Danny Calegari's reading log

John Gardner Grendel 9/15
Thomas Pynchon Inherent Vice 9/15
Karen Russell Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Anne Tyler Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant 10/15
E. M. Forster Howard's End 11/15
E. M. Forster Room with a View 11/15
Jane Austen Persuasion 12/15
Daniel Dennett Consciousness Explained 1/16
Rachel DeWoskin Foreign Babes in Beijing
Dan Raeburn Vessels: a Love Story J. D. Salinger Nine Stories
E. M. Forster A Passage to India
E. M. Forster Maurice
Lydia Davis Varieties of Disturbance
Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides
Saul Bellow The Actual
E. M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread
Anne Carson Autobiography of Red 4/13/16
Akhil Sharma Family Life 4/27/16
Lynda Barry One! Hundred! Demons! 5/4/16
Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad 5/11/16
Xiao Lu Guo A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers 5/18/16
James Baldwin Go Tell it on the Mountain 6/1/16
Ivan Turgenev First Love 6/16
Scott McCloud The Sculptor 6/16
Saul Bellow Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow Seize the Day
Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March
Tove Jansson Tales from Moominvalley
Thomas Pynchon Bleeding Edge 8/16
Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist 8/16
G. K. Chesterton The Man who was Thursday 8/12/16
Kobo Abe Beyond the Curve 8/17/16
Anthony Doerr Memory Wall 8/19/16
V. S. Naipaul A House for Mr Biswas 8/28/16
Bertrand Russell Satan in Suburbia 8/29/16
Marilynne Robinson Housekeeping 9/2/16
Peter Carey Illywhacker 9/15/16
Anne Carson Short Talks 9/15/16
Jorge Luis Borges On Writing 9/17/16
Anne Tyler Breathing Lessons 9/19/16
Lydia Davis can't and won't 9/20/16
Russell Hoban Turtle Diary 9/23/16
(tr. Stephen Mitchell) Gilgamesh 9/24/16
Philip Roth Portnoy's Complaint 9/26/16
Anne Carson Glass, Irony & God 9/28/16
Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 9/30/16
Vladimir Nabokov Pnin 10/8/16
Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children 10/20/16
Roald Dahl The Roald Dahl Omnibus 10/28/16
David Foster Wallace Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 11/4/16
Stanislaw Lem Return from the Stars 11/6/16
Anne Carson The Beauty of the Husband 11/9/16
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden 11/17/16
Leo Tolstoy (tr. Richard Pevear and Larissa Bolokhonsky) Anna Karenina 11/25/16
(ed. Tom Bailey) On Writing Short Stories 12/4/16
Vladimir Nabokov Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories 12/14/16
James Joyce Dubliners 12/18/16
Gustave Flaubert (tr. Alan Russell) Madame Bovary 1/1/17
Colette Gigi 1/1/17
E. M. Forster The Longest Journey 1/2/17
Harry Mathews Cigarettes 1/11/17
Flann O'Brien The Third Policeman 1/18/17
Ronald Firbank Vainglory 1/22/17
Flann O'Brien At Swim-Two-Birds 1/27/17
Raymond Queneau (tr. Barbara Wright) The Flight of Icarus 1/29/17
Evelyn Waugh Helena 2/1/17
Anne Carson Eros the Bittersweet 2/5/17
C. P. Snow The Affair 2/8/17
Akhil Sharma An Obedient Father 3/3/17
Philippa Pearce Tom's Midnight Garden 3/8/17
J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye 3/19/17
J. D. Salinger Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; and Seymour: an Introduction 3/21/17
Alexander Pushkin (tr. Richard Pevear and Larissa Bolokhonsky) Novels, Tales, Journeys 3/25/17
Raymond Carver Short Cuts 3/28/17
Raymond Carver Cathedral 3/31/17
Raymond Carver Will you please be quiet, please? 4/6/17
Raymond Carver What we talk about when we talk about love 4/10/17
Tove Jansson (tr. Elizabeth Portch) Finn Family Moomintroll 4/24/17
Jane Bowles Two Serious Ladies 4/27/17
Raymond Carver Elephant 4/30/17
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse 5/2/17
Tove Jansson (tr. Thomas Teal) The Summer Book 5/10/17
Virginia Woolf Orlando 5/22/17
V. S. Naipaul The Suffrage of Elvira 5/26/17
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway 5/31/17
Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out 6/8/17
Dylan Thomas A Visit to Grandpa's 6/10/17
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse 5 6/22/17
(ed. A. S. Byatt) The Oxford Book of English Short Stories 6/22/17
Angela Carter Nights at the Circus 6/30/17
James Joyce Ulysses 7/9/17
Harry Mathews The Human Country 7/15/17
William Gass In the Heart of the Heart of the Country 7/20/17
Leonardo Sciascia (tr. Avril Bardoni) The Wine-Dark Sea 7/22/17
R. Sikoryak Terms and Conditions 7/23/17
Antoine de Saint Exupery (tr. Katherine Woods) The Little Prince 7/26/17
Otfried Preussler (tr. Anthea Bell) Krabat and the Sorcerer's Mill 7/27/17
Christina Stead The Man who Loved Children 8/4/17
Franz Kafka (tr. Willa and Edwin Muir, Tania and James Stern) The Collected Short Stories 8/11/17
Marcel Proust (tr. C. K. S. Moncrieff) Swann's Way 8/21/17
Tove Jansson (tr. Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella) The Woman who Borrowed Memories 8/27/17
Marcel Proust (tr. C. K. S. Moncrieff) Within a Budding Grove 9/2/17
J. R. R. Tolkien The Hobbit 9/4/17
Flannery O'Connor Wise Blood 9/4/17
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita 9/11/17
Vladimir Nabokov Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle 9/19/17
Marcel Proust (tr. C. K. S. Moncrieff) The Guermantes Way 9/27/17
Jane Austen Mansfield Park 10/6/17
C. S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 10/10/17
Charles Dickens Bleak House 10/14/17
Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 10/15/17
Vladimir Nabokov Lectures on Literature 10/16/17
J. D. Salinger Franny and Zooey 10/17/17
Jack Kerouac On the Road 10/19/17
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 10/20/17
John Barth Lost in the Funhouse 10/22/17
Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 10/30/17
Marcel Proust (tr. C. K. S. Moncrieff) Cities of the Plain 11/15/17
Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 11/19/17
Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier 11/25/17
George Eliot Middlemarch 12/19/17
Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye 12/20/17
Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior 12/22/17
Philip Roth The Human Stain 12/30/17
Stephen Potter The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship 12/31/17
Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian 1/2/18
Tove Jansson Moominland Midwinter 1/3/18
Ben Lerner The Hatred of Poetry 1/4/18
Ben Lerner Leaving the Atocha Station 1/7/18
Ben Lerner 10:04 1/10/18
Homer (tr. Emily Wilson) The Odyssey 1/15/18
Miguel de Cervantes (tr. Tom Lathrop) Don Quixote 1/30/18
Vassily Aksyonov (tr. Slava Yastremski) Surplussed Barrelware 2/3/18
Marcel Proust (tr. C. K. S. Moncrieff) The Captive 2/16/18
Marcel Proust (tr. C. K. S. Moncrieff) The Sweet Cheat Gone 2/21/18
Marcel Proust (tr. F. Blossom) The Past Recaptured 3/1/18
Edith Wharton Ethan Frome 3/3/18
David Foster Wallace The Broom of the System 3/8/18
Thomas Pynchon Against the Day 3/26/18
Virginia Woolf The Waves 3/27/18
Anne Tyler Earthly Possessions 3/31/18
Thomas Hardy The Return of the Native 4/2/18
Toni Morrison Beloved 4/4/18
Richard Feynman/Steven Weinberg Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics 4/5/18
Martin Amis Yellow Dog 4/7/18
Harry Mathews The Solitary Twin 4/8/18
George Eliot Silas Marner 4/10/18
Vladimir Nabokov Look at the Harlequins! 4/15/18
Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire 4/21/18
Vladimir Nabokov Transparent Things 4/24/18
Vladimir Nabokov Bend Sinister 4/28/18
Tove Jansson Moominpappa at Sea 4/29/18
V. S. Naipaul Miguel Street 5/1/18
Goethe (tr. Walter Kaufmann) Faust 5/4/18
Graham Greene The Ministry of Fear 5/7/18
Graham Greene Travels with my Aunt 5/11/18
Shakespeare Julius Caesar 5/12/18
George Saunders Tenth of December 5/13/18
Henry James The Europeans 5/14/18
Italo Svevo (tr. Beryl de Zoete) Confessions of Zeno 5/23/18
Henry James Washington Square 5/25/18
Philip Pullman The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ 5/30/18
Gustave Flaubert (tr. Robert Baldrick) Sentimental Education 6/1/18
Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange 6/2/18
Thomas Hardy A Pair of Blue Eyes 6/29/18
Italo Svevo (tr. Archibald Colquhoun) A Life 7/28/18
Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles 8/16/18
Ocean Vuong Night Sky with Exit Wounds 8/16/18
Anne Tyler The Beginner's Goodbye 9/1/18
Anne Carson The Albertine Workout 9/1/18
Sophokles (tr. Anne Carson) Antigo Nick 9/3/18
Walter Abish Eclipse Fever 9/9/18
Rodney Jones Things that Happen Once 9/14/18
Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses 9/19/18
Alice Munro Dear Life 9/26/18
Jamaica Kincaid See Now Then 11/18/18
Piet Hein Collected Grooks I 1/27/19
Ring Lardner Haircut and other stories 2/3/19
George Saunders In Persuasion Nation 2/10/19
J. P. Donleavy The Lady who Liked Clean Restrooms 2/16/19
Alice Munro The Love of a Good Woman 3/24/19
Marcel Proust (tr. C. K. S. Moncrieff and T. Kilmartin rev. D. Enright) Swann's Way 4/14/19
T. S. Eliot Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 4/28/19
Marcel Proust (tr. C. K. S. Moncrieff and T. Kilmartin rev. D. Enright) Within a Budding Grove 5/5/19
Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter The Mind's I 7/12/19
Marcel Proust (tr. C. K. S. Moncrieff and T. Kilmartin rev. D. Enright) The Guermantes Way 7/24/19
Elizabeth McCracken Here's your hat what's your hurry 7/26/19
Goethe (tr. Stanley Corngold) The sufferings of young Werther 7/28/19
Daniel Dennett From Bacteria to Bach and Back 8/6/19
Les Murray Waiting for the Past 8/7/19
Henry James What Maisie Knew 8/26/19
Li-Young Lee Behind my Eyes 8/27/19
Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea 11/21/19
Kelly and Zach Weinersmith Soonish 11/24/19
Dante (tr. Alasdair Gray) Hell 11/24/19
Euripides (tr. Nicholas Rudall) Iphigenia in Aulis 12/3/19
Louise Erdrich The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse 12/15/19
A. S. Byatt The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye 12/20/19
J. R. R. Tolkien Tree and Leaf 12/25/19
Wilhelm Genazino (tr. Philip Boehm) The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt 12/29/19
George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo 1/1/20
Anne Tyler Vinegar Girl 1/18/20
Ludwig Wittgenstein Lectures and Conversations 2/17/20
Nguyen Du (tr. Huynh Danh Thong) The Tale of Kieu 3/15/20
John Barth The Development 3/20/20
Ray Bradbury Farenheit 451 3/21/20
Douglas Hofstadter Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid 4/2/20
Philip Ording 99 Variations on a Proof 4/9/20
Jarrett Krosoczka Hey, Kiddo 4/10/20
Martin Gardner Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes and the Tower of Hanoi 4/21/20
Martin Gardner Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube 5/3/20
Mahlon Hoaglan and Bert Dodso The Way Life Works 5/17/20
Pajtim Statovci My cat Yugoslavia 5/22/20
Nathan Englander What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank 5/30/20
Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers 9/4/20
Hervé Le Tellier (tr. Ian Monk) The Sextine Chapel 9/4/20
Matthew Tierney Midday at the Super-Kamiokande 9/4/20
Ernst Levy A Theory of Harmony 9/6/20
J. L. Carr A Month in the Country 9/16/20
Daniel Kehlmann (tr. Carol Brown Janeway) Measuring the World 9/22/20
Elizabeth McCracken The Giant's House 10/5/20
Carlos Fuentes (tr. Alfred MacAdam) The Death of Artemio Cruz 10/11/20
Harry Mathews Collected Poems 10/12/20
Henry James The Diary of a Man of Fifty 10/18/20
Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm 10/21/20
Ivan Turgenev (tr. David Patterson) Diary of a Superfluous Man 10/22/20
Colette Chance Acquaintances and Julie de Carneilhan 10/26/20
Graham Greene The Tenth Man 10/26/20
Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair 11/8/20
Tove Jansson (tr. Elizabeth Portch) Finn Family Moomintroll 11/30/20
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre 12/9/20
Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street 12/12/20
Andrea Gibson Take Me With You 1/30/21
Steven Weinberg Third Thoughts 7/29/21
Eric Baum What is Thought? 7/30/21
Steven Weinberg The First Three Minutes 8/9/21
Steven Weinberg To Explain the World 8/11/21
Harry Mathews Cigarettes 9/22/21
Elizabeth Bowen Collected Stories 10/10/21
Steve Venright The Least you can do is be Magnificent 10/12/21
Euripides (tr. Anne Carson) Four Plays (Grief Lessons) 11/27/21
Anne Carson Norma Jeane Baker of Troy 12/5/21
Paul Hornschemeier The Three Paradoxes 12/27/21
Misha Gromov Great Circle of Mysteries 1/23/22
Graham Greene The Comedians 3/29/22
Mick Herron Slow Horses 4/2/22
Iris Murdoch Under the Net 4/3/22
Abdulrazak Gurnah Admiring Silence 6/6/22
Iris Murdoch The Bell 6/18/22
Iris Murdoch The Black Prince 6/30/22
Chris Onstad The Great Outdoor Fight 7/1/22
Tove Jansson (tr. Elizabeth Portch) Comet in Moominland 7/22/22
Iris Murdoch The Sea, the sea 8/18/22
Elif Batuman The Idiot 8/24/22
Marguerite Duras The Lover 8/26/22
W. G. Sebald (tr. Michael Hulse) Vertigo 9/8/22
Scott McCloud The Sculptor 9/8/22
Tove Jansson (tr. Thomas Teal) The True Deceiver 9/28/22
Yoko Ogawa (tr. Stephen Snyder) The Housekeeper and the Professor 10/21/22
Alexander Grothendieck (tr. Saad Slaoui and Jackson Van Dyke) Recoltes et Semailles, Introduction 11/7/22
Stan Ulam Adventures of a Mathematician 11/19/22
Annie Ernaux (tr. Alison Strayer) A Girl's Story 11/25/22
Terry Pratchett Guards! Guards! 12/11/22
Elizabeth Strout Amy and Isabelle 12/17/22
Annie Ernaux (tr. Alison Strayer) The Years 12/30/22
Leonardo Sciascia (tr. Archibald Colquhoun, Arthur Oliver) The Day of the Owl 1/4/23
Rachel Galvin Uterotopia 1/10/23
Maggie Nelson Bluets 1/14/23
Grace Paley The Collected Stories 1/23/23
Lorrie Moore Self-Help 1/27/23
John Gardner The Art of Fiction 2/6/23
Karen Russell Orange World and Other Stories 2/12/23
Carol Anshaw Carry the One 2/18/23
Lorrie Moore Birds of America 2/23/23
Michael Cunningham A Wild Swan 2/25/23
Lorrie Moore Bark 3/6/23
David Jauss Alone with all that could happen 3/6/23
Ludwig Wittgenstein (tr. C. K. Ogden) Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 3/7/23
George Saunders A Swim in a Pond in the Rain 3/12/23
Anne Carson Short Talks 3/19/23
Joyce Carol Oates High Lonesome 5/10/23
Lorrie Moore A Gate at the Stairs 5/19/23
Diane Cook The New Wilderness 6/12/23
Harry Mathews Cigarettes 6/21/23
Walter Abish Alphabetical Africa 8/3/23
Arundhati Roy The Ministry of Utmost Happiness 8/8/23
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse 8/19/23
V. S. Naipaul The Mystic Masseur 9/9/23
Émile Zola (tr. Brian Nelson) The Ladies' Paradise 11/14/23
Jane Bowles Two Serious Ladies 11/28/23
Daniel Dennett I've Been Thinking 12/30/23
Terry Pratchett Witches Abroad 1/6/24
Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1/10/24
Josephine Johnson Wildwood 1/27/24
Lorrie Moore Who will run the frog hospital? 2/11/24
Annie Ernaux (tr. Tanya Leslie) Shame 2/25/24
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar 4/24/24
Raymond Queneau (tr. Betty Askwith) A Hard Winter 4/28/24
Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49 5/9/24
Carson McCullers Reflections in a Golden Eye 6/4/24
Haruki Murakami (tr. Philip Gabriel) Kafka on the Shore 6/18/24
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus 6/24/24
Willa Cather A Lost Lady 7/22/24
Lorrie Moore Anagrams 8/31/24
Brian Greene The Fabric of the Cosmos 9/12/24
W. W. Sawyer What is Calculus about? 9/22/24
Thomas Pynchon Inherent Vice 10/9/24
Tove Jansson (tr. Elizabeth Portch) Comet in Moominland 10/29/24
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 1/1/25
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Thing Around Your Neck 2/25/25
Harry Mathews The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium 4/9/25