2017 Reading List

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  1. Testimony by Robbie Robertson. Alfred A Knopf Canada. Print. 2016. 
  2. Ways of Seeing by John Berger. BBC and Penguin Books. Print. 1972. 
  3. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Vintage International 1947. Kindle. 1995. 
  4. At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches by Susan Sontag. ed. Paolo Dilanardo and Anne Jump. 2007. Kindle. 2017. 
  5. Murder Underground by Mavis Doriel Hay. Skeffington & Son. 1934. Poison Pen Press. Print. 2016.
  6. Studies in Classic American Literature by D.H. Lawrence. 1923. Kindle. 2016. 
  7. The Witch and Other Stories by Anton Chekov. 1931. Kindle. 2012. 
  8. The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick. Sphere. London. Print. 2013. 
  9. Ion by Plato, trans. W.R.M. Lamb. Perseus Project. Online. 2017.
  10. Barkskins by Annie Proulx. Scribner. Print. 2016.
  11. The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational  Hollywood Scandal of the 1930's by Joseph Eagan. Division Books. NY. Kindle. 2016.
  12. Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene. Vintage. Print. 2001.
  13. Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene. Vintage. Print. 2001.
  14. The Natural by Bernard Malamud. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. NY. 1952. Print. 2003.
  15. "Thinking for Oneself." Essays of Schopenhauer trans. Mrs. Rudolf Dirks. 2014. ebooks@Adelaide. 2017. 
  16. "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong" F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920-22 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1920. Library of America. 2000. Web. 2017.
  17. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 1864. Kindle. 2008. 
  18. Bullseye by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge. Grand Central Publishing. NY. Print. 2016. 
  19. The Age of Scandal by T. H. White. 1950. Folio Society, London. 1993. 3rd Printing 1996. 
  20. The Ocean at the end of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. 2014. HarperCollins. Paperback.
  21. Interworld by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves. 2013. HarperCollins. Paperback.
  22. Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell.  2001. HarperCollins. Paperback. 2016. 
  23.  History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell. The Folio Society. London. 2004.
  24. The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt. Harcourt, NY. Paperback. 1981.
  25. The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore. Random House NY. 2016. Paperback. 2017.
  26. Protagoras by Plato trans. W.R. Lamb. Harvard University Press. London. 1967. Perseus Project etext. 2017.
  27. The Portable Hannah Arendt Ed. Peter Baehr. Penguin Books, London. 2000. Paperback. 2003.
  28. By Gaslight by Steven Price. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto. 2016. Paperback. 2017.
  29. My Lucky Life in and out of Show Business by Dick Van Dyke. Crown Archetype 2011. Kindle. 2017.
  30. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson. 1955. Da Capo Press. Paperback. 2002.
  31. G.K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by Julius West. 1915. Methuen. London. Kindle. 2011.
  32. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1: The Turn of the Tide by Edward Gibbon. 1776. Everyman. 1910. The Folio Society. London. 1983. 4th Printing 1997.
  33. Marcus Aurelius Meditations trans. Maxwell Staniforth. 1964. Penguin Books. The Folio Society. London. 2002. 3rd Printing 2003.
  34. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. DAW Books. NY. 2007. Kindle. 
  35. The Duel and Other Stories. Anton Chekov trans. Constance Garnett. 1916. Kindle. 2012.
  36. The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey. 1929. Kindle. 2015.
  37. The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman. 1995. Kindle.
  38. SPQR: The King's Gambit by John Maddox Roberts. 1990.
  39. National Security Cinema by Matthew Alford & Tom Secker. 2017. Kindle.
  40. A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey. 1936. Kindle. 2015.
  41. The Uses of the Past from Heidegger to Rorty: Doing Philosophy Historically by Robert Piercey. Cambridge University Press. 2009.
  42. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. St. Martin's Press. 1948. Kindle. 2013.
  43. Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye. Princeton University Press. 1957. Print. 2000.
  44. Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov. Harcourt. NY. 1980. Paperback.
  45. Thyestes by Seneca the Younger 1 CE trans. by Frank Miller. 1917. Kindle.
  46. Fools of Time by Northrop Frye. University of Toronto Press. 1967. Paperback. 2013.
  47. Practical Criticism by I.A. Richards. 1929. London. 2nd Ed. 1930. Internet Archive. PDF. 2017.
  48. The Myth of Deliverance by Northrop Frye. University of Toronto Press. 1983. Print.
  49. The Tao of Seneca Volume 1 Forward by Tim Ferriss.  Based on the translation of Moral Letters Volume 1 by Richard Mott Gummere. Loeb. 1917. Web. PDF. 2017.
  50. The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1950. Parnell Classics. 2014. Kindle. 2017.
  51. Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. Signet Classic. Toronto. 1990. Paperback.
  52. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell. 1848. Kindle. 2011.
  53. The Tao of Seneca Volume 2 Forward by Tim Ferriss.  Based on the translation of Moral Letters Volume 2 by Richard Mott Gummere. Loeb. 1917. Web. PDF. 2017.
  54. The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish. Gallery Books. 2017. Kindle.


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