october - december

• miss lonelyhearts // west
• herzog // bellow

september

• middlesex // eugenides
• gravity's rainbow // pynchon

august

• crash // ballard

july

• speak, memory // nabokov

june

• the sorrows of young werther // goethe
• orlando // woolf
• just kids // smith
• molloy // beckett ♥♥♥

may

• jonah's gourd vine // zora neale hurston
• call it sleep // henry roth
• travels with charley // steinbeck

april

• absalom, absalom! // william faulkner
• lanterns on the levee // william alexander percy
• the savage detectives // roberto bolaño
• delta wedding // eudora welty
• an hour before daylight // jimmy carter

march

• cane // jean toomer
• in the american grain // william carlos williams
• the bell jar // sylvia plath (found a copy on the plane from NY -> CA)
• the emperor jones // eugene o'neil
• the hairy ape // eugene o'neil
• i'll take my stand: the south and the agrarian tradition // the twelve southerners
• "clara" // roberto bolaño
• "the bridge" // hart crane
• "beyond the pleasure principle" // sigmund freud

february

• selected poems // h.d.
• selected poems // pound
• my bondage and my freedom // frederick douglass
• this side of paradise // f. scott fitzgerald
• the waste land // t.s. eliot
• mary chesnut's civil war // mary chesnut ed. c. vann woodward
• the professor's house // willa cather
• huckleberry finn // mark twain

january

• the education of henry adams // henry adams
• racecraft // fields & fields
• notes on the state of virginia // thomas jefferson
• the souls of black folk // w.e.b. du bois