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On My Shelf
2008
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Part of my obsession with reading is mindlessly perusing the used bookstore for old books at good prices. I buy new books too, but I enjoy the intimate and historic feeling of reading a book printed during another era. From comic books to classic literature and poetry, I read for entertainment and to escape into an unfamiliar world. The knowledge gained is just a bonus. Below is my reading list for 2008, and my reviews as I finish each book.
My Bookshelf
Maps and Legends
Michael Chabon
The Outcry
Henry James
Devil May Care
Sebastian Faulks
Currently Reading
2008 Reading List (reviews in blue. I’ll add more as I have time)
Arts
Sinatra: The Life by Anthony Summers, Robbyn Swan
Business & Professional
The Economist Style Guide: 9th Edition
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty by Julia Flynn Siler
The Small-Mart Revolution by Michael Shuman
Fiction & Literature
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
What is What by Dave Eggers
You Shall Know our Velocity by Dave Eggers
The Delivery Man by Joe McGinnis Jr.
Ludmilla’s Broken English by DBC Pierre
People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
Blindness by José Saramango
History & Non-Fiction
Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left by David Crystal
Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power by John Steele Gordon
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Religion
Science
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Newest Review
Indecision
Benjamin Kunkel
