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1980-1985

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

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