Reading List 2017

January

01 – 07            The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts | Milan Kundera
08 – 14            Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates
15 – 21            A Field Guide to Getting Lost | Rebecca Solnit
22 – 28            The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood

February

29 – 04            The Ways of White Folks | Langston Hughes
05 – 11            Nausea | Jean-Paul Sartre
12 – 18            A Brief History of Seven Killings | Marlon James
19 – 25            We Should All Be Feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

March

26 – 04            The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 | Richard Brautigan
05 – 11            We | Yevgeny Zamyatin
12 – 18            Malinche | Laura Esquivel
19 – 25            Bastard Out of Carolina | Dorothy Allison

April

26 – 01            Demons | Fyodor Dostoevsky
02 – 08            Demons | Fyodor Dosoevsky (cont’d)
09 – 15            Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys
16 – 22            Telex from Cuba | Rachel Kushner
23 – 29            Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed | Tennesse Williams

May

30 – 06            Mr. Potter | Jamaica Kincaid
07 – 13            3 Lives | Gertrude Stein
14 – 20            Hot Water Music | Charles Bukowski
21 – 27            To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf

June

28 – 03            Nightwood | Djuna Barnes
04 – 10            The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy
11 – 17            Blow-Up and Other Stories | Julio Cortazar
18 – 24            Jim Crow’s Devil | Marlon James

July

25 – 01            The Devil and Ms. Prym | Paolo Coelho
02 – 08            White Teeth | Zadie Smith
09 – 15            Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert
16 – 22            Giovanni’s Room | James Baldwin
23 – 29            When Things of the Spirit Come First | Simone de Beauvoir

August

30 – 05            The Sheltering Sky | Paul Bowles
06 – 12            Switch, Bitch | Roald Dahl
13 – 19            The Vagina Monologues | Eve Ensler
20 – 26            Practicalities | Marguerite Duras

September

27 – 02            Play It as It Lays | Joan Didion
03 – 09            Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller
10 – 16            Hope in the Dark | Rebecca Solnit
17 – 23            Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised | The Marquis de Sade
24 – 30            Cannery Row | John Steinbeck

October

01 – 07            Invitation to a Beheading | Vladimir Nabakov
08 – 14            Men Without Women | Ernest Hemingway
15 – 21            Wise Blood | Flannery O’Connor
22 – 28            The King in Yellow | Robert W. Chambers

November

29 – 04            The King in Yellow | Robert W. Chambers (cont’d)
05 – 11            Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison
12 – 18            Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison (cont’d)
19 – 25            The Cocktail Party | T.S. Eliot

December

26 – 02            Black Boy | Richard Wright
03 – 09            Everything Beautiful Began After | Simon Van Booy
10 – 16            The Temple of the Golden Pavilion | Yukio Mishima
17 – 23            Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston
24 – 30            A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens

31 – CONGRATULATIONS!