Reading List for 2008 (generally revised throughout the year) 10/26/2008 03:00 PM
1. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert.....................................1/18/08
2. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte.........................................2/27/08
3. The Aeneid, Virgil..............................................................4/05/08
4. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens..................................(currently reading)
5. Oracle Night, Paul Auster (re-read)....................................4/15/08
6. Bushido: The Soul of Japan................................................9/1/08
7. The Midnight Disease, Alice Weaver Flaherty....................(currently reading)
8. What I Think About When I Talk About Running, Murakami....(currently reading)
9. Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco (re-read).....................7/14/08
10. Man in the Dark, Paul Auster...........................................10/18/08
11. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie...............................
12. The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud..........................5/23/08
13. The Histories, Herodotus................................................
14. The Rise of Silas Lapham, William D. Howells................
15. Sailing Alone Around the Room, Billy Collins..................1/23/08
16. Catch-22, Joseph Heller................................................
17. Twenty Lines a Day, Harry Mathews.............................2/4/08
18. Wild Mind, Natalie Goldberg........................................3/5/08
19. On Teaching and Writing Fiction, Wallace Stegner........
20. The Religion of the Samurai..........................................6/15/08
21. On Duties, Cicero........................................................
22. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy........................................
23. Writing to Heal the Soul, Susan Zimmerman.................3/9/08