Books Read July 4, 2005 to July 4, 2006

Submitted by n2lect2el on Sun, 09/04/2005 - 01:00
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  1. The 39 Steps--John Buchan
  2. The Dead Zone--Stephen King
  3. About a Boy--Nick Hornby
  4. The Handle--Richard Stark
  5. What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World-- M. L. Rossi
  6. The Cunning Man--Robertson Davies
  7. Drop City--T. C. Boyle
  8. The Eyre Affair--Jasper Fford
  9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone--J. K. Rowling
  10. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets--J. K. Rowling
  11. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakaban--J. K. Rowling
  12. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire--J. K. Rowling
  13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix--J. K. Rowling
  14. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince--J. K. Rowling
  15. Alaska--James Michener
  16. The Razor’s Edge--W. Sommerset Maugham
  17. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin--Benjamin Franklin (2nd time)
  18. Moby Dick--Herman Melville (2nd time)
  19. The House of the Seven Gables--Nathaniel Hawthorne
  20. Walden and "Civil Disobedience"--Henry David Thoreau (3rd time)
  21. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass--Frederick Douglass
  22. Uncle Tom's Cabin--Harriet Beecher Stowe (2nd time)
  23. The Scarlet Letter--Nathaniel Hawthorne (2nd time)
  24. Herman Melville: Moby-Dick (Columbia Critical Guides)--Nick Selby, editor.
  25. The Blithedale Romance--Nathaniel Hawthorne
  26. New Essays on Moby Dick--Richard H. Brodhead, editor
  27. Moby Dick: A Hindu Avatar--H. B. Kulkarni
  28. No Plot? No Problem!--Chris Baty
  29. The Shipping News--Annie Proulx
  30. Bartleby and Benito Cereno--Herman Melville (2nd time)
  31. The Confidence Man--Herman Melville
  32. The Iliad--Homer (The Richmond Lattimore Translation)
  33. Bird By Bird--Anne Lamott
  34. War and the Iliad--Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff
  35. The Essential Margaret Fuller--Margaret Fuller (ed. Jeffery Steele)
  36. The Art of Doing Nothing-- Veronique Vienne and Erica Lennard
  37. A Companion to the Iliad--Malcolm M. Wilcock
  38. Saturday--Ian McEwan
  39. Anthology of American Literature Vol. One--George McMichael, ed. (2nd time)
  40. Beneath the American Renaissance--David S. Reynolds
  41. Ahab's Wife--Sena Jeter Naslund
  42. The Secret House--David Bodanis
  43. Monstrous Regiment--Terry Pratchett
  44. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee--Dee Brown
  45. Cryptonomicon--Neal Stephenson
  46. The World According to Garp--John Irving
  47. The French Lieutenant's Woman--John Fowles
  48. One Writer's Beginnings--Eudora Welty
  49. The Poem of the Cid--Anonymous
  50. The Professor's House--Willa Cather
  51. Northanger Abbey--Jane Austen
  52. Winesburg, Ohio--Sherwood Anderson (2nd time)
  53. The Song of Roland--Anonymous
  54. The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald (2nd time)
  55. A Sicilian Romance--Ann Radcliffe
  56. Renard the Fox--Patricia Terry (Translator)
  57. The Island of Dr. Moreau--H. G. Wells
  58. The Sun Also Rises--Ernest Hemingway (2nd time)
  59. Maria--Mary Wollstonecraft
  60. Erec and Enide--Chretien De Troyes
  61. Cliges--Chretien De Troyes
  62. The Knight of the Cart--Chretien De Troyes
  63. As I Lay Dying--William Faulkner
  64. The Knight With the Lion (Yvain)--Chretien De Tyoyes
  65. De Montfort--Joanna Baillie
  66. The Grapes of Wrath--John Steinbeck (2nd time)
  67. Frankentstein--Mary Shelley (3rd time)
  68. A Streetcar Named Desire--Tennessee Williams
  69. Patterns For College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide (9th edition)--Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell (editors)
  70. The Story of the Grail (Perceval)--Chretien De Troyes
  71. Long Day's Journey Into Night--Eugene O'Neill
  72. Invisible Man--Ralph Ellison
  73. Inferno--Dante (Allen Mandelbaum Translation)
  74. Death of a Salesman--Arthur Miller (2nd time)
  75. Jane Eyre--Charlotte Bronte (2nd time)
  76. House Made of Dawn--N. Scott Momaday
  77. Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man--Eric J. Sundquist
  78. Lady Audley's Secret--Mary Elizabeth Braddon
  79. Black Elk Speaks--Black Elk and Johg G. Neihardt
  80. The Blackbird--Richard Stark
  81. The Devil in the White City--Eric Larson
  82. The Broker--John Grisham
  83. Vox--Nicholson Baker
  84. The Golden Spiders--Rex Stout
  85. The Diary of a Young Girl (The "Definitive Edition")--Anne Frank
  86. Sacred Contracts--Caroline Myss
  87. The Winter Queen--Boris Akunin
  88. Our Dreaming Mind--Robert L. Van De Castle
  89. The Book of Lights--Chaim Potok
  90. The Madwoman in the Attic--Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Author Comments: 

I keep a book list from one 4th of July to the next every year. The fireworks of the 4th have a much better "new year's feel" to them than the traditional New Year's shebang (which usually just leaves me cold).

professor10/16/2005

What did you think of the folowing ?

The 39 Steps - John Buchan
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fford
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

They are all on my unread bookshelf, and I am currently finalising my list of Books I Plan To Read in 2006, and also contemplating my list for 2007,
so your thoughts would be appreciated.

n2lect2el10/16/2005

Well, they're all very different, and all good in their own way. If I had to choose one, I'd go with Walden. It's easily one of the ten best books I've ever read. Hawthorne is always good. Melville is always dense and hard and all about blowing the boundries off what the novel is capable of. The Eyre Affair is fun and light and you could probably knock it off in a day or so. Skip The 39 Steps and read Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent instead. Buchan's book is a good early spy novel, but it's pretty dated and it really feels like you are reading a dime novel from the late 19th century--still, if you want to know where John Le Carre and Graham Greene and even Tom Clancy come from, you should probably read Buchan.

Slothrop3305/07/2006

Did you disappear?

n2lect2el05/09/2006

No . . . but this is the end of a very busy semester of graduate school and I haven't finished a new book in over two weeks (I have just barely had time to watch a few movies). I'm goin' nuts. I clicked on the "books" link on the "recent updates" thingy the other day and I wasn't there, man! I mean I just wasn't there! Wow, dude. That was some scary shit. 300 hours without a book. Reminds me of the great breakdown of 2003. But things are looking better. I just finished my first draft of my final paper for this semester, and I just turned in the grades for the classes I was teaching, so that means that I should be done with everything by . . . let's see . . . Thursday . . . and then, SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Slothrop3305/09/2006

Well good luck to you! I find that when I graduated college my reading actually increased quite a lot.

Slothrop3307/04/2006

Finished just in time! 90 books, a good year!