Keep up with Simmons B. Buntin's reading list:

September 2008

• The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, by Wendell Berry
• The Golem's Eye (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book II), by Jonathan Stroud**

August 2008

• The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book I), by Jonathan Stroud**
• Inkspell, by Cornelia Funke
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J.K. Rowling*

July 2008

• Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound, by David Rothenberg**
• The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman**

June 2008

• Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World, by Scott Russell Sanders**
• Morning Poems, by Robert Bly

May 2008

• Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems, by Ted Kooser
• What Narcissism Means to Me, by Tony Hoagland
• Genius Loci, by Alison Hawthorne Deming
• Legacy, by Jane Levin
• Here, Bullet, by Brian Turner**
• Pity the Drowned Horses, by Sheryl Luna
• Freshly Rooted, by Emily Wall

April 2008

• A Murmuration of Starlings, by Jake Adam York**
• Blind Huber, by Nick Flynn**
• Columbarium, by Susan Stewart
• Slave Moth, by Thyllias Moss**
• The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book III), by Philip Pullman

March 2008

• Garbage, by A.R. Ammons**
• New and Selected Poems: Volume One, by Mary Oliver**
• Migration: New and Selected Poems, by W.S. Merwin
• Complete Poems, by Elizabeth Bishop

February 2008

• Black Mesa Poems, by Jimmy Santiago Baca**
• The Heights of Macchu Picchu, by Pablo Neruda
• The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book II), by Philip Pullman
• Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke
• Selected Poems, by William Carlos Williams
• Breaking Clean, by Judy Blunt**

January 2008

• Minka: My Farmhouse in Japan, by John Roderick
• The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book I), by Philip Pullman*
• Planet Ocean: Voyage to the Heart of the Marine Realm, by Laurent Ballesta and Pierre Descamp

December 2007

• Phantom Limb: Essays, by Theresa Kishkan**

November 2007

• Persepolis 2, by Marjane Satrapi
• Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi**
• Hunting for Hope: A Father's Journeys, by Scott Russell Sanders**
• True Story, by Michael Finkel
• Photocopies, by John Berger**
• In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
• This House of Sky, by Ivan Doig

October 2007

• Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin
• Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life, by Abigail Thomas
• The Periodic Table, by Primo Levi
• For the Time Being, by Annie Dillard
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J.K. Rowling*
• Geronimo: His Own Story (The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior), by Geronimo, as told to S.M. Barrett, newly revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Frederick Turner (the Turner introduction gets **)

September 2007

• West with the Night, by Beryl Markham**
• Tribute to Freud, by H.D.
• Memories, Dreams, Reflections, by C.G. Jung**

August 2007

• Speak, Memory, by Vladimir Nabokov

July 2007

• The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling**
• The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett*

June 2007

• Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather**
• On the Altar of Greece, poems by Donna J. Gelagotis Lee
• Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song, by Les Beletsky

May 2007

• Chasing Wildflowers: A Mad Search for Wild Gardens, by Scott Calhoun

April 2007

• The Devil's Highway: A True Story, by Luis Alberto Urrea**
• Red, by Terry Tempest Williams
• The Meadow, by James Galvin**
• Dragon Rider, by Cornelia Funke*

March 2007

• Going Back to Bisbee, by Richard Shelton
• Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West, by Rebecca Solnit**
• Yaqui Deer Songs, Maso Bwikam: A Native American Poetry, by Larry Evers and Felipe Molina

February 2007

• Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, by Edward Abbey**
• The Log from the Sea of Cortez, by John Steinbeck**
• Son of the Morning Star, by Evan S. Connell

January 2007

• The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons, by John Wesley Powell
• Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

December 2006

• The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution, by David Quammen**
• Thirst, poems by Mary Oliver
• Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava, by William T. Hornaday

November 2006

• Why Birds Sing: A Journey into the Mystery of Bird Song, by David Rothenberg
• Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling throught the Dark, by Barbara Hurd**
• Consider the Oyster, by M.F.K. Fisher
• Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are, by Frans de Waal
• The End: Book the Thirteenth, by Lemony Snicket*

October 2006

• Ravens in Winter, by Bernd Heinrich
• Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
• Waiting for Aphrodite: Jouneys into the Time Before Bones, by Sue Hubbell
• Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood, by Sandra Steingraber**

September 2006

• Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley**
• The Survival of the Bark Canoe, by John McPhee
• Tristes Tropiques, by Claude Levi-Strauss
• Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America, by Paul S. Martin
• Joshua Tree: Desolation Tango, text by Deanne Stillman and photographs by Galen Hunt
• The Land's Wild Music: Encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, & James Galvin, by Mark Tredinnick

August 2006

• Disturbing the Universe, by Freeman Dyson**
   

* Read aloud to Simmons's daughter(s)
** Simmons's favorites (which is not to say I didn't like the others; in most cases I really enjoyed them, too)

 
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