One Year's Reading (3 cents)

One advantage of this blog, is that I can look back and see what I have read over the past year. Another, is that I have read quite a bit, because I did not want to embarrass myself in the blog.

Here goes:

Adamson, J.H. and H. F. Holland: The Shepherd of the Ocean (Sir Walter Raleigh)
Berg, A. Scott: Lindberg
Bergin, Michael: The Other Man (John Kennedy Jr.'s rival)
Brookhiser, Richard: The Adamses
Brown, Dan: The da Vinci Code (fiction)
Brown, Gordon: Toussaint's Clause (Haiti)
Cellini, Benvenuto: Memoirs
Demetz, Peter: Prague in Black and Gold
Didion, Joan: The Year of Magical Thinking (After the death of her husband)
Dukakis, Kitty: Now You Know (addiction and politics)
Feldman, Noah: Divided by God (religion in the U.S.)
Feliciano, Hector: The Lost Museum (Nazis and art)
Fleming, Peter: One's Company (China before the Communists)
Foer, Jonathan Safran: Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close (fiction)
Goldemberg, Isaac: The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner (fiction)
Gould, Stephen Jay: Full House (evolution and clear thinking)
Gray, Spalding: Impossible Vacation (fictionalized memoir)
Grimes, Martha: Jerusalem Inn (stopped) (mystery)
Hakakian, Roya: Journey from the Land of No (Iran)
Haliburton, Richard: The Glorious Adventure (Trail of Odysseus)
Holland, Tom: Rubicon (Rome)
Jackson, Hampden: Clemenceau and the Third Republic
Josephy, Alvin: A Walk Toward Oregon (memoirs)
Kaufman, Jonathan: The Hole in the Heart of the World (post-WWII Eastern Europe)
Kempe, Frederick: Father/Land (Germany today)
Kertesz, Imre: Fatelessness (fictionalized memoir)
Kincaid, Jamaica: Autobiography of My Mother (fiction)
Klass, Rosanne: Land of the High Flags (Afghanistan)
Krause, Nicole: A Man Walked in the Door (fiction)
Krause, Nicole: History of Love (fiction)
Kurzman, Dan: No Greater Glory (the four chaplains)
Law-Yone, Wendy: The Coffin Tree (fiction)
Levy, Adrian and Catherine Scott-Clark: The Amber Room (art and Nazis)
Lipstadt, Deborah: History on Trial (holocaust deniers)
Massey, Sujata: The Floating Girl (mystery)
McMillan, Terry: How Stella Got Her Groove Back (fiction)
McMillan, Terry: Waiting to Exhale (stopped) (fiction)
Miller, Kristie: Isabella Greenway (Arizona politician and activist)
Miller, : Lee Miller (photographer)
Mingus, Sue: Tonight at Noon (memoirs of musician's widow)
Moore, Robert: A Time to Die (the sinking of the Soviet ship 'Kurtsk')
Mordaunt, Elinor: The Venture Book (traveling the south Pacific)
Morrison, John: Boris Yeltsin
Neiman, Susan: Slow Fire (Germany today)
O'Foalain, Nuala: My Dream of You (fiction)
Pinsky, Robert: David (stopped) (the biblical king)
Poniatowska, Eleana: Tinisima (fiction based on Communist/photographer)
Pucci, Idanna: The Trials of Maria Barbella (first woman facing capital punishment)
Puhan, Alfred: THe Cardinal in the Chancery (Mindzentsy in Budapest)
Rubin, Nancy: [biogaphy of Marjorie Merriwether Post]
Russert, Tim: Big Russ and Me (memoirs)
Rux, Carl: Asphalt (fiction)
Ryan, Cornelius and Katherine: Private Battles (writer struggling with cancer)
Seth, Vikram: Two Lives (Indian uncle/Jewish aunt)
Seymour, Miranda: The Bugatti Queen (French racer)
Sholem, Gershon: From Berlin to Jerusalem (memoirs of Jewish scholar)
Shreve, Susan Richards: The Train Home (fiction)
Sutton, Nina: [biography of Bruno Bettelheim]
Talarigo, Jeff: The Pearl Diver (fiction)
Thomas, Lowell: Back to Mandalay (flying the Burma hump)
Thubron, Colin: Siberia (travels)
Vrettos, Theodore: A Shadow of Magnitude (the Elgin marbles)
Walker, Rebecca: Black, White and Jewish (memoirs/Alice Walker's daughter)
Wex, Michael: Born to Kvetch (about the Yiddish language)
Wiesel, Elie: The Time of the Uprooted (fiction)
Williams, Kayla: Love My Rifle More Than You (female soldier in Iraq)
Williams, Wythe: Riddle of the Reich (Nazi Germany)
Wills, Gary: Under God (America and religion: quirks)
Wise, James Waterman: Liberalizing Liberal Judaism (Rabbi Stephen Wise's son)

Whew!