I slowed down a bit from my earlier breakneck pace and also got… shall we say distracted by lots of shiny objects–the in-progress books below the list of finished books. Despite those intermissions, I’m still relatively on track for 50 this year. I’ll likely revisit this post and add mini-reviews or link each title to a longer reviews at some point in the near future.
Finished
- Cultural Amnesia – Clive James
- The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
- The Hamlet – William Faulkner
- The Dog Stars – Peter Heller
- Jayber Crow – Wendell Berry
- Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck
- The Sunset Limited – Cormac McCarthy
- Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
- Conscious- Annaka Harris
- The Red and the Black – Stendhal
- Extraterrestrial – Avi Loeb
- The Evolution of Desire – Cynthia L. Haven
- Never Enough – Judith Grisel
- Unmasked – Andy Ngo
- La Vérité sur l’Affaire Harry Quebert – Joel Dicker (the first and only book I’ve read entirely in French)
- The Revolt of the Public – Martin Guri
- The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
- Gun, With Occasional Music – Jonathan Lethem
- Klara and the Sun – Ishiguro Kazuo
- Live Not By Lies – Robert Dreher
- The Virtues of War -Steven Pressfield
- All About Love – bell hooks
- The Ghost Writer – Philip Roth
- The Price of Tomorrow – Jeff Booth
- A Thousand Brains – Jeff Hawkins
- The Comfort Crisis – Michael Easter
In-progress
- An Elegant Puzzle – Will Larson
- Postjournalism – Andrey Mir
- Battling to the End – René Girard
- Human Diversity – Charles Murray
- L’Élégance du hérisson – Muriel Barbery
- The Sovereign Individual – James Dale Davidson
- Baltasar and Blimunda – José Saramago
- The Courage to Be – Paul Tillich
- Novels, Tales, Journeys – Pushkin
- Falcoln Freeway – Christian Hagenlocher
- War and Peace and War – Peter Turchin
- Lila – Robert Pirsig
- The Language of Creation – Matthieu Pageau
- Hollow Kingdom – Kira Jane Buxton
- A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters – Julian Barnes
- Ducks, Newburyport – Lucy Ellman