My 1985 Reading List
The Diary of Anais Nin Vol I
Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin
Little Birds
Anais Nin
The Women of Brewster Place
Gloria Naylor
Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo
Ellis Island and Other Stories
Mark Helprin
The Earthsea Trilogy
Ursula LeGuin
Pictures at an Exhibition
James Boylan
Anna Karenina
Tolstoy
Medine Woman
Lynn Andrews
The Teachings of Don Juan
Carlos Castenada
A Separate Reality
Castenada
Dreamspeaker
Cam Hubert
Changing My Mind, Among Others
Timothy Leary
Journey to Ixtlan
Castenada
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Thomas Wolfe
Tales of Power
Castenada
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Edward Abbey
Jitterbug Perfume
Tom Robbins
The City House Rules
John Irving
The Moon and the Virgin
Nor Hall
Daughters of Copper Woman
Anne Cameron
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
My 1984 Reading List
Adam Bede
George Eliot
About Men
Phyllis Chesler
Eden Express
Mark Vonnegut
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Jean Auel
The Valley of the Horses
Jean Auel
Lady Oracle
Margaret Atwood
Beneath the Wheel
Hermann Hesse
In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens
Alice Walker
Sandino’s Daughters
Margaret Randall
To Be of Use
Marge Piercy
The Nicaragua Reader
Peter Rosset, ed
Stories
Katherine Mansfield
Drawing Down the Moon
Margot Adler
The Dancing Wu Li Masters
Gary Zukav
Short Shorts
Irving Howe, ed
A Lost Lady
Willa Cather
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
Dreaming the Dark
Starhawk
Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord
Green Politics
Capra and Spretnak
Woman Hating
Andrea Dworkin
The Pure and the Impure
Colette
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Gloria Steinem
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
Winter’s Tale
Mark Helprin
Crossing the Border
Joyce Carol Oates
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
Earthly Pleasures
Colette
Night and Day
Virginia Woolf
My 1983 Reading List
A Spy in the House of Love
Anais Nin
The Gingerman
JP Donleavey
A Passage to India
EM Forster
Another Roadside Attraction
Tom Robbins
The Loved One
Evelyn Waugh
Guests of the Sheik: Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
Elizabeth Warnak Fernea
The Habit of Loving
Erich Fromm
The Hotel New Hampshire
John Irving
A Man
Oriana Fallaci
Sea and Sardinia
DH Lawrence
The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed
Mary McCarthy
Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky
Malefrena
Ursula LeGuin
Silas Marner
George Eliot
Tales of the Alhambra
Washington Irving
Don Juan
Lord Byron
The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B
JP Donleavey
Café de Artistas y Otras Cuentos
Camilo Jose Cela
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
84 Charing Cross Road
Borges
And Where Were You, Adam?
Heinrich Boll
The Saddest Summer of Samuel S
JP Donleavey
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Hannah Arendt
Fat is a Feminist Issue II
Susie Orbach
Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Richard Adams
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
The Four-Gated City
Doris Lessing
The Guermantes Way
Marcel Proust
The Cities of the Plains
Marcel Proust
Before My Time
Maureen Howard
Learning to Love Your Self
Gay Hendricks
I, Etcetera
Susan Sontag
Edible Woman
Margaret Atwood
So Human an Animal
Rene Dubos
Three Lives
Gertrude Stein
Claudine in Paris
Colette
My 1982 Reading List
China Men
Maxine Hong Kingston
Within a Budding Grove
Marcel Proust
Still Life with Woodpecker
Tom Robbins
Women and Writing
Virginia Woolf
The Death of Woman Wong
Jonathan Spence
The Politics of the Family
RD Laing
At Large
Ellen Goodman
The Second Stage
Betty Friedan
Toward a Recognition of Androgyny
Carolyn Heilbrun
The radical Future of Liberal Feminism
Zillah Eisenstein
Man’s Fate
Andre Malreaux
Fanshen
William Hinton
Woman on the Edge of Time
Marge Pierce
The Gate of Heavenly Peace
Jonathan Spence
Women in Chinese Society
Wolfe & Witken, eds
Making News
Gaye Tuchman
The US & China
Fairbank
Mao Tse-Tung in the Scales of History
Dick Wilson, ed.
Selecting Readings from the Works of Mao Tse-Tung
Mao Tse-Tung
The Essays of Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
Death in Venice & Stories
Thomas Mann
The Immense Journey
Loren Eisely
The Night Country
Loren Eisely
The King Must Die
Mary Renault
The Flounder
Gunter Grass
The Bacchae
Europedes
The Greeks
HTF Kitto
The Bull of Minos
Leonard Cottrell
Fire from Heaven
Mary Renault
The Perseian Boy
Mary Renault
Funeral Games
Mary Renault
Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Gods, Heroes and Ancient Greece
WHD Rouse
History a Novel
Elsa Morante
Exile and the Kingdom
Albert Camus
The Story of Philosophy
Will Durant
The Female Eunuch
Germaine Greer
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
Lady with Lapdog and other Stories
Chekhov
Klingsor’s Last Summer
Herman Hesse
The Tin Drum
Gunter Grass
The Dubliners
James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist
James Joyce
A Man and Two Women
Doris Lessing
The Habit of Loving
Doris Lessing
Intimacy
Jean-Paul Sartre
Couples
John Updike
The Waves
Virginia Woolf
Narziss and Goldmund
Herman Hesse
The First Circle
Solzhenitsyn
My 1981 Reading List
Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
Blind Date
Jerzy Kosinski
For Her Own Good
Ehrenreich & English
The Great Shark Hunt
Hunter S. Thompson
On Writing Well
William Zinsser
Futurism
Tisdall and Bozzola
Understanding Media
Marshall McLuhan
The Power Elite
C. Wright Mills
The Warhawks
Chadwin
The Roots of War
Richard Barnet
Cubism and Twentieth Century Art
Chadwin
The New York School
Dore Ashton
All the President’s Men
Woodward & Bernstein
Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage
William S. Rubin
The Powers That Be
David Halberstam
Friendly Fire
C.D.B. Bryan
Woman Hating
Andrew Dworkin
The Intellectuals and McCarthy
Michael Rogin
The Triumph of American Painting
Irving Sandler
The Culture of Narcissism
Christopher Lasch
The Writings of Robert Smithson
The Lonely Crowd
Reisman
Powershift
Kirkpatrick Sale
The Politics of Communication
Claus Mueller
The Unseeing Eye
Patterson & McClure
On Lies, Secrets and Silence
Adrienne Rich
Postminimalism
Pincus-Witten
Minimalism
Battcock
Titus Groan
Mervyn Peake
The Politics of Women’s Liberation
Jo Freedman
Gormenghast
Peake
The Summer Before the Dark
Doris Lessing
The Mermaid and the Minotaur
Dorothy Dinnerstein
Reporters and Officials
Leon Sigal
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
The Fountainhead
Isaac Asimov
The Lives of the Cell
Lewis Thomas
Henry IV
Shakespeare
The Magus
John Fowles
Endless Love
Scott Spencer
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Obsession: The Tyranny of Slenderness
Kim Chernin
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Unfinished Business
Maggie Scarf
Lolita
Nabokov
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Kingston
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf
Who Killed Karen Silkwood?
Howard Kohn
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-bye
Madonna Kublenshag
Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence
Swann’s Way
Marcel Proust
My 1980 Reading List
The American Dream
Norman Mailer
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
Metropolitan Life
Fran Lebowitz
The John McPhee Reader
The White Album
Joan Didion
Dune
Frank Herbert
Social Darwinism in American Thought
Richard Hofstadter
Second Treatise on Government
Locke
The British Political System
Samuel Beer
The Search for Order 1877-1920
Robert Wiebe
The New Radicalism in America
Christopher Lasch
The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America
V.L. Harrington
The Marx-Engels Reader
The View from Sunset Boulevard
Ben Stein
The Romance of American Communism
Vivian Gornick
Captains of Consciousness
Stuart Ewen
The Russian Revolution and Leninism or Marxism
Rosa Luxembourg
The New Class
Milovan Djilas
Strategy for Labor
Andrew Gorz
Women and the Mass Media
Butler and Paisley
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
News From Nowhere
Edward J. Epstein
Siddhartha
Herman Hesse
Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
Of Woman Born
Adrianne Rich
Deciding What’s News
Herbert Gans
The State of the Presidency
Thomas Cronin
A Collection of Essays
Orwell
Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon
Theodore White
The Pioneers
James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
The Political Theory of Anarchism
April Carter
The Woman Question
Marx, Engels, et al
The Siege of Chicago
Norman Mailer
Capitalism, the Family and Personal Life
Eli Zeretsky
The Virginian
Owen Wister
The Yemassee
Simms
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Ragged Dick and Mark the Match Boy
Horatio Alger
Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World
Sheila Rowbotham
Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism
Zillah Eisenstein
Close to Home
Ellen Goodman
Reporters and Officials
Leon Sigal
The Artillery of the Press
James Reston
News From Nowhere
Edward J. Epstein
Regeneration Through Violence
Richard Slotkin
The Press and Foreign Policy
Bernard Cohen