2006: Books Read

December

Iris Murdoch. The Black Prince.
Neil Gaiman. Neverwhere. New York: HarperCollins, 1996-1997.
Thomas Mofolo. Chaka.
George Gissing. The Odd Women. New York: WW Norton & Co, 1971 (1893).
Jane Jacobs. The Economy of Cities. New York: Vintage, 1969.
Karl Polanyi. The Great Transformation.
Frans Eemil Sillanpaa. Meek Heritage.
Nick Hornby. High Fidelity. New York: Penguin, 2000 (1995).
W. Somerset Maugham. Ashenden.
Bernard W. Knox. The Heroic Temper.
Al Burian. Burn Collector 1-9.
The Urban Hermitt. The Flow Chronicles.

November

no record kept.

October

Erich Heller. The Ironic German: A Study of Thomas Mann. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown, 1957.
V. S. Naipaul. The Mimic Men. New York: Vintage, 2001 (1995, 1967).
Nadine Gordimer. Six Feet of the Country: Fifteen Short Stories. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956 (1952-1956).
Graham Greene. The Complete Stories of Graham Greene. London: Penguin, 2005 (1929-1991).
M. Hakan Yavuz. Islamic Politic Identity in Turkey. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003.
David Romano. The Kurdish Nationalist Movement: Opportunity, Mobilization and Identity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Jack Finney. The Body Snatchers. Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer Books, 1994 (1955).
Gareth Jenkins. Context and Circumstance: The Turkish Military and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Anatole France. The Queen Pédauque. trans Jos. A. V. Stritzko, introduction by James Branch Cabell. New York: Modern Library, 1923 (1893).
M. Hakan Yavuz, ed. The Emergence of a New Turkey: Democracy and the AK Parti. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2006.
Jane Addams. Peace and Bread In Time of War. New York: Macmillan, 1922.
A. S. Byatt. Sugar and Other Stories. New York: Vintage, 1992 (1987).
Kathleen Dean Moore. The Pine Island Paradox: Making Connections In a Disconnected World. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2004.
Leo Rauch and David Sherman. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness: Text and Commentary. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1999.
John M. VanderLippe. The Politics of Turkish Democracy: İsmet İnönü and the Formation of the Multi-Party System, 1938-1950. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2005.
Wayne Booth. For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

September

Lisa Zunshine. Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. Columbus, OH: Ohio University Press, 2006.
Barry Rubin & Kemal Kirisci, eds. Turkey in World Politics: An Emerging Multiregional Power. London: Lynne Rienner, 2001.
Ronald Wixman. Language Aspects of Ethnic Patterns & Processes in the North Caucasus. Chicago: University of of Chicago Department of Geography, 1980.
Alasdair Gray. The Fall of Kelvin Walker. New York: G. Braziller, 1986 (1985).
Jane Addams. Democracy and Social Ethics. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916 (1902).
Plato. Philebus. Trans. Dorothea Frede. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1993.
Viktor Shklovsky. A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs, 1917-1922. Trans Richard Sheldon. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1970 (1923).
J. M. Coetzee. Life & Times of Michael K. New York: Penguin, 1983.
Josephine Tey. Miss Pym Disposes. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976 (1948).
Satoko Kizaki. The Phoenix Tree and Other Stories. trans Carol Flath. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1990 (1979-1985).
Nicholson Baker. U and I: A True Story. New York: Vintage, 1992 (1991).
Lee Klein. Incidents of Egotourism in the Temporary World. San Diego: Better Non Sequitur, 2004.
William Benzon. Beethoven’s Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
H. P. Lovecraft. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970 (1965, 1943, 1939, 1927).
Tim Winton. Cloudstreet. St Paul, MN: Greywolf Press, 1992 (1991).
Andrea Wilson Nightingale. Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Jon Stewart. The Unity of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Systematic Interpretation. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2000.

August

Donald Barthelme. Sadness. New York: Pocket Books, 1970-2.
Virginia Woolf. Between the Acts. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Johanovich, 1969 (1941).
Mark Addis. Wittgenstein: A Guide For the Perplexed. London: Continuum, 2006.
Hayao Miyazaki. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. trans. various. San Francisco: Viz, 2004 (1982-1994).
Herbert Schnädelbach. Philosophy in Germany 1831-1933. trans Eric Matthews. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983 (1982).
Bella Bychkova Jordan and Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov. Siberian Village: Life and Land in the Sakha Republic. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Jean Cocteau. Opium: The Diary of a Cure. trans. M. Crosland & S. Road. London: Peter Owen, 1957 (1929–30).
Carrie McNinch. I Want Everything to Be Okay. Portland, OR: Tugboat Press, 2006.
Jean Cocteau. The Miscreant. trans. Dorothy Williams. London: Peter Owen, 2003 (1958, 1921).
Carole Pegg. Mongolian Music, Dance, & Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.
Marija Gimbutas. The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe 6500-3500 BC: Myths and Cult Images. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982 (1974).
Wyndham Lewis. Tarr. London: Calder and Boyars, 1968 (1918).
A. Leo Oppenheim. Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977 (1964).
Marija Gimbutas. The Balts. London: Thames & Hudson, 1963.
Graham Greene. The Human Factor. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.

July

Julian Jaynes. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.
Hans Sluga. Heidegger’s Crisis: Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Mikhail P. Gryaznov. The Ancient Civilization of Southern Siberia. Trans James Hogarth. New York: Cowles Book Company, 1969.
Ideas That Matter: The Worlds of Jane Jacobs. Edited by Max Allen. Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada: The Ginger Press, 1997.
Ted Levin with Valentina Süzükei. Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006.
Amos Tutuola. Pauper, Brawler and Slanderer. London: Faber & Faber, 1987.
Graham Greene. Loser Takes All. Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1971 (1955).
Amos Tutuola. The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town. London: Faber & Faber, 1982.
Philip K. Dick. Ubik. New York: Vintage, 1991 (1969).
J. M. Coetzee. Elizabeth Costello. New York: Viking, 2003.
Harold R. Collins. Amos Tutuola. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1969.
Graham Greene. A Burnt-Out Case. New York: Viking, 1960.

June

Norman Sherry. The Life of Graham Greene Volume III: 1955-1991. New York: Viking, 2004.
Amartya Sen. Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny. New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 2006.
Norbert Davis. Oh, Murderer Mine. Boulder, CO: 2003 (1946).
Norbert Davis. Sally’s in the Alley. Boulder, CO: 2002 (1943).
Norbert Davis. The Mouse in the Mountain. Boulder, CO: 2001 (1943).
Oyekan Owomoyela. Amos Tutuola Revisited. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1999.
Bernard Reginster. The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Paul Goodman. Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society. New York: Vintage, 1960.
James Branch Cabell. The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions. Gillette, NJ: Wildside Press, 2001 (1917).
Dundul Namgyal Tsarong. In the Service of His Country: The Biography of Dasang Damndul Tsarong, Commander General of Tibet. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2000.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes. New York: Ballantine Books, 1963 (1939).
Jane Jacobs. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Modern Library, 1993 (1961).
Vladimir Nabokov. Glory. Trans Dmitry Nabokov in collaboration with the author. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971 (1932).
Tom Rockmore. Hegel’s Circular Epistemology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
P. G. Wodehouse. Summer Moonshine. Middlesex: Penguin, 1966 (1937).
Jane Jacobs. The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle over Sovereignty. New York: Random House, 1980.
Virginia Woolf. Jacob’s Room. London: The Hogarth Press, 1960 (1922).
Norman Sherry. The Life of Graham Greene Volume II: 1939-1955. New York: Viking, 1994.
Jane Jacobs. Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics. New York: Random House, 1992.

May

Jane Jacobs. Dark Age Ahead. New York: Random House Canada, 2004.
Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan. New York: Delta, 1959.
Jane Jacobs. The Economy of Cities. New York: Random House, 1969.
Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse Five. New York: Delacorte, 1994 (1969).
Alla Abramovich-Gomon. The Nenets’ Song: A Microcosm of a Vanishing Culture. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 1998.
Aspley Cherry-Garrard. The Worst Journey in the World Washington, DC: National Georgraphic, 2002 (1922).
Ernest Hemingway. Winner Take Nothing. New York: Collier Books, 1970 (1933).
James Branch Cabell. Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice. ill. Frank C. Pap&eacute. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1977 (1926, 1919).
Joakim Garff. Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography. trans. Bruce H. Kirmmse. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005 (2000).
Mary Roberts Rinehart. The Circular Staircase. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1997 (1908).
Graham Greene. England Made Me. London: William Heinemann & The Bodley Head, 1970 (1935).
Terry Pratchett. The Color of Magic. New York: Harper, 2005 (1983).
Henryk Sienkiewicz. The Little Trilogy. trans. Miroslaw Lipinski. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1995.
John LeCarré. The Incongruous Spy. New York: Walker & Co., 1963 (1961, 1962).
Theodore Levin. The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Jane Jacobs. Cities and the Wealth of Nations. New York: Random House, 1984.

April

Mark C. van Tongeren. Overtone Singing: The Physics and Metaphysics of Harmonics in East and West. Amsterdam: Fusica, 2004 (2002).
Jane Jacobs. The Nature of Economies. New York: Random House, 2000.
Hans-Georg Gadamer. Reason in the Age of Science. Trans. Frederick G. Lawrence. Cambridge, MA: MITP, 1981 (1976-1979).
Graham Greene. The Captain and the Enemy. New York: Penguin, 2005 (1988).
Norman Sherry. The Life of Graham Greene Volume I: 1904-1939.. New York: Penguin, 1989.
Henrik Sienkiewicz. Charcoal Sketches and Other Tales. Trans Adam Zamoyski. London: Angel Books, 1990 (1877-1897).
Hans-Georg Gadamer. Philosophical Apprenticeships. Trans Robert R. Sullivan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985 (1977).
M. I. Finley, ed. The Legacy of Greece: A New Appraisal. Oxford: Clarendon, 1981.
Amos Tutuoloa. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. New York: Grove Press, 1954.
Thomas Malthus. An Essay on the Principle of Population and A Summary View of the Principle of Population. London: Penguin, 1970 (1798 & 1830).
M. R. James. Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories: The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James, Volume I. London: Penguin, 2005 (1931, 1902-1925).
Amos Tutuola. The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads’ Town. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1970 (1953).
John le Carré. The Looking Glass War. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1965.
Mark Kurlansky. Salt: A World History. New York: Walker and Company, 2002.

March

Janet Malcolm. In the Freud Archive. New York: Knopf, 1984.
John le Carré. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. New York: Pocket Books, 2001 (1991, 1963).
Yaşar Kemal On His Life and Art. Interviews with Alain Bosquet. Trans. Eugene Lyons Hébert and Barrry Tharaud. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999 (1992).
Natsume Soseki. Mon “The Gate”. Trans. Francis Mathy. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1972 (1910).
Edwin McClellan. Two Japanese Novelists: Sōseki & Tōson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.
R. D. Laing. The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness. Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1969 (1965, 1959).
Virginia Woolf. The Waves. San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1959 (1931).
Natsume Soseki. I am a Cat 2. Trans. Aiko Ito and Graeme Wilson. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1979 (1904-06).
M. I. Finley. Ancient History: Evidence and Models. New York: Viking, 1985.
M. I. Finley. The World of Odysseus. New York: The Viking Press, 1977 (1965, 1954).
W. H. R. Rivers. Instinct and the Unconscious. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1922 (1920).
M. I. Finley. The Ancient Economy. London: Chatto & Windus, 1973
Natsume Soseki. I Am a Cat 1. Trans. Aiko Ito and Graeme Wilson. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1972 (1904-06).
Rose Macaulay. The Towers of Trebizond. New York: Carrol & Graf, 1989 (1984, 1956).
Robert B. Pippin. The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

February

Martin Heidegger. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Trans. Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988 (1980, 1930-31).
Merold Westphal. History and Truth in Hegel’s Phenomenology. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1978
Howard P. Kainz. Paradox, Dialectic, and System: A Contemporary Reconstruction of the Hegelian Problematic. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988.
Sōseki Natsume. The Heredity of Taste. Trans. Sammy I. Tsunematsu. Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2004 (1906).
Bruno Snell. Poetry and Society: The Role of Poetry in Ancient Greece. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1961.
Bruno Snell. The Discovery of the Mind in Greek Philosophy and Literature. New York: Dover, 1982 (1953, 1948, 1929-1947).
J. S. LeFanu. Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Hough. New York: Dover, 1966 (1864).
Graham Greene. Travels with My Aunt. New York: Bantam, 1969.

January

Natsume Soseki. Light and Darkness. Trans. V. H. Viglielmo. New York, Perigree Books, 1982 (1971, 1916).
Esther Parker Ellinger. Thomas Chatterton, the Marvelous Boy. To which is added The Exhibition, a Personal Satire. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930.
Richard Norman. Hegel’s Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1976.
Natsume Soseki. Ten Nights’ Dreams and Our Cat’s Grave. Trans Sankichi Hata and Dofu Shirai. Tokyo: Tokyo News Service, 1949 (1934, 1908).
Ermanno Bencivenga. Hegel’s Dialectical Logic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
R.D. Laing. Wisdom, Madness & Folly: The Making of a Psychiatrist. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985.
Conrad Henry Moehlman. Ordeal By Concordance: An Historical Study of a Recent Literary Invention. New York: Longmans Green & Co, 1955.
John Kenneth Galbraith. American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1993 (1956, 1952).
Charles Mackay. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. New York, Harmony Books, 1980 (1852, 1841).
George Orwell. Keep the Aspidistra Flying. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Johanovich, ? (1936).
Terry Pinkard. German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Flann O’Brien. The Third Policeman. London: Flamingo, 1993 (1967, 1940).
John Kenneth Galbraith. Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
Gunnar Myrdal. Beyond the Welfare State: Economic Planning and Its International Implications. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960.
Anthony Cronin. No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O’Brien. London: Grafton Books, 1989.
Frank W. Abagnale. The Art of the Steal. New York: Broadway Books, 2001.

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