Read in 2011
The books I read in 2011:
Total – 70
Asimov, Isaac – Foundation *** Foundation and Empire **** Second Foundation ***
Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility *****
de Botton, Allain – The Consolations of Philosophy ***
Bradbury, Ray – The Martian Chronicles ****
Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre *****
Button, Eileen – The Waiting Place *
Byrne, Robert – The 2548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said **
Enger, Lief – Peace Like a River ***
Foster, Thomas C. – How to Read Literature Like a Professor ****
Gilbreth, Frank Jr. – Cheaper by the Dozen ***
Griffin, John Howard – Black Like Me ****
Guin, Ursula K. le – The Wizard of Earthsea ***, The Tombs of Atuan ***
Haggard, Rider – The Saga of Eric Brighteyes ****
Halpert, Justin – Sh*t My Dad Says***
Heathcock, Alan – Volt *****
Herbert, Frank – Dune **** Dune Messiah ***
Hobbs, Peter – The Short Day Dying ****
Ishiguro, Kazuo – Never Let Me Go ***
James, P.D. - The Children of Men ***
Lamott, Anne - Bird by Bird ****
Leithart, Peter – Solomon Among the Postmoderns *****
Lee, Euna – The World is Bigger Now **
Lewis, C.S. – The Great Divorce ***** Out of the Silent Planet ***** The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe **** Prince Caspian **** The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ***** The Silver Chair ***** The Horse and His Boy ***** The Magician’s Nephew ***** The Last Battle *****
Lowry, Lois – The Giver ***
McCarthy, Cormac – No Country For Old Men****
Martin, George R.R. – A Game of Thrones **** A Clash of Kings *** A Storm of Swords **** A Feast for Crows *** A Dance with Dragons ***
Miller, Walter M. Jr. A Canticle for Leibowitz ****
Moody, Ralph – Mary Emma and Company ***
Pieper, Josef – “Divine Madness”: Plato’s Case against Secular Humanism ****
Purtill, Richard L. – The Lord of Elves & Eldils ***
Roberts, Chris – Heavy Words, Lightly Thrown ***
Smith, Kimberly L. - Passport Through Darkness ***
Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Hobbit **** The Fellowship of the Ring ***** The Two Towers ***** The Return of the King *****
Udall, Brady – The Lonely Polygamist ***
Veyne, Paul – When Our World Became Christian ***
Voskamp, Ann – One Thousand Gifts **
Wilson, N.D. The Dragon’s Tooth ****
Wodehouse, P.G. Leave It To Psmith ***** Piccadilly Jim **** Ring for Jeeves **** Pigs Have Wings ****
Wolfe, Gene - The Fifth Head of Cerberus *****, An Evil Guest ****, Soldier of Arete *****, The Best of Gene Wolfe *****, The Sorcerer’s House****, Pirate Freedom ****, Operation Ares *** The Shadow of the Torturer ***** The Claw of the Conciliator ***** The Sword of the Lictor ***** The Citadel of the Autarch *****
May 15th, 2011 at 5:08 pm
No Country for Old Men?
September 5th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
[...] Reading in 2011 [...]
December 31st, 2011 at 3:29 pm
I can understand the 3 star rating on Wizard of Earthsea, but Tombs was much better, more tightly written, and a simpler, more universal story. I wish I'd read more books like it when I was a youngster.