I'm reading right now: Herman Melville and Anton Lomaev's Moby Dick, Amanda Fields's and Rachel Mortiz's My Caesarean, and Michael Walsh's Creep Love
What I've read in 2021:
Young Audubon, Boy Naturalist, Miriam E. Mason
Memoir of a Pilgrimage for Eight: Val-des-Choues to Pluscarden Abbey, Phillip C. Adamo
Because of Winn-Dixie, Kate DiCamillo
What I read in 2020:
The Haunted Hotel, Wilkie Collins
If You Have Something to Say, Margaret, Marge Barrett
The Lighthouse, Paco Roca
Academy Gothic, James Tate Hill
Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry, John Murillo
Troubling a Star, Madeline L'Engle
The Young Unicorns, Madeline L'Engle
A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L'Engle
The Law and the Lady, Wilkie Collins
Seventeenth Summer, Maureen Daly
The High Window, Raymond Chandler
The Moon by Night, Madeline L'Engle
Little Men, Louisa May Alcott
"Who Could That Be at This Hour?" , Lemony Snicket
Old New York, Edith Wharton
Act of Passion, Georges Simenon
Lost Illusions, Honore de Balzac
Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne Porter
Sanctuary, Edith Wharton
Allegheny Front, Matthew Null
Spotted Horses, William Faulkner
"I'm Your Horse in the Night," Luisa Vlenzuela
"Big Black Good Man," Richard Wright
Troubling Love, Elana Ferronte
Old Mortality, Katherine Anne Porter
"Sister Ismelda," Edna O'Brien
The Secret of Chimneys, Agatha Christie
Dance Hall of the Dead, Tony Hillerman
Wisp 2.0, Joe Laser
Sparkling Cyanide, Agatha Christie
What I read in 2019:
Jumping the Median, D.E. Green
Avery Colt is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar, Ron A. Austin
The Hostile Hospital, Lemony Snicket
The Vile Village, Lemony Snicket
The Reptile Room, Lemony Snicket
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
Roman Fever, Edith Wharton
The Lover, Marguerite Duras
The Slippery Slope, Lemony Snicket
The Carnivorous Carnival, Lemony Snicket
Lock No. 1, Georges Simenon
The Judge's House, Georges Simenon
What Is Up with Your Fruity Name?, Fiona Avocado
Inspector Cadaver, Georges Simenon
Maigret Goes to School, Georges Simenon
The Cellars of the Majestic, Georges Simenon
Cécile is Dead, Georges Simenon
Dirty Snow, Georges Simenon
A Man's Head, Georges Simenon
What I read in 2018:
Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Agatha Christie
The Ersatz Elevator, Lemony Snicket
The Miserable Mill, Lemony Snicket
Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Playback, Raymond Chandler
Old Bones the Wonder Horse, Mildred Mastin Pace
Destroyed Through Time, Jessica Tornese
Lost Through Time, Jessica Tornese
The Heart is Not a Pump, Aurore Sibley
Songs of Crocus Hill, Michael E. Murphy
Jo's Boys, Louisa May Alcott
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum
The Wide Window (or, Disappearance!), Lemony Snicket
The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains (audiobook with FourPlay Quartet), Neil Gaiman
The Bad Beginning (or, Orphans!), Lemony Snicket
The Devil to Pay, Ellery Queen
Ramona and Her Father, Beverly Cleary
The High Window, Raymond Chandler
The Piano Lesson, August Wilson
The Chinese Orange Mystery, Ellery Queen
Linked Through Time, Jessica Tornese
Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
What I read in 2017:
Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter &the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories, M. R. James
Silencer, Marcus Wicker
What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky, Lesley Nneka Arimah
Samarakan, Vol 3, Lexee Crystal Harris
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
Pioneer Girl, The Annotated Autobiography, Laura Ingalls Wilder (Ed. Pamela Smith Hill)
The Other House, Henry James
The Luck of the Bodkins, P.G. Wodehouse
They Came to Baghdad, Agatha Christie
Young Audubon, Boy Naturalist, Miriam E. Mason
The Lady in the Lake, Raymond Chandler
Peril at End House, Agatha Christie
Fra Keeler, Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi
The Little Sister, Raymond Chandler
Suite for Barbara Loden, Nathalie Leger
Endless Nights, Agatha Christie
At Bertram's Hotel, Agatha Christie
The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
Chasing the King of Hearts, Hanna Krall
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
Those Happy, Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fire Year, Jason K. Friedman
Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Ribsy, Beverly Cleary
The Engagement, Georges Simenon
Prince Caspian, C.S. Lewis
Third Girl, Agatha Christie
The Horse and His Boy, C.S. Lewis
Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie
Quimble Wood, N.M. Bodecker
The Magician's Nephew, C.S. Lewis
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
The Long Winter, Robert Lawson
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
Harry Potter & The Cursed Child, J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, & Jack Thorne
Texas Rangers, Legendary Lawmen, Spradlin, Michael P.
What I read in 2016:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Popular Superstitions, G.B. Woodin
The Pale Horse, Agatha Christie
Crooked House, Agatha Christie
Ghost Stories (ed. Peter Washington)
Dangerous Goods, Sean Hill
Carry On, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
The Bradbury Report, Steven Polansky
The Seven Dials Mystery, Agatha Christie
Blubber, Judy Blume
Deenie, Judy Blume
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself, Judy Blume
Stories of the Supernatural ("The romance of certain old clothes"- "Nona Vincent"), Henry James (Ed. Leon Edel)
Sanctum, Madeleine Roux
Rich in Love, Josephine Humphreys
Called: The Making & Unmaking of a Nun, Marge Rogers Barrett
Murder on the Links, Agatha Christie
Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams
The Wild Duck, Henrik Ibsen
Cards on the Table, Agatha Christie
Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
The Witchcraft of Salem Village, Shirley Jackson
The Trajectory of Illness and the Mystery of Healing, James K. Struve
The Moving Finger, Agatha Christie
Slower Than Stars, Steve Mueske
Monsieur Monde Vanishes, Georges Simenon
Hercule Poirot's Christmas, Agatha Christie
Slouching Toward Fargo: A Two-Year Saga of Sinners and St. Paul Saints at the Bottom of the Bush Leagues with Bill Murray, Daryl Strawberry, Dakota Sadie, and Me, Neal Karlen
Augie's Secrets: The Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip, Neal Karlen
Fox Tooth Heart, John McManus
What I read in 2015:
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
The Ghost Feeler, Stories of Terror and the Supernatural, Edith Wharton
Anna in the Tropics, Nilo Cruz
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. Boris Jakim)
The Doctor Is In, Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer
The Leopard, Jo Nesbo
The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms, Ed. Ron Padgett
Harry Lipkin Private Eye, Barry Fantoni
Delta Wedding, Eudora Welty
Across the Street, Georges Simenon
Lovesick, Gerald Stern
National Monuments, Heid Erdrich
Winter's Tales, Isak Dinesen
Fire in the Blood, Irene Nemirovsky
Close Range: Wyoming Stories, Annie Proulx
Plainsong, Kent Haruf
The Body in the Library, Agatha Christie
The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
Sweetness #9, Stephan Clark
Silent Running, Kate Hopper & Robyn Schneider
The Widow, Georges Simenon
A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James
In Reach, Pamela Carter Joern
Stillwater, Nicole Helget
The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons, Heather A. Slomski
The Strangers in the House, Georges Simenon
What I read in 2014:
Nemesis, Agatha Christie
The Mirror Crack'd, Agatha Christie
A Caribbean Mystery, Agatha Christie
Dead Man's Folly, Agatha Christie
She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith
Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
Giants in the Earth, O.E. Rolvaag
Journal of American Foreign Policy, Jeff Hoffman
Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher
The Removers, Andrew Meredith
Five Little Pigs, Agatha Christie
A Replacement Life, Boris Fishman
Notes From Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. Boris Jakim)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories, Washington Irving
Black Aperture, Matt Rasmussen
Haunted Deadwood, A True Wild West Ghost Town, Mark Shadley and Josh Wennes
Family Linen, Lee Smith
Minneapolis Madams, The Lost History of Prostitution on the Riverfront, Penny Petersen
Truth & Beauty, Ann Patchett
True Grit, Charles Portis
Tropic Moon, Georges Simenon
1 Samuel & 2 Samuel (NRSV)
Talking to Strangers: A Travelogue of Minnesota, Kyle Sobczak
Erasure, Percival Everett
Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion, Michael D. McNally
What I read in 2013:
Ready for Air, Kate Hopper
The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
Fire Year, Jason K. Friedman
Bellocq's Ophelia, Natasha Trethewey
American Sublime, Elizabeth Alexander
Praise Song for the Day, Elizabeth Alexander
The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane
The Red Pony, John Steinbeck
The Angry Wife, Pearl S. Buck
Out in the World, Selected Letters of Jane Bowles 1935-1970, Millicent Dillon (Ed.)
Mouchette, Georges Bernanos
A Little Original Sin, The Life and Work of Jane Bowles, Millicent Dillon
My Sister's Hand in Mine, The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
Fire in the Blood, Irene Nemirovsky
Carney's House Party, Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy's Wedding, Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy and the Great World, Maud Hart Lovelace
At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
Betsy & Joe, Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy Was a Junior, Maud Hart Lovelace
Legends and Stories of French Quebec, Scott Kingsland and Kathleen Kingsland, with Jean Claude Dupont
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Dear Life, Alice Munro
Betsy in Spite of Herself, Maud Hart Lovelace
Heaven to Betsy, Maud Hart Lovelace
Burnt Mountain, Anne Rivers Siddons
The Mermaid of Brooklyn, Amy Shearn
Little Women (Part Two), Louisa May Alcott
Swallow the Ocean, Laura Flynn
A Trout in the Sea of Cortez, John Salter
Appointment with Death, Agatha Christie
The Mystery of the Blue Train, Agatha Christie
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
The Courilof Affair, Irene Nemirovsky
Snow in Autumn, Irene Nemirovsky
The Ball, Irene Nemirovsky
The Bostonians, Henry James
Kinesthesia, Stephanie Johnson
David Golder, Irene Nemirovsky
Partyknife, Dan Magers
Quarantine, Malachi Black
The Tuesday Club Murders, Agatha Christie
Seventeenth Summer, Maureen Daly
Lint, Chris Ware
Danny The Champion of the World, Roald Dahl
Purge, Rehab Diaries, Nicole Johns
The Old Farmer's Almanac 2013
Poor Sailor, Sammy Harkham
A Murder is Announced, Agatha Christie
Hallowe'en Party, Agatha Christie
Daily Geology October 2012, John Pena
Daily Geology November 2012, John Pena
The book of Esther, NRSV
Tatterhood, Ed. Ethel Johnston Phelps
The book of Ruth, NRSV
Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
What I read in 2012:
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survial, John Vaillant
Dumb Witness, Agatha Christie
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
The Ghostly Rental, Henry James
Chicken With Plums, Marjane Satrapi
The Professor's Daughter, Joann Sfar & Emmanuel Guibert
Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi
Stories of Three Decades, Thomas Mann
Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy
From a Crooked Rib, Nuruddin Farah
Family Happiness, Leo Tolstoy
Taboo, Yusef Komunyakaa
Fun Home, A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
Young Audubon, Miriam E. Mason
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
Bossypants, Tina Fey
The Pianist, Wladyslaw Szpilman
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
The Dirt Riddles, Michael Walsh
Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers, Kate Hopper
The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst
Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Stormy, Misty's Foal, Marguerite Henry
Leadbelly, Tyehimba Jess
Daily Geology June 2012, John Pena
Daily Geology July 2012, John Pena
The Third Reich, Roberto Bolano
Home Burial, Michael McGriff
Instructions to the Double, Tess Gallagher
Under Stars, Tess Gallagher
Willingly, Tess Gallagher
Amplitude, Tess Gallagher
Moon Crossing Bridge, Tess Gallagher
Portable Kisses, Tess Gallagher
My Black Horse, Tess Gallagher
Dear Ghosts,, Tess Gallagher
Dostoevsky, A Screenplay, Raymond Carver & Tess Gallagher
Midnight Lantern, Tess Gallagher
The Man from Kinvara, Tess Gallagher
Distant Rain, Tess Gallagher & Jakucho Setouchi
Barnacle Soup and other stories of the west of Ireland, Josie Gray & Tess Gallagher
A Concert of Tenses, Tess Gallagher
Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years With Ray, Tess Gallagher
These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Happy Hollisters and the Mystery of the Golden Witch, Jerry West
Quimble Wood, N.M. Bodecker
Poems for Children, Eugene Field
The Lady's Walk, Margaret Oliphant
Find the Girl, Lightsey Darst
Maybe the Saddest Thing, Marcus Wicker
Twelve Victorian Ghost Stories, Ed. Michael Cox
The White Horse Inn, Georges Simenon
Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White
The Long Winter, Robert Lawson
Rez Life, David Treuer
The Hollow, Agatha Christie
Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
Murder at the Vicarage, Agatha Christie
Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Stray, Betsy & Jamie Wyeth
True, Riikka Pulkkinen