My Reading List

January 2012

2012-01-07T22:22:00.005-05:00

1) Gold Coast Elmore Leonard
2) Animal Farm George Orwell
3) This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald
4) The Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick
5) American Lion Jon Meacham
6) Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome
7) Edward Hopper Ivo Kranzfelder

December 2011

2011-12-10T05:18:00.005-05:00

1) Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
2) The Last Founding Father (James Monroe) Harlow Giles Unger
3) The French Revolution A Very Short Introduction William Doyle
4) The Sisters Brothers Patrick DeWitt
5) Love in the Ruins Walker Percy
6) John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life Paul C Nagle
7) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
8) The Orchard Keeper Cormac McCarthy

November 2011

2011-11-28T01:26:00.003-05:00

1) American Sphinx Joseph J. Ellis
2) Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow
3) Home and Away Rachel Wetesteon
4) James Madison Richard Brookheiser
5) The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break Steven Sherill
6) The Jaguar Hunter Lucius Shepard
7) Founding Brothers Joseph J. Ellis

October 2011

2011-10-19T13:58:00.003-04:00

1) Washington Ron Chernow
2) Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
3) Starwater Strains Gene Wolfe
4) 77 Dream Songs John Berryman
5) Split Images Elmore Leonard
6) John Adams David McCullough
7) The Bible Repairman Tim Powers

September 2011

2011-09-03T13:43:00.004-04:00

1) Castleview Gene Wolfe
2) The Comedians Graham Greene
3) A History of the American People Paul Johnson
4) Black Swan Green David Mitchell
5) Nuclear Dawn James P. Delgado
6) The Book of the Dun Cow Walter Wangerin

August 2011

2011-08-04T13:40:00.008-04:00

1) The secret agent Joseph Conrad
2) Despair Vladimir Nabokov
3) Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
4) The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories Angela Carter
5) The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John Le Carre
6) Skippy Dies Paul Murray
7) The Magician King Lev Grossman
8) Outer Dark Cormac McCarthy
9) A Fine and Private Place Peter S Beagle
10)Godric Frederick Buechner
11) The Big Bounce Elmore Leonard

July 2011

2011-07-18T19:56:00.004-04:00

1)The Last Gentleman Walker Percy
2)A Soldier of the Great War Mark Helprin
3)A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan
4)Stories Ed. Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio
5)How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Charles Yu
6) Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler
7) The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien
8) All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren
9) The Sunset Limited Cormac McCarthy
10) The Human Factor Graham Greene
11) Shriek: An Afterward Jeff Vandermeer

June 2011

2011-06-12T17:17:00.003-04:00

1) A Fire in the Sun George Alec Effinger
2) The Wizard's Tide Frederick Buechner
3) The Exile's Kiss George Alec Effinger
4) Djibouti Elmore Leonard
5) Devil in the White City Erik Larson
6) Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain

May 2011

2011-05-13T12:59:00.006-04:00

1) Til We Have Faces CS Lewis
2) The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet David Mitchell
3) Walking to Martha's Vineyard Franz Wright
4) Guns, Germs and Steel Jared Diamond
5) The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson
6) The Crossing Cormac McCarthy
7) Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown
8) Cities of the Plain Cormac McCarthy
9) When Gravity Fails George Alec Effinger

April 2010

2011-04-10T15:20:00.005-04:00

1) Winter's Tale Mark Helprin
2) The Moonshine War Elmore Leonard
3) Last Call Tim Powers
4) Sleepwalk with Me Mike Birbiglia
5) Dog of the South Charles Portis
6) Beyond Good and Evil Freiderich Neitzsche
7) The Bounty Hunters Elmore Leonard

March 2011

2011-03-13T14:03:00.004-04:00

1) Nova Samuel Delany
2) Speak Memory Vladimir Nabokov
3) The End of the Affair Graham Greene
4) The Winter's Tale Shakespeare
5) The Greater Trumps Charles Williams

February 2011

2011-02-05T11:13:00.004-05:00

1) Blue Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
2) Nausea Jean Paul Sartre
3) The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolano
4) Winter's Bone Daniel Woodrell
5) The Moviegoer Walker Percy
6) The Kid Stays in the Picture Robert Evans

January 2011

2011-01-10T17:51:00.007-05:00

1) Zombie Spaceship Wasteland Patton Oswalt
2) Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William Shirer
3) Anathem Neal Sephenson
4) On Stranger Tides Tim Powers
5) All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
6) Tinkers Paul Harding
7) Last Call Daniel Okrent

December 2010

2010-12-08T17:13:00.008-05:00

1) The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood
2) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon
3) The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Graham
4) Sula Toni Morrison
5) True Grit Charles Portis
6) The Switch Elmore Leonard
7) Comfort to the Enemy Elmore Leonard
8) Carter Beats the Devil Glen David Gold

November 2010

2010-11-08T10:22:00.007-05:00

1) Parable of the Sower Octavia Butler
2) Great Expectations Charles Dickens
3) Cry the Beloved Country Alan Paton
4) Green Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
5) A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
6) Godric Frederick Buechner

October 2010

2010-10-10T13:25:00.005-04:00

1) Calde of the Long Sun Gene Wolfe
2) Finch Jeff Vandermeer
3) Age of Anxiety WH Auden
4) The Glory and the Dream v.1 William Manchester
5) The Wordy Shipmates Sarah Vowell
6) The Glory and the Dream William Manchester
7) Pattern Recognition William Gibson

September 2010

2010-09-04T23:13:00.006-04:00

1) Manhood for Amateur Michael Chabon
2) Light in August William Faulkner
3) Nightside: The Long Sun Gene Wolfe
4) Lake of the Long Sun Gene Wolfe
5) The Histories Herodotus
6) Last Days of Innocence Susie and Meiron Harries

August 2010

2010-08-09T15:56:00.010-04:00

1) The Abstinence Teacher Tom Perrotta
2) The Color Purple Alice Walker
3) City of Saints and Madmen Jeff Vandermeer
4) Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco
5) Literary Feuds by Anthony Arthur
6) Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry
7) The World Beneath Aaron Gwyn
8) Money Martin Amis
9) Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
10) The Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler
11) The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow

July 2010

2010-07-01T03:29:00.006-04:00

1) Pagan Babies Elmore Leonard
2) War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
3) By Night in Chile Roberto Bolano
4) VALIS Philip K Dick
5) The Demolished Man Alfred Bester
6) What is the What Dave Eggers

June 2010

2010-06-05T20:39:00.005-04:00

1) Lord of Light Roger Zelazny
2) How to Travel With a Salmon Umberto Eco
3) A Gun for Sale (This Gun for Hire) Graham Greene
4) The Forever War Joe Haldeman
5) So Brave, Young, and Handsome Leif Enger
6) 100 Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez

May 2010

2010-05-06T09:25:00.006-04:00

1) Perdido Street Station China Mieville
2) Orthodoxy GK Chesterton
3) Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson
4) Fever Pitch Nick Hornby
5) The Ghost in Love Jonathan Carroll
6) Chronic City Jonathan Lethem
7) Til We Have Faces CS Lewis

April 2010

2010-04-06T11:18:00.000-04:00

1) Tales of Old Earth Michael SwanWick
2) The Quiet American Graham Greene
3) Dinner at Deviant's Palace Tim Powers
4) Selected Poems Robert Lowell
5) Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
6) Oriental Express (Stamboul Train) Graham Greene
7) Housekeeping Marilyn Robinson

March 2010

2010-03-16T09:02:00.000-04:00

1) The Wizard Gene Wolfe
2) Quiver Peter Leonard
3) The Trial Franz Kafka
4) The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury
5) Pnin Vladimir Nabakov
6) The Sorcerer's House Gene Wolfe
7) Herzog Saul Bellow
8) Three Days Til Never Tim Powers

February 2010

2010-02-15T17:36:00.000-05:00

1)Broom of the System David Foster Wallace
2)Wild Seed Octavia Butler
3)Kindred Octavia Butler
4)Colonel Rutherford's Colt Lucius Shepard
5)The Knight Gene Wolfe
6) The Moviegoer. Walker Percy
7) The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Kate Dicamillo

January 2010

2010-01-10T17:00:00.000-05:00

1) Moby Dick Herman Melville
2) Our Man in Havanna Graham Greene
3) Gates of Eden Ethan Coen
4) The Windup Girl Paolo Bacigalupi
5) Samaritan Richard Price

December 2009

2009-12-03T09:10:00.000-05:00

1) The Stress of Her Regard Tim Powers
2) Good Omens Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
3) The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
4) Killing Yourself to Live Chuck Klosterman
5) Fragile Things Neil Gaiman
6) The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson
7) A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Donald Miller
8) Louisiana Breakdown Lucius Shepard

November 2009

2009-11-05T08:57:00.001-05:00

1) The Ladies of Grace Adieu Susanna Clarke
2) Brief Interviews With Hideous Men David Foster Wallace
3) The Deep Blue Good By John D MacDonald
4) Steampunk Ed. Ann and Jeff Vandermeer
5) The Dog Said Bow-Wow Michael Swanwick
6) Cigar Box Faust and other Miniatures Michael Swanwick
7) Two Trains Running Lucius Shepard

October 2009

2009-10-09T14:13:00.000-04:00

1) A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
2) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian Sherman Alexie
3) Juliet, Naked Nick Hornby
4) The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich Philip K. Dick
5) Shakespeare Wrote for Money Nick Hornby
6) Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro

September 2009

2009-09-06T02:58:00.000-04:00

1) Nobody Move Denis Johnson
2) Girl in Landscape Jonathan Lethem
3) The Magicians Lev Grossman
4) Be Cool Elmore Leonard

August 2009

2009-08-09T14:01:00.000-04:00

1) Meditations from a Moveable Chair Andre Dubuse
2) No Country For Old Men Cormac McCarthy
3) Metamorphosis and other Stories Kafka & Guy De Maupassant
4) Chronicles Vol 1 Bob Dylan
5) When the Women Come Out to Dance Elmore Leonard

July 2009

2009-07-05T16:08:00.001-04:00

1) Consider the Lobster David Foster Wallace
2) The Disappointment Artist Jonathan Lethem
3) Sandman Book of Dreams Ed. by Neil Gaiman and Ed Kramer
4) The whole Joss Whedon run of Astonishing X-Men (4 graphic Novels)
5) Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
6) Peace Gene Wolfe
7) Unpublished Manuscript Katie Baker

June 2009

2009-07-05T16:06:00.000-04:00

1) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Seth Graham-Smith
2) The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman

May 2009

2009-05-09T16:13:00.000-04:00

1) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Philip K Dick
2) The Stars My Destination Alfred Bester
3) Pronto Elmore Leonard
4) Road Dogs Elmore Leonard
5) American Gods Neil Gaiman

April 2009

2009-04-25T02:31:00.000-04:00

1) The Moviegoer Walker Percy
2) The Lost City of Z David Grann
3) The Best of Gene Wolfe Gene Wolfe

March 2009

2009-03-06T20:01:00.000-05:00

1) Orthodoxy GK Chesterton

February 2009

2009-02-13T13:30:00.000-05:00

1) Practical Help for New Supervisors
2) A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
3) Lush Life Richard Price
4) Beluthahatchie and other stories Andy Duncan

January 2009

2009-01-11T10:11:00.000-05:00

1) The Moviegoer Walker Percy
2) The Last Unicorn Peter Beagle
3) King Lear
4) The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler
5) A Room With a View EM Forster

December 2008

2008-12-04T00:38:00.001-05:00

1) Tishomingo Blues Elmore Leonard
2) Riding the Rap Elmore Leonard
3) American Pastoral Philip Roth
4) Zuckerman Unbound Philip Roth
5) Friends of Eddie Coyle George V. Higgins
6) A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway
7) First 6 Fables Graphic Novels
8) Distant Star Roberto Bolano

November 2008

2008-11-03T06:28:00.000-05:00

1) Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman
2) first three Buffy Season 8 Graphic Novels Joss Whedon
3) Five Seasons of Angel Ed. Glenn Yefferth

October 2008

2008-10-04T01:04:00.000-04:00

1) An Evil Guest Gene Wolfe
2) The first 6 Sandman Graphic Novels Neil Gaiman
3) A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
4) Shopgirl Steve Martin
5) The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman
6) the last five Sandman Graphic Novels Neil Gaiman
7) Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Susanna Clarke
8) I Rant, Therefore I Am Dennis Miller

September 2008

2008-09-04T02:45:00.001-04:00

1) Watchmen and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 1&2 Alan Moore
2) Last Call Tim Powers
3) Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy
4) Godric Frederick Buechner
5) The Prestige Christopher Priest
6) Til We Have Faces CS Lewis
7) Ubik Phillip K Dick
8) Killshot Elmore Leonard

August 2008

2008-08-06T21:44:00.000-04:00

1) Storeys from the Old Hotel Gene Wolfe
2) In Cold Blood Truman Capote
3) The Etched City KJ Bishop
4) Dead Beat Jim Butcher
5) Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
6) When You are Engulfed in Flames David Sedaris
7) The Hot Kid Elmore Leonard

July 2008

2008-07-06T21:36:00.000-04:00

1) Drown Junot Diaz
2) Lush Life Richard Price
3) The Shack William P. Young
4) Glengarry Glenn Ross: A Play David Mamet
5) Strange Travelers Gene Wolfe

June 2008

2008-06-05T22:24:00.000-04:00

1) Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Susanna Clarke
2) Maps and Legends Michael Chabon
3) Prelude to Planet Hulk, Planet Hulk, World War Hulk (8 Graphic Novels)
4) Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
5) Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim David Sedaris
6) The Resurrectionist Jack O'Connell
7) Winesburg Ohio Sherwood Anderson
8) The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner

May 2008

2008-05-23T00:55:00.003-04:00

1) On Stranger Tides Tim Powers
2) Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem
3) Mao II Don DeLillo
4) Hombre Elmore Leonard
5) Freaky Deaky Elmore Leonard

April 2008

2008-04-04T07:59:00.000-04:00

1) To Hate Like This is to be Happy Forever Will Blythe
2) Altered Carbon Richard K Morgan
3) BFI TV Classics Buffy the Vampire Slayer Anne Billson
4) Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem
5) Finding Serenity ed. Jane Espenson
6) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz
7) Lost in the Cosmos Walker Percy

March 2008

2008-03-06T17:55:00.000-05:00

1) Swag Elmore Leonard
2) Anubis Gates Tim Powers
2.25) Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing Elmore Leonard
2.5) Marse Chan, A Tale of Old Virginia Thomas Nelson Page
3) There are Doors Gene Wolfe
4) The Final Solution Michael Chabon
5) Everything the Way it Was Sarah Bankston (MFA Thesis, poetry collection)
6) Nightside of the Long Sun Gene Wolfe
7) Lake of the Long Sun Gene Wolfe

February 2008

2008-02-03T12:02:00.000-05:00

1) Screenplay of Being John Malkovich by Charlie Kaufman
2) Strange Itineraries by Tim Powers
3) Brighten the Corner Where You Are Fred Chappell
4) Stardust Neil Gaiman
5) Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman
6) The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov
7) Till We Have Faces CS Lewis
8) The Fall of Hyperion Dan Simmons

January 2008

2008-01-04T23:29:00.001-05:00

1) Last Call Tim Powers
2) Declare Tim Powers
3) Up in Honey's Room Elmore Leonard
4) Soldier of Arete Gene Wolfe
5) Soldier of Sidon Gene Wolfe
6) Orthodoxy GK Chesterton
7) Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Chuck Barris
8) Hyperion Dan Simmons
9) Screenplay for "O Brother Where Art Thou?" Joel and Ethan Coen
10) The Cambridge Companion to Donne Edited by Achsah Guibbory

December 2007

2007-12-03T07:13:00.001-05:00

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

November 2007

2007-11-12T21:22:00.000-05:00

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

October 2007

2007-10-03T07:46:00.001-04:00

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

September 2007

2007-09-05T03:46:00.000-04:00

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

August 2007

2007-08-07T13:06:00.000-04:00

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

July 2007

2007-07-02T16:52:00.000-04:00

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

June 2007

2007-06-05T17:51:00.000-04:00

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

May 2007

2007-05-04T09:33:00.000-04:00

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

April 2007

2007-04-22T23:04:00.000-04:00

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

March 2007

2007-03-02T05:18:00.000-05:00

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

Feb. 2007

2007-02-08T03:16:00.000-05:00

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

January 2007

2007-01-05T23:34:00.001-05:00

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

2002-2006

2006-12-19T03:28:00.000-05:00

2002

January
1 The Two Towers JRR Tolkien
2 Orthodoxy GK Chesterton
3 Christianity for Modern Pagans Peter Kreeft
4 Lost in the Cosmos Walker Percy
5 The Brethren John Grisham
6 ‘Tis Frank McCourt
7 Franny and Zooey JD Salinger

February
8 Too Christian Too Pagan Dick Staub
9 The Horse and His Boy CS Lewis
10 Farenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
11 American Pastoral Philip Roth
12 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard
13 Prince Caspian CS Lewis
14 Perelandra CS Lewis
15 Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
16 Voyage of the Dawn Treader CS Lewis

March
17 Light in the Shadow of Jihad Ravi Zacharias
18 Best Short Stories Dostoevsky
19 Long Journey Home Os Guiness
20 The Complete Stories Flannery O’Conner
21 Otherland Vol. 1 Tad Williams
22 Wild at Heart John Eldredge
23 Hollywood vs. America Michael Medved
24 The Temple George Herbert

April
25 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
26 An Altogether Different Language Anne Porter
27 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
28 The Restaurant at the end of the Universe Douglas Adams
29 Life the Universe and Everything Douglas Adams
30 So Long and Thanks for all the Fish Douglas Adams
31 Mostly Harmless Douglas Adams
32 The Mysteries of Pittsburgh Michael Chabon
33 Selected Poems TS Elliot
34 The Everlasting Man GK Chesterton

May
35 Mystery and Manners Flannery O’Conner
36 Bridges With Spirit Adam Voith
37 Teaching a Stone to Talk Annie Dillard
38 The Myth of Certainty Daniel Taylor
39 Soul Survivor Phillip Yancey
40 Art and the Bible Francis Schaffer
41 Brendan Frederick Buechner
42 Making Sense Out of Suffering Peter Kreeft

June
43 Wonder Boys Michael Chabon
44 Mere Christianity CS Lewis
45 The Four Loves CS Lewis
46 Grace at Bender Springs Vinita Hampton Wright
47 Till We Have Faces CS Lewis
48 Telling the Truth Frederick Buechner
49 The Great Divorce CS Lewis

July
50 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
51 Philosophers Who Believe James Kelly Clark
52 Lion Country Frederick Buechner
53 About a Boy Nick Hornby
54 Selected Poetry WH Auden
55 Your God is Too Small JB Phillips

August
56 Up From Slavery Booker T Washington
57 Socrates Meets Jesus Peter Kreeft
58 How to be Good Nick Hornby
59 An American Childhood Annie Dillard
60 Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
61 The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
62 Open Heart Frederick Buechner

September
63 Sense and Sensuality Ravi Zacharias
64 East of Eden John Steinbeck
65 Love Covers Paul Billheimer
66 The Short Stories Earnest Hemingway
67 Holy the Firm Annie Dillard
68 Lord of the Flies William Golding
69 Love in the Ruins Walker Percy
70 The Divine Conspiracy Dallas Willard

October
71 White Noise Don Delillo
72 Free Bird Greg Garrett
73 The Silver Chair CS Lewis
74 Pensees Blaise Pascal
75 Summerland Michael Chabon
76 Empire Falls Richard Russo
77 The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius
78 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
79 The Last Battle CS Lewis
80 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
81 Shadow Puppets Orson Scott Card

November
82 Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safron Foer
83 Tally Ho the Fox Herb Hodges
84 The Heaven of Mercury Brad Watson
85 Orthodoxy G K Chesterton
86 The Muse Asylum David Czuchlewski
87 The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
88 The Christian Imagination ed. Leland Ryken
89 Peace Like a River Leif Enger
90 How to be Alone Jonathan Franzen

December
91 The Fellowship of the Ring JRR Tolkien
92 Signposts in a Strange Land Walker Percy
93 Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
94 Wise Blood Flannery O’Connor
95 Lancelot Walker Percy
96 Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut
97 The Two Towers JRR Tolkien
98 Goodbye, Columbus Phillip Roth
99 For the Time Being Annie Dillard
100 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
101 Fear and Trembling Soren Kierkegaard

2003 reading list

January
1 Leaving Ruin Jeff Berryman
2 High Fidelity Nick Hornby
3 Me Talk Pretty Some Day Dave Sedaris
4 The Princess Bride William Goldman
5 Lullaby Chuck Palahniuk
6 How to Win the Culture War Peter Kreeft
7 Underworld Don DeLelillo

February
8 Rich Mullins: an arrow pointing to heaven James Bryan Smith
9 On the Road Jack Kerouac
10 About a Boy Nick Hornby
11 Love Feast Frederick Buechner
12 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers
13 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway

March
14 Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow
15 Best of “The Public Square” Vol. 2 Richard John Neuhaus

April
16 Letters to a Young Conservative Dinesh D’Souza
17 Forbidden Knowledge Roger Shattuck
18 9 Stories JD Salinger

May
19 The Last Gentleman Walker Percy
20 The Place of the Lion Charles Williams
21 The Chosen Chaim Potok

June
22 Life of Pi Yann Martel
23 Making all Things New Henry Nouwen
24 The Air I Breathe Louie Giglio
25 Waking the Dead John Eldredge

August

26 The Second Coming Walker Percy
27 The Thanatos Syndrome Walker Percy
28 Recapture the Wonder Ravi Zacharias
29 Treasure Hunt Frederick Buechner

September

30 A Short Life of Kierkegaard Walter Lowrie
31 Timequake Kurt Vonnegut
32 I am one of you forever Fred Chappell
33 Holes Louis Sachar

October
34 The Moviegoer Walker Percy
35 Walking Across Egypt Clyde Edgerton
36 Cannery Row John Steinbeck
37 The Optimist’s Daughter Eudora Welty
38 Mike Nelson’s Movie Mega-Cheese Michael J Nelson
39 Screwtape Letters CS Lewis
40 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
41 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
42 Till We Have Faces CS Lewis

November
43 Peace like a River Lief Enger
44 Mike Nelson’s Death Rat Michael J Nelson
45 Songbook Nick Hornby
46 The Return of the King JRR Tolkien

December
47 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
48 In the Beauty of the Lilies John Updike
49 Rabbit Run John Updike
50 The End of Christendom Malcolm Muggeridge

2004

January
1 Patrick Stephen R Lawhead
2 Confessions of a 20th Century Pilgrim Malcolm Muggeridge
3 Big Fish Daniel Wallace
4 The Final Beast Frederick Buechner

February

5 The Message in the Bottle Walker Percy
6 Lost in the Cosmos Walker Percy
7 The Violent Bear It Away Flannery O’Connor
8 The Fourth Hand John Irving

March

9 My Name Is Asher Lev Chaim Potok
10 The World According to Garp John Irving
11 Fight Club Chuck Palanhiuk
12 Dog on the Cross Aaron Gwyn
13 The Second Coming Walker Percy

April
14 Selected Poems William Carlos Williams 5
15 The Habit of Being Flannery O’Connor
16 McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales Ed. by Michael Chabon
17 Bandits Elmore Leonard
18 Touch Elmore Leonard
19 Rum Punch Elmore Leonard

May
20 Godric Frederick Buechner
21 10 stories from “A Malamud Reader” Bernard Malamud
22 Sacred Dennis Lehane
23 Knowing God JI Packer
24 The White Bone Barbara Gowdy
25 A Drink Before the War Dennis Lehane
26 Gone, Baby, Gone Dennis Lehane
27 The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare
28 Orthodoxy GK Chesterton

June
29 Your God is too Safe Mark Buchanon
30 The Practice of the Presence of God Brother Lawrence
31 Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim David Sedaris
32 The Locklear Letters Michael Kun

July
33 The Normal Christian Life Watchman Nee

August
34 Leave it to Psmith PG Wodehouse

September
35 The correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
36 The Magic Christian Terry Southern
37 Walker Percy: A Life Patrick Samway

October
38 Three Ted Dekker
39 Blue Like Jazz Donald Miller
40 Neuropolitics William Connelly

November
41 The Life You Save May be Your Own Paul Elie
42 Mr Paradise Elmore Leonard
43 The Storm Frederick Buechner
44 Searching for God Knows What Donald Miller

December
45 The Minority Report and other stories Phillip K Dick
46 The Inklings Humphrey Carpenter
47 the bad beginning lemony snicket
48 515 Readings: A Cyborg Manifesto donna haraway, 6 chapters from How We
Became Posthuman Katherine Hayles, 3 chapters from “Wonder and the Natural order” daston and parks. 2 chapters from Physics and Philosophy Werner Heisenburg
49 The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem
50 Ariel Sylvia Plath

2005

January
1 Gun, With Occasional Music Jonathan Letham
2 The Polysyllabic Spree Nick Hornby
3 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
4 Incidents in the life of a slave girl Harriet Jacobs
5 The writing Life Annie Dillard

February
6 From the deep woods to civilization Charles Eastman
7 Black Boy Richard Wright
8 Lunch Poems Frank O’Hara
9 Inventing the Truth Ed. Zinser
10 One Writer’s Beginning Eudora Welty
11 An American Childhood Annie Dillard

March/April
12 Ararat Louise Gluck
13 The Desire to Heal Rafael Campo
14 Steal Away CD Wright
15 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
16 The Things They Carried Tim O’ Brien
17 The Night World and The Word Night Franz Wright
18 Walking to Martha’s Vineyard Franz Wright
19 Jesus Son Denis Johnson

May
20 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
21 Selections from: Wallace Stevens, WH Auden, Phillip Larkin, Elizabeth Bishop,
John Ashberry for a poetry class
22 Ignatius Rising Nevils and Hardy
23 Godric Frederick Buechner

June
24 The Moviegoer Walker Percy

July/August
25 Tales of the Kingdom David and Karen Mains
Tales of the resistance
Tales of the Restoration
26 God’s New Creation Jack Taylor
27 Mystic River Dennis Lehane
28 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
29 Jesus’ Son Denis Johnson
30 Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem
31 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone JK Rowling

SEPTEMBER
32 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets JK Rowling
33 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azcaban JK Rowling
34 Angels Denis Johnson
35 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire JK Rowling
36 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince JK Rowling
37 Amnesia Moon Jonathan Lethem
38 Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Susanna Clark
39 Stargirl Jerry Spinelli
40 Intruder in the Dust William Faulker
41 City Primeval Elmore Leonard

OCTOBER
42 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway

November
43 The Knowledge of the Holy AW Tozer
44 Cuba Libre Elmore Leonard
45 A Supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again David Foster Wallace

December
46 Franny and Zooey JD Salinger
47 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
48 Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card
49 Speaker for the dead Orson Scott Card
50 foucault for beginners

2006
1 She’s Come Undone Wally Lamb
2 Total Truth Nancy Pearcy
3 Glitz Elmore Leonard
4 Resusitation of a hanged man Denis Johnson

Feb.

5 On the Road with the Archangel Frederic Buechner
6 The disappointment artist Jonathan Lethem
7 THe 3 stigmata of Palmer Eldrich Philip K Dick
8 Brighton Rock Graham Greene
9 The power and the glory Graham Greene
10 American Gods Neil Gaiman
11 catch 22 Joseph Heller

March

12. The man in the High Castle Philip K Dick
13 Milkweed Jerry Spinelli
14 Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
15 Neverwhere Neil Gaiman
16 As She Climbed Across the Table Jonathan Lethem
17 Coraline Neil Gaiman
18 Walking from East to West Ravi Zacharias
19 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy
20 A Reader’s Manifesto B Myers
21 Good Omens Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett

April
22 Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman
23 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
24 Spirits Rebellious Kahlil Gibram
25 To Hate Like this is to be happy forever Will Blythe
26 Smoke and Mirrors Neil Gaiman
27 The Beforelife Franz Wright

May
28 Lolita Vladamir Nabokov
29 first 4 Sandman Graphic novels Neil Gaiman
30 God’s Silence Franz Wright
31 Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem
32 Bone (the complete one volume) Jeff Smith

June
33 The Man Who Was Thursday GK Chesterton
34 The Fifth Head of Cerberus Gene Wolfe
35 Rorschach Test Franz Wright
36 the second four Sandman Graphic novels Neil Gaiman
37 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare

38 The rest of the Sandman stuff
(the last 2 graphic novels, Endless Nights
the Death Graphic novels and dream hunters) Neil Gaiman
39 late wife Claudia Emerson
40 The Club of Queer Trades GK Chesterton
41 July, July Tim O’Brien
42 The Hot Kid Elmore Leonard
43 The Wooden Sea Jonathan Carroll

July
44 Bones of the Moon Jonathan Carroll
45 Sleeping in Flame Jonathan Carroll
46 Girl in Landscape Jonathan Lethem
47 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
48 The Moviegoer Walker Percy

August
49 Watchmen Alan Moore
50 Portable Blake (480 pages at least) William Blake/ ed. Alfred Kazin
51 On Wollstonecraft Patricia A Johnson
52 Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman
53 utopia Thomas More
54 Utopia Thomas More

September
55 The Wrongs of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft
56 Selections for Eng. 550 (historical stuff and Wordsworth)
57 The Apology for Poetry Philip Sydney
58 Out of Sight Elmore Leonard
59 Fragile Things Neil Gaiman

October
60 Lots of Coleridge for Eng. 550 and some extra and selected readings on slavery

61 Fiskadoro Denis Johnson
62 The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Name of the World Denis Johnson
64 Mansfield Park Jane Austen
65 Bend Sinister Vladimir Nabokov
66 Housekeeping Vs. The Dirt Nick Hornby

November/December
67 Frankenstein Mary Shelley
68/69 The Sandman Graphic Novels Neil Gaiman
70 Mathilda Mary Shelley
71 The Cenci Percy Shelley
72 most of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and
Don Juan for class Byron
73 American Gods Neil Gaiman
74 Darkly Dreaming Dexter Jeff Lindsay
75 6 Scholarly articles about Coleridge and Wordsworth
76 The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories by Gene Wolfe
77 There are Doors Gene Wolfe