Readings

Readings by Genre (not quite done)
Alphabetical by Author
Alphabetical by Title (not quite done)

Most common genre:	Novel (42)
Second most common genre:	History (13)
Least common genres:	historical fiction, fantasy, religion (1 each)
Most commonly read author:	Philip Roth (4)
Number of female authors or co-authors:	18 (incl. George Eliot, pseudonomously)
Books read in a single calendar day:	The Man Who Came to Dinner, Greek Literary Hands, and A Reader's Manifesto

Number:	Cover or frontispiece:	Title:	Author:	Year:	Subject:	Begun:	Ended:	Pages:	How Acquired:
144		The Metaphysical Club	Menand, Louis		Philosophy	4/5/07	present		MV
143		Tuesdays with Morrie	Albom, Mitch		Novel?	April, 2007	April, 2007		BM
142		Poor People	Vollmann, William T.		Sociology	April, 2007	April, 2007		Atlantic Monthly blurb
141		The Death and Life of Great American Cities	Jacobs, Jane		Urban Studies	March, 2007	abandoned		browse
140		Serpico	Maas, Peter		True Crime	January, 2007	abandoned		SWL
139		Murder at the Harlem Mosque	Grosso, Sonny and John Devaney		True Crime	January, 2007
138		Circle of Six:: The true story of New York's most notorious cop killer and the cop who risked everything to catch him	Jurgensen, Randy		True Crime	December, 2007			NYT review
137		A Little History of the World	Gombrich		History				SHS
136		The Mind of the South	Cash, W. J.		Sociology	November, 2006			JR/DS
135		The Assassination of Julius Caesar	Parenti, Michael		History	February, 2007			SWL
134		Climbing Mount Improbable	Dawkins, Richard		Science	February, 2007			multiple work by same author
133		From Alpha to Omega: A History of the Greek Alphabet	Humez, Nicholas and Alexander		Linguistics, Classics	December, 2006	December, 2006		2nd work by authors
132		Love and Transformation: An Ovid Reader	Publius Ovidius Naso		Classics	February, 2007
131		An Anthropologist on Mars	Sacks, Oliver		Neurology	Januray, 2007	January, 2007		Browse
130		The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat	Sacks, Oliver		Neurology	January, 2007	January, 2007		Browse
129		The Rise and Fall of Languages			Linguistics	December, 2006	present
128		The Latin Language	Palmer, L. R.		Linguistics, Classics	January, 2007
127		Historical Linguistics	Campbell, Lyle		Linguistics	January, 2007			MC
126		Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare	Short, Philip		History	October, 2006			browse
125		Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens	Davidson, James	1998	Classical Studies	08/04/06	09/05/06		browse
124		The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter	Singer, Peter and Jim Mason	2006	Philosophy, Sociology	July, 2006	July, 2006		browse; 2nd work
123		Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary	Buck, Cal Darling	2005	Linguistics, Classical Studies	07/06	present		browse
122		First Love	Turgenev		Novel	06/06	06/06		M. Z.
121		The Perfect Vehicle: What it is about Motorcycles	Pierson, Melissa Holbrook	1998	Sport	06/01/06	6/06	240 pp.	browse
120		All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence	Butterfield, Fox	1996	Sociology	05/25/06	05/31/06	389 pp.	J. R.
119		Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses	Dalrymple, Dr. Theodore	2005	Essay/Political Theory/Sociology	05/24/06	July, 2006	320 pp.	media (A&L Daily)
118		Essential Guide to Motorcycle Maintenance	Zimmerman, Mark	2003	Sport	05/20/06	05/23/06	254 pp.	browse
117		Studies in Song	Swinburne, Algernon Charles	1880	Poetry	04/19/06	present	212 pp.	D. S.
116		Serpent-Handling Believers	Burton, Thomas	1993	Religion	04/17/06	04/19/06	208 pp.	D. S.
115		Zoontologies	Wolfe, Cary	2003	Philosophy	04/02/06	present	203 pp.	C. P. L.
114		Summons to Memphis	Taylor, Peter		Novel	03/25/06	04/09/06		A. C.
113		In the Tennessee Country	Taylor, Peter		Novel	03/17/06	03/24/06		A. C.
112		Bluegrass Breakdown: the Making of the Old Southern Sound	Cantwell, Robert	1992	Music	01/16/06	8/06	309 pp.	D. S.
111		A Diary from Dixie	Mary Boykin Chesnut	1861-65	Autobiography/Memoir	12/29/05	present	572 pp.	D. S.
110		Far Appalachia	Adams, Noah	2001	Travelogue	12/15/05	12/29/05	238 pp.	media
109		Absalom, Absalom!	Faulkner, William	1936	Novel	12/14/05	November, 2006	309 pp.	D. S.
108	[no image yet]	Night Rider	Warren, Robert Penn	1939	Novel	11/20/05, 4:22 p.m	12/13/05, 12:06 a.m	368 pp.	D. S.
107		The Magic Mountain	Mann, Thomas; John E. Woods, tr.		Novel	October, 2005	present	720 pp.	B. C.
106		A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition	Califf, David J.	2001	Classical Studies	October, 2005	present	213 pp.	browse
105		A Reader's Manifesto	Myers, B. R.	2002	Essay, Criticism			160 pp.	media
104		Suttree	McCarthy, Cormac	1979	Novel	08/18/05	August, 2005	471 pp.	D. S.
103	[no image yet]	Golden Latin Artistry			Classical Studies	August, 2005	present		browse
102		A Death in the Family	Agee, James		Novel	08/11/05, 11:00 a.m.	August, 2005		D. S.
101	[no image yet]	Zuckerman Unbound	Roth, Philip		Novel	Summer, 2005	Summer, 2005		additional work
100	[no image yet]	Gods, Graves, and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology	Ceram, C. W.	1976	Classical Studies, History	July, 2005	present		browse
99		Greek Religion	Burkert, Walter	1987	Classical Studies	July, 2005	present	512 pp	browse
98		Without Feathers	Allen, Woody		Humor	June, 2005	June, 2005		B. F.
97		The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer	Fleming, Renée	2004	Autobiography	1:45 p.m., 05/14/05	May, 2005	222 pp	N. H.
96		Side Effects	Allen, Woody		Humor	05/10/05	05/13/05	224 pp.	B. F.
95		Growing up in Coal Country	Bartoletti, Susan Campbell		History	March, 2005	March, 2005	128 pp	browse
94		A, B, C, Etc.: A History of the Roman Alphabet	Humez, Alexander and Nicholas		Linguistics/Classical Studies	March, 2005	March, 2005	288 pp.	browse (The Strand)
93		Latin: Or the empire of a Sign	Waquet, Evelyn		Linguistics/Classical Studies	March, 2005	present	400 pp.	browse (The Strand)
92		Athena Sings: Wagner and the Greeks	Lee, M. Owen		Music/Classical Studies	03/03/05	03/05/05	110pp.	browse (Metropolitan Opera Gift Shop)
91		Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book	Silverstein, Shel		Humor	03/03/05	03/04/05		B. F.
90		Early History of the Alphabet	Naveh, Joseph		Classical Studies (palaeography/epigraphy)	February, 2005	February, 2005	222pp.	browse
89		Pnin	Nabokov, Vladimir		Novel	02/18/05, 7:50 p.m.	02/21/05, 12:35 p.m.	191pp.	M. C.
88		Imagined Communities	Anderson, Benedict		Political Theory	01/05	present		college
87		Lesbia Brandon	Swinburne, Algernon Charles		Novel	01/16/05	present		additional work
86		Midnight's Children	Rushdie, Salman		Novel	11/05/04	01/15/05		canonical
85		The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture	Billington, James H.	1966	Art History	October, 2004	present	880 pp.	college
84		Proficient Motorcycling: The ultimate guide to riding well	Hough, David	2000	Sport	09/02/04	09/05/04	256 pp.	media
83		The World of Odysseus	Finley, M. I.	1954	Classical Studies	08/26/04 12:15 a.m.	September, 2004	207 pp.
82		Russian for Beginners	Charles Duff and Dmitri Makaroff		Language	08/21/04 5:30 p.m.	present	368 pp.	browse
81		The Bacchae	Eurpipdes (Paul Roche, Tr.)	ca. 407 b.c.e.	Classical Studies	08/19/04 11:45 p.m.	08/23/04 12:15 a.m.	65 pp.	canonical
80		The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System	Milovan Djilas	1957	Political Theory	08/18/04 6:05 p.m.	present	214 pp.	M. C.
79		All the Centurions: A New York City Cop Remembers His Years on the Street, 1961-1981	Robert Leuci	2004	Autobiography	07/10/04 2:15 p.m.	07/13/04 6:30 p.m.	368 pp.	media (NY Times)
78		Gulag: A History	Anne Applebaum	2003	History	06/18/04 8:30 a.m.	07/19/04 8:35 p.m.	677 pp	M. C.
77		The Twilight of Imperial Russia	Richard Charques		History	06/13/04	present		college
76		Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel	Frances and Jospeh Gies		History	05/04	present		R. T. M.
75	[no image yet]	Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral: Essays on Theocritus and Vergil	Charles Segal	1981	Classical Studies	04/11/04	present	346 pp.	browse
74		Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung: A Companion	Richard Wagner	1876	Music	03/20/04	05/01/04	383 pp.	browse (Metropolitan Opera Gift Shop)
73		Statements: The Firstborn Philosophical Work of Benedict Beckeld	Benedict Beckeld	1999	Philosophy	03/10/04	05/20/04	115 pp.	B. S. G. B.
72		Shadow & Claw	Gene Wolfe	1981	Fantasy	03/02/04	present	413 pp.	J. A.
71		How to Get Better at Chess: Chess Masters on their Art	Larry Evans, Jeremy Silman, Betty Roberts	1991	Sport	01/14/04	present	254 pp.	S. W. L.
70		Orlando Furioso	Ludovico Ariosto		Epic	01/01/04	present		canonical
69		Reeling in Russia, selection	Fen Montaigne		Travelogue	12/23/03	12/30/03
68		Goodbye, Columbus	Philip Roth		Novel	12/18/03	01/03/04		additional work
67		Intermediate Russian: A Grammar and Workbook	John Murray and Sarah Smyth		Linguistics	11/23/03	present		browse
66	[no image yet]	Mourning Becomes Electra: A Trilogy	Eugene O'Neill		Drama	11/09/03	11/12/03
65		Who Is to Blame?	Aleksander Hertzen		Novel	11/06/03	12/02/03		canonical
64		Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess	Bruce Pandolfini		Sport	10/26/03	01/04/04		M. C.
63		The Way of All Flesh	Samuel Butler		Novel	10/20/03	12/17/03		canonical
62		Silas Marner	George Eliot		Novel	10/14/03	10/19/03		canonical
61		Where Angels Fear to Tread	E. M. Forster		Novel	10/08/03	10/13/03		additional work
60		Poems, selections	Algernon Charles Swinburne		Poetry	10/06/03	03/14/04		canonical
59		Love Me	Garrison Keillor		Novel	09/27/03	10/01/03		additional work
58		German for Reading Knowledge	Hubert Jannach and Richard Alan Korb		Linguistics	09/26/03	present		browse
57		In Search of The Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Myth	J. P. Mallory		Linguistics/History	09/03	08/09/04 12:55 a.m.		college (LGI)
56		Keep the River on Your Right	Tobias Schneebaum		Autobiography	09/16/03	09/19/03		media
55		Motorcycling Excellence: Skills, Knowledge, and Strategies for Riding Right	The Motorcycle Safety Foundation		Sport	09/06/03	present		media
54		Wittgenstein's Mistress,  comments	David Markson		Novel	08/21/03	09/16/03
53		Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen		Novel	08/14/03	present		canonical
52		The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera	David Littlejohn		Music	07/07/03	present		browse
51		Sayville: A Novel	Tom Panarese		Novel	05/24/03	06/09/03		T. P.
50		The Bonfire of the Vanities, comments	Tom Wolfe		Novel	05/23/03	06/10/03		canonical
49		Preface to Plato	Eric A. Havelock		Philosophy				college
48		Georgicon	Publius Vergilius Maro		Classical Studies	07/20/03	present		canonical
47		Prometheus Desmotes,  (Prometheus Bound)	Aischylos		Classical Studies	06/06/03	present		canonical
46		The Ancients and the Moderns: Rethinking Modernity	Stanley Rosen		Philosophy	06/16/03	present		college (G. A. P.)
45		The Roman Revolution	Sir Ronald Syme		History, Classical Studies	06/03/03	present		college (A. B. F.)
44		History of the Russian Revolution	Leon Trotsky		History				canonical
43		Tropismes	Nathalie Sarraute		Novel				canonical
42		The Professor of Desire	Philip Roth		Novel	03/11/03	03/14/03		additional work
41	[no image yet]	Virgin Soil	Ivan Turgenev		Novel	03/10/03	06/17/03		canonical
40		What is to be Done?	Nikolai Chernyshevsky		Novel	02/28/03	03/10/03		canonical
39	[no image yet]	Croquet: The Sport	Jack R. Osborn with John C. Osborn		Sport	02/24/03	02/28/03		S. W. L.
38		Vox Latina: The Pronunciation of Classical Latin	W. Sidney Allen		Linguistics, Classical Studies	02/14/03	present		college
37		While Rome Burns	Alexander Woollcott		Essay	02/14/03	06/16/03		canonical
36		The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910	Caroline Winterer		History	02/07/03	02/22/03		media
35		A Shropshire Lad	A. E. Housman		Poetry	01/31/03	02/17/03		canonical
34		The Human Stain	Philip Roth		Novel	01/24/03	01/27/03		canonical
33		Father and Son	Edmund Gosse		Novel	01/23/03	01/30/03		canonical
32		Greek Literary Hands A.D. 400 - 1600	Ruth Barbour		Linguistics, Classical Studies	01/23/03	01/23/03		browse
31		Seize the Day	Saul Bellow		Novel	01/22/03	01/23/03		T. A. G.
30		The Man Who Came to Dinner	George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart		Drama	01/22/03	01/22/03		canonical
29		5 Pens in Hand	Robert Graves		Essay, Novel, Poetry, Autobiography	01/13/03	02/12/03		canonical
28		Long, Long Ago	Alexander Woollcott		Essay	01/06/03	01/13/03		canonical
27		Omeros	Derek Walcott		Poetry	01/03	present		college
26		The Croquet Player	H. G. Wells		Novel	01/03	01/03		browse
25		Laments for the Living, and After Such Pleasures	Dorothy Parker		Novel	01/03	01/03		canonical
24		Harpo Speaks!	Harpo Marx with Rowland Barber		Autobiography	01/03	01/03		media
23		Lord Jim	Joseph Conrad		Novel	12/29/02	01/22/03		canonical
22		The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914	Barbara W. Tuchman		History	12/02	present		T. A. G.
21		Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory	John Quincy Adams		Rhetoric	12/02	present		browse
20		Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student	Edward P. J. Corbett		Rhetoric	12/02	abandoned		browse
19		Seven Pillars of Wisdom	T. E. Lawrence		Autobiography/History	12/02	present		canonical
18		Our Man in Havana read aloud	Graham Greene		Novel	12/04/02 5:40p	03/02/03 9:42p		S. W. L.
17		La Vie Sexuelle de Catherine M.	Catherine Millet		Autobiography	04/07/02	present		media
16		Plainwater	Ann Carson		Poetry	03/02	present		G. A. P.
15		Winslow Homer: The Croquet Game	David Park Curry		Art History	02/02	02/02		S. W. L.
14		The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York	Robert A. Caro		History	12/13/01	present		S. W. L.
		The Alchemist	Paul Coehlo		Novel	08/02	08/02		G. T.
13		Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek & Latin Literature	L.D. Reynolds and N.G. Wilson		Classical Studies	06/25/02	09/02		college (LGI)
12		To the Lighthouse	Viginia Woolf		Novel	05/02	08/02		canonical
11		The Road to Wellville read aloud	T.C. Boyle		Novel	05/02	11/17/02		S. W. L.
10		Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle read aloud	Vladimir Nabokov		Novel	01/23/02 10:30p	04/26/02 7:10p		S. W. L.
9		Time Flies	David Ives		Drama	01/02	01/02		additional work
8		Lost Illusions	Honoré de Balzac		Novel	12/01	01/02		canonical
7		The Longest Journey	E.M. Forster		Novel	12/01	12/01		additional work
6		Le Rouge et le noir	Georges Stendhal		Novel	11/01	11/01		second reading
5		The House of the Seven Gables	Nathaniel Ha(w)thorne		Novel	Fall 01	Fall 01		canonical
4		The Aeneid	Vergil		Classical Studies	08/01	08/01		canonical
3		Far from the Madding Crowd	Thomas Hardy		Novel
		06/01	06/01
2		Howards End	E.M. Forster		Novel
		Spring 01	Spring 01
1		I, Claudius	Robert Graves		Historical Fiction
		08/01	09/01

 

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