Since
2007 I have kept track of every book I read.
Here is this year’s list. By far
this is the most I’ve read in a single year.
Not being in school is good for something, I guess. Also, I read really, really good books this
year.
“Middlesex”
– Jeffrey Eugenides
“We
Have Never Been Modern” – Bruno Latour
“Slouching
Towards Bethlehem” – Joan Didion
“The
White Album” – Joan Didion
“Revolutionary
Road” – Richard Yates
“All-American
Poem” – Matthew Dickman
“A
Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat” – Arthur Rimbaud
“The
End of The West” – Michael Dickman
“Eros
And Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud” – Herbert Marcuse
“Wise
Blood” – Flannery O’Connor
“The
Age of Innocence” - Edith Wharton
“The
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge” - Rainer Maria Rilke
“Wuthering
Heights” - Emily Bronte
“Iceland’s
Bell” - Haldor Laxness
“Letters
From People Who Hate Me” - Steve Almond
“Open
City” - Teju Cole
“Field
Work” - Seamus Heaney
“The
Trial” – Franz Kafka
“The
Sorrows of an American” - Siri Hustvedt
“How
Fiction Works” - James Wood
“The
Liberal Imagination” - Lionel Trilling
“The
Morning of the Poem” – James Schuyler
“Self-Portrait
in a Convex Mirror” – John Ashbery
“The
Tennis Court Oath” – John Ashbery
“Selected
Poems” – Frank O’Hara
“Blood
Meridian” – Cormac McCarthy
“The
Sheltering Sky” – Paul Bowles
“2666”
– Roberto Bolano
“A
Man in Full” – Tom Wolfe
“My
Struggle” – Karl Ove Knausgaard
“Ficciones”
– Jorge Luis Borges
“Sincerity
& Authenticity” – Lionel Trilling
“The
Dwarf” – Par Lagerkvist
“Disturbing
The Peace” – Richard Yates
“The
Varieties of Religious Experience” – William James
“For
The Sleepwalkers” – Edward Hirsch
“Aeschylus
II: The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, and Prometheus
Bound” – Aeschylus
“Birds
of America” – Lorrie Moore
“Mythologies”
– Roland Barthes
“Illuminations”
– Walter Benjamin
“Alfred
and Guinevere” – James Schuyler
“Nine
Stories” – J.D. Salinger
“The
Lacuna” – Barbara Kingsolver
“The
Opposing Self” – Lionel Trilling
“Anna
Karenina” – Leo Tolstoy
“Antwerp”
– Roberto Bolano
“Barabbas”
– Par Lagerkvist
“Play
It As It Lays” – Joan Didion
“Gisli
Sursson’s Saga” – Anonymous
“Full
Tilt: A Memoir” – Paul Santoro
“The
End of The Affair” – Graham Greene
Fiction:
29
Novels: 24
Short Stories: 4
Plays: 1
Poetry:
9
Nonfiction:
13
Essays: 2
Memoirs: 2
Pilosophy/Literary Criticism/Etc: 9
American:
31
Irish:
1
English:
2
Icelandic:
2
Swedish:
2
Norwegian:
1
Russian:
1
Chilean:
2
Argentinean:
1
Greek:
1
French:
3
German:
4 (I included Rilke and Kafka here because they wrote in German even though
they were Austrian and Czech, respectively)
Total:
51
Favorites
in no order: The End of the Affair, 2666, Anna Karenina, My Struggle, Barrabas,
The Liberal Imagination, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Age of Innocence.
