2005 (so far)
List 2005
1) Civil war Narrative Volume 1 by Shelby Foote
2) Plot Against America by Philip Roth
3) The Newton Letter by John Banville
4) Cubano Be, Cubano Bop by Leonardo Acosta
5) Men At Arms by Evelyn Waugh
6) Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
7) Shiloh by Shelby Foote
8) Wild Berries by Yevgeny Yevtuschenko
9) Conversations With Shelby Foote
10) Kafka on The Shore by Haruki Murikami
11) Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
12) Incredibly Loud and Terribly Close by Jonathan Safren Foer
13) Chechnya by Andrew Meier
14) The Collected Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
15) In The Rose Garden of The Martyrs by Christopher de Bellaigue
16) Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
17) The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
18) Mr. Lincoln's Army by Bruce Catton
19) Inez by Carlos Fuentes
20) Seven Types of Ambiguity by Eliot Perlman
21) The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
22) Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
23) Provinces of Night by William Gay
24) Father and Son by Larry Brown
25) Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
26) Why Orwell matters by Christopher Hitchens
27) 1984 by George Orwell
28) Mysterious Flame of Queen Leonna by Umberto Eco
29) Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
30) The Certificate by Isaac Singer
31) Collapse by Jared Diamond
32) Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
33) Letters To A Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
34) Malice Towards None by Stephen Oates
35) Rubicon by Tom Holland
36) Follow Me Down by Shelby Foote
37) Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
38) The Children At The Gate by Edward Wallant
39) No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
40) Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
41) Nowhere Man by Aleksandr Hemon
42) Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
43) Natural History of Disaster by W.G. Sebald
44) Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
45) The Good Solider by Ford Maddox Ford
46) Keep the Aspidestra Flying by George Orwell
47) Henry Roth by Kellman
48) How Soccer Explains The World by Franklin Foer
49) Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell
50) Question of Bruno by Aleksandr Hemon
51) Why I Write by George Orwell
52) Rising Up, Rising Down by William T. Vollmann
53) Politics by Adam Thirwell
54) Commisar of Enlightenment by Ken Kalfus
55) On Beauty by Zadie Smith
56) Foundation Pit by Andrei Platonov
57) The Faculty Of Useless Knowledge by Yuri Dombrovsky
58) Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
59) King of the Jews by Nick Tosches
60) Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
61) Civil War Narrative - Volume Two by Shelby Foote
62) The Ice-Shirt by William T. Vollmann
63) Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story by Nick Tosches
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It intriguing to ponder this, not as hubris but as time spent and its myriad paths. There were only five books formt he library which I completed, an odd indication times, supporting local commerce as well as the specificty of my interest this year, though it is as likely that I simply needed to own the materials in question. The affable aspect of Hornby's column in The Believer is the comparison between what books he bought each month as to what he read. One can surmise by my own statement about the juxtaposition within. Now back to signing fucking xmas cards!!
posted by jon faith at
1:41 PM
2 Comments:
This is the first time in many years that I did not compile a list of read text, I should because of breaking the previous years amount which was what i try to do every year. That does not always happen.
Favorite book: it was a tie between Shadow Of The Wind and Cloud Atlas. Thanks much to the jebi_se author and the mates at SAMIZDAT for suggestions into books I would not have read or known about.
A very impressive list indeed. Not only in sheer number but in content as well. Would that I could stay awake long enough to get thru a few chapters at a sitting for as a lad I really enjoyed doing so. But alas I now have to leave the heavy work to folks such as you, Ed, & Roger.
By the way, I concur with the Xmas card issue!
Keep reading and sharing.
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