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Books Read (2025-2017)

2025

• Light in August (1932) William Faulkner
• Patina: A Profane Archaeology (2016) Shannon Lee Dawdy
• A History of Canada in Ten Maps (2016) Adam Shoalts
• The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald (2025)
• History Matters (2025) David McCullough
• So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in the Age of Abundance (2003 -2nd edition 2025) Gabriel Zaid
• Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West (2025) Peter Cozzens
• The Serviceberry (2025) Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Best Swiss Train Rides (2025) Diccon Bewes
• Grendel (1971) John Gardner
• Is a River Alive? Robert McFarland
• A Journey to Western Islands of Scotland (1783) Samuel Johnson
• So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch (2019) Karl Ove Knausgaard
• The Magic Mountain (1924) Thomas Mann
• The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 (2025) Rick Atkinson
• Seeing Things: The Small Wonders of the World According to Writers, Artists and Others (202?) Julian Rothenstein (Ed.)
• The Pale King (2011) David Foster Wallace
• Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel (2023) Shahnaz Habib
• A Gardener at the End of the World (2024) Margot Anne Kelley
• Every Man for Himself and God Against All (2023) Werner Herzog
• Flight Path (2017) Hannah Parker
• The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories (1830-1849) Edgar Allan Poe
• Nightmares & Lullabies (2024) Ronald McGuire
• Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original (2022) Howard Bryant
• Billy Budd (1890) Herman Melville

The books highlighted in yellow made the coveted “Best Books Read in 2023” list.

Books Read 2021

Books Read 2020

• Diary of a Bookseller (2018) Shaun Bythell
• The Ageless Self: Sources of Meaning in Late Life (1986) Sharon R. Kaufman
• The Book of Salt (2003) Monique Truong
• The Denial of Death (1993) Ernest Becker
• Sleepless Nights (1979) Elizabeth Hardwick
• Pnin (1953) Vladimir Nabokov
• Beloved (1987) Toni Morrison
• Post Office: A Novel (1971) Charles Bukowski
• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017) Timothy Snyder
• Ripples of Battle (2003) Victor David Hanson
• Essayism: On Form, Feeling and Nonfiction (2017) Brian Dillon
• The Emigrants (1992) W.G. Sebald
• The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Finding America, Finding Myself (2008) Carl Tucker
• Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (1973) E. F. Schumacher
• Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016) Viet Thanh Nguyen

Number of books read 2017-2025 – 245 books