Dust on the Bookshelf


Bookshelf Archive

Here’s the list of what I’ve read since starting this blog. Click on the books to learn more about them.

February 2013

The Middlesteins- Jami Attenberg

January 2012

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf- Albert Albee

December 2012

Inside of a Dog – Alexandra Horowitz
Matilda- Mary Shelley
A Doll’s House- Ibsen

November 2012

Drift- Rachel Maddow

August 2012

Oil!- Upton Sinclair
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg- Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain
The Conjure Woman- Charles W. Chesnutt

July 2012

Citrus County- John Brandon
Moi, j’attends de voir passer un pingoin- Geneviève Brisac
As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner

June 2012

Arcadia: a play- Tom Stoppard
Animal Farm- George Orwell
The Virgin Suicides- Jeffery Eugenides

May 2012

The Complete Stories- Flannery O’Connor
“A Rose for Emily” – William Faulkner
The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem]
- William Faulkner

April 2012

Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp- Megan Kate Nelson
American Girl, Marie-Grace and Cécile series
- Sarah Masters Buckley and Denise Lewis Patrick – the post
Women on the Color Line: Evolving Stereotypes and the Writings of George Washington Cable, Grace King, Kate Chopin- Anna Shannon Elfenbein

March 2012

The Awakening- Kate Chopin
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Orphan Narratives: The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison and Saint-John Perse
– Valérie Loichot

February 2012

Lépreux et dix-neuf autres nouvelles – various authors
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- James Joyce
Traversée de la Mangrove- Maryse Condé- the post

January 2012

Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison- the post
Colour Me English- Caryl Phillips
Orientalism
- Edward Said
Buddha: A very short introduction
- Michael Carrithers

December 2011

Banjo- Claude McKay
Design Flaws of the Human Condition- Paul Schmidtberger – the post
As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner

November 2011

The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism- Brent Hayes Edwards
Wide Saragasso Sea- Jean Rhys
Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts- Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffins, Helen Tiffin
Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780-1870- Tim Watson
A Tale of Three Cities, an arts journal

October 2011

The Fire Next Time- James Baldwin- the post
Neither White Nor Black, Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature- Werner Sollors
Tortilla Flat- John Steinbeck
Winesburg, Ohio- Sherwood Anderson- the post 

September 2011

Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature - Jeffrey Myers
Light in August- William Faulkner- the post
No-Guess Calorie Counter- Joan Wexler- the post

August 2011

Maps and Legends- Michael Chabon
Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power After Slavery- Bryan Wagner
How the States Got Their Shapes- Mark Stein- the post
Go Gator and Muddy the Water- Zora Neale Hurston

July 2011

Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and the American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era 1837-1873- Jay Sexton
The Octopus-Frank Norris- the post
The Glass Menagerie- Tennessee Williams

June 2011

Peau Noir, Masques Blancs- Frantz Fanon
Richard Yates- Tao Lin
Hiroshima Mon Amour- Marguerite Duras- the post
Sanctuary- William Faulkner- the post

 


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I’m honored to see my book on this list of very distinguished titles! Thanks for reading it.

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