Books Read During 2007

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 

Preface to Modernism by Art Berman

The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi 

Postmodernism: A Reader by Thomas Docherty

On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

Master Narratives and Their Discontents by James Elkins

Antipodes by Ignacio Padilla (short story collection)

Capitalism, Democracy and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery by John Mueller 

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 

Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen

Making Globalization Work by Joseph Stiglitz

And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

The Trolley by Claude Simon

The Reader by Bernard Schlink

The Portable Hannah Arendt by Hannah Arendt 

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl \

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

From the Deep Woods to Civilization by Charles Eastman

The Sheik by E.M. Hull

The Prussian Officer and other stories by D. H. Larence

Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys 

Othello

Romeo and Juliet

Troilus and Cressida

A Midsummer's Night Dream

Henry V

Titus Andronicus

As You Like It 

The Winter's Tale 

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

McTeague by Frank Norris 

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart

Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner 

The Dying Animal by Phillip Roth 

Chasing Cool 

Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion

Everyman by Philip Roth

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Five Decades: Poems 1925-1970 by Pablo Neruda

Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges 

The Art of the Short Story

A Sentimental Journey by Lawrence Sterne

The Duchess of Malfi

Paradise Lost by Milton

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Arden of Faversham

The Japan that Can Say No

Imagined Communities 

 

Short Stories and other Works Read During 2007

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving

"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe 

"Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving 

"Walden" by Henry James Thoreau

"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville 

"Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville

"Leaves of Grass (Song of Myself)" by Walt Whitman 

"Mrs. Warren's Profession" by George Bernard Shaw

"The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Marl Twain

"How to Tell a Story" by Mark Twain

"Cooper's Literay Offenses" by Mark Twain

"The Art of Fiction" by Henry James

"The Yellow Wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins 

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Mother Goose's Tales

"The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol

"Barbie Q" by Sandra Cisneros

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway

"A Haunted House" by Virginia Woolf

 

Poetry

Pablo Neruda

T.S. Elliot

Emily Dickinson 

John Donne

Andrew Marvell

George Herrick

William Shakespeare

Robert Spenser

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