Wednesday, December 22, 2010

A Year in Reading

January

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
California Deserts: An Ecological Rediscovery by Richard M. Pavlick
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov
Red by Terry Tempest Williams

February 

Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
Goodbye, Columbus by Phillip Roth
Best American Short Stories 2009
Best American Essays 2009

March
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

April-May 

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

June


Sorta Like a Rock Star by Matthew Quick
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

July


A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Rabbit Redux by John Updike

August


Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
American Pastoral by Phillip Roth
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The Centaur by John Updike

September 


A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert (Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum)
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy

October 


The Odyssey by Homer
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy (reread)
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy

November 


The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

December


Light in August by William Faulkner
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

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