Reading List 2005

More or less in chronological order, here’s what I was reading in 2005.

• Rimbaud, A Season in Hell
• Aristotle, Poetics
• Julian Barnes, England, England
• Mary Gaitskill, Veronica
• Michel Tremblay, La Grosse Femme d’a cote est Enceinte
• Mordecai Richler, The Street
• Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God
• Hesiod, Works & Days
• Theocritus, Idylls
• Virgil, Eclogues & Georgics
• Martialis, Epigrams
• Virginia Woolf, Orlando
• Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
• Vita Sackville-West, Andrew Marvell
• Irving Layton, Waiting for the Messiah
• Mordecai Richler, Son of a Smaller Hero
• Lise Tremblay, Mile End (La Danse Juive)
• Mavis Gallant, Accross the Bridge
• Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
• Francis Bacon, Essays & Aphorisms
• Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
• Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
• Monique Troung, The Book of Salt
• Lydia Davis, Almost no Memory
• Ben Okri, Stars of the New Curfew
• Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
• Denis Johnson, Fiskadoro
• Mary V. Dearborn, Love in the Promised Land:
  The Story of Anzia Yezierska and John Dewey
• Cynthia Ozick, The Pagan Rabbi
• Mario Vargas Llosa, Who Killed Palomino Molero
• Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
• Barry Hannah, Yonder Stands Your Orphan
• James Joyce, Dubliners
• Nula O’Foalain, Are YOu Somebody?
• Knut Hamsun, The Growth of the Soil
• David Mamet, The Village
• Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
• Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
• Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
• Charles Baxter, Burning Down the House
• John Hawkes, The Beetle Leg
• Joy Williams, Honoured Guest
• Sherwin Tjia, The World is a Hearbreaker
• Grace Paley, Just as I Thought
• Barry Yourgrau, Wearing Dad’s Head
• Lawerence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind
• Sheila Heti, Ticknor
• Bohuml Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude
• Josip Novakovich, Salvation and Other Disasters
• Derrida, Writting and Difference
• OVID, Tristia & Ex Ponto
• Alice McDermott, Child of My Heary
• Anais Nin, Under a Glass Bell
• Cela, The Family of Pascual Duarte
• V. S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival
• Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson is Indignant
• Virginia Woolf, Paper Darts: Illustrated Letters
• Marci Denesiuk, The Far Away Home
• Djuna Barns, Nightwood
• Sharon Olds, The Dead and the Living
• Mark Richard, Charity
• Jon Paul Fiorentino,Asthmatica
• Gogol, The Overcoat
• Roland Barthes, Mythologies
• Anne-Marie MacDonald, As the Crow Flies
• Amy Hempel, The Dog of the Marriage
• OVID, The Metamorphoses
• Zadie Smith White Teeth
• Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
• Margurette Yourcenar, A Coin in Nine Hands
• Ron Carlson, At the Jim Bridger

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