Books Read July 4, 2006 to June 1, 2007

Submitted by n2lect2el on Tue, 07/11/2006 - 05:36
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  1. Everything's Eventual--Stephen King
  2. The Lighthouse--P. D. James
  3. Paranoia--Joseph Finder
  4. Lemons Never Lie--Richard Stark
  5. Ax--Ed McBain
  6. Touch--Elmore Leonard
  7. Might As Well Be Dead--Rex Stout
  8. Nerve--Dick Francis (Whose wife Mary probably wrote all his books)
  9. The Outfit--Richard Stark
  10. Sadie When She Died--Ed McBain
  11. You Live Once--John D. MacDonald
  12. Evil Under the Sun--Agatha Christie
  13. Bank Shot--Donald E. Westlake
  14. A Deadly Shade of Gold--John D. MacDonald
  15. The Hot Rock--Donald E. Westlake
  16. Cell--Stephen King
  17. The Ax--Donald E. Westlake
  18. Castle in the Air--Donald E. Westlake
  19. Fuzz--Ed McBain
  20. Alice In Jeopardy--Ed McBain
  21. Breakfast of Champions--Kurt Vonnegut
  22. Goldilocks--Ed McBain
  23. How To Raise Your Self-Esteem--Nathaniel Branden
  24. Galapagos--Kurt Vonnegut
  25. A Death in the Family--James Agee
  26. The Death of Nature--Carolyn Merchant
  27. Silent Spring--Rachel Carson
  28. What Painting Is--James Elkins
  29. The Ghost Writer--Philip Roth
  30. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek--Annie Dillard
  31. Bel Canto--Ann Patchett
  32. Hunger of Memory--Richard Rodriguez
  33. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom--August Wilson
  34. Asylums--Erving Goffman
  35. Fires in the Mirror--Anna Deavere Smith
  36. Selected Poems--Rita Dove
  37. The Mugger--Ed McBain
  38. The Black Echo--Michael Connelly
  39. Hit Parade--Lawrence Block
  40. Point Blank--Richard Stark
  41. Titan--John Varley
  42. Wizard--John Varley
  43. Ask the Parrot--Richard Stark
  44. Killer's Wedge--Ed McBain
  45. Lady Killer--Ed McBain
  46. Demon--John Varley
  47. The Truth About Stories--Thomas King
  48. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men--James Agee (with photos by Walker Evans)
  49. Storyteller--Leslie Marmon Silko
  50. Butcher's Moon--Richard Stark
  51. My People the Sioux--Luther Standing Bear
  52. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex--Nathaniel Philbrick
  53. Dreams and Thunder--Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin)
  54. The Hero With A Thousand Faces--Joseph Campbell
  55. Fools Crow--James Welch
  56. High Tide in Tucson--Barbara Kingsolver
  57. Walden and Civil Disobedience--Henry David Thoreau (4th time)
  58. The Grapes of Wrath (3rd time)
  59. Mean Spirit--Linda Hogan
  60. Treasure Island--Robert Louise Stevenson
  61. Moby Dick--Herman Melville (3rd time)
  62. Tracks--Louise Erdrich
  63. Silent Spring (2nd time--and yes, it is the second time this year. I'm teaching the book so I re-read it)
  64. The Toughest Indian in the World--Sherman Alexie
  65. Bullet for a Star--Stuart Kaminsky
  66. Enough Rope--Lawrence Block
  67. The Two Cultures--C. P. Snow
  68. Aspects of the Novel--E. M. Forster (2nd time)
  69. One Writer's Beginnings--Eudora Welty (2nt time)
  70. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek--Annie Dillard (2nd time--and yes, it is the second time this year. I'm teaching the book so I re-read it)
  71. The Painted Drum--Louise Erdrich
  72. Green Grass, Running Water--Thomas King
  73. Galapagos--Kurt Vonnegut (2nd time--and yes, it is the second time this year. I'm teaching the book so I re-read it)
  74. The Talisman--Stephen King and Peter Straub
  75. Vanishing Ladies--Ed McBain
  76. Pure Drivel--Steve Martin
  77. Cat's Cradle--Kurt Vonnegut
  78. The Heckler--Ed McBain
Author Comments: 

This list now ends with the moment I entered the "transition to teaching" program to become a high school teacher.