* The Viennese: Splendor, Twilight and Exile, Paul Hofmann
Marx in Soho, Howard Zinn (play)
The Widow’s Children, Paula Fox
What Am I Doing Here, Bruce Chatwin rr
The Joker, Lars Saaybe Christensen
Exiled in Paris (Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett et al) James Campbell
Mondo & Other Stories, J.M.G. Le Clezio (French Nobel prize winner; mystical tales of children discovering their own worlds)
Love is Like Park Avenue, Alvin Levin (little known 1930s Jewish writer, New York lower middle class, stream of consciousness stories, very good.)
Mr. Noon, D. H. Lawrence
* The Fall of the Stone City, Ismail Kadare
Among the Missing, Morag Joss
** The Surrendered, Chang-Rae Lee
This Timeless Moment: A Personal View of Aldous Huxley, Laura Archera Huxley
Paradise of the Blind, Duong Thu Huong
A Travellers History of Greece, Colin Nicolson & Timothy Boatswain
Listening to Prozac, Peter D. Kramer
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42, William Dalrymple
Ill Met by Moonlight, Moss (story of capture of German General in Crete during WWII by him & Paddy Leigh Fermor)
Book of Cat Stories
The Lives of Elsa Triolet, Lachlan MacKinnon
Fault, Kate Chopin
Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen, Robert Tarrant
The Palace of Tears, Alef Lyttle Croutier
Wonder, Hugo Klaus (Dutch)
Under a Sickle Moon, A Journey Through Afghanistan, Peregrine Hodson
Versailles, Kathryn Davis
Men in the Sun, Ghassan Kanafani (Palestinian)
The Child, Jules Valles
T is for Trespass, Sue Grafton
The Bat, Jo Nesbo
Sparks of Light/Counseling in Hasidic Tradition. Edward Hoffman, Zalman Schacter
Europa, Tim Parks
* Lyubka the Cossack & other stories, Isaac Babel
Latecomers, Anita Brookner
The Abandoned, Paul Gallico
Away, Amy Bloom
In the Absence of Men, Phillipe Besson (novel wt. M. Proust as a character)
On the Grand Canal, William Riviere
1177 B.C. -- The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric Cline
Alpine Elephant (the 1959 British Alpine Hannibal Expedition), John Hoyte
Hamlet’s Mill: An essay investigating the origins of human knowledge and its transmission through myth, Giorgio De Santillana & Hertha von Dechend
The Open Cage, Anzia Yezierska (story collection)
The Pride of Carthage (a novel of Hannibal) David Anthony Durham
Crash, Robert Ashley (autobiog. performance texts)
Dancing Goddesses: Neolithic Culture & the Origins of European Dance, Elizabeth Wayland Barber
The Royal Game & other stories, Stefan Zweig
No One Noticed the Cat, Anne McCaffrey
Two Lives, William Trevor (novellas, Irish)
The Disapparition of James, Anne Ursu
When They Severed Earth from Sky- How the Human Mind Shapes Myth, Elizabeth Wayland Barber
The Ego is Always at the Wheel, Delmore Schwartz (short stories)
Biography of Athenais de Montespan—Louis XIV’s Mistress, Lisa Hilton
Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy, Erin Manning
The Killing of History, Keith Windschutte
** The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Victor Serge
Destinations, Jan Morris (1970s travel essays)
* The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Amy Tan
Skating on Thin Ice, Anatol Rapaport
Compulsory Happiness, Norman Manea
A Boy and a Pigeon, Meir Zalef
Travel Pictures, Heinrich Heine
The Process, Brion Gysin (pretty much all of William Burroughs’
Ideas, before Burroughs had them.)
A Journey into the Crystal, George Sand
The Daffodil Affair, Michael Innes
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales, Margaret Atwood
New Mexico Art Through Time, Joseph Traugott
The World: Travels & Life 1950-2000, Jan Morris
The Late Scholar, Jill Paton Walsh