Books I’ve finished reading. Current reading may be found on my “About” page. Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage On Christian Teaching by St Augustine The Dark Bible: Cultures of Interpretation in Early Modern England by Alison Knight The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II by Antony Beevor Lectures on Shakespeare by Wystan Hugh Auden Twilight of Authority by Robert Nisbet An Army at Dawn The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist The Uses of Pessimism by Roger Scruton The Republic of Plato by trans. Allan Bloom Lush Life A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu Duke Ellington's America by Harvey G. Cohen Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues by Albert Murray The Discourses by Niccolo Machiavelli Why I Am Not an Atheist: The Confessions of a Skeptical Believer by Christopher Beha Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner St. Matthew Passion by Gjertrud Schnackenberg Origin and Goal of History(Routledge Revivals) by Karl Jaspers The Way of Dante by Richard Hughes Gibson Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie Wondrous Strange by Kevin Bazzana Original Sin by P. D. James Some Sort of Epic Grandeur by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli Elia Kazan by Richard Schickel Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties by Foster Hirsch The Brothers Karamazov (Bicentennial Edition) by Fyodor Dostoevsky Questioning Minds by Guy Davenport Feet Of Clay by Terry Pratchett Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Newman Silent Spring Revolution by Douglas Brinkley Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! by Bob Stanley The Rhapsodes by David Bordwell Why Christians Should Be Leftists by PHIL. CHRISTMAN 4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie The Fires of Moloch by Timothy Larsen Make Me Commissioner by Jane Leavy Breakneck by Dan Wang Candide by Francois Voltaire Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors by Peter Bogdanovich The Big Goodbye by Sam Wasson Empire of Dreams by Scott Eyman Have You Seen? by David Thomson Unfinished Business: Memoirs 1902-1988 by John Houseman 'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' by Geoff Dyer The Man Born to Be King by Dorothy L. Sayers Dubliners by James Joyce Christine Falls by Benjamin Black The Tenants of Time by Thomas Flanagan We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole Fritz Lang by Patrick McGilligan The Emperor Constantine by Dorothy L. Sayers Julian by Philip Freeman Eamon de Valera by Ronan Fanning The Magic of Code by Samuel Arbesman The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov Paradise Lost by Alan Jacobs Buckley by Sam Tanenhaus The Duel by John Lukacs Nero Wolfe by Rex Stout Death at the President's Lodging by MICHAEL. INNES Uncle Fred in the Springtime by P. G. Wodehouse The Silent Speaker by Rex Stout Poet in the New World by Czeslaw Milosz Not Quite Dead Enough by Rex Stout Black Orchids by Rex Stout Where There's a Will by Rex Stout Over My Dead Body by Rex Stout Some Buried Caesar by Rex Stout The Rubber Band/The Red Box 2-in-1 by Rex Stout They Do It with Mirrors by Agatha Christie Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie What in Me Is Dark by Orlando Reade English History 1914-1945 by A. J. P. Taylor Fantasy by Adam C. Roberts The Last King of America by Andrew Roberts Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod John & Paul by Ian Leslie The Mouthless Dead by Anthony Quinn Silence: A Novel by Shūsaku Endō The Enlightenment by J. C. D. CLARK The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier COLLECTED POEMS by JOHN BETJEMAN Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Betjeman by A. N. Wilson The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh Green Tea by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Perplexing Plots by David Bordwell Lonely Magdalen by Henry Wade The Wind Blows Death by Cyril Hare Antidote to Venom by Freeman Wills Crofts Leaves of Healing by MATT. MILLER Danse Macabre by Stephen King With a Bare Bodkin by Cyril Hare Eyes Wide Open by Frederic Raphael The Mind in Exile by Stanley Corngold The Magic Hours by John Bleasdale Fearful Symmetry by Northrop Frye In Search of the Dark Ages by Michael Wood The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke Wagner's Parsifal by Roger Scruton J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) by Walter Mosley The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1) by Patricia Highsmith Triumph and Tragedy by Winston S. Churchill Closing the Ring by Winston S. Churchill The Hinge of Fate by Winston S. Churchill The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill Their Finest Hour by Winston S. Churchill The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1) by Seishi Yokomizo Nixon Agonistes by Garry Wills Maigret and the Headless Corpse by Georges Simenon Maigret's Memoirs by Georges Simenon Raymond Chandler: Stories & Early Novels (LOA #79) by Raymond Chandler John Henry Newman by Frank M. Turner The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett Passions of the Soul by Rowan Williams The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates A Murder of Quality by John le Carré Call for the Dead by John le Carré The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers The Best of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton The Age of Illusion by Ronald 1922- Blythe Persian Letters by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu France on Trial by Julian Jackson The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift The Seven-per-cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts Four Sacred Plays by Dorothy L Sayers The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout Maigret and the Man on the Bench by Georges Simenon Maigret Takes a Room by Georges Simenon Maigret and the Minister by Georges Simenon The Late Monsieur Gallet by Georges Simenon Twilight of the Gods by Ian W Toll The Conquering Tide by Ian W Toll Pacific Crucible by Ian W. Toll The First World War by John Keegan The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Age of Illusion by Ronald Blythe The Long Week-end by Robert Graves History of England (6 volumes) by David Hume Moonbound by Robin Sloan Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James Charmed Lives by Michael Korda Vows by Cheryl Mendelson Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion The Devil's Candy by Julie Salamon The Studio by John Gregory Dunne West of Eden by Jean Stein Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie Agatha Christie by Laura Thompson The David Story by Robert Alter Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2 : 1966-2021 by Clinton Heylin Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens The Double Life of Bob Dylan by Clinton Heylin The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson World War II writings by A. J. Liebling The Light and the Dark by C. P. Snow The People's War by Angus Calder Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard The Search by C.P. Snow 3 Shades of Blue by James Kaplan Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot Peace by Gene Wolfe The Red Pavilion by Robert van Gulik Pax by Tom Holland Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1944-1950 : a noble daring by Dorothy Leigh Sayers The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers by Dorothy Leigh Sayers The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers by Dorothy Leigh Sayers Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers The Moonstone (Penguin Classics) by Wilkie Collins That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders Hollywood: The Oral History by Jeanine Basinger Maximus Confessor by Maximus (Confessor) Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love by Augustine of Hippo Art and Scholasticism by Jacques Maritain Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayers The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 1923 by Mark William Jones Thomas Mann's War by Tobias Boes London Match by Len Deighton Mexico Set by Len Deighton The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner Berlin Game by Len Deighton The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin Easy Riders Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts Diaries and Letters, 1939-1945 by Harold Nicolson The Corner that Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner Picture by Lillian Ross Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney The world of Odysseus by M. I. Finley On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky What They Heard by Luke Meddings Middlemarch by George Eliot Air Guitar by Dave Hickey The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate by Adam Roberts Egypt of the Pharaohs by Alan Henderson Gardiner Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald On Liberty and the Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill Henri Cartier-Bresson by Henri Cartier-Bresson Fear And Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers Myth by G. S. Kirk Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane , 1775-1817 Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead Truffaut by Antoine de Baecque Mort by Terry Pratchett Rock 'n' Roll by Tom Stoppard Jung on Mythology by C. G. Jung The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel by Matt Zoller Seitz Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau Bob Dylan by Jonathan Cott Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories Vol. 1 (LOA #296): Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / ... of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition) by Ursula K. Le Guin American Babylon by Richard John Neuhaus Dinner with Lenny by Jonathan Cott Small Town Talk by Barney Hoskyns You never give me your money by Peter Doggett A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey Striding Folly by Dorothy L. Sayers The Hopkins Manuscript by R.C. Sherriff Ways of Being by James Bridle Farthing by Jo Walton The Meaning of the City by Jacques Ellul Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy L Familiar Spirits by Alison Lurie Emma by Jane Austen How to watch a movie by David Thomson The Way Hollywood Tells it by David Bordwell The Classical Hollywood Cinema by David Bordwell War and Peace by Nigel Hamilton Commander in Chief by Nigel Hamilton The Mantle Of Command by Nigel Hamilton The Sphinx by Nicholas Wapshott In Command of History by David Reynolds The Gathering Storm by Winston S. Churchill Bleak House by Charles Dickens Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin Farewell the Trumpets by James Morris Pax Britannica the Climax of an Empire by James Morris City of God by Augustine of Hippo Heaven's Command by Jan Morris coast to coast Mozart by Jan Swafford Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia (LOA #281) by Ursula K. Le Guin The City & the City by China Miéville Mao II by Don DeLillo The Spirit of Early Christian Thought by Robert Louis Wilken The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand A Murder Is Announced: A Miss Marple Mystery by Agatha Christie Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965 (LOA #330) by Richard Hofstadter Libra by Don DeLillo Heidegger in Ruins by Richard Wolin Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15) by Ralph Waldo Emerson Clockwork, Or, All Wound Up by Philip Pullman Raymond Chandler: the Library of America Edition by Raymond Chandler Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Looking for the Good War by Elizabeth D. Samet Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie Leopoldstadt by TOM. STOPPARD Reporting World War II: The 75th Anniversary Edition: A Library of America Boxed Set by Anne Matthews Charles Ives by Jan Swafford The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula K. Le Guin Chalk by Joshua Rivkin The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Sixth Edition by David Thomson Paul and the Faithfulness of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #4) by N.T. Wright The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control by George Dyson Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary by David Hume The Virginian by Owen Wister Resisting the Bonhoeffer Brand by Charles Marsh Wild Thought: A New Translation of “La Pensée sauvage” by Claude Lévi-Strauss Wildwood by Roger Deakin The Age of Eisenhower by William I Hitchcock Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban Dreams of El Dorado by H. W. Brands The Earliest English Poems by Michael J. Alexander The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin Weight of Glory by C. S. Lewis Once and Forever by Kenji Miyazawa The Annotated Hobbit by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien William Blake vs the World by John Higgs Winters in the World by Eleanor Parker Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction by Brian Dillon The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany Phantastes by George MacDonald The Sense of an Ending by Frank Kermode The Secret Gospel of Mark by Geoffrey S. Smith Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life by Albert Borgmann For Keeps by Pauline Kael A Christmas carol and other Christmas books by Charles Dickens Why We Drive by Matthew B. Crawford The Way Home by Mark Boyle End Of The End Of The Earth by Franzen Twilight of the Gods by Ian W. Toll Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band by Simon Callow Giant by Don Graham The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology by Tom Shippey The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume II: 1940–1973 (The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, 2) by W. H. Auden Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume I: 1927–1939 (The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, 1) by W. H. Auden The Time Machine by H. G. Wells Gnostic Religion by Hans Jonas Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946 by Gary Giddins Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-the Early Years, 1903-1940 by Gary Giddins The Moving Finger (Miss Marple) by Agatha Christie Making Movies by Sidney Lumet Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston A Room of One's Own (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf Tono-Bungay (Penguin Classics) by H. G. Wells The Control of Nature by John McPhee The Code of The Woosters (Jeeves & Wooster) Wodehouse, P G by P G Wodehouse The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien Monster by John Gregory Dunne Stone Age Economics (Routledge Classics) by Marshall Sahlins History of England (Volume I) by David Hume A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography (New York Review Books Classics) by A.J.A. Symons Death Be Not Proud by David Marno Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot In Patagonia (Penguin Classics) by Bruce Chatwin Heaven's Command by Jan Morris coast to coast France and England in North America by Francis Parkman Unattainable Earth, by Czeslaw Milosz The Moonstone (Penguin Classics) by Wilkie Collins The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler Superinfinite by Katherine Rundell The Moviegoer by Walker Percy C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems by C. P. Cavafy Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West by Wallace Stegner Awakenings by Oliver Sacks Orson Welles, Volume 2: Hello Americans by Simon Callow Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris English Pastoral: An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks Our Mutual Friend (Oxford Illustrated Dickens) by Charles Dickens Freud: The Making of an Illusion by Frederick Crews Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud A Preface to Paradise Lost by C.S. Lewis Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California by Matthew Specktor In the blink of an eye by Walter Murch The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen The Recognitions (New York Review Books Classics) by William Gaddis The Kindness of Strangers (New York Review Books Classics) by Salka Viertel Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a Young Writer’s Life by Dana Gioia The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner by Wallace Stegner The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories (The Schocken Kafka Library) by Franz Kafka Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls by Edmund Wilson Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography by Edward Mendelson The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne Universal Man: The Lives of John Maynard Keynes by Richard Davenport-Hines The War of the Worlds (Signet Classics) by H. G. Wells Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris The Gathering Storm (The Second World War) by Winston S. Churchill Death and the King's Horseman: A Play by Wole Soyinka Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow Purity: A Novel by Franzen The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald Science and Government by C. P. Snow The Invisible Man (Signet Classics) by H. G. Wells The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America) by James Baldwin The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald Thomas Mann's War by Tobias Boes The Woman in White (Penguin Classics) by Wilkie Collins Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray by Ralph Ellison The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro War and Peace (Signet Classics) by Leo Tolstoy Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh by Thomas S. Kidd Good Morning Blues by Albert Murray John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought by Gordon Campbell Tristes Tropiques (Penguin Classics) by Claude Levi-Strauss David Copperfield (Oxford Illustrated Dickens) by Charles Dickens Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton by Nicholas McDowell Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson) by Robert A. Caro Beyond Nature and Culture by Philippe Descola And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn The Complete Short Novels (Дуэль / Моя жизнь / Рассказ неизвестного человека / Степь / Три года) by Антон Павлович Чехов Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup by Peter Doggett The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood by David Thomson Lucky Per (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) by Henrik Pontoppidan Anarchy and Christianity by Jacques Ellul The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV by Robert A. Caro The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies by David Thomson The Best and the Brightest: Kennedy-Johnson Administrations (Modern Library) by David Halberstam The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo The This by Adam Roberts Master Of The Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro Their Finest Hour (The Second World War) by Winston S. Churchill The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie Space Odyssey by Michael Benson Picture by Lillian Ross Constellations by Govert Schilling The This by Adam Roberts Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer The Wood that Built London by C. J. Schüler Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Interaction of Color by Josef Albers Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs (LOA #284) by Albert Murray The Railway Children Illustrated by E Nesbit London by Roy Porter Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year by Steve Turner The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume III: Prose: 1949-1955 by W. H. Auden
