BOOKS

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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