1/11/10 Reading church related books (from book group):
For Whom Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway Short Stories vol 1, 3
O Pioneers, Willa Cather
My Antonia, Willa Cather (multiple times)
Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney (multiple times)
Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh (2x)
Man in the Dark, Paul Auster
Nixon and Mao, Margaret MacMillan
What Happened, Scott McClellan – apology for Bush and evangelicals
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The Secret Man, Bob Woodward
On The Road, Jack Kerouac (multiple times)
Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Chronicles Volume 1, Bob Dylan
The Limits of Power, Andrew J Bacevich – significant (wrote intro to Niebuhr book)
Gilgamesh. A New English Version (multiple times)
Our Story Begins, Tobias Woolf – short stories
When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
Barrel Fever, David Sedaris
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson (multiple times)
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens – stupid book though I agree with a lot of it
The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux
The Bible Salesman, Clyde Edgerton
The First Salute, Barbara W. Tuchman – can’t remember anything about it
A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman – can’t remember anything about it
The Guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman – can’t remember anything about it
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck – good but tedious
Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks – serious book but unpleasant
Typhoon, Joseph Conrad
The Shack, William P. Young
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name, Toby Lester
Mozart, Peter Gay
The Odyssey, Homer (multiple times, also print edition trans. Stephen Mitchell
A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul – good (Theroux says he hated Africa)
A Room With A View, E.M. Forester
Angels and Ages, Adam Gopnik – can’t remember anything about it
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, John M. Barry
Midnight”s Children, Salman Rushdie
War Dances, Sherman Elexie
I”ll Mature When I”m Dead, Dave Barry
The Quiet American, Graham Greene
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
Abraham Lincoln: A Presidential Life, James M. McPherson – don’t remember
The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby
Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
Joshua, Joseph Girzone
The Making of Toro, Mark Sundeen
Preparing for Christmas with Richard Rohr
The Wild Trees, Richard Preston – Brenda went there and got engaged
Women In Love, D.H. Lawrence – don’t remember (discussed in 20 Cent lit)
Cynthia Bishop The Book of Job – don’t remember, I think it was just a reading
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
Eiffel”s Tower, Jill Jonnes
Christ The Lord – The Road to Cana, Anne Rice
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
Misquoting Jesus, Bart D. Ehrman
Truth & Fiction in the Divinci Code, Bart Ehrman
How Jesus Became God, Bart D. Ehrman
All the King”s Men, Robert Penn Warren – good
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
Obama”s Wars, Bob Woodward
The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Salt, Mark Kurlansky
Light in August, William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
Noah”s Compass, Anne Tyler
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
Buffalo Girls, Larry McMurtry
The Death Of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
Einstein, Walter Isaacson
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson – was claimed to be bogus
Winston Churchill, John Keegan – don’t remember
Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart
World and Town, Gish Jen
The Brothers K, David James Duncan
Middlemarch, George Eliot
The Stranger, Albert Camus (multiple times)
The Challenge for Africa, Wangari Maathai
A Crack in the Edge of the World, Simon Winchester – San Francisco earthquake
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce (2x)
Rules for Old Men Waiting, Peter Pouncey
Mysteries of the Middle Ages, Thomas Cahill
The Last Stand, Nathaniel Philbrick (Custer)
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Witches of Eastwick, John Updike
The Widows of Eastwick, John Updike
The Crucible, Arthur Miller – recorded production
Ukridge, P.G. Wodehouse
Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
Point to Point Navigation, Gore Vidal
The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria – don’t remember
Emperors of Rome, part 2 and 3, Great Courses — don’t remember, library doesn’t have it
Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene (Mult. Co. Lib. MP3 download)
The Civil War: A Narrative, Shelby Foote (Vol 1 Pt 1), (Vol 1 Pt 2) – my Civil War course doesn’t like him
This House of Sky, Ivan Doig – i kind of like the writer though he´s dull
Class & War in the US Society, Howard Zinn
Camouflage, Bill Pronzini – detective novel
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver – about Belgian Congo
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy, Bruce Watson
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
The Language of God, Francis Collins
Sophie”s Choice, William Styron
Ulysses, James Joyce
Samuel Pepy’s Diaries
Flyboys, James Bradley
Kings & Queens of England, Antonia Fraser
You Don”t Look Like Anyone I Know, Heather Sellers
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow – good
Jeeves in the Offing, P.G. Wodehouse
Animal Farm, George Orwell
The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan – dustbowl
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Breakfast of Champions, or, Goodbye blue Monday!, Kurt Vonnegut
Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
Introduction to the New Testament History and Literature, Dale B. Martin (Yale Course)
4:50 from Paddington, Agatha Christie
The Big Four, Agatha Christie
Regatta Mystery-Stories, Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie
The Mirror Cracked, Agatha Christie
Nemesis, Agatha Christie
While the Light Lasts, Agatha Christie
Poirot’s Early Cases, Agatha Christie
Cat Among the Pigeons, Agatha Christie
The Body in the Library, Agatha Christie
Halloween Party, Agatha Christie
The Moving Finger (A Miss Marple Mystery), Agatha Christie
Hickory Dickory Dock, Agatha Christie
Taken at the Flood, Agatha Christie
Poirot Investigates, Agatha Christie
Hard Times, Charles Dickens – I must have listened to it but I don’t remember
Pompeii, Robert Harris
Mafia Son, Sandra Harmon
Tocqueville & the American Experiment Part 2, Wm R Cook (Great Courses)
The Iliad, Homer
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston — good
African American History: From Emancipation to the Present, Jonathan Halloway (Yale Course)
Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac (2x)
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith – one of the classics
Malcolm X, Manning Marable
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf – discussed in ‘Modern literary classics’ Great Courses
The Ghosts of Cannae, Robert O’Connell
On Canaan’s Side, Sebastian Barry- do not remember
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austin
The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
The Sandalwood Tree, Elle Newmark
Very Good Jeeves (Short Stories), P.G. Wodehouse
My Man Jeeves, PG Wodehouse
Bird Songs in Literature, ed. Joseph Wood Krutch and Peter Kellogg
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
Emma, Jane Austin
Townie, Andre Dubus III
The Bartender”s Tale, Ivan Doig
The particle at the end of the universe: how the hunt for the Higgs boson leads us to the edge of a new world, Sean Carroll
We Have the War Upon Us, William Cooper – do not remember (Civil War)
Spartacus, Ben Kane
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824, Harvey Sachs
Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
Lunatics, Dave Barry & Alan Zweibel
The Man Who Loved China, Simon Winchester
The Darling, Russell Banks
Run, Ann Patchett
Paris: A Love Story, Kati Marton
Giants of Philosophy St Augustine
Stoics & Epicureans
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M Pirsig — I remember reading it but I don’t remember listening to it
Roads to Quoz, William Least Heat-Moon
Detective Classics, Radio Spirits, Inc (old radio)
The Death of King Arthur, Simon Armitage
Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
Minding Frankie, Maeve Binchy (abridged)
My Cross to Bear, Gregg Allman
Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton
Billy Budd, Herman Melville
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, Mo Yan
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Reza Aslan
A More Perfect Heaven, Dava Sobel
Bark: Stories, Lorrie Moore
Behind Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
Bob Dylan in America, Sean Wilentz
Henry IV Part 1, Shakespeare
Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
The Spectator Bird, Wallace Stegner
Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
While Mortals Sleep – Short Stories, Kurt Vonnegut
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, Jake Tapper – I think recommended by guy at beer store
The Love of A Good Woman: Stories, Alice Monroe
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America”s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson – good
Murders at the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allan Poe
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
At Home, Bill Bryson
Agent Zigzag A True Story of Nazi Espionage Love, Ben Macintyre
Silas Marner, George Eliot
Strong Poison, Dorothy Sayers
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (don’t remember)
Big Data, Viktor Mayer-Scho¨nberger and Kenneth Cukier
Pigs Have Wings, P.G. Wodehouse
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War, Stephen Kinzer
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
The Looking Glass War, John Le Carre
The Constant Gardener, John Le Carre
Call for the Dead, John Le Carre
The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America, Michael Eric Dyson (did not finish)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf
All Things Wise and Wonderful, James Herriot
Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan
One Summer: America, 1927, Bill Bryson
Beowulf, Seamus Heaney
Gilgamesh. A New English Version, Stephen Mitchell
The Red and the Black, Stendhal
The Iliad, trans. Stephen Mitchell
The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
The Irony of American History, Reinhold Niebuhr
SPQR, Mary Beard
C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity, George M. Marsden
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002, David Sedaris
Barrel Fever, David Sedaris
Not good
Don”t Know Much About Mythology, Kenneth C. Davis – not good
The Spoken Arts Treasury Volume 1 – couldn’t hear
Poetry on Record: 98 Poets read their work – hard to hear it
Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths, Bruce Feiler – boring
Earth, Jon Stewart — i seem to recall it was vacuous
Alexander the Great and His Time, Agnes Savill – dated
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom – bad
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson – tedious, not sure i finished it
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar, Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein – boring
Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon (did not listen to all)
The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt – tedious
Shades of Grey, Jasper Fforde
The World According to Garp, John Irving – did not finish-very tedious