Haven't updated the reading list in a while. Been reading some. Looking over this, it strikes me as fairly insubstantial. It is true however that I read a good bit of philosophy the first half of the year which I did not add to the list because it was my second time through it for teaching purposes. Not much academic nonfiction these days. A mixed blessing that. I spend an inordinate amount of time as of late reading about politics in dailies and magazines. Surely this is a sign that I am getting old.
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy--fiction
Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game by William Kennedy--fiction
Waltzing through the Endtime by David Bottoms--poetry
Legs by William Kennedy--fiction
The Circus in Winter by Cathy Day--fiction
Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure by Paul Auster--nonfiction
Letters From New Orleans by Rob Walker--nonfiction
In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat by Rick Atkinson--nonfiction
Harry Potter and the Mountains of Moolah by Some Rich English Broad--fiction
Them: Adventures With Extremists by Jon Ronson--nonfiction
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane--fiction
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon--fiction
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem--fiction
The Bottom of the Harbor by Joseph Mitchell--nonfiction
Old Mr. Flood by Joseph Mitchell--fiction
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck--fiction
The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck--fiction
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck--fiction
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq--fiction
The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers--fiction
Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes--nonfiction
A History of Western Philosophy vol.2 by W.T. Jones chapters 1-4--nonfiction
Why Dogs Chase Cars by George Singleton--fiction
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell--fiction
Selections from Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, The Republic--nonfiction
"Education Through Violence" from A History of Western Philosophy vol.1 by W.T. Jones--nonfiction
"Consolation for Unpopularity" from The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain De Botton--nonfiction
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson—fiction
