Steve Reads

A few years ago I decided that there were too many books on my bookshelf that I hadn’t read; I decided that if it was to be on my shelf, it would be a book I’d finished. So I set aside the stack of books that I hadn’t read, after selling off those I knew I’d never read, and ended up with a fairly substantial pile. I’ve read some on that pile, and I’ve added some more to it. Here’s the pile as it stands today; hopefully I’ll whittle it down this year:

• Dan T. Carter. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
• Robert Fisk. Pity The Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon
• Richard McKeon (ed.). The Basic Works Of Aristotle
• John Stuart Mill. The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, The Subjection of Women & Utilitarianism
• Walter Kaufmann (ed.). Basic Writings of Nietzsche
• Rohinton Mistry. Such A Long Journey
• Mark Mazower. Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century
• Salman Rushdie. Shalimar The Clown
• James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Gayatri Chatterjee. Mother India
• Virginia Woolf. To The Lighthouse
• Walter Kaufmann (translator). Goethe's Faust
• Barbara Kingsolver. The Bean Trees
• Barbara Kingsolver. Animal Dreams
• Barbara Ehrenreich. Bait and Switch
• Husain Haddawy (translator). The Arabian Nights
• Richard Feynman. The Character of Physical Law
• John Milton. Paradise Lost
• Kazuo Ishiguro. Never Let Me Go
• Gabriel García Márquez. No One Writes To The Colonel
• William Faulkner. Absalom, Absalom!
• Marcel Proust. Swann's Way
• Robert C. Tucker (ed.). The Marx-Engels Reader (on loan from Adam Rosi-Kessel)
• Robert Fagles (translator). The Odyssey
• Richard Feymann. QED
• Carl B. Boyer. The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development
• Søren Kierkegaard. Fear & Trembling and Repetition

P.S.: I just noticed that I had Don Quixote on my shelf without having read it. However, I did give it “the old college try” a while back, and found it pretty pointless and boring. Having read Ulysses, I think I'm now done with reading books just for the sake of having said I read them, so Don Quixote goes on the to-sell pile.