I'm hoping to read as many of these as I can this year, in no particular order. The titles came mostly from weekend-paper book reviews--I wrote them down a couple of years ago! I've figured out that if you can wait a bit, you don't get stuck on one of those long lists at the library. BL means Big Downtown Library, SL means Smaller Closer-by Library. Since I don't own any of these books, I need to know where I can find them.
[Update: I'm going to put the books I've finished in bold.]
1. Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses BL
2. Story of French BL, SL
3. Freakonomics BL, SL
4. Half in the Sun: an anthology of Mennonite Writing BL
5. Bumblebee Economics BL
6. Of This Earth (Rudy Wiebe) BL, SL
7. King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the man who saved geometry BL, SL
8. The Bone Sharps: a novel BL, SL
9. Rough Crossings: Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolution BL, SL
10. De Niro's Game BL, SL
11. The Skystone BL, SL
12. Black Swan Green BL, SL
13. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man BL, SL
14. Three-Day Road BL, SL
15. A Most Damnable Invention: dynamite, nitrates, and the making of the modern world BL, SL
16. On Chesil Beach BL, SL
17. Divisadero BL, SL
18. The Library at Night BL, SL
19. The Man Who Forgot How to Read (Engel) BL, SL
20. The Writing Life (Annie Dillard) BL, SL
4 comments:
Looks like some very interesting reading. Will you be reviewing your book choices as you go?
WOW - that's quite a reading list. I have to say that a Book List is the best New Year's Resolution idea I have heard ... and I just might need to assemble my own list. Thanks !
Happy New Year !
Grace & Peace,
MomToCherubs
I really liked Freakonomics. If you enjoy that, I'd recommend Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell. He has a wonderful ability to explain things like prices and scarcity in a comprehensible way.
Great book list - I'm going to be adding some of those to my TBR list too.
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