Books ref'd in A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain, in order

the ravishing of lol stein (duras) the lost daughter (ferrante) lolley willows (townsend warner) i await the devil's coming (maclane) anna karenina (tolstoy) the naive and the sentimental novelist (pamuk) ana patova crosses a bridge (gladman) self-portrait in green (ndiaye) burial (donato) the possession (ernaux) the baudelaire fractal (robertson) objektophilia (finlay) tender / olympias ghost (samatar) indelicacy (cain) hot milk (levy) vertigo (walsh) the life of the mind (arendt) the third reich (bolaño) middlemarch (eliot) argumentum ornithologicum (borges) how to wash a heart (kapil) the weak spot (elven) six memos for the next millennium (calvino) the waves (woolf) a dialog about a dialog (borges) beloved (morrison) in praise of shadows (tanizaki) a pale view of hills (ishiguro) a writer's diary (woolf) the maids (genet) calamities (gladman) drifts (zambreno) the friend (nunez) the frozen thames (humphreys) winter (gopnik) the true deceiver (jansson) unexplained presence (bryant) portraits of fiction (byatt) reading like a writer (prose) the marquis of o (von kleist) the ice palace (vesaas) all my friends (ndiaye) blue eyes black hair (duras) jane eyre (bronte) creaturely poetics (pick) my brilliant friend (ferrante) pond (bennett) the plains (murnane) they and we will get in trouble for this (moschovakis) the hour of the star (lispector) thus bad begins (marias) the days of abandonment (ferrante) the art of fiction (gardner) the exhibition of persephone q (jezewska stevens) the country life (cusk) borges and i (borges) break.up (walsh) mrs dalloway (woolf) motherhood (heti) savage tongues (van der vilet oloomi) the book of feral flora (ackerman) the mysteries of udolpho (radcliffe) arlington park (cusk) villette (bronte) bonsai (zambra) her 37th year, an index (scanlon) the glass essay (carson) * the wall (haushover) outline (cusk) some that i missed putting in order song of the precious mirror samadhi (liangjie) portrait of an unknown woman (jaeggy) list of titles known and strange things (cole) a breath of life (lispector) 2666 (bolaño) the middle notebooks (nathanaël) hangsaman (jackson) picnic at hanging rock (lindsay) hurricane season (melchor) aug 9—fog (scanlan) aiding and abetting (spark) ban en banlieue (kapil) some movies news from home (chantal ackerman)