Books Read 2014

 

1. The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien (1954, England) [started 2013]
2. Finn Family Moomintroll – Tove Jansson (1948, Finland); translation 1958 by Elizabeth Portch
3. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum (1900, U.S.)
4. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery (1908, Canada) [started 2013]
5. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber (1950, U.S.) – Ohio project
6. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” – James Thurber (1939, U.S.) – Ohio project
7. Essential Pleasures – Robert Pinsky, Editor (2009); selected poems:
   1. Paul Laurence Dunbar – “Little Brown Baby” (Ohio project) (also, “Sympathy,” not in this anthology)
   2. Langston Hughes – “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (Ohio project)
   3. Rita Dove – “Gospel” (Ohio project)
   4. George Gordon, Lord Byron – “When We Two Parted”
   5. Thomas Hardy – “The Self-Unseeing”
   6. Thomas Nashe – “In Time of Plague”
   7. William Carlos Williams – “Fine Work with Pitch and Copper,” “Poem”
   8. Allen Ginsberg – “A Supermarket in California”
   9. Anonymous – “The Cruel Mother”
   10. Elizabeth Bishop – “The Burglar of Babylon”
   11. Robert Burns – “Green Grow the Rashes, O”
   12. Lewis Carroll – “Jabberwocky”
   13. Christina Rossetti – “Song (When I am dead, my dearest)”
   14. Anna Akhmatova – “N.V.N.”
   15. Frank Bidart – “The Yoke”
   16. Anne Bradstreet – “To my Dear and loving Husband”
   17. Robert Frost – “Putting in the Seed”
   18. Ezra Pound – “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
   19. Sappho – “Artfully Adorned Aphrodite”
   20. William Carlos Williams – “Sappho”
   21. Robert Browning – “My Last Duchess”
   22. John Clare – “Badger”
   23. Samuel Taylor Coleridge – “Kubla Khan”
   24. Allen Ginsberg – “America”
   25. Sylvia Plath – “Nick and the Candlestick”
   26. Rainer Maria Rilke – “Archaic Torso of Apollo” (translated M.D. Herter Norton)
   27. Walt Whitman – “Italian Music in Dakota”
   28. William Carlos Williams – “The Turtle”
   29. Edna St. Vincent Millay – “I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed”
   30. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – “The Reasons That Induced Dr. Swift to Write a Poem Called the Lady’s Dressing Room”
   31. Marianne Moore – “To Be Liked by You Would Be a Calamity”
   32. Carl Phillips – “The Hustler Speaks of Places”
8. The Wizard of the Emerald City – Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (1939, USSR); translation 1991, rev. 2010 by Peter L. Blystone
9. Urfin Jus and His Wooden Soldiers – Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (1963, USSR); translation 1991, rev. 2010 by Peter L. Blystone
10.  The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance  – Edith Grossman, translator (translation 2006, U.S.)
11. Thirteen Seconds: Confrontation at Kent State – Joe Eszterhas and Michael D Roberts (1970, U.S.) – Ohio Project
12. The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien (1954, England)
13. The Conjure Stories – Charles W. Chesnutt (1887-1926, U.S.) Norton Critical Edition, 2012, Robert B. Stepto and Jennifer Rae Greeson, ed. – Ohio Project
14. “The Playboy of Seville” – Tirso de Molina (c. 1616, Spain); translated by Adrienne Schizzano Mandel and Oscar Mandel, 1963
15. Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Crónica de una muerte anunciada] – Gabriel García Márquez (1981, Colombia); translation by Gregory Rabassa
16. “El burlador de Sevilla” – Tirso de Molina (c. 1616, Spain) [read in Spanish]
17. The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales – told by Virginia Hamilton & illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (1985, U.S.)
18. The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien (1956, England)
19. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn (2012, U.S.)
20. The Shadow of the Wind [La sombra del viento] – Carlos Ruiz Zafón (2001, Spain; translation 2004); translation by Lucia Graves
21. Raven Black – Ann Cleeves (2006, U.K.)
22. Let’s Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste – Carl Wilson (2014 ed., U.S.)
23. Death Masks – Jim Butcher (2003, U.S.)
24. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1902, Scotland) [reread]
25. The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1905, Scotland)
26. Blue Lily, Lily Blue – Maggie Stiefvater (2014, U.S.)
27. Corgiville Christmas – Tasha Tudor (author and illustrator, 2003, U.S.) [reread]
28. The Dolls’ Christmas – Tasha Tudor (author and illustrator, 1950, U.S. [1999 ed.])
29. Becky’s Christmas – Tasha Tudor (author and illustrator, 1961 U.S. [1991 ed.])