* 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
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