Friday, January 03, 2014

books read 2014

From now, gonna list books I don't finish with as x.5. They won't count toward totals but it'll be interesting to see how many I start and put down.

0.5 Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy (partial)
1. Postwar, by Tony Judt
2. Stoner, by John Williams
3. The Giant, O'Brien, by Hilary Mantel
4. The Aleph, by Jorge Luis Borges
4.5. Selected Poems, by WH Auden (partial)
5. The Maker, by Jorge Luis Borges
6. The Swerve, by Stephen Greenblatt
7.5. The Call of Cthulu and Other Stories, by HP Lovecraft (partial)
7. Devil in the Grove, by Gilbert King
8. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
9. A Delicate Truth, by John Le Carre.
10. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, by bell hooks
11. A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin
12. The Gifts of the State and Other Stories: New Writing from Afghanistan, ed. Adam Klein
13. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Chandler
14. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky (ongoing serial, third time through to date and I skipped and skimmed a bit this time, counting as a full book because it's hundreds of thousands of words long by now)
15. Murphy, by Samuel Beckett
16. The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. LeGuin
17. God Loves, Man Kills, by Chris Claremont
18. Shadow and Claw, by Gene Wolf (this is technically two volumes -- The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator -- but they're bound together, so counting it as one)
19. I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan, ed. Eliza Griswold
20. The Animal Family, by Randall Jarrell
21. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, by Alan Moore
22. The Map that Changed the World, by Simon Winchester (audiobook)
23. Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, trans. Philip Pullman
24. The Blood Telegram, by Gary Bass
25. Sword and Citadel, by Gene Wolf
25.5 Telegraph Avenue, by Michael Chabon (partial)
26. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle
27. A Wind in the Door, by Madeleine L'Engle
28. A Swiftly Tilting Planet, by Madeleine L'Engle
29. Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors, by Susan Sontag
30. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
31. In the Freud Archives, by Janet Malcolm
32. The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin
33. Notes from No Man's Land, by Eula Biss
34. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
35. Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel (second time)
36. O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
37. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt

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