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.

1. The English Major, by Jim Harrison
2. Greenwich, by Howard Fast
3. The Sportswriter, by Richard Ford
4. Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley
5. Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual, by Nicholas Murray
6. The Big Seven, by Jim Harrison
7. Appointment in Samarra, by John O’Hara
8. The Great Leader, by Jim Harrison
9. The Summer He Didn’t Die, by Jim Harrison
10. The African Queen, by C.S. Forester
11. The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2), by Agatha Christie
12. Legends of the Fall, by Jim Harrison
13. Break In (Kit Fielding, #1), by Dick Francis
14. The River Swimmer: Novellas, by Jim Harrison
15. The Ancient Minstrel: Novellas, by Jim Harrison
16. Letting Go, by Philip Roth
17. The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
18. The Go-Between, by L.P. Hartley
19. Everybody’s Fool, by Richard Russo
20. A Question of Upbringing (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1), by Anthony Powell
21. Dangerous Davies, the Last Detective,  by Leslie Thomas
22. The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13), by Agatha Christie
23. A Buyer’s Market (A Dance to the Music of Time #2), by Anthony Powell
24. Dangerous In Love, by Leslie Thomas
25. The Acceptance World (A Dance to the Music of Time, #3), by Anthony Powell
26. Can You Forgive Her?, Volume I, by Anthony Trollope
27. At Lady Molly’s (A Dance to the Music of Time, #4), by Anthony Powell
28. Dangerous By Moonlight, by Leslie Davies
29. Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant (A Dance to the Music of Time, #5), by Anthony Powell
30. What’s Become of Waring, by Anthony Powell

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