Saturday, December 31, 2022

2022 Reading

 January

The Family Romanov (Fleming)
Call for the Dead (LeCarre)
The River of Consciousness (Sacks)
The Case of the Vanishing Blonde (Bowden)
Timeline (Crichton)
My Brother Sam is Dead (Collier)
Animal (Taddeo)
All's Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare)
Old Cookery and Ancient Cuisine (Hazlitt)
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Trajectory (Russo)
Othello (Shakespeare)
My Struggle, Book 1 (Knausgaard)
Love's Labor Lost (Shakespeare)
Whose Body? (Sayers)
Angela's Ashes (McCourt)
Jesus and John Wayne (Du Mez)
Odyssey Book 15 (Homer) in Greek
Catch-22 (Heller)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
The Beautiful and the Damned (Fitzgerald)
The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach (Schikele)
The Narnian (Jacobs)
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Jacobs)
Watership Down (Adams)
Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village (Cooper/Johnson)

February

Norse Mythology (Gaiman)
Can You Forgive Her? (Trollope)
Clouds of Witnesses (Sayers)
Empire of Pain (Keefe)
How to Raise a Reader (Russo/Paul)
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
Bridge to Terabithia (Paterson)
Skink-No Surrender (Hiaasen)
Good-Bye to All That (Graves)

March

Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
Asinaria (Plautus) in Latin
Peril (Woodward)
The Day of the Pelican (Paterson)
Animal Farm (Orwell)
Murder on the Orient Express (Christie)
Odyssey Book 16 (Homer) in Greek
Book of House Plants (Lee-Faust)
The Art of Shaving (Zaoui)
Unnatural Death (Sayers)
Johannes Brahms (Swafford)
The Inimitable Jeeves (Wodehouse)
When the Buddha was an Elephant (McGinnis)
All Our Happy Days are Stupid (Heti)
The Garden of Eden (Hemingway)
The Whore's Child (Russo)
The Lightning Thief (Riordan)
Death on the Nile (Christie)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Sayers)
Metamorphoses Book 6 (Ovid) in Latin
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
Shakespeare (Bryson) 
Right Ho, Jeeves (Wodehouse)
The Power of Regret (Pink)
The Color of Magic (Pratchett)

April

Burnout (Nagoski)
The Same Stuff as Stars (Paterson)
Elsewhere (Russo)
Fried Green Tomatoes (Flagg)
Mating in Captivity (Perel)
Damned (Palahniuk)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)
Taste (Tucci)
Strong Poison (Sayers)
The Golden Couple (Hendricks/Pekkanen)
Deliverance (Dickey)
Bittersweet (Cain)
The Sea of Monsters (Riordan)
The Five Red Herrings (Sayers)
Very Good, Jeeves (Wodehouse)
A History of Men's Fashion (Storey)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
From Warsaw with Love (Pomfret)
Love and Saffron (Fay)
Odyssey Book 17 (Homer) in Greek
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)

May

Have His Carcase (Sayers)
French Lessons (Mayle)
Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)
Across the River and Into the Trees (Hemingway)
Bonk (Roach)
Joy in the Morning (Wodehouse)
Worst Class Trip Ever (Barry)
Sticking it Out (Niemi)
The Night Manager (LeCarre)
A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
HMS Surprise (O'Brian)
Winner Takes Nothing (Hemingway)
Motherhood (Heti)
Murder Must Advertise (Sayers)
The Titan's Curse (Riordan)
The Man Who Was Thursday (Chesterton)
Mozart in the Jungle (Tindall)

June

Odyssey Book 18 (Homer) in Greek
The Gospels and Homer (MacDonald)
Home Improvement for the Busy and Broke (Salway)
Dear Mr. M. (Koch)
The Mauritius Command (O'Brian)
The Steal (Bowden)
Into the Deep (Ballard)
Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut)
The Monuments Men (Witter/Edsel)
Farewell, Titanic (Pellegrino)
Pirate Latitudes (Crichton)
The Longest Race (Ayres)
Jaws (Benchley)
The Archaeology of New York State (Ritchie)
The Decameron (Boccacio)
Phedre (Racine) in French
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Abelard and Heloise)
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)
Hero (Korda)
Battle of the Labyrinth (Riordan)
The Internet is Not What You Think It Is (Smith)
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Wilkinson)
Sink the Bismarck! (Forester)
A Year of Biblical Womanhood (Held-Evans)
We Came, We Saw, We Left (Wheelan)
Secrets of the Great Pyramid (Briar/Houdin)
Radium Girls (Moore)
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (LeCarre)
The Martian (Weir)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (LeCarre)

July 

The Wisdom of the Myths (Ferry)
Lost Classics (Ondaatje)
The Writing of the Gods (Dolnick)
Mindfuck (Wylie)
Rationality (Pinker)
Ending Parkinson's Disease (Dorsey)
Odyssey Book 19 (Homer) in Greek
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Dave)
The Mismeasure of Man (Gould)
Turn Right at Machu Picchu (Adams)
The Cuckoo's Calling (Galbraith)
Nasty, Brutish, and Short (Hershovitz)
The Perfect Storm (Junger)
Loch (Zindel)
Digital Minimalism (Newport)
The Silkworm (Galbraith)
The Pastor's Bookshelf (Carty)
Our Man in Havana (Greene)
The Right Stuff (Wolfe)
Career of Evil (Galbraith)

August

Lethal White (Galbraith)
Apokalypsis in Latin
Troubled Blood (Galbraith)
The Art of Loading Brush (Berry)
Euthyphro (Plato) in Greek
The It Girl (Ware)
Odyssey Book 20 (Homer) in Greek
A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
A Cabernet of Plants (Mabey)
Pontoon (Keillor)
The Lake Wobegon Virus (Keillor)
Erebus (Palin)
North Korea Journal (Palin)
A Thousand Ships (Haynes)
The Maid (Prose)
The Storm (Buechner)
Breaking the Male Code (Garfield)
Odyssey Book 21 (Homer) in Greek
Charlie Wilson's War (Crile)

September

The Ink Black Heart (Galbraith)
Alexandria: City of the Western Mind (Vrettos)
Don Quixote (Cervantes) 
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Doerr)
After Doubt (Swoboda)
The Great Pearl Heist (Crosby)
Aeneid Book 7 (Virgil) in Latin
Sex on the Moon (Mezrich)
The Screwtape Letters (Lewis)
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes (Everett)
The Tempest (Shakespeare)
Nefertiti (Wells)
Beating Vegas (Mezrich)
Woolly (Mezrich)
Deep Work (Newport)
The Second Death of George Mallory (Messner)

October

Laughter in Ancient Rome (Beard)
To Save Everything, Click Here (Morozov)
Slouching Toward Bethlehem (Didion)
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (Ballmer)
The Good Nurse (Graeber)
Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger (Murphy)
I, Claudius (Graves)
Odyssey Book 22 (Homer) in Greek
Ex Libris (Fadiman)
Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut)
Jayber Crow (Berry)
Endurance (Lansing)
Poirot Investigates (Christie)
All in a Don's Day (Beard)

November

The Escape Artist (Freedland)
After the Ivory Tower Falls (Bunch)
Odyssey Book 23 (Homer) in Greek
Book of Mythicality (Neal/McLaughlin)
How Should a Person Be? (Heti)
Sharpe's Tiger (Cornwell)
Sharpe's Triumph (Cornwell)
The Nine Tailors (Sayers)
Arms and the Man (Shaw)
The Corsican Caper (Mayle)
Candida (Shaw)
The Man of Destiny (Shaw)
Dinner with Edward (Vincent)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Christie)
A Good Year (Mayle)
How to Inhabit Time (Smith)
Sharpe's Fortress (Cornwell)

December

Odyssey Book 24 (Homer) in Greek
The Sacred Journey (Buechner)
Serendipities (Eco)
Gaudy Night (Sayers)
The Winners (Backman)
Aeneid Book 8 (Virgil) in Latin
Lord Peter Views the Body (Sayers)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Sharpe's Trafalgar (Cornwell)
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Busman's Honeymoon (Sayers)
The Scapegoat (du Maurier)
Lament for a Son (Wolterstorff)
Sharpe's Prey (Cornwell)
A Year in Provence (Mayle)
Shakespeare's The Phantom of Menace (Doescher)