Thursday, December 31, 2020

Books AKIC Read in 2020

2020 was not okay. It was a year with nothing to do. But I did do something. I read and I read and I read. Here's a list of all the books I read in 2020:


The Liturgical Year (Volume 2) Christmas by Abbot Prosper Gueranger

I am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux

Anonymous Romance by an Acquaintance 

Praying with Mother Angelica by Mother Angelica

Happiness and Contemplation by Josef Pieper

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ruth Bendict

The Case for Trump by Victor David Hanson

The Concept of Sin by Josef Pieper

The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard

Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones by Carlin A. Barton

Phaedrus by Plato

Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil

Enthusiasm and Divine Madness: On the Platonic Dialogue Phaedrus by Josef Pieper

Death and Immortality by Josef Pieper

The Narrows by Michael Connelly

The Soul of the World by Roger Scruton

I Will Find You by Joe Kenda

The Closers by Michael Connelly

Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland

How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam is Dying Too) by David P. Goldman 

Five Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray

The Liturgical Year (Volume 3) Christmas by Abbot Prosper Gueranger

Echo Park by Michael Connelly

The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William De Witt Hyde

The Thirty Years War by C.V. Wedgwood

High Windows by Philip Larkin

Bernie Sanders Is Wrong by Tom Woods

Narco-nomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright

The Four Cardinal Virtues by Josef Pieper

The Liturgical Year (Volume 4) Septuagesima by Abbot Prosper Gueranger

The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis

The Last Narco: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World's Most Wanted Druglord by Malcolm Beith

The Overlook by Michael Connelly

Coup D'etat: A Practical Notebook by Edward Luttwak

A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich

A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart by Josef Pieper

The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by James Martin, SJ

Apropos of Nothing. Autobiography by Woody Allen

The Liturgical Year (Volume 5) Lent by Abbot Prosper Gueranger

Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly

The Liturgical Year (Volume 6) Passiontide and Holy Week by Abbot Prosper Gueranger

A History of France by John Julius Norwich

Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell

The Drop by Michael Connelly

The Liturgical Year (Volume 7) Paschal Time by Abbot Prosper Gueranger

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins edited by Robert Bridges

"Divine Madness" Plato's Case against Secular Humanism by Josef Pieper

The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth

The Silence of Saint Thomas: Three Essays by Josef Pieper

Saint Thomas Aquinas by GK Chesterton

The Best of SJ Perelman

Letters from a Nut by Ted L. Nancy

The Poetry Oracle by Amber Guetabier & Brenda Knight

The Black Box by Michael Connelly

George S. Patton: On Guts, Glory, and Winning by Gary Bloomfield

Metaphysical Poetry edited by Colin Burrow

Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 edited by Sir Arthur Thomas Quller-Couch

War as I Knew It by George S. Patton Jr.

The Peloponnesian War 431 – 404 BC by Philip De Souza

Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton

Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of The Seventeenth Century edited by Herbert J.C. Grierson

Le Premier Livre by Albert A. Méras, B. Méras

1000 Years of Annoying the French by Stephen Clarke

The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly

The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History by E. Michael Jones

On Drinking by Charles Bukowski

Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin

Scipio Africanus by B.h. Liddell Hart

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas by Daniel J. Flynn

U.S. History for Dummies by Steve Wiegand

Ripostes by Ezra Pound

The Jews by Hilaire Belloc

Browning's Shorter Poems by Robert Browning

A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809 by James Morier, Esq.

Personae by Ezra Pound

The Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers by Sidney Smith and William Hazlitt and Isaak Walton and Walter Scott ane et al.

Robert E. Lee: The Southerner by Thomas Nielson Page

Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands by Hezekiah Butterworth

Exultations by Ezra Pound

Going Afoot: A Book on Walking by Bayard Henderson Christy

Zigzag Journeys in the Camel Country by Samuel M. Zwemer and Amy E. Zwemer

The Wild Swans at Coole by W. B. Yeats

God Rides a Yamaha by Kathy Shaidle

Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh

An Australian in China by George Ernest Morrison

Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard

Now and on Earth by Jim Thompson

Mysteries and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor

Poems by Christina Georgina Rossetti

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor

The Great Siege of Malta by Bruce Ware Allen

New Testament (King James Version)

The Oligarchs by David Hoffman

The Reversal by Michael Connelly

Poems on Travel selected by R.M. Leonard

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 1 An Age Like This

Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill

Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life by Epictetus

Andrew Jackson by William Garrot Brown

The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly

Poems and Prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Poems, Series One by Emily Dickinson

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Sérotonine par Michel Houellebecq

The Pursuit of the Millennium by Norman Cohn

Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling

Lee the American by Bradford Gamaliel

Poems of William Blake

Mother Angelica's Private and Pithy Lessons from the Scriptures by Raymond Arroyo

The Life of Lieutenant General T.J. Jackson by James Dabney McCabe

Some Imagist Poetry edited by Richard Aldington

Journey to Turkistan by Sir Eric Teichman

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

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

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

Boswell's Life of Johnson abridged and edited by Charles Grosvenor Osgood

The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Disaster by Douglas Axe, William M. Briggs & Jay W. Richards

Poems Every Child Should Know edited by Mary E. Burt

The Brother Lawrence Collection: Practice and Presence of God, Spiritual Maxims, The Life of Brother Lawrence by Brother Lawrence

The Rambler Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson

Profiles in Corruption by Peter Schweizer

The School of Prayer by Joseph Ratzinger

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johson, LL.D. by James Boswell

Dune by Frank Herbert

Baltimore Catechism, No. 1

Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler

Baltimore Catechism, No. 2

Death in Midsummer & Other Stories by Yukio Mishima

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Madame Bovary (French) by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling

Baltimore Catechism, No. 3

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Walking with Mary: A Biblical Journey from Nazareth to the Cross by Edward Sri

The Suicide of the West by James Burnham

A First Spanish Reader by Alfred Remy

Maud, and Other Poems by Alfred Tennyson

Tom Seaver: A Terrific Life by Bill Madden

French Demystified by Annie Heminway

Prayer in Practice by Romano Guardini

Poems 1918-21 by Ezra Pound

Hidden Christmas by Timothy Keller

The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

Learning the Virtues that Lead You to God by Romano Guardini

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

Poems You Ought to Know by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

A Year with the Church Fathers: Practical Wisdom for Daily Living by Mike Aquilina

A Year with Mary: Daily Meditations on the Mother of God by Paul Thigpen

Don Colacho Aphorisms by Nicolás Gómez Dávila


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


2014


2015


2016


2017


2018


2019


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


Also, here's a link to the book of Don Colacho Aphorisms. (Please open it on a desktop computer, because it won't work on a mobile phone. If you don't have μTorrent Web, you'll be asked to install that first. Once you're done installing, it will automatically start downloading the torrent.)




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