Recent Reads

Deeply disappointed that Blogger has removed the update functionality from sidebar widgets; hence ending my "Recent Read" running list of books I've read ... like 13 years worth.

 

So going to try it in post.

 

• The Art of the Lathe / Fairchild
• Shopgirl / Martin
• Cache Lake Country / Rowlands
• The Renaissance / Johnson
• JANUARY 2023
• The Blind Assassin / Atwood
• The Tiger’s Wife / Obreht
• The Radetzky March / Roth
• A Farewell to Arms / Hemingway
• A Little History of Art / Mullins
• The Penelopiad / Atwood
• Big Red / Charyn
• Greenblatt / Renaissance Self-Fashioning
• What I Saw / Roth
• Angle of Repose / Stegner
• The Last Picture Show / McMurty
• Trick/ Starnone
• Worked Over / Doukas
• God is not Great / Hitchens
• Marking the Sparrow’s Fall / Stegner
• Translating myself and others / Lahiri
• I should be extremely happy … / Hall
• Lonesome Dove / McMurty
• Camera Man / Stevens
• Beowulf / Headley 
• Changes / Butcher
• The Iliad of Homer / Lattimore - Baskin
• WWII / James Jones
• The Best Man to Die / Rendell
• The Rain in Portugal / Collins
• Poems Seven / Dugan
• Regeneration / Barker
• The Women of Troy / Barker
• The Silence of the Girls / Barker
• JANUARY 2022
• The Ghost Road / Barker
• The Glorious Cause / Shaara
• The Eye in the Door / Barker
• Rise to Rebellion / Shaara
• The Woman Warrior / Kingston
• The Emperor’s Babe / Evaristo
• Last of the Mohicans / Cooper
• World of Wonders / Nezhukumatathil
• The Deerslayer / Cooper
• Braiding Sweetgrass / Kimmerer
• The Folded Leaf / Maxwell
• Sins of the Fathers / Rendell
• The Pioneers / Cooper
• Ada / Nabokov 
• The Swerve / Greenblatt
• The Doon of Death / Rendell
• Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All / Gurganus
• William Cooper’s Town / Taylor
• Lolly Willowes / Warner
• The Greater Journey / McCullough
• Crossing the Unknown Sea / Whyte
• Selected Poems / Farrington
• Nabokov / King, Queen, Knave
• Before the Deluge / Friedrich
• Life in the Iron Mills / Davis
• The Hare with Amber Eyes / de Waal
• Sicilian Stories / Verga
• The Conquest of Constantinople / Villehardouin
• The Mirror and the Light / Mantel
• The Steward of Christendom / Barry
• Lulu in Hollywood / Brooks
• Given Sugar, Given Salt - Hirshfield
• To be a Pilgrim / Cary
• Herself Suprised / Cary
• Turn Coat / Butcher
• The Secret Scripture / Barry
• The Horse’s Mouth / Cary
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro / Hemingway
• The Garden of Eden / Hemingway
• Cat’s Cradle / Vonnegut
• Reading the Forested Landscape / Wessels
• What the Robin Knows / Young
• JANUARY 2021
• The Once and Future King / White
• Under Milk Wood / Thomas
• Days Without End / Barry
• On Canaan’s Side / Barry
• A Place of Greater Safety / Mantel
• Public Opinion / Lippmann
• The Warmth of Other Suns / Wilkerson
• Annie Dunne / Barry
• Bring Up the Bodies / Mantel
• Collected Shorter Poems / Carruth
• Diary of Raphael Soyer / Soyer
• The Clarks of Cooperstown / Weber
• Wolf Hall / Mantel
• Eager / Goldfarb
• The Beans of Egypt Maine / Chute
• The Decameron / Boccacio
• In Our Time / Hemingway
• Much Depends on Dinner / Visser
• The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony / Calasso
• A Long Long Way / Barry
• Don Juan / Byron
• I am the Messenger / Zusak
• The Knowledge Gap / Wexler
• New and Selected Poems / Kumin
• Why I Wake Early / Oliver
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane / DiCamillo
• Jamaica Inn / du Maurier
• Cannery Row / Steinbeck
• The Basque History of the World / Kurlansky
• Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry / 2003
• Mr. Fortune's Maggot / Warner
• The Corner That Held Them / Warner
• Salt / Kurlansky
• Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts / de Hamel
• JANUARY 2020
• The Inquisitor’s Tale / Gidwitz
• Song of Achilles / Miller
• The Gallery / Burns
• Savage Kin / Bruchac
• Thomas Jefferson Author of America / Hitchens
• Last Witnesses / Alexievich
• The Star Factory / Carson
• Fishing for Amber / Carson
• Domestic Work / Trethewey
• Circe / Miller
• The Importance of Being Earnest / Wilde
• The Metamorphoses / Ovid
• Churchill, a Life / Gilbert
• Travels with Charley / Steinbeck
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Dillard
• Selected Poems / Auden
• World War I: A Complete History / Gilbert
• Selected Poems / Piercy
• Selected Poems 1950-2012 / Rich
• Death of a Hero / Aldington
• Avenue of Mysteries / Irving
• I, Claudius / Graves
• Priest Turned Therapist ... / Hoagland
• Manhattan Beach / Egan
• World War I and America / Berg, Ed.
• The Best American Poetry 2018 / Gioia, Ed.
• Wanderer / Hayden
• Talking to my Daughter about the Economy / Varoufakis
• The Comedians / Greene
• Simmons / The Terror
• JANUARY 2019
• Brunelleschi's Dome / King
• Death Comes for the Archbishop / Cather
• Paris, the novel / Rutherfurd
• Thirst / Oliver
• Great Plains / Frazier
• Catalyst / Anderson
• The Selected Poems of Richard Wilbur
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry / Tyson
• Luncheon of the Boating Party / Vreeland
• The Face of Battle / Keegan
• West / Davies
• Herland / Gilman
• The Rise of Silas Lapham / Howells
• In Praise of Fertile Land / Mauro, Ed.
• Indian Summer / Howells
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Joyce
• Breath, Eyes, Memory / Danticat
• American Lion / Meacham
• The Marrow Thieves / Dimaline
• E. E. Cummings revisited / Kennedy
• George Washington / Johnson
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil / Berendt
• Barracoon / Hurston
• Victorian America, 1876-1915 / Schlereth
• Broken Harbor / French
• The Source, How Rivers Made America / Doyle
• The Odyssey / Homer, trans. Wilson
• Nana / Zola
• The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790-1840 / Larkin
• Vincent and Theo: the Van Gogh brothers / Heiligman
• The Masterpiece / Zola
• Happy Life / Budbill
• Elmira; Death Camp of the North / Horigan
• The Uncertaintey of Everyday Life, 1915-1945 / Green
• The Art of Fiction / Gardner
• Native Guard / Tretheway
• Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus / Bowling
• Brother to Dragons / Warren
• In the Woods / French
• A room of one's own / Woolf
• The Hate U Give / Thomas
• Very far away from anywhere else / LeGuin
• Tarawa, story of a battle / Sherrod
• Dispatches from the Pacific / Boomhower
• The Shell Collector / Doerr
• The Pigeon Tunnel / Le Carre
• JANUARY 2018
• Birdsong / Faulks
• Undefeated / Sheinkin
• The Noise of Time / Barnes
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian / Alexie
• A Moveable Feast / Hemingway
• Strange Meeting / Hill
• The Sense of an Ending / Barnes
• The Unwomanly Face of War / Alexievich
• Hoover, an Extraordinary Life / Whyte
• RAD Women Worldwide / Schatz
• A Legacy of Spies / le Carre
• The Secret Life of Trees / Wohlleben
• Anatomy of a Murder / Traver
• Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 / Baruma, Mod. Lib.
• Prehistory / Renfrew, Mod. Lib.
• A People's History of the United States / Zinn
• The War Lords of Washington / Catton
• The Moviegoer / Percy
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / LeCarre
• North Country / Mosher
• Foucault's Pendulum / Eco
• A Farewell to Arms / Hemingway
• Waiting for Teddy Williams / Mosher
• Nickel Mountain / Gardner
• True North / Harrison
• The Likeness / French
• The Woman Lit by Fireflies / Harrison
• A History of Pictures / Hockney
• The Great Leader / Harrison
• House of Earth / Guthrie
• The Courage of Turtles / Hoagland
• Northern Borders / Mosher
• Mother Night / Vonnegut
• Hard Times / Dickens
• The True Flag / Kinzer
• The Forgotten Man / Shlaes
• War Music / Logue
• The Glass Universe / Sobel
• The Trespasser / French
• JANUARY 2017
• The Underground Railroad / Whitehead
• Salt to the Sea / Sepetys
• Non-violence / Kurlansky
• I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company / Hall
• Venus on the Half-Shell / [Trout]
• Alan's War / Guibert
• Tartuffe / Moliere
• The Cherry Orchard / Chekhov
• Girl in the Blue Coat / Hesse
• How We Got to Now / Johnson
• The Rain in Portugal / Collins
• Leaving Orbit / Dean
• Between the World and Me - Coates
• Another Brooklyn / Woodson
• Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories / Tolstoy
• The Balkans / Mazower
• The Odyssey / Cross / Packer
• Reporting WWII, Vol.2 / Lib. Of America
• Secondhand Time / Alexievich
• Peoples and Empires / Pagden
• The Red Pencil / Pinkney
• Salvage the Bones / Ward
• Poets of World War II / Shapiro, ed.
• Miss Peregrine's Home for..,/ Riggs
• The Emperor of Any Place / Wynne-Jones
• Reporting WWII, Vol. 1 / Lib. of America
• Lee Miller / Burke
• Dangerous Games / MacMilan
• The Art of Asking / Palmer
• The Invention of Nature / Wulf
• The Penelopiad / Atwood
• Gargantua / Rabelais
• Tales from Ovid / Hughes
• Thunder & Lightning / Redniss
• Penguin Book of Russian Poetry / Chandler
• Radioactivity / Redniss
• Black Wings has my Angel / Chaze
• In the heat of the night / Ball
• Germany: Memories of a Nation / MacGregor
• The Hunters / Salter
• JANUARY 2016
• Symphony for the City of the Dead / Anderson
• The Iliad / Cross | Packer
• The Divided Ground / Tyler
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers / Boo
• The Sympathizer / Nguyen
• A Moveable Feast / Hemingway
• The Impossible Knife of Memory / Anderson
• The Museum of Innocence / Pamuk
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing / Anderson
• The Education of Robert Nifkin / Pinkwater
• An idea whose time has come / Purdum
• Two Years Before the Mast / Dana
• The Pox Party / Anderson
• Law in America / Friedman
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell / Clarke
• The Enlightenment / Spencer
• Communism / Pipes
• The curious incident ... / Haddon
• H is for Hawk / Macdonald
• Alexander Hamilton / Chernow
• Jitterbug Perfume / Robbins
• Turn Coat / Butcher
• The Forever War / Filkins
• The 42nd Parallel / Dos Passos
• Casino Royale / Fleming
• Bring Up the Bodies / Mantel
• The Moon Before Morning / Merwin
• A Summons to Memphis / Taylor
• JANUARY 2015
• Treasure Island / Stevenson
• Birdy / Wharton
• Stuff Matters / Miodownik
• Sugar Changed the World / Aronson
• A Midnight Clear / Wharton
• All the Light We Cannot See / Doerr
• The Boys in the Boat / Brown
• Charlie Chaplin / Ackroyd
• The Zone of Interest / Amis
• Great Expectations / Dickens
• Neverhome / Hunt
• The Metaphysical Club / Menand
• The Tiger's Wife / Obreht
• The Civil War: The Fourth Year / Lib. of America
• The Civil War: The Third Year / Lib. of America
• Abraham Lincoln and the Union / Yale U.P.
• The Anti-Slavery Campaign / Yale U.P.
• Baseball / Vecsey, Modern Lib.
• The Catcher in the Rye / Salinger
• Locomotion / Woodson
• The Real Revolution / Aronson
• Jamrach's Menagerie / Birch
• John Wayne / Eyman
• The Invention of Wings / Kidd
• Sweet Will / Levine
• The Second Mrs. Giaconda / Konigsburg
• Proven Guilty / Butcher
• 1914 / Echenoz
• The Bedside Book of Beasts / Gibson
• One Summer / Bryson
• JANUARY 2014
• Quiet / Cain
• Doctor Zhivago / Pasternak
• American Gods / Gaiman
• One Hundred Years of Solitude / Garcia
• Why We Run / Heinrich
• The Worst Hard Time / Egan
• The Round House / Erdrich
• Ceremony / Silko
• The Gallery / Burns
• Feast of Crows / Martin
• The DaVinci Code / Brown
• The Watch that Ends the Night / Wolff
• Storm Front / Butcher
• The Catholic Church / Kung, Modern Lib.
• The Book of Jonas / Dau
• Dangerous Games / MacMilan, Modern Lib.
• Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk / Fountain
• Trinity / Fetter-Vorm
• The Tipping Point / Gladwell
• Summer Night / Butcher
• Cary Grant / Eliot
• The Company / Micklethwait, Modern Lib.
• The Age of Napolean / Horne
• I Await the Devil's Coming / MacLane
• All the King's Men / Warren
• The Yellow Birds / Powers
• The Tiger's Wife (2) / Obreht
• Freedom's Forge / Herman
• The Civil War: The Second Year / Lib. of America
• Catherine the Great / Massie
• Rural Hours / Cooper
• Masterpieces in Detali, V. 1 / Hagen
• Wolf Hall / Mantel
• The Hammer and the Anvil / Zimmerman
• Storm from the East / Viorst, Modern Lib.
• A Giacometti Portrait / Lord
• The Once and Future King / White
• JANUARY 2013
• California / Starr, Modern Lib.
• A Storm of Swords / Martin
• The American Revolution / Wood, Modern Lib.
• The City / Kotkin, Modern Lib.
• Les Misérables / Hugo
• The Night Circus / Morgenstern
• Midnight Rising / Horwitz
• The Great Gatsby / Fitzgerald
• Diary of Samuel Pepys / Modern Lib. Ed.
• Clash of Kings / Martin
• Mother Courage / Brecht
• A Game of Thrones / Martin
• A Village Life / Glück
• The Group of Seven / Silcox
• The Lost World / Doyle
• Mother Night / Vonnegut
• Dead Beat / Butcher
• The Sea-Wolf / London
• The Watch / Roy-Bhattacharya
• The Souls of Black Folk / Du Bois
• Selected Poems, 1946-1985 / Merrill
• The Selected Levis / Levis
• Woods Runner / Paulsen
• The Tiger's Wife / Obreht
• The better angels of our nature / Pinker
• The Summer of the Bear / Pollen
• The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century Poetry / Dove
• The building of Manhattan / Mackay
• The Renaissance / Johnson, Modern Lib.
• Leaving the Atocha Station / Lerner
• JANUARY 2012
• The Second World War / Keegan
• The curious incident of the dog in the night-time / Haddon
• Dune / Herbert
• The Civil War: The First Year / Lib. of America
• Hemingway's Boat / Hendrickson
• In Patagonia / Chatwin
• Flowers for Algernon / Keyes
• A Moveable Feast / Hemingway
• The San Francisco Earthquake / Thomas
• The Glory of their Times / Ritter
• The Little Drummer Girl / le Carre
• Johnny Got His Gun / Trumbo
• The Tailor of Panama / le Carre
• The Blindness of the Heart / Franck
• Cleopatra / Schiff
• John Adams / McCullough
• Forge / Anderson
• A Canticle for Leibowitz / Miller
• Heart of a Samurai / Preus
• True grit / Portis
• Camille / Dumas (fils)
• JANUARY 2011
• Our kind of traitor / le Carre
• The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry
• Warriors in the crossfire / Flood
• The Aeneid / Virgil (Fagles)
• Three rivers rising / Richards
• Riot / Myers
• The Dreamer / Ryan
• Shop class as soulcraft / Crawford
• Half broke horses / Walls
• Ada / Nabokov
• The Black Minutes / Solares
• The Magician's Accomplice / Genelin
• The Boys' Crusade / Fussell
• Matterhorn / Marlantes
• Guns, Germs, and Steel / Diamond
• A Rumor of War / Caputo
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet / Mitchell
• Silk Parachute / McPhee
• Cannery Row / Steinbeck
• Landscape Turned Red, the Battle of Antietam / Sears
• Tortilla Flat / Steinbeck
• A Life of Picasso, 3 vols./Richardson
• The Agony and the Ecstasy / Stone
• Having Our Say / Delany
• Crime and Punishment / Dostoyevsky
• Night / Wiesel
• The Lives of a Cell / Thomas
• The Longest Day / Ryan
• Justine / Durrell
• The Real War / Schell
• The Shadow of Sirius / Merwin
• JANUARY 2010
• When You Reach Me / Stead
• Chains / Anderson
• The Known World / Jones
• Chasing Lincoln's Killer / Swanson
• Miss Leavitt's Stars / Johnson
• Proust was a Neuroscientist / Lehrer
• Black Swan Green / Mitchell
• The River Between Us / Peck
• The Guns of Navarone / MacLean
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / Le Carre
• Shema, Collected Poems of Primo Levi
• Angels and Ages / Gopnik
• The Metropolis / Sinclair
• Goodbye to all that / Graves
• The Oregon Trail / Parkman
• Where Eagles Dare / MacLean
• Cloud Atlas / Mitchell
• Justice at Nuremberg / Conot
• People of the Book / Brooks
• The Teacher's Funeral / Peck
• Twelve Angry Men / Rose
• I am the Messenger / Zusak
• The Remains of the Day / Ishiguro
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X / Haley
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Joyce
• Around the World in Eighty Days / Verne
• The Street of Crocodiles / Schulz
• Don Quixote / Cervantes
• New Found Land / Wolf
• The Devil in the White City / Larson
• Team of Rivals / Goodwin
• The Gift / Hyde
• Don Juan / Byron
• Anthem / Rand
• The Friendly Persuasion / West
• JANUARY 2009
• Things Fall Apart / Achebe
• The Long-Legged House / Berry
• Heart of Darkness / Conrad
• The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments / Johnson
• The Constant Gardener / LeCarré
• Thebes at War / Mahfouz
• Rhadopis of Nubia / Mahfouz
• Khufu's Wisdom / Mahfouz
• H.M.S. Ulysses / MacLean
• A Most Wanted Man / LeCarré
• Looking for a Ship / McPhee
• Women in Love / Lawrence
• The 39 Steps / Buchan
• The Stranger / Camus
• This Republic of Suffering / Faust
• The Sorrow of War / Ninh
• Madame Bovary / Flaubert
• The Executioner's Song / Mailer
• The Plot Against America / Roth
• Persepolis / Satrapi
• A Confederacy of Dunces / Toole