August’s Reading History (2015-2019)

2019 (58 books):

The Sound and the Fury

A Room of One’s Own

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The Maltese Falcon

The Fire Next Time

A Room of One’s Own

In Memoriam A. H. H.

Ann Veronica 

Double Indemnity 

Laura

The Big Sleep

Idylls of the King

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

There is no Conversation 

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Tender Buttons

The Well of Loneliness 

Orlando

Passing

Kiss Me Deadly

Quicksand 

Mr. Arkadin 

Ballad of Reading Gaol

Ladies Almanack 

Zodiac

Chekhov collection of short stories

The Day of the Locust 

American Gods

Sharp Objects

The Handmaid’s Tale

Norse Mythology 

The Penelopiad 

Green River, Running Red

The Mystery at Hunter’s Lodge

Mindhunter

Silence of the Lambs

Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders

This Side of Paradise

Ulysses

The Bloomsday Book

An Outline of Psycho-Analysis

Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Three Case Histories

North and South

The Crying of Lot 49

The Last Days of Louisiana Red

Strangers on a Train

Middlemarch

Salome

The Spanish Prisoner

Salome

A Streetcar Named Desire

Jude the Obscure

Woyzeck

Howards End

Wozzeck

The Price of Salt

2018 (50 books):

The Master and Margarita

Animal Farm

How Much Land does a Man Need

The Candle

Ulysses

Areopagitica 

No Country for Old Men

Notes from Underground

Fall of the House of Usher

The Pit and the Pendulum

William Wilson

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Eikonoklastes

Eikon Basilike

The Secret Sharer

A Year’s Letters

Salome

The Readie and Easie Way

Brave New World

The Hunger Artist

Catch-22

Call Me by Your Name

Frankenstein 

Dubliners

Samson Agonistes

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

The Stranger Beside Me

Northanger Abbey

The Ballad of Reading Gaol 

Don Quixote (volume 1)

Miss Lonelyhearts

The Great Gatsby 

The Sun Also Rises

Great Expectations 

The God of Carnage

Oleanna 

Jack Maggs

To Be or Not To Be (monograph) 

Wide Sargasso Sea

Lost in a Good Book

The Third Man (monograph)

The Third Man

City of Glass

Ghosts

The Locked Room

The God of Carnage

Voices in a Mask

Middlemarch 

Art

Just Kids

2017 (51 books):

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

In the Penal Colony

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Howl and Other Poems

Boxer and Saints

Brooklyn, Burning

Persepolis 

Mare’s War

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick your Ass

Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Aesop’s Fables 

The Hunger Artist 

The Lady with the Dog

How it Went Down

The Lightning Thief

Short Story Anthology 

Literary Criticism Collection

Quiver

Waiting for Odysseus 

If I was Your Girl

Song of Achilles

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Sense and Sensibility 

In Cold Blood

The Girls

Blood Meridian 

Picture of Dorian Gray

The Ballad of Reading Gaol 

Humanitad 

The Plague 

Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka

The Waste Land

The Communist Manifesto

No Exit and Three Other Plays

Seven Stories (Chekhov)

Gulliver’s Travels

Speak, Memory

Despair 

Lolita

Paradise Lost

Doctor Faustus 

Selected Short Stories: Nabokov 

Doctor Faustus 

Pale Fire

No Exit

Blood Meridian 

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Transparent Things

The Island of Doctor Moreau

2016 (44 books):

M Train

The Elephant Man

I am Malala 

Heart of Darkness

The Dead

Robinson Crusoe 

She Stoops to Conquer 

The Metamorphosis 

The Stranger

A Feast of Crows

Mother Courage 

Voznesensky selected poems

Pride and Prejudice 

Girl in a Band

Benito Cereno

Jane Eyre

Death of a Salesman  

Yes Please

Song of Achilles

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Henry IV pt. 1

The Rover

Macbeth

Fantomina

Oroonoko

Twelfth Night

She Stoops to Conquer

Evelina 

A Mother

The Secret Sharer 

The Outsider

Henry V

Beowulf

A Modest Proposal

The Shirley Letters

The Future of Life

Faust

The Harvest Gypsies

Big Sur

Born Standing Up

Call of the Wild

Oroonoko

Paradise Lost

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

2015 (23 books):

Tuesdays with Morrie

1984

Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters

Seymour an Introduction

Orange is the New Black

Journey into Mohawk Country

The Scarlet Letter

Abina

Mendoza the Jew

Fahrenheit 451

Marzi

The Sun Also Rises

Bossy Pants

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl who Played with Fire

Classical Myth

The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

Go Set a Watchmen

The Iliad

The Odyssey 

Rosemary’s Baby

The Aeneid

Just Kids

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