A Reading List
The Grammar of Architecture / Emily Cole
Закат Исаака Бабеля
Di Ukrainer pogromen in yor 1919 / Elias Tcherikower
Jud Süß / Lion Feuchtwanger
Der Pojaz / Karl Emil Franzos
Book of Ezekiel
“A Language Familiar to Us” / Emmanuel Levinas
Language contact and lexical enrichment in Israeli Hebrew / Ghilad Zuckermann
The Trouble of Being Born / Emil Cioran
Всё возможно Льва Шестова
Praktische Grammatik der jiddischen Sprache / Salomo A. Birnbaum
No Name in the Street / James Baldwin
Yiddish-English dictionary / Alexander Harkavy
Hiob / Joseph Roth
Yiddishkeit / Harvey Pekar
Rabbi Nachman’s stories (translated by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, Breslov Research Institute)
Der König David Bericht / Stefan Heym
The Song of the Lark / Willa Cather
Waiting for the Barbarians / J.M. Coetzee
The Poet Assassinated / Guillaume Apollinaire
My Disillusionment in Russia / Emma Goldman
Anarchism and Other Essays / Emma Goldman
Azazeel / Youssef Ziedan
Das zweite Paradies / Hilde Domin
The Joys of Yiddish / Leo Rosten
Returning to Haifa / Ghassan Kanafani
Before the Next Bomb Drops / Remi Kanazi
Enemies, A Love Story / Isaac Bashevis Singer
Quissat: Stories by Palestinian Women
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui / Bertolt Brecht
Schachnovelle / Stefan Zweig
Journal of an Ordinary Grief / Mahmoud Darwish
Palestine Speaks
Khirbet Khizeh / S. Yizhar
Tablet and Pen / Reza Aslan
Катаев
Bergson “Laughter”
Die Räuber / Friedrich Schiller
“Discourse on Colonialism” / Aimé Césaire
Herodotus
“Forms of Time and Chronotope in the Novel” / Mikhail Bakhtin
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos / John Berger
World Enough & Time / Christian McEwen
Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression / Jacques Derrida
“The Jolly Corner” / Henry James
The Turn of the Screw / Henry James
The Country Between Us / Carolyn Forché
Бессарабский романс Инны Лесовой
Petr Fidelius
Гетьман Николая Гоголя
Хомяков
Салам тебе, Далгат! Алисы Ганиевой
Кровь Нодара Думбадзе
Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки Николая Гоголя
Петербург Андрея Белого
The Shadow-Line / Joseph Conrad
Русская канарейка Дины Рубиной
Into the Arms of Pushkin / Carol Davis
“In a Room and a Half” / Joseph Brodsky
The Little Red Chairs / Edna O’Brien
Homage to Catalonia / George Orwell
The Power / Naomi Alderman
Naomi / Junichiro Tanazaki
The Poetics of Space / Gaston Bachelard
Something by Lidia Yuknavitch (whatever’s out there…)
Бесы Федора Достоевского
Истеми Алексея Никитина
Get In Trouble / Kelly Link
Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck
Баня Владимира Маяковского
“Про это” Владимира Маяковского
Зияющие высоты Александра Зиновьева
Повести временных лет Нестора
Предела забвения Сергея Лебедева
Киреевский Марии Степановой
Spolia Марии Степановой
Rhythm in the Novel / E. K. Brown
I Would Have Saved Them if I Could / Leonard Michaels
Winter’s Tales / Isak Dinesen
Grammar as Style / Virginia Tufte
И дольше века длится день Чингиза Айтматова
“Order of Discourse” / Michel Foucault
Что делать? Николая Чернышевского
Eric Partridge books
Lord Jim / Joseph Conrad
A Doll’s House / Henrik Ibsen
Библиотекарь Михаила Елизарова
The Monkey Wrench Gang / Edward Abbey
This Side of Paradise / F. Scott Fitzgerald
An Unnecessary Woman / Rabih Alameddine
The Perv: Stories / Rabih Alammedine
The House of Twenty Thousand Books / Sasha Abramsky
Zealot / Reza Aslan
A Sentimental Education / Gustav Flaubert
War and War / László Krasznahorkai
Brave New World / Aldous Huxley
Яма А. И. Куприна
Доктор Живаго Бориса Пастернака
Capital in the Twenty-First Century / Thomas Piketty
The Stranger / Albert Camus
The Decameron / Boccaccio
“The New Utopia” / Jerome Jerome
Мы Евгения Замятина
Всё плохо Кирилла Медведева
Either/Or / Søren Kierkegaard
Kafka’s Prayer / Paul Goodman
Amerika / Franz Kafka
Severian of the Guild / Gene Wolfe
Selected Letters / James Joyce, selected by Ellman
Собачье сердце Михаила Булгакова
Duineser Elegien / Rainer Maria Rilke
Владимир Лидин
Whiskey River / Loren D. Estleman
Orfeo / Richard Powers
G. / John Berger
Terrorist / John Updike
Blue Angel / Francine Prose
The Free World / David Bezmozgis
The Book of Disquiet / Fernando Pessoa
Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck
Русская красавица Виктора Ерофеева
Лето Господне И.С. Шмелёва
Echo’s Bones / Samuel Beckett
Tell Me How Long’s the Train Been Gone / James Baldwin
“Luftkrieg und Literatur” / W.G. Sebald
Eileen Chang
Lü Bicheng
Xiao Hong
Shi Pingmei
Sleepless Nights / Elizabeth Hardwick
At the Same Time / Susan Sontag
Писмовник Михаила Шишкина
The Barracks Thief / Tobias Wolff
Золотой телёнок Ильфа и Петрова
A Master Builder / Henrik Ibsen
Into the Go-Slow / Bridgett M. Davis
Hue and Cry / James Alan McPherson
“The Truth about Sancho Panza” / Franz Kafka
We Almost Lost Detroit
Hamlet / William Faulkner
Still Forms on Foxfield / Joan Slonczewski
Archimedes
On Sal Mal Lane / Ru Freeman
The Cosmopolitans / Sarah Schulman
The Encyclopedia of the Dead / Danilo Kiš
Austerlitz / W.G. Sebald
Billy Bathgate / E.L. Doctorow
Boston / Upton Sinclair
Edisto / Padgett Powell
Margaret Laurence
Arts of the Possible / Adrienne Rich
The Secret Agent / Joseph Conrad
Wilhelm Meister / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Death in the Afternoon / Ernest Hemingway
Repetition / Søren Kierkegaard
Hotels of North America / Rick Moody
Beautiful Ruins / Jess Walter
Agota Kristof trilogy
The Concept of Anxiety / Søren Kierkegaard
A People’s History of the United States / Howard Zinn
A Confederate General From Big Sur / Richard Brautigan
Mit fremden Federn / Robert Neumann
John Crow’s Devil / Marlon James
The Quick and the Dead / Joy Williams
Jose Marti
The River Swimmer / Jim Harrison
Who Has Seen the Wind / WO Mitchell
Letters between Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak, and Rainer Maria Rilke
Journey to the West / Wu Cheng’en
Dream of the Red Chamber / Cao Xuequin
On Moral Fiction / John Gardner
A History of Christian Thought / Paul Tillich
Algernon Swinburne poetry
The Crying of Lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon
A Dream of Fair to Middling Women / Samuel Beckett
Endless Love / Scott Spencer
Speak, Memory / Vladimir Nabokov
Bound / Antonya Nelson
Going Postal / Terry Pratchett
Glossolalia / David Jauss
A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership / Wendell Berry
The World of Silence / Max Picard
Ada, or Ardor / Vladimir Nabokov
The Ways of White Folks / Langston Hughes
B. Traven
Inner Workings / J.M. Coetzee
Die jüdische Orgel / Ludwig Winder
Growing Up Absurd / Paul Goodman
The Disappearance of Childhood / Neil Postman
Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert
Ragtime / E.L. Doctorow
The English Patient / Michael Ondaatje
Bottle Rocket Hearts / Zoe Whittall
Пикник на обочине Аркадия и Бориса Стругацких
The Beginning of Spring / Penelope Fitzgerald
The Forest of the South / Caroline Gordon (a Flannery O’Connor recommendation)
A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell / Nathanael West
Zona / Geoff Dyer
Triumph und Tragik des Erasmus von Rotterdam / Stefan Zweig
In Other Words / Jhumpa Lahiri
Jill / Philip Larkin
Euripides
Faust, Part Two / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Susanna / Gertrud Kolmar
Poetics / Aristotle
Meister Eckhart
Die vierzig Tag des Musa Dagh / Franz Werfel
Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers
The Master Butchers Singing Club / Louise Erdrich
From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation / Gene Sharp
Why History Matters: Life and Thought / Gerda Lerner
Abandon: A Romance / Pico Iyer
McTeague
Les Miserables / Victor Hugo
Handsome Lake
Ethics / Baruch Spinoza
Innocents Abroad / Mark Twain
Piers Plowman / William Langland
The Moviegoer / Walker Percy
Eighth Day / Thornton Wilder
Jude the Obscure / Thomas Hardy
The Secret of Their Eyes / Eduardo Sacheri
My Lai 4 / Seymour Hersch
Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement / Sara Shourd (editor)
Literary Acquaintances / William Dean Howells
The Unamericans / Molly Antopol
Ma Jian recommendations:
Strange Tales of Liaozhai, by the Qing Dynasty author Pu Songling. Wonderful supernatural stories in which the ghosts, demons and fox spirits are kinder and more humane than the human characters.
China 1957 by You Fengwei. A powerful novel describing Mao’s persecution of China’s intellectuals.
Border Town by Shen Congwen—a beautiful evocation of rural China in the 1930s.
A Day in the Life of Kubo, the Novelist / Pak Taewon
The Green Shore / Natalie Bakopoulos
“Остров Сахалин” Антона Чехова
Just Kids / Patti Smith
The Sylphs of the Season / Washington Allston
Germinal / Émile Zola
Mediations / Martin Esslin
Fictional Characters, Real Problems: In Search of the Ethical Content of Literature
The Aesthetic Relation / Gerard Genette
House Made of Dawn / N. Scott Momaday
God’s Hotel / Victoria Sweet
Three Days Before the Shooting… / Ralph Ellison
Philosophical Investigations / Ludwig Wittgenstein
Slaughterhouse Five / Kurt Vonnegut
Moss Hart
William Inge
“The Way We Live Now” / Susan Sontag
The Devil Finds Work / James Baldwin
Lime Twig / John Hawkes
The Wretched of the Earth / Frantz Fanon
Stories of the Nath – Yoga
When Mystical Creatures Attack! / Kathleen Founds
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict / Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan
The Great Glass Sea / Josh Weil
Ezra Pound – La Femme?
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius / Ray Monk
«Крыжовник» Антона Чехова
«Предложение» Антона Чехова
Reading Like a Writer / Francine Prose
Оправдание Дмитрия Быкова
Гамбургский счёт Виктора Шкловского
In the Courts of the Conqueror / William Echo-Hawk
Peter Nabokov
“The Bear” / William Faulkner
Autobiographical Novel / Kenneth Rexroth
Shorter Poems / Kenneth Rexroth
At the Same Time / Susan Sontag
Memoirs of Hadrian / Marguerite Yourcenar
Psycho Vox / Charles Wesley Emerson
Prague / Arthur Phillips
Сологуб рассказы
Омон Ра Виктора Пелевина
Rufus Jones Speaks To Our Time
Quakertown Lee Martin
Eugene Ionesco
A Region Not Home / James Alan McPherson
Some more Dickens
Among Women / John McGahern
Erotic History of a Southern Baptist Church / Allan Gurganus
Premier Amour / Samuel Beckett
The Known World / Edward P. Jones
“Tricks” / Alice Munro
Moby Dick / Hermann Melville
More Pricks Than Kicks / Samuel Beckett
Dubliners / James Joyce
Under Western Eyes / Joseph Conrad
Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov
Братья Карамазовы Федора Достоевского