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:
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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