Previously
Last Update: August 11, 2008I started keeping this on-line list in May of 1996.
Books Read in 2008
What The Dead Know by Laura Lippman - August 2008
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper by Fuchsia Dunlop - May 2008
Eric Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton - January - May 2008
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin - January 2008
Books Read in 2007
The Artist's Way by Julie Cameron - November / December 2007
Negotiating With The Dead by Margaret Atwood - November / December 2007
Let It Bleed by Ian Ranking - December 2007
Honey From A Weed by Patience Gray - September - November 2007
Last Waltz in Vienna by George Clare - October 2007
Power Into Art: Creating the Tate Modern, Bankside by Karl Sabbagh -September- October 2007
A History of the Arab Peoples By Albert Hourani - July - September 2007
The Islamist by Ed Husain - September 2007
Dancing in the Waters of Life: The Journals of Thomas Merton, Vol. 5 (1963-1965) by Thomas Merton - July - August 2007
Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller - July 2007
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr - June 2007
George Mackay Brown: The Life by Maggie Fergusson - June 2007
Primo Levi by Ian Thomson - April 2007
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai - March/April 2007
Silence by Shusaku Endo - March 2007
Pakistan by Mary Anne Weaver - March 2007
The Soldier's Return by Melvin Bragg - February / March 2007
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink - February 2007
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor - November 2006 / February 2007
The Bell by Iris Murdoch - February 2007
Scandal by Shusaku Endo - January 2007
Beggar's Banquet by Ian Rankin - January 2007
Waterland by Graham Swift - December 2006 / January 2007
Books Read in 2006
Will & Me - by Dominic Dromgoole - December 2006
Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott - September 2006
Heat by Bill Buford - September 2006
The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day - August 2006
The Holy Way (re-read) by Paula Huston - August 2006
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif - April / May 2006
Farewell Princess by Kenize Mourad - March/April 2006
The Zahir by Paulo Coelho - March 2006
By The Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah - March 2006
Candide by Voltaire - March 2006
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - February 2006
A Love Supreme by Ashley Kahn - February 2006
Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter - January 2006
Watching The English by Kate Fox - January 2006
Turning Toward The World: The Pivotal Years (1960-1963): Journals by Thomas Merton - December 2005 / January 2006
Books Read in 2005
Heading Upstream: Interviews with Iconoclasts by Jack Loeffler - November 2005
The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary - November 2005
Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older by Douwe Draaisma - October 2005
A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life by Thomas Merton - September / October 2005
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara - September 2005
Brewing Up a Business by Sam Calagione - August / September 2005
A Savage War of Peace:Algeria 1942-1962 by Alistair Horne - August 2005
The Abruzzo Trilogy by Ignazio Silone - July 2005
Fontamara
Bread and Wine
The Seed Under The Snow
Italy And Its Discontents: 1980 - 2001 by Paul Ginsborg
England: An Elegy by Roger Scruton - May 2005
A Word Child - by Iris Murdoch - May 2005
Walden - by Henry David Thoreau - April / May 2005
The Hungry Spirit - by Charles Handy (re-read) - April 2005
Tools for Conviviality - by Ivan Illich - March 2005
Beginning to Pray - by Anthony Bloom (re-read) - March 2005
Gravity and Grace - by Simone Weil - March 2005
To the Finland Station - by Edmund Wilson - February 2005
Lost in the Cosmos - by Walker Percy - February 2005
Survival in Auschwitz - by Primo Levi - January 2005
Far From the Madding Crowd - by Thomas Hardy - January 2005
Isolation Shepherd - by Iain Thomson - January 2005
The Road Less Traveled - by M. Scott Peck (re-read) - December 2004 / January 2005
Books Read in 2004
On the Farm - by Jimmy Doherty - December 2004
The Ornament of the World - by Maria Rosa Menocal - December 2004
A Garlic Testament - by Stanley Crawford - November 2004
Plain and Amish - by Bernd Langin - November 2004
A Quiet and Peaceable Life - by John Ruth - October 2004
Story of a Soul - by St. Therese of Lisieux - October 2004
Entering the Silence - by Thomas Merton - September / October 2004
The Crofting Way - by Katherine Stewart - September 2004
Run to the Mountain - by Thomas Merton - August / September 2004
An American Childhood - by Annie Dillard - July 2004
Blowing Zen - by Ray Brooks - July 2004
Crossing the Unknown Sea - by David Whyte - July 2004
Mere Christianity - by C. S. Lewis - July 2004
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - by Annie Dillard - June / July 2004
The One-Straw Revolution - by Masanobu Fukuoka - June 2004
The Holy Way:Practices for a Simple Life - by Paula Huston - June 2004
An American Childhood - by Annie Dillard - June 2004
To the Bitter End - by Victor Klemperer - May-June 2004
Waiting for God - by Simone Weil - May 2004
Silent Spring - by Rachel Carson - May 2004
How to be Good - by Nick Hornby - April 2004
The Moviegoer - by Walker Percy - April 2004
El Camino (re-read) - by Lee Hoinacki - April 2004
Zen Catholicism - by Aelred Graham - March-April 2004
Freedom to Rejoice - by Norbert Cummins - March-April 2004
Stumbling Toward Justice (re-read) - by Lee Hoinacki - March 2004
The Cross: Kristin Lavransdatter - by Sigrid Undset - February 2004
The Mistress of Husaby: Kristin Lavransdatter - by Sigrid Undset - January-February 2004
The Garland: Kristin Lavransdatter - by Sigrid Undset - January 2004
Grand Days - by Frank Moorhouse - January 2004
Books Read in 2003
The Twelve Chairs - by Ilf and Petrov - December 2003
The Oregon Experiment - by Christopher Alexander et al - December 2003
Bread in the Wilderness - by Thomas Merton - December 2003
A Pattern Language - by Christopher Alexander et al - August - December 2003<
The Diary of a Country Priest - by Georges Bernanos- November - December 2003
100 Days on Holy Island - by Peter Mortimer - November 2003
Country of Exiles - by William Leach - October 2003
Silence, Song and Shadow - by Tom Bender - September - October 2003
The World Is Not For Sale - by Jose Bove - October 2003
Darkness at Noon - by Arthur Koestler - October 2003
Beginning to Pray - by Anthony Bloom - October 2003
Brideshead Revisited - by Evelyn Waugh - October 2003
The Death of Thomas Merton - by Paul Hourihan - September 2003
The Handmaid's Tale - by Margaret Atwood - September 2003
The Gnostic Gospels (re-read) - by Elaine Pagels - August - September 2003
The Timeless Way of Building - by Christopher Alexander - August 2003
The Life You Save May Be Your Own - by Paul Elie - July 2003
Girl with a Pearl Earring - by Tracy Chevalier - July 2003
The Existential Pleasures of Engineering - by Samuel Florman - July 2003
James Joyce - by Richard Ellmann - June 2003
I Will Bear Witness: Diaries, 1933-1941 - by Victor Klemperer - May 2003
Plowing the Dark - by Richard Powers - May 2003
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell - March - May 2003
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and Therer by Aldo Leopold - April/May 2003
The Sense of Wonder - by Rachel Carson - April 2003
The Seven Storey Mountain - by Thomas Merton - April 2003
My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization - by Chellis Glendinning - March/April 2003
Stumbling Toward Justice: Stories of Place - by Lee Hoinacki - March 2003
El Camino: Walking to Santiago de Compostela - by Lee Hoinacki - March 2003
Lágrimas na chuva por Sergio Faraco - fevereiro/março 2003
Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland by Neal Ascherson - February 2003
Small is Beautiful - by Fritz Schumacher - February 2003
Nao foi nada - por Antonio Skármeta - janeiro 2003
Books Read in 2002
Zeno's Conscience - by Italo Svevo - September - December 2002
O Diario Supersecreto de Carolina - by Bebeti Amaral - November 2002
The Horned Man - by James Lasdun - August 2002
Blindness - by Jose Saramago - August 2002
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - by Jose Saramago - July 2002
Shepherds of the Night - by Jorge Amado - June 2002
To Begin Where I Am - by Czeslaw Milosz - April/May 2002
Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life - by Alex Bellos - May 2002
Life: A User's Manual - by Georges Perec - April 2002
Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations - by Bruno Monsaingeon - March 2002
Emergence - by Steven Johnson - March 2002
The Corrections - by Jonathan Franzen - March 2002
Austerlitz - by WG Sebald - March 2002
Gravity's Rainbow - by Thomas Pynchon - December 2001 / March 2002
Journal: 1935-1944 - by Mihail Sebastian - December 2001 / March 2002
Books Read in 2001
Underworld - by Don DeLillo - November / December 2001
Mercy of a Rude Stream - by Henry Roth - October / November 2001
American Pastoral - by Philip Roth - October 2001
Eastern Approaches - by Fitzroy Maclean - September / October 2001
Godless Pilgrim - by Andrew Dowling - August 2001
Invisible Monsters - by Chuck Palahniuk - August 2001
The Great Food Gamble - by John Humphrys - July 2001
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 6 - Time Regained (woo hoo!) - by Marcel Proust - July 2001
The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville - July 2001
Dolce Vita by Iseult Teran - July 2001
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera - July 2001
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - June / July 2001
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 5 - The Captive / The Fugitive - by Marcel Proust - June 2001
The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin - June 2001
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski - June 2001
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman - May 2001
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 4 - Sodom and Gomorrah - by Marcel Proust - April/May 2001
Kitchen Confidential - by Anthony Bourdain - May 2001
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - by Carson McCullers - May 2001
Atomised (The Elementary Particles) - by Michel Houellebecq - May 2001
Extra Virgin by Annie Hawes - May 2001
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser - May 2001
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates - by Tom Robbins - April 2001
Goodbye to All That - by Robert Graves - April 2001
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 3 - The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust - March / April 2001
The Last Life by Claire Messud - March 2001
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field by Kary Mullis - March 2001
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 2 - Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust - February / March 2001
The Outsider (L'etranger) by Alfred Camus - February 2001
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan - February 2001
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1 - Swann's Way - by Marcel Proust - January / February 2001
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - by Dave Eggers - January 2001
The Last Samurai - by Helen DeWitt - January 2001
Books Read in 2000
Chocolat by Joanne Harris - December 2000
The Fly-Truffler by Gustaf Sobin - December 2000
Proust by Edmund White - December 2000
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlston - December 2000
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton - November / December 2000
Paris Journal: 1944-1955 by Janet Flanner - November 2000
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino - October / November 2000
Damascus Gate by Robert Stone - October 2000
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon - October 2000
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - September/October 2000
Tales from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - September 2000
The Gulag Archipelago: Vols 1 + 2 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn - September 2000
Paris Journal: 1956-1964 by Janet Flanner - August 2000
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton - August 2000
The Gift of Good Land by Wendell Berry - June/July 2000
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani - June 2000
The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger - June 2000
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee - June 2000
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway - May/June 2000
In Search of Duende by Federico Garcia Lorca - May 2000
The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck - May 2000
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster - May 2000
Microcosms by Claudio Magris - April, May 2000
The Shark Net by Robert Drewe - May 2000
Making a Life, Making a Living by Mark Albion - April 2000
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch - April 2000
If You Can Talk, You Can Write by Joel Saltzman - April 2000
Island Madness by Tim Binding - April 2000
Zen of Seeing by Frederick Franck - April 2000
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger - April 2000
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro - March 2000
Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future by Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows & Jorgen Randers - March 2000
An Unexpected Light: Journeys in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot - March 2000
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - February/March 2000
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov - January, February 2000
About a Boy by Nick Hornby - February 2000
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann - February 2000 (in Venice)
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden - February 2000
Ice-Candy-Man by Bapsi Sidhwa - January 2000
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester - January 2000
Last Orders by Graham Swift - January 2000
Karl Marx by Francis Wheen - January 2000
The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron - December 1999/January 2000
Books Read in 1999
The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson - December 1999
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - November/December 1999
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee - November 1999 - the Booker Prize winner
The Conversations at Curlow Creek by David Malouf - November 1999
A Small Place in Italy by Eric Newby - October 1999
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder - October 1999
Danziger's Britain: A Journey to the Edge by Nick Danziger - October 1999
Spain by Jan Morris - September 1999
Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart - August 1999
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby - July 1999
The Fearful Void by Geoffrey Moorhouse - July 1999
The Troubadours by Robert Briffault - June/July 1999
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman - June 1999
Beethoven by Maynard Solomon - May/June 1999
Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes - May 1999
Three Dollars by Elliot Perlman - May 1999
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth - April/May 1999
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks - April 1999
Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan - April 1999
Requiem by Graham Joyce - March/April 1999
Open Minds by Andy Law - March 1999
The Hungry Spirit by Charles Handy - March 1999
The Kiln by William McIlvanney - March 1999
Ulysses by James Joyce (Gabler) - January - March 1999
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James Joyce's Ulysses by Stuart Gilbert
The New Bloomsday Book (3rd ed.) by Harry Blamires
James Joyce: A Literary Life by Morris Beja
Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Michael Ignatieff - December 1998-January 1999
Books Read in 1998
Forty Stories by Anton Chekov - December 1998
Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz - December 1998
The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw - November/December 1998
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey - November 1998
The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greene by Marie-Francoise Allain - October/November 1998
The Practice of Writing by David Lodge - September, October 1998
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene - October 1998
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak - September/October 1998
Paul: The Mind of the Apostle by A.N. Wilson - September 1998
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West - June-September 1998
Midnight in Sicily by Peter Robb - August 1998
The Factory of Facts by Luc Sante - June 1998
Full Circle by Radek Sikorski - May 1998
The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry - April/May 1998
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes - April 1998
Quarantine by Jim Crace - April 1998
A Distant Mirror:The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman - January/Feburary 1998
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco - January 1998
The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies - January 1998
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy - December 1997/January 1998
Books Read in 1997
From Heaven Lake by Vikram Seth - December 1997
Christina Rossetti by Georgina Battiscombe - December 1997
Heart of Europe: A Short History of Poland by Norman Davies - November/December 1997
The Merry Heart by Robertson Davies - November 1997
Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene - October 1997
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee - October 1997
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi - October 1997
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres - September/October 1997
Dvorak in Love by Josef Skvorecky - September 1997
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey - August/September 1997
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis - August 1997
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth - August 1997
The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa - July 1997
A Year of the Hunter by Czeslaw Milosz - June/July 1997
A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler - June 1997
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell - June 1997
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve - June 1997
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin - May 1997
Guided Tours of Hell by Francine Prose - May 1997
The Dustbin of History by Greil Marcus - May 1997
The Hundred Thousand Fools of God by Theodore Levin - April/May 1997
The Riders by Tim Winton - April 1997
The Drowner by Robert Drewe - April 1997
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber by Nicholson Baker - March 1997
Madrid 1937 edited by Cary Nelson and Jefferson Hendricks - January 1997
Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez - January 1997
Books Read in 1996
The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha Glenny - December 1996 - January 1997
Doing Battle by Paul Fussell - December, 1996
Bliss by Peter Carey - November, 1996
How The Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill - November, 1996
Maus by Art Spiegelman- October, 1996
Speed Tribes by Karl Taro Greenfeld - October, 1996
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt - October, 1996
Forty-Seventeen by Frank Moorhouse - August, 1996
An Imaginary Life by David Malouf - August, 1996
Trainspotting by Irving Welsh - August, 1996
Australian Voices edited and compiled by Ray Willbanks - August, 1996
The Statement by Brian Moore - July/August, 1996
The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham - July, 1996
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell - July, 1996
The Gates of Damascus by Lieve Joris - July, 1996
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller - June, 1996
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry - June, 1996
Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi - June, 1996
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - June, 1996
The Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux - June, 1996
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie - May, 1996
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton - May, 1996
