2011 reading

Full-Length Works

Excluding most short stories, single issues of comic books and anything left unfinished.

  • J.R. Ackerley, My Dog Tulip
  • John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies
  • Toni Morrison, Sula
  • Andrew Delbanco, Melville: His World and Work
  • H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines
  • Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
  • Herman Melville, Typee
  • Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
  • Herman Melville, Redburn
  • Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
  • Ménie Muriel Dowie, Gallia
  • Sheri S. Tepper, The Gate to Women’s Country
  • Louisa May Alcott, Alternative Alcott
  • Louise Erdrich, Tracks
  • Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
  • Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina*
  • Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Anita Diamant, The Red Tent*
  • Herman Melville, Pierre
  • Allison Bechdel, Fun Home*
  • Bram Stoker, Dracula
  • The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory
  • Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country
  • Geoff Johns, Green Lantern Corps: Recharge
  • Grant Morrison, All-Star Superman (2 vols.)
  • Grant Morrison, Batman R.I.P.
  • Neil Gaiman, Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
  • Paul Cornell, Knight and Squire
  • J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone*
  • Maureen Johnson, 13 Little Blue Envelopes*
  • Maureen Johnson, The Last Little Blue Envelope
  • John Green, Paper Towns*
  • John Green, An Abundance of Katherines*
  • Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
  • Lloyd-Smith, American Gothic Fiction: An Introduction
  • Freud, “The Uncanny”
  • Judy Budnitz, Nice Big American Baby
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”* and “The Giant Wisteria”
  • Jonathan Culler, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
  • Gregory Semenza, Graduate Study for the 21st Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities
  • Rivkin and Ryan, Literary Theory: An Anthology
  • Mary Klages, Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed
  • Gregory Castle, The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory
  • Elaine Showalter, Teaching Literature
  • Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly
  • Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway*
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
  • Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being
  • Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
  • Edith Wharton, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
  • Edgar Allen Poe, selected short stories
  • Henry James, “The Jolly Corner
  • Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives
  • Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf
  • Virginia Woolf, Orlando
  • Pauline Hopkins, Of One Blood
  • Selected Stories of H.P. Lovecraft
  • Richard Matheson, I am Legend
  • Anne Rice, Interview with a Vampire
  • Stephen King, Misery
  • Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own*
  • Sianne Ngai, Ugly Feelings
  • Kevin Ohi, Henry James and the Queerness of Style
  • Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

 

* indicates a re-read