Since it is that time of year when we make lists, here is my list of readings for 2011. It is full of old favorites, new voices, and fascinating discoveries just waiting to be made in each and every book. (I will try to provide links later.)
1. Kusamakura–Soseki Natsume
2. The Heredity of Taste–Soseki Natsume
3. The 210th Day–Soseki Natsume
4. Kokoro–Soseki Natsume
5. To The Spring Equinox and Beyond–Soseki Natsume
6. My Individualism–Soseki Natsume
7. The Anatomy of Melancholy–Robert Burton
8. Coriolanus
9. World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era–Donald Keene
10. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches–Matsuo Basho
11. 4 Plays: Amphitryon, Menaechmi, The Pot of Gold, The Haunted House–Plautus
12. Mother Clapp’s Molly House–Mark Ravenhill
13. Techne’s Clearinghouse–John Foy
14. Seven Studies For A Self Portrait–Jee Leong Koh
15. 4 Plays–Ben Jonson
16. Collected Satires of Juvenal
17. Satires of Horace and Persius
18. Turn–Wendy Chin-Tanner
19. Road Work Ahead–Raymond Luczak
20. My Life As Adam–Bryan Borland
21. Burnings–Ocean Vuong
22. The Satyricon and Apocolocyntosis–Petronius and Seneca
23. Collected Poems of James Merrill
24. The Gift–Vladimir Nabokov
25. Strong Opinions–Vladimir Nabokov
26. Pale Fire–Vladimir Nabokov
27. The Common Reader, First Series–Virginia Woolf
28. Nothing Like The Sun–Anthony Burgess
29. The Young Michelangelo: A Biography–John Spike
30. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter–Richard A. Feynman
31. Paradise Lost–John Milton
32. The Birds and Other Plays–Aristophanes
33. Selected Poems–James Fenton
34. Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 1–Ben Bova, editor
35. Pompeii–Robert Harris
36. The Difference Engine–William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
37. Collected Short Stories–Rudyard Kipling
38. Selected Short Stories–H.G. Wells
39. Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form–Helen Vendler
40. Collected Short Stories–Ambrose Bierce
41. Selected Essays of Montaigne
42. Areopagitica–John Milton
43. Broca’s Brain–Carl Sagan
44. The Dyer’s Hand–W.H. Auden
45. Satori Blues–Cyril Wong
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