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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.
2014 Booklist
- The Pale King
David Foster Wallace - Little Women
Louisa May Alcott - Stone’s Fall
Iain Pears - The Assault
Harry Mulisch (transl. by Claire Nicolas White) - The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers - Awful First Dates
Sarah Z. Wexler - Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis - American Tragedy: O.J. Simpson –
The Uncensored Story of What Happened Behind Closed Doors
Lawrence Schiller and James Willwerth - Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie - The Help
Kathryn Stockett - Fair and Tender Ladies
Lee Smith - Emma
Jane Austen - The Authoritarians
Bob Altemeyer - Exodus
Leon Uris - Compost: The Natural Way to Make Food for Your Garden
Ken Thompson - There’s Nothing in the Middle of the Road
But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos
Jim Hightower - Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
Chalmers Johnson - The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
Jeff Sharlet - The Kung Fu Book of Caine: The Complete Guide
to TV’s First Mystical Eastern Western
Herbie J. Pilato - The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton - A Happy Death
Albert Camus (transl. by Richard Howard) - On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Kaye Gibbons - My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story
Abraham Verghese - The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
Chalmers Johnson - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon - Point Counter Point
Aldous Huxley - Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
Chalmers Johnson - Spider Bones
Kathy Reichs - The Racketeer
John Grisham - Our Vanishing Landscape
Eric Sloane - Mistress of the Art of Death
Ariana Franklin - Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Studs Terkel