Art Garfunkel Memorial Reading List (January - June 2008)

So to be clear, Garfunkel isn't dead...but the list that I put out every six months of the books that I have read is somewhat of a tribute to him. Art's been keeping track of every book that he's read since the late 1960s. I started at the beginning of 2007...

1. Confusions of Young Torless - Robert Musil (Jan 12)
2. Desire and Delusion - Arthur Schnitzler (Jan 15)
3. Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon (Jan 20)
4. No Man is an Island - Thomas Merton (Jan 20)
5. Gang Leader for a Day - Sudhir Venkatesh (Feb 3)
6. Obscene Bird of Night - Jose Donoso (Feb 8)
7. Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron (Feb 19)
8. Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer (Mar 22)
9. Death of Artemio Cruz - Carlos Fuentes (Mar 23)
10. The Fierce and Beautiful World - Andrei Platonov (Apr 2)
11. Lady With the Dog and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov (Apr 4)
12. the Giver - Lois Lowry (Apr 7)
13. Atonement - Ian McEwan (Apr 8)
14. If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino (Apr 16)
15. Why We Watch: The Attractions of Violent Entertainment - Jeffrey Goldstein (Apr 17)
16. Dream Life of Sukhanov - Olga Grushin (Apr 26)
17. Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? - Michael Eric Dyson (Apr 28)
18. Reeling - Pauline Kael (May 2)
19. the Dutchman and the Slave - Leroi Jones (May 5)
20. Oil! - Upton Sinclair (May 11)
21. Against Interpretation - Susan Sontag (May 12)
22. Coldest Winter Ever - Sister Souljah (May 16)
23. Heartsnatcher - Boris Vian (May 16)
24. Death of Adam - Marilynne Robinson (May 24)
25. Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles (May 25)
26. Women, Race, and Class - Angela Davis (June 3)
27. Aura - Carlos Fuentes (June 4)
28. Journey to the End of Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine (June 5)
29. the Disappointment Artist - Jonathan Lethem (June 7)
30. Play It as It Lays - Joan Didion (June 7)
31. Box Man - Kobo Abe (June 11)
32. Blood and Grits - Harry Crews (June 15)
33. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (June 20)
34. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (June 22)
35. Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (June 28)