Books read

 


Books read since undergrad days


Frank Norris. McTeague

Theodore Dreiser. American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser. Sister Carrie

William Dean Howells. The Rise of Silas Lapham

Upton Sinclair. The Jungle


Anthony Trollope. Barchester Towers

Anthony Trollope. The Small House at Allington

Anthony Trollope. Phineas Finn

Anthony Trollope. The Eustache Diamonds


Charles Dickens. Bleak House. 

Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens. Hard Times

George Eliot. Middlemarch

Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone


Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment.

Herman Hesse. Siddhartha


Gustav Flaubert. Madame Bovary

Gustav Flaubert. A Sentimental Education


Henry James. Portrait of A Lady.

Henry James. The American

Henry James. The Ambassadors

Henry James. The Bostonians

Henry James. The Princess Cassamassima

*Henry James. The Golden Bowl

Henry James. Turn of the Screw

Henry James. Washington Square


Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence

Willa Cather. Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather. Shadows on the Rock

Willa Cather. The Professor's House


Herman Hesse. Siddartha

Herman Hesse. Steppenwolf


Joseph Conrad. Heart Of Darkness

Joseph Conrad. The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad. Under Western Eyes



James Joyce. Portrait of the Artist

James Joyce. Ulysses

James Joyce. Dubliners


Lytton Strachey. Eminent Victorians

Virginia Woolf. To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf. Orlando

Virginia Woolf. The Voyage Out

E. M. Forster. Howard's End

E. M. Forster. A Passage to India


T. S. Eliot. The Wasteland

T.S. Eliot. Four Quartets


Ezra Pound. Cathay

Ezra Pound. Personae


Gertrude Stein. Three Lives

Gertrude Stein. Tender Buttons


*Faulkner. The Sound and The Fury

Faulkner. As I lay Dying

*Faulkner. Absalom, Absalom


Vladimir Nabokov. pnin

Vladimir Nabokov. Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov. Speak Memory


Dylan Thomas. 18 Poems

J. D. Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye
William Golding. Lord of the Flies

Mary Renault. The Fire from Heaven.
Mary Renault. The Persian Boy
Mary Renault. The King Must Die
Mary Renault. The Last of the Wine

Dashiell Hammett. The Dain Curse
Dashiell Hammett. Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett. The Glass Key

Raymond Chandler. The High Window
Raymond Chandler. The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler. The Little Sister

Ross Macdonald. The Far Side of the Dollar
Ross Macdonald. The Drowning Pool
Ross Macdonald. The Moving Target
Ross Macdonald. The Chill
Ross Macdonald. The Goodbye Look
Ross Macdonald. The Blu Hammer

Laurence Durrell. The Alexandria Quartet

*Salman Rushdie. Midnight's Children

*Doris Lessing. The Golden Notebook

James Baldwin. Giovanni's Room

Ken Kesey. One Flew over The Cookoo's Nest

*Frank O'Hara. Lunch Poems

Frank O'Hara: Poems from the Tibor De Nagy Editions, 1952-1956

Frank O'Hara. Meditations in an Emergency 


Saul Bellow. Mr, Sammler's Planet

Philip Roth. Goodbye Columbus

Philip Roth. Portnoy's Complaint

John Cheever. Falconer

John Fowles. The Magus

John Fowles. The French Lieutenant's Woman


Italo Calvino. If on A winter's Night a Traveler


*Susan Sontag. Against Interpretation

Susan Sontag. On Photography

Susan Sontag. Styles of Radical Will


Joan Didion. Play it as it Lays

Joan Didion. Run River

Joan Didion. The White Album

Joan Didion. Slouching Toward Bethlehem

Joan Didion. Democracy

Joan Didion. Salvador


Frank Herbert. Dune

Ursula LeGuin. The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula LeGuin. The Lathe of Heaven
Robert Heinlein. Stranger in a Strange Land


Jeffrey Eugenides. The Virgin Suicides

Jane Smily. A Thousand Acres

Iris Murdoch. Under the Net
Iris Murdoch. The Bell
*Iris Murdoch. The Sea, The Sea
Iris Murdoch. A Severed Head
Iris Murdoch. A Fairly Honorable Defeat
Iris Murdoch. The Good Apprentice



Edmund White. A Boy's Own Story
Edmund White. The Beautiful Room is Empty
Edmund White. Hotel de Dream

Dale Peck. Fucking Martin

Michael Chabon.  The Adventures Of Cavalier and Clay

Donna Tartt. The Secret History 

A. S. Byatt. Possession

Paul Auster. City of Glass

Renata Adler. Speedboat

*Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian

Rick Moody. The Ice Storm

Rick Moody. Purple America

Zadie Smith. White Teeth




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