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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