2007: Books Read

December

Arieh J. Kochavi: Prelude to Nuremburg: Allied War Crimes Policy and the Question of Punishment, 1998.

David Braund: Georgia in Antiquity: A History of Colchis and Transcaucasian Iberia, 550 BC-AD 562, 1994.

Wendell Steavenson: Stories I Stole, 2003.

Kitaro Nishida: An Inquiry into the Good, 1990 (1911).

William Dean Howells: Indian Summer, 1886.

Richard Hughes: A High Wind in Jamaica, 1928.

Edmund White: Forgetting Elena, 1973.

Nishitani Keiji: Nishida Kitaro, 1991 (1980, 1936-68).

Bryan Lee O’Malley: Scott Pilgrim, vols 1-3, 2004-2006.

Alifa Rifaat: Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories, 1983 (?).

Lowell W. Barrington, ed: After Independence: Making and Protecting the Nation in Postcolonial and Postcommunist States, 2006.

Graham Greene: The Quiet American, 1955.

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza: Genes, Peoples, and Languages, 2000.

Patricia Highsmith: Strangers on a Train, 1951.

Sigmund Freud: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 1961 (1920).

Graham Greene: The Honorary Consul, 1973.

Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, 2006.

Albert J. Ammerman and L. L. Cavalli-Sforza: The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe, 1984.

Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory, 1940

Tadeusz Swietochowski: Russian Azerbaijan 1905-1920: The Shaping of National Identity in a Muslim Community, 1985.

November

Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr Ripley, 1955.

Oliver Sacks: An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, 1994.

Karen Barkey: Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization, 1994.

Leland de la Durantaye: Style Is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov, 2007.

Peter Kocan: The Treatment and The Cure, 1986 (1980-1983?).

Charlie Savage: Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy, 2007.

Roland R. Fieve: Bipolar II, 2006.

Bob Drogin: Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War, 2007.

Marilynne Robinson: Gilead, 2004.

Rudi Paul Linder: Explorations in Ottoman Prehistory, 2007.

Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter, 1948.

Peter Kocan: Fresh Fields, 2004.

Joseph Conrad: The Shadow-line, 1917.

October

Rebecca West: A Train of Powder, 1955.

Thomas Mann: Buddenbrooks, 1901.

Norman Sherry: Conrad’s Eastern World, 1966.

Italo Calvino: Marcovaldo; or, The Seasons in the City, 1983 (1963).

Gert Ledig: Stalin Front, 2004 (1955).

George Gissing: Will Warburton: A Romance of Real Life, 1985.

David Satter: Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State, 2003.

Georges Simenon: The Engagement, 2007 (1933)

Paul S. Schmidtberger: Design Flaws of the Human Condition, 2007.

Federico Varese: Russian Mafia: Private Protection in a New Market Economy, 2005.

Graham Greene: A World of My Own: A Dream Diary, 1994.

Bernard Schweizer: Radicals on the Road: The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s, 2001.

Rebecca West: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia, 1941.

Halldor Laxness: World Light, 1969 (1937-1940).

Pete Jordan: Dishwasher: One Man’s Quest to Wash Dishes in All 50 States, 2007.

September

Meša Selimović: Death and the Dervish, 1996 (1966).

Knut Hamsun: Hunger, 1996 (1890).

Alan Booth: The Roads to Sata: A 2000-mile Walk Through Japan, 1985.

Joseph Conrad: Youth and Two Other Stories, 1902 (1898-1902).

Kenneth Fearing: Clark Gifford’s Body, 1942.

Iris Murdoch: The Good Apprentice, 1985.

Halldór Laxness: Under the Glacier, 1972 (1968).

Georgi Gospodinov: And Other Stories, 2007 (2001).

Len Platt: Joyce, Race, and Finnegans Wake, 2007.

Stefano Benni: Margherita Dolce Vita, 2006 (2005).

Wilkie Collins: A Rogue’s Life, 1856.

Georges Simenon: Dirty Snow, 1951 (1948).

Ernest Hemingway: In Our Time, 1925.

Johnny Cash with Patrick Carr: Cash: The Autobiography, 1997.

August

Sheridan Le Fanu: Madam Crowl’s Ghost and Other Stories, 1923 (1851-1872).

George Chauncey: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940, 1994.

Jonathan Cohn: Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis – and the People Who Pay the Price, 2007.

Halldór Laxness: Iceland’s Bell, 2003 (1943-1946).

Georges Simenon: Three Bedrooms in Manhattan, 2003 (1946).

Georges Simenon: Red Lights, 2006 (1955).

Koji Suzuki: Loop, 2005 (1998).

Banana Yoshimoto: Hardboiled and Hard Luck, 2005 (1999).

Koji Suzuki: Spiral, 2004 (1995).

Koji Suzuki: Ring, 2003 (1991).

Benjamin Tammuz: Minotaur 1981 (1980).

Georges Simenon: The Man Who Watched Trains Go By, 2005 (1938).

Georges Simenon: Monsieur Monde Vanishes, 2004 (1945).

Carlo Lucarelli: The Damned Season, 2007 (1991).

Carlo Lucarelli: Carte Blanche, 2006 (1990).

July

Massimo Carlotto: The Fugitive, 2007 (1995).

Graham Greene: Dr. Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party, 1980.

Donald S Lopez: Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West , 1998.

Henry James: A London Life, 1988.

Graham Greene: The Comedians, 1966.

Ivo Andrić: The Days of the Consuls, 1992 (1945).

Massimo Carlotto: The Goodbye Kiss, 2006 (2003).

Joseph Conrad: A Set of Six, 1908.

George Orwell: Burmese Days, 1934.

Iris Murdoch: Under the Net, 1954.

William Shakespeare: Richard II, circa 1595.

Ivo Andrić: The Bridge on the Drina, 1977 (1945).

Kurt Vonnegut: Galápagos, 1985.

Banana Yoshimoto: Kitchen, 1993 (1988).

Haruki Murakami: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, 2006 (1981-2005).

June – no record kept

May (incomplete)

Feroz Ahmad: The Making of Modern Turkey, 1993.

Iris Murdoch: The Bell, 1958.

April

Halldór Laxness: Independent People, an epic, 1946 (1934-1935). Trans J. A. Thompson.

Natsume Soseki: Kokoro, 1957 (1914). Trans Edwin McClellan.

Haruki Murakami: The Elephant Vanishes, stories, 1994 (1983-1990). Trans Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin.

Jean Cocteau: La Machine infernale, 1934.

James Branch Cabell: Figures of Earth, A Comedy of Appearances, 1921.

Michael Tomasello: The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition, 1999.

Roman Dyboski: Seven Years in Russia and Siberia, 1914-1921, 1971 (1922). Trans Marian Moore Coleman.

Camera Laye: The Dark Child, 1954 (1953). Trans James Kirkup and Ernest Jones.

Kemal H. Carpat: Gecekondu: Rural Migration and Urbanization in Turkey, 1976.

Feroz Ahmad: The Turkish Experiment in Democracy 1950-1975, 1977.

Handan Nezir AkmeÅŸe: The Birth of Modern Turkey: The Ottoman Military and the March to World War 1, 2005.

Lorrie Moore: Self-Help, Stories, 1985.

Peter Ho Davies: The Ugliest House in the World, Stories, 1997.

Joseph Roth: Confession of a Murderer: Told in One Night, 1985 (1937). trans Desmond I. Vesey.

Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal: The Tragic Menagerie, 1999 (1907). trans Jane Costlow.

Moacyr Scliar: The Centaur in the Garden, 1984 (1980). Trans Margaret A. Neves.

Thomas T. Allsen: Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia, 2001.

March

L. P. Hartley: The Go-Between, 1953.

Zayn ol-Abedin Maraghe’i: The Travel Diary of Ebrahim Beg, 2006 (1895-1902). Trans James D. Clark.

Henry James: The Awkward Age, 1899.

Thomas T. Allsen: Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles, 1997.

Joseph Roth: Hotel Savoy, 2003 (1924). Trans. John Hoare.

Stefan Żeromski: The Faithful River , 1999 (1912). Trans Bill Johnston.

Thomas J. Otten: A Superficial Reading of Henry James: Preoccupations With the Material World, 2006.

Peter Ho Davies: Equal Love: Stories, 2000.

Donald L. Mull: Henry James’s “Sublime Economy”: Money as Symbolic Center in the Fiction, 1973.

Mary Roach: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, 2003.

Firket Adaman and Murat Arsel, eds: Environmentalism in Turkey: Between Democracy and Development?, 2005.

Feroz Ahmad: The Young Turks: The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics, 1908-1914, 1969.

André Aciman: Out of Egypt: A Memoir, 1995.

Alexander Lernet-Holnia: The Resurrection of Maltravers, 1989 (1936). Trans Joachim Neugroschel.

A. C. Bradley: A Miscellany, 1929.

February

Thomas T. Allsen: Mongolian Imperialism: The Policies of the Grand Qan Möngke in China, Russia, and the Islamic Lands, 1251-1259, 1987.

Joseph Roth: Flight Without End, 1977 (1927). trans uncredited.

Rasul Gamzatov: My Daghestan, 1970 (1967). trans Julius Katzer from translation of Vladimir Soloukhin.

A. V. Golovnev and Gail Osherenko: Siberian Survival: The Nenets and Their Story, 1999.

Frans Eemil Sillanpää: The Maid Silja: The History of the Last Offshoot of an Old Family Tree, 1933 (1931). trans Alexander Matson.

R. B. Kershner: Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature: Chronicles of Disorder, 1989.

Christopher Howard: The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States, 1997.

Kurt Vonnegut: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; or, Pearls Before Swine, 1965.

Joseph Roth: Job: The Story of a Simple Man, 1931 (1930). Trans Dorothy Thompson.

A. C. Bradley: Oxford Lectures on Poetry, 1909.

Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping, 1981.

Jean Cocteau: Opium: The Diary of His Cure, 1990 (1930). Trans Margaret Crosland.

François Truffaut: Hitchcock, 1985 (1967). With Alfred Hitchcock and Helen G. Scott.

Judy Fong Bates: Midnight at the Dragon Cafe, 2004.

January

Saul Bellow. Mr Sammler’s Planet.

Daniel Dombrowski. Rethinking the Ontological Argument: A Neoclassical Theistic Response.

John Hoffman. The Art & Science of Dumpster Diving.

A. C. Grayling. Descartes: The Life and Times of a Genius.

Marilynne Robinson. Gilead.

John Kenneth Galbraith. Name Dropping From FDR On.

Arto Paasilinna. The Year of the Hare.

Nadire Mater. Voices from the Front: Turkish Soldiers on the War with the Kurdish Guerrillas.

Ted Rall. Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?

Nick Adams. Making Friends With Black People.

Jane Austen. Persuasion.

Robert Graves. Hercules My Shipmate.

David Grene. Greek Political Theory: The Image of Man in Thucydides and Plato.