Reading

As of 20 May 2013

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Design*Sponge at Home, Grace Bonney
The Word According to Eve, Cullen Murphy
The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov

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HAVE READ

(Mostly complete list at Goodreads.)

May 2013

Mastering Copperplate Calligraphy, Eleanor Winters
Orchids: Care and Cultivation, Gerald Leroy-Terquem
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth L. Cline
The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual, Barbara Pleasant
The Gospel According to Woman, Karen Armstrong

April 2013

I Love Your Style, Amanda Brooks
The One Hundred, Nina Garcia
Lessons from Madame Chic, Jennifer L. Scott
The Vogue History of 20th-Century Fashion, Jan Mulvagh
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, Dana Thomas
The Genius of Dogs, Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods
Home, Toni Morrison
Ballet Beautiful, Mary Helen Bowers
Virgin: The Untouched History, Hanne Blank
Book of Houseplants, Reader’s Digest Association
The Complete Guide to Houseplants, Valerie Bradley
Beginner’s Guide to Cacti and Other Succulents, John Ellis
Crazy about Cacti and Succulents, Ray Rogers
Orchid Simplified, Henry Jaworski

March 2013

Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
For the Sleepwalkers, Edward Hirsch
The Promise of Rest, Reynolds Price
Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac
The Thoughtful Dresser, Linda Grant
The One Hundred, Nina Garcia

February 2013

The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman
The Sacraments of Desire, Linda Gregg
Laughter in the Dark, Vladimir Nabokov
Pukka’s Promise, Ted Kerasote
The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino
The Sea, John Banville
Totem, Gregory Pardlo
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck

January 2013

The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs
How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland
Vanitas, Rough: Poems, Lisa Russ Spaar
This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Díaz
The Vagabond, Colette
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
An American Childhood, Annie Dillard
Cain, José Saramago
How to Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran
The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton

December 2012

The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
Goat Song, Brad Kessler
A View with a Grain of Sand, Wislawa Szymborska
Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky
Selected Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson

November 2012

Amongst Women, John McGahern
My Life a Loaded Gun: Female Creativity and Feminist Poetics, Paula Bennett
Faces in the Water, Janet Frame
Alive Together, Liesl Mueller
Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver
May We Be Forgiven, A.M. Homes
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, James Gleick
Drop City, T.C. Boyle
Selected Poems from “Flowers of Evil,” Charles Baudelaire
Hallucinations, Oliver Sacks
The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu, ed. Edward Seidensticker

October 2012

Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
Making Sense of Japanese, Jay Rubin
Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple
Native Guard, Natasha Trethewey
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, Valerie Boyd
At Home: A Short History of Private Life, Bill Bryson
American Primitive, Mary Oliver
The Violent Bear It Away, Flannery O’Connor
Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward
Life and Holiness, Thomas Merton
Molloy, Samuel Beckett
Madeleine Is Sleeping, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

September 2012

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee
Still, Lauren F. Winner
Japanese Grammar, Nobuo Akiyama
Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich
King Lear, William Shakespeare
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

August 2012

Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
Binocular Vision, Edith Pearlman
The Complete Poems, Elizabeth Bishop
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
The Black Sheep, Honoré de Balzac
The Right-Hand Shore, Christopher Tilghman
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A Mercy, Toni Morrison
Fear and Trembling, Amélie Nothomb
Evidence of Things Unseen, Marianne Wiggins
The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker

July 2012

The Captive and the Fugitive, Marcel Proust
Bringing Up Bébé, Pamela Druckerman
Doting, Henry Green
Flaubert and Madame Bovary, Francis Steegmuller
Mrs. Woolf and the Servants, Alison Light
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
On Talking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals, Turid Rugaas
Room, Emma Donoghue
When I Was a Child I Read Books, Marilynne Robinson
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi
The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka
Control Unleashed, Leslie McDevitt
The Longest Journey, E.M. Forster
Doggerel, Angela Patmore

June 2012

The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje
Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino
The Cautious Canine, Patricia McConnell
The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence
Dubliners, James Joyce
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey

May 2012

Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
Jazz, Toni Morrison
First Love and Other Stories, Ivan Turgenev
On Photography, Susan Sontag
The Liar’s Club, Mary Karr
One Writer’s Beginnings, Eudora Welty
Hark! A Vagrant, Kate Beaton
Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney
The Eye of the Story, Eudora Welty

April 2012

Home, Marilynne Robinson
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee
Close Range: Wyoming Stories, Annie Proulx
Swamplandia! Karen Russell
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
Don’t Shoot the Dog, Karen Pryor
What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt
Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
The Penguin Book of Women Poets, ed. Carol Cosman
The Tellington TTouch, Linda Tellington-Jones
March, Geraldine Brooks
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, Adrienne Rich
Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto
I Is an Other, James Geary
The Captive Mind, Czeslaw Milosz

March 2012

Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov
The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson
In a Dog’s Heart, Jennifer Arnold
Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer
Arcadia, Tom Stoppard
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
Agility for You and Your Dog, Ali Canova and Joe Canova
Why Does My Dog Act That Way? Stanley Coren
A Dog Is Listening, Roger Caras
I Sailed with Magellan, Stuart Dybek
Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner
The Reason for God, Timothy Keller
Adopt the Perfect Dog, Gwen Bailey
The Parents We Mean to Be, Richard Weissbourd

February 2012

The Unlikely Disciple, Kevin Roose
Dogs Never Lie about Love, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Kokoro, Natsume Soseki
The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
Changing My Mind, Zadie Smith
The Dog’s Mind, Bruce Fogle
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas G. Carr
Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein
New Selected Poems, Mark Strand
The Animal Manifesto, Marc Bekoff
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
The New Self-Sufficient Gardener, John Seymour
The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolaño

January 2012

Apollo’s Angels, Jennifer Homans
Natural Dog Care, Celeste Yarnall
The New Work of Dogs, Jon Katz
Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
Raw and Natural Nutrition for Dogs, Lew Olson
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
The Wonders of the Invisible World, David Gates
Selected Poems, Robert Pinsky
Waiting, Ha Jin
Lit, Mary Karr
Clicker Training for Dogs, Karen Pryor
Christianity, Diarmaid MacCulloch
Snow, Orhan Pamuk

December 2011

The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Pack of Two, Caroline Knapp
Selected Poems, W.H. Auden
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
A Quiet Life, Kenzaburo Oe
Surviving Your Dog’s Adolescence, Carol Lea Benjamin
Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard
The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides

November 2011

Light in August, William Faulkner
Rin Tin Tin, Susan Orlean
Volunteering with Your Pet, Mary Burch
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
The Tiger’s Wife, Tea Obreht
Carnival Evening, Linda Pastan
The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
The Wild Iris, Louise Glück
Dog Years, Mark Doty
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick
Possession, A.S. Byatt
Tinkers, Paul Harding

October 2011

Dr. Pitcairn’s Guide to Natural Health for Cats and Dogs, Richard H. Pitcairn
The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata
Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong
The Well Dog Book, Terri McGinnis
Selected Poems, Maxine Kumin
The Trial, Franz Kafka
Dog Sense, John Bradshaw
What the Living Do, Marie Howe
Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer
Song and Dance, Alan Shapiro
Dog Is My Co-Pilot, ed. The Bark
The Light the Dead See, Frank Stanford
New Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas Merton
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Orientalism, Edward W. Said
Darkness Is My Only Companion, Kathryn Greene-McCreight

September 2011

I, Claudius, Robert Graves
Comedy in a Minor Key, Hans Keilson
Love Has No Age Limit, Patricia B. McConnell and Karen B. London
Ecstasy and Common Sense, Teresa of Avila
From Bahaus to Our House, Tom Wolfe
How Proust Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton
Dog’s Best Friend, Mark Derr
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss

August 2011

The House in Paris, Elizabeth Bowen
Cesar’s Way, Cesar Millan
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
The Adopted Dog Bible, Kim Saunders
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Bones Would Rain from the Sky, Suzanne Clothier
Training the Hard-to-Train Dog, Peggy Swager
The Surrendered, Chang-rae Lee
Shaggy Muses, Maureen Adams
If Only They Could Speak, Nicholas Dodman

July 2011

The Evolution of God, Robert Wright
Adoptable Dog, John Ross and Barbara McKinney
The Canine Good Citizen, Jack and Wendy Volhard
The Dog Who Loved Too Much, Nicholas Dodman
Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
A Summons to Memphis, Peter Taylor
For the Love of a Dog, Patricia McConnell
Night Fall, Nelson DeMille
The Dog Whisperer, Paul Owens
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

June 2011

Flush, a Biography, Virginia Woolf
The Perfect Match, Chris Walkowicz
Sodom and Gomorrah, Marcel Proust
The Latchkey Dog, Jodi Andersen
Diary of a Mad Old Man, Junichiro Tanizaki
Bad Dog: A Love Story, Martin Kihn
The Hidden Life of Dogs, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
The Seven Ages of Man’s Best Friend, Jan Fennell
Inside of a Dog, Alexandra Horowitz
Memento Mori, Muriel Spark
Dogged Pursuit, Robert Rodi
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan

May 2011

Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
Le Divorce, Diane Johnson
Why We Love the Dogs We Do, Stanley Coren
Moonwalking with Einstein, Joshua Foer
The Secret Lives of Dogs, Jana Murphy
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
The Difficulty of Being a Dog, Roger Grenier
The Other End of the Leash, Patricia McConnell
Animals Make Us Human, Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson

April 2011

The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
The Power of Positive Dog Training, Pat Miller
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, Philip Gourevitch
How to Speak Dog, Stanley Coren
The Puppy Report, Larry Shook
Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
The Art of Raising a Puppy, The Monks of New Skete
Dogs Behaving Badly, Nicholas Dodman

March 2011

Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
The Divine Comedy, Dante
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart

February 2011

Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
Blankets, Craig Thompson
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee
The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck

January 2011

If on a winter’s night a traveler, Italo Calvino
Howards End, E.M. Forster
Sleepwalker In a Fog, Tatyana Tolstaya
The Art Instinct, Denis Dutton
I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay, John Lanchester
My Name Is Red, Orhan Pamuk

December 2010

A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas
The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry
Runaway: Stories, Alice Munro
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. I, Virginia Woolf
Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh

November 2010

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, ZZ Packer
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
The Last September, Elizabeth Bowen
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates

October 2010

Oedipus the King, Sophocles
Lysistrata, Aristophanes
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
Love in the Ruins, Walker Percy
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
The Children of Dynmouth, William Trevor

September 2010

Wabi Sabi, Mark Reibstein, illus. by Ed Young
My Alexandria, Mark Doty
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell
The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead
Othello, William Shakespeare
The Curtain, Milan Kundera

August 2010

Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Netherland, Joseph O’Neill
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather

July 2010

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Vladimir Nabokov
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima
The Guermantes Way, Marcel Proust
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Books I want to read can be found at Goodreads.