A Town Called Solace (Lawson)
Exiles (Harper)
The Last Party (Mackintosh)
Atlas the Story of Pa Salt (Riley and Whitaker)
Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six (Lisa Unger)
Books and Plays I Read in 2022:
Never (Follett)
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)
Night Over Water (Follett)
Daisy Jones and the Six (Reid)
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 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)
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)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Schwab)
The Last Kingdom (Cornwell)
The Push (Audrain)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 2017:
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)
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 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 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)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (de Laclos)
Finnegans Wake (Joyce)
Missing You (Coben)
The Woman in White (Collins)
The Tin Drum (Grass)
The Invention of Wings (Monk Kidd)
Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Beckett)
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)
*I Broke the Spell That Held Me Long
The Moon Is In The Marshes
A Dedication to My Wife
Keats, John
Ode on Melancholy
*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)
The House at Riverton (Morton)
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)
Poetry I Read in 2012:
* Denotes Favorite Poem
Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound
Ashberry, John
A Wave
*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
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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