I have broken the list into themes in order to maintain focus through the year. While I plan to read the books in the order I’ve laid out, the final reviews may not appear in the same order.
The books are as varied as a #1 NY Times Bestseller to Dostoevsky to a diet book to a 1,000 page sci-fi novel. All reviews attempt to comment on the text with respect to its purpose and what it set out to do while acknowledging its effects and consequences.
The books will be crossed out as their reviews are published.
“Two Books Recommended Several Times and Two Books from Aunt Jocelyn
The Shack – Young
Lincoln at Gettysburg – Wills
Boom – Brokaw
Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis
“Books to Make for a Great Year”
How to Be Your Own Best Friend
The Art of Sexual Magic
The Big AA Book
Cracking the Fat Loss Code
“Books about Horrible Things/People”
The Idiot – Dostoevsky
The Demons – Dostoevsky
The Lost – Mendelsohn
Red Azalea – Min
“Books from the Heaton Family”
The Way to Love – Demillo
The Deptford Trilogy: The Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders – Davies
Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man – Schiller
Tesla: A Man Out of Time – Cheney
A Brief Pause for A Book on Socrates
The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault – Nehamas
“Books from Markay and Molly and some Nature Writing
Black France – Thomas
Mountains Beyond Mountains – Kidder
Gender Outlaws – Bornstein
A Sand County Almanac – Aldo Leopold
The Art of the Commonplace – Berry
That Quail Robert – Singer
“Books that Were On My Own List of Things to Read”
Mating – Rush
The Autobiography of Carl Panzram
Another Summer Dies the Swan – Huxley
Welcome to Your Brain
The Comedians – Greene
“Books that Start with the Letter ‘B’”
Boomsday – Buckley
Beautiful Boy – Scheff
Bound for Glory – Guthrie
Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Kundera
Boat, The – Nam Le
“Books from Loren and Two Authors I”ve Always wanted to Read”
The Afghan Campaign – Pressfield
The Boys of Point du Hoc – Brinkley
East of Eden – Steinbeck
Nightfall – Demille
“Fiction of the Female Variety”
The Parable of the Sower & The Parable of the Talents – Butler
Little Women – Alcott
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Smith
Gone with the Wind – Mitchell
Two Big Sci-Fi Books with A Travelogue in Between
Eye of the World – Jordan
Long Way Around – McGregor
Game of Thrones – Martin
“Books from Hopps’ Men”
Dracula – Stoker
A Study in Scarlett – Doyle
Below the Salt – Costain
I Am Legend – Matheson
Post Office – Bukowski
“Random Non-Fiction Selections”
Men Speak Out – Tarrant
Havana Nocturne – English
When Markets Collide – El Arian
The Economics of Justice – Pozner
“Books About the Sea”
Endurance – Lansing
The Path Between the Seas – McCullough
“My Picks for Myself ”
The Original of Laura – Vladmir Nabokov
Inherent Vice – Thomas Pynchon
1 response so far ↓
Dr MO Hopps // April 8, 2009 at 12:21 pm
A book I read about your age – which I throughly enjoyed was TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE by Steinbeck. Try it, I think you’ll agree! MO – later – - -