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2010 reading

Full-Length Works
Excluding short stories, single issues of comic books, and anything left unfinished.
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four (1890)
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
  • Francesca Lia Block, The Waters & the Wild (2009)
  • Carole Nelson Douglas, Goodnight, Mr. Holmes (1991)
  • Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese (2006)
  • Ariel Gore, The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show (2006)
  • C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed (1961)
  • Ariel Gore, Atlas of the Human Heart (2003)
  • Natasha Tretheway, Native Guard (2006)
  • Philip Pullman, The Tiger in the Well (1991)
  • Philip Pullman, The Tin Princess (1994)
  • Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love (1945)
  • Henry James, Daisy Miller (1878)
  • Letitia Baldrige, New Manners for New Times (2003)
  • Bryan Lee O’Malley, Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour (2010)
  • Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate (1949)
  • Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills (1861)
  • William Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI (1591)
  • Ama Ata Aidoo, Our Sister Killjoy (1997)
  • William Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI (1591)
  • Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (1900)
  • Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah (1988)
  • Henry James, In the Cage (1898)
  • William Shakespeare, 3 Henry VI (1591)
  • John Arcudi, A God Somewhere (2010)
  • Aminatta Forna, Ancestor Stones (2006)
  • William Shakespeare, Richard III (1591)
  • Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (1905)
  • Nuruddin Farah, Maps (1999)
  • William Shakespeare, Richard II (1595)
  • Abdulrazak Gurnah, Desertion (2006)
  • Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome (1911)
  • William Shakespeare, 1 Henry IV (1597)
  • James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)
  • Edith Wharton, Summer (1917)
  • Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920)
  • Jennie Kassanoff, Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race (2004)
  • A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton, ed. Carol J. Singley (2003)
  • Nadine Gordimer, July’s People (1981)
  • William Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI (1599)
  • William Shakespeare, Henry V (1599)
  • Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)
  • Iris Owens, After Claude (1973)
  • Ann Beattie, Walks With Men (2010)
  • Nancy Mitford, The Blessing (1951)
Short Stories

  • Steven Millhauser, “The Wizard of West Orange”
  • Karen Russell, “Vampires in the Lemon Grove”
  • Kevin Brockmeier, “The Year of Silence”
  • Jennifer Egan, “Found Objects”
  • Lord Dunsany, “The Kith of Elf-folk”
  • Lord Dunsany, “The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth”
  • Edith Nesbit, “The Bells of Carillon-Land”
  • Alexandre Dumas, “The Enchanted Whistle”
  • Charlotte Brontë, “The Fairy Gift”
  • Lord Brabourne, “The Forest Fairy”
  • Mrs. Egerton Eastwick, “The Necklace of Tears”
  • Oscar Wilde, “The Happy Prince”
  • Christina Rossetti, “The Story of Nick”
  • Edith Nesbit, “The Book of Beasts”
  • Nicole Krauss, “From the Desk of Daniel Varsky”
  • Jonathan Lethem, “The King of Sentences”
  • Oscar Wilde, “The Selfish Giant”
  • Angela Carter, “The Courtship of Mr Lyon”
  • Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures, selected stories
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Scandal in Bohemia”
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Case of Identity”
  • Edgar Allen Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
  • Edgar Allen Poe, “The Black Cat”
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Red-headed League”
  • Kelly Link, “Louise’s Ghost”
  • Edwidge Danticat, “Children of the Sea”
  • Edgar Allen Poe, “The Purloined Letter”
  • Edwidge Danticat, “Nineteen Thirty-Seven”
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Boscombe Valley Mystery”
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Five Orange Pips”
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Man with the Twisted Lip”
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Copper Beeches”
  • Edgar Allen Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death”
  • Neil Gaiman, “A Study in Emerald”
  • Lord Dunsany, “The Ghosts”
  • Dorothy Parker, “The Sexes”
  • Dorothy Parker, “A Telephone Call”
  • Edith Wharton, “Mrs. Mansey’s View”
  • Edith Wharton, “The Portrait”
  • Edith Wharton, “After Holbein”
  • George Saunders, “Escape from Spiderhead”
  • Arthur Conan Doyle, ”Silver Blaze”
  • Arthur Conan Doyle, ”The Yellow Face”
  • Arthur Conan Doyle, ”The Stock-Broker’s Clerk”
  • Arthur Conan Doyle, ”The Gloria Scott“
  • Elizabeth Bowen, ”The Demon Lover”
  • Kelly Link, “Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water”
  • Isak Dinesen, “The Blank Page”
  • Arthur Conan Doyle, “The American’s Tale”
  • Steven Millhauser, “Getting Closer”