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Auditing the Books (2019 review)

2/11/2020

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 Again, I will list the books I've read and the books I've "read" this past year. Most of these are in the audio"book" format. I spent a lot of this calendar year commuting to various universities where I was an adjunct. I also watch our youngest son, and so to get some peace and quiet, I opt to wash dishes while Megan gives the boys their baths and catches up with them. This gives me some extra time with the headphones. 
1.) Francine Prose: Reading Like a Writer
2.) David Brooks: The Road to Character
3.) Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake
4.) " The Year of the Flood
5.) "  Madd Addam
6.) " The Heart Goes Last
7.) Frank Herbert: Dune
8.) " Dune Messiah
9.) " Children of Dune
10.) " God Emperor of Dune
11.) Phillip Pullman: The Golden Compass
12.) " The Subtle Knife
13.) " The Amber Spyglass
14.) William Gibson: Pattern Recognition *
15.) " Spook Country
16.) " Zero History
17.) Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo
18.) Victor Hugo: Les Miserables
19.) Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea
20.) " The Tombs of Atuan
21.) Haruki Murakami: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage
22.) " After the Quake 
23.) " Men Without Women 
24.) " After Dark
25.) " Hear the Wind Sing
26.) " Pinball, 1973
27.) " The Elephant Vanishes
28.) " Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
29.) " 1Q84
30.) Gene Wolfe: The Land Across
31.) Jeff Hirsch: Sovereign (it was free with Audible)
32.) Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
33.) Dostoevski: Crime and Punishment
34.) " The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
35.) " Notes From the Underground
36.) " Devils
37.) Neal Stephenson and J. Fredreick George: Interface
38.) Neal Stephenson: Fall
39.) Robert McKee: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
40.) Alfred Besters: The Stars My Destination
41.) Mark Kurlansky: Salt: A Natural History
42.) H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
43.) Madeline L'engle: A Wrinkle in Time
44.) Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Skin in the Game
45:) " Antifragile
46.) Herman Melville: Billy Bud, Sailor
47.) Malcom Gladwell: What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
48.) H.G. Wells: The Island of Doctor Moreau
49.) Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
50.) William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying
51.) Lemony Snicket: The Bad Beginning (It was recommended to read with Thomas, and I decided to check up on it to so see if we should read it. Yeah...Probably sometime)
52.) Sylvain Neuvel: Sleeping Giants
53.) " Waking Gods
54.) " Only Human
55.) Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Princess of Mars
56.) " The Gods of Mars
57.) " The Warlord of Mars
58.) " Thuvia, Maid of Mars
59.) " The Chessmen of Mars
60.) Jeff VanderMeer: Annihilation (I think this is the best of the Southern Reach trilogy)
61.) " Authority
62.) " Acceptance 
63.) " Borne (I think I like this best of the four VanderMeer books I listened to)
64.) Austin Grossman: Soon I Will Be Invincible
65.) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Classic Sci-Fi Stories
66.) Robert Heinlein: Have Space Suit, Will Travel
67.) Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find (and Other Stories)
68.) Neil Gaiman: American Gods
69.) Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics *
70.) Mill: Utilitarianism *
71.) Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals *
72.) Dante: Inferno (Translation by Anthony Esolen)*
73.) Marshal McLuhan and Quinton Fiore: The Medium is the Massage *
74.) Graham Greene: The End of the Affair *
75.) Kierkegaard: The Present Age (not quite a book, I realize) *
76.) Augustine: Enchiridion  *
77.) Cicero: On Obligations *
78.) Corinda: Thirteen Steps to Mentalism *
79.) C.S. Lewis: The Great DIvorce
80.) " The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe * +
81.) " Prince Caspian * +
82.) " The Voyage of the Dawn Treader * +
83.) " The Silver Chair * +
84.) " The Horse and His Boy * +
85.) " The Magician's Nephew * +
86.) " The Last Battle * +
87.) " The Screwtape Letters * ^ %
88.) " The Four Loves
89.) " Miracles
90.) " Out of the Silent Planet 
91.) " Perelandra
92.) " That Hideous Strength 

93.) J.R.R. Tolkien: The Fellowship of the Ring  * +
94.) " The Two Towers
95.) " The Return of the King %
96.) Brian Selznick: The Invention of Hugo Cabret * +
97.) Ted Chiang: Exhalation %

98.) Herman Melville: Moby Dick (re-listen)%
99.)  Kenneth Greene: The Wind in the Willows * +
100.) Eiji Yoshikawa: Musashi 
101.) David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas 

% = indicates a book that I was in the middle of reading when the somewhat arbitrary marker of the new year occurred.

* Indicates that the medium was an actual book (rather than, say, an audio "book")
+ Indicates that the book was read aloud as part of our family's bedtime reading
^ Indicates that the book was read aloud with Megan.
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