Reading List for 2009 (this list WILL NOT be revised throughout the year) 01/01/2010 04:29 PM
No Carry-overs to 2010. There will be no designated reading list for 2010.
From the 2009 Reading List, "The Year of Living Philosophically."
1. "The Story of Philosophy" by Will Durant (re-read)............................................................03/18/2009
2. "Six Great Ideas" by Mortimer Adler ...............................................................................
3. "Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy" by Eric G. Wilson ......................................04/02/2009
4. "On the Pleasures of Hating and Other Essays" by William Hazlitt ....................................03/24/2009
5. "Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics" by Simon Blackburn (re-read) ...................04/08/2009
6. "Why I Write" by George Orwell ...................................................................................01/26/2009
7. "Why I am So Wise" by Friedrich Nietzsche ..................................................................01/19/2009
8. "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" Alexander Solzhenitsyn ................................... 10/28/2009
9. "Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai" ...........................................................................10/14/2009
10. "The Diaries of Christopher Isherwood" by Christopher Isherwood ................................11/25/2009
11. "Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition" by Umberto Eco ...............07/04/2009
12. "Hurry Down Sunshine," by Michael Greenberg ............................................................12/09/2009
13. "Serendipity: Language and Lunacy" by Umberto Eco ...................................................07/29/2009
14. "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius (re-read) .................................................................. 01/16/2009
15. "The Human Stain" by Philip Roth .................................................................................12/08/2009
16. "Everyman" by Philip Roth ............................................................................................12/12/2009
17. "Portnoy's Complaint" by Philip Roth ............................................................................12/22/2009
18. "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon (re-read)....................................................01/01/2010
19. "Invisible" by Paul Auster .............................................................................................11/18/2009
2009 Books on Writing and Writing Well...
1--"The Power to Write" by Caroline Joy Adams ................................................................10/10/2009
2--"The Great Failure" by Natalie Goldberg .........................................................................(currently reading)
3--"Writing Dialogue" by Tom Chiarella ...............................................................................
4--"The Right to Write" by Julia Cameron ............................................................................
5--"Creating Character Emotions" by Ann Hood ..................................................................07/26/2009