Saturday, January 06, 2018

Reading List 2017

Reading List 2017 Honore de Balzac - Cousin Bette - Literature - 470 pages ; Yoshida Kenko - Essays in Idleness - Philosophy - 140 pages ; Honore de Balzac - Cousin Pons - Literature - 330 pages ; Aristotle - Politics - Philosophy - 280 pages ; Henry James - 'The Turn of the Screw' & 'The Aspern Papers' - Literature - 240 pages ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile: Or, On Education - Philosophy - 520 pages ; Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space - Philosophy - 275 pages ; D.H. Lawrence - Three Novellas: The Fox / The Captain's Doll / The Ladybird - Literature - 222 pages ; Fyodor Dostoevsky - Great Short Works of F. Dostoevsky - Literature - 740 pages ; Soren Kierkegaard - Either/Or - Philosophy - 633 pages ; Emile Zola - Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Rome, Paris - Literature - 1760 pages ; Alfred Adler - What Life Could Mean to You - Psychology - 200 pages ; Henry James - The Golden Bowl - Literature - 585 pages ; C. G. Jung - Symbols of Transformation - Psychology - 460 pages ; Sigmund Freud - Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious - Psychology - 170 pages [Hardcover] ; Maxim Gorky - Mother - Literature - 135 pages ; Sigmund Freud - "The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement" - Essay - 60 pages ; Herman Melville - Israel Potter - Literature - 190 pages [Hardcover] ; R.D. Laing - The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness - Psychology - 240 pages ; Sigmund Freud - Totem and Taboo - Psychology - 125 pages [Hardcover] ; Herman Melville - "Billy Budd, Sailor" - Novella - 80 pages [Hardcover] ; Leo Tolstoy - Childhood, Boyhood, Youth - Literature - 260 pages (incomplete?) ; Maxim Gorky - My Childhood - Literature - 240 pages ; Anton Chekhov - The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories - Literature - 150 pages (the edition sold on Amazon is much longer!) ; Honore de Balzac - Old Goriot - Literature - 300 pages ; Emile Zola - Therese Raquin - Literature - 200 pages ; Jack Kerouac - On the Road - Literary Fiction - 300 pages ; Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason - Philosophy - 165 pages ; Anton Chekhov - The Wife and Other Stories - Literature - 150 pages ; Vladimir Nabokov - Speak, Memory - Literary Memoir - 310 pages ; Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection - Literature - 525 pages ; Leo Tolstoy - The Kingdom of God is Within You - Religion - 280 pages ; Leo Tolstoy - The Gospel in Brief - Religion - 125 pages ; Leo Tolstoy - A Confession - Religion - 100 pages ; Leo Tolstoy - "'Christianity and Patriotism' & 'Reason and Religion'" - Essays - 60 pages ; Leo Tolstoy - "Why Do People Stupefy Themselves?" - Essay - 30 pages ; Leo Tolstoy - Spiritual Works - Various Essays - 80 pages ; Marcel Proust - Within a Budding Grove - Literature - 730 pages ; Herbert Spencer - "The Philosophy of Style" - Essay - 48 pages Charles Darwin - The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex - Science - 800 pages ; Thomas Hardy - Wessex Tales - Literature - 225 pages ; Anton Chekhov - About Love and other stories - Literature - 125 pages ; C.G. Jung - Psychology and Religion: West and East - Psychology - 608 pages ; Immanuel Kant - Critique of the Power of Judgement - Philosophy - 300 pages ; Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Insulted and the Injured - Literature - 345 pages ; Henry Miller - Sexus - Literature - 500 pages ; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics - Philosophy - 250 pages ; John Dos Passos - The 42nd Parallel - Literature - 335 pages ; William Dean Howells - The Rise of Silas Lapham - Literature - 400 pages ; Friedrich Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morals - Philosophy - 200 pages ; D.H. Lawrence - The Complete Short Stories, Volume 3 - Literature - 260 pages ; Anton Chekhov - The Witch and other stories - Literature - 150 pages ; Hannah Arendt - Between Past and Future - Philosophy - 300 pages ; Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation, Volume 1 - Philosophy - 570 pages ; Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation, Volume 2 - Philosophy - 500 pages ; Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation, Volume 3 - Philosophy - 487 pages ; John Dos Passos - 1919 - Literature - 380 pages ; Karl Barth - God Here and Now - Theology - 132 pages ; Sigmund Freud - The Ego and the Id - Psychology - 85 pages ; Sigmund Freud - Moses and Monotheism - Psychology - 170 pages ; Walter Kaufmann - Critique of Religion and Philosophy - 450 pages ; Paul Tillich - The Courage to Be - Philosophy of Religion - 190 pages ; John Dewey - Democracy and Education - Philosophy - 300 pages ; Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet - Literature - 80 pages ; Thomas Mann - Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories - Literature - 400 pages ; Martin Buber - I and Thou - Religion - 185 pages ; Martin Heidegger - Poetry, Language, Thought - Philosophy - 245 pages ; Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America - Philosophy - 990 pages ; John Dos Passos - The Big Money - Literature - 450 pages ; Viktor E. Frankel - Man's Search for Meaning - Philosophy - 160 pages ; Emile Zola - L'Assommmoir - Literature - 500 pages ; Carl G. Jung - Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Psychology - 220 pages ; George Steiner - Tolstoy or Dostoevsky - Literary Criticism - 350 pages ; Milton Friedman - Capitalism and Freedom - Economics - 200 pages ; Marcel Proust - The Guermantes Way - Literature - 820 pages ; I read as much as possible last year; I don't think I can beat the total number of pages read in 2018, but I'll try! ============== TOTAL PAGES READ - 25,460