Saturday, January 1, 2022

A Completely Unambitious Reading List for 2022 That I'm Sure I'll Finish and Then Some

 Henrich Graetz: History of the Jews (5 volumes...)

Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment (Peavar & Volkonsky trans.)

Will Durant: The Life of Greece


Tolstoy: War and Peace (Peavar & Volkonsky trans.)

Ferdinand Braudel: The Mediterranean

The Old Testament cover to cover: King James Version

Bolano: The Savage Detectives

Andrei Bely: Petersburg

Fielding: Tom Jones

Herodotus: Histories

Eric Hobsbawm: The Age of Revolution

H.C. Branner: The Man Who Knows No Night

Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury

Stendahl: The Red and the Black (never finished it...)

CLR James: The Black Jacobins

Hermann Broch: The Sleepwalkers

Jonathan Spence: The Search for Modern China

Balzac: Father Goriot (never finished it...)

Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War

Bulgakov: Master and Margarita (never finished it...)

Quinten Skinner: Liberty before Liberalism

Dickens: David Copperfield

Lucretius: On the Nature of Things (never finished it...)

Dino Buzzati: The Tartar Steppe

Keith Thomas: Religion and the Decline of Magic

E. Bronte: Wuthering Heights (believe it or not never read it...)

Plutarch: Lives

Hofstadter: The American Political Tradition (never finished it)

Calvino: Invisible Cities

Virgil: Aeneid

Eca de Quieros: The Mayas

Christopher Hill: The Century of Revolution

Bohumil Hrabal: Closely Observed Trains

Eliot: Middlemarch (adore it but actually never read it without skipping...)

Ovid: Metamorphosis

Cather: Song of the Lark

Gogol: Dead Souls (finish it)

Conrad: Nostromo (get through it finally and what I'm missing with Conrad...)

Robert Coover: The Public's Burning

Tony Judt: Postwar

Naguib Mahfouz: Cairo Trilogy (never finished it...)

New Testament: KJV

That's way more than enough for a year, don't you think?

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