2007-2010 books read

Books read in 2010

Vonnegut, Kurt.
Look at the Birdie. Delacorte Press: New York, 2009.

Eugenides,
Jeffery. The Virgin Suicides. Picador: New York, 1993.
Beattie, Ann.
Where You’ll Find Me. Collier: New York, 1987.
McEwan, Ian.
Atonement. Anchor Books: New York, 2001.
Brin, David. The
Postman
. Bantam Spectra: New York, 1985.
Grahame,
Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Magnum: New York, 1967.
Remarque, Erich
Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. Trans. A.W. Wheen.
Ballatine Books: New York, 1982.
Trumbo, Dalton.
Johnny Got His Gun.
Leigh,
Julia. Disquiet.
Brunel,
Luis. My Last Breath.
Ishiguro,
Kazuo. Never Let Me Go.
Kotzwinkle,
William. The Midnight Examiner.
1989.
Lee,
Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.
Murakami,
Haruki. After Dark.
Vintage: New York, 2007.
Saterstrom,
Selah. The Pink Institution.
Coffeehouse Press. Minneapolis, 2004.
Kafka,
Franz. Collection.
Schochen: New York, 1995.
Baldick,
Chris: editor. The Oxford Collection of Gothic Stories.
Oxford: New York, 2009.
Gogal,
Nikolay. Dead Souls.
Robert A Maguire, trans. Penguin Classics: London, 2004.
McManus,
John. Bittermilk.
Picador: New York, 2005.

 Books read in 2009

Krusoe, Jim. Girl Factory.
Tin House Books: Portland, Oregon, 2008.

50 Great Short Stories.
Milton Crane, editor. Bantam: New York, 1971.
Keret,
Etgar. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God.
Toby Press: Milford, CT, 2004.
Bradbury,
Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Bantam Books: New York, 1983.
Dahl,
Roald. James and the Giant Peach.
Puffin Books: New York, 1995.
Carver,
Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
Vintage Contemporaries: New York, 1989.
Peck,
Dale. Martin and John.
HarperCollins: New York, 1994.
Kotzwinkle,
William. Christmas at Fontaines.
Abacus: London, 1982.
O’Conner,
Flannery. A Good Man Is Hard to Find.
A Harvest Book: Orlando, Fl, 1982.
Highsmith,
Patricia. Strangers on a Train.
Norton: New York, 2001.
Mishima,
Yukio. The Sound of Waves.
Vintage International: New York, 1994.
Proulx,
Annie. Brokeback Mountain.
Scribner: New York, 2005.
Melville,
Herman. Moby Dick.
Oxford World’s Classics: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Book of Jonah.
The New English Bible.
Oxford University Press, 1971.
Coetzee,
J.M. Disgrace.
Penguin: New York, 1999.
Gaitskill,
Mary. Bad Behavior.
Vintage Contemporaries: New York, 1988.
Bradbury,
Ray. Somewhere a Band is Playing & Now and Forever.
HarperCollins: New York, 2007.
Benchley,
Peter. Jaws.
Fawcett: New York, 1974.
Mowat,
Farely. The Snow Walker.
Stackpole Books: Mechanicsburg, PA, 2005.
Clarke,
Brock. An Arsonists Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England.
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: New York, 2007.
Hammett,
Dashiell. Woman in the Dark.
Knopf: New York, 1988.
Bradbury,
Ray. “All Summer in a Day” www.wssb.org
Bataille,
George. The Story of the Eye.
City Lights: San Francisco, 1987.
Cooper,
Dona. Writing Great Screenplays for Film and TV.
Arco: New York, 1997.
Levin,
Ira. Rosemary’s Baby.
Signet: New York, 1967.
Bowles,
Paul. That Sheltering Sky.
Ecco: New Jersey, 1977.
McCarthy,
Cormac. The Road. Vintage: New York, 2006.
Gilmour, David.
The Film Club. 12Books: New York, 2008.
Vonnegut, Kurt.
Armageddon in Retrospect. Berkley: New York, 2008.

2007-2008

  1. Dickey, James.
    Deliverance. New York: Dell Publishing, 1970.
  2. Johnson, Charles.
    Middle Passage. New York: Plume, 1990.
  3. Twain, Mark. The
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    . New York. Penguin Books, 1986.
  4. Huxley, Aldous. The
    Doors of Perception
    . New York: Perennial Library, 1970.
  5. Ecclesaistes.
    The New English Bible. The Delegates of the Oxford University Press,
    and The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1970.
  6. Zamyatin, Yevgeny.
    We. New
    York: Penguin Books, 1993.
  7. Steinbeck, John. “The
    Chrysanthemums.” 50 Great Short Stories. Ed. Milton
    Crane. New York: Bantam Books, 1952. 282-291.
  8. Faulkner, William.
    “That Evening Sun.” 50 Great Short Stories. Ed.
    Milton Crane. New York: Bantam Books, 1952. 352-367.
  9. Carver, Raymond. What
    We Talk About When We Talk About Love
    Stories. New York:
    Vintage Books, 1982.
  10. Johnson, Denis.
    Jesus’ Son. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
  11. Kotzwinkle, William.
    Elephant Bangs Train. Clinton, Massachusetts: The Colonial
    Press, 1971.
  12. Miller, Henry. Quiet
    Days in Clichy
    . New York: Grove Press, INC, 1965.
  13. Cain, James M. The
    Postman Always Rings Twice
    . New York: Vintage Crime/Black
    Lizard, 1992.
  14. Quiroga, Horacio.
    “The Dead Man.” Trans. Margaret Sayers Pede. A Hammock
    beneath the mangoes: Stories from Latin America
    . Ed. Thomas
    Colchie. New York: Plume, 1992. 4-9.
  15. Conroy, Frank.
    Stop-Time. New York: Penguin Books, 1977.
  16. Ruth.
    The New English Bible. The Delegates of the Oxford University Press,
    and The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1970.
  17. Kosinski, Jerzy. The
    Painted Bird
    . New York: Grove Press, 1995.
  18. Highsmith, Patricia.
    The Talented Mr. Ripley. New York: Vintage Crime/Black
    Lizard, 1992.
  19. Kotzwinkle, William.
    The Exile. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1987.
  20. Colette. “The
    Other Wife.” Trans. Matthew Ward. Sudden Fiction
    International
    . Ed. Robert Shapard and James Thomas. New York: WW
    Norton, 1989. 67-70.
  21. Bowles, Paul. The
    Stories of Paul Bowles
    . New York: HarperCollins Publishers, INC,
    2001.
  22. Gardner, John. The
    Art of Fiction
    . New York: Vintage Books, 1991.
  23. Mrożek, Slawomir.
    “The Elephant.” Trans. Konrad Syrop. Sudden Fiction
    International
    . Ed. Robert Shapard and James Thomas. New York: WW
    Norton, 1989. 98-101.
  24. Mamet, David.
    American Buffalo. New York: Grove Press, 1976.
  25. Corriveau, Art.
    Housewrights. London: Penguin Group, 2002.
  26. Bellow, Saul. Seize
    the Day
    . Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1966.
  27. Miller, Henry. Tropic
    of Cancer
    . New York: Grove Press, 1961.
  28. Welty, Eudora. The
    Optimist’s Daughter
    . New York: Vintage International, 1990.
  29. Maugham, W Somerset.
    The Razor’s Edge. New York: Vintage International, 2003.
  30. Cortazar, Julio.
    Cronopios and Famas. Trans. Paul Blackburn. New York: New
    Direction Classics, 1999.
  31. Kafka, Franz. The
    Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories
    . New
    York: Schocken Books, 1995.
  32. Alameddine, Rabih. I,
    the Divine
    . New York: WW Norton, 2001.
  33. Gardner, John.
    Grendel. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.
  34. O’Connor, Flannery.
    A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories. New York:
    Harvest Books, 1981.
  35. McCullers, Carson.
    The Ballard of a Sad Café. New York: Bantam Books, 1958.
  36. Brautigan, Richard.
    The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966. New York:
    Touchstone Books, 1970.
  37. Vonnegut, Kurt.
    “Welcome to the Monkey House.” The Treasury of American
    Short Stories
    . Ed. Nancy Sullivan. New York: Doubleday, 1981.
  38. Shtyengart, Gary.
    Absurdistan. New York: Random House, 2006.
  39. Gass, William. “In
    the Heart of the Heart of the Country.” The Granta Book of the
    American Short Story. Richard Ford, ed. London: Penguin, 1992.
  40. Keret,
    Etgar. “Kneller’s Happy Campers.” Trans. Miriam Shlesinger. The
    Bus Driver who Wanted to Be God
    .
    London: The Toby Press, 2004.
  41. Schulz,
    Bruno.
    The Street of Crocodiles.
    New York: Viking Penguin, 1977.
  42. Frankl,
    Viktor.
    Man’s Search for Meaning.
    Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 2006.
  43. Babel, Isaac. “Crossing into
    Poland.” Trans. D. McDuff. Collected Stories. London:
    Peguin, 1994. 199-206
  44. Basho, Matsuo. “The Mountain
    Temple,” “Narrow Road to the Interior.” Trans. Sam Hamill.
    Narrow Road to the Interior. Boston, Massachusetts: Shambhala
    Classics, 1998. 1-4, 38-41
  45. Forche, Carolyn. “The
    Colonel.” The Country Between Us. New York: HarperRow,
    1981. 16
  46. Kerouac, John. “Desolation in
    Solitude.” Desolation Angels. New York: Penguin Putnam,
    1995. 4-6
  47. Rosetti, Christina. “The
    Goblin Market.” Goblin Market and Other Poems, 1862. New
    York: Dover Thrift Editions, 1994. 1-16
  48. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. “In
    Golden Gate Park that Day.” San Fransisco Poems. San
    Fransisco: City Lights Books, 1998.
  49. Knowles,
    John.
    A Separate Peace.
    New York: Bantam,1974.
  50. Pynchon,
    Thomas.
    The Crying of Lot 49.
    New York: Bantam, 1972.
  51. Steinbeck,
    John.
    Cannery Row.
    Viking: New York, 1945.
  52. Brown,
    H. Douglas.
    Principles of Language Learning and Teaching.
    New York: Pearson Education, 2000.
  53. Nunan,
    David. Ed.
    Practical English Language Teaching.
    New York: McGraw Hill, 2003.
  54. Louis,
    T.A.
    Things that Hang from Trees.
    New York: Alto, 2002.
  55. Haddon,
    Mark.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
    New York: Vintage, 2003.
  56. McCullers,
    Carson.
    The Member of the Wedding.
    New York: Bantam, 1973.
  57. Faulkner,
    William.
    The Bear.
    New York: Vintage, 1966.
  58. Lawrence,
    D.H.
    The Fox. New
    York: Bantam, 1968.
  59. Yates,
    Richard.
    The Easter Parade.
    New York: Picador, 1976.
  60. Ondaatje,
    Michael.
    Coming Through Slaughter.
    Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1976.
  61. Connell,
    Evan S.
    Mrs. Bridge.
    Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005.
  62. O’Conner,
    Patricia.
    Woe Is I.
    New York: Riverhead Books, 2003.