Books and Plays I Read in 2023:
Babel (Kuang)
Babel (Kuang)
Five Survive (Jackson)
One True Loves (Jenkins Reid)
Just the Nicest Couple (Kubica)
A Town Called Solace (Lawson)
Exiles (Harper)
The Last Party (Mackintosh)
I Will Find You (Coben)
Homecoming (Morton)
A Long Petal of the Sea (Allende)
The Whispers (Audrain)
They Both Die At The End (Silvera)
Good Bad Girls (Feeney)
The Foster (Keegan)
Lessons in Chemistry (Garmus)
The Fourth Wing (Yarros)
Small Things Like These (Keegan)
The Iron Flame (Yarros)
Atlas the Story of Pa Salt (Riley and Whitaker)
Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six (Lisa Unger)
Books and Plays I Read in 2022:
Never (Follett)
56 Days (Howard)
Labyrinth (Mosse)
These Silent Woods (Grant)
The Mercies (Hargrave)
His and Hers (Feeney)
The White Ship (Spencer)Black Cake (Wilkerson)
The Overnight Guest (Gudenkauf)
No Exit (Adams)
The Match (Coben)
Damnation Spring (Davidson)
Malibu Rising (Reid)
Night Over Water (Follett)
Sea of Tranquility (St. John Mandel)
Carvel Daze (Garcia)
Middlesex (Eugenides)
Daisy Jones and the Six (Reid)
In My Dreams I Hold A Knife (Winstead)
The Night Watchman (Erdrich)
Abigail Adams: The President’s Lady (Kelly)
One Italian Summer (Serle)
For the Throne (Whitten)
The Pact (Bolton)
The Latecomer (Korelitz)
The Foundling (Leary)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Reid)
When The Emperor Was Divine (Otsuka)
The Lies I Tell (Clark)
Wrong Place Wrong Time (McAllister)
The Good Sister (McAllister)
The Family Upstairs (Jewell)
The Family Remains (Jewell)
The Forest of Vanishing Stars (Harmel)
The Paris Apartment (Foley)
Such A Fun Age (Reid)
The Mother-in-Law (Hepworth)
The Seven Sisters (Riley)
The Storm Sister (Riley)
The Shadow Sister (Riley)
The Pearl Sister (Riley)
The Moon Sister (Riley)
Fairy Tale (King)
Before She Disappeared (Gardner)
One Step Too Far (Gardner)
The Love of My Life (Walsh)
The House Across the Lake (Sager)
The Winners (Backman)
Fire and Blood (Martin)
Waypoints: My Scottish Journey (Heughan)
Daisy Darker (Feeney)
Rock Paper Scissors (Feeney)
Mad Honey (Picoult and Boylan)
Mad Honey (Picoult and Boylan)
Long Shadows (Baldacci)
Our Missing Hearts (Ng)
The It Girl (Ware)
If We Were Villains (Rio)
AfterLives (Gurnah)
Books and Plays I Read in 2021:
The Midnight Library (Haig)
Where The Crawdads Sing (Owens)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Schwab)
The Last Kingdom (Cornwell)
The Push (Audrain)The Glass Hotel (St. John Mandel)
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Kawaguchi)
Olive Kitteridge (Strout)
What Could Be Saved (Schwarz)
The Survivors (Harper)
The Four Winds (Hannah)
The Gifted School (Holsinger)
Then She Was Gone (Jewell)
The Guest List (Foley)
Win (Coben)
Tales of the South Pacific (Michener)
Burger's Daughter (Gordimer)
In Five Years (Serle)
When The Stars Go Dark (Mclain)
The First Day of Spring (Tucker)
The Last Thing He Told Me (Dave)
The Plot (Korelitz)
For The Wolf (Whitten)
Run Me To Earth (Yoon)
The Lamplighters (Stonex)
Sharks in the Time of Saviors (Washburn)
Once We Were Brothers (Balson)
Words in Deep Blue (Crowley)
The Hunting Party (Foley)
The Huntress (Quinn)
About Grace (Doerr)
Apples Never Fall (Moriarty)
A Slow Fire Burning (Hawkins)
The Lincoln Highway (Towles)
Survive the Night (Sager)
The Judge's List (Grisham)
Local Woman Missing (Kubica)
Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone (Gabaldon)
Peter the Great (Massie)
We Have Always Lived In A Castle (Jackson)
Books and Plays I Read in 2020:
There There (Orange)
The Testaments (Atwood)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Morris)
American Dirt (Cummins)
The Wives (Fisher)
Greenwood (Christie)
Sea Prayer (Hosseini)
The Dreamers (Walker)
The Boy from the Woods (Coben)
Normal People (Rooney)
The Overstory (Powers)
Laughing Boy (La Farge)
The Snow Child (Ivey)
Scarlet Sister Mary (Peterkin)
How To Be An Antiracist (Kendi)
The Last Flight (Clark)
Run (Patchett)
The God of Small Things (Roy)
Ransom (Garwood)
Never Tell (Gardner)
When You See Me (Gardner)
The Nickel Boys (Whitehead)
Here is the Beehive (Crossan)
Anxious People (Backman)
The Evening and the Morning (Follett)
Verity (Hoover)
Clanlands:
Whisky, Warfare and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other (Heughan
& McTavish)
The Vanishing Half (Bennett)
Leave The World Behind (Alam)
Walk the Wire (Baldacci)
My Sister’s Keeper (Picoult)
Books and Plays I Read in 2019:
Her One Mistake (Perks)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Smith)
Liar Liar (Jackson)
The Silent Patient (Michaelides)
The Care and Feeding of
Ravenously Hungry Girls (Gray)
The Last Tycoon (Fitzgerald)
Educated: A Memoir (Westover)
Run Away (Coben)
Wunderland (Epstein)
Blue Nights (Didion)
The Pearl (Steinbeck)
Lucky Per (Pontoppidan)
The Chain (McKinty)
The Long Road to Mercy (Baldacci)
Under the Greenwood Tree (Hardy)
Disappearing Earth (Phillips)
The Need (Phillips)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox
and The Horse (Mackesy)
Redemption (Baldacci)
On Earth We’re Briefly
Gorgeous (Vuong)
The Dutch House (Patchett)
Books and Plays I Read in 2018:
The Alchemist (Coelho)
Alias Grace (Atwood)
A Discovery of Witches (Harkness)
Shadow of Night (Harkness)
A Bell For Adano (Hersey)
Look For Me (Gardner)
Call Me By Your Name (Acimen)
The Nightingale (Hannah)
A Visit From the Goon Squad (Egan)
Winter Garden (Hannah)
Empire Falls (Russo)
Intuitive Eating (Tribole & Resch)
Force of Nature (Harper)
The Immortalists (Benjamin)
The Half-Drowned King (Hartsuyker)
The Guernsey Literary and
Potato Peel Pie Society (Shaffer and Barrows)
The Fallen (Baldacci)
Song of Solomon (Morrison)
The Outsider (King)
So Big (Ferber)
Us Against You (Backman)
Warlight (Ondaatje)
The Book of Life (Harkness)
The Great Believers (Makkai)
The Wasp Factory (Banks)
Less (Greer)
Bring Me Back (Paris)
The Mere Wife (Headley)
Beowulf (Author Unknown, translated
by Hieatt)
Ghosted (Walsh)
The Innocent (Baldacci)
A Man Called Ove (Backman)
Passing (Larsen)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (Irving)
Vox (Dalcher)
The Shipping News (Proulx)
The Perfect Mother (Molloy)
Life After Life (Atkinson)
Nine Perfect Strangers (Moriarty)
milk and honey (kaur)
Books and Plays I Read in 2017:
Memory Man (Baldacci)
Americanah (Adichie)
The Nest (Sweeney)
History of Wolves (Fridlund)
Lonesome Dove (McMurtry)
Right Behind You (Gardner)
Palace of Desire (Mahfouz)
Far From the Madding Crowd (Hardy)
The Moon is Down (Steinbeck)
Eye of the Needle (Follett)
End of Watch (King)
The Strange Case of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson)
Sugar Street (Mahfouz)
The Last Mile (Baldacci)
The Gustav Sonata (Tremain)
The Orphan Master’s Son (Johnson
Golden Age (Smiley)
A River Runs Through It (Maclean)
A Little Life (Yanagihara)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy (Adams)
Wild (Strayed)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Orczy)
The Fix (Baldacci)
The Orphan’s Tale (Jenoff)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
(Doyle)
It Ends With Us (Hoover)
All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare)
My Life With Bob (Paul)
A Spy Among Friends (Macintyre)
The Double (Dostoevsky)
The Sympathizer (Nguyen)
And Quiet Flows the Don (Sholokhov)
The Essential Neruda Selected
Poems (Neruda
– edited by Mark Eisner)
small great things (Picoult)
The Silent Corner (Koontz)
Since We Fell (Lehane)
The Goldfinch (Tartt)
Giant (Ferber)
Buried Child (Shepard)
The Secret History (Tartt)
Column of Fire (Follett)
Don’t Let Go (Coben)
The Woman In Cabin 10 (Ware)
The Underground Railroad (Whitehead)
Bear Town (Backman)
Early Autumn (Bromfield)
The Optimist’s Daughter (Welty)
Tinkers (Harding)
The Moonstone (Collins)
Silas Marner (Eliot)
Little Fires Everywhere (Ng)
Black Beauty (Sewell)
The Child Finder (Denfeld)
The Dry (Harper)
A Wrinkle In Time (L’Engle)
Books and Plays I Read in 2016:
Winter of the World (Follett)
Gilead (Robinson)
Cold Comfort Farm (Gibbons)
Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri)
Finders Keepers (King)
The Namesake (Lahiri)
The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh (Milne)
Agent 6 (Smith)
The Able McLaughlins (Wilson)
The Lake House (Morton)
Arrowsmith (Lewis)
Fool Me Once (Coben)
Housekeeping (Robinson)
If on a winter's night a traveler (Calvino)
The Fixer (Malamud)
The Year of Magical Thinking (Didion)
Find Her (Gardner)
The Forgetting Time (Guskin)
Honey in the Horn (Davis)
The Widow (Barton)
The Farm (Smith)
Palace Walk (Mahfouz)
Edge of Eternity (Follett)
The Sheltering Sky (Bowles)
The Couple Next Door (Lapena)
Truly Madly Guilty (Moriarty)
The Red Pony (Steinbeck)
Home (Coben)
Commonwealth (Patchett)
A Room With A View (Forster)
The Longest Journey (Forster)
Tell The Wolves I'm Home (Brunt)
The Reivers (Faulkner)
White Teeth (Smith)
Books and Plays I Read in 2015:
The Boys in the Boat (Brown)
American Gods (Gaiman)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
Peyton Place (Metalious)
Before I Go To Sleep (Watson)
The End of Bad Roads. The Last Incarnation of Vautrin (de Balzac)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Skloot)
The Girl on the Train (Hawkins)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Twain)
Orphan Train (Kline)
Crash and Burn (Gardner)
The Dead Zone (King)
Antigone (Sophocles)
The Husband's Secret (Moriarty)
Conversations With My Father (Gardner)
The Hunt for Red October (Clancy)
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)
Love's Labour's Lost (Shakespeare)
The One and Only (Giffin)
A Feast For Crows (Martin)
A Dance With Dragons (Martin)
Big Little Lies (Moriarty)
Hiding in the Spotlight (Dawson)
Under the Net (Murdoch)
World Without End (Follett)
The Hypnotist's Love Story (Moriarty)
Howards End (Forster)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Spark)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys)
the curious incident of the dog at night-time (Haddon)
Early Warning (Smiley)
Ethan Frome (Wharton)
The Maltese Falcon (Hammett)
Scoop (Waugh)
Zoo (Patterson)
Bel Canto (Patchett)
Where They Found Her (McCreight)
Dr. Zhivago (Pasternak)
The Stranger (Coben)
The Buried Giant (Ishiguro)
Everything I Never Told You (Ng)
Child 44 (Smith)
The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
Drums of Autumn (Gabaldon)
Letters of Two Brides (de Balzac)
The Big Sleep (Chandler)
The Fiery Cross (Gabaldon)
The War of the Worlds (Wells)
Mr. Mercedes (King)
In Paradise (Matthiessen)
A Thousand Acres (Smiley)
Station Eleven (St. John Mandel)
A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Gabaldon)
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (Proust)
Atonement (McEwan)
A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole)
An Echo in the Bone (Gabaldon)
Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Gabaldon)
Go Set A Watchman (Lee)
To Kill A Mockingbird (Lee)
Women Food and God (Roth)
Marathon Man (Goldman)
His Family (Poole)
Bleak House (Dickens)
All The Light We Cannot See (Doerr)
Alice Adams (Tarkington)
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare)
Lie Down in Darkness (Styron)
The Man In The High Castle (Dick)
Years of Grace (Barnes)
Main Street (Lewis)
The Secret Speech (Smith)
One of Ours (Cather)
Fall of Giants (Follett)
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Orphan Train (Kline)
Crash and Burn (Gardner)
The Dead Zone (King)
Antigone (Sophocles)
The Husband's Secret (Moriarty)
Conversations With My Father (Gardner)
The Hunt for Red October (Clancy)
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)
Love's Labour's Lost (Shakespeare)
The One and Only (Giffin)
A Feast For Crows (Martin)
A Dance With Dragons (Martin)
Big Little Lies (Moriarty)
Hiding in the Spotlight (Dawson)
Under the Net (Murdoch)
World Without End (Follett)
The Hypnotist's Love Story (Moriarty)
Howards End (Forster)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Spark)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys)
the curious incident of the dog at night-time (Haddon)
Early Warning (Smiley)
Ethan Frome (Wharton)
The Maltese Falcon (Hammett)
Scoop (Waugh)
Zoo (Patterson)
Bel Canto (Patchett)
Where They Found Her (McCreight)
Dr. Zhivago (Pasternak)
The Stranger (Coben)
The Buried Giant (Ishiguro)
Everything I Never Told You (Ng)
Child 44 (Smith)
The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
Drums of Autumn (Gabaldon)
Letters of Two Brides (de Balzac)
The Big Sleep (Chandler)
The Fiery Cross (Gabaldon)
The War of the Worlds (Wells)
Mr. Mercedes (King)
In Paradise (Matthiessen)
A Thousand Acres (Smiley)
Station Eleven (St. John Mandel)
A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Gabaldon)
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (Proust)
Atonement (McEwan)
A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole)
An Echo in the Bone (Gabaldon)
Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Gabaldon)
Go Set A Watchman (Lee)
To Kill A Mockingbird (Lee)
Women Food and God (Roth)
Marathon Man (Goldman)
His Family (Poole)
Bleak House (Dickens)
All The Light We Cannot See (Doerr)
Alice Adams (Tarkington)
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare)
Lie Down in Darkness (Styron)
The Man In The High Castle (Dick)
Years of Grace (Barnes)
Main Street (Lewis)
The Secret Speech (Smith)
One of Ours (Cather)
Fall of Giants (Follett)
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Books and Plays I Read in 2014:
The Illusion of Separateness (Van Booy)
The Ambassadors (James)
Our Town (Wilder) - Pulitzer Prize Winner 1938
Fear Nothing (Gardner)
All The King's Men (Warren) - Pulitzer Prize Winner 1947
A Clockwork Orange (Burgess)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)
Dark Places (Flynn)
Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan)
The Rainbow (Lawrence)
The Forgotten Garden (Morton)
The Ambassadors (James)
Our Town (Wilder) - Pulitzer Prize Winner 1938
Fear Nothing (Gardner)
All The King's Men (Warren) - Pulitzer Prize Winner 1947
A Clockwork Orange (Burgess)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)
Dark Places (Flynn)
Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan)
The Rainbow (Lawrence)
The Forgotten Garden (Morton)
The Book Thief (Zusak)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
Appointment in Samarra (O'Hara)
Nightmare Abbey (Peacock)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
Appointment in Samarra (O'Hara)
Nightmare Abbey (Peacock)
The Secret Garden (Burnett)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (de Laclos)
Finnegans Wake (Joyce)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (de Laclos)
Finnegans Wake (Joyce)
Night (Wiesel)
Missing You (Coben)
The Woman in White (Collins)
The Tin Drum (Grass)
Missing You (Coben)
The Woman in White (Collins)
The Tin Drum (Grass)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Fielding)
The Invention of Wings (Monk Kidd)
Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Beckett)
The Invention of Wings (Monk Kidd)
Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Beckett)
Women in Love (Lawrence)
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Rabelais)
Bittersweet (Beverly-Whittemore)
Journey to the End of Night (Celine)
The Leftovers (Perrotta)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Gaiman)
My Antonia (Cather)
The Tale of Genji (Shikibu)
The Color Purple (Walker)
The Light Between Oceans (Stedman)
Foundation (Asimov)
Black Sheep (Heyer)
Pale Fire (Nabokov)
American Pastoral (Roth)
Clybourne Park (Norris)
11/22/63 (King)
Disgraced (Akhtar)
We Were Liars (Lockhart)
Dead Souls (Gogol)
Henry IV Part II (Shakespeare)
Henry V (Shakespeare)
Henry VI Part I (Shakespeare)
Henry VI Part II (Shakespeare)
The White Queen (Gregory)
Close to Home (Jackson)
Outlander (Gabaldon)
Dragonfly in Amber (Gabaldon)
Ah, Wilderness (O'Neill)
Voyager (Gabaldon)
Cancer Ward (Solzhenitsyn)
Flight Behavior (Kingsolver)
A Daughter of the Land (Stratton-Porter)
Henry VIII (Shakespeare)
Some Luck (Smiley)
Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (de Balzac)
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Rabelais)
Bittersweet (Beverly-Whittemore)
Journey to the End of Night (Celine)
The Leftovers (Perrotta)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Gaiman)
My Antonia (Cather)
The Tale of Genji (Shikibu)
The Color Purple (Walker)
The Light Between Oceans (Stedman)
Foundation (Asimov)
Black Sheep (Heyer)
Pale Fire (Nabokov)
American Pastoral (Roth)
Clybourne Park (Norris)
11/22/63 (King)
Disgraced (Akhtar)
We Were Liars (Lockhart)
Dead Souls (Gogol)
Henry IV Part II (Shakespeare)
Henry V (Shakespeare)
Henry VI Part I (Shakespeare)
Henry VI Part II (Shakespeare)
The White Queen (Gregory)
Close to Home (Jackson)
Outlander (Gabaldon)
Dragonfly in Amber (Gabaldon)
Ah, Wilderness (O'Neill)
Voyager (Gabaldon)
Cancer Ward (Solzhenitsyn)
Flight Behavior (Kingsolver)
A Daughter of the Land (Stratton-Porter)
Henry VIII (Shakespeare)
Some Luck (Smiley)
Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (de Balzac)
Poetry I Read in 2014:
* Denotes Favorite Poem
Bryant, William
*I Broke the Spell That Held Me Long
*I Broke the Spell That Held Me Long
Campbell, Joseph
The Moon Is In The Marshes
The Moon Is In The Marshes
The Old Woman
The Dancer
Night-Piece
Elliot, T. S.
A Dedication to My Wife
Keats, John
Ode on Melancholy
A Dedication to My Wife
Keats, John
Ode on Melancholy
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
*Love's Philosophy
To ___
*Love's Philosophy
To ___
*Daybreak
Strong, L.A.G.
*Words May Lose Meaning
*Two Generations
Stuart, Francis
Song
Ireland
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
The Eagle
Break, Break, Break
Books and Plays I Read in 2013:
Leaving Cheyenne (McMurtry)
Midnight's Children (Rushdie)
The Homecoming (Pinter)
Gone Girl (Flynn)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (le Carre)
A Handful of Dust (Waugh)
Thirteen Reasons Why (Asher)
State of Wonder (Patchett)
If This Is A Man (Levi)
Emma (Austen)
Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer)
The Road (McCarthy) - Pulitzer Prize Winner 2007
Sons and Lovers (Lawrence)
The Beautiful and the Damned (Fitzgerald)
Buddenbrooks (Mann)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (Fowles)
The Confession (Grisham)
Gone With The Wind (Mitchell) - Pulitzer Prize Winner 1937
The Wind in the Willows (Grahame)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Hardy)
Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe)
Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches (Kushner) - Pulitzer Prize 1993
Daniel Deronda (Eliot, G.)
Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika (Kushner)
Rabbit, Run (Updike)
The Man in the Iron Mask (Dumas)
The Girl With the Golden Eyes (de Balzac)
The Commission of Lunacy (de Balzac)
Frankenstein (Shelley)
White Noise (DeLillo)
The Inferno (Alighieri)
Under the Volcano (Lowry, M.)
Beloved (Morrison) - Pulitzer Prize Winner 1988
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather)
The Trial (Kafka)
As You Like It (Shakespeare)
A Passage to India (Forster)
The Anniversary (Chekhov)
The Wedding (Chekhov)
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (le Carre)
Brideshead Revisited (Waugh)
Katherine (Seton)
The Good Soldier (Ford)
Native Son (Wright)
The Good Earth (Buck) - Pulitzer Prize Winner 1932
The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (Tolkien)
Sharp Objects (Flynn)
An American Tragedy (Dreiser)
The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)
The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov)
Veronika Decides to Die (Coelho)
The Golden Notebook (Lessing)
Decline and Fall (Waugh)
Six Years (Coben)
Call For the Dead (le Carre)
Cousin Bette (de Balzac)
Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (McCullers)
Vanity Fair (Thackeray)
The House of Mirth (Wharton)
Line of Fire (White)
The Iliad (Homer)
The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)
Touch and Go (Gardner)
A Pair of Blue Eyes (Hardy)
U.S.A. Trilogy (Dos Passos)
Compound Fractures (White)
Resurrection (Tolstoy)
The Girls From Ames (Zaslow)
David Copperfield (Dickens)
The Secret Keeper (Morton)
Clarissa (Richardson)
Nostromo (Conrad)
You Don't Want to Know (Jackson)
Mansfield Park (Austen)
Richard the Third (Shakespeare)
Henry the Sixth, Part III (Shakespeare)
Shiver (Stiefvater)
Rebecca (Du Maurier)
A Separate Peace (Knowles)
The Golden Bowl (James)
Inferno (Brown)
And The Mountains Echoed (Hosseini)
A Daughter of Eve (de Balzac)
The Yearling (Rawlings) - Pulitzer Prize Winner 1939
For Whom The Bell Tolls (Hemingway)
The Idiot (Dostoevsky)
The House at Riverton (Morton)
Reconstructing Amelia (McCreight)
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Reconstructing Amelia (McCreight)
Books and Plays I Read in 2012:
A Game of Thrones (Martin)
A Clash of Kings (Martin)
A Storm of Swords (Martin)
A Feast of Crows (Martin)
A Dance With Dragons (Martin)
The Help (Stockett)
The Hunger Games (Collins)
Catching Fire (Collins)
Mockingjay (Collins)
Buried Prey (Sanford)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Rowlings)
Captain's Courageous (Kipling)
Don Quixote (Cervantes)
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
To The Lighthouse (Woolf)
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)
This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)
Lady Windermere's Fan (Wilde)
Wuthering Heights (Bronte)
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
The Metamorphosis (Kafka)
The Lady With the Dog (Chekhov)
The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Lewis)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee) - Pulitzer Price Winner 1961
1984 (Orwell)
Brave New World (Huxley)
The Jungle Book (Kipling)
Beyond the Horizon (O'Neill) - Pulitzer Prize Winner 1920
Jane Eyre (Bronte)
Catch-22 (Heller)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)
The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez)
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare)
The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck) - Pulitzer Prize Winner 1940
Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner)
All My Sons (Miller, A.)
Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkein)
The Red Badge of Courage (Crane)
The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood)
Tender is the Night (Fitzgerald)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
In Cold Blood (Capote)
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
Hippolytus (Euripides)
The Republic - Books I, II & III (Plato)
The Pact (Picoult)
Moby-Dick (Melville)
The Stranger (Camus)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox (Dahl)
Matilda (Dahl)
Eugenie Grandet (de Balzac)
The Bell Jar (Plath)
Fathers and Sons (Turgenev)
Heartbreak House (Shaw)
Anthem (Rand)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol. II (Doyle)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Hugo)
Ghosts (Ibsen)
Hedda Gabler (Ibsen)
Lolita (Nabokov)
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (Pullman)
The Seagull (Chekhov)
Three Sisters (Chekhov)
The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov)
Uncle Vania (Chekhov)
The Proposal (Chekhov)
The Mayor of Castorbridge (Hardy)
Faust (Goethe)
Swann's Way (Proust)
Stay Close (Coben)
The Razor's Edge (Maugham)
An Ideal Husband (Wilde)
The Canterville Ghost (Wilde)
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (Wilde)
Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
Northanger Abbey (Austen)
Lady Susan (Austen)
Persuasion (Austen)
The Odyssey (Homer)
Waiting for Godot (Beckett)
The Meaning of Liff (Adams)
Middlemarch (Eliot)
Kidnapped (Stevenson)
Paradise Lost (Milton)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Verne)
Gulliver's Travels (Swift)
Eugene Onegin (Pushkin)
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
The Call of the Wild (London)
The School for Wives (Moliere)
Tartuffe (Moliere)
Washington Square (Henry)
A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway)
The Time Machine (Wells)
a mercy (Morrison)
Lullaby (Palahniuk)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon)
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anonymous)
The Sea, The Sea (Murdoch)
On the Road (Kerouac)
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Tropic of Cancer (Miller)
The World According to Garp (Irving)
Go Tell It On The Mountain (Baldwin)
Where Angels Fear to Tread (Forster)
A Death in the Family (Agee) - Pulitzer Prize Winner 1958
Jude the Obscure (Hardy)
Invisible Man (Ellison)
A Doll's House (Ibsen)
You Never Can Tell (Shaw)
The Age of Innocence (Wharton) - Pulitzer Prize Winner 1921
Dracula (Stoker)
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Tolstoy novella)
Light in August (Faulkner)
The Complete Stories (O'Connor)
Great Expectations (Dickens)
The Tempest (Shakespeare)
Othello (Shakespeare)
Things Fall Apart (Achebe)
I, Claudius (Graves)
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
War and Peace (Tolstoy)
Candide (Voltaire)
Ten Nights in a Bar Room (Arthur)
The Giver (Lowry)
The Miser (Moliere)
The Magic Mountain (Mann)
East of Eden (Steinbeck)
Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf)
The Eternal Husband (Dostoevsky)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Wilder) - Pulitzer Prize Winner 1928
A Fable (Faulkner) - Pulitzer Prize Winner 1955
The Portrait of a Lady (James)
The Things They Carried (O'Brien)
Chasing Latitudes (MacLeod)
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman (Sterne)
Medea (Euripides)
The Blind Assassin (Atwood)
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
Miracle Cure (Coben)
Lost Illusions (de Balzac)
Richard II (Shakespeare)
Henry IV Part One (Shakespeare)
The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare)
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Tarkington) - Pulitzer Prize Winner 1919
Life of Pi (Martel)
Darkness at Noon (Koestler)
The Red and The Black (Stendhal)
Son (Lowry)
The Winter of Our Discontent (Steinbeck)
Cannery Row (Steinbeck)
Airframe (Crichton)
The Way of All Flesh (Butler)
Major Barbara (Shaw)
Pygmalion (Shaw)
The Doctor's Dilemma (Shaw)
The Firm of Nucingen (de Balzac)
Pere Goriot (de Balzac)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn)
As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)
The Misanthrope (Moliere)
Hiroshima (Hersey)
O Pioneers! (Cather)
August: Osage County (Letts) - Pulitzer Prize Winner 2008
Revolutionary Road (Yates)
Catch Me (Gardner)
Terms of Endearment (McMurtry)
Poetry I Read in 2012:
* Denotes Favorite Poem
Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound
Ashberry, John
A Wave
Poetry I Read in 2012:
* Denotes Favorite Poem
Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound
Ashberry, John
A Wave
Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror
*At North Farm
Glazunoviana
My Philosophy of Life
Just Walking Around
*Sleepers Awake
Crossroads in the Past
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
Auden, W.H.
September 1, 1939
*In Memory of W.B. Yeats
Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone
Lullaby
Song of the Master and the Boatswain
Baudelaire, Charles
Damned Women
Berryman, John
DreamSong #'s 12, 34, 52, 132, 191 & 327
Blake, William
Songs of Innocence
Songs of Experience
Byron, Lord George
*Solitude
*She Walks in Beauty
*When We Two Parted
A Spirit Passed Before Me
On This Day I Complete My 36th Year
*Stanzas for Music
So We'll Go No More A Roving
Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa
Celan, Paul
Death Fugue
Alchemical
Aspen Tree
Corona
Crystal
Homecoming
I Can Still See You
In Front of a Candle
Tenebrae
Twelve Years
Chaucer, Geoffrey
*Merciless Beauty
Coleridge, Samuel
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Donne, John
An Anatomy of the World
The Ecstasy
The Sun Rising
*The Good Morrow
*The Anniversary
The Indifferent Song
The Funeral
Eliot, T. S.
The Waste Land
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The Amulet
Ode to Beauty
Days
The Apology
Compensation
The Bell
The Snow-Storm
Fate
Frost, Robert
*The Road Not Taken
*Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
An Old Man's Winter Night
A Girl's Garden
Home Burial
I Have Been Acquainted With the Night
Birches
Mending Wall
After Apple Picking
Spring Pools
*The Sound of Trees
Once By the Pacific
The Mountain
Hardy, Thomas
At a Bridal
*The Ivy-Wife
In a Wood
In Vision I Roamed
Her Death and After
I Look Into My Glass
Middle-Age Enthusiasms
The Casterbridge Captains
Postponement
Hap
At an Inn
Keats, John
A Thing of Beauty is a Joy ForeverEpistle to My Brother George
On Fame
To Fanny
On The Sea
His Last Sonnet
If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chained
*Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
To My Brothers
Longfellow, Henry
*The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
A Psalm of Life
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
Hymn to the Night
Moore, Sir Thomas
*The Time I've Lost in Wooing
*At the Mid Hour of Night
How Oft Has the Banshee Cried
In the Stilly Night
I Saw From the Beach
Pope, Alexander
*The Rape of the Lock
Eloise to Abelard
An Unfortunate Lady
Ode to Solitude
Pushkin, Aleksandr
*The Bronze Horseman
*At North Farm
Glazunoviana
My Philosophy of Life
Just Walking Around
*Sleepers Awake
Crossroads in the Past
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
Rain Moving In
The Songs We Know Best
Landscape
When The Sun Went Down
Darlene's Hospital
Proust's Questionnaire
Auden, W.H.
September 1, 1939
*In Memory of W.B. Yeats
Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone
Lullaby
Song of the Master and the Boatswain
Baudelaire, Charles
Damned Women
Berryman, John
DreamSong #'s 12, 34, 52, 132, 191 & 327
Blake, William
Songs of Innocence
Songs of Experience
Byron, Lord George
*Solitude
*She Walks in Beauty
*When We Two Parted
A Spirit Passed Before Me
On This Day I Complete My 36th Year
*Stanzas for Music
So We'll Go No More A Roving
Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa
Celan, Paul
Death Fugue
Alchemical
Aspen Tree
Corona
Crystal
Homecoming
I Can Still See You
In Front of a Candle
Tenebrae
Twelve Years
Chaucer, Geoffrey
*Merciless Beauty
Coleridge, Samuel
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Donne, John
An Anatomy of the World
The Ecstasy
The Sun Rising
*The Good Morrow
*The Anniversary
The Indifferent Song
The Funeral
Eliot, T. S.
The Waste Land
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The Amulet
Ode to Beauty
Days
The Apology
Compensation
The Bell
The Snow-Storm
Fate
Frost, Robert
*The Road Not Taken
*Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
An Old Man's Winter Night
A Girl's Garden
Home Burial
I Have Been Acquainted With the Night
Birches
Mending Wall
After Apple Picking
Spring Pools
*The Sound of Trees
Once By the Pacific
The Mountain
Hardy, Thomas
At a Bridal
*The Ivy-Wife
In a Wood
In Vision I Roamed
Her Death and After
I Look Into My Glass
Middle-Age Enthusiasms
The Casterbridge Captains
Postponement
Hap
At an Inn
Keats, John
A Thing of Beauty is a Joy ForeverEpistle to My Brother George
On Fame
To Fanny
On The Sea
His Last Sonnet
If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chained
*Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
To My Brothers
Longfellow, Henry
*The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
A Psalm of Life
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
Hymn to the Night
Moore, Sir Thomas
*The Time I've Lost in Wooing
*At the Mid Hour of Night
How Oft Has the Banshee Cried
In the Stilly Night
I Saw From the Beach
Pope, Alexander
*The Rape of the Lock
Eloise to Abelard
An Unfortunate Lady
Ode to Solitude
Pushkin, Aleksandr
*The Bronze Horseman
*Mozart and Salieri
To Anna Kern
To The Sea
To My Nanny
The Bridgegroom
Echo
Confession
To Olga Masson
Swift, Jonathan
Phyllis, or The Progress of Love
A Gentle Echo on Women
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
*Crossing the Bar
*Tears, Idle Tears
*Song of the Brook
*The Charge of the Light Brigade
Break, Break, Break
*Ulysses
The Poet's Song
Kate
Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere
Whitman, Walt
*O Captain, O Captain
*Song of the Redwood Tree
Come Up From the Fields Father
As I Ponder'd in Silence
To the Garden the World
Adieu to a Soldier
Poets to Come
Wilde, Oscar
*Requiescat
Woodsworth, William
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
We Are Seven
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
By the Sea
Anecdote for Fathers
I Traveled Among Unknown Men
Yeats, William Butler
*Brown Penny
On Baile's Strand
The Tower
The New Faces
Sailing to Byzantium
A Prayer for My Son
Wisom
Leda and the Swan
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Swift, Jonathan
Phyllis, or The Progress of Love
A Gentle Echo on Women
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
*Crossing the Bar
*Tears, Idle Tears
*Song of the Brook
*The Charge of the Light Brigade
Break, Break, Break
*Ulysses
The Poet's Song
Kate
Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere
Whitman, Walt
*O Captain, O Captain
*Song of the Redwood Tree
Come Up From the Fields Father
As I Ponder'd in Silence
To the Garden the World
Adieu to a Soldier
Poets to Come
Wilde, Oscar
*Requiescat
Woodsworth, William
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
We Are Seven
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
By the Sea
Anecdote for Fathers
I Traveled Among Unknown Men
Yeats, William Butler
*Brown Penny
On Baile's Strand
The Tower
The New Faces
Sailing to Byzantium
A Prayer for My Son
Wisom
Leda and the Swan
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