Books Read in 2008

Submitted by JohnCG on Fri, 05/23/2008 - 08:55
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  • January
  • "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chenrow
  • February
  • "The Last Days of Summer" by Steve Kluger
  • "Age of American Unreason" by Susan Jacoby
  • March
  • "The Illiad" by Homer
  • "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith
  • "Mason & Dixon" by Thomas Pynchon
  • April
  • "The Most Famous Man in America: Henry Ward Beecher" by J. Appleby
  • May
  • "The Fall of the House of Usher" by E. A. Poe
  • "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
  • June
  • "Darwin for Everyone" by David Sloan Wilson
  • "Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare" by Steven Greenblatt
  • July-October
  • "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • "The Forever War" by Dexter Filkins
  • "Once Upon A Time in the North" by Philip Pullman
  • "The Conscience of a Liberal" by Paul Krugman
  • "Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power" by John Steele Gordon
  • "Poems" by Robert Frost
  • November-December
  • "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare
  • "MacBeth" by William Shakespeare
JohnnyW05/31/2008

I haven't read Angle of Repose, but I loved both Big Rock Candy Mountain and Wolf Willow--Are you a Stegner fan or is this your first book by him?

Johnny Waco

JohnCG06/11/2008

The only other Stegner book I've read is "Crossing to Safety". It was a very nice read. My wife read "Angle of Repose" and loved it.

John G.