Reading: 2006

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