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  With our Summer issue, Lapham's Quarterly is hoping to start a tradition of collecting the books used in each issue of the magazine as a kind of syllabus for our readers. If you were ever wondering what our bookshelves look like at the office, this might give you a good idea.

  The Ancient World
  The Bible
  Life of Lycurgus, by Plutarch
  Hiero: Or the condition of a tyrant, by Xenophon
  The Iliad, by Homer
  The Book of Rites, by K'ung-fu Tzu
  On the Powers of Food, by Galen
  The Confessions of St. Augustine
  The Classic of Tea, by Lu Yu
  Satires, by Horace
  Satyricon, by Petronius
  Sixteen Satires,by Juvenal
  Roman History, by Dio Cassius
  An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings-1911
  "Hymn to the Mother of the Gods," by Emperor Julian
  The Book of Kings, by Abolqasem Ferdowsi
  Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney

  
  The Medieval World: 1100-1400
  The Big Red Book, by Rumi
  The Autobiography of Gerald of Wales

  
  The Renaissance: 1400-1600
  The Kitchen Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci
  A True History of the Conquest
      of New Spain, by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
  Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects, by Giorgio Vasari
  A Handbook on Good Manners for Children by Desiderius Erasmus
  The Complete Essays, by Michel de Montaigne

  
  The 17th Century
  The General Historie of Virginia,
      New England, and the Summer Isles, by John Smith
  The Jesuits in North America
      in the Seventeenth Century, by Francis Parkman
  The Secrets of Art and Nature, by John Wecker
  The Complete Haiku, by Matsuo Bashō
  Poems, Protest and a Dream:
      Selected Writings, by Juana Inés de la Cruz

  
  The 18th Century
  The Autiobiography of Benjmain Franklin
  The Phantom World, by Antoine Augustin Calmet
  A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift
  The History of Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
  The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker, by Tobias Smollett
  Memoirs of An Aristocrat, by Alexander Home

  
  The 19th Century
  Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
  Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Frances Trollope
  The Physiology of Taste, Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  My Bondage and Freedom, by Frederick Douglass
  The Belly of Paris, by Émile Zola
  Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
  Travels in Arabia, by Charles M. Doughty
  The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
  Chin Chin; or the Chinaman at Home, by Chen Jitong
  Paris Spleen, by Charles Baudelaire

  
  The 20th Century
  The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
  Prisons & Prisoners, by Lady Constance Lytton
  One of Ours, by Willa Cather
  Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust
  A Little Learning, by Evelyn Waugh
  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist, edited by Stephen W. Hines
  "On Food," by Hilaire Belloc
  Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1927-1930
  Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
  Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell
  To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
  Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems, by William Carlos Williams
  I Served the King of England, Bohumil Hrabal
  Collected Poems, by Vladimir Nabokov
  Diary of Bergen-Belsen, Hanna Lévy-Hass
  The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook
  My Life in France, by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme
  Climbing the Mango Trees, by Madhur Jaffrey
  Empire of Signs, by Roland Barthes
  An Alphabet for Gourmets, by M.F.K Fisher
  Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
  Yoruba Poetry: An Anthology of Traditional Poems
  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Anne Dillard
  Five Easy Pieces, screenplay by Carole Eastman and Bob Rafelson
  The Great Shark Hunt, Hunter S. Thompson
  Okha: A collection of Edo folktales
  American Fried: Adventures of a Happy Eater, by Calvin Trillin
  Alive, by Piers Paul Read
  Jitterbug Perfume, by Tom Robbins
  Garlic and Sapphires, by Ruth Reichl
  Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick
  Death & Fame: Poems 1993-1997, by Allen Ginsberg
  The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
  Consider the Lobster, by David Foster Wallace
  Medium Raw, by Anthony Bourdain
  The End of Food, by Paul Roberts
  Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, by Patton Oswalt
  American Food Writing, edited by Molly O'Neil

  June 30, 2011
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