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Poets and Writer's Magazine has put out their Summer Reading List, broken into categories of Poetry, Novels and Novellas, Classics, Short Story Collections, Non-fiction and Memoir.  Here is the list for your perusal. Don't be caught on a bus, train, airplane (or on a hot beach) without one. --Alegria Garcia

POETRY
 

• The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You (Lost Roads, 1977) by Frank Stanford
• Black Woman and Other Poems/Mujer negra y otros poemas (Mango Publishing, 2004) by Nancy Morejon
• Blue on Blue Ground (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005) by Aaron Smith
• A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (Harcourt Brace, 1996) edited by Czeslaw Milosz
• Collected Poems, 1947–1980 (Harper & Row, 1984) by Allen Ginsberg
• The Country Without a Post Office (Norton, 1997) by Agha Shahid Ali
• C. P. Cavafy: The Collected Poems (Random House, 2009) edited by Daniel Mendelsohn
• C. P. Cavafy: The Unfinished Poems (Random House, 2009) edited by Daniel Mendelsohn
• The Dance Most of All (Knopf, 2009) by Jack Gilbert
• Dear Darkness (Knopf, 2008) by Kevin Young
• Dismantling the Hills (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) by Michael McGriff
• Endpoint and Other Poems (Knopf, 2009) by John Updike
• Femme du Monde (Tia Chucha, 2006) by Patricia Spears Jones
• Four Good Things (Houghton Mifflin, 1980) by James McMichael
• Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press, 2008) by Juan Felipe Herrera
• Half Wild (Louisiana State University Press, 2006) by Mary Rose O'Reilly
• How God Ends Us (University of South Carolina Press, 2009) by DéLana R. A. Dameron
• If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (University of Georgia Press, 2009) by Anna Journey
• In Search of Duende (New Directions, 1955) by Federico García Lorca
• In the American Tree (National Poetry Foundation, 1986) edited by Ron Silliman
• In the Surgical Theater (American Poetry Review, 1999) by Dana Levin
• Love Is a Dog From Hell: Poems 1974-1977 (Black Sparrow Press, 1977) by Charles Bukowski
• Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) by Natasha Trethewey
• Next Life (Wesleyan University Press, 2007) by Rae Armantrout
• One Hundred Poems From the Chinese (New Directions, 1971) by Kenneth Rexroth
• The Owning Stone (Red Hen Press, 2000) by Jim Peterson
• The Plague of Doves (HarperCollins, 2008) by Louise Erdrich
• Poems From the Women's Movement (Library of America, 2009) edited by Honor Moore
• The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 (Norton, 2004) by Adrienne Rich
  
• Selected Poems (Pantheon Books, 1993) by Rita Dove
• Sonata Mulattica (Norton, 2009) by Rita Dove
• Sonnets (Grove Press, 1967) by Ted Berrigan
• Sun Under Wood (Ecco, 1996) by Robert Hass
• Take It (Wave Books, 2009) by Joshua Beckman
• Tell Me (BOA Editions, 2000) by Kim Addonizio
• Then, Suddenly (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999) by Lynn Emanuel
• Warhorses (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) by Yusef Komunyakaa
   

NOVELS AND NOVELLAS

• 1984 (Harcourt Brace, 1949) by George Orwell
• 2666 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) by Roberto Bolaño
  
• After Dark (Knopf, 2007) by Haruki Murakami
• All Hallow's Eve (Faber & Faber, 1945) by Charles Williams
• The Animal People by Henry Oso Quintero
• Atlas Shrugged (Random House, 1957) by Ayn Rand
• Aztec (Atheneum, 1980) by Gary Jennings
• Balún-Canán by Rosario Castellanos
• Blue Water (Morrow, 2006) by A. Manette Ansay
  
• Brideshead Revisited (Little, Brown, 1945) by Evelyn Waugh
• Bridge of Sighs (Knopf, 2007) by Richard Russo
• Caramelo (Knopf, 2002) by Sandra Cisneros
• Castle (Graywolf Press, 2009) by J. Robert Lennon
• The Children's Hospital (McSweeny's Books, 2006) by Chris Adrian
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
  
• A Confederacy of Dunces (Louisiana State University Press, 1980) by John Kennedy Toole
  
• The Conqueror (Open Letter Books, 2009) by Jan Kjaerstad
  
• Crash (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973) by J. G. Ballard
• Deep Rivers (Waveland, 2002) by José María Arguedas
• Dune (Chilton Books, 1965) by Frank Herbert
• Empire Falls (Knopf, 2001) by Richard Russo
  
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Random House, 1971) by Hunter S. Thompson
• Fire in the Blood (Knopf, 2007) by Irène Némirovsky
  
• The First Man (Knopf, 1995) by Albert Camus
• The Garden of Last Days (Norton, 2008) by Andre Dubus III
• God Says No (McSweeney's Books, 2009) by James Hannaham
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society (Dial, 2009) by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (Bantam, 1994) by Tom Robbins
• Home (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) by Marilynne Robinson
• The House on Coliseum Street (Knopf, 1961) by Shirley Ann Grau
• House on Mango Street (Arte Publico Press, 1983) by Sandra Cisneros
• El Juego del Ángel (Vintage, 2008) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Kafka on the Shore (Knopf, 2005) by Haruki Murakami
• Killer Karma: A Father Ananda Mystery (Silkworm Books, 2008) by Nick Wilgus
  
• Landscape in Concrete (Open Letter Books, 2009) by Jakov Lind
  
• Lottery (Berkley Trade, 2008) by Patricia Woods
• Lowboy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009) by John Wray
  
• The Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989) by Oscar Hijuelo
• The Mariposa Club (Alyson Books, 2009) by Rigoberto González
• Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush (Cinco Puntos Press, 2009) by Luis Alberto Urrea, illustrated by Christopher Cardinale
• A Mercy (Knopf, 2008) by Toni Morrison
• Moloch: Or, This Gentile World (Grove Press, 1992) by Henry Miller
  
• The New Valley (Grove Press, 2009) by Josh Weil
• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Pantheon Books, 2005) by Alexander McCall Smith
  
• Normal People Don't Live Like This (Persea Books, 2009) by Dylan Landis
• Norwegian Wood (Vintage International, 2000) by Haruki Murakami
  
• Novel Without a Name (Morrow, 1995) by Duong Thu Huong
• Odd Thomas (Bantam Books, 2004) by Dean Koontz
• Only Revolutions (Pantheon Books, 2006) by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Oscar and Lucinda (Harper & Row, 1988) by Peter Carey
  
• A Person of Interest (Viking, 2008) by Susan Choi
• A Posturing of Fools (River City, 2004) by Brewster Milton Robertson
  
• A Prodigal Summer (HarperCollins, 2000) by Barbara Kingsolver
  
• A Proper Knowledge (Bellevue Literary Press, 2008) by Michelle Latiolais
  
• Prospero's Cell (Dutton, 1960) by Lawrence Durrell
• Pygmy (Doubleday, 2009) by Chuck Palahniuk
• The Reader (Pantheon Books, 1997) by Bernhard Schlink
• The Riddle of the Traveling Skull (McSweeny's Books, 2005) by Harry Stephen Keeler
• Ruins (Akashic Books, 2009) by Achy Obejas
  
• Saints in Limbo (WaterBrook Press, 2009) by River Jordon
• Sag Harbor (Doubleday, 2009) by Colson Whitehead
• The Secret of Hurricanes (MacAdam/Cage, 2002) by Theresa Williams
• The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet (Penguin Press, 2009) by Reif Larsen
  
• Shark Dialogues (Atheneum, 1994) by Kiana Davenport
• The Signal (Viking, 2009) by Ron Carlson
• Sinners (HarperCollins, 1971) by Jackie Collins
• Specimen Days (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005) by Michael Cunningham
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Ecco, 2008) by David Wroblewski
• The Summer Book (Pantheon Books, 1974) by Tove Jansson
• The Tapestries (Little, Brown, 2002) by Kien Nguyen
• Technology as Symptom and Dream (Routledge, 1989) by Robert D. Romanyshyn
• The Temple of Wild Geese (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008) by Tsutomu Mizukami
• To the Wedding (Pantheon Books, 1995) by John Berger
• Underworld  (Scribner, 1997) by Don DeLillo
• The Vagrants (Random House, 2009) by Yiyun Li
• Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
• Voyage Along the Horizon (McSweeny's Books, 2006) by Javier Marías
• Watchmen (DC Comics, 1995) by Alan Moore
• The Women (Viking, 2009) by T. C. Boyle
• Yarwar Fiesta (Waveland, 2002) by José María Arguedas
• The Year of Fog (Delacorte Press, 2007) by Michelle Richmond

CLASSICS
 

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Golden Bowl by Henry James
  
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Julian by Gore Vidal
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
 

• "A Dog Heaven" from Sweet Talk (Random House, 1990) by Stephanie Vaughn
• Don't Cry (Pantheon Books, 2009) by Mary Gaitskill
• Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009) by Wells Tower
• How It Ended (Knopf, 2009) by Jay McInerney
• Legends of the Fall (Delacorte/S. Lawrence, 1979) by Jim Harrison
  
• Lord Peter: The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories (Harper & Row, 1972) by Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Magic of Blood (University of New Mexico Press, 1993) by Dagoberto Gilb
• Oh, Don't You Cry for Me (Jefferson Press, 2008) by Philip Shirley
• Olive Kitteridge (Random House, 2008) by Elizabeth Strout
• Reckonings: Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women (Oxford University Press, 2008) edited by Hertha D. Sweet Wong, Lauren Stuart Muller, Jana Sequoya Magdaleno
• Romancer Erector (Dalkey Archive Press, 2001) by Diane Williams
• The Stories of John Cheever (Knopf, 1978)
• Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Harper Perennial, 2009) by Kevin Wilson
• The View From Castle Rock (Knopf, 2006) by Alice Munro
• Woman Hollering Creek (Random House, 1991) by Sandra Cisneros