A Year in Books
I decided to put together a list of all the books I’ve read in the past year. You can tell a lot about people by what they choose to read. Going back over this list I can almost recreate how I’ve felt at different times over the past 12 months… my mood, the weather. Here we go, chronologically since the middle of August 2000. I don’t think I’ve left anything off.
Books I’ve read in the past 365 days:
Roger Morris, Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician
Jesse Green, The Velveteen Father: An Unexpected Journey to Parenthood
Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
John C. Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency
Richard Posner, An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton
Michael Frayn, Headlong
Neil Stephenson, Snow Crash
Craig Lucas, What I Meant Was: New Plays and Selected One-Acts
Stephen McCauley, The Object of My Affection
Philip Roth, American Pastoral
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the King
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (almost done!)
Books I didn’t finish:
Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Kenneth George, Mr. Right is Out There: The Gay Man’s Guide to Finding and Maintaining Love
David Potter, The Impending Crisis: 1848-1861
Douglas E. Hofstadter, Gödel Escher Bach
Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony
James E. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
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