* means I really liked it
R means reread

Autumn '16

*The Bridegroom was a Dog (& other stories) / Tawada R
The Irrationalist / Buffam
Barbarian Days / Finnegan
Evicted / Desmond
Bulldozer / Ammon
*Trout Fishing in America / Brautigan
How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life / Fahey
*Little House in the Big Woods / Ingalls Wilder R
*Something Light / Sharp
A Square Meal / Coe & Ziegelman
Ask the Dust / Fante
Making of the American Landscape / ed. Conzen

Winter

Ramayana / Menen
Siddhartha / Hesse R
The Tao of Pooh / Hoff
*Runaway Horses / Mishima trans. Gallagher R
*Walden (& Civil Disobedience) / introd. Meyer R
*Disappearance Diary / Azuma R
Everything Is Its Own Reward / Paul Madonna R

Spring '17

*The Tale of Genji / trans. Washburn
The Divine Comedy / trans. Fletcher
*The Decameron / trans. McWilliam
Canterbury Tales / trans. Coghill

Summer

*Novels in Three Lines / Feneon
*Testimony / Reznikoff
[Three or four books about outhouses]
*Working / Terkel
*The Chinese Unicorn / Rowe
The Better Angels of Our Nature / Pinker
Cathay / Pound
*The Maytrees / Dillard
An American Childhood / Dillard
*Mornings Like This / Dillard
The Tenant / Topor
Jurassic Park / Crichton R
Names of the Lion / Khalawayh trans. Larsen
Devil in the White City / Larson
The Last Lover / Xue
*Mornings Like This / Dillard R
Alphabet / Christensen

Autumn

The Hatred of Poetry / Lerner
Nervousness, Indigestion & Pain / Alvarez
The Global Transformation of Time / Ogle
A Time to Love / Hostetler
Five Spice Street / Xue
In the All–Night Cafe / David
The Victorian Internet / Standage
*The Information / Gleick
Holy the Firm / Dillard
Letters to His Neighbor / Proust trans. Davis
The Book of Disquiet / Pessoa trans. Jull Costa
*The Voice Imitator / Bernhard
Those Who Cried / Tyner
*Encounters with Chinese Writers / Dillard
*The Monkey King / Mo
Rhine Journey / Schlee
Hong Kong After Dark / Fitzpatrick
*Nature’s Diary / Prishvin
Countryman’s Year / Grayson
The World of Silence / Picard
Shelters, Shacks, & Shanties / Beard
Lost Libraries / ed. Raven
*Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Dillard R
Marcel Duchamp & John Cage / Kubota

Winter

Debt / Graeber
Place / Cresswell
Non–Places / Auge
*Home / Rybczynski
Structures / Gordon
Austerity / Blyth
*Piracy / Johns
Housewifery / Balderston
*Pedestrianism / Algeo
Deep Work / Newport
Bright Cages / Morley
*Blind Spot / Cole
Light Lines / Metzker
*Open City / Cole
Consuming Passions / Farb & Armelagos
Uncivilisation / Kingsnorth & Hine
Just Enough / Brown
More / Hodgman
*Sex, Death & Hierarchy in a Chinese City / Jankowiak

Spring '18

On Love / Beyle
On Inequality / Frankfurt
Poetics of Space / Bachelard
Spaces of Hope / Harvey
*In Praise of Shadows / Tanizaki
The Life–Changing Magic of Tidying Up / Kondo
The Geography of Nowhere / Kunstler
The Aesthetics of Decay / Trigg
The Clock of the Long Now / Brand
*The Gentle Art of Tramping / Graham
The Art of Living / Maurois
The Art of Clear Thinking / Flesch
*The Art of Xu Bing / Erickson
The Conquest of Happiness / Russell
The Architecture of Happiness / de Botton
*The Death and Life of the Great Lakes / Egan
*The Missing Pieces / Lefebvre R
The Wooing of Earth / Dubos
*The World From Above / Reich
The Celestial Café / Murdoch
The Making of Mind / Luria

Summer

*City / Arawi
*The Chinese Typewriter / Mullaney
The Human Situation / Dixon
*A History of Writing in Japan / Seeley
You Gotta Have Wa / Whiting
Daily Rituals / Currey
*A Cordiall Water / Fisher
*Lost and / Griffin
*Suite Vénitienne / Calle
Notes of a Crocodile / Qiu
Mayakovsky’s Revolver / Dickman
Ancient Earthworks & Temples of the American Indians / Brine
*Kabloona / de Poncins
Hydriotaphia; the Garden of Cyrus / Browne
Life Beside Itself / Stevenson
*The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down / Fadiman
*Making Beats / Schloss
If Not, Winter / Carson
Autobiography of Red / Carson
Bluets / Nelson
De Chirico / Holzhey
*Selected Short Stories / Kafka trans. Muir & Muir
For the Time Being / Dillard R
Lyrical Essays / Camus
Little Birds / Nin
Typewriter Art / Tullett
Short Season / Klinkowitz

Autumn

*Colonies in Space / Heppenheimer
*Studies in the Art of Rat–Catching / Barkley
The Temple of Dawn / Mishima R
*Stupid Guy Goes to India / Yamamatsu
Around the World in the Sloop Spray / Slocum
*Three Years in Tibet / Kawaguchi
A Dutch Castaway on Ascension Island in 1725 / Ritsema
The Long Way / Moitessier
Lost Horizon / Hilton
The Swiss Family Robinson / Wyss
The Sun’s Storehouse / Prishvin
Shiptimber Grove / Prishvin
Jen Sheng / Prishvin
Shenzhen / Delisle
*Sketches from a Hunter’s Album / Turgenev
*The Black Arab (& other stories) / Prishvin

Winter

The Prairie Club of Chicago / Maloney
Palos Park / Kacmar
Instant Weather Forecasting / Watts
Yoga for Everyone / Dunne
Jean duSable / Cortesi
*As Others See Chicago / ed. Pierce

Spring '19

The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History / Hill
The Des Plaines River, 1673–1940 / H.D. Smith
Birds for a Demolition / de Barros
Lost / Ian Phillips
*Escape Attempts / Cohen & Taylor
Can’t and Won’t / Davis R
The Tall Trees of Tokyo / ed. Wagner
*Yo’ Mama / ed. Jemie
Found Photography / Thames & Hudson
Magritte / Paquet
Dictionary of Maqiao / Han

Summer

*Street Signs Chicago / Bowden & Kreinberg
Country Walks Near Chicago / Fisher
Eating Chinese Food Naked / Ng
The Places in Between / Stewart
*A Feathered River Across the Sky / Greenberg
Bomb the Suburbs / Wimsatt
The Coast of Chicago / Dybek R
I Sailed with Magellan / Dybek R
Goodnight Punpun / Asano
Challenging Chicago / Duis
Everyone Has a Mouth / Herbeck
Li Wei / ed. Battiston
*Address Book / Calle
Riffs / Barrada
Decay of the Angel / Mishima R

Autumn

*The Emigrants / Sebald R
The Quickening Maze / Foulds R
Wang in Love and Bondage / Wang
*New Grub Street / Gissing R
13th Gen / Strauss & Howe
Alone After School / Swan & Houston
*Atlas / Glen Baxter
The Japan That Can Say No / Ishihara
The Great Divide / Terkel
*Fun Home / Bechdel
*Almost Completely Baxter / Baxter
Nazis in Skokie / Downs
*Heat Wave / Klinenberg

Winter

Turn of the Century / Ellen Jackson R
The Joy Luck Club / Tan R
The Closing of the American Mind / Bloom
Oh! Pascal! / Cooper
Sez Who? Sez Me / Royko
Gang Leader for a Day / Venkatesh
Za Nihongo / IHI Corp
Hold on to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell... / Lawrence
*The Battle of Lincoln Park / Hertz
*Exit Zero / Walley
The Old Chicago Neighborhood / Samors & Williams
The Crime of the Century [Richard Speck] / Breo & Martin
The Andromeda Strain / Crichton R
Feast [exhibition catalog] / Smart Museum

Spring '20

*Chaos / Gleick
The First Suburban Chinatown / Fong
Along the Calumet River / Ogorek
If Christ Came to Chicago! / Stead
*The Magic Mountain / Mann trans. Lowe-Porter R
*Sister Carrie / Dreiser
Abandon the Old in Tokyo / Tatsumi R
The Community of Fuller Park / Rudolph Unger
The Good Old Days: They Were Terrible! / Bettmann
City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium / Sachs
Small Computers in Libraries (various issues 1985)
*Street Signs Chicago / Bowden & Kreinberg R
At Home in the Loop / Wille
Desert Solitaire / Abbey

Summer

*Naomi / Tanizaki R
The Jungle / Sinclair
The Waste Land, Prufrock, and Other Poems / Eliot
*An Anecdoted Topography of Chance / Spoerri & Filliou & Williams
American Pharaoh / Cohen & Taylor
*Childhood and Other Neighborhoods / Dybek
Chicago’s Southeast Side / Sellers
*Newspaper Days / Dreiser
What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President? / Mattson
Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs / Keating
*Chicago Politics Ward by Ward / Fremon
Notes for a People’s Atlas / AREA Chicago
Escape Attempts / Cohen & Taylor R
*Testimony / Reznikoff R
*Gangs of New York / Asbury
*Chicago’s Highways Old and New / Quaife
*From a Chinese City / de Poncins
Dandelions / Kawabata
City / Arawi
Working Class Heroes / Kefalas
A Comprehensive Plan for the Extension of the Subway System...
*Slim’s Table / Duneier
*Chicago People / Younker

Autumn

The Blue Island Story / Lions Club of Blue Island
Preliminary Project Report: Hyde Park–Kenwood Urban Renewal Area
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties / Leaf
*The Man With the Golden Arm / Algren
Chicago: City on the Make / Algren
A Neighborhood that Never Changes / Brown–Saracino
The Neon Wilderness / Algren
Number Our Days / Myerhoff
*Boy and Girl Tramps in America / Minehan
*Quartet in Autumn / Pym
The Narrow Road to the Deep North & Other Travel Sketches / Basho R
Norwegian Wood / Murakami R
*The Lost Domain / Fournier R
*Vertigo / Sebald R
*Disappearance Diary / Azuma R
Ramona the Pest / Cleary
Rhododendron Pie / Sharp
*Britannia Mews / Sharp
The South Side / Moore
Downsize This! / Moore
White American Youth / Picciolini
*pictures for sad children / Campbell R
*The Quest for Proust / Maurois
The Wild Duck / Ibsen R
The Glass Menagerie / Williams R
*Something Light / Sharp R
How to Survive in Chicago / Heise

Winter

*Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth... / Konigsburg
*Danny, the Champion of the World / Dahl R
Matilda / Dahl
Flatland / Abbott
Plotting / Woodford
*Northanger Abbey / Austen
*Emma / Austen R
Persuasion / Austen R
*Jane Eyre / Bronte R
*Middlemarch / Eliot R
The Wind in the Willows / Grahame
The Secret Garden / Burnett
*Complete Tales / Beatrix Potter
*Lady Audley's Secret / Braddon
Tess of the D’Urbervilles / Hardy R
1066 and All That / Sellar & Yeatman
Desperate Remedies / Hardy
*Wuthering Heights / Bronte R
Blizzard ‘79 Scrapbook / Sun-Times
Enchanted Streets / Dubkin

Spring '21

The Renaissance / Pater
A Walker in the City / Kazin
Hunger of Memory / Rodriguez
*The Rings of Saturn / Sebald R
On the Natural History of Destruction / Sebald
The First World War / Stallings
*A Place in the Country / Sebald
Austerlitz / Sebald R
*The Emergence of Memory / Schwartz
Across the Land and the Water / Sebald R
*Campo Santo / Sebald R
Sebald’s Bachelors / Finch
Unrecounted / Sebald R
W.G. Sebald / Schutte
*After Nature / Sebald R
For Years Now / Sebald R
Chicago’s South Side / Wayne Miller

Summer

Degeneration / Nordau
*1001 Afternoons in Chicago / Hecht
Murder of Innocence / Zorn
Sphere / Crichton R
*Mornings Like This / Dillard R
*The Narrow Road to the Deep North & Other Travel Sketches / Basho R
*Walks with Walser / Seelig
Diana of the Dunes / Zenke Edwards
Beverly Shores / Morrow
Along the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Rail Line / Ogorek
*Moonlight in Duneland / Cohen & McShane
Veeck as in Wreck / Veeck
The Octopus / Norris
The Pit / Norris
Perverted Tales / Norris
The Gold Coast and the Slum / Zorbaugh
Geographical Excursions in the Chicago Region / Conzen
*Summer Hikes 1941 / Chicago Park District
A Voice in Our Wilderness / Husar
*The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry / Fenollosa ed. Pound
Nick Drake / Humphries
*Trout Fishing in America / Brautigan R
Black Metropolis / Drake & Cayton

Autumn

*Nichijo / Arawi
*Helvetica Standard / Arawi
Steel Barrio / Innis-Jimenez
The Breast / Thames & Gazzaniga
On This Day in Chicago History / Schmidt
*Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This? / Meade
*Life in Big Red / Conquergood
Brown in the Windy City / Fernandez
Koreans in the Windy City / Chun
The Scent of Dried Roses / Lott
*No Longer Human / Dazai trans. Keene
*An Account of My Hut / Kamo no Chomei
The Tokyo-Montana Express / Brautigan
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat / Sacks
The Years of Rice and Salt / Robinson

Winter

The Minimal Self / Lasch
The Routes of Man / Conover
On Chronic Diseases / Aretaeus
*Ecclesiastes / ed. Steese
*Fictions / Dujardin
*Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / FitzGerald
Massive Psychic Trauma / Krystal
The Chicago 77 / Zangs
Arabs of Chicagoland / Hanania
The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America / Montague R
Chicago Apartments / Harris

Spring '22

Inherit the Stars / Hogan
*Building Stories / Ware
*Found Poems / Bern Porter
*Sweet End / Bern Porter
Translations from the English / Colombo
Mother Chicago / Billheimer
Notes from a Small Island / Bryson
*When the Wind Blows / Briggs
*Vincent by Himself / Bernard
The World We Have Lost / Laslett
*Pandaemonium / Jennings
The Vision of Piers Plowman / ed. Skeat
*Canterbury Tales / trans. Coghill R
A Midsummer Night's Dream / Shakespeare R
The Tempest / Shakespeare R

Summer

The Cloud of Unknowing / ed. Brinton
*Genesis / KJV
Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys / ed. Le Gallienne
Brief Lives / Aubrey
Religio Medici / Browne
Hydriotaphia; the Garden of Cyrus / Browne R

Autumn

Exodus / KJV
Jubilate Agno / Smart
*Travels of Sir John Mandeville / ed. Mosley
*The Voiage and Trauaile of Syr Iohn Maundevile / Mandeville
Grace Abounding / Bunyan
Journal of the Plague Year / Defoe
Impending Gleam / Baxter
*A Modest Proposal / Swift
Gulliver's Travels / Swift

Winter

Pilgrim’s Progress / Bunyan
Paradise Lost / Milton
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / Hume
*Ivan Albright / Croydon
Robinson Crusoe / Defoe

Spring '23

Life of Johnson / Boswell abridged Center
*Life of Savage / Johnson
*A Sport and a Pastime / Salter
*The World of Atget / Abbott
*Near to the Wild Heart / Lispector
*A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Joyce R
*Tropic of Cancer / Miller
A Season in Hell / Rimbaud
Delta of Venus / Nin
Balthus: Time Suspended / Rewald
*The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By / Simenon
*The Sheltering Sky / Bowles
Journey to the End of the Night / Celine
The Voice Imitator / Bernhard R
The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas / Stein
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere / Morris R
*The Lost Domain / Alain-Fournier R
Life and Remains / Clare
Poems of John Clare's Madness / Grigson
Selected Poetry and Death’s Duel / Donne
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain / Defoe
Songs of Innocence and of Experience / Blake
Lyrical Ballads / Wordsworth & Coleridge
A Child's Garden of Verses / Stevenson
*Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Carroll
*Through the Looking-Glass / Carroll
The Golden Age & Dream Days / Grahame
Dandelion Wine / Bradbury
Boy / Dahl R
James and the Giant Peach / Dahl
The Twits / Dahl R
Lafcadio / Silverstein R
Now Here's My Plan / Silverstein
Owl at Home / Lobel R
The Phantom Tollbooth / Juster
Tuck Everlasting / Babbitt
Abel's Island / Steig R
From the Mixed–Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler / Konigsburg R
*The Catcher in the Rye / Salinger R
Franny and Zooey / Salinger
*The Bell Jar / Plath R
*Housekeeping / Robinson R
Leviticus / KJV
One Hundred Years of Solitude / Garcia Marquez R
Labyrinths / Borges R
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller / Calvino R
History of the City of Palos Hills / Potter
The Forts of Palos / Potter
Hatchet / Paulsen R
Bear / Engel
The Face on the Milk Carton / Cooney
The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow / Cumbey
The High Frontier / O’Neill

Summer

Campo Santo / Sebald R
Agua Viva / Lispector trans. Tobler
*In Patagonia / Chatwin
The Travels / Marco Polo
Checagou / Quaife
Spaceships of Ezekiel / Blumrich
Worlds in Collision / Velikovsky
The Edge of Reality / Hynek
Michelle Remembers / Pazder
The Mothman Prophecies / Keel
Period of the Far Eastern Minicreatures [excerpts] / Okamura
Psychogeography / Coverley
Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography / Debord
The Necessity for Ruins / Jackson
Landscapes / Jackson
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape / Corner
Forms of the Grid / Schwarzer
From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow / Monmonier
*Studies in the Art of Rat-Catching / Barkley R
Eyre’s March / Kingsley
*The Narrow Road to the Deep North & Other Travel Sketches / Basho R
Hiroshige / Exner
Hiroshige's 53 Stages / Nihon Ukiyoe Hakubutsukan
Fifty-three Stages on the Tokaido: Five Editions / Hiroshige
Tokaido: Adventures on the Road / Spencer Museum
Woman in the Dunes / Abe
The Inland Sea / Richie
A Drifting Life / Tatsumi
*Hojoki = Account of My Hut / Kamo no Chomei R
*Lost Chicago / Lowe
Third Coast / Dyja
Division Street America / Terkel
Maxwell Street / Berkow
Fair Weather / Peck
Bang! Bang! / Ade
Chicago Stories / Ade
*Bosses in Lusty Chicago / Wendt & Kogan
City of Scoundrels / Krist
To Serve and Collect / Lindberg
The Jack-Roller / Shaw
Young Lonigan / Farrell
Native Son / Wright
Harry Callahan: Photographs / Greenough
*They All Fall Down: Richard Nickel / Cahan
*Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal / MacGregor
Out of the Shadows: Vivian Maier / Cahan
A Raisin in the Sun / Hansberry
Murder in Canaryville / Coen
I, Pig / Muller
*Orphan Girl / James
Righteous Dopefiend / Bourgois & Schonberg

Autumn

My Secret Places / Dubkin
A Natural History of the Chicago Region / Greenberg
Now I Lay Me Down to Eat / Rudofsky
24-7: Late Capitalism… / Crary
The Mind of a Mnemonist / Luria
The Man with a Shattered World / Luria
*A Dictionary of Russian Gesture / Monahan
Soviet Space Dogs / Turkina
The Essential Plotinus / O’Brien
Suicide / Grollman
Escape Attempts / Cohen & Taylor R
Hell, the Devil, and Karma / Weor
Why I Am Not a Christian (and other essays) / Russell
Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence / de Caussade
Numbers / KJV
*Life in Big Red / Conquergood R
Stacked Decks / Bartram
The Communist Manifesto / Marx & Engels
*Walking / Thoreau
*Walden (& Civil Disobedience) / Thoreau R
Notes from Underground / Dostoyevsky trans. Ginsburg R
*Selected Stories / Chekhov trans. Dunnigan
To a Distant Island / McConkey
I Remember / Pasternak
*Through Russian Central Asia / Graham
*The Road to Life [vol 1] / Makarenko
In the Struggle for Equality / Yelensky
Christian Anarchist: Ammon Hennacy / Marling
*Amerika / Kafka trans. Muir
*The Trial / Kafka trans. Muir
Brave New World / Huxley R
The Painted Bird / Kozinski
The Family of Man / Steichen
The Book of Lights / Potok
*Architecture without Architects / Rudofsky
Report from a Chinese Village / Myrdal
The Image / Boorstin
Dream Tracks / McLuhan
The Sand County Almanac / Leopold
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems / Snyder
The Unbearable Lightness of Being / Kundera
Satantango / Krasznahorkai
Industrial Society and its Future / Kaczynski
Gaf! Gaf! / Emmons
The Big Red Train Ride / Newby
A Seventh Man / Berger
*Roadside Picnic / Strugatsky
The Schoolgirl / Dazai
Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster / Appleton
Amsterdam Stories / Nescio
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater / De Quincey
Generation X / Coupland
City of Darkness Revisited / Lambot & Girard

Winter

*Sense and Sensibility / Austen R
*Mansfield Park / Austen R
*Selected Poems / Dickinson ed. Reeves
*Far from the Madding Crowd / Hardy
The Return of the Native / Hardy
*Young Emma / Davies
*Riceyman Steps / Bennett
Heidi / Spyri
Deuteronomy / KJV
A Treasury of Peter Rabbit / Potter R
Winnie-the-Pooh / Milne
The House at Pooh Corner / Milne
Autobiography / Milne
Grey Towers / Flanigan
The Unadjusted Girl / Thomas
Lady Chatterley's Lover / Lawrence
Mrs Dalloway / Woolf
The Snow Goose / Gallico
Passing / Larsen
The Bean Eaters / Brooks
A Street in Bronzeville / Brooks
In the Mecca / Brooks
Girls of Slender Means / Spark
The End of the Affair / Greene
Excellent Women / Pym
The L-Shaped Room / Banks
The Camille DeRose Story / DeRose
Honey Blood / Low
Where Has All the Ivy Gone / Beadle
The Death and Life of Great American Cities / Jacobs
*People are Living There / Fugard
*Monkey Grip / Garner
*The Bottle Factory Outing / Bainbridge
The Cricket in Times Square / Selden
Charlotte's Web / White
The Bluest Eye / Morrison
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff / Myers R
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing / Blume R
Forever… / Blume
Alice In-Between / Naylor
Family / Verene R
Freak the Mighty / Philbrick R
Max the Mighty / Philbrick R

Spring '24

*Watership Down / Adams
Madame Bovary / Flaubert trans. Charles
Three Tales / Flaubert
The School of Venus / Millot trans. Thomas
Extracts from Letters to Girls / Ruskin
The Worm in the Bud / Pearsall
*The Amatory Experiences of a Surgeon / Campbell
*Lady into Fox / Garnett
Joshua, Judges, Ruth / KJV
Winesburg, Ohio / Anderson
Appointment in Samarra / O’Hara
The Sun Also Rises / Hemingway
*Quartet / Rhys
Windfalls / Dunning
The Metropolis and Mental Life / Simmel
Nadja / Breton
Brassai / Photofile
Brassai / ed. Sayag
Hans Bellmer / Webb
Photographs & Recollections / Mili
Tropic of Capricorn / Miller
Weegee's World / Barth
Captive Dreams / Izis
*Little Birds / Nin R
*Winter Love / Han
*Second April / Millay
Stranger on Lesbos / Taylor
*The Groves of Academe / McCarthy
*Cities of the Interior / Nin
*Emmanuelle / Arsan
*Lolita / Nabokov
*Poems / Plath ed. Middlebrook
*The Girls / Bowen
*Harriet Said / Bainbridge
A Breath of Life / Lispector
Crash / Ballard
*Bad Behavior / Gaitskill
Tender is the Flesh / Bazterrica
The Animal That Therefore I Am / Derrida

Summer '24

*The Chinese Unicorn / Rowe R
*19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei / Weinberger
Cathay / Pound R
*The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry / Fenollosa ed. Saussy
The Chinese Language / DeFrancis
170 Chinese Poems / Waley
Best Chinese Idioms / Situ
Hungry Ghosts / Rotman
Sandalwood and Carrion / McHugh
Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord of Death / Karma Lekshe Tsomo
*The World of the Shining Prince / Morris
*The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon [abridged] / trans. Morris R
The Diary of Lady Murasaki / trans. Dowling
*As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams / Sarashina trans. Morris
Ikkyu Sojun: a Zen Monk and His Poetry / Arntzen
*Adventures in the Unknown Interior / Cabeza de Vaca trans. Covey
*The Narrow Road to the Deep North & Other Travel Sketches / Basho R
The Year of My Life / Issa trans. Yuasa
Shank's Mare / Jippensha trans. Satchell
Japan, China / Kazantzakis trans. Pappageotes
Hiroshima / Hersey
One Minute After Sunrise / Hmurovic
Throwaway Boy / Elledge
*The Rings of Saturn / Sebald R
*Disappearance Diary / Azuma R
Speak, Silence / Angier
The Walking Man / Taniguchi
On Photography / Sontag
Wisconsin Death Trip / Lesy
Sequences / Michals
Keep Walking Intently / Waxman
Psychological Survival / Cohen & Taylor
Chemically Imbalanced / Davis
Fares Please! / Miller
South Shore: The Last Interurban / Middleton
Waiting for the 5:05 / Lancaster
*Through Routes for Chicago's Steam Railroads / Hooker
Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow / Brown
Sunset Lines / Plachno
Temples of Convenience and Chambers of Delight / Lambton
The Grosse Point Lighthouse / Terras
Green Valley / Reynolds
In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash / Shepherd
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch / Miller
Ruin Pictures / Rong
*Naked City Spleen / Kim
The World Through My Eyes / Moriyama
*An Architectural Study on the Kowloon Walled City / Ho
*軍艦島超景 / 柿田

Autumn '24

Redistributing the Poor / Lara-Millan
Two Cheers for Anarchism / Scott
Blue Lard / Sorokin
Old Believers in Modern Russia / Robson
Regarding the Pain of Others / Sontag
No Trespassing / Corr
Streetwise Chicago / Hayner & McNamee
*Street Signs Chicago / Bowden & Kreinberg R
*Double Exit / Wickett
From Heaven Lake / Seth
Across the Land and the Water / Sebald R
*After Nature / Sebald R
Unrecounted / Sebald R
*Vertigo / Sebald R
Searching for Sebald / Patt & Dillbohner
The Presence of the Past / Sheldrake
Life Without Principle / Thoreau
Walks About Chicago / Wilkie
A Vagabond in the Caucasus / Graham
The Gentle Art of Tramping / Graham R
A Handy Guide for Beggars / Lindsay
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp / Davies
Departures / Eberhardt
The Stranger / Camus trans. Ward
The Walk / Walser trans. Middleton
Heart of Darkness / Conrad
At the Mountains of Madness / Lovecraft
I Am a Memory Come Alive / Kafka
*The House of Certain Death / Cossery
Last Look / Burns
Staring Back / Marker
Other Plans / Sorkin
Park Forest / Shnay
Glen Ellyn: the Story of an Old Town / Harmon
Skokie: A Community History Using Old Maps / Hist Soc
The Image of the City / Lynch
Block by Block / Seligman
A Concrete Atlantis / Banham
Last is More / Sharoff
Outrage / Nairn
Photography 1924-1954 / Rodchenko
All That is Solid Melts into Air / Berman
Postmodernism / Jameson
Nature’s Diary / Prishvin R
Ready to Work? / Ginglend

Winter

Cranireons of Botya / Baxter
The Billiard Table Murders / Baxter
Further Blurtings of Baxter / Baxter
*The Khaki / Baxter
1998 Diary / Baxter
Une Ame en Tourment / Baxter
The Falls Tracer / Baxter
*Jodhpurs in the Quantocks / Baxter
Glen Baxter Returns to Normal / Baxter
Blizzards of Tweed / Baxter
Glen Baxter, His Life / Baxter
Loomings Over the Suet / Baxter
Fanny Hill / Cleland
A Tale of Two Cities / Dickens
*Camilla / Burney
Troy Chimneys / Kennedy
William Blake in This World / Bruce
Life of Clare / Martin
*Pride and Prejudice / Austen R
Les Miserables / Hugo trans Wilbour



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Accedit ad hec aliud in eadem regione mirabilius. Est castrum in comitatu Claudii Castriae, Bristoldum nomine, opulentum et ciuibus ditissimis complantatum. Hic portus est; quo transitur a maiore Britannia in Hyberniam. Vno tempore cum illius loci indigena nauigasset; domi relictis uxore ac filiis; post emensa diutine nauigationis curricula, cum in remotis occeani partibus nauis decurreret, ciuis memoratus cum nautis ad epulandum consedit circiter horam terciam. Cumque finita mensa ciuis cultellum ad spondam nauis ablueret, subito de manu lapsus; eadem hora per fenestram domus ipsius ciuis in culmine patentem, quam lucernariam Angli nominant, ad mensam coram uxore ciuis positam cultellus defigitur. Cuius rei nouitate tacta mulier obstupuit, et notum sibi pridem cultellum reponens, longo post tempore a uiro redeunte didicit, casum et diem nauigationis cum die receptionis concordare. Quis ergo, ex publicato facti huius testimonio, mare super nostram habitationem in aere uel super aerem positam dubitabit?