(Books read by obligation, regardless of whether I enjoyed them, are followed by a *. Books listened to in audio format are followed by a ^. List is in reverse chronological order).
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake)
Wagner on Conducting (Richard Wagner)
Strong Opinions (Vladimir Nabokov)
Despair (Vladimir Nabokov)
Saul and Patsy (Charles Baxter)
Speak, Memory (Vladimir Nabokov)
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (William H. Gass)
Books Read 2003:
/Eyes Wide Open/ (Frederic Raphael)
/The Trial/ (Franz Kafka) *
Brahms and His World (ed. Walter Frisch)
Amerika (Franz Kafka) *
Discourse On Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (Rene Descartes) *
Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)
Mencius *
The Analects (Confucius)
The Remains of the Day (Kenji Ishiguro)
The Republic (Plato) *
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (Alice Munro)
Pnin (Vladimir Nabokov)
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino) *
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov) [2x]
A Life in Music (Daniel Barenboim)
The Old Curiosity Shop (Charles Dickens)
Charles Dickens (Jane Smiley)
Johannes Brahms (Jan Swafford)
The View From Saturday (E.L. Konigsburg)
/Burton on Burton/ [revised edition] (Tim Burton & Mark Salisbury)
Father's Arcane Daughter (E.L. Konigsburg)
The Human Stain (Philip Roth)
I Married a Communist (Philip Roth)
The Daydreamer (Ian McEwan)
American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
/From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler/ (E.L. Konigsburg)
/Hamlet/ (Shakespeare) *
The Counterlife (Philip Roth)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce) *
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Return of the Native (Thomas Hardy) *
The Prague Orgy (Philip Roth)
The Anatomy Lesson (Philip Roth)
Zuckerman Unbound (Philip Roth)
The Ghost Writer (Philip Roth)
The Iliad (Homer) ^
/Crime and Punishment/ (Fyodor Dostoevsky) *
Ada, or Ardor (Vladimir Nabokov)
In the Beauty of the Lilies (John Updike)
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot) *
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
The Good Kiss (George Bilgere)
Licks of Love (John Updike)
Rabbit At Rest (John Updike)
Books Read 2002:
Rabbit Is Rich (John Updike)
Coraline (Neil Gaiman)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) *
Rabbit Redux (John Updike)
Rabbit, Run (John Updike)
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding) *
Soul Music (Michael Haralambos)
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
High Fidelity (Nick Hornby)
Harriet the Spy (Louise Fitzhugh)
Black Culture and Black Consciousness (Lawrence W. Levine)
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) *
Afterglow (Francis Davis & Pauline Kael)
Sweet Soul Music (Peter Guralnick)
Cosmicomics (Italo Calvino)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) *
Dombey and Son (Charles Dickens)
A Boy's Will (Robert Frost)
The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson)
/Othello/ (William Shakespeare) *
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)
Go Tell It On the Mountain (James Baldwin) *
The Autumn of the Patriarch (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
The Last Tycoon (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway) *
Uncle Vania (Anton Chekhov)
The Seagull (Anton Chekhov)
Ivanov (Anton Chekhov)
Franny and Zooey (J.D. Salinger)
Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (J.D. Salinger)
Daisy Miller (Henry James) *
BFI Film Classics: Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari (David Robinson)
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E. L. Konigsburg)
Burton on Burton [revised edition] (Tim Burton & Mark Salisbury)
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton) *
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Franz Kafka)
/David Boring/ [2x] (Daniel Clowes)
/Ghost World/ (Daniel Clowes)
