... but I do keep track of all the books I've read. I rate them on a scale of 0-4+, so that when I get old(er) and (more) demented, I'll know which ones to re-read.
For the past 25 years, here are the 92 books I've rated 4+ (to be honest, it also includes a fair number of 3.5s), out of a total of 700+.
Year | Author | Title |
1990 ( of 26) | Ludlum | The Bourne Identity |
Ludlum | The Parsifal Mosaic | |
1991 (52) | Colin Watson | Hopjoy was Here |
Gerrold | The Man Who Folded Himself | |
Marquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude | |
1992 (63) | Boyer&Nissenbaum | Salem Possessed |
Weisman | Witchcraft, Magic and Religion in 17th century Massachusetts. | |
Frederic | The Damnation of Theron Ware | |
LeCarre | The Secret Pilgrim | |
Warren | Brother to Dragons | |
Clarke | Childhood's End | |
1993 (39) | None | |
1994 (44) | None | |
1995 (38) | Dickson | And So To Murder |
Paulson | Winterdance | |
Kersten | The Jesus Conspiracy | |
Huyghe | Columbus Was Last | |
Holand | Norse Discoveries & Explorations in America 982-1362 | |
1996 (28) | Bester | The Stars My Destination |
Fowles | A Maggot | |
Guthrie | The Big Sky | |
1997 (8) | None | |
1998 (13) | Krakauer | Into Thin Air |
Wahlgren | The Vikings and America | |
1999 (16) | Jewett | The country of the Pointed Firs |
Faulkner | Absalom Absalom (turgid and gloomy) | |
Hardy and Shaffer | The Wicker Man | |
2000 (4) | Teale, Edwin Way | A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm |
2001 (8) | Ryan & Pittman | Noah's Flood |
Lansing | Endurance | |
Mowat | The Alban Quest | |
2002 (19) | None | |
2003 (36) | Brown | Angels and Demons |
Hosseini | The Kite Runner | |
Warren | All the Kings Men | |
2004 (49) | Menzies | 1421 The Year China Discovered America |
Wodehouse | Bertie Wooster Sees It Through | |
Brown | Da Vinci Code | |
Hoffer | The True Believer | |
2005 (45) | Whitaker | The Mapmaker’s Wife |
Woodham-Smith | The Reason Why [Crimea, Light Brigade] | |
Ferguson | Naked to Mine Enemies, Volumes 1 and 2 | |
Lapham | Gag Rule. On the suppression of dissent | |
Powell | Bring Out Your Dead | |
2006 (35) | Grogan | Marley and Me |
Hanson | Confident Hope of a Miracle | |
Bamford | A Pretext for War | |
Needham | Science and Civilisation in China, Vol IV: 3 | |
Wright | The Looming Tower; Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 | |
Ryan | The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio | |
2007 (29) | Harris | Letter to a Christian Nation |
Setterfield | The Thirteenth Tale | |
Kinzer | Overthrow. America’s Century of Regime Change (skimmed) | |
Fothergill | Planet Earth | |
Shorto | The Island at the Center of the World [Manhattan] | |
McCarthy | The Road | |
Smith | When the Cheering Stopped | |
McCarthy | No Country for Old Men | |
2008 (30) | Hitchens | God is Not Great |
Nouvian | The Deep | |
Ballesta & Deschamp | Planet Ocean | |
Corrie | Let Me Stand Alone | |
Marent | Butterfly | |
McCarthy | Blood Meridian | |
Weiner | Legacy of Ashes | |
Winchester | Krakatoa; the Day the World Exploded | |
Schooler | Last Shot | |
2009 (31) | Wilson | How Jesus Became Christian |
Ehrman | Misquoting Jesus | |
Keys | Catastrophe | |
Zuckerman | Society without God | |
Nasrecki | The Smaller Majority (nature photos) | |
2010 (49) | Pears | An Instance of the Fingerpost |
Nicholls | Paradise Found: Nature in America at the time of discovery | |
Van Allsburg | The Mysteries of Harris Burdick | |
Ludlum | The Bourne Identity | |
Lester | The Fourth Part of the World | |
Gilder | Heavenly Intrigue [Kepler and Brahe] | |
Grann | The Lost City of Z | |
Holmes | The Age of Wonder | |
Bergreen | Over the Edge of the World [Magellan] | |
2011 (21) | Meldahl | Hard Road West |
Gaiman | Coraline | |
Winchester, Simon | The Alice Behind Wonderland | |
Severin | The Brendan Voyage | |
Seuss | The Bippolo Seed and Other Stories | |
Bryson | The Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way | |
Cohen | The Tree Army; a pictorial history of the CCC, 1933-1942 | |
2012 (18) | Mann | 1491 |
Millard | Destiny of the Republic [bio James Garfield] | |
Menzies | 1434; The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy… | |
Moon | Blue Highways | |
Feldman | When the Mississippi Ran Backwards | |
2013 (21) | Peskov | Lost in the Taiga |
Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | |
Mitchell | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob DeZoet | |
2014 (21) | Faulkner | As I Lay Dying |
Sometimes I post reviews in the recommended books category of this blog.
Please feel free to chime in with a comment about your favorite books.
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