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My Annual Booklists
Since 1994 I have tracked the books I read. Any book can qualify, long or short, fiction or non-fiction, technical or fun, as long as I read it completely.
1999 Booklist
- Lee’s Last Campaign
Clifford Dowdey - Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
Ray Monk - In Suspect Terrain
John McPhee - Eminent Victorians
Lytton Strachey - The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
Zbigniew Brzezinski - The Chomsky Trilogy:
- The Prosperous Few and The Restless Many
- What Uncle Sam Really Wants
- Secrets, Lies and Democracy
Noam Chomsky - The New Renaissance: Computers and the Next Level of Civilization
Douglas Robertson - Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century
Mark Mazower - Bayonet Forward: My Civil War Reminiscences
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain - The Walking Drum
(reread from the early ’80s)
Louis L’Amour - Natural Obsessions: Striving to Unlock the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell
Natalie Angier - For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Nathan Englander - Locked in the Cabinet
Robert Reich - Foundations’ Triumph
David Brin - Street Lawyer
John Grisham - Foundations’ Friends
Martin Greenberg, ed. - Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate
Bob Woodward - Headlong
Michael Frayn - Russell, Idealism and the Emergence of Analytic Philosophy
Peter Hylton - Fields of Battle
John Keegan - Formula One Through the Eyes of Damon Hill
Damon Hill - Jem and Sam
Ferdinand Mount - Spies of the Confederacy
John Bakeless - The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Barbara Tuchman - The Magician’s Nephew
(Book 1 of the Chronicles of Narnia)
C. S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
(Book 2 of the Chronicles of Narnia)
C. S. Lewis