2006 reading plan
The first several books are out of alphabetical order because they are bookclub selections or books I'm currently reading.
- David Crystal, The Stories of English
- Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
- Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner
- Phillip Roth, The Plot Against America
- Lynne Withey, Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams
- Kobo Abe, Box Man
- Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
- John Banville, The Sea
- Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
- A. Scott Berg, Kate Remembered
- King James Bible, King James Bible
- Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Imaginary Beings
- William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
- Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
- Ana Castillo, So Far From God
- Ivy Compton-Burnett, Elders and Betters
- Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
- Choderlos De Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
- Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
- Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
- Louise Erdrich, Tracks
- Janet Frame, Owls Do Cry
- Marilyn French, The Women's Room
- Christine Gandolfi, ed., The Women Triathlete
- Rebecca Goldstein, The Mind-Body Problem
- Nadine Gordimer, July's People
- Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
- Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
- Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather
- Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Janet Hobhouse, The Furies
- Homer, The Iliad
- Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
- Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey
- Gustav Klíma, Love and Garbage
- Joy Kogawa, Obasan
- Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
- Margaret Laurence, The Fire-Dwellers
- Anita Loos, Gentleman Prefer Blondes
- Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
- Olivia Manning, The Balkan Trilogy
- Henry Miller, The Tropic of Cancer
- Isabel Miller, Patience and Sarah
- Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
- Bharati Mukherjee, Wife
- Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women
- Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
- Joyce Carol Oates, You Must Remember This
- Grace Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
- Jayne Anne Phillips, Black Tickets
- Katherine Anne Porter, Pale Horse, Pale Rider
- Dawn Powell, The Golden Spur
- Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2
- Mary Renault, The Friendly Young Ladies
- Mary Renault, The Persian Boy
- Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
- Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses
- José Saramago, Journey to Portugal
- May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
- Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water
- Marmon Silko, Almanac of the Dead Leslie
- Mona Simpson, Anywhere But Here
- Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
- Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover
- Christina Stead, The Man Who Loved Children
- Gertrude Stein, Three Lives
- Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- A.J.P. Taylor, The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918
- Elizabeth Taylor, Angel
- Anne Tyler, If Morning Ever Comes
- Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
- Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
- John Updike, Rabbit, Run
- Jane Urquhart, Away
- Eudora Welty,
Stories Curtain of Green
- Antonia White, Frost in May
- Marianne Wiggins, Evidence of Things Unseen
- Zitkala-S?a, American Indian Stories
