Books to Read Starting in 2015
A Bright Shining Lie
Neil SheehanA Death in the Family
James Agee (read 12-18)A Passage to India
E. M. Forster (read 6-16)A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold (3-16)Andersonville
MacKinlay KantorBury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Dee BrownGodel, Escher, Bach
Douglas HofstadterGreat River
Paul HorganJane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte (4-16)John James Audubon: The Making of an American
Richard Rhodes (4-16)The Aeneid
VirgilThe Age of Jackson
Arthur SchlesingerThe Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey ChaucerThe Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams (4-15)The Golden Notebook
Doris LessingThe Tale of Genji
Murasaki ShikibuThe Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera (1-16)Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Samuel BeckettWatership Down
Richard Adams (5-16)Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis (2-15)
Five More Books that Just Missed the Cut
Parzival, by Wolfram von Eschenbach
Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William Shirer
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I went a little crazy with my third decade list, and – instead of parceling them out – read half the books in the first year alone. Here it is only the middle of the decade, and I’m basically done with the list.
Time – despite what the calendar says – to start a new decade.