As those of you who’ve been following this blog over its 10-year life span know, I have the admittedly self-indulgent habit of publishing the list of books I read in a given year. I would give all the gold in the world to see the list of books my parents and grandparents read. When I read a book I know someone in my family read, I know I am hiking on a trail of words they hiked before me. It’s a nice feeling. I miss them all, beyond the reach of any words ever written.
- The English Major, by Jim Harrison
- Greenwich, by Howard Fast
- The Sportswriter, by Richard Ford
- Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley
- Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual, by Nicholas Murray
- The Big Seven, by Jim Harrison
- Appointment in Samarra, by John O’Hara
- The Great Leader, by Jim Harrison
- The Summer He Didn’t Die, by Jim Harrison
- The African Queen, by C.S. Forester
- The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2), by Agatha Christie
- Legends of the Fall, by Jim Harrison
- Break In (Kit Fielding, #1), by Dick Francis
- The River Swimmer: Novellas, by Jim Harrison
- The Ancient Minstrel: Novellas, by Jim Harrison
- Letting Go, by Philip Roth
- The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
- The Go-Between, by L.P. Hartley
- Everybody’s Fool, by Richard Russo
- A Question of Upbringing (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1), by Anthony Powell
- Dangerous Davies, the Last Detective, by Leslie Thomas
- The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13), by Agatha Christie
- A Buyer’s Market (A Dance to the Music of Time #2), by Anthony Powell
- Dangerous In Love, by Leslie Thomas
- The Acceptance World (A Dance to the Music of Time, #3), by Anthony Powell
- Can You Forgive Her?, Volume I, by Anthony Trollope
- At Lady Molly’s (A Dance to the Music of Time, #4), by Anthony Powell
- Dangerous By Moonlight, by Leslie Davies
- Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant (A Dance to the Music of Time, #5), by Anthony Powell
- What’s Become of Waring, by Anthony Powell
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