Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Books read in 2007

  1. Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees, James Reidel
  2. Low Red Moon, Caitlín R. Kiernan
  3. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation, Noel Riley Fitch
  4. …Or not to Be: A Collection of Suicide Notes, Marc Etkind
  5. The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier, Memoirs of Adrienne Monnier
  6. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  7. Invented Lives: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald, James R. Mellow
  8. Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker, ed. David Remnick
  9. Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler
  10. Exile’s Return, Malcolm Cowley
  11. Caresse Crosby: From Black Sun to Roccasinibalda, Anna Conover
  12. A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
  13. Hemingway: The Paris Years, Michael Reynolds
  14. Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald, Scott Donaldson
  15. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People who love Books and for those who want to Write them, Francine Prose
  16. The Torrents of Spring, Ivan Turgenev
  17. America and The Young Intellectual, Harold Stearns
  18. Three Tales, Gustave Flaubert
  19. Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
  20. Library: An Unquiet History, Matthew Battles
  21. Days and Nights: Novel of a Deserter, Alfred Jarry
  22. After Dark, Haruki Murakami
  23. Despair, Vladimir Nabokov
  24. Contempt, Alberto Moravia
  25. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontė
  26. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
  27. Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife, Sam Savage
  28. La Bâtarde, Violette Leduc
  29. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
  30. The City: A Global History, Joel Kotkin
  31. Three Years, Anton Chekhov
  32. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
  33. The Conformist, Alberto Moravia
  34. Everyone was so Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, A Lost Generation Love Story, Amanda Vaill
  35. Hunger, Knut Hamsun
  36. Scent: The Essential and Mysterious Powers of Smell, Annick LeGuérer
  37. Perfume: The Art and Science of Scent, Cathy Newman
  38. Locus Solus, Raymond Roussel
  39. Jurgen, James Branch Cabell
  40. The Life of the High Countess Gritta Von Ratsinourhouse, Bettine von Armin & Gisela von Armin Grimm
  41. The Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman
  42. The Master and the Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
  43. Dangerous Muse: Lady Caroline Blackwood, Nancy Schoenberger
  44. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
  45. The Museum of Useless Efforts, Cristina Peri Rossi
  46. Diary, Chuck Palahnuik
  47. The Defense, Vladimir Nabokov
  48. Axel’s Castle: The Study of the Imaginative Literature 1870-1930, Edmund Wilson
  49. Dubrovsky and Egyptian Nights, Aleksandr Pushkin
  50. The Secret of Scent, LucaTurin
  51. Indiana, George Sand
  52. The Emperor of Scent: Luca Turin, Chandler Burr
  53. From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, Jacques Barzun
  54. A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888/1889, Frederic Morton
  55. A Night Country, Loren Eiseley
  56. Pharmako/Dynamis: Stimulating Plants, Potions and Herbcraft, Dale Pendell
  57. Inferno/ From an Occult Diary, August Strindberg