2010 Reading List

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5 classics:
Ulysses—James Joyce
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas—Gertrude Stein
Breakfast at Tiffanys—Truman Capote
Frankenstein—Mary Shelley
David Copperfield—Charles Dickens

1 reread
The Lover—Marguerite Duras

2 books about writing:
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing—Helene Cixous
Henry Miller on Writing—Henry Miller

5 contemporary writers
Cool For You—Eileen Myles
Staggering Work of a Heartbreaking Genius—Dave Eggers
The Road—Cormac McCarthy
The Fanmaker’s Inquisition—Rikki Ducornet
Jealousy—Alain Robbe-Grillet

1-2 books poetry
The Poems of John Keats—John Keats
The Ballad of Reading Gaol and other Poems—Oscar Wilde

1-2 collections of short stories
Flash Fiction—Ed. James Thomas
The Twilight of the Bums—Raymond Federman

1 unread book by a favorite author:
Pale Fire—Vladamir Nabokov

1 nonfiction books in a new discipline/field:
The Interpretation of Dreams—Sigmund Freud

1 children’s book:
Gulliver’s Travels—Jonathan Swift

1 book in translation:
If On a Winter’s Night A Traveler—Italo Calvino

1 biography:
Walking Back: The Life and Work of Flannery O’Conner—Brad Gooch

1 memoir:
Chasing Che—Patrick Symmes