These are the Books I read in 2006
- William Shakespeare – King Lear
- Hardin Craig – The Enchanted Glass: The Renaissance Mind in English Literature
- Justus Lipsius – De Constantia
- Arthur Quinn – Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to Turn a Phrase
- Friedrich Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil
- Kishore Mahbubani – Can Asians Think?
- Alan Warren – Singapore 1942: Britain’s Greatest Defeat
- William Shakespeare – Julius Caesar
- Hywel Williams – Britain’s Power Elites: The Rebirth of a Ruling Class (Guardian Review)
- William Shakespeare – The Taming of the Shrew
- Brenda James & William Rubinstein – The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare (henryneville.com)
- William Shakespeare – Anthony & Cleopatra
- Lisa Jardine & Alan Stewart – Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon, 1561-1626
- G. G. Harrison – Introducing Shakespeare (…by way of a contrast to “The Truth Will Out”…)
- William Shakespeare – The Comedy of Errors
- Virginia Woolf – Orlando (Last read it when I was 17… Great opening chapter.)
- John Roe – Shakespeare and Machiavelli
- Edmund Blunden – A Wanderer in Japan
- Natsume Souseki – Botchan (Last read it in 1991… This time round I read an entertaining colloquial American “Devil-may-care” translation.)
- Patrick Leigh Fermor – A Time of Gifts (Read about PLF in this Criterion article by Ben Downing.)
- Anthony Browne – Do We Need Mass Immigration?
- Dave Barry – Dave Barry Does Japan
- Patrick Leigh Fermor – Between the Woods and the Water
- Georges Sorel – Reflections on Violence
- Walter Kaufmann – Discovering the Mind: Goethe, Kant & Hegel
- P. G. Wodehouse – The Heart of a Goof
- Robert N. Huey – Kyogoku Tamekane: Poetry & Politics in Late Kamakura Japan
- Germaine Greer – The Female Eunuch
- Mark Lilla – The Reckless Minds: Intellectuals in Politics
- Ooka Makoto – Love Songs from the Manyoshu, with illustrations by Miyata Masayuki
- P. G. Wodehouse – Leave it to Psmith
Poetry 2006
- Alfred Lord Tennyson – Locksley Hall
- William Shakespeare – The Phoenix and the Turtle
- William Shakespeare – A Lover’s Complaint
- William Shakespeare – The Rape of Lucrece
Essays and Pamphlets 2006
- Roger Scruton – England and The Need for Nations (Published by Civitas)
- Raymond Chapman – A Godly and Decent Order
- Roger Homan – What Has The Beautiful to Do with The Holy?
- Margot Thomson – The Prayer Book, Shakespeare and the English Language
- Samuel P. Huntington – The Clash of Civilizations
- John Bernard – Writing and the paradox of the self: Machiavelli’s literary vocation (“…the inventive plasticity of the writer is grounded in the inherent stability of the creative self.”)
Audio Books
- William Shakespeare – Julius Caesar (unabridged)
- William Shakespeare – The Taming of the Shrew (unabridged)
- William Shakespeare – Anthony & Cleopatra (unabridged)
- William Shakespeare – The Comedy of Errors (unabridged)
- William Shakespeare – Two Gentlemen of Verona (unabridged)
- William Shakespeare – The Rape of Lucrece (unabridged. Narrated by David Ian Davies but with one verse missing and several lapses and choppy editing…)
Books I looked into in 2006
- Matt Berry – Self-Behaviourism: The Role of Repetition in the Meaning of Life
- R. R. Fennessy – Burke, Paine, and the Rights of Man
- Thomas Carlyle – Heroes and Hero Worship
- Richard Temple – Icons and the Mystical Origins of Christianity
- St. Augustine – On Christian Doctrine
- Simon de Beauvoir – The Ethics of Ambiguity
- Ernest Gellner – Nations and Nationalism
- Max Weber – Politics as a Vocation
- Kenneth Burke – Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose
- Hugh Grady – Shakespeare, Machiavelli, & Montaigne
- Steven Ozment – A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People (“History in English” with Dr. Mogami)
- Raymond Tallis – Enemies of Hope: A Critique of Contemporary Pessimism
- Erich Auerbach – Mimesis