A mostly complete list of 2015’s finished reading:
Fiction
Don DeLillo. White Noise
Steven Erikson. House of Chains (Malazan Book of the Fallen #4)
J. D. Salinger. Franny and Zooey (reread)
Honoré de Balzac. “Another Study of Womankind”
Mikhail Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov. Heart of a Dog
Santiago Gamboa. Necropolis
Thomas Mann. Death in Venice
Vladimir Nabokov. King, Queen, Knave (reread? I thought I’d read it in High School, but didn’t remember it at all…and it’s pretty memorable)
Nonfiction
Henry Miller. Henry Miller: Letters to Anais Nin. Edited and with an introduction by Gunther Stulmann (reread)
Ted Gioia. The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire
Henry Miller; Lawrence Durrell. The Durrell-Miller Letters 1935-80. Edited by Ian S. MacNiven
Robert Zaretsky. A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning
Faubion Bowers. The New Scriabin: Enigma and Answers
Frederick Brown. An Impersonation of Angels: A Biography of Jean Cocteau
The Letters of Saint Evremond, Charles Marguetel de Saint Denis, Seigneur de Saint Evremond. Edited with an introduction and notes by John Hayward.
J. W. Mackail. “Arabian Lyric Poetry: The Golden Odes.” Lectures on Poetry, p. 93
Maud Bodkin. Archetypal Patterns in Poetry
Benser, Caroline. At the Piano: Interviews with 21st-Century Pianists
Ariadna Efron. No Love Without Poetry: The Memoirs of Marina Tsvetaeva’s Daughter
Boris Pasternak. “An Essay in Autobiography” (Poems 1955-1959 and An Essay in Autobiography)
Joanna Richardson. The Bohemians: La Vie de Bohème in Paris 1830 – 1914
Essay / Poetry / Drama
Anne Sexton. All My Pretty Ones (1962) (reread)
Anne Sexton. Live or Die (1966) (reread)
Joan Didion. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Jean Marie Matthias Philippe Auguste, Count de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam. Axël
Ted Hughes. Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose
Albert Camus. Caligula and Three Other Plays
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