2018 Reading List

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  1. Playback by Raymond Chandler. Hamish Hamilton. 1958. Kindle. 2013.
  2. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell. 1853. Kindle. 2012. 
  3. How to Read Shakespeare by Maurice Charney. McGraw-Hill. NY. 1971. Hardcover.a 
  4. How Shakespeare Changed Everything by Stephen Marche. HarperCollins. Toronto. 2011. Hardcover.
  5. William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: Blooms Notes. ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House. PA. 1996. Hardcover.
  6. The Cruellest Month by Louise Penny. Headline Book Pub. London. 2007. Sphere. London. 2011. Paperback.
  7. *The Glass Menagerie by Tennesse Williams. Random House.1945. New Directions. NY.1999. Softcover.
  8. *Frankenstein: 1818 Text by Mary Shelley. Oxford World Classics. 1998. NY. Paperback.
  9. *The Tragedy of King Richard III. The Oxford Shakespeare. 2000. NY. 2008. Print.
  10. *The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. 1985. Emblem. 2014. Print.
  11. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli. 2014. Trans. Simin Varnell and Erica Segra. 2015. NY: Riverhead Books. 2016. Kindle.
  12. "The Rivals" by Richard Sheridan. The Scool for Scandal and Other Plays. NY: Oxford World Classics. 2008. Print.
  13. *"The School for Scandal" by Richard Sheridan. The School for Scandal and Other Plays. NY: Oxford World Classics. 2008. Print.
  14. "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekov. Plays by Anton Chekov, Second Series. Public Domain Books. 2005. Kindle.
  15. Timon of Athens by Shakespeare. Folger Shakespeare Library. NY: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. 2013. Print.
  16. Palace of Books by Roger Grenier. Trans. by Alice Kaplan. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2014. Adobe Digital Edition.
  17. The Diamond Sutra trans. from Chinese by William Gemmell. London: Kegan Paul, etc. Co. Ltd. 1912. archive.org PDF
  18. Coriolanus by Shakespeare. Folger Shakespeare Library. NY: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. 2009. Print.
  19. Trouble is my Business by Raymond Chandler. PGDP Canada. 1934. Kindle. 2015.
  20. Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare. Folger Shakespeare Library. NY: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. 2011. Print.
  21. Still Life by Louise Penny.Sphete Little, Brown Book Group: London. 2005. Kindle.
  22. The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey. 1948. Kindle. 2015.
  23. What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker. NY: Basic Books. Print. 2018.
  24. The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality) by Errol Morris. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. Printm 2018.
  25. To Love and be Wise by Josephine Tey. 1950. Kindle. 2015.
  26. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. 1951. Kindle. 2015. 
  27. Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant. 1885. Trans. 1903. Kindle. 2012.
  28. The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey. 1952. Kindle. 2015.
  29. The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell. Henry Holt & Company. 1912.
  30. Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 by Agnes Poirier. 2018. Henry Holt & Company. Kindle.
  31. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil. Broadway Books 2016. Print.
  32. *"Beowulf" trans. by Seamus Heaney. Norton Anthology: English Literature: Middle Ages. 10th Ed. 2018. Print.
  33. *"Lanval"  by Marie de France, trans. by Dorothy Gilbert. Norton Anthology: English Literature: Middle Ages. 10th Ed. 2018. Print.
  34. The Odyssey trans. by Robert Fitzgerald. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. 1998. Print.
  35. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. Little, Brown and Company. 2000. Kindle. 2018.
  36. American Nietzsche by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. Univ. of Chicago Press. 2012. Print.
  37. Guillotined by Alexander Cockburn. Counterpunch. 2012. ebook. 2018.
  38. The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware. Simon & Schuster. 2018. Print.
  39. How the Irish Invented Slang by Daniel Cassidy. Counterpunch. 2007. ebook. 2018.
  40. *"Utopia" by Thomas More, trans. Robert M. Adams. Norton Anthology: English Literature 10th Ed. 2018. Print.
  41. *"Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare. The Norton Anthology of English Literature.Gen. ed. Stephen Greenblatt. 10th. ed. Vol. B. Norton, 2018. 741-802. Print. 
  42. The Downfall of the Famous by Giovanni Boccaccio trans. Louis Brewer Hall. Italica Press. 2018. Kindle.
  43. The Sane Society by Erich Fromm. Rinehart & Company (1955). Open Road Integrated Media (2013).  Kindle. 2018.
  44. *"The Way of the World" by William Congreve. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Gen.Ed. Stephan Greenblatt. 10th ed. Vol. C. Norton. 2018. Print.
  45. How to Read a Poem by Terry Eagleton. Blackwell Publishing: 2007. ebook.
  46. *"Oroonoko" by Aphra Behn. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Gen.Ed. Stephan Greenblatt. 10th ed. Vol. C. Norton. 2018. Print.
  47. Arcadia by Iain Pears. Alfred a. Knopf. 2015. Print.
  48. Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton. 1983. Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2008. Print.
  49. Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment by I.A. Richards. 1930. Keegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. PDF.
  50. *Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen ed.  Claire Grogan. 1817. Broadview Literary Texts. 2nd ed. 2004. Print.
  51. The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone. Dey Street Books, Reprint Edition 2017. Kindle.
  52. The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli. Riverhead Books. 2018. Print.

*Assigned as a course reading

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