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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Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Art of Always Being Right by Arthur Schopenhauer
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande
Creating Characters: How to Build Story People by Dwight V. Swain
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
St. Augustine in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams
The Scope of Fiction by Cleanth Brooks
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Short Story, A Critical Introduction by Valerie Shaw
The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
Reflections in A Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
Aristotle in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything by E. Lockhart
The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton
Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories by William Trevor
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Middle Earth: Poems by Henri Cole
Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci
All the Beloved Ghosts by Alison Macleod
Beginnings, Middles and Ends by Nancy Kress
The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
Lucky Alan and Other Stories by Jonathan Lethem
Characters and Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card
The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen by Robert Mckee
Best American Short Stories 2016
Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
Plato in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Best American Short Stories 2015