Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Books AKIC Read in 2018

Happy New Year!

I didn't do much blogging in 2018 but I did do a lot of reading.


Here are the books I read in 2018:


The Jokeby Milan Kundura

Four Quartetsby TS Eliot

The English and Their Historyby Robert Tombs

Righteous Indignationby Andrew Breitbart

Mother Angelica's Little Book of Life Lessons and Everyday SpiritualityEdited by Raymond Arroyo

Watermelons: The Green Movement's True Colorsby James Delingpole 

American Pravdaby James O'Keefe

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaosby Jordan Peterson 

Bad Thoughtsby Jamie Whyte

With the World's Great Travelers, Volume 2by Various. Edited by Charles Morris & Oliver H.G. Leigh

Poemsby Christina Rossetti

A Shropshire Ladby A.E. Houseman

What's Wrong with China by Rodney Gilbert

Philip Larkin Poems selected by Martin Amis

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 

Village Life in China: A Study in Sociologyby Arthur H. Smith

On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Bigby Scott Adams

Hombre by Elmore Leonard

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

The Liturgical Year Volume 3: Christmas by Abbot Prosper Gueranger

The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 by Jacob Gould Schurman

Gems of Chinese Verseby W.J.B. Fletcher

Angel's Flightby Michael Connelly

Selected Poems of Lord Byron edited by Matthew Arnold

The Liturgical Year Volume 6: Passiontide and Holy Weekby Abbot Prosper Gueranger

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan

The Rape of Lucreceby William Shakespeare 

The Radetzky Marchby Joseph Roth 

Poorly Made in China by Paul Midler

As You Like Itby William Shakespeare 

Kenneth Clark: Life, Art, and Civilisation by James Stourton

A Treasury of English Proseedited by Logan Pearsall Smith 

Trivia by Logan Pearsall Smith 

Collected Poetry by John Donne

Scale by Geoffrey West 

The Infernal Library by Nick Kalder

The Children's Garland from the Best Poetsedited by Coventry Patmore

Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other by Conrad Black

My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

Elementary Chinese Reader 2 (Revised Edition) published by Sinolingua

Youth by Joseph Conrad

Travels in Arabia Deserta (Volume 1)by Charles M Doughty

Baltimore Cathechism No. 4by Thomas L. Kinkead

1215 and All That by Ed West

The Servile State by Hillaire Belloc

The High Window by Raymond Chandler

Travels in Arabia Deserta (Volume 2)by Charles M Doughty

The Study of Poetry by Bliss Perry

Metaphysical Poetry edited by Colin Burrow

The Prayers and Personal Devotions of Mother Angelica edited by Raymond Arroyo

Select Poems of Shelly by P.B. Shelley

Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie Leduff

Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Borrow

The Golden Treasury Of the best Songs and Lyrical Pieces in the English Language selected by Francis Turner Palgrave

Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly 

With Lawrence in Arabia by Lowel Thomas

The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain by George Borrow

The Bounty Hunters by Elmore Leonard

Selected Poems of Francis Thompson 

Trump: The Art of the Dealby Donald Trump

The Life of Francis Thompson by Everard Meynell

Among the Believers by V.S. Naipaul

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen by P.G. Wodehouse

The Boy's Book of Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

The Holy Bible New TestamentDouay-Rheims

The Gulag Archipelago (Volume 1) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

The Lord by Romano Guardini

The Cannibalby John Hawkes

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoplesby V.S. Naipaul

The Book of Disquietby Fernando Pessoa

Ship of Foolsby Tucker Carlson

Homo Ludensby Johan Huizinga

Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan by Kazuaki Tanahashi

Poems 1876-1889 by Gerard Manley Hopkins

An Introduction to Zen Buddhismby D.T. Suzuki

Arrival and Departure by Arthur Koestler

The Cartel by Don Winslow

Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Powerby Karl A. Wittfogel

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer

The Moral Universe by Fulton J. Sheen

Conservatismby Roger Scruton

Gravity and Graceby Simone Weil

Bulchevy's Book of English Verse

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

Life of Jesus by Francois Mauriac

A Time To Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor

The Living Thoughts of Pascalpresented by Francois Mauriac

The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918

The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Wang

A Time for Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Submission by Michel Houellebecq

Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminsim by Camille Paglia

Against the Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans

The Liturgical Year Volume 1: Advent by Abbot Prosper Gueranger

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

A Year with the Saints by Paul Thigpen

Prayers of the Early Churchedited by J. Manning Potts

Don Colacho's Aphorisms by Nicolás Gómez Dávila


I have been keeping track of the books I've read since 2014. Here are the links to those lists:

2014

2015

2016

2017


Any comments on my reading? Send an email to andiskaulins@protonmail.com.


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