What I've Read Thus Far
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- Published on Sunday, 08 July 2012 12:22
- Written by Kevin Kizer
Since we're roughly halfway through 2012, here's a list of the books I've read in the first half of the year. An (R) denotes a book I've already read once. Enjoy!
1) "An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears", Daniel Blake Smith, 271pg.
2) "Solar", Ian McEwan, 332pg.
3) "Letters to a Young Contrarian" (R), Hitchens, 141pg.
4) "Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties" (R), Ginsberg, 313pg.
5) "Freedom Summer", Sally Belfrage, 246pg.
6) "Hitler Was My Friend", Heinrich Hoffman, 250pg.
7) "Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great", James Romm, 368pg.
08) "Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-forgotten Europe", Norman Davies, 789pg.
09) "Barbarians at the Gate", Coetzee, 180pg.
10) "The Shadow of A Great Rock", Bloom, 320pg.
11) "The Sound and The Fury: Norton Critical Edition" (R), Faulkner, 442pg.
12) "Hunger" (R), Hamsun, 144pg.
13) "Leaves of Grass" (R), Whitman, 146pg.
14) "DaVinci's Ghost", Toby Lester, 256pg.
15) "Oh My Gods!", Philip Freeman, 368pg.
16) "One and Only: The Untold Story of On the Road", Nicosia, 242pg.
17) "One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner" (R), Jay Parini, 492pg.
18) "James Madison and the Making of America", Gutzman, 432pg.
19) "No One Left to Lie to: The Values of the Worst Family", Hitchens, 150pg.
20) "The Legacy of David Foster Wallace, Samuel Cohen, 244pg.
21) "Bleak House", Dickens, 1024pg.
22) "Bring Up The Bodies", Hilary Mantel, 407pg.
23) "The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power", Robert Caro, 736pg.
24) "The President's Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity", 656pg.
25) "Free Will", Sam Harris, 66p.
