Encore Provence by Peter Mayle.The Four Agreements with Companion Special Edition by Don Miguel Ruiz.
Sex and the Psychic Witch by Annette Blair.
Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell. (18 April 2008)
The Portable Dorothy Parker edited and with an introduction by Marion Meade. (7 March 2008)
St. Mawr and The Man Who Died by D. H. Lawrence. (25 February 2008)
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson. (29 January 2008)
The Literary Lover: Great Stories of Passion and Romance edited and with an introduction by Larry Dark. (20 January 2008)
The Collected Stories by Paul Theroux. (1 January 2008)
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell. Edited by Elizabeth Porges Watson, with an introduction and notes by Charlotte Mitchell.
The Great Gatsby: The Authorized Text by F. Scott Fitzgerald. With notes and preface by Mathew J. Bruccoli.
The Fox by D. H. Lawrence.
The Strange History of Suzanne LaFleshe {and Other Stories of Women and Fatness} edited by Susan Koppelman. Foreword by Alix Kates Shulman.
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.
Wives and Daughters: An Every-Day Story by Elizabeth Gaskell. Introduction and notes by Pam Morris.
The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Morrison and Chris Baldick.
Lois the Witch by Elizabeth Gaskell. Foreword by Jenny Uglow.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- Life, the Universe and Everything
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- Young Zaphod Plays It Safe
- Mostly Harmless
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, edited by Herbert Rosengarten with an introduction by Margaret Smith.
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle with an introduction by Michael Crichton and Diane Johnson and notes by Julia Houston.
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton with an introduction by Diane Johnson and notes by Benjamin Dreyer. 26 April 2007.
The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel. (I don't have the heart to put this under nonfiction.) 11 April 2007.
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy and edited and with an introduction and notes by Simon Gatrell.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Tales of New York by Stephen Crane; edited with an introduction by Larzer Ziff with the assistance of Theo Davis.
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert H. Weinberg, and Martin H. Greenberg.
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë with a memoir of her sisters by Charlotte Brontë and an introduction by Angeline Goreau.
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles.
The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth.
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories edited by Al Sarrantonio and Martin H. Greenberg.
The Complete Claudine by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette.
- Claudine at School
- Claudine in Paris
- Claudine Married
- Claudine and Annie
The Oxford Book of Short Stories edited by V. S. Pritchett.
The Green Dwarf: A Tale of the Perfect Tense by Charlotte Brontë.
Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex edited by Melvin Jules Bukiet.
A Spy in the House of Love by Anaïs Nin.
Notes from Antproof Case by Mark Helprin.
The Penguin Book of Erotic Stories by Women edited by Richard Glyn Jones and A. Susan Williams.
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds.
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian.
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père.
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence.
Lieutenant Hornblower by C. S. Forester.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.
The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley.
Erogenous Zones: An Anthology of Sex Abroad edited by Lucretia Stewart.
Beloved by Toni Morrison.
The Woman Who Lives in the Earth: A Novel by Swain Wolfe.
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton.
Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West.
Zitkala-Sa: American Indian Stories, Legends and Other Writings edited by Cathy N. Davidson and Ada Norris.
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons.
The Virgin and the Gipsy by D. H. Lawrence.
The Reef by Edith Wharton.
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.
Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life by Gustave Flaubert; translated by Francis Steegmuller.
American Gothic Stories edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
The Collected Stories of Colette edited, and with an introduction by, Robert G. Phelps.
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje.
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence.
My Ántonia by Willa Cather.
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.
Nothing but You: Love Stories from the New Yorker edited by Roger Angell.
Middlemarch by George Eliot.
Victorian Love Stories: An Oxford Anthology edited by Kate Flint.
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday; illustrated by Al Momaday.
Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates.
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday.
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.
In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages by Hella S. Haasse.
Little Birds by Anaïs Nin.
Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin.
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence.
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. See also the Keirsey site for an analysis of Advocate-Idealist Newland Archer (ENFP).
The Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams. An erotic (and out-of-print) ghost story.
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. The retelling of the Matter of Britain from the perspective of the women in Arthur's life. A very interesting read juxtaposed with How the Irish Saved Civilization.
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence. Not exactly as well written as I'd thought it would be. Certainly an interesting commentary on industrial life (if that's what it can be called) through the eyes of two unlikely lovers.
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. This, along with Death Comes for the Archbishop and A Room with a View, are on the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels—which is disappointly pretty bare of non-Anglo American writers, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez. My reading them is pure coincidence, I assure you. Someone talked me into this one, with its upbeat ending. <g>
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.
Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather.
Song of the Lark by Willa Cather.
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather.
Voice of the Turtle: American Indian Literature 1900-1970 edited by Paula Gunn Allen.
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster. I have no idea why; picked it up somewhere (after paying, of course, silly) for some reason and figured why not? I also watched the movie, which was consistent with the book in that Freddy Honeychurch is the most likable character. :)
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C. S. Forester. Not literature, not particularly thought provoking—but I admit that the Gregory Peck and A&E movies have intrigued me a bit, and it's been a long time since I read something goofy for fun. :) I enjoyed very much how HH is always on the verge of danger, death, and destruction, but survives for yet another 10 books. ;)
Spider Woman's Granddaughters edited by Paula Gunn Allen. The interesting thing is that, while I love most of the stories, the one I don't like is Paula Gunn Allen's own, "Deep Purple." The rest are very compelling, very moving . . .
The Best of Slate: A 10th Anniversary Anthology edited by David Plotz. (4 May 2008
America in 1492: The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus edited by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich.
Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony by Lee Miller.
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman.
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by Russell Shorto.
The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age by Christopher Hibbert.
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston.
The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time by Matthew Fox.
The Mainstream of Civilization to 1715, Sixth Edition by Stanley Chodorow, MacGregor Knox, Conrad Schirokauer, Joseph R. Strayer, and Hans W. Gatzke.
A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors by Michael Farquhar.
The Goddess Within: A Guide to the Myths that Shape Women's Lives by Jennifer Barker Woolger and Roger J. Woolger.
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston.
Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet by Fritz Redlich, M.D.
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson.
The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues by Susan Griffin.
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis.
Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History by Barbara A. Hanawalt.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen.
Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones.
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil by Ron Rosenbaum.
Life in a Medieval Village by Frances and Joseph Gies.
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris.
On the Rez by Ian Frazier.
A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson.
The Highly Sensitive Person : How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.
The Pure and the Impure by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette.
Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood by Naomi Wolf.
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle.
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (although I am very tempted to put this under fiction).
Flat Rock Journal by Ken Carey.
How the Irish Saved Civilisation by Thomas Cahill. More interesting than anticipated; little credibility.
Defending Science—Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism by Susan Haack.The Tao of Love by Heng Cheng.
American Indian Literature: An Anthology (revised). Edited and with an introduction by Alan R. Velie. A treasure house, if you take the intros with a grain of salt (and substitute Paula Gunn Allen's perspectives on Native writings).
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