A defense of not having blogged very much
January
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
Silence, Joy (Thomas Merton)
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (Lori Gottlieb)
Bill Bryson’s African Diary (Bill Bryson)
Mother Night (Kurt Vonnegut)
Bread and Roses, Too (Katherine Paterson)
Seek My Face (John Updike)
Anybody’s Fool (Richard Russo)
Bluebeard (Kurt Vonnegut)
Catch and Kill (Ronan Farrow)
At Home (Bill Bryson)
Surrender, Dorothy (Meg Wolitzer)
Moonraker (Ian Fleming)
The Mother Tongue (Bill Bryson)
Marry Me (John Updike)
The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkein)
Look at the Birdie (Kurt Vonnegut)
Howard’s End (E.M. Forester)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Body (Bill Bryson)
Diamonds are Forever (Ian Fleming)
A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemmingway)
Apologia Sokrates (in Greek)
Gaudy Night (Dorothy Sayers)
February
The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkein)
Candide (Voltaire, in English)
From Russia With Love (Ian Fleming)
Gertrude and Claudius (John Updike)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Agent Running in the Field (John LeCarre)
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkein)
The Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut)
Dr. No (Ian Fleming)
Across the Land and Water (W.G. Sebald)
The Romance of Archaeology (R.V.G. Magoffin, Emily C. Davis)
Iphigenia e Auloi (Euripides, in Greek)
In the Beauty of the Lilies (John Updike)
The Spy and the Traitor (Ben McIntyre)
Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer, trans. Ackroyd)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Goldfinger (Ian Fleming)
Made in America (Bill Bryson)
Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come (Jessica Pan)
March
Welcome to the Monkey House (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Four Loves (C.S. Lewis)
Grant (Ron Chernow)
Mohawk (Richard Russo)
How to Write a Thesis (Umberto Eco)
Complete Poems of Philip Larkin (Philip Larkin)
Maid (Stephanie Land)
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Kata Ioannen (in Greek)
Why Nations Fail (Daren Acemoglu, James A. Robinson)
For Your Eyes Only (Ian Fleming)
Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide (Michael Kinsley)
Chances Are… (Richard Russo)
On the Shoulders of Giants (Umberto Eco)
Cicero (Anthony Everitt)
The Turn of the Key (Ruth Ware)
Ab Urbe Condita, Liber XXI (Livy, in Latin)
Thunderball (Ian Fleming)
When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi)
Nine Perfect Strangers (Liane Moriarty)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
The Spy Who Loved Me (Ian Fleming)
Therese Raquin (Emile Zola)
The Land of Heart’s Desire (W.B. Yeats)
Elene and Other Anglo-Saxon Poems (trans. James R. Garnett)
April
Short Stories of Guy du Maupassant, vol. 1 (G. d. Maupassant)
Four Quartets (T.S. Eliot)
Orbis Sensualium Pictus (Comenius, in Latin)
The Rover (Joseph Conrad)
Once More We Saw Stars (Jayson Greene)
The Dreamers (Karen Thompson Walker)
The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
Cold Sassy Tree (Olive Ann Burns)
The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt)
The Second Mountain (David Brooks)
The Odyssey (trans. Robert Fitzgerald)
That Old Cape Magic (Richard Russo)
The Overstory (Richard Powers)
Camino Island (John Grisham)
Camino Winds (John Grisham)
What Kind of Creatures Are We? (Noam Chomsky)
Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Big Trouble (Dave Barry)
The Bookshop (Penelope Fitzgerald)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
The Idea of the Holy (Rudolf Otto)
May
Hopes and Prospects (Noam Chomsky)
The Unvanquished (William Faulkner)
As You Like It (William Shakespeare)
The Problem of Pain (C.S. Lewis)
Catch Me if You Can (Frank Abagnale)
Nicholas Nickleby (Charles Dickens)
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarhy)
The Splendid and the Vile (Erik Larson)
Homo Deus (Yuval Noah Harari)
Metamorphoses, Lib I (Ovid, in Latin)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Harry Potter a l’Ecole des Sorciers (J.K. Rowling, in French)
No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy)
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Ian Fleming)
The Babylonian Genesis (trans. Alexander Heidel)
You Only Live Twice (Ian Fleming)
The Man with the Golden Gun (Ian Fleming)
Octopussy (Ian Fleming)
The Living Daylights (Ian Fleming)
The Old Testament (ESV translation)
Wine, Water, and Song (G.K. Chesterton)
June
Terrorist (John Updike)
The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope)
Criton (Plato, in Greek)
The Sun Does Shine (Anthony Ray Hinton)
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
Felix Holt (George Eliot)
The Cardturner (Louis Sachar)
The Woman in the Window (A.J. Finn)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Three Women (Lisa Taddeo)
Fuzzy Mud (Louis Sachar)
Lessons from Lucy (Dave Barry)
The Drunken Botanist (Amy Stewart)
Van Gogh (Steven Naifeh)
Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)
City of God (St. Augustine)
Summer House with Swimming Pool (Herman Koch)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (John LeCarre)
The Pastor as Minor Poet (M. Craig Barnes)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
July
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Stieg Larsson)
Small Steps (Louis Sachar)
Born on the Fourth of July (Ron Kovic)
The Stranger in the Woods (Michael Finkel)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Stieg Larsson)
Eaters of the Dead (Michael Crichton)
The Checklist Manifesto (Atul Gawande)
Ordinary Grace (William Kent Krueger)
A Nation Worth Ranting About (Rick Mercer)
About Grace (Anthony Doerr)
How to Not Hate Your Husband After Kids (Jancee Dunn)
The Grammar of God (Aviya Kushner)
Quiet (Susan Cain)
Lionel Asbo (Martin Amis)
The Dearly Beloved (Cara Wall)
The Green Mile (Stephen King)
American Moonshot (Douglas Brinkley)
Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)
A Spy Among Friends (Ben McIntyre)
The Cuckoo’s Calling (Robert Galbraith)
Double Cross (Ben McIntyre)
Chomp (Carl Hiassen)
August
This is Where I Leave You (Jonathan Tropper)
Tightrope (Nicholas Kristoff, Sheryl WuDunn)
Operation Mincemeat (Ben McIntyre)
The Darwin Affair (Tim Mason)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Everything Changes (Jonathan Tropper)
The Less People Know About Us (Axton Betz-Hamilton)
The Silkworm (Robert Galbraith)
Hamilton (Ron Chernow)
Paddle Your Own Canoe (Nick Offerman)
Agent Zigzag (Ben McIntyre)
Fight Club (Chuck Palhuniuk)
The Book of Joe (Jonathan Tropper)
An Anonymous Girl (Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen)
September
Friday Night Lights (Buzz Bissinger)
The Black Dahlia (James Ellroy)
The Round House (Louise Erdrich)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkein)
52 Loaves (William Alexander)
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman)
A Stoic
How to Talk to a Widower (Jonathan Tropper)
The Sojourn (Andrew Krivak)
Tangerine (Christine Mangan)
Born to Run (Christopher McDougall)
Praxeis (in Greek)
The Imperial Cruise (James Bradley)
The Order of the Day (Eric Vuillard)
Career of Evil (Robert Galbraith)
Lethal White (Robert Galbraith)
The Country of Marriage (Wendell Berry)
Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders)
Midnight in Chernobyl (Adam Higginbotham)
October
Aeneid I (Virgil, in Latin)
The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
Peri Arithmon (Plotinus, in Greek)
Tartuffe (Moliere, in English)
Troubled Blood (Robert Galbraith)
The Martian (Andy Weir)
In the Time of the Butterflies (Julia Alvarez)
The Sibling Effect (Jeffrey Kluger)
The Kingdom of Speech (Tom Wolfe)
The Grownup (Gillian Flynn)
To the Moon! (Jeffrey Kluger)
The Colors of All the Cattle (Alexander McCall Smith)
The Life We Bury (Allen Eskens)
Silas Marner (George Eliot)
The Silent Patient (Alex Michaelides)
The Leavers (Lisa Ko)
I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
Your House Will Pay (Steph Cha)
November
Claudius the God (Robert Graves)
Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer)
Anxious People (Fredrik Backman)
A Time for Mercy (John Grisham)
The Long Run (Catriona Menzies-Pike)
Hoot (Carl Hiaasen)
Running with Sherman (Christopher McDougall)
Hue, 1968 (Mark Bowden)
The Warden (Anthony Trollope)
Hannah Coulter (Wendell Berry)
How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi)
The Bach Reader (Hans David, Arthur Mendel)
December
With Charity for All (Ken Stern)
The Long Distance Runner’s Guide to Injury Prevention and Treatment (Grabak/Lipman/Walte)
The Shadows We Hide (Allen Eskens)
As You Like It (William Shakespeare)
Sons and Soldiers (Bruce Henderson)
The Guise of Another (Allen Eskens)
The Heavens May Fall (Allen Eskens)
Circe (Madeline Miller)
Blackett’s War (Stephen Budiansky)
Given (Wendell Berry)
Team Rodent (Carl Hiaasen)
Daisy Jones and the Six (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
81 Days Below Zero (Brian Murphy)
Galatea (Madeline Miller)
The Boys of Winter (Wayne Coffey)
The Indifferent Stars Above (Daniel James Brown)
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
Death in the Afternoon (Ernest Hemmingway)
All the Way to Heaven (Dorothy Day)
Clement/Mathetes/Polycarp (in English)
Razor Girl (Carl Hiaasen)
Bad Monkey (Carl Hiaasen)
A Great Cloud of Witnesses (Harry Heintz)
