A Year in Books

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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