Wednesday, September 25, 2013

My 2013 "Wrap Up"

My 2013 "Wrap Up"




Challenge Level Achieved: Between Trying (15 books) and Making a Dint (30 books)

Books Read:
1. Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
2. Paint It Black by Janet Fitch
3. How To Be Lovely by Melissa Hellstern
4. Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
5. A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
6. An Open Life by Joseph Campbell
7. Fuseli: The Nightmare by Nicolas Powell
8. Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
9. The Finest Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland
10. Persuasion by Jane Austen
11. Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher Staples
12. Haveli by Suzanne Fisher Staples 
13. The Giver by Lois Lowry
14. Driven to Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. & John J. Ratey, M.D
15. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
16. James & The Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
17. Knitting 101: Master Basic Skills and Techniques Easily Through Step-by-Step Instruction by Carri Hammett
18. Answers to Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. & John J. Ratey, M.D







 Off the Shelf 2014

2014 Reading List:
1. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
2. Letter to a Child Never Born by Oriana Fallaci
3. Capitalism & Freedom by Milton Friedman
4. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
5. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
6. The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
7. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
8. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
9. Bhagavad-Gita (The Song of God)
10. Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser
11. Wesley the Owl by Stacey O'Brien
12. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
13. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
14. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
15. An Essay on Liberation by Herbert Marcuse
16. Essays in Pragmatism by William James
17. Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison
18. The Dog Who Wouldn't Be by Farley Mowat
19. Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck
20. Captains & Kings by Taylor Caldwell
22. Erewhon by Samuel Butler
23. The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
24. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
25. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
26. Transitions (Making Sense of Life's Changes) by William Bridges
27. A Brief History of Time (From the Big Bang to Black Holes) by Stephen Hawking
28. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
29. Tales From the Secret Annex by Anne Frank
30. Dewey (The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World) by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
31. The Great War & Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
32. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
33. Anthem by Ayn Rand
34. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
35. The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
36. Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
37. The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
38. Quotations of Martin Luther King Jr. 
39. The Northern Lights by Lucy Jago
40. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
41. Dracula by Bram Stoker
42. The Zimmerman Telegram by Barbara W. Tuchman
43. One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch with John Rothchild
44. Gilgamesh rendered by David Ferry
45. My Brother's Keeper (James Joyce's Early Years) by Stanislaus Joyce
46. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
47. Tess of the D'Urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
48. Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
49. Duino Elegies by Maria Rainer Rilke 
50. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
51. The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck, M.D.
52. The Road Less Traveled and Beyond by M. Scott Peck, M.D.
53. The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
54. How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short Story of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen
55. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Lives of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher, Ph.D.
56. Judy Garland: World's Greatest Entertainer by John Fricke
57. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham  
58. Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell 
59. A Map of Misreading by Harold Bloom
60. You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! by Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo
61. Public Memory and American Roots Music: Romancing the Folk by Benjamin Filene
62. Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music by John Wright
63. Zydeco! Text by Ben Sandmel and Photographs by Rick Olivier 
64. Old New York by Edith Wharton 
65. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 
66. Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames by Thich Nhat Hanh 
67. A Short Course in Photography: An Introduction to Black-and-White Photographic Technique by Barbara London and Jim Stone 
68. Buddhism Plain & Simple by Steve Hagen  
69. Comfortable With Uncertainty by Pema Chodron
70.  A Seal Called Andre: The Two Worlds of a Maine Harbor Seal by Harry Goodridge and Lew Dietz
71. The Camera by Ansel Adams 
72. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 
73. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
74. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins 
75. All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 
76. Flood by Robert Penn Warren
77. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
78. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 
79. Mansfield Park  by Jane Austen 
80. Beauty and the Beast by Madame le Prince de Beaumont 
81. Titanic: An Illustrated History by Don Lynch & Ken Marschall 
82. In the Woods by Tana French
83. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
84. The Circus In the Attic & Other Stories by Robert Penn Warren