Awesome Reads and Whatnot

FICTION
American Pastoral, Philip Roth
Cairo Trilogy, Naguib Mahfouz
Harry Potter, JK Rowling
The Iliad, Homer (Richmond Lattimore translation)
Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Rainer Maria Rilke (Stephen Mitchell translation)
Notes of a Hunter, Turgenev
Of Human Bondage, William Somerset Maugham
Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Wizard of the Crow, Ngugi wa’Thiongo
The World According to Garp, John Irving
The Brief History of the Dead, Kevin Brockmeier

NONFICTION
The Balkans Since 1453, L.S. Stavrianos
Country of My Skull, Antjie Krog
King Leopold’s Ghost, Anthony Hochschild
The Periodic Table, Primo Levi

SHORT STORIES
The Dead, James Joyce
A Place to Live, Natalia Ginzburg
The World and Other Places, Jeanette Winterson
What to Wear to See the Pope, Christine Lehner
Collected Works, William Somerset Maugham
Things that Fall from the Sky, Kevin Brockmeier 

 

PLAYS
The Importance of Being Ernest, Oscar Wilde
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
Wild Duck, Henrik Ibsen

 

 

POETRY

The Buried Life, Matthew Arnold
Holy Russia, Voloshin
How Did You Die, Edmund Vance Cooke
Neutral Tones, Thomas Hardy
Psalm of Life, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Collected Works, Rainer Maria Rilke

FILM
Shadowlands / Truly, Madly, Deeply / When Harry Met Sally
Benny and Joon / Burn After Reading / Blood Diamond / Harry Potter / The Importance of Being Ernest / Iris / Lord of the Rings / Nobel Son / Pride and Prejudice (BBC) / Another Earth

PAINTINGS
Dao Hai Phong’s

SKETCHES
Saint John at the Cross, Salvador Dali

SCULPTURES
Rodin’s