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For Whom Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hemingway Short Stories vol 1, 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O Pioneers, Willa Cather<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My Antonia, Willa Cather (multiple times)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney (multiple times)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh (2x)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Man in the Dark, Paul Auster<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nixon and Mao, Margaret MacMillan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What Happened, Scott McClellan – apology for Bush and evangelicals<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Secret Man, Bob Woodward<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On The Road, Jack Kerouac (multiple times)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chronicles Volume 1, Bob Dylan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Limits of Power, Andrew J Bacevich – significant (wrote intro to Niebuhr book)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gilgamesh. A New English Version (multiple times)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Story Begins, Tobias Woolf – short stories<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Barrel Fever, David Sedaris<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson (multiple times)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens – stupid book though I agree with a lot of it<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Bible Salesman, Clyde Edgerton<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The First Salute, Barbara W. Tuchman – can’t remember anything about it<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman – can’t remember anything about it<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman – can’t remember anything about it<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck – good but tedious<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck<\/p>\n\n\n\n
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks – serious book but unpleasant<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Typhoon, Joseph Conrad<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Shack, William P. Young<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mozart, Peter Gay<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Odyssey, Homer (multiple times, also print edition trans. Stephen Mitchell<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul – good (Theroux says he hated Africa)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Room With A View, E.M. Forester<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Angels and Ages, Adam Gopnik – can’t remember anything about it<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, John M. Barry<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Midnight\u201ds Children, Salman Rushdie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
War Dances, Sherman Elexie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u201dll Mature When I\u201dm Dead, Dave Barry<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Quiet American, Graham Greene<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abraham Lincoln: A Presidential Life, James M. McPherson – don’t remember<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joshua, Joseph Girzone<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Making of Toro, Mark Sundeen<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Preparing for Christmas with Richard Rohr<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Wild Trees, Richard Preston – Brenda went there and got engaged<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women In Love, D.H. Lawrence – don’t remember (discussed in 20 Cent lit) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cynthia Bishop The Book of Job – don’t remember, I think it was just a reading<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eiffel\u201ds Tower, Jill Jonnes<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Christ The Lord \u2013 The Road to Cana, Anne Rice<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Misquoting Jesus, Bart D. Ehrman<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Truth & Fiction in the Divinci Code, Bart Ehrman<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How Jesus Became God, Bart D. Ehrman<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All the King\u201ds Men, Robert Penn Warren – good<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Obama\u201ds Wars, Bob Woodward<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Salt, Mark Kurlansky<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Light in August, William Faulkner<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Main Street, Sinclair Lewis<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Noah\u201ds Compass, Anne Tyler<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Buffalo Girls, Larry McMurtry<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Death Of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Einstein, Walter Isaacson<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson – was claimed to be bogus<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Winston Churchill, John Keegan – don’t remember<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart<\/p>\n\n\n\n
World and Town, Gish Jen<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Brothers K, David James Duncan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Middlemarch, George Eliot<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Stranger, Albert Camus (multiple times)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Challenge for Africa, Wangari Maathai<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Crack in the Edge of the World, Simon Winchester – San Francisco earthquake<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce (2x)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rules for Old Men Waiting, Peter Pouncey<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mysteries of the Middle Ages, Thomas Cahill<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Last Stand, Nathaniel Philbrick (Custer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Witches of Eastwick, John Updike<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Widows of Eastwick, John Updike<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Crucible, Arthur Miller – recorded production<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukridge, P.G. Wodehouse<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Point to Point Navigation, Gore Vidal<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria – don’t remember<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emperors of Rome, part 2 and 3, Great Courses — don’t remember, library doesn’t have it<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene (Mult. Co. Lib. MP3 download)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Civil War: A Narrative, Shelby Foote (Vol 1 Pt 1), (Vol 1 Pt 2) – my Civil War course doesn’t like him<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This House of Sky, Ivan Doig – i kind of like the writer though he\u00b4s dull<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Class & War in the US Society, Howard Zinn<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Camouflage, Bill Pronzini – detective novel<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver – about Belgian Congo<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy, Bruce Watson<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Language of God, Francis Collins<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sophie\u201ds Choice, William Styron<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ulysses, James Joyce<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Samuel Pepy’s Diaries<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flyboys, James Bradley<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kings & Queens of England, Antonia Fraser<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You Don\u201dt Look Like Anyone I Know, Heather Sellers<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Help, Kathryn Stockett<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow – good<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jeeves in the Offing, P.G. Wodehouse<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Animal Farm, George Orwell<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan – dustbowl<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Breakfast of Champions, or, Goodbye blue Monday!, Kurt Vonnegut<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Portrait of a Lady, Henry James<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Introduction to the New Testament History and Literature, Dale B. Martin (Yale Course)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4:50 from Paddington, Agatha Christie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Big Four, Agatha Christie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regatta Mystery-Stories, Agatha Christie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Mirror Cracked, Agatha Christie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nemesis, Agatha Christie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the Light Lasts, Agatha Christie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Poirot\u2019s Early Cases, Agatha Christie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cat Among the Pigeons, Agatha Christie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Body in the Library, Agatha Christie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Halloween Party, Agatha Christie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Moving Finger (A Miss Marple Mystery), Agatha Christie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hickory Dickory Dock, Agatha Christie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Taken at the Flood, Agatha Christie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Poirot Investigates, Agatha Christie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hard Times, Charles Dickens – I must have listened to it but I don’t remember<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pompeii, Robert Harris<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mafia Son, Sandra Harmon<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tocqueville & the American Experiment Part 2, Wm R Cook (Great Courses)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Iliad, Homer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston — good<\/p>\n\n\n\n
African American History: From Emancipation to the Present, Jonathan Halloway (Yale Course)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac (2x)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith – one of the classics<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Malcolm X, Manning Marable<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf – discussed in ‘Modern literary classics’ Great Courses<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ghosts of Cannae, Robert O’Connell<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Canaan’s Side, Sebastian Barry- do not remember<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austin<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Sandalwood Tree, Elle Newmark<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Very Good Jeeves (Short Stories), P.G. Wodehouse<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My Man Jeeves, PG Wodehouse<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bird Songs in Literature, ed. Joseph Wood Krutch and Peter Kellogg<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emma, Jane Austin<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Townie, Andre Dubus III<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Bartender\u201ds Tale, Ivan Doig<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We Have the War Upon Us, William Cooper – do not remember (Civil War)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spartacus, Ben Kane<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824, Harvey Sachs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lunatics, Dave Barry & Alan Zweibel<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Man Who Loved China, Simon Winchester<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Darling, Russell Banks<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Run, Ann Patchett<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paris: A Love Story, Kati Marton<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Giants of Philosophy St Augustine<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stoics & Epicureans<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M Pirsig — I remember reading it but I don’t remember listening to it<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Roads to Quoz, William Least Heat-Moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Detective Classics, Radio Spirits, Inc (old radio)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Death of King Arthur, Simon Armitage<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minding Frankie, Maeve Binchy (abridged)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My Cross to Bear, Gregg Allman<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Billy Budd, Herman Melville<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, Mo Yan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Reza Aslan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A More Perfect Heaven, Dava Sobel<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bark: Stories, Lorrie Moore<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Behind Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bob Dylan in America, Sean Wilentz<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Henry IV Part 1, Shakespeare<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Spectator Bird, Wallace Stegner<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Mortals Sleep \u2013 Short Stories, Kurt Vonnegut<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, Jake Tapper – I think recommended by guy at beer store<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Love of A Good Woman: Stories, Alice Monroe<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America\u201ds Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson – good<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Murders at the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allan Poe<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At Home, Bill Bryson<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Agent Zigzag A True Story of Nazi Espionage Love, Ben Macintyre<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Silas Marner, George Eliot<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Strong Poison, Dorothy Sayers<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (don’t remember)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Big Data, Viktor Mayer-Scho\u00a8nberger and Kenneth Cukier<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pigs Have Wings, P.G. Wodehouse<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War, Stephen Kinzer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Looking Glass War, John Le Carre<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Constant Gardener, John Le Carre<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Call for the Dead, John Le Carre<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America, Michael Eric Dyson (did not finish)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All Things Wise and Wonderful, James Herriot<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One Summer: America, 1927, Bill Bryson<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beowulf, Seamus Heaney<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gilgamesh. A New English Version, Stephen Mitchell<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Red and the Black, Stendhal<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Iliad, trans. Stephen Mitchell<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Irony of American History, Reinhold Niebuhr<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SPQR, Mary Beard<\/p>\n\n\n\n
C.S. Lewis\u2019s Mere Christianity, George M. Marsden<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002, David Sedaris<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Barrel Fever, David Sedaris <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u201dt Know Much About Mythology, Kenneth C. Davis – not good<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Spoken Arts Treasury Volume 1 – couldn’t hear<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Poetry on Record: 98 Poets read their work – hard to hear it<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths, Bruce Feiler – boring<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earth, Jon Stewart — i seem to recall it was vacuous<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alexander the Great and His Time, Agnes Savill – dated<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom – bad<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson – tedious, not sure i finished it<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar, Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein – boring<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon (did not listen to all)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt – tedious<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shades of Grey, Jasper Fforde<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The World According to Garp, John Irving – did not finish-very tedious<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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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<\/p>\n