Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (Family Happiness, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Devil, The Kreutzer Sonata, Master and Man, Father Sergius, Hadji Murad, Alyosha the Pot)
Monday, December 03, 2007
Bursting the Limits of Time by Martin J. S. Rudwick (History of development of geology as discipline and its slow-dawning "discovery" of the age of the earth. Very highly recommended for anyone interested in evolution/creation or geology or the Enlightenment.)
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Sabbath's Theater by Phillip Roth
Monday, November 26, 2007
Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century by Mark Sedgwick
The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism by Ronald L. Numbers
Saturday, November 24, 2007
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Some Problems of Philosophy by William James
Thursday, November 15, 2007
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Sunday, November 11, 2007
The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity by Jack Repcheck (not recommended)
Friday, October 19, 2007
The Meaning of Truth by William James
Monday, October 01, 2007
Los Detectives Salvajes by Roberto Bolaño
Saturday, September 29, 2007
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Selected Stories by Anton Checkhov (trans. Ann Dunnigan)
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
Legal Daisy Spacing by Christopher Winn
Monday, September 17, 2007
Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
Friday, September 14, 2007
Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta (recommended)
Sunday, September 09, 2007
A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright
Society and Knowledge by Gordon Childe (skimmed some sections)
Friday, September 07, 2007
Landing by Emma Donoghue
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
Monday, August 27, 2007
Selected Stories by Alice Munro
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
A Pluralistic Universe by William James
Reading Comics by Douglas Wolk
gave up on: The System of Comics by Thierry Groensteen
Friday, August 03, 2007
Harry Potter!
Monday, July 23, 2007
Slouching towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Friday, July 20, 2007
True Blue by David Milch and Bill Clark
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion
selections from A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vols. 1-3 by Egon Friedell
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro
Deadwood: Stories of the Black Hills by David Milch &co.
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life both by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories ed. Ben Marcus
Monday, April 30, 2007
Clouds of Witness Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
Thursday, April 19, 2007
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
El General en su Laberinto by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whose Body by Dorothy Sayers
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Or Else Robert Penn Warren
Friday, March 23, 2007
Pragmatism by William James (100 yr anniversary! but not the best James)
Friday, March 09, 2007
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Sunday, February 04, 2007
The Now Habit by Neil Fiore (not recommended)
Getting Things Done by David Allen (yes)
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield (also yes)
Friday, January 26, 2007
Writings 1878-1899 William James includes: Psychology: Briefer Course, The Will to Believe, Talks to Teachers, and Selected Essays
Saturday, January 20, 2007
The Scramble for Africa: 1876-1912 by Thomas Pakenham
Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Monday, January 01, 2007
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Changed Pop Culture by David Kushner