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 Edith Wharton : a biography
 

by Lewis, R. W. B. (Richard Warrington Baldwin)
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 May 2007
 

Still Life With Chickens by Catherine Goldhammer

Timothy: Notes of an abject reptile by Verlyn Klinkenborg

Yes and No by Linda Tatelbaum

The Wild Girl by Chris Wormell

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 READING LIST 2007
 

Power Faith and Fantasy by Michel B. Oren
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
To the north by Elizabeth Bowen
The fifth queen /Ford Madox Ford
The 42nd parallel by Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970.
A passage to India by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.
The wings of the dove by James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Brideshead revisited : the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder : a novel
Brave new world /by Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.
The way of all flesh by Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902.
Henderson, the rain king by Bellow, Saul
Zuleika Dobson by Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956.
Remembrance of things past / [Marcel Proust] ; translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. by Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
Appointment in Samarra / John O'Hara.
Book of Saladin by Tariq Ali
Cloud Atlas : A Novel by DAVID MITCHELL
Crowds and Power By Elias Canetti
Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Red and the Black (1830) by Stendhal, born Marie-Henri Beyle
The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) by Stendhal, born Marie-Henri Beyle
The Second Sex, published in 1949, by Simone de Beauvoir
Book Row : An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade by Mondlin, Marvin The Hedgehog, the fox and the magistars pox: mending the gap between science and the humanities by Stephen Jay Gould

1) The Truth About Reference Librarians http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786402202/bibliofuture 2) The Truth About Catalogers http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786401036/bibliofuture 3) Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/083890680X/bibliofuture 4) Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570613818/bibliofuture A Venetian affair by Andrea Di Robilant Party of One by Anneli Rufus Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer a Man Who Would Cure The World by Tracy Kidder Farewell, My Queen by Chantal Thomas The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr The Confessions of Max Tivoli by : ANDREW SEAN GREER Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Sands of Time: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure by Michael Hoeye Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai, Ina Rilke (Translator), Dai Sijie The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes by Will Cuppy The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Evangeline Walton's Mabinogion Tetralogy. A four-novel sequence woven from the vivid strands of Celtic mythology, Walton's work is recognized, alongside The Lord of the Rings and T. H. White's The Once & Future King, as one of the supreme achievements of the genre. The one-volume edition of Walton's tetralogy includes The Prince of Annwn; The Children of Llyr; The Song of Rhiannon; and The Island of the Mighty Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser A Box of Matches Nicholson Baker's A degree of mastery by J.M. Roberts A passion for books by POWELL, Lawrence Clark An Underacheivers Diary by Benjamin Anastas Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz Courtesans and Fishcakes by James Davidson Dancing Naked in the Mind Field by Kary Mullis Fifty Acres and a Poodle by Jenne Laskas Ghostwritten by David Mitchell Goodbye, Friend by Dr. Gary Kowalski In our time by Susan Brownmiller Independent People by Halldor Laxness Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf A short guide to a happy life by Anna Quindlen Other People’s Dirt by Louise Rafkin Out Of Harms Way by Terri Crisp and Samantha Glenn Questions of Heaven by Gretel Ehrlich Scratching the Woodchuck by David Kline Sparrows by Mary Doria Russell The Bear Comes Home by Zabor The chained library, by STREETER, Barnett Hillman, The Hours by Michael Cunningham The Man Who Listens To Horses by Monty Roberts The Meaning of it All by Richard P Feynman The Sewing Circle by Axel Madsen Uppity Women of Medieval Times by Vicki Leon The Sands of Time: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure by Michael Hoeye Wiccan for Life: from birth to summerland – by Raymond Buckland Lying Awake by Mark Salzman Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer Pulitzer Prize: 1948- 1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt) 1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (Sloane) 1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf) 1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) 1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication) 1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (Doubleday) 1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (Little) 1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random) 1965 The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random) 1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt) 1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar) 1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random) 1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper) 1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Farrar) 1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 1973 The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) 1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (Atlantic Monthly Press) 1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little, Brown) 1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) 1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) 1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin) 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf) Best Books From Random House's Modern Library Board 1. ULYSSES James Joyce 2. THE GREAT GATSBY F. Scott Fitzgerald 3. PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN James Joyce 4. LOLITA Vladimir Nabokov 5. BRAVE NEW WORLD Aldous Huxley 6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY William Faulkner 7. CATCH-22 Joseph Heller 8. DARKNESS AT NOON Arthur Koestler 9. SONS AND LOVERS D.H. Lawrence 10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH John Steinbeck 11. UNDER THE VOLCANO Malcolm Lowry 12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH Samuel Butler 13. 1984 George Orwell 14. I, CLAUDIUS Robert Graves 15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE Virginia Woolf 16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY Theodore Dreiser 17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER Carson McCullers 18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE Kurt Vonnegut 19. INVISIBLE MAN Ralph Ellison20. NATIVE SON Richard Wright 21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING Saul Bellow 22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA John O'Hara 23. U.S.A. (trilogy) John Dos Passos 24. WINESBURG, OHIO Sherwood Anderson 25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA E.M. Forster 26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE Henry James 27. THE AMBASSADORS Henry James 28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT F. Scott Fitzgerald 29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY James T. Farrell 30. THE GOOD SOLDIER Ford Madox Ford 31. ANIMAL FARM George Orwell 32. THE GOLDEN BOWL Henry James 33. SISTER CARRIE Theodore Dreise 34. A HANDFUL OF DUST Evelyn Waugh 35. AS I LAY DYING William Faulkner 36. ALL THE KING'S MEN Robert Penn Warren 37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY Thornton Wilder 38. HOWARDS END E.M. Forster 39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN James Baldwin 40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER Graham Greene 41. LORD OF THE FLIES William Golding 42. DELIVERANCE James Dickey 43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) Anthony Powell 44. POINT COUNTER POINT Aldous Huxley 45. THE SUN ALSO RISES Ernest Hemingway 46. THE SECRET AGENT Joseph Conrad 47. NOSTROMO Joseph Conrad 48. THE RAINBOW D.H. Lawrence 49. WOMEN IN LOVE D.H. Lawrence 50. TROPIC OF CANCER Henry Miller 51. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD Norman Mailer 52. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT Philip Roth 53. PALE FIRE Vladimir Nabokov 54. LIGHT IN AUGUST William Faulkner 55. ON THE ROAD Jack Kerouac 56. THE MALTESE FALCON Dashiell Hammett 57. PARADE'S END Ford Madox Ford 58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE Edith Wharton 59. ZULEIKA DOBSON Max Beerbohm 60. THE MOVIEGOER Walker Percy 61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP Willa Cather 62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY James Jones 63. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES John Cheever 64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE J.D. Salinger 65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Anthony Burgess 66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE W. Somerset Maugham 67. HEART OF DARKNESS Joseph Conrad 68. MAIN STREET Sinclair Lewis 69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH Edith Wharton 70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET Lawrence Durell 71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA Richard Hughes 72. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS V.S. Naipaul 73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST Nathanael West 74. A FAREWELL TO ARMS Ernest Hemingway 75. SCOOP Evelyn Waugh 76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE Muriel Spark 77. FINNEGANS WAKE James Joyce 78. KIM Rudyard Kipling 79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW E.M. Forster 80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED Evelyn Waugh 81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH Saul Bellow 82. ANGLE OF REPOSE Wallace Stegner 83. A BEND IN THE RIVER V.S. Naipaul 84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART Elizabeth Bowen 85. LORD JIM Joseph Conrad 86. RAGTIME E.L. Doctorow 87. THE OLD WIVES' TALE Arnold Bennett 88. THE CALL OF THE WILD Jack London 89. LOVING Henry Green 90. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN Salman Rushdie 91. TOBACCO ROAD Erskine Caldwell 92. IRONWEED William Kennedy 93. THE MAGUS John Fowles 94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA Jean Rhys 95. UNDER THE NET Iris Murdoch 96. SOPHIE'S CHOICE William Styron 97. THE SHELTERING SKY Paul Bowles 98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE James M. Cain 99. THE GINGER MAN J.P. Donleavy 100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS Booth Tarkington Reading List: A Time Line of Trunks, 1770-1930 http://www.trunk.com/book.htm
B O U G H T
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee Book of Shadows by Phyllis Curott Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
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All the king's men. by Warren, Robert Penn, 1905
Word freak by Stefan Fatsis Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke Wiccan for Life: from birth to summerland – by Raymond Buckland The Crimson Petal and the White – by Michael Faber American Visions by Robert Hughes Dog Eat Dog by Jane and Michael Stern Lindberg by A Scott Berg Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris Roverandom by J R R Tolkien
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