2013 Books Read

Great

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Francis Bacon - Novum Organum
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Cicero -- On the Nature of the Gods
Bernal Diaz - Conquest of New Spain
Graham Greene - The Comedians
Graham Greene -- The Captain and the Enemy
Hesiod -- Works and Days, Theogony
Homer -- The Odyssey
Lucan - Pharsalia
Livy -- History of Rome, Books I-V
Giuseppe Mazzotta - The New Map of the World: Vico's Poetic Philosophy
Frank Miller -- The Dark Knight Returns
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Plato - Gorgias
Calvin Seerveld -- A Christian Critique of Art and Literature
Seneca - Selected Letter and Writings
William Shakespeare - Coriolanus; Antony and Cleopatra; As You Like It; A Winter's Tale; Twelfth Night; The Tempest; King Lear
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
Booth Tarkington - The Magnificent Ambersons
Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Unknown -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Giambattista Vico -- New Science
Evelyn Waugh - Scoop

Very Good

Alain-Fournier - Le Grand Meaulnes
Augustine -- On Christian Doctrine
Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles
Pierre Boulle -- Planet of the Apes
Eugene Genovese - Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
David Goodis - Dark Passage
Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker
Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Calvin Seerveld - Rainbows for the Fallen World
Mark Twain -- Puddn'head Wilson
Giambattista Vico - Autobiography
Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome
Gene Wolfe -- Litany of the Long Sun [first half of Book of the Long Sun]

Pretty Good

Rene de Chateaubriand - Atala/Rene
Chris Hedges - What Every Person Should Know About War
Jeff Lemire -- The Underwater Welder
Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Agnes of Sorrento 
David Wittenberg - Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative
Albert Wolters -- Creation Regained

Okay

Aristotle - Physics
Francis Bacon - New Atlantis
Willa Cather - The Professor's House
Richard Mouw - Abraham Kuyper: A Short and Personal Introduction
Phillip Round - Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880

Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer, Detective
Michael Zakim - Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic


Ugh
Frederic Jameson - Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
Graham Priest - Logic: A Very Short Introduction
Gene Wolfe - Epiphany of the Long Sun [second half of Book of the Long Sun]

All of the Above
Robert Coover - The Universal Baseball Association
John Locke -- Second Treatise on Government
Lucretius - On the Nature of Things
Thomas More - Utopia
Christopher Priest - The Islanders

Read Aloud
Richard and Florence Atwater - Mr. Popper's Penguins (dumb)
L. Frank Baum - The Emerald City of Oz (very good)
Roald Dahl - The BFG (fun, kept 4 year olds engaged)
JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit (Elias' favorite book so far)