Friday, April 10, 2020

more sequestered reading lists

more reading lists from our sequestered customers:

Maura Zerella
The Tranquillitate Animi - Seneca
Commedia - Dante
South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography - Roland Barthes
The Dhammapada


Ellen Cooney
Lonesome Bodybuilder - Yukiko Mototoya
Ten Loves of Nishino - Hiromi Kawakami
Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami
The Book of Anna - Carmen Boullosa
Roxy - Esther Gerritsen


Agnes Bushell
The Corner That Held Them - Sylvia Townsend Warner
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein
A Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
The Peripheral - William Gibson


Ellen Pyle
Little Red Chairs - Edna O'Brien

Kara Douglas
Go Set A Watchman - Harper Lee
Welcoming the Unwelcome - Pema Chodron
On Writing - Stephen King
Ashes - Laurie Halse Anderson


Anna Turner
Ulysses - James Joyce
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
Dwellers in the House of the Lord - Wesley McNair


Peter Simmons
Fiction - Abigail - Magda Szabo
Little Gods - Ming Jin
Under the Rainbow - Celia Laskey
How to Build A Heart - Maria Padian

Non-fiction - Becoming Nicole - Amy Ellis Nutt
The Reason I Jump -Naoki Higashida
Our Native Bees - Paige Embry
Settled in the Wild - Susan Hand Shetterly

Poetry - Cold Mountain - Han Shan
Map - Wislawa Szymborska
Canvas - Adam Zagajewski
A Coast of Trees - A R Ammons


Charlotte Agell
Abigail - Magda Szabo
The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
Under the Rainbow - Celia Laskey
Maybe A Mermaid - Josephine Cameron

Al Miller
poetry by Naomi Shihab Nye
Apeirogon by Colm McCann
Overstory - Richard Powers
The Mercies - Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Tyll - Daniel Kehlman
Erosion - Terry Tempest Williams


Maureen Block
One Long River of Song - Brian Doyle
African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent - John Gillow
Posters by Maurice Sendak
The Attentive Heart - Stephanie Kaza

Mary Anne Libby
Mercy - Lucille Clifton
The Book of Delights - Ross Gay
Here For It - R Eric Thomas
This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger
Love Letter to the Earth - Thich Nhat Hanh


Susan Weems
Before You Know Kindness - Chris Bohjalian
Disgrace - J M Coetzee


Liz Craig-Olins
Leadership In Turbulent Times - Doris Kearns Goodwin
Margaret Fuller - biography - by Meghan Marshall
A Gentleman In Moscow - Amor Towles
Walden - Thoreau
Collected Poems of Michael Longley


Rosalie Paul
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
Olive, Again - Elizabeth Strout
Saturday - Ian McEwen
Machines Like Me - Ian McEwen


Susan Maffei
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
The In-Betweens - Mira Ptacin
On Trails - Robert Moor
Olive Again - Elizabeth Strout
Ulysses - James Joyce

Peter Gabbe
The Master Plan - Chris Wilson
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Gann
Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshona Zuboff
Photo Art - Joe Sartore
The Challenging Years - autobiography of Stephen Wise


John Howard
Afterglow - Eileen Myles
Imaginary Life - David Malouf
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming - Laslo Krasnahorkai
Lost City Radio - Daniel Alarcon
Empty and Full - the language of Chinese painting - Francois Cheng
Thus Were Their Faces - Silvina Ocampo
Twelve Stories - Guy Davenport
Illocality - poems, Joseph Massey
The Ghosts of Birds - Eliot Weinberger
Rashomon and Other Stories - Ryunosuki Akutagawa


Thursday, April 09, 2020

sequestered reading

Sequestered reading lists
where we ask our readers what they are reading during sequestration :

Gary Lawless
here is the pile I have at hand right now,
the bookstore closed temporarily -:

Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich
the innocents - a novel of Newfoundland - Michael Crummey
One Last Lie - Paul Doiron
Just Us - Claudia Rankine
Pompeii - Robert Harris
bad indian - poems by J C Mehta
Rolling in the Ditches With Shamans (Jaime de Angulo) by Wendy Leeds Hurwitz
Timefulness - how thinking like a geologist can help save the world - Marcia Bjornerud
Mast Year - poems by Katherine Hagopian Berry
At Ease with Images of Art - poems by John Tagliabue
Carrara - photographs by William Wylie


Kathreen Harrison
I Wonder as I Wander - Langston Hughes
A Map Is Only One Story - 20 writers on immigration - ed. Nicole Chung


Doug Rawlings
In Pharoah's Army - Tobias Wolff
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
A Flag for Sunrise - Robert Stone
A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry
biography of Benjamin Franklin


John Dunn
Three by Hilary Mantel : Wolf Hall
Bring Up the Bodies
The Mirror and the Light
Extreme Economics - Robert Davis
Desert, Steppe, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia - Brian Sutcliffe


Jay Levine
Me - Elton John
Apropos of Nothing - Woody Allen
Spy of the First Person - Sam Shepard
Tear of the Monkey - Patti Smith
Aliens - The world's leading scientists on the search for extraterrestrial life - edited Jim al Khalili


Liz Ernst
Barrel Fever - David Sedaris
40 short stories - portable anthology - Beverly Lawn
Lost City of Z - David Grann
Hare with the Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms - Richard Fortey


Pete Galle
Soldier of the Great War - Mark Helprin
Janet Galle
Mrs. Moreau's Warbler - Stephen Moss
Paris in the Present Tense - Mark Helprin
anything in the Longmire series


Jocelyn Hubbell
Ravenmaster - Christopher Skaife
Who Murdered Chaucer - Terry Jones
Two Gardeners - a friendship in letters - ed. by Emily Herring Wilson
Felicity - Mary Oliver
An Intimate Look at the Night Sky - Chet Raymo

Karen Schneider
Light Between the Oceans - M L Steadman
When Things Fall Apart - Pema Chodron
Treasury of American Poetry
The Girl on the Train
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child - Bob Spitz


James McCarthy
Selected Poems of Tu Fu - translated by David Hinton
Falter - has the human game begun too play itself out - Bill McKibben
One Wild Bird at a Time - Bernd Heinrich
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South - Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
10 years of DoubleTake magazine


Sasha Nyary
The River - Peter Heller
The Mirror and the Light - Hilary Mantel
Falling Upward - Richard Rohr


Giuseppe Moretti
Paleolithic Turn - Matteo Meschiari (in Italian)
Esiste un mondo a venire - Deborah Danowski
Tales from Rore - Stefan Hyner
Rete, oppio dei popoli - Enrico Manicardi
Metamorfosi - Ovidio
Thoreau - una vita disobbediente - A Dan/Le Roy
Headed Into The Wind - Jack Loeffler
Primitivismo e storia - Miquel Amoros
Danger on Peaks - Gary Snyder
Myths and Text - Gary Snyder