Friday, August 19, 2011

running book list 2011 - bump

So I don't have to go looking for it.

EDIT 1/31/2011: Worth noting that my pace for January has been slow because The Wire has taken up large chunks of time that would otherwise have been devoted to reading. One season to go...

EDIT 3/1/2011: Finished The Wire. Counting it as literature.

1. Aeschylus, Agamemnon
2. Virgil, The Aeneid
3. David Simon, The Wire
4. Patti Smith, Just Kids
5. Plato, The Apology of Socrates and Crito
6. Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
7. Michael Chabon, Maps and Legends
8. Frank Miller, The Dark Knight Returns
9. Anton Chekhov, The Duel
10. Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (shut up, it's a classic, plus I needed a break from Devils)
11. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Devils
11. Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations
12. Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
13. John McPhee, The Curve of Binding Energy
14. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
15. Robert Alter (translation and commentary), Genesis 
16. John O'Hara, Appointment in Samarra 
17. Steven Mitchell (translation and commentary), Job (twice in a row)
18. William Strunk and E.B. White, The Elements of Style
19. Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly 
20. Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

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