Works recommended are astericized.                 

 

March 2004

Non-Fiction

* The Life and Times of Chaucer – John Gardner

* The Whimsical Christian – Dorothy L Sayers

Pictures of the Floating World: American Modernist Poetry and Cultural Translations of Japan – Ce Rosenow

 

Fiction

Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L Sayers

* Gaudy Night – Dorothy L Sayers

Busman’s Honeymoon – Dorothy L Sayers

Love All – Dorothy L Sayers

* Strong Poison – Dorothy L Sayers

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club – Dorothy L Sayers

Have His Carcase – Dorothy L Sayers

Nine Tailors – Dorothy L Sayers

 

 

April 2004

Non-Fiction

The Queen’s Orders of Chivalry – Brigadier Sir Ivan de Bere

 

March 2004

Non-Fiction

* The Vision Glorious: Themes and Personalities of the Catholic Revival in Anglicanism – Geoffrey Rowell

High Churchmanship in the Church of England – Kenneth Hylson-Smith

Chicago 2004 – Fodor’s

 

Fiction

*Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh

The Black Unicorn – Terry Brooks

Magic Kingdom for Sale, Sold! – Terry Brooks

Lord Foul’s Bane – Stephen R Donaldson

The Illearth Stone – Stephen R Donaldson

The Power That Preserves – Stephen R Donaldson

New Spring – Robert Jordan

 

Drama

*The Way of the World – William Congreve

*Choephoroi -- Ζschylus

 

February 2004

Non-Fiction

*Ars Edendi: A practical introduction to editing Mediaeval Latin Texts – R.B.C. Huygens

*Common Ground – J. Anthony Lukas

 

Fiction

*The Well of Lost Plots – Jasper FForde

*Sepharad – Antonio Muρoz Molina

*Jamesland – Michelle Huneven

Murder Room – P.D. James

*Old School – Tobias Wolff

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death – M.C. Beaton

Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet – M.C. Beaton

Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener – M.C. Beaton

Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage – M.C. Beaton

Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist – M.C. Beaton

Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death – M.C. Beaton

Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham – M.C. Beaton

Rake’s Progress – Marion Chesney

The Adventuress – Marion Chesney

Rainbird’s Revenge – Marion Chesney

Refining Felicity – Marion Chesney

Emily Goes to Exeter– Marion Chesney

Belinda Goes to Bath – Marion Chesney

Penelope Goes to Portsmouth – Marion Chesney

Beatrice Goes to Brighton – Marion Chesney

Deborah Goes to Dover – Marion Chesney

Yvonne Goes to York – Marion Chesney

Lady Fortescue Steps Out – Marion Chesney

Miss Tinks Takes a Risk – Marion Chesney

Mrs. Bradley Falls From Grace – Marion Chesney

Minerva – Marion Chesney

Deirdre and Desire – Marion Chesney

Daphne – Marion Chesney

Frederica in Fashion – Marion Chesney

Diana the Huntress – Marion Chesney

Violence and Snobbery – Marion Chesney

Castle in the Air – Diana Wynne Jones

Cart and Cwidder – Diana Wynne Jones

The Spellcoats – Diana Wynne Jones

Drowned Ammet – Diana Wynne Jones

The Crown of Dalemark – Diana Wynne Jones

Charmed Life – Diana Wynne Jones

The Lives of Christopher Chant – Diana Wynne Jones

Witch Week – Diana Wynne Jones

The Magicians of Caprona – Diana Wynne Jones

*Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones   

 

 

January 2004

 

Poetry

*Marmion – Sir Walter Scott

* The Invisible – Erika Baxter

 

Non-Fiction

*City Room – Arthur Gelb

The Glass Flowers at Harvard – ed. Richard Schultes

Presences: A Bishop’s Life in the City – Paul Moore, Jr.

*1066 and All That – Sellar & Yeatman

Cultural Literacy – E.D. Hirsch Jr

Greek Gods, Human Lives – Mary Lefkowitz

Under the Wire: How Telegraphy Changed Diplomacy – David Nickles

The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town – Dale Bumpers

Time Out New Orleans – ed. Jarvis

*The Hand of Cicero – Shane Butler

Gentlemen Aren’t Sissies – Jonathan Hughes

 

Fiction

The Lives of Christopher Chant – Diana Wynne Jones

*Waverly – Sir Walter Scott

Dreamfall – Joan Vinge

Catspaw – Joan Vinge

The Shining Ones – David Eddings

*The Following Story – Cees Nooteboom

Joust – Mercedes Lackey

Mistress of Dragons – Margaret Weis

 

November 2003

 
Poetry

Area Code 212 – Frederick Seidel

The Apple that Astonished Paris – Billy Collins

 

Non-Fiction

Pluralism at Yale – Richard M. Merelman

The Proper Bostonians – Cleveland Amory

*Peabody of Groton – Frank D Ashburn 

*The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values – James  Shulman & William Bowen

 

Drama

Othello –Wm Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet – Wm Shakespeare

 

October 2003

 

Poetry

*Going Fast – Frederick Seidel

*The Pupil – W.S. Merwin

*Last Poems – A.E. Housman

*The Ethics of Surrender – Jett McAlister

Shakespeare in Limerick – Brainard McKee

 

Non-Fiction

Eroticism and Containment –ed. Carol Siegel

*Living a Year of Kaddish – Ari Goldman

The Literary Book of Economics – ed. Michael Watts

Rudolf Serkin: A Life – Stephen Lehmann

*The Schools We Need and Why We Don’t Have Them – E.D. Hirsch J’r

*The Name on the White House Floor – Judith Martin

Open Wide the Freedom Gates – Dorothy Height

*Making the Most of College – Richard J Light

 

Fiction

*The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde

*Thursday Next in: Lost in a Good Book – Jasper Fforde

The Elder Gods – David Eddings

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller – Italo Calvino

 

Drama

Richard III – Wm Shakespeare

Henry V – Wm Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part I – Wm Shakespeare

 

iction

August & September 2003 (at least what I remember)

 

Poetry

Bellocq’s Ophelia – Natasha Trethewett

 

Non-Fiction

*Lawyer’s Lawyer; The Life of John W Davis – William Henry Harbaugh

Fodor’s Singapore - Fodor

* Searching for Aboriginal Languages – RFW Dixon

* The Search for God at Harvard – Ari L Goldman

Library: an Unquiet History – Matthew Battles

The First 350 Years of the Harvard University Library – Kenneth E Carpenter

* The Old Librarian’s Almanack: Edward Pearson

 

Fiction

Talon of the Silver Hawk – Raymond E Feist

Krondor: The Assassins – Raymond E Feist

Prince of the Blood - Raymond E Feist

Shadow of a Dark Queen - Raymond E Feist

Daughter of the Empire - Raymond E Feist

Servant of the Empire - Raymond E Feist

Mistress of the Empire - Raymond E Feist

Rise of a Merchant Prince - Raymond E Feist

Rage of a Demon King - Raymond E Feist

Equal Rites – Terry Pratchett

* Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett

Sourcery - Terry Pratchett

Mort - Terry Pratchett

Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett

Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett

Dune – Frank Herbert

Dune Messiah – Frank Herbert

Children of Dune – Frank Herbert

The Gryphon - Nick Bantock

Griffin and Sabine – Nick Bantock

Sabine’s Notebook – Nick Bantock

The Golden Mean – Nick Bantock

* The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald

* England, England – Julian Barnes

 

January 2003

 

Poetry

*  Nonsense Songs – Edward Lear

 

Drama

* Major Barbara – G. Bernard Shaw

 

Non-Fiction

* Handbook for Academic Authors – Berth Luey

 Architecture, Essai sur l’Art – Ιtienne-Louis Boullιe

* Yesterday Morning – Diana Athill

*  A Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide

 

Fiction

* The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien

* The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien

* The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien

  The Club Dumas – Arturo Perez-Reverte

  Flatland – Edward Abbott

  The Truth – Terry Pratchett

* Moralitιs Lιgendaires – Jules Laforgue

  Crossroads of Twilight – Robert Jordan

 

December 2002

 

Poetry

These Days – Frederick Seidel

Men and Women – Frederick Seidel

The Pupil – W.S. Merwin

* Archilochos, Sappho, & Alkman – trans. Guy Davenport

* Tristia – Osip Mandelstam

 

Drama

* La Dame aux Camιllias – Alexandre Dumas fils

* Richard III – William Shakespeare

Acastos – Iris Murdoch 

 

Fiction

* Possession – A.S. Byatt

* The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch

The Gate of Angels – Penelope Fitzgerald

* Instead of a Letter – Diana Athill

* The Collector Collector – Tibor Fisher

Human Voices – Penelope Fitzgerald

* The Borrowers (all 4 books) – Mary Norton

* The Trumpet of the Swan – E.B. White

The Thought Gang – Tibor Fischer

The Business – Iain Banks

Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes

A Song of Truth and Semblance – Cees Nooteboom

Choosers of the Slain – James Cobb

* From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler – E.L. Kongsburg

Night Watch – Terry Pratchett

 

Need further info on any of these? Want to recommend something for me to read? Contact me at:

 

hhutto0@lycos.com

Heath Hutto