after silence
bones of the moon
black cocktail
a child across the sky
outside the dog museum
the panic hand
kissing the beehive
the land of laughs
the marriage of sticks

from the teeth of angels
sleeping in flame
voice of our shadow
the wooden sea



  
  

Jonathan's Past Reading Lists
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BLACK JUICE by Margo Lanagan

WRITTEN LIVES by Javier Marais

STRANGERS by Taichi Yamada

THE AMALGAMATION POLKA by Stephen Wright

SELECTED POEMS by Carol Ann Duffy


SUMMER IN WILLIAMSBURG by Daniel Fuchs

THE MAN WHO GAVE UP HIS NAME by Jim Harrison


THE EXAMINED LIFE by Robert Nozick


CRUSH by Richard Siken (poetry)

SPENCER HOLST stories

The short stories of Julio Cortazar

EASTER ISLAND by Jennifer Vanderbes

A SUDDEN COUNTRY by Karen Fisher

LAST NIGHT by James Salter

REFUSING HEAVEN by Jack Gilbert

A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS by Amos Oz


THE KITE RUNNER-- by Khaled Hosseini

MY FRIEND LEONARD- by James Frey

THE HORSEMEN-- by Joseph Kessel

DINO-- by Nick Tosches

BANGKOK 8-- by John Burdett


YOU REMIND ME OF ME by Dan Chaon

BIG BAD LOVE by Larry Brown

POINTS FOR A COMPASS ROSE by Evan Connell jr

SOUTHERN FRIED by William Price Fox

THE TONGUE SET FREE by Elias Canetti

THE BLOODY CHAMBER by Angela Carter

AIRSHIPS by Barry Hannah

THE CHRYSANTHEMUM PALACE by Bruce Wagner

WHEN THE NINES ROLL OVER by David Benioff


HOME LAND  by Sam Lipsyte

THE HALF BROTHER by Lars Saabye Christensen

LAUGHABLE LOVES by Milan Kundera

BLOODTIDE by Melvin Burgess

TRAIN by Pete Dexter

ABANDON by Pico Ayer

THE CONFESSIONS OF MAX TIVOLI by Andrew Sean Greer


OUTLET by Randy Taguchi

MEN AND CARTOONS by Jonathan Lethem

GIVE US A KISS-- by Daniel Woodrell

I'M NOT SCARED-- by Niccolo Ammaniti

THE WAR OF DON EMMANUEL'S NETHER
PARTS-- by Louis de Bernieres

THE BEST AMERICAN UNREQUIRED READING-- edited by Dave Eggers

GOTHAM TRAGIC-- by Kurt Wenzel

THE PACIFIC-- by Mark Helprin

READING RILKE-- by William H. Gass


SHANTARAM-- by Gregory Roberts

LADY: MY LIFE AS A BITCH-- by Melvin Burgess

FOREVER-- by Pete Hamill

THE SHALLOW MAN-- by Coerte Felske

A SPORT AND A PASTIME-- by James Salter

MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING-- by Viktor Frankl

THE ART OF WILLIAM EDMONDSON

THE APHORISMS OF GEORG LICHTENBERG


THE LAST CROSSING by Guy Vanderhaeghe

ENDLESS LOVE by Scott Spencer

THE EASTER HOUSE by David Rhodes

SOMEONE TO RUN WITH by David Grossman

BATAVIA'S GRAVEYARD by Mike Dash

CLOUD ATLAS by David Mitchell

FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies

THE MANTICORE by Robertson Davies

WORLD OF WONDERS by Robertson Davies


THE GREAT FIRE by Shirley Hazzard

THE CHERRY TREE by Dan Pope

THE CAR THIEF by Theodore Weesner

A FAN'S NOTES by Frederick Exley

IN A DARK WOOD by Amanda Craig

MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE

MEN-- by George Gurdjieff
BOYHOOD WITH GURDJIEFF by Fritz Peters

SUNDOG by Jim Harrison

THE BOOK OF JOB-- translation by Stephen Mitchell

MOMENT by Wislawa Szymborska (poetry)

THE FAIRY GUNMOTHER by Daniel Pennac

STILL HOLDING- Bruce Wagner

THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE- Jonathan Lethem

THE PORCUPINE'S KISSES- Stephen Dobyns

MORTAL MEMORY- Thomas L. Cook


COLD SNAP-Thom Jones

THE GUN RUNNER'S DAUGHTER-
Noah Gordon

A BOOK OF LUMINOUS THINGS-edited by
Czeslaw Milosz

SOLO FACES- James Salter

PEACE- Gene Wolfe

LAUGHABLE LOVES- Milan Kundera


CORALINE-- by Neil Gaiman

ROSS AND TOM-- by John Leggett

THE JOHN COLLIER READER

PSALM AT JOURNEY'S END--
by Erik Fosnes Hansen

THE NAMES-- by Don DeLillo

AMPHIGOREY-- by Edward Gorey

A TRIP TO THE STARS--
by Nicholas Christopher

AN AMERICAN ROMANCE by John Casey

THE LANGUAGE OF CATS-- by Spencer Holst


Sailing Around the Room-- Billy Collins

Seven Gothic Tales-- Isak Dinesen

In Concert Performance-- Nikolai Dezhnev

Observatory Mansions-- Edward Carey

Five Seasons-- AB Yehoshua

Gob's Grief-- Chris Adrian

The Muse Asylum-- David Czuchlewski

The Big Blowdown-- George P. Pelecanos

The Power of Now-- Eckhart Tolle


Two Guys from Verona-- James Kaplan

In the Skin of a Lion-- Michael Ondaatje

On Being Blue-- William Gass

Mile High-- Richard Condon

The Secret Life of Puppets-- Victoria Nelson


LIGHT YEARS by James Salter

EUREKA STREET by Robert McLiam Wilson

RITUALS by Cees Nooteboom

GOING BLIND by Jonathan Penner

CROWS by Charles Dickinson

THE SONG OF THE EARTH by Hugh Nissenson

MADAME by Antoni Libera

TROMBONE by Craig Nova


KISSING IN MANHATTAN by David Schickler

CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL by Glen David Gold

FOUR MEALS by Meir Shalev

AFTER THE WAR by Richard Marius

THE SEA CAME IN AT MIDNIGHT by Steve Erickson

ILLYWHACKER & JACK MAGGS by Peter Carey

WE'VE HAD ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE WORLD'S GETTING WORSE by James Hillman and Michael Ventura

DONKEY GOSPEL (poetry) by Tony Hoagland

A BOOK OF LUMINOUS THINGS (poetry anthology)

ELEVEN KINDS OF LONELINESS(short stories) by Richard Yates

STONE JUNCTION by Jim Dodge


NORWEGIAN WOOD by Haruki Murakami

PERFUME by Patrick Suskind

STRANGE LOYALTIES by William McIlvanney

TIME AND THE ART OF LIVING(essays) by Robert Grudin

WHY THE TREE LOVES THE AXE by Jim Lewis

DREAMS OF LEAVING by Rupert Thomson

THE GREAT FIRES (poetry) by Jack Gilbert

MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN by Jonathan Lethem


THE TOOTH FAIRY by Graham Joyce

EUCALYPTUS by Murray Bail

MYSTIC RIVER by Dennis Lehane

RITUALS by Cees Nooteboom

THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS by Antonio Lobo Antunes

CHIMNEY ROCK by Charlie Smith

THE PHYSIOGNOMY by Jeffrey Ford

NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Thomas Lux

THE DENIAL OF DEATH by Ernest Becker

AN ARTIFICIAL WILDERNESS by Sven Birkert


GOJIRO by Mark Jacobson

FORCE MAJEURE by Bruce Wagner

TERESTRIALS by Paul West

EDWIN MULLHOUSE by Stephen Millhauser

THE LIVING END by Stanley Elkin

DEATH AND THE DERVISH by Mesa Selimovich

THE ROYAL GAME by Stefan Zweig

THE SELECTED POETRY OF YEHUDA AMICHAI

FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE by Niall Williams

IN THE SKIN OF A LION by Michael Ondaatje

ROCK ISLAND LINE, THE EASTER HOUSE by David Rhodes

BOY WONDER by James Robert Baker

LORD OF THE BARNYARD byTristan Egolf

KING RAT by China Mieville

THE INVISIBLE WAY by Reshad Feild

WICKED by Gregory Maguire

ENDURING LOVE, BLACK DOGS by Ian McEwan

NEW AND SELECTED POETRY by Thomas Lux

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