The Reading List, 2011

Here is the list of books I read in 2011.  You can check out my top ten list here and my honorable mentions here.  I improved on my 2010 total but still fell far short of 100.  I will try again in 2012!

1. Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, January 2
2. The River War by Winston S. Churchill, January 5
3. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, January 9
4. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower, January 12
5. Of the Conduct of the Understanding by John Locke, January 16
6. Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse, January 22
7. A Boy’s Will by Robert Frost, January 27
8. Churchill: An Unruly Life by Norman Rose, February 1
9. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare, February 9
10. The Elements of Style by Strunk and White, February 17
11. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, February 20
12. Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche, February 22
13. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre, February 25
14. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, February 26
15. Dialogue on Good, Evil, and the Existence of God by John Perry, March 2
16. The New Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas F. Madden, March 4
17. Commentaries on the Gallic War by Julius Caesar, March 8
18. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, March 12
19. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, March 14
20. Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse, March 16
21. The Godfather by Mario Puzo, March 17
22. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, March 19
23. Arguing About War by Michael Walzer, March 28
24. Hamlet by William Shakespeare, March 30
25. My African Journey by Winston S. Churchill, April 1
26. The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche, April 8
27. True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway, April 20
28. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, April 22
29. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, April 25
30. The Sistine Secrets by Blech and Doliner, April 30
31. Freedom or Death by Nikos Kazantzakis, May 11
32. History of the Twentieth Century by Martin Gilbert, June 3
33. An Incomplete Education by Judy Jones and William Wilson, June 11
34. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill, June 15
35. Peter Camenzind by Hermann Hesse, June 17
36. Samson Agonistes by John Milton, June 23
37. Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis, July 3
38. Call For The Dead by John Le Carre, July 5
39. A Murder of Quality by John Le Carre, July 6
40. Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare, July 10
41. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy, July 15
42. Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare, July 16
43. Tainted Breeze by Richard B. McCaslin, July 18
44. Deliverance by James Dickey, July 21
45. Knulp by Hermann Hesse, July 21
46. The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Winston Churchill, July 25
47. Horns by Joe Hill, July 26
48. Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare, July 30
49. Richard III by William Shakespeare, July 31
50. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, July 31
51. Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco, August 8
52. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, August 12
53. Greek Lives by Plutarch, August 28
54. The Madman by Kahlil Gibran, August 28
55. Klingsor’s Last Summer by Hermann Hesse, September 5
56. Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard, September 18
57. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre, September 25
58. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, October 3
59. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, October 4
60. Walden by Henry David Thoreau, October 13
61. Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran, October 14
62. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, October 24
63. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, October 25
64. The World According to Garp by John Irving, October 30
65. Gertrude by Hermann Hesse, November 8
66. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, November 16
67. On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche, November 30
68. Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway, December 5
69. Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian, December 10
70. Post Captain by Patrick O’Brian, December 14
71. The Forerunner by Kahlil Gibran, December 16
72. HMS Surprise by Patrick O’Brian, December 20
73. The Road by Cormac McCarthy, December 22
74. The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway, December 23
75. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, December 25