A stone, a leaf, an unfound door...: Sufjan Stevens - Chicago

2012 Reading List

Angels (Fiction); Denis Johnson
Birthday Letters (Poetry); Ted Hughes
Catching Fire (Fiction); Suzanne Collins
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America (Nonfiction); Mabie-Till Mobley (mother of Emmett Till).
Don Quixote (Fiction); Cervantes
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Fiction); Jonathan Safran Foer
Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985 (Poetry); Ted Kooser
Head Off & Split (Poetry); Nikky Finney
Hope's Boy (Memoir); Andrew Bridge
Just Kids (Biography); Patti Smith
Miracles Don't Care Who You Are (Poetry); James Lineberger
Mockingjay (Fiction); Suzanne Collins
Murder in Mayberry: Greed, Death, and Mayhem in a Small Town (Nonfiction); Mary Kinney Branson
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Fiction); Ken Kesey
Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy (fiction0; John Updike
Raven Stole The Moon (Fiction); Garth Stein
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Fiction); Thomas Hardy
The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving: How Dogs Have Captured Our Hearts For Thousands Of Years (Nonfiction); Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
The First Queen of England: The Myth of Bloody Mary (Biography); Linda Porter
The Giant's House (Fiction); Elizabeth McCracken
The Hunger Games (Fiction); Suzanne Collins
The Stone Diaries (Fiction); Carol Shields

2011 Reading List

1984 (fiction); George Orwell
All The King's Men (fiction); Robert Penn Warren
Blue Nights (Memoir); Joan Didion
Boy Alone: A Brother's Memoir (Memoir); Karl Taro Greenfeld
Dollhouse (Poetry); James Lineberger
Food Rules: an eater's manual (non-fiction); Michael Pollan
Horoscopes for the Dead (Poetry); Billy Collins
If I Die In A Combat Zone: Box Me Up And Ship Me Home (Memoir); Tim O'Brien
In Defense Of Food (non-fiction); Michael Pollan
Inside Of A Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, And Know (non-fiction); Alexandra Horowitz
John Lennon (Biography); Phillip Norman
Lynch on Lynch (non-fiction); Chris Rodley
Making Toast (non-fiction); Roger Rosenblatt
Migrations: New & Selected Poems (Poetry); W.S. Merwin
Ray (Fiction); Barry Hannah
Seeds: One Man's Serendipitous Journey to Find The Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers (non-fiction); Richard Horan
Stoner (fiction); John WIlliams
The Book of Men (Poetry); Dorianne Laux
The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes (non-fiction); Randi Davenport
The End of the World As We Know It (Memoir); Robert Goolrick
The Help (fiction); Kathryn Stockett
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (non-fiction); Rebecca Skloot
The Night Circus (fiction); Erin Morgenstern
The Sweet Hereafter (fiction); Russell Banks
Things Fall Apart (fiction); Chinua Achebe
Tree of Smoke (fiction); Denis Johnson
Zelda (biography); Nancy Milford

2010 Reading List

A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Daughters of the House, Michele Roberts
Every Last One, Anna Quindlen
Falconer, John Cheever
Fear of Flying, Erica Jong
Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon, Crystal Zevon
Jesus' Son, Denis Johnson
Let The Great World Spin, Colum McCann
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, David Herbert Donald
New And Selected Poems: Volume One, Mary Oliver
Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
Rabbit, Run; John Updike
Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, Sharon Olds
Superman:The Chapbook, Dorianne Laux
The Belly of Paris, Emile Zola
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead
The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski
The Unswept Room, Sharon Olds
Watership Down, Richard Adams
What We Carry, Poems by Dorianne Laux