create a list of 100 must-read books and read them.

This goal recycles well.

I outdid this goal ages ago. I’ve been working on a Master’s Degree. Here is a list of books I read this Semester.

1. Anderson, Laurie. Night Life. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, Edition 7L, 2006.
2. Atwood, Margaret. Bluebeard’s Egg and other stories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986.
3. Atwood, Margaret. Moral Disorder and other stories. New York: Nan A. Talese-Doubleday, 2006.
4. Atwood, Margaret. Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
5. Atwood, Margaret. Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005.
6. Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida. 1980. New York: Hill and Wang – Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981.
7. Becker, Ernest. The Denial of Death. 1973. New York: Free Press Paperbacks – Simon & Schuster, 1997.
8. Bordo, Susan. The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and Private. 1999. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
9. Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and The Body. 1993. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
10. Bukovinsky Teacher, Janet. Women of Words: A Personal Introduction to Thirty-Five Important Writers. Philadelphia: Courage Books – Running Press, 1994.
11. Bukowski, Charles. Women. 1978. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1994.
12. Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road. 1932. Boston: Signet Book-The New American Library, 1959.
13. Capote, Truman. The Complete Stories of Truman Capote. New York: Vintage Books – Random House, Inc., 2004.
14. Cather, Willa. A Lost Lady. 1923. Thorndike, Maine: Thorndike Press, 1951.
15. Chödrön, Pema. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times. Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc.. 1997.
16. Collins-Ranadive, Gail. Finding the Voice Inside: Writing As a Spiritual Quest for Women. Boston: Skinner House Books, 2002.
17. Couturier, Andy. Writing Open the Mind: Tapping the Subconscious to Free the Writing and the Writer. Berkeley, California: Ulysses Press, 2005.
18. Critical Fictions: The Politics of Imaginative Writing (Discussions in Contemporary Culture , No 7).ed. Philomena, Mariani. Seattle: Bay Press, 1991.
19. Deemer, Charles. Oregon Dream: A Play in Two Acts. Portland: Sextant Books, 2008.
20. Dijkstra, Bram. Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Culture. 1996. New York: Owl Book – Henry Holt and Company, 1998.
21. Dunne, Peter. Emotional Structure: Creating the Story Beneath the Plot: A Guide for Screenwriters. Sanger, CA: Quill Driver Books – Word Dancer Press, Inc., 2007.
22. e e cummings. i six nonlectures. 1953. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977.
23. Eugenides, Jeffrey. The Virgin Suicides. 1993. New York: Warner Business Books, 2000.
24. Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters. Ed. Gina Frangello. Chicago: Hourglass Books, 2004.
25. Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1998.
26. Gloss, Molly. Wild Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
27. Goldman, William. The Princess Bride. 1973. New York: Ballantine Books, 1998.
28. Hegi, Ursula. Hotel of the Saints. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001.
29. Heilbrun, Carolyn G. Writing a Woman’s Life. 1988. New York: Ballantine Books, 1989.
30. Hyde, Lewis. The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property. 1979. New York: Vintage Books-Random House, 1983.
31. I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America’s Top Comics. ed. Ritch Shydner and Mark Schiff. New York: Crown Publishers, 2006.
32. Jacobs Brumberg, Joan. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. 1997. New York: First Vintage Books Edition, 1998.
33. Kasischke, Laura. Suspicious River. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.
34. Koontz, Dean R. Writing Popular Fiction. 1972. Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer’s Digest Books, 1979.
35. Laux, Dorianne. Superman: The Chapbook. Red Wing, Minnesota: Red Dragonfly Press, 2008.
36. Le Guin, Ursula K. The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on The Writer, The Reader, and The Imagination. Boston: Shambhala, 2004.
37. Le Guin, Ursula K. Unlocking the Air and Other Stories. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.
38. Lee, John. Writing from the Body. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
39. Lerring, Laraine. Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice. Boston & London: Shambhala, 2007.
40. Levy, Barbara. Ladies Laughing: Wit as Control in Contemporary American Women Writers (Studies in Humor and Gender).
41. Levy, David. Love + Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships. New York: Harper – HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.
42. Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories. Ed. John Klima. New York: Bantam Dell – Random House, 2007.
43. Lost on Purpose: Women in the City. Ed. Amy Prior. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2005.
44. Lynch, David. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin – the Penguin Group, 2006.
45. McDermott, Steven J. Winter of Different Directions. Anacortes, WA: Storyglossia Press, 2007.
46. McLuhan, Marshall. The Medium is the Massage: And Inventory of Effects. 1967. Corte Madera, CA: Jerome Agel – Ginko Press, 2001.
47. Miller, Jane. Women Writing About Men. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.
48. Oates, Joyce Carol. First Love. Hopewell, New Jersey: The Ecco Press, 1996.
49. Olsen, Tillie. Silences. 1965. New York: Delacorte Press-Seymour Lawrence, 1978.
50. Ortiz Cofer, Judith. Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer. Athens & London: The University of Georgia Press, 2000.
51. Outlaw Bible of American Essays. Ed. Alan Kaufman. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press – Avalon Publishing Group, Inc. 2006.
52. Ozick, Cynthia. The Din in the Head. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.
53. Paradiz, Valerie. Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales. New York: Basic Books – Perseus Book Group, 2005.
54. Pinkola Estes, Clarissa, Ph.D. Women Who Run With the Wolves. New York: Ballantine Books, 1992.
55. Pollitt, Katha. Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories. New York: Random House, 2007.
56. Rich, Adrienne. On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966 – 1978.New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979.
57. Robbins, Trina. Eternally Bad: Goddesses with an Attitude. Berkeley, California: Conari Press, 2001.
58. Roots and Branches: Contemporary Essays by West Coast Writers. Ed. Howard Junker. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1991.
59. Russo, Richard. The Whore’s Child and Other Stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
60. Saunders, George. The Braindead Megaphone. New York: Riverhead Books, 2007.
61. Sebold, Alice. Lucky.1999. Boston: Back Bay Books – Little, Brown and Company – Scribner, 2002.
62. Shlain, Richard. The Alphabet versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image. New York: Penguin-Compass, 1998.
63. Shōnagon, Sei. The Pillow Book. Eleventh century. Trans. Meredith McKinney, 2006. London: Penguin Books – Penguin Classics, 2006.
64. Sleeping With One Eye Open: Women Writers and the Art of Survival. Ed. Marilyn Kallet and Judith Ortiz Cofer. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1999.
65. Steinem, Gloria. Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
66. Take My Advice: Letter to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two. Ed. James L. Harmon. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
67. Tharp, Twyla. The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it For Life. 2003. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2006.
68. Twain, Mark. The Diary of Adam and Eve. Extracts from Letters from the Earth. 1938-1962. Ed. Bernard DeVoto. London: Et Remotissima Prope – Hesperus Press Limited, 2002
69. Untying the Tongue: Gender, Power and the Word. Ed. Linda Longmire and Lisa Merrill. Westport, Connecticut: Hofstra University, 1998.
70. Voices of the Xiled: a generation speaks for itself. Ed. Michael Wexler and John Hulme. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. – Main Street Books, 1994.
71. White, Emily. Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut. New York: Scribner, 2002.
72. Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution. Ed. Brenda Knight. Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 1996.
73. Women Writers Talk: Interviews with 10 Women Writers. Ed. Olga Kenyon. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1989.
74. Woolf, Virginia. Freshwater. 1935. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
75. Woolf, Virginia. Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories. 1921. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1997.
76. Woolf, Virginia. Orlando; A Biography. 1928. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 2006.
77. Word: On Being a Woman Writer (On Writing Herself). edited by Jocelyn Burrell. New York: The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2004.
78. Writers and Company: In Conversation with Eleanor Wachtel. 1993. San Diego, New York, London: Harvest Original-Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994.
79. Writing Prose: Techniques and Purposes: 6th Edition. Ed. Thomas S. Kane and Leonard J. Peters. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
80. Wurtzel, Elizabeth. The Secret of Life: commonsense advice for uncommon women. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.
81. Yagoda, Ben. When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse. New York: Broadway Books, 2007.

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