Wednesday, January 20, 2021

BOOKS

GET
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

ORDERED

HAVE
John D. MacDonald, The Deep Blue Good-By
Flannery O'Connor, Good Things Out of Nazareth
Matthew Zoller Seitz, The Oliver Stone Experience

UNFINISHED
Ace Atkins, Someone To Watch Over Me
Bono, Surrender (Allen Desnoyers)
Bob Dylan, the Philosophy of Modern Song
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom The Bell Tolls 
Margaret Mitchell, The Sleeve Should Be Illegal

FINISHED
Boy A, Jonathan Trigell (Jun 2023)
Sam Wasson, The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood (Jun 2023)
P.D. James, The Children of Men (Mar 2023, reread)
Christopher Dickey, Innocent Blood (Feb 2023)
A.S. Fleischman, Blood Alley (Feb 2023)
Daniel Woodrell, Tomato Red 
Daniel Woodrell, Winter's Bone
Johann Hari, Stolen Focus (Sep 2022)
Emmanuel Carrére, The Kingdom (Sep 2022)
Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (2022)

Roger Bennett, (Re)Born in the USA (2021)
Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee 
Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
Tara Westover, Educated

Orson Scott Card, The Folk of the Fringe (2020)
David Brin, The Postman (2020)
John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (2020)
John Christopher, The Death of Grass (2020, inc.)
Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon (2020)
Peter Heller, The Dog Stars (2020)
Jim Harrison, Legends of the Fall (2020)
James Shapiro, The Year of Lear (2020)

Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (2018)
Marilyn Robinson, Gilead (Jan 2017)

William Finnegan, Barbarian Days (2016)

Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer 
Robert Farrar Capon, Kingdom, Grace, Judgment
Michael Lewis, Moneyball

Bruce Cockburn, Rumours of Glory (2014)
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood (2013, re-read)
Humphrey Carpenter, The Inklings (2012)
Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography (2012)
C.S. Lewis, The Collected Letters, Volume II (2012)

The Hunger Games (Jun 2012)

The Great Movies III (2011)
W.H. Vanstone, The Stature of Waiting
Andrew Vachss, The Getaway Man
Sharp Teeth (May 2008)
The Great Movies II (2006)

John Knowles, A Separate Peace (2005 reread)
J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye (2005 partial reread)

Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One (2004)
The Hidden God: Film and Faith (2003/04, MoMA)
Robert Jewett, Saint Paul Returns to the Movies
Roger Ebert, The Great Movies I
Pauline Kael

Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow (2001)
Nick Hornby, How To Be Good (2001)
William Raeper, George MacDonald (2000)
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)

Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies (1999)
Annie Dillard, For The Time Being (1999)
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief
John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman (1998)
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997)

Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day 
Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat The Small Stuff (Jan 1997)
Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul (1996)
Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life (1996)
Mihaly Csikszentmilahyi, Finding Flow 
Robert Bly, Iron John (1990)

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1993)
Garrison Keillor, The Book of Guys (1993)
John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (1993, Thetis Family Camp)
Douglas Coupland, Life After God (1993)
Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire (1992)
P.D. James, Children of Men (1992)

Jack Chambers, Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis
Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe, Miles: The Autobiography 
Anne Tyler, Saint Maybe

Leonard Maltin's TV Movies and Video Guide, 1989 Edition (1989)
James Dickey, Deliverance
Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven
The Floatplane Notebooks (1988)
David Mamet, Writing In Restaurants 
Mark Lewisohn, The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions

William Gibson, Count Zero, Neuromancer, Burning Chrome (1988)
Annie Dillard, The Living (1992)
Annie Dillard, An American Childhood (1987)
M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled (1987)
Robert B. Parker, the Spenser novels

Roger Angell, The Summer Game
Thomas Boswell, Why Time Begins On Opening Day
Ken Burns, Baseball
David James Duncan, The Brothers K
Charles Einstein, The Baseball Reader
Roger Kahn, Good Enough to Dream
John Thorn, The Armchair Book of Baseball
W.P. Kinsella, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (1986)
W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe (1986)

William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
Holy The Firm
Annie Dillard, Teaching A Stone To Talk 
Jack Hodgins, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne
Philip Norman, Shout (1984/85)
Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat
Frederick Buechner, The Book of Bebb (1984)
Frederick Buechner, Telling The Truth (1984)

Stanislaw Lem, The Investigation
Madeleine L'Engle books
Raymond Chandler, The Raymond Chandler Omnibus, etc. (1983)

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Book One (1982)
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory (1981)
J. Paterson Smyth, A People's Life of Christ
Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy
Charles Williams, Descent Into Hell
Stuart Jackman, The Davidson Affair
G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown (1978)

Richard Adams, Watership Down (1976)
Robert Pirsig, Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1976)
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Viktor Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings 
William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist (1973)
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

John Knowles, A Separate Peace
Thomas Tryon, The Other
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
Alfred Hitchcock, Stories That Scared Even Me
Kenneth Robeson, Doc Savage series

C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
Freddy the Pig
Henry Reed, Inc.
Homer Price
The Thinking Machine
Edgar Allen Poe