Works Reviewed

2009, 2010 and 2011 Reviews

Books Reviewed in 2009

 Reviewed in 2009

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak     

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barberry    

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Getting the Girl by Marcus Zusak

After Dark by Huruki Murakami

Dewey:   The Small Town Library Cat that Touched the World by Vicki Myron

Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto

The Age of Prize Stock Innocence by Edith Wharton

Real World by Natsuo Kirino

A Start in Life by Anita Brookner

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Ann Shaffer and Annie Burrow

Strangers by Taichi Yamada

The Uninvited by Geling Yan

The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata

Prize Stock    by Kenzaburo Oe

Adventures of a Child of War by Acico Flores

The Day He Himself Shall Wipe Away My Tears by Kenzaburo Oe  *

Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kacharo

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

One Man's Justice by Akira Yosimura

Miss Chopsticks by Xue Xinran

Aghwee The Sky Monster by Kenzaburo Oe

Ring by Kuji Suzuki

Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson

Barefoot in The Fire:   A WWII Manila Childhood by Barbara Gamboa Lewis

The Flower Mat by Suguro Yamamoto *

The Crazy Iris by Masuji Ibuse

The Summer Flower by Tamiki Hara

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace by the Sea by Yukio Mishima

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Empty Can by Kyoto Hayashi   *

Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink

The Secret History of the Lord of Musahi by Junichiro Tanizaki

Arrowroot by Junichiro Tazizaki

The Colorless Paintings by Ineko Sata

The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian

Quicksand by Junichiro Tanizaki

Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki

My Life by Anton Chekhov

Leaving Home by Anita Brookner

The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe

Mandrians:   A Collection of Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki

Hardboiled by Banana Yoshimoto

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Shame in  the Blood  by Tetsuo Miuka

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto

Shamela by Henry Fielding

The Almost Moon by Ann Sebold

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kenzaburo Oe

Kusamakura by Natsume Soseki

The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte

The Man Who Killed Rasputin by Gary King

Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford   *

February Flowers by Fan Wu

Out by Natsuo Kirino

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age by Kenzaburo Oe

Moonlight Shadow by Banana Yoshimoto

2010 Reviews

January

1. The Tales of Ise by Arihara no Narihira
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. The Yellow Light Bookstore by Lewis Buzbee
4. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
5. One Night at the Call Center by Chetan Bhagat
6. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
7. Sea of Poppies by Amitar Ghosh
8. The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
9. My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer
10. Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki
11. The Journal of a Tour to The Hebrides by James Boswell

February

1. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
2. Pinay:Autobiographical Writings of Women 1926 to 1998 by Cristina Hidalgo
3. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
5. The Reed Cutter by Junichiro Tanizaki
6. The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Morris
7. Agnes Grey by Charlotte Bronte
8. Captain Shigemoto's Mother by Junichio Tanizaki
9. Indiana by George Sand
10. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
11. Pierre Et Jean by Guy De Maupassant 
12. Songs of Ourselves:  Writings by Filipino  Women edited and introduced by Edna Manlapaz

March

1. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
2. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
3. The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki
4. A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
5. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte 
6. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama 
7. The Broken Tower:   The Life of Hart Crane by Paul Mariani
8. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Marakami
9. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
10. "The Overcoat"  by Nikolai Gogol (short story)
11. The Aspern Papers  by Henry James
12. Wuthering Heights by  Emily Bronte  
13. The Death March:  A Documentary Novel by Jiro Netti
14. "The Diving Pool" by Yoko Ogawa (short story)
15. Living with the Enemy:  A Diary of the Japanese Occupation by Pacita Pestano-Jacinto
16. Peony in Love by Lisa See
17. "Bartleby, The Scrivener" By Herman Melville (short story)

April

1. South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Marakami
2. The Diving Pool (a collection of three novellas-each reviewed) by Yoko Ogawa
3. Some Do Not by Ford Madox Ford
4. "Heaven and Hell" by Jhumpa Lahiri (short story)
5. "A Doctor's Visit" by Anton Chekhov (short story)
6. "A Respectable Woman" by Kate Chopin (short story)
7. No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford
8. "The Dance of Death" by Gustav Flaubert
9. Train Man by Hitori Nakano
10. "The Yellow Wall Paper" by Charlotte  Perkins
11. "The Man with Two Left Feet" by P G Wodehouse
12. Nana by Emile Zola
13. Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
14. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
15. "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe
16. Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanizaki
17. The Tobacco Monopoly in the Philippines 1766 to 1880 by Edilberto C de Jesus
18. "The Dead Alive" by Wilkie Collins

May

1.    "The Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin
2.     "The Artist of the Beautiful" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.    "The Gift of The Magi" by O Henry
4.    "The Shot" by Alexander Pushkin
5.     A Man Could Stand Up by Ford Madox Ford
6.     Georges by Alexander Dumas
7.     The Awakening By Kate Chopin
8.     The Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Hariki Murakami
9.     The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino
10.   Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
11.   Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
12.   "The Open Window" by Saki
13.   "The Spirit of Emulation" by Fernando Sarrentto
14.   Cardboard:   A Woman Left Dead by Fiona Place
15.   "Metropolis" by Crystal Koo
16.   "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield
17.   "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield
18.   Norwegian Wood by Huruki Murakami
19.   "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence
20.   "The Doll House" by Katherine Mansfield
21.   "A Good Man is Hard to Find"  by Flannery O'Conner
22.   "The Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf
23.   "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
24.   The Cage by Kenzo Kitakata
25.   The Waves by Virginia Woolf
26.   "The Enormous Radio" by John Cheever
27.   Five Modern No Plays by Yukio Mishima
28.   "German Meat" by Katherine Mansfield
29.   Harp of Burma by Michio Takeyama
30.   "Hills Like Elephants" by Earnest Hemingway
29.   Four stories from In A German Pension by Katherine Mansfield
30.   "A Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
31.   The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
32.  "The Withered Arm" by Thomas Hardy
33.   "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde
34.   "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde
35.   Three Stories from  In A German Pension by Katherine Mansfield
36.   Somersault by Kenzaburo Oe

June

1. Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse
2. "The Bet" by Anton  Chekhov  -not reviewed
3. Fires on the Plain by Shohei Ooka
4. "The Harvest" by Amy Hempel 1998-not reviewed
5. "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka (1915)
6. "Lecture on The Metamorphosis" by Vladimir Nabokov
7. Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami
8. "Prelude" by Katherine Mansfield
9. Three Short Stories by Ambrose Bierce
10. The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi
11. "The Dead" by James Joyce
12. Je Ne Parle Pas Francais"  By Katherine Mansfield 1923
13. Bliss" by Katherine Mansfield 1923
14. "Wind Blows" Katherine Mansfield 1923
15. "Psychology" Katherine Mansfield 1923
16. "The Drover's Wife" by Henry Lawson 1892
17. "The Dog" by Andrew (Banjo) Paterson
18. "Natasha" by Vladimir Nabokov-not reviewed
19. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
20. Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton
21. Vita Sexualis by Ogai Mori
22. Old Tales of a New Country by Marcus Clarke
23. "The Feast of Nemesis" by Saki
24. Three outback stories by Rudd Steele
25. Four Stories from Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
26. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendahl
27. Diary of a Superfluous Man by Ivan Turgenev
28. Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
29. Pinball, 1973  by Haruki Murakami
30. "The Lagoon" by Joseph Conrad

July 

1. "A Private Experience" by Chimamanda Adichie
2. "Quality Street" by Chimamanda Adichie
3. "The Lady With the Dog" Anton Chekhov (not reviewed)
4. "A Telephone Call" by Dorothy Parker
5. "Hungary Stones" by Rabindranth Tagore
6. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
7. "Stick Fighting" by Olufemi Terry
8. "No. 1 Branch Line:   The Signal Man" by Charles Dickens- (Not reviewed)
9. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
10. Silence by Shusaku Endo
11. No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
12. "Dill Pickle" by Katherine Mansfield
13. "The Little Governess" by Katherine Mansfield
14. "The Escape" by Katherine Mansfield
15. "Revelations" by Katherine Mansfield
16. "The Tapu of Banderah" by George Louis Becke
17. "A Haunted House" by Virginia Woolf
18. "A Father's Confession" by Guy de Maupassant 
19. The Doctor's Wife by Sawako Ariyoshi
20. "Fiction" by Alice Munro -not reviewed
21. Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
22. "Two Hanged Women" by Henry Richardson 
23. "Silhouettes" by Katherine Mansfield 
24. "The Tiredness of Rosabel" by Katherine Mansfield
25. "How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped" by Katherine Mansfield
26. "The Journey to Burgess" by Katherine Mansfield
27. "A Truthful Adventure" by Katherine Mansfield
28. "New Dresses" by Katherine Mansfield
29. "The Woman in the Store" by Katherine Mansfield
30. "Old Underwood" by Katherine Mansfield
31. Rivalry:   A Geisha's Tale by Nagai Kafu
32. "The Demon Lover" by Elizabeth Bowen not reviewed
33. "A Confession" by Guy de Maupassant
34. "At The Gate" by Myla Jo Closser

August

1. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
2. Masks by Fumiko Enchi
3. Katherine Mansfield:  A  Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
4. "Her" by Titus Basino
5. "Road to Heaven" by Abidah El Khaliegy
6. "The Fox" by D. H. Lawrence
7. "The Century Carver" by Oka Rusmini
8. "The Little Girl" by Katherine Mansfield
9. "Rooms Out Back" by Nenden Lillis Aisyah
10. "Maybe Not Yem" by Ethics Juwita
11. "Hungry In Guangzhou" by Kow Shih Li
12. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

September

1. "Millie" by Katherine Mansfield
2. "The Stalker Within"  by Sabrina (aka Zabrina) Abu Baker
3. "Tobermory"  by Saki
4. The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe
5. Flush  By Virginia Woolf
6. "Angry" by Catalina Rembuyan
7. "Pension Seguin" by Katherine Mansfield
8. "The Russian Point of View" ( from A Common Reader) 1925-not reviewed-by Virginia Woolf
9. "The Demon Lover" by Elizabeth Bowen
10. Vita-A life of Vita Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning
11. "Hands" by Sherwood Anderson-
12. "Something Natural But Childish" by Katherine Mansfield
13. "The Ingenious Patriot" by Ambrose Bierce -not reviewed
14. "Boule de Suif" by Guy de Maupassant  
15. "An Indiscreet Journey" by Katherine Mansfield
16. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
17. "The Swimmer" by John Cheever
18. Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima
19. "Two Tuppenny Ones, Please" by Katherine Mansfield 
20. "The Black Cap"  by Katherine Mansfield
21. "A Suburban Fairy Tale" by Katherine Mansfield 
22. "Monday or Tuesday" by Virginia Woolf
23. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Daumier
24. "An Unfinished Novel" by Virginia Woolf
25. "Carnation" by Katherine Mansfield
26. "See-Saw" by Katherine Mansfield
27. 
    

October

1. "This Flower" by Katherine Mansfield 1920
2. "The Diamond Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant 1884
3. "Waiting" by E. C. Esondu 2008
4. "The Wrong House" by Katherine Mansfield 1919
5. "Sixpence" by Katherine Mansfield 1921
6. "Poison" by Katherine Mansfield 1921
7. Leonard Woolf -A Life by Victoria Glendinning
8. "At the Bay" by Katherine Mansfield
9. "Daughters of the Late Colonel" by Katherine Mansfield  
10. "The Duchess and the Jeweller" by Virginia Woolf
11. The River Ki by Sawako Ariyoshi
12. "Mr and Mrs Dove" by Katherine Mansfield
13. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
14. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
15. 84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff
16. "The Model Millionaire" by Oscar Wilde
17. "Life of Ma Parker" by Katherine Mansfield
18. "Marriage a la Mode" by Katherine Mansfield 
19. "The Voyage" by Katherine Mansfield
20. "Her First Ball" by Katherine Mansfield
21. "The Singing Lesson" by Katherine Mansfield
22. "The Voyage" By Katherine Mansfield
23. "Bank Holiday" by Katherine Mansfield
24. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
25. "An Ideal Family" by Katherine Mansfield
26. "The Lady's Maid" by Katherine Mansfield
27. "Honeymoon" by Katherine Mansfield 
28. "A Cup of Tea"  by Katherine Mansfield 
    
29. "Taking the Veil" by Katherine Mansfield
30. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
31. "The Fly" by Katherine Mansfield
32. 
    

November  2010

1.   The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
2. "The Canary" by Katherine Mansfield
3.  "Honesty" by Katherine Mansfield
4. "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" by Stephen Crane
5. Oryz and Crake by Margaret Atwood
6. "Susannah" by Katherine Mansfield
7. "Second Violin" by Katherine Mansfield
8. The Blue Notebook by James Levine
9. "Mr. and Mrs. Williams" by Katherine Mansfield 
10. "Weak Heart" by Katherine Mansfield
11. "Widowed" by Katherine Mansfield
12. Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett
    
13. Mrs.  Woolf and the Servants by Alison Lively
14. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
15. "The Dove's Nest" by Katherine Mansfield
16. "A Man and his Dog" by Katherine Mansfield
17. "Daphne" by Katherine Mansfield
18. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie  (1 of 5 posts on the work)
19. "Father and the Girls" by Katherine Mansfield
20. "All Serene" by Katherine Mansfield
21. Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
22. Maggie:  Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
23. "A Bad Idea" by Katherine Mansfield
24. "A Married Man's Story" by Katherine Mansfield
25. "Such a Sweet Old Lady" by Katherine Mansfield
26. "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin

December, 2010

1. "Squire Patrick's Lady" by Thomas Hardy
2. "The Novels of Thomas Hardy" by Virginia Woolf
3. The March of Literature by Ford Madox Ford
4. "The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion" by Thomas Hardy
5. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
6. "The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol 
7. The Red and the Black by Stendhal 
8. Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope
9. Katherine Mansfield:   The Story Teller by Kathleen Jones
10. "The Lull" by Saki
11. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
12. Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd
13. The Dark Room by Junnosuke Yoshiyuki
14. "The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh" by Saki
15. 
    

Plans and 2011 Reviews
My Blogging Hopes and Plans for 2011

Looking back at my first full year as a blogger I can only say I am very happy to be part of the great international community of book bloggers.   I will always recall my wife asking me as I did my first blog post "who will read these posts you write?"  and my answering I do not know,  maybe no one will.   I thought OK I will try this for a few weeks and then I will probably lose interest.   Thankfully this turned out to be very wrong and I hope to have a book blog for the rest of my life.   I have made contact with a lot of great people around the world since my blog began in July of 2009.    The rewards of having a blog are many.

My Blogging/Reading Plans for 2011

1. To continue my Virginia Woolf Project-reading all of her fiction and some of her essays
2. To continue my Katherine Mansfield Project-I have now read and posted on nearly all the stories and three secondary works.    Katherine Mansfield is one of the defining focuses of my blog now.   
3. To post on Sri Lankan short stories in honor of Sri Lankan independence day-this will take place around Feb 4 (this is still in the planning stages-if anyone is interested in joining in on this project please contact me.   It is possible this will not get off the ground.
4. To keep reading short stories, mostly online.
5. To continue reading in the Japanese novel.
6. To read a lot of the books I already own
7. To read more Trollope
8. To reread in the Annotated Edition-Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford

Blog Only 2011 Plans and Issues

1. In 2010 I began to get a lot of attempts to spam my blog.   I noticed all spam attempts were from anonymous posters.     I looked at a lot of my old comments and found none from anonymous posters. I blocked anonymous posters a few months ago and my spam problem is gone.  
2. I put a new header collage picture in my blog.    I might reshuffle the collage soon with new authors.
3. I am cutting way down on the reading challenges I will be joining.   
4. I will still join short term events and read a longs.
5. I will continue to post for the Classics Circuit.
6. I will try to comment when I can on the blogs of others 
7. I will try to acknowledge all comments on my blog.
8. I am working on some ideas for new projects also.
9. I will say whether or not I see a book as a canon status work and why.   I know there are ongoing controversies in Academia about this but these are very remote to my reading.
10. To Be open to new books and short stories and authors
11. To expand my contacts in the blogger world
12. To have fun and try to convey to others my love of reading.

Mel u

January 

1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 1955
2. "Pigs are Pigs" by Ellis Parker Butler 1905
3. "The Yellow Paint" by Robert Louis Stevenson 1896
4. "Lappin andLapinova" by Virginia Woolf 1930
   
5. "Eva is Inside Her Cat" by Gabriel Marquez 1970
6. "Extracts from Adam's Diary" by Mark Twain 1870
7. "The Forbidden Buzzards" by Saki, 1906
8. "Bar Beach Show" by E. C. Osundo-201o-not reviewed
9. "Why I Live at the P. O." by Eudora Welty 1941-*
10. In Pursuit by Joanne FitzPatrick 2010
11. "The Angel Who Fell from the Sky:   A Tale for Children" by Gabriel Marquez 1968
12. "Eva is Inside Her Cat" by Gabriel Marquez 1967
13. "Eyes of the Blue Dog" by Gabriel Marquez 1984
14. One of These Days", by Gabriel Marquez 1972
15. "The Sphinx Without a Secret" by Oscar Wilde, 1891
16. The Belly of Paris, by Emile Zola, 1873
17. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf 1915
18. "Mrs Peckletide's Tiger" by Saki, 1914
19. "What Do You See, Madam" by Djuna Barnes, 1932
20. "The Tragic Love of Two Enemies" by Ihara Saikaku 1680
21. "Ransom of Red Chief" by O Henry 1910
22. "The Tale Tale Heart" by Edgar Alan Poe 1843
23. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
24. "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs 1902
25. Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima 1968
26. "Thank You, M'am" by Langston Hughes 1958-*
27. "Runaway" by Alice Munro 2004
28. "Little Things", By Raymond Carver, 1988
29. "Mademoiselle Ffi" by Guy de Maupassant 1882

30. "The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat" by Saki 1911

31.    "Babylon Revisited" by F Scott Fitzgerald 1930
32.    "The Farthest Edge of  the Island" by Shimao Toshio 1956-*

February

1. "Shock Tactics" by Saki 1913
2. The Bacchae by Euripides 411 BC
3. "Defensive Diamond" by Saki-1911-not posted on
4. "Quail Seed" by Saki 1911
5. "How Much Land Does a Man Need" by Leo Tolstoy 1886-*
6. "Babes in the Jungle" by O Henry 1903
7. "Spunk" by Zora Neal Hurston 1925
8. "A Society" by Virginia Woolf  1921
9. "A Byzantine Omelet" by Saki  1910-not posted on
10. "In The Flower of Age" by Colette 1932
11. Elizabeth Bowen by Victoria Glendinning 1977
12. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens  1838
13. "The Guest" by Saki-1911-not posted on

" Ma'ame Pelagie"  by Kate Chopin 1897-not posted  on
16.   The Collected Short Stories of Elizabeth Bowen-14 early stories
17.   "The Old Order" By Katherine Anne Porter 1927-*
18.    Theresa Requin by Emile Zola 1867
19.    "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allen Poe-not posted on
20.    The Fifth Queen by Ford Madox Ford 1907
21.   "The Mass of Shadows" by Anotol France not posted on
22.   "Rentafoil" by Emile Zola 1890
21.   The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen 1948
22.   "Bella Fleace Gives a Party" by Evelyn Waugh 1936
23.   Electra by Euripides-no posted on  410 BC
24.   The Theban Women by Euripides-not posted on 409 BC
25.   "Chance" by Alice Munro, 2004-no posted on
26.  "The Robe Of Peace"  O Henry-not posted on
27.   Elizabeth Bowen-22 short stories from the 1920s
28.   "The Story of a Panic" by E.  M.  Forster 1903
29.    "Tea" by Saki-not posted on
30.    Elizabeth Bowen-23 stories from the 1930s.
31.   "Young Archimedes"  by Aldous Huxley 1926
32.   "Magnificence" by Estella Afon  1939
33.   "The Servant Girl" by Estella Afon  1937
34.   "The Kiss" by Kate Chopin no posted on

35.   "Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker          

March  

1. "The Ingenious Patriot" by Ambrose Bierce -not posted on
2. The Collected Short Stories of Elizabeth Bowen-the WWII stories-16 stories 1941 to 1944
3. "O'Halloran's Luck" by Stephen Vincent Benet (15 pages, 1938)-*
   
4. " Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter"- by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
5. "The Schartz-Metterklume Method" by Saki-not posted on
6. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 1888
7. "The Interlopers" by Saki 1911
8. "The Petrified Man" by Eudora Welty 1941-*
9. "Worn Path" by Eudora Welty 1941
10. "Lily and the Three Ladies" by Eudora Welty 1940" 
11. Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
12. "Back Bone" by David Foster Wallace
13. "The Jockey" by Carson McCullers
14. "I am not a Jew" by John Biguenot-podcast-no posted on
15. "The Disabled Soldier" by Oliver Goldsmith
16. "Hanahan and Cathleen the Daughter of Hollihan" by William Butlner Yeats
17. "The Purple Jar" by Maria Edgeworth
18.  "The Swimmer" by John Cheever (read and posted on in 2010)-Podcast-*
19. "Just a Little One"   by Dorothy Parker-not posted on-Podcast
20. "The Jungle" by Elizabeth Bowen  1922
21. "Blue or Green" by Virginia Woolf-Podcast -not posted on
22. "The Reaping Race"  by Liam O'Faolaim-not posted on
23. "The Colonel's Daughters"  by Katherine Mansfield-podcast-2nd read
24. "The Inquisitor' By Liam O'Flahorty-not posted on
25. "The Challenge"  by Liam O'Flahorty-not posted on
26. "Fountains in the Rain" By Yukio Mishima
27. "A List of Books" by Bernard Malamud-audio-not posted on 1956
28. "The Purple of The Balkan Kings" by Saki
29. "Herman the Irascible" by Saki-
30. "The Kitchen Child" by Angela Carter-audio-not posted on
31. "The Gospel According to Mark" by Jorge Borges-audio-not posted on
32. "Assumption"  by Samuel Becket
33. "Two Sisters"  by James Joyce
34. "The Gypsy Prophecy" by Bram Stoker
35. "The  Child Who Was Stolen by Faeries" by James Le Fanu*
36. "Stories of Lough Guir"  by  James Le Fanu
37. "Man of the World"   by Frank O' Connor
38. "My Oedipus Complex"  by Frank O'Connor*
39. "The Trout" by Sean O'Faolain
40. "Sinners"  by Sean O'Faolain
41. "The Sniper" by Liam O'Flaherty*
42. "The Old Hunter"  by Liam O'Flaherty*
43. "Natalie" by Anne Enright
44. "The Bed Department" by Anne Enright*
45. "A Boy in the Forest" by Edna O'Brien
46. "Foster" by Claire Keegan*
47. "Sleep" by Roddy Doyle

"Ash" by Roddy Doyle

1. "Christmas Eve" by Maeve Brennan*
2. "Men of Ireland" by William Trevor *
3. "The Woman of the House"   by William Trevor *
4. "How Emily Got Promoted" by Sarah Webb
5. " The Calling" by Cecelia Ahern
6. "The Jungle" by Elizabeth Bowen *
7. "The Demon Lover" by Elizabeth Bowen
8. "The Haunted Organist of Hurley Burley" by Rosa Mulholland
9. "The Last Squire of Ennismore" by Charlotte  Riddell
10. "Homage to Switzerland" by Ernest Hemingway-audio-not posted on
11. The Infinities John Banville

April 2011

1. "A Curtain of Green" by Eudora Welty
2. "The Hitch-Hikers" by Eudora Welty
3. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
4. "The White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett
5. "Disguised"  by Issac Singer
6. "Everything that Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'Connor
7. "Ghosts" by Edwidge Danicat
8. "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor
9. "Within and Without" by Herman Hesse-not posted on
10. "The Infant Prodigy"  -not  posted on-By Thomas Mann
11. "The Cage at Cranford" by Elizabeth Gaskelle
12. "The Searchlight" by Virginia Woolf
13. "An Astrologer's Story" by R. W. Narayan *
14. "A Study in Black and White" by Dorothy Parker 
15. "My Life with the Wave" by Octavio Paz
16. "The Blue Bouquet"  by Octavio Paz
17. "Killer in the Rain" by Raymond Chandler-not posted on
18. "Sexy" by Jhumpa Lahiri *
19. "Shabu" by Rabindranth Tagore
20. "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe-not posted on
21. "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor *
22. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
23. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
24. "The Doctor's Visit" by R. K. Narayan
25. "The Missing Mail" by R. K. Narayan
26. "Once in a Life Time" by Jhumpa Lahiri
27. "A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote-
28. "Tob Tek Singh" by Saadat Hasan Manto *
29. "Mariam" by Truman Capote
30. "The Cats of Ulthar" by H. P. Lovecraft
31. "The Very Old Folk" by H. P. Lovecraft
32. "The Call of Cthulhu"  by H. P. Lovecraft
33. "A Reminiscence of Samuel Johnson" by H. P. Lovecraft
34. "The Quilt" by Ishanat Chughtai
35. "The Stench of Kerosene" by Amrita Pritram
36. "Wildflower" by Amrita Pritram
37. "Shaiban" by Amrita Pritram
38. "Lajwanti" by Rajinder Bondi
39. "Honour" by Selina Hossain
40. "The Fairies Dancing Place" by William Carleton
41. "The Big Blond" by Dorothy Parker  *
42. "Bitch" by Mrinal Pande  *
43. "Gogol" by Jhumpa Lahin
44. "Three Men" by Sunil Gangopadhyay
45. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
46. "The Feather Pillow" by Horacio Quiroga   *
47. "Tabat Tok Singh" by Saadat Hasan Manto
48. "The Innocence of Father Brown" by C. K. Chesterson
49. "The Leaf of Niggle" by J. R. R. Toilken
50. "Quality" by John Galswrothy  *

May 2011

1. "Letter to a Hindu" by Leo Tolstoy-audio book-not posted on-very powerful
2. "Quotations from Gandi"-audio-not posted on
3. "Sweet Milk" By Kamela Dasr
4. "Nagapushpan" by Kannan Lakshmi
5. Blue Hour:  A Life of Jean Rhys by Lillian Pizzichini
6. "Moriam Does Not Know What Rape Is" by Selina Hossain-not posted on
7. "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin-not posted on
8. J by Kenzaburo Oe
9. "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Gaspell
10.  "Before the Stars Could Foretell" by Sharandindu Bandyopahyay
11. "The Bather" by Angela Predelli-not posted on
12. "Pigeon Feathers" BY John Updike
13. "A and P' by John Updike
14. A Cat, A Man, and Two Women by Junichiro Tanizaki

"Jackals and Arabs" by Franz Kafka-no post

17.   "Scorn by Bama Faustina

18.   "Some Don't Kiss and Tell" by Mangala Varma

19.    "The Case of Lady Saxxon" by Arthur Conan Doyle

20.   After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie By Jean Rhys

21.   "Green Goggles-A Pastiche" by Katherine Mansfield

22.   "The Locket" by Kate Chopin-no post

23    "A Wife's Confession" by Guy de Maupassant-no post

24.   "Norwegian Rats" by Naguib Mahfouz

25    "Excepting Mrs. Pentherby" by Saki-no post

26.   "The Gateman's Gift" by R. K. Narayan  *

27.    "The Roman Image" by R. K, Narayan

28.   "Bones" by Fumiko Hayashi

29.    The Lonely Voice-A Study of the Short Story by Frank O'Connor

30.   "The Threat" by Saki-not posted on

31.  "Untold Lies" by Sherwood Anderson

32.  "Death" by Sherwood Anderson

33.  "Adventure" by Sherwood Anderson

34.   "The Bull" by Saki-not posted on

34.   "The Egg" by Sherwood Anderson-no post

34.    "The Last Tea" by Dorothy Parker

35.    "Travelogue" by Dorothy Parker

36.    "You Were Perfectly Fine" by Dorothy Parker

37.    "A Story in Harlem Slang"  by Nora Hurtson

38.   "Black Death'' by Nora Hurston

39.   "The Blind Beggar" by R. K. Narayan

40.   "Malgundi Days-Rereading the Master" by Jhumpa Lahiri

41.   "The Bait" by Narayan Gangopadhyay

42.  "Boligarto" by Roquia Salhawat Hussain

43.  The Master by Colm Toibin

44.  "My Lord Baby" by Rabindranath Tagore

45.   "The Parrot's Tale" by Rabindranath Tagore

46.   "The Babus of Nayanjore" by Rabindranath Tagore

47.   "The Husband" by Anton Chekhov

48.   "The Chorus Girl" by Anton Chekhov

49.   "The Russian Point of View" by Virginia Woolf

50.   Six short stories by R. K. Narayan

51.   "The Cat in the Rain" by Ernest Hemingway

52.    "The Cat" by Banjo Patterson

53.    "The Black Cat" by Edgar Alan Poe

54.    17 by Kenzaburo Oe

55.    The Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life by Neva Atlas

June

1. 17 stories from R. K. Narayan's The Astrologer's Day and other Tales
2. "Guy de Maupassant" by Issac Babel  *
3. "The Death of Delgushuv" by Issac Babel-no post
4. "Sansho the Steward" by Mori Ogai  *
5. "Sakurajima" by Haruo Umezaki
6. "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver
7. "Errand" by Raymond Carver"
8. "Why Don't You Dance" by Raymond Carver
9. "Cousin Teresa" by Saki-no posting
10. "The Little Kingdom" by Junichiro Tanizaki
11. "Professor Rabo" by Juichiro Tanizaki
12. "Idylle" by Guy de Maupassant
13. "Effiminates" by Guy de Maupassant-no post
14. "Besides Schopenhauer's Grave" by Guy de Maupassant-no post
15. "The Third Night" by Natsume Soseki-no post
16. "The Naughty Cat' by Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri
17. "The Wicked Tiger" by Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri -no post
18. "Mateo Fakcone" by Prosper Merimee
19. "Columba" by Prosper Merimee
20. "The Peace Offering" by Saki-no post
21. "The Third Night" by Natsume Soseki-no post
22. "The Decapitated Chicken" by Horacio Quiroga  *
23. "The Son" by Horacio Quiroga
24. "The Canoe" by Horacio Quiroga
25. "The Lazy Bee" by Horacio Quiroga
26. An Echo of Heaven By Kenzaburo Oe
27. "Granny Long Tongue and Red Ban" by Chiba Mikio
28. The Man Eater of Malgudi by R. K. Narayan
29. "Eveline" by James Joyce  *
30. "Love Among the Ruins-A Romance of the Near Future" by Evelyn Waugh
31. "An Uncomfortable Bed" by Guy de Maupassant-no post
32. Tatto-Chan-The Little Girl in the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyangai
33. "Hitting Budapest" by NoViolet Bulawayo
34. "Moonlight" by Guy de Maupassant-no post
35. "The Bonfire" by Kunikida Doppo-no post
36. "The Malefactor" by Anton Chekhov-no post
37. Proust's Overcoat by Lorenza Foschini
38. Orientalism by Edward Said
39. "Nobody Said Anything" by Raymond Carver-
40. "Misfortune" by Anton Chekhov
41. "The Call of the Tame"  by O. Henry-no post
42. "A Municipal Report" by O. Henry  *
43. "Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen" by O. Henry-
44. "Butterfly Dreams" by Beatrice Lamwaka
45. "Hitting Budapest" by NoViolent Bolawayo
46. "In The Spirit of McPhineas Lata" by Lauri Kubuitsile
47. "What Molly Knew" by Tim Keegan
48. "He" by Katherine Anne Porter
49. "Geranium" by Flannery O'Connor'
50. "A Visit of Charity" by Eudora Welty
51. "Cousin Theresa" by Saki
52. "The Adopted Son" by Guy de Maupassant
53. "A Horse and Two Goats" by R. K. Narayan  *
54. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
55. "A Brief Introduction to Dalit Literature" by Meena Kandasamy (5 pages, 2007)
56. "The Flame" by Harish Mangalam (6 pages, 2008)
57. "The Hell" by Dharmabhai Shrimali (5 pages, 2006)
58. "Untouchables" by Chadu Maheriya  (5 pages, 2007)

July

1. "Patriotism" by Yukio Mashima
2. Ubo Roi by Alfred Jarry
3. "Coco" by Guy de Maupassant-no post
4. "The Mistress's Dog" by David Medalie
5. The Hunchback of Norte Dame by Victor Hugo
6. "Sometimes the Heart of a Turtle" by Kenzaburo Oe
7. Pride and Prejudice:  Hidden Lusts by Mitzi Szereto
8. Bachelor of Arts by R. K. Narayan
9. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
10. "The Wall" by Jean Paul Sarte
11. "The Gate" by Albert Camus
12. "Adventures of a Strolling Player" by Oliver Goldsmith-no post
13. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
14. The Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
15. "The Boar-Pig" by Saki-no post
16. "The Mauve Throw" by Saran Hilary
17. The Pinch Runner Memoradum by Kenzaburo Oe
18. In Sleeping Beauty's Bed:   Erotic Fairy Tales by Mitzi Szerato
19. Pride and Prejudice:   Hidden Lusts by Mitzi Szerato
20. "A Wife's Letter" by Rabindranath Tagore
21. "At the Club" by Katherine Mansfield
22. "Sometimes the Heart of a Turtle"  by Kenzaburo Oe
23. "The Atomic Bomb, Nuclear Power and Japan"  (essay from The New Yorker) Kenzaburo Oe
24. An Echo of Heaven  by Kenzaburo Oe
25. "Befriending the Wild Elephant" by  Sarmaresh Basu
26. The Collected Short Stories of Mitzi Szerato by Mitzi Szerato
27. "Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe *
28. Journey Across Four Seas:  A Chinese Woman's Search for Home Veronica Li
29. "The Talking out of Tarrington" by Saki-no post
30. Consumption:   A Novel  by G S Johnson
31. Tartuffe by Moliere-no post
32. "Bella Vista" by Colette-no post
33. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
34. Foe by J. C. Coetzee
35. The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde
36. Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
37. "Maxims" by Oscar Wilde
38. Where Angels Fear to Trade by E, M. Forster
39. "A Devoted Friend" by Oscar Wilde-no post
40. "Beyond the Bayou" by Kate Chopin-no post
41. 
    

August

1.  "The Match Maker" by Saki-no post
2.  Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
3.  "The Mass of Shadows" by Anatole France
4.  A Room With a View by E. M. Forster
5.  "A Chaplet" by Saki-no post
6.  "The Man Who Would be King" by Rudyard Kipling
7.  "How the Rhinoceros Got His Horn" by Rudyard Kipling
8.  "How The Leopard Got his Spots" by Rudyard Kipling
9.   Erotic Short Stories by Mitzi Szereto
10.  Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
11.  "The Easter Egg" by Saki-no post
12.   Villain by Shuichi Yyoshida
13.  Ghost by Henrick Ibsen
14.  Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
15.  The Countess Cathleen-W. B. Yeats-no post
16.  Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
17.  Miss Julia by August Strindberg
18.  "How the Two Ivans Quarrelled" by Nikolai Gogol  *
19.  "A Panegyric in Memory of My Grandfather" by Ivan Krylov  *
20.   "A Tale of How One Muzhik Looked After Two Generals" by Mikhal Saltykov  *
21.  "The Eagle as Patron of the Arts" by Mikhail Saltykov
22.  "Ivan the Fool" by Leo Tolstoy
23.  Hinges: Meditations on the  Portals of the Imaginations by Grace Dane Mazur  
24.   Androcles and the  Lion by George Bernard Shaw
25.   The Plague by Albert Camus
26.  "The Bears of Nametoko" by Kenji Miyazawa  *
27.  "Carp" by Majuji Ibuse-no post
28.  "Blind Chinese Soldiers" by Taiko Hirabayashi  *
29.  "A Very Strange, Enchanted Boy" by Yuko Tsushima-no post
30.  "Three Policemen" by Junnosuke Yoshiyuki
31.  "The Rifle" by Nobuo Kojima

32.  The Beach at Falesa by Robert Louis Stevenson-no post
33.  "The Izu Dancer" by Yasunari Kawabata-no post  *
34.   "The Bet" by Kobo Abe-no postTh
35.  "The Secret Sin of Spetimius Brope"-Saki-no post
35.   "The Accordion and the Fish Town" by Hayashi Fumiko -no post
36.   "Desert Dolphin" by Masahiko Shimada-no post

September

1.  Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett

2.  "Green Tea" by Sheridan La Fanu
3.   "Jeeves in the Springtime"  by P. G. Wodehouse

4.  "In Defense of P. G. Wodehouse" by George Orwell

5.  Somewhere in Minnesota by Orfhlaith Foyle

6.   The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (40 stories-6 posted on)

7.  "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe (NP)

8.  "Peace Offering" by Saki (NP)

9.  "The Girl and the Habit" by O. Henry

10.  "War" by Sherwood Anderson  *

11.  "The Story of a Farm Girl" by Guy de Maupassant

12.  Red Lace and Absinthe:   Paranormal Stories edited by Mitzi Szereto

13.  Transcripts of five WWII radio broadcasts by P. G. Wodehouse

14. "The Elephant Vanishes" by Hurakami Murakami

15. "The Cobweb" by Saki

16.  "The Bowman" by Arthur Machen  *

17.  "The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen  *

18.  "Srendi Vashtar" by Saki

19.  "Keeping his Promise" by Algernon Blackwood

20.  "Trial for Murder" by Charles Dickens

21.  "The Other Side" by E. M. Forester (NP)

22.  Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal (np)

23.  "The Dog of Tithwell" by Sadat Hasan Monto
24.  "The Comments of Moung" by Saki

25.   "Cold Flesh" by Sadat Hasan Monto (NP)

26.  "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway  *

27.   "Another Wife" by Sherwood Anderson

28.   Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

29.  "Down Pens" by Saki NP

30.  "Ghosts"  by Guy de Maupassant (NP)

31.  Keepsake by Kristy Gunn

32.  The Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol

33.  "The Cross on the Old Church Tower" by Louisa May Alcott NP

34. Ruffy's Manly Man's Guide to the Ports of the Medertranean-Any Port in a Storm by Ruffington Bousweau

35.  "The Lady's Maid" by Katherine Mansfield-2nd Read-NP this read

36.  The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
37.  "The Vampyre" by John Polidori
38.  "Whistle, Oh My Land, And I Will Come" by Montague Blackwood
39.  The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
40.  Hardboiled Wonderland and The Edge of the World by Haruki Murakami
41.  The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories edited by William Trevor
42.  "Beckoning Fair One" by Oliver Onions
43.  "Forwarned" by Saki-  NP
44.  The Great Tradition by F. R. Leavis-chapter 1-NP
45.  The ABCs of Reading by Ezra Pound-NP

October

1. "The Way to the Dairy" by Saki-NP
2. "Marriage is a Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe  *
3. "Louis" by Saki -NP
4. "The She-Woif" by Saki
5. "Philanthropy and the Cat" by Saki-NP
6. "The Man in the Brown Coat" by Sherwood Anderson NP
7. "Countess Satan" by Guy de Maupassant NP
8. "Black Death" by Zora Neale Hurston-2nd reading
9. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
10. Kororo by Natsume Soseki
11. "Mrs. Manstey's View" by Edith Wharton-NP
12. Nude by Nuala Ní Chonchúir
13. "For the Duration of The War" by Saki-NP
14. "The Revenge of Felix"  by Jose de Mederios Alburquerque  *
15. Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov-NP
16. "Filboid Studge" by Saki-NP
17. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin NP
18. "An Occasional Garden" by Saki-NP
19. "The Pigeons" by Coelho Netto
20. Runaway by Alice Munro
21. "Aunt Zeze's Tears" by Emilia Moncorua Banderia de Mello
22. "The Cupboard of the Yesterdays" by Saki-NP
23. Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
24. "Karma" by Khushwant Singh   *
25. "Portrait of a Lady" by Khushwant Singh
26. "Mark"  by Saki-NP
27. Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai
28. "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe-NP
29. Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolano
30. "The Poet and the Peasant" by O Henry-NP
31. "An Unfinished Story" by O Henry -NP
32. Washington Square by Henry James
33. Les Miserables By Victor Hugo
34. "To Build a Fire" by Jack London  *
35. "Xingu" by Edith Wharton-NP
36. "The Legend" by Edith Wharton -NP
37. The Steppes by Anton Chekhov NP
38. "Two Words" by Isabel Allende-NP
39. "Swaddling Clothes" by Yukio Mishima  *
40. "The Fiddler of Reels" by Thomas Hardy
41. "The Grave at the Handpost" by Thomas Hardy  *
42. "Three Strangers" by Thomas Hardy  *

November

1.  "The Beast in the Jungle" by Henry James  *

2.  "The Jolly Corner" by Henry James
3.  "The Distracted Preacher" by Thomas Hardy  *
4.  "An Imaginative Woman"  by Thomas Hardy  *
5.  "Barbara of the House of Gables" by Thomas Hardy  *
6.  "The Pretext" by Edith Wharton -NP
7.  "Afterward" by Edith Wharton-NP
8.  "The Tale of Mr. Peter Brown" by Vita Sackville-West  *
9.   "Chelsea Justice" by Vita Sackville-West
10. "The Tuxedos" by Jerome Weidman
11.  "Germelsausen" by Friedrich Gerstacker
12.  "The Altar of the Dead" by Henry James  *
13.  "Mackintosh" by Somerset Maugham
14.  "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber  *
15.  The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster
16.  "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson-NP
17.  "Bird of Prey" by John Collier" -NP
18.  "Night Club" by Katherine Brush-NP
19.  "The League of Red Headed Gentlemen" by Athur Conan Doyle-NP
20.  "The Money Box" by W. W. Jacobs-NP
21.  "Some Like then Cold" by Ring Lardner  *
22.  "Blood Pressure" by Damon Runyon
23.  Harold Hardrada:  The Last Viking by Michael Burr
24.  "Two Little Soldiers" by Guy de Maupassant-NP
25.  "Our Lady's Juggler" by Anatole France-NP
26.  "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" by Hans Christian Andersen-NP
27.  "The Tragedy of a Comic Song" by Leonard Merrick-NP
28.  "The Cask of Anontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe-NP
29.  "The Coming out of Maggie" by O Henry-NP
30.  "Canossa"  By Saki-NP
31.  "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" by Frank Stockton-NP
32.  "The Indigio Terror" by Satyajit Ray  *
33.  "Krambambuli"  by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach-NP
34.  "Secret Sharer" by Joseph Conrad 
35.  "Beware of the Dog" by Roland Dahl-NP
36.  "The Mezzotint" by M. R. James -NP
37.  "Adam and Eve and Pinch Me' by A. C. Coppard-NP
38.  "Sex Education" by Dorothy Canfield-NP
39.  "Saturday Afternoon" by Erskine Caldwell-NP
40.  "A Circle in the Fire" by Flannery O'Connor-NP-*
41. "I'm a Fool"  by Sherwood Anderson-NP
42.  "Sacre du Printemps" by Ludwig Bemelmans-NP
43.  "Almos' a Man" by Ricard Wright  *
44.  "Thomas Whipple" by Walter Edmonds-NP-*
45.  "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" by Conrad Aiken-NP
46.  "The Hound" by William Faulkner-NP
47.  "No Door" by Thomas Wolfe-NP
48.  "Saturday Afternoon" by Erskine Caldwell-NP
49.  "The Horseman in the Sky" by Ambrose Bierce-NP
40.  "Without Benefit of Clergy" Rudyard Kipling-NP-*
41.  "Seventy Thousand Assyrians" by William Saroyan-NP
42.  "The Pace of Youth" by Stephen Crane-NP
43.  "A Passion in the Desert" by Honore de Balzac-NP
44.  "A Lodging in the Night" by Robert Louis Stevenson-NP
45.  "Quattroncentisteria" by Maurice Hewlett-NP
46.   "Sorrow-Acre" by Isak Dinese
47.  "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway-NP
48.  "Act of Faith" by Irwin Shaw-NP
49.  Access:   Thirteen Tales by Xi Xu
50.  The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert
51.  "Mallem Sile" by Mohammed Naseehu Ali
52.  Dracula by Bram Stoker
53.  "The Lumber Room" by Saki-NP
54.  "A Portrait of Shunkin" by Junichiro Tanizaki
55.  "The Bridge of Dreams" by Junichiro Tanizaki
56.  "The Tattooer" by Junichiro Tanizaki
57.  "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" by Edgar Allan Poe
58.  "The Man with the Pale Eyes" by Guy de Maupassant-NP
59.  An Uncommon Woman:   The Empress Frederick by Hannah Pakula
60.  "Infant Progidy" by Thomas Mann
61.  "Within and Without" by Hermann Hesse
63.  "Ministers of Grace" by Saki-NP
64.  The Viceroy's Daughters:  The Lives of the Curzon Sisters by Anne 
       de Courcy
65.   Prince of Europe:   The Life of Charles-Joseph De Ligne by Philip 
       Mansel  NP
66.  "The Purple Dress" O Henry-NP
67.  "The Down Pen" by Saki-NP
68.  "The Dreamer" by Saki-NP
69.  "The Jew's Beech Tree" by Annette von Droste-Hulsh
70.  "Hyancith and Roseblossom"  by Novalis
71.  "The Infant Prodigy"   by Thomas Mann
72.  "Within and Without" by Herman Hesse
73.  Ivan and Misha by Michael Alenyikov
74.  The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne de Courcy
75.  An Uncommon Woman:   The Empress Frederick by Hannan Pakula
76.  "Hyancith and Roseblossom" by Novalis
77.  "The Jew's Beech Tree" by Annette von Droste-Hulsh
78.  Botchan by Natsume Soseki

December

1.   Katherine Mansfield:   The Story Teller by Kathleen Jones
2.  "Seven Lives to Repay Our Country" by Edward Carpenter
3.   Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad 
4.  The Value of the Rain by Brandon Shire
5.  "Amy Foster" by Joseph Conrad
6.  1Q84 by Huruki Murakami
7.  "One Autumn Night" by Maxim Gorky
8.  "Her Lover" by Maxim Gorky
9.  "The Black Monk" by Anton Chekhov-NP
10.  "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding"  by Fyodor Dostoyesky
11.  "Concerning the Bodyguard" by Donald Barthelme-NP-Podcast
12.  "The Maison Tellier" by Guy de Maupassant
13.  "Twenty Six and One" by Maxim Gorky
14.   "Access" by Alice Munro-NP-podcast-New Yorker
15.  "Two Friends" by Guy de Maupassant-NP-Prussian War-very good
16.  Juno Charm by Nuala Ní Chonchúir
17.  "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook" by Montague R James-NP-occult
18.  "Kerri Gets Caught" by Nikki Palmer-NP-erotica-x rated
19.  "Before the Law" by Franz Kafka-NP-parable-very short
20.  "The Icebreaker" by Maxim Gorky
21.  "The Birth of a Man" by Maxim Gorky
22.   "The Riverboat" by Maxim Gorky-a paddle wheel on the Volga-NP
23.  "Enoch and the Gorilla" by Flannery O'Connor-Podcast
24.  "The Life You Save May be Your Own" by Flannery O'Connor-PC
25.  "An Imperial Message" by Franz Kafka-NP-parable -very short-NP
26.  "Three Letters and a Footnote" by Horacio Quiroga -Podcast
27.  "The Barber" by Flannery O'Connor
28.  "The Crop" by Flannery O'Connor
29.  "The Turkey" by Flannery O'Connor
28.   "The Wildcat" by Flannery O'Connor
29.   "The Train" by Flannery O'Connor
30.   "God and the Cobbler" by R. K. Narayan
31.   "The Peeler" by Flannery O'Connor
32.   "The Heart of the Park" by Flannery O'Connor
33.  "A Stroke of Good Fortune" by Flannery O'Connor
34.  "A Late Encounter with the Enemy" by Flannery O'Connor
35.  "The River" by Flannery O'Connor
36.  "A Circle in the Fire" by Flannery O'Connor
37.  "Lawley Road"  by R. K. Narayan
38.  "They're Not Your Husband" by Raymond Carver
39.  "The Displaced Person" by Flannery O'Connor
40.  "The Trail of the Green Blazer" by R. K. Narayan
41.  "What Do You Do In San Fraincisco" by Raymond Carver-NP-minimalist story about a postman's reaction to some people on his route
42.  "Papa Panov's Special Christmas" by Leo Tolstoy 
43.  "Neighbors" by Raymond Carver -NP-really strange story about two people feeding their neighbors cat while they are away-really interesting-another drinking story.
44.  "Put Yourself in My Shoes" by Raymond Carver-NP-sort of a continuation of the story above-tedious at times but still interesting
45.  "The Collector" by Raymond Carver-about sales call from a vacum cleaner salesman-I see his technical skill but the subject matter does not interest me-NP
46.  "Bobok" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
47.  "Why, Honey" by Raymond Carver-NP-really interesting story with a great twist-makes you wonder what is left out.
48.  "Are These Actual Miles" by Raymond Carver-technically very well done but just too grim somehow-NP
49.  "Naga" by R. K. Narayan-the life of a Malgudi snake charmer-NP
50.  "Selvi" by R. K. Narayan-a famous female singer-NP
51.  "Second Opinion" by R. K. Narayan-really brilliant story about a mother and her son-NP
52.  "Gazebo" by Raymond Carver-NP-marital problems among alcoholics -technically brilliant but just does not interest me too much
53.  "The Judge" by  Rabindranath Tagore
54.  "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen
55.  "One More Thing" by Raymond Carver-great talent-I just don't really find the content of the stories works for me-NP
57.  "The Cat Within" by R. K. Narayan-NP-the Malgudi Exorcist
58.  "The Edge" by R. K. Narayan-NP-the Malgudi knife sharperner
59.  "The Hungry Child" by R. K. Narayan-NP-
60.  "Emden"  by R. K. Narayan-the oldest person in Malgudi-NP
61.  "The Ghosts" by Lord Dunsany
62.  "Death of a Devotee" by William Carleton -NP-good look at role of priests in last rites in Ireland
63.  "The Lancer's Wife" by Guy de Maupassant-very good Prussian war story-a French and Prussian officer's wife bond in share pain -NPa 
64.  "The Detective Detector"  by O Henry-a satire of Sherlock Holmes-NP
65.  "A Temple of the Holy Ghost" by Flannery O'Connor-NP
66.  "The Artificial N.." by Flannery O'Connor-a brilliant look at racism-NP
67.  "The Flies
68.  "You can't be Poorer than the Dead" by Flannery O'Connor-np-about A 14 year old orphan-NP
69.  "The Boy Who Drew Cats" by Lafcadio Hearn

70.  "Greenleaf" by Flannery O'Connor-NP-story about a bull and two brothers returned from the war and life on a farm
71.  "Blackbird Pie" by Raymond Carver-NP-no drinking and more interesting people than some of his other stories
72.  "The Real Durwan" by Jhumpa Lahari-NP-
73.  "The View from the Woods" by Flannery O'Connor-NP-odd tale of family bonding and family violence
74.  "The Flood" by Kobe Abe-a flood of liquified people destroys the world-strange!-NP

January

1. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins-USA
2. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins  -USA
3. "The Prisoners" by Guy de Maupassant-NP-French-Prussian war story
4. "The Signal" by V. N. Garshin-NP-late Czarist Story about a rail road worker-Russian
5. "Old Shloyme" by Issac Babel-NP-early story-Russian
6. "Issac Isaakovich" by Issac Babel-NP-early story-Russian
7. "Shabbos Nakhamu"  by Issac Babel-NP-Russian-early story
8. Chasing Butterflies by Richie Singh-India-review book
9. A Tale of Two Cities-byCharles Dickens-UK
10. The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe-Japan
11. "Visiting Hours" by Emma Donaghue -Ireland
12. "God Sees the Truth but Waits" by Leo Tolstoy-Russia
13. "A Work of Art" by Anton Chekhov-NP-Russian-an interesting twist at the end
14. "Leinigen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stepenson-NP-German-the movie, The Naked Jungle was based on this-exciting story 
15. Gathering Fire by Suzanne Collins-NP-kind of bored me
16. "The End of the World" by Sushma Jushi-Nepal
17. "I Cried Last Night" by Sushma Jushi-Nepal
18. "Two  Little Soldiers" by Guy de Maupassant-NP-a bit of a melodrama but a good story-FRANCE
19. Untouchable by Mulk Arand
20. "Childhood, At My Grandmother" by Issac Babel-NP-Russian-very good story about family ties and culture
21. "Father Million"-Prussian war story-very melodramatic-revenge over death-NP-France
22. "A Coop D'Etat" by Guy de Maupassant-NP-a political story-France
23. "Some Words with a Mummy" by Edgar Allen  Poe"  np USA-standard conversation with a mummy story!
24. "A Platonic Relationship" by Anne Beattie  USA
25. "Wolf Dreams" by Anne Beattie  USA
26. "The Story of My Dove Cot" by Issac Babel-Russia-very good tale of growing up-NP
27. "A Night in the Hills" by Paz Benejito-Philippines
28. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe-Nigeria
29. "The Dabba Dabba Tree" by Yasutaka Tsutsui-Japan
30. "Illusions"  by Jean Rhys-Dominica-
31. "The Heart Fails Without Warning" by Hilary Mantel-UK
32. "An Account of Some Disturbances at Aungier Street" by James Sheridan le Fanu-Ireland-NP
33. "Poor Visitors" by Jamaica Kincaid-Antigua
34. "The Failure" by Jonathan Franzen-USA
35. Red Cavalry and Other Stories by Issac Babel-Russia
36. "The Way We Were" by Susan Sontag-USA
37. "Albert Nobbs" by George Moore-Ireland
38. "Rain Horse" by Ted Hughes UK
39. "Midair" by Frank Conroy USA
40. "Beer Run to LLandundo" by Kevin Barry -Ireland
41. "A Family Man" by V. S. Pritchard-UK
42. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens UK
43. Back by Henry Green-UK
44. "Magnificence" by Estella Alfon-Philippines
45. One of a Kind" by Julian Barnes  UK
46. "Aisling" by Colum McCann Ireland
47. "A Star Trap" by Bram Stoker-Ireland\

February 2012

1. "Smart Money" by Philip Roth USA
2. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry India/Canada
3. "Invisible Japanese Gentlemen" by Graham Greene UK
4. "One of a Kind" by Julian Barnes  UK
5. "Philomela" by Emma Tennant  USA
6. "Brownstone" by Reneta Adler  USA
7. "Hotel des Boobs" by David Lodge  UK
8. "Smart Money" by Philip Roth  USA
9. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden USA
10. "The Hair of the Prophet" by Salman Rushdie  India
11. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West   UK
12. "Queen Hortense" by Guy de Maupasant France
13. "Strange Comforts Afforded by the Profession" Malcolm Lowry, UK NP
14. "The Lotus" by Jean Rhys-UK/Dominica-NP
15. "The Night of the Ugly Ones" by Mario Benedetti-Podcast-no post-Uruguay
16. Silas Marner by George Eliot-UK
17. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann-Germany
18. "My Wife is a White Russian" by Rose Termain-NP  UK
19. "The Unkindest Blow" by Saki-NP-Germany
20. "The Jew" by Ivan Turgenev Russian
21. "An Unhappy Girl" by Ivan Turgenev-Russian-NP
22. "The Crocodile"  by Fyodor Dostoyesky-Russian
23. "The Pupil" by Henry James-USA
24. Cousin Bette by Honore Balzac-France
25. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev-Russia

March

1.  In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka-e notes by Jen Kruse
2.  "How to Fall" by Edith Pearlman-NP
3.  "The Discovery of the High Lhama" by Sushma Joshi
4.  Yiyun Li-Two Stories
5.  "How my Brother Brought Home a Wife" by Manuel  
6.  The Sense of And Ending by Julius Barnes
7.  "Home Sickness" by George Moore
8.  "Eveline" by James Joyce
9.  "Going into Exhile" by Liam O'Flaherty
10. "The Model Millionaire" by Oscar Wilde
11.  Lady Wilde-three stories
12.  Joseph Sheridan le Fanu-Two Stories
13.  "The Kith and the Elf Folk" by Lord Dunsanny
14.  "No Angel" by Bernie McGill
15.  Frank O'Connor-two of his most famous stories
16. "The Weaver's Grave" by Seamus O'Kenny
17.  "A Rhinocerous, a horse, and some ladies" by James Stephens
18.  "Her Table Spread" by Elizabeth Bowen
19.  "New From Dublin" by Colm Toibin
20.  "Somewhere in Minnesota" by O. Foyle
21. "The Illusion of Freedom" by Shauna Gilligan
22.  "Fergus O'Mara and the Air Demons" by Patrick Kennedy
23.  "Beast and the Bear" by Ethel Rohan
24.  "Owney and Owney Ne Pak" by Gerald Griffin
25.  "Jamie Freel and the Young Lady" by Leticia McClintlock
26.  "The Brewery of Egg Shells" by Thomas Croftton
27.  "Moving Statues" by Elizabeth Reapy
28.  "Frank Martin and the Fairies" by William Carleton
29.  "Vronsky's Teeth" by Sheila Mannix
30.  "The Piper and the Puca" by Douglas Hyde
31. "The Mouse" by Katie Ferguson
32.  "The Blacklight Ballroom" by Peter Murphy
33.  "The Lemerick Gloves" by Maria Edgeworth
34.  "A Wet Day" by Mary Lavin
35.  "The Bag Man's Pony" by Edith Somerville and Violet Martin
36.  "Daylight Dreams" by Eddie Stack
37. "Trespass" by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
38.  "The Fjord of Killary" by Kevin Barry
39."First Conjuction" by Julia O' Faolain
40. "The Faithless Wife" by Sean O'Faolain
41. "The News from Dublin" by Colm Toibin
42. Her Table Spread" by Elizabeth Bowen
43. "A Rhinoceros, Some Ladies, and A Horse" by JameStepehens
44. "The Druid" by Frank Delaney
45. "The Weaver's Grove" by Seamus O'Kelly
46.  "The Poteen Maker" by Michael McClaverty
47.  "The Priest" by Daniel Crockery
48.  She by H.Rider Haggard
49.  "Death in Jerusalem" by William Trevor
50.  "Delta" by Anne Enright
51.  "News for the Church" by Frank O'Connor
52.  "A Priest in the Family" by Colm Toibin
53.  "Desert Island" by Terrance de Verre White
54.  River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
55.  "The Bishop" by Anton Chekhov
56.  "Father Alexyei's Story" by Ivan Turgenev
56.  Famine:  Galway's Darkest Years by William Henry
57.  "The Miraculous Revenge" by George Bernard Shaw
58.  "The Wisdom of the King" by William Butler Yeats

April

1.  "The Potten Maker" by Michael McLaverty

May

1.  Steamships and the Rise of King Cotton by Robert Gudmestad

2. "The Wedding Gown" by George Moore

3.  "The Clerk's Quest" by George Moore

4.  "A Playhouse in the Waste" by George Moore
5.  Virginia Woolf:  The Will to Create as a Woman by Ruth Gerber
6.  Bending the Boyne by J S. Dunn
7. "Bombay's Republic" by Rotimi Babatunde
8.  The Black Prophet:  A Tale of the Irish Famine by William Carleton.  
9.  "The Story of Tuan Maccairill" by James Stephens
10.  The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
11.  The Rising of the Moon by Lady Gregory
12.  "Samhain" by Alice Walsh
13.  "Seven Pictures Not Taken" by Emma Donaghue
14.  "Saturday's Kiss" by Kate Dempsey
15.  "Hawk" by John Walsh
16.  The Absolutist by John Boyne
17.  "The Drunkard" by Frank O'Connor
18.  "Jumbo's Wife" by Frank O'Connor
19.   "The Shoemaker" by Seamus O'Kelly
20.  "Atlantic City" by Kevin Barry
21.  The Woman  Who Could Not Forget:   Irish Chang Before and Beyond the Rape of Nanking by Irish Chang
22.  "Sightseeing in Louth"  by Bernadette Smyth
23.  "Philippa's Fox Hunt" by Edith Somerville and Violet Martin
24.  August is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
25.  "Judgement Day" by Flannery O'Connor
26.  Mother America by Nuala Ni Chonchuir
27.  "I Can See You, Bianca" by Maeve Brennan
28.  The Absolutist  by John Boyne
29.  "Hawk" by John Walsh
30.  Bending the Boyne by J. S. Dunn
31.  "Bombay's Republic" by
32.  "Saturday's Kiss" by Kate Dempsey
33.  The Black Prophet:  A Tale of the Irish Famine by William Carleton
34.  "The Story of Tuan MacCairill" by James Stephens
35.  "Seven Pictures Not Taken" by Emma Donoghue
36.  "Alms Giving" by George Moore
37.  "So He Fares" by George Moore
38.  The Rising of the Moon by Lady Augusta Gregory
39.  Virginia Woolf:   The Will to Create as a Woman by 
40.  The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
41.  Steamboats and the Rise of King Cotton by
42.  The Untilled Field  by George Moore
43.  Esther Waters by George Moore
44.  "Love on Trial" by Stanley Kenani
45.  "Urban Zone" by Billy Kahora
46.  "Transatlantic" by Colum McCann
47.  The Evil Guest by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
48.   Castle Rackrent  by Maria Edgeworth
49. "Near the Bone" by Cherry Smyth

June

1.  "The Pug Nosed Fox" by Violet Somerville and Ross Martin
2.  Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
3.  "Man Eater" by Valerie Sirr
4.  Rebels of Ireland:  The Dublin Saga by Edward Rutherdord
5.  "The Beginnings of an Idea" by Joseph McGahern
6.  "Hedge Schools" by William Carelton
7.  Border Lines by John Walsh

July

1.  Ireland by Frank Delaney

2.  Nothing by Henry Green

3.  Muslin by George Moore

August

1.   "On the Quai at Smyrna" by Ernest Hemingway-NP

2.  "The Mats" by Francisco  Arcellana 
3.  Narcopolis by Jeet Thayl
4.  The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
5.  The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaajte
6.  The Plague by Albert Camus
7.  "Androcles and the Lion" by George Bernard Shaw
8.  Miss Jule by August Strindberg
9.  Of Gentle Wolves:  An Anthology of Romanian Poetry
10.  The Playboy of the Western World by John Synge
11.  Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
12.  Waiting for Mahatma" by R. K. Narayan
13.  The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
14.  Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
15.  Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
16.  The Printer of Malgudi by R. K. Narayan
17.  Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
18.  A Room with a View by E. F. Forster
19.  E. M. Forster -A Life by P. N. Furbank
20.  Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
21.  Getting Even-Erotic Revenge Stories edited by Mitzi Serazea
22.  Howards End by E. M. Forster 

2013

Books Read

January

1.   Safe as Houses by Marie-Helene Bertino (short story collection)

2.  The Unquiet Grave by Cyril Connolly 
3.  Embracing Defeat:  Japan After WWII by John Dower-nonfiction
4.  Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
5.  Revenge-11 Dark Tales by Yoko Ogawa (short story collection)
6.  A Quiet Life by Kenzaburo Oe
7.   How Reading Changed My Life by Anne Quinlinn (no post)
8.  The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

9.  Artful by Ali Smith

10.  The Black Russian by Vladimir Alexandrov
11.  The Shelter of Neighbors by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne  (short story collection)
12.  Artful by Ali Smith
13.  Spirited Away:  A Novel of the Stolen Irish by Maggie Plummer
14.  The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yokio Mishima

February

1.  Elizabeth Bowen:   A Biography by Victoria Gledinning-second read-NP

2.  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

3.  Someone at  Distance by Dorothy Whipple

4.  Possession  by A. S. Byatt

5.  The Van by Roddy Doyle

6.  The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
7.  Stolen Lives:   Irish Slaves by Maggie Plummer
8.  A Small Inheritance by Pat Jourdon
9.  The Keepsake by Kirsty Gunn
10.  Runaway Stories by Alice Munro-NP

March

1.  In Too Deep and other Stories by Billy O'Callahan

2.  The Love Object by Edna O'Brien

3.  Snow Shoes by Eileen Casey

4.  Cut Through the Bone by Ethel Rohan

April

1.  Tea at Midland by David Constantine

2.  Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland by W. J. Mcgrerr

3.  Strumpet City by James Plunkett

4.  The Face of Another by Kobe Abe

5.  Occasion of Sin:  Sex and Society in Modern Ireland

6.   Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor

7.  No Paradiso by William Walls

8.  Ancient Light by John Banville

9.  Call Me the Breeze by Patrick McCabe

10.  Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

11.  Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor

12.  In Exile by Billy O'Callaghan