Top Books Read in 2016

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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)

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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)

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[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)

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