For easy reference, this list contains all the books, short stories, essays and poetry discussed in "My Brain Doesn't Bibliograph". The dates are when I got around to writing about the book, not necessarily the month when I read it but I read all of these since the start of 2003.
January 2003
Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
A mathematician reads the newspaper - John Allen Paulos
Dune - Frank Herbert
Literary Theory - A Very Short Introduction #4 - Jonathan Culler
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Poststructuralism - A Very Short Introduction #73 - Catherine Belsey
The Garden of Forking Paths - Jorge Luis Borges (in Labyrinths)
The Lottery in Babylon - Jorge Luis Borges (in Labyrinths)
February 2003
Mythologies - Roland Barthes
Two Interviews on Science and Literature - Italo Calvino (in The Uses of Literature)
Levels of Reality in Literature - Italo Calvino (in The Uses of Literature)
Why Read the Classics? - Italo Calvino (in The Uses of Literature)
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alias: Recruited - Lynn Mason
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
March 2003
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
The Journey to the East - Hermann Hesse
Poetry - February 2003
the Seattle Review Volume XXV, Number 1
Death of a Naturalist - Seamus Heaney
Prufrock and Other Observations - T. S. Eliot
Door into the Dark - Seamus Heaney
Editors - Saul Bellow & Keith Botsford
On Being a Poet in America - Louis Simpson
The Public Art of Crisis in the Suburbs of Hell - Herbert Blau
How to Read Literature Like a Professor - Thomas C. Foster
What Liberal Media? - Eric Alterman
The Haiku Handbook - William J. Higginson with Penny Harter
The News About the News (American Journalism in Peril) - Leonard Downie Jr and Robert G. Kaiser
April 2003
Poetry - March 2003
The Emperor of Scent - Chandler Burr
A Shortcut Through Time - George Johnson
Kappa - Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Ferdinand de Saussure - Jonathan Culler
Elements of Semiology - Roland Barthes
Book of Haikus - Jack Kerouac
Poetry - April 2003
New England Review - Volume 24, Number 1, Winter 2003
Harvard Review - Fall 2002
Columbia Poetry Review - No. 15, Spring 2002
S/Z - Roland Barthes
May 2003
Why Are We At War? - Norman Mailer
The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills
June 2003
The Cloud of Knowable Things - Elaine Equi
Crossing the Outskirts - Julian Turner
Our Final Hour - Sir Martin Rees
An Obsession with Butterflies
Y : The Descent of Man - Steve Jones
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
An Oulipo Primer - Warren F. Motte
The Golden Age of the Fourth Dimension - Katharine Coles
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, 3rd ed. - ed. Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellman, Robert O'Clair
July 2003
Essays on Poetry - Ralph Mills, Jr.
Konfidenz - Ariel Dorfman
September 2003
Trials of the Monkey: An accidental memoir - Matthew Chapman
Final Girl - Daphne Gottlieb
The Music of the Primes : Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics - Marcus du Sautoy
The Prism and the Pendulum: The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science - Robert Crease
Candide - Voltaire
October 2003
Haiku: Volume 1: Eastern Culture - R. H. Blyth
Alpha & Omega - Charles Seife
Ultimate Punishment: A lawyer's reflection on dealing with the death penalty - Scott Turow
The Activist - Renee Gladman
Upcoming books are in my current reading list.
Well, I ran out of steam with keeping this updated but I'm trying again now, so take a look at the 2004 list.
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