A reading list compiled by the author and shared in 2015.
created by dallo1925
last updated July, 2026
The Aspern Papers
Henry James
The Golden Bowl
The Ambassadors
The Wings of the Dove
The Bostonians
Washington Square (Signet Classics)
Daisy Miller
The Portrait of a Lady
The Turn of the Screw
The Collected Poems
Wallace Stevens
Collected Poems
W.H. Auden
Robert Lowell
Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher Isherwood
Mr. Norris Changes Trains
Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Speedboat
Renata Adler
The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Wonderland (Wonderland Quartet, #4)
Joyce Carol Oates
Guerrillas
V.S. Naipaul
Victory
Joseph Conrad
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
I love that fully a third of the list is Henry James.
She was a big fan it seems 😭 She lists specific books for the most part but then just says 'The Novels of Henry James'. I could include more of them I guess but a line has to be drawn, Joan!
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