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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Reading, 2009

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I thought I read a lot of books this year until I read Robert Archambeau's list. Better than what I read this past year (which you probably already know too much about if you read this blog) is what I want to read next year. If you are reading any of these as well that may guide my reading.
  • The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
  • Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut
  • Anathem - Neil Stephenson (I'm still in the first hundred pages.)
  • Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce (started but failed to finish both of these in 2008)
  • more by Camus, probably at least The Fall and The Stranger
  • Demons and The Idiot by Dostoevsky (Camus inspired me to re-read these, still trying to get a handle on those crazy Russians)
  • Nietzsche - Karl Jaspers (Still in the first hundred pages of this as well.)
  • I and Thou - Martin Buber
  • Cycles of Conquest - Spicer
  • Huenemann's book on rationalism
  • The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
  • The Federalist Papers
  • correspondence between Adams and Jefferson
  • lots of poetry - I'm open to suggestions.
  • more essays by Orwell, Montaigne and Emerson
  • something by
    • Max Stirner
    • Stendhal
    • David Foster Wallace
    • Epicurus
    • Rousseau
    • Jung
    • Jorge Luis Borges