Post by monkey on Dec 23, 2006 17:01:43 GMT -4
I was making my annual list of books I've read and decided to turn it into a thread here. What books did you read this year? Which ones were your favorites?
About half of these were for school, and I think I've left out a few from my Roman and Medieval Civ. seminar. I placed asterisks next to the top 10.
To Serve Them All My Days – R.F. Delderfield
Stalin – Robert Service
*Confessions - St. Augustine
Proslogion - St. Anselm
Ethical Writings - Abelard
*Survival in Auschwitz - Primo Levi
*We Wish to Inform You – P. Gourevitch
*Here is Where We Meet – John Berger
Fateless – Imre Kertesz
A Woman in Berlin – Anonymous
*Homestead – Rosina Lippi
Princesses – Flora Fraser
In the Company of Angels – N.M. Kelby
We Survived – Eric Boehm
Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks
*A Thread of Grace – Mary Doria Russell
March – Geraldine Brooks
War as I Knew It – Gen. George S. Patton
The Divine Comedy – Dante
Götz and Meyer – David Albahari
The Catholic Revival in English Literature – Ian Ker
*The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
Hitler’s Army – Omer Bartov
Inside the Vicious Heart – Robert Abzug
Appointment with Death – Agatha Christie
Evil Under the Sun – Agatha Christie
Der Wachsblumenstrauβ – Agatha Christie (After the Funeral, in English), translated into German
Japan at War: An Oral History – Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook
Die Kammerzofe – Karla Weigand
Man in the Shadows – Efraim Halevy
Der Glaspalast – Amitav Ghosh (The Glass Palace)
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
*A Time of Gifts – Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Day of the Jackal – Frederick Forsyth
A Walk in the Sun – Harry Brown
Flags of Our Fathers – James Bradley
The Boys’ Crusade – Paul Fussell
*The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
A Fool’s Errand – Albion Tourgee
Main-Traveled Roads – Garland
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speech – Richard Polenberg
*Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression – Alan Brinkley
The Censored War: American Visual Experience in World War II – George Roeder
The Cold War – John Lewis Gaddis
*Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case – Allen Weinstein
Case Closed – Gerald R. Posner
The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. – David Garrow
Ronald Reagan and the Triumph of American Conservatism – Jules Tygiel
Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History – Euan Cameron
The Book of the City of Ladies – Christine de Pizan
Three Treatises – Martin Luther
In Praise of Folly – Erasmus
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – John Locke
The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest – Tirso de Molina
Zadig - Voltaire
ETA: The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde and a couple of Wodehouse books.
ETA2: Oh, and The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory.
About half of these were for school, and I think I've left out a few from my Roman and Medieval Civ. seminar. I placed asterisks next to the top 10.
To Serve Them All My Days – R.F. Delderfield
Stalin – Robert Service
*Confessions - St. Augustine
Proslogion - St. Anselm
Ethical Writings - Abelard
*Survival in Auschwitz - Primo Levi
*We Wish to Inform You – P. Gourevitch
*Here is Where We Meet – John Berger
Fateless – Imre Kertesz
A Woman in Berlin – Anonymous
*Homestead – Rosina Lippi
Princesses – Flora Fraser
In the Company of Angels – N.M. Kelby
We Survived – Eric Boehm
Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks
*A Thread of Grace – Mary Doria Russell
March – Geraldine Brooks
War as I Knew It – Gen. George S. Patton
The Divine Comedy – Dante
Götz and Meyer – David Albahari
The Catholic Revival in English Literature – Ian Ker
*The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
Hitler’s Army – Omer Bartov
Inside the Vicious Heart – Robert Abzug
Appointment with Death – Agatha Christie
Evil Under the Sun – Agatha Christie
Der Wachsblumenstrauβ – Agatha Christie (After the Funeral, in English), translated into German
Japan at War: An Oral History – Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook
Die Kammerzofe – Karla Weigand
Man in the Shadows – Efraim Halevy
Der Glaspalast – Amitav Ghosh (The Glass Palace)
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
*A Time of Gifts – Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Day of the Jackal – Frederick Forsyth
A Walk in the Sun – Harry Brown
Flags of Our Fathers – James Bradley
The Boys’ Crusade – Paul Fussell
*The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
A Fool’s Errand – Albion Tourgee
Main-Traveled Roads – Garland
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speech – Richard Polenberg
*Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression – Alan Brinkley
The Censored War: American Visual Experience in World War II – George Roeder
The Cold War – John Lewis Gaddis
*Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case – Allen Weinstein
Case Closed – Gerald R. Posner
The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. – David Garrow
Ronald Reagan and the Triumph of American Conservatism – Jules Tygiel
Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History – Euan Cameron
The Book of the City of Ladies – Christine de Pizan
Three Treatises – Martin Luther
In Praise of Folly – Erasmus
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – John Locke
The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest – Tirso de Molina
Zadig - Voltaire
ETA: The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde and a couple of Wodehouse books.
ETA2: Oh, and The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory.
I miss novels, though. I didn't get to read many this semester.
I almost don't want to share my reading list now! But I will anyways...
