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♔ I am Poxy, and this is me.

feb 12 2016 ∞
dec 18 2020 +
  • Alexander Chee; First Fiction
  • Amy Krouse Rosenthal; You May Want to Marry my Husband
  • Ann Leary; Rallying to Keep the Game Alive
  • Atuk Gawande; Letting Go
  • César Aira; El Ensayo y su Tema
  • Darren Chetty; 'You can't say that! Stories have to be about white people'
  • David Foster Wallace; This is Water
  • David H. Freedman; Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science
  • David Hobbs; A Depression Switch?
  • David Mamet; A tradition of theater as Art
  • David Mamet; Against Amplification
  • David Mamet; Drama
  • David Mamet; Epitaph for Tennessee Williams
  • David Mamet; Radio
  • David Mamet; Realism
  • Denis Diderot; The Paradox of Acting
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Crack-Up
  • Gabrielle Ulubay; For Best Hookup Results, Use your Words
  • Gretel Ehrlich; The Solace of Open Spaces
  • Henry Adams; A Law of Acceleration
mar 2 2017 ∞
nov 13 2020 +
  • Ali Smith; After Life
  • Ali Smith; The art of elsewhere
  • Ali Smith; The definite article
  • Ali Smith; The Ex-Wife
  • Ali Smith; The Human Claim
  • Alice Walker; Her Sweet Jerome
  • Alice Walker; Really, Doesn’t Crime Pay?
  • Alice Walker; The Child who Favoured Daughter
  • Alice Walker; The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff
  • D.H. Lawrence; The Blind Man
  • Dorothy Parker; The Lovely Leave
  • Gabriel García Márquez; Casa Tomada
  • Gabriel García Márquez; Solo vine a hablar por teléfono
  • Jan Carson; Pillars
  • Jamie Quattro; Ladies and Gentlemen of the Pavement
  • Jen Campbell; Animals
  • Jen Campbell; In the Dark
  • Julio Cortázar; La Noche Bocarriba
  • Kate Chopin; The Story of an Hour
  • Kelly Link; The New Boyfriend
  • Kevin Barry; A Cruelty
sep 25 2016 ∞
jul 5 2020 +

♔ owned ; ❤ loved

2013

  • Jim Crace, Harvest (Picador) ♔
  • Lars Iyer, Exodus (Melville House)
  • Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (Galley Beggar Press) ♔
  • David Peace, Red or Dead (Faber and Faber)
  • Ali Smith, Artful (Penguin Books) ♔
  • Philip Terry, tapestry (Reality Street)

2014

  • Rachel Cusk, Outline (Vintage)
  • Will Eaves, The Absent Therapist (CBeditions)
  • Howard Jacobson, J. (Jonathan Cape)
  • Paul Kingsnorth, The Wake (Unbound Publishing)
  • Zia Haider Rahman, In the Light of What We Know (Picador)
  • Ali Smith, How to Be Both (Penguin) ♔/❤...
oct 4 2017 ∞
nov 26 2020 +
  • Alice Munro (Full book)
  • Anne Brontë
  • Arthur Miller /r
  • Ayn Rand (DNF)
  • Bram Stoker
  • Celeste Ng
  • Christina Stead
  • Clarice Lispector
  • Colm Tobin
  • Cormac McCarthy /r
  • Cristopher Isherwood /r
  • David Foster Wallace
  • Djuna Barnes
  • Donal Ryan
  • Donna Tart
  • Edith Wharton (fiction)
  • Fiodor Dostoievsky
  • Flann O'brian
  • George Elliot (full book)
  • George Moore
  • Gustave Flaubert
feb 24 2018 ∞
nov 13 2020 +

♔ owned ; ❤ loved

  • Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories ♔/❤ (Mr. Norris read not owned)
  • Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
  • Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
  • Fjodor Dostoyevski, Crime and Punishment
  • Ford Maddox Ford, The Good Soldier
  • Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude ♔/❤
  • George Orwell, Down and out in Paris and London ♔/❤
  • Henry James, Daisy Miller
  • Henry James, Portrait of a Lady
  • Henry James, The Ambassadors
  • Henry James, The Aspern Papers
  • Henry James, The Bostonians
  • Henry James, The Golden Bowl
  • Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
  • Henry James, Washington Square
  • Henry James, Wings of the Dove
  • James Baldwin, Go tell it on the Mountain
  • James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
  • John O'Hara, Appointment in Samarra
  • Joseph Conrad, Victory
may 14 2018 ∞
jul 5 2020 +

♔ owned ; ❤ loved ; $ buy

Fiction

  • Run, River (1963)
  • Play It as It Lays (1970) ♔/❤
  • A Book of Common Prayer (1977)
  • Democracy (1984)
  • The Last Thing He Wanted (1996)

Nonfiction

  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) ♔/❤
  • The White Album (1979) ♔/❤
  • Salvador (1983)
  • Miami (1987)
  • After Henry (1992)
  • Political Fictions (2001) $
  • Where I Was From (2003)
  • Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 (2003; preface by Frank Rich)
  • Vintage Didion (2004; selected excerpts of previous works)
jan 9 2018 ∞
dec 7 2020 +

♔ owned ; ❤ loved ; $ buy

Novels

  • This Side of Paradise 1920 ♔/❤
  • The Beautiful and Damned 1922 ♔
  • The Great Gatsby 1925 ♔/❤
  • Tender Is the Night 1934 ♔
  • The Love of the Last Tycoon 1941 ♔

Short story collections

  • Flappers and Philosophers 1920 ♔
  • Tales of the Jazz Age 1922 ♔
  • All the Sad Young Men 1926 ♔
  • Taps at Reveille 1935
  • The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1951
  • Babylon Revisited and Other Stories 1960 ♔
  • The Pat Hobby Stories 1962
  • The Basil and Josephine Stories 1973 ♔
  • The Price Was High: Fifty Uncollected Stories 1979
  • The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
feb 12 2016 ∞
dec 7 2020 +

♔ owned ; ❤ loved ; $ buy

  • All the Conspirators (1928)
  • The Memorial (1932)
  • Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935)
  • The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935, with W. H. Auden)
  • The Ascent of F6 (1937, with W. H. Auden)
  • Sally Bowles (1937; later included in Goodbye to Berlin)
  • On the Frontier (1938, with W. H. Auden)
  • Lions and Shadows (1938, autobiography)
  • Goodbye to Berlin (1939)♔
  • Journey to a War (1939, with W. H. Auden)
  • Bhagavad Gita, The Song of God (1944, with Prabhavananda)
  • Vedanta for Modern Man (1945)
  • Prater Violet (1945)
  • The Berlin Stories (1945; Mr Norris + Goodbye to B)
nov 14 2018 ∞
jan 9 2019 +

♔ owned ; ❤ loved ; $ buy

Novelas

  • La hojarasca
  • El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
  • La mala hora
  • Cien años de soledad ♔/❤
  • El otoño del patriarca
  • Crónica de una muerte anunciada ♔
  • El amor en los tiempos del cólera ♔
  • El general en su laberinto
  • Del amor y otros demonios
  • Memoria de mis putas tristes

Cuentos

  • La tercera resignación
  • La otra costilla de la muerte
  • Amargura para tres sonámbulos
  • Diálogo del espejo
  • Ojos de perro azul
  • La mujer que llegaba a las seis
  • Alguien desordena estas rosas
apr 2 2016 ∞
oct 11 2020 +

♔ owned ; ❤ loved ; $ buy

Novelas

  • La broma (Žert) - 1967.
  • La vida está en otra parte (Život je jinde) - 1972.
  • La despedida (Valčík na rozloučenou) - 1973.
  • El libro de la risa y el olvido (Kniha smíchu a zapomnění) - 1979.
  • La insoportable levedad del ser (Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) - 1984. ♔
  • La inmortalidad (Nesmrtelnost) - 1988.
  • La lentitud (La Lenteur) - 1995.
  • La identidad (L'Identité) - 1998. ♔/❤
  • La ignorancia (L'Ignorance) - 2000.
  • La fiesta de la insignificancia (La fête de l'insignifiance).8 - 2014.9 ♔

Relatos

  • El libro de los amores ridículos (Směš...
feb 12 2016 ∞
oct 28 2017 +

♔ owned ; ❤ loved ; $ buy

Novels

  • Tōzoku (盗賊 Thieves), 1948
  • Kamen no Kokuhaku (仮面の告白 Confessions of a Mask), 1948
  • Ai no Kawaki (愛の渇き Thirst for Love), 1950
  • Junpaku no Yoru (純白の夜 Pure White Nights), 1950
  • Ao no Jidai (青の時代 The Blue Period), 1950
  • Natsuko no Bōken (夏子の冒険 Natsuko's Adventure), 1951
  • Nippon-sei (につぽん製 Made in Japan), 1952
  • Kinijiki (禁色 Forbidden Colors), 1951
  • Higyō (秘楽 Secret Pleasure), 1953
  • Koi no Miyako (恋の都 The Capital of Love), 1954
  • Shiosai (潮騷 The Sound of Waves), 1954
feb 12 2016 ∞
oct 28 2017 +

♔ owned ; ❤ loved ; $ buy

Short story collections

  • Free Love and Other Stories (1995)
  • Other Stories and Other Stories (1999) $
  • The Whole Story and Other Stories (2003)
  • The First Person and Other Stories (2008) $
  • Public Library and Other Stories (2015) ♔/❤

Fiction

  • Like (1997) ♔
  • Hotel World (2001) ♔
  • The Accidental (2005) ♔
  • Girl Meets Boy (2007)
  • There But For The (2011) $
  • Artful (2012)♔
  • How to Be Both (2014)♔/❤
  • Autumn (2016)
  • Winter (2017)
  • Spring (2018)
aug 21 2017 ∞
oct 11 2020 +

♔ owned ; ❤ loved ; $ buy

Novels

  • 1934 – Burmese Days
  • 1935 – A Clergyman's Daughter
  • 1936 – Keep the Aspidistra Flying ♔
  • 1939 – Coming Up for Air
  • 1945 – Animal Farm ♔/❤
  • 1949 – Nineteen Eighty-Four ♔

Nonfiction

  • 1933 – Down and Out in Paris and London ♔/❤
  • 1937 – The Road to Wigan Pier
  • 1938 – Homage to Catalonia
feb 12 2016 ∞
oct 11 2020 +

♔ owned ; ❤ loved ; $ buy

Novels

  • The Valley of Decision, 1902
  • The House of Mirth, 1905 ♔
  • The Fruit of the Tree, 1907
  • The Reef, 1912
  • The Custom of the Country, 1913 ♔
  • Summer, 1917
  • The Marne, 1918
  • The Age of Innocence, 1920 ❤/♔
  • The Glimpses of the Moon, 1922
  • A Son at the Front, 1923
  • The Mother's Recompense, 1925
  • Twilight Sleep, 1927
  • The Children, 1928
  • Hudson River Bracketed, 1929
  • The Gods Arrive, 1932
  • The Buccaneers, 1938 (unfinished)

Novellas and novelette

  • The Touchstone, 1900
feb 7 2017 ∞
jan 19 2020 +

♔ owned ; ❤ loved ; $ buy

Essays

  • The Decay of Lying First published in Nineteenth Century (1889), republished in Intentions (1891).
  • Pen, Pencil and Poison First published in the Fortnightly Review (1889), republished in Intentions (1891).
  • The Soul of Man under Socialism First published in the Fortnightly Review (1891), republished in The Soul of Man (1895)
  • Intentions (1891) which comprises: The Critic as Artist,The Decay of Lying, Pen, Pencil and Poison, and The Truth of Masks
  • "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (First published in the Oxford student magazine The Chameleon, December, 1894)
  • "A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated" First published, anonymously, in the 1894 November 17 issue of Satu...
apr 3 2016 ∞
oct 11 2020 +