The Low-Tech World: Exploring Mormon Literature: They Don't Write Them Like They Used To...

Low-Tech Reads 2013.

Diary of a Single Mormon Female--Aleesa Sutton
The Scarlet Plague--Jack London
The Ferry Woman--Gerald Grimmett
American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857--Sally Denton
The Age of Innocence--Edith Wharton
Red Water--Judith Freeman
Lightning Tree--Sarah Dunster
The Mountain Meadows Massacre--Juanita Brooks
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets--Stephen Crane
The God Who Weeps--Terryl and Fiona Givens
Dorian--Nephi Anderson
The Beast in the Jungle--Henry James
The Riders of the Purple Sage--Zane Grey
Byuck--Theric Jepson
The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle--Kathleen Flake
John Stevens' Courtship: A Story of the Echo Canyon War--Susa Young Gates
What of the Night?--Stephen Carter
Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930--Thomas G. Alexander

Low-Tech Reads 2012.

A Short Stay in Hell--Steven L. Peck
A Christmas Carol--Charles Dickens
Magdalene--Moriah Jovan
Beowulf--Trans. Seamus Heaney
The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy--Terryl L. Givens
The Five Books of Jesus--James Goldberg
Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction--Lyman Tower Sargent
Voices at the Crossroads--Helynne Holstein Hansen
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith--Matthew Bowman
Charly--Jack Weyland
The Boys of Springtown--Nephi Anderson
Romance of a Missionary--Nephi Anderson
A Daughter of the North--Nephi Anderson
The Story of Chester Lawrence--Nephi Anderson
Piney Ridge Cottage--Nephi Anderson
Millstone City--S. P. Bailey
The Castle Builder--Nephi Anderson
Marcus King, Mormon--Nephi Anderson
The Book of Mormon: A Biography--Paul C. Gutjahr
The Fading Flower & Swallow the Sun-- Mahonri Stewart
Moby-Dick--Herman Melville
The Wine-Dark Sea of Grass--Marilyn Brown
The Words of Joseph Smith
American Pastoral--Philip Roth
Typee--Herman Melville
Ceremony--Leslie Marmon Silko
The Crying of Lot 49--Thomas Pynchon
White Noise--Don DeLillo
Paradise--Toni Morrison
Wasatch: Mormon Stories and a Novella--Douglas Thayer
Lolita--Vladimir Nabokov
The Golden Apples--Eudora Welty
Henderson the Rain King--Saul Bellow
The Pleasures of Babel--Jay Clayton
The 42nd Parallel--John Dos Passos
Absalom, Absalom!--William Faulkner
Race, Modernity, Postmodernity--W. Lawrence Hogue
The Day of the Locust--Nathaniel West
Dancing Naked--Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner
My Antonia--Willa Cather
Wise Blood--Flannery O'Connor
Nightwood--Djuna Barnes
Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims--Sarah Winnemucca
The Hunger Games--Suzanne Collins
People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture--Terryl L. Givens
Religion in America: A Very Short Introduction--Timothy Beal
Ida--Gertrude Stein
The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit--John Rollins Ridge (Yellow Bird)
The Conjure Woman--Charles W. Chesnutt
Added Upon--Nephi Anderson
Novels, Readers, and Reviewers--Nina Baym
The Blithedale Romance--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Angels in America--Tony Kushner
Hope Leslie--Catherine Maria Sedgwick
The Incorporation of America--Alan Trachtenberg
Looking Backward--Edward Bellamy
Desire and Duty at Oneida: Tirzah Miller's Intimate Memoir--ed. Robert S. Fogarty
The Conversion of Jeff Williams--Douglas Thayer
Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sideways to the Sun--Linda Sillitoe
The Fate of Madame La Tour--Cornelia Paddock
The Shaker Lovers--Daniel P. Thompson
The Future of an Illusion--Sigmund Freud
The Life, History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh--George Copway
A Son of the Forest--William Apess
On the Genealogy of Morals--Friedrich Nietzsche
The Fatal Environment--Richard Slotkin

Low-Tech Reads 2011.

The Death of a Disco Dancer--David Clark
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1--Ed. Harriet E. Smith
Blood Meridian--Cormac McCarthy
The Portrait of a Lady--Henry James
Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction 1790-1860--Jane Tompkins
The Waterworks--E. L. Doctorow
Sister Carrie--Theodore Dreiser
Manifesto of the Communist Party--Karl Marx
The Signifying Monkey--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Cloudsplitter--Russell Banks
"Transcendental Wild Oats"--Louisa May Alcott
Walden--Henry David Thoreau
Nightwoods--Charles Frazier
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton--Jane Smiley
Beneath the American Renaissance--David S. Reynolds
Mumbo Jumbo--Ishmael Reed
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano--Olaudah Equiano
Flunking Sainthood--Jana Riess
Kindred--Octavia E. Butler
The Souls of Black Folk--W.E.B. Du Bois
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave--Frederick Douglass
Cane--Jean Toomer
The Curse of Caste, or The Slave Bride--Julia C. Collins
Our Nig--Harriet E. Wilson
Up From Slavery--Booker T. Washington
Their Eyes Were Watching God--Zora Neale Hurston
To Tell a Free Story--William L. Andrews
Invisible Man--Ralph Ellison
Ragtime--E. L. Doctorow
Symzonia; A Voyage of Discovery--Captain Adam Seaborn
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym--Edgar Allan Poe
Parrot and Olivier in America--Peter Carey
The Bondwoman's Narrative--Hannah Crafts
The Scarlet Letter--Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Awakening--Kate Chopin
Beloved--Toni Morrison
Summer Fire--Douglas H. Thayer
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl--Harriet Jacobs
Mr. Popper's Penguins--Richard and Florence Atwater
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--Mark Twain
The Coming of Elijah--Arianne Cope
Wise Blood--Flannery O'Connor
The Sun Also Rises--Ernest Hemingway
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer--Mark Twain
The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life in the Iron Mills--Rebecca Harding Davis
No Going Back--Jonathan Langford
Erasable Walls: Poems--Lance Larsen
Corianton--B. H. Roberts
Lone Star: A Screenplay--John Sayles
Ammon--H. B. Moore
To the Lighthouse--Virginia Woolf
Three Guineas--Virginia Woolf
Civil War--Mark Millar
Dorian--Nephi Anderson
The Castle--Franz Kafka
Regarding the Pain of Others--Susan Sontag
The Dew Breaker--Edwidge Danticat
Saints in the Latter Days--A. Allworth
Women in Love--D. H. Lawrence
Anil's Ghost--Michael Ondaatje
A Mercy--Toni Morrison
Madame Bovary--Gustave Flaubert
Matched--Ally Condie
My Year of Meats--Ruth L. Ozeki
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life--Friedrich Nietzsche
Tropic of Orange--Karen Tei Yamashita
A Sense of Order and Other Stories--Jack Harrell
The Lonely Polygamist--Brady Udall
Camera Lucida--Roland Barthes
The Known World--Edward P. Jones
The Open Curtain--Brian Evenson
The Evening and the Morning--Virginia Sorensen
Rift--Todd Robert Petersen
Nox--Anne Carson
Bound on Earth--Angela Hallstrom
Vernal Promises--Jack Harrell
The Tree House--Douglas Thayer
The Backslider--Levi Peterson

Low-Tech Reads 2010.

Evolution:The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory--Edward J. Larson
The Taming of the Shrew--William Shakespeare
Rabbit, Run--John Updike
The Dead Father--Donald Barthelme
Unaccustomed Earth--Jhumpa Lahiri
Hamlet--William Shakespeare
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao--Junot Diaz
The Alchemist--Ben Jonson
The Hours--Michael Cunningham
A Gate at the Stairs--Lorrie Moore
Child 44--Tom Rob Smith
Erasure--Percival Everett
Measure for Measure--William Shakespeare
Of Mice and Men--John Steinbeck
Song of Solomon--Toni Morrison
The Road--Cormac McCarthy
Interview with the Vampire--Anne Rice
The Guinea Pig Diaries--A. J. Jacobs
The Joseph Smith Papers: Journals, Vol. 1, 1832-1839
Breaking Dawn--Stephenie Meyer
Slaves of Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom--Susanna Rowson
Slaughterhouse Five--Kurt Vonnegut
The Wind Done Gone--Alice Randall
The Linwoods, or, "Sixty Years Since" in America--Catherine Maria Sedgwick
The Future of an Illusion--Sigmund Freud
All the Pretty Horses--Cormac McCarthy
Uncle Tom's Cabin--Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Primitive Edge of Experience--Thomas H. Ogden
Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis--Jessica Benjamin
Cold Mountain--Charles Frazier
The Hidden Hand--E.D.E.N. Southworth
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique--Bruce Fink
Iola LeRoy--Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
A Short History of Nearly Everything--Bill Bryson
House of Games: A Screenplay--David Mamet
March--Geraldine Brooks
Saturday--Ian McEwan
Ethan Frome--Edith Wharton
The Amalgamation Polka--Stephen Wright
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter--Seth Grahame-Smith
Blue Latitudes: Tony Horwitz
Confederates in the Attic--Tony Horwitz
The Dubliners--James Joyce
The Odyssey--Homer
Howards End--E. M. Forster
Mrs. Dalloway--Virginia Woolf
Tinkers--Paul Harding
Quartet--Jean Rhys
You're Gonna Make It--John Bytheway
A Handful of Dust--Evelyn Waugh
Between the Acts--Virginia Woolf
On the Road to Heaven--Coke Newell
Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood--Douglas Thayer
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader--C. S. Lewis
Long After Dark--Todd Robert Petersen

Low-Tech Reads 2009.

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation--Joseph J. Ellis
The Crossing--Cormac McCarthy
Death of a Salesman--Arthur Miller
The Smallest Part--Neal A. Maxwell
New Moon--Stephenie Meyer
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times--H. W. Brands
Massacre at Mountain Meadows--Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Glen M. Leonard
Thirteen Moons--Charles Frazier
Gotham by Gaslight--Brian Augustyn
A Mercy--Toni Morrison
Batman: Year One--Frank Miller
Red Prophet--Orson Scott Card
The Deerslayer--James Fenimore Cooper
The Plague of Doves--Louise Erdrich
Great Expectations--Charles Dickens
In Cold Blood--Truman Capote
The Unvanquished--William Faulkner
Jack Maggs--Peter Carey
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle--David Wroblewski
The Book of Mormon
Cities of the Plain--Cormac McCarthy
Eclipse--Stephenie Meyer
The Amalgamation Polka--Stephen Wright
A Year of Living Biblically--A. J. Jacobs
Tropic of Orange--Karen Tei Yamashita
Inferno--Dante Alighieri
The Bridge of the Golden Horn--Emine Sevgi Ozdamar
The 19th Wife--David Ebershoff
The Brief History of the Dead--Kevin Brockmeier
Some Dream for Fools--Faiza Guene
Benito Cereno--Herman Melville
The City in Which I Love You--Li-Young Lee
In the Heart of the Sea--Nathaniel Philbrick
The Highest in Us--Truman G. Madsen

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They Don't Write Them Like They Used To...

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