ÿþ<html> <head> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> <title>A-Z in 2005</title> </head> <body> <FONT FACE="georgia, garamond, times"> <FONT SIZE="-2"> <A HREF="http://www.macmullen.com/">MacMullen.com</A> / <A HREF="http://www.macmullen.com/books/index.html">Books</A> / A-Z in 2005 </FONT> <BR><BR> <!-- top nav --> <table WIDTH="700" BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="3" CELLSPACING="0" ALIGN="center"> <tr><td BGCOLOR="#CFCFCF" ALIGN="center"> <font FACE="arial" SIZE="-1"> <b>Go to: </b> <a href="index.html">Chronological list</a> | <a href="alpha.html">Alpha list</a> | <a href="stats.html">Statistics</a> | <a href="2006garden.html">In the Garden in 2006</a> | A-Z in 2005 <br> <a href="100books.html">100 books in 2004</a> | <a href="100x100.html">100x100</a> | <a href="themes.html">Reading themes</a> </font> </td></tr></table> <br> <FONT SIZE=+1><b>A - Z in 2005</b></FONT> <BR><BR> In 2005, one of my reading goals was to read one book per week by authors whose last names begin with the letters A-Z, going through the alphabet twice (52 books in 52 weeks). Since I read <a href="index.html#2005">so many others</a> in between, here's the list of the alphabetical books alone, in order: <BR><BR> <table border=0 width=90% cellspacing=3> <tr> <td valign="top"><B>A. </B><A HREF="http://www.paulauster.co.uk/">Auster, Paul</A></td> <td valign="top">The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, the Locked Room</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0140131558">0140131558</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>B.</B> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunyan">Bunyan, John</a></td> <td valign="top">The Pilgrim's Progress From This World, to That Which is to Come [1678]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0192803611">0192803611</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>C.</B> <A HREF="http://webpages.charter.net/jsa1/jcrowley/">Crowley, John</A></td> <td valign="top">The Translator [<i>Lithe and lyrical.</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0380978628">0380978628</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>D. </B> <A HREF="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Andy_Duncan">Duncan, Andy</A></td> <td valign="top">Beluthahatchie and other Stories [<i>Outstanding. An immense talent.</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0965590119">0965590119</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>E.</B> <A HREF="http://www.clydeedgerton.com/">Edgerton, Clyde</A></td> <td valign="top">The Floatplane Notebooks [<i>Clyde is so sly. This is my favorite so far. You might could call it 'As I Lay Flying'.</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0345359844">0345359844</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>F.</B> <A HREF="http://www.sfwa.org/members/Fowler/">Fowler, Karen Joy</A></td> <td valign="top">Sarah Canary [<i>Mesmerizing.</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0345416449">0345416449</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>G.</B> <A HREF="http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/index.html">Garcia Marquez, Gabriel</A></td> <td valign="top">Love in the Time of Cholera</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0394561619">0394561619</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>H. </B> <A HREF="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3936011">Hagen, George</a></td> <td valign="top">The Laments</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/1400062217">1400062217</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>I.</B> <A HREF="http://www.randomhouse.com/randomhouse/authors/results.pperl?authorid=14109">Irving, John</A></td> <td valign="top">The World According to Garp</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0679603069">0679603069</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>J. </B> <A HREF="http://www.powells.com/authors/jin.html">Jin, Xuefei 'Ha'</A></td> <td valign="top">Waiting [<i>recommended by <A HREF="http://www.unc.edu/~ktlv/">KTLV</A></i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0375406530">0375406530</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>K. </B> <A HREF="http://www.a-l-kennedy.co.uk/">Kennedy, A.L.</A></td> <td valign="top">Indelible Acts: Stories</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/1400040558">1400040558</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>L. </B><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jhumpa_Lahiri">Lahiri, Jhumpa</a></td> <td valign="top">Interpreter of Maladies [<i>A consummate storyteller.</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0006551793">0006551793</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>M. </B> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Moody">Moody, Rick</a></td> <td valign="top">The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven : A Novella and Stories</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0446672408">0446672408</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>N. </B> <a href="http://www.nabokov.com/">Nabokov, Vladimir</a></td> <td valign="top">Bend Sinister</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0679727272">0679727272</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>O.</B> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Oz">Oz, Amos</a></td> <td valign="top">Elsewhere, Perhaps [<i>recommended by <A HREF="http://www.unc.edu/~korenman/">wordnerdy</a></i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0151837465">0151837465</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>P.</B> <a href="http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum103.html">Packer, Z.Z.</a></td> <td valign="top">Drinking Coffee Elsewhere: Stories [<i>Honest and radiant</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/1573222348">1573222348</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>Q. </B> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiu_Xiaolong">Qiu, Xiaolong</a></td> <td valign="top">Death of a Red Heroine [<i>A poetic Shanghai police procedural</i>.]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/1569471932">1569471932</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>R. </B> <a href="http://www.economist.com/mediadirectory/listing.cfm?journalistID=13">Rocco, Fiammetta</a></td> <td valign="top">The Miraculous Fever-Tree : Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0060199512">0060199512</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>S. </B> <a href="http://www.penguinputnam.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000029334,00.html">Spence, June</a></td> <td valign="top">Change Baby</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/1573222860">1573222860</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>T. </B> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy">Tolstoy, Leo</a></td> <td valign="top">Anna Karenina [<i>If I had a dollar for every time someone <a href="http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/anna/qa/obc_featbook_anna_qa_display.jhtml?contentId=20040716_04.xml">blushed</a> in this book, I could fly to Moscow.</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0143035002">0143035002</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>U. </B> <a href="http://www.identitytheory.com/people/birnbaum53.html">Udall, Brady</a></td> <td valign="top">Letting Loose the Hounds: Stories</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/039304033X">039304033X</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>V. </B> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Verga">Verga, Giovanni</a></td> <td valign="top">Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories [<i>trans. by G.H. McWilliam</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0140447415">0140447415</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>W. </B> <a href="http://www.powells.com/s?author=Jincy%20Willett">Willett, Jincy</a></td> <td valign="top">Jenny and the Jaws of Life : Short Stories</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0312306180">0312306180</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>X. </B><a href="http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0471356735">Xu, Meihong</a> & Engelmann, Larry</td> <td valign="top">Daughter of China : A True Story of Love and Betrayal</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0471356735">0471356735</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>Y. </B> <a href="http://lynnyork.com/">York, Lynn</a></td> <td valign="top">The Piano Teacher</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0452284775">0452284775</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>Z. </B><a href="http://www.marykayzuravleff.com/">Zuravleff, Mary Kay</a></td> <td valign="top">The Frequency of Souls</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0374158517">0374158517</a></td> </tr><tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><b>A. </b> <a href="http://www.isabelallende.com/">Allende, Isabel</a></td> <td valign="top">Daughter of Fortune</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/006019491X">006019491X</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>B. </B> <a href="http://alumni.unc.edu/article.asp?SID=2619">Betts, Doris</a></td> <td valign="top">Souls Raised from the Dead [<i>Very nice; we might call this "The Narcissist's Daughter" for its similarities to <a href="http://www.regbook.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storeinfo&page=246902">Miss Eudora's tale</a></i>.]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0684844753">0684844753</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>C. </B> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Chappell">Chappell, Fred</a></td> <td valign="top">I Am One of You Forever [<i>Recommended by <a href="http://www.clydeedgerton.com/">Clyde Edgerton</a>. More poets should write novels.</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0807114103">0807114103</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>D. </B> <a href="http://www.johndufresne.com/">Dufresne, John</a></td> <td valign="top">The Way That Water Enters Stone: Stories</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0452277310">0452277310</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>E. </B> <a href="http://www.themodernword.com/eco/">Eco, Umberto</a></td> <td valign="top">The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (<i>La Misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana</i>) [<i>The semiotician at play; translated by <a href="http://www.geoffreybrock.com/">Geoffrey Brock</a></i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0151011400">0151011400</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>F. </B> <A HREF="http://www.sfwa.org/members/Fowler/">Fowler, Karen Joy</A></td> <td valign="top">Sister Noon [<i>Dreamlike, illusory, sinister, beguiling.</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0399147500">0399147500</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>G. </B> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/results_author.pperl?authorid=11379">Gurganus, Allan</a></td> <td valign="top">White People: Stories and Novellas</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/080410851X">080410851X</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>H. </B><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Helprin">Helprin, Mark</a></td> <td valign="top">Winter s Tale [<i>A <a href="http://www.unc.edu/~korenman/">wordnerdy</a> recommendation</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0156001942">0156001942</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>I. </B><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro">Ishiguro, Kazuo</a></td> <td valign="top">The Remains of the Day</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0679731725">0679731725</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>J. </B><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Jackson">Jackson, Shirley</a></td> <td valign="top">We Have Always Lived in the Castle [1962] [<i>recommended by <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Andy_Duncan">Andy Duncan</a></i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0140071075">0140071075</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>K. </B><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Kenan">Kenan, Randall</a></td> <td valign="top">A Visitation of Spirits</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0375703977">0375703977</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>L. </B><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jhumpa_Lahiri">Lahiri, Jhumpa</a></td> <td valign="top">The Namesake [<i>A unique voice; compassionate and brutal.</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0395927218">0395927218</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>M. </B><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami">Murakami, Haruki</a></td> <td valign="top">The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0679775439">0679775439</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>N. </B><a href="http://english.unc.edu/faculty/naumoffl.html">Naumoff, Lawrence</a></td> <td valign="top">Silk Hope, NC [<i>recommended by <a href="http://www.HavenKimmel.com">Haven Kimmel</a></i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0156881624">0156881624</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>O. </B><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannery_O'Connor">O Connor, Flannery</a></td> <td valign="top">Everything That Rises Must Converge [<i>collection of 9 stories</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0374504644">0374504644</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>P. </B><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_Price">Price, Reynolds</a></td> <td valign="top">A Long and Happy Life</td> <td valign="top">1962 ed.</td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>Q. </B><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Zhongshu">Qian, Zhongshu</a></td> <td valign="top">Fortress Besieged (<i>Wei cheng</i>) [<i>trans. by Jeanne Kelly & Nathan K. Mao</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0811215520">0811215520</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>R. </B><a href="http://www.southernscribe.com/zine/authors/Rash_Ron.htm">Rash, Ron</a></td> <td valign="top">Saints at the River</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0805074872">0805074872</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>S. </B><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Sciascia">Sciascia, Leonardo</a></td> <td valign="top">The Wine-Dark Sea: stories (<i>Il mare colore del vino</i>) [<i>trans. by Avril Bardoni</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0940322536">0940322536</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>T. </B><a href="http://www.blueflowerarts.com/gtimpanelli.html">Timpanelli, Gioia</a></td> <td valign="top">Sometimes the Soul : Two Novellas of Sicily [<i>"si cunta e si recunta..."</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0393027449">0393027449</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>U. </B><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Updike">Updike, John</a></td> <td valign="top">Rabbit, Run</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0394442067">0394442067</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>V. </B><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elio_Vittorini">Vittorini, Elio</a></td> <td valign="top">Conversations in Sicily (<i>Conversazione in Sicilia</i>) [<i>translated by Alane Salierno Mason, foreword by Ernest Hemingway. "One of the great </i>unique<i> books of our literature." --Calvino</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0811214559">0811214559</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>W. </B><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf">Woolf, Virginia</a></td> <td valign="top">To the Lighthouse [<i>Foreword by Eudora Welty; "the novel that once and forever opened the door of imaginative fiction for me".</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0156907399">0156907399</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>X. </B><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9603020222">Xenopoulos, Gregorios</a></td> <td valign="top">The Three-Sided Woman (<i>Trimorphe gynaika</i>) [<i>Trans. by Barbara Kent; something of an amalgam of Daisy Miller and Peyton Place.</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/9603020222">9603020222</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>Y. </B><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._B._Yehoshua">Yehoshua, A.B.</a></td> <td valign="top"> The Lover (<i>Ha-Me'ahev</i>) [<i>Trans. by Philip Simpson; a <a href="http://wordnerdy.blogspot.com/">wordnerdy</a> recommendation.</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0385121342">0385121342</a></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"><B>Z. </B><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Zamyatin">Zamyatin, Yevgeny</a></td> <td valign="top">We &nbsp; [<i>Trans. by Gregory Zilboorg; 1920</i>]</td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0525470395">0525470395</a></td> </tr> </table> <BR><BR> </FONT> </body> </html>