Reading: 2005

Here are the books I read in 2005, beginning with Simon Goldhill’s Love, Sex & Tragedy:

Simon Goldhill – Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives
G. K. Chesterton – The Napoleon of Notting Hill
D. E. S. Maxwell – The Poetry of T. S. Eliot
Andrew Roberts – Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership
Evelyn Underhill – The Mystic Way
Thomas Pynchon – The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon – V
Grahame Greene – The Quiet American
Irvine Welsh – Glue
John Cornwell – Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
Carlo Suares – The Cipher of Genesis (See www.psyche.com for info about Suares.)
Paul Bloomfield – Disraeli (One of the Writers & their Work series, No. 138)
Willy Maley – Nation, State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature
David Cannadine – Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire
Jefferson Humphries – The Red and the Black: Mimetic Desire and the Myth of Celebrity
Robert D. Kaplan – The Coming Anarchy (I first read it in 2002.)
Dan Kurzman – Day of the Bomb: Countdown to Hiroshima
Peter Dixon – Rhetoric
Henry Fielding – Shamela
Albert Speer – Inside the Third Reich
Christopher Lee – This Sceptred Isle (History Class textbook.)
Richard A. Lanham – The Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance
Jacob Feis – Shakespeare and Montaigne
David Doucette – Strong at the Broken Places – (This is the first novel of a former colleague of mine who worked as an English teacher at Lang Education Centre, Hiroshima.)

Poetry 2005

Audiobooks 2005