2016 Reading List

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    1. The Republic of Plato trans. by Francis MacDonald Cornford, Print. 1941
    2. A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer, Kindle. 2008
    3. Paths of Glory by Jeffrey Archer, Kindle. 2009
    4. Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry. Print. 2015
    5. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton, 1913. Kindle.
    6. Heretics and Heroes by Thomas Cahill. Print. 2014
    7. The Door in the Wall and Other Stories by H. G. Wells, 1911. Kindle.
    8. On the Sublime by Longinus, trans. W. Rhys Roberts, 1 A.D.
    9. Lyrical and Critical Essays by Albert Camus, ed. Philip Tody, trans. Ellen Conroy Kennedy, Print. 1970
    10. Medea by Euripides, trans. Gilbert Murray, 431 B.C. Kindle.
    11. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, trans. Lewis Campbell, 429 B.C. Kindle.
    12. The Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde, 1889 (Essay)
    13. Race and Language by Edward Augustus Freeman, 1879 (Essay)
    14. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles, trans. Lewis Campbell, 400 B.C. Kindle.
    15. Antigone by Sophocles, trans. Lewis Campbell, 441 B.C. Kindle.
    16. Cometh the Hour: A Novel (Clifton Chronicles) by Jeffrey Archer, Kindle. 2016.
    17. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, 1911. Kindle.
    18. Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London, 1906. Kindle.
    19. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, 1937. Kindle.
    20. Get Carter by Ted Lewis, 1970. Kindle. 2014.
    21. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R.R. Martin, Print. 2015
    22. The Anatomist's Apprentice by Tessa Harris, Kindle. 2012.
    23. On the Shortness of Life by Seneca, trans. Gareth D. Williams, 2003(?)
    24. The Art of Being by Erich Fromm, 1992. Kindle. 2013.
    25. Jack Carter's Law by Ted Lewis, 1970. Kindle. 2014.
    26. Lucian's Dialogues of the Gods trans. by H. & F. Fowler & W. Tooke, ed. Nicholas Jeeves, Print. 2016.
    27. Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon by Ted Lewis, 1977. Kindle. 2014.
    28. Make: Getting Started with p5.js by Lauren McCarthy, Casey Reas & Ben Fry, Kindle. 2016
    29. The Dead Pull Hitter by Alison Gordon, 1988. Kindle. 2015.
    30. Safe at Home by Alison Gordon, 1990. Kindle. 2015.
    31. I'm Right and You're an Idiot by James Hoggan, Kindle, 2016.
    32. Levels of  Meaning in Literature by Northrop Frye. 1950. JSTOR. 2016. (Essay)
    33. Beast in View by Margaret Millar, 1955. Kindle. 2016.
    34. The Four Forms of Prose Fiction by Northrop Frye, 1950. JSTOR. 2016. (Essay)
    35. Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile by Herman Melville, 1854. Kindle. 2016.
    36. The Waves by Virginia Woolf, 1931. Kindle. 2016.
    37. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte, 1847. Kindle. 2016.
    38. Strong as Death by Guy de Maupassant, 1889. Kindle. 2016. 
    39. Creation and Recreation by Northrop Frye, 1980. Web. 2016. 
    40. Elementary Teaching and Elemental Scholarship by Northrop Frye, 1964. JSTOR. 2016. (Essay) 
    41. Warrior: The Moondark Saga (Books 1-3) by Don McQuinn, 1991. Kindle. 2016. 
    42. The Manhattan Projected. Cynthia C. Kelly, Atomic Heritage Foundation. NY. Print. 2007. 
    43. The Grass Harp by Truman Capote, 1945. Vintage Books. NY. Print. 1993. 
    44. The Easter Parade by Richard Yates, 1976. Delta. NY. Print. 1983. 
    45. Living by Henry Green, 1929. Vintage. London. Kindle. 2009.
    46. Party Going by Henry Green, 1939. Vintage. London. Kindle. 2009.
    47. Loving by Henry Green, 1945. Vintage. London. Kindle. 2009. 
    48. Natural Causes by James Oswald, 2012. Penguin. UK. Kindle. 2013. 
    49. Little Face: Culver Valley Crime by Sophie Hannah, 2006. Hodder & Stoughton. London. Kindle. 2009. 
    50. Against Everything Essays by Mark Greif, 2016. Pantheon Books. NY. Kindle. 2016.

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