Reading Lists 2014, 2013, 2012

I've done a lot of reading in my life and it wasn't so long ago that I supposed that I had read pretty much all I was ever going to read or need to know about; however, this wasn't always the case. I read constantly starting beginning when I was in elementary school, but only when I was 15 did I start to read great literature. From 1987 to 1997, which extends from my high school years to when I finished graduate school, my favorite authors were Henry Miller, Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky. I did not read much at all from 1998 to 2008, the period of my work-life. I would only read one or two books a year, as my double-vision caused me great difficulties. This email is my opportunity to give you a list of the books I read in 2014. They are as follows: [JANUARY] Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery [logic] Henry James, The Bostonians [Literature] Graham Greene, The Orient Express [modern fiction] Henry James, The Europeans [Literature] Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana [modern fiction] Henry James, "Daisy Miller" [Literature] Walter Kaufmann, Hegel: Text and Commentary [philosophy] Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak [philosophy] [JUNE] Jacques Lacan, Ecrits [psychology] James Baldwin, Collected Essays [essays] Karl Marx, The Marx-Engels Reader [social theory] Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory [modern fiction] Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles [Literature] Henry James, Washington Square [Literature] Emile Zola, The Earth [Literature] Carl Gustav Jung, Selected Writings [psychology] Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace [Literature] Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart [essays] [OCTOBER] Roger Scruton, A Very Short Introduction to Kant [philosophy] Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny [psychology] Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science [philosophy] Carl Gustav Jung, The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease [psychology] Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy [philosophy] Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure [Literature] Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution [philosophy] Robert C. Tucker, Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above (1929-1939) (history) Herman Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall Street" [Literature] Knut Hamsun, Pan [Literature] Bertrand Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism [sociology] Romaine Rolland, The Life of Michelangelo [biography] August Strindberg, Inferno [Literature] John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism [philosophy] William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking [philosophy] D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love [Literature] Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species [science] Leo Tolstoy, The Power of Darkness [play] Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet [Literature] Henry James, The Ambassadors [Literature] Anton Chekhov, The Seagull [play] Honore de Balzac, Sarrasine [Literature] In 2009 my friend Jeremy Good began annoying me by saying I should start reading 'with a purpose' again. About that time I started reading one book per month. Jeremy also insisted that I begin using Goodreads (on the web) to catalogue the books I finished. I moved from New Jersey to Massachusetts in 2010, and finally settled into my permanent apartment in the Fall of 2011. From that time until last June I would spend my days in my bedroom doing nothing except listening to music and then I would read while sitting at a folding-table in my living room from 6 PM to 8 PM. But something happened last summer -- I began reading in the early afternoon, at about 2 PM. Then another friend, this time Justin Heiferman, encouraged me to begin reading books online, which I did starting in October 2014. Soon I was reading physical books from 2 PM to 8 PM and then reading online from 8 PM to 11:30 PM. I found that I could read four or more books per month! My new favorite authors are D.H. Lawrence and Zola -- I plan to read a lot more of their work in 2015. Thank you for reading this message. Best wishes, Andrew B. Noselli ==================================================================================== Reading List 2013: Michel Foucault, The Archeology of Knowledge [Philosophy] John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath [Literature] Chaim Potok, I Am the Clay [Literature] Knut Hamsun, The Growth of the Soil [Literature] Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus [Literature] D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers [Literature] Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter [Literature] William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience [Psychology] John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men [Literature] James Baldwin, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone [Literature] Herman Melville, Typee [Literature] Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls [Literature] Graham Greene, A Burnt Out Case [Literature] Stendhal, The Red and the Black [Literature] Graham Greene, The Third Man [Literature] Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund [Literature] Maxim Gorky, Fragments from My Diary [Literature] Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education [Literature] ================================================================================= Reading List 2012: Graham Greene, England Made Me [Literature] D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow [Literature] Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song [Literature] W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage [Literature] Franz Kafka, Amerika [Literature] Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead [Literature]