Read in 2005

Submitted by Oedipus on Thu, 07/28/2005 - 04:23
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  1. Books: Fiction

  2. 1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  3. 2. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  4. 3. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  5. 4. Forgotten Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
  6. 5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  7. 6. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  8. 7. Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts by Sylvia Plath
  9. 8. A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin
  10. 9. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  11. 10. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  12. 11. The Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan
  13. 12. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
  14. 13. Son of Rosemary by Ira Levin
  15. 14. Sliver by Ira Levin
  16. 15. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
  17. 16. Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr.
  18. 17. The Willowdale Handcar or the Return of the Black Doll by Edward Gorey

  19. Books: Non Fiction

  20. 1. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
  21. 2. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
  22. 3. Gospel Fictions by Randel Helms
  23. 4. Letters Home by Sylvia Plath Selected & edited by Aurelia Schober Plath
  24. 5. The Poet and the Murderer by Simon Worrall
  25. 6. Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen by Ira B. Nadel
  26. 7. Who Wrote the Gospels? by Randel Helms

  27. Books: Poetry

  28. 1. Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth by Alice Walker
  29. 2. The American Night: The Writings of Jim Morrison Vol. 2 by Jim Morrison
  30. 3. Ariel by Sylvia Plath
  31. 4. The Bed Book by Sylvia Plath
  32. 5. Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
  33. 6. blinking with fists by Billy Corgan
  34. 7. The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath
  35. 8. Crossing the Water: Transitional Poems by Sylvia Plath
  36. 9. Descending Figure by Louise Glück
  37. 10. Echo In The Woods by Edward Davin Vickers
  38. 11. Firstborn by Louise Glück
  39. 12. The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes
  40. 13. The House on Marshland Wand by Louise Glück
  41. 14. The Lords and the New Creatures by Jim Morrison
  42. 15. Nine Horses by Billy Collins
  43. 16. Open Eye, Open Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  44. 17. A Poem Traveled Down My Arm by Alice Walker
  45. 18. The Radiance of Pigs by Stan Rice
  46. 19. Selected Poems 1956-1968 by Leonard Cohen
  47. 20. Stranger Music: Selected Songs and Poems by Leonard Cohen
  48. 21. The Triumph of Achilles by Louise Glück
  49. 22. Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath

  50. Essays:

  51. 1. The Art of Authorship by Mark Twain
  52. 2. English Is A Crazy Language by Richard Lederer
  53. 3. Erika Imports by Jonathan Franzen
  54. 4. Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses by Mark Twain
  55. 5. Future of a Ruined Germany by George Orwell
  56. 6. How To Tell A Story by Mark Twain
  57. 7. Inauguration Day, January 2001 by Jonathan Franzen
  58. 8. Mark Twain The Licensed Jester by George Orwell
  59. 9. The Olympian Snows by Issac Asimov
  60. 10. The Planet That Wasn't by Isaac Asimov
  61. 11. Titanic Surprise by Isaac Asimov
  62. 12. The Wrong Turning by Isaac Asimov

  63. Plays:

  64. 1. Beauty by Jane Martin
  65. 2. The Floating Lightbulb by Woody Allen
  66. 3. The New Step: A Ballet Drama in One Act by Leonard Cohen
  67. 4. Sound and Fury by O. Henry

  68. Short Stories:

  69. 1. The Approved by W. S. Merwin
  70. 2. Azathoth by H. P. Lovecraft
  71. 3. Bleak Bay by James Sallis
  72. 4. The Book by H. P. Lovecraft
  73. 5. Bottle by Martha Garvey
  74. 6. The Bounty of Summer by Carol Queen
  75. 7. Cashmeres Must Die by A.F. Waddell
  76. 8. The Cats of Ulthar by H. P. Lovecraft
  77. 9. Charles Sykes' Spirit of Ecstasy by P.S. Haven
  78. 10. A Clear Look by Matthew Mazer
  79. 11. The Dachau Shoe by W. S. Merwin
  80. 12. Death Astride Bicycle by Joyce Carol Oates
  81. 13. Demon by Joyce Carol Oates
  82. 14. The Diary of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
  83. 15. Dragonhead by Nick DiChario
  84. 16. An Encounter with an Interviewer by Mark Twain
  85. 17. Eve Scales the Wall by Maria Dahvana Headley
  86. 18. Feel the Pain by Michael Bracken
  87. 19. Fishcutters by Dawn Paul
  88. 20. The Hands by Joyce Carol Oates
  89. 21. The Haunting by Joyce Carol Oates
  90. 22. Hunter Ray's Elephants by Danny Blexford
  91. 23. In Bed One Night by Robert Coover
  92. 24. In Her Eyes by Gorman Bechard
  93. 25. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath
  94. 26. The Journey by Joyce Carol Oates
  95. 27. La Morillonne by Guy de Maupassant
  96. 28. Legend of Conquistadors by Robert Sheckley
  97. 29. The Letter by Bernard Malamud
  98. 30. Little Things by Raymond Carver
  99. 31. Look At Me by Riain Grey
  100. 32. The Magician's Assistant by Cecilia Tan
  101. 33. Memorandum by N.T. Morely
  102. 34. Moonlight by Guy de Maupassant
  103. 35. Morella by Edgar Allan Poe
  104. 36. My Puritan Reader by Bert Hart
  105. 37. The Oblong Box by Edgar Allan Poe
  106. 38. The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe
  107. 39. Postcards From the Maginot Line by W. S. Merwin
  108. 40. Posthumous by Joyce Carol Oates
  109. 41. The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe
  110. 42. The Red Room by H. G. Wells
  111. 43. Rosalie Prudent by Guy de Maupassant
  112. 44. Seduction by Cecilia Tan
  113. 45. Shadow --- A Parable by Edgar Allan Poe
  114. 46. The Sky Blue Ball by Joyce Carol Oates
  115. 47. The Spectacles by Edgar Allan Poe
  116. 48. The Sphinx by Edgar Allan Poe
  117. 49. Spiders I Have Known by W. S. Merwin
  118. 50. The Storm by Kate Chopin
  119. 51. Story of a Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain
  120. 52. Tabitha Watching by Gorman Bechard
  121. 53. The Temple by Joyce Carol Oates
  122. 54. Ten Minutes in the Eighties by Alison Tyler
  123. 55. Tictocq by O. Henry
  124. 56. Time Pussy by Isaac Asimov
  125. 57. To the Marrow by Sharon Wachsler
  126. 58. Underneath Your Clothes by Elizabeth Coldwell
  127. 59. Unknown by Mallory Clontz
  128. 60. View from the Fourteenth Floor by Greta Christina
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Books read in 2005
professor10/14/2005

The Bell Jar and Lolita are both on My List of Books to Read in 2006.
Your thoughts would be of great interest.