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2008 New Year's Resolution #1: Read even more. Write.
My reading wanders. Usually it's non-fiction history, but lately I'm discovering more of that so-called "literary fiction". (I generally can't stomach the mass-market stuff.) I read about books almost as much as I read the books themselves, regularly perusing
the NY Times Book Reviews or the shelves at Northtown Books in Arcata. If you really care to know my reading tastes, check out my book lists below (cuz I will register and release books I never intend to read.)
Reading now...April '08
The Savage Detectives --Roberto Bolano
Waiting patiently on my bedside table...
The Assault on Reason --Al Gore
The Book of Other People --Zadie Smith, editor
Death Comes for the Archbishop --Willa Cather
Two Years Before the Mast --Richard Henry Dana
A Thousand Splendid Suns --Khaled Hosseini
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus --Charles C. Mann
Consider the Lobster --David Foster Wallace
Read in '08
The Reluctant Fundamentalist --Mohsin Hamid
Moby Dick --Herman Melville
The God Delusion --Richard Dawkins
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy --W.P. Kinsella
In Defense of Food --Michael Pollan
Out Stealing Horses --Per Petterson
All the King's Men --Robert Penn Warren
Blood and Thunder --Hampton Sides
Read in '07
Shakespeare: The World as Stage --Bill Bryson
A Crack at the Edge of the World --Simon Winchester
Quarantine --Jim Crace
Founding Myths --Ray Raphael
One Hundred Years of Solitude --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Everyman --Philip Roth
The World Without Us --Alan Weisman
The Omnivore's Dilemma --Michael Pollan
The End of Faith --Sam Harris
The Yiddish Policemens' Union --Michael Chabon
Letter to a Christian Nation --Sam Harris
On Chesil Beach --Ian McEwan
How To Be Free --Tom Hodgkinson
God is Not Great --Christopher Hitchens
The Grapes of Wrath --John Steinbeck
Slaughterhouse-Five --Kurt Vonnegut
Absurdistan --Gary Shteyngart
The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth --Thomas Jefferson
The Wild Trees --Richard Preston
What is the What --Dave Eggers
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop --Lewis Buzbee
Cloud Atlas --David Mitchell
The Metamorphosis --Franz Kafka
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid --Bill Bryson
Love in the Time of Cholera --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Worst Hard Time --Timothy Egan
The Old Man and the Sea --Ernest Hemingway
Jesus Land --Julia Scheeres
All the Pretty Horses --Cormac McCarthy
Read in '06
Istanbul --Orhan Pamuk
Memories of My Melancholy Whores --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Innocent Man --John Grisham
The Road --Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men --Cormac McCarthy
The Bookseller of Kabul --Asne Seierstad
City of My Dreams --Pers Anders Fogelstorm
Mayflower --Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex --Nathaniel Philbrick
American Theocracy --Kevin Phillips
Reading Lolita in Teheran --Azar Nafisi
State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration --James Risen
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln --Doris Kearns Goodwin
In Harm's Way --Doug Stanton
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey --Candice Millard
Read in '05
Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis --Jimmy Carter
The Sea --John Banville
A Man Without a Country --Kurt Vonnegut
City of Falling Angels --John Berendt
Mark Twain, A Life --Ron Powers
How To Be Idle --Tom Hodgkinson
What's the Matter with Kansas --Thomas Frank
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization --Franklin Foer
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking --Malcolm Gladwell
Skinny Dip --Carl Hiaasen
The Devil's Teeth --Susan Casey
1776 --David McCullough
The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream --H.W. Brands
Faithful: Two Die-Hard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season --Stephen King & Stewart O'Nan
The Plot Against America --Philip Roth
The Historian --Elizabeth Kostova
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation --Lynne Truss
Wait 'Til Next Year --Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Kite Runner --Khaled Hosseini
