I kept a list of my reading throughout the year as part of a New Year’s Resolution. Here is a full list of my reading for 2011.
(I posted the first part of this list back in July. Now here is the full list.)
July 2011 through December 2011
The Writers Journey, Christopher Vogler
Candide and Zadig, Voltaire
The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta
The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant
Improving Your Middlegame, Andrew Kinsman
Judges, NRSV
The Case for God, (audiobook), Karen Armstrong
Robin Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
The Collie: An Owner’s Guide To A Happy Healthy Pet, Allene McKewen
Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration, Keith Sawyer
On Being Ill, Virginia Woolf
Me Talk Pretty One Day, (audiobook), David Sedaris
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente
The Joker, by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo
House of the Dead, Fyodor Dostoevsky
January 2011 through July 2011
Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Trial, Franz Kafka
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
Barn Burning, William Faulkner
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Good Country People, Flannery O’Connor
A Clean, Well Lit Place and Light of the World, Ernest Hemmingway
Consider the Lobster and Oblivian, David Foster Wallace
Othello and The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Matthew, Mark, Luke, KJV
Middlemarch, George Elliot
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age, Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
Readings on Herman Mellville, Bonnie Szumski (editor)
Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry, David Orr
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
Call of the Wild, Jack London
Spiritual Autobiography Discovering and Sharing Your Spiritual Story, Richard Peace
Creating Healthier Churches, Ronald W. Richardson
Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight, Norman Wirzba
The Wisdom of Stability, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Celebrating the Third Place, Ray Oldenburg (editor)
Breaking Robert’s Rules: The New Way to Run Your Meeting, Build Consensus, and Get Results, Lawrence E. Susskind and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
The Religious Case Against Belief, James P. Carse
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
Creating a Life Together, Diana Leaf Christian
I read selections from the following:
The Essential Keats, selected by Philip Levine
Homebrewing for Dummies, Marty Nachel
The Grand Barbecue, Doug Worgul
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad Editor
Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
Telling True Stories, Mark Kramer
Pawn Structure Chess, Andrewe Soltis
Arguably, Christopher Hitchens
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom
A Room of Ones Own, Virginia Woolf
The Long Halloween, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
God, Man, and Religion: readings in the philosophy of religion, Keith E. Yandell editor
Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser
Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World, Lisa Randall
Theology and the Religions: A Dialogue, Viggo Mortensen (editor)
Currently reading:
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Tales from Rumi, Mathnawi Selections for Young Readers, edited by A. Fuat Bilka
December 21, 2011 at 4:21 pm
Very nice list! My eye was caught particularly by The Leftovers, which I read last month. What did you think of it? I thought it was a reasonable psychological study of what might happen under the narrative circumstances. It was laugh-out-loud funny in places, too. A couple of reviews I read found that incongruity jarring (tragic seriousness and humor), but I disagree.
December 22, 2011 at 2:09 am
I enjoyed it! An interview I heard indicated the story was a metaphor for loss. The metaphor and the story went well together I thought. I also thought it was well plotted.
December 22, 2011 at 5:20 pm
It was definitely all about loss. I also enjoyed the plot. The end was pretty shocking–I didn’t see it coming.