I pulled the plug on television at the end of 1992, which leaves plenty of time for reading.
This is a list of all the books I’ve finished between January 2010 and today.
Generally, I enjoy reading books that most others would not consider reading.
0.0 = the amount in percentage of these titles which I consumed on iPad, eBook, Kindle, Nook, tablet or similar soul-sucking, society-destroying devices.
BURN. YOUR. KINDLE.
Books Read, 2021: 8
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
& Other Stories
Flannery O'Connor
1955 - FictionThe Long March
William Styron
1952 - FictionThe Optimist’s Daughter
Eudora Welty
1972 - LiteratureLolita
Vladimir Nabokov
1955 - LiteratureAround The World In Eighty Days
Jules Verne
1873 - FictionCitizen Tom Paine
Howard Fast
1943 - HistorySomething Deeply Hidden
Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
Sean Carroll
2019 - PhysicsA Confederacy Of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
1980 - Literature
Books Read, 2020: 48
The Landscape Of History
How Historians Map The Past
John Lewis Gaddis
2002 - HistorySecond Chance
Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower
Zbigniew Brzezinski
2007 - Foreign Affairs & Political ScienceThe Culture of Time and Space
1880–1918
Stephen Kern
1983 - Technology & Social ScienceMovies For The Millions
An Account of Motion Pictures, Principally in America
Gilbert Seldes
1937 - Cinema StudiesPortnoy’s Complaint
Philip Roth
1969 - LiteratureWalden Two
B. F. Skinner
1948 - FictionThe Final Days
Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
1976 - JournalismSister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
1900 - FictionWar And Peace In The Global Village
Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore
1968 - Technology & Social ScienceRabbit At Rest
John Updike
1990 - FictionDark Matter and the Dinosaurs
The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
Lisa Randall
2015 - PhysicsChicago: City On The Make
Nelson Algren
1951 - LiteraturePicasso
Gertrude Stein
1938 - Art & DesignIronweed
William Kennedy
1983 - FictionSome Faces In The Crowd
Short Stories, 1938-1953
Budd Schulberg
1953 - FictionJohn Brown
The Making of a Martyr
Robert Penn Warren
1928 - BiographyLet Me Be Frank With You
Richard Ford
2014 - FictionThe Mind Of God
The Scientific Basis For A Rational World
Paul Davies
1992 - Philosophy & ReligionThe Man Who Knew Coolidge
Being the Soul of Lowell Schmaltz, Constructive and Nordic Citizen
Sinclair Lewis
1928 - LiteratureThe Conquerors
Roosevelt, Truman & the Destruction of Hitler's Germany
Michael Beschloss
2002 - HistoryStrategies For Winning
A Top Football Coach's Game Plan for Victory
George Allen
1990 - SportsNotes From Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1864 - LiteratureJack Benny
An Intimate Biography
Irving A. Fein
1976 - BiographyThe Names
Don DeLillo
1982 - FictionWorld’s Fair
E. L. Doctorow
1985 - FictionA Michener Miscellany
1950-1970
James A. Michener
1973 - Non-FictionStreet Without Joy
The French Debacle In Indochina
Bernard B. Fall
1964 - HistoryJudgment Day
James T. Farrell
1935 - Literature“The Good War”
An Oral History Of World War II
Studs Terkel
1984 - HistoryAngle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
1971 - LiteratureUntil The End Of Time
Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Brian Greene
2020 - PhysicsRabbit Is Rich
John Updike
1981 - FictionGoodbye, Columbus
And Five Short Stories
Philip Roth
1959 - LiteratureZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
1974 - Non-FictionFor Our Beloved Country
American War Diaries from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf
Ed., Speer Morgan & Greg Michalson
1994 - Journals & LettersTitus Andronicus
William Shakespeare
1588 - Drama & ScreenplayCivil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
1849 - LiteratureThe Pit
A Story of Chicago
Frank Norris
1903 - LiteratureA Reporter’s Life
Walter Cronkite
1996 - BiographyMaggie: A Girl of the Streets
And Selected Stories
Steven Crane
1893 - LiteratureThe Irish Way
Becoming American In The Multiethnic City
James R. Barrett
2012 - HistoryThe Fifth Column
Stories of the Spanish Civil War
Ernest Hemingway
1938 - Drama & ScreenplayRabbit Redux
John Updike
1971 - LiteratureWomen With Men
Richard Ford
1997 - LiteratureThe Supreme Court
William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
1987 - LawAn American Dream
Norman Mailer
1964 - FictionThe Saddest Summer of Samuel S
J. P. Donleavy
1966 - FictionHouse Of Meetings
Martin Amis
2006 - Fiction
Books Read, 2016: 37
The Gutenberg Galaxy
The Making of Typographic Man
Marshall McLuhan
1962 - Communication TheoryLongitude
Dava Sobel
1995 - HistoryDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
1968 - FictionThirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Capt. Ted W. Lawson
1943 - HistoryOn The Beach
Neville Shute
1957 - FictionThinking With Type
A Critical Guide
Ellen Lupton
2004 - Art & DesignThe Wayward Bus
John Steinbeck
1947 - LiteratureCrossing To Safety
Wallace Stegner
1987 - LiteratureOff The Record With FDR
The War Years 1942-1945
William D. Hassett
1958 - HistorySpecifications Grading
Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students & Saving Faculty Time
Linda B. Nilson
2015 - EducationFinale
The Reagan Years
Thomas Mallon
2015 - FictionThe Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
1963 - FictionThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
1793 - BiographyThe Big Picture
On the Origins of Life, Meaning & the Universe Itself
Sean Carroll
2016 - PhysicsSix Amendments
How and Why We Should Change the Constitution
John Paul Stevens, US Supreme Court Justice (ret.)
2014 - LawDeath of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
1949 - Drama & ScreenplayNotes From A Dead House
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1862 - LiteratureReal Peace
Richard Nixon
1984 - Foreign Affairs & Political ScienceStars In Their Courses
The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863
Shelby Foote
1963 - HistoryFear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72
Hunter S. Thompson
1973 - JournalismZero K
Don DeLillo
2016 - FictionThe Johnstown Flood
The Story Behind The 1889 Disaster
David McCullough
1968 - HistoryA Walk on the Wild Side
Nelson Algren
1956 - FictionThe Jungle
Upton Sinclair
1906 - LiteratureWorking
People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Studs Terkel
1974 - HistoryHells Angels
The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
Hunter S. Thompson
1966 - JournalismBabbit
Sinclair Lewis
1922 - FictionDon’t Wait for the Next War
A Strategy for American Growth and Global Leadership
General (ret.) Wesley K. Clark
2014 - Foreign Affairs & Political ScienceHere, There and Everywhere
My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles
Geoff Emerick
2006 - BiographySound Man
A Life Recording Hits with The Stones, The Who and Led Zeppelin
Glynn Johns
2014 - BiographyWaiting For Lefty
And Other Plays
Clifford Odets
1937 - Drama & ScreenplayThe Big Rock Candy Mountain
Wallace Stegner
1943 - LiteratureVoices From Chernobyl
The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Svetlana Alexievich
1997 - LiteratureThe Executioner’s Song
Norman Mailer
1979 - FictionClaudius The God
And His Wife Messalina
Robert Graves
1935 - LiteratureThe Imperial Presidency
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1973 - HistoryWomen’s Diaries of the Westward Journey
1840-1870
Lillian Schlissel
1992 - History
Books Read, 2015: 34
Harpo Speaks…About New York
Adolph Marx
1961 - BiographyNot Too Old To Cut The Mustard
Jumping Bill Carlisle & Friends Talk About His Life & the Country Music Business
Anita Capps
2000 - BiographyThe Prank
The Best of Young Chekhov (1880-1882)
Anton Chekhov
2015 - LiteraturePolk
The Man who Transformed the Presidency and America
Walter K. Borneman
2008 - HistoryA Study In Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
1878 - FictionThe Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
1928 - LiteratureIn The Wake of the Plague
The Black Death & the World it Made
Norman Cantor
2001 - HistoryAll Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
1928 - LiteratureLibra
Don DeLillo
1988 - FictionRequiem For A Dream
Hubert Selby, Jr.
1978 - FictionNotes on the Death of Culture
Essays on Spectacle and Society
Mario Vargas Llosa
2012 - Technology & Social ScienceA Detailed Analysis of the Constitution
Edward F. Cooke
1958 - LawPaterson
Volumes I - V
William Carlos Williams
1946 - PoetryArt & Physics
Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light
Leonard Schlain
1991 - PhysicsThe Story of a Bad Boy
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
1870 - BiographyIndependence Day
Richard Ford
1995 - LiteratureThe Spectator Bird
Wallace Stegner
1976 - LiteratureO Pioneers!
Willa Cather
1913 - LiteratureIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
1861 - BiographyWhite Mule
William Carlos Williams
1937 - FictionThe Time Machine
H.G. Wells
1895 - FictionThe Haldeman Diaries
Inside The Nixon White House
H.R. Haldeman
1993 - HistoryTravels With Charley
John Steinbeck
1962 - LiteratureJohn Barleycorn
Or, Alcoholic Memoirs
Jack London
1913 - LiteratureLaw and the Nation
1865 - 1912
Jonathan Lurie
1983 - LawDays of Wine and Roses
David Westheimer
1962 - FictionOne Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
1963 - LiteratureThat Man
An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Robert H. Jackson
1954 - BiographyHarlot’s Ghost
Norman Mailer
1991 - FictionLooking Backward
Edward Bellamy
1888 - LiteratureEquus
Peter Shaffer
1973 - Drama & ScreenplaySeven Plays
Sam Shephard
1981 - Drama & ScreenplayA People’s History of the United States
Howard Zinn
1992 - HistoryThe Autobiography of Joseph Stalin
Richard Lourie
1999 - Fiction
Books Read, 2013: 36
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
1952 - Drama & ScreenplayLast Exit To Brooklyn
Hubert Selby, Jr.
1957 - LiteratureSix Months In 1945
FDR, Stalin, Churchill & Truman - from World War to Cold War
Michael Dobbs
2012 - HistoryThe Circle
Dave Eggers
2013 - FictionThe Millennium
A Comedy of the Year 2000
Upton Sinclair
1907 - LiteratureGod’s Little Acre
Erskine Caldwell
1933 - LiteratureReturn of the Thin Man
Dashiell Hammett
1935 - Drama & ScreenplayNW
Zadie Smith
2012 - FictionConfederates in the Attic
Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tony Horwitz
1998 - HistoryI, Claudius
From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius
Robert Graves
1934 - LiteratureGo East Young Man
Short Stories on Class in America 1917-1931
Sinclair Lewis
2005 - LiteratureDewey Defeats Truman
Thomas Mallon
1997 - FictionThe Art of Intelligence
Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service
Henry A. Crumpton
2012 - Foreign Affairs & Political ScienceUncle Tom’s Cabin
Or, Life Among The Lowly
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1852 - LiteratureVisual Explanations
Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Edward R. Tufte
1997 - Art & DesignA Democrat Looks At His Party
Dean Acheson
1955 - Foreign Affairs & Political ScienceThe Wanting Seed
Anthony Burgess
1962 - FictionFlatland
Edwin A. Abbott
1884 - PhysicsCosmopolis
Don DeLillo
2003 - FictionSabbath’s Theater
Philip Roth
1995 - LiteratureLondon Fields
Martin Amis
1989 - LiteratureThe Hunt For KSM
Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind
Terry McDermott and Josh Meyer
2012 - Foreign Affairs & Political ScienceThe Luck of Barry Lyndon
William Makepeace Thackeray
1844 - LiteratureAmity & Sorrow
Peggy Riley
2013 - FictionAffection and Trust
Personal Correspondence, 1953-1971
Harry S Truman and Dean Acheson
2010 - Journals & LettersFellow Travelers
Thomas Mallon
2006 - FictionPakistan On The Brink
The Future of America, Pakistan & Afghanistan
Ahmed Rashid
2012 - Foreign Affairs & Political ScienceThe Good House
Ann Leary
2013 - FictionFreedom
Jonathan Franzen
2010 - LiteratureThe Thin Red Line
James Jones
1962 - LiteratureGive Me Everything You Have
On Being Stalked
James Lasdun
2013 - BiographyMarjorie Morningstar
Herman Wouk
1955 - LiteratureTime’s Arrow
Martin Amis
1991 - LiteratureJunky
William S. Burroughs
1953 - LiteratureHedy’s Folly
The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr
Richard Rhodes
2011 - BiographySunday Nights at Seven
The Jack Benny Story
Jack Benny
1990 - Biography
Books Read, 2011: 38
Night of Camp David
Fletcher Knebel
1966 - FictionCollected Works, The Screenplays Vol 2
1971-1978
Paddy Chayefsky
1995 - Drama & ScreenplayThe Visual Miscellaneum
David McCandless
2009 - Art & DesignEisenhower
The White House Years
Jim Newton
2011 - HistoryI Married A Communist
Philip Roth
1998 - LiteratureStasiland
Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Anna Funder
2002 - Non-FictionThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward R. Tufte
1981 - Art & DesignThe Art Of Creative Advertising
Michael Antebi
1968 - Art & DesignLife In Year One
What The World Was Like In First-Century Palestine
Scott Korb
2010 - HistoryThe Great American Novel
Philip Roth
1973 - LiteratureThe Song of the Lark
Willa Cather
1915 - LiteratureYou Are Not A Gadget
A Manifesto
Jaron Lanier
2010 - Technology & Social ScienceThe Stranger
Albert Camus
1946 - LiteratureFamine Ship Diary
The Journey of an Irish Coffin Ship
Robert Whyte
1847 - BiographyWhite Noise
Don Delillo
1985 - FictionNothing To Envy
Ordinary Lives In North Korea
Barbara Demick
2010 - Non-FictionMr. Citizen
Harry S Truman
1960 - HistoryThe American Civil War
A Military History
John Keegan
2009 - HistoryThe Boys of Summer
Growing Up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field
Roger Kahn
1971 - BiographyThe Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
1939 - LiteratureAugustus
A Novel
John Williams
1972 - LiteratureMaking Movies
Sidney Lumet
1995 - BiographyThe PEN/O Henry Prize Stories: 2011
The Best Stories of the Year
ed. Laura Furman
2011 - FictionHarry Truman’s Excellent Adventure
Matthew Algeo
2009 - BiographyMy Antonia
Willa Cather
1918 - LiteratureBomb Power
The Modern Presidency and the National Security State
Garry Wills
2010 - Foreign Affairs & Political ScienceUnderworld
Don Delillo
1997 - LiteratureThe Moviegoer
Walker Percy
1960 - FictionJefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back
Robert Penn Warren
1980 - FictionThe Next Decade
Where We've Been..and Where We're Going
George Friedman
2011 - Non-FictionCognitive Surplus
Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
Clay Shirky
2010 - Technology & Social ScienceChange By Design
How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations & Inspires Innovation
Tim Brown
2009 - Art & DesignThe Humbling
Philip Roth
2010 - FictionThe Art of Immersion
How the digital generation is remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the way we tell stories.
Frank Rose
2011 - Technology & Social ScienceChuck Amuck
The Autobiography of Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones
1992 - BiographyThe Lost Peace
Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953
Robert Dallek
2010 - Foreign Affairs & Political ScienceCyber War
The Next Threat to National Security
Richard A. Clarke
2010 - Foreign Affairs & Political ScienceMarshall McLuhan:
You Know Nothing of My Work
Douglas Coupland
2010 - Biography
430 Books Read between
January 2010 & March 2021.
That's 1 book every 9.55 days or 3.19 books a month for 11.25 years.
Every title on this list is a 100% genuine book, of course: not one was consumed on a device.
Average year of publication? 1969.
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