2017

I read a lot of books.  Since so many other subscribers to this site are also big readers, I’ve decided to list out all the books I’ve read this year.  Not only that, but I’ll give a short little review of the books, maybe about 3-4 sentences.  I’ll keep updating this page with each book I finish as the year progresses.

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

The Odyssey by Homer

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Psycho by Robert Bloch

The Witches by Roald Dahl

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Hell House by Richard Matheson

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Logan’s Run by William F. Nolan

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

Writing Short Stories: The Most Practical Guide by William H. Phillips

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

The Twits by Roald Dahl

The Plague by Albert Camus

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Judy Blume

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Gardner

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

The Iliad by Homer

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J.K. Rowling

Tales of  Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick

Writing the Blockbuster Novel by Albert Zuckerman

Glengarry Glenn Ross by David Mamet

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Deenie by Judy Blume

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg

Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter

Forever…by Judy Blume

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker

Iggie’s House by Judy Blume

All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

Then Again, Maybe I Won’t by Judy Blume

Blubber by Judy Blume

Finding Your Writer’s Voice by Thaisa Frank

The Case for Democracy by Natan Sharansky

The BFG by Roald Dahl

The Republic by Plato

Matilda by Roald Dahl

How Not to Write a Novel by Howard Mittelmark

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

The Eumenides by Aeschylus

The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus

Agamemnon by Aeschylus

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

The Analects by Confucius 

Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Beowulf by Unknown

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut

A Room With A View by E.M. Forster

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Oedipus the King by Sophocles

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking

White Fang by Jack London

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West

On the Shortness of Life by Seneca the Younger

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut