****SPOILER FILLED EPISODE**** Here is a bonus episode in our series “Instagram Made Us Do It.” We discuss some very different opinions on this book and dive deep into Kendra’s devil fetish (August is not happy, but when is she ever?).
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Ep. O- Intro To Us
August’s Reading History (2020)
2020:
The Rainbow
The Glass Cell
The Testaments
Waiting for Godot
James Joyce (Ellmann biography)
The Value of James Joyce
Sophia
Nora Joyce (Maddox biography)
Women in Joyce
Joyce’s Letters
Ulysses, Order, and Myth
Puer Papers
Puer Aeternus
The Portable Jung
Bind, Torture, Kill
Mildred Pierce
Bleak House
The Bell Jar
Damned
Good Omens
Dylan Thomas: the Complete Poems
Just Kids
Allen Ginsberg: the Complete Poems
American Woman
Find Me
Beloved
The Sick Bag Song
If Beale Street Could Talk
Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Little Life
Real Life
Born a Crime
Go Tell it on the Mountain
The Flame
Between the World and Me
Say Nothing
The Vanishing Half
Sister Outsider
Circe
Citizen
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
The Nightingale
Becoming
Such a Fun Age
Hood Feminism
Dark Places
The Queen’s Gambit
The Devil All the Time
Little Fires Everywhere
American Utopia
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Things We Lost in the Fire (stories)
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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