an ongoing series:
summer 2005 , 05-06 academic year, summer 2006, 06-07 academic year, summer 2007, 07-08 academic year, summer 2008.

i'll have to come up with a new method of spacing out these lists now that school is over. or just discontinue it, because, well.

Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America – Thomas Fleming [re-read]
Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse [re-read]
Savage Breast: One Man’s Search for the Goddess – Tim Ward
Darkness at Noon – Arthur Koestler
The Devils – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism – Mary Daly
Nature – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers – Henry David Thoreau
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne [re-read]
Billy Budd, Sailor: (An Inside Narrative) – Herman Melville
Bee Season – Myla Goldberg [re-read]
The Cossacks – Leo Tolstoy
The Rainbow Stories – William T. Vollmann [re-read]
Beautiful Losers – Leonard Cohen [re-read]
The Wordy Shipmates – Sarah Vowell
The Rifles – William T. Vollmann
Olinger Stories – John Updike
White Niggers of America – Pierre Valliéres
Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Blue of Noon – Georges Bataille [re-read]
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway [re-read]
Omensetter’s Luck – William H. Gass [re-read]
When Red is Black – Qiu Xiaolong
Continental Drift – Russell Banks
How the Reformation Happened – Hilaire Belloc
Red Azalea – Anchee Min [re-read]
Nana - Émile Zola
More Pricks Than Kicks – Samuel Beckett
Rabbit At Rest – John Updike
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto – Chuck Klosterman
Rabbit Remembered – John Updike
The Kingdom of God is Within You – Leo Tolstoy
Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Children’s Hospital – Chris Adrian
Independent People - Halldór Laxness
I’m Not the Only One – George Galloway [re-read]
The Ice-Shirt – William T. Vollmann
Watch the North Wind Rise – Robert Graves
I Was Told There’d Be Cake: Essays – Sloane Crosley
Dynamics of Faith – Paul Tillich
Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible – Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet [re-read]
Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China’s Peasants – Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao
1984 – George Orwell [re-read]
The Seven Storey Mountain – Thomas Merton
The Torturer’s Apprentice: Stories – John Biguenet
The Complete Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
Tristan – Gottfried von Strassburg
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
The Sorrow of War – Bao Ninh
Naples ’44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy – Norman Lewis
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut [re-read]
Iodine – Haven Kimmel
Raids on the Unspeakable – Thomas Merton
Le Morte D’Arthur – Thomas Malory
Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race – Stephanie Nolen
The Atom Station – Halldor Laxness
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
The Hour of the Bell – Harry Mark Petrakis
Continental Drift – Russell Banks [re-read]
Idylls of the King – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Uses of Haiti – Paul Farmer
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys [re-read]
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway [re-read]
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
Beautiful Losers – Leonard Cohen [re-read]
The Black Jacobins – C.L.R. James
Shepherds of Shadows – Harry Mark Petrakis
The Passion – Jeanette Winterson [re-read]
Liars and Saints – Maile Meloy
A Family Daughter – Maile Meloy
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence From Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson – Camille Paglia
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories – Yukio Mishima
Death of a Red Heroine – Qiu Xiaolong
The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920 – Charles and Barbara Jelavich