost

    Two Roads Diverge

    Road Not Taken

    Nothing Gold Can Stay

    A Question

    The Rose Family

    After Apple-Picking)

    The Death Of The Hired Man.

    Mending Wall.

    Birches

    Stopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening.

    Tree In My Window.

    Directive.

    Langton Hughes

    My People

    Dreams

    Suicide’s Note

    Mother to Son

     Spike Milligan

    A Silly Poem

    Ogden Nash

    Word To Husbands

    Dorothy Parker

    A Very Short Song

    Edgar Allen Poe

    Anabel Lee

    Vikram Seith

    All You Who Sleep Tonight

     

    William Carlos Williams

    the red wheel barrel

    This Is Just To Say

     

    Villanelle

     W.H. Auden’s

    “If I Could Tell You”

     

    Elizabeth Bishop’s

    “One Art”

     

    Leonard Cohen

    “A Villanelle for Our Time”

    Edmund Gosse “

    Villanelle”

    Dylan Thomas

    “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”

    Vision and Prayer

    Jean Passerat’s poem

    “Villanelle (I Lost My Turtledove),

    Wilde’s

    “A Villanelle”

    Interlocking Rubiyat

    Carol Ward Day

    Fitzgerald

    Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    Mike Montreuil

    Yesterday

    Jainrohit

    Rubaiyat

    concrete Poems

    Lewis Carrol

    l The Mouse’s Tail  

     

    E.E. Cumming

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

    Senryu

     

    Al Pizzarelli

    the Fat Lady

     

    Anon. Senryu

    (early 18th century)The bird set free,

    •  He shuts His Eyes

    (early 18th century) Last Night

    • Sazanka

    Losing his job

    (early 18th century) “Make a profit

    Alexis Rotella

     

    Trying to forget him

     

    George Swede

     

    Unhappy wife

    Marlene Mountain

     

    The leans on the gate going staying

    Anita Virgil

    After the child’s funeral –

    Jack Kerouac’s Kicking the Icebox

     

    Chatuska Russian LImerick

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

    Time Got Shifted By An Hour

    Political And Anti-Religious Propaganda

    We Remember Lenin’s Words

     Margaret Atwood

    Siren Song

    Robert Hayden

    a  Plague of Starlings

    Ava Hofmann’s

    [A woman wandered into a thicket]  ,

    Natalie Diaz

    From the Desire Field 

    Ruth Fainlight

    The Prism 

    1. B. Shelley

    Ozymandias 

    Shakespeare

    Sonnet 138

    .Annyomous

    Beowulf  ,

    William Blake

    The Tyger

    Robert Burns

    A Red, Red Rose

    John Keats.

    Ode to a Nightingale

    Daddy

    Dr love Jesus

    ABC to my imaginary friend

    Camusat

     Finding Truth

    Stuart Witt

    Precedent

    George Herbert

    Easter Wings

    Patty Mazurka

    Your Last September

    Ubi Sunt Poems

     

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

    “Where are the snows of yesteryear?”

    Thomas Nashe’s

    “Adieu, Farewell, Earth’s Bliss,”

    Sir Philph Sidney

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

    Mark Strang

    “Where Are the Waters of Childhood?”

    James Macpherson‘s

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

    Fingal (1761)

    Temora (1763),

    Pete Seeger

    Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”

    Paula Cole’s 1997 hit song

    “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone.”

    Bonnie Tyler’s 1984 hit,

    “Holding Out for a Hero”,

    Joseph Heller’s 1961

    novel Catch-22,

    Martin Amis’

    The War Against Cliché

    Irish Rose

    Frosted Fantasy ABC Poem

    Ava Hofmann’s

    [A woman wandered into a thicket]  ,

    Natalie Diaz

    From the Desire Field 

    Ruth Fanlight

    The Prism 

     Choka Yamanoue no Okura

    Eating Melons

     

    Limericks

     

    Dayton Voorhees

    There Once Was A Man From Nantucket

    Edward Lear

    There Was An Old Man In A Tree,

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

    There Was A Young Lady Of Station,

    Hickory Dickory Dock

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

    Our Novels Get Longa And Longa

    WH Auden

    Limerick

    Lewis Carroll

    Lucy O’Finner

    William Shakespeare

    Othello

    Japanese death poems

     

    As the Nigerian Naira steadily falls, the economy crumbles

    Yuan Chonghuan

    A life’s work totals to nothing

    Xia Wanchun

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

    Yang Jisheng Bear

    righteousness and the way on a shoulder of iron,

    Wen Tianxiang

    Confucius speaks of perfecting nobility

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

    Fujiwara no Teishi,

    If you remember the promises between us,

    Tadamichi Kuribayashi

    Unable to complete this heavy task for our country

    Takarai Kikaku

    Falling ill on a journey

    Moriya Sen’an

    Bury me when I die

    Korean death poems

    Seong Sam-mun

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

     

    Jo Gwang-jo (조광조;

    I loved the king as if he were my father

    Chŏng Mong-ju

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

    Hwang Hyun

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

    Matsuo Basho

     Old Pond

    Groot

     

    Piet Hein

    Missing Link

    Road To Wisdom

    Prescription

    Timing Toast
    Circumscripture

     

    Best American Poetry 2023

     

    Will Alexander the Polish mathematics

    Michael Ania covering standups.

    Ray Armitage fortune

    WHR then we get the dialectic fairly well.

    Martin Bell and a definite player

    Charles Bernstein people

    Mark Bibbins from 13 balloons

    Lee Ann Brown as an American

    Kamryn Alexa Castro Yes

    Mariane Chan the shape of Biddle City

    Victoria Chang World’s End

    Maxi         ne Chernoff the Songbird Academy

    Kwame Dawes Photo Shoot

    Alex Demetrio the years

    Stuart Disc hell after the exhibition

    Timothy Daniel Instagram

    Boris Dayak Days at the Races

    Joana Fuhrman 330 College Avenue

    Amy Gerstle Night Herons

    Peter Gizzi revisionary

    Herbert Gold’s other news

    Terrene Hayes Strange as the rule of grammar

    Robert Herston All Right

    Paul Hoover abominations, afternoon

    Shirley Jackson’s Best Original Enigma

    Patrica Spears Jones the Devil’s wife explains 45.

    Ilay Kaminsky, I ask that I not die.

    Vincent Katz’s A Marvelous Sky

    John Keen Straight No Chaser

    Miho Kinas’ Three Shrimp Boats

    Wayne kepstrum Misran Master Craftsman

    Yusef Komunyakaa from the autobiography

    Michale Lay I meant to

    Dorothea Lasky Green Moon John Yao zone

    Bernadette Ayer Pi Day

    Maureen Mc Lane Moonrise

    Yusef Michael tablet 6

    Stephen Paul Miller dating Buddha

    Susan Mitchell Chaplin in Palma

    Backus more extraordinary life

    diesel to social in several invoices

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

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

    Sunday game

    Marine Owen in space surface tensional force

    John Phillips’s film theory

    Catholic bullet round front shirt

    Caroline Marie Rodgers phone number two my kind of feminism

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

    Turkey Tim civils all the time

    Diana’s success little few state

    David Shapiro lost all of Jesus.

    Mitch Siskin only tough woes

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

    Arthur Sze wildlife season OK

    Diane Thiel Listening in Deep Space

    Rodrigo Toscano Full House

    Tony Trigilio The Steeplejack

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

    Anne Waldman’s three poems form 13 Moon Kora

    Sarah Anne Wallen, I can see Mars.

    Elizbeth Winch and What My Species Did

    Terrence Winch Gear Sizzle

    Jeff Cyphers Wright Sweepstakes

    John Yau Song for Mie Yum

    Geoffrey Young Parrel Bars

    Jeffrey Young parallel bars

    Matthews’sZaprudar the empty grave of Zza Zaza Gabor

    Harvard Classics

    The volumes are:

    Bolded read

    Franklin, Woolman, Penn

    Plato, Epictetus,

    Marcus, Aurelius Meditations

    (3) Bacon,

    Milton’s Prose,

    Thomas Browne

    (4) Complete Poems in English: Milton

    (5) Essays and English Traits: Emerson (

    6) Poems and Songs: Burns (7)

    Confessions of St. Augustine. Imitation of Christ

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

    (10) Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith

    (11) Origin of Species: Darwin

    (12) Plutarch’s Lives (13)

    Aeneid Virgil (14)

    Don Quixote Part 1: Cervantes

    (15) Pilgrim’s Progress. Donne

    Herbert. Bunyan, Walton

    (16) The Thousand and One Night

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

    Andersen

    Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairy Tales

    (18) Modern English Drama

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

    (20) The Divine Comedy: Dante

    (21) I Promessi

    Sposi,

    Manzoni

    (22) The Odyssey: Homer

    (23) Two Years Before the Mast. Dana

    (24) On the Sublime French Revolution Etc. Burke

    (25) Autobiography Etc. Essays and Addresses:

    J.S. Mill,

    T. Carlyle

    (26) Continental Drama

    (27) English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay

    (28) Essays. English and American

    (29) Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin (

    30) Faraday,

    Helmholtz,

    Kelvin,

    Newcomb,

    Geikie

    (31) Autobiography: Benvenuto,

    Cellini

    (32) Literary and Philosophical Essays: Montaigne,

    Sainte Beuve,

    Renan,

    Lessing,

    Schiller,

    Kant,

    Mazzini

    (33) Voyages and Travels

    (34) Descartes,

    Voltaire,

    Rousseau,

    Hobbes

    (35) Chronicle and Romance:

    Froissart,

    Malory,

    Holinshed (36)

    Machiavelli,

    More,

    Luther

    (37) Locke,

    Berkeley

    , Hume

    (38) Harvey,

    Jenner,

    Lister,

    Pasteur

    (39) Famous Prefaces

    (40) English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray

    (41) English Poetry 2: Collins to Fitzgerald

    (42) English Poetry 3: Tennyson to Whitman

    (43) American Historical Documents

    (44) Sacred Writings 1

    (45) Sacred Writings 2

    (46) Elizabethan Drama 1

    (47) Elizabethan Drama 2

    (48) Thoughts and Minor Works: Pascal

    (49) Epic and Saga (

    Federalist Papers

    50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die

     

    Started reading the first one of Volume 3

    Bolded indicates I have read it.

     

    Vol 1 starts with Volume One

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

    Volume 2

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

     

    Vol 3  finished keeping for the historical record

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

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

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

     

    Sci-Fi short stories

    Goal read one to four stories per week

    The Big Book of Science Fiction is a massive anthology of science fiction stories edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. It covers the history and evolution of the genre from the early 20th century to the end of the millennium, featuring works from over 30 countries and many languages. The book contains 105 stories, ranging from classics by H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula K. Le Guin, to lesser-known gems by W.E.B. Du Bois, David R. Bunch, and Liu Cixin. The book also includes comments from the editors and the authors, offering insights into their creative process and vision. The book is divided into 11 sections, each with a thematic focus and a chronological order. Here is the table of contents for the book1:

    Introduction: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

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

    H.G. Wells: “The Star” (1897)

    Lu Xun: “The New Overworld” (1902)

    Sultana’s Dream: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1905)

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

    Miguel de Unamuno: “Mechanopolis” (1913)

    W.E.B. Du Bois: “The Comet” (1920)

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

    Edmond Hamilton: “The Star Stealers” (1929)

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

    Stanislaw Lem: “Solaris” (1961) excerpt

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

    Cixin Liu: “The Poetry Cloud” (1997)

    Invasions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Dino Buzzati: “Catastrophe” (1966)

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

    Joanna Russ: “When It Changed” (1972)

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

    Octavia Butler: “Bloodchild” (1984)

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

    Monsters

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

    Ray Bradbury: “The Foghorn” (1951)

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

    Julio Cortázar: “Axolotl” (1956)

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

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

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

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

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

    John Varley: “Air Raid” (1977)

    William Gibson: “New Rose Hotel” (1984)

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

    Experiments

    Alfred Jarry: “Elements of Pataphysics” (1911)

    Karel Čapek: “R.U.R.” (1920) excerpt

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

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

    J.G. Ballard: “Chronopolis” (1960)

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

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

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

    George Alec Effinger: “Two Sadnesses” (1973)

    John Sladek: “Solar Shoe Salesman” (1974)

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

    Generation Ships

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

    Judith Merril: “Daughters of Earth” (1952)

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

    Robert Silverberg: “Sundance” (1969)

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

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

    Bruce Sterling: “Swarm” (1982)

    Geoff Ryman: “The Unconquered Country” (1984)

    New Worlds

    Cordwainer Smith: “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard” (1961)

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

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

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

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

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

    John Crowley: “Snow” (1985)

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

    Greg Egan: “Learning to Be Me” (1990)

    Future War

    Jack London: “The Unparalleled Invasion” (1910)

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

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

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

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

    Olaf Stapledon: “Star Maker” (1937) excerpt

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

    C.M. Kornbluth: “Two Dooms” (1958)

    Joe Haldeman: “Hero” (1972)

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

    David R. Bunch: “Moderan” (1967)

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

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

    Virtual Reality

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

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

    John Brunner: “The Vitanuls” (1967)

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

    Robert Silverberg: “Passengers” (1968)

    Rudy Rucker: “Software” (1982) excerpt

    William Gibson: “Burning Chrome” (1982)

    Pat Cadigan: “Pretty Boy Crossover” (1986)

    Neal Stephenson: “Snow Crash” (1992) excerpt

    Humanity 2.0

    Olaf Stapledon: “Odd John” (1935) excerpt

    C.L. Moore: “No Woman Born” (1944)

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

    Algis Budrys: “Who?” (1955)

    James Blish: “Surface Tension” (1952)

    Gregory Benford: “Blood Music” (1983)

    Bruce Sterling: “Mozart in Mirrorshades” (1985)

    Vernor Vinge: “True Names” (1981)

    Ted Chiang: “Understand” (1991)

    Alien Minds

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

    Isaac Asimov: “The Last Question” (1956)

    Clifford D. Simak: “Desertion” (1944)

    James H. Schmitz: “Grandpa” (1955)

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

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

    Stanisław Lem: “Solaris” (1961) excerpt

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

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

    Ian McDonald: “The Tear” (2008)

    After the End

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

     

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  • Cosmos Reading List 2023

    Cosmos Reading List 2023

    Cosmos’s Reading List 2023

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    Cosmos Reading List 2023

    Cosmos’s Reading List 2023

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    this is my annual list of books read – this time I am keeping track of poems and short stories as well.  would appreciate comments!  but keep it civil.

    I have also written a few reviews which I will post in due course.

    Cosmos Reading List 2023

    Cosmos Reading List 2022

    Final UpdatesReading the Classics Updated

    Reading the Classics Updated Lists

    Reading G Keith Chesterton

    Cosmos Reading List 2021

    Final UpdateCosmos’s Reading List 2021
    Reading TS Elliot

    Goals:  600 Books/stories and poems

                 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  done

     Kim Sowol’s Poem Unforgettable Love

    Kim Sowol A Lamp Burns Low Collection Add 127  To Total Poems Kim

     

    I will this 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, I have to read it on Kindle alas.

    Total Numerical listing

    total read (including past things read)

    1. Ben Bova The Star Crossed
    2. Ben Bova Crisis Of The Month
    3. Ben Bova The Great Moon Hoax
    4. Ben Bova The Supersonic Zeppelin
    5. Ben Bova Vince’s Dragon
    6. Ben Bova The Angel’s Gift
    7. Ben Bova A Slight Miscalculation
    8. Ben Bova Cyberbooks
    9. The King Of Bread Luis Alberto Ubba
    • Goodbye To The Road Not Taken At Homes
    • The Double Life Of The Cockroaches Wife Edwidge Danticat
    • Cane And Roses A Manifesto Edwidge Danticat
    • Persephone’s Rides At The End Of Days Carmen Maria Mcleod
    • Unicorn Me Elizabeth Crane
    • Lessons With Father Jai Chakrabrabiti
    • Iphone S E Weiche Wang
    • The Hole Patrick Cottrell
    • Noseless Jack Nawal Serpel
    • Infidelity Jack Jemc
    • Death By Printer Mira Jacob
    • Options Leslie Nikia Amara
    • Sleepless Michael Cunningham
    • A Survey Of Recent American Happenings Told With The Six Commercials For The Tennyson Clear Jet Premium Touchless Bidet Omar El Akkad
    • Unselfie Amy Bender
    • Home Elizabeth Strout
    • Love Interests Jess Walter
    • Escape Pod W41 Jay Robert Lennon
    • Conquistador On Fairchild
    • Susan Perabo The Project
    • Period Piece Mellie Mellon
    • Books You Read Joe Minnow
    • A Woman Driving Alone Marie-Helen Bertino
    • Been Laurie Dandelions
    • Patrick Dacey All That Gone Is All That’s Left
    • Jenny Allen Scaffolding Man
    • Richard Rivers Solomon A Brief
    • Amal Ruth Rivers Soloman
    • Note In The Translation Of Winter Women
    • Nightlife Lisa Cole
    • Cerati After Cerati Juan Martinez
    • The Prom Terrorist Rabi Almandine
    • Bedtime Story Victor Lavalle
    • Such Small Islands Lauren Groff
    • Almost Everything Etgar Keret
    • Where The Candles Are Kept David Eggers
    • James Rollin’s The Last Odyssey Review Done
    • Harlan Coben Fool Me Once Review Due.
    • Joel Rosenberg The Twelfth Iman Review Is Due.
    • Introduction: Ann And Jeff Vandermeer
    • The Lens Of Time: Science Fiction As A Way Of Seeing
    • G. Wells: “The Star” (1897)
    • Left Hand Of Dog Clark
    • The King Of Bread Luis Alberto Ubba
    • Goodbye To The Road Not Taken At Homes
    • The Double Life Of The Cockroaches Wife Edwidge Danticat
    • Cane And Roses A Manifesto Edwidge Danticat
    • Persephone’s Rides At The End Of Days Carmen Maria Mcleod
    • Unicorn Me Elizabeth Crane
    • Lessons With Father Jai Chakrabrabiti
    • Iphone S E Weiche Wang
    • The Hole Patrick Cottrell
    • Noseless Jack Nawal Serpel
    • Infidelity Jack Jemc
    • Death By Printer Mira Jacob
    • Options Leslie Nikia Amara
    • Sleepless Michael Cunningham
    • A Survey Of Recent American Happenings Told With The Six Commercials For The Tennyson Clear Jet Premium Touchless Bidet Omar El Akkad
    • Unselfie Amy Bender
    • Home Elizabeth Strout
    • Love Interests Jess Walter
    • Escape Pod W41 Jay Robert Lennon
    • Conquistador On Fairchild
    • Susan Perabo The Project
    • Period Piece Mellie Mellon
    • Books You Read Joe Minnow
    • James Rollin’s The Last Odyssey Review Done
    • Harlan Coben Fool Me Once Review Due.
    • Joel Rosenberg The Twelfth Iman Review Is Due.
    • Introduction: Ann And Jeff Vandermeer
    • The Lens Of Time: Science Fiction As A Way Of Seeing
    • G. Wells: “The Star” (1897)
    • Robert Burns Auld Lang Syne
    • Ella Wheeler Wilcox The Year
    • Helen Hunt Jackson New Year’s Morning
    • Marie Summers Enlightened
    • Marie Summers My God, My God
    • Walt Wojtanik –Flourishing Florist
    • David Schnieder Footprints In Time
    • David Schnieder Soldiers
    • David Schnieder Together Forever
    • David Schnieder The Almighty Thresher
    • Sally Ann Roberts, It All Started With A Packet Of Seeds
    • Marie Summers Celestial Dreams
    • Example #3: Chelle Wood Dance In The Rain
    • Example #4: Dendrobia Osprey
    • Example #5: Maria Summers Seasonal Whispers
    • Dah Helmer Astral Darkness
    • Alexander Pope’s “An Essay On Criticism,”
    • Archibald Macleish “Ars Poetica” (1926)
    1. Joy Priest In Virginia Quarterly Review
    2. Pamela Hart’s “Some Thoughts On Metaphor”
    3. In The Night Heron Barks
    4. José Olivarez In Poetry Magazine “Ars Poetica”
    5. Paul Guest  “Late-Stage Capitalism Blues”
    6. In The Adroit Journal
    7. Dean Young In Poem-A-Day
    8. “Small Craft Talk Warning”
    9. Robert Frost After Apple-Picking
    10. Spike Milligan Jumbo Jet
    11. Spike Milligan Granny
    12. Spike Milligan On The Ning Nang Nong
    13. Spike Milligan Abc
    14. Riddle Of Birth Koyel Is Writing Again.
    15. The Dark House Edwin Arlington Robinson
    16. The Garden Edwin Arlington Robinson
    17. Philip Larkin At Grass
    18. Jim Bartlet’s An Irregular Ode To A Sometimes Morris Dancer
    19. William Wordsworth An Excerpt From ‘Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood
    20. Oranges By Gary Soto
    21. Robert Frost The Road Not Taken”
    22. Robert Hayden A Plague Of Starlings”
    23. Angels Erin Holbrook
    24. Turquoise Thoughts Deborah P Kolodji
    25. Cherry Blossoms Marie Summers
    26. Joshua Tree Deborah P Kolodji
    27. Long Shadows Marie Summers
    28. Resurrección Andra De Costa
    29. Holiday Travel Judi Van Gorder
    30. Memorial Judi Van Gorder
    31. Reading Phil Wood
    32. Fight Flight
    33. Judi Van Gorder
    34. Happy Mordee 2 Writing Com
    35. Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
    36. A Child Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
    37. Somehow Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
    38. Hopeful Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
    39. See The Tulips Blooming Victor Hugo
    40. Hear The Violins Play In The Moonlight Thomas Corneille
    41. Broken Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
    42. Patriarch Judi Judi Van Gorder
    43. Parten Judi Van Gorder
    44. Behave, Judi Van Gorder,
    45. Glue Judi Van Gorder
    46. Didactic Cinquain By Marti
      See The Tulips Blooming Victor Hugo
    47. Hear The Violins Play In The Moonlight Thomas Corneille
    48. Judi Van Gorder’s Twelfth Night Sonnet
    49. Judi Van Gorder Pauline
    50. John Keats(1795-1821) “Bright Star!
    51. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Xviii. To His Love
    52. Robert Burns’s A Sonnet Upon Sonnets
    53. Rupert Brooke’s “Sonnet Reversed”
    54. Amy Levy The Old Poet
    55. Amy Levy London In July
    56. Amy Levy At A Dinner Party
    57. Amy Levy A Wall Flower
    58. Barbara Hartman Bottoms Up!
    59. Ts Elliot A Dog Is A Dog
    60. Elizabeth Bishop The Fish
    61. Huldah Fetzer The Killed Deer
    161.        Dc Martinson Dizain For The Evolutionary Socialist Dream Of Edouard Bernstein

    162.        Judi Van Groder No Surrender

    163.        The Hot Oil Sizzles Waywa

    164.        Shadows Waywa

    165.        Like As A Ship” By Edmund Spencer

    166.        Lewis Carroll Boat Beneath A Sunny Sky

    167.        Lewis Carrol All In The Golden Afternoon

    168.        Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky By Lewis Carroll

    169.        Five O’clock Judy Van Gelder

    170.        Balm Pat Nelson

    171.        Foamy Water Pat Nelson

    172.        Salty Air Pat Nelson

    173.        Sandy Beach Pat Nelson

    174.        It Worked Shelley A Cephas

    175.        Angel Light (Rhyming) Shelley A. Cephas

    176.        His Pristine Robes (Non-Rhyming) Shelley A Cephas

    177.        Kim Sowol’s Poem Unforgettable Love

    178.        Kim Sowol A Lamp Burns Low Collection Add 127  To Total Poems Kim

    179.        Birth Of A Triangle Alex Goldenberg

    180.        My Body Andrea Forbing-Maglione

    181.        Broken Car Sally Ann Roberts

    182.        Coffee Sally Ann Roberts

    183.        A Simple Tree Julie Wright

    184.        Rockets’ Red Glare Johnathan Sluder

    185.        Luna  Marie Summers

    186.        The Makers Howard Nemerov

    187.        Insomnia Howard Nemerov

    188.        Walking The Dog Howard Nemerov

    189.        John Keats’s The Poetry Of Earth Is Never Dead

    190.        Mary Oliver’s The Uses Of Sorrow

    191.        Wendell Berry’s The Peace Of Wild Thing

    192.        Dylan Thomas Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines

    193.        Dylan Thomas, I Have Longed To Move Away

    194.        Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

    195.        Howard Nemerov The Maker

    196.        Woodworth Reese Lise Y Lizette

    197.        Lizette Woodworth Reese That Day You Came

    198.        Lizette Woodworth Reese
    Oh, Gray And Tender Is The Rai

    199.        Amy Clampit The Kingfisher
    Amy Clampit Dancers Exercising

    200.        Amy Clampit The Fog.

    201.        Amy Clampit A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street

    202.        Edwin Robinson The House On The Hill’

    203.        Edwin Arlington Robinson

    204.        John Keats Ode To Autumn

    205.        Mahe “Where I’m From (Warendorf Edition)”

    206.        Write Rick Anti-Hero

    207.        Amy Jo Summer “Am I Awake Yet?”
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    208.        Viola Berg Joy Bell

    209.        R Ryan, E Aharonian N Ryan Anywhere Is

    210.        Mary Oliver Wild Geese

    211.        The Harvest’s Moon Emissary.
    Judi Van Gorder

    212.        Judy Van Gorder Friday

    213.        Leny Rovers Scars

    214.        Bullfight Leny Rovers

    215.        Jem Farmer Release This Pain

    216.        Peg Nelson Rose Leaf’s

    217.        Kathy Anderson Robin And Grackle

    218.        Kathy Anderson

    219.        Kathy Anderson Snow Queen

    220.        Do Not Run Terry Clitheroe

    221.        Terry Clitheroe Global Warming

    222.        Terry Clitheroe Had We But World And Time

    223.        Terry Clitheroe

    224.        Hot Summers Night

    225.        Terry Clitheroe In My Bar

    226.        Terry Clitheroe Just For A While

    227.        Terry Clitheroe Late Summer

    228.        Terry Clitheroe Memories

    229.        Terry Clitheroe Para Arender Amar

    230.        Terry Clitheroe Reborn To Nature

    231.        Terry Clitheroe Silent Tears

    232.        Terry Clitheroe Tres Professors (Three Teachers)

    233.        Terry Clitheroe Understand

    234.        Divena Collins Winter Of The Heart

    235.        Divena Collins Able Male Needed

    236.        Divena Collins Take Me Now!! (To The Shops For Food)

    237.        Divena Collins Dreams Of Love

    238.        Divena Collins, I Remember

    239.        Divena Collins Natures Serenity

    240.        Divena Collins Of Spring

    241.        Divena Collins Only Love

    242.        Divena Collins Over Heated

    243.        Divena Collins Paradise Lost

    244.        Divena Collins Reborn To Nature

    245.        Divena Collins’s Rocking Horse And Tiddy Winks

    246.        Divena Collins There Shall Be Light

    247.        Divena Collins Where Angels Tread

    248.        Maggie Cusick Marble Vase

    249.        Lorraine Dafney Lady In Black

    250.        Jem Farmer Discarded Debris

    251.        Jem Farmer No Mistook

    252.        Ivor Hogg Decorum

    253.        Ivor Hogg More Or Less

    254.        Ivor Hogg Scar Tissue

    255.        Ivor Hogg Sneak Attack

    256.        Neil 54 Affections With Family

    257.        Peggy Nelson Baby

    258.        Peggy Nelson Hell On Earth

    259.        Peggy Nelson Lost In The Blues

    260.        Starving Peggy Nelson

    261.        Peggy Nelson

    262.        Peggy Nelson Westerly Waves

    263.        Ryter Reticle Experience Found

    264.        Ryter Reticle Fireside Memories

    265.        Ryter Reticle Hearts Winter

    266.        Ryter Reticle Naked

    267.        Ryter Reticle Nocturne

    268.        Ryter Reticle Paparazzi

    269.        Ryter Reticle Remembering

    270.        Ryter Reticle Truant

    271.        Ryter Reticle Unjust Thoughts

    272.        Ryter Reticle Victim Of Deceit

    273.        Ryter Reticle Yan Yean Dreaming

    274.        Ryter Reticle You Raise Me Up

    275.        Leny Rovers Allegro Assai

    276.        Leny Rovers Andante

    277.        Leny Rovers Rondo

    278.        Peggy And Readjust Thoughts

    279.        Occhi Desiderata I Have Looked On Thee With Longing Eyes

    280.        Katharine Tynan The End Of The Day

    281.        Katharine Tynan The Wind That Shakes The Barley

    282.        Katharine Tynan Immortality

    283.        Lady & Loui Two Silver Rings

    284.        Mountainwriter49 Forever In My Heart

    285.        I Sally Ann Roberts T All Started With A Packet Of Seeds

    286.        Example #2: Marie Summers Celestial Dreams

    287.        Example #3: Chelle Wood Dance In The Rain

    288.        Example #4: Dendrobia Ospreyexample

    289.        #5: Marie Summers
    Seasonal Whispers

    290.        Kathy Anderson This Bitter Earth

    291.        Lawrencealot Taxies

    292.        Will Alexander The Polish Mathematics

    293.        Michael Ania Covering Standups.

    294.        Ray Armitage Fortune

    295.        Whr Then We Get The Dialectic Fairly Well.

    296.        Martin Bell is a Definite Player

    297.        Charles Bernstein People

    298.        Mark Bibbins From 13 Balloons

    299.        Lee Ann Brown As An American

    300.        Kamryn Alexa Castro Yes

    301.        Mariane Chan The Shape Of Biddle City

    302.        Victoria Chang World’s End

    303.        Maxine Chernoff The Songbird Academy

    304.        Kwame Dawes Photo Shoot

    305.        Alex Demetrio The Years

    306.        Stuart Disc Hell After The Exhibition

    307.        Timothy Daniel Instagram

    308.        Boris Dayak Days At The Races

    309.        Joana Fuhrman 330 College Avenue

    310.        Amy Gerstle Night Herons

    311.        Peter Gizzi Revisionary

    312.        Herbert Gold’s Other News

    313.        Terrene Hayes Strange As The Rule Of Grammar

    314.        Robert Herston All Right

    315.        Paul Hoover Abominations, Afternoon

    316.        Shirley Jackson’s Best Original Enigma

    317.        Patrica Spears Jones The Devil’s Wife Explains 45.

    318.        Ilay Kaminsky, I Ask That I Not Die.

    319.        Vincent Katz’s A Marvelous Sky

    320.        John Keen Straight No Chaser

    321.        Miho Kinas’ Three Shrimp Boats

    322.        Wayne Kepstrum Misran Master Craftsman

    323.        Yusef Komunyakaa From The Autobiography

    324.        Michale Lay I Meant To

    325.        Dorothea Lasky Green Moon John Yao Zone

    326.        Bernadette Ayer Pi Day

    327.        Maureen Mc Lane Moonrise

    328.        Yusef Michael Tablet 6

    329.        Stephen Paul Miller Dating Buddha

    330.        Susan Mitchell Chaplin In Palma

    331.        Backus More Extraordinary Life

    332.        Diesel To Social In Several Invoices

    333.        Elliot Mullen As I Wander Lonely In The Cloud Kathy And Also The Facts.

    334.        Eugene Austin Husky From The Fainting

    335.        Feeling Sonnets You Go Out Tomorrow.

    336.        Sunday Game

    337.        Marine Owen In Space Surface Tensional Force

    338.        John Phillips’s Film Theory

    339.        Catholic Bullet Round Front Shirt

    340.        Caroline Marie Rodgers Phone Number Two My Kind Of Feminism

    341.        Jerome Sarah’s Something I’m Not Hot Takes In Spiderman Her Dark Drama.

    342.        Turkey Tim Civils All The Time

    343.        Diana’s Success Little Few State

    344.        David Shapiro Lost All Of Jesus.

    345.        Mitch Siskin Only Tough Woes

    346.        Amanda Smeltz Green Goddess Girls In Blacks

    347.        Cole Swensen’s Various Gloves Out

    348.        Arthur Sze Wildlife Season OK

    349.        Diane Thiel Listening In Deep Space

    350.        Rodrigo Toscano Full House

    351.        Tony Trigilio The Steeplejack

    352.        David Trinidad The Poems Attributed To Him May Be By Different Poets.

    353.        Anne Waldman’s Three Poems Form 13 Moon Kora

    354.        Sarah Anne Wallen, I Can See Mars.

    355.        Elizbeth Winch And What My Species Did

    356.        Terrence Winch Gear Sizzle

    357.        Jeff Cyphers Wright Sweepstakes

    358.        John Yau Song For Mie Yum

    359.        Geoffrey Young Parrel Bars

    360.        Jeffrey Young Parallel Bars

    361.        Matthews’szaprudar The Empty Grave Of Zza Zaza Gabor

    362.        Margaret R Smith’s The Unexpected Snow

    363.        Jan Turner Earthquake

    364.        Gabriella 2 Why?

    365.        Heather Wilkes Grapes

    366.        Hart Crane Fear

    367.        Hart Crane Brooklyn Bridge
    Jim T Henrikson Poetic Justice

    368.        Jim T. Henrikson’s Poetry Lost In Mind

    369.        Franklin, Woolman, Penn

    370.        Plato, Epictetus,

    371.        Marcus, Aurelius Meditations

    372.        Aeneid Virgil (14)

    373.        Cervantes Don Quixote Part 1:

    374.        Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress

    375.        Dante The Divine Comedy

    376.        Homer The Odyssey

    377.        American Historical Documents

    378.        Sacred Writings 1

    379.        Sacred Writings 2

    380.        Austen, Jane: Pride And Prejudice

    381.        Austen, Jane: Emma

    382.        Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre

    383.        Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights

    384.        Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan Of The Apes

    385.        Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland

    386.        Cervantes, Miguel De: Don Quixote

    387.        Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone

    388.        Conrad, Joseph: Heart Of Darkness

    389.        Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo

    390.        Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last Of The Mohicans

    391.        Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge Of Courage

    392.        Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe

    393.        Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders

    394.        Dickens, Charles: Bleak House

    395.        Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations

    396.        Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime And Punishment

    397.        Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot

    398.        Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound Of The Baskervilles

    399.        Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers

    400.        Dumas, Alexandre: The Count Of Monte Cristo

    401.        Eliot, George: Middlemarch

    402.        Forster, E. M.: A Room With A View

    403.        Gaskell, Elizabeth: North And South

    404.        Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von: The Sorrows Of Young Werther

    405.        Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon’s Mines

    406.        Hardy, Thomas: Tess Of The D’urbervilles

    407.        Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter

    408.        Homer: The Odyssey

    409.        Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

    410.        Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables

    411.        Jane Austen  Sense And Sensibility

    412.        Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland

    413.        Gilbert Keith Chesterton  The Man Who Knew Too Much

    414.        Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

    415.        The Margaret Deland Iron Woman

    416.        Charles Dickens David Copperfield

    417.        Charles Dickens  Oliver Twist

    418.        Charles Dicken A Tale Of Two Cities

    419.        Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky The Double [

    420.        Arthur Conan Doyle The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes-

    421.        Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

    422.        E. M. Forster- A Room With A View

    423.        Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]

    424.        Tess Of The D’urbervilles [Thomas Hardy

    425.        Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse

    426.        Dubliners [James Joyce

    427.        The Fall Of The House Of Usher [Edgar Allan Poe]

    428.        The Sea Wolf [Jack London]

    429.        The Call Of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]

    430.        Beyond Good And Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]

    431.        The Murders In The Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]

    432.        The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe

    433.        The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]

    434.        Romeo And Juliet [William Shakespeare

    435.        Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]

    436.        The Elements Of Style [William Strunk Jr.

    437.        What’s Bred In The Bone [Grant Allen]

    438.        The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius]
    Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]

    439.        Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]

    440.        Lady Susan [Jane Austen]

    441.        The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum]

    442.        The Art Of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie]

    443.        The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish]

    444.        The Wisdom Of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    Heretics [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]

    445.        The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]

    446.        The Innocence Of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]

    447.        Fanny Hill: Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure [John Cleland]
    The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]

    448.        Lord Jim [Joseph Conrad]

    449.        The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]

    450.        The Pickwick Papers [Charles Dickens]

    451.        A Christmas Carol [Charles Dickens]

    452.        Notes From The Underground [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]

    453.        The Gambler Par Fyodor [Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]

    454.        The Lost World [Arthur Conan Doyle]

    455.        The Hound Of The Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]

    456.        The Sign Of The Four [Arthur Conan Doyle]

    457.        The Man In The Iron Mask [Alexandre Dumas]

    458.        The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]

    459.        This Side Of Paradise [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]

    460.        Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]

    461.        King Solomon’s Mines [Henry Rider Haggard]

    462.        The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Victor Hugo]

    463.        Kim [Rudyard Kipling]

    464.        Captain Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]

    465.        The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]

    466.        Lady Chatterley’s Lover [David Herbert Lawrence]

    467.        The Son Of The Wolf [Jack London]

    468.        The Einstein Theory Of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

    469.        The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft

    470.        At The Mountains Of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]

    471.        The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli]

    472.        The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery]

    473.        The Antichrist [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]

    474.        The Republic [Plato]

    475.        The Last Man [Mary Shelley]

    476.        Life On The Mississippi [Mark Twain

    477.        The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]

    478.        In The Year 2889 [Jules Verne]

    479.        Around The World In Eighty Days [Jules Verne]

    480.        Sweat Destiny Jan Turner

    481.        Andreia Dietrich And Jan Turner Seaside Lament

    482.        Margaret R Smith’s The Melody Of Trees

    483.        David Schnider Home Fires

    484.        +125 Kim Sewol Poems

    485.        David Schnider  Winter Acrostic

    486.        David  Schnider Lurking Raven Sonnet

    487.        David Schnider Highway Of Life Abc Poem

    488.        Kathleen Jessie Raine  From The North

    489.        Evan Boland Nocturne

    490.        C Lucas  Nocturne

    491.        Floria Kelderhouse My Bouquet

    492.        James Dean Chase Beyond Mere Mind

    493.        Judi Van Garder Lake’s Quest

    494.        Kyrielle Grandparenty Place Jeane Cassler Cinquain

    495.        Edward Macdonald A Moon Idyl

    496.        Robert Frost’s” The Road Not Taken

    497.        Robert Hayden ~” A Plague Of Starlings

    498.        Christina R. Jussaume Praising The Creator

    499.        James Hanely Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart Lyrics

    500.        Frank Zappa The Torture Never Stops

    501.        Frank Zapp More Trouble Every Day

    502.        Frank Zappa Jewish Princess

    503.        Thomas Gray’s “The Progress Of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode”

    504.        Andrew Marvell’s “Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return From Ireland.”

    505.        John Keats To Autumn

    506.        William Wordsworth  Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Reflections Of Early Childhood

    507.        Thomas Gray’s ‘The Progress Of Poesy.’Alexander Pope Ode On Solitude By Alexander Pope

    508.        John Keats Ode To A Nightingale By John Keats Emily Bronte ‘The Lady To Her Guitar’ 

    509.        ‘Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection: An Ode‘

    510.        John Keats ‘Ode On A Grecian Urn‘

    511.        Pablo Neruda Ode To A Thread

    512.        Tim Turnbull‘Ode On A Grayson Perry Urn‘

    513.        Percy Bysshe Shelley ‘Ode To The West Wind’ 

    514.        Shelley A. Cephas Angel Delight

    515.        Shelley A. Cephas In Harmony

    516.        Shelley A. Cephas, He Is My Strength

    517.        The 160

    518.        Bianca Example Y Bianca

    519.        Judi Va Gorder     Wings 

    520.        The Argonelles  Rainbow Communications

    521.        Judi Van Gorder The Chase Is On

    522.        Judi Van Gorder

    523.        Judi Van Gorderfall Tv

    524.        Judi Van Gorder Today’s Molly Adventure

    525.        Garden Lace

    526.        Judi Van Gorner Winter Garden

    527.        Kwoa Let Love In

    528.        Lanoe Lisa Noe  Gone

    529.        Judi Gorner Summer Travel Octet

    530.        Judi Van Gorder Gunman Kills 11 

    531.        Judi Van Gorder Fire Season 

    532.        Judi Van Gorder Under Elixirronka I

    533.        Twila Colville Joe’s Words

    534.        Judi Gorder  Shutdown

    535.        Sidewalk Poem A La Gervic

    536.        Judi Van Gorder     The Sierras And The Pacific

    537.        Judi Van Gorder  The Sol

    538.        Judi Van Gorder Presiident George H.W. Bush

    539.        Judi Van Gorder  Hollow

    540.        The Skinny Tony Medina Truth Thomas

    541.        Judi Van Gorder Judi Van Gorder

    542.        Poet’s Magic Solage

    543.        Judi Van Gorder, It’s So Cold

    544.        Judi Van Gorder You Make Me Smile

    545.        Judi Van Gorder  Challenges Soar

    546.           Gypsy Rose Thanksgiving
    547.      Lewis Wallace Ben Hur

    548.        Emily Romano Sky Flowers

    549.        Judi Van Gorder Sweetbriar

    550.         DR Schneider The Camp

    551.        Jason Wilkins Beauty

    552.        Jason Wilkins Satin

    553.        Aubrey Steedman Childhood

    554.        HG Wells the Star

    555.        Rokyea Skehhawalt Hassain Sultana’s Dream

    556.        Karl Hans Stroble The Triumph of Mechanics

    557.        R Schneider~”Camp 39”

    558.      Robert Frost~” Going For Water”

    559.      Sir Thomas Wyatt Sometimes I fled the fires

    560.       Sir Thomas Wyatt In court to serve, The courtiers’ life

    561.      Judi Van Gordon Silenced

    562.      Author unknown Greensleeves

    563.      Waide Riddle  Groove

    564.      Waide Riddle Summer in Santa Monica

    565.      Waide Riddle The Tom Hardy Party

    566.      Waide Riddle Kiss Me Chris Pine

    567.      Waide Riddle Dance to the Beat of the Beach Boys

    568.      Waide Riddle The Power of Summer

    569.      Waide Riddle LA Blue

    570.      Waide Riddle Take Me Home to Venice Beach

    571.      Waide Riddle An Ode to a Summer Song

    572.        Waide Riddle Chocolate Man

    573.        Shel Silverstein Frozen Dream

    574.        Daniel Stuart  Moon Gazers

    575.      Amy Lowell A Winter Ride

    576.      Nara Temple 20th Century Busso  Fan Story

    577.        Law Rencealot Tanaga

    578.        Lawr RenCealot Christmas Spirit Joybell

    579.      Edgard Allen Poe From The Raven

    580.      David Scneder Write Stuff What I Do

    581.      David Schnder Footprints In Time

    582.      Coleridge The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

    583.      Louis Mac Niece From ‘The Sunlight On The Garden’

    584.      Edgar Allan Poe Lenore

    585.      Thomas Hood ‘The Double Knock’

    586.      Van Gorder St. Pat, a Rondeau

    587.      Elliot Napier All Men Are Free

    588.      David Schneider The Three Musketeers

    589.      Marie Summers Winds of Chickamauga

    590.        Pam A Murray As I Was Warmed in the Spring Time Air

    591.      Gypsy Blue Rose Gold Dust In Your Eye

    592.      Gypsy Blue Rose Dragon Fly  One-Line Haiku

    593.        HG Wells Crystal Egg Tales out of Time and Space

    594.        HG Cave Man Tales Ugh and Eucenda

    595.      HG WellsCave Man Tales  The First Horseman

    596.      HG Wells Cave Man Tales  UYA the Lion

    597.      Walt Whitman Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

    598.      Walt Whitman When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d

    599.      Walt Whitman O Captain O Captain

    600.      Walt Whitman Song of Myself V

    601.       Wells Crystal Egg Tales Out Of Time And Space

    602.      HG Wells The Star

    603.      HG A story of the Stone Age UghLomi and Uya

    604.      HG A Story of the Stone Age the Cave Bear HG A Story of the Stone Age First Horseman

    605.      HG Wells Story of the Stone Age  The Lion

    606.      HG Wells Story of the Stone Age The Fight in the Lion’s Thicket

    607.      HG Wells A Story of Things to Come A cure for love

    608.      HG Wells A Story of Things to Come The Vacant Country

    609.      HG Wells A Story of Things to Come The Ways of The City

    610.      HG Wells A Story of Things to Come Underneath

    611.      HG Wells A Story of Things to Come Bindon Intervenes

    612.      HG Wells The Man Who Could Work Miracles

    613.      Virgina Woolf Jacob Room Judi Van Gorder Comfort Food By Judi Van Gorder

    614.      Joseph Spence, Sr. Eggs Of Easter

    615.      Joseph Spence, Sr.Scrumptious Scallops

    616.      Joseph Spence, Sr.Tasty Dessert

    617.      Joseph Spence, Sr. Barbequed Prime Steak

    618.      Linda Varsel Smith Sweedish Meatballs  Linda Varsel Smith Lamb for Easter

     

    749  total including Kim Seowal Poems, and 250 of the classics read before) say 450 new items this year, mostly poems and shorter pieces, perhaps 50 books.

    Reading the classics

     

    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 Night

    (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 3

    Bolded indicates 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]
    – 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.

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

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

    Tales out of Time and Space HG Wells
    – Jacob’s Room [Virginia Woolf]

    the end

     

     

     

    January 10, 2024, 7:52 am 0 boosts 0 favorites

    this is my annual list of books read – this time I am keeping track of poems and short stories as well.  would appreciate comments!  but keep it civil.

    I have also written a few reviews which I will post in due course.

    Cosmos Reading List 2023

    Cosmos Reading List 2022

    Final UpdatesReading the Classics Updated

    Reading the Classics Updated Lists

    Reading G Keith Chesterton

    Cosmos Reading List 2021

    Final UpdateCosmos’s Reading List 2021
    Reading TS Elliot

    Goals:  600 Books/stories and poems

                 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  done

     Kim Sowol’s Poem Unforgettable Love

    Kim Sowol A Lamp Burns Low Collection Add 127  To Total Poems Kim

     

    I will this 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, I have to read it on Kindle alas.

    Total Numerical listing

    total read (including past things read)

    1. Ben Bova The Star Crossed
    2. Ben Bova Crisis Of The Month
    3. Ben Bova The Great Moon Hoax
    4. Ben Bova The Supersonic Zeppelin
    5. Ben Bova Vince’s Dragon
    6. Ben Bova The Angel’s Gift
    7. Ben Bova A Slight Miscalculation
    8. Ben Bova Cyberbooks
    9. The King Of Bread Luis Alberto Ubba
    • Goodbye To The Road Not Taken At Homes
    • The Double Life Of The Cockroaches Wife Edwidge Danticat
    • Cane And Roses A Manifesto Edwidge Danticat
    • Persephone’s Rides At The End Of Days Carmen Maria Mcleod
    • Unicorn Me Elizabeth Crane
    • Lessons With Father Jai Chakrabrabiti
    • Iphone S E Weiche Wang
    • The Hole Patrick Cottrell
    • Noseless Jack Nawal Serpel
    • Infidelity Jack Jemc
    • Death By Printer Mira Jacob
    • Options Leslie Nikia Amara
    • Sleepless Michael Cunningham
    • A Survey Of Recent American Happenings Told With The Six Commercials For The Tennyson Clear Jet Premium Touchless Bidet Omar El Akkad
    • Unselfie Amy Bender
    • Home Elizabeth Strout
    • Love Interests Jess Walter
    • Escape Pod W41 Jay Robert Lennon
    • Conquistador On Fairchild
    • Susan Perabo The Project
    • Period Piece Mellie Mellon
    • Books You Read Joe Minnow
    • A Woman Driving Alone Marie-Helen Bertino
    • Been Laurie Dandelions
    • Patrick Dacey All That Gone Is All That’s Left
    • Jenny Allen Scaffolding Man
    • Richard Rivers Solomon A Brief
    • Amal Ruth Rivers Soloman
    • Note In The Translation Of Winter Women
    • Nightlife Lisa Cole
    • Cerati After Cerati Juan Martinez
    • The Prom Terrorist Rabi Almandine
    • Bedtime Story Victor Lavalle
    • Such Small Islands Lauren Groff
    • Almost Everything Etgar Keret
    • Where The Candles Are Kept David Eggers
    • James Rollin’s The Last Odyssey Review Done
    • Harlan Coben Fool Me Once Review Due.
    • Joel Rosenberg The Twelfth Iman Review Is Due.
    • Introduction: Ann And Jeff Vandermeer
    • The Lens Of Time: Science Fiction As A Way Of Seeing
    • G. Wells: “The Star” (1897)
    • Left Hand Of Dog Clark
    • The King Of Bread Luis Alberto Ubba
    • Goodbye To The Road Not Taken At Homes
    • The Double Life Of The Cockroaches Wife Edwidge Danticat
    • Cane And Roses A Manifesto Edwidge Danticat
    • Persephone’s Rides At The End Of Days Carmen Maria Mcleod
    • Unicorn Me Elizabeth Crane
    • Lessons With Father Jai Chakrabrabiti
    • Iphone S E Weiche Wang
    • The Hole Patrick Cottrell
    • Noseless Jack Nawal Serpel
    • Infidelity Jack Jemc
    • Death By Printer Mira Jacob
    • Options Leslie Nikia Amara
    • Sleepless Michael Cunningham
    • A Survey Of Recent American Happenings Told With The Six Commercials For The Tennyson Clear Jet Premium Touchless Bidet Omar El Akkad
    • Unselfie Amy Bender
    • Home Elizabeth Strout
    • Love Interests Jess Walter
    • Escape Pod W41 Jay Robert Lennon
    • Conquistador On Fairchild
    • Susan Perabo The Project
    • Period Piece Mellie Mellon
    • Books You Read Joe Minnow
    • James Rollin’s The Last Odyssey Review Done
    • Harlan Coben Fool Me Once Review Due.
    • Joel Rosenberg The Twelfth Iman Review Is Due.
    • Introduction: Ann And Jeff Vandermeer
    • The Lens Of Time: Science Fiction As A Way Of Seeing
    • G. Wells: “The Star” (1897)
    • Robert Burns Auld Lang Syne
    • Ella Wheeler Wilcox The Year
    • Helen Hunt Jackson New Year’s Morning
    • Marie Summers Enlightened
    • Marie Summers My God, My God
    • Walt Wojtanik –Flourishing Florist
    • David Schnieder Footprints In Time
    • David Schnieder Soldiers
    • David Schnieder Together Forever
    • David Schnieder The Almighty Thresher
    • Sally Ann Roberts, It All Started With A Packet Of Seeds
    • Marie Summers Celestial Dreams
    • Example #3: Chelle Wood Dance In The Rain
    • Example #4: Dendrobia Osprey
    • Example #5: Maria Summers Seasonal Whispers
    • Dah Helmer Astral Darkness
    • Alexander Pope’s “An Essay On Criticism,”
    • Archibald Macleish “Ars Poetica” (1926)
    1. Joy Priest In Virginia Quarterly Review
    2. Pamela Hart’s “Some Thoughts On Metaphor”
    3. In The Night Heron Barks
    4. José Olivarez In Poetry Magazine “Ars Poetica”
    5. Paul Guest  “Late-Stage Capitalism Blues”
    6. In The Adroit Journal
    7. Dean Young In Poem-A-Day
    8. “Small Craft Talk Warning”
    9. Robert Frost After Apple-Picking
    10. Spike Milligan Jumbo Jet
    11. Spike Milligan Granny
    12. Spike Milligan On The Ning Nang Nong
    13. Spike Milligan Abc
    14. Riddle Of Birth Koyel Is Writing Again.
    15. The Dark House Edwin Arlington Robinson
    16. The Garden Edwin Arlington Robinson
    17. Philip Larkin At Grass
    18. Jim Bartlet’s An Irregular Ode To A Sometimes Morris Dancer
    19. William Wordsworth An Excerpt From ‘Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood
    20. Oranges By Gary Soto
    21. Robert Frost The Road Not Taken”
    22. Robert Hayden A Plague Of Starlings”
    23. Angels Erin Holbrook
    24. Turquoise Thoughts Deborah P Kolodji
    25. Cherry Blossoms Marie Summers
    26. Joshua Tree Deborah P Kolodji
    27. Long Shadows Marie Summers
    28. Resurrección Andra De Costa
    29. Holiday Travel Judi Van Gorder
    30. Memorial Judi Van Gorder
    31. Reading Phil Wood
    32. Fight Flight
    33. Judi Van Gorder
    34. Happy Mordee 2 Writing Com
    35. Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
    36. A Child Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
    37. Somehow Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
    38. Hopeful Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
    39. See The Tulips Blooming Victor Hugo
    40. Hear The Violins Play In The Moonlight Thomas Corneille
    41. Broken Headline Chain Of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder
    42. Patriarch Judi Judi Van Gorder
    43. Parten Judi Van Gorder
    44. Behave, Judi Van Gorder,
    45. Glue Judi Van Gorder
    46. Didactic Cinquain By Marti
      See The Tulips Blooming Victor Hugo
    47. Hear The Violins Play In The Moonlight Thomas Corneille
    48. Judi Van Gorder’s Twelfth Night Sonnet
    49. Judi Van Gorder Pauline
    50. John Keats(1795-1821) “Bright Star!
    51. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Xviii. To His Love
    52. Robert Burns’s A Sonnet Upon Sonnets
    53. Rupert Brooke’s “Sonnet Reversed”
    54. Amy Levy The Old Poet
    55. Amy Levy London In July
    56. Amy Levy At A Dinner Party
    57. Amy Levy A Wall Flower
    58. Barbara Hartman Bottoms Up!
    59. Ts Elliot A Dog Is A Dog
    60. Elizabeth Bishop The Fish
    61. Huldah Fetzer The Killed Deer
    161.        Dc Martinson Dizain For The Evolutionary Socialist Dream Of Edouard Bernstein

    162.        Judi Van Groder No Surrender

    163.        The Hot Oil Sizzles Waywa

    164.        Shadows Waywa

    165.        Like As A Ship” By Edmund Spencer

    166.        Lewis Carroll Boat Beneath A Sunny Sky

    167.        Lewis Carrol All In The Golden Afternoon

    168.        Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky By Lewis Carroll

    169.        Five O’clock Judy Van Gelder

    170.        Balm Pat Nelson

    171.        Foamy Water Pat Nelson

    172.        Salty Air Pat Nelson

    173.        Sandy Beach Pat Nelson

    174.        It Worked Shelley A Cephas

    175.        Angel Light (Rhyming) Shelley A. Cephas

    176.        His Pristine Robes (Non-Rhyming) Shelley A Cephas

    177.        Kim Sowol’s Poem Unforgettable Love

    178.        Kim Sowol A Lamp Burns Low Collection Add 127  To Total Poems Kim

    179.        Birth Of A Triangle Alex Goldenberg

    180.        My Body Andrea Forbing-Maglione

    181.        Broken Car Sally Ann Roberts

    182.        Coffee Sally Ann Roberts

    183.        A Simple Tree Julie Wright

    184.        Rockets’ Red Glare Johnathan Sluder

    185.        Luna  Marie Summers

    186.        The Makers Howard Nemerov

    187.        Insomnia Howard Nemerov

    188.        Walking The Dog Howard Nemerov

    189.        John Keats’s The Poetry Of Earth Is Never Dead

    190.        Mary Oliver’s The Uses Of Sorrow

    191.        Wendell Berry’s The Peace Of Wild Thing

    192.        Dylan Thomas Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines

    193.        Dylan Thomas, I Have Longed To Move Away

    194.        Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

    195.        Howard Nemerov The Maker

    196.        Woodworth Reese Lise Y Lizette

    197.        Lizette Woodworth Reese That Day You Came

    198.        Lizette Woodworth Reese
    Oh, Gray And Tender Is The Rai

    199.        Amy Clampit The Kingfisher
    Amy Clampit Dancers Exercising

    200.        Amy Clampit The Fog.

    201.        Amy Clampit A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street

    202.        Edwin Robinson The House On The Hill’

    203.        Edwin Arlington Robinson

    204.        John Keats Ode To Autumn

    205.        Mahe “Where I’m From (Warendorf Edition)”

    206.        Write Rick Anti-Hero

    207.        Amy Jo Summer “Am I Awake Yet?”
    .

    208.        Viola Berg Joy Bell

    209.        R Ryan, E Aharonian N Ryan Anywhere Is

    210.        Mary Oliver Wild Geese

    211.        The Harvest’s Moon Emissary.
    Judi Van Gorder

    212.        Judy Van Gorder Friday

    213.        Leny Rovers Scars

    214.        Bullfight Leny Rovers

    215.        Jem Farmer Release This Pain

    216.        Peg Nelson Rose Leaf’s

    217.        Kathy Anderson Robin And Grackle

    218.        Kathy Anderson

    219.        Kathy Anderson Snow Queen

    220.        Do Not Run Terry Clitheroe

    221.        Terry Clitheroe Global Warming

    222.        Terry Clitheroe Had We But World And Time

    223.        Terry Clitheroe

    224.        Hot Summers Night

    225.        Terry Clitheroe In My Bar

    226.        Terry Clitheroe Just For A While

    227.        Terry Clitheroe Late Summer

    228.        Terry Clitheroe Memories

    229.        Terry Clitheroe Para Arender Amar

    230.        Terry Clitheroe Reborn To Nature

    231.        Terry Clitheroe Silent Tears

    232.        Terry Clitheroe Tres Professors (Three Teachers)

    233.        Terry Clitheroe Understand

    234.        Divena Collins Winter Of The Heart

    235.        Divena Collins Able Male Needed

    236.        Divena Collins Take Me Now!! (To The Shops For Food)

    237.        Divena Collins Dreams Of Love

    238.        Divena Collins, I Remember

    239.        Divena Collins Natures Serenity

    240.        Divena Collins Of Spring

    241.        Divena Collins Only Love

    242.        Divena Collins Over Heated

    243.        Divena Collins Paradise Lost

    244.        Divena Collins Reborn To Nature

    245.        Divena Collins’s Rocking Horse And Tiddy Winks

    246.        Divena Collins There Shall Be Light

    247.        Divena Collins Where Angels Tread

    248.        Maggie Cusick Marble Vase

    249.        Lorraine Dafney Lady In Black

    250.        Jem Farmer Discarded Debris

    251.        Jem Farmer No Mistook

    252.        Ivor Hogg Decorum

    253.        Ivor Hogg More Or Less

    254.        Ivor Hogg Scar Tissue

    255.        Ivor Hogg Sneak Attack

    256.        Neil 54 Affections With Family

    257.        Peggy Nelson Baby

    258.        Peggy Nelson Hell On Earth

    259.        Peggy Nelson Lost In The Blues

    260.        Starving Peggy Nelson

    261.        Peggy Nelson

    262.        Peggy Nelson Westerly Waves

    263.        Ryter Reticle Experience Found

    264.        Ryter Reticle Fireside Memories

    265.        Ryter Reticle Hearts Winter

    266.        Ryter Reticle Naked

    267.        Ryter Reticle Nocturne

    268.        Ryter Reticle Paparazzi

    269.        Ryter Reticle Remembering

    270.        Ryter Reticle Truant

    271.        Ryter Reticle Unjust Thoughts

    272.        Ryter Reticle Victim Of Deceit

    273.        Ryter Reticle Yan Yean Dreaming

    274.        Ryter Reticle You Raise Me Up

    275.        Leny Rovers Allegro Assai

    276.        Leny Rovers Andante

    277.        Leny Rovers Rondo

    278.        Peggy And Readjust Thoughts

    279.        Occhi Desiderata I Have Looked On Thee With Longing Eyes

    280.        Katharine Tynan The End Of The Day

    281.        Katharine Tynan The Wind That Shakes The Barley

    282.        Katharine Tynan Immortality

    283.        Lady & Loui Two Silver Rings

    284.        Mountainwriter49 Forever In My Heart

    285.        I Sally Ann Roberts T All Started With A Packet Of Seeds

    286.        Example #2: Marie Summers Celestial Dreams

    287.        Example #3: Chelle Wood Dance In The Rain

    288.        Example #4: Dendrobia Ospreyexample

    289.        #5: Marie Summers
    Seasonal Whispers

    290.        Kathy Anderson This Bitter Earth

    291.        Lawrencealot Taxies

    292.        Will Alexander The Polish Mathematics

    293.        Michael Ania Covering Standups.

    294.        Ray Armitage Fortune

    295.        Whr Then We Get The Dialectic Fairly Well.

    296.        Martin Bell is a Definite Player

    297.        Charles Bernstein People

    298.        Mark Bibbins From 13 Balloons

    299.        Lee Ann Brown As An American

    300.        Kamryn Alexa Castro Yes

    301.        Mariane Chan The Shape Of Biddle City

    302.        Victoria Chang World’s End

    303.        Maxine Chernoff The Songbird Academy

    304.        Kwame Dawes Photo Shoot

    305.        Alex Demetrio The Years

    306.        Stuart Disc Hell After The Exhibition

    307.        Timothy Daniel Instagram

    308.        Boris Dayak Days At The Races

    309.        Joana Fuhrman 330 College Avenue

    310.        Amy Gerstle Night Herons

    311.        Peter Gizzi Revisionary

    312.        Herbert Gold’s Other News

    313.        Terrene Hayes Strange As The Rule Of Grammar

    314.        Robert Herston All Right

    315.        Paul Hoover Abominations, Afternoon

    316.        Shirley Jackson’s Best Original Enigma

    317.        Patrica Spears Jones The Devil’s Wife Explains 45.

    318.        Ilay Kaminsky, I Ask That I Not Die.

    319.        Vincent Katz’s A Marvelous Sky

    320.        John Keen Straight No Chaser

    321.        Miho Kinas’ Three Shrimp Boats

    322.        Wayne Kepstrum Misran Master Craftsman

    323.        Yusef Komunyakaa From The Autobiography

    324.        Michale Lay I Meant To

    325.        Dorothea Lasky Green Moon John Yao Zone

    326.        Bernadette Ayer Pi Day

    327.        Maureen Mc Lane Moonrise

    328.        Yusef Michael Tablet 6

    329.        Stephen Paul Miller Dating Buddha

    330.        Susan Mitchell Chaplin In Palma

    331.        Backus More Extraordinary Life

    332.        Diesel To Social In Several Invoices

    333.        Elliot Mullen As I Wander Lonely In The Cloud Kathy And Also The Facts.

    334.        Eugene Austin Husky From The Fainting

    335.        Feeling Sonnets You Go Out Tomorrow.

    336.        Sunday Game

    337.        Marine Owen In Space Surface Tensional Force

    338.        John Phillips’s Film Theory

    339.        Catholic Bullet Round Front Shirt

    340.        Caroline Marie Rodgers Phone Number Two My Kind Of Feminism

    341.        Jerome Sarah’s Something I’m Not Hot Takes In Spiderman Her Dark Drama.

    342.        Turkey Tim Civils All The Time

    343.        Diana’s Success Little Few State

    344.        David Shapiro Lost All Of Jesus.

    345.        Mitch Siskin Only Tough Woes

    346.        Amanda Smeltz Green Goddess Girls In Blacks

    347.        Cole Swensen’s Various Gloves Out

    348.        Arthur Sze Wildlife Season OK

    349.        Diane Thiel Listening In Deep Space

    350.        Rodrigo Toscano Full House

    351.        Tony Trigilio The Steeplejack

    352.        David Trinidad The Poems Attributed To Him May Be By Different Poets.

    353.        Anne Waldman’s Three Poems Form 13 Moon Kora

    354.        Sarah Anne Wallen, I Can See Mars.

    355.        Elizbeth Winch And What My Species Did

    356.        Terrence Winch Gear Sizzle

    357.        Jeff Cyphers Wright Sweepstakes

    358.        John Yau Song For Mie Yum

    359.        Geoffrey Young Parrel Bars

    360.        Jeffrey Young Parallel Bars

    361.        Matthews’szaprudar The Empty Grave Of Zza Zaza Gabor

    362.        Margaret R Smith’s The Unexpected Snow

    363.        Jan Turner Earthquake

    364.        Gabriella 2 Why?

    365.        Heather Wilkes Grapes

    366.        Hart Crane Fear

    367.        Hart Crane Brooklyn Bridge
    Jim T Henrikson Poetic Justice

    368.        Jim T. Henrikson’s Poetry Lost In Mind

    369.        Franklin, Woolman, Penn

    370.        Plato, Epictetus,

    371.        Marcus, Aurelius Meditations

    372.        Aeneid Virgil (14)

    373.        Cervantes Don Quixote Part 1:

    374.        Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress

    375.        Dante The Divine Comedy

    376.        Homer The Odyssey

    377.        American Historical Documents

    378.        Sacred Writings 1

    379.        Sacred Writings 2

    380.        Austen, Jane: Pride And Prejudice

    381.        Austen, Jane: Emma

    382.        Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre

    383.        Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights

    384.        Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan Of The Apes

    385.        Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland

    386.        Cervantes, Miguel De: Don Quixote

    387.        Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone

    388.        Conrad, Joseph: Heart Of Darkness

    389.        Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo

    390.        Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last Of The Mohicans

    391.        Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge Of Courage

    392.        Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe

    393.        Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders

    394.        Dickens, Charles: Bleak House

    395.        Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations

    396.        Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime And Punishment

    397.        Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot

    398.        Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound Of The Baskervilles

    399.        Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers

    400.        Dumas, Alexandre: The Count Of Monte Cristo

    401.        Eliot, George: Middlemarch

    402.        Forster, E. M.: A Room With A View

    403.        Gaskell, Elizabeth: North And South

    404.        Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von: The Sorrows Of Young Werther

    405.        Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon’s Mines

    406.        Hardy, Thomas: Tess Of The D’urbervilles

    407.        Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter

    408.        Homer: The Odyssey

    409.        Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

    410.        Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables

    411.        Jane Austen  Sense And Sensibility

    412.        Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland

    413.        Gilbert Keith Chesterton  The Man Who Knew Too Much

    414.        Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

    415.        The Margaret Deland Iron Woman

    416.        Charles Dickens David Copperfield

    417.        Charles Dickens  Oliver Twist

    418.        Charles Dicken A Tale Of Two Cities

    419.        Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky The Double [

    420.        Arthur Conan Doyle The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes-

    421.        Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

    422.        E. M. Forster- A Room With A View

    423.        Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]

    424.        Tess Of The D’urbervilles [Thomas Hardy

    425.        Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse

    426.        Dubliners [James Joyce

    427.        The Fall Of The House Of Usher [Edgar Allan Poe]

    428.        The Sea Wolf [Jack London]

    429.        The Call Of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]

    430.        Beyond Good And Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]

    431.        The Murders In The Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]

    432.        The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe

    433.        The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]

    434.        Romeo And Juliet [William Shakespeare

    435.        Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]

    436.        The Elements Of Style [William Strunk Jr.

    437.        What’s Bred In The Bone [Grant Allen]

    438.        The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius]
    Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]

    439.        Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]

    440.        Lady Susan [Jane Austen]

    441.        The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum]

    442.        The Art Of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie]

    443.        The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish]

    444.        The Wisdom Of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    Heretics [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]

    445.        The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]

    446.        The Innocence Of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]

    447.        Fanny Hill: Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure [John Cleland]
    The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]

    448.        Lord Jim [Joseph Conrad]

    449.        The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]

    450.        The Pickwick Papers [Charles Dickens]

    451.        A Christmas Carol [Charles Dickens]

    452.        Notes From The Underground [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]

    453.        The Gambler Par Fyodor [Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]

    454.        The Lost World [Arthur Conan Doyle]

    455.        The Hound Of The Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]

    456.        The Sign Of The Four [Arthur Conan Doyle]

    457.        The Man In The Iron Mask [Alexandre Dumas]

    458.        The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]

    459.        This Side Of Paradise [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]

    460.        Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]

    461.        King Solomon’s Mines [Henry Rider Haggard]

    462.        The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Victor Hugo]

    463.        Kim [Rudyard Kipling]

    464.        Captain Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]

    465.        The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]

    466.        Lady Chatterley’s Lover [David Herbert Lawrence]

    467.        The Son Of The Wolf [Jack London]

    468.        The Einstein Theory Of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

    469.        The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft

    470.        At The Mountains Of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]

    471.        The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli]

    472.        The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery]

    473.        The Antichrist [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]

    474.        The Republic [Plato]

    475.        The Last Man [Mary Shelley]

    476.        Life On The Mississippi [Mark Twain

    477.        The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]

    478.        In The Year 2889 [Jules Verne]

    479.        Around The World In Eighty Days [Jules Verne]

    480.        Sweat Destiny Jan Turner

    481.        Andreia Dietrich And Jan Turner Seaside Lament

    482.        Margaret R Smith’s The Melody Of Trees

    483.        David Schnider Home Fires

    484.        +125 Kim Sewol Poems

    485.        David Schnider  Winter Acrostic

    486.        David  Schnider Lurking Raven Sonnet

    487.        David Schnider Highway Of Life Abc Poem

    488.        Kathleen Jessie Raine  From The North

    489.        Evan Boland Nocturne

    490.        C Lucas  Nocturne

    491.        Floria Kelderhouse My Bouquet

    492.        James Dean Chase Beyond Mere Mind

    493.        Judi Van Garder Lake’s Quest

    494.        Kyrielle Grandparenty Place Jeane Cassler Cinquain

    495.        Edward Macdonald A Moon Idyl

    496.        Robert Frost’s” The Road Not Taken

    497.        Robert Hayden ~” A Plague Of Starlings

    498.        Christina R. Jussaume Praising The Creator

    499.        James Hanely Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart Lyrics

    500.        Frank Zappa The Torture Never Stops

    501.        Frank Zapp More Trouble Every Day

    502.        Frank Zappa Jewish Princess

    503.        Thomas Gray’s “The Progress Of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode”

    504.        Andrew Marvell’s “Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return From Ireland.”

    505.        John Keats To Autumn

    506.        William Wordsworth  Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Reflections Of Early Childhood

    507.        Thomas Gray’s ‘The Progress Of Poesy.’Alexander Pope Ode On Solitude By Alexander Pope

    508.        John Keats Ode To A Nightingale By John Keats Emily Bronte ‘The Lady To Her Guitar’ 

    509.        ‘Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection: An Ode‘

    510.        John Keats ‘Ode On A Grecian Urn‘

    511.        Pablo Neruda Ode To A Thread

    512.        Tim Turnbull‘Ode On A Grayson Perry Urn‘

    513.        Percy Bysshe Shelley ‘Ode To The West Wind’ 

    514.        Shelley A. Cephas Angel Delight

    515.        Shelley A. Cephas In Harmony

    516.        Shelley A. Cephas, He Is My Strength

    517.        The 160

    518.        Bianca Example Y Bianca

    519.        Judi Va Gorder     Wings 

    520.        The Argonelles  Rainbow Communications

    521.        Judi Van Gorder The Chase Is On

    522.        Judi Van Gorder

    523.        Judi Van Gorderfall Tv

    524.        Judi Van Gorder Today’s Molly Adventure

    525.        Garden Lace

    526.        Judi Van Gorner Winter Garden

    527.        Kwoa Let Love In

    528.        Lanoe Lisa Noe  Gone

    529.        Judi Gorner Summer Travel Octet

    530.        Judi Van Gorder Gunman Kills 11 

    531.        Judi Van Gorder Fire Season 

    532.        Judi Van Gorder Under Elixirronka I

    533.        Twila Colville Joe’s Words

    534.        Judi Gorder  Shutdown

    535.        Sidewalk Poem A La Gervic

    536.        Judi Van Gorder     The Sierras And The Pacific

    537.        Judi Van Gorder  The Sol

    538.        Judi Van Gorder Presiident George H.W. Bush

    539.        Judi Van Gorder  Hollow

    540.        The Skinny Tony Medina Truth Thomas

    541.        Judi Van Gorder Judi Van Gorder

    542.        Poet’s Magic Solage

    543.        Judi Van Gorder, It’s So Cold

    544.        Judi Van Gorder You Make Me Smile

    545.        Judi Van Gorder  Challenges Soar

    546.           Gypsy Rose Thanksgiving
    547.      Lewis Wallace Ben Hur

    548.        Emily Romano Sky Flowers

    549.        Judi Van Gorder Sweetbriar

    550.         DR Schneider The Camp

    551.        Jason Wilkins Beauty

    552.        Jason Wilkins Satin

    553.        Aubrey Steedman Childhood

    554.        HG Wells the Star

    555.        Rokyea Skehhawalt Hassain Sultana’s Dream

    556.        Karl Hans Stroble The Triumph of Mechanics

    557.        R Schneider~”Camp 39”

    558.      Robert Frost~” Going For Water”

    559.      Sir Thomas Wyatt Sometimes I fled the fires

    560.       Sir Thomas Wyatt In court to serve, The courtiers’ life

    561.      Judi Van Gordon Silenced

    562.      Author unknown Greensleeves

    563.      Waide Riddle  Groove

    564.      Waide Riddle Summer in Santa Monica

    565.      Waide Riddle The Tom Hardy Party

    566.      Waide Riddle Kiss Me Chris Pine

    567.      Waide Riddle Dance to the Beat of the Beach Boys

    568.      Waide Riddle The Power of Summer

    569.      Waide Riddle LA Blue

    570.      Waide Riddle Take Me Home to Venice Beach

    571.      Waide Riddle An Ode to a Summer Song

    572.        Waide Riddle Chocolate Man

    573.        Shel Silverstein Frozen Dream

    574.        Daniel Stuart  Moon Gazers

    575.      Amy Lowell A Winter Ride

    576.      Nara Temple 20th Century Busso  Fan Story

    577.        Law Rencealot Tanaga

    578.        Lawr RenCealot Christmas Spirit Joybell

    579.      Edgard Allen Poe From The Raven

    580.      David Scneder Write Stuff What I Do

    581.      David Schnder Footprints In Time

    582.      Coleridge The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

    583.      Louis Mac Niece From ‘The Sunlight On The Garden’

    584.      Edgar Allan Poe Lenore

    585.      Thomas Hood ‘The Double Knock’

    586.      Van Gorder St. Pat, a Rondeau

    587.      Elliot Napier All Men Are Free

    588.      David Schneider The Three Musketeers

    589.      Marie Summers Winds of Chickamauga

    590.        Pam A Murray As I Was Warmed in the Spring Time Air

    591.      Gypsy Blue Rose Gold Dust In Your Eye

    592.      Gypsy Blue Rose Dragon Fly  One-Line Haiku

    593.        HG Wells Crystal Egg Tales out of Time and Space

    594.        HG Cave Man Tales Ugh and Eucenda

    595.      HG WellsCave Man Tales  The First Horseman

    596.      HG Wells Cave Man Tales  UYA the Lion

    597.      Walt Whitman Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

    598.      Walt Whitman When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d

    599.      Walt Whitman O Captain O Captain

    600.      Walt Whitman Song of Myself V

    601.       Wells Crystal Egg Tales Out Of Time And Space

    602.      HG Wells The Star

    603.      HG A story of the Stone Age UghLomi and Uya

    604.      HG A Story of the Stone Age the Cave Bear HG A Story of the Stone Age First Horseman

    605.      HG Wells Story of the Stone Age  The Lion

    606.      HG Wells Story of the Stone Age The Fight in the Lion’s Thicket

    607.      HG Wells A Story of Things to Come A cure for love

    608.      HG Wells A Story of Things to Come The Vacant Country

    609.      HG Wells A Story of Things to Come The Ways of The City

    610.      HG Wells A Story of Things to Come Underneath

    611.      HG Wells A Story of Things to Come Bindon Intervenes

    612.      HG Wells The Man Who Could Work Miracles

    613.      Virgina Woolf Jacob Room Judi Van Gorder Comfort Food By Judi Van Gorder

    614.      Joseph Spence, Sr. Eggs Of Easter

    615.      Joseph Spence, Sr.Scrumptious Scallops

    616.      Joseph Spence, Sr.Tasty Dessert

    617.      Joseph Spence, Sr. Barbequed Prime Steak

    618.      Linda Varsel Smith Sweedish Meatballs  Linda Varsel Smith Lamb for Easter

     

    749  total including Kim Seowal Poems, and 250 of the classics read before) say 450 new items this year, mostly poems and shorter pieces, perhaps 50 books.

    Reading the classics

     

    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 Night

    (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 3

    Bolded indicates 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]
    – 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.

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

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

    Tales out of Time and Space HG Wells
    – Jacob’s Room [Virginia Woolf]

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  • Ben Bova Last of the Sci-Fi Greats

    Ben Bova Last of the Sci-Fi Greats

    Review of Ben Bova’s Laugh Lines 2008 Satirical Novellas and Stories

    Reading the Classics Updated Lists

    Loved reading Ben Bova one of my favorite SF writers love his style – I think that I can pick up a lot from him.  Ben Bova the dean of Hard SF wrote Laugh Lines in 2008. Laugh lines are a series of satirical looks at the near future.  The writing is crisp, very witty, and has a snarky in-your-face attitude. Every line is a gem.

    With his passing in December 2020, the last of the great SF writers have moved on.

    He published “Laugh Lines in 2008 = which was a satirical look at futures and is one of his best books, and a great introduction to his work.  He is best known for his series on the colonization of Mars and the Jupiter asteroid belt.  The book consists of a series of short stories and two novellas.  Each one is a gem filled with his trademark wit and snarky attitude.

    Starcrossed

    A satirical look at the movie business set in 2030 or so. It is based on the author’s experience as a consultant on a short =lived Canadian SF series.  He got a lot of things right in terms of his technological predictions, but he missed Canada legalizing pot everywhere, and Canada becoming a right-work-to-work non-state is off the mark.

    The Crisis of the Month

    The Crisis of the Month is an epic putdown of our crisis-obsessed mass media.  Reads very well in 2023.

    The Great Moon Hoax

    The Great Moon Hoax is a great satirical look at the possibility that Martians exist and have been visiting us since Roswell,

    Supersonic Zeppelin

    Supersonic Zeppelin is a satirical look at the aerospace industry and ends with a hint about the development of hyperloop technology, which sadly is still a pipe dream.

    Vinca’s Dragon

    Vinca’s Dragon is a horror story and a gangster story and features characters that the author knew growing up in Philadelphia in an Italian neighborhood. The Dragon keeps assuring Vinca that she is not interested in his soul, as she is not working for Satan.  He finds out in the end that she wanted so much more from him.

    The Angel’s Gift.

    The Angel’s Gift is a satirical look at religion.

    A Slight Miscalculation

    A Slight Miscalculation looks at the possibility of earthquake forecasting and looks at A, in the end, the computer was right as the earthquake scientist made a slight typo in his calculations and had a slight miscalculation!

    Cyberbooks

    Cyberbooks look at the publishing industry as it adjusts to the first generation of E-books.  this was written as the very first generation of E-books was coming out.  The author in an interview said,

    “Many aspiring authors ask me if the publishing industry is bad as portrayed in Cyberbooks.  I always respond that it is worse.”

    Bio

    Benjamin William Bova (November 8, 1932 – November 29, 2020) was an American writer and editor. During a writing career of 60 years, he was the author of more than 120[2] works of science fact and fiction, an editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, for which he won a Hugo Award six times, and an editorial director of Omni; he was also president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America.[3]

     Ben Bova – Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bova

    Ben Bova – Book Series in Order

    Ben Bova > Quotes

    “Red tape has killed more people than bullets…”
    ― Ben Bova, Millennium

    A fanatic who is willing to die for his cause thinks nothing of killing you for his cause.”
    ― Ben Bova, The Return

    “The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as the mountains that shelter it, as universal as the stars themselves.”
    ― Ben Bova, Mars Life

    “The art of fiction has not changed much since prehistoric times. The formula for telling a powerful story has remained the same: create a strong character, a person of great strength, capable of deep emotions and decisive action. Give him a weakness. Set him in conflict with another powerful character — or perhaps with nature. Let his exterior conflict be the mirror of the protagonist’s interior conflict, the clash of his desires, his strength against his weakness. And there you have a story. Whether it’s Abraham offering his only son to God, Paris bringing ruin to Troy over a woman, Hamlet and Claudius playing their deadly game, or Faust seeking the world’s knowledge and power — the stories that stand out in the minds of the reader are those whose characters are unforgettable.

    To show other worlds, to describe possible future societies and the problems lurking ahead, is not enough. The writer of science fiction must show how these worlds and these futures affect human beings. And something much more important: he must show how human beings can and do create these future worlds. Our future is largely in our own hands. It doesn’t come blindly rolling out of the heavens; it is the joint product of the actions of billions of human beings. This is a point that’s easily forgotten in the rush of headlines and the hectic badgering of everyday life. But it’s a point that science fiction makes constantly: the future belongs to us — whatever it is. We make it, our actions shape tomorrow. We have the brains and guts to build paradise (or at least try). Tragedy is when we fail, and the greatest crime of all is when we fail even to try.

    Thus science fiction stands as a bridge between science and art, between the engineers of technology and the poets of humanity.”

    “In science, there is a dictum: don’t add an experiment to an experiment. Don’t make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don’t ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.”

    “As long as we’re tied to Middle Eastern oil we’re tied to Middle Eastern politics. We’re hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out Israel and the United States because we support Israel.”

    “My first sight of the fabled warrior was a surprise. He was not a mighty-thewed giant, like Ajax. His body was not broad and powerful as Odysseus’. He seemed small, almost boyish, his bare arms and legs slim and virtually hairless. His chin was shaved clean, and the ringlets of his long black hair were tied up in a silver chain. He wore a splendid white silk tunic, bordered with a purple key design, cinched at the waist with a belt of interlocking gold crescents… His face was the greatest shock. Ugly, almost to the point of being grotesque. Narrow beady eyes, lips curled in a perpetual snarl, a sharp hook of a nose, skin pocked and cratered… A small ugly boy born to be a king… A young man possessed with fire to silence the laughter, to stifle the taunting. His slim arms and legs were iron-hard, knotted with muscle. His dark eyes were humorless. There was no doubt in my mind that he could outfight Odysseus or even powerful Ajax on sheer willpower alone.”

    “We try to teach our students how to think… how to use their brains and imagination. Individual subjects can always be learned by a man who knows how to learn. We teach them to think, and the other subjects arise by themselves…”

    “He did not appear to be a very tall man; what I could see of his legs seemed stumpy, though heavily muscReading the Classics Updatedled. His chest was broad and deep. Later I learned that he swam in the sea almost every morning. His thick strong arms were circled with leather wristbands and a bronze armlet above his left elbow that gleamed with polished onyx and lapis lazuli… Puckered white scars from old wounds stood out against the dark skin of his arms, parting the black hairs like roads through a forest… Odysseus wore a sleeveless tunic, his legs, and feet bare, but he had thrown a lamb’s fleece across his wide shoulders. His face was thickly bearded with dark curly hair that showed a trace of grey. His heavy mop of ringlets came down to his shoulders and across his forehead almost down to his black eyebrows. Those eyes were as grey as the sea outside on this rainy afternoon, probing, searching, judging.”

    “And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.”

    “Lolling around libraries paging through books that haven’t been checked out since 1975 is one of my principal joys as a writer.”
    ― Ben Bova, Nebula Awards Showcase 2008

    “He was close enough so that I could see his face clearly, even with his helmet’s cheek flaps tied tightly under his bearded chin. I looked into the eyes of Hector, prince of Troy. Brown eyes they were, the color of rich farm soil, calm and deep. No anger, no battle lust. He was a cool and calculating warrior, a thinker among these hordes of wild, screaming brutes. He wore a small round shield buckled to his left arm instead of the massive body-length type most of the other nobles carried. In it was painted a flying heron, a strangely peaceful emblem amid all this mayhem and gore.”

    “The first thi8g he thinks of is weaponry, killing his fellow humans. The second thing is power.”
    ― Ben Bova, Voyagers III: Star Brothers

    “The only thing he thinks of is himself,” Stoner pointed out. In his deepest heart, he does not regard anyone else as truly human; no one except himself. He is the center of his world. Everything and everyone else revolves around him.”

    ― Ben Bova, Voyagers III: Star Brothers

    “perfluorocarbon”

    “Palmer was talking with only the surface of his mind, his cheek muscles bobbing as if he were chewing his thoughts and finding them tough.”
    ― Ben Bova, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume Two-A: The Great Novellas

    “You can’t hate a man you understand.”
    ― Ben Bova, Return to Mars

    “Whenever a religious movement has gained the reins of governmental power, individual liberties are strangled.”
    ― Ben Bova, Mars Life

    “The most arduous part of learning is preparing the mind to accept new knowledge.”
    ― Ben Bova, New Earth

    “Words are important he realized, especially in a nation ruled by its media.”
    ― Ben Bova, Mars

    “So, I started to wonder if I actually could reenter the unicorn’s world…at which point Sooz came into my head and the story just happened. It flowed. It was the exact opposite of my experience writing The Last Unicorn. I locked onto her voice, the voice of this nine-and-a-half-year-old girl who was telling the story from the first sentence, and I just followed her. It was one of the very rare occasions where I felt from beginning to end that I knew what I was doing.”
    ― Ben Bova, Nebula Awards Showcase 2008

    “The conservatives running the government have always been against the exploration of Mars. What we’ve found goes against their religious beliefs.”
    ― Ben Bova, Mars Life

    “They may not know it,” DiNardo said, his smile becoming genuine, “but even the most stubborn atheist among them is working to uncover God’s ways.”
    ― Ben Bova, Mars Life

    “Do you think that you’re some sort of superior creature? Do you think that your ability to make money, to steal and lie and murder, places you above normal men?”
    ― Ben Bova, Voyagers III: Star Brothers

    “How many fools have looked forward to the adventure that killed them.”
    ― Ben Bova, Venus

    “Once they discovered our solar-powered city, tucked high in the Sierra Oriental, I knew that the end was near. Stupidly, they attacked us, like a wild barbarian horde. We slaughtered them with laser beams and heat-seeking bullets. Instead of driving them away, that only whetted their appetite.”
    ― Ben Bova, My Favorites: An Anthology

    “God’s disciples must strike you dead,”
    ― Ben Bova, Jupiter

    “Isaac Newton discovered that for every action there is an opposite reaction. Popular wisdom declared that every dark cloud has a silver lining.”
    ― Ben Bova, Voyagers III: Star Brothers

    “Suffice it to say that after accidentally setting the Walden woods ablaze—some estimates hold that more than three hundred acres were consumed—our First Naturalist repaired to the top of Fair Haven Hill to admire his private conflagration. I thought folks ought to know about this. You see, as a student I was force-fed Walden and much of it disagreed with me. I will admit that never has the Luddite point of view been advanced quite so eloquently. And while I agree that simplicity can be a virtue and that cultivation of one’s inner resources is necessary for the good life, it seems clear to me that the habit of thought that Thoreau urges on us is antithetical to the enterprise of science fiction.”
    ― Ben Bova, Nebula Awards Showcase 2008

    “The old joke about parachutes: If it doesn’t work, bring it back and we’ll give you a new one.”
    ― Ben Bova, Venus

    Ben Bova Orbit

    The New York Times

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/books/be…

    Ben Bova, Science Fiction Editor, and Author, Is Dead at …

    Web Dec 13, 2020 · Advertisement Ben Bova, Science Fiction Editor, and Author, Is Dead at 88 As editor of the magazines Analog and Omni, he was a …

    Comments are welcomed particularly your own Ben Bova quotes.

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  • Cosmos Reading List 2023

    Cosmos Reading List 2023

    see Cosmos Reading lists for 2018-2022 for reference

    Cosmos’s Reading List 2023

    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 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.

    Fiction/Non-Fiction Read

    January

    Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World
    – Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
    February

    – The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
    – Captain Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
    Kim  Rudyard Kipling

    March

    The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]
    Exposure Unstable writing submission

    The Einstein Theory of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]
    – The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
    – At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]

    April

    Imperium Robert Harris

    Kim Sowol poems unforgettable Love

    Kim Sowol  A Lamp Burns  Low Crafting Scenes Raymond Obstfeld

    May

    TS Elliot Poems  write review

    Grisham The Summons

    June

    June Theme: Books written over 100 years ago ▼

    – Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
    – Captain Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
    – The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
    – The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]
    (reviews due end of month)

    Take on plane

    John Grisham the Summons

    Kindle finish volume three

    The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli]
    – The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
    –

    June  Fairfax library five books

    A game of Thrones finally read it George Martin

    Two recent political books

    Two SF thrillers

    Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]
    – Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ [Lewis Wallace]
    – Jacob’s Room [Virginia Woolf]

    July  Medford library five books

    July Theme: Free month – any books you choose ▼
    From Medford Library

    August Theme: War/Military ▼
    Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
    Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier

    August  Medford library five books

    Barns and Noble

    Buy 2023 poetry

    Buy 2023 best SF stories

    Buy 2023 Best Short stories

    Fall

    September Theme: Folklore/Fairy Tales/Mythology ▼
    (16) The Thousand and One Night

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

    From Dawn to Decadence Jaques Barzun

    Iron Kingdom C Barker Books of Blood Christopher Clark

    A knight of the Seven Kingdoms George Martin

    Ludlum The Jason Directive Robert Ludlum

    October Theme: Horror/Supernatural/Paranormal/Gothic ▼

    – The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]

    – The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] re-read
    – At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] re-read

    October

    Read poerty 2023

    Read SCF 2023

    Read Fiction 2023

    Start volume one

    Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
    Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
    Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
    Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
    Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
    Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier

    November

    Kindle

    Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
    Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
    Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
    Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
    Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
    Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
    Open

    December open

    Volume one

    Forster, E. M.: Howards End
    Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
    Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
    Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
    James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady

    – Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]
    – 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 Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
    – The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]
    – On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]
    – The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]
    – The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]
    – Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
    – Swann’s Way [Marcel Proust]
    King and Maxwell David Baldacci

    Plus new books from USO etc

    Set up reading list 2024

     

    Welcome to Rach’s Reading Club.

    We all like to read, right? Of course we do. We are writers. The two go hand in hand. So I have created a book club where you can win awesome prizes for doing the thing we love the most.

    How it works …

    Each month will have a theme for the books. This will either be a genre or a subject matter. You do not have to read the books I have suggested. You can choose your own, providing they are in the right genre or subject matter. Once you have read your book(s), I would like you to write a review and link it in the forum below. The reviews can be product reviews — bpr: xxxxx, stand alone items — bitem: xxxxx, or book entries — entry: xxxxx. Alternatively, you may write a review directly into the forum.

    Prizes

    Now for the fun part …

    This activity will run from 1st February 2023 to 22nd November 2023.

    Monthly prizes awarded as you read …

    For every book you read and review, you will receive 2 Kgps

    For reading and reviewing two books in one month, you will receive a community MB that is linked to the monthly book theme — this will count for every month you read the two books

    These prizes will be awarded at the end of the activity, on Black Friday 2023. (By doing this, I can give higher value awards )

    For reading two books for two months during the activity, you will receive a 10K awardicon (in addition to the community MBs)

    For reading two books for three months of the activity, you will receive a 25K awardicon, in addition to the community MBs

    For six months’ participation of two books each month, a 50K awardicon will be heading your way

    The biggie … If you complete every month of reading two books each month, you will receive a 100K awardicon

    Lastly …

    Everyone who participates in this activity (no matter how few or how many books they read) will receive my brand new, exclusive Rach’s Reading Club II MB when it is released.

    You can purchase this new MB (which I’ve seen the proofs for, and it’s awesome ) by making a donation in this forum of 150K or more.!

    To sign up for this activity, post a note in the forum, and I will add you to the list of participants. I’ll send out a group email at the start of every month detailing the theme and books I recommend.

    Themes

    February Theme: Historical Fiction/Romance ▼

    March Theme: A book that features crafts, hobbies, or activities. This can be non-fiction ▼

    April Theme:Thriller/Crime/Mystery ▼

    May Theme: Award Winning Books – Booker, Pulitzer, Nobel, Costa, etc. ▼

    June Theme: Books written over 100 years ago ▼

    July Theme: Free month – any books you choose ▼

    August Theme: War/Military ▼

    September Theme: Folklore/Fairy Tales/Mythology ▼

    October Theme: Horror/Supernatural/Paranormal/Gothic ▼Poems

    Poems Read

    January

    Robert Burns Auld Lang Syne WC Poetry Newsletter

    Ella Wheeler Wilcox The Year WC Poetry Newsletter

    Helen Hunt Jackson New Year’s morning WC Poetry Newsletter

    Marie Summers Enlightened

    Marie Summers  MY GOD, MY GOD

    Walt Wojtanik –flourishing florist

    David Schnieder  Footprints in time

    David Schnieder  Soldiers

    David Schnieder  Together Forever

    David Schnieder The Almighty Thresher

     

    Example #1:

    Sally Ann Roberts, It All Started With A Packet of Seeds

    Marie summers Celestial Dreams

    Example #3: Chelle Wood Dance In The Rain

    Example #4:  Dendrobia Osprey

    Example #5: Maria Summers  Seasonal Whispers

    Dah helmer astral darkness

    Ars Poetica  Writing com

     

    Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Criticism,”

    Archibald MacLeish “Ars Poetica” (1926)

    Joy Priest in Virginia Quarterly Review

    Pamela Hart’s “Some Thoughts on Metaphor”

    in The Night Heron Barks

    José Olivarez in Poetry Magazine “Ars Poetica”

    Paul Guest  “Late Stage Capitalism Blues”

    in The Adroit Journal

    Dean Young in Poem-a-Day

    “Small Craft Talk Warning”

    Robert Frost After Apple-Picking

    Stormy lady

    Spike Milligan Jumbo Jet
    Spike Milligan Granny
    Spike Milligan On the Ning Nang Nong

    Spike Milligan ABC

    February

    Stormy lady

    Riddle of birth koyel writing again

    The Dark House Edwin Arlington Robinson
    The Garden Edwin Arlington Robinson
    Philip Larkin  At Grass

    Kim Sewol  Poems

    Fan Story

    Jim Bartlet An Irregular Ode to a Sometime Morris Dancer
    William Wordsworth An excerpt from ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’
    Express it in Eight writing com

    Oranges By Gary Soto

    poets place  writing com

    ~”The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
    ~”A Plague of Starlings” by Robert Hayden

    Cinquain  Poets Place

    Angels Erin Holbrook

    Turquoise Thoughts Deborah P Kolodji

    Cherry Blossoms Marie Summers

    Joshua Tree Deborah P Kolodji

    Long Shadows Marie Summers

    Resurrection Andra De Costa

    Holiday Travel  Judi Van Gorder

    Memorial Judi Van Gorder

    Reading Phil Wood

    Fight Flight

    Judi Van Gorder

    Happy  Mordee 2 Writing com

    Headline  Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder

    A child Headline  Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder

    Somehow Headline  Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder

    Hopeful Headline  Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder

    See the Tulips Blooming Victor Hugo

    Hear the violins play in the moonlight Thomas Corneille
    Broken Headline  Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder

    Patriarch Judi Judi Van Gorder

    Parent Judi Van Gorder

    Behave Judi Van Gorder

    Glue Judi Van Gorder

    didactic cinquain by Marti

    March

    See the Tulips Blooming Victor Hugo

    Hear the violins play in the moonlight Thomas Corneille

    Poets Place

    Judi Van Gorder  Twelfth Night Sonnet

    Judi Van Gorder Pauline

    John Keats(1795-1821)  CXCVIII. “Bright Star!

    William Shakespeare(1564-1616)  XVIII. To His Love

    Burns Sonnet

    Robert Burns A Sonnet upon Sonnets

    Reversed Sonnet

    Rupert Brooke “Sonnet Reversed”

    WC Stormy Lady

    Amy Levy  The Old Poet
    Amy Levy   London in July
    Amy Levy  At a Dinner Party
    Amy Levy A Wall Flower

    WC Poet’s Place

    Barbara Hartman Bottoms Up!

    April

    Express It In Eight

    TS Elliot A Dog is a Dog
    Elizabeth  Bishop The Fish
    Hulda Fetzer The Killed Deer

    Poet Place

     

    DC Martinson Dizain for the evolutionary
    socialist dream of edouard Bernstein

    Poets Place

     

    Waywa

    Judi Van Groder No Surrender

    The hot oil sizzles Waywa
    Shadows Waywa

    Poets Place

    ~”Like As a Ship” by Edmund Spencer

    Stormy Lady

    Lewis Carroll  Boat beneath a Sunny Sky
    Lewis Carrol All In The Golden Afternoon

    Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

     

    Patina

    Poetry Corner

     

    Five O’clock  Judy Van Gelder
    Balm Pat Nelson

    Foamy water  Pat Nelson
    Salty air  Pat Nelson
    Sandy beach Pat Nelson

    Mirror Sestet  Fan Story

    It Worked Shelley A Cephas
    Angel Light (Rhyming) Shelley A. Cephas
    His Pristine Robes (Non-rhyming) Shelley A Cephas

     May

    Kim Sowol poems unforgettable Love

    Kim Sowol  A Lamp Burns  Low

    Weekly challenge

    Birth of a Triangle Alex Goldenberg

    My Body Andrea Forbing-Maglione

    Broken Car  Sally Ann Roberts

    Coffee  Sally Ann Roberts

    A Simple Tree  Julie Wright

    Rockets Red Glare Johnathan Sluder

    Luna  Marie Summers

    Stormy Lady Newsletter

    The Makers Howard Nemerov
    Insomnia Howard Nemerov
    Walking the Dog Howard Nemerov

     

    Express it eight

    John Keats  The Poetry of Earth Is Never Dead
    Mary Oliver The Uses of Sorrow
    Wendell Berry  The Peace of Wild Things

    June

     

     July

     

    August

     

    September

    Mod Poe do supplemental poems

    And re-do course

    October

    Poetry 2023

    Mod Poe do supplemental poems

    And re-do course

    November

    Mod Poe do supplemental poems

    And re-do course

    December

    Open

    Milton?            

     

     

     

    Cosmos’s Reading List 2023

    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 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.

     

     

     

    Articles

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    January

     

    Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World

    – Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]

    February

    – The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]

    – Captain Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]

    Kim  Rudyard Kipling

     

    March

    The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]
    Exposure Unstable writing submission

    The Einstein Theory of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]

    – The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
    – At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]

     

    April

     

    Summer reading list add to books read and post on blog FB

    Alternate between Kindle, classics and poetry

    April

    Imperium Robert Harris

    Kim Sowol poems unforgettable Love

    Kim Sowol  A Lamp Burns  Low Crafting Scenes Raymond Obstfeld

    Fools of Fortune William Trevor

    Nuclear Orange Cupid is the Devil Christopher Micheal

    Bj Buckeye In January the Geeeee Creating plot J Madison Davis

     

    April Theme:Thriller/Crime/Mystery ▼

    Reviews due first week of April

     

    – The Wisdom of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – The Innocence of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]
    – The Sign of the Four [Arthur Conan Doyle]

     

    May

    The Poet’s companion finish it

    The thinker’s toolkit Morgan Davis

    How to Write a Damn Good Novel James N Frey

    Your First Novel Ann Rittenberg and Laura Whitcomb

    Get five to ten books from USO/Library

    May Theme: Award Winning Books – Booker, Pulitzer, Nobel, Costa, etc. ▼
    TS Elliot Poems  write review

     

    June

    June Theme: Books written over 100 years ago ▼

    – Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
    – Captain Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
    – The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
    – The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]

     

    Take on plane

    John Grisham the Summons

    Thomas Mann

    Daniel Silva the Cellist

    Kindle finish volume three

    The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli]
    – The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
    –

     

    June  Fairfax library five books

    A game of Thrones finally read it George Martin

    Two recent political books

    Two SF thrillers

    Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]
    – Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ [Lewis Wallace]
    – Jacob’s Room [Virginia Woolf]

     

     

    July  Medford library five books

    July Theme: Free month – any books you choose ▼

    From Medford Library

    August Theme: War/Military ▼

    Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
    Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier

     

    August  Medford library five books

    Barns and Noble

     

    Buy 2023 poetry

    Buy 2023 best SF stories

    Buy 2023 Best Short stories

     

     

     

    Fall

    September Theme: Folklore/Fairy Tales/Mythology ▼

    (16) The Thousand and One Night

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

     

    From Dawn to Decadence Jaques Barzun

    Iron Kingdom C Barker Books of Blood Christopher Clark

    A knight of the Seven Kingdoms George Martin

    Ludlum The Jason Directive Robert Ludlum

    October Theme: Horror/Supernatural/Paranormal/Gothic ▼

    – The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]

    – The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] re-read
    – At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] re-read

    October

    Read poerty 2023

    Read SCF 2023

    Read Fiction 2023

    Start volume one

    Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
    Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
    Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
    Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
    Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
    Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier

     

    Volume 2

     

    November

    Kindle

    Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
    Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
    Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
    Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
    Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
    Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education

    Open

    December open

    Volume one

    Forster, E. M.: Howards End
    Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
    Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
    Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
    James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady

    – Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]
    – 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 Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
    – The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]
    – On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]
    – The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]
    – The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]
    – Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
    – Swann’s Way [Marcel Proust]
    King and Maxwell David Baldacci

    Plus new books from USO etc

    Set up reading list 2024

    For reading club

    Create blog posting end of the month

    Finish and write reviews by end of the month

    Welcome to Rach’s Reading Club.

    We all like to read, right? Of course we do. We are writers. The two go hand in hand. So I have created a book club where you can win awesome prizes for doing the thing we love the most.

    How it works …

    Each month will have a theme for the books. This will either be a genre or a subject matter. You do not have to read the books I have suggested. You can choose your own, providing they are in the right genre or subject matter. Once you have read your book(s), I would like you to write a review and link it in the forum below. The reviews can be product reviews — bpr: xxxxx, stand alone items — bitem: xxxxx, or book entries — entry: xxxxx. Alternatively, you may write a review directly into the forum.

    Prizes

    Now for the fun part …

    This activity will run from 1st February 2023 to 22nd November 2023.

    Monthly prizes awarded as you read …

    For every book you read and review, you will receive 2 Kgps

    For reading and reviewing two books in one month, you will receive a community MB that is linked to the monthly book theme — this will count for every month you read the two books

    These prizes will be awarded at the end of the activity, on Black Friday 2023. (By doing this, I can give higher value awards )

    For reading two books for two months during the activity, you will receive a 10K awardicon (in addition to the community MBs)

    For reading two books for three months of the activity, you will receive a 25K awardicon, in addition to the community MBs

    For six months’ participation of two books each month, a 50K awardicon will be heading your way

    The biggie … If you complete every month of reading two books each month, you will receive a 100K awardicon

    Lastly …

    Everyone who participates in this activity (no matter how few or how many books they read) will receive my brand new, exclusive Rach’s Reading Club II MB when it is released.

    You can purchase this new MB (which I’ve seen the proofs for, and it’s awesome ) by making a donation in this forum of 150K or more.!

    To sign up for this activity, post a note in the forum, and I will add you to the list of participants. I’ll send out a group email at the start of every month detailing the theme and books I recommend.

    Themes

    February Theme: Historical Fiction/Romance ▼

    March Theme: A book that features crafts, hobbies, or activities. This can be non-fiction ▼

    April Theme:Thriller/Crime/Mystery ▼

    May Theme: Award Winning Books – Booker, Pulitzer, Nobel, Costa, etc. ▼

    June Theme: Books written over 100 years ago ▼

    July Theme: Free month – any books you choose ▼

    August Theme: War/Military ▼

    September Theme: Folklore/Fairy Tales/Mythology ▼

    October Theme: Horror/Supernatural/Paranormal/Gothic ▼

    If you’re stuck for ideas, you could check out this awesome reading list compiled by Jeff (1546)

    You can check out everyone’s product reviews here:
    Product Reviews

    BOOK Blogocentric Formulations  (18+)
    My primary Writing.com blog.
    #1399999 by Jeff (1546)

     

    https://www.writing.com/main/forums/item_id/2261482-Rachs-Reading-Club/thread/1?rfrid=jcosmos

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Poems

     

    January

    Robert Burns Auld Lang Syne WC Poetry Newsletter

    Ella Wheeler Wilcox The Year WC Poetry Newsletter

    Helen Hunt Jackson New Year’s morning WC Poetry Newsletter

    Marie Summers Enlightened

    Marie Summers  MY GOD, MY GOD

    Walt Wojtanik –flourishing florist

    David Schnieder  Footprints in time

    David Schnieder  Soldiers

    David Schnieder  Together Forever

    David Schnieder The Almighty Thresher

    Example #1:

    Sally Ann Roberts, It All Started With A Packet of Seeds

    Marie summers Celestial Dreams

    Example #3: Chelle Wood Dance In The Rain

    Example #4:  Dendrobia Osprey

    Example #5: Maria Summers  Seasonal Whispers

    Dah helmer astral darkness

    Ars Poetica  Writing com

    Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Criticism,”

    Archibald MacLeish “Ars Poetica” (1926)

    Joy Priest in Virginia Quarterly Review

    Pamela Hart’s “Some Thoughts on Metaphor”

    in The Night Heron Barks

    José Olivarez in Poetry Magazine “Ars Poetica”

    Paul Guest  “Late Stage Capitalism Blues”

    in The Adroit Journal

    Dean Young in Poem-a-Day

    “Small Craft Talk Warning”

    Robert Frost After Apple-Picking

     

    Stormy lady

    Spike Milligan Jumbo Jet
    Spike Milligan Granny
    Spike Milligan On the Ning Nang Nong

    Spike Milligan ABC

     

    February

    Stormy lady

    Riddle of birth koyel writing again

    The Dark House Edwin Arlington Robinson
    The Garden Edwin Arlington Robinson

    Philip Larkin  At Grass

    Kim Sewol  Poems

    Fan Story

    Jim Bartlet An Irregular Ode to a Sometime Morris Dancer
    William Wordsworth An excerpt from ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’
    Express it in Eight writing com

    Oranges By Gary Soto

    poets place  writing com

    ~”The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
    ~”A Plague of Starlings” by Robert Hayden

    Cinquain  Poets Place

     

    Angels Erin Holbrook

    Turquoise Thoughts Deborah P Kolodji

    Cherry Blossoms Marie Summers

    Joshua Tree Deborah P Kolodji

    Long Shadows Marie Summers

    Resurrection Andra De Costa

    Holiday Travel  Judi Van Gorder

    Memorial Judi Van Gorder

    Reading Phil Wood

    Fight Flight

    Judi Van Gorder

    Happy  Mordee 2 Writing com

    Headline  Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder

    A child Headline  Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder

    Somehow Headline  Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder

    Hopeful Headline  Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder

    See the Tulips Blooming Victor Hugo

    Hear the violins play in the moonlight Thomas Corneille

    Broken Headline  Chain of Cripsy Cinquain Judi Van Gorder

    Patriarch Judi Judi Van Gorder

    Parent Judi Van Gorder

    Behave Judi Van Gorder

    Glue Judi Van Gorder

    didactic cinquain by Marti

     

     

    March

    See the Tulips Blooming Victor Hugo

    Hear the violins play in the moonlight Thomas Corneille

    Poets Place

    Judi Van Gorder  Twelfth Night Sonnet

    Judi Van Gorder Pauline

    John Keats(1795-1821)  CXCVIII. “Bright Star!

    William Shakespeare(1564-1616)  XVIII. To His Love

    Burns Sonnet

    Robert Burns A Sonnet upon Sonnets

    Reversed Sonnet

    Rupert Brooke “Sonnet Reversed”

    WC Stormy Lady

    Amy Levy  The Old Poet
    Amy Levy   London in July
    Amy Levy  At a Dinner Party
    Amy Levy A Wall Flower

    WC Poet’s Place

    Barbara Hartman Bottoms Up!

    April

    Express It In Eight

    TS Elliot A Dog is a Dog
    Elizabeth  Bishop The Fish
    Hulda Fetzer The Killed Deer
    Poet Place

     

    DC Martinson Dizain for the evolutionary
    socialist dream of edouard Bernstein

    Poets Place

    Waywa

    Judi Van Groder No Surrender

    The hot oil sizzles Waywa
    Shadows Waywa

    Poets Place

    ~”Like As a Ship” by Edmund Spencer

    Stormy Lady

    Lewis Carroll  Boat beneath a Sunny Sky
    Lewis Carrol All In The Golden Afternoon

    Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

    Patina

    Poetry Corner

     

    Five O’clock  Judy Van Gelder
    Balm Pat Nelson

    Foamy water  Pat Nelson
    Salty air  Pat Nelson
    Sandy beach Pat Nelson

    Mirror Sestet  Fan Story

    It Worked Shelley A Cephas
    Angel Light (Rhyming) Shelley A. Cephas
    His Pristine Robes (Non-rhyming) Shelley A Cephas

     May

    Kim Sowol poems unforgettable Love

    Kim Sowol  A Lamp Burns  Low

     

    Weekly challenge

     

    Birth of a Triangle Alex Goldenberg

    My Body Andrea Forbing-Maglione

    Broken Car  Sally Ann Roberts

    Coffee  Sally Ann Roberts

    A Simple Tree  Julie Wright

    Rockets Red Glare Johnathan Sluder

    Luna  Marie Summers

     

    Stormy Lady Newsletter

    The Makers Howard Nemerov
    Insomnia Howard Nemerov
    Walking the Dog Howard Nemerov

     

    Express it eight

     

    John Keats  The Poetry of Earth Is Never Dead
    Mary Oliver The Uses of Sorrow
    Wendell Berry  The Peace of Wild Things

    June

     

     July

     

    August

     

    September

    Mod Poe do supplemental poems

    And re-do course

     

    October

    Poetry 2023

    Mod Poe do supplemental poems

    And re-do course

     

    November

     

    Mod Poe do supplemental poems

    And re-do course

    December

     

    Open

    Milton?

    Fiction/Non-Fiction

    To Read

    George Martin a knight of the seven kingdoms

    John Grisham The Summons

    William Trevor Fools of Fortune

    Christopher Michael’s Nuclear Orange Cupid is the Devil’s poems

    Baldacci King and Maxwell

    Bj Buckely’s In January, the Geese PSH contest award

    Jacques Barzun From Dawn to Decadence 1500 to the Present

    Christopher Clark the Iron Kingdom the Rise and the Fall of Prussia

    Walter Lacquer Fascisms Past, present, and Future

    Daniel Silva The Cellist

    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 Night

    (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, Reader’s Guide,

    Federalist Papers

    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]
    – 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

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

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

    To read

     

    From Camp H  2/27/2023

    Clive Barker Books of Blood short stories

    Death in Venice Thomas Mann

    the End

     

  • Reading TS Elliot

    Reading TS Elliot

    Reading TS Elliot

    I first read TS Elliot years ago, perhaps in high school.  Then a few years ago on a cruise, I picked up the TS Elliot collected poems and re-read them.  I realized that TS Elliot’s poetry had deeply affected my unique poetic voice.

    As part of a Writing com book review club, I am writing one book review per month,  this month’s prompt was to read and write about an award-winning writer.

    TS Elliot won the Nobel Prize in literature and richly deserved it,

    My Favorites

    I suppose my favorite poems are his Cat poems.  I have written a lot of Cat poems myself as I have long been fascinated by cats, seeing them as alien creatures perhaps from another dimension.

    My favorites were “The Naming of Cats”  and “Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer.”

    Among the other poems I liked were “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock  “Gerontion” which is a reflection on getting old.  I can relate to being 67 years young, ‘Whispers of Immortality.”  And “Lines for an Old Man”.

    The Waste Land” and “The Hollow Man” were difficult to really grasp but powerful and moving and well just strange poems.   My favorite lines are:

    “April is the cruelest month,  breeding

    Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

    memory and desire, stirring dull roots

    with spring rain.”

    Among the plays, I liked “Murder in the Cathedral the best .” and “Family Reunion “

    For more on TS Elliot here’s a link to the Wikipedia page

    Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic, and editor.[2] Considered one of the 20th century’s major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. Through his trials in language, writing style, and verse structure, he reinvigorated English poetry. He also dismantled outdated beliefs and established new ones through a collection of critical essays.[3]

    Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work, and marry there.[4] He became a British citizen in 1927 at the age of 39 and renounced his American citizenship.[5]

    Eliot first attracted widespread attention for his poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” from 1914 to 1915, which, at the time of its publication, was considered outlandish.[6] It was followed by The Waste Land (1922), “The Hollow Men” (1925), “Ash Wednesday” (1930), and Four Quartets (1943).[7] He was also known for seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). He was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature, “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot

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  • movies master list

    movies master list

    Master List Movies 2008 To 2023

    movies list

    best movies of all times

    Cosmos Books Read 2021 Update

    100 Movies/TV Series By The End Of The Year.

    At Least One Korean Movie Per Week
    At Least One Spanish Movie Every So Often
    One Bollywood Or Another Foreign Language Movie Every So Often
    A Mixture Of Thrillers, K Drama, Comedies, Romcom, Etc
    Make A List Of Oscar Movies, Watch Several
    Resume Going To The Theater Later In The Year
    When Traveling To The US Watch Ten Movies Each Trip
    Including One Bollywood, One Spanish, Three To Four Blockbusters, One Classic, One Comedy

    Statistical Breakdown

    Assuming I Have Seen About 100 Movies Or TV Shows Per Year Since I Was 10 I Would Say That I Have Seen About 6,000 Shows.   I Have Been Keeping Track Since 2008 In Separate Journals.

    These Are Listed In Reverse Chronological Order from 2002 To 2008

    2022

    January

    Emily In Paris Netflix B

    Super Eight Stephen Spielberg B

    Black Money K Drama B

    Extreme Job  K Drama B

    Freaks Netflix C

    Dune World (Not The Dune) C

    Assimilation – Invasion Of Body Snatchers Remake Hoopla C

    Power Play (Hoopla) C

    Constantine Netflix  C

    Ozark Season 4 B

    Cowboy Bebop SF Netflix K Star But Not K Drama  A

    Freaks

    Measiah

    February

    We Are All Going To Die K Zombie Drama A

    Babysitter Killer Queen C

    Haebing 2017 The Thaw K Drama  B

    Area 51 Hoopla  C

    Nine Teeth Vampire Movie  C

    Chosen  B Netflix Danish SF

    Dark  B  Netflix German SF

    The Power Of The Dog C Oscar Nominee

    See Review

    Bright  With Will Smith B SF

    Kin B Netflix

    March

    88 Minutes B

    Shadow And Bone  B+

    Locke And Key Season 2 B

    The Adam Project B

    Dark Crab – Sweedish Movie B

    Once Upon A Time In Hollywood B

    Alice In Borderland

    Warrior Nun

    Tulip Fever

    Army Of The Dead B

    Army Of Thieves   C

    Glitch Australian Series

    April

    Dark German SF  B

    Our Blues  K Drama A

    Juvenile Justice K Drama B

    Knight Day C

    Rebecca  B

    Phantom Thread C

    Behind Her Eyes B

    Jumangi B

    The Dark Tower B

    I Frankenstein B

    Tau B

    Silent Sea  K Drama B

    Night Flyer B

    El Camino Sequel To Breaking Bad B

    Rainy Day In New York -Woody Allen B

    My Liberation Notes

    Our Blues

    My Love From The Stars

    Move To Heaven

    Honest Candidate

    May

     

    ARC B

    LA LA Land B Meh

    Ozark Season 4 B

    Yaksha K Movie  B

    Blue  Bayou  Korean American Movie B

    Let Me Go Western Is Set In Montana Kevin Costner B

    Uncanny Counter K Drama  B

    Cyber Hell B

    Intruder K Drama B

    Stranger Things Season Four B

    Welcome To Wedding Hell K Drama B

    The Hitman’s Body Gaurd’s Wife Part One C

    Oceans Eight B

    Interceptor A-

    Better Call Saul Season 5

    Better Call Saul Season 6

    Spiderhead C

    The Wrath Of Man C Did Not Finish C

    The Man From Toronto C

    Time Machine 2022 Re-Make B

    July

    Heist Korean Version B

    RRR Bollywood Netflix Original A

    Will You Be There?  K Drama C Did Not Finish

    Extraordinary Attorney Yoo  A-1

    Minmiding Café C Did Not Finish

    American Made  B +

    Tarzan B-

    Remarriage And Desire K Drama  B= Another Drama About Rich People Behaving Badly.

    The King Of Stonks Austrian Satire B Worth Finishing

    Unfamiliar Family K Drama  A

    August 1, 2022

    My Liberation Notes  K Drama  A

    Carter  K Drama Movie C

    Designated Survivor K Drama A

    Locke And Key Season Three  B

    Model Family K Drama  B

    Now You See Me

    The Body Guard’s Wife

    Red Notice

    How It Ends

    September

     

    Better Call Saul Season Six  B

    Manifest Netflix Special  B

    Good Guys C

    Blood Red Sky D

    Little Woman K Drama B

    Chief Of Staff K Drama B

    Narco Saints K Drama B

    October

    Interception

    Extraction

    Focus

    Project Power

    Love And Monsters

    Executive Decisions

    Gray-Man

    Adam Project

    Re-Start

    Jumangi

    Fifth Wave

    Justice League

    On Your Wedding Day

    6 Underground

    Stranger 1

    Stranger 2

    Reflection Of You

    Made For Each Other

    Honest Candidate

    Man From Toronto

    The Protégé

    Signal K Drama

    What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim?  K Drama

    November

    Manifest Four Seasons B+ Like Dark

    End-Of-The Road  B

    When The Camellia Blooms B

    Love Struck In The City B

    Glitch Korean Sci-Fi  B

    Zone 414 Did Not Finish C

    Office Invasion  – South African SF Satire  C

    Kate Did Not Finish Too Violently Like In Kill Bill  D

    Midnight Sky  SF C  Too Meandering  C

    1899 Did Not Finish Too Meandering B

    See You Yesterday Spike Lee SF B

    Someone B+  Some Strong Sexual Scenes –

    December

    Tidelands

    Jurassic World Domination

    Wednesday -Adams Family

    You  Psychological Thriller Series

    Prendergast Mike Meyers  C Did Not Finish

    Dark Island German Film B

    Welcome to Murderville  B

    2021

    1. Bloodshot
    2. Ozark
    3. Bloodlines
    4. Discovery
    5. Humans Are Useless Hoopla
    6. Wu Assassins
    7. 6 Underground
    8. Warrior Nuns
    9. Alice In Borderland
    10. Constantine
    11. The Beach
    12. Holliday
    13. Rebecca
    14. About Time
    15. Spy Games
    16. We Could Be Heroes
    17. Vastness Of The Night Amazon

    February

    1. Hanna
    2. The Expanse
    3. Sneaky Pete -Amazon
    4. How It Ends
    5. The I Land
    6. Wonder Woman
    7. Get Out
    8. Space Sweepers K SF Drama
    9. I Care A Lot 2020
    10. Itaewon Class K Drama

    March

    1. Sense 8
    2. Salvation
    3. The Order
    4. Lock N Key
    5. Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
    6. Titans

    April

    1. O/A
    2. Abyss
    3. Outer Banks
    4. White Lines
    5. Umbrella Acadamy
    6. The Last Man Standing K Drama

    May

    1. Suicide Squad
    2. The Honest Candidate K Drama
    3. Behind Her Eyes
    4. Sisyphus K Drama
    5. Venzano K Drama
    6. Strangers K Drama Season One
    7. Strangers K Drama Season Two
    8. Strangers K Drama Season Three
    9. The Woman In The Mirror
    10. Gemini Man
    11. Legends
    12. Bridgeton Netflix Top-Ranked Series

    June

    1. Wanted With Angelina Jolie 2005?
    2. War Dogs
    3. The Holliday
    4. The Woman In The Mirror
    5. How It Ends
    6. Love And Monsters
    7. Knives Out

    July

    1. Old Guard
    2. Love, Death, And Robots
    3. Borek Movie
    4. Sweet Tooth
    5. Mine K Drama
    6. Glitch
    7. Parasite K Drama

    August

    1. Sin City
    2. The Talented Mr. Ripply
    3. The Negotiator K Movie
    4. No Exit K Movie
    5. Crash Landing On You K Drama

    September

    1. Jackel 1997 US Movie
    2. Night In Paradise K Movie
    3. DP K Drama
    4. Con K Drama Movie

    October

    1. When The Camelia Blooms K Drama
    2. Squid Games K Drama Number 1 On Netflix
    3. The Devil’s Advocate
    4. Move To Heaven K Drama
    5. The Money Heist Spanish Series

    On Plane

    1. Minuri
    2. Cool Hand Luke
    3. Citizen Kane
    4. Jungle Cruise
    5. Free Guy
    6. Black Widow
    7. King Kong V Godzilla
    8. Crazy Rich Asians

    Return To Korea

    1. Bliss Amazon
    2. Tomorrow’s Wars Amazon
    3. Reflections On You (K Drama, Netflix)
    4. Red Notice (Netflix)
    5. Hell Bound K Drama
    6. Crisis In Six Scenes Amazon
    7. The Wheel Of Time Amazon Season One
    8. Another Life Season Three
    9. Lost In Space Season Three
    10. Hostage K Drama Movie
    11. Army Of Thieves
    12. Army Of Death
    13. The Big Splash
    14. The Dark Tower
    15. Balgasal K SF
    16. The Wanted
    17. Mogadishu K Drama
    18. Don’t Look Up Netflix Special
    19. Focus
    20. Lucy
    21. Jupiter Ascending
    22. Space Between Us
    23. ARQ
    24. Rainy Day In NYC Woody Allen Film
    25. In Time
    26. Silent Sea
    27. San Andreas
    28. Don’t Look Up
    29. Mad For Each Other

    Movie Watched 2020

     

     

    List

    1. Better Call Saul Finished Series 2022
    2. Nigh Flyer
    3. The Rim Of The World
    4. Joker
    5. Venom
    6. Lost In Space
    7. Jurassic World
    8. 100
    9. Birdbox
    10. I Am Number Four(Film)
    11. Umbrella Acadamy
    12. Locke And Key
    13. Sense 8
    14. Away
    15. Titan
    16. The Mist
    17. The Order
    18. October Faction
    19. The Man In The High Castle
    20. The Expanse
    21. Legends Of Tomorrow
    22. The Messiah
    23. The OA
    24. Lucy
    25. Timeless
    26. Travelers
    27. Alice Through The Looking Glass
    28. Annihilation
    29. The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe
    30. Prince Caspian
    31. The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader
    32. How It Ends
    33. Itaewon Class
    34. Zoo
    35. Extinction
    36. 6 Underground
    37. Ballade Of Buster Scruggs
    38. How It Ends
    39. Tau
    40. Series Of Unfortunate Events
    41. The Darkest Dawn
    42. The IO
    43. Ozark
    44. Avengers Day Of Ultron
    45. Prometheus
    46. Another Life
    47. Land Of The Lost
    48. Kim’s Convenience Store
    49. The Cloverfield Paradox
    50. The A-Team
    51. Pirates Of The Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales
    52. Salvation
    53. Iron Man 2
    54. Total Recall
    55. The Machine (Hoopla)
    56. Absolutely Anything (Hoopla)
    57. The Adventurer Curse Of The Midas Touch (Hoopla)
    58. The Endless (Hoopla)
    59. Color Out Of Time (Hoopla)
    60. The Librarian Curse Of The Judas Chalice (Hoopla)
    61. The Librarian King Soloman’s Mine (Hoopla)
    62. The Librarian Quest For The Spear (Hoopla)
    63. Dinosaur Island (Hoopla)
    64. Land That Time Forgot (Hoopla)
    65. Dark Prophecy (Hoopla)
    66. The Villainess (Hoopla)
    67. Bad Boys For Life
    68. Outer Banks
    69. Suicide Squad
    70. Abyss
    71. Series Of Unfortunate Events
    72. Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
    73. Superman Vrs Batman Star Of Justice
    74. Last Man Standing K Political Drama
    75. Honest Candidate K Drama
    76. Irishman
    77. Project Power
    78. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
    79. Kim Ji Young K Drama
    80. The Sting
    81. Focus
    82. Fantasy Island
    83. Warrior Nun –Did Not Finish
    84. Good Omens Amazon
    85. Sneaky Pete Amazon
    86. Blood Shot Netflix
    87. Jupiter Ascendant Netflix
    88. White Lines
    89. Bloodlines
    90. Wu Assasins
    91. Inside Bill’s Brain
    92. War Dogs
    93. Alice In The Borderlands
    94. The I- Land
    95. Black Mirror
    96. The Last Three Days

     

     

    2019

    Partial List  Saw At Least 90 Total

    1. A Series Of Unfortunate Events (Netflix)

    2. Aquaman (Theater) B
    3. 49 Days Korean Movie B
    4. Doomsday Device YS B
    5. Winter Kills YS C -Disappointing Despite Great Cast
    6. Heist 2001 Version YS  B
    7. Curse Of The Golden Flower YS
    8. HG Wells Men In The Moon YS A-1
    9. The Rift YS
    10. Narnia Voyage Of The Dawn Treader YS B
    11. Operation Chromite YS B
    12. The Assassin YS C Did Not Finish
    13. Justice League B
    14. The Ghost And The Darkness B
    15. The A-Team B
    16. Jack Reacher, Never Go Back B
    17. Night Flyer Series B
    18. Cold Pursuit
    19. Chunhyang(2000 Film) YS
    20. The Assassin 2015 Korean Movie
    21. Eraser(Film)
    22. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo(2011 Film)
    23. Operation Chromite(Film)
    24. The Rite(2011 Film) YS
    25. The First Men In The Moon YS

    26. Curse Of The Golden Flower YS

    1. Alien Code YS
    2. Point B YS
    3. Shada(Doctor Who) YS
    4. Glass(2019 Film)
    5. Memories Of The Alhambra K Drama
    6. The Man In The High Castle 4 Seasons Amazon
    7. The Expanse Four Seasons Amazon

    2018

    1. Once Upon A Time ABC Mini-Series A
    2. Taken Earth C
    3. Alice Through The Looking Glass B
    4. The Vault C Too Scary A Movie
    5. GORA Turkish SF Comedy C
    6. Pirates Of The Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales B
    7. Cowboys Vs Dinosaurs B
    8. Enterprise Complete Season
    9. Frequency Series
    10. Coverdale Paradox
    11. Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets (On a Plane)
    12. Kong Island Of Skulls (On Plane)
    13. Geostorm (On Plane)
    14. Lost And Found YS
    15. Berlin Syndrome YS
    16. Burn Country YS
    17. Beatriz At Dinner YS
    18. Breaking The Bank YS
    19. The Expanse Netflix Original
    20. Discovery Netflix
    21. Drone Wars YS
    22. Prometheus Trap YS
    23. Blackway YS
    24. The Mermaid YS
    25. The Great Wall YS

     

    2017

    1. eap Year TV  B
    2. Congressman YS  B
    3. Crimson Force YS  B
    4. Three Classic SF Japanese Movies From The ’50s
    1. The H Man YS  B
    2. Battle In Outer Space YS B
    3. Mothra YS  B
    1. 11 22 63 IS  A
    2. Blunt Talk YS  B Did Not Finish
    3. Alien Arsenal YS B
    1. Seven Westerns
    1. A Night In Old Mexico B
    2. Ambush At Dark Canyon B
    3. Fighting With Anger B
    4. Baytown Outlaws B
    5. Hick C-1
    6. Heathens And Thieves A-
    1. Implanted B-
    2. When The Sky Falls C-
    3. Wild Bill Hickok Swift Justice B
    4. Traded B
    5. Dirk Gently Holistic Detective Agency -Mini-Series A
    6. Mystery Science Theater Cave Dwellers C
    7. Meet The Guilbys B
    8. The President A
    9. Stand Up Guy B
    10. Snow Piercer B Korean Producer B
    11. Painkillers C
    12. Dirty Lies
    13. Quarantine LA C
    14. Breaking The Bank B
    15. Strange B
    16. Jack Reacher Never Go Back B
    17. Keeping Up With The Jones B
    18. Hell Or High Water B
    19. The Accountant B

    Oregon

    1. The Ghost In The Shell Ashland Theater
    2. The Circle Theater Medford
    3. George Feydeua A Flea In Her Ear – ASH Drama
    4. The Black Hole MPL
    5. Final Days Of Planet Earth MPL
    6. The Last Sentinel MPL
    7. Supernova MPL B
    8. East Of Eden MPL A
    9. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof MPL A
    10. A Street Car Named Desire MPL A
    11. Rebel Without A Cause MPL A
    12. Enterprise First Year MPL B
    13. How To Mary A Millionaire MPL
    14. How To Be A Latin Lover Theater A
    15. Wonder Women Theater A-
    16. The Three Musketeers MPL C
    17. Time Changer MPL D
    18. Star Trek Enterprise Season Two B
    19. Solaris B-
    20. The Sea Of Trees A-
    21. Quantum Leap Season One A-1
    22. Star Gate Atlantis Rising B-
    23. Total Recall B
    24. Tammy B-
    25. A Tale Of Two Cities BBC B
    26. Vanishing Point A-
    27. Spider-Man Homecoming In Theater B
    28. War Of Planet Of The Apes In Theater B+
    29. Rogue One Netflix B
    30. The Dark Tower Theater B
    31. Eye Of The Needle MPL A
    32. Congo MPL B
    33. Exile Mplb
    34. Allegiant MPL B
    35. The Man MPL B
    36. Virus MPL B
    37. Frankenstein MPL A
    38. Treasure Island MPL B
    39. Jericho TV Series B
    40. Man In The High Castle TV Series A
    41. One Under The Sun Amazon B
    42. Independent’s Day Amazon –One Of The Worst Movie Ever Made F
    43. The Last Lovecraft – Relic Of Cthulu C
    44. Mysterious Island B
    45. Zoo Series On Netflix Seasons One To Three
    46. Stranger Things Season Two B+ Season One Was Better
    47. Suburbicon Theater B-1
    48. Thor Ragnarok Theater B
    49. Monsters Netflix C
    50. Travelers Netflix B
    51. Julius Caesar OSF B
    52. Hannah And The Dreaded Gazebo OSF B
    53. Blade Runner 2049 B
    54. Once Upon A Time ABC Series B
    55. The Night Of The Hunter MPL A
    56. The Maltese Falcon MPL A A
    57. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel MPL B+
    58. Mission Impossible Rogue Nation MPL B
    59. Beasts Of The Southern Wilds MPL
    60. Satan Met A Lady MPL B
    61. The Villainous Korean Movie 2017 Hoopla
    62. Guardians Of The Galaxy Part Two
    63. Star Wars The Last Jedi

    2016 Missing

    the graduate  while on trip

    2015

    The List

    Movies/TV Series   Netflix Unless Otherwise Mentioned

    1. All About The Benjamin’s TNT B
    2. Rush Hour Three TNT  B
    3. The Interview Google On-Line C
    4. Paradise 2013 C
    5. The Signal 2014 B
    6. Duplicity Julia Roberts Clive Owens B
    7. Are You Here B
    8. Maleficent   B
    9. Guardians Of The Galaxy B
    10. Begin Again 2014 B
    11. The Giver 2014 A
    12. Sea Biscuit A
    13. November Man B
    14. A Most Wanted Man C
    15. Labor Day B
    16. Life Of Crime B
    17. Kundo Korean Movie B
    18. And So It Goes 2014 Michael Douglas, Diane Keaton B
    19. Marley And Me B
    20. Jobs B
    21. The Family C
    22. Stuck In Love B
    23. Mud B
    24. X Men Days Of Future Past C
    25. The Identical B
    26. Jurassic City C
    27. Railway Man B
    28. Peabody And Sherman B
    29. Lunch Box Bollywood Movie 2013 B
    30. Y Tu Su Mama, También Award Winning Mexican Movie 2014 B
    31. Australia B
    32. Henderson Presents B
    33. John Wick B
    34. Silver Lining Playback A
    35. The Good Night B
    36. View From The Top B
    37. Contagion C
    38. Pineapple Express C
    39. Country Strong B
    40. The Hobbit –Battle Of The Five Armies B
    41. Dinosaur Experiment C
    42. Broke Back Mountain Library  A
    43. An Affair To Remember Library  A
    44. Two Days In Paris Library A
    45. Ride With The Devil Library A
    46. Carmen Opera Library A
    47. Catch 22 Library B
    48. Game Of Thrones Season One Library B
    49. Game Of Thrones Season Two Library B
    50. Barefoot In The Park Library A
    51. No Reservations Library C
    52. Fast And Furious Library C
    53. Charlie’s Angels 2000 Library B
    54. Charlie’s Angels 2003 Version Saw Earlier Noted Here B
    55. Endless Love B
    56. Hot Pursuit On Plane C
    57. Day Of Adeline On Plane A
    58. Avengers Day Of Ultron On Plane C
    59. Tomorrowland On Plane B
    60. Far From The Madding Crowd On Plane A
    61. Aloha On Plane
    62. Mad Max Fury Road On a Plane
    63. San Andreas On Plane
    64. Classified File Korean Movie On Plane
    65. Casanova From Library
    66. Company You Keep From Library
    67. Contraband From Library
    68. Bleak House Mini-Series From Library
    69. La Boehme Opera From Library
    70. Eat Drink Man Women From Library
    71. Runner, Runner From Library
    72. Sense And Sensibility From Library
    73. American Snipper HBO
    74. Wild HBO
    75. Maze Runner HBO
    76. Dumb And Dummer To HBO
    77. Havoc HBO
    78. 5 Flights Up HBO
    79. Kill The Messenger HBO
    80. My Blueberry Nights Library
    81. Last Chance, Harvey, Library
    82. Serial Mom HBO
    83. The Producers 2005 Version
    84. Broken Flowers Hood
    85. Rumor Has It that HBO
    86. Run All Night HBO
    87. Fistful Of Dollars HBO
    88. A Few More Dollars HBO
    89. The Good, The Bad, And Ugly HBO
    90. Fifty Shades Of Grey HBO
    91. Hang Em High HBO
    92. The Drop HBO
    93. The Leisure Class HBO
    94. The Kingsmen Secret Service HBO
    95. Birdman HBO
    96. The Wiz NBC Special
    97. Spectre At Kingstown
    98. Magnolia HBO
    99. The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion HBO
    100. The Rock HBO
    101. Child Hood’s End Syfy Channel Special
    102. Insurgent HBO

    2014

    Movies/TV Series

    1. Jack Reacher 2012 Net Flix
    2. Thieves (Korean Movie Next Flix)
    3. Side Effects – Next Flix
    4. The Informant – Next Flix
    5. The Assassination Of Jessie James By The Coward Robert Ford 2008 Next Flic
    6. Olympus Has Fallen 2013 Next Flix
    7. Coriolanus 2011 Next Flix
    8. 300  Net Flix
    9. Appolo 18  Net Flic
    10. Shape Of Things To Come On Plane
    11. Battle Star Galactica Razor On Plane
    12. The Master On Plane
    13. Ides Of March On Plane
    14. Oblivion Net Flix
    15. Midnight In Paris Woody Allen Saw Earlier On Plane  Net Flic
    16. Non-Stop In Regal –  A Bit Disappointing
    17. Then She Found Me Directed By Helen Hunt 2007 Net Flic
    18. Zelig 1996 Woody Allen Nex Fix
    19. Husband And Wives = Woody Allen Movie Netflix
    20. Confederate States Of America 2004 Mockumentary
    21. Out Of Sight George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez Based On Elmore Leonard Novel – Bit Disappointing On Plane
    22. Hobbit Desolation Of Smug On Plane
    23. Ender’s Game On Plane On Plane
    24. The Internship On Plane
    25. Closed Circuit On Plane
    26. Secret Life Of Walter Mitty Download
    27. RoboCop Download
    28. The A-Team On Plane
    29. The Europa Report On Plane
    30. Blue Jasmine On Plane
    31. World’s End On Plane
    32. The Hangover On Plane
    33. Edge Of Tomorrow In Movie Theather
    34. True Crime 1998 Clint Eastwood (TV)
    35. Bullet To The Head (TV)
    36. Get The Gringo (TV)
    37. Pacific Rim (TV)
    38. Starsky And Hutch (TV)
    39. Space Jam (TV)
    40. World War Z Nextflex
    41. Wolf Of Wall Street Nextflex
    42. Gravity Nextflex
    43. 12 Years A Slave Nextflex
    44. Fracture Nextflex
    45. Good Night And Good Luck Nextflex
    46. The Perfect Storm Nextflex
    47. The Book Thief Nextflex
    48. Best Offer Nextflex
    49. Muncih 2005 Spellberg Nextflex
    50. A Winter’s Tale Nextflex
    51. Trascendence Nextflex
    52. The Other Women Nextflex
    53. Layer Cake Nextflex
    54. Heat Robert Dinoro, Al Pacino Nextflex
    55. Last Vegas Dinoro Freeman Kline Pacino Nextflex
    56. The Grand Budapest Hotel Netflix
    57. Best Laid Plans 1999 Version Nextflex
    58. Firewall Nextflex
    59. Saving Mr. Banks Nextflex
    60. A Wrinkle In Time Nextflex
    61. Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close – Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock About 9-11 And One Family’s Reaction Nextflex
    62. Mandella’s Long Walk To Freedom Nextflex
    63. Enough Said Nextflex
    64. All You Need Is Love Nextflex
    65. Divergent Nextflex
    66. Noah Nextflex
    67. You will Meet A Tall Dark Handsome Stranger – Woody Allen Movie 2010 Nextflex
    68. X Men Wolverine Origins Nextflex
    69. Captain America Winter Soldier Nextflex
    70. X Men 2 United Nextflex
    71. Sex Tape In Hotel
    72. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes On Plane
    73. Godzilla 2014 Version On Plane
    74. Don Juan Netflix
    75. Frozen Nextflex
    76. Gone Girl 2014 In Regal Springfield
    77. Better Living Through Chemistry 2013 Movie Netflix
    78. Elysium 2013 Nextflix
    79. A Million Ways To Die In The West Nextflex
    80. Interstellar 2014 In Regal Springfield
    81. Burning Palms – Worst Movie Of The Year For Me
    82. Million Dollar Arm
    83. Lost In America 1985 Recommended By Matt Jacobson
    84. Manhattan Murder Mystery 1995 Woody Allen
    85. State Of Play Next Flic
    86. Babel Next Flic
    87. Peter Pan Live NBC
    88. Snowpiercer Korean Directed Film
    89. Jack Ryan, Shadow Recruit
    90. Superbad
    91. It’s A Wonderful Life
    92. This Means War
    93. Memories Of Murder Korean Film
    94. The Good, The Bad, And The Weird Korean Film
    95. Bad Santa
    96. Typhoon Korean Movie 2005
    97. In The Cut 2003 Australian Movie Set In NYC

    TV Series And Movies

    1. Breaking Bad Television Binge Watching All Episodes
    2. House Of Cards
    3. Tin Man
    4. Falling Skies

    2013

    The List

    1. Crazy, Stupid Love, Netflix January 1, 2013
    2. The Descendents  Netflix January 4, 2013
    3. The Hobbit (In Theater) January 5, 2013
    4. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel  Netflix
    5. Abritrage Richard Gere
    6. Get Him To The Greek TV
    7. Snatch  Netflix
    8. The One Netflix
    9. One For The Money (Netflix)
    10. Star Trek The Undiscovered Country TV
    11. The Help Netflix
    12. Hope Spring Netflix
    13. Paul Netflix
    14. Stolen Netflix – Did Not Finish Nominate For Worst Film Of The Year
    15. The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe ABC Family
    16. Journey To The Center Of The Earth 2011 ABC Family
    17. Mission Impossible 1V Ghost Protocol
    18. Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941 TCM
    19. A Star Is Born 1945 TCM
    20. Mission Impossible 111
    21. Decisions
    22. Life Of Pi Next Flic
    23. In Land Of Blood And Honey Next Flic
    24. Lockout Next Flic
    25. 21 Jump Street Next Flic
    26. Sherlock Holmes’s Games Of Shadows Plane
    27. Wrath Of The Titans Plane
    28. Horrible Bosses Plane
    29. Safe House Plane
    30. Hunter Plane
    31. Take This Waltz Next Flix
    32. Marley TV
    33. Coriolanus (Theather RHS)
    34. Wallenstein (Theather RHS)
    35. Great Gatsby (Regal Kingstown)
    36. Groom Lake (Hulu)
    37. Motorcycle Diaries 2004 Next Flic
    38. Looper Next Flic
    39. Superman Man Of Steel In Regal Theather
    40. Bourne Legacy (Netflix)
    41. Earthlings 2012 Hulu
    42. Gangster Squad (Nextflix)
    43. Red (Part)
    44. Zookeeper (Part)
    45. Witches Of Oz (Netflix)
    46. Interstate 60 Hulu
    47. White House Down In Theather
    48. Sex And Lucia Next Flic
    49. Ted Next Flic
    50. Star Ship Troopers – Invasion Next Flic
    51. Ana Karina 2012 Net Flix – Production Did Not Work For Me – Too Cute And Avant Garde – Like Watching A Film Of A Play Adaption.  Did Not Work As A Play Or As A Movie – A Big Disappointment
    52. Time Bandits 1981 Hulu
    53. RIPD In Theather
    54. Atonement (Netflix)
    55. Tristone And Isolde (2006) Netflix
    56. Dune 1984 Nextflex
    57. Meet The Millers Theather
    58. Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World Next Flic
    59. Iron Man 3 On Plane
    60. Trance On Plane
    61. Prisoners In Theather
    62. The Butler In Theather
    63. Outsourced Netflix
    64. Cloud Atlas Netflix
    65. Flight 2012 Next Flic
    66. The Campaign 2012 Next Flic
    67. Asian Invasion (Porn Movie For Strip Poker Game)
    68. Details Nextflix
    69. The Blind Side Netflix
    70. Pirates Of The Caribbean On Stranger Tides Netflix
    71. Robin Hood 2010 Netflix
    72. The Counselor 2013 In Theather
    73. The Host Netflix
    74. After The Sunset 2008 Netflix
    75. Grown Ups TNT On Cruise
    76. The Proposal TNT On Cruise
    77. Red 2 TNT On Cruise
    78. Maiden Heist Next Flix
    79. Despicable Me – Disney Channel
    80. Hunger Games Catching Fire In Theather
    81. The Place Beyond The Pines Next Flic
    82. Watch Man 2009 Next Flix
    83. Snow White And The Huntsman Nextflix
    84. Parker Netflix Streaming
    85. American Hustle
    86. A Christmas Story
    87. Ice Quake 2013 Syfy
    88. On The Road

    2012

    The List

    1. Dragnet (Next Flex)  Jan 1
    2. Bird On A Wire (Next Flex) Jan1
    3. Laura Croft Tomb Raider (Hollywood Chanel)
    4. Kuffs MGM Chanel
    5. Journey To The Lost World MGM Chanel
    6. Yellow Handkerchief Netflix
    7. Shanghai Knights Hollywood Chanel
    8. MMB 2 Hollywood Chanel
    9. What Women Want Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt 2000 Hollywood Chanel
    10. The Door In The Floor Jeff Bridges, Kim Bassinger, Mimi Rogers 2000 Next Flix Check References To Book
    11. America’s Sweethearts 2001 Julia Roberts, Kusshak, Catherine Zetta Jones Nextflix
    12. Marathon Man
    13. Catwoman
    14. The Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes 2011 On Plane
    15. Cowboys And Aliens 2010 On Plane
    16. The Island 2005 On Plane
    17. The Day The Earth Stood Still 1951 On Plane
    18. Hot Tube Time Machine Net Flix
    19. The Big Lebrowski Net Flix
    20. Leopolis Seoul Netflix
    21. King Of The Lost World
    22. Money Ball (Training Day)
    23. Serenity Next Flex 2005
    24. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part One (On Plane)
    25. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels On The Plane
    26. Bender’s Big Score (Netflix)
    27. Serenity (Nextflix)
    28. The Punisher (TV)
    29. Love’s Kitchen (Netflix)
    30. Transformers 11 2009 – Disappointing But Will Watch Transformers 111 To Finish The Series Off.
    31. The Double 2011 Richard Gere
    32. Contagion Did Not Finish Warsaw
    33. Sherlock Holmes 2 Did Not Finish Warsaw
    34. Win Win Warsaw Good Fli
    35. The Invasion 2005 Innovative Shooting Technique
    36. Tower Heist Nex
    37. The Tree Of Life Nex – Disappointing
    38. The Hangover Part Two NEX
    39. Girl With Dragon Tattoo (2011 Version)
    40. The King’s Speech NEX
    41. Midnight In Paris Woody Allen Movie 2011
    42. John Carter Hotel Room
    43. This Means War On Plane
    44. J Egard With Leonardo Di Capio Directed By Clift Eastwood – Big Disappointment. Just Too Long, Too Much Talking. From NEX
    45. Dr Strangelove From Mik B
    46. The Armour Of God 1987 Jackie Chan, Lola Forner Spanish Actress Hulu
    47. The Sands Of Oblivion 2007 Hulu
    48. The Monitors (Next Flex)
    49. MIB3 On Plane
    50. Prometheus – Last Half Worth Seeing Again On Plane
    51. Battleship On Plane
    52. Players Bollywood Remake Of The Italian Job –Worth Seeing
    53. Cross Worlds Next Flex
    54. Phil The Alien Next Flex
    55. Invasion Of The Pod People Hulu
    56. Alien Armageddon Hulu
    57. Red State Netflix
    58. God Bless America Netflix
    59. The Man Who Fell To Earth Netflix
    60. Very Bad Things Next Flix
    61. Ready Or Not – Hulu
    62. The Last Lovecraft: Relic Of Cthulu 2009 Netflix
    63. Amazing Spiderman 2012 Plane
    64. To Rome With Love 2010 Plane Woody Allen
    65. Dawalt’s Guard (First Arabic Movie) Plane
    66. Search For Justice 2012 Nicolas Cage Plane
    67. Mirror Mirror With Julia Roberts – On Plane In February
    68. The Gauntlet With Clint Eastwood 1977
    69. The Hunger Game Blockbuster
    70. The Debt
    71. The Maltese Falcon TCM
    72. My Week With Marilynn Block Buster
    73. Bernie Blockbuster
    74. Savages Blockbuster
    75. Wanderlust Blockbuster
    76. Skyfall Theather
    77. Office Space
    78. Dumb And Dumber TV
    79. Accepted TV
    80. The Iron Lady Blockbuster
    81. The Watch Blockbuster
    82. Larry Crowne Blockbuster
    83. Hot Rock 1972 Robert Redford HDNET
    84. Killing Them Softly (Movie Theather)

     

    2011

     

    1. How Do You Know 2010
    2. Nothing But The Truth 2008 Saw Earlier Not Bad 1-15
    3. Salt 2010 With Angelina Jolie
    4. The Other Side Of The Bed Spanish 2002
    5. A Perfect Getaway 2009
    6. Fool’s Gold
    7. Invictus 2009 Morgan Freeman, Matt Damian
    8. Like Water For Chocolate
    9. The Flower Of My Secret La Flora De Mi Secreto Spanish Movie 1995
    10. 88 Minutes 2007 Al Pacino
    11. Mr. Deeds 2002
    12. The King And I Korean Series
    13. Sex And The City 11

    14,  Hell Boy Part 11

    1. Love Happens
    2. Drive Angry 2011 Nicolas Cage Add To Worst Movie List

    17  Girl With The Dragon Tatoo 2009

    1. The Spanish Prisoner 1997 David Mamet Director Steve Martin
    2. Illegally Yours 1988 Robert Lowe
    3. Machette 2010 Half Spanish Dialogue Robert Dinero, Jessica Alba
    4. The Prince Of Persia 2010

    22   No False Move 1992 Bill Ray Thorton

    23 Life In North Korea Documentary From National Geographic

    1. Green Zone
    2. Morning Glory

    26 Killers

    1. Eat Pray Love

    28   The Town

    1. Kate And Leopold
    2. The Legend Of Bagger Vance

    30   Emma

    31  Les Miserables 1998 Version

    32  Unstoppable 2010

    1. Due Date 2010

    2010

    1. Fragments 2009
    2. Where The Day Takes You 1992
    3. The Illusionist 2003
    4. PS, I Love You 2007
    5. The Burning Plain 2008
    6. The Other Man 2008
    7. Mama Mia 2008
    8. Dim Sum Funeral 2008
    9. Inglorious Bastards 2009
    10. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? 2003 Second Time Around
    11. Time Traveler’s Wife 2009
    12. Amelia 2009
    13. Lies And Illusions 2009 Add To Worst List
    14. Serious Moonlight 2009
    15. “The Chaser” Korean Film
    16. Precious 2009 Academy Award For Best Actress
    17. Every Body’s Alright
    18. Space Balls
    19. Three Stooges Selected Episodes
    20. Ghosts Of Girl Friends Past 2009 Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner
    21. Up In The Air 2009 George Clooney
    22. The Men Who Stare At Goats 2009 George Clooney
    23. Have You Heard About The Morgans? Hugh Grant, Sara Jessica Parker 2009
    24. Sherlock Holmes 2009 Robert Downey, Jude Law And Rachael Mc Donald
    • “Crazy Heart” 2010  Best Picture Award 2010 Jeff Bridges, Robert Duval, Maggie Gyenehall
    • “Five Minutes Of Heaven” Liam Nelson 2010.
    • Avatar 2009 Best Picture
    • Romeo Must Die Jet Li 2000
    • Flawless 2008 Demi Moore Michael Kane
    • Extraordinary Measures 2010 Harrison Ford
    • Alice In Wonderland 2010
    • The Road 2009
    • It’s Complicated
    • Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
    • The Invention Of Lying
    • Edge Of Darkness
    • The Spy Next Door
    • Young Victorian
    • Old Dogs (On Plane)
    • Leap Year (On Plane)
    • Couples Retreat (Travis) 2009
    • Knight And Day 2010 (Medford)
    • Inception 2010 (Medford)
    • The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 2010 (Medford)
    • Clash Of The Titans (On Plane) 2010
    • Remember Me (On Plane) -2010
    • Bounty Hunter (On Plane -2010
    • Date Night (On Plane ) 2010
    • 2 Fast 2 Furious 2003 Eva Mendes Stars (Saw On TV)
    • Water World – Keven Kostner Saw On Korean TV
    • Legends Of The Fall  Saw On Korean TV
    • Iron Man 2 (On Plane)
    • How To Tame Your Dragon (On Plane)
    • The Informant (HBO Home)
    • Bill And Ted’s Bogus Journey (Parts)
    • Batteries Not Included 1987 Second Time Around (HBO)
    • Family Man (HBO)
    • Wall Street
    • Helen  – Short List For Worst Movie I Saw – Just Did Not Work For Me.
    • The Warlords
    • A Plague Of Zombies
    • Robin Hood
    • The Unthinkable
    • The Book Of Eli
    • The Count Of Monte Cristo
    • The Messenger (Angela Saw)
    • Red (In The Theather)
    • The Count Of Mont Cristo Angela Saw I Saw Parts
    • 3:10 To Yuma (Saw A Few Years Ago, Saw Again)
    • Law Abiding Citizen 2009
    • Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring Korean Film 2005
    • Aliens In The Addict 2009 TV
    • Loch Ness 1996 Ted Dancer HBO
    • Fair Game 2010 In Theater
    • The Pianists 2002 Angela Saw, I Saw A Few Years Ago
    • The Simpsons Movie First Half was Seen Earlier
    • Star Wars 6 First Half Hour
    • Wizard Of OZ Half
    • The King And I Korean History Drama
    • The Darjeeling Limited 2007 Owen Wilson Wes Anderson Directed
    • The Piano  1995   Angela Saw, I Heard Parts Of It
    • Gia 1994  Very Sexual And Lots Of Lesbian Scenes Which Turned Me On.
    • Oregon (SFY)
    • Leiberstruam 1999 Kim Novack, Bill Pullman  HBO
    • The Jones 2009 Demi Moore, David Duchovny Amber Heard, And Ben Hollingsworth Directed By Derrick Borte – Disappointed, Did Not Work For Me
    • The Hours 2002 Nicole Kidman, Julain Moore, And Meryle Shreep Re Life Of Virginia Woolf And Her Impact On The Life Of Two Women
    • Bobby 2006 Helen Hunt, Demi Moore, Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, William Macy, Martin Sheet, Linsday Lohan, And Cristian Slater Written Nd Directed By Emilio Estevez
    • True Grit 2010 – Overly Hyped In My Opinion
    • Vivdirana Spanish Film 1961 Classic
    • Volver  2005 Spanish Film
    • How Much Do You Love Me 2005 French
    1. Ninja Assassins 2009  Staring Rain  On TV

    93  Horsefeathers  Marx Brothers On TV

    2009

    1. Underwear” Starting Val Kilmer, Graham Greene,
    2. Constant Gardener With Rachael Weiz –
    3. Rumor Has It – Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner
    4. Queen
    5. Hancock With Will Smith
    6. Dave – With Eddie Murphy – SF Comedy
    7. Joe Kid – With Clint Eastwood – Saw Opening
    8. Iron Man – Not Bad. Another Marvel Movie.
    9. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind”
    10. Gone, Baby, Gone”
    11. Fracture
    12. Burn After Reading”
    13. 21 Grams”
    14. The Changling With Angelia Jolie, Directed By Clint
    15. Kiss The Dust”
    16. How To Lose Friends And Alienate People
    17. Electric Mist With Tomy Lee Jones
    18. Good German
    19. Siberian Express
    20. Body Of Lies
    21. Slum Dog Millionaire
    22. Lucky Slevin
    23. Australia
    24. What Just Happened
    25. City Of Ember
    26. Proof Of Life
    27. Bottle Shock
    28. Runaway Jury
    29. Master Spy
    30. Marie Antoinette
    31. Interstate
    32. He’s Just Not That Into You
    33. Madagascar 11
    34. Collateral With Jamie Fox And Tom Cruise
    35. My Super Ex Girl Friend
    36. State Of Play – In Medford Movie Theather
    37. Bolt-On The Plane
    38. Yes Man, In Hotel Room In DC
    39. Avengers
    40. Spy Games
    41. All The Way
    42. The Day The Earth Stood Still
    43. Seven Pounds
    44. Nothing But The Truth
    45. The Reader – Oscar Winner For Best Actress 2008 Kate Winslet
    46. Crossing Over
    47. Kill Shot With Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane
    48. Vanished With Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock
    49. Valkarie
    50. Star Trek – Prequel Movie (From Street Vendor)
    51. 52 The Clearing With Robert Redford – 2004
    52. Curious Case Of Benjamin Button With Brad Pitt Best Actor Award 2009
    53. Knowing With Nicolas Cage 2009
    54. The Code
    55. Counterfeit
    56. Alexander 2004 Oliver Stone Producer
    57. Out For Justice 1991
    58. Echelon Conspiracy 2009
    59. The Good Thief 2001 With Nick Nolte
    60. Meteor = NBC Mini-Series
    61. Wild Hogs 2007 Tim Allen, Travolta, Macy, Lawrence
    62. 28 Days Later
    63. Wild Things 2
    64. Mystic River Directed By Clint Eastwood, Starring Sean Pean
    65. Criminal 2004
    66. Essential Lover
    67. Two Lovers
    68. Angels And Demons 2008 Started by Tom Hanks, Directed By Ron Howard
    69. The Informers
    70. Duplicity
    71. Surveillance Produced By Jennifer Lynch Starting Pullman And Ormand
    72. Trust The Man 2008
    73. The Mutant Chronicles 2008
    74. Heaven 1995?
    75. Wolverine With Hugh Jackman 2009
    76. Dark Streets With Bijou Philips
    77. Doubt With Meryle Strep 2008
    78. Coco Chanel Shirley Mc Cline 2008
    79. Ramen Girl
    80. The Yatzuka (1974 W George Mitchum)
    81. The Fountain 2006 W Rachel Weiss (Hot)
    82. Easy Virtue 2009 (On Plane)
    83. Act Of Imagination – Eddie Murphy And Serena Williams’s Daughter
    84. I Hate Valentine’s Day 2009  (On Plane)
    85. The Proposal 2009 With Sandra Bullock
    86. Into The Storm (Bio Of Winston Churchill (On Plane)
    87. MILF Hunters 5 Porno Movie Seen In Hotel
    88. Brooks
    89. Taken
    90. The Big Bounce
    91. The Heartbreak Kid (Second Time Around)
    92. Taking Of Pelham 123 2009 With John Travolta, Denzel Washington
    93. Cherrie 2008 With Michelle Pfiefer
    94. Accidental Husband 2008 With Uma Thuber
    95. Management With Jennifer Anison, Steve Chain, And Woody Harrelson, 2008
    96. My Life In Ruins, 2008 With Nia Valdolos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding And Richard Dreyfus)
    97. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2005
    98. Spanglish 2005 With Adam Sandler
    99. A Married Life 2008
    100. Open Road 2009
    101. Vanity Fair 2004 Recee Weatherspoon As Bucky Sharp
    102. Beyond Borders 2008 Anglie Jolie, And Clive Owen
    103. I’ll Sleep When I Am Dead 2003with Clive Owen
    104. The King Of California 2007 With Michael Douglas
    105. Target 1985 With Gene Hackman And Matt Dillion
    106. The Life Of David Gale With Kevin Spacy, And Kate Winslet
    107. Bruno
    108. Lucky You With Drew Barrymore
    109. The Last Word
    110. 2012 With John Cusack
    111. Bad Lieutenant With Nicolas Cage
    112. The Tournament 2009 Kelly Hu
    113. Public Enemies 2009 Johny Deep
    114. Julia And Julia 2009 Meryle Sherpa
    115. Cold Mountain 2003 Jude Law, Nicole Kidman
    116. Out Of Time 2003 Denzel Washington, Eva Mendez (Hot)
    117. Night At The Museum 11 Battle For Smithsonian
    118. Sleuth 2009 Version
    119. Land Of The Lost 2009
    120. The Brother’s Bloom 2008
    121. Letter From Iwa Jima 2007 Clint Eastwood Directed
    122. White Chicks
    123. Star Treck Generations
    124. Jackie Collins Hollywood Wife 2003
    125. Charlie Wilson’s War -2008 Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts
    126. The Whole Nine Yards 2000 Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peete (Hot)
    127. The Illusionist

    2009

    1. Underwear” Starting Val Kilmer, Graham Greene,
    2. Constant Gardener With Rachael Weiz –
    3. Rumor Has It – Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner
    4. Queen
    5. Hancock With Will Smith
    6. Dave – With Eddie Murphy – SF Comedy
    7. Joe Kid – With Clint Eastwood – Saw Opening
    8. Iron Man – Not Bad. Another Marvel Movie.
    9. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind”
    10. Gone, Baby, Gone”
    11. Fracture
    12. Burn After Reading”
    13. 21 Grams”
    14. The Changling With Angelia Jolie, Directed By Clint
    15. Kiss The Dust”
    16. How To Lose Friends And Alienate People
    17. Electric Mist With Tommy Lee Jones
    18. Good German
    19. Siberian Express
    20. Body Of Lies
    21. Slum Dog Millionaire
    22. Lucky Slevin
    23. Australia
    24. What Just Happened
    25. City Of Ember
    26. Proof Of Life
    27. Bottle Shock
    28. Runaway Jury
    29. Master Spy
    30. Marie Antoinette
    31. Interstate
    32. He’s Just Not That Into You
    33. Madagascar 11
    34. Collateral With Jamie Fox And Tom Cruise
    35. My Super Ex Girl Friend
    36. State Of Play – In Medford Movie Theather
    37. Bolt-On The Plane
    38. Yes Man, In Hotel Room In DC
    39. Avengers
    40. Spy Games
    41. All The Way
    42. The Day The Earth Stood Still
    43. Seven Pounds
    44. Nothing But The Truth
    45. The Reader – Oscar Winner For Best Actress 2008 Kate Winslet
    46. Crossing Over
    47. Kill Shot With Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane
    48. Vanished With Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock
    49. Valkarie
    50. Star Trek – Prequel Movie (From Street Vendor)
    51. 52 The Clearing With Robert Redford – 2004
    52. Curious Case Of Benjamin Button With Brad Pitt Best Actor Award 2009
    53. Knowing With Nicolas Cage 2009
    54. The Code
    55. Counterfeit
    56. Alexander 2004 Oliver Stone Producer
    57. Out For Justice 1991
    58. Echelon Conspiracy 2009
    59. The Good Thief 2001 With Nick Nolte
    60. Meteor = NBC Mini-Series
    61. Wild Hogs 2007 Tim Allen, Travolta, Macy, Lawrence
    62. 28 Days Later
    63. Wild Things 2
    64. Mystic River Directed By Clint Eastwood, Starring Sean Pean
    65. Criminal 2004
    66. Essential Lover
    67. Two Lovers
    68. Angels And Demons 2008 Started by Tom Hanks, Directed By Ron Howard
    69. The Informers
    70. Duplicity
    71. Surveillance Produced By Jennifer Lynch Starting Pullman And Ormand
    72. Trust The Man 2008
    73. The Mutant Chronicles 2008
    74. Heaven 1995?
    75. Wolverine With Hugh Jackman 2009
    76. Dark Streets With Bijou Philips
    77. Doubt With Meryle Strep 2008
    78. Coco Chanel Shirley Mc Cline 2008
    79. Ramen Girl
    80. The Yatzuka (1974 W George Mitchum)
    81. The Fountain 2006 W Rachel Weiss (Hot)
    82. Easy Virtue 2009 (On Plane)
    83. Act Of Imagination – Eddie Murphy And Serena Williams’s Daughter
    84. I Hate Valentine’s Day 2009  (On Plane)
    85. The Proposal 2009 With Sandra Bullock
    86. Into The Storm (Bio Of Winston Churchill (On Plane)
    87. MILF Hunters 5 Porno Movie Seen In Hotel
    88. Brooks
    89. Taken
    90. The Big Bounce
    91. The Heartbreak Kid (Second Time Around)
    92. Taking Of Pelham 123 2009 With John Travolta, Denzel Washington
    93. Cherrie 2008 With Michelle Pfiefer
    94. Accidental Husband 2008 With Uma Thuber
    95. Management With Jennifer Anison, Steve Chain, And Woody Harrelson, 2008
    96. My Life In Ruins, 2008 With Nia Valdolos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding And Richard Dreyfus)
    97. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2005
    98. Spanglish 2005 With Adam Sandler
    99. A Married Life 2008
    100. Open Road 2009
    101. Vanity Fair 2004 Recee Weatherspoon As Bucky Sharp
    102. Beyond Borders 2008 Anglie Jolie, And Clive Owen
    103. I’ll Sleep When I Am Dead 2003with Clive Owen
    104. The King Of California 2007 With Michael Douglas
    105. Target 1985 With Gene Hackman And Matt Dillion
    106. The Life Of David Gale With Kevin Spacy, And Kate Winslet
    107. Bruno
    108. Lucky You With Drew Barrymore
    109. The Last Word
    110. 2012 With John Cusack
    111. Bad Lieutenant With Nicolas Cage
    112. The Tournament 2009 Kelly Hu
    113. Public Enemies 2009 Johny Deep
    114. Julia And Julia 2009 Meryle Sherpa
    115. Cold Mountain 2003 Jude Law, Nicole Kidman
    116. Out Of Time 2003 Denzel Washington, Eva Mendez (Hot)
    117. Night At The Museum 11 Battle For Smithsonian
    118. Sleuth 2009 Version
    119. Land Of The Lost 2009
    120. The Brother’s Bloom 2008
    121. Letter From Iwa Jima 2007 Clint Eastwood Directed
    122. White Chicks
    123. Star Treck Generations
    124. Jackie Collins Hollywood Wife 2003
    125. Charlie Wilson’s War -2008 Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts
    126. The Whole Nine Yards 2000 Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peete (Hot)
    127. The Illusionist

    After The Sunset With Pierce Bronson, Salma Hayek, Woody Harrelson, Don Cheadle

    American Gangster With Denzel Washington And Russell Crowe

    Out Of Reach With Steven Seagal

    Amos And Andy With Nicolas Cage And Samuel Jackson

    The Merchant Of Venice With AL Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins

    Harrison’s Flowers With Adrian Macdowell, Elias Koteas, Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Brody, And David Stratham

    Cruise December 15 -21

    Sylvia –  Movie About The Poet Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes

    What Happened In Vegas – With Cameron Diaz

    Rendition With Meryle Strep – About The Issue Of Renditions, Well Done

    Adaptation  – Nicolas Cage Re Life Of Two Twin Brothers Screen Writers And The Process Of Writing A Screen Play

    Bangkok Dangerous Nicolas Cage

    Elizabeth

    The Weather Man Nicolas Cage

    Get Smart

    Possession  NF

    Next With Nicolas Cage NF

    Knocked Up  NF

    Untouchables AMC

    Fargo  AMC

    Mummy Returns

    2007 To 2010 Barbados

    Saw A Lot Of Movies On Video And Netflix Via Mail

    2003 To 2007  DC Saw An Average of 100 Per Year

    2000 To 2003  Saw An Average Of 100 Per Year Mostly Videos

    But Did See In Movie Theaters Twice A Month And Saw Several Bollywood Movies

    Saw The Three Stooges Marathon To Start The Year

    1996 -1997  Saw Less Than 50 Due To Being In Hospital Half The Year

    Saw About 100 Per Year Blockbuster Was Popular

    1994  during six month Thai training saw four movies per week two normal, two adult movies

    1991 during training saw four movies per week, two normal, two adult movies

    The ’80s Saw A Lot Via Video About 100 Per Year

    The ’70s Saw On TV And In Movie Theaters

    Watched a lot of Creature Features movies on TV in the early ’70s every Friday night they had a double feature.    Went on average once a week to the movies with friends, mostly Robert Sicular starting from 1970 to 1974.

    Favorite animation series included American Dad, Dilbert,  Family Guy, Futurama, Bullwinkle, Looney Tunes .

    Favorite TV series over the years include Arrested Development,  Batman, Superman,  Everyone Loves Raymond,  Get Smart, Dragnet,  Adam 12, Two and half men, Married with Children, Malcom in the Middle, Dallas, Falcon Crest, and as a child, Beverly Hillbies, Dobbie Gils, Gilligan’s Island, Green Acres, Outer limits, Twilight zone, and X Files.

    Saw all planet of the Apes movies, All James Bond movies, Spider man, Superman, Start Treck and Start wars movies.

  • Cosmos Reading List 2022 Final Updates

    Cosmos Reading List 2022 Final Updates

    Cosmos’s Reading List 2022

    Cosmos Books Read 2021 Update

    1001 Books to Read Before You Die List

    Reading the Classics Updated

    Books Read 2020

    books read during 2018
    books read during 2018

    Goals:  100 Books

    I have been  reading the classics all year.

    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

    Marie Summers Celestial Dreams

    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

    Sasha A. Palmer A Zejel For You (Poem)

    Carol R Ward The Wild Hunt

    Mod Po mini-course poems

    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”

    NaPoWriMo

    Gerard Manley Hopkins  Peace
    Gerard Manley Hopkins  Ash Brough

    Mod Po mini-course poems

    April

    Books

    Alex Berenson Secret Soldier
    Ted Bell Warrior
    Marcus Aurelius Meditations

    Poems

    The Rondel, THE WANDERER by Henry Austin Dobson
    Judi Van Gorder Falling for the French
    Short Rondel The Rondelet

    August’s end by Barbara Hartman –

    Robert Murtaugh,(Fader. Loneliness

    The Rondine

    Happy Mother’s Day
     The Triolet, Triolet by Ernest Henley;British Poet (1849-1903)
    Judi Van Gorder Cat Tale

    Villanelle

    Dylan Thomas 1952 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by

    ~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

    Writing com Writer’s Cramp

    Trijan Refrain
    Jan Turner
    Sweet Destiny

    Example #1:

    Andrea Dietrich & Jan Turner

    Seaside Lament
    Example #2:
    Margaret R. Smith

    The Melody of Trees
    Example #3:

    Mod Po mini-course poems

    May

    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

    Edmund Clerihew Bently  Sir Humphrey Davy

    James & Marie Summers Garfield the Cat

    Alan McAlpine Douglas’s The Road Runner

    Diana Dalton Star Trek’s frowning Klingon Worf

    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

    1. R. Ammons A. R. Ammons

    The City Limits  A. R. Ammons

    Rapids  A. R. Ammons

    1. 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

    Poems

    Erin Holbrook Angels
    Deborah P Kolodji Turquoise Thoughts

    Marie Summers Cherry Blossoms

    Mod Po poems

    Emily Dickinson

    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

    PoemsWriting com newsletter

    Poet Unknown Set The World Rejoicing
    Walt Whitman When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

    Stormy lady newsletter

    William Allingham’s The Fairies
    William Allingham Down On The Shore
    William Allingham A Gravestone

    Writing com Poets place

    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

     

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    Conrad Aiken All Lovely Things
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    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]

    1001  books to read before you die 

    https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-2018

    partial listing  bold read

    1001 Books to Read Before You Die List,

    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

    1001 Books to Read Before You Die List,

    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

    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

    A Girl of the Limberlost, by Gene Stratton Porter

    The Worthing Saga, by Orson Scott Card

    His Illegal Self, by Peter Carey

    Magic Cottage, by James Herbert

    the End

  • Reading the Classics Updated

    Reading the Classics Updated

    Reading the Classics Updated

    Reading G Keith Chesterton

    George Elliot Novels

    Stuart Woods RIP

    Reading the Classics

    Reading the Classics Updated Lists

    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)

    Reading G Keith Chesterton

    And on George Elliot as well (below)

    George Elliot Novels

    And although Stuart Woods is not a classic author, I have written a review of his work as I have read most of his writing. (below)

    Stuart Woods RIP

    Here’s the list of books read – bolded I have finished,

    Harvard Classics

    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

    (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,

     

    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]

    For the rest of the list see https://wp.me/p7NAzO-2qH

    Reading the Classics

    1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

    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
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    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,

     

     

     

     

  • Reading the Classics Updated Lists

    Reading the Classics Updated Lists

    Reading the Classics Updated Lists

    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

    Cosmos Books Read 2021 Update

    Cosmos Movie List 2021 Updates

    1001 Books to Read Before You Die List

    Books read 2019

    books read during 2018

    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)

    Reading G Keith Chesterton

    And on George Elliot as well (below)

    George Elliot Novels

    And although Stuart Woods is not a classic author, I have written a review of his work as I have read most of his writing. (below)

    Stuart Woods RIP

    I started with volume three and am almost finished.

    Here’s the list of books read – bolded I have finished,

    Harvard Classics

    Bold 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

    (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,

    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]

    Reading the Classics

    1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

    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

    The End 

     

  • Cosmos Reading List 2021 Final Update

    Cosmos Reading List 2021 Final Update

    Cosmos Books Read 2021Final Update

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    1001 Books to Read Before You Die List
    Cosmos Books Read 2020 RevisedBooks Read 2020
    Books read 2019

    Books read 2019
    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.

    The List

    Elliot Novels

    Adam Bede (1859) read,

    The Lifted Veil   read

    The Mill on The Floss (1860), read

    Silas Mariner (1861), read

    Frederick Forsyth Icon

    From Camp Humphreys August 2021

    Claudia Gray Defy the Stars

    Daniel Silva The Defector

    Daniel Silva The Messenger

    Stuart Woods Choppy Water

    Stuart Woods Palindrome

    Steven Parnell All Out Wall

    Stuart Woods Bombshell

    Jeffrey Archer False Impression 9-11 Art Heist Thriller

    From Fairfax library

    October 19

    Stuart Woods Shake-up

    Stuart Woods Jack Pot

    Eric Flint/Walter H Hunt 1636 The Atlantic Encounter

    Preston and Child  the Scorpion’s Tail

    Jim Davidson Perry Mason Book

    Relic

    Stuart Woods  Books 

    1. Palindrome 2020 Read
    2. Blue Water, Green Skipper – 1977
    3. A Romantic’s Guide to The Country Inns of Britain and Ireland – 1979
    4. Chiefs – 1981  read
    5. Run Before the Wind – 1983 read
    6. Deep Lie – 1986
    7. Under The Lake – 1987
    8. White Cargo – 1988 read
    9. Grass Roots – 1989
    10. New York Dead – 1991 read
    11. Santa Fe Rules – 1992 read
    12. L.A. Times – 1993 read
    13. Dead Eyes – 1994 read
    14. Heat – 1994 read
    15. Imperfect Strangers – 1995
    16. Choke – 1995
    17. Dirt – 1996 read
    18. Dead In the Water – 1997
    19. Swimming To Catalina – 1998
    20. Orchid Beach – 1998 read
    21. Worst Fears Realized – 1999 read
    22. The Run – 2000
    23. L.A. Dead – 2000 read
    24. Cold Paradise – 2001 read
    25. Orchid Blues – 2001 read
    26. The Short Forever – 2002
    27. Blood Orchid – 2002 read
    28. Dirty Work – 2003
    29. Capital Crimes – 2003 read
    30. Reckless Abandon -2004 read
    31. The Prince of Beverly Hills – 2004 read
    32. Two Dollar Bill – 2005 read
    33. Iron Orchid – 2005 read
    34. Dark Harbor – 2006 read
    35. Short Straw – 2006 read
    36. Fresh Disasters – 2007 read
    37. Shoot Him If He Runs – 2007 read
    38. Beverly Hills Dead – 2008 read
    39. Santa Fe Dead – 2008 read
    40. Hot Mahogany – 2008 read
    41. Mounting Fears – 2009 read
    42. Loitering With Intent – 2009 read
    43. Hothouse Orchid – 2009 read
    44. Kisser – 2010
    45. Lucid Intervals – 2010 read
    46. Santa Fe Edge – 2010 read
    47. Strategic Moves – 2011
    48. Bel-Air Dead – 2011 read
    49. Son Of Stone – 2011 read
    50. D.C. Dead – 2011 read
    51. Unnatural Acts – 2012 read
    52. Severe Clear – 2012 read
    53. Collateral Damage – 2013 read
    54. Unintended Consequences – 2013 read
    55. Doing Hard Time – 2013
    56. Standup Guy – 2014 read
    57. Carnal Curiosity – 2014 read
    58. Cut And thrust – 2014 read
    59. Paris Match – 2014 read
    60. Insatiable Appetites – 2015 read
    61. Hot Pursuit – 2015 read
    62. Naked Greed – 2015 read
    63. Foreign Affairs – 2015 read
    64. Scandalous Behavior – 2016 read
    65. Family Jewels – 2016 read
    66. Dishonorable Intentions – 2016 read
    67. Smooth Operator – 2016 read
    68. Sex, Lies & Serious Money – 2016
    69. Below The Belt – 2017
    70. Fast And Loose – 2017
    71. Indecent Exposure – 2017 read
    72. Barely Legal – 2017 read
    73. Quick & Dirty – 2017
    74. Unbound – 2018
    75. Shoot First – 2018 read
    76. Turbulence – 2018 read
    77. The Money Shot – 2018 read
    78. Desperate Measures – 2018 read
    79. A Delicate Touch – 2018 read
    80. Wild Card – 2019 read
    81. Skin Game – 2019 read
    82. Shake up 2021  read
    83. Jackpot 2021    read

    Ransom Riggs   Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011), read

    Ransom Riggs    Hollow City (2014), read

    Ransom Riggs Library of Souls (2015). Read

    Ransom Riggs A Map of Days to read

    Ransom Riggs   the conference of The Birds – to read

    Ransom Riggs    the Desolations of Devils Acre read

    From Camp Humphreys September 2021

    Dan Brown Digital Fortress

    Michael Cordy the Messiah Code

    10-13-2021

    Brad Thor Backlash

    Philip Rucker, Carol Leoning A Very Stable Genius

    Nick Thacker Relic -Kindle

    AC Fuller the Crime Beat  NYC

    AC Fuller the Crime Beat Washington DC

    AC Fuller the Crime Beat MIami

     

    Poems Read

     

    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 Kothi 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

    Vivere 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

    Other Poems

    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
    (source: http://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=1996)

    Auditory imagery …
    The Sound of The Sea
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Olfactory imagery …
    Smells
    by Kathryn Worth

    Gustatory imagery …
    This is Just to Say
    by William Carlos Williams

    Tactile imagery …
    The Kiss
    by Sara Teasdale

    Edgar Allen Poe Tell-Tale Heart from DYI MFA

    Five Poems from DYI MFA

    Five Senses

    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

    Three poems from writing com 3/30/2021

    John Gillespie Magee, Jr. High Flight
    (Source: Https://Nationalpoetryday.Co.Uk/Poem/High-Flight/)
    Jeffrey Harrison, Nest
    (Source: Https://Www.Poetryfoundation.Org/Poems/55885/Nest-56d237e2d619c)
    Ted Kooser, Abandoned Farmhouse
    (Source: Https://Www.Poetryfoundation.Org/Poems/52935/Abandoned-Farmhouse)

    Famous poems

    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

    Peter Gizzi -This World Is Not Conclusion

    Jean Valentine – La Chalupa, The Boat

    Carl Phillips  Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm

    Poetry for Dummies

    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

    Marie Summers

    Example #2:celestial Dreams

    Example #3

    Dance In the Rain come,

    Dendrobium

    Example #4:

    Osprey o, Sleek and Beauteous hunter.

    Marie Summers example #5:

     

    Iambi Poetry

     

    Robert Frost Dust of Snow

    Emily Dickinson The Only News I Know

    William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

    Robert Frost the Road not Taken

    William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet

    William Shakespeare Macbeth

    From writing com poetry newsletter October 12, 2021

     Emily Dickinson, I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain
    A. E. Housman Her Strong Enchantments Failing
    Hughes Mearns Antigonish

    Judi Van Gorder

    Journey
    Temple Judi Van Gorder

    Judi Van Gorder 06 BMV 540

    David Harsham Fae Folk Travel

    Weldon Kees A Musician’s Wife
    Weldon Kees Late Evening Song
    Weldon Kees Year’s End

     

    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 –

    1. 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 –

     

     

    To Read

     

    The Complete List, Volume One

     

    Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy  Read

    Jane Austen Emma Read

    Jane Austen Persuasion Read

    Honoré de Balzac Father Gorgio

    Anne Brontë the Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre  Read

    Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights Read

    Samuel Butler the Way of All Flesh

    Miguel de Cervantes Don Quiote Red

    Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness Read

    Joseph Conrad Nostromo

    Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders Read

    Charles Dickens Bleak House Read

    Charles Dickens Great Expectation Read s

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov Read

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment Read

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot Read

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Read

    Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo  Read

    George Eliot Middlemarch Read

    George Eliot Daniel Deronda Read

    Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman the Yellow Wallpaper Read

    Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls

    The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales Read

    Homer The Odyssey Read

    Homer The Iliad Read

    Victor Hugo Les Misérables Read

    Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow  Read

    Henry James The Portrait of a Lady

    James Joyce A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man Read

    D.H Lawrence Sons and Lovers Read

    Gaston Leroux The Phantom of The Opera

    Jack London The Call of The Wild  Read

    Herman Melville The Great God Pan Moby Dick-Read

    Marcel Proust Swann’s Way

    Mary Shelley Frankenstein Read

    Stendhal The Red and The Black

    Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Read

    Bram Stoker Dracula Read

    Sun Tzu The Art of War Read

    Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels Read

    William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Read

    Leo Tolstoy War and Peace Read

    Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Read

    Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilych

    Mark Twain the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  Read

    Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray  Read

    Grant Allen What’s Bred in The Bone –

    Lucius Apuleius The Golden Ass –

    Marcus Aurelius Meditations – Read

    Jane Austen Lady Susan

    Jane Austen Northanger Abbey –

    1. Frank Baum the Wonderful Wizard of Oz – Read

    Dale Carnegie The Art of Public Speaking – Read

    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 Read

    The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens Read

    A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens Read

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Gambler –

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from The Underground – Read

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Sign of Four Read

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Hound of The Baskerville Read

     

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Lost World  read

    Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers read

    Alexandre Dumas The Man in The Iron Mask read

    1. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise read

    Elizabeth Gaskell Curious, if True, Strange Tales

    Henry Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines  read

    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 read

    Jack London The Son of The Wolf

    Hendrik Anton Lorentz the Einstein Theory of Relativity

    HP Lovecraft The Dun ich Horror read

    HP Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness read

    Niccolò Machiavelli the Prince –

    Lucy Maud Montgomery the Story Girl

    The Antichrist – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

    Plato The Republic – read

    Mary Shelley The Last Man – read

    Mark Twain Life on The Mississippi – read

    Vats Ayana the Kama Sutra read

    Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days  read

     

     

    Volume Three

     

    Louisa May Alcott Little Women

    Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility  Read

    1. M. Barrie Peter Pan read
    2. M. Bower Cabin Fever

    Frances Hodgson Burnett the Secret Garden

    Frances Hodgson Burnett a Little Princess

    Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland  read

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables

    Jules Verne A Journey into The Center of The Earth  Read

    Jules Verne The Mysterious Island  Read

    Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Read

    1. G. Wells the War of The Worlds read
    2. G. Wells the Time Machine (H.G Wells) read

    Oscar Wilde The Centerville Ghost

    Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out

    William Chamber the King in Yellow

    William Chesterton The Man Who Knew Too Much Read

    Wilkie Collins The Woman in White

    HG Wells the Star

    Dorothy Leigh Sayers Whose Body?

    Margaret Deland The Iron Woman

    Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities read

    Fyodor Dostoevsky The Double

    Arthur Conon Doyle Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

    F Scott Fitzgerald the Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    EM Foster a Room with a View  read

    Sigmund Freud Dream Psychology  Read

    Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles Read

    Hermann Hesse Siddhartha  read

    James Joyce Dubliners read

    Edgar Allen Poe the Fall of The House of Usher  read

    Andrew Land the Arabian Nights

    Jack London The Sea Wolf read

    HP Lovecraft The Call of Cthulu read

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables

    William Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil read

    Edgar Allen Poe the Murders in The Rue Morgue read

    Edgar Allen Poe the Black Cat read

    Edgar Allen Poe the Raven read

    Michael Proust Swan’s Way

    Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island read

    William Strunk The Elements of Style  read

    Mark Twain the Adventures of Tom Sawyer read

    Mark Twain the Prince and The Pauper read

    Remaining Elliot Novels

     

    Romola (1862–63), read

    Felix Holt, The Radical (1866),

    Middlemarch (1871–72) read

    and Daniel Deronda (1876).

     

     

    Famous Poems to Read and Study

     

    Index

     

    Five Senses

     

    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

    Peter Gizzi -This World Is Not Conclusion

    Jean Valentine – La Chalupa, The Boat

    Carl Phillips  Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm

    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

    Abandoned Farmhouse
       by Ted Kooser
    Wooden Boats 
    Judy Serum Brown
    Denise Levertov Celebration

    Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream

    Writing com Stormy Lady 5/20

    Dorothea Mackellar The Open Sea
    Dorothea Mac Keller in a Southern Garden

    Dorothea Mackellar The Open Sea

    Leonard Nimoy after endless night

     

    I’d Heal the World with Marigolds  poetic blossoming entry

    Midnight encounters a poetic blossoming entry

    Langston Hughes 

     

    Our land 

    Dreams

    The Weary Blues

    Life is Fine

     

    4/10/2021 from DYI MFA

    Space Be Still, My Soul, Be Still
    by A. E. Housman

    A. E. Housman
    The Immortal Part

    A. E. Housman
    White in The Moon The Long Road Lies

    Another Home  (E)
    a pantoum on The pleasures of fiction
    #2250974 by Tiera (148)

     

    David S The All-Mighty Thresher
    Sally Ann Roberts example #1:it All Started with A Packet Of Seeds

    Marie Summers

    Example #2:celestial Dreams

    Example #3

    Dance In The Rain come,

    Dendrobium

    Example #4:

    Osprey o, Sleek And Beauteous hunter.

    Marie Summers example #5:

     

    Marie Elena Good, 2021 Her Wittiness Stings Poetic Blossoms

    Walter Wozniak He Prince of Passions

    David Schreiber  Footprints in time Writing Com

    David Schreiber The Soldiers  Writing Com

     

     

    		 Together Forever  (E)
    A haunting memory in The Samisen form.

    Judi Van Gorder  Cold Forever –

    Endecha Poetic Magnum Opus

    Cross Country, by Robert Lee Brewer  Endecha.   Writer’s Digest

    Linda  Varsel Smith “Syllables in Velvet” Endecha

    www.Rainbow.Communications.com

    1. William Seaman Higgledy-piggledy Double Dactyl

    Paul Pascal Patty-Cake Double Dactyl

    Anthony Hecht Higgledy-piggledy Double Dactyl

    John Hollander Jaggedly-Piggledy Double Dactyl

    Alfred Lord Tennyson the Charge of The Light Brigade (By Alfred Lord Tennyson)

     Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  Evangeline

    Robert Browning the Lost Leader (By Robert Browning)

    Walt Whitman (Out of The Cradle Endlessly Rocking

    Ian Lancashire  Higgledy Piggledy

    Sidney Lanier
    The Song Of The Chattahoochee
    Sidney Lanier Ireland
    Sidney Lanier A Sunrise Song
    “Where Grandpa Died”

    Dodoitsu

    Pat Anthony Aftermath

    Nurit Israeli Untitled

    Amy Breakfast in Bed

    Yassy Somehow

    Brad Osborne Your Eyes

    Linda Visman Stormwatch
    Susan Sonnen Starlit Dreams

    Poetic Bloomings Weather Poem

      Poetic Bloomings Weather Poem the Blues

    Walter J Wojtanik – 2021 THE PRINCE OF PASSIONS

    Dave (Schneider at Writing.Com)  Measure Our Mortality

    David Schneider at writing com Footprints in Time

    David Schneider Soldiers

    David Schneider Together Again

    Judi Van Gorder Cold Forever – Encheda

    Robert Lee Brewer Cross Country, Enschede.

    Linda  Varsel Smith “Syllables in Velvet”

    Double Dactyls

    1. 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

    Emily Romano The KillMargaret R. Smith Example #3:Airborne

    Margaret R. Smith Example #4: The Escape

    Dan Tharp My Heart Residing in Thy ChestDendrobium  In Mourning BlackMarie Summers Mourning TwilightMarie Summers The Stars Will Shine

    David Schneider Writing com She sheds her Clothes and tons of stress,

     

     

     

    Etherege Poems writing com

     

    Dietrich Example #1: Andrea Dietrich Example #2: Andrea Dietrich Example #3: The LairMarie Summers  Example #4:  Red PoppyMarie Summers Example #5:Blurred Vision (Double Reversed Etherege)Marie Summers Ashen Despair (Double Reversed Etherege)

     

     

     

    Sir Henry Newbolt the Toy Band
    Sir Henry Newbolt Sir Henry Newbolt

    A Song of The Great Retreat the Nightjar
    Edmund Spencer~”Like As a Ship”

    Epulaepry Form

    Joseph Spence, Sr.Example #1:Eggs of Easter  Joseph Spence, Sr.Example #2:Scrumptious Scallops Joseph Spence, Sr.Example #3:Tasty Dessert Joseph Spence, Sr.Example #4:Barbequed Prime Steak

     

     

     

    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.

    Morning Song by Sylvia Plath

    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
    • Wedding Odes:
    • 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”.

    Cassini Spacecraft by David Parsley
    Standing Tall by Jamie McKenzie In Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

    • 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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  • George Elliot Novels

    George Elliot Novels

     Reading George Elliot’s Novels

    Personal Commentary:

    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

    Adam Bede – Kindle edition by Eliot, George. Literature …

    http://www.amazon.com › Adam-Bede-George-Eliot-eBook › dip

    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,”

    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “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.”

    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “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.”

    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “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.

     ReadIng

    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

    (Amazon Preview)

    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

    (Amazon Preview)

    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

    (Amazon Preview)

    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

    November 22, 1819

    Died December 22, 1880

    Website

    https://ffrf.org/news/day/famous-freethinkers-s…

    Genre

    Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Journalism

    Influences

    Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Charlotte Brontë, Honoré de Balzac, Auguste

    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.

    More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E…

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic…

    http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t…

    http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian…

    http://www.biography.com/people/georg…

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/d… (less)

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  • 1001 Books to Read Before You Die List

    1001 Books to Read Before You Die List

    the complete list follows

     

    Book Title Author
    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
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    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
    Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D.H.
    The Rainbow Lawrence, D.H.
    Women in Love Lawrence, D.H.
    The Fox Lawrence, D.H.
    Aaron’s Rod Lawrence, D.H.
    The Plumed Serpent Lawrence, D.H.
    Lady Chatterley’s Lover Lawrence, D.H.
    Independent People Laxness, Halldór
    The Dark Child Laye, Camara
    The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Le Carré, John
    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Le Carré, John
    Smiley’s People Le Carré, John
    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
    At the Mountains of Madness Lovecraft, H.P.
    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
    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
    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
    Moby-Dick Melville, Herman
    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
    Tropic of Cancer Miller, Henry
    Tropic of Capricorn Miller, Henry
    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
    Song of Solomon Morrison, Toni
    Beloved Morrison, Toni
    Jazz 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
    1Q84 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
    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
    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
    American Pastoral Roth, Philip
    The Human Stain Roth, Philip
    The Plot Against America Roth, Philip
    Nemesis 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
    Midnight’s Children Rushdie, Salman
    Shame Rushdie, Salman
    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman
    The Moor’s Last Sigh Rushdie, Salman
    The Ground Beneath Her Feet Rushdie, Salman
    Fury 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
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
    Cancer Ward Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
    The First Circle Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
    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
    Cryptonomicon Stephenson, Neal
    Tristram Shandy Sterne, Laurence
    A Sentimental Journey Sterne, Laurence
    Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Louis
    Kidnapped Stevenson, Robert Louis
    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 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.
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    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
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 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
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    Our Lady of the Assassins Vallejo, Fernando
    Ancestral Voices van, Heerden, Etienne
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    The Feast of the Goat Vargas Llosa, Mario
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    Under the Yoke Vazov, Ivan
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    Bartleby and Co. Vila-Matas, Enrique
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    In Search of Klingsor Volpi, Jorge
    Candide Voltaire
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    Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut, Kurt
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    The Temple of My Familiar Walker, Alice
    Possessing the Secret of Joy Walker, Alice
    Infinite Jest Wallace, David Foster
    Ben-Hur Wallace, Lew
    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
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    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
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    The House of Mirth Wharton, Edith
    Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith
    Bunner Sisters Wharton, Edith
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    A Boy’s Own Story White, Edmund
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    The Living and the Dead White, Patrick
    The Tree of Man White, Patrick
    Voss White, Patrick
    The Once and Future King White, T.H.
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    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
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    Look Homeward, Angel Wolfe, Thomas
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    The Waves Woolf, Virginia
    The Years Woolf, Virginia
    Between the Acts Woolf, Virginia
    Native Son Wright, Richard
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    Day of the Triffids Wyndham, John
    The Midwich Cuckoos Wyndham, John
    Chocky Wyndham, John
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    Germinal Zola, Émile
    La Bête Humaine Zola, Émile
    Gimmick! Zwagerman, Joost
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    Amok Zweig, Stefan
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    Goals:  100 books
    Read classics

    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

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    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

     

    1. Anatomy of the Beatnik Cowboy
    2. Horror/Sleaze/Trash Poems
    3. Otherwise Engaged Volume 1
    4. On the Road the Poet Volume 1
    5. Poets Facing the Wall
    6. Best American Poetry 2017
    7. Best American Poetry 2018
    8. Best American Poetry 2019

     

    Books Read

     

    1. Dante the Divine Comedy own library
    2. John Burnet Bangkok Haunts
    3. Micah Caida Time Trap Red Moon Trilogy Vol 1
    4. Demelza Carlton See You In Hell
    5. Lee Child Jack Reacher 61 Hours own library
    6. Lee Child Jack Reacher the Enemy own library
    7. CS Lewis The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in Spanish
    8. Theresa Crater Under the Stone Paw
    9. Charles Cuming A Foreign Country
    10. Earnest Dempsey the Secrets of the Stones
    11. Earnest Dempsey The Templar Curse
    12. Brandon Ellis Atlantis Quadrilogy
    13. Sterling E Lanier Hiero’s Journey own library
    14. George Elliot Adam Bede
    15. TS Elliot Complete Poems and Plays own library
    16. Milos Fowler Captain Bartholomew Quasar
    17. AC Fuller The Cutline an Alex Vance Novel own library
    18. AC Fuller The Inverted Pyramid own library
    19. AC Fuller The Anonymous Source own library
    20. AC Fuller the Mockingbird Drive own library
    21. AC Fuller the Shadow File own library
    22. AC Fuller the Last Journalist
    23. Jeschonek The Greatest Serial Killer in the Universe
    24. Jeschonek the Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake
    25. Dieter Kellen Enigma What Lies Below
    26. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin HC Volume One
    27. William Penn Fruits of Solitude HC Volume One
    28. The Journals of John Woolman HC Volume One
    29. Plato the Apology, Phaedo and Crito HC Volume Two
    30. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus HC Volume Two
    31. The Mediations of Marcus Aurelius HC Volume Two
    32. Warren Hately Reporting the Appocalypse
    33. Jim Heskett Museum Attack
    34. John Ling Fallen Angel
    35. Robert Ludlum the Cry of the Haledon
    36. Lincoln Cole Second Chances
    37. Mathew Mather Dark Net
    38. Kyle Mills the Utopia Experiment
    39. James Rollins Map of Bones own library
    40. Nick Thacker the Depths
    41. Nick Thacker the Enigma Strain
    42. Nick Thacker The Relics
    43. Nick Thacker the Atlantis Stone
    44. Elizabeth Williamson Tokyo Firewall
    45. Clark Ashton Smith that Abominations of Yondo
    46. Clark the nameless offspring
    47. Clark the witch craft of Ulua
    48. Clark the devotee of evil
    49. Clark the Epiphany of death
    50. Clark a vintage from Atlantis
    51. Clark The Abominations of Yonda
    52. Clark The white Sybil
    53. Clark the ice demon
    54. Clark the voyage of King Eurovan
    55. Clark the master of the crabs
    56. Clark the enchantress of Sylaire
    57. Clark the dweller in the Gulf
    58. Clark the dark age
    59. Clark the third episode of Vahek
    60. Clark Chinoiseries
    61. Clark the mirror in the Hall of Ebony
    62. Clark the passing of Aphrodite
    63. Mod Po poems – week one- Emily Dickinson the brain in its groove
    64. Emily Dickinson tell the truth slant
    65. Emily Dickson I dwell in possibility  second favorite
    66. Whitman Songs of Myself   favorite  note to self read entire Leaves of Glass in December after MOD PO
    67. Vanek Whitman’s Soul
    68. Week Two William Carlos Williams Smell
    69. William Carlos Williams Dance Russe second favorite
    70. Allen Ginsberg Supermarket in California favorite
    71. Lorraine Neidecker Grandfather Advised Me
    72. Lorraine Neidecker You are my Friend
    73. Lorraine Neidecker Foreclosure
    74. Cid Corman It isn’t for Want
    75. Ray Armantrout The Way
    76. Week Three HD Sea Rose
    77. Ezra Pound (EP) in a station of the metro
    78. EP the Encounter
    79. Tony Foster Haiku
    80. William Carlos Williams (WCM) lines
    81. WCM Between Walls
    82. WCM this is Just to Say
    83. WCM Red Wheelbarrow
    84. WCW The Rose is Obsolete
    85. WCM Portrait of a Lady
    86. Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Stairway
    87. MP Fountain
    88. Week Four Mod Po Gertrude Stein Tender Buttons
    89. Water Raining  (from tender buttons)
    90. Malachite (from tender buttons)
    91. A Carafe that is a Blind Glass
    92. Long Dress
    93. Composition as Explanation
    94. Let Us Describe – my second favorite
    95. If I told Him would he like it completed portrait of Picasso – my favorite
    96. Baroness Elsa Von Freytag Lorringhoven A Dozen Cocktails
    97. Tristan Tzara How to Make a Dadist Poem
    98. John Peal Bishop  A recollection Sonnet
    99. Week Five Communist Poets Ruth Lectlitian Lines for an Abortionist Office
    100. Genevieve Taggard Intern
    101. Harlem Renaissance Poets        Countee Cullen Yet I Do Marvel]
    102. Incident
    103. Claud McKay  If we must Die
    104. Langston Hughes Dinner Guest Me
    105. Gwendolyn Brooks Boy Breaking Glass
    106. Gwendolyn Brooks Truth
    107. Robert Frost Mending Well
    108. Week Six Beats Robert Creeley I Know a Man
    109. Jayne Cortez She Got It He Got It
    110. Ginsberg Howl
    111. Fereghetthi Baseball Canto
    112. Le Roi Jones Incident
    113. Le Roi Jones How You Sound
    114. Jack Kerouac Belief and Techniques for Modern Prose
    115. Jack Kerouac Essentials of Spontaneous Prose
    116. Jack Kerouac Ideas About Prose
    117. Jack Kerouac Old Angel Midnight
    118. Jack Kerouac Babble Flow
    119. Bob Kaufman Jail Poems
    120. Anne Waldman Rogue State
    121. Week seven NY School Harrif Abdurraqib USA V Cuba
    122. John Ashbury Instruction Manual
    123. Some Trees
    124. Barbara Guest 20
    125. Frank O Hara the Day Lady Died
    126. Kenneth Koch Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
    127. Bernadette Madeline Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    128. Eileen Myers Mount St Helens
    129. Patrick Rosal Uptown Ode
    130. James Schuler February
    131. Week Eight Lyn Hejinian My Life
    132. Bob Pearlman Chronic Meaning
    133. Charles Bernstein In a Restless World Like this
    134. Emily Dickinson My Life Has Stood a Loaded Gun
    135. Susan Howe My Emily Dickinson
    136. Harriette Muller Sleeping with the Dictionary
    137. Tyrone Williams Can’t Tyrone Williams Written By Him
    138. John Keens Persons and Places
    139. Week Nine John Cage  Writing Through Howl
    140. John Cage Adagio Jackson Mac Law a Vocabulary for Peter Innisfree Moore
    141. Jackson Mac Law version of Stein’s a grass carafe
    142. Jackson Mac Law version of Stein 100 Feather Justice Chair
    143. Jeana Osman Dropping Leaflets
    144. Bernadette Myers Writing experiments
    145. Realtak Not a Cage
    146. Week Ten Christin Bur Chapter E of Eudora
    147. Erica Baumgart Catalogue
    148. Erica Baumgart dog ears
    149. Caroline Bergville VIA
    150. Michael Magee the Pledge
    151. Michael Magee My Emily Dickinson
    152. Michael Magee FARF poetry
    153. Rose Marie Waldrops Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence
    154. Naser Hussain Sky Write NGS
    155. Jordan Abel Place of Scraps
    156. Terrae Morris African Emily Dickinson the Poet Lights the Lamp Essay One
    157. William Carlos Williams the Attic Which is desire essay two
    158. James Schuller the Day Gets Started Slowly essay three
    159. post mod po additional reading: Jack Carr The Terminal List
    160. George Elliot  The Lifted Veil
    161. 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)

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    George Orwell

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    Joseph Heller

    (shelved 118 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
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    (shelved 116 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
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    Animal FarmAnimal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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    George Orwell

    (shelved 105 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
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    Great ExpectationsGreat Expectations (Paperback)
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    Charles Dickens

    (shelved 104 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 3.78 — 643,966 ratings — published 1861

    Jane EyreJane Eyre (Paperback)
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    Charlotte Brontë

    (shelved 104 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
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    Emily Brontë

    (shelved 103 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 3.86 — 1,325,928 ratings — published 1847

    Little WomenLittle Women (Paperback)
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    Louisa May Alcott

    (shelved 102 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 4.08 — 1,662,258 ratings — published 1868

    Lord of the FliesLord of the Flies (Paperback)
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    William Golding

    (shelved 99 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 3.68 — 2,240,104 ratings — published 1954

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    Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)

    (shelved 97 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
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    E.B. White

    (shelved 94 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 4.17 — 1,397,386 ratings — published 1952

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    Leo Tolstoy

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    avg rating 4.05 — 658,408 ratings — published 1877

    The Grapes of WrathThe Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
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    John Steinbeck

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    avg rating 3.97 — 742,198 ratings — published 1939

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    Aldous Huxley

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    avg rating 3.99 — 1,424,087 ratings — published 1932

    One Hundred Years of SolitudeOne Hundred Years of Solitude (Hardcover)
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    Gabriel García Márquez

    (shelved 91 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 4.08 — 744,304 ratings — published 1967

    Crime and PunishmentCrime and Punishment (Paperback)
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    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    (shelved 90 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 4.22 — 617,234 ratings — published 1866

    The Count of Monte CristoThe Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
    by

    Alexandre Dumas

    (shelved 90 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 4.25 — 739,480 ratings — published 1844

    LolitaLolita (Paperback)
    by

    Vladimir Nabokov

    (shelved 88 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 3.89 — 656,265 ratings — published 1955

    Gone with the WindGone with the Wind (Mass Market Paperback)
    by

    Margaret Mitchell

    (shelved 80 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 4.30 — 1,067,663 ratings — published 1936

    UlyssesUlysses (Paperback)
    by

    James Joyce

    (shelved 80 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 3.73 — 109,172 ratings — published 1922

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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    Douglas Adams

    (shelved 79 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 4.22 — 1,415,609 ratings — published 1979

    Of Mice and MenOf Mice and Men (Paperback)
    by

    John Steinbeck

    (shelved 76 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 3.88 — 1,923,844 ratings — published 1937

    The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
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    J.R.R. Tolkien

    (shelved 75 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 4.50 — 557,215 ratings — published 1955

    On the RoadOn the Road (Paperback)
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    Jack Kerouac

    (shelved 75 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 3.62 — 344,711 ratings — published 1957

    The Wind in the WillowsThe Wind in the Willows (Paperback)
    by

    Kenneth Grahame

    (shelved 74 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 3.99 — 176,038 ratings — published 1908

    Midnight's ChildrenMidnight’s Children (Paperback)
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    Salman Rushdie

    (shelved 74 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 3.98 — 103,658 ratings — published 1981

    The Little PrinceThe Little Prince (Paperback)
    by

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

    (shelved 71 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 4.31 — 1,334,290 ratings — published 1943

    Moby-Dick or, the WhaleMoby-Dick or, the Whale (Paperback)
    by

    Herman Melville

    (shelved 71 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 3.50 — 475,160 ratings — published 1851

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    (shelved 71 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 4.00 — 922,057 ratings — published 1897

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    avg rating 4.23 — 439,418 ratings — published 1938

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

    (shelved 68 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 4.07 — 1,118,533 ratings — published 1969

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    Charles Dickens

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    avg rating 3.85 — 803,116 ratings — published 1859

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    J.R.R. Tolkien

    (shelved 66 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 4.27 — 2,859,254 ratings — published 1937

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    avg rating 3.91 — 435,895 ratings — published 2001

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    Victor Hugo

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    avg rating 4.18 — 677,075 ratings — published 1862

    MiddlemarchMiddlemarch (Paperback)
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    Alice Walker

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    Frances Hodgson Burnett

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    avg rating 4.13 — 879,218 ratings — published 1910

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    avg rating 3.68 — 249,705 ratings — published 1857

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    Yann Martel

    (shelved 62 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 3.91 — 1,325,762 ratings — published 2001

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    L.M. Montgomery

    (shelved 62 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 4.26 — 716,853 ratings — published 1908

    David CopperfieldDavid Copperfield (Paperback)
    by

    Charles Dickens

    (shelved 62 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 3.99 — 197,356 ratings — published 1850

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    Arthur Golden

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    avg rating 4.12 — 1,704,011 ratings — published 1997

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    Ray Bradbury

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    avg rating 3.99 — 1,655,673 ratings — published 1953

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    by

    Roald Dahl

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    avg rating 4.14 — 655,234 ratings — published 1964

    BelovedBeloved (Paperback)
    by

    Toni Morrison

    (shelved 59 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 3.86 — 320,699 ratings — published 1987

    Heart of DarknessHeart of Darkness (Paperback)
    by

    Joseph Conrad

    (shelved 58 times as 100-books-to-read-before-you-die)
    avg rating 3.42 — 412,551 ratings — published 

    the complete list  (BOLD one’s I’ve read)

    2000s

    1. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
    2. Saturday, Ian McEwan
    3. On Beauty, Zadie Smith
    4. Slow Man, J.M. Coetzee
    5. Adjunct: An Undigest, Peter Manson
    6. The Sea, John Banville
    7. The Red Queen, Margaret Drabble
    8. The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
    9. The Master, Colm Tóibín
    10. Vanishing Point, David Markson
    11. The Lambs Of London, Peter Ackroyd
    12. Dining On Stones, Iain Sinclair
    13. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
    14. Drop City, T. Coraghessan Boyle
    15. The Colour, Rose Tremain
    16. Thursbitch, Alan Garner
    17. The Light Of Day, Graham Swift
    18. What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt
    19. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, Mark Haddon
    20. Islands, Dan Sleigh
    21. Elizabeth Costello, J.M. Coetzee
    22. London Orbital, Iain Sinclair
    23. Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
    24. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
    25. The Double, José Saramago
    26. Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
    27. Unless, Carol Shields
    28. Kafka On The Shore, Haruki Murakami
    29. The Story Of Lucy Gault, William Trevor
    30. That They May Face the Rising Sun, John McGahern
    31. In The Forest, Edna O’Brien
    32. Shroud, John Banville
    33. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
    34. Youth, J.M. Coetzee
    35. Dead Air, Iain Banks
    36. Nowhere Man, Aleksandar Hemon
    37. The Book Of Illusions, Paul Auster
    38. Gabriel’s Gift, Hanif Kureishi
    39. Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald
    40. Platform, Michael Houellebecq
    41. Schooling, Heather McGowan
    42. Atonement, Ian McEwan
    43. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
    44. Don’t Move, Margaret Mazzantini
    45. The Body Artist, Don DeLillo
    46. Fury, Salman Rushdie
    47. At Swim, Two Boys, Jamie O’Neill
    48. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
    49. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
    50. The Feast Of The Goat, Mario Vargos Llosa
    51. An Obedient Father, Akhil Sharma
    52. The Devil And Miss Prym, Paulo Coelho
    53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost, Ismail Kadare
    54. White Teeth, Zadie Smith
    55. The Heart Of Redness, Zakes Mda
    56. Under The Skin, Michel Faber
    57. Ignorance, Milan Kundera
    58. Nineteen Seventy Seven, David Peace
    59. Celestial Harmonies, Péter Esterházy
    60. City Of God, E.L. Doctorow
    61. How The Dead Live, Will Self
    62. The Human Stain, Philip Roth
    63. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
    64. After The Quake, Haruki Murakami
    65. Small Remedies, Shashi Deshpande
    66. Super-Cannes, J.G. Ballard
    67. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
    68. Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
    69. Pastoralia, George Saunders

    1900s

    1. Timbuktu, Paul Auster
    2. The Romantics, Pankaj Mishra
    3. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
    4. As If I Am Not There, Slavenka Drakulic
    5. Everything You Need, A.L. Kennedy
    6. Fear And Trembling, Amélie Nothomb
    7. The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie
    8. Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
    9. Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
    10. Atomised, Michel Houellebecq
    11. Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi
    12. Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
    13. Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks
    14. All Souls Day, Cees Nooteboom
    15. The Talk Of The Town, Ardal O’Hanlon
    16. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
    17. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
    18. Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis
    19. Another World, Pat Barker
    20. The Hours, Michael Cunningham
    21. Veronika Decides To Die, Paulo Coelho
    22. Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon
    23. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
    24. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
    25. Great Apes, Will Self
    26. Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
    27. Underworld, Don DeLillo
    28. Jack Maggs, Peter Carey
    29. The Life Of Insects, Victor Pelevin
    30. American Pastoral, Philip Roth
    31. The Untouchable, John Banville
    32. Silk, Alessandro Baricco
    33. Cocaine Nights, J.G. Ballard
    34. Hallucinating Foucault, Patricia Duncker
    35. Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
    36. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker
    37. Forever a Stranger, Hella Haasse
    38. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
    39. The Clay Machine-Gun, Victor Pelevin
    40. Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
    41. The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
    42. Morvern Callar, Alan Warner
    43. The Information, Martin Amis
    44. The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
    45. Sabbath’s Theater, Philip Roth
    46. The Rings Of Saturn, W.G. Sebald
    47. The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
    48. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
    49. Love’s Work, Gillian Rose
    50. The End Of The Story, Lydia Davis
    51. Mr. Vertigo, Paul Auster
    52. The Folding Star, Alan Hollinghurst
    53. Whatever, Michel Houellebecq
    54. Land, Park Kyong-ni
    55. The Master Of Petersburg, J.M. Coetzee
    56. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
    57. Pereira Declares: A Testimony, Antonio Tabucchi
    58. City Sister Silve, Jàchym Topol
    59. How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman
    60. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
    61. Felicia’s Journey, William Trevor
    62. Disappearance, David Dabydeen
    63. The Invention Of Curried Sausage, Uwe Timm
    64. The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
    65. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
    66. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
    67. Looking For The Possible Dance, A.L. Kennedy
    68. Operation Shylock, Philip Roth
    69. Complicity, Iain Banks
    70. On Love, Alain de Botton
    71. What A Carve Up!, Jonathan Coe
    72. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
    73. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
    74. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
    75. The House Of Doctor Dee, Peter Ackroyd
    76. The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood
    77. The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald
    78. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
    79. Life Is A Caravanserai, Emine Özdamar
    80. The Discovery Of Heaven, Harry Mulisch
    81. A Heart So White, Javier Marias
    82. Possessing The Secret Of Joy, Alice Walker
    83. Indigo, Marina Warner
    84. The Crow Road, Iain Banks
    85. Written On The Body, Jeanette Winterson
    86. Jazz, Toni Morrison
    87. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
    88. Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow, Peter Høeg
    89. The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe
    90. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates
    91. The Heather Blazing, Colm Tóibín
    92. Asphodel, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
    93. Black Dogs, Ian McEwan
    94. Hideous Kinky, Esther Freud
    95. Arcadia, Jim Crace
    96. Wild Swans, Jung Chang
    97. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
    98. Time’s Arrow, Martin Amis
    99. Mao II, Don DeLillo
    100. Typical, Padgett Powell
    101. Regeneration, Pat Barker
    102. Downriver, Iain Sinclair
    103. Señor Vivo And The Coca Lord, Louis de Bernieres
    104. Wise Children, Angela Carter
    105. Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
    106. Amongst Women, John McGahern
    107. Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
    108. Vertigo, W.G. Sebald
    109. Stone Junction, Jim Dodge
    110. The Music Of Chance, Paul Auster
    111. The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
    112. A Home At The End Of The World, Michael Cunningham
    113. Like Life, Lorrie Moore
    114. Possession, A.S. Byatt
    115. The Buddha Of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi
    116. The Midnight Examiner, William Kotzwinkle
    117. A Disaffection, James Kelman
    118. Sexing The Cherry, Jeanette Winterson
    119. Moon Palace, Paul Auster
    120. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
    121. The Remains Of The Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
    122. The Melancholy Of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai
    123. The Temple Of My Familiar, Alice Walker
    124. The Trick Is To Keep Breathing, Janice Galloway
    125. The History Of The Siege Of Lisbon, José Saramago
    126. Like Water For Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
    127. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
    128. London Fields, Martin Amis
    129. The Book Of Evidence, John Banville
    130. Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood
    131. Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
    132. The Beautiful Room Is Empty, Edmund White
    133. Wittgenstein’s Mistress, David Markson
    134. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
    135. The Swimming-Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst
    136. Oscar And Lucinda, Peter Carey
    137. Libra, Don DeLillo
    138. The Player Of Games, Iain M. Banks
    139. Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
    140. The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul, Douglas Adams
    141. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
    142. The Radiant Way, Margaret Drabble
    143. The Afternoon Of A Writer, Peter Handke
    144. The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
    145. The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
    146. The Pigeon, Patrick Süskind
    147. The Child In Time, Ian McEwan
    148. Cigarettes, Harry Mathews
    149. The Bonfire Of The Vanities, Tom Wolfe
    150. The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
    151. World’s End, T. Coraghessan Boyle
    152. Enigma Of Arrival, V.S. Naipaul
    153. The Taebek Mountains, Jo Jung-rae
    154. Beloved, Toni Morrison
    155. Anagrams, Lorrie Moore
    156. Matigari, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
    157. Marya, Joyce Carol Oates
    158. Watchmen, Alan Moore & David Gibbons
    159. The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis
    160. Lost Language Of Cranes, David Leavitt
    161. An Artist Of The Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
    162. Extinction, Thomas Bernhard
    163. Foe, J.M. Coetzee
    164. The Drowned And The Saved, Primo Levi
    165. Reasons To Live, Amy Hempel
    166. The Parable Of The Blind, Gert Hofmann
    167. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
    168. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
    169. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
    170. A Maggot, John Fowles
    171. Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
    172. Contact, Carl Sagan
    173. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
    174. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
    175. Old Masters, Thomas Bernhard
    176. White Noise, Don DeLillo
    177. Queer, William Burroughs
    178. Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
    179. Legend, David Gemmell
    180. Dictionary Of The Khazars, Milorad Pavic
    181. The Bus Conductor Hines, James Kelman
    182. The Year Of The Death Of Ricardo Reis, José Saramago
    183. The Lover, Marguerite Duras
    184. Empire Of The Sun, J.G. Ballard
    185. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
    186. Nights At The Circus, Angela Carter
    187. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Milan Kundera
    188. Blood And Guts In High School, Kathy Acker
    189. Neuromancer, William Gibson
    190. Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes
    191. Money: A Suicide Note, Martin Amis
    192. Shame, Salman Rushdie
    193. Worstward Ho, Samuel Beckett
    194. Fools Of Fortune, William Trevor
    195. La Brava, Elmore Leonard
    196. Waterland, Graham Swift
    197. The Life And Times Of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee
    198. The Diary Of Jane Somers, Doris Lessing
    199. The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek
    200. The Sorrow Of Belgium, Hugo Claus
    201. If Not Now, When?, Primo Levi
    202. A Boy’s Own Story, Edmund White
    203. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
    204. Wittgenstein’s Nephew, Thomas Bernhard
    205. A Pale View Of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
    206. Schindler’s Ark, Thomas Keneally
    207. The House Of The Spirits, Isabel Allende
    208. The Newton Letter, John Banville
    209. On The Black Hill, Bruce Chatwin
    210. Concrete, Thomas Bernhard
    211. The Names, Don DeLillo
    212. Rabbit Is Rich, John Updike
    213. Lanark: A Life in Four Books, Alasdair Gray
    214. The Comfort Of Strangers, Ian McEwan
    215. July’s People, Nadine Gordimer
    216. Summer In Baden-Baden, Leonid Tsypkin
    217. Broken April, Ismail Kadare
    218. Waiting For The Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
    219. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
    220. Rites Of Passage, William Golding
    221. Rituals, Cees Nooteboom
    222. A Confederacy Of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
    223. City Primeval, Elmore Leonard
    224. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
    225. The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting, Milan Kundera
    226. Smiley’s People, John Le Carré
    227. Shikasta, Doris Lessing
    228. A Bend In The River, V.S. Naipaul
    229. Burger’s Daughter, Nadine Gordimer
    230. The Safety Net, Heinrich Böll
    231. If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler, Italo Calvino
    232. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
    233. The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan
    234. The World According To Garp, John Irving
    235. Life: A User’s Manual, Georges Perec
    236. The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch
    237. The Singapore Grip, J.G. Farrell
    238. Yes, Thomas Bernhard
    239. The Virgin In The Garden, A.S. Byatt
    240. In The Heart Of The Country, J.M. Coetzee
    241. The Passion Of New Eve, Angela Carter
    242. Delta Of Venus, Anaïs Nin
    243. The Shining, Stephen King
    244. Dispatches, Michael Herr
    245. Petals Of Blood, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
    246. Song Of Solomon, Toni Morrison
    247. The Hour Of The Star, Clarice Lispector
    248. The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke
    249. Ratner’s Star, Don DeLillo
    250. The Public Burning, Robert Coover
    251. Interview With The Vampire, Anne Rice
    252. Cutter and Bone, Newton Thornburg
    253. Amateurs, Donald Barthelme
    254. Patterns Of Childhood, Christa Wolf
    255. The Autumn Of The Patriarch, Gabriel García Márquez
    256. W, Or The Memory Of Childhood, Georges Perec
    257. A Dance To The Music of Time, Anthony Powell
    258. Grimus, Salman Rushdie
    259. The Dead Father, Donald Barthelme
    260. Fateless, Imre Kertész
    261. Willard And His Bowling Trophies, Richard Brautigan
    262. High Rise, J.G. Ballard
    263. Humboldt’s Gift, Saul Bellow
    264. Dead Babies, Martin Amis
    265. Correction, Thomas Bernhard
    266. Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
    267. The Fan Man, William Kotzwinkle
    268. Dusklands, J.M. Coetzee
    269. The Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum, Heinrich Böll
    270. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carré
    271. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
    272. Fear Of Flying, Erica Jong
    273. A Question Of Power, Bessie Head
    274. The Siege Of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell
    275. The Castle Of Crossed Destinies, Italo Calvino
    276. Crash, J.G. Ballard
    277. The Honorary Consul, Graham Greene
    278. Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
    279. The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch
    280. Sula, Toni Morrison
    281. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
    282. The Breast, Philip Roth
    283. The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
    284. G, John Berger
    285. Surfacing, Margaret Atwood
    286. House Mother Normal, B.S. Johnson
    287. In A Free State, V.S. Naipaul
    288. The Book Of Daniel, E.L. Doctorow
    289. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
    290. Group Portrait With Lady, Heinrich Böll
    291. The Wild Boys, William Burroughs
    292. Rabbit Redux, John Updike
    293. The Sea Of Fertility, Yukio Mishima
    294. The Driver’s Seat, Muriel Spark
    295. The Ogre, Michael Tournier
    296. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
    297. Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick, Peter Handke
    298. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
    299. Mercier Et Camier, Samuel Beckett
    300. Troubles, J.G. Farrell
    301. Jahrestage, Uwe Johnson
    302. The Atrocity Exhibition, J.G. Ballard
    303. Tent Of Miracles, Jorge Amado
    304. Pricksongs And Descants, Robert Coover
    305. Blind Man With A Pistolm, Chester Hines
    306. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
    307. The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
    308. The Green Man, Kingsley Amis
    309. Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
    310. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
    311. Ada Or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov
    312. Them, Joyce Carol Oates
    313. A Void, Georges Perec
    314. Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen
    315. Myra Breckinridge, Gore Vidal
    316. The Nice And The Good, Iris Murdoch
    317. Belle Du Seigneur, Albert Cohen
    318. Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    319. The First Circle, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    320. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
    321. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
    322. Dark As The Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid, Malcolm Lowry
    323. The German Lesson, Siegfried Lenz
    324. In Watermelon Sugar, Richard Brautigan
    325. A Kestrel For A Knave, Barry Hines
    326. The Quest For Christa T., Christa Wolf
    327. Chocky, John Wyndham
    328. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
    329. The Cubs And Other Stories, Mario Vargas Llosa
    330. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
    331. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
    332. Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson
    333. The Joke, Milan Kundera
    334. No Laughing Matter, Angus Wilson
    335. The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien
    336. A Man Asleep, Georges Perec
    337. The Birds Fall Down, Rebecca West
    338. Trawl, B.S. Johnson
    339. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
    340. The Magus, John Fowles
    341. The Vice-Consul, Marguerite Duras
    342. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
    343. Giles Goat-Boy, John Barth
    344. The Crying Of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
    345. Things, Georges Perec
    346. The River Between, Ngugi wa Thiong’o
    347. August Is A Wicked Month, Edna O’Brien
    348. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
    349. Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O’Connor
    350. The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector
    351. Sometimes A Great Notion, Ken Kesey
    352. Come Back, Dr. Caligari, Donald Bartholme
    353. Albert Angelo, B.S. Johnson
    354. Arrow Of God, Chinua Achebe
    355. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein, Marguerite Duras
    356. Herzog, Saul Bellow
    357. V., Thomas Pynchon
    358. Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
    359. The Graduate, Charles Webb
    360. Manon Des Sources, Marcel Pagnol
    361. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, John Le Carré
    362. The Girls Of Slender Means, Muriel Spark
    363. Inside Mr. Enderby, Anthony Burgess
    364. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
    365. One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    366. The Collector, John Fowles
    367. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
    368. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
    369. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
    370. The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard
    371. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
    372. Labyrinths, Jorg Luis Borges
    373. Girl With Green Eyes, Edna O’Brien
    374. The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassani
    375. Stranger In A Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
    376. Franny And Zooey, J.D. Salinger
    377. A Severed Head, Iris Murdoch
    378. Faces In The Water, Janet Frame
    379. Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
    380. Cat And Mouse, Günter Grass
    381. The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
    382. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
    383. The Violent Bear It Away, Flannery O’Connor
    384. How It Is, Samuel Beckett
    385. Our Ancestors, Italo Calvino
    386. The Country Girls, Edna O’Brien
    387. To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
    388. Rabbit, Run, John Updike
    389. Promise At Dawn, Romain Gary
    390. Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee
    391. Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse
    392. Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
    393. The Tin Drum, Günter Grass
    394. Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes
    395. Henderson The Rain King, Saul Bellow
    396. Memento Mori, Muriel Spark
    397. Billiards At Half-Past Nine, Heinrich Böll
    398. Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
    399. The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
    400. Pluck The Bud And Destroy The Offspring, Kenzaburo Oe
    401. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
    402. The Bitter Glass, Eilís Dillon
    403. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
    404. Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe
    405. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris, Paul Gallico
    406. Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan
    407. The End Of The Road, John Barth
    408. The Once And Future King, T.H. White
    409. The Bell, Iris Murdoch
    410. Jealousy, Alain Robbe-Grillet
    411. Voss, Patrick White
    412. The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham
    413. Blue Noon, Georges Bataille
    414. Homo Faber, Max Frisch
    415. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
    416. Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
    417. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
    418. The Wonderful “O”, James Thurber
    419. Justine, Lawrence Durrell
    420. Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
    421. The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon
    422. The Roots of Heaven, Romain Gary
    423. Seize The Day, Saul Bellow
    424. The Floating Opera, John Barth
    425. The Lord Of The Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
    426. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
    427. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
    428. A World Of Love, Elizabeth Bowen
    429. The Trusting And The Maimed, James Plunkett
    430. The Quiet American, Graham Greene
    431. The Last Temptation Of Christ, Nikos Kazantzákis
    432. The Recognitions, William Gaddis
    433. The Ragazzi, Pier Paulo Pasolini
    434. Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan
    435. I’m Not Stiller, Max Frisch
    436. Self Condemned, Wyndham Lewis
    437. The Story Of O, Pauline Réage
    438. A Ghost At Noon, Alberto Moravia
    439. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
    440. Under The Net, Iris Murdoch
    441. The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley
    442. The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
    443. The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett
    444. Watt, Samuel Beckett
    445. Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
    446. Junkie, William Burroughs
    447. The Adventures Of Augie March, Saul Bellow
    448. Go Tell It On the Mountain, James Baldwin
    449. Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
    450. The Judge And His Hangman, Friedrich Dürrenmatt
    451. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
    452. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
    453. Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor
    454. The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
    455. Memoirs Of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
    456. Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett
    457. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
    458. Foundation, Isaac Asimov
    459. The Opposing Shore, Julien Gracq
    460. The Catcher In The Rye, J.D. Salinger
    461. The Rebel, Albert Camus
    462. Molloy, Samuel Beckett
    463. The End Of The Affair, Graham Greene
    464. The Abbot C, Georges Bataille
    465. The Labyrinth Of Solitude, Octavio Paz
    466. The Third Man, Graham Greene
    467. The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
    468. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
    469. The Grass Is Singing, Doris Lessing
    470. I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
    471. The Moon And The Bonfires, Cesare Pavese
    472. The Garden Where The Brass Band Played, Simon Vestdijk
    473. Love In A Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
    474. The Case Of Comrade Tulayev, Victor Serge
    475. The Heat Of The Day, Elizabeth Bowen
    476. Kingdom Of This World, Alejo Carpentier
    477. The Man With The Golden Arm, Nelson Algren
    478. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
    479. All About H. Hatterr, G.V. Desani
    480. Disobedience, Alberto Moravia
    481. Death Sentence, Maurice Blanchot
    482. The Heart Of The Matter, Graham Greene
    483. Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton
    484. Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann
    485. The Victim, Saul Bellow
    486. Exercises In Style, Raymond Queneau
    487. If This Is A Man, Primo Levi
    488. Under The Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
    489. The Path To The Spider’s Nest, Italo Calvino
    490. The Plague, Albert Camus
    491. Back, Henry Green
    492. Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
    493. The Bridge On The Drina, Ivo Andric
    494. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
    495. Animal Farm, George Orwell
    496. Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
    497. The Pursuit Of Love, Nancy Mitford
    498. Loving, Henry Green
    499. Arcanum 17, André Breton
    500. Christ Stopped At Eboli, Carlo Levi
    501. The Razor’s Edge, William Somerset Maugham
    502. Transit, Anna Seghers
    503. Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
    504. Dangling Man, Saul Bellow
    505. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    506. Caught, Henry Green
    507. The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse
    508. Embers, Sandor Marai
    509. Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner
    510. The Outsider, Albert Camus
    511. Conversations In Sicily, Elio Vittorini
    512. The Poor Mouth, Flann O’Brien
    513. The Living And The Dead, Patrick White
    514. Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton
    515. Between The Acts, Virginia Woolf
    516. The Hamlet, William Faulkner
    517. Farewell My Lovely, Raymond Chandler
    518. For Whom The Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
    519. Native Son, Richard Wright
    520. The Power And The Glory, Graham Greene
    521. The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati
    522. Party Going, Henry Green
    523. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
    524. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
    525. At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien
    526. Coming Up For Air, George Orwell
    527. Goodbye To Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
    528. Tropic Of Capricorn, Henry Miller
    529. Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys
    530. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
    531. After The Death Of Don Juan, Sylvie Townsend Warner
    532. Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, Winifred Watson
    533. Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
    534. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
    535. Cause For Alarm, Eric Ambler
    536. Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
    537. U.S.A., John Dos Passos
    538. Murphy, Samuel Beckett
    539. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
    540. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
    541. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
    542. The Years, Virginia Woolf
    543. In Parenthesis, David Jones
    544. The Revenge For Love, Wyndham Lewis
    545. Out of Africa, Isak Dineson
    546. To Have And Have Not, Ernest Hemingway
    547. Summer Will Show, Sylvia Townsend Warner
    548. Eyeless In Gaza, Aldous Huxley
    549. The Thinking Reed, Rebecca West
    550. Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
    551. Keep The Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell
    552. Wild Harbour, Ian MacPherson
    553. Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner
    554. At The Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
    555. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
    556. Independent People, Halldór Laxness
    557. Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti
    558. The Last Of Mr. Norris, Christopher Isherwood
    559. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Horace McCoy
    560. The House In Paris, Elizabeth Bowen
    561. England Made Me, Graham Greene
    562. Burmese Days, George Orwell
    563. The Nine Tailors, Dorothy L. Sayers
    564. Threepenny Novel, Bertolt Brecht
    565. Novel With Cocaine, M. Ageyev
    566. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
    567. Tropic Of Cancer, Henry Miller
    568. A Handful Of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
    569. Tender Is The Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
    570. Thank You, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
    571. Call It Sleep, Henry Roth
    572. Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West
    573. Murder Must Advertise, Dorothy L. Sayers
    574. The Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein
    575. Testament Of Youth, Vera Brittain
    576. A Day Off, Storm Jameson
    577. The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
    578. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
    579. Journey To The End Of The Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    580. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
    581. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
    582. To The North, Elizabeth Bowen
    583. The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
    584. The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth
    585. The Waves, Virginia Woolf
    586. The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett
    587. Cakes And Ale, W. Somerset Maugham
    588. The Apes Of God, Wyndham Lewis
    589. Her Privates We, Frederic Manning
    590. Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
    591. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
    592. Hebdomeros, Giorgio de Chirico
    593. Passing, Nella Larsen
    594. A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway
    595. Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
    596. Living, Henry Green
    597. The Time Of Indifference, Alberto Moravia
    598. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
    599. Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin
    600. The Last September, Elizabeth Bowen
    601. Harriet Hume, Rebecca West
    602. The Sound And The Fury, William Faulkner
    603. Les Enfants Terribles, Jean Cocteau
    604. Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
    605. Story Of The Eye, Georges Bataille
    606. Orlando, Virginia Woolf
    607. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence
    608. The Well Of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
    609. The Childermass, Wyndham Lewis
    610. Quartet, Jean Rhys
    611. Decline And Fall, Evelyn Waugh
    612. Quicksand, Nella Larsen
    613. Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford
    614. Nadja, André Breton
    615. Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
    616. Remembrance Of Things Past, Marcel Proust
    617. To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
    618. Tarka The Otter, Henry Williamson
    619. Amerika, Franz Kafka
    620. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
    621. Blindness, Henry Green
    622. The Castle, Franz Kafka
    623. The Good Soldier Švejk, Jaroslav Hašek
    624. The Plumed Serpent, D.H. Lawrence
    625. One, None And A Hundred Thousand, Luigi Pirandello
    626. The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
    627. The Making Of Americans, Gertrude Stein
    628. Manhattan Transfer, John Dos Passos
    629. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
    630. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
    631. The Counterfeiters, André Gide
    632. The Trial, Franz Kafka
    633. The Artamonov Business, Maxim Gorky
    634. The Professor’s House, Willa Cather
    635. Billy Budd, Foretopman, Herman Melville
    636. The Green Hat, Michael Arlen
    637. The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
    638. We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
    639. A Passage To India, E.M. Forster
    640. The Devil In The Flesh, Raymond Radiguet
    641. Zeno’s Conscience, Italo Svevo
    642. Cane, Jean Toomer
    643. Antic Hay, Aldous Huxley
    644. Amok, Stefan Zweig
    645. The Garden Party, Katherine Mansfield
    646. The Enormous Room, E.E. Cummings
    647. Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf
    648. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
    649. The Glimpses Of The Moon, Edith Wharton
    650. Life And Death Of Harriett Frean, May Sinclair
    651. The Last Days Of Humanity, Karl Kraus
    652. Aaron’s Rod, D.H. Lawrence
    653. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
    654. Ulysses, James Joyce
    655. The Fox, D.H. Lawrence
    656. Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley
    657. The Age Of Innocence, Edith Wharton
    658. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
    659. Women In Love, D.H. Lawrence
    660. Night And Day, Virginia Woolf
    661. Tarr, Wyndham Lewis
    662. The Return Of The Soldier, Rebecca West
    663. The Shadow Line, Joseph Conrad
    664. Summer, Edith Wharton
    665. Growth Of The Soil, Knut Hamsen
    666. Bunner Sisters, Edith Wharton
    667. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, James Joyce
    668. Under Fire, Henri Barbusse
    669. Rashōmon, Akutagawa Ryunosuke
    670. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
    671. The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf
    672. Of Human Bondage, William Somerset Maugham
    673. The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence
    674. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
    675. Kokoro, Natsume Soseki
    676. Locus Solus, Raymond Roussel
    677. Rosshalde, Herman Hesse
    678. Tarzan Of The Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
    679. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
    680. Sons And Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
    681. Death In Venice, Thomas Mann
    682. The Charwoman’s Daughter, James Stephens
    683. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
    684. Fantômas, Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
    685. Howards End, E.M. Forster
    686. Impressions Of Africa, Raymond Roussel
    687. Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
    688. Martin Eden, Jack London
    689. Strait Is The Gate, André Gide
    690. Tono-Bungay, H.G. Wells
    691. The Inferno, Henri Barbusse
    692. A Room With A View, E.M. Forster
    693. The Iron Heel, Jack London
    694. The Old Wives’ Tale, Arnold Bennett
    695. The House On The Borderland, William Hope Hodgson
    696. Mother, Maxim Gorky
    697. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
    698. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
    699. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
    700. Young Törless, Robert Musil
    701. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
    702. The House Of Mirth, Edith Wharton
    703. Professor Unrat, Heinrich Mann
    704. Where Angels Fear To Tread, E.M. Forster
    705. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
    706. Hadrian The Seventh, Frederick Rolfe
    707. The Golden Bowl, Henry James
    708. The Ambassadors, Henry James
    709. The Riddle Of The Sands, Erskine Childers
    710. The Immoralist, André Gide
    711. The Wings Of The Dove, Henry James
    712. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
    713. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    714. Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann
    715. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
    716. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
    717. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad

    1800s

    1. Some Experiences Of An Irish R.M., Somerville and Ross
    2. The Stechlin, Theodore Fontane
    3. The Awakening, Kate Chopin
    4. The Turn Of The Screw, Henry James
    5. The War Of The Worlds, H.G. Wells
    6. The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
    7. What Maisie Knew, Henry James
    8. Fruits Of The Earth, André Gide
    9. Dracula, Bram Stoker
    10. Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz
    11. The Island Of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells
    12. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
    13. Effi Briest, Theodore Fontane
    14. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
    15. The Real Charlotte, Somerville and Ross
    16. The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    17. Born In Exile, George Gissing
    18. Diary Of A Nobody, George & Weedon Grossmith
    19. The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    20. News From Nowhere, William Morris
    21. New Grub Street, George Gissing
    22. Gösta Berling’s Saga, Selma Lagerlöf
    23. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
    24. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
    25. The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy
    26. La Bête Humaine, Émile Zola
    27. By the Open Sea, August Strindberg
    28. Hunger, Knut Hamsun
    29. The Master Of Ballantrae, Robert Louis Stevenson
    30. Pierre And Jean, Guy de Maupassant
    31. Fortunata And Jacinta, Benito Pérez Galdés
    32. The People Of Hemsö, August Strindberg
    33. The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy
    34. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
    35. She, H. Rider Haggard
    36. The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
    37. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
    38. Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
    39. bGerminal, Émile Zola
    40. The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
    41. Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant
    42. Marius The Epicurean, Walter Pater
    43. Against The Grain, Joris-Karl Huysmans
    44. The Death Of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
    45. A Woman’s Life, Guy de Maupassant
    46. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
    47. The House By The Medlar Tree, Giovanni Verga
    48. The Portrait Of A Lady, Henry James
    49. Bouvard And Pécuchet, Gustave Flaubert
    50. Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace
    51. Nana, Émile Zola
    52. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
    53. The Red Room, August Strindberg
    54. Return Of The Native, Thomas Hardy
    55. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
    56. Drunkard, Émile Zola
    57. Virgin Soil, Ivan Turgenev
    58. Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
    59. The Hand Of Ethelberta, Thomas Hardy
    60. The Temptation Of Saint Anthony, Gustave Flaubert
    61. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
    62. The Enchanted Wanderer, Nicolai Leskov
    63. Around The World In Eighty Days, Jules Verne
    64. In A Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu
    65. The Devils, Fyodor Dostoevsky
    66. Erewhon, Samuel Butler
    67. Spring Torrents, Ivan Turgenev
    68. Middlemarch, George Eliot
    69. Through The Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll
    70. King Lear Of The Steppes, Ivan Turgenev
    71. He Knew He Was Right, Anthony Trollope
    72. War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
    73. Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
    74. Phineas Finn, Anthony Trollope
    75. Maldoror, Comte de Lautréaumont
    76. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
    77. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
    78. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
    79. Thérèse Raquin, Émile Zola
    80. The Last Chronicle Of Barset, Anthony Trollope
    81. Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, Jules Verne
    82. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
    83. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
    84. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
    85. Uncle Silas, Sheridan Le Fanu
    86. Notes From The Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
    87. The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley
    88. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
    89. Fathers And Sons, Ivan Turgenev
    90. Silas Marner, George Eliot
    91. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
    92. On The Eve, Ivan Turgenev
    93. Castle Richmond, Anthony Trollope
    94. The Mill On The Floss, George Eliot
    95. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
    96. The Marble Faun, Nathaniel Hawthorne
    97. Max Havelaar, Multatuli
    98. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
    99. Oblomovka, Ivan Goncharov
    100. Adam Bede, George Eliot
    101. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
    102. North And South, Elizabeth Gaskell
    103. Hard Times, Charles Dickens
    104. Walden, Henry David Thoreau
    105. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
    106. Villette, Charlotte Brontë
    107. Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
    108. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among The Lonely, Harriet Beecher Stowe
    109. The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne
    110. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
    111. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
    112. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
    113. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
    114. Shirley, Charlotte Brontë
    115. Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell
    116. The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë
    117. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
    118. Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë
    119. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
    120. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
    121. The Count Of Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
    122. La Reine Margot, Alexandre Dumas
    123. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
    124. The Purloined Letter, Edgar Allan Poe
    125. Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens
    126. The Pit And The Pendulum, Edgar Allan Poe
    127. Lost Illusions, Honoré de Balzac
    128. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
    129. Dead Souls, Nikolay Gogol
    130. The Charterhouse Of Parma, Stendhal
    131. The Fall Of The House Of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe
    132. The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
    133. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
    134. The Nose, Nikolay Gogol
    135. Le Père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac
    136. Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac
    137. The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
    138. The Red And The Black, Stendhal
    139. The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni
    140. Last Of The Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
    141. The Private Memoirs And Confessions Of A Justified Sinner, James Hogg
    142. The Albigenses, Charles Robert Maturin
    143. Melmoth The Wanderer, Charles Robert Maturin
    144. The Monastery, Sir Walter Scott
    145. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
    146. Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    147. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
    148. Persuasion, Jane Austen
    149. Ormond, Maria Edgeworth
    150. Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
    151. Emma, Jane Austen
    152. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
    153. Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
    154. The Absentee, Maria Edg
    155. Elective Affinities, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    156. Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth

    1700s

    1. Hyperion, Friedrich Hölderlin
    2. The Nun, Denis Diderot
    3. Camilla, Fanny Burney
    4. The Monk, M.G. Lewis
    5. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    6. The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe
    7. The Interesting Narrative, Olaudah Equiano
    8. The Adventures Of Caleb Williams, William Godwin
    9. Justine, Marquis de Sade
    10. Vathek, William Beckford
    11. Cecilia, Fanny Burney
    12. The 120 Days Of Sodom, Marquis de Sade
    13. Cecilia, Fanny Burney
    14. Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    15. Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
    16. Reveries Of A Solitary Walker, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    17. Evelina, Fanny Burney
    18. The Sorrows Of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    19. Humphrey Clinker, Tobias George Smollett
    20. The Man Of Feeling, Henry Mackenzie
    21. A Sentimental Journey, Laurence Sterne
    22. Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
    23. The Vicar Of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith
    24. The Castle Of Otranto, Horace Walpole
    25. Émile; Or, On Education, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    26. Rameau’s Nephew, Denis Diderot
    27. Julie; Or, the New Eloise, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    28. Rasselas, Samuel Johnson
    29. Candide, Voltaire
    30. The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox
    31. Amelia, Henry Fielding
    32. Peregrine Pickle, Tobias George Smollett
    33. Fanny Hill, John Cleland
    34. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
    35. Roderick Random, Tobias George Smollett
    36. Clarissa, Samuel Richardson
    37. Pamela, Samuel Richardson
    38. Jacques The Fatalist, Denis Diderot
    39. Memoirs Of Martinus Scriblerus, J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
    40. Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding
    41. A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift
    42. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
    43. Roxana, Daniel Defoe
    44. Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
    45. Love In Excess, Eliza Haywood
    46. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
    47. A Tale Of A Tub, Jonathan Swift

    Pre-1700

    1. Oroonoko, Aphra Behn
    2. The Princess Of Clèves, Comtesse de La Fayette
    3. The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
    4. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
    5. The Unfortunate Traveller, Thomas Nashe
    6. Euphues: The Anatomy Of Wit, John Lyly
    7. Gargantua And Pantagruel, Françoise Rabelais
    8. The Thousand And One Nights, Anonymous
    9. The Golden Ass, Lucius Apuleius
    10. Aithiopika, Heliodorus
    11. Chaireas And Kallirhoe, Chariton
    12. Metamorphoses, Ovid
    13. Aesop’s Fables, Aesopus

     

     

  • Reading the Classics

    Reading the Classics

    pilgrim's progress
    pilgrim’s process

    Reading the Classics

    Books read 2019

    books read during 2018

    books read

    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.

    the list

    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.