Books Read July 4, 2004 to July 4, 2005

Submitted by n2lect2el on Sun, 09/04/2005 - 01:06
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  1. Mystic River--Dennis Lehane
  2. The Moviegoer--Walker Percy
  3. A Family Affair--Rex Stout
  4. The Naked and the Dead--Norman Mailer
  5. The Idiot's Guide to Eastern Philosophy--Jay Stevenson
  6. Lady Chatterly's Lover--D.H. Lawrence
  7. Awakening to the Sacred--Lama Surya Das
  8. The Da Vinci Code--Dan Brown
  9. Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft --Natalie Goldberg
  10. Siddhartha--Herman Hesse
  11. Peace is Every Step--Thich Nhat Hanh
  12. The War of Art--Steven Pressfield
  13. Lord of the Flies--William Golding
  14. Catch 22--Joseph Heller
  15. Slaughterhouse Five--Kurt Vonnegut (2nd time)
  16. The Idiot’s Guide to Meditation--Jean Budilovsky and Eve Adamson
  17. Descent of Man--T. C. Boyle
  18. Greasy Lake--T. C. Boyle
  19. If the River Was Whiskey--T.C. Boyle
  20. Without a Hero--T.C. Boyle
  21. The Bluest Eye--Toni Morrison
  22. The Last Battle--C.S. Lewis
  23. Nightmare in Pink--John D. Macdonald
  24. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes--Arthur Conan Doyle
  25. The Aenid--Virgil
  26. The Woman Warrior--Maxine Hong Kingston (2nd time)
  27. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes--Arthur Conan Doyle
  28. The Dark Tower--Stephen King (Sept 25)
  29. The White Album--Joan Didion (9-27)
  30. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love--Raymond Carver
  31. This Boy's Life--Tobias Wolff
  32. The Things They Carried--Tim O'Brien
  33. Middle Passage--Charles Johnson
  34. Nobody Runs Forever--Richard Stark
  35. The Return of Sherlock Holmes--Arthur Conan Doyle
  36. The Highly Sensitive Person--Elaine N. Aron
  37. Bleak House--Charles Dickens
  38. The Hound of the Baskervilles--Arthur Conan Doyle
  39. The Shrinking Man--Richard Matheson
  40. Letting go of the Person You Used to Be--Lama Surya Das
  41. Prey--Michael Crichton
  42. The Last Juror--John Grisham
  43. The Damsel--Richard Stark
  44. Lonesome Dove--Larry McMurtry
  45. Sister Carrie--Theodore Dreiser
  46. Winesburg, Ohio--Sherwood Anderson
  47. Daisy Miller--Henry James
  48. The Portrait of a Lady--Henry James
  49. The House of Mirth--Edith Wharton
  50. Dracula--Bram Stoker
  51. The Writing Life--Annie Dillard
  52. The Turn of the Screw--Henry James (2nd time)
  53. A Modern Instance--William D. Howells
  54. Hard Freeze--Dan Simmons
  55. Time Stops for No Mouse--Michael Hoeye
  56. Conflict, Action and Suspense--William Noble
  57. How to Meditate--Lawrence Leshan
  58. The Age of Innocence--Edith Wharton
  59. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--Mark Twain (2nd time)
  60. The Souls of Black Folk--W. E. B. Du Bois
  61. The Awakening--Kate Chopin (2nd. time)
  62. One Hundred Years of Solitude--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  63. The Last Enchantment--Mary Stewart
  64. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest--Ken Kesey
  65. The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching--Thich Nhat Hanh
  66. The Red Badge of Courage--Stephen Crane (2nd time)
  67. The Prize--Daniel Yergin
  68. Codependent No More--Melodie Beattie
  69. New Essays on The House of Mirth--Deborah Esch (ed.)
  70. Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth: A Casebook-- Carol J. Singley (ed.)
  71. Everything’s an Argument With Readings--Andrea A. Lunsford (ed.)
  72. Thus Spoke Zarathustra--Frederick Nietzsche
  73. Anthology of American Literature Vol. 2--George McMichael (ed.)
  74. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy--David D. Burns
  75. Ten Days to Self-Esteem--David D. Burns
  76. The Miracle of Mindfulness--Thich Nhat Hanh
  77. Teach Yourself: Buddhism--Clive Erricker
  78. A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation--Paramananda
  79. The Zen Path Through Depression--Philip Martin
  80. The Mythic Image--Joseph Campbell
  81. Living Buddha, Living Christ--Thich Nhat Hanh
  82. Winter's Tale--Mark Helprin
  83. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay--Michael Chabon
  84. A Purple Place for Dying--John D. MacDonald
  85. The Quick Red Fox--John D. MacDonald
  86. Zen in the Art of Archery-- Eugen Herrigel
  87. Setting--Jack M. Bickham
  88. Long Quiet Highway--Natalie Goldberg
  89. A Bullet for Cinderella--John D. MacDonald
  90. Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind--Shunryu Suzuki
  91. Dr. Jeckel and Mr. Hyde--Robert Louis Stevenson
  92. The Cosmic Puppets--Philip K. Dick
  93. Seeing in the Dark--Timothy Ferris
  94. A Chosen Faith--John Buehrens and Forrest Church
  95. The Tao of Star Wars--John M. Porter
  96. The Dharma of Star Wars-- Matthew Bortolin
  97. A Wizard of Earthsea--Ursula K. Le Guin
  98. Pudd'nhead Wilson--Mark Twain
  99. The Tombs of Atuan--Ursula K. Le Guin
  100. The Farthest Shore--Ursula K. Le Guin
  101. From a Buick 8--Stephen King
  102. Pagan Babies--Elmore Leonard
  103. The Eye of the Sybil (Collected Stories Volume 5)--Philip K. Dick
  104. Cry Hard, Cry Fast--John D. MacDonald
  105. A Walk in the Woods--Bill Bryson
  106. On the Run--John D. MacDonald
  107. Jonathan Livingston Seagull--Richard Bach
  108. The Bat Poet--Randall Jarrell
  109. Plato in 90 Minutes--Paul Strathern
  110. The Spirit Level--Seamus Heaney
Author Comments: 

This was probably my best year of reading and it will probably remain my best year for a while.