Tuesday, January 05, 2010

2009 Reads

JANUARY
1. Silas Marner by George Eliot
2. River of Doubt:Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
3. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
4. "Civil Disobedience" by Thoreau
5. Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
6. A History of US: Liberty for All?
7. "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
8. Papa's Wife
9. Job
10. Song of Solomon
11. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
FEBRUARY
12. Reflections on the Life of the Spirit13. The Twin Manifestations
14. Walden
15. Ecclesiastes
16. No Exit
by Sartre
17. St. Joan by Bernard Shaw
18. Our Town by Thornton Wilder
19. Long Day's Journey into Night by O'Neill
MARCH
20. A Streetcar Named Desire
21. The Misery of Job & the Mercy of God
22. Mudhouse Sabbath
23. Murder in the Cathedral
24. Sartre in 90 Minutes
25. Death of a Salesman
26. Waiting for Godot
27. Uncle Tom's Cabin
28. The Blessing of Friendship
29. Equus
30. War, Terrible War: A History of US
31. 1 Chronicles
32. Proverbs
33. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
APRIL34. "The Telltale Heart"
35. "The Raven"
36. Battle Cry of Freedom
37. Obadiah
38. Jonah
39. A History of US: Reconstructing America40. "Bartleby,the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"
41. Joel
MAY
42. Les Miserables
43. Amos
44. Hosea
45. Confessions of Rousseau
46. 2 Chronicles
47. Final Harvest: Poems of Emily Dickinson (parts)
48. The Courtship of Miles Standish by Longfellow
49. The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow
50. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus (Avila)
JUNE

51. Souls of Black Folk by DuBois
52. Greek Lives by Plutarch
52. The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
53. Roman Lives by Plutarch
JULY
54. City of God by Augustine
55. Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe (7.5)
56. Isaiah
57. The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
58. The Greater Chronicle
59. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
60. Psalms
61. Micah
62. Nahum
AUGUST

63. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
64. Zephaniah
65. My Life in France
66. Wesley the Owl (very cute)
67. Julie and Julia (only got to p. 95)
68. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
69. Leaves of Grass (selections) by Whitman
70. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar(selections)
71. Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays (selections)
73. The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (selections)
74. The Voice of the Poet: Allen Ginsberg (selections) YUCK!
75. Selected Poems by Rita Dove
76. Otherwise: New and Selected Poems by Jane Kenyon
77/78. The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: Volumes 1 & 2 (selections)
79. The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems by Robert Pinsky (selections)
80. Selected Poems by Mark Strand
81. Allen Ginsberg Poetry Collection (selections)
82. Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970 by Adrienne Rich (selections)
83. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (selections)
84. The Voice of the Poet: Sylvia Plath (selections)
85. The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath (selections)
86. Selected Poems of Ezra Pound (selections)
87. The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
88. Selected Poems of John Donne
SEPTEMBER

89. Much Ado About Nothing
90. The Perfect Leader
91. What I Thought I Knew
92. Jeremiah
93. Lamentations
94. Habbakuk
OCTOBER

95. Daniel
96. Wuthering Heights (Book Dames)
97. Haggai
98. The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
NOVEMBER

99. Ezekiel
100. Letters by a Modern Mystic by Frank Laubach (favorite!)
101. As You Like It
102. Zechariah
I read sections of 103-115 since October 2008:
103. Be Restored: 2 Samuel & 1 Chronicles
104. Be Distinct: 2 Kings & 2 Chronicles
105. Be Patient: Job
106. Be Skillful: Proverbs
107. Be Satisfied: Ecclesiastes
108. Be Comforted: Isaiah
109. Be Decisive: Jeremiah
110. Be Reverent: Ezekiel
111. Be Resolute: Daniel
112. Be Concerned: Amos, Obadiah, Micah, Zephaniah
113. Be Heroic: Haggai, Zechariah, Ezra
114. Be Amazed: Hosea, Joel, Jonah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Malachi
115. Be Determined: Nehemiah
116. Malachi (Done with the Old Testament!)
117. The Bible Knowledge Commentary: OT by Walvoord and Zuck
DECEMBER

118. The Divine Conspiracy (finally!)
119. Matthew (in the New Testament now!!)
120. Mark
121. Luke
122. John

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