January - May
Watchword issue 9, 2006, Liz Lisle, editor
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Spectral Snow: the dark fantasies of Jack Snow by Jack Snow
Premonitions: the Kaya anthology of new Asian North American poetry edited by Walter K. Lew
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
The Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry: first annual edition edited by Alan F. Pater
Ants Dissolve in Moonlight by W. B. Keckler
Some Nights No Cars at All by Josh Rathkamp
In the Hub of the Fiery Force: collected poems of Harold Norse, 1934 - 2003 by Harold Norse
Shark’s Tooth by Marc Elihu Hotstadter
New and Collected Poems by Ishmael Reed
Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons, poems 2001 - 2006 by Al Young
Golden Handcuffs Review Winter/Spring 2007, vol. 1 no. 8, Lou Rowan, editor
Flying in Water by Barbara Tomash
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Cannibal Casserole: new and selected poems, 1996 - 2006 by Julia Vinograd
When God Gets Drunk by Julia Vinograd
Jubilee by Roxane Beth Johnson
A Poetry House Built with Four-by-Fours: an ongoing collection of pseudo-immortal poems, chapter 1 by Mel C. Thompson
Eleven Eleven: a journal of literature and art vol. 4, 2007, Ben Lerner, faculty editor
The Cave Paintings of Baja California: discovering the great murals of an unknown people by Harry W. Crosby
Another World: a second anthology of works from the St. Mark’s Poetry Project edited by Anne Waldman
King-Cat Classix: the best of King-Cat Comics and Stories by John Porcellino
King-Cat Comics and Stories #68, 2007, by John Porcellino
Breaking the Fever by Mary Mackey
Iron House: stories from the yard by Jerome Washington
The Fixer: a story from Sarajevo by Joe Sacco
Tarahumara: Where Night Is the Day of the Moon by Bernard L. Fontana
Tantalum issue 1, 2006, editors: Yasmine Alwan and Cynthia Nelson
Teaching a Stone to Talk: expeditions and encounters by Annie Dillard
The Devil’s Teeth: a true story of obsession and survival among America’s great white sharks by Susan Casey
The Violent Land by Jorge Amado, translated by Samuel Putnam
That Salty Air by Timothy Sievert
American Splendor #1 - 4, 2008, by Harvey Pekar, et al
Dark Star Safari: overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
The Broken Spears: the Aztec account of the conquest of Mexico edited and with an introduction by Miguel Leon-Portilla
Waterwalking in Berkeley poems by Alan Bern
The Dream of Water: a memoir by Kyoko Mori
Too Much Coffee Man: How to Be Happy by Shannon Wheeler
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Notes from Travels by D. L. Emblen
Mineshaft #21, Spring 2008, edited & published by Everett Rand and Gioia Palmieri
Dreams Are Another Set of Muscles by David Shaddock
Gotham Central: In the Line of Duty by Greg Rucka & Ed Brubaker, writers; Michael Lark, art
Alexander the Great: selected texts from Arrian, Curtius, and Plutarch edited by Tania Gergel
Words in Your Face: a guided tour through twenty years of the New York City poetry slam by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
Madonna: Like an Icon by Lucy O’Brien
Sorry for Snake #3, March 2008, edited by Jack Morgan and Sara Mumolo
UR-VOX: journal of the underlying voice #2, 2002, Lee Ballentine, editor
Innocent Killers by Hugo Van Lawick and Jane Goodall
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson
Deep Survival: who lives, who dies, and why: true storeis of miraculous endurance and sudden death by Laurence Gonzalez
The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Wlater Bates
Fence #13 (vol. 7, no. 1), Rebecca Wolff, editor
Ploughshares Spring 2002, vol. 28, no. 1, Cornelius Eady, guest editor; Don Lee, editor
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
A Glimpse of Nothingness: experiences in an American Zen community by Janwillem van de Wetering
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
The Power of Babel: a natural history of language by John H. McWhorter
Word on the Street: debunking the myth of a ‘pure’ Standard English by John McWhorter
My Lives by Edmund White
Smile When You’re Lying: confessions of a rogue travel writer by Chuck Thompson
The Buried Book: the loss and rediscovery of the great epic of Gilgamesh by David Damrosch
June
My Song Is the Light: California Poets in the Schools Statewide Anthology 2007 edited by Mary Lee Gowland
6 X 6 #15, Spring 2008
Free Lunch #30, 38, 39; Ron Offen, editor
The Youngest Science: notes of a medicine-watcher by Lewis Thomas
Otherhood by Reginald Shepherd
Astonishing X-Men: vol. 1: Gifted; vol. 2: Dangerous; vol. 3: Torn; vol. 4: Unstoppable Joss Whedon, writer; John Cassaday, artist
Circus World by Barry B. Longyear
Poems by Herman Hesse, translated by James Wright
The Little Dog Laughed by Joseph Hansen
July - October
Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O’Hara: a memoir by Joe LeSueur
13 poems in black and white by Jason Biehl
Crashing the Gate: netroots, grassroots, and the rise of people-powered politics by Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga
Monterey Poetry Review vol. 1, no. 2, Spring 2005
Wishing for Wings by Assotto Saint
In Search of Nature by Edward O. Wilson
Prize Poems, 1913 - 1929 edited by Charles A. Wagner
The Complete Peanuts, vol. 2: 1952 to 1954 by Charles M. Schulz
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Galileo’s Daughter: a historical memoir of science, faith, and love by Dava Sobel
Complications: a surgeon’s notes on an imperfect science by Atul Gawande
Yeti #2, 2002?
The Believer vol. 6, no. 5, July/August 2008
When I Was Cool: my life at the Jack Kerouac School by Sam Kashner
The Ten-Cent Plague: the great comic-book scare and how it changed America by David Hajdu
Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler
The Late Show by David Trinidad
Dinosaurs: the most complete, up-to-date encyclopedia for dinosaur lovers of all ages by Thomas R. Holtz, Jr
Visible Word, Sound: from vision to voice chapbook for Geof Huth reading at Canessa Gallery, San Francisco
Hemlock Fare #1 and 2, by Daniel J. Beck
Signs of Life: channelsurfing through 90s culture edited by Jennifer Joseph and Lisa Taplin
Primary Trouble: an anthology of contemporary American poetry edited by Leonard Schwartz, Joseph Donahue, and Edward Foster
Great Mirrors Shattered: homosexuality, orientalism, and Japan by John Whittier Treat
Light from a Nearby Window: contemporary Mexican poetry edited by Juvenal Acosta
Pagan Babies by Greg Johnson
Conan, vol. 1: The Frost-Giant’s Daughter and other stories by Kurt Busiek and Cary Nord and Thomas Yeates
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
All the Small Poems by Valerie Worth
Road Fever: a high-speed travelogue by Tim Cahill
Skid by Dean Young
Cometbus #51: The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah by Aaron Cometbus
Ojingogo by Matthew Forsythe
Capacity by Theo Ellsworth
November - December
Tranny: Boys Will Be Girls by Fiona Mallratte (Steve Lafler)
The Elephant’s Secret Sense: the hidden life of the wild herds of Africa by Caitlin O’Connell
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: the life of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habegger
Ampersand Squared: an anthology of pwoermds edited by Geof Huth
Texistence by Geof Huth and mIEKAL aND
National Geographic April 2008, vol. 213, no.4
The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the beginnings of superstardom in America by Larry McMurtry
Laika by Nick Abadzis
Head and Heart: American Christianities by Garry Wills
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
[When I initially posted this list I had misplaced a notebook recording the summer of 2008, so I left a gap with a note to that effect. I have found the notebook! Thus the list as posted is now as complete as my book log. - August 13, 2018]
Sunday, July 30, 2017
Saturday, July 29, 2017
Titles Read in 2007
January - February
Beeswax Magazine no. 2, spring/summer 2006
Gay Marriage, Real Life: ten stories of love and family by Michelle Bates Deakin
The Iron Giant: a story in five nights by Ted Hughes
Book Business: publishing past, present, and future by Jason Epstein
The Scarecrow and Tin-Man of Oz by W. W. Denslow
Berkeley Poetry Review no. 35, 2004; no. 36, 2005, and no. 37, 2006
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Searching for Mercy Street: my journey back to my mother, Anne Sexton by Linda Gray Sexton
Poems for the Millennium: the University of California book of modern and postmodern poetry, vol. 2: From Postwar to Millennium edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris
A Bunch of Keys: selected poems by Mitsuo Takahashi
The Quitter by Harvey Pekar, Dean Haspiel
The Mail from Anywhere by Brad Leithauser
Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, et al
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: essays on Native American life today by Leslie Marmon Silko
The Best American Comics 2006 edited by Harvey Pekar; series editor: Anne Elizabeth Moore
Twinkle and Chubbins: their astonishing adventures in nature-fairyland by L. Frank Baum, introduction by Michael Patrick Hearn; illustrations by Maginel Wright Enright
John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum; illustrated by John R. Neill
Misquoting Jesus: the story behind who changed the Bible and why by Bart D. Ehrman
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Young Avengers, vol. 1: Sidekicks by Allan Heinberg, writer; Jim Cheung, pencils; etc.
Carnet de Voyage: travel journal, volume one by Craig Thompson
Confessions of the Other Mother: nonbiological lesbian moms tell all edited by Harlyn Aizley
26: a journal of poetry and poetics issue no. e
Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks
Geisha by Andi Watson
Breakfast After Noon by Andi Watson
Syllogism no. 5, 2001
Saint Morrissey: a portrait of this charming man by an alarming fan by Mark Simpson
Rules of the House by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Matter, no. 8: Land 2006, edited by Todd Simmons
Critical Citadel by Jon Vermilyer, Nicholas Breutzman, Koren Shadmi, Raymond Sohn, Matt Berinier, Eamon Espey, Panayiotis Terzis
Ur-Vox no. 4, 2007, edited by Lee Ballentine
Global City Review, no. 16: Simple Virtues spring 2006
Aimee and Jaguar: a love story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer, translated by Edna McCown
The World in the Evening by Christopher Isherwood
The Magic Whip by Wang Ping
Free Lunch no. 36, autumn 2006, edited by Ron Offen
Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi, translated by Anjali Singh
The Pleasures of C by Edward Smallfield
The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath, edited by Ted Hughes
Within the Margin by Truong Tran
Richard Speakes: a sampler of his poems by Richard Speakes
Lynn Lyman Trombetta: a sampler of her poems by Lynn Lyman Trombetta
The Botany of Desire: a plant’s-eye view of the world by Michael Pollan
North Coast Review issue 2: Expericon; Vince Storti, editor
A Small Place by Jamaica Kinkaid
The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of by Joseph Hansen
Skinflicks by Joseph Hansen
How to Cure a Fanatic by Amos Oz
The Secret Powers of Naming by Sara Littlecrow-Russell
The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century vol. 2, edited by Douglas Messerli
The Company of Animals: a naturalist’s adventures in the jungle of Malaya by Ronald McKie
The Three Way Tavern: selected poems by Ko Un, translation by Clare You and Richard Silberg
March
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Mirage #4/Period(ical) no. 138, February 2007, and no. 139 (March 2007), edited by Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy
Liaison by Joyce Wadler
Twist of Address by Spencer Selby
6 X 6 no. 11, spring 2006
Air by Paul Vangelisti
Inscape by Adam Joshua Sass
Atlanta Review vol. XIII, no. 1, fall/winter 2006
The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga edited by Ilya
By the Dozen: sixty short poems by Don Emblen
A Public Space vol. 1 no.2, summer 2006; edited by Brigid Hughes
Living Free: the story of Elsa and her cubs by Joy Adamson
Electric Girl by Michael Brennan
Electric Girl, vol. 2 by Michael Brennan
Emma by Jane Austen
Small Town issue 2, spring 2003; edited by Logan Ryan Smith
April - September
The Trainwreck Union Presents: Switchyard. The Two-handed Engine edited by The Trainwreck Union
Holiday Funeral by Nick Mullins
Man Enough: a queer romance by Bill Roundy
Blood Seeds Become Poetry by Jonathan Hill
Capacity #6, 2005; by Theo Ellsworth
Nome Sang #1, 2007; by A. Vanderhoof
Gaylord Phoenix #4, 2007; Edie Fake
Little Moments edited by John Lowe
World Poetry: an anthology of verse from antiquity to our time edited by Katharine Washburn and John S. Major and Clifton Fadiman
Whispering in the Giant’s Ear: a frontline chronicle from Bolivia’s war on globalization by William Powers
The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century vol. 4, edited by Douglas Messerli
Stranger in a Strange Land: encounters in the disunited states by Gary Younge
Free Lunch #7, spring 2007; edited by Ron Offen
Rock Names by Adam Dolgins
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond
Mad Night by Richard Sala
Gravedigger by Joseph Hansen
Nightwork by Joseph Hansen
New American Writing no. 24, 2006; edited by Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover
Beeswax Magazine no. 3, January 2007; edited by John Peck and Laureen Shifley
Slipstream no. 22, 2002; edited by Robert Borgatti, Livio Farallo, Dan Sicoli
Digerati: 20 contemporary poets in the virtual world edited by Steve Mueske
Gratitude to You for the Food of Our Abundance by Judy Grahn, art by Tona Luisa Osher
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Any Old Wolf by Murray Silverstein
Wind: a journal of writing and community no. 87, 2002; edited by Chris Green
Jessica Farm by Joshua Simmons
Dishwasher: one man’s quest to wash dishes in all fifty states by Pete Jordan
Dishwasher #16, 2007, by Pete Jordan
Nobody’s Angel by Thomas McGuane
The Living House of Oz by Edward Einhorn, illustrated by Eric Shanower
Mornings in Mexico / Etruscan Places by D. H. Lawrence
Home Places: contemporary Native American writing from Sun Tracks edited by Larry Evers and Ofelia Zepeda
Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburo Oe, translated by David L. Swain and Toshi Yanezawa
Haircut and other stories by Ring Lardner
Up Above the World by Paul Bowles
Want List and other poems about aging by D. L. Emblen, with block prints by Linda Emblen
Fuff nos. 1, 4, 5, 6; by Jeffrey Lewis
Parthenon West Review issue 4, 2006; edited by David Holler and Chad Sweeney
The Journal vol. 26 no. 1, spring/summer 2002; edited by Kathy Fagan, Michelle Herman
Monday Night: a journal of literature and art no. 3, 2004; edited by Jessica Wickens, Rob Pierce, Sharon McGill, Allison Landa
The Loved One: an Anglo-American tragedy by Evelyn Waugh
The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag, and other intimate literary portraits of the Bohemian Era by Edward Field
Forever Free by Joy Adamson
Memoirs of a Bastard Angel: a fifty-year literary and erotic odyssey by Harold Norse
The Gay Metropolis: 1940 - 1996 by Charles Kaiser
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
A Primate’s Memoir by Robert M. Sapolsky
The Saint Ann’s Review: a journal of contemporary arts and letters summer/fall 2006, edited by Beth Bosworth
Twilight - Los Angeles, 1992: on the road: a search for American character by Anna Deavere Smith
The Twinkle Tales by L. Frank Baum, illustrations by Maginel Wright Enright
580 Split: a journal of arts and letters issue 9, 2007; Erika Staiti, managing editor
Indian Days of the Long Ago: Indian life and Indian lore by Edward S. Curtis
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Anne Sexton: a biography by Diane Ward Middlebrook
Bay Poetics edited by Stephanie Young
Mine by Tung-Hui Hu
City of Night by John Rechy
Blue Latitudes: boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before by Tony Horwitz
October
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
The Complete Peanuts, vol. 1: 1950 to 1952 by Charles Schulz
The Poem Behind the Poem: translating Asian poetry edited by Frank Stewart
Brandstetter and Others: five fictions by Joseph Hansen
Backtrack by Joseph Hansen
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff
A Boy in Winter by Maxine Chernoff
Southern Poetry Review 45:1, 2007?, Robert Parham, editor
Muelos: a stone age superstition about sexuality by Weston La Barre
Lucky by Gabrielle Bell
Asian American Poetry: the next generation edited by Victoria M. Chang
November - December
Meanwhile Take My Hand by Kirmen Uribe, translated by Elizabeth Macklin
Hunger: an unnatural history by Sharman Apt Russell
The Virginia Quarterly Review: a national journal of literature and discussion Fall 2006, vol. 92 no. 4, Ted Genoways, editor
The Mouse and His Child by Russell C. Hoban
Sunflower Splendor: three thousand years of Chinese poetry edited by Wu-Chi Liu and Irving Yucheng Lo
Thinking in Pictures and other reports from my life with autism by Temple Grandin
The Book of Boy Trouble: gay boy comics with a new attitude edited by Robert Kirby and David Kelly
Poetry International #11, 2006/2007, edited by Fred Moramaro
Amnesty International Summer 2007, vol. 33 no. 2, edited by Gwen Fitzgerald
Instant City: a literary exploration of San Francisco no. 4, 2007, editors: Gravity Goldberg and Eric Zassenhaus
Glitz by Elmore Leonard
Ceremonies by Essex Hemphill
I Love Led Zeppelin: pany-dropping comics by Ellen Forney
Volt: a magazine of the arts, vol. 13: The War Issue 2007, edited by Gillian Conoley
1491: new revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
Eye of the Whale: epic passage from Baja to Siberia by Dick Russell
Beeswax Magazine no. 2, spring/summer 2006
Gay Marriage, Real Life: ten stories of love and family by Michelle Bates Deakin
The Iron Giant: a story in five nights by Ted Hughes
Book Business: publishing past, present, and future by Jason Epstein
The Scarecrow and Tin-Man of Oz by W. W. Denslow
Berkeley Poetry Review no. 35, 2004; no. 36, 2005, and no. 37, 2006
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Searching for Mercy Street: my journey back to my mother, Anne Sexton by Linda Gray Sexton
Poems for the Millennium: the University of California book of modern and postmodern poetry, vol. 2: From Postwar to Millennium edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris
A Bunch of Keys: selected poems by Mitsuo Takahashi
The Quitter by Harvey Pekar, Dean Haspiel
The Mail from Anywhere by Brad Leithauser
Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, et al
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: essays on Native American life today by Leslie Marmon Silko
The Best American Comics 2006 edited by Harvey Pekar; series editor: Anne Elizabeth Moore
Twinkle and Chubbins: their astonishing adventures in nature-fairyland by L. Frank Baum, introduction by Michael Patrick Hearn; illustrations by Maginel Wright Enright
John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum; illustrated by John R. Neill
Misquoting Jesus: the story behind who changed the Bible and why by Bart D. Ehrman
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Young Avengers, vol. 1: Sidekicks by Allan Heinberg, writer; Jim Cheung, pencils; etc.
Carnet de Voyage: travel journal, volume one by Craig Thompson
Confessions of the Other Mother: nonbiological lesbian moms tell all edited by Harlyn Aizley
26: a journal of poetry and poetics issue no. e
Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks
Geisha by Andi Watson
Breakfast After Noon by Andi Watson
Syllogism no. 5, 2001
Saint Morrissey: a portrait of this charming man by an alarming fan by Mark Simpson
Rules of the House by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Matter, no. 8: Land 2006, edited by Todd Simmons
Critical Citadel by Jon Vermilyer, Nicholas Breutzman, Koren Shadmi, Raymond Sohn, Matt Berinier, Eamon Espey, Panayiotis Terzis
Ur-Vox no. 4, 2007, edited by Lee Ballentine
Global City Review, no. 16: Simple Virtues spring 2006
Aimee and Jaguar: a love story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer, translated by Edna McCown
The World in the Evening by Christopher Isherwood
The Magic Whip by Wang Ping
Free Lunch no. 36, autumn 2006, edited by Ron Offen
Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi, translated by Anjali Singh
The Pleasures of C by Edward Smallfield
The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath, edited by Ted Hughes
Within the Margin by Truong Tran
Richard Speakes: a sampler of his poems by Richard Speakes
Lynn Lyman Trombetta: a sampler of her poems by Lynn Lyman Trombetta
The Botany of Desire: a plant’s-eye view of the world by Michael Pollan
North Coast Review issue 2: Expericon; Vince Storti, editor
A Small Place by Jamaica Kinkaid
The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of by Joseph Hansen
Skinflicks by Joseph Hansen
How to Cure a Fanatic by Amos Oz
The Secret Powers of Naming by Sara Littlecrow-Russell
The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century vol. 2, edited by Douglas Messerli
The Company of Animals: a naturalist’s adventures in the jungle of Malaya by Ronald McKie
The Three Way Tavern: selected poems by Ko Un, translation by Clare You and Richard Silberg
March
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Mirage #4/Period(ical) no. 138, February 2007, and no. 139 (March 2007), edited by Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy
Liaison by Joyce Wadler
Twist of Address by Spencer Selby
6 X 6 no. 11, spring 2006
Air by Paul Vangelisti
Inscape by Adam Joshua Sass
Atlanta Review vol. XIII, no. 1, fall/winter 2006
The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga edited by Ilya
By the Dozen: sixty short poems by Don Emblen
A Public Space vol. 1 no.2, summer 2006; edited by Brigid Hughes
Living Free: the story of Elsa and her cubs by Joy Adamson
Electric Girl by Michael Brennan
Electric Girl, vol. 2 by Michael Brennan
Emma by Jane Austen
Small Town issue 2, spring 2003; edited by Logan Ryan Smith
April - September
The Trainwreck Union Presents: Switchyard. The Two-handed Engine edited by The Trainwreck Union
Holiday Funeral by Nick Mullins
Man Enough: a queer romance by Bill Roundy
Blood Seeds Become Poetry by Jonathan Hill
Capacity #6, 2005; by Theo Ellsworth
Nome Sang #1, 2007; by A. Vanderhoof
Gaylord Phoenix #4, 2007; Edie Fake
Little Moments edited by John Lowe
World Poetry: an anthology of verse from antiquity to our time edited by Katharine Washburn and John S. Major and Clifton Fadiman
Whispering in the Giant’s Ear: a frontline chronicle from Bolivia’s war on globalization by William Powers
The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century vol. 4, edited by Douglas Messerli
Stranger in a Strange Land: encounters in the disunited states by Gary Younge
Free Lunch #7, spring 2007; edited by Ron Offen
Rock Names by Adam Dolgins
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond
Mad Night by Richard Sala
Gravedigger by Joseph Hansen
Nightwork by Joseph Hansen
New American Writing no. 24, 2006; edited by Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover
Beeswax Magazine no. 3, January 2007; edited by John Peck and Laureen Shifley
Slipstream no. 22, 2002; edited by Robert Borgatti, Livio Farallo, Dan Sicoli
Digerati: 20 contemporary poets in the virtual world edited by Steve Mueske
Gratitude to You for the Food of Our Abundance by Judy Grahn, art by Tona Luisa Osher
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Any Old Wolf by Murray Silverstein
Wind: a journal of writing and community no. 87, 2002; edited by Chris Green
Jessica Farm by Joshua Simmons
Dishwasher: one man’s quest to wash dishes in all fifty states by Pete Jordan
Dishwasher #16, 2007, by Pete Jordan
Nobody’s Angel by Thomas McGuane
The Living House of Oz by Edward Einhorn, illustrated by Eric Shanower
Mornings in Mexico / Etruscan Places by D. H. Lawrence
Home Places: contemporary Native American writing from Sun Tracks edited by Larry Evers and Ofelia Zepeda
Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburo Oe, translated by David L. Swain and Toshi Yanezawa
Haircut and other stories by Ring Lardner
Up Above the World by Paul Bowles
Want List and other poems about aging by D. L. Emblen, with block prints by Linda Emblen
Fuff nos. 1, 4, 5, 6; by Jeffrey Lewis
Parthenon West Review issue 4, 2006; edited by David Holler and Chad Sweeney
The Journal vol. 26 no. 1, spring/summer 2002; edited by Kathy Fagan, Michelle Herman
Monday Night: a journal of literature and art no. 3, 2004; edited by Jessica Wickens, Rob Pierce, Sharon McGill, Allison Landa
The Loved One: an Anglo-American tragedy by Evelyn Waugh
The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag, and other intimate literary portraits of the Bohemian Era by Edward Field
Forever Free by Joy Adamson
Memoirs of a Bastard Angel: a fifty-year literary and erotic odyssey by Harold Norse
The Gay Metropolis: 1940 - 1996 by Charles Kaiser
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
A Primate’s Memoir by Robert M. Sapolsky
The Saint Ann’s Review: a journal of contemporary arts and letters summer/fall 2006, edited by Beth Bosworth
Twilight - Los Angeles, 1992: on the road: a search for American character by Anna Deavere Smith
The Twinkle Tales by L. Frank Baum, illustrations by Maginel Wright Enright
580 Split: a journal of arts and letters issue 9, 2007; Erika Staiti, managing editor
Indian Days of the Long Ago: Indian life and Indian lore by Edward S. Curtis
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Anne Sexton: a biography by Diane Ward Middlebrook
Bay Poetics edited by Stephanie Young
Mine by Tung-Hui Hu
City of Night by John Rechy
Blue Latitudes: boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before by Tony Horwitz
October
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
The Complete Peanuts, vol. 1: 1950 to 1952 by Charles Schulz
The Poem Behind the Poem: translating Asian poetry edited by Frank Stewart
Brandstetter and Others: five fictions by Joseph Hansen
Backtrack by Joseph Hansen
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff
A Boy in Winter by Maxine Chernoff
Southern Poetry Review 45:1, 2007?, Robert Parham, editor
Muelos: a stone age superstition about sexuality by Weston La Barre
Lucky by Gabrielle Bell
Asian American Poetry: the next generation edited by Victoria M. Chang
November - December
Meanwhile Take My Hand by Kirmen Uribe, translated by Elizabeth Macklin
Hunger: an unnatural history by Sharman Apt Russell
The Virginia Quarterly Review: a national journal of literature and discussion Fall 2006, vol. 92 no. 4, Ted Genoways, editor
The Mouse and His Child by Russell C. Hoban
Sunflower Splendor: three thousand years of Chinese poetry edited by Wu-Chi Liu and Irving Yucheng Lo
Thinking in Pictures and other reports from my life with autism by Temple Grandin
The Book of Boy Trouble: gay boy comics with a new attitude edited by Robert Kirby and David Kelly
Poetry International #11, 2006/2007, edited by Fred Moramaro
Amnesty International Summer 2007, vol. 33 no. 2, edited by Gwen Fitzgerald
Instant City: a literary exploration of San Francisco no. 4, 2007, editors: Gravity Goldberg and Eric Zassenhaus
Glitz by Elmore Leonard
Ceremonies by Essex Hemphill
I Love Led Zeppelin: pany-dropping comics by Ellen Forney
Volt: a magazine of the arts, vol. 13: The War Issue 2007, edited by Gillian Conoley
1491: new revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
Eye of the Whale: epic passage from Baja to Siberia by Dick Russell
Friday, July 28, 2017
Titles Read in 2006
January - February
Wicked: the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Evolution’s Rainbow: diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people by Joan Roughgarden
The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
Heights of the Marvelous: a New York anthology edited by Todd Colby
Jane’s World vol. 1, by Paige Braddock
Jane’s World vol. 2, by Paige Braddock
Menagerie Manor by Gerald Durrell
What We Carry by Dorianne Laux
Smoke by Dorianne Laux
Hard-Boiled by Frank Miller and Geof Darrow
Family Values: a Lesbian mother’s fight for her son by Phyllis Burke
One Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
Bad Bears in the Big City: an Irving and Muktuk story by Daniel Pinkwater
Ox-cart Man by Donald Hall
Poems for the Millennium: the University of California book of modern and post-modern poetry, vol. 1: From Fin-de-Siecle to Negritude edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris
The Season on Our Sleeves: selected short poems by Bill Knott
The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1914 - 1923 by Franz Kafka, edited by Max Brod, translated by Martin Greenberg, with the cooperation of Hannah Arendt
Bunnicula: a rabbit-tale of mystery by James Howe and Deborah Howe
My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
From Raft to Raft by Bengt Danielsson, from the narrative of Alain Brun, translated by F. H. Lyon
The Wicked Witch of Oz by Rachel Cosgrove Payes, illustrated by Eric Shanower
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Book of Hats by Allen Cohen, drawings by Ann Cohen
Elquest: The Searcher and the Sword by Wendy and Richard Pini
The Not-Just-Anybody Family by Betsy Byars
Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. military by Randy Shilts
Parthenon West first issue
Private Beach: secret messages by David Hahn
Eighty-sixed by David B. Feinberg
Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes
Venus Revealed: a new look below the clouds of our mysterious twin planet by David Harry Grinspoon
Paul Has a Summer Job by Michael Rabagliati
The San Francisco Haiku Anthology edited by Jerry Ball, Garry Gay, Tom Tico
Song of Rita Joe: autobiography of a Mi’kmaq poet by Rita Joe, with Lynn Henry
The Best American Poetry 2005 edited by Paul Muldoon; series editor: David Lehman
The M Word: writers on same-sex marriage edited by Kathy Pories
March - September
The Eye of the Needle based on a Yupik tale as told to Betty Huffman, retold and illustrated by Teri Sloat
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richarson and Peter Parnell, illustrated by Henry Cole
Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men, nos. 1 - 10 Stan Lee, writer; Jack Kirby, penciler
Bitter Fame: a life of Sylvia Plath by Anne Stevenson
Native Roots: how the Indians enriched America by Jack Weatherford
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Poems from the Coffee Lands a Starbucks mini anthology
Autobiographix edited by Diana Schutz
Strugglers by Tim Fish
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, vol. II by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
American Elf: the collected sketchbook diaries of James Kochalka, Octoer 26, 1998 to December 31, 2003 by James Kochalka
Well-Versed: poems for the road ahead an AIG mini chapbook
The Lover by Marguerite Duras, translated by Barbara Bray
Beeswax Magazine no. 1, winter 2006
Choteau Creek: a Sioux reminiscence by Joseph IronEye Dudley
The Martians by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Best Spiritual Writing 1998 edited by Philip Zaleski
Scarlet Traces by Ian Edginton and D’Israeli
8 Men and a Duck: an improbable voyage by reed boat to Easter Island by Nick Thorpe
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
Go Power!: the complete Atomic City tales, vol. 1 by Jay Stephens
Fun Home: a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Tropical Truth: a story of music and revolution by Caetano Veloso, translated by Isabel de Sena, edited by Barbara Einzig
Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach
Y: The Last Man, vol. 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaugh and Pia Guerra
Y: The Last Man, vol. 2: Cycles by Brian K. Vaugh and Pia Guerra
Y: The Last Man, vol. 3: One Small Step by Brian K. Vaugh and Pia Guerra
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Pictopia no. 4, winter 1993
Sixpence House: lost in a town of books by Paul Collins
Drawn and Quarterly vol. 4, 2001 and vol. 5, 2003, edited by Chris Oliveros
Fadeout by Joseph Hansen
Queer Crips: disabled gay men and their stories edited by Bob Guter and John R. KIllacky
Remembering Denny by Calvin Trillin
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, edited by Sherman Paul
Ice Cream by Lelyn Masters
The Woman in the Shaman’s Body: reclaiming the feminine in religion and medicine by Barbara Tedlock
The Amazing Adventures of Bill nos. 1 - 4, by Bill Roundy
Of Men and Monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer and the construction of the serial killer by Richard Tithecott
How We Die: reflections on life’s final chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
Age of Bronze, vol. 2: Sacrifice by Eric Shanower
Marvel Masterworks: X-Men, vol. 2 by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Jack Kirby, Alex Toth, Werner Roth
Marvel Masterworks: X-Men, vol. 3 by Roy Thomas, Werner Roth, Jack Sparling
The Acid Bath by Stephen Walsh and Kellie Strom
The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck
The Temple by Stephen Spender
The Ohlone Way: Indian life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area by Malcolm Margolin
Kona Village Resort: the heritage of Ka’upulehu, the history of Kona Village author uncredited
Death Claims by Joseph Hansen
Troublemaker by Joseph Hansen
Eyes of Desire: a Deaf Gay and Lesbian reader edited by Raymond Luczak
R. Crumb’s Kafka text by David Zane Mairowitz, art by Robert Crumb
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Spontaneous Combustion by David B. Feinberg
Queer and Loathing: rants and raves of a raging AIDS clone by David B. Feinberg
Funny in Farsi: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
Mine Tonight by Trevor Alixopulos
De: Tales by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba
City of Buds and Flowers: a poet’s eye view of Berkeley edited by John Oliver Simon
Parthenon West no. 3, fall 2005, edited by David Holler and Chad Sweeney
Searoad: chronicle of Klatsand by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Work of a Common Woman by Judy Grahn
October - December
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
The Summer of Love by Debbie Dreschsler
When I Knew edited by Robert Trachtenberg
Mary Van Note’s Experiences with the Elusive Bradley Weinburger, a story of seduction, volume one by Mary Van Note
Centaur Aisle a Xanth novel by Piers Anthony
Castle Roogna a Xanth novel by Piers Anthony
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
West Branch no. 58, spring/summer 2006
Afterbeats by D. Jayne McPherson
Teen Titans: The Future is Now by Geoff Jones, Mark Waid, Mike McKone, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Tom Grummett, et al
Casanova Was a Book Lover: and other naked truths and curiosities about the writing, selling, and reading of books by John Maxwell Hamilton
Elmer and the Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
The Dragons of Blueland by Ruth Stiles Gannett
924 Gilman, the story so far … edited by Brian Edge
Boy Girl Boy by Ron Koertge
Wicked: the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Evolution’s Rainbow: diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people by Joan Roughgarden
The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
Heights of the Marvelous: a New York anthology edited by Todd Colby
Jane’s World vol. 1, by Paige Braddock
Jane’s World vol. 2, by Paige Braddock
Menagerie Manor by Gerald Durrell
What We Carry by Dorianne Laux
Smoke by Dorianne Laux
Hard-Boiled by Frank Miller and Geof Darrow
Family Values: a Lesbian mother’s fight for her son by Phyllis Burke
One Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
Bad Bears in the Big City: an Irving and Muktuk story by Daniel Pinkwater
Ox-cart Man by Donald Hall
Poems for the Millennium: the University of California book of modern and post-modern poetry, vol. 1: From Fin-de-Siecle to Negritude edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris
The Season on Our Sleeves: selected short poems by Bill Knott
The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1914 - 1923 by Franz Kafka, edited by Max Brod, translated by Martin Greenberg, with the cooperation of Hannah Arendt
Bunnicula: a rabbit-tale of mystery by James Howe and Deborah Howe
My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
From Raft to Raft by Bengt Danielsson, from the narrative of Alain Brun, translated by F. H. Lyon
The Wicked Witch of Oz by Rachel Cosgrove Payes, illustrated by Eric Shanower
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Book of Hats by Allen Cohen, drawings by Ann Cohen
Elquest: The Searcher and the Sword by Wendy and Richard Pini
The Not-Just-Anybody Family by Betsy Byars
Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. military by Randy Shilts
Parthenon West first issue
Private Beach: secret messages by David Hahn
Eighty-sixed by David B. Feinberg
Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes
Venus Revealed: a new look below the clouds of our mysterious twin planet by David Harry Grinspoon
Paul Has a Summer Job by Michael Rabagliati
The San Francisco Haiku Anthology edited by Jerry Ball, Garry Gay, Tom Tico
Song of Rita Joe: autobiography of a Mi’kmaq poet by Rita Joe, with Lynn Henry
The Best American Poetry 2005 edited by Paul Muldoon; series editor: David Lehman
The M Word: writers on same-sex marriage edited by Kathy Pories
March - September
The Eye of the Needle based on a Yupik tale as told to Betty Huffman, retold and illustrated by Teri Sloat
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richarson and Peter Parnell, illustrated by Henry Cole
Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men, nos. 1 - 10 Stan Lee, writer; Jack Kirby, penciler
Bitter Fame: a life of Sylvia Plath by Anne Stevenson
Native Roots: how the Indians enriched America by Jack Weatherford
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Poems from the Coffee Lands a Starbucks mini anthology
Autobiographix edited by Diana Schutz
Strugglers by Tim Fish
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, vol. II by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
American Elf: the collected sketchbook diaries of James Kochalka, Octoer 26, 1998 to December 31, 2003 by James Kochalka
Well-Versed: poems for the road ahead an AIG mini chapbook
The Lover by Marguerite Duras, translated by Barbara Bray
Beeswax Magazine no. 1, winter 2006
Choteau Creek: a Sioux reminiscence by Joseph IronEye Dudley
The Martians by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Best Spiritual Writing 1998 edited by Philip Zaleski
Scarlet Traces by Ian Edginton and D’Israeli
8 Men and a Duck: an improbable voyage by reed boat to Easter Island by Nick Thorpe
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
Go Power!: the complete Atomic City tales, vol. 1 by Jay Stephens
Fun Home: a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Tropical Truth: a story of music and revolution by Caetano Veloso, translated by Isabel de Sena, edited by Barbara Einzig
Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach
Y: The Last Man, vol. 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaugh and Pia Guerra
Y: The Last Man, vol. 2: Cycles by Brian K. Vaugh and Pia Guerra
Y: The Last Man, vol. 3: One Small Step by Brian K. Vaugh and Pia Guerra
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Pictopia no. 4, winter 1993
Sixpence House: lost in a town of books by Paul Collins
Drawn and Quarterly vol. 4, 2001 and vol. 5, 2003, edited by Chris Oliveros
Fadeout by Joseph Hansen
Queer Crips: disabled gay men and their stories edited by Bob Guter and John R. KIllacky
Remembering Denny by Calvin Trillin
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, edited by Sherman Paul
Ice Cream by Lelyn Masters
The Woman in the Shaman’s Body: reclaiming the feminine in religion and medicine by Barbara Tedlock
The Amazing Adventures of Bill nos. 1 - 4, by Bill Roundy
Of Men and Monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer and the construction of the serial killer by Richard Tithecott
How We Die: reflections on life’s final chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
Age of Bronze, vol. 2: Sacrifice by Eric Shanower
Marvel Masterworks: X-Men, vol. 2 by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Jack Kirby, Alex Toth, Werner Roth
Marvel Masterworks: X-Men, vol. 3 by Roy Thomas, Werner Roth, Jack Sparling
The Acid Bath by Stephen Walsh and Kellie Strom
The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck
The Temple by Stephen Spender
The Ohlone Way: Indian life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area by Malcolm Margolin
Kona Village Resort: the heritage of Ka’upulehu, the history of Kona Village author uncredited
Death Claims by Joseph Hansen
Troublemaker by Joseph Hansen
Eyes of Desire: a Deaf Gay and Lesbian reader edited by Raymond Luczak
R. Crumb’s Kafka text by David Zane Mairowitz, art by Robert Crumb
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Spontaneous Combustion by David B. Feinberg
Queer and Loathing: rants and raves of a raging AIDS clone by David B. Feinberg
Funny in Farsi: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
Mine Tonight by Trevor Alixopulos
De: Tales by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba
City of Buds and Flowers: a poet’s eye view of Berkeley edited by John Oliver Simon
Parthenon West no. 3, fall 2005, edited by David Holler and Chad Sweeney
Searoad: chronicle of Klatsand by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Work of a Common Woman by Judy Grahn
October - December
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
The Summer of Love by Debbie Dreschsler
When I Knew edited by Robert Trachtenberg
Mary Van Note’s Experiences with the Elusive Bradley Weinburger, a story of seduction, volume one by Mary Van Note
Centaur Aisle a Xanth novel by Piers Anthony
Castle Roogna a Xanth novel by Piers Anthony
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
West Branch no. 58, spring/summer 2006
Afterbeats by D. Jayne McPherson
Teen Titans: The Future is Now by Geoff Jones, Mark Waid, Mike McKone, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Tom Grummett, et al
Casanova Was a Book Lover: and other naked truths and curiosities about the writing, selling, and reading of books by John Maxwell Hamilton
Elmer and the Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
The Dragons of Blueland by Ruth Stiles Gannett
924 Gilman, the story so far … edited by Brian Edge
Boy Girl Boy by Ron Koertge
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Titles Read in 2005
January
Palimpsest: a memoir by Gore Vidal
Orbiter by Warren Ellis, writer; Colleen Doran, artist
Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis, translated by William L. Grossman
American Splendor: Our Movie Year by Harvey Pekar and various artists
A Man on the Moon: the voyages of the Apollo astronauts by Andrew Chaikin
Boy-wives and Female Husbands: studies in African homosexualities edited by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
New Blood edited by Neil Astley
Lunch Hour Comix by Robert K. Ullman
A Few Perfect Hours … and other stories from Southeast Asia and Central Europe by Josh Neufeld
Thank You and OK!: an American Zen failure in Japan by David Chadwick
Between the Palms: a collection of gay travel erotica edited by Michael T. Luongo
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
The Best American Poetry 2004 edited by Lyn Hejinian; series editor: David Lehman
February - July
Journey of the Pink Dolphins: an Amazon quest by Sy Montgomery
The Whole Shebang: a state-of-the-universe(s) report by Timothy Ferris
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
What Book!?: Buddha poems from beat to hiphop edited by Gary Gach
Kyle’s Bed and Breakfast by Greg Fox
Purgatorial by Dale Jensen
The True History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
Skeleton of a Bridge by Robert Mirabal
A Match to the Heart: one woman’s story of being struck by lightning by Gretel Ehrlich
Only the Lonely edited by Josh Frankel
In the Shadow of Man by Jane van Lawick-Goodall, photographs by Hugo van Lawick
The Scar Saloon by Sholeh Wolpe
Poetry vol. 181 no. 3, January 2003 - vol. 182 no. 6, September 2003; edited by Joseph Parisi
Poetry vol. 183 no. 1, October 2003 - vol. 183 no. 3, December 2003, edited by Christian Wiman
The Adventures of Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
Lonely Planet Unpacked edited by Janet Austin
Rio de Janeiro: Carnival Under Fire by Ruy Castro, translated by John Gledson
Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man by John Porcellino
Too Old, Too Small, Maybe by Kirmen Uribe, et al; translations by Elizabeth Macklin
The Moons of Jupiter by Kristin Leutwyler-Ozelli
Akiko, vol. 4: The Story Tree by Mark Crilley
Finder: Sin-Eater, vol. 1 by Carla Speed McNeil
Finder: Sin-Eater, vol. 2 by Carla Speed McNeil
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Adventures of Sock Monkey by Tony Millionaire
International Bob by Terry La Ban
Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
Powers: Who Killed Retro Girl? by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oerning
A History of the Devil by Gerald Messadie, translated by Marc Romano
Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi, translated by Anjali Singh
Pulling Taffy by Matt Bernstein Sycamore (Mattilda)
Living Upstairs by Joseph Hansen
Epileptic by David B., translated by Kim Thompson
The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry edited by Paul Auster
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Ex Libris: confessions of a common reader by Anne Fadiman
Song from the Forest: my life among the Ba-Benjelle Pygmies by Louis Sarno
The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910 - 1913 by Franz Kafka, edited by Max Broad, translated by Joseph Kresh
Shutterbug Follies by Jason Little
The Most Important Thing and other stories by Graham Chaffee
Leviathan by Jens Harder
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
Dylan Dog: Zed by Tiziano Sclavi, writer; Bruno Brindisi, artist
August - September
The R. Crumb Handbook by R. Crumb and Peter Poplaski
Changing Ones: third and fourth genders in Native North America by Will Roscoe
Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
Fantasy and Science Fiction June 2000
Brooklyn Dreams by J. M. DeMatteis; art by Glenn Barr
The Bird’s Nest by Shirley Jackson
The Originals by Dave Gibbons
How Loathsome written by Tristan Crane and Ted Naifeh, art by Ted Naifeh
Born Free by Joy Adamson
Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Grickle by Graham Annable
October - December
Bayaka: the extraordinary music of the Babenzele Pygmies and sounds of their forest home book and CD, by Louis Sarno
American Splendor: Unsung Hero by Harvey Pekar, art by David Collier
The Man Who Tasted Shapes by Richard E. Cytowic
Kon-Tiki: across the Pacific by raft by Thor Heyerdahl
The Heart of the Sky: travels among the Maya by Peter Canby
Death on the Fourth of July: the story of a killing, a trial, and hate crime in America by David A. Neiwert
Dora, Doralina by Rachel de Queiroz, translated by Dorothy Scott Loos
Queer Beats: how the Beats turned America on to sex edited by Regina Marler
The Morning the Sun Went Down by Darryl Babe
Hicksville by Dylan Horricks
Palimpsest: a memoir by Gore Vidal
Orbiter by Warren Ellis, writer; Colleen Doran, artist
Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis, translated by William L. Grossman
American Splendor: Our Movie Year by Harvey Pekar and various artists
A Man on the Moon: the voyages of the Apollo astronauts by Andrew Chaikin
Boy-wives and Female Husbands: studies in African homosexualities edited by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
New Blood edited by Neil Astley
Lunch Hour Comix by Robert K. Ullman
A Few Perfect Hours … and other stories from Southeast Asia and Central Europe by Josh Neufeld
Thank You and OK!: an American Zen failure in Japan by David Chadwick
Between the Palms: a collection of gay travel erotica edited by Michael T. Luongo
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
The Best American Poetry 2004 edited by Lyn Hejinian; series editor: David Lehman
February - July
Journey of the Pink Dolphins: an Amazon quest by Sy Montgomery
The Whole Shebang: a state-of-the-universe(s) report by Timothy Ferris
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
What Book!?: Buddha poems from beat to hiphop edited by Gary Gach
Kyle’s Bed and Breakfast by Greg Fox
Purgatorial by Dale Jensen
The True History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
Skeleton of a Bridge by Robert Mirabal
A Match to the Heart: one woman’s story of being struck by lightning by Gretel Ehrlich
Only the Lonely edited by Josh Frankel
In the Shadow of Man by Jane van Lawick-Goodall, photographs by Hugo van Lawick
The Scar Saloon by Sholeh Wolpe
Poetry vol. 181 no. 3, January 2003 - vol. 182 no. 6, September 2003; edited by Joseph Parisi
Poetry vol. 183 no. 1, October 2003 - vol. 183 no. 3, December 2003, edited by Christian Wiman
The Adventures of Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
Lonely Planet Unpacked edited by Janet Austin
Rio de Janeiro: Carnival Under Fire by Ruy Castro, translated by John Gledson
Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man by John Porcellino
Too Old, Too Small, Maybe by Kirmen Uribe, et al; translations by Elizabeth Macklin
The Moons of Jupiter by Kristin Leutwyler-Ozelli
Akiko, vol. 4: The Story Tree by Mark Crilley
Finder: Sin-Eater, vol. 1 by Carla Speed McNeil
Finder: Sin-Eater, vol. 2 by Carla Speed McNeil
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Adventures of Sock Monkey by Tony Millionaire
International Bob by Terry La Ban
Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
Powers: Who Killed Retro Girl? by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oerning
A History of the Devil by Gerald Messadie, translated by Marc Romano
Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi, translated by Anjali Singh
Pulling Taffy by Matt Bernstein Sycamore (Mattilda)
Living Upstairs by Joseph Hansen
Epileptic by David B., translated by Kim Thompson
The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry edited by Paul Auster
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Ex Libris: confessions of a common reader by Anne Fadiman
Song from the Forest: my life among the Ba-Benjelle Pygmies by Louis Sarno
The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910 - 1913 by Franz Kafka, edited by Max Broad, translated by Joseph Kresh
Shutterbug Follies by Jason Little
The Most Important Thing and other stories by Graham Chaffee
Leviathan by Jens Harder
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
Dylan Dog: Zed by Tiziano Sclavi, writer; Bruno Brindisi, artist
August - September
The R. Crumb Handbook by R. Crumb and Peter Poplaski
Changing Ones: third and fourth genders in Native North America by Will Roscoe
Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
Fantasy and Science Fiction June 2000
Brooklyn Dreams by J. M. DeMatteis; art by Glenn Barr
The Bird’s Nest by Shirley Jackson
The Originals by Dave Gibbons
How Loathsome written by Tristan Crane and Ted Naifeh, art by Ted Naifeh
Born Free by Joy Adamson
Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Grickle by Graham Annable
October - December
Bayaka: the extraordinary music of the Babenzele Pygmies and sounds of their forest home book and CD, by Louis Sarno
American Splendor: Unsung Hero by Harvey Pekar, art by David Collier
The Man Who Tasted Shapes by Richard E. Cytowic
Kon-Tiki: across the Pacific by raft by Thor Heyerdahl
The Heart of the Sky: travels among the Maya by Peter Canby
Death on the Fourth of July: the story of a killing, a trial, and hate crime in America by David A. Neiwert
Dora, Doralina by Rachel de Queiroz, translated by Dorothy Scott Loos
Queer Beats: how the Beats turned America on to sex edited by Regina Marler
The Morning the Sun Went Down by Darryl Babe
Hicksville by Dylan Horricks
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Titles Read in 2004
January
Snowball Earth: the story of the great global catastrophe that spawned life as we know it by Gabrielle Walker
AKIRA, vols. 1 - 6 by Katsuhiro Otomo, translated by Yoko Umezawa, LInda M. York and Jo Duffy
Forturne and Glory: a true Hollywood comic book story by Brian Michael Bendis
The Wellspring by Sharon Olds
The Best of the Prose Poem: an international journal edited by Peter Johnson
Typewriter #6, edited by David Youngblood
February - April
The Amazing Cynicalman by Matt Feazell
A Lotus of Another Color: an unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian experience edited by Rakesh Ratti
What’s Michael?, vol. 4: Michael’s Mambo by Makoto Kobayashi
2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke
Zapata’s Disciple by Martin Espada
Civil Wars: a battle for gay marriage by David Moats
Going the Other Way: lessons from a life in and out of major-league baseball by Billy Bean with Chris Bull
The Best American Poetry 2003 edited by Yusef Komunyaka; series editor: David Lehman
The Eye of the Elephant: an epic adventure in the African wilderness by Delia and Mark Owens
Revolution of the Word: a new gathering of American avant-garde poetry, 1914 - 1945 edited by Jerome Rothenberg
Shooting the Boh: a woman’s voyage down the wildest river in Borneo by Tracy Johnston
Seven Peaches: the first seven Desert Peach episodes by Donna Barr
The Golem’s Mighty Swing by James Sturm
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Traditional Japanese Poetry: an anthology translated by Steen D. Carter
Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
The Frank Book by Jim Woodring
Top Ten, Book Two by Alan Moore, writer; Gene Ha and Zander Cannon, artists
New Poems 1960 by Witter Bynner
Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book by Jordan Raphael and Tom Spurgeon
The Collected Strangers in Paradise vol. 1, by Terry Moore
May
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
The Clouds Should Know Me By Now edited by Red Pine and Mike O’Connor
The First Time I Met Frank O’Hara by Rick Whitacker
The Tapir’s Morning Bath: mysteries of the tropical rain forest and the scientists who are trying to solve them by Elizabeth Royte
Metamorphosis and other stories by Franz Kafka, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
June - September
Akiko: the Menace of Alia Rellapor vols. 1 - 3, by Mark Crilley
The Lion’s Grave: dispatches from Afghanistan by Jon Lee Anderson
Terminal City by Dean Motter and Michael Lark
Transmetropolitan: back on the street by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson
Episodes by Pierre Delattre
Borrowed Love Poems by John Yau
Twentieth Century Eightball by Daniel Clowes
Life on Another Planet by Will Eisner
The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay poetry of the next wave edited by Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou
Landscape with Rowers: poetry from the Netherlands edited and translated by J. M. Coetzee
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus
A Small Killing by Alan Moore and Oscar Zarate
White Death by Rob Morrison and Charlie Adlard
You’ve Just Been Told by Elizabeth Macklin
Tony Millionaire’s Sock Monkey: Uncle Gabby by Tony Millionaire
Bark by Jack Martin
The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White
House of Java by Mark Murphy
House of Java vol. 2, by Mark Murphy
The Burning Island: a journey through myth and history in volcano country, Hawai’i by Pamela Frierson
The Ages of Gaia: a biography of our living earth by James Lovelock
Make Your Own Damn Movie!: secrets of a renegade director by Lloyd Kaufman with Adam Jahnke and Trent Haaga
The Lands of Charm and Cruelty: travels in Southeast Asia by Stan Sesser
Here First: autobiographical essays by Native American writers edited by Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann
Why Marriage Matters: America, equality, and Gay people’s right to marry by Evan Wolfson
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
From Totems to Hip-Hop: a multi-cultural anthology of poetry across the Americas, 1900 - 2002 edited by Ishmael Reed
October - December
The Incredible Hulk: Return of the Monster, Boiling Point, Banner by Bruce Jones, John Romita Jr, Lee Weeks, Brian Azzarello, Richard Corben
The Interman vol. 1, by Jeff Parker
The Barefoot Serpent by Scott Morse
Mind of the Raven: investigations and adventures with the wolf-birds by Bernd Heinrich
How Real Men Do It: the fourth Leonard and Larry collection by Tim Barela
Elric: the Dreaming City by Roy Thomas and P. Craig Russell
Peanut Butter and Jeremy’s Best Book Ever by James Kochalka
In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman
The Liars’ Club: a memoir by Mary Karr
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood
Blankets by Craig Thompson
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Yes, You Are a Revolutionary: plus seven other books by Sparrow
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: the emotional world of farm animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Talking in the Dark: a poetry memoir by Billy Merrell
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
Usagi Yojimbo: book 17: Duel at Kitanoji by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book 18: Travels with Jotaro by Stan Sakai
Snowball Earth: the story of the great global catastrophe that spawned life as we know it by Gabrielle Walker
AKIRA, vols. 1 - 6 by Katsuhiro Otomo, translated by Yoko Umezawa, LInda M. York and Jo Duffy
Forturne and Glory: a true Hollywood comic book story by Brian Michael Bendis
The Wellspring by Sharon Olds
The Best of the Prose Poem: an international journal edited by Peter Johnson
Typewriter #6, edited by David Youngblood
February - April
The Amazing Cynicalman by Matt Feazell
A Lotus of Another Color: an unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian experience edited by Rakesh Ratti
What’s Michael?, vol. 4: Michael’s Mambo by Makoto Kobayashi
2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke
Zapata’s Disciple by Martin Espada
Civil Wars: a battle for gay marriage by David Moats
Going the Other Way: lessons from a life in and out of major-league baseball by Billy Bean with Chris Bull
The Best American Poetry 2003 edited by Yusef Komunyaka; series editor: David Lehman
The Eye of the Elephant: an epic adventure in the African wilderness by Delia and Mark Owens
Revolution of the Word: a new gathering of American avant-garde poetry, 1914 - 1945 edited by Jerome Rothenberg
Shooting the Boh: a woman’s voyage down the wildest river in Borneo by Tracy Johnston
Seven Peaches: the first seven Desert Peach episodes by Donna Barr
The Golem’s Mighty Swing by James Sturm
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Traditional Japanese Poetry: an anthology translated by Steen D. Carter
Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
The Frank Book by Jim Woodring
Top Ten, Book Two by Alan Moore, writer; Gene Ha and Zander Cannon, artists
New Poems 1960 by Witter Bynner
Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book by Jordan Raphael and Tom Spurgeon
The Collected Strangers in Paradise vol. 1, by Terry Moore
May
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
The Clouds Should Know Me By Now edited by Red Pine and Mike O’Connor
The First Time I Met Frank O’Hara by Rick Whitacker
The Tapir’s Morning Bath: mysteries of the tropical rain forest and the scientists who are trying to solve them by Elizabeth Royte
Metamorphosis and other stories by Franz Kafka, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
June - September
Akiko: the Menace of Alia Rellapor vols. 1 - 3, by Mark Crilley
The Lion’s Grave: dispatches from Afghanistan by Jon Lee Anderson
Terminal City by Dean Motter and Michael Lark
Transmetropolitan: back on the street by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson
Episodes by Pierre Delattre
Borrowed Love Poems by John Yau
Twentieth Century Eightball by Daniel Clowes
Life on Another Planet by Will Eisner
The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay poetry of the next wave edited by Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou
Landscape with Rowers: poetry from the Netherlands edited and translated by J. M. Coetzee
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus
A Small Killing by Alan Moore and Oscar Zarate
White Death by Rob Morrison and Charlie Adlard
You’ve Just Been Told by Elizabeth Macklin
Tony Millionaire’s Sock Monkey: Uncle Gabby by Tony Millionaire
Bark by Jack Martin
The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White
House of Java by Mark Murphy
House of Java vol. 2, by Mark Murphy
The Burning Island: a journey through myth and history in volcano country, Hawai’i by Pamela Frierson
The Ages of Gaia: a biography of our living earth by James Lovelock
Make Your Own Damn Movie!: secrets of a renegade director by Lloyd Kaufman with Adam Jahnke and Trent Haaga
The Lands of Charm and Cruelty: travels in Southeast Asia by Stan Sesser
Here First: autobiographical essays by Native American writers edited by Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann
Why Marriage Matters: America, equality, and Gay people’s right to marry by Evan Wolfson
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
From Totems to Hip-Hop: a multi-cultural anthology of poetry across the Americas, 1900 - 2002 edited by Ishmael Reed
October - December
The Incredible Hulk: Return of the Monster, Boiling Point, Banner by Bruce Jones, John Romita Jr, Lee Weeks, Brian Azzarello, Richard Corben
The Interman vol. 1, by Jeff Parker
The Barefoot Serpent by Scott Morse
Mind of the Raven: investigations and adventures with the wolf-birds by Bernd Heinrich
How Real Men Do It: the fourth Leonard and Larry collection by Tim Barela
Elric: the Dreaming City by Roy Thomas and P. Craig Russell
Peanut Butter and Jeremy’s Best Book Ever by James Kochalka
In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman
The Liars’ Club: a memoir by Mary Karr
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood
Blankets by Craig Thompson
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Yes, You Are a Revolutionary: plus seven other books by Sparrow
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: the emotional world of farm animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Talking in the Dark: a poetry memoir by Billy Merrell
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
Usagi Yojimbo: book 17: Duel at Kitanoji by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book 18: Travels with Jotaro by Stan Sakai
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Titles Read in 2003
January - February
The Ghost Trio by Linda Bierds
Sightings: the gray whale’s mysterious journey by Brenda Peterson and Linda Hogan
Wild One by Lucille Lang Day
Infinities by Lucille Lang Day
Curbside Boys: the New York years by Robert Kirby
The New American Poetry, 1945 - 1960 edited by Donald Allen
The Best American Poetry 2002 edited by Robert Creeley; series editor, David Lehman
Mammoth: the resurrection of an ice age giant by Richard Stone
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Kim Deitch
Starting Out in the Sixties: selected essays by Aram Saroyan
March - June
Usagi Yojimbo: Book One by Stan Sakai
Isolation and Illusion: collected short stories, 1977 - 1997 by P. Craig Russell
Safe Area Gorazde: the war in Eastern Bosnia, 1992 - 1995 by Joe Sacco
Subway Series by Leela Corman
American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders edited by Eliot Weinberger
Bizarro Comics DC Comics
The Octopus and the Orangutan: more true tales of animal intrigue, intelligence, and ingenuity by Eugene Linden
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse edited and translated by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite
A History of God: the 4000-year quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstong
Nonrequired Reading by Wislawa Szymborska
Johnny Dynamite by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty
Usagi Yojimbo: Book Two by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: Book Three by Stan Sakai
Space Usagi by Stan Sakai
It’s Been a Good Life by Isaac Asimov, edited by Janet Jeppson Asimov
An Underground Life: the memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck with Frank Heibert, translated by Allison Brown
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt by William Nothdurft
A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks
An Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry edited and translated by Ichiro Kono and Rikutaro Fukuda
Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry edited and translated by Edith Marcombe Shiffert and Yuki Sawa
Chieko’s Sky by Kotaro Takamura, translated by Soichi Furuta
Like Underground Water: the poetry of mid-twentieth century Japan translated by Naoshi Koriyama and Edward Lueders
Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner
Mobius Stripper by Bana Witt
Skipping Towards Gomorrah: the seven deadly sins and the pursuit of happiness in America by Dan Savage
Black Cat Crossing by Richard Sala
Peculia by Richard Sala
Usagi Yojimbo: book four by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book five by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book six by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book seven by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book eight: Shades of Death by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book nine: Daisho by Stan Sakai
Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and me by Jaime Manrique
American Splendor Presents: Bob and Harv’s Comics written by Harvey Pekar, art by R. Crumb
Usagi Yojimbo: book ten: The Brink of Life and Death by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book eleven: Seasons by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book twelve: Grasscutter by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book thirteen: Grey Shadows by Stan Sakai
Mountain Home: the wilderness poetry of ancient China selected and translated by David Hinton
Usagi Yojimbo: book fourteen: Demon Mask by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book fifteen: Grasscutter II, Journey to Atsuta Shrina by Stan Sakai
The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins
Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins
Braided Creek: a conversation in poetry by Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser
Diminutive Revolutions by Daniel Bouchard
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty
July
Adventure Capitalist: the ultimate investor’s road trip by Jim Rogers
Midlife Queer: autobiography of a decade, 1971 - 1981 by Martin Duberman
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Alec: three piece suit by Eddie Campbell
Age of Reptiles: Tribal Warfare by Ricardo Delgado
Age of Reptiles: The Hunt by Ricardo Delgado
Pages by Aram Saroyan
Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry edited and translated by Graham Dunstan Martin
Mid-Century French Poets by Wallace Fowlie
Modern French Poetry edited and translated by Patricia Terry and Serge Gavronsky
Mystery in Space: pulp fiction library edited by Dale Crain
Monkey vs. Robert and the Crystal of Power by James Kolchalka
The Color of Water: a black man’s tribute to his white mother by James McBride
Nine Horses by Billy Collins
Sailing Alone Around the Room: new and selected poems by Billy Collins
The New American Splendor Anthology by Harvey Pekar and various artists
In Our Own Best Interest: how defending human rights benefits us all by William F. Schulz
A Traveler’s Guide to Mars: the mysterious landscapes of the red planet by William K. Hartmann
Travels with Charley: in search of America by John Steinbeck
Language in Danger: the loss of linguistic diversity and the threat to our future by Andrew Dalby
How to Shoot a Feature Film for Under $10,000: and not go to jail by Bret Stern
Poker Face: girlhood among gamblers by Katy Lederer
Gay Travels: a literary companion edited by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Batman: Year One Frank Miller, writer; David Mazzucchelli, artist
Kissing Kate by Lauren Myracle
Saying Yes: in defense of drug use by Jacob Sullum
Fake, vol. 1 by Sanami Matoh, translated by Nan Rymer and Stuart Hazleton
The Short and Happy Times of the Shmoo by Al Capp
”Hello,” I Lied by M. E. Kerr
Usagi Yojimbo: book sixteen: The Shrouded Moon by Stan Sakai
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Roller Coasters: a thrill seeker’s guide to the ultimate scream machines by Robert Coker
Dancing at the Edge of the World: thoughts on words, women, places by Ursula K. LeGuin
I Can’t Tell You Anything and other stories by Michael Dougan
The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom: the spiritual experiments of my generation by Wes “Scoop” Nisker
Persepolis: the story of a childhood by Marjane Satrapi
From the Country of Eight Islands: an anthology of Japanese poetry edited and translated by Hiroaki Sato
The Ghost Trio by Linda Bierds
Sightings: the gray whale’s mysterious journey by Brenda Peterson and Linda Hogan
Wild One by Lucille Lang Day
Infinities by Lucille Lang Day
Curbside Boys: the New York years by Robert Kirby
The New American Poetry, 1945 - 1960 edited by Donald Allen
The Best American Poetry 2002 edited by Robert Creeley; series editor, David Lehman
Mammoth: the resurrection of an ice age giant by Richard Stone
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Kim Deitch
Starting Out in the Sixties: selected essays by Aram Saroyan
March - June
Usagi Yojimbo: Book One by Stan Sakai
Isolation and Illusion: collected short stories, 1977 - 1997 by P. Craig Russell
Safe Area Gorazde: the war in Eastern Bosnia, 1992 - 1995 by Joe Sacco
Subway Series by Leela Corman
American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders edited by Eliot Weinberger
Bizarro Comics DC Comics
The Octopus and the Orangutan: more true tales of animal intrigue, intelligence, and ingenuity by Eugene Linden
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse edited and translated by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite
A History of God: the 4000-year quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstong
Nonrequired Reading by Wislawa Szymborska
Johnny Dynamite by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty
Usagi Yojimbo: Book Two by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: Book Three by Stan Sakai
Space Usagi by Stan Sakai
It’s Been a Good Life by Isaac Asimov, edited by Janet Jeppson Asimov
An Underground Life: the memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck with Frank Heibert, translated by Allison Brown
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt by William Nothdurft
A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks
An Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry edited and translated by Ichiro Kono and Rikutaro Fukuda
Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry edited and translated by Edith Marcombe Shiffert and Yuki Sawa
Chieko’s Sky by Kotaro Takamura, translated by Soichi Furuta
Like Underground Water: the poetry of mid-twentieth century Japan translated by Naoshi Koriyama and Edward Lueders
Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner
Mobius Stripper by Bana Witt
Skipping Towards Gomorrah: the seven deadly sins and the pursuit of happiness in America by Dan Savage
Black Cat Crossing by Richard Sala
Peculia by Richard Sala
Usagi Yojimbo: book four by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book five by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book six by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book seven by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book eight: Shades of Death by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book nine: Daisho by Stan Sakai
Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and me by Jaime Manrique
American Splendor Presents: Bob and Harv’s Comics written by Harvey Pekar, art by R. Crumb
Usagi Yojimbo: book ten: The Brink of Life and Death by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book eleven: Seasons by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book twelve: Grasscutter by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book thirteen: Grey Shadows by Stan Sakai
Mountain Home: the wilderness poetry of ancient China selected and translated by David Hinton
Usagi Yojimbo: book fourteen: Demon Mask by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book fifteen: Grasscutter II, Journey to Atsuta Shrina by Stan Sakai
The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins
Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins
Braided Creek: a conversation in poetry by Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser
Diminutive Revolutions by Daniel Bouchard
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty
July
Adventure Capitalist: the ultimate investor’s road trip by Jim Rogers
Midlife Queer: autobiography of a decade, 1971 - 1981 by Martin Duberman
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Alec: three piece suit by Eddie Campbell
Age of Reptiles: Tribal Warfare by Ricardo Delgado
Age of Reptiles: The Hunt by Ricardo Delgado
Pages by Aram Saroyan
Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry edited and translated by Graham Dunstan Martin
Mid-Century French Poets by Wallace Fowlie
Modern French Poetry edited and translated by Patricia Terry and Serge Gavronsky
Mystery in Space: pulp fiction library edited by Dale Crain
Monkey vs. Robert and the Crystal of Power by James Kolchalka
The Color of Water: a black man’s tribute to his white mother by James McBride
Nine Horses by Billy Collins
Sailing Alone Around the Room: new and selected poems by Billy Collins
The New American Splendor Anthology by Harvey Pekar and various artists
In Our Own Best Interest: how defending human rights benefits us all by William F. Schulz
A Traveler’s Guide to Mars: the mysterious landscapes of the red planet by William K. Hartmann
Travels with Charley: in search of America by John Steinbeck
Language in Danger: the loss of linguistic diversity and the threat to our future by Andrew Dalby
How to Shoot a Feature Film for Under $10,000: and not go to jail by Bret Stern
Poker Face: girlhood among gamblers by Katy Lederer
Gay Travels: a literary companion edited by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Batman: Year One Frank Miller, writer; David Mazzucchelli, artist
Kissing Kate by Lauren Myracle
Saying Yes: in defense of drug use by Jacob Sullum
Fake, vol. 1 by Sanami Matoh, translated by Nan Rymer and Stuart Hazleton
The Short and Happy Times of the Shmoo by Al Capp
”Hello,” I Lied by M. E. Kerr
Usagi Yojimbo: book sixteen: The Shrouded Moon by Stan Sakai
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Roller Coasters: a thrill seeker’s guide to the ultimate scream machines by Robert Coker
Dancing at the Edge of the World: thoughts on words, women, places by Ursula K. LeGuin
I Can’t Tell You Anything and other stories by Michael Dougan
The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom: the spiritual experiments of my generation by Wes “Scoop” Nisker
Persepolis: the story of a childhood by Marjane Satrapi
From the Country of Eight Islands: an anthology of Japanese poetry edited and translated by Hiroaki Sato
Monday, July 24, 2017
Titles Read in 2002
January - June
Darkness in El Dorado: how scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon by Patrick Tierney
Age of Bronze, vol. 1: A Thousand Ships by Eric Shanower
The Five Ages of the Universe by Fred Adams and Greg Laughlin
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
Selected Poems by Donald Justice
The Other Wind by Ursula K. LeGuin
Savages by Joe Kane
The Way of Life according to Laotzu by Witter Bynner
Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels: a history of the comic art by Roger Sabin
Ake: the years of childhood by Wole Soyinka
American Rhapsody by Joe Eszterhas
Locked in the Cabinet by Robert B. Reich
Dark Life: Martian nanobacteria, rock-eating cave bugs, and other extreme organisms of inner earth and outer space by Michael Ray Taylor
An Anthology of Mexican Poetry edited by Octavio Paz, translated by Samuel R. Beckett
The Sadness of Sex: stories by Barry Yourgrau
Harmless Medicine by Justin Chin
The Silk Dragon: translations from the Chinese by Arthur Sze
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures by Anne Fadiman
Fugue State by Bill Berkson
The Rock Island Hiking Club by Ray A. Young Bear
The Tormented Mirror by Russell Edson
Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell
In the Belly of the Beast: letters from prison by Jack Henry Abbott
Wildlife Wars: my fight to save Africa’s natural treasures by Richard Leakey and Virginia Morell
Pedro and Me: friendship, loss, and what I learned by Judd Winick
Berlin: City of Stones book one, by Jason Lutes
Captain Britain by Alan Moore and Alan Davis
History as Mystery by Michael Parenti
July - December
Surface Tension by Elaine Equi
Decoy by Elaine Equi
The Vinyl Closet: gays in the music industry by Boze Hadleigh
Intensive Care: selected and new poems by Miroslav Holub
War Junkie by Joe Sacco
The Horror of Collier County by Rich Tommaso
House of Peace by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
Attitude: the new subversive political cartoonists edited by Ted Rall
Mecox Road by Marc Cohen
Captain Britain 1988, by Alan Davis and Jamie Delano
Jar of Fools by Jason Lutes
Sappho’s Immortal Daughters by Margaret Williamson
What Language by J. P. Dancing Bear
The Spring of My Life and selected haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by Sam Hamill
Visions: painting seen through the optic of poetry by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
Library by Stephen Akey
The Chandler Apartments by Owen Hill
Love Stories: sex between men before homosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz
In Light of India by Octavio Paz, translated by E. Weinberger
A Contract with God and other tenement stories by Will Eisner
Minor Miracles by Will Eisner
If Not, Winter: fragments of Sappho by Sappho, translations by Anne Carson
The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Robert Giroux
Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope by Lucille Lang Day
Fire in the Garden by Lucille Lang Day
Volcano by Garrett Hongo
Who Buried the Breast of Dreams by Janine Canan
The Annotated Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, edited by Michael Patrick Hearn
To Afghanistan and Back: a graphic travelogue by Ted Rall
The Building by Will Eisner
The Dreamer by Will Eisner
Will Eisner Reader: seven graphic stories by Will Eisner
The Poetry of Surrealism: an anthology edited by Michael Benedikt
The Cubist Poets in Paris: an anthology edited by L. C. Breunig
Pharaoh, Pharaoh by Claudia Emerson Andrews
Crow Milk by Rick Agran
The Run of His Life: the people v. O. J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin
Life Everywhere: the maverick science of astrobiology by David Darling
Good Poems edited by Garrison Keillor
Top Ten, Book One by Alan Moore, Gene Ha
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Meeting by the River by Christopher Isherwood
Counterpoint by David Alpaugh
Slow Burn for Ozymandias by David Alpaugh
Excelsior!: the amazing life of Stan Lee by Stan Lee and George Mair
Modern Poets of France: a bilingual anthology edited and translated by Louis Simpson
The Third Chimpanzee: the evolution and future of the human animal by Jared Diamond
9 - 11: emergency relief edited by Jeff Mason
Breaking Open the Head: a psychedelic journey into the heart of contemporary shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck
Murder Me Dead by David Lapham
Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry by Robert Pinsky
Mornings Like This: found poems by Annie Dillard
The Open Boat: poems from Asian America edited by Garrett Hongo
Blood Song: a silent ballad by Eric Drooker
The New Young American Poets: an anthology edited by Kevin Prufer
Family Matter by Will Eisner
L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz: a biography by Katharine M. Rogers
A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
Sky Island by L. Frank Baum
Darkness in El Dorado: how scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon by Patrick Tierney
Age of Bronze, vol. 1: A Thousand Ships by Eric Shanower
The Five Ages of the Universe by Fred Adams and Greg Laughlin
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
Selected Poems by Donald Justice
The Other Wind by Ursula K. LeGuin
Savages by Joe Kane
The Way of Life according to Laotzu by Witter Bynner
Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels: a history of the comic art by Roger Sabin
Ake: the years of childhood by Wole Soyinka
American Rhapsody by Joe Eszterhas
Locked in the Cabinet by Robert B. Reich
Dark Life: Martian nanobacteria, rock-eating cave bugs, and other extreme organisms of inner earth and outer space by Michael Ray Taylor
An Anthology of Mexican Poetry edited by Octavio Paz, translated by Samuel R. Beckett
The Sadness of Sex: stories by Barry Yourgrau
Harmless Medicine by Justin Chin
The Silk Dragon: translations from the Chinese by Arthur Sze
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures by Anne Fadiman
Fugue State by Bill Berkson
The Rock Island Hiking Club by Ray A. Young Bear
The Tormented Mirror by Russell Edson
Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell
In the Belly of the Beast: letters from prison by Jack Henry Abbott
Wildlife Wars: my fight to save Africa’s natural treasures by Richard Leakey and Virginia Morell
Pedro and Me: friendship, loss, and what I learned by Judd Winick
Berlin: City of Stones book one, by Jason Lutes
Captain Britain by Alan Moore and Alan Davis
History as Mystery by Michael Parenti
July - December
Surface Tension by Elaine Equi
Decoy by Elaine Equi
The Vinyl Closet: gays in the music industry by Boze Hadleigh
Intensive Care: selected and new poems by Miroslav Holub
War Junkie by Joe Sacco
The Horror of Collier County by Rich Tommaso
House of Peace by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
Attitude: the new subversive political cartoonists edited by Ted Rall
Mecox Road by Marc Cohen
Captain Britain 1988, by Alan Davis and Jamie Delano
Jar of Fools by Jason Lutes
Sappho’s Immortal Daughters by Margaret Williamson
What Language by J. P. Dancing Bear
The Spring of My Life and selected haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by Sam Hamill
Visions: painting seen through the optic of poetry by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
Library by Stephen Akey
The Chandler Apartments by Owen Hill
Love Stories: sex between men before homosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz
In Light of India by Octavio Paz, translated by E. Weinberger
A Contract with God and other tenement stories by Will Eisner
Minor Miracles by Will Eisner
If Not, Winter: fragments of Sappho by Sappho, translations by Anne Carson
The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Robert Giroux
Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope by Lucille Lang Day
Fire in the Garden by Lucille Lang Day
Volcano by Garrett Hongo
Who Buried the Breast of Dreams by Janine Canan
The Annotated Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, edited by Michael Patrick Hearn
To Afghanistan and Back: a graphic travelogue by Ted Rall
The Building by Will Eisner
The Dreamer by Will Eisner
Will Eisner Reader: seven graphic stories by Will Eisner
The Poetry of Surrealism: an anthology edited by Michael Benedikt
The Cubist Poets in Paris: an anthology edited by L. C. Breunig
Pharaoh, Pharaoh by Claudia Emerson Andrews
Crow Milk by Rick Agran
The Run of His Life: the people v. O. J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin
Life Everywhere: the maverick science of astrobiology by David Darling
Good Poems edited by Garrison Keillor
Top Ten, Book One by Alan Moore, Gene Ha
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Meeting by the River by Christopher Isherwood
Counterpoint by David Alpaugh
Slow Burn for Ozymandias by David Alpaugh
Excelsior!: the amazing life of Stan Lee by Stan Lee and George Mair
Modern Poets of France: a bilingual anthology edited and translated by Louis Simpson
The Third Chimpanzee: the evolution and future of the human animal by Jared Diamond
9 - 11: emergency relief edited by Jeff Mason
Breaking Open the Head: a psychedelic journey into the heart of contemporary shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck
Murder Me Dead by David Lapham
Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry by Robert Pinsky
Mornings Like This: found poems by Annie Dillard
The Open Boat: poems from Asian America edited by Garrett Hongo
Blood Song: a silent ballad by Eric Drooker
The New Young American Poets: an anthology edited by Kevin Prufer
Family Matter by Will Eisner
L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz: a biography by Katharine M. Rogers
A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
Sky Island by L. Frank Baum
Sunday, July 23, 2017
Titles Read in 2001
January - February
City Mouth by Hunt Emerson
Joining the Tribe: growing up gay and lesbian in the 90s by Linnea Due
Best American Poetry 2000 edited by Rita Dove; series editor: David Lehman
Paradox in Oz by Edward Einhorn; illustrations by Eric Shanower
Leonard’s Mountain of Claims and the Diet of Worms by Stephen Jay Gould
The Parrot’s Lament and other true tales of animal intrigue, intelligence, and ingenuity by Eugene Linden
Cleansing the Doors of Perception: the religious significance of entheogenic plants and chemicals by Huston Smith
Good-bye, Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson
Train Go Sorry: inside a Deaf world by Leah Hager Cohen
Three Books: Body Rags; Mortal Acts Mortal Words; The Past by Galway Kinnell
March - June
Swimming with Giants: my encounters with whales, dolphins, and seals by Anne Collet with Marc Sich, translated by Gayle Wurst
The Invisible Musician by Ray A. Young Bear
A World Full of Gods: the strange triumph of Christianity by Keith Hopkins
Word of Mouth: an anthology of gay American poetry edited by Timothy Liu
David Boring by Daniel Clowes
The Velveteen Father: an unexpected journey to parenthood by Jesse Green
New Addresses by Kenneth Koch
Taliban: militant Islam, oil and fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Boy with the Thorn in His Side: a memoir by Keith Fleming
Invocation L. A. : urban multicultural poetry edited by Michelle T. Clinton
Blues for All of Us by Julia Vinograd
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond
Familiar Spirits: a memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson by Alison Lurie
The One in the Many: a poet’s memoirs by David Ignatow
The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln by Scott McCloud
Keep the River on Your Right by Tobias Schneebaum
Losing Matt Shepard: life and politics by Beth Loffreda
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerny
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
The Great Tranquility: questions and answers by Yehuda Amichai
Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Eamon Grennan
Glottal Stop: 101 poems by Paul Celan, translated by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh
Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany
Why Elephants Have Big Ears: understanding patterns of life on Earth by Chris Lavers
July - August
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Lying Stones of Marrakech: penultimate reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
Morning Is a Long Time Coming by Bette Greene
Disguised as a Poem: my years teaching poetry at San Quentin by Judith Tannenbaum
In Pharaoh’s Army: memories of the lost war by Tobias Wolff
Selected Poems, 1938 - 1988 by Thomas McGrath
Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross
Barrel Fever: stories and essays by David Sedaris
Astro City: Confession 1997, by Kurt Busiek, Brent Eric Anderson
Astro City: Family Album 1998, by Kurt Busiek, Brent Eric Anderson
Cats of the Temple by Brad Leithauser
The Borden Tragedy by Rick Geary
How to Make a Terrarium by Veronica Patterson
Swan, What Shores? by Veronica Patterson
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
The Seven Ages by Louise Gluck
The Chair: rethinking culture, body, and design by Galen Cranz
The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up by Andrew Tobias
Our Cancer Year by Joyce Brabner, Harvey Pekar, Frank Stack
Astro City: Life in the Big City 1996, Kurt Busiek, Brent E. Anderson
In the Beginning: creation stories from around the world by Virginia Hamilton; illustrations by Barry Moser
This Same Sky edited by Naomi Shihab Nye
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 1, by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
Wendel All Together by Howard Cruse
Her Blue Body Everything We Know: earthling poems, 1965 - 1990, complete by Alice Walker
Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels: the science behind folk remedies and old wives’ tales by Robert S. Root-Bernstein and Michele M. Root-Bernstein
Three Month Fever: the Andrew Cunanan story by Gary Indiana
The Ape and the Sushi Master: cultural reflections of a primatologist by Frans de Waal
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Edith Grossman
The Motorcycle Diaries: a journey around South America by Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Chasing Che: a motorcycle journey in search of the Guevara legend by Patrick Symmes
In Hazard by Richard Hughes
Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry edited by Duane Niatum
Crossing the Yellow River: three hundred poems from the Chinese translated by Sam Hamill
Wreckage by Ha Jin
A Long Rainy Season: haiku and tanka edited and translated by Leza Lowitz, Miyaki Aoyama, and Akemi Tomioka
Hard Road: a Cat Marsala mystery by Barbara D’Amato
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken by Seth
The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century vol. 2, edited by Douglas Messerli
September - December
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Kanshi: the poetry of Ishikawa Jozan and other Edo-period poets translated by Burton Watson
Drawn and Quarterly vol. 3, edited by Chris Oliveros
Cured in the Going Bebop by Michael Gizzi
Ours, Yours by Julien Poirier
The Men’s Club by Leonard Michaels
Object of My Affections by Stephen McCauley
Body of Waking by Muriel Rukeyser
Breaking Open by Muriel Rukeyser
The Drunken Forest by Gerald Durrell
Dark Fields of the Republic: poems, 1991 - 1995 by Adrienne Rich
Sleep Demons: an insomniac’s memoir by Bill Hayes
Selling the Hammock by Kate Gale
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
Satan in Goray by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Jacob Sloan
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Other Traditions by John Ashbery
Mandate of Heaven: a new generation of entrepreneurs, dissidents, bohemians, and technocrats lays claim to China’s future by Orville Schell
Virtual Tibet: searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood by Orville Schell
Little Lit: folklore and fairy tale funnies edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
Best American Poetry 2001 edited by Robert Hass; series editor, David Lehman
City Mouth by Hunt Emerson
Joining the Tribe: growing up gay and lesbian in the 90s by Linnea Due
Best American Poetry 2000 edited by Rita Dove; series editor: David Lehman
Paradox in Oz by Edward Einhorn; illustrations by Eric Shanower
Leonard’s Mountain of Claims and the Diet of Worms by Stephen Jay Gould
The Parrot’s Lament and other true tales of animal intrigue, intelligence, and ingenuity by Eugene Linden
Cleansing the Doors of Perception: the religious significance of entheogenic plants and chemicals by Huston Smith
Good-bye, Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson
Train Go Sorry: inside a Deaf world by Leah Hager Cohen
Three Books: Body Rags; Mortal Acts Mortal Words; The Past by Galway Kinnell
March - June
Swimming with Giants: my encounters with whales, dolphins, and seals by Anne Collet with Marc Sich, translated by Gayle Wurst
The Invisible Musician by Ray A. Young Bear
A World Full of Gods: the strange triumph of Christianity by Keith Hopkins
Word of Mouth: an anthology of gay American poetry edited by Timothy Liu
David Boring by Daniel Clowes
The Velveteen Father: an unexpected journey to parenthood by Jesse Green
New Addresses by Kenneth Koch
Taliban: militant Islam, oil and fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Boy with the Thorn in His Side: a memoir by Keith Fleming
Invocation L. A. : urban multicultural poetry edited by Michelle T. Clinton
Blues for All of Us by Julia Vinograd
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond
Familiar Spirits: a memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson by Alison Lurie
The One in the Many: a poet’s memoirs by David Ignatow
The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln by Scott McCloud
Keep the River on Your Right by Tobias Schneebaum
Losing Matt Shepard: life and politics by Beth Loffreda
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerny
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
The Great Tranquility: questions and answers by Yehuda Amichai
Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Eamon Grennan
Glottal Stop: 101 poems by Paul Celan, translated by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh
Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany
Why Elephants Have Big Ears: understanding patterns of life on Earth by Chris Lavers
July - August
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Lying Stones of Marrakech: penultimate reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
Morning Is a Long Time Coming by Bette Greene
Disguised as a Poem: my years teaching poetry at San Quentin by Judith Tannenbaum
In Pharaoh’s Army: memories of the lost war by Tobias Wolff
Selected Poems, 1938 - 1988 by Thomas McGrath
Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross
Barrel Fever: stories and essays by David Sedaris
Astro City: Confession 1997, by Kurt Busiek, Brent Eric Anderson
Astro City: Family Album 1998, by Kurt Busiek, Brent Eric Anderson
Cats of the Temple by Brad Leithauser
The Borden Tragedy by Rick Geary
How to Make a Terrarium by Veronica Patterson
Swan, What Shores? by Veronica Patterson
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
The Seven Ages by Louise Gluck
The Chair: rethinking culture, body, and design by Galen Cranz
The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up by Andrew Tobias
Our Cancer Year by Joyce Brabner, Harvey Pekar, Frank Stack
Astro City: Life in the Big City 1996, Kurt Busiek, Brent E. Anderson
In the Beginning: creation stories from around the world by Virginia Hamilton; illustrations by Barry Moser
This Same Sky edited by Naomi Shihab Nye
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 1, by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
Wendel All Together by Howard Cruse
Her Blue Body Everything We Know: earthling poems, 1965 - 1990, complete by Alice Walker
Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels: the science behind folk remedies and old wives’ tales by Robert S. Root-Bernstein and Michele M. Root-Bernstein
Three Month Fever: the Andrew Cunanan story by Gary Indiana
The Ape and the Sushi Master: cultural reflections of a primatologist by Frans de Waal
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Edith Grossman
The Motorcycle Diaries: a journey around South America by Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Chasing Che: a motorcycle journey in search of the Guevara legend by Patrick Symmes
In Hazard by Richard Hughes
Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry edited by Duane Niatum
Crossing the Yellow River: three hundred poems from the Chinese translated by Sam Hamill
Wreckage by Ha Jin
A Long Rainy Season: haiku and tanka edited and translated by Leza Lowitz, Miyaki Aoyama, and Akemi Tomioka
Hard Road: a Cat Marsala mystery by Barbara D’Amato
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken by Seth
The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century vol. 2, edited by Douglas Messerli
September - December
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Kanshi: the poetry of Ishikawa Jozan and other Edo-period poets translated by Burton Watson
Drawn and Quarterly vol. 3, edited by Chris Oliveros
Cured in the Going Bebop by Michael Gizzi
Ours, Yours by Julien Poirier
The Men’s Club by Leonard Michaels
Object of My Affections by Stephen McCauley
Body of Waking by Muriel Rukeyser
Breaking Open by Muriel Rukeyser
The Drunken Forest by Gerald Durrell
Dark Fields of the Republic: poems, 1991 - 1995 by Adrienne Rich
Sleep Demons: an insomniac’s memoir by Bill Hayes
Selling the Hammock by Kate Gale
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
Satan in Goray by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Jacob Sloan
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Other Traditions by John Ashbery
Mandate of Heaven: a new generation of entrepreneurs, dissidents, bohemians, and technocrats lays claim to China’s future by Orville Schell
Virtual Tibet: searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood by Orville Schell
Little Lit: folklore and fairy tale funnies edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
Best American Poetry 2001 edited by Robert Hass; series editor, David Lehman
Saturday, July 22, 2017
Titles Read in 2000
January
Living Is What I Wanted: last poems by David Ignatow
Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
A Naturalist in Alaska by Adolph Murie
Howard’s End by E. M. Forster
Green Mansions by W. H. Hudson
Dreams of a Final Theory: the search for the fundamental laws of nature by Steven Weinberg
The Magic City by E. Nesbit
Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass
The Mercy by Philip Levine
Ringworld by Larry Niven
February - April
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. LeGuin
Tehanu: the last book of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
God: a biography by Jack Miles
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and other travel sketches by Matsuo Basho, translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa
The Classic Tradition of Haiku: an anthology edited by Faubion Bowers
Chiyo-ni: woman haiku master by Chiyo-ni, translated by Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibasi
Queer Spirits: a gay men’s myth book by Will Roscoe
Negative Wires by Rufo Noriega
New Generation: poems from China today edited by Wang Ping
Out of the Howling Storm: the new Chinese poetry edited by Tony Barnstone
Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry edited and translated by Michelle Yeh
Crow with No Mouth by Ikkyu, translated by Stephen Berg
Haiku Harvest translated by Peter Beilenson and Harry Behn
Archaeology of the Circle: new and selected poems by Bruce Weigl
Shells by Craig Arnold
May
Country of My Skull: guilt, sorrow, and the limits of forgiveness in the new South Africa by Antjie Krog
The Selected Poems of Po Chu-i by Po Chu-i, translated by David Hinton
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca by Federico Garcia Lorca, edited by Francisco Garcia Lorca and Donald M. Allen
Selected Poems: Lorca and Jimenez edited and translated by Robert Bly
June - December
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
The Scientist in the Crib: minds, brains, and how children learn by Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Fat Man in a Middle Seat: forty years of covering politics by Jack Germond
A Book of Luminous Things: an international anthology of poetry edited by Czeslaw Milosz
One Continuous Mistake: four noble truths for writers by Gail Sher
What’s Michael?: living together by Makoto Kobayashi, translated by Dana Lewis and Toren Smith
Blue Is the Hero: poems, 1960 - 1975 by Bill Berkson
Serenade: poetry and prose, 1975 - 1989 by Bill Berkson
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Virtually Normal: an argument about homosexuality by Andrew Sullivan
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Roadside Dog by Czeslaw Milosz
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Japanese Mythology by Julie Piggott
Our Paris: sketches from memory by Edmund White
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Kid: what happened after my boyfriend and I decided to get pregnant by Dan Savage
The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings by Richard Brautigan
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Odes of Roba by Clark Coolidge
Plasticville by David Trinidad
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Flashbacks and Premonitions by Jon Longhi
Mongrel: essays, diatribes, and pranks by Justin Chin
Twisted History by Dale Jensen
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Perfect Example by John Porcellino
Collected Poems, 1930 - 1983 by Josephine Miles
The Very Thing That Happens by Russell Edson
The Golden Age of Marvel Comics edited by Tom Brevoort
Inside the Animal Mind by George Page
The Social Lives of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
When Elephants Weep: the emotional lives of animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Massson and Susan McCarthy
The Tipping Point: how little things can make a big difference by Malcolm Gladwell
A Frieze for a Temple of Love by Edward Field
Essential Zen edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Tensho David Schneider
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Warriors Don’t Cry: a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock’s Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals
The Professor and the Madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
On Writing: a memoir of the craft by Stephen King
Shrub: the short but happy political life of George W. Bush by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
Reading Between the Signs: intercultural communication for Sign Language interpreters by Anna Mindess
A Journey into the Deaf-World by Harlan Lane, Robert Hoffmeister, Ben Bahan
Tigers in the Snow by Peter Matthiessen
The Tribe of Tiger: cats and their culture by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn
An Unfortunate Woman: a journey by Richard Brautigan
Living Is What I Wanted: last poems by David Ignatow
Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
A Naturalist in Alaska by Adolph Murie
Howard’s End by E. M. Forster
Green Mansions by W. H. Hudson
Dreams of a Final Theory: the search for the fundamental laws of nature by Steven Weinberg
The Magic City by E. Nesbit
Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass
The Mercy by Philip Levine
Ringworld by Larry Niven
February - April
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. LeGuin
Tehanu: the last book of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
God: a biography by Jack Miles
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and other travel sketches by Matsuo Basho, translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa
The Classic Tradition of Haiku: an anthology edited by Faubion Bowers
Chiyo-ni: woman haiku master by Chiyo-ni, translated by Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibasi
Queer Spirits: a gay men’s myth book by Will Roscoe
Negative Wires by Rufo Noriega
New Generation: poems from China today edited by Wang Ping
Out of the Howling Storm: the new Chinese poetry edited by Tony Barnstone
Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry edited and translated by Michelle Yeh
Crow with No Mouth by Ikkyu, translated by Stephen Berg
Haiku Harvest translated by Peter Beilenson and Harry Behn
Archaeology of the Circle: new and selected poems by Bruce Weigl
Shells by Craig Arnold
May
Country of My Skull: guilt, sorrow, and the limits of forgiveness in the new South Africa by Antjie Krog
The Selected Poems of Po Chu-i by Po Chu-i, translated by David Hinton
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca by Federico Garcia Lorca, edited by Francisco Garcia Lorca and Donald M. Allen
Selected Poems: Lorca and Jimenez edited and translated by Robert Bly
June - December
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
The Scientist in the Crib: minds, brains, and how children learn by Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Fat Man in a Middle Seat: forty years of covering politics by Jack Germond
A Book of Luminous Things: an international anthology of poetry edited by Czeslaw Milosz
One Continuous Mistake: four noble truths for writers by Gail Sher
What’s Michael?: living together by Makoto Kobayashi, translated by Dana Lewis and Toren Smith
Blue Is the Hero: poems, 1960 - 1975 by Bill Berkson
Serenade: poetry and prose, 1975 - 1989 by Bill Berkson
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Virtually Normal: an argument about homosexuality by Andrew Sullivan
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Roadside Dog by Czeslaw Milosz
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Japanese Mythology by Julie Piggott
Our Paris: sketches from memory by Edmund White
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Kid: what happened after my boyfriend and I decided to get pregnant by Dan Savage
The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings by Richard Brautigan
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Odes of Roba by Clark Coolidge
Plasticville by David Trinidad
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Flashbacks and Premonitions by Jon Longhi
Mongrel: essays, diatribes, and pranks by Justin Chin
Twisted History by Dale Jensen
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Perfect Example by John Porcellino
Collected Poems, 1930 - 1983 by Josephine Miles
The Very Thing That Happens by Russell Edson
The Golden Age of Marvel Comics edited by Tom Brevoort
Inside the Animal Mind by George Page
The Social Lives of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
When Elephants Weep: the emotional lives of animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Massson and Susan McCarthy
The Tipping Point: how little things can make a big difference by Malcolm Gladwell
A Frieze for a Temple of Love by Edward Field
Essential Zen edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Tensho David Schneider
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Warriors Don’t Cry: a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock’s Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals
The Professor and the Madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
On Writing: a memoir of the craft by Stephen King
Shrub: the short but happy political life of George W. Bush by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
Reading Between the Signs: intercultural communication for Sign Language interpreters by Anna Mindess
A Journey into the Deaf-World by Harlan Lane, Robert Hoffmeister, Ben Bahan
Tigers in the Snow by Peter Matthiessen
The Tribe of Tiger: cats and their culture by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn
An Unfortunate Woman: a journey by Richard Brautigan
Friday, July 21, 2017
Titles Read in 1999
January
Silent Thunder: in the presence of elephants by Katy Payne
Sweet Machine by Mark Doty
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan vols. 1 and 2, by John L. Stephens
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
February - June
Traveler’s Tales: Brazil edited by Annette Haddad and Scott Doggett
Into a Wild Sanctuary: a life in music and natural sound by Bernie Krause
The Best American Poetry 1998 edited by John Hollander; series editor: David Lehman
The Cane Groves of Narmada River: erotic poems of old India edited and translated by Andrew Schelling
How the Sky Fell by Denise Duhamel
The Sacred Path: spells, prayers, and power songs of the American Indians edited by John Bierhorst
Wearing the Morning Star: Native American song-poems edited by Brian Swann
Full House: the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time by Stephen Jay Gould
Dinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay Gould
Hiroshima by John Hersey
The Year of the Gorilla by George B. Schaller
Into Thin Air: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster by Jon Krakauer
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
The Anchorage by Mark Wunderlich
Dearest Goddess: translations from Latvian folk poetry by Eso Benjamins
Anthology of Armenian Poetry translated and edited by Diana Der Hovanessian and Marzbed Margossian
The Static Element: selected poems by Natan Zach, translated by Peter Everwine and Shulamit Yasny-Starkman
The Cloud of Unknowing author unknown, translated by Clifton Wolters
Living Instead by William Bronk
Plum Blossom: poems of Li Ch’ing Chao by Li Ch’ing Chao, translated by James Cryer
Undersong: chosen poems old and new, revised by Audre Lord
The Heinemann Book of African Women’s Poetry edited by Stella and Frank Chipasula
July - September
The Master Letters by Lucie Brock-Broido
Selected Poems by Robert Bly
Love and Time: the poems of Ou-Yang Hsiu by Ou-Yang Hsiu, edited and translated by J. P. Seaton
Old Friend from Far Away: 150 Chinese poems translated by C. H. Kwock and Vincent McHugh
Selected Poems of Su Tung-P’o by Su Tung-P’o, translated by Burton Watson
Li Pai: 200 selected poems by Li Pai [Li Po], translated by Rewi Alley
Mind Riiot: coming of age in comix edited by Karen D. Hirsch
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Lloyd Alexander
Figments of the Firmament by Margaret Rabb
Fernando’s Cafe by Fernando D. Castro
At My Ease: uncollected poems of the fifties and sixties by David Ignatow, edited by Virginia R. Ferris
Despite the Plainness of the Day: love poems by David Ignatow
Laughing Lost in the Mountains: poems of Wang Wei by Wang Wei, translated by Tony Barnstone, Willis Barnstone, and Xu Haixin
Tea by D. A. Powell
Modern Japanese Haiku: an anthology edited and translated by Makoto Ueda
Of This World: a poet’s life in poetry by Richard Lewis
The Shadow of Kilimanjaro: on foot across East Africa by Rick Ridgeway
Moments of Rising Mist: a collection of Sung landscape poetry edited and translated by Amitendranath Tagore
The Pilot Star Elegies by Sherod Santos
Twilight at the Equator by Jaime Manrique
Father and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, translated by George Reavey
Shedding Life: disease, politics, and other human conditions by Miroslav Holub
Walt Whitman: a life by Justin Kaplan
Not Far from the River: poems from the Gatha Saptasati by David Ray
October
One Hundred Frogs by Hiroaki Sato
The Corruption of American Politics: what went wrong and why by Elizabeth Drew
Color of My Living Heart by Floyd Salas
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
The Man in the Ceiling by Jules Feiffer
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Next of Kin: what chimpanzees have taught me about who we are by Roger Fouts, with Stephen Turkel Mills
Gilgamesh by David Ferry
Hell Soup by Sparrow 13 Laughing Wand
La Symphonie Pastorale by Andre Gide, translated by Dorothy Bussy
November - December
Oral Tradition: selected poems old and new by Jewelle Gomez
The Cinnamon Peeler: selected poems by Michael Ondaatje
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
The Redshifting Web: poems, 1970 - 1978 by Arthur Sze
The Best American Poetry 1999 edited by Robert Bly; series editor: David Lehman
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
American Indian Poetry: an anthology of songs and chants edited by George W. Cronyn
The Fatal Bullet: a true account of the assassination, lingering pain, death and burial of James A. Garfield, 20th president of the U. S. by Rick Geary
The Dream of the Unified Field: selected poems, 1974 - 1994 by Jorie Graham
Burnt Offerings by Timothy Liu
Silent Thunder: in the presence of elephants by Katy Payne
Sweet Machine by Mark Doty
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan vols. 1 and 2, by John L. Stephens
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
February - June
Traveler’s Tales: Brazil edited by Annette Haddad and Scott Doggett
Into a Wild Sanctuary: a life in music and natural sound by Bernie Krause
The Best American Poetry 1998 edited by John Hollander; series editor: David Lehman
The Cane Groves of Narmada River: erotic poems of old India edited and translated by Andrew Schelling
How the Sky Fell by Denise Duhamel
The Sacred Path: spells, prayers, and power songs of the American Indians edited by John Bierhorst
Wearing the Morning Star: Native American song-poems edited by Brian Swann
Full House: the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time by Stephen Jay Gould
Dinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay Gould
Hiroshima by John Hersey
The Year of the Gorilla by George B. Schaller
Into Thin Air: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster by Jon Krakauer
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
The Anchorage by Mark Wunderlich
Dearest Goddess: translations from Latvian folk poetry by Eso Benjamins
Anthology of Armenian Poetry translated and edited by Diana Der Hovanessian and Marzbed Margossian
The Static Element: selected poems by Natan Zach, translated by Peter Everwine and Shulamit Yasny-Starkman
The Cloud of Unknowing author unknown, translated by Clifton Wolters
Living Instead by William Bronk
Plum Blossom: poems of Li Ch’ing Chao by Li Ch’ing Chao, translated by James Cryer
Undersong: chosen poems old and new, revised by Audre Lord
The Heinemann Book of African Women’s Poetry edited by Stella and Frank Chipasula
July - September
The Master Letters by Lucie Brock-Broido
Selected Poems by Robert Bly
Love and Time: the poems of Ou-Yang Hsiu by Ou-Yang Hsiu, edited and translated by J. P. Seaton
Old Friend from Far Away: 150 Chinese poems translated by C. H. Kwock and Vincent McHugh
Selected Poems of Su Tung-P’o by Su Tung-P’o, translated by Burton Watson
Li Pai: 200 selected poems by Li Pai [Li Po], translated by Rewi Alley
Mind Riiot: coming of age in comix edited by Karen D. Hirsch
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Lloyd Alexander
Figments of the Firmament by Margaret Rabb
Fernando’s Cafe by Fernando D. Castro
At My Ease: uncollected poems of the fifties and sixties by David Ignatow, edited by Virginia R. Ferris
Despite the Plainness of the Day: love poems by David Ignatow
Laughing Lost in the Mountains: poems of Wang Wei by Wang Wei, translated by Tony Barnstone, Willis Barnstone, and Xu Haixin
Tea by D. A. Powell
Modern Japanese Haiku: an anthology edited and translated by Makoto Ueda
Of This World: a poet’s life in poetry by Richard Lewis
The Shadow of Kilimanjaro: on foot across East Africa by Rick Ridgeway
Moments of Rising Mist: a collection of Sung landscape poetry edited and translated by Amitendranath Tagore
The Pilot Star Elegies by Sherod Santos
Twilight at the Equator by Jaime Manrique
Father and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, translated by George Reavey
Shedding Life: disease, politics, and other human conditions by Miroslav Holub
Walt Whitman: a life by Justin Kaplan
Not Far from the River: poems from the Gatha Saptasati by David Ray
October
One Hundred Frogs by Hiroaki Sato
The Corruption of American Politics: what went wrong and why by Elizabeth Drew
Color of My Living Heart by Floyd Salas
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
The Man in the Ceiling by Jules Feiffer
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Next of Kin: what chimpanzees have taught me about who we are by Roger Fouts, with Stephen Turkel Mills
Gilgamesh by David Ferry
Hell Soup by Sparrow 13 Laughing Wand
La Symphonie Pastorale by Andre Gide, translated by Dorothy Bussy
November - December
Oral Tradition: selected poems old and new by Jewelle Gomez
The Cinnamon Peeler: selected poems by Michael Ondaatje
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
The Redshifting Web: poems, 1970 - 1978 by Arthur Sze
The Best American Poetry 1999 edited by Robert Bly; series editor: David Lehman
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
American Indian Poetry: an anthology of songs and chants edited by George W. Cronyn
The Fatal Bullet: a true account of the assassination, lingering pain, death and burial of James A. Garfield, 20th president of the U. S. by Rick Geary
The Dream of the Unified Field: selected poems, 1974 - 1994 by Jorie Graham
Burnt Offerings by Timothy Liu
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Titles Read in 1998
January - May
Oz and Beyond: the fantasy world of L. Frank Baum by Michael O. Riley
To Jerusalem and Back: a personal account by Saul Bellow
Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather
Heaven’s Coast: a memoir by Mark Doty
The Collected Poems, 1931 - 1987 by Czeslaw Milosz
The Orange Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang
View with a Grain of Sand: selected poems by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanaugh
Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China by Arthur Waley
The Sound of Water: haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa translated by Sam Hamill
June - September
The Best American Poetry 1997 edited by James Tate; series editor: David Lehman
No Contest: the case against competition by Alfie Kohn
Selected Poetry, 1937 - 1990 by Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, edited by Djelal Kadir
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe, translated by John Nathan
The Horse Has Six Legs: an anthology of Serbian poetry edited and translated by Charles Simic
Without by Donald Hall
October - December
Heaven My Blanket, Earth My Pillow by Yang Wan-li, translated by Jonathan Chaves
People on a Bridge by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Adam Czerniawski
Terrain poems by Molly Fisk, Dan Bellm, Forrest Hamer
Call and Response by Forrest Hamer
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Wearing Dad’s Head by Barry Yourgrau
Words for the Taking: the hunt for a plagiarist by Neal Bowers
Pilgrim of the Clouds by Yuan Hung-tao, translated by Jonathan Chaves
Three Gospels translated by Reynolds Price
Paul: the mind of the apostle by A. N. Wilson
The Essential Jesus edited by John Dominic Crossan
Waiting for the Weekend by Witold Rybczynski
I Become Part of It: sacred dimensions in Native American life edited by D. M. Dooling and Paul Jordan-Smith
Oz and Beyond: the fantasy world of L. Frank Baum by Michael O. Riley
To Jerusalem and Back: a personal account by Saul Bellow
Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather
Heaven’s Coast: a memoir by Mark Doty
The Collected Poems, 1931 - 1987 by Czeslaw Milosz
The Orange Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang
View with a Grain of Sand: selected poems by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanaugh
Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China by Arthur Waley
The Sound of Water: haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa translated by Sam Hamill
June - September
The Best American Poetry 1997 edited by James Tate; series editor: David Lehman
No Contest: the case against competition by Alfie Kohn
Selected Poetry, 1937 - 1990 by Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, edited by Djelal Kadir
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe, translated by John Nathan
The Horse Has Six Legs: an anthology of Serbian poetry edited and translated by Charles Simic
Without by Donald Hall
October - December
Heaven My Blanket, Earth My Pillow by Yang Wan-li, translated by Jonathan Chaves
People on a Bridge by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Adam Czerniawski
Terrain poems by Molly Fisk, Dan Bellm, Forrest Hamer
Call and Response by Forrest Hamer
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Wearing Dad’s Head by Barry Yourgrau
Words for the Taking: the hunt for a plagiarist by Neal Bowers
Pilgrim of the Clouds by Yuan Hung-tao, translated by Jonathan Chaves
Three Gospels translated by Reynolds Price
Paul: the mind of the apostle by A. N. Wilson
The Essential Jesus edited by John Dominic Crossan
Waiting for the Weekend by Witold Rybczynski
I Become Part of It: sacred dimensions in Native American life edited by D. M. Dooling and Paul Jordan-Smith
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Titles Read in 1997
January - April
The Gold at the Starbow’s End by Frederik Pohl
The Shambala Guide to Yoga by Georg Feuerstein
Tao: the watercourse way by Alan Watts
Fine Madness no. 20 and 21
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado, translated by James L. Taylor and William Grossman
The Essential Haiku: versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa edited and translated by Robert Hass
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Underfoot in Show Business by Helene Hanff
Particularly Cats by Doris Lessing
The Best American Poetry 1996 edited by Adrienne Rich; series editors: David Lehman
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
The Ink Dark Moon: love poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu translated by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani
Take It Like a Man: the autobiography of Boy George by Boy George O’Dowd, with Spencer Bright
Poems from Black Africa edited by Langston Hughes
Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson, edited by Stanley Appelbaum
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
Cry of the Kalahari by Mark and Delia Owens
May - December
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Castle Waiting: the Curse of Brambly Hedge by Linda Medley
No Love Lost by Ariel Bordeaux
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry third edition, edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier
The Sexual Brain by Simon LeVay
Some Holy Googolplex by Horehound Stillpoint (Greg Taylor)
Naked by David Sedaris
Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Powerless: selected poems, 1973 - 1990 by Tim Dlugos, edited by David Trinidad
Falconer by John Cheever
The World and Its Streets, Places by Larry Eigner
Things Stirring Together or Far Away by Larry Eigner
Myra Breckenridge by Gore Vidal
Myron by Gore Vidal
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Empathy by Sarah Schulman
Japanese Haiku translator uncredited, Peter Pauper Press
Around the World in Eight Days by Jules Verne
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
The Death of Ivan Ilych and other stories by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Aylmer Maude and J. D. Duff
Sick of Icarus by Andre Ricciardi
A New Geography of Poets edited by Edward Field, Gerald Locklin, Charles Stetler
Kurt Cobain and Mozart Are Both Dead: the second Leonard and Larry collection by Tim Barela
Bite Hard by Justin Chin
Among Whales by Roger Payne
Coming of Age with Elephants by Joyce Poole
Bonobo: the forgotten ape by Frans de Waal and Frans Lanting
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Sacred Clowns by Tony Hillerman
Reflections of Eden: my years with the orangutans of Borneo by Birute Galdikas
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
Back Roads to Far Towns by Basho, translated by Cid Corman
Breath on the Mirror: mythic voices and visions of the living Maya by Dennis Tedlock
Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
Dolphin Days: the life and times of the spinner dolphin by Kenneth S. Norris
Opium Wars by Phil Taggart
Silver Dollar by Carol Ann Russell
The Wooden Soldiers of Oz by Alexander Volkov, translated by Mary G. Langford
The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum
Tread the Dark by David Ignatow
Whisper to the Earth by David Ignatow
The Longest Walk: an odyssey of the human spirit by George Meehan
The Collected Novels of Franz Kafka: The Trial, The Castle, America by Franz Kafka, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
A Different Person: a memoir by James Merrill
Maurice by E. M. Forster
Boy: tales of childhood by Roald Dahl
Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter edited by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto
Times Ten: an anthology of Northern California poets edited by David Alpaugh
Loose Ends by Owen Hill
The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks
All the Conspirators by Christopher Isherwood
The Gold at the Starbow’s End by Frederik Pohl
The Shambala Guide to Yoga by Georg Feuerstein
Tao: the watercourse way by Alan Watts
Fine Madness no. 20 and 21
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado, translated by James L. Taylor and William Grossman
The Essential Haiku: versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa edited and translated by Robert Hass
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Underfoot in Show Business by Helene Hanff
Particularly Cats by Doris Lessing
The Best American Poetry 1996 edited by Adrienne Rich; series editors: David Lehman
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
The Ink Dark Moon: love poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu translated by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani
Take It Like a Man: the autobiography of Boy George by Boy George O’Dowd, with Spencer Bright
Poems from Black Africa edited by Langston Hughes
Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson, edited by Stanley Appelbaum
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
Cry of the Kalahari by Mark and Delia Owens
May - December
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Castle Waiting: the Curse of Brambly Hedge by Linda Medley
No Love Lost by Ariel Bordeaux
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry third edition, edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier
The Sexual Brain by Simon LeVay
Some Holy Googolplex by Horehound Stillpoint (Greg Taylor)
Naked by David Sedaris
Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Powerless: selected poems, 1973 - 1990 by Tim Dlugos, edited by David Trinidad
Falconer by John Cheever
The World and Its Streets, Places by Larry Eigner
Things Stirring Together or Far Away by Larry Eigner
Myra Breckenridge by Gore Vidal
Myron by Gore Vidal
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Empathy by Sarah Schulman
Japanese Haiku translator uncredited, Peter Pauper Press
Around the World in Eight Days by Jules Verne
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
The Death of Ivan Ilych and other stories by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Aylmer Maude and J. D. Duff
Sick of Icarus by Andre Ricciardi
A New Geography of Poets edited by Edward Field, Gerald Locklin, Charles Stetler
Kurt Cobain and Mozart Are Both Dead: the second Leonard and Larry collection by Tim Barela
Bite Hard by Justin Chin
Among Whales by Roger Payne
Coming of Age with Elephants by Joyce Poole
Bonobo: the forgotten ape by Frans de Waal and Frans Lanting
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Sacred Clowns by Tony Hillerman
Reflections of Eden: my years with the orangutans of Borneo by Birute Galdikas
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
Back Roads to Far Towns by Basho, translated by Cid Corman
Breath on the Mirror: mythic voices and visions of the living Maya by Dennis Tedlock
Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
Dolphin Days: the life and times of the spinner dolphin by Kenneth S. Norris
Opium Wars by Phil Taggart
Silver Dollar by Carol Ann Russell
The Wooden Soldiers of Oz by Alexander Volkov, translated by Mary G. Langford
The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum
Tread the Dark by David Ignatow
Whisper to the Earth by David Ignatow
The Longest Walk: an odyssey of the human spirit by George Meehan
The Collected Novels of Franz Kafka: The Trial, The Castle, America by Franz Kafka, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
A Different Person: a memoir by James Merrill
Maurice by E. M. Forster
Boy: tales of childhood by Roald Dahl
Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter edited by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto
Times Ten: an anthology of Northern California poets edited by David Alpaugh
Loose Ends by Owen Hill
The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks
All the Conspirators by Christopher Isherwood
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Titles Read in 1996
January - February
Brazilian Poetry edited by Emanuel Brasil and William Jay Smith
A Season in Hell and Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Bertrand Mathieu
Love and the Misfortune Cookie poetry manuscript by Tim Donnelly
The Maya 5th edition, by Michael D. Coe
La Capital: the biography of Mexico City by Jonathan Kandell
March - April
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry edited by Ed Ochester and Peter Oresick
The Power Game: how Washington works by Hedrick Smith
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz, translated by J. M. Cohen
The Fate of the Elephant by Douglas H. Chadwick
Solution Passage: poems, 1978 - 1981 by Clark Coolidge
Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda, edited by Nathaniel Tarn, translations by Anthony Kerrigan, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reed, and Nathaniel Tarn
Earthlight by Andre Breton, translated by Bill Zavatsky and Zack Rogow
Technicians of the Sacred: a range of poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania edited by Jerome Rothenberg
May - July
Things We Need: two stories by Chris Schneider
The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry edited by John Tranter and Philip Mead
The Rape of the Nile: tomb robbers, tourists, and archaeologists in Egypt by Brian M. Fagan
Homophobia: a weapon of sexism by Suzanne Pharr
New and Selected Poems by Philip Levine
In Evil Hour by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
The Manner ‘Music’ by Charles Reznikoff
The Autobiography and other writings by Benjamin Franklin, edited by L. Jesse Lemisch
An Autobiographical Novel by Kenneth Rexroth
Concrete Poetry: a world view edited by Mary Ellen Solt
A History of Writing by Albertine Gaur
August - October
I Smell Esther Williams and other stories by Mark Leyner
Literal Madness: Kathy Goes to Haiti, My Death My Life By Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Florida three novels by Kathy Acker
Mars: the story of the red planet by Peter Cattermole
Stonehenge Complete by Christopher Chippindale
Euripides’ Medea by Euripides, translated by Brendan Kennelly
Tuning by David Antin
What it means to be avant-garde by David Antin
The Woman Who Owned the Shadows by Paula Gunn Allen
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Chris Burden: a twenty-year survey by Chris Burden
November - December
The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
Collected Poems, 1948 - 1984 by Derek Walcott
Gilgamesh translated from the Sin-lequi-unninni version by John Gardner and John Maier, with Richard A. Henshaw
Equal in Desire by Clive Matson
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
The Best American Poetry 1995 edited by Richard Howard; series editor: David Lehman
The Elements of Yoga by Godfrey Devereux
The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms edited by Ron Padgett
Rhyme’s Reason: a guide to English verse by John Hollander
Yoga and the Hindu Tradition by Jean Varenne, translated by Derek Coltman
Buddhism: a history by Noble Ross Reat
Brazilian Poetry edited by Emanuel Brasil and William Jay Smith
A Season in Hell and Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Bertrand Mathieu
Love and the Misfortune Cookie poetry manuscript by Tim Donnelly
The Maya 5th edition, by Michael D. Coe
La Capital: the biography of Mexico City by Jonathan Kandell
March - April
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry edited by Ed Ochester and Peter Oresick
The Power Game: how Washington works by Hedrick Smith
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz, translated by J. M. Cohen
The Fate of the Elephant by Douglas H. Chadwick
Solution Passage: poems, 1978 - 1981 by Clark Coolidge
Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda, edited by Nathaniel Tarn, translations by Anthony Kerrigan, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reed, and Nathaniel Tarn
Earthlight by Andre Breton, translated by Bill Zavatsky and Zack Rogow
Technicians of the Sacred: a range of poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania edited by Jerome Rothenberg
May - July
Things We Need: two stories by Chris Schneider
The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry edited by John Tranter and Philip Mead
The Rape of the Nile: tomb robbers, tourists, and archaeologists in Egypt by Brian M. Fagan
Homophobia: a weapon of sexism by Suzanne Pharr
New and Selected Poems by Philip Levine
In Evil Hour by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
The Manner ‘Music’ by Charles Reznikoff
The Autobiography and other writings by Benjamin Franklin, edited by L. Jesse Lemisch
An Autobiographical Novel by Kenneth Rexroth
Concrete Poetry: a world view edited by Mary Ellen Solt
A History of Writing by Albertine Gaur
August - October
I Smell Esther Williams and other stories by Mark Leyner
Literal Madness: Kathy Goes to Haiti, My Death My Life By Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Florida three novels by Kathy Acker
Mars: the story of the red planet by Peter Cattermole
Stonehenge Complete by Christopher Chippindale
Euripides’ Medea by Euripides, translated by Brendan Kennelly
Tuning by David Antin
What it means to be avant-garde by David Antin
The Woman Who Owned the Shadows by Paula Gunn Allen
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Chris Burden: a twenty-year survey by Chris Burden
November - December
The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
Collected Poems, 1948 - 1984 by Derek Walcott
Gilgamesh translated from the Sin-lequi-unninni version by John Gardner and John Maier, with Richard A. Henshaw
Equal in Desire by Clive Matson
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
The Best American Poetry 1995 edited by Richard Howard; series editor: David Lehman
The Elements of Yoga by Godfrey Devereux
The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms edited by Ron Padgett
Rhyme’s Reason: a guide to English verse by John Hollander
Yoga and the Hindu Tradition by Jean Varenne, translated by Derek Coltman
Buddhism: a history by Noble Ross Reat
Monday, July 17, 2017
Titles Read in 1995
January
Night Shift at the Crucifix Factory by Philip Dacey
Dropping the Bow: poems from ancient India translations by Andrew Schelling
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
February
Windows / Walls / Yard / Ways : (lines squared / paths worlds / backwards / sight by Larry Eigner, edited by Robert Grenier
Fire in the Lake: the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald
The Hidden Life of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood
Symposium of the Whole: a range of discourse toward an Ethnopoetics edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Diane Rothenberg
March - May
Rescue the Dead by David Ignatow
Facing the Tree by David Ignatow
What Binds Us to This World by Robert Cording
The Confessions of St Augustine by St Augustine, translated by Rex Warner
The Infinite Moment: poems from ancient Greek translated by Sam Hamill
At Last We Enter Paradise by Richard Jones
Old Snow by Bei Dao, translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Chen Maiping
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Best American Poetry 1994 edited by A. R. Ammons; series editors: David Lehman
A Perfect Time by Richard Jones
Complete Poems by Li Ch’ing Chao, translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
Lake Effect Country by A. R. Ammons
Worldly Hopes by A. R. Ammons
The Sea and the Honeycomb: a book of tiny poems edited by Robert Bly
June - July
The Poetry Reading: a contemporary compendium on language and performance by Stephen Vincent and Ellen Zweig
In the American Tree edited by Ron Silliman
Calendar of Dust by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Corpse and Mirror by John Yau
To the Center of the Earth by Michael Fried
August
The Palm at the End of the Mind: selected poems and a play by Wallace Stevens, edited by Holly Stevens
Coming Out: an anthology of international gay and lesbian writings edited by Stephan Likosky
What Work Is by Philip Levine
Prayers at 3 a.m.: poems, songs, chants, and prayers for the middle of the night edited by Phil Cousineau
Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lover’s Hand by Martin Espada
Every War Must End by Fred Charles Ikle
Holocaust by Charles Reznikoff
The Temple by Stephen Spender
September - November
New Poems: The Other Part (1908) by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Edward Snow
ERT!: Not Available Comics by Matt Feazell
Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Walter Starkie
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima, translated by John Nathan
A Different Mirror: a history of multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
The Trouble with Harry Hay by Stuart Timmons
Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu
Pocket Meteors: the Complete Works of Amy Kashiwabara, vol. II by Amy Kashiwabara
Testimony, vol. 1: The United States (1885 -1915) by Charles Reznikoff
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
The Zuni Man-Woman by Will Roscoe
Soulstorm: stories by Clarice Lispector, translated by Alexis Levitin
Barren Lives by Graciliano Ramos, translated by Ralph Edward Dimmick
December
The Lives of a Cell: notes of a biology watcher by Lewis Thomas
The Power of Language by Francis Ponge, translated by Serge Gavronsky
Venture to the Interior by Laurens van der Post
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, translated by Helen Caldwell
Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
No More Masks!: an anthology of twentieth-century American women poets edited by Florence Howe
Another Republic: 17 European and South American writers edited by Charles Simic and Mark Strand
Sun Songs: creation myths from around the world edited by Raymond Van Over
We Say No: chronicles, 1963 - 1991 by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Mark Fried, et al
Night Shift at the Crucifix Factory by Philip Dacey
Dropping the Bow: poems from ancient India translations by Andrew Schelling
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
February
Windows / Walls / Yard / Ways : (lines squared / paths worlds / backwards / sight by Larry Eigner, edited by Robert Grenier
Fire in the Lake: the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald
The Hidden Life of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood
Symposium of the Whole: a range of discourse toward an Ethnopoetics edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Diane Rothenberg
March - May
Rescue the Dead by David Ignatow
Facing the Tree by David Ignatow
What Binds Us to This World by Robert Cording
The Confessions of St Augustine by St Augustine, translated by Rex Warner
The Infinite Moment: poems from ancient Greek translated by Sam Hamill
At Last We Enter Paradise by Richard Jones
Old Snow by Bei Dao, translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Chen Maiping
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Best American Poetry 1994 edited by A. R. Ammons; series editors: David Lehman
A Perfect Time by Richard Jones
Complete Poems by Li Ch’ing Chao, translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
Lake Effect Country by A. R. Ammons
Worldly Hopes by A. R. Ammons
The Sea and the Honeycomb: a book of tiny poems edited by Robert Bly
June - July
The Poetry Reading: a contemporary compendium on language and performance by Stephen Vincent and Ellen Zweig
In the American Tree edited by Ron Silliman
Calendar of Dust by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Corpse and Mirror by John Yau
To the Center of the Earth by Michael Fried
August
The Palm at the End of the Mind: selected poems and a play by Wallace Stevens, edited by Holly Stevens
Coming Out: an anthology of international gay and lesbian writings edited by Stephan Likosky
What Work Is by Philip Levine
Prayers at 3 a.m.: poems, songs, chants, and prayers for the middle of the night edited by Phil Cousineau
Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lover’s Hand by Martin Espada
Every War Must End by Fred Charles Ikle
Holocaust by Charles Reznikoff
The Temple by Stephen Spender
September - November
New Poems: The Other Part (1908) by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Edward Snow
ERT!: Not Available Comics by Matt Feazell
Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Walter Starkie
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima, translated by John Nathan
A Different Mirror: a history of multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
The Trouble with Harry Hay by Stuart Timmons
Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu
Pocket Meteors: the Complete Works of Amy Kashiwabara, vol. II by Amy Kashiwabara
Testimony, vol. 1: The United States (1885 -1915) by Charles Reznikoff
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
The Zuni Man-Woman by Will Roscoe
Soulstorm: stories by Clarice Lispector, translated by Alexis Levitin
Barren Lives by Graciliano Ramos, translated by Ralph Edward Dimmick
December
The Lives of a Cell: notes of a biology watcher by Lewis Thomas
The Power of Language by Francis Ponge, translated by Serge Gavronsky
Venture to the Interior by Laurens van der Post
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, translated by Helen Caldwell
Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
No More Masks!: an anthology of twentieth-century American women poets edited by Florence Howe
Another Republic: 17 European and South American writers edited by Charles Simic and Mark Strand
Sun Songs: creation myths from around the world edited by Raymond Van Over
We Say No: chronicles, 1963 - 1991 by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Mark Fried, et al
Friday, July 14, 2017
Titles Read in 1994
January
A Poets’ Work: the other side of poetry by Sam Hamill
Good Night, Paul by Robert Peters
Mary Diana Dodds, a Gentleman and a Scholar by Betty T. Bennett
Without Warning by Patricia Donegan
Closer by Dennis Cooper
Life’s Dominion: an argument about abortion, euthanasia, and individual freedom by Ronald Dworkin
February
Listening to Prozac: a psychiatrist explores antidepressant drugs and the remaking of the self by Peter D. Kramer
LSD: my problem chid: reflections on sacred drugs, mysticism, and science by Albert Hoffman, translated by Jonathan Ott
Beyond the Andes: my search for the origins of pre-Inca civilization by Pino Turolla
The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda, translated by William O’Daly
Interzone by William S. Burroughs, edited by James Grauerholz
The Pencil: a history of design and circumstance by Henry Petroski
March
Last Words by Antler
A Cat Is Watching: a look at the way cats see us by Roger Caras
A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane by Barry Yourgrau
America Revised: history schoolbooks in the twentieth century by Frances FitzGerald
Battle Report by Harvey Shapiro
Accidental Weather by Sherod Santos
Three Chinese Poets: translations of poems by Wang Wei, Li Bai [Li Po], and Du Fu [Tu Fu] by Vikram Seth
Shadowing the Ground by David Ignatow
Hotel Insomnia by Charles Simic
The Book of Gods and Devils by Charles Simic
The World Doesn’t End by Charles Simic
Classic Ballroom Dances by Charles Simic
Charon’s Cosmology by Charles Simic
Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk by Charles Simic
Dismantling the Silence by Charles Simic
April - May
Ohitika Woman by Mary Brave Bird with Richard Erodes
Freedom’s in Sight by Alta
Letters to Women by Alta
No Visible Means of Support by Alta
I Am Not a Practicing Angel by Alta
The Man Who Shook Hands by Diane Wakoski
Androgyne, Mon Amour by Tennessee Williams
The Nature of Yearning by David Huddle
Jimmy’s Blues by James Baldwin
Issa: Cup of Tea Poems: selected haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue
The Knot by Alice Jones
Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness by Bob Kaufman
The Clouds of That Country by Jack Anderson
One Hundred Poems from the Japanese translations by Kenneth Rexroth
Open Secret versions of Rumi by John Moyne and Coleman Barks
Poems of the Late T’ang translated by A. C. Graham
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
New Italian Poets edited by Dana Gioia and Michael Palma
Late Returns: a memoir of Ted Berrigan by Tom Clark
The Good, the Bad, and the Famous by Len Sherman
Natural Birth by Toi Derricotte
June
Waters / Places / A Time by Larry Eigner
Half a Bottle of Catsup by Ted Fleischman
A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein edited by Robert Bartlett Haas
Selected Poems by Larry Eigner
July - November
Postwar Polish Poetry edited by Czeslaw Milosz
Captivity by Toi Derricotte
Ants Will Not Eat Your Fingers: a selection of traditional African poems edited by Leonard Doob
Sixty Poems of Martial in Translation by Martial, translated by Dudley Fitts
Revenge of the Apple by Alicia Portnoy
The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman, et al
Vertical Poetry by Roberto Juarroz
Earthquake Weather by August Kleinzahler
The Ancient Rain: poems, 1956 - 1978 by Bob Kaufman, edited by Raymond Faye
The Minus Sign: selected poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, translated by Virginia de Araujo
Breathing by Mark O’Brien
The Women and the Men by Nikki Giovanni
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Collected Poems, 1909 - 1962 by T. S. Eliot
The White Album by Joan Didion
Bread edited by Jake Goodson
The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov
Memoirs by Pablo Neruda
The Brethren: inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong
On Being Blue: a philosophical inquiry by William Gass
December
Answer Song by David Trinidad
Transparence of the World by Jean Follain, translated by W. S. Merwin
Selected Poems and Translations, 1969 - 1991 by William Matthews
A Poets’ Work: the other side of poetry by Sam Hamill
Good Night, Paul by Robert Peters
Mary Diana Dodds, a Gentleman and a Scholar by Betty T. Bennett
Without Warning by Patricia Donegan
Closer by Dennis Cooper
Life’s Dominion: an argument about abortion, euthanasia, and individual freedom by Ronald Dworkin
February
Listening to Prozac: a psychiatrist explores antidepressant drugs and the remaking of the self by Peter D. Kramer
LSD: my problem chid: reflections on sacred drugs, mysticism, and science by Albert Hoffman, translated by Jonathan Ott
Beyond the Andes: my search for the origins of pre-Inca civilization by Pino Turolla
The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda, translated by William O’Daly
Interzone by William S. Burroughs, edited by James Grauerholz
The Pencil: a history of design and circumstance by Henry Petroski
March
Last Words by Antler
A Cat Is Watching: a look at the way cats see us by Roger Caras
A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane by Barry Yourgrau
America Revised: history schoolbooks in the twentieth century by Frances FitzGerald
Battle Report by Harvey Shapiro
Accidental Weather by Sherod Santos
Three Chinese Poets: translations of poems by Wang Wei, Li Bai [Li Po], and Du Fu [Tu Fu] by Vikram Seth
Shadowing the Ground by David Ignatow
Hotel Insomnia by Charles Simic
The Book of Gods and Devils by Charles Simic
The World Doesn’t End by Charles Simic
Classic Ballroom Dances by Charles Simic
Charon’s Cosmology by Charles Simic
Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk by Charles Simic
Dismantling the Silence by Charles Simic
April - May
Ohitika Woman by Mary Brave Bird with Richard Erodes
Freedom’s in Sight by Alta
Letters to Women by Alta
No Visible Means of Support by Alta
I Am Not a Practicing Angel by Alta
The Man Who Shook Hands by Diane Wakoski
Androgyne, Mon Amour by Tennessee Williams
The Nature of Yearning by David Huddle
Jimmy’s Blues by James Baldwin
Issa: Cup of Tea Poems: selected haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue
The Knot by Alice Jones
Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness by Bob Kaufman
The Clouds of That Country by Jack Anderson
One Hundred Poems from the Japanese translations by Kenneth Rexroth
Open Secret versions of Rumi by John Moyne and Coleman Barks
Poems of the Late T’ang translated by A. C. Graham
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
New Italian Poets edited by Dana Gioia and Michael Palma
Late Returns: a memoir of Ted Berrigan by Tom Clark
The Good, the Bad, and the Famous by Len Sherman
Natural Birth by Toi Derricotte
June
Waters / Places / A Time by Larry Eigner
Half a Bottle of Catsup by Ted Fleischman
A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein edited by Robert Bartlett Haas
Selected Poems by Larry Eigner
July - November
Postwar Polish Poetry edited by Czeslaw Milosz
Captivity by Toi Derricotte
Ants Will Not Eat Your Fingers: a selection of traditional African poems edited by Leonard Doob
Sixty Poems of Martial in Translation by Martial, translated by Dudley Fitts
Revenge of the Apple by Alicia Portnoy
The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman, et al
Vertical Poetry by Roberto Juarroz
Earthquake Weather by August Kleinzahler
The Ancient Rain: poems, 1956 - 1978 by Bob Kaufman, edited by Raymond Faye
The Minus Sign: selected poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, translated by Virginia de Araujo
Breathing by Mark O’Brien
The Women and the Men by Nikki Giovanni
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Collected Poems, 1909 - 1962 by T. S. Eliot
The White Album by Joan Didion
Bread edited by Jake Goodson
The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov
Memoirs by Pablo Neruda
The Brethren: inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong
On Being Blue: a philosophical inquiry by William Gass
December
Answer Song by David Trinidad
Transparence of the World by Jean Follain, translated by W. S. Merwin
Selected Poems and Translations, 1969 - 1991 by William Matthews
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