books lists & reviews

I started keeping track of the books I read in Jan. 2007 and I have finally put together a cumulative, alphabetical list. Links provided if I wrote a post about the book in particular.

• Abe, Kobo: The woman in the dunes, 1962
• Aeschylus: The Oresteia Trilogy, 458 BCE
• Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound, 480-10 BCE 
• Agee, Jonis: South of Resurrection, 1997 
• Allende, Isabel: The Infinite Plan, 1991
• Akutagawa, Ryunosuke: Rashomon and Other Stories, 2006, trans. Jay Rubin
• Amis, Martin: House of Meetings , 2007
• Amis, Martin: The Rachel Papers, 1973 
• Amis, Martin: Time’s Arrow, 1991
• Aristophanes: Lysistrata , 411 BCE
• Aristophanes: Clouds, 419 BCE
• Aristotle: Poetics, 350 BCE
• Aristotle: Ethics: 350 BCE - one post here and another here
• Aristotle: On Interpretation, 350 BCE
• Arkin, Frieda: Hedwig and Berti, 2005 
• Atwood, Margaret: The Blind Assasin,
• Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid’s Tale , 1985
• Atwood, Margaret: Lady Oracle, 1976 
• Austen, Jane: Persuasion, 1818
• Austen, Jane: Mansfield Park , 1814
• Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice, 1813
• Austen, Jane: Emma, 1817
• Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey, 1818
• Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility, 1811
• Austen Leigh, James Edward: Memoir of Jane Austen – by her nephew, 1871
• Auster, Paul: Oracle Night, 2004
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• Baker, Nicholson: The Fermata, 2004 
• de Balzac, Honoré: Eugénie Grandet, 1833
• Banville, John: Eclipse, 2000
• Banville, John: The Sea, 2005
• Barbery, Muriel: L’élégance du hérisson, 2006
• Barbey, Claude Inga: Le Palais de Sucre , 2003
• Barker, Pat: Blow Your House Down, 1984
• Barthelme, Donald: Paradise, 1986
• Beigbeder, Frédéric: L’amour dure trois ans, 1997
• Bellow, Saul: A Theft, 1989
• Besson, Philippe: L’arriere-saison , 2002
• Bolano, Roberto: Distant Star, 1996
• Boyd, William: Any Human Heart, 2002
• Bragance, Anne: Casus Belli , 2002
• Brink, André: The Rights of Desire, 2000
• Bronte, Anne: Agnes Grey, 1847
• Bronte: Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 1848
• Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre, 1847
• Bronte, Charlotte:The Professor, 1857
• Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights, 1947
• Brooks, Geraldine: March, 2005
• Buck, Pearl: The Good Earth, 1931
• Byatt, A.S.: The Biographer’s Tale, 2001
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• Canin, Ethan: Blue River, 1991
• Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland, 1865
• Chaucer, Geoffrey: Troilus and Criseyde, c. 1380-87
• Chekhov, Anton: The Shooting Party, 1885
• Cheever, Susan: American Bloomsbury, 2006
• Chopin, Kate, At Fault, 1890
• Christine, Agatha: A Caribbean Mystery, 1964 
• Claudel, Philippe: Les Ames Grises, 2003
• Claudel, Philippe: La Petite Fille de Monsieur Linh , 2005
• Claudel, Philippe: Le Rapport de Brodeck, 2007
• Collins, Wilkie: The Frozen Deep, 1856
• Cunningham, Michael: The Hours, 1998 
• Cusk, Rachel: The Lucky Ones , 2004
• Cusk, Rachel: Arlington Park , 2006
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• Dawson, Jill: Magpie, 1998
• Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders, 1722
• Delillo, Don: Falling Man , 2007
• Delillo, Don: The Body Artist , 2001. 2nd post here
• Delillo, Don: Running Dog, 1978
• Desai, Anita: Fasting, Feasting, 2000
• Desai, Kiran: The Inheritance of Loss, 2006
• Dickens, Charles: Bleak House, 1853 
• Dickens, Charles: A Christmas Carol, 1843
• Didion, Joan: The Year of Magical Thinking, 2005
• Dillard, Annie: The Writing Life, 1990
• Docx, Edward: The Calligrapher, 2003
• Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Notes from Underground, 1864
• Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment, 1866
• Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1901
• Doyle, Roddy: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, 1993
• Doyle, Roddy: The Woman Who Walked into Doors, 1996
• Doyle, Roddy: A Star Called Henry, 1999
• Doyle, Roddy: Paula Spencer, 2006
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• Ellis, Rhian: After Life, 2000
• Eliot, George: Adam Bede, 1859 2^nd post here
• Eliot, George: Silas Marner, 1861
• Eliot, George: Middlemarch, 1871
• Enchi, Fumiko: The Waiting Years, 1957
• Erdrich, Louise: Love Medicine, 1993 
• Erdrich, Louise: The Painted Drum, 2003
• Eugenides, Jeffrey: Middlesex , 2002
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• Fisher, Catherine: The Snow Walker’s Son, 1993
• Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary, 1856. 2nd post here
• Flaubert, Gustave: L’Education Sentimentale, 1869
• Foer, Jonathan Safran: Everything is Illuminated, 2002
• Foer, Jonathan Safran: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, 2005
• Folco, Michel: Dieu et nous seuls pouvons, 1991
• Ford, Richard: Wildfire, 1990
• Fournier, Jean-Louis: Où on va, papa?, 2008 
• Frey, James: A Million Little Pieces, 2003
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• Garbo, Norman: The Artist, 1978 
• Garner, Alan: The Owl Service, 1967
• Gavalda, Anna: Je L’Aimais, 2002
• Gibbon, Edward: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776-1788
• Gordimer, Nadine: The Lying Days , 1953
• Gordimer, Nadine: A World of Strangers ,1958
• Gordimer, Nadine: Occasion for Loving , 1963
• Gordimer, Nadine: The Late Bourgeois World, 1966
• Gordimer, Nadine: A Guest of Honour, 1970
• Gordimer, Nadine: The Conservationist, 1972 
• Gordimer, Nadine: Burger’s Daughter, 1979
• Gordimer, Nadine: Six Feet of the Country , 1982
• Gordimer, Nadine: A Sport of Nature, 1987 
• Gordimer, Nadine: My Son’s Story, 1990 
• Gordimer, Nadine: None to Accompany Me, 1994 
• Gordimer, Nadine: The House Gun, 1998 
• Gordimer, Nadine: The Pickup, 2001
• Gordimer, Nadine: Get a Life, 2005 
• Grenville, Kate: The Secret River, 2005
• Gunn, Kirsty: Rain , 1994
• Gunn, Kirsty: Featherstone, 2002
• Guterson, David: Snow Falling on Cedars, 1994
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• Haddon, Mark: The curious incident of the dog in the night time, 2003
• Hamilton, Jay, Madison: The Federalist, 1787-88
• Hazzard, Shirley: The Transit of Venus, 1980
• Homer: The Iliad, 8th cent BCE, ending, metaphor, fate, Achilles and Helen.
• Horan, Nancy: Loving Frank, 2007
• Hornby, Nick: Slam, 2007
• Hulme, Keri: The Bone People , 1984
• Huston, Nancy: Instruments des Ténèbres, 1996
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• Ishiguro, Kazuo: An Artist of the Floating World, 1986
• Ishiguro, Kazuo: Never Let me Go , 2005. 2nd post here
• Jin, Ha: Waiting, 1999 
• Jones, Edward P.: The Known World, 2003
• Jones, Lloyd: Mister Pip, 2006
• Josipovici, Gabriel: Goldberg: Variations, 2002
• Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1914 Book 1, Book 2, Book 3.
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• Kawabata, Yasunari: Snow Country , 1957
• Keller, Gottfried: A Village Romeo and Juliet, 1856
• Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , 1962
• Kingsolver, Barbara: Animal Dreams, 1990 
• Kundera, Milan: The Art of the Novel, 1986
• Kundera, Milan: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, 1978
• Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984
• Kwei-Armah, Kwame: Elmina’s Kitchen, 2003
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• Lawrenson, Deborah: Songs of Blue and Gold, 2008 
• Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
• Le Clezio, J.M.G: Onitsha, 1991
• L’Engle, Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time, 1962
• L’Engle, Madeleine: A Wind in the Door, 1973 
• Lessing, Doris: The Grass is Singing, 1950
• Lethem, Jonathan: The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye, 1996
• Lethem, Jonathan: Motherless Brooklyn, 1999
• Lewycka, Marina: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, 2005 
• Locke, John: Second Treatise of Government , 1690
• Longinus: On the Sublime, 1st century AD  
• Luke the Physician: Acts of the Apostles, ca. 80
• Lustig, Arnost: Lovely Green Eyes, 2000  
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• Mabanckou, Alain: African Psycho, 2003
• Machiavelli: The Prince, 1515
• Malzieu, Mattias: Maintenant qu’il fait tout le temps nuit sur toi, 2005
• Martel, Yann: Life of Pi , 2002
• Martin, Lee: The Bright Forever, 2005
• Matthew the Evangelist: Gospel of Matthew, ca. 70-100
• McCarthy, Cormac: The Road , 2006
• McCullers, Carson: The Ballad of the Sad Café , 1951
• McCullers, Carson: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter , 1940
• McCullers, Carson: The Member of the Wedding, 1948
• McDermott, Alice: After This, 2006
• McDermott, Alice: Child of My Heart , 2002
• McDermott, Alice: Charming Billy , 1998
• McDermott, Alice: At Weddings and Wakes , 1992
• McDermott, Alice: That Night , 1987
• McDermott, Alice: A Bigamist’s Daughter , 1982
• McEwan, Ian: Amsterdam, 1998 
• McEwan, Ian: Atonement, 2002
• Messud, Claire: The Emperor’s Children , 2006
• Miller, Sue: The Good Mother, 1986
• Millhauser, Steven: Martin Dressler, 1997
• Mistry, Rohinton: Family Matters , 2002
• Mitchell, David: Cloud Atlas, 2003
• Mitchell, David: Black Swan Green, 2006
• Morrison, Toni: The Bluest Eye , 1970
• Morrison, Toni: Beloved
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• Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita, 1955
• Nelson, Antonya: Living to Tell, 2000
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• Oates, Joyce Carol: Rape: a love story , 2004
• Oates, Joyce Carol: We Were the Mulvaneys, 1996
• Ozecki, Ruth L.: MyYear of Meat, 1998
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• Packer, Ann: The Dive From Clausen’s Pier, 2002 
• Patchett, Ann: Bel Canto , 2001
• Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar, 1963 
• Plato: Meno, 380 BCE, 
• Plato: Crito, c. 400 BCE
• Plato: The Republic , c. 400 BCE
• Plato: Apology, c. 400 BCE
• Plume, Amélie: Oui Emile Pour la Vie, 1984
• Polet, Grégoire: Excusez les fautes du copiste, 2006
• Powers, Richard: The Echo Maker , 2006
• Pullman, Philip: The Golden Compass, 1996
• Pullman, Philip: The Subtle Knife, 1997 
• Pullman, Philip: The Amber Spyglass, 2000
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• Ramuz, C.F.: La Beauté sur la Terre, 1927
• Ramuz, C.F.: Si le soleil ne revenait pas, 1937
• Ramuz, C.F.: Derborence, 1934
• Ramuz, C.F.: Un Vieux de Campagne et autres nouvelles, ???  
• Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead, 1943
• Rhys, Jean: Good Morning, Midnight, 1939
• Rhys, Jean: Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966
• Robinson, Marilynne: Housekeeping, 1980
• Robinson, Marilynne: Gilead, 2004
• Robinson, Ray: Electricity, 2006
• Roth, Philip: The Ghost Writer, 1979 
• Roth, Philip: Everyman, 2006 
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: The Social Contract, 1762
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Discourse on Inequality, 1755 
• Russell, Mary Doria: The Sparrow, 1996
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• Sarton, May: As We Are Now, 1973 
• Schopenhauer, Arthur: Essays, 1819-1860, trans. Dircks 
• Scott, Joanna: Tourmaline, 2002
• Sedaris, David: Me Talk Pretty One Day, 2005
• Shakespeare: Hamlet, 1602?
• Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale, 1594 or 1610
• Shakespeare: The Tempest
• Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus
• Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
• Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
• Shakespeare: Othello
• Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, 1604 
• Shakespeare: Cymbeline
• Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein , 1818
• Shields, Carol: Unless, 2002
• Shields, Carol: The Stone Diaries, 1994
• Smith, Alexander McCall: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, 1998
• Smith, Ali: The Accidental, 2005
• Sophocles: Antigone, ca. 440 BCE
• Sophocles: Oedipus the King, ca. 429 BCE
• Southgate, Martha: The Fall of Rome , 2002
• Stevenson, Robert Louis: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886
• Stevenson,Robert Louis: Kidnapped, 1886
• Styron, William: Set This House on Fire, 1960
• Swift, Graham: Last Orders, 1996, 2nd post here
• Swift, Graham: Waterland, 1983
• Thornton, Rosy: Hearts and Minds, 2007
• Thuong-Thuong, Tran Thi: Letters to a Teacher , 2007
• Toole, John Kennedy: A Confederacy of Dunces, 1980
• Trocchi, Alexander:Young Adam, 1954
• Urquhart, Jane: The Underpainter , 1997
• Urquhart, Jane: A Map of Glass, 2005
• Van Cauwelaert, Didier: La Maison des Lumières, 2009
• Vida, Vendela: Let the Northen Lights Erase Your Name, 2007
• Vieux Chauvet, Marie : Amour, Colère et Folie, 2005
• Vowell, Sarah: Assassination Vacation, 2005
• Walls, Jeannette: The Glass Castle, 2005
• Washington, George: Farewell address, 1796
• Waugh, Evelyn: Vile Bodies, 1930
• Wharton, Edith: The House of Mirth, 1905
• Wharton, Edith: Ethan Frome, 1911
• Wharton, Edith: Summer, 1917   
• Wharton, Edith: The Buccaneers, 1937/1993, with Marion Mainwaring
• Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence, 1920
• Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray , 1891
• Willis, Sarah: Some Things That Stay , 2000
• Winterson, Jeanette: The Passion, 1987
• Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway , 1925
• Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse, 1927
• Woolf, Virginia: The Waves, 1931
• Yates, Richard: Revolutionary Road, 1961
• Young, Angela: Speaking of Love, 2007