Reading Like A Writer - Books To Be Read

Books To Be Read

Here are the books in mostly chronological order. The chapters in which they are discussed are in italics.

Sophocles Oedipus Rex

Anonymous The Song of Roland

Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote

William Shakespeare King Lear

John Milton Paradise Lost

Samuel Richardson Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded

Johnson Samuel The Life of Savage Sentences

Gibbon Edward Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Austen Jane Sense and Sensibility Paragraphs Character

Austen Jane Pride and Prejudice Paragraphs Character

Von Kleist Heinrich The Marquise of O---- and Other Stories Sentences Character

Stendhal (empty) The Red and the Black Paragraphs

Balzac Honore de Cousin Bette

Gogol Nikolai Dead Souls: A Novel Courage

Dickens Charles Dombey and Son Narration

Dickens Charles Bleak House

Bronte Emily Wuthering Heights

Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich First Love

Eliot George Middlemarch Character

Melville Herman Bartleby the Scriverner Paragraphs

Melville Herman Moby Dick

Melville Herman Benito Cereno

Flaubert Gustave Madame Bovary Courage

Flaubert Gustave A Sentimental Education Character

Dostoyevsky Fyodor Crime and Punishment Narration Courage

Tolstoy Leo The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

Tolstoy Leo The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories Courage

Tolstoy Leo Anna Karenina

Tolstoy Leo War and Peace

Tolstoy Leo Resurrection

Alcott Lousia May Little Women

Twain Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Narration

Baldwin James Vintage Baldwin Paragraphs

James Henry The Portrait of a Lady Gesture

James Henry The Turn of the Screw Narration

Chekhov Anton Tales of Anton Chekhov: Volumes 1-13 Detail Gesture Chekhov Courage

Chekhov Anton A Life in Letters Detail

Strunck William The Elements of Style, Illustrated Sentences

Proust Marcel Swann's Way Gesture

Stein Gertrude The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Sentences

Woolf Virginia On Being Ill Sentences

Joyce James Dubliners Sentences Gesture

Kafka Franz Metamorphosis and Other Stories Detail

Kafka Franz The Judgement Gesture

Kafka Franz In the Penal Colony

Stout Rex Plot it Yourself Paragraphs

Mansfield Katherine Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield Words Gesture

Chandler Raymond The Big Sleep Sentences Gesture

Akutagawa Ryunosuke Rashomon and Other Stories

Paustovsky Konstantin Years of Hope: The Story of a Life Paragraphs

West Rebecca The Birds Fall Down Sentences

West Rebecca Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia Sentences

Babel Isaac The Collected Stories Paragraphs Courage

Hartley L.P. The Go-Between Gesture

Fitzgerald F. Scott The Great Gatsby Words

Fitzgerald F. Scott Tender is the Night Words

Hemingway Ernest The Sun Also Rises Sentences

Hemingway Ernest A Moveable Feast Sentences

Bowen Elizabeth The House in Paris Detail

Nabokov Vladimir Lectures on Russian Literature Chekhov

Nabokov Vladimir Lolita Narration Dialogue

Mandelstam Nadezdha Hope Against Hope: A Memoir Words

Stead Christina The Man Who Loved Children Dialogue

Green Henry Doting Dialogue

Green Henry Loving Dialogue

Beckett Samuel The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 Gesture Courage

Steegmuller Francis Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait

Bowles Paul Paul Bowles: Collected Stories and Later Writings

Cheever John The Stories of John Cheever Sentences

Jarrell Randall Pictures from an Institution

Bowles Jane Two Serious Ladies Narration Dialogue

Rulfo Juan Pedro Paramo Courage

Taylor Peter A Summons to Memphis Narration

Salinger J.D. Franny and Zooey Detail

Gaddis William The Recognitions

Gallant Mavis Paris Stories Narration

Calviino Italo Cosmicomics

Fox Paula Desperate Characters Paragraphs

Herbert Zbigniew Selected Poems Courage

O'Connor Flannery Wise Blood Narration Gesture

O'Connor Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories Words

O'Connor Flannery Collected Stories Detail

Yates Richard Revolutionary Road Words

Marquez Gabrial Garcia One Hundred Years of Solitude Paragraphs

Marquez Gabrial Garcia The Autumn of the Patriarch Paragraphs

Trevor William The Collected Stories

Trevor William Fools of Fortune

Trevor William The Children of Dynmouth

Elkin Stanley Searches and Seizures Sentences

Brodkey Harold Stories in an Almost Classical Mode Narration Dialogue

Barthelme Donald Sixty Stories

Munro Alice Selected Stories Words

LeCarre John A Perfect Spy Dialogue

Roth Philip American Pastoral Sentences

Roth Philip Philip Roth: Novels and Stories 1959-1962 Gesture

Johnson Diane Persian Nights Narration

Johnson Diane Le Divorce Narration

Pynchon Thomas Gravity's Rainbow

Carver Raymond Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories Sentences Paragraphs

Carver Raymond Cathedral

Dybek Stuart I Sailed with Magellan Narration

Williams Joy Escapes Dialogue

Spencer Scott A Ship Made of Paper

O'Brien Tim The Things They Carried Sentences

Baxter Charles Believers: A Novella and Stories Gesture

Gates David The Wonders of the Invisible World: Stories Dialogue

Johnson Denis Jesus' Son

Johnson Denis Angels Paragraphs

Tolstaya Tatyana Sleepwalker in a Fog Words

Wagner Bruce I'm Losing You Character

McInerney Jay Bright Lights, Big City Narration

Franzen Jonathan The Corrections Paragraphs

Eisenberg Deborah The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg Narration

Price Richard Freedomland Narration

St. Aubyn Edward Some Hope: A Trilogy Gesture

St. Aubyn Edward Mother's Milk Dialogue

Wood James Broken Estates: Essays on Literature and Belief

Diaz Junot Drown Gesture

Shteyngart Gary The Russian Debutante's Handbook Paragraphs

Packer ZZ Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Gesture