Read in 2013

  • Theogony, Works and Days – Hesiod
       – translated by Glenn W. Most
  • The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick
  • The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles – Giorgio Bassani
       – translated by Jamie McKendrick
  • Wandering – Hermann Hesse
       – translated by James & Franz Wright
  • The Porcupine – Julian Barnes
  • The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life – Bettany Hughes
  • Medea – Euripides
       – Oliver Taplin translation
  • The Bookshop Strikes Back – Ann Patchett
  • The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
  • Comment goûtons-nous ? – Françoise Léon
  • Badenheim 1939 – Aharon Appelfeld
  • The Fatal Eggs – Mikhail Bulgakov
       – Roger Cockrell translation
  • The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
       – Samuel Moore translation
  • Helen – Euripides
       – Richard Lattimore translation (touched up by Griffith & Most – U of C, 3rd ed.)
  • The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
  • Seven Against Thebes –  Aeschylus
       – Alan Sommerstein translation
  • The Courage to Create – Rollo May
  • Store of the Worlds – Robert Sheckley
  • Man’s Search For Himself – Rollo May
  • We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
       – Bernard G. Guerney translation
  • Elektra –  Sophocles
       – Robert Bagg translation
  • Autobiography of Red – Anne Carson
  • Electra –  Euripides
       – John Davie translation
  • Aias [usually “Ajax” in English] –  Sophocles
       – James Scully translation
  • Prometheus Bound –  Aeschylus
       – H.W. Smyth translation
  • So Long, See You Tomorrow – William Maxwell
  • A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters – Julian Barnes
  • Principles of Literary Criticism – I.A. Richards
  • Hecuba – Euripides
        – Tony Harrison translation (didn’t like his translation very much…)
  • The Three Theban Plays – Sophocles
        – Robert Fagles translation
  • You Are Not a Gadget – Jaron Lanier
  • Thou Art That – Joseph Campbell®
        – not really a book by Joseph Campbell, instead it’s a badly done mashup of transcripts
  • La Dame aux camélias – Alexandre Dumas, fils
         – (en français)
  • In Town – Mark Steel
  • Orestia – Aeschylus
        – Robert Fagles translation
  • Asylum Piece – Anna Kavan
  • Selected Stories – E.M. Forster
  • The Dominion of the Dead – Robert Pogue Harrison
  • The Iliad – Homer
        – Robert Fagles translation
  • Eat Pray Love: One Woman’s Search For Everything – Elizabeth Gilbert
         – Worst book I’ve read in ages. Truly awful.
  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? – Jeanette Winterson
  • Mother Courage and Her Children – Bertolt Brecht
  • In Praise of Shadows – Jun’ichirō Tanizaki