Monday, January 4, 2010

second reading comes to an end

I was sorry to see the end of Jonathan Yardley's Second Reading series, but all the reviews are available online. The Post didn't provide a link for each review, but I've linked up a few that I've read or would like to read. Here's the list:

-- "H.M. Pulham, Esq.," by John P. Marquand.

-- "The Daughter of Time," by Josephine Tey.

-- "W.C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes," by Robert Lewis Taylor.

-- "The Autumn of the Patriarch," by Gabriel García Márquez.

-- "Happy All the Time," by Laurie Colwin.

-- "And Then We Heard the Thunder," by John Oliver Killens.

-- "Reveille in Washington," by Margaret Leach.

-- "The Twelve Caesars," by Suetonius, translated by Robert Graves.

-- "Cheaper by the Dozen," by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey.

-- "Lucky Jim," by Kingsley Amis.

-- "The Clock Winder," by Anne Tyler.

-- "The Dreadful Lemon Sky," by John D. MacDonald.

-- "The Woman Within," by Ellen Glasgow.

-- "Tom Jones," by Henry Fielding.

-- "Paper Tiger," by Stanley Woodward.

-- "The Reivers," by William Faulkner.

-- "The Earl of Louisiana," by A.J. Liebling.

-- "Notes of a Native Son," by James Baldwin.

-- "Rebecca," by Daphne du Maurier.

-- "Someone Like You," by Roald Dahl.

-- "The Long Season," by Jim Brosnan.

-- "The Count of Monte Cristo," by Alexandre Dumas.

-- "Speak, Memory," by Vladimir Nabokov.

-- "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," by Carson McCullers.

-- "No Left Turns," by Joseph L. Schott.

-- "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill," by John Cheever.

-- "Penrod and Sam," by Booth Tarkington.

-- "The Boys on the Bus," by Timothy Crouse.

-- "The Sketch Book," by Washington Irving.

-- "The Catcher in the Rye," by J.D. Salinger .

-- "Crazy Salad," by Nora Ephron.

-- "A New Life," by Bernard Malamud.

-- "Cockfighter," by Charles Willeford.

-- "Cyrano," by Edmund Rostand, translated by Brian Hooker.

-- "The House on Coliseum Street," by Shirley Ann Grau.

-- "Appointment in Samarra," by John O'Hara.

-- "Victory," by Joseph Conrad.

-- "Pogo," by Walt Kelly.

-- "Office Politics," by Wilfrid Sheed.

-- "The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor," edited by Sally Fitzgerald.

-- "Generation of Vipers," by Philip Wylie.

-- "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant," by Douglass Wallop.

-- "The Death of the Heart," by Elizabeth Bowen.

-- "Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans," by Louis Armstrong.

-- "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin."

-- "Instant Replay," by Jerry Kramer with Dick Schaap.

-- "Look at Me," by Anita Brookner.

-- "Beat to Quarters," by C.S. Forester.

-- "The Fathers," by Allen Tate.

-- "Bleak House," by Charles Dickens.

-- "Sula," by Toni Morrison.

-- "St. Urbain's Horseman," by Mordecai Richler.

-- "Treasure Island," by Robert Louis Stevenson.

-- "Giant," by Edna Ferber.

-- "The Revolt of Mamie Stover," by William Bradford Huie.

-- "The Robber Bridegroom," by Eudora Welty.

-- "Fanny Hill," by John Cleland.

-- "Veeck -- As in Wreck," by Bill Veeck with Ed Linn.

-- "Poets in Their Youth," by Eileen Simpson.

-- "The Damnation of Theron Ware," by Harold Frederic.

-- "A Moveable Feast," by Ernest Hemingway.

-- "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

-- "The Mountain Lion," by Jean Stafford.

-- "Black Like Me," by John Howard Griffin.

-- "The Ox-Bow Incident," by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.

-- "My Life and Hard Times," by James Thurber.

-- "The Woman Warrior," by Maxine Hong Kingston.

-- "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House," by Eric Hodgins.

-- "Morte d'Urban," by J.F. Powers.

-- "The Stardust Road," by Hoagy Carmichael.

-- "I Was Dancing," by Edwin O'Connor.

-- "Little House in the Big Woods," by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

-- "Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's," by Frederick Lewis Allen.

-- "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," by Joan Didion.

-- "Lie Down in Darkness," by William Styron.

-- "My Young Years," by Arthur Rubenstein.

-- "Cannery Row," by John Steinbeck.

-- "Scott Fitzgerald," by Andrew Turnbull.

-- "The Rector of Justin," by Louis Auchincloss.

-- "The Shooting Party," by Isabel Colegate.

-- "The Elements of Style," by William Strunk and E.B. White. (related post here)

-- "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream," by Hunter S. Thompson.

-- "Dale Loves Sophie to Death," by Robb Forman Dew.

-- "About Three Bricks Shy of a Load," by Roy Blount Jr.

-- "Act One," by Moss Hart.

-- "Black Boy," by Richard Wright.

-- "The Young Lions," by Irwin Shaw.

-- "The Proud Tower," by Barbara Tuchman.

-- "Never Love a Stranger," by Harold Robbins.

-- "The Spawning Run" and "My Moby Dick," by William Humphrey.

-- "Newspaper Days," by H.L. Mencken.

-- "Pride and Prejudice," by Jane Austen.

-- "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," by Mark Twain.

-- "Pomp and Circumstance," by Noël Coward.

-- "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," by Thornton Wilder.

-- "The Second Happiest Day," by John Phillips.

-- "The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor."