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
- F. I. Prince – A Walk in Rome
Audiobooks 2005
- William Shakespeare – King Lear (with Paul Scofield as Lear)
- John Milton – Paradise Lost read by Anton Lesser (Abridged. Naxos. 3CDs)
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