XERXES
This week she has been reading Vicki Hearne's Adam's Task.
Hearne was a dog and horse trainer, a philosophical dabbler (but an invaluable one who knew how to call out the philosophical “experts” when they were making fools of themselves by proudly pontificating about matters of which they knew almost nothing), and a self-aware, honest writer whose passion for her causes is infectious and admirable.
One thought with which Xerxes is wholly in agreement:
My relationship with my dog entails living with limitations. The dog cannot do what I can do and the dog cannot do what most of my human friends and acquaintances can do. But for all that – “The relationship is not an incomplete version of something else. It is a complete dog-human relationship. Accepted as such, it provides us both with what it is supposed to provide us with and has integrity.”
Xerxes' Eighteenth Year
Week 891 Xerxes was reading Vicki Hearne’s Adam’s Task
Week 890 Xerxes was reading Sophocles’s Philoctetes
Week 889 Xerxes was reading M. Leona Godin’s There Plant Eyes
Week 888 Xerxes was reading Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Xerxes' Seventeenth Year
Week 887 Xerxes was reading Martha Nussbaum’s Cultivating Humanity
Week 886 Xerxes was reading Meister Eckhart's Quotations
Week 885 Xerxes was reading Samuel Lebens’s Splinters
Week 884 Xerxes was reading Samantha Harvey’s The Shapeless Unease
Week 883 Xerxes was reading Samantha Harvey’s Orbital
Week 882 Xerxes was reading Pink Dandelion’s The Quakers
Week 881 Xerxes was reading S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk
Week 880 Xerxes was reading Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents
Week 879 Xerxes was reading T.H. White’s The Ill-Made Knight and The Candle in the Wind
Week 878 Xerxes was reading T.H. White’s The Sword in the Stone and The Queen of Air and Darkness
Week 877 Xerxes was reading Jon Margolis’s The Last Innocent Year
Week 876 Xerxes was reading Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
Week 875 Xerxes was reading Isak Dinesen’s Seven Gothic Tales
Week 874 Xerxes was reading Angela Carter’s Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces and Black Venus
Week 873 Xerxes was reading Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber
Week 872 Xerxes was reading Robert Burton’s Philosophaster
Week 871 Xerxes was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Poems
Week 870 Xerxes was reading Susan Cain’s Bittersweet
Week 869 Xerxes was reading Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls
Week 868 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare’s King Lear
Week 867 Xerxes was reading William Styron’s Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Week 866 Xerxes was reading Gene Wolfe’s The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Week 865 Xerxes was reading the sage Vyasa’s Bhagavad Gita
Week 864 Xerxes was reading Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
Week 863 Xerxes was reading Brian Doyle’s One Long River of Song
Week 862 Xerxes was reading Giuseppe Mazzotta's Dante in Translation
Week 861 Xerxes was reading Dante Alighieri's Paradiso
Week 860 Xerxes was reading Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio
Week 859 Xerxes was reading Dante Alighieri's Inferno
Week 858 Xerxes was reading Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
Week 857 Xerxes was reading John S. Tanner’s Anxiety in Eden
Week 856 Xerxes was reading Thomas Hardy’s Selected Poetry
Week 855 Xerxes was reading Viola Davis’s Finding Me
Week 854 Xerxes was reading Emil Cioran’s The New Gods, The Trouble with Being Born, Drawn and Quartered, and Anathemas and Admirations
Week 853 Xerxes was reading Emil Cioran’s All Gall is Divided, The Temptation to Exist, History and Utopia, and The Fall into Time
Week 852 Xerxes was reading Emil Cioran’s On the Heights of Despair, The Book of Delusions, Tears and Saints, and A Short History of Decay
Week 851 Xerxes was reading Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Week 850 Xerxes was reading Ross Douthat’s The Decadent Society
Week 849 Xerxes was reading Matthew Scully’s Dominion
Week 848 Xerxes was reading Martha Nussbaum’s Justice for Animals
Week 847 Xerxes was reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris
Week 846 Xerxes was reading C. Stephen Evans’s Kierkegaard and Sylvia Walsh’s Kierkegaard
Week 845 Xerxes was reading Amy Olberding’s The Wrong of Rudeness
Week 844 Xerxes was reading Leo Tolstoy’s Resurrection
Week 843 Xerxes was reading James Bentley’s A Calendar of Saints
Week 842 Xerxes was reading Bob O’Gorman and Mary Faulkner’s The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Catholicism
Week 841 Xerxes was reading Michael Hauskeller’s The Meaning of Life and Death
Week 840 Xerxes was reading James Mustich’s 1000 Books to Read Before You Die
Week 839 Xerxes was reading Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Week 838 Xerxes was reading Pär Lagerkvist's The Dwarf
Week 837 Xerxes was reading Dan Simmons’s Hyperion
Week 836 Xerxes was reading Jean Garrigue's The Animal Hotel
Xerxes' Sixteenth Year
Week 835 Xerxes was reading Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry – E.A. Markham to Helen MacDonald
Week 834 Xerxes was reading Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry – W.H. Auden to Carlyle Reedy
Week 833 Xerxes was reading Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry – Thomas Hardy to Samuel Beckett
Week 832 Xerxes was reading American Poetry: The 20th Century, Vol II – Theodore Roethke to May Swenson
Week 831 Xerxes was reading American Poetry: The 20th Century, Vol II – Sterling A. Brown to George Oppen
Week 830 Xerxes was reading American Poetry: The 20th Century, Vol II – e.e. cummings to Yvor Winters
Week 829 Xerxes was reading American Poetry: The 20th Century, Vol I – Elinor Wylie to Dorothy Parker
Week 828 Xerxes was reading American Poetry: The 20th Century, Vol I – Wallace Stevens to Ezra Pound
Week 827 Xerxes was reading American Poetry: The 20th Century, Vol I – Henry Adams to Vachel Lindsay
Week 826 Xerxes was reading John Carey’s A Little History of Poetry
Week 825 Xerxes was reading the Gawain Poet’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Week 824 Xerxes was reading Philip Womack’s How to Teach Classics to Your Dog
Week 823 Xerxes was reading W.H. Auden’s The Age of Anxiety
Week 822 Xerxes was reading Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla
Week 821 Xerxes was reading Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights
Week 820 Xerxes was reading Robert Grudin’s Book
Week 819 Xerxes was reading Naomi Mitchison’s Travel Light
Week 818 Xerxes was reading George Saunders’s Liberation Day
Week 817 Xerxes was reading Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs
Week 816 Xerxes was reading Jason Brennan’s Against Democracy
Week 815 Xerxes was reading Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim
Week 814 Xerxes was reading James Shapiro’s Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Week 813 Xerxes was reading George Orwell’s Animal Farm
Week 812 Xerxes was reading Jana Jacobs’s Memories and Muses
Week 811 Xerxes was reading Dylan Thomas’s The Poems of Dylan Thomas
Week 810 Xerxes was reading John Koenig’s The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Week 809 Xerxes was reading M.F.K. Fisher’s Sister Age and Wayne Booth’s The Art of Growing Older
Week 808 Xerxes was reading Helen Small’s The Long Life
Week 807 Xerxes was reading Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
Week 806 Xerxes was reading Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game
Week 805 Xerxes was reading Simone de Beauvoir’s The Prime of Life
Week 804 Xerxes was reading Simone de Beauvoir’s Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Week 803 Xerxes was reading Kelly Jolley’s Big Swamp
Week 802 Xerxes was reading Kieran Setiya’s Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
Week 801 Xerxes was reading Hud Hudson’s Undergraduate Papers
Week 800 Xerxes was reading Kenneth Silverman’s The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
Week 799 Xerxes was reading Denis Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew
Week 798 Xerxes was reading Alister McGrath’s Christian Theology
Week 797 Xerxes was reading Henry Fairlie’s The Seven Deadly Sins Today
Week 796 Xerxes was reading Ronald Blythe’s Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
Week 795 Xerxes was reading Jeff Winberry’s Breaking the Dark
Week 794 Xerxes was reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun
Week 793 Xerxes was reading Dino Buzzati’s Restless Nights and Catastrophe
Week 792 Xerxes was reading Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko’s The Good Life Method
Week 791 Xerxes was reading Katherine Rundell’s Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Week 790 Xerxes was reading Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Words
Week 789 Xerxes was reading Hazel Barnes’s The Story I Tell Myself
Week 788 Xerxes was reading Richard Powers’s The Overstory
Week 787 Xerxes was reading Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer
Week 786 Xerxes was reading John McWhorter’s Woke Racism
Week 785 Xerxes was reading Brian Leiter’s Nietzsche on Morality
Week 784 Xerxes was reading Bohumil Hrabal's Too Loud a Solitude
Xerxes' Fifteenth Year
Week 783 Xerxes was reading Xerxes' First through Fifteenth Years
Week 782 Xerxes was reading Lord Byron’s Manfred
Week 781 Xerxes was reading Bernard Suits’s The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia
Week 780 Xerxes was reading Rebecca Wragg Sykes’s Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Week 779 Xerxes was reading Tibor Fischer’s The Collector Collector
Week 778 Xerxes was reading Plato’s Gorgias
Week 777 Xerxes was reading Immanuel Kant’s Conjectural Beginning of Human History
Week 776 Xerxes was reading Robert L. Stone’s Essays on The Closing of the American Mind
Week 775 Xerxes was reading Martha Nussbaum and Saul Levmore’s Aging Thoughtfully
Week 774 Xerxes was reading Hud Hudson’s Fallenness and Flourishing
Week 773 Xerxes was reading Alain de Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life
Week 772 Xerxes was reading Flannery O’Connor’s Everything that Rises Must Converge
Week 771 Xerxes was reading Juvenal’s The Satires
Week 770 Xerxes was reading Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way
Week 769 Xerxes was reading Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s This is How You Lose the Time War
Week 768 Xerxes was reading Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s This is How You Lose the Time War
Week 767 Xerxes was reading Russell Hoban’s The Mouse and His Child
Week 766 Xerxes was reading Paul Tremblay’s Head Full of Ghosts
Week 765 Xerxes was reading Soren Kierkegaard's Either/Or
Week 764 Xerxes was reading Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
Week 763 Xerxes was reading Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s Heroes
Week 762 Xerxes was reading Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas, The Vision of Theodore, and The Fountain
Week 761 Xerxes was reading Peter Blegvad’s The Book of Leviathan
Week 760 Xerxes was reading Lucius Annaeus Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life
Week 759 Xerxes was reading J.M. Roberts’s History of the World
Week 758 Xerxes was reading Luigi Pirandello’s One, None and a Hundred Thousand
Week 757 Xerxes was reading Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil
Week 756 Xerxes was reading Allie Brosh’s Solutions and Other Problems
Week 755 Xerxes was reading Arthur Schopenhauer’s Essays
Week 754 Xerxes was reading the Upanishads
Week 753 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth
Week 752 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, and Antony and Cleopatra
Week 751 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Timon of Athens, and Coriolanus
Week 750 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare’s Henry VI Part 1, Henry VI Part 2, Henry VI Part 3, and Richard III
Week 749 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and Henry V
Week 748 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, King John, and Richard II
Week 747 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Troilus and Cressida
Week 746 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare’s Two Noble Kinsmen, The Merchant of Venice, and Twelfth Night
Week 745 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare’s Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter’s Tale
Week 744 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and The Tempest
Week 743 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Comedy of Errors, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Week 742 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, Loves Labour’s Lost, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Week 741 Xerxes was reading Charles Trenet’s L’ame des Poètes
Week 740 Xerxes was reading Marjorie Garber’s Shakespeare After All – Comedies
Week 739 Xerxes was reading Marjorie Garber’s Shakespeare After All – Histories
Week 738 Xerxes was reading Marjorie Garber’s Shakespeare After All – Tragedies
Week 737 Xerxes was reading Milan Kundera’s Slowness
Week 736 Xerxes was reading Sei Shōnagon’s The Pillow Book
Week 735 Xerxes was reading Lady Sarashina's As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
Week 734 Xerxes was reading Kenkō Yoshida’s Essays in Idleness
Week 733 Xerxes was reading Roberto González Echevarría’s Cervantes' Don Quixote
Week 732 Xerxes was reading Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote
Week 731 Xerxes was reading Miguel de Unamuno's The Tragic Sense of Life
Xerxes' Fourteenth Year
Week 730 Xerxes was reading Giacomo Leopardi's The Moral Essays
Week 729 Xerxes was reading Giacomo Leopardi's Pensieri
Week 728 Xerxes was reading William Ian Miller's Outrageous Fortune
Week 727 Xerxes was reading Gabriel Gárcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
Week 726 Xerxes was reading Channel 4's 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Week 725 Xerxes was reading Machado de Assis's Philosopher or Dog?
Week 724 Xerxes was reading George Saunders's A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Week 723 Xerxes was reading Timothy Snyder's On Tyrrany
Week 722 Xerxes was reading C.S. Lewis's The Weight of Glory
Week 721 Xerxes was reading Bruce Gibney's The Nonsense Factory
Week 720 Xerxes was reading Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
Week 719 Xerxes was reading Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
Week 718 Xerxes was reading John Gardner's Mickelsson's Ghosts
Week 717 Xerxes was reading Stella Gibbons's Starlight
Week 716 Xerxes was reading John Gardner's Freddy's Book
Week 715 Xerxes was reading Antonio Muñoz Molina's Sepharad
Week 714 Xerxes was reading Hermann Hesse's Rosshalde
Week 713 Xerxes was reading Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood
Week 712 Xerxes was reading W. Somerset Maugham's The Summing Up
Week 711 Xerxes was reading John Fuller's Flying to Nowhere
Week 710 Xerxes was reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Week 709 Xerxes was reading Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince
Week 708 Xerxes was reading Zena Hitz's Lost in Thought
Week 707 Xerxes was reading Sigrid Undset's The Cross
Week 706 Xerxes was reading Sigrid Undset's The Wife
Week 705 Xerxes was reading Sigrid Undset's The Wreath
Week 704 Xerxes was reading Anne Carson's The Autobiography of Red
Week 703 Xerxes was reading Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
Week 702 Xerxes was reading Steven Moore's Alexander Theroux: A Fan's Notes
Week 701 Xerxes was reading Alexander Theroux's Darconville's Cat
Week 700 Xerxes was reading Isabel Colgate's A Pelican in the Wilderness
Week 699 Xerxes was reading Reader's Digest's Everyday Life through the Ages
Week 698 Xerxes was reading Elizabeth Anderson's Private Government
Week 697 Xerxes was reading Anonymous's The Epic of Gilgamesh
Week 696 Xerxes was reading Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower
Week 695 Xerxes was reading Sheldon Solomon's The Worm at the Core
Week 694 Xerxes was reading William Ferraiolo's You Die at the End
Week 693 Xerxes was reading Frederick Douglass's The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Week 692 Xerxes was reading Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility
Week 691 Xerxes was reading Octavia E. Butler's Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
Week 690 Xerxes was reading Peter Kail's Simply Nietzsche and Robert L. Wicks's Simply Hegel
Week 689 Xerxes was reading Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men
Week 688 Xerxes was reading Benjamin Stein's The Canvas
Week 687 Xerxes was reading John Milton's Paradise Lost
Week 686 Xerxes was reading Herman Melville's Moby Dick
Week 685 Xerxes was reading James Hilton's Lost Horizon
Week 684 Xerxes was reading Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front
Week 683 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's Sonnets
Week 682 Xerxes was reading Philip Rucker and Carol Leonning's A Very Stable Genius
Week 681 Xerxes was reading Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Week 680 Xerxes was reading Imre Madách's The Tragedy of Man
Week 679 Xerxes was reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
Xerxes' Thirteenth Year
Week 678 Xerxes was reading Peter Kreeft's Three Philosophies of Life
Week 677 Xerxes was reading Soren Kierkegaard's Works of Love
Week 676 Xerxes was reading Stephen Backhouse's Kierkegaard: A Single Life
Week 675 Xerxes was reading Victor Hugo's God and The End of Satan
Week 674 Xerxes was reading A.A. Milne's Now We Are Six
Week 673 Xerxes was reading Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Week 672 Xerxes was reading Roald Dahl's The Witches
Week 671 Xerxes was reading Lectionary (Year A) The First Sunday in Lent
Week 670 Xerxes was reading The Criterion Collection's Ingmar Bergman's Cinema
Week 669 Xerxes was reading Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House
Week 668 Xerxes was reading Taylor Caldwell's Dear and Glorious Physician
Week 667 Xerxes was reading John Steinbeck's East of Eden
Week 666 Xerxes was reading Stanley Fish's The First
Week 665 Xerxes was reading George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin
Week 664 Xerxes was reading Ted Chiang's Exhalation
Week 663 Xerxes was reading Bernard Malamud's God's Grace
Week 662 Xerxes was reading Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage
Week 661 Xerxes was reading Miguel de Cervantes's The Little Gipsy Girl and The Dialogue of the Dogs
Week 660 Xerxes was reading Dale B. Martin's Introduction to the New Testament
Week 659 Xerxes was reading John Dominic Crossan's Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography
Week 658 Xerxes was reading August Klingemann's The Nightwatches of Bonaventura
Week 657 Xerxes was reading Paul Johnson's Jesus: A Biography from a Believer
Week 656 Xerxes was reading Dino Buzzati's The Tartar Steppe
Week 655 Xerxes was reading Soren Kierkegaard's Parables of Kierkegaard
Week 654 Xerxes was reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Week 653 Xerxes was reading Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Week 652 Xerxes was reading Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible
Week 651 Xerxes was reading Gerd Theissen's The Shadow of the Galilean
Week 650 Xerxes was reading Jeffrey Masson's The Secret World of Farm Animals
Week 649 Xerxes was reading Dorothy L. Sayers's The Nine Tailors
Week 648 Xerxes was reading Karin Tidbeck's Jagannath
Week 647 Xerxes was reading Robertson Davies's Fifth Business
Week 646 Xerxes was reading Amor Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow
Week 645 Xerxes was reading Cixin Liu's Death's End
Week 644 Xerxes was reading Cixin Liu's The Dark Forest
Week 643 Xerxes was reading Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem
Week 642 Xerxes was reading Russell Hoban's The Medusa Frequency
Week 641 Xerxes was reading Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker
Week 640 Xerxes was reading Anthony Burgess's 99 Novels
Week 639 Xerxes was reading T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral
Week 638 Xerxes was reading Herman Hesse's Gertrude
Week 637 Xerxes was reading Olov Hartman's Holy Masquerade
Week 636 Xerxes was reading Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles
Week 635 Xerxes was reading Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
Week 634 Xerxes was reading Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies
Week 633 Xerxes was reading Michael Wex's Born to Kvetch
Week 632 Xerxes was reading St Augustine's Confessions
Week 631 Xerxes was reading Soren Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness Unto Death
Week 630 Xerxes was reading Soren Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments and Johannes Climacus
Week 629 Xerxes was reading Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, Repetition, and Prefaces
Week 628 Xerxes was reading Machado de Assis's Epitaph of a Small Winner
Week 627 Xerxes was reading Larry Levin's Oogy
Xerxes' Twelfth Year
Week 626 Xerxes was reading Peter Shaffer's Amadeus
Week 625 Xerxes was reading Cormac McCarthy's The Stonemason
Week 624 Xerxes was reading Sylvia Plath's The Collected Poems
Week 623 Xerxes was reading Herbert Fingarette's Death: Philosophical Soundings
Week 622 Xerxes was reading Gabriel Garcia Márquez's Of Love and Other Demons
Week 621 Xerxes was reading Charles Dickens's David Copperfield
Week 620 Xerxes was reading Christopher Hitchens's Mortality
Week 619 Xerxes was reading Rudyard Kipling's Complete Verse
Week 618 Xerxes was reading Judith N. Shklar's Ordinary Vices
Week 617 Xerxes was reading Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens
Week 616 Xerxes was reading Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men
Week 615 Xerxes was reading Stephen Prothero's God is Not One
Week 614 Xerxes was reading Joy Williams's Ninety-Nine Stories of God
Week 613 Xerxes was reading C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man
Week 612 Xerxes was reading Isaiah Berlin's The Hedgehog and the Fox
Week 611 Xerxes was reading John Milton's Paradise Regained
Week 610 Xerxes was reading Dante Alighieri's Paradiso
Week 609 Xerxes was reading Hud Hudson's A Grotesque in the Garden
Week 608 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's Coriolanus
Week 607 Xerxes was reading G.B. Edwards's The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
Week 606 Xerxes was reading Le Duc de La Rochefoucauld's Maxims
Week 605 Xerxes was reading Sarah Perry's Melmoth
Week 604 Xerxes was reading Henry Chadwick's Augustine
Week 603 Xerxes was reading Roland Bainton's Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
Week 602 Xerxes was reading Walker Percy's The Moviegoer
Week 601 Xerxes was reading Leonard Koren's Wabi-Sabi
Week 600 Xerxes was reading Kobo Abe's The Woman in the Dunes
Week 599 Xerxes was reading Eleonore Stump's Atonement
Week 598 Xerxes was reading Eleonore Stump's Wandering in Darkness
Week 597 Xerxes was reading Colm Toibin's The Master
Week 596 Xerxes was reading Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary
Week 595 Xerxes was reading Soren Kierkegaard's The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air
Week 594 Xerxes was reading Stephen T. Asma's On Monsters
Week 593 Xerxes was reading C.S. Lewis's Perelandra
Week 592 Xerxes was reading C.S. Lewis's Reflections on the Psalms
Week 591 Xerxes was reading Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams
Week 590 Xerxes was reading the Westminster Larger Catechism
Week 589 Xerxes was reading Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus
Week 588 Xerxes was reading Patrick Hamilton's The Slaves of Solitude
Week 587 Xerxes was reading Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub
Week 586 Xerxes was reading Olaf Stapledon's Latter-Day Psalms
Week 585 Xerxes was reading Pat Thane's A History of Old Age
Week 584 Xerxes was reading Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety
Week 583 Xerxes was reading Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
Week 582 Xerxes was reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Week 581 Xerxes was reading E.M. Cioran's The Temptation to Exist
Week 580 Xerxes was reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The First and Second Discourses
Week 579 Xerxes was reading Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt
Week 578 Xerxes was reading Alfred Jarry's Exploits & Opinions of Dr Faustroll, Pataphysician
Week 577 Xerxes was reading Iris Origo's Leopardi, A Study in Solitude
Week 576 Xerxes was reading Elena Passarello's Animals Strike Curious Poses
Week 575 Xerxes was reading Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Xerxes' Eleventh Year
Week 574 Xerxes was reading Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
Week 573 Xerxes was reading Marvin Rosenberg's The Masks of Hamlet
Week 572 Xerxes was reading Harold Bloom's Hamlet: Poem Unlimited
Week 571 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's King Lear
Week 570 Xerxes was reading Anonymous's Seven Taoist Masters
Week 569 Xerxes was reading Laozi's Tao Te Ching and Zhuangzi's The Inner Chapters
Week 568 Xerxes was reading Benjamin Hoff's The Tao of Pooh
Week 567 Xerxes was reading Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose
Week 566 Xerxes was reading Merold Westphal's Suspicion and Faith
Week 565 Xerxes was reading Claire Crisp's Waking Mathilda
Week 564 Xerxes was reading Graham Greene's The Tenth Man
Week 563 Xerxes was reading Edward Albee's The Zoo Story, The Sandbox, and A Delicate Balance
Week 562 Xerxes was reading Eugene Ionesco's The Lesson
Week 561 Xerxes was reading Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain
Week 560 Xerxes was reading Thomas Mann's A Man and His Dog
Week 559 Xerxes was reading Henri Barbusse's The Inferno
Week 558 Xerxes was reading Sara Gran's Come Closer
Week 557 Xerxes was reading Sarah Waters's Fingersmith
Week 556 Xerxes was reading Margaret Edson's Wit
Week 555 Xerxes was reading Helen Oyeyemi's Mr. Fox
Week 554 Xerxes was reading Walter Isaacson's Leonardo da Vinci
Week 553 Xerxes was reading Patrick McGrath's The Grotesque
Week 552 Xerxes was reading Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Week 551 Xerxes was reading William Empson's Milton's God
Week 550 Xerxes was reading M.F.K. Fisher's Last House
Week 549 Xerxes was reading Hermann Hesse's Demian
Week 548 Xerxes was reading M.F.K. Fisher's Sister Age
Week 547 Xerxes was reading John Milton's Samson Agonistes
Week 546 Xerxes was reading Leon Garfield's The Pleasure Garden: A Masquerade
Week 545 Xerxes was reading Yaa Gyasi's's Homegoing
Week 544 Xerxes was reading Benjamin Dewey's The Tragedy Series
Week 543 Xerxes was reading J.R.R Tolkien's The Return of the King
Week 542 Xerxes was reading J.R.R Tolkien's The Two Towers
Week 541 Xerxes was reading J.R.R Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring
Week 540 Xerxes was reading Stefan Grabinski's The Dark Domain
Week 539 Xerxes was reading Robert A.F. Thurman's Anger
Week 538 Xerxes was reading Louisa May Alcott's A Modern Mephistopheles
Week 537 Xerxes was reading Rabih Alameddine's An Unnecessary Woman
Week 536 Xerxes was reading Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools
Week 535 Xerxes was reading André Gide's Isabelle and The Pastoral Symphony
Week 534 Xerxes was reading Tom Nichols's The Death of Expertise
Week 533 Xerxes was reading Kathryn and Ross Petra's Anthology of Really Important Modern Poetry
Week 532 Xerxes was reading Stanislaw Lem's Solaris
Week 531 Xerxes was reading François Mauriac’s Woman of the Pharisees
Week 530 Xerxes was reading Henry James's Ghost Stories
Week 529 Xerxes was reading Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider
Week 528 Xerxes was reading Henry James's The Aspern Papers
Week 527 Xerxes was reading Jeremy Bushnell's The Weirdness
Week 526 Xerxes was reading Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Week 525 Xerxes was reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Woman Destroyed
Week 524 Xerxes was reading Soren Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety
Week 523 Xerxes was reading Tibor Fischer's The Thought Gang
Xerxes' Tenth Year
Week 522 Xerxes was reading Xerxes' First through Tenth Years
Week 521 Xerxes was reading George Eliot's Middlemarch
Week 520 Xerxes was reading Josh Cook's An Exaggerated Murder
Week 519 Xerxes was reading Anthony Trollope's The Warden
Week 518 Xerxes was reading Alexander Nehamas's On Friendship
Week 517 Xerxes was reading Lucius Annaeus Seneca's Letters from a Stoic
Week 516 Xerxes was reading Miguel de Unamuno's Mist and How to Make a Novel
Week 515 Xerxes was reading Patrick Romanell's Making of the Mexican Mind
Week 514 Xerxes was reading Lorenzo Scupoli's The Spiritual Combat
Week 513 Xerxes was reading Omar Khayyám's Rubáiyát
Week 512 Xerxes was reading Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower
Week 511 Xerxes was reading Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds
Week 510 Xerxes was reading Francesco Petrarch's My Secret Book
Week 509 Xerxes was reading The Koran
Week 508 Xerxes was reading Alexander Theroux's Collected Poems
Week 507 Xerxes was reading Quotable Quotes's The Book Lover
Week 506 Xerxes was reading Edmund Gosse's Father and Son
Week 505 Xerxes was reading Alain de Botton's The Architecture of Happiness
Week 504 Xerxes was reading Vladimir Nabokov's The Eye
Week 503 Xerxes was reading Honoré de Balzac's The Wild Ass's Skin
Week 502 Xerxes was reading Joseph Soloveitchik's The Lonely Man of Faith
Week 501 Xerxes was reading G.V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr
Week 500 Xerxes was reading Paul Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress
Week 499 Xerxes was reading Paul Beatty's The Sellout
Week 498 Xerxes was reading Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove
Week 497 Xerxes was reading Farid ud-Din Attar's The Conference of the Birds
Week 496 Xerxes was reading Frederick Buechner's Godric
Week 495 Xerxes was reading Shams al-Din Hafiz's Fifty Poems of Hafiz
Week 494 Xerxes was reading Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
Week 493 Xerxes was reading Stefan Kiesbye's Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone
Week 492 Xerxes was reading Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, and Pink Moon
Week 491 Xerxes was reading Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time
Week 490 Xerxes was reading Eduardo Galeano's Children of the Days
Week 489 Xerxes was reading Isaac Bashevis Singer's Satan in Goray
Week 488 Xerxes was reading Michael Cook's Muhammad and The Koran
Week 487 Xerxes was reading Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow
Week 486 Xerxes was reading Raymond Chapman's The Loneliness of Man
Week 485 Xerxes was reading E. Monroe's Lillian Hill
Week 484 Xerxes was reading Clive Barker's Mister B. Gone
Week 483 Xerxes was reading Liv Ullmann's Changing and Choices
Week 482 Xerxes was reading Russell Hoban's Pilgermann
Week 481 Xerxes was reading Ewan Fernie and Simon Palfrey's Macbeth, Macbeth
Week 480 Xerxes was reading James Hitchcock's History of the Catholic Church
Week 479 Xerxes was reading Andrew Hurley's The Loney
Week 478 Xerxes was reading Dwight Logenecker's The Gargoyle Code and Slubgrip Instructs
Week 477 Xerxes was reading Georges Bernanos's Under Satan's Sun
Week 476 Xerxes was reading Georges Bernanos's Mouchette
Week 475 Xerxes was reading Ray Bradbury's Dark Carnival
Week 474 Xerxes was reading Ron Hansen's Mariette in Ecstasy
Week 473 Xerxes was reading Natalie Babbit's Tuck Everlasting
Week 472 Xerxes was reading Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Week 471 Xerxes was reading Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant
Week 470 Xerxes was reading Cyril Connolly's The Unquiet Grave
Xerxes' Ninth Year
Week 469 Xerxes was reading Ewan Fernie's The Demonic: Literature and Experience
Week 468 Xerxes was reading Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby
Week 467 Xerxes was reading James Robertson's The Testament of Gideon Mack
Week 466 Xerxes was reading Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death
Week 465 Xerxes was reading J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace
Week 464 Xerxes was reading Wayne Booth's The Art of Growing Older
Week 463 Xerxes was reading James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room
Week 462 Xerxes was reading George Santayana's Lucifer: A Theological Tragedy
Week 461 Xerxes was reading Jorge Luis Borges's The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
Week 460 Xerxes was reading Jorge Luis Borges's In Praise of Darkness and Brodie's Report
Week 459 Xerxes was reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse
Week 458 Xerxes was reading Jorge Luis Borges's The Aleph and The Maker
Week 457 Xerxes was reading James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time
Week 456 Xerxes was reading Jorge Luis Borges's A Universal History of Iniquity and Fictions
Week 455 Xerxes was reading Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm
Week 454 Xerxes was reading Stefan Zweig's Confusion
Week 453 Xerxes was reading Carlos Fuentes's Inez
Week 452 Xerxes was reading Bram Stoker's Dracula
Week 451 Xerxes was reading Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White
Week 450 Xerxes was reading Robert J. Hutchinson's The Book of Vices
Week 449 Xerxes was reading Taylor Caldwell's Dialogues with the Devil and The Listener
Week 448 Xerxes was reading Tosca Lee's Demon: A Memoir and Havah
Week 447 Xerxes was reading William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist
Week 446 Xerxes was reading Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters
Week 445 Xerxes was reading Anita Brookner's Hotel Du Lac
Week 444 Xerxes was reading Charles Simmons's Wrinkles
Week 443 Xerxes was reading Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me
Week 442 Xerxes was reading Matthew Lewis's The Monk
Week 441 Xerxes was reading Thomas Bernhard's The Woodcutters
Week 440 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Week 439 Xerxes was reading John Gardner's Grendel
Week 438 Xerxes was reading Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim
Week 437 Xerxes was reading Jonathan L. Howard's Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
Week 436 Xerxes was reading J.D. Salinger's Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction
Week 435 Xerxes was reading Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle
Week 434 Xerxes was reading Philip P. Hallie's The Paradox of Cruelty
Week 433 Xerxes was reading Knut Hamsun's Mysteries
Week 432 Xerxes was reading Scott Cheshire's High as the Horses' Bridles
Week 431 Xerxes was reading John Cheever's Oh What a Paradise it Seems
Week 430 Xerxes was reading Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Café
Week 429 Xerxes was reading Lars Svendsen's A Philosophy of Boredom
Week 428 Xerxes was reading Christopher Hamilton's Middle Age
Week 427 Xerxes was reading Myra Cohn Livingston's Why Am I Grown So Cold
Week 426 Xerxes was reading Russell Hoban's The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
Week 425 Xerxes was reading Thomas à Kempis's The Imitation of Christ
Week 424 Xerxes was reading Kent Haruf’s Plainsong
Week 423 Xerxes was reading Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung’s Vainglory
Week 422 Xerxes was reading George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind
Week 421 Xerxes was reading Homer’s Iliad
Week 420 Xerxes was reading Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey
Week 419 Xerxes was reading George Sand’s The Devil's Pool
Week 418 Xerxes was reading Gary Dexter’s Poisoned Pens
Xerxes' Eighth Year
Week 417 Xerxes was reading Hannah Tillich’s From Time to Time
Week 416 Xerxes was reading Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome
Week 415 Xerxes was reading John Bunyan’s The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
Week 414 Xerxes was reading Peter De Vries’s The Tunnel of Love
Week 413 Xerxes was reading August Strindberg’s By the Open Sea
Week 412 Xerxes was reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Week 411 Xerxes was reading Anatole France’s The Revolt of the Angels
Week 410 Xerxes was reading William Barrett’s Irrational Man
Week 409 Xerxes was reading Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession
Week 408 Xerxes was reading Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members
Week 407 Xerxes was reading Randall Munroe’s What If
Week 406 Xerxes was reading Gene Wolfe’s Peace
Week 405 Xerxes was reading John Williams’s Stoner
Week 404 Xerxes was reading François Mauriac’s Viper's Tangle
Week 403 Xerxes was reading Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Week 402 Xerxes was reading Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red
Week 401 Xerxes was reading Sherman Alexie’s Flight
Week 400 Xerxes was reading Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis
Week 399 Xerxes was reading Oscar Wilde’s Reading Gaol
Week 398 Xerxes was reading Ted Chiang’s The Stories of Your Life and Others
Week 397 Xerxes was reading Thomas Cole and Mary Winkler’s The Oxford Book of Aging
Week 396 Xerxes was reading Joseph Fink’s Welcome to Night Vale
Week 395 Xerxes was reading Arthur Schopenhauer’s Essays and Aphorisms
Week 394 Xerxes was reading Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Maxims and Reflections
Week 393 Xerxes was reading Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
Week 392 Xerxes was reading Kelly Dean Jolley’s Stony Lonesome
Week 391 Xerxes was reading C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity
Week 390 Xerxes was reading Mark Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger
Week 389 Xerxes was reading Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust
Week 388 Xerxes was reading Javier Marías’s All Souls
Week 387 Xerxes was reading Hermann Hesse’s The Dwarf
Week 386 Xerxes was reading Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
Week 385 Xerxes was reading José Saramago’s All the Names
Week 384 Xerxes was reading Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Week 383 Xerxes was reading Sarah Gerkensmeyer's What You Are Now Enjoying
Week 382 Xerxes was reading Jack Handey's The Stench of Honolulu
Week 381 Xerxes was reading Jessica Burr and Matt Opatrny's Lying
Week 380 Xerxes was reading Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World
Week 379 Xerxes was reading Philip Koch's Bare Ruined Choirs and Essays from Autumn
Week 378 Xerxes was reading Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half
Week 377 Xerxes was reading Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
Week 376 Xerxes was reading Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier
Week 375 Xerxes was reading Leonid Tsypkin's Summer in Baden-Baden
Week 374 Xerxes was reading W.J. Leatherbarrow's Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Week 373 Xerxes was reading Teresa of Ávila's Interior Castle
Week 372 Xerxes was reading Dante Alighieri's Inferno
Week 371 Xerxes was reading Frederick C. Crews's The Pooh Perplex
Week 370 Xerxes was reading Marguerite Yourcenar's That Mighty Sculptor, Time
Week 369 Xerxes was reading Simone de Beauvoir's All Men are Mortal
Week 368 Xerxes was reading Richard Brautigan's Sombrero Fallout
Week 367 Xerxes was reading Simon Critchley's The Book of Dead Philosophers
Week 366 Xerxes was reading Alice Miller's The Drama of the Gifted Child
Xerxes' Seventh Year
Week 365 Xerxes was reading J.R.R. Tolkien's Ainulindalë
Week 364 Xerxes was reading Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day Before
Week 363 Xerxes was reading Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy
Week 362 Xerxes was reading Tina Fey's Bossypants
Week 361 Xerxes was reading G.K. Chesterton's The Innocence of Father Brown
Week 360 Xerxes was reading Russell Potter's Pyg: TheMemoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig
Week 359 Xerxes was reading Philip Roth's The Humbling
Week 358 Xerxes was reading Sam Savage's Firmin
Week 357 Xerxes was reading Russell Hoban's Turtle Diary
Week 356 Xerxes was reading Galatians through Revelation
Week 355 Xerxes was reading Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Week 354 Xerxes was reading Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, and 2 Corinthians
Week 353 Xerxes was reading Franco Bonera's Pigs: Art, Legend, History
Week 352 Xerxes was reading Satish Kumar's The Buddha and the Terrorist
Week 351 Xerxes was reading Terry Eagleton's On Evil
Week 350 Xerxes was reading Justin Evan's A Good and Happy Child
Week 349 Xerxes was reading Kurt Vonnegut's Timequake
Week 348 Xerxes was reading Linda Jacobs's LJ
Week 347 Xerxes was reading Alice Munro's Dear Life
Week 346 Xerxes was reading James Stephens's The Demi-Gods
Week 345 Xerxes was reading Walter M. Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz
Week 344 Xerxes was reading Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Week 343 Xerxes was reading Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
Week 342 Xerxes was reading Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf
Week 341 Xerxes was reading M.R. James's Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Week 340 Xerxes was reading Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Week 339 Xerxes was reading Edgar Allen Poe's The Bells
Week 338 Xerxes was reading Ezekiel through Malachi
Week 337 Xerxes was reading Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
Week 336 Xerxes was reading William Butler Yeats's The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Week 335 Xerxes was reading Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Lamentations
Week 334 Xerxes was reading Rachael Briggs's Free Logic
Week 333 Xerxes was reading Leon Garfield's The Ghost Downstairs
Week 332 Xerxes was reading Neil Gaiman's American Gods
Week 331 Xerxes was reading H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness
Week 330 Xerxes was reading Gita Mehta's A River Sutra
Week 329 Xerxes was reading Alberto Manguel's A History of Reading
Week 328 Xerxes was reading Walter Wangerin, Jr.'s The Book of the Dun Cow
Week 327 Xerxes was reading Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon
Week 326 Xerxes was reading James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Week 325 Xerxes was reading 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther
Week 324 Xerxes was reading C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces
Week 323 Xerxes was reading George Gershwin's Summertime
Week 322 Xerxes was reading David Markson's Vanishing Point and The Last Novel
Week 321 Xerxes was reading David Markson's Reader's Block and This is Not a Novel
Week 320 Xerxes was reading 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, and 2 Kings
Week 319 Xerxes was reading Karl Knausgaard's A Time for Everything
Week 318 Xerxes was reading Joshua, Judges, and Ruth
Week 317 Xerxes was reading Georges Bernanos's The Diary of a Country Priest
Week 316 Xerxes was reading Hermann Hesse's The Journey to the East
Week 315 Xerxes was reading Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
Week 314 Xerxes was reading Genesis and Exodus
Xerxes' Sixth Year
Week 313 Xerxes was reading H.G. Wells's The Time Machine
Week 312 Xerxes was reading Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset Limited
Week 311 Xerxes was reading Paul Gallico's Love of Seven Dolls
Week 310 Xerxes was reading Teilhard de Chardin's The Divine Milieu
Week 309 Xerxes was reading Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Week 308 Xerxes was reading Alexander Theroux's The Grammar of Rock
Week 307 Xerxes was reading Virginia Hamilton and Barry Moser's In the Beginning
Week 306 Xerxes was reading C.S. Lewis's The Problem of Pain
Week 305 Xerxes was reading Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch
Week 304 Xerxes was reading Gene Wolfe's The Sword of the Lictor
Week 303 Xerxes was reading Gene Wolfe's The Claw of the Conciliator
Week 302 Xerxes was reading Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer
Week 301 Xerxes was reading Gabriel Zaid's So Many Books
Week 300 Xerxes was reading Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet
Week 299 Xerxes was reading Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge
Week 298 Xerxes was reading Philip Koch's Solitude: A Philosophical Encounter
Week 297 Xerxes was reading Lord Dunsany's Fifty-One Tales
Week 296 Xerxes was reading Anneli Rufus's Party of One
Week 295 Xerxes was reading Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
Week 294 Xerxes was reading Sophocles's Antigone
Week 293 Xerxes was reading Sinclair Lewis's Elmer Gantry
Week 292 Xerxes was reading Primo Levi's The Periodic Table
Week 291 Xerxes was reading G.H. Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology
Week 290 Xerxes was reading Cees Nooteboom's The Following Story
Week 289 Xerxes was reading Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
Week 288 Xerxes was reading James Thurber's The White Deer
Week 287 Xerxes was reading David Schnarch's Passionate Marriage
Week 286 Xerxes was reading Jim Finney's The Love Letter
Week 285 Xerxes was reading Jim Forest's The Wormwood File and Barbara Laymon's The Devil's Inbox
Week 284 Xerxes was reading Lord Byron's Heaven and Earth
Week 283 Xerxes was reading André Gide's The Immoralist
Week 282 Xerxes was reading A.G. Mojtabai's Autumn
Week 281 Xerxes was reading A.G. Mojtabai's Mundome
Week 280 Xerxes was reading J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country
Week 279 Xerxes was reading Blanche Ebbutt's Don'ts for Husbands and Don'ts for Wives
Week 278 Xerxes was reading Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Week 277 Xerxes was reading Rodgers and Hammerstein's Edelweiss
Week 276 Xerxes was reading Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin
Week 275 Xerxes was reading Alice Thomas Ellis's The Sin Eater
Week 274 Xerxes was reading Mary Doria Russell's The Children of God
Week 273 Xerxes was reading Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow
Week 272 Xerxes was reading Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker
Week 271 Xerxes was reading Felix Gilman's The Half-Made World
Week 270 Xerxes was reading Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game
Week 269 Xerxes was reading Olaf Stapledon's Sirius
Week 268 Xerxes was reading Mark Rowland's The Philosopher and the Wolf
Week 267 Xerxes was reading Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan
Week 266 Xerxes was reading Julian Barnes's Nothing to be Frightened Of
Week 265 Xerxes was reading Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games
Week 264 Xerxes was reading Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House
Week 263 Xerxes was reading William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Week 262 Xerxes was reading Gordon Teskey's Norton Critical Edition of Paradise Lost
Xerxes' Fifth Year
Week 261 Xerxes was reading Xerxes' First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Years
Week 260 Xerxes was reading John Burnside's A Summer of Drowning
Week 259 Xerxes was reading Mervyn Peake's Complete Nonsense
Week 258 Xerxes was reading A.S. Byatt's A Stone Woman
Week 257 Xerxes was reading David Albert Jones's Angels
Week 256 Xerxes was reading John Sutherland's Bestsellers
Week 255 Xerxes was reading Denis Diderot's Jacques the Fatalist
Week 254 Xerxes was reading Darren Oldridge's Strange Histories
Week 253 Xerxes was reading Elizabeth Knox's The Vintner's Luck
Week 252 Xerxes was reading Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Week 251 Xerxes was reading Salman Rushdie's Luka and the Fire of Life
Week 250 Xerxes was reading John Rogers's Milton
Week 249 Xerxes was reading Jim Crace's Quarantine
Week 248 Xerxes was reading Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending
Week 247 Xerxes was reading Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker
Week 246 Xerxes was reading Brian Greene's The Hidden Reality
Week 245 Xerxes was reading Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Week 244 Xerxes was reading Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men
Week 243 Xerxes was reading Richard Matheson's I am Legend
Week 242 Xerxes was reading Carter Dickson's The Reader is Warned
Week 241 Xerxes was reading Alexander Theroux's Darconville's Cat
Week 240 Xerxes was reading George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones
Week 239 Xerxes was reading Peter van Inwagen's Quam Dilecta
Week 238 Xerxes was reading Nicholas Wolterstorff's Lament for a Son
Week 237 Xerxes was reading Graham Greene's The Hint of an Explanation
Week 236 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Week 235 Xerxes was reading Denis de Rougemont's The Devil's Share
Week 234 Xerxes was reading Marguerite Yourcenar's The Memoirs of Hadrian
Week 233 Xerxes was reading Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark
Week 232 Xerxes was reading Ivan Turgenev's First Love
Week 231 Xerxes was reading Muriel Spark's Memento Mori
Week 230 Xerxes was reading Ronald B. Shwartz's For the Love of Books
Week 229 Xerxes was reading E.H. Gombrich's The Story of Art
Week 228 Xerxes was reading Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal
Week 227 Xerxes was reading T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland
Week 226 Xerxes was reading Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland
Week 225 Xerxes was reading Harold Pinter's The Homecoming
Week 224 Xerxes was reading Carson McCullers's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Week 223 Xerxes was reading Arnold Lobel's The Adventures of Frog and Toad
Week 222 Xerxes was reading Robert and Richard Sherman's My Own Home
Week 221 Xerxes was reading Christopher McDougall's Born to Run
Week 220 Xerxes was reading Hermann Hesse's A Child's Heart
Week 219 Xerxes was reading Francesco Petrarch's Triumphs
Week 218 Xerxes was reading Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Triumph of Life
Week 217 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
Week 216 Xerxes was reading Albert Camus's The Fall
Week 215 Xerxes was reading C.S. Lewis's Letters to an American Lady
Week 214 Xerxes was reading Stephen Prothero's God is not One
Week 213 Xerxes was reading Alvin Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies
Week 212 Xerxes was reading Frederick Buechner's The Sacred Journey and Now and Then
Week 211 Xerxes was reading David Berlinski's The Devil's Delusion
Week 210 Xerxes was reading Philip Kitcher's Living with Darwin
Week 209 Xerxes was reading Bernard Suit's The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia
Xerxes' Fourth Year
Week 208 Xerxes was reading Stanley Fish's Save the World on Your Own Time
Week 207 Xerxes was reading Mark William Roche's Why Choose the Liberal Arts?
Week 206 Xerxes was reading Thomas Hurka's The Best Things in Life
Week 205 Xerxes was reading a Carthusian monk's The Cloud of Unknowing
Week 204 Xerxes was reading Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist
Week 203 Xerxes was reading Eduardo Galeano's Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
Week 202 Xerxes was reading Plato's Republic
Week 201 Xerxes was reading Elizabeth McCracken's An Exact Replica
Week 200 Xerxes was reading Saul Bellow's Ravelstein
Week 199 Xerxes was reading Henry David Thoreau's Reading
Week 198 Xerxes was reading Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind
Week 197 Xerxes was reading Molière's Tartuffe
Week 196 Xerxes was reading Aristophanes's The Clouds
Week 195 Xerxes was reading Paulo Coelho's The Devil and Miss Prym
Week 194 Xerxes was reading Richard Russo's Straight Man
Week 193 Xerxes was reading Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question
Week 192 Xerxes was reading Nicole Krauss's Great House
Week 191 Xerxes was reading Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
Week 190 Xerxes was reading Geshe Kelsang Gyatso's Universal Compassion
Week 189 Xerxes was reading Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
Week 188 Xerxes was reading Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund
Week 187 Xerxes was reading George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah
Week 186 Xerxes was reading Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge
Week 185 Xerxes was reading God's The Book of Job
Week 184 Xerxes was reading Dennis Potter's Hide and Seek
Week 183 Xerxes was reading Iris Murdoch's The Time of the Angels
Week 182 Xerxes was reading Mervyn Peake's Collected Poems
Week 181 Xerxes was reading José Donoso's The Garden Next Door
Week 180 Xerxes was reading Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree
Week 179 Xerxes was reading Lisa Genova's Still Alice
Week 178 Xerxes was reading G.K. Chesterton's Manalive
Week 177 Xerxes was reading David Orr's Beautiful & Pointless
Week 176 Xerxes was reading A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh
Week 175 Xerxes was reading Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Week 174 Xerxes was reading Douglas Hofstadter's A Person Paper on Purity in Language
Week 173 Xerxes was reading C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters
Week 172 Xerxes was reading William Butler Yeats's He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Week 171 Xerxes was reading Jonathan Swift's The Battle of the Books
Week 170 Xerxes was reading Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air
Week 169 Xerxes was reading Niccolo Machiavelli's Letter to Francesco Vettori
Week 168 Xerxes was reading Henry David Thoreau's Life Without Principle
Week 167 Xerxes was reading Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Week 166 Xerxes was reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Week 165 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
Week 164 Xerxes was reading George Orwell's Animal Farm
Week 163 Xerxes was reading Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals
Week 162 Xerxes was reading Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince
Week 161 Xerxes was reading Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Week 160 Xerxes was reading Joris-Karl Huysmans's Against Nature
Week 159 Xerxes was reading Sheridan Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly
Week 158 Xerxes was reading Virginia Woolf's The Waves
Week 157 Xerxes was reading Mark Twain's Letters from the Earth
Xerxes' Third Year
Week 156 Xerxes was reading Mark Twain's A Dog's Tale
Week 155 Xerxes was reading Jean Anouilh's Becket
Week 154 Xerxes was reading James Goldman's The Lion in Winter
Week 153 Xerxes was reading Antonia Michaelis's Tiger Moon
Week 152 Xerxes was reading Pär Lagerkvist's The Dwarf, Barabbas, and The Sibyl
Week 151 Xerxes was reading Leonard Cohen's Dance Me to the End of Love
Week 150 Xerxes was reading Robin Robertson's Mortification
Week 149 Xerxes was reading Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger
Week 148 Xerxes was reading Jeffrey Burton Russell's Lucifer and Mephistopheles
Week 147 Xerxes was reading Jeffrey Burton Russell's The Devil and Satan
Week 146 Xerxes was reading Toni Morrison's Beloved
Week 145 Xerxes was reading Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman
Week 144 Xerxes was reading Henry James's The Turn of the Screw
Week 143 Xerxes was reading C.S. Lewis's The Pilgrim's Regress
Week 142 Xerxes was reading Jeffrey Burton Russell's The Prince of Darkness
Week 141 Xerxes was reading Alexander McCall Smith's 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom
Week 140 Xerxes was reading Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon
Week 139 Xerxes was reading Huston Smith and Philip Novak's Buddhism
Week 138 Xerxes was reading Michael Sells's Approaching the Qur'an
Week 137 Xerxes was reading Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Week 136 Xerxes was reading Stephen Prothero's Religious Literacy
Week 135 Xerxes was reading Darby Conley's The Dog is Not a Toy
Week 134 Xerxes was reading T. Cathcart and D. Klein's Plato and a Platypus
Week 133 Xerxes was reading Rainer Maria Rilke's Stories of God
Week 132 Xerxes was reading Kazuo Ishiguro's Nocturnes
Week 131 Xerxes was reading Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame of Paris
Week 130 Xerxes was reading Leonard Nimoy's I Am Spock
Week 129 Xerxes was reading William Shatner's Up Till Now
Week 128 Xerxes was reading Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
Week 127 Xerxes was reading Arthur Rimbaud's A Season in Hell
Week 126 Xerxes was reading Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
Week 125 Xerxes was reading Christopher Hitchens's God is not Great
Week 124 Xerxes was reading Philip Larkin's The Less Deceived
Week 123 Xerxes was reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
Week 122 Xerxes was reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Return of the King
Week 121 Xerxes was reading Voltaire's Candide
Week 120 Xerxes was reading Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale
Week 119 Xerxes was reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Two Towers
Week 118 Xerxes was reading Mervyn Peake's Boy in Darkness
Week 117 Xerxes was reading A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad
Week 116 Xerxes was reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring
Week 115 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's The Tempest
Week 114 Xerxes was reading Owen Gingerich's God's Universe
Week 113 Xerxes was reading Jack Fincher's Lefties
Week 112 Xerxes was reading Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Children's Hour
Week 111 Xerxes was reading John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces
Week 110 Xerxes was reading Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn and A Fine and Private Place
Week 109 Xerxes was reading Yann Martel's Life of Pi
Week 108 Xerxes was reading Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game
Week 107 Xerxes was reading William F. May's A Catalogue of Sins
Week 106 Xerxes was reading Henry Fairlie's The Seven Deadly Sins Today
Week 105 Xerxes was reading Jorge Luis Borges's Ficciones
Xerxes' Second Year
Week 104 Xerxes was reading Gioconda Belli's Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand
Week 103 Xerxes was reading G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday
Week 102 Xerxes was reading Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio
Week 101 Xerxes was reading C.S. Lewis's The Four Loves
Week 100 Xerxes was reading Steven Schwartz's The Seven Deadly Sins
Week 99 Xerxes was reading Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens
Week 98 Xerxes was reading Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs
Week 97 Xerxes was reading Sy Safransky's Four in the Morning and Sunbeams
Week 96 Xerxes was reading Daniel Levitin's This is Your Brain on Music
Week 95 Xerxes was reading Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam
Week 94 Xerxes was reading Paul Woodruff's Reverence
Week 93 Xerxes was reading Richard Yates's Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Week 92 Xerxes was reading Marilynne Robinson's Gilead
Week 91 Xerxes was reading Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass
Week 90 Xerxes was reading Jenny Bond and Chris Sheedy's Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara?
Week 89 Xerxes was reading William Hjortsberg's Falling Angel
Week 88 Xerxes was reading Edward Gorey's Amphigorey: Fifteen Books
Week 87 Xerxes was reading Cornelius Plantinga's Not the Way It's Supposed to Be
Week 86 Xerxes was reading Mark Twain's A Cure for the Blues
Week 85 Xerxes was reading Herman Melville's Moby Dick
Week 84 Xerxes was reading G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy
Week 83 Xerxes was reading Frederick Buechner's Godric and The Alphabet of Grace
Week 82 Xerxes was reading Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung's Portraits of Vice
Week 81 Xerxes was reading Paul Johnson's Intellectuals
Week 80 Xerxes was reading David Foster Wallace's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Week 79 Xerxes was reading Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man
Week 78 Xerxes was reading Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology
Week 77 Xerxes was reading Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants
Week 76 Xerxes was reading Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
Week 75 Xerxes was reading Ingmar Bergman's Images: My Life in Film
Week 74 Xerxes was reading William Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault
Week 73 Xerxes was reading Anonymous's Everyman
Week 72 Xerxes was reading Eugene Field's Little Boy Blue
Week 71 Xerxes was reading David Maine's Fallen
Week 70 Xerxes was reading Stephenie Meyers's Twilight and New Moon
Week 69 Xerxes was reading Gordy Slack's The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything
Week 68 Xerxes was reading Nicole Krauss's The History of Love
Week 67 Xerxes was reading Wallace Stevens's Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Week 66 Xerxes was reading The Dalai Lama's An Open Heart
Week 65 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part II
Week 64 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I
Week 63 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's As You Like It
Week 62 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
Week 61 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's Macbeth
Week 60 Xerxes was reading Jelaluddin Rumi's The Essential Rumi
Week 59 Xerxes was reading Harold Bloom's Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
Week 58 Xerxes was reading Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Week 57 Xerxes was reading Leo Tolstoy's The Devil
Week 56 Xerxes was reading Colin McGinn's Shakespeare's Philosophy
Week 55 Xerxes was reading Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild
Week 54 Xerxes was reading Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World
Week 53 Xerxes was reading Martin Buber's I and Thou, Meetings, and The Way of Man
Xerxes' First Year
Week 52 Xerxes was reading Allan Chinen's Once Upon a Midlife
Week 51 Xerxes was reading G.K. Chesterton's St Francis of Assisi
Week 50 Xerxes was reading Jean Toomer's Cane
Week 49 Xerxes was reading Ikhwān al-Safā's The Animals' Lawsuit against Humanity
Week 48 Xerxes was reading Patrick Süskind’s Perfume
Week 47 Xerxes was reading Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark
Week 46 Xerxes was reading John Milton's Paradise Regained
Week 45 Xerxes was reading Dylan Thomas's The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
Week 44 Xerxes was reading Stephen Crane's The Blue Hotel
Week 43 Xerxes was reading Gore Vidal's Creation
Week 42 Xerxes was reading A.S. Byatt's Possession
Week 41 Xerxes was reading C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce
Week 40 Xerxes was reading Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Week 39 Xerxes was reading Dennis Potter's Blackeyes
Week 38 Xerxes was reading David Suzuki and Wayne Grady's Tree: A Life Story
Week 37 Xerxes was reading James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Week 36 Xerxes was reading Alexander Theroux's Theroux Metaphrastes
Week 35 Xerxes was reading Mervyn Peake's Titus Alone
Week 34 Xerxes was reading Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast
Week 33 Xerxes was reading Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan
Week 32 Xerxes was reading Walter de la Mare's The Three Royal Monkeys
Week 31 Xerxes was reading John Collier's His Monkey Wife
Week 30 Xerxes was reading Lois Lowry's The Giver
Week 29 Xerxes was reading Rudyard Kipling's Mandalay
Week 28 Xerxes was reading Ralph Helfer's Modoc
Week 27 Xerxes was reading Stuart McLean's Home From the Vinyl Cafe
Week 26 Xerxes was reading Ossie Davis's Purlie Victorious
Week 25 Xerxes was reading George MacDonald's The Portent
Week 24 Xerxes was reading Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
Week 23 Xerxes was reading Michael Phillips's George MacDonald - A Biography
Week 22 Xerxes was reading Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel
Week 21 Xerxes was reading Gordon Lightfoot's Minstrel of the Dawn
Week 20 Xerxes was reading Sun Tzu's The Art of War
Week 19 Xerxes was reading Robert Graves's I Claudius
Week 18 Xerxes was reading Philip Ardagh's A House Called Awful End
Week 17 Xerxes was reading John Milton's Paradise Lost
Week 16 Xerxes was reading Mervyn Peake's Mr Pye
Week 15 Xerxes was reading J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Week 14 Xerxes was reading Riff Raff and Magenta's The Time Warp
Week 13 Xerxes was reading William Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
Week 12 Xerxes was reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion
Week 11 Xerxes was reading e.e. cummings's anyone lived in a pretty how town
Week 10 Xerxes was reading Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici
Week 9 Xerxes was reading C.S. Lewis's A Preface to Paradise Lost
Week 8 Xerxes was reading Stephanie Plowman's The Road to Sardis
Week 7 Xerxes was reading Alexander Theroux's Darconville's Cat
Week 6 Xerxes was reading Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective
Week 5 Xerxes was reading T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Week 4 Xerxes was reading Matthew Scully's Dominion
Week 3 Xerxes was reading Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Week 2 Xerxes was reading the Prologue in Heaven from Goethe's Faust
Week 1 Xerxes was reading Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market