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
For reviews of some of these books, see http://www.samizdat.com/isyn/reviews.html
For
brief notes on others, see www.samizdat.com/readrev.html
For more on books and reading, see www.samizdat.com/readers.html
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 Discovery 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
- 28 E. L. James 1 Fifty Shades of Grey AMERICAN 21st 8 NOVEL 21
- 29 E. L. James 2 Fifty Shades Darker AMERICAN 21st 9 NOVEL 22
- 30 E. L. James 3 Fifty Shades Freed AMERICAN 21st 10 NOVEL 23
June
- 31 Robert Covelli 1 Black Sheep AMERICAN 21st 11 NOVEL 24
- 32 Luis Albero Urrea 1 ***Hummingbird's Daughter AMERICAN
21st
12 NOVEL 25
- 33 Chuck Klosterman 1 *The Visible Man AMERICAN 21st 13 NOVEL 26
- 34 David Bell 1 *Cemetery Girl AMERICAN 21st 14 NOVEL 27
- 35 Selden Edwards 1 ***The Little Book AMERICAN 21st 15
NOVEL 28
- 36 Felix Palma 1 **The Map of Time SPANISH 21xt 1 NOVEL 29
July
- 37 Michio Kaku 2 ***Physics of the Future AMERICAN 21st 16
SCIENCE 1
- 38 Harry Mulisch 2 *****The Assault DUTCH 20th 2 NOVEL 30
- 39 Byron 3 Childe Harold's Pilgraimage (second time) BRITISH 19th
8 POETRY 1
- 40 Steve Erickson 10 ***These Dreams of You AMERICAN
21st 17 NOVEL 31
- 41 Daniel Kahneman 1 ****Thinking Fast and Slow AMERICAN 21st 18
SCIENCE 2
- 42 Lev Grossman 1 The Magicians AMERICAN 21st 19 NOVEL 32
- 43 William Gaddis 3 ****JR AMERICAN 20th 2 NOVEL 33
- 44 George Sand 2 ***La Mare au Diable (en francais) FRENCH 19th 1
NOVEL 34
- 45 George Sand 3 **Francois le Champi (en francais) FRENCH 19th 2
NOVEL 35
- 46 William Kennedy 7 ****Very Old Bones AMERICAN 21st 20 NOVEL 36
- 47 William Kennedy 8 ***Cahngo's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes
AMERICAN 21st 21 NOVEL 37
- 48 Xenophon 3 An Ephesian Tale GREEK BC 1 NOVEL 38
- 49 Sir Walter Scott 13 Count Robert of Paris BRITISH
19th 9 NOVEL 39
August
- 50 Deborah Harkness 1 A Discovery of Witches AMERICAN 21st
21 NOVEL 40
- 51 Nora Ephron 1 I Feel Bad About My Neck AMERICAN 21st 22 ESSAYS
1
- 52 Carolyn See 1 [Terrible] Golden Days AMERICAN 20th 3 NOVEL 41
- 53 Sophie Hannah 1 [Terrible] The Wrong Mother AMERICAN 21st 23
NOVEL 42
- 54 Anatole France 3 Penguin Island FRENCH 20th 3 NOVEL 43
September
- 55 Deborah Harkness 2 Shadow of Night AMERICAN 21st 24 NOVEL 44
- 56 Thomas Mann 4 **Buddenbrooks (in English) GERMAN 20th 1 NOVEL
45
- 57 Mitch Albom 2 **The Time Keeper AMERICAN 21st 25 NOVEL 46
- 58 Stephen King 12 *****11/22/63 AMERICAN 21st 26 NOVEL 47
- 59 Jan-Philipp Sendker 1 *****The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
GERMAN 21st 1 NOVEL 48
- 60 Zadie Smith 4 NW BRITISH 21st 3 NOVEL 49
October
- 61 J.K. Rowling 8 *****The Casual Vacancy BRITISH 21st 4 NOVEL 50
- 62 Joshua Foer 1 *****Moonwalking with Einstein AMERICAN 21st 27
SCIENCE 3
- 63 Arthur Koestler *****The Sleepwalkers HUNGARIAN 20th 1
SCIENCE 4
- 64 Bob Seltzer 1 ****The Medusa Blogs (in manuscript) AMERICAN
21st 28 NOVEL 51
November
- 65 Tom Wolfe 3 **Back to Blood AMERICAN 21st 29 NOVEL 51
December [Barbara died December 4, 7:30 PM]
- 66 Joan Didion 2 ***The Year of Magical Thinking AMERICAN 21st 30
ESSAY 2
- 67 C. S. Lewis 6 A Grief Observed BRITISH 20th 1 ESSAY 3
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