Matt Kirkland

All Books, ordered by Time

Title Author First Read

The Alchemist and Other Plays

Ben Jonson January 20, 2012

Life in a Medieval Castle

Joseph Gies January 19, 2012

The Grey King

Susan Cooper January 15, 2012

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs January 02, 2012

Zero History

William Gibson January 01, 2012

Who Will Comfort Toffle?

Tove Jannson December 12, 2011

Mermaids Explained

Christopher Reid December 07, 2011

Why Read Moby Dick?

Nathaniel Philbrick December 04, 2011

The Hobbit

JRR Tolkien November 18, 2011

Redwall

Brian Jacques November 12, 2011

Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins November 08, 2011

An Island to Oneself

Tom Neale November 02, 2011

Spook Country

William Gibson November 01, 2011

Horoscopes for the Dead

Billy Collins October 20, 2011

All in the Same Boat

Tom Neale October 16, 2011

Shop Craft as Soulcraft

Matthew Crawford October 15, 2011

If On a Winter's Night a Traveler

Italo Calvino October 07, 2011

The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins September 28, 2011

A World Lit Only By Fire

William Manchester September 17, 2011

Nocturnes

Kazuo Ishiguro September 03, 2011

Getting to Yes

Roger Fisher August 19, 2011

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins August 17, 2011

Nine Princes in Amber

Roger Zelazny August 14, 2011

A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore August 08, 2011

Ender in Exile

Orson Scott Card August 04, 2011

The Wind-Up Girl

Paulo Bacigalupi July 26, 2011

Drood

Dan Simmons July 15, 2011

Rick Steves Paris 2011

Rick Steves July 14, 2011

Selected Essays

Samuel Johnson July 13, 2011

Lives of the English Poets

Samuel Johnson July 13, 2011

Robopocalypse

Daniel H. Wilson July 11, 2011

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Stephen Leacock July 01, 2011

Metro Stop Paris

Gregor Dallas June 30, 2011

Christian Topography

Cosmas Indiopleustes June 28, 2011

Old Man's War

John Scalzi June 27, 2011

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Samuel Johnson June 21, 2011

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens June 14, 2011

The Double

Fyodor Dostoevsky June 07, 2011

Les Miserables

Victor Hugo June 01, 2011

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Walter Tevis May 14, 2011

The Ale Boy's Feast

Jeffrey Overstreet May 01, 2011

The Eyes of the Skin

Juhani Pallasmaa April 14, 2011

Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Clive Staples Lewis April 13, 2011

Rose

Li-Young Lee April 10, 2011

Book of My Nights

Li-Young Lee April 04, 2011

Richard Francis Burton: Explorer, Scholar, Spy

Serinity Young April 03, 2011

The City In Which I Love You

Li-Young Lee April 02, 2011

American Gods

Neil Gaiman April 02, 2011

Forewards and Afterwards

W. H. Auden March 30, 2011

A Shropshire Lad

A. E. Housman March 24, 2011

Can Poetry Matter?

Dana Gioia March 23, 2011

The Road

Cormac McCarthy March 21, 2011

Choose

Carey Wallace March 15, 2011

Behind My Eyes

Li-Young Lee March 15, 2011

The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers

Amy Hollingsworth March 13, 2011

Interrogations at Noon

Dana Gioia March 08, 2011

Tarzan of the Apes

Edgar Rice Burroughs February 19, 2011

Her Fearful Symmetry

Audrey Niffenberger February 15, 2011

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah

Richard F. Burton February 09, 2011

The Whale

Philip Hoare January 28, 2011

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins January 27, 2011

The Goshawk

T. H. White January 03, 2011

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E. L. Konigsburg January 01, 2011

SHE

H. Rider Haggard December 31, 2010

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress

Rhoda Janzen December 27, 2010

Areopagitica

John Milton December 16, 2010

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov December 11, 2010

The Trouble with Poetry

Billy Collins December 07, 2010

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami December 01, 2010

The Future History of the Arctic

Chales Emmerson December 01, 2010

Rochester

Charles Williams November 25, 2010

Collected Plays

Charles Williams November 18, 2010

The Greater Trumps

Charles Williams November 18, 2010

The Complete Plays of the Wakefield Master

Wakefield Master November 04, 2010

Narrative Art and Poetry in the Books of Samuel

J. P. Fokkelman November 04, 2010

The Book of Dede Korkut

Anonymous September 28, 2010

The Heart of the Matter

Graham Greene September 21, 2010

The Emigrants

W. G. Sebald September 21, 2010

The New Business Road Test

John W. Mullins September 17, 2010

The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Apartment Buildings

Steve Berges September 12, 2010

The Messies Manual

Sandra Felt September 01, 2010

Quentin Durward

Walter Scott August 31, 2010

Prester John and Europe's Discovery of East Asia

I. De Rachewiltz August 28, 2010

Gospel Mystery of Sanctification

Walter Marshall August 27, 2010

Curious Myths of the Middle Ages

Sabine Baring-Gould August 26, 2010

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro August 15, 2010

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky August 11, 2010

Bleak House

Charles Dickens August 08, 2010

The Two-Income Trap

Elizabeth Warren July 10, 2010

Centuries of Meditations

Thomas Traherne July 07, 2010

The Silver Chalice

Thomas B. Costain July 02, 2010

In the Slick of the Cricket

Russell Drumm June 26, 2010

Eugene Onegin

Alexander Pushkin June 20, 2010

The Dark is Rising

Susan Cooper June 16, 2010

Results Without Authority

Tom Kendrick June 09, 2010

Theories of Childhood

Carol Garhart Mooney June 02, 2010

A Journey to Arzrum

Alexander Pushkin June 01, 2010

The Big Short

Michael Lewis June 01, 2010

The Possessed

Elif Batuman May 25, 2010

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda May 16, 2010

To Peking

Peter Fleming May 13, 2010

White-Jacket

Herman Melville May 11, 2010

Raven's Ladder

Jeffrey Overstreet May 06, 2010

Cyndere's Midnight

Jeffrey Overstreet April 30, 2010

Auralia's Colors

Jeffrey Overstreet April 26, 2010

Through a Screen Darkly

Jeffrey Overstreet April 22, 2010

The Travels of Ibn Battuta (1325-1354)

Ibn Battuta April 22, 2010

A Case of Conscience

James Blish April 20, 2010

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Walter M. Miller April 13, 2010

Tokyo Vice

Jake Adelstein April 10, 2010

Real Food for Mother and Baby

Nina Planck April 09, 2010

Eifelheim

Michael Flynn April 04, 2010

Garden of Eden

Ernest Hemingway April 02, 2010

Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles March 23, 2010

The Next Pope

Anura Guruge March 10, 2010

A Lear of the Steppes

Ivan Turgenev March 07, 2010

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway February 17, 2010

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez February 09, 2010

Mission to Asia

Various February 07, 2010

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, ... Vol 2

M. T. Anderson January 31, 2010

The Kingdom of God Is WIthin You

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy January 26, 2010

The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens January 25, 2010

Brazilian Adventure

Peter Fleming January 22, 2010

The Moviegoer

Walker Percy January 20, 2010

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, ... Vol 1

M. T. Anderson January 19, 2010

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams January 11, 2010

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Trenton Lee Stewart January 06, 2010

Systematic Theology

Louis Berkhof December 28, 2009

Collected Poems

W. H. Auden December 14, 2009

Dissoi Logoi

Anonymous November 29, 2009

News from Tartary

Peter Fleming November 12, 2009

All Things Considered

G. K. Chesterton October 22, 2009

The Land of Prester John

Elaine Sanceau October 06, 2009

Notes from a Dead House

Fyodor Dostoevsky September 14, 2009

Faithful Feelings - Rethinking Emotion in the New Testament

Matthew A. Elliott August 01, 2009

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley July 21, 2009

Historia Mongolorum

Carpini Friar Giovanni Di Plan July 03, 2009

Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?

Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov June 17, 2009

Thank God for Bandit Country

Carl Trueman June 02, 2009

Rudin

Ivan Turgenev May 31, 2009

Stand Up, Friend, With Me

Edward Field May 29, 2009

A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government

Nakae Chomin May 10, 2009

An Emphatic Umph

Daniel Coffeen May 06, 2009

Our Babies, Ourselves

Meredith Small May 06, 2009

The Travels of John Mandeville

John Mandeville May 03, 2009

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

John Donne May 03, 2009

The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton April 19, 2009

Kon-Tiki

Thor Heyerdahl March 28, 2009

Beards

Reginald Reynolds March 22, 2009

For The Time Being, a Christmas Oratorio

W. H. Auden March 08, 2009

How to Be a Brit

George Mikes March 05, 2009

Watching the English

Kate Fox March 03, 2009

Dramatic Works

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy February 26, 2009

China Road

Rob Gifford January 10, 2009

Factory Girls

Leslie T. Chang January 06, 2009

Paradise Regained

John Milton December 28, 2008

Cultures in Conflict

Bernard Lewis December 28, 2008

Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom

L. N. Gumilev December 04, 2008

Orlando Furioso

Ludovico Ariosto November 30, 2008

Perfumes

Luca Turin November 25, 2008

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin November 20, 2008

The Realm of Prester John

Robert Silverberg October 25, 2008

Taliessin Through Logres

Charles Williams October 16, 2008

The Progress Paradox

Gregg Easterbrook October 12, 2008

Home

Marilynne Robinson September 28, 2008

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert September 20, 2008

Phineas Finn

Anthony Trollope September 14, 2008

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame September 06, 2008

Seed of Adam

Charles Williams September 03, 2008

Rhymes of Ironquill

Eugene Fitch Ware September 03, 2008

The English Poetic Mind

Charles Williams August 28, 2008

The Personal Heresy

Clive Staples Lewis August 26, 2008

An Experiment in Criticism

Clive Staples Lewis August 17, 2008

The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin July 30, 2008

King Richard II

William Shakespeare July 12, 2008

The Waste Land

T. S. Eliot July 10, 2008

Four Quartets

T. S. Eliot July 09, 2008

Shadows of Ecstasy

Charles Williams July 06, 2008

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon June 28, 2008

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson June 25, 2008

Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh June 23, 2008

Wolf Totem

Jiang Rong June 10, 2008

What's Wrong with the World

G. K. Chesterton May 29, 2008

The One-Strand River

Richard Kenney May 27, 2008

Of Love and Other Demons

Gabriel Garcia Marquez May 10, 2008

Oblomov

Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov April 24, 2008

The Rainbow

David Herbert Lawrence April 19, 2008

Pitcairn's Island

Charles Nordhoff April 16, 2008

Men Against the Sea

Charles Nordhoff April 13, 2008

Fear and Trembling

Søren Kierkegaard April 07, 2008

Mutiny on the Bounty

Charles Nordhoff March 30, 2008

The Great Divorce

Clive Staples Lewis March 18, 2008

The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis March 18, 2008

On Idolatry

Tertullian Tertullian March 17, 2008

Holy the Firm

Annie Dillard March 01, 2008

The Ladies of Grace Adieu

Susanna Clarke February 18, 2008

Lilith

George MacDonald February 01, 2008

Cleopatra

H. Rider Haggard January 27, 2008

Childhood, Boyhood, & Youth

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy January 26, 2008

The Overcoat

Nikolai Gogol January 04, 2008

Prince Caspian

Clive Staples Lewis December 14, 2007

Saints and Sinners

Eamon Duffy December 07, 2007

Gentlemen of the Road

Michael Chabon December 01, 2007

Confession

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy November 09, 2007

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Haruki Murakami November 07, 2007

The Theory of Clouds

Stephane Audeguy November 01, 2007

Resurrection

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy October 21, 2007

Ivanhoe

Walter Scott October 19, 2007

Lady Chatterley's Lover

David Herbert Lawrence October 15, 2007

Poem Without a Hero

Anna Akhmatova October 14, 2007

England, an Elegy

Roger Scruton October 05, 2007

The Man of Feeling

Henry MacKenzie September 23, 2007

The Master of Ballantrae

Robert Louis Stevenson September 14, 2007

Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens September 02, 2007

She Stoops to Conquer

Oliver Goldsmith August 30, 2007

Our Insect Friends and Foes

William Atherton DuPuy August 22, 2007

The Liberal Imagination

Lionel Trilling June 29, 2007

Bartleby The Scrivener

Herman Melville June 15, 2007

The Greek Way

Edith Hamilton June 04, 2007

Georgics, Book II

Publius Vergilius Maro Virgil May 22, 2007

After Dark

Haruki Murakami May 09, 2007

The Once and Future King

T. H. White April 26, 2007

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard April 21, 2007

Agnes Grey

Anne Bronte April 16, 2007

Can You Forgive Her?

Anthony Trollope April 08, 2007

The Lyrical Dramas of Aeschylus

Αἰσχύλος Aeschylus March 20, 2007

The Lost Tools of Learning

Dorothy Sayers March 07, 2007

The Roman Way

Edith Hamilton February 25, 2007

Anna Karenina

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy February 12, 2007

War in Heaven

Charles Williams September 23, 2006

Many Dimensions

Charles Williams August 23, 2006

The Place of the Lion

Charles Williams May 19, 2006

War and Peace

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy April 23, 2006

The Devil

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy January 25, 2006

Samson Agonistes

John Milton December 30, 2005

The Warden

Anthony Trollope December 28, 2005

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe December 23, 2005

The Loved One

Evelyn Waugh December 16, 2005

Decline and Fall

Evelyn Waugh December 12, 2005

The Devils

Fyodor Dostoevsky November 12, 2005

Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson October 11, 2005

Gilead

Marilynne Robinson September 15, 2005

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen August 28, 2005

Emma

Jane Austen August 28, 2005

The Five Red Herrings

Dorothy Sayers August 22, 2005

The Flying Inn

G. K. Chesterton August 21, 2005

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

G. K. Chesterton August 17, 2005

Sketches by Boz

Charles Dickens August 12, 2005

The Kreutzer Sonata

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy August 11, 2005

The Violent Bear it Away

Flannery O'Connor August 07, 2005

The Seven Storey Mountain

Thomas Merton August 05, 2005

Miracles

Clive Staples Lewis July 20, 2005

Architecture: Choice or Fate

Leon Krier June 29, 2005

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami June 21, 2005

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Haruki Murakami June 21, 2005

A Good Man is Hard to Find

Flannery O'Connor June 05, 2005

Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor June 01, 2005

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell May 12, 2005

Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing

Søren Kierkegaard April 11, 2005

The Book of the Dun Cow

Walter Wangerin April 03, 2005

The Wapshot Chronicle

John Cheever March 30, 2005

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville March 22, 2005

Elective Affinities

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe March 15, 2005

After the Quake

Haruki Murakami February 28, 2005

A Wild Sheep Chase

Haruki Murakami February 28, 2005

Fire From the Midst of You

Louis DeCaro February 15, 2005

Martin Chuzzlewit

Charles Dickens January 20, 2005

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Laurence Sterne December 14, 2004

Charles Dickens

G. K. Chesterton December 01, 2004

Tales from Ten Worlds

Arthur C Clark May 24, 2002

Epistemology

W. Jay Wood May 20, 2002

Neuromancer

William Gibson May 18, 2002

The Sciences of the Artificial

Herbert Simon February 28, 2002

Contextual Design

Hugh, Karen Beyer & Holtzblatt July 20, 2001

Art and Industry

Herbert Read June 15, 2001

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