another GIANT backlog of books wished for

Power, Resistance and Liberation in Therapy with Survivors of Trauma, Taiwo Afuape
The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories, Joan Aiken
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad, M.T. Anderson
The Full Catastrophe: Travels Among the New Greek Ruins, James Angelos
Lady Susan, Jane Austen (audiobook read by full cast)

The Great Influenza, John M. Barry
America: What Went Wrong?, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
The Betrayal of the American Dream, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration, Richard Barnett
Ted Hughes, Jonathan Bate
The Howling Man, Charles Beaumont
Dancing with the Devil in the City of God, Juliana Barbassa
Jack the Ripper: The Forgotten Victims, Paul Begg
The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, S. Bear Bergman
The Food Matters Cookbook, Mark Bittman
Leafy Greens, Mark Bittman
A Singer's Notebook, Ian Bostridge
Grimms' Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the Tales, Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, Don Brown (hard copy)
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir, Carrie Brownstein
Days of Rage, Bryan Burrough
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, Edwin G. Burrows

John Clare and the Bounds of Circumstance, Johanne Clare
New York Observed: Artists and Writers Look at the City, 1650 to the Present, Barbara Cohen
Hearts Grown Brutal, Roger Cohen
At the Sharp End, Tim Cook
Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance during the Vietnam War, David Cortright
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, Elvis Costello
Wilfred Owen, Guy Cuthbertson

Custer Died for Your Sins, Vine DeLoria
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (Everyman's Library), Joan Didion
What I Don't Know About Animals, Jenny Diski
The Clockwork Universe, Edward Dolnick
How Dante Can Save Your Life, Rod Dreher

The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get It Back, Clark Elliott

Breaking the News, James Fallows
Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Unpleasant Ways to Die, Elan Fleisher
Running with Monsters, Bob Forrest
Bitter Greens, Kate Forsyth
A Dance with Jane Austen: How a Novelist and Her Characters Went to the Ball, Susannah Fullerton

The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George, Denise Gigante
Vita, Victoria Glendinning
Murder and Mendelssohn, Kerry Greenwood
One Life: My Mother's Story, Kate Grenville

George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends, Ellen T. Harris
Mozart, Hayden, and Early Beethoven, Daniel Heartz
Magic and Loss, Virginia Heffernan
Strange Meeting, Susan Hill
Hippocratic Writings (Penguin Classics)
Augustus John: The New Biography, Michael Holroyd
The Porcelain Thief, Huan Hsu
A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, ed. Thomas K. Hubbard
The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Andrew E. Hunt
Reckless: My Life as a Pretender, Chrissie Hynde

David Koresh Superstar: An Unfilmable Screenplay, Simon Indelicate
David Koresh Superstar: Lyric Book, Simon Indelicate
Eleven Short Plays, William Inge
Four Plays, William Inge

Empire City: New York Through the Centuries, Kenneth T. Jackson
A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen, Richard Jenkyns
What Doesn't Kill Us: The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth, Stephen Joseph

The Great Mortality, John Kelly
The Longest Winter, Alex Kershaw
Clara's War, Clara Kramer

Jane Austen: The World of her Novels, Deirdre LeFaye
The Lives of the Greek Poets, Mary Lefkowitz
A Life in Books, Warren Lehrer
Wounded Minds: Understanding and Solving the Growing Menace of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, John Liebert
In War's Dark Shadow: The Russians Before the Great War, W. Bruce Lincoln
The Iliad, Homer (new tr. by Stanley Lombardo)
The Singer of Tales, Albert B. Lord
Faces in the Crowd, Valeria Luiselli
Sidewalks, Valeria Luiselli

Mystery Train, Greil Marcus
Loving Someone with PTSD, Aphrodite T. Matsakis
At War with PTSD, Robert N. McLay
A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities, J.C. McKeown
Plagues and Peoples, William H. McNeill
Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary
The Knife Man, Wendy Moore
My Five Cambridge Friends, Yuri Modin
And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II, Evelyn Monahan
The Chaperone, Laura Moriarty
The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent during the Vietnam Era, Richard Moser
The Last Town on Earth, Thomas Mullen
The Revisionists, Thomas Muller
What Nurses Know...PTSD, Mary E. Muscari

Grim Tales, E. Nesbit
The Power of Darkness, E. Nesbit
The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis, Sherwin B. Nuland

A History of Greece, Victor Parker
The Beautiful Bureaucrat, Helen Phillips
Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne Porter
The Grass Dancer, Susan Power
Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook, Terry Pratchett

Smokejumper, Jason A. Ramos
The Black Count, Tom Reiss
Katrina: After the Flood, Gary Rivlin
The Quilt: Stories from the Names Project, Cindy Ruskin

The Witch of Stalingrad, Justine Saracen
Thunder Through My Veins, Gregory Scofield
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, Jonathan Shay
Talking to Girls about Duran Duran, Rob Sheffield
The Greenlanders, Jane Smiley
M Train, Patti Smith
Getting Away With It: Or: The Further Adventures of the Luckiest Bastard You Ever Saw, Steven Soderbergh
Wild Girls, Diana Souhami
My Life on the Road, Gloria Steinem
The Price of Inequality, Joseph E. Stiglitz
Desert Reckoning, Deanne Stillman
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph, Jan Swafford
The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stories, Leo Szilard

The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam, James Tatum
Behind Hitler's Lines, Thomas H. Taylor
Blue-Eyed Boy, Robert Timberg
The Nightingale's Song, Robert Timberg
Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: 1855-1873, Mark Twain

The Women who Spied for Britain, Robyn Walker
The Martyrs of Columbine, Justin Watson
Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-1946, Tom Weaver
The Real Traviata, Rene Weis
America's Secret Jihad, Stuart Wexler
Table Talk of Oscar Wilde, audiobook read by Tom Baker
Landfalls, Naomi J. Williams

Goddess of Love Incarnate: The Life of Stripteuse Lili St. Cyr, Leslie Zemeckis

current book wishlist

This is going to be embarrassingly long as all hell because it's the buildup of more than four months or so, but I just want to get it down. Probably there's also a lot of repetition from previous lists.

Eight White Nights, Andre Aciman
The Art of the Con, Anthony M. Amore
Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity, Bruce Bawer
Walking the Night Road: Coming of Age in Grief, Alexandra Butler
H. Beam Piper: A Biography, John F. Carr
The Brain's Way of Healing, Norman Doidge
Every Single Day, Doomtree Collective
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, Philip Dray
Peter's Room, Antonia Forest
The Wild Girl, Kate Forsyth
The Forgotten 500, Gregory A. Freeman
Muse, Jonathan Galassi
The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience, Perry N. Halkitis
Kiss of the Fur Queen, Tomson Highway
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet, Jennifer Homans
Chapman's Homer: The Iliad, Homer
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green, Homer
Empire of Deception, Dean Jobb
William Inge and the Subversion of Gender, Jeff Johnson
Letter to His Father, Franz Kafka (dual-language edition)
The Walking People, Mary Beth Keane
The Liberator, Alex Kershaw
A Short History of Indians in Canada, Thomas King
The Back of the Turtle, Thomas King
Archivist Wasp, Nicole Kornher-Stace
Unabrow: Misadventures of a Late Bloomer, Una LaMarche
Comprehending Columbine, Ralph W. Larkin
The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man, David W. Maurer
Circling the Sun, Paula McLain
Code Talker, Chester Nez
How to Cure a Fanatic, Amos Oz
The Origins of AIDS, Jacques Pepin
Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson
Kolyma Tales, Varlam Shalamov
A Life of William Inge: The Strains of Triumph, Ralph F. Voss
Brooklyn's Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York, Judith Wellman
Damages, Barry Werth

book wishlist

Once a Marine: A Memoir of Coming Out Under Fire, Eric Alva
The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq, Helen Benedict
The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road, Abbie Bernstein (HARD COPY)
Hidden Lives: Coming Out on Mental Illness, ed. Andrew Boden and Lenore Rowntree
Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain, Deborah Cohler
The Naked Civil Servant, Quentin Crisp
A Companion to the Fairy Tale, ed. Anna Chaudhri and Hilda Ellis Davidson
Love, Sex and War – Changing Values 1939–45, John Costello
Playing By the Rules, Justin Elzie
A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy, Steven M. Emmanuel
Bryant & May: The Burning Man, Christopher Fowler, audiobook
Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today's Changing Economy, DW Gibson
Arise to Conquer, Ian Gleed
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, Charlotte Gordon
Mind Over Mood, Dennis Greenberger and Christine A. Padesky
My Buddy: World War II Laid Bare, ed. Dian Hanson (photography)
Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes: The Regulation of Female Sexuality during World War II, Marilyn Hegarty
Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II, Maureen Honey
Critical Moments in Classical Literature, Richard Hunter
One of the Boys: Homosexuality in the Military during World War II, Paul Jackson
The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II, Christina S. Jarvis
Keep Your Wives Away From Them: Orthodox Women and Unorthodox Desires, ed. Miryam Kabakov
Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence, ed. Nancy Manahan
Hold Still, Sally Mann (photography)
Creating G. I. Jane: Sexuality and Power in the WAC During World War II, Leisa Meyer
And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II, Evelyn Monahan
Greek Literature: Greek literature in the Hellenistic period, Gregory Nagy
A Reader's Book of Days, Tom Nissley
The Star Spangled Buddhist: Zen, Tibetan, and Soka Gakkai Buddhism and the Quest for Enlightenment in America, Jeffrey Ourvan
The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy, Raj Patel
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism, Tina Rosenberg
Don't Ask, Don't Tell (vol 1 and 2), Jeff Sheng (photography)
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl and Rorscharch, J. Michael Straczynski
Feminism as Life's Work: Four Modern American Women through Two World Wars, Mary K. Trigg
Queen and country: Same-sex desire in the British Armed Forces, 1939-45, Emma Vickers
Wasps: Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II, Vera S. Williams

I HAVE A MIGHTY THIRST

current book wishlist

In My Father's Name: A Family, A Town, A Murder, Mark Arax
West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State, Mark Arax
Rewind, Replay, Repeat: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Jeff Bell
Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II, Allan Berube
Heap House, Edward Carey
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, George Chauncey
Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel, Annie Cohen-Solal
Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living (Icons), Paul Collins
The Roman Banquet: Images of Conviviality, Katherine Dunbabin
My Mother's Wars, Lillian Faderman
Naked in the Promised Land, Lillian Faderman
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, Lillian Faderman
The End of the Novel of Love, Vivian Gornick
The Folded Clock: A Diary, Heidi Julavits
Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times, Morris Kaplan
Wrestling with the Angel: A Memoir of My Triumph Over Illness, Max Lerner
The Woman Who Thought Too Much: A Memoir, Joanne Limburg
My Queer War, James Lord
The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away, ed. Jenny Offill
De Quincey's Romanticism: Canonical Minority and the Forms of Transmission (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism), Margaret Russett
Mark Antony: A Life, Patricia Southern
Sent For You Yesterday, John Edgar Wideman (and all his other books really)
Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Fletcher Wortmann
Generation Kill, Evan Wright

new (updated at least) book wishlist

....YES, ANOTHER ONE

YES I KNOW I ALREADY HAVE MORE BOOKS THAN I COULD READ IN 10 YEARS
SITTING UNREAD IN MY APARTMENT

I KNOW I HAVE A PROBLEM

IT KEEPS ME OFF THE STREETS well sort of....

Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch, AUDIOBOOK read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
The Musical Brain, Cesar Aira
A God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson (DYING FOR THIS ONE)
Let There be Night: Testimony On Behalf of the Dark, ed. Paul Bogard (almost afraid to get this for fear it could never live up to that title)
A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold
Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold
Elizabeth Cole, Susan Cheever
The Alchemy of Illness, Kat Duff
The Secret Life of Sleep, Kat Duff
At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, A. Roger Ekirch
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante
Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and their Search for Utopia, Richard Francis
Finders Keepers, Stephen King
Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe, Craig Koslofsky
Call Me Home, Megan Kruse
Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist, Stephen Kurkjian
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, Sarah Manguso
Sculptor, Scott McCloud (hard copy)
Jack of Spades, Joyce Carol Oates
Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books, Leah Price (hard copy)
Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception, Abraham J. Twerski

wishlist

Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art, Susan Aberth
Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach
Plagued by the Nightingale, Kay Boyle
Amalgamemnon, Christine Brooke-Rose
The Shutter of Snow, Emily Holmes Coleman
Exile's Return, Malcolm Cowley
Young Eliot: A Biography, Robert Crawford
The Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine, Stanley Crawford
Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan
Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History, Richard Wightman Fox
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing, Janice Galloway
Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon
Harlem Nocturne, Farah Jasmine Griffin
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, Sarah Hepola
Eleanor Marx: A Life, Rachel Holmes
Everything You Need, A.L. Kennedy
Garden, Ashes, Danilo Kis
Hold Still, Sally Mann
Of Love and Other Demons, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Schooling, Heather McGowan
Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company, James R. Mellow
Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, Mary Norris
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, Sydney Padua
Wild Heart: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris, Suzanne Rodriguez
A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me, Jason Schmidt
I Left It on the Mountain: A Memoir, Kevin Sessum
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth, John Szwed
Map: Collected and Last Poems, Wisława Szymborska
On Elegance While Sleeping, Emilio Lascano Tegui
City Sister Silver, Jáchym Topol
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, Dubravka Ugresic
Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure, Cédric Villani and Malcolm DeBevoise
Morvern Callar, Alan Warner
Khibert Khizeh, S. Yizhar
The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, Philip and Carol Zaleski

oh my heart

current book wishlist

The Dream Lover, Elizabeth Berg
In the Unlikely Event, Judy Blume
House of Ghosts, Brendan Duffy
Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America, Barbara Ehrenreich
Our Endless Numbered Days, Claire Fuller
From the Fifteenth District: Stories, Mavis Gallant
The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
Wanted: A Spiritual Pursuit Through Jail, Among Outlaws, and Across Borders, Chris Hoke
The Language of Food, Dan Jurafsky
A Case of Curiosities, Allen Kurzweil
Ghettoside, Jill Leovy
A Reunion of Ghosts, Judith Claire Mitchell
Storm on the Horizon: Khafji--The Battle That Changed the Course of the Gulf War, David Morris
God Help the Child, Toni Morrison
Night Witches: The Amazing Story of Russia's Women Pilots in WWII, Bruce Myles
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, Anna North
The Children's Crusade, Ann Packer
The Dead Lands, Benjamin Percy
Early Warning, Jane Smiley
A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler
Life Studies, Susan Vreeland
Rodin's Lover, Heather Webb
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

from the current (partial) book wishlist

Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder, Blaise Aguirre
The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar, Terri Cheney
A Lethal Inheritance: Three Generations of Mental Illness, Victoria Costello
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal, Ben MacIntyre
November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide, George Howe Colt
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite, William Deresiewicz
Mudhouse Sabbath, Lauren F. Winner
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, ed Richard Lancelyn Green
Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life, Patricia Hampl
Myths about Suicide, Thomas Joiner
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, Eric Metaxas
Unexplained Fevers, Jeannine Hall Gailey
She Returns to the Floating World, Jeannine Hall Gailey
Becoming the Villainess, Jeannine Hall Gailey
The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, Jeannine Hall Gailey
How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America, Otis Webb Brawley
Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience, ed Shaun Usher (HARDBACK)
Life after Life, Kate Atkinson (HARDBACK: it was really difficult reading this as an ebook, being unable to flip back and forth even just a few pages)
What We See When We Read, Peter Mendelsund (HARDBACK)
Miriam's Kitchen, Elizabeth Ehrlich
Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson, ed Martha Nell Smith
The Sabbath, Abraham Joshua Heschel
Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman
Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham
Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis, Douglas Gresham
Surprised By Love: The Life of Joy Davidman, Lyle Dorsett
The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life, Andy Miller
How to Be Well Read, John Sutherland
Kill or Cure: An Illustrated History of Medicine, Steve Parker (HARDBACK)
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph, Jan Swofford (HARDBACK)

Bonus wish CD: Acoustic Classics, Richard Thompson