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