READING 2012
Attached is a list of the books I've read so far this year. Sometimes I
add markers like (*) to indicate books I particularly like. I also try
to keep track of how many books of a particular kind (novel, etc.) and
from a given country and century (Eng. 19th, etc.), I read each year.
Richard
Seltzer seltzer@samizdat.comwww.samizdat.com
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For
brief notes on others, see www.samizdat.com/readrev.html
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January
- 1 Chaucer 2 Troilus and Cressida (trans. by Morrison)
ENGLISH
14th 1 POETRY 1
- 2 Anonymous 1 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (trans. by
Borroff)
ENGLISH 14th 2 POETRY 2
- 3 Anonymous 2 Gilgamesh (trans. Ferry) SUMERIAN BC 1
POETRY
3
- 4 Umberto Eco 9 The Prague Cemetery ITALIAN 21st 1
NOVEL 1
- 5 Philippe Labro 1 ***Le Petit Garcon (en francais) FRENCH 20th 1
NOVEL
2
- 6 William Kennedy 6 The Flaming Corsage AMERICAN 20th
1
NOVEL
3
- 7 William James 8 **The Will to Believe AMERICAN 19th 1
PHILOSOPHY
1
- 8 Rene Goscinny 1 *Le Petit Nicolas (en francais) French 20th 2
NOVEL 4
- 9 Sir Walter Scott 7 Waverley volume 1 ENGLISH 19th 1 NOVEL 5
- 10 Sir Walter Scott 8 Waverley volume 2 ENGLISH 19th 2 NOVEL 6
February
- 11 Sir Walter Scott Guy Mannering (second time)
ENGLISH
19th
3 NOVEL 7
- 12 Sir Walter Scott 9 The Antiquary ENGLISH 19th 4 NOVEL 8
- 13 Sir Walter Scott 10 The Black Dwarf ENGLISH 19th 5 NOVEL 9
- 14 Sir Walter Scott 11 Legend of Montrose ENGLISH 19th 6 NOVEL 10
- 15 Matthew Pearl 4 The Technologists AMERICAN 21st 1 NOVEL
11
March
- 16 Eleni Gage 1 Other Waters AMERICAN 21st 2 NOVEL 12
- 17 Stephen Hawking 2 The Grand Design BRITISH 21st 1 SCIENCE 1
- 18 Suzanne Collins 1 The Hunger Games AMERICAN 21st 3 NOVEL 13
- 19 Suzanne Collins 2 Catching Fire AMERICAN 21st 4 NOVEL 14
- 20 Suzanne Collins 3 Mockingjay AMERICAN 21st 5 NOVEL 15
- 21 Roberta Kalechofsky 7 K'tia: a Savoior of the Jewish
People
AMERICAN
21st 6 SHORT STORIES 1
April
- 22 Leslie Daniels 1 Cleaning Nabokov's House AMERICAN 21st
7
NOVEL
16
- 23 P. D. James 7 Death Comes to Pemberley BRITISH 21st 2
NOVEL 17
- 24 Nancy Goldstone 1 Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who
Ruled
Europe AMERICAN 21st 7 HISTORY 1
- 25 Harry Mulisch 1 ***The Discover of Heaven DUTCH 20th 1 NOVEL 18
- 26 Alexander McCall Smith 16 ***The Limpopo Academy of Private
Detection BOTSWANA 21st 1 NOVEL 19
May
- 27 Sir Walter Scott 12 The Bride of Lammermoor
BRITISH 19th7 NOVEL 20
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