JOHNCARMODY.COM Full Stack Development +
Interactive Design + Teaching
Sculpting Order From Chaos

Recently Read Books

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.

That is, out-of-print books mostly based in the humanities.

0.0 = the amount in percentage of these titles consumed on iPad, eBook, Kindle, Nook, tablet or similar soul-sucking, society-destroying devices.

BURN. YOUR. KINDLE.

 

 

 

50 Books Read, 2023

  • American Notes

    For General Circulation

    Charles Dickens

    1842 -

  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

    Edward R. Tufte

    1982 -

  • The Killer Instinct

    Bob Cousy

    1975 -

  • We

    Yevgeny Zamyatin

    1924 -

  • The Legacy of the Civil War

    Robert Penn Warren

    1961 -

  • And Keep Your Powder Dry

    An Anthropologist Looks At America

    Margaret Mead

    1942 -

  • Moe Howard and the 3 Stooges

    Moe Howard

    1977 -

  • The Art of Advocacy

    A Plea for the Renaissance of the Trial Lawyer

    Lloyd Paul Stryker

    1954 -

  • Nineteen Eighty-Four

    George Orwell

    1949 -

  • Invitation to a Beheading

    Vladimir Nabokov

    1935 -

  • The Ink Truck

    William Kennedy

    1969 -

  • The Choice

    Bob Woodward

    1996 -

  • Myth & Meaning

    Claude Lévi-Strauss

    1978 -

  • Wildlife

    Richard Ford

    1990 -

  • Angela’s Ashes

    Frank McCourt

    1996 -

  • Fail-Safe

    Eugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler

    1962 -

  • Reporting

    Writings from the New Yorker

    David Remnick

    2006 -

  • The Groucho Phile

    The One, The Only - Groucho - Speaks for Himself

    Julius H. Marx

    1976 -

  • An Affair of State

    Pat Frank

    1948 -

  • The Trials of Harry S. Truman

    The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945 - 1953

    Jeffrey Frank

    2022 -

  • Junky

    William S. Burroughs

    1953 -

  • The Octopus

    A Story of California

    Frank Norris

    1901 -

  • I Am Brian Wilson

    Brian Wilson

    2016 -

  • In the Beauty of the Lilies

    John Updike

    1996 -

  • The Book of Daniel

    E. L. Doctorow

    1971 -

  • The Corrections

    Jonathan Franzen

    2001 -

  • Winston Churchill

    John Keegan

    2002 -

  • The Mysterious Stranger & Other Stories

    1865 - 1910

    Mark Twain

    1916 -

  • Fortune Smiles

    Adam Johnson

    2015 -

  • The Monroe Doctrine

    Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America

    Jay Sexton

    2011 -

  • The Black Death

    1347 - 1351

    Philip Ziegler

    1969 -

  • All Politics Is Local

    and Other Rules of the Game

    Tip O'Neill w/Garry Hymel

    1994 -

  • The Medium Is The Massage

    An Inventory of Effects

    Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore

    1967 -

  • Weaver On Strategy

    The Art of Managing a Baseball Team

    Earl Weaver

    1984 -

  • Stella Maris

    Cormac McCarthy

    2022 -

  • The Last Laugh

    S. J. Perelman

    1981 -

  • The Investigator

    Fifty Years of Uncovering the Truth

    Terry Lenzner

    2013 -

  • The Orphan Master’s Son

    Adam Johnson

    2012 -

  • Logavina Street

    Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood

    Barbara Demick

    1996 -

  • This Ain’t Brain Surgery

    How to Win the Pennant Without Losing Your Mind

    Larry Dierker

    2003 -

  • Andersonville

    MacKinlay Kantor

    1955 -

  • Crisis

    The Last Year of the Carter Presidency

    Hamilton Jordan

    1982 -

  • Lady Parts

    Andrea Martin

    2014 -

  • The Digger’s Game

    George V. Higgins

    1973 -

  • Better Than Sex

    Gonzo Papers Vol. 4: Confessions of a Political Junkie

    Hunter S. Thompson

    1994 -

  • Roscoe

    William Kennedy

    2002 -

  • Mao II

    Don DeLillo

    1991 -

  • The Counterlife

    Philip Roth

    1986 -

  • Women

    Charles Bukowski

    1978 -

  • Lionel Asbo

    State of England

    Martin Amis

    2012 -

47 Books Read, 2022

  • Relativity

    The Special and General Theory

    Albert Einstein

    1920 -

  • A Distant Mirror

    The Calamitous 14th Century

    Barbara W. Tuchman

    1978 -

  • The Struggle for a Free Europe

    Dean Acheson

    1969 -

  • The Passenger

    Cormac McCarthy

    2022 -

  • Oil

    Upton Sinclair

    1926 -

  • All The Little Live Things

    Wallace Stegner

    1967 -

  • Wired

    Bob Woodward

    1984 -

  • The Flaming Corsage

    William Kennedy

    1996 -

  • The Devil’s Stocking

    Nelson Algren

    1983 -

  • A Visit From The Goon Squad

    Jennifer Egan

    2010 -

  • Herblock At Large

    Herbert Block

    1987 -

  • Born Standing Up

    A Comic's Life

    Steve Martin

    2007 -

  • The Pioneers

    Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna

    James Fenimore Cooper

    1823 -

  • So Long, See You Tomorrow

    William Maxwell

    1980 -

  • The Demon

    Hubert Selby Jr.

    1976 -

  • The New Improved Bob & Ray Book

    Bob Elliott & Ray Goulding

    1986 -

  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    Joan Didion

    1968 -

  • The Pregnant Widow

    Martin Amis

    2010 -

  • One Writer’s Beginnings

    Eudora Welty

    1983 -

  • The Great Shark Hunt

    Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

    Hunter S. Thompson

    1979 -

  • Washington Journal

    Watergate: The Events of 1973-1974

    Elizabeth Drew

    1974 -

  • Canada

    Richard Ford

    2012 -

  • American Dreams

    Lost & Found

    Studs Terkel

    1980 -

  • Machiavelli

    Philosopher of Power

    Ross King

    2007 -

  • The Bias of Communication

    Harold A. Innis

    1951 -

  • Redskin Country

    From Baugh to the Super Bowl

    Ken Denlinger & Paul Attner

    1983 -

  • Wise Guy

    Life In A Mafia Family

    Nicholas Pileggi

    1985 -

  • Roughing It

    Mark Twain

    1872 -

  • The Roosevelt I Knew

    Frances Perkins

    1946 -

  • I Married A Communist

    Philip Roth

    1998 -

  • The Voyeur’s Motel

    Gay Talese

    2016 -

  • This Way to the Universe

    A Theoretical Physicist's Journey to the Edge of Reality

    Michael Dine

    2022 -

  • His Excellency George Washington

    Joseph J. Ellis

    2004 -

  • Arrowsmith

    Sinclair Lewis

    1924 -

  • Everything That Moves

    A Documentary Novel

    Budd Schulberg

    1980 -

  • Glitz

    Elmore Leonard

    1985 -

  • America Goes To War

    The Civil War and Its Meaning to Americans Today

    Bruce Catton

    1958 -

  • Hillbilly Elegy

    A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    J. D. Vance

    2016 -

  • The Roberts Court

    The Struggle For The Constitution

    Marcia Coyle

    2013 -

  • Post Office

    Charles Bukowski

    1971 -

  • Guys and Dolls

    Stories, 1930 - 1944

    Damon Runyon

    1992 -

  • The Great Santini

    Pat Conroy

    1976 -

  • The Loser

    The Confessions of a Compulsive Gambler

    William Hoffman, Jr.

    1968 -

  • Licks of Love

    Short Stories

    John Updike

    2001 -

  • The Secret Man

    The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat

    Bob Woodward

    2006 -

  • Masters of Deceit

    How The Communists Plan To Take Over America

    J. Edgar Hoover

    1958 -

  • The Accidental President

    Harry S Truman And The Four Months That Changed The World

    A. J. Baime

    2017 -

52 Books Read, 2021

  • Marshall McLuhan: Pro & Con

    Raymond Rosenthal, Ed.

    1968 -

  • The Klan Unmasked

    Stetson Kennedy

    1954 -

  • The Art of Cross-Examination

    Francis L. Wellman

    1903 -

  • Coming Of Age

    The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It

    Studs Terkel

    1995 -

  • The Pythons

    Monty Python

    2003 -

  • In The Clap Shack

    William Styron

    1973 -

  • Focus

    Arthur Miller

    1945 -

  • Science Fiction Showcase

    1948-1958

    Mary Kornbluth, Ed.

    1959 -

  • Counter-Clock World

    Philip K. Dick

    1967 -

  • Spying On The South

    An Odyssey Across The American Divide

    Tony Horwitz

    2019 -

  • The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight

    Jimmy Breslin

    1969 -

  • I Must Say

    My Life As A Humble Comedy Legend

    Martin Short

    2014 -

  • Watergate

    The Fall of Richard M. Nixon

    Stanley I. Kutler, ed.

    1996 -

  • Very Old Bones

    William Kennedy

    1992 -

  • Hail To The Redskins

    The Glory Days of D.C.'s Football Dynasty

    Adam Lazarus

    2015 -

  • The Naked Ape

    A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

    Desmond Morris

    1967 -

  • The Lost Weekend

    Charles Jackson

    1944 -

  • Brief Answers To The Big Questions

    Stephen Hawking

    2018 -

  • The Disenchanted

    Budd Schulberg

    1950 -

  • Inside Story

    How To Write

    Martin Amis

    2020 -

  • The Shadow-Line

    A Confession

    Joseph Conrad

    1917 -

  • A World Lit Only By Fire

    The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age

    William Manchester

    1992 -

  • Candy

    Terry Southern & Mason Hoffenberg

    1958 -

  • Landfall

    Thomas Mallon

    2019 -

  • Shadow Box

    An Amateur in the Ring

    George Plimpton

    1977 -

  • Reckless

    My Life As A Pretender

    Chrissie Hynde

    2015 -

  • The Long Valley

    John Steinbeck

    1938 -

  • Exit Ghost

    Philip Roth

    2007 -

  • Gone With The Wind

    Margaret Mitchell

    1936 -

  • SCTV

    Behind The Scenes At Second City Television

    Dave Thomas

    1996 -

  • The Korean War

    Dean Acheson

    1969 -

  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

    Tom Wolfe

    1968 -

  • Factotum

    Charles Bukowski

    1975 -

  • Life Of Franklin Pierce

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    1852 -

  • The Silence

    Don DeLillo

    2020 -

  • Sorry For Your Trouble

    Stories

    Richard Ford

    2020 -

  • Poor White

    Sherwood Anderson

    1920 -

  • Recapitulation

    Wallace Stegner

    1979 -

  • Fanny Hill

    or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

    John Cleland

    1749 -

  • Giants

    What I Learned About Life From Vince Lombardi And Tom Landry

    Pat Summerall

    2010 -

  • Rum Punch

    Elmore Leonard

    1992 -

  • The Road

    Jack London

    1907 -

  • Accessory To War

    The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

    Neil DeGrasse Tyson & Avis Lang

    2018 -

  • Cogan’s Trade

    George V. Higgins

    1974 -

  • A Good Man Is Hard To Find

    & Other Stories

    Flannery O'Connor

    1955 -

  • The Long March

    William Styron

    1952 -

  • The Optimist’s Daughter

    Eudora Welty

    1972 -

  • Lolita

    Vladimir Nabokov

    1955 -

  • Around The World In Eighty Days

    Jules Verne

    1873 -

  • Citizen Tom Paine

    Howard Fast

    1943 -

  • Something Deeply Hidden

    Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

    Sean Carroll

    2019 -

  • A Confederacy Of Dunces

    John Kennedy Toole

    1980 -

48 Books Read, 2020

  • The Landscape Of History

    How Historians Map The Past

    John Lewis Gaddis

    2002 -

  • Second Chance

    Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower

    Zbigniew Brzezinski

    2007 -

  • The Culture of Time and Space

    1880–1918

    Stephen Kern

    1983 -

  • Movies For The Millions

    An Account of Motion Pictures, Principally in America

    Gilbert Seldes

    1937 -

  • Portnoy’s Complaint

    Philip Roth

    1969 -

  • Walden Two

    B. F. Skinner

    1948 -

  • The Final Days

    Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein

    1976 -

  • Sister Carrie

    Theodore Dreiser

    1900 -

  • War And Peace In The Global Village

    Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore

    1968 -

  • Rabbit At Rest

    John Updike

    1990 -

  • Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs

    The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

    Lisa Randall

    2015 -

  • Chicago: City On The Make

    Nelson Algren

    1951 -

  • Picasso

    Gertrude Stein

    1938 -

  • Ironweed

    William Kennedy

    1983 -

  • Some Faces In The Crowd

    Short Stories, 1938-1953

    Budd Schulberg

    1953 -

  • John Brown

    The Making of a Martyr

    Robert Penn Warren

    1928 -

  • Let Me Be Frank With You

    Richard Ford

    2014 -

  • The Mind Of God

    The Scientific Basis For A Rational World

    Paul Davies

    1992 -

  • The Man Who Knew Coolidge

    Being the Soul of Lowell Schmaltz, Constructive and Nordic Citizen

    Sinclair Lewis

    1928 -

  • The Conquerors

    Roosevelt, Truman & the Destruction of Hitler's Germany

    Michael Beschloss

    2002 -

  • Strategies For Winning

    A Top Football Coach's Game Plan for Victory

    George Allen

    1990 -

  • Notes From Underground

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    1864 -

  • Jack Benny

    An Intimate Biography

    Irving A. Fein

    1976 -

  • The Names

    Don DeLillo

    1982 -

  • World’s Fair

    E. L. Doctorow

    1985 -

  • A Michener Miscellany

    1950-1970

    James A. Michener

    1973 -

  • Street Without Joy

    The French Debacle In Indochina

    Bernard B. Fall

    1964 -

  • Judgment Day

    James T. Farrell

    1935 -

  • The Good War

    An Oral History Of World War II

    Studs Terkel

    1984 -

  • Angle of Repose

    Wallace Stegner

    1971 -

  • Until The End Of Time

    Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

    Brian Greene

    2020 -

  • Rabbit Is Rich

    John Updike

    1981 -

  • Goodbye, Columbus

    And Five Short Stories

    Philip Roth

    1959 -

  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

    An Inquiry Into Values

    Robert M. Pirsig

    1974 -

  • For Our Beloved Country

    American War Diaries from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf

    Ed., Speer Morgan & Greg Michalson

    1994 -

  • Titus Andronicus

    William Shakespeare

    1588 -

  • Civil Disobedience

    Henry David Thoreau

    1849 -

  • The Pit

    A Story of Chicago

    Frank Norris

    1903 -

  • A Reporter’s Life

    Walter Cronkite

    1996 -

  • Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

    And Selected Stories

    Steven Crane

    1893 -

  • The Irish Way

    Becoming American In The Multiethnic City

    James R. Barrett

    2012 -

  • The Fifth Column

    Stories of the Spanish Civil War

    Ernest Hemingway

    1938 -

  • Rabbit Redux

    John Updike

    1971 -

  • Women With Men

    Richard Ford

    1997 -

  • The Supreme Court

    William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court

    1987 -

  • An American Dream

    Norman Mailer

    1964 -

  • The Saddest Summer of Samuel S

    J. P. Donleavy

    1966 -

  • House Of Meetings

    Martin Amis

    2006 -

41 Books Read, 2019

  • Neuroplasticity

    How Our Brains Change In Response To Our Actions

    Moheb Costandi

    2016 -

  • The Wars of Watergate

    The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon

    Stanley I. Kutler

    1990 -

  • Counterblast

    Marshall McLuhan

    1969 -

  • Rome At War

    AD 293 - 696

    Michael Whitby

    2002 -

  • Tortilla Flat

    John Steinbeck

    1935 -

  • Blood Meridian

    Or the Evening Redness in the West

    Cormac McCarthy

    1985 -

  • Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game

    William Kennedy

    1978 -

  • All Those Mornings At The Post

    The 20th Century In Sports

    Shirley Povich

    2005 -

  • White Trash

    John King

    2001 -

  • Daddy’s Boy

    A Son's Shocking Account of Life with a Famous Father

    Chris Elliott with Rebuttals by Bob Elliott

    1989 -

  • Plan of Attack

    The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

    Bob Woodward

    2004 -

  • Tried By War

    Abraham Lincoln As Commander In Chief

    James M. McPherson

    2008 -

  • Cruising Paradise

    Tales, 1989-1995

    Sam Shepard

    1996 -

  • Elmer Gantry

    Sinclair Lewis

    1927 -

  • A Lost Lady

    Willa Cather

    1923 -

  • Six Crises

    Richard M. Nixon

    1962 -

  • The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan

    James Farrell

    1934 -

  • The Python Years

    Diaries, 1969-1979

    Michael Palin

    2006 -

  • Call If You Need Me

    Uncollected Fiction & Other Prose

    Raymond Carver

    2001 -

  • Flight of the Eagle

    The Grand Strategies that Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership

    Conrad Black

    2013 -

  • Who I Am

    Pete Townshend

    2012 -

  • No Country For Old Men

    Cormac McCarthy

    2005 -

  • The Essential Groucho

    Writings By, For, and About Groucho Marx

    ed., Stefan Kanfer

    2000 -

  • Rabbit, Run

    John Updike

    1960 -

  • Our Gang

    Philip Roth

    1971 -

  • O Albany!

    William Kennedy

    1983 -

  • Of Mice And Men

    John Steinbeck

    1937 -

  • The 42nd Parallel

    John Dos Passos

    1930 -

  • Sex, Time and Power

    How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution

    Leonard Shlain

    2003 -

  • Billy Bathgate

    E. L. Doctorow

    1989 -

  • In Review

    Pictures I've Kept

    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    1969 -

  • The Red Badge of Courage

    And Other Stories

    Stephen Crane

    1895 -

  • Deliverance

    James Dickey

    1970 -

  • Main Street

    Sinclair Lewis

    1920 -

  • Thirteen Days

    A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    Robert F. Kennedy

    1967 -

  • To Chain The Dog Of War

    The War Power of Congress in History and Law

    Francis D. Wormuth & Edwin B. Firmage

    1986 -

  • The Killer Angels

    Michael Shaara

    1974 -

  • Haircut & Other Stories

    Ring Lardner

    1922 -

  • Babe: The Life of Oliver Hardy

    John McCabe

    1989 -

  • The Lay of the Land

    Richard Ford

    2006 -

  • The Journals of Lewis & Clark

    ed. Bernard DeVoto

    1807 -

41 Books Read, 2018

  • Narcissus and Goldmund

    Hermann Hesse

    1930 -

  • The Gospel In Brief

    Leo Tolstoy

    1893 -

  • A Journal of the Plague Year

    Daniel Defoe

    1722 -

  • The Enemy Had It Too

    A Play In Three Acts

    Upton Sinclair

    1950 -

  • Fahrenheit 451

    Ray Bradbury

    1953 -

  • Amerika

    Franz Kafka

    1927 -

  • On The Road

    Jack Kerouac

    1957 -

  • The Gangs of New York

    An Informal History of the Underworld

    Herbert Asbury

    1928 -

  • Once There Was A War

    Dispatches from Europe & Africa, 1943

    John Steinbeck

    1958 -

  • Lie Down In Darkness

    William Styron

    1951 -

  • Dean Acheson

    The Cold War Years, 1953-1971

    Douglas Brinkley

    1992 -

  • The Ginger Man

    J. P. Donleavy

    1955 -

  • The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    1925 -

  • The Man With The Golden Arm

    Nelson Algren

    1949 -

  • Looking Forward

    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    1933 -

  • The Proud Highway

    Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman 1955-1967

    Hunter S. Thompson

    1997 -

  • The Naked City

    Malvin Wald & Albert Maltz

    1948 -

  • Mad As Hell

    The Making of "Network" and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies

    Dave Itzkoff

    2014 -

  • In Cold Blood

    A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences

    Truman Capote

    1965 -

  • The Information

    Martin Amis

    1995 -

  • A History of Knowledge

    The Pivotal Events, People and Achievements of World History

    Charles Van Doren

    1991 -

  • The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin

    1887 -

  • Beyond Category

    The Life & Genius of Duke Ellington

    John Edward Hasse

    1993 -

  • Walden

    Or, Life in the Woods

    Henry David Thoreau

    1854 -

  • Touching and Imagining – An Introduction to Tactile Art

    Poems & Essays, 1973-1984

    Jan Švankmajer

    2014 -

  • Washington Goes To War

    David Brinkley

    1988 -

  • Legs

    William Kennedy

    1975 -

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

    1884 -

  • President Nixon

    Alone In The White House

    Richard Reeves

    2001 -

  • The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit

    Sloane Wilson

    1955 -

  • Remembering Laughter

    Wallace Stegner

    1937 -

  • Hammer of the Gods

    The Led Zeppelin Saga

    Stephen Davis

    1985 -

  • In Retrospect

    The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

    Robert S. McNamara

    1995 -

  • Catch-22

    Joseph Heller

    1961 -

  • The Ugly American

    William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick

    1958 -

  • What Makes Sammy Run?

    Budd Schulberg

    1941 -

  • The Letters of the Rožmberk Sisters, 1449-1482

    Noblewomen in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia

    Ed., John M. Klassen

    2001 -

  • Young Lonigan

    James T. Farrell

    1932 -

  • Red Rat Race

    Morris A. Bealle

    1953 -

  • Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew

    The World's Most-Recorded Musician

    Hal Blaine

    1990 -

  • A Swell-Looking Girl

    Stories, 1929-1931

    Erskine Caldwell

    1959 -

39 Books Read, 2017

  • Man of the People

    A Life of Harry S. Truman

    Alonzo L. Hamby

    1995 -

  • The Commanders

    Bob Woodward

    1991 -

  • Three Films

    Battleship Potempkin | October | Alexander Nevsky

    Sergei Eisenstein

    1974 -

  • Band Of Angels

    Robert Penn Warren

    1955 -

  • Gilliamesque

    A Pre-Posthumous Memoir

    Terry Gilliam

    2015 -

  • Neutrino Hunters

    The Chase to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

    Ray Jayawardhana

    2013 -

  • The Tumult and the Shouting

    My Life In Sport

    Grantland Rice

    1954 -

  • What Hath God Wrought

    The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848

    Daniel Walker Howe

    2007 -

  • The Bad Seed

    William March

    1954 -

  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

    Carson McCullers

    1940 -

  • Short Cuts

    Robert Altman & Frank Barhydt

    1993 -

  • A Tour On The Prairies

    An Account of Thirty Days in Deep Indian Country

    Washington Irving

    1833 -

  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

    Neil deGrasse Tyson

    2017 -

  • The Public Arts

    Gilbert Seldes

    1956 -

  • The Jack Benny Show

    The Life & Times of America's Best-Loved Entertainer

    Milt Josefsberg

    1977 -

  • The Fables of Ivan Krylov

    1769-1844

    Translated by Stephen Pimenoff

    2017 -

  • The Scarlet Letter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    1850 -

  • Ragged Dick

    Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks

    Horatio Alger, Jr.

    1868 -

  • Hard Times

    An Oral History of the Great Depression

    Studs Terkel

    1970 -

  • The Day of the Locust

    Nathanael West

    1939 -

  • Life on the Mississippi

    Mark Twain

    1883 -

  • I Married A Communist

    Or, The Woman On Pier 13

    Robert Stevenson

    1949 -

  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

    Hunter S. Thompson

    1971 -

  • In Confidence

    Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents (1962-1986)

    Anatoly Dobrynin

    1995 -

  • Being There

    Jerzy Kosinski

    1970 -

  • Lincoln’s Constitution

    Daniel Farber

    2003 -

  • Manhattan Transfer

    John Dos Passos

    1925 -

  • The Prince

    Niccolò Machiavelli

    1513 -

  • Leonardo’s Brain

    Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius

    Leonard Schlain

    2015 -

  • No More Vietnams

    Richard Nixon

    1985 -

  • 1066

    The Year of the Conquest

    David Howarth

    1977 -

  • Ragtime

    E. L. Doctorow

    1974 -

  • Herblock: A Cartoonist’s Life

    Self-portrait and Views of Washington from Roosevelt to Clinton

    Herbert Block

    1993 -

  • Tobacco Road

    Erskine Caldwell

    1932 -

  • How The Other Half Lives

    Studies Among The Tenements Of New York

    Jacob A. Riis

    1890 -

  • All The Pretty Horses

    Cormac McCarthy

    1992 -

  • Darkness At Noon

    Arthur Koestler

    1941 -

  • Keith Moon

    The Life & Death of a Rock Legend

    Tony Fletcher

    1998 -

  • Animal Farm

    George Orwell

    1945 -

37 Books Read, 2016

  • The Gutenberg Galaxy

    The Making of Typographic Man

    Marshall McLuhan

    1962 -

  • Longitude

    Dava Sobel

    1995 -

  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

    Philip K. Dick

    1968 -

  • Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

    Capt. Ted W. Lawson

    1943 -

  • On The Beach

    Neville Shute

    1957 -

  • Thinking With Type

    A Critical Guide

    Ellen Lupton

    2004 -

  • The Wayward Bus

    John Steinbeck

    1947 -

  • Crossing To Safety

    Wallace Stegner

    1987 -

  • Off The Record With FDR

    The War Years 1942-1945

    William D. Hassett

    1958 -

  • Specifications Grading

    Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students & Saving Faculty Time

    Linda B. Nilson

    2015 -

  • Finale

    The Reagan Years

    Thomas Mallon

    2015 -

  • The Bell Jar

    Sylvia Plath

    1963 -

  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    1793 -

  • The Big Picture

    On the Origins of Life, Meaning & the Universe Itself

    Sean Carroll

    2016 -

  • Six Amendments

    How and Why We Should Change the Constitution

    John Paul Stevens, US Supreme Court Justice (ret.)

    2014 -

  • Death of a Salesman

    Arthur Miller

    1949 -

  • Notes From A Dead House

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    1862 -

  • Real Peace

    Richard Nixon

    1984 -

  • Stars In Their Courses

    The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863

    Shelby Foote

    1963 -

  • Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72

    Hunter S. Thompson

    1973 -

  • Zero K

    Don DeLillo

    2016 -

  • The Johnstown Flood

    The Story Behind The 1889 Disaster

    David McCullough

    1968 -

  • A Walk on the Wild Side

    Nelson Algren

    1956 -

  • The Jungle

    Upton Sinclair

    1906 -

  • Working

    People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

    Studs Terkel

    1974 -

  • Hells Angels

    The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs

    Hunter S. Thompson

    1966 -

  • Babbit

    Sinclair Lewis

    1922 -

  • Don’t Wait for the Next War

    A Strategy for American Growth and Global Leadership

    General (ret.) Wesley K. Clark

    2014 -

  • Here, There and Everywhere

    My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles

    Geoff Emerick

    2006 -

  • Sound Man

    A Life Recording Hits with The Stones, The Who and Led Zeppelin

    Glynn Johns

    2014 -

  • Waiting For Lefty

    And Other Plays

    Clifford Odets

    1937 -

  • The Big Rock Candy Mountain

    Wallace Stegner

    1943 -

  • Voices From Chernobyl

    The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

    Svetlana Alexievich

    1997 -

  • The Executioner’s Song

    Norman Mailer

    1979 -

  • Claudius The God

    And His Wife Messalina

    Robert Graves

    1935 -

  • The Imperial Presidency

    Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

    1973 -

  • Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey

    1840-1870

    Lillian Schlissel

    1992 -

34 Books Read, 2015

  • Harpo Speaks…About New York

    Adolph Marx

    1961 -

  • Not Too Old To Cut The Mustard

    Jumping Bill Carlisle & Friends Talk About His Life & the Country Music Business

    Anita Capps

    2000 -

  • The Prank

    The Best of Young Chekhov (1880-1882)

    Anton Chekhov

    2015 -

  • Polk

    The Man who Transformed the Presidency and America

    Walter K. Borneman

    2008 -

  • A Study In Scarlet

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    1878 -

  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    Thornton Wilder

    1928 -

  • In The Wake of the Plague

    The Black Death & the World it Made

    Norman Cantor

    2001 -

  • All Quiet on the Western Front

    Erich Maria Remarque

    1928 -

  • Libra

    Don DeLillo

    1988 -

  • Requiem For A Dream

    Hubert Selby, Jr.

    1978 -

  • Notes on the Death of Culture

    Essays on Spectacle and Society

    Mario Vargas Llosa

    2012 -

  • A Detailed Analysis of the Constitution

    Edward F. Cooke

    1958 -

  • Paterson

    Volumes I - V

    William Carlos Williams

    1946 -

  • Art & Physics

    Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light

    Leonard Schlain

    1991 -

  • The Story of a Bad Boy

    Thomas Bailey Aldrich

    1870 -

  • Independence Day

    Richard Ford

    1995 -

  • The Spectator Bird

    Wallace Stegner

    1976 -

  • O Pioneers!

    Willa Cather

    1913 -

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Harriet Jacobs

    1861 -

  • White Mule

    William Carlos Williams

    1937 -

  • The Time Machine

    H.G. Wells

    1895 -

  • The Haldeman Diaries

    Inside The Nixon White House

    H.R. Haldeman

    1993 -

  • Travels With Charley

    John Steinbeck

    1962 -

  • John Barleycorn

    Or, Alcoholic Memoirs

    Jack London

    1913 -

  • Law and the Nation

    1865 - 1912

    Jonathan Lurie

    1983 -

  • Days of Wine and Roses

    David Westheimer

    1962 -

  • One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn

    1963 -

  • That Man

    An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Robert H. Jackson

    1954 -

  • Harlot’s Ghost

    Norman Mailer

    1991 -

  • Looking Backward

    Edward Bellamy

    1888 -

  • Equus

    Peter Shaffer

    1973 -

  • Seven Plays

    Sam Shephard

    1981 -

  • A People’s History of the United States

    Howard Zinn

    1992 -

  • The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin

    Richard Lourie

    1999 -

34 Books Read, 2014

  • The Unvanquished

    William Faulkner

    1938 -

  • Blockade Diary

    Under Siege In Leningrad, 1941-1942

    Elena Kochina

    1990 -

  • The Luck of Roaring Camp

    And Other Stories

    Bret Harte

    1869 -

  • Groucho And Me

    The Autobiography

    Julius H. Marx

    1959 -

  • The Glass Cage

    Automation and Us

    Nicholas Carr

    2014 -

  • From Here To Eternity

    James Jones

    1951 -

  • The Zone of Interest

    Martin Amis

    2014 -

  • The Autobiography of Mark Twain

    1877-1910

    ed., Charles Neider

    1959 -

  • The Communist Manifesto

    Karl Marx + Frederick Engels

    1848 -

  • The Iron Heel

    Jack London

    1908 -

  • Slaughterhouse-Five

    Or, The Children's Crusade

    Kurt Vonnegut

    1966 -

  • It Can’t Happen Here

    Sinclair Lewis

    1935 -

  • Homer & Langley

    E. L. Doctorow

    2009 -

  • Plain Speaking

    An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman

    Merle Miller

    1974 -

  • From Eternity to Here

    The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time

    Sean Carroll

    2010 -

  • The Plot Against America

    Philip Roth

    2004 -

  • Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven

    ed., McSweeney's 45

    2013 -

  • Good Hunting

    An American Spymaster's Story

    Jack Devine

    2014 -

  • Bad Monkey

    Carl Hiaasen

    2013 -

  • All The King’s Men

    Robert Penn Warren

    1946 -

  • Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940

    How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

    David E. Kyvig

    2002 -

  • Morning And Noon

    A Memoir

    Dean Acheson

    1965 -

  • Killer Of Crying Deer

    William Orem

    2010 -

  • Barabbas

    Par Lagerkvist

    1950 -

  • The 480

    Eugene Burdick

    1964 -

  • Big Bets & Black Swans

    Policy Recommendations for President Obama in 2014

    ed., Brookings Institution

    2014 -

  • Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

    Philip K. Dick

    1974 -

  • The Friends of Eddie Coyle

    George V. Higgins

    1970 -

  • Nixonland

    The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

    Rick Perlstein

    2008 -

  • The Human Comedy

    William Saroyan

    1943 -

  • The Sportswriter

    Richard Ford

    1986 -

  • My Silent War

    The Autobiography of a Spy

    Kim Philby

    1968 -

  • Winesburg, Ohio

    A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life

    Sherwood Anderson

    1919 -

  • Frankenstein

    Or, The Modern Prometheus

    Mary Shelley

    1831 -

36 Books Read, 2013

  • The Crucible

    Arthur Miller

    1952 -

  • Last Exit To Brooklyn

    Hubert Selby, Jr.

    1957 -

  • Six Months In 1945

    FDR, Stalin, Churchill & Truman - from World War to Cold War

    Michael Dobbs

    2012 -

  • The Circle

    Dave Eggers

    2013 -

  • The Millennium

    A Comedy of the Year 2000

    Upton Sinclair

    1907 -

  • God’s Little Acre

    Erskine Caldwell

    1933 -

  • Return of the Thin Man

    Dashiell Hammett

    1935 -

  • NW

    Zadie Smith

    2012 -

  • Confederates in the Attic

    Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

    Tony Horwitz

    1998 -

  • I, Claudius

    From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius

    Robert Graves

    1934 -

  • Go East Young Man

    Short Stories on Class in America 1917-1931

    Sinclair Lewis

    2005 -

  • Dewey Defeats Truman

    Thomas Mallon

    1997 -

  • The Art of Intelligence

    Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service

    Henry A. Crumpton

    2012 -

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin

    Or, Life Among The Lowly

    Harriet Beecher Stowe

    1852 -

  • Visual Explanations

    Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

    Edward R. Tufte

    1997 -

  • A Democrat Looks At His Party

    Dean Acheson

    1955 -

  • The Wanting Seed

    Anthony Burgess

    1962 -

  • Flatland

    Edwin A. Abbott

    1884 -

  • Cosmopolis

    Don DeLillo

    2003 -

  • Sabbath’s Theater

    Philip Roth

    1995 -

  • London Fields

    Martin Amis

    1989 -

  • The Hunt For KSM

    Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind

    Terry McDermott and Josh Meyer

    2012 -

  • The Luck of Barry Lyndon

    William Makepeace Thackeray

    1844 -

  • Amity & Sorrow

    Peggy Riley

    2013 -

  • Affection and Trust

    Personal Correspondence, 1953-1971

    Harry S Truman and Dean Acheson

    2010 -

  • Fellow Travelers

    Thomas Mallon

    2006 -

  • Pakistan On The Brink

    The Future of America, Pakistan & Afghanistan

    Ahmed Rashid

    2012 -

  • The Good House

    Ann Leary

    2013 -

  • Freedom

    Jonathan Franzen

    2010 -

  • The Thin Red Line

    James Jones

    1962 -

  • Give Me Everything You Have

    On Being Stalked

    James Lasdun

    2013 -

  • Marjorie Morningstar

    Herman Wouk

    1955 -

  • Time’s Arrow

    Martin Amis

    1991 -

  • Junky

    William S. Burroughs

    1953 -

  • Hedy’s Folly

    The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr

    Richard Rhodes

    2011 -

  • Sunday Nights at Seven

    The Jack Benny Story

    Jack Benny

    1990 -

38 Books Read, 2012

  • American Nations

    A History of the 11 Rival Regional Cultures of North America

    Colin Woodard

    2011 -

  • Narcopolis

    Jeet Thayil

    2012 -

  • Escape From Camp 14

    One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

    Blaine Harden

    2012 -

  • Citizen Soldier

    A LIfe of Harry S Truman

    Aida D. Donald

    2012 -

  • Visual Strategies

    For Scientists & Engineers

    Felice C. Frankel & Angela H. DePace

    2012 -

  • A Farewell To Arms

    Ernest Hemingway

    1929 -

  • Cities of the Plain

    Cormac McCarthy

    1998 -

  • Swamplandia

    Karen Russell

    2011 -

  • Midnight Rising

    John Brown & the Raid that Sparked the Civil War

    Tony Horwitz

    2011 -

  • Envisioning Information

    Edward R. Tufte

    1990 -

  • Washington, D.C.

    A Novel

    Gore Vidal

    1967 -

  • Lionel Asbo

    State of England

    Martin Amis

    2012 -

  • Where’d You Go, Bernadette

    Maria Semple

    2012 -

  • The Counterlife

    Philip Roth

    1986 -

  • Complete Stories

    1943 - 1982

    Truman Capote

    2004 -

  • American Diplomacy

    George F. Kennan

    1952 -

  • Logavina Street

    Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood

    Barbara Demick

    1996 -

  • The Dictator’s Learning Curve

    Inside the Global Battle for Democracy

    William J. Dobson

    2012 -

  • Canada

    Richard Ford

    2012 -

  • The Education of a Typographer

    ed. Steven Heller

    2004 -

  • The Corrections

    Jonathan Franzen

    2001 -

  • Page One

    Inside the New York Times & the Future of Journalism

    ed. David Folkenflik

    2011 -

  • Mao II

    Don DeLillo

    1991 -

  • A Visit from the Goon Squad

    Jennifer Egan

    2010 -

  • The Years of Lyndon Johnson

    The Passage of Power

    Robert A. Caro

    2012 -

  • Grouped

    How Groups of Friends Influence the Social Web

    Paul Adams

    2012 -

  • The Angel Esmeralda

    Nine Stories

    Don DeLillo

    2011 -

  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

    Ken Kesey

    1962 -

  • The Best American Science Writing

    ed. Jesse Cohen

    2010 -

  • Watergate

    A Novel

    Thomas Mallon

    2011 -

  • The Design of Everyday Things

    Donald A. Norman

    1988 -

  • Satan Is Real

    The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers

    Charlie Louvin

    2011 -

  • The Cleanest Race

    How North Koreans See Themselves

    B.R. Myers

    2011 -

  • The Long Goodbye

    Raymond Chandler

    1953 -

  • The Orphan Master’s Son

    A Novel

    Adam Johnson

    2012 -

  • Sound Reporting

    The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production

    Jonathan Kern

    2008 -

  • The Hidden Reality

    Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

    Brian Greene

    2011 -

  • Reclaiming Fair Use

    How To Put Balance Back In Copyright

    Patricia Aufderheide & Peter Jaszi

    2011 -

38 Books Read, 2011

  • Night of Camp David

    Fletcher Knebel

    1966 -

  • Collected Works, The Screenplays Vol 2

    1971-1978

    Paddy Chayefsky

    1995 -

  • The Visual Miscellaneum

    David McCandless

    2009 -

  • Eisenhower

    The White House Years

    Jim Newton

    2011 -

  • I Married A Communist

    Philip Roth

    1998 -

  • Stasiland

    Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

    Anna Funder

    2002 -

  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

    Edward R. Tufte

    1981 -

  • The Art Of Creative Advertising

    Michael Antebi

    1968 -

  • Life In Year One

    What The World Was Like In First-Century Palestine

    Scott Korb

    2010 -

  • The Great American Novel

    Philip Roth

    1973 -

  • The Song of the Lark

    Willa Cather

    1915 -

  • You Are Not A Gadget

    A Manifesto

    Jaron Lanier

    2010 -

  • The Stranger

    Albert Camus

    1946 -

  • Famine Ship Diary

    The Journey of an Irish Coffin Ship

    Robert Whyte

    1847 -

  • White Noise

    Don Delillo

    1985 -

  • Nothing To Envy

    Ordinary Lives In North Korea

    Barbara Demick

    2010 -

  • Mr. Citizen

    Harry S Truman

    1960 -

  • The American Civil War

    A Military History

    John Keegan

    2009 -

  • The Boys of Summer

    Growing Up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field

    Roger Kahn

    1971 -

  • The Big Sleep

    Raymond Chandler

    1939 -

  • Augustus

    A Novel

    John Williams

    1972 -

  • Making Movies

    Sidney Lumet

    1995 -

  • The PEN/O Henry Prize Stories: 2011

    The Best Stories of the Year

    ed. Laura Furman

    2011 -

  • Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure

    Matthew Algeo

    2009 -

  • My Antonia

    Willa Cather

    1918 -

  • Bomb Power

    The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

    Garry Wills

    2010 -

  • Underworld

    Don Delillo

    1997 -

  • The Moviegoer

    Walker Percy

    1960 -

  • Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back

    Robert Penn Warren

    1980 -

  • The Next Decade

    Where We've Been..and Where We're Going

    George Friedman

    2011 -

  • Cognitive Surplus

    Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

    Clay Shirky

    2010 -

  • Change By Design

    How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations & Inspires Innovation

    Tim Brown

    2009 -

  • The Humbling

    Philip Roth

    2010 -

  • The Art of Immersion

    How the digital generation is remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the way we tell stories.

    Frank Rose

    2011 -

  • Chuck Amuck

    The Autobiography of Chuck Jones

    Chuck Jones

    1992 -

  • The Lost Peace

    Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953

    Robert Dallek

    2010 -

  • Cyber War

    The Next Threat to National Security

    Richard A. Clarke

    2010 -

  • Marshall McLuhan:

    You Know Nothing of My Work

    Douglas Coupland

    2010 -

36 Books Read, 2010

Books Read:
January 2010 — December 2023.

That's 1 book every 8.95 days or 3.4 books a month for 14 years.

Every title on this list is a 100% genuine book, of course.

That is to say, not one was consumed on a device.

Average year of publication? 1971.

Click Here for the big list of books.

NEW! Interactive Gallery: The Books I Read

Recently Added

carmoDynamics

All content on this website is © 2023 John Carmody, Washington, D.C.

contact