Ian Singleton

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Runaway by Alice Munro
Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter
“Errand” by Raymond Carver
“Compartment” by Raymond Carver
“The King of Norway” by Amos Oz
“A Tale of The Ragged Mountains” by Edgar Allan Poe
The Torturer’s Apprentice by Gene Wolfe

Die Klavierspielerin von Elfriede Jelinek

Война и мир Льва Толстого
«Тамань» Михаила Лермонтова
«Предуведомление для тех, которые пожелали бы сыграть как следует ревизора» Николая Гоголя

Shirley Jackson Novels and Stories Library of America

Light in August by William Faulkner

“Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“In Odessa” by Isaak Babel

“Dysfunctional Narratives, or: ‘Mistakes Were Made’” by Charles Baxter

“Counterpointed Characterization” by Charles Baxter

“Talking Forks: Fiction and the Inner Life of Objects” by Charles Baxter

Damascus Gate by Robert Stone

“Our Story Begins” by Tobias Wolff

“Report” by Donald Barthelme

Кроткая Фёдора Достоевского

Война и мир Льва Тольстого

«На подводе» Антона Чехова

Light in August by William Faulkner

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration

Detroit’s Infamous Purple Gang by Paul Kavieff

The Purple Gang by Paul Kavieff

Harmony and Dissonance: Voices of Jewish identity in Detroit, 1914-1967 by Sidney M. Bolkosky

But he was good to his mother: the lives and crimes of Jewish gangsters by Robert A. Rockaway

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon

“Justice in Parentheses” by Isaak Babel

“Glissando” by Robert Boswell

“Splendid Life” by Carrie Brown

“On Defamiliarization” by Charles Baxter

Shirley Jackson Novels and Stories Library of America

Война и мир Льва Тольстого

Повести покойного Ивана Петровича Белкина Александра Пушкина

Ревизор Николая Гоголя

«Король» Исаака Бабеля

«Как делалось в Одессе» Исаака Бабеля

«Отец» Исаака Бабеля

«История моей голубятни» Исаака Бабеля

Кроткая Фёдора Достоевского

«Справедливость в скобках» Исаака Бабеля

«Любка казак» Исаака Бабеля

Men and Gods by Edward Gorey

“The White Knights” by William Vollmann

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

Light in August by William Faulkner

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff

The Believers by Charles Baxter

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

“I Know Myself Real Well. That’s the Problem.” by Jim Shepard

Like You’d Understand Anyways by Jim Shepard

Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration

Lake Erie Stories: Struggle and Survival on a Freshwater Ocean by Chad Fraser

„Fatwa über Goethe“ von Shaikh Abdalqadir Al-Murabit

„Lascia“ von Judith Hermann

„Die Zuhörerin oder Eine absichtsvolle Wegbeschreibung“ von Siegfried Lenz

Война и мир Льва Тольстого

Повести покойного Ивана Петровича Белкина Александра Пушкина

Святочная история Михайла Зощенка

Ревизор Николая Гоголя

«Нос» Николая Гоголя

Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour

The Selected Poetry of Robert Browning

Don Quixote by Cervantes, trans. by Tobias Smollett

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenter and Seymour, an Introduction by J.D. Salinger

Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers by Stanley Elkin

Men and Gods by Edward Gorey

The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Collected Stories of Evan S. Connell

fictionalism

ordinary language (Cavell)

“Less Than One” by Joseph Brodsky

“A Temple of the Holy Ghost” by Flannery O’Connor

“The Man Who Knew Belle Starr” by Richard Bausch

“Two Concepts of Liberty” by Isaiah Berlin

“Ysrael” by Junot Diaz

“Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” by Tim O’Brien

In the Garden of North American Martyrs by Tobias Wolff

“Burning House” by Ann Beattie

“Heart Songs” by E. Annie Proulx

“A Run of Bad Luck” by E. Annie Proulx

“Under the Radar” by Richard Ford

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler

Kentucky Straight by Chris Offutt

“Garrison Junction” by Maile Meloy

“The Girlfriend” by Maile Meloy

“Red from Green” by Maile Meloy

“Love and Lethe” by Samuel Beckett

“Gold Coast” by James Alan McPherson

The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon

“A Clean Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway

“The End of Something” by Ernest Hemingway

“The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara

“A Visit of Charity” by Eudora Welty

“The Leaning Tower” by Katherine Anne Porter

“The Author-Character-Narrator Merge” by Frederick Reiken

“Sonya’s Last Speech, or, Double-Voicing: An Essay in Sixteen Sections” by Charles Baxter

“‘You’re Really Something’: Inflection and the Breath of Life” by Charles Baxter

“In Defense of Omniscience” by Richard Russo

poems by Donald Hall

etwas von Stefan Heym

Hyperion von Friedrich Hölderlin

„Der Fall Wagner“ von Friechrich Nietzsche

„Bessere Zeiten“ von Gabriele Wohmann

„Der Verdächtige“ von Jurek Becker

„Das Muschelessen“ (exzerpt) von Birgit Vanderbeke

Медея и её дети Людмилы Улицкой

Война и мир Льва Толстого

«Выстрел», повесть Белкина Александра Пушкина

«О женщины, женщины» Антона Чехова

«Говорить или молчать» Антона Чехова

«Осенью» Антона Чехова

«Чарли Чаплин» Осипа Мандельштама

«К ***» Александра Пушкина

«Метель» повесть Белкина Александра Пушкина

«От издательства» Александра Пушкина

Memorization:

“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning

“A Woman’s Last Word” by Robert Browning

«Свеча горела» Бориса Пастернака

“The Waking” by Theodor Roethke

«К ***» Александра Пушкина

Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut

play and paws by Kitten

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Faust by Christopher Marlowe

“Hapworth 14, 1924” by J.D. Salinger

The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy

stories by Zora Neale Hurston

Writing: The Story of Alphabets and Scripts by Georges Jean

Reden an den Feind by Stefan Heym

Faust von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Die Klavierspielerin von Elfriede Jelinek

Nativity Poems by Joseph Brodsky

„Нос“ Николая Гоголя

„Чайка“ Антона Чехова

„Левша“ Николая Лескова

Dubliners by James Joyce

Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff

The Zürau Aphorisms by Franz Kafka

Last Night by James Salter

1984 by George Orwell

Light in August by William Faulkner

a book by Stanley Elkin

a few stories by Raymond Carver

King Lear by William Shakespeare

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Zur Frage des Gesetzes von Franz Kafka

Die Klavierspielerin von Elfriede Jelinek

ein Buch von E.T.A. Hoffmann

ein Buch von Ilse Aichinger

Faust von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Нос Николая Гоголя

Три Стареца Льва Толстого

Станционный Смотритель Антона Пушкина

В Плену Фёдора Сологуба

Дама С Собачкой Антона Чехова

I’ve added a new category for Reading Lists.

For the last year and a half I have kept lists by season of all the books I’ve read in English, German, and Russian. I’ve also divided my books into those I’ve read or read enough of to set aside for now and those I want to read in the future. These two groups are in alphabetical order by author’s last name. I can’t help it, I’m a librarian.

Each list has all the books I set out to read at some point during that season and those I read have lines crossed through them.

Here is an interview with Umberto Eco about lists:
 http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeit…

Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates

Light in August by William Faulkner

“Fate” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Black & White by Lewis Shiner

Columbine by Dan Cullen

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

Black Earth by Andrew Meier

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

poems by Robert Frost

Blues and Evil by Jon Michael Spencer

Faust: Buch der Zweite von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Die Klavierspielerin von Elfriede Jelinek

„Josephine die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse“ von Franz Kafka

Пиять минут до конца зимы Олгы Артемьевой

Медея и её дети Людмилы Улицкой

«Пещера» Евгения Замятина

«Бобок» Фёдора Достоевского

«Либерал» Антона Чехова

«Убийство» Антона Чехова