Monday, December 03, 2007

December 2007

1) Pirate Freedom Gene Wolfe
2) No Country For Old Men Cormac McCarthy
3) Pale Fire Vladimir Nabakov
4) Grave Peril Jim Butcher
5) Summer Knight Jim Butcher
6) Death Masks Jim Butcher
7) The Ghost Writer Philip Roth
8) Blood Rites Jim Butcher
9) Innocents Aboard Gene Wolfe
10) Born Standing Up Steve Martin

Monday, November 12, 2007

November 2007

1) The Weight of Glory CS Lewis
2) The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield
3) Storm Front Jim Butcher
4) The Horned Man James Lasdun
5) Fool Moon Jim Butcher
6) Soldier of the Mist Gene Wolfe
7) Fifth Head of Ceberus Gene Wolfe

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

October 2007

1) The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss
2) Tree of Smoke Denis Johnson

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

September 2007

1) A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh
2) Venus and Adonis (+ Asimov's background notes) Shakespeare
3) La Brava Elmore Leonard
4) The Postman Always Rings Twice James Cain
5) A Midsummer's Night Dream (+ Commentary) Shakespeare
6) 1984 George Orwell
7) Invitation to a Beheading Vladimir Nabokov

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

August 2007

1) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone JK Rowling
2) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets JK Rowling
3) Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman
4) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban JK Rowling
5) Godric Frederick Buechner
6) Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire JK Rowling

Monday, July 02, 2007

July 2007

1) various sonnets (@50 or so) by Auden, Lowell, Donne, Hopkins and Heaney
2) Blood Child and other stories by Octavia Butler
3) Wild Seed Octavia Butler
4) Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
5) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows JK Rowling
6) Gilead Marilynne Robinson

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

June 2007

1) Fictions/Artifices Jorge Luis Borges
2) Castle of the Otter Gene Wolfe
3) Lord of the Flies William Golding
4) North True, South Bright Dan Beachy-Smith
5) Ironweed William Kennedy

Friday, May 04, 2007

May 2007

1) The Road Cormac Mccarthy
2) A Grief Observed CS Lewis
3) Child of God Cormac Mccarthy
4) Get Shorty Elmore Leonard
5) The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon
6) The Moon is Down John Steinbeck

Sunday, April 22, 2007

April 2007

1) The Good Fairies of New York Martin Millar
2) Stick Elmore Leonard
3) five stories and a novella from the 2007 Hugo nominations.
Lord Weary's Empire (Novella), Michael Swanwick, How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neil Gaiman, Kin by Bruce McAllister, Impossible Dreams by Tim Pratt, Eight Episodes by Robert Reed, The House Beyond Your Sky by Benjamin Rosenbaum
4) No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy

Friday, March 02, 2007

March 2007

1)Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption Stephen King
2)A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway
3)In Another World (the new poems from "Living Things") Anne Porter
4)Graphic Novels Astro City Tarnished Angel and Secret Identity by Kurt Busiek, DC: The Next Frontier by Darwyn Cole, Nextwave Agents of HARM and Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer
5)Urth of the New Sun Gene Wolfe
6)You Don't Love Me Yet Jonathan Lethem
7)Figures for the Ghost Scott Cairns
8)Soldier of the Mist Gene Wolfe
9)A Universal History of Iniquity Jorge Luis Borges

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Feb. 2007

1) Laughter in the Dark Vladimir Nabokov
2) The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene

Friday, January 05, 2007

January 2007

1 Shadow of the Torturor Gene Wolfe
2 Claw of the Conciliator Gene Wolfe
3 Tabloid Dreams Robert Olen Butler
4 The Sword of the Lictor Gene Wolfe
5 Citadel of the Autarch Gene Wolfe
6 Glitz Elmore Leonard