Top Books Read in 2016

[dreamdead]

Got enough underway that it's worth starting:

Novels:
1. Matt Gallagher’s Youngblood
2. Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies
3. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
4. Jennifer Latham’s Scarlet Undercover
5. Onoto Watanna’s Miss Nume of Japan

Nonfiction:
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me

[baby doll]

Short Stories:

• Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)

Plays:

• Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)

Non-Fiction:

• Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (Ray Carney, 1989)
• Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)

[ContinentalOp]

1. The Continental Op- Hammett
2. Honky Tonk Samurai- Lansdale


Using this as motivation to read more.

[Dukefrukem]

Bringing my Dark Tower discussion in here.

I'm totally going back and reading some other books as DD suggested after I finish Gunslinger.

I want the fullest experience here.

[baby doll]

Novels:

• A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
• Laura (Vera Caspary, 1943)

Short Stories:

• Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)

Plays:

• Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
• Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)

Non-Fiction:

• Currents in Japanese Cinema (Tadao Sato, 1982)
• Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (Ray Carney, 1989)
• Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)

[Dukefrukem]

Bringing my Dark Tower discussion in here.

I'm totally going back and reading some other books as DD suggested after I finish Gunslinger.

I want the fullest experience here.

Finished.

Re-reading Salem's Lot now.

[Dukefrukem]

So this is what it's like NOT playing video games all the time huh?

Novels

1. The Gunslinger (1982- Stephen King)
2. The Wheel of Darkness (2007- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
3. Brimstone (2004- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
4. Dance of Death (2006- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
5. The Book of the Dead (2005- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)

[Dukefrukem]

So this is what it's like NOT playing video games all the time huh?

Novels

1. The Gunslinger (1982- Stephen King)
2. The Wheel of Darkness (2007- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
3. Brimstone (2004- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
4. Dance of Death (2006- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
5. The Book of the Dead (2005- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)

1. Salem's Lot (1975- Stephen King) (Re-Read)
2. The Gunslinger (1982- Stephen King)
3. The Wheel of Darkness (2007- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
4. Brimstone (2004- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
5. Dance of Death (2006- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
6. The Book of the Dead (2005- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)

[dreamdead]

Updated:

Novels and collections:
1. Matt Gallagher’s Young Blood
2. Kent Haruf’s Our Souls at Night
3. Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings
4. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
5. Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange
6. Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House
7. Ernest Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
8. Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies
9. Anthony Marra’s The Tsar of Love and Techno
10. Hassan Blasim’s The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq
11. Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars
12. Kelly Link’s Get in Trouble
13. Jennifer Latham’s Scarlet Undercover
14. George Saunders’s In Persuasion Nation
15. Onoto Watanna’s Miss Nume of Japan

Nonfiction:
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me
AO Scott’s Better Living Through Criticism

[baby doll]

Novels:

• A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
• What Maisie Knew (Henry James, 1897/1908)
• Laura (Vera Caspary, 1943)
• Floating Clouds (Fumiko Hayashi, 1951)

Short Stories:

• Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)

Plays:

• Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes, 414-388 BC)
• Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
• Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)

Non-Fiction:

• Currents in Japanese Cinema (Tadao Sato, 1982)
• Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Kristin Thompson, 1988)
• Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (Ray Carney, 1989)
• Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
• Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond (Robin Wood, 1998)

[baby doll]

Novels:

• Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866)
• A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
• Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
• What Maisie Knew (Henry James, 1897/1908)
• Laura (Vera Caspary, 1943)
• The Dead All Have the Same Skin (Boris Vian [as Vernon Sullivan], 1947)
• Floating Clouds (Fumiko Hayashi, 1951)

Short Stories:

• The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Henry James, 1891-1909)
• Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)

Plays:

• Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes, 414-388 BC)
• Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
• Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)

Non-Fiction:

• Currents in Japanese Cinema (Tadao Sato, 1982)
• Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Kristin Thompson, 1988)
• Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
• Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond (Robin Wood, 1998)
• An Invention Without a Future: Essays in Cinema (James Naremore, 2013)

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• Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays (ed. Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reis, 1917-26)
• Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (Ray Carney, 1989)

]

[baby doll]

Novels:

• Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866)
• A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
• Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
• What Maisie Knew (Henry James, 1897/1908)
• Passing (Nella Larsen, 1929)
• Laura (Vera Caspary, 1943)
• The Dead All Have the Same Skin (Boris Vian [as Vernon Sullivan], 1947)
• Floating Clouds (Fumiko Hayashi, 1951)
• The Man With the Getaway Face (Donald Westlake [as Richard Stark], 1963)

Short Stories:

• The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Henry James, 1891-1909)
• Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)

Plays:

• Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes, 414-388 BC)
• Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois, The Atheist's Tragedy (ed. Katherine Eisaman Maus, 1587-1610)
• Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
• Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)

Non-Fiction:

• Currents in Japanese Cinema (Tadao Sato, 1982)
• Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Kristin Thompson, 1988)
• Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
• Poetics of Cinema (David Bordwell, 2007)
• An Invention Without a Future: Essays in Cinema (James Naremore, 2013)

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• Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays (ed. Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reis, 1917-26)
• Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (Ray Carney, 1989)
• Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond (Robin Wood, 1998)
• Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts (ed. Alastair Phillips and Julian Stringer, 2007)

]

[dreamdead]

New Reads for 2016
Novels:

1. Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge
2. Yi Sun-mol’s Son of Man
3. Matt Gallagher’s Young Blood
4. Kent Haruf’s Our Souls at Night
5. Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings
6. Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You
7. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
8. Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange
9. Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House
10. Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor was Divine
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11. Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow
12. Ernest Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
13. Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies
14. Anthony Marra’s The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories
15. Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier
16. Don DeLillo’s Zero K
17. Hassan Blasim’s The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq
18. Vu Tran’s Dragonfish
19. Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars
20. Kelly Link’s Get in Trouble
21. Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
22. Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War
23. Kent Haruf’s Plainsong
24. Jennifer Latham’s Scarlet Undercover
25. George Saunders’s In Persuasion Nation
26. Cristina Henriquez’s The Book of Unknown Americans
27. Onoto Watanna’s Miss Nume of Japan

]


Nonfiction:
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me
Margo Jefferson’s Negroland: A Memoir
AO Scott’s Better Living Through Criticism

[baby doll]

Novels:

• Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866)
• A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
• Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
• What Maisie Knew (Henry James, 1897/1908)
• The Wings of the Dove (Henry James, 1902)
• Passing (Nella Larsen, 1929)
• Laura (Vera Caspary, 1943)
• The Dead All Have the Same Skin (Boris Vian [as Vernon Sullivan], 1947)
• Floating Clouds (Fumiko Hayashi, 1951)
• The Man With the Getaway Face (Donald Westlake [as Richard Stark], 1963)

Short Stories:

• The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Henry James, 1891-1909)
• Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)
• The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson, 1943-49)

Poetry:

• The Metamorphoses (Ovid, 8)

Plays:

• Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes, 414-388 BC)
• Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois, The Atheist's Tragedy (ed. Katherine Eisaman Maus, 1587-1610)
• Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
• Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)

Non-Fiction:

• Currents in Japanese Cinema (Tadao Sato, 1982)
• Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Kristin Thompson, 1988)
• Mystifying Movies: Fads and Fallacies in Contemporary Film Theory (Noël Carroll, 1988)
• Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
• Poetics of Cinema (David Bordwell, 2007)

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• Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays (ed. Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reis, 1917-26)
• Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (Ray Carney, 1989)
• Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond (Robin Wood, 1998)
• Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts (ed. Alastair Phillips and Julian Stringer, 2007)
• An Invention Without a Future: Essays in Cinema (James Naremore, 2013)

]

[baby doll]

Novels:

• Mansfield Park (Jane Austen, 1814)
• Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus—The 1818 Text (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818)
• Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866)
• A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
• Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
• What Maisie Knew (Henry James, 1897/1908)
• The Wings of the Dove (Henry James, 1902)
• Laura (Vera Caspary, 1943)
• The Dead All Have the Same Skin (Boris Vian [as Vernon Sullivan], 1947)
• The Man With the Getaway Face (Donald Westlake [as Richard Stark], 1963)

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• Passing (Nella Larsen, 1929)
• Floating Clouds (Fumiko Hayashi, 1951)

]

Short Stories:

• The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Henry James, 1891-1909)
• Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)
• The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson, 1943-49)

Poetry:

• The Metamorphoses (Ovid, 8)

Plays:

• Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes, 414-388 BC)
• Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois, The Atheist's Tragedy (ed. Katherine Eisaman Maus, 1587-1610)
• Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
• Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)

Non-Fiction:

• Currents in Japanese Cinema (Tadao Sato, 1982)
• Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Kristin Thompson, 1988)
• Mystifying Movies: Fads and Fallacies in Contemporary Film Theory (Noël Carroll, 1988)
• Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
• Poetics of Cinema (David Bordwell, 2007)

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• Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays (ed. Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reis, 1917-26)
• Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (Ray Carney, 1989)
• Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond (Robin Wood, 1998)
• Reframing Japanese Cinema (ed. David Desser and Arthur Nolletti, Jr., 1992)
• Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts (ed. Alastair Phillips and Julian Stringer, 2007)
• An Invention Without a Future: Essays in Cinema (James Naremore, 2013)

]

[baby doll]

Novels:

• Mansfield Park (Jane Austen, 1814)
• Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus—The 1818 Text (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818)
• Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866)
• A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
• Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
• What Maisie Knew (Henry James, 1897/1908)
• The Wings of the Dove (Henry James, 1902)
• Laura (Vera Caspary, 1943)
• The Dead All Have the Same Skin (Boris Vian [as Vernon Sullivan], 1947)
• The Man With the Getaway Face (Donald Westlake [as Richard Stark], 1963)

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• Passing (Nella Larsen, 1929)
• Floating Clouds (Fumiko Hayashi, 1951)

]

Short Stories:

• The Golden Pot and Other Tales (E.T.A. Hoffmann, 1814-22)
• The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Henry James, 1891-1909)
• Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)
• The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson, 1943-49)

Poetry:

• The Metamorphoses (Ovid, 8)

Plays:

• Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes, 414-388 BC)
• Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois, The Atheist's Tragedy (ed. Katherine Eisaman Maus, 1587-1610)
• Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
• Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)

Non-Fiction:

• Currents in Japanese Cinema (Tadao Sato, 1982)
• Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Kristin Thompson, 1988)
• Mystifying Movies: Fads and Fallacies in Contemporary Film Theory (Noël Carroll, 1988)
• Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
• Poetics of Cinema (David Bordwell, 2007)

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• Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays (ed. Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reis, 1917-26)
• Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (Ray Carney, 1989)
• Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond (Robin Wood, 1998)
• Reframing Japanese Cinema (ed. David Desser and Arthur Nolletti, Jr., 1992)
• Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts (ed. Alastair Phillips and Julian Stringer, 2007)
• An Invention Without a Future: Essays in Cinema (James Naremore, 2013)

]

[Dukefrukem]

1. Salem's Lot (1975- Stephen King) (Re-Read)
2. The Gunslinger (1982- Stephen King)
3. The Wheel of Darkness (2007- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
4. The Stand 1978- Stephen King)
5. Brimstone (2004- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
6. Dance of Death (2006- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
7. The Book of the Dead (2005- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)[/QUOTE]

Hey, it only took me 6 months to read the Stand.
A little drawn out and long.

[Dukefrukem]

Onto Book 3! Book 2 was excellent.

1. The Drawing of the Three-(1987 Stephen King)
2. Salem's Lot (1975- Stephen King) (Re-Read)
3. The Gunslinger (1982- Stephen King)
4. The Wheel of Darkness (2007- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
5. The Stand 1978- Stephen King)
6. Brimstone (2004- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
7. Dance of Death (2006- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
8. The Book of the Dead (2005- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)

[ledfloyd]

Ghettoside by Jill Leovy
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
The Rise of the Warrior Cop by Radley Balko
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Homicide by David Simon

Patience by Daniel Clowes
Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine

The Blank Wall by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith

I have trouble comparing non-fiction to comics to fiction. So these are ranked in three separate categories. I've been reading mostly non-fiction and noir this year.

[Dukefrukem]

Onto Book 4! Book 3 was ... meh

1. The Drawing of the Three-(1987 Stephen King)
2. Salem's Lot (1975- Stephen King) (Re-Read)
3. The Gunslinger (1982- Stephen King)
4. The Wheel of Darkness (2007- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
5. The Stand 1978- Stephen King)
6. Brimstone (2004- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
7. Dance of Death (2006- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
8. The Waste Lands-(1997 Stephen King)
9. The Book of the Dead (2005- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)

[baby doll]

Novels:

• Mansfield Park (Jane Austen, 1814)
• Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus—The 1818 Text (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818)
• Hard Times (Charles Dickens, 1854)
• Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866)
• A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
• Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
• What Maisie Knew (Henry James, 1897/1908)
• The Wings of the Dove (Henry James, 1902)
• Laura (Vera Caspary, 1943)
• The Dead All Have the Same Skin (Boris Vian [as Vernon Sullivan], 1947)

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• Passing (Nella Larsen, 1929)
• Floating Clouds (Fumiko Hayashi, 1951)
• The Man With the Getaway Face (Donald Westlake [as Richard Stark], 1963)

]

Short Stories:

• The Golden Pot and Other Tales (E.T.A. Hoffmann, 1814-22)
• The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Henry James, 1891-1909)
• Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)
• The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson, 1943-49)

Poetry:

• The Metamorphoses (Ovid, 8)

Plays:

• Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes, 414-388 BC)
• Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois, The Atheist's Tragedy (ed. Katherine Eisaman Maus, 1587-1610)
• Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
• Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)

Non-Fiction:

• To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema (Noël Burch, 1979)
• Currents in Japanese Cinema (Tadao Sato, 1982)
• Acting in the Cinema (James Naremore, 1988)
• Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Kristin Thompson, 1988)
• Mystifying Movies: Fads and Fallacies in Contemporary Film Theory (Noël Carroll, 1988)
• Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
• Reframing Japanese Cinema (ed. David Desser and Arthur Nolletti, Jr., 1992)
• Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond (Robin Wood, 1998)
• Poetics of Cinema (David Bordwell, 2007)
• An Invention Without a Future: Essays in Cinema (James Naremore, 2013)

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• Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays (ed. Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reis, 1917-26)
• Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (Ray Carney, 1989)
• Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts (ed. Alastair Phillips and Julian Stringer, 2007)

]

[Dukefrukem]

Book 4 is not good.

1. The Drawing of the Three-(1987 Stephen King)
2. Salem's Lot (1975- Stephen King) (Re-Read)
3. The Gunslinger (1982- Stephen King)
4. The Wheel of Darkness (2007- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
5. The Stand 1978- Stephen King)
6. Brimstone (2004- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
7. Dance of Death (2006- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
8. The Waste Lands-(1997 Stephen King)
9. The Book of the Dead (2005- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
10. Wizard and Glass-(1997 Stephen King)

[ledfloyd]

I remember book 4 being my favorite, but it's been awhile.

[baby doll]

Novels:

• Mansfield Park (Jane Austen, 1814)
• Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus—The 1818 Text (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818)
• Hard Times (Charles Dickens, 1854)
• Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866)
• A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
• Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
• What Maisie Knew (Henry James, 1897/1908)
• The Wings of the Dove (Henry James, 1902)
• Red Strangers (Elspeth Huxley, 1939)
• The Dead All Have the Same Skin (Boris Vian [as Vernon Sullivan], 1947)

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• Passing (Nella Larsen, 1929)
• Laura (Vera Caspary, 1943)
• Floating Clouds (Fumiko Hayashi, 1951)
• The Man With the Getaway Face (Donald Westlake [as Richard Stark], 1963)

]

Short Stories:

• The Golden Pot and Other Tales (E.T.A. Hoffmann, 1814-22)
• The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Henry James, 1891-1909)
• Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)
• The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson, 1943-49)

Poetry:

• The Metamorphoses (Ovid, 8)

Plays:

• Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes, 414-388 BC)
• Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois, The Atheist's Tragedy (ed. Katherine Eisaman Maus, 1587-1610)
• Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
• Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)

Non-Fiction:

• Acting in the Cinema (James Naremore, 1988)
• Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Kristin Thompson, 1988)
• Mystifying Movies: Fads and Fallacies in Contemporary Film Theory (Noël Carroll, 1988)
• Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
• Poetics of Cinema (David Bordwell, 2007)

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• Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays (ed. Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reis, 1917-26)
• To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema (Noël Burch, 1979)
• Currents in Japanese Cinema (Tadao Sato, 1982)
• Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (Ray Carney, 1989)
• Reframing Japanese Cinema (ed. David Desser and Arthur Nolletti, Jr., 1992)
• Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond (Robin Wood, 1998)
• Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts (ed. Alastair Phillips and Julian Stringer, 2007)
• An Invention Without a Future: Essays in Cinema (James Naremore, 2013)

]

[Mysterious Dude]

1. Light in August (1932, William Faulkner)
2. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967, William Styron)
3. Solaris (1961, Stanisław Lem)
4. The Goldfinch (2013, Donna Tartt)
5. Cat's Cradle (1963, Kurt Vonnegut)
6. Burning Secret (1913, Stefan Zweig)
7. Our Lady of the Assassins (1994, Fernando Vallejo)
8. The Grapes of Wrath (1939, John Steinbeck)
9. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903, Daniel Paul Schreber)
10. Agostino (1944, Alberto Moravia)
11. The Underdogs (1915, Mariano Azuela)
12. The Wasp Factory (1984, Iain Banks)
13. A Wrinkle in Time (1963, Madeleine L'Engle)
14. Demons (1872, Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
15. Ulysses (1922, James Joyce)
16. Planet of the Apes (1963, Pierre Boulle)