Books
Listened to:
For Whom Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
O Pioneers, Willa Cather
Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney
Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh repeat x
Truth & Fiction in the Davinci Code, Bart Ehrman
Man in the Dark, Paul Auster
Nixon and Mao, Margaret MacMillan
What Happened, Scott McClellan
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The Secret Man, Bob Woodward
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Don”t Know Much About Mythology, Kenneth C. Davis
Chronicles Volume 1, Bob Dylan
The Limits of Power, Andrew J Bacevich
Gilgamesh. A New English Version
Our Story Begins, Tobias Woolf
When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris repeat x
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
The Spoken Arts Treasury Volume 1
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris repeat x
The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux
Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths, Bruce Feiler
The Bible Salesman, Clyde Edgerton
The First Salute, Barbara W. Tuchman
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
Typhoon, Joseph Conrad
The Shack, William P. Young
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name, Toby Lester
Mozart, Peter Gay
The Odyssey, Homer
A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar, Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein
A Room With A View, E.M. Forester
Angels and Ages, Adam Gopnik
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, John M. Barry
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Midnight”s Children, Salman Rushdie
War Dances, Sherman Elexie
I”ll Mature When I”m Dead, Dave Barry
Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon (did not listen to all)
The Quiet American, Graham Greene
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
Abraham Lincoln: A Presidential Life, James M. McPherson
The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby
Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
Joshua, Joseph Girzone
The Making of Toro, Mark Sundeen
Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
Preparing for Christmas with Richard Rohr
The Wild Trees, Richard Preston
Women In Love, D.H. Lawrence
Cynthia Bishop The Book of Job
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie
Eiffel”s Tower, Jill Jonnes
My Antonia, Willa Cather
Christ The Lord – The Road to Cana, Anne Rice
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
Misquoting Jesus, Bart D. Ehrman
All the King”s Men, Robert Penn Warren
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
Obama”s Wars, Bob Woodward
The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Salt, Mark Kurlansky
Shades of Grey, Jasper Fforde
Light in August, William Faulkner
Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
Noah”s Compass, Anne Tyler
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
Buffalo Girls, Larry McMurtry
The Death Of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
Einstein, Walter Isaacson
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
Winston Churchill, John Keegan
Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart
World and Town, Gish Jen
The Brothers K, David James Duncan
Middlemarch, George Eliot
The Stranger, Albert Camus
The Challenge for Africa, Wangari Maathai
A Crack in the Edge of the World, Simon Winchester
Hemingway Short Stories vol 1
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce repeat x
Rules for Old Men Waiting, Peter Pouncey
Mysteries of the Middle Ages, Thomas Cahill
The Last Stand, Nathaniel Philbrick
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Witches of Eastwick, John Updike
The United States and the Middle East: 1914 to 9/11, Prof. Salim Yaqub (University of Chicago)
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Alexander the Great and His Time, Agnes Savill (old book)
Ukridge, P.G. Wodehouse
Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
Point to Point Navigation, Gore Vidal
The Widows of Eastwick, John Updike
The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria
Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene (Mult. Co. Lib. MP3 download)
The Civil War: A Narrative, Shelby Foote (Vol 1 Pt 1)
This House of Sky, Ivan Doig
Class & War in the US Society, Howard Zinn
Barrel Fever, David Sedaris repeat x
Camouflage, Bill Pronzini
Halloween Party, Agatha Christie
The Civil War: A Narrative, Shelby Foote (Vol 1 Pt 2)
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy, Bruce Watson
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
The Language of God, Francis Collins
Sophie”s Choice, William Styron
Ulysses, James Joyce
Samuel Pepy”s Diaries
Poetry on Record: 98 Poets read their work
Flyboys, James Bradley
Kings & Queens of England, Antonia Fraser
You Don”t Look Like Anyone I Know, Heather Sellers
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
Jeeves in the Offing, P.G. Wodehouse
The Big Four, Agatha Christie
Animal Farm, George Orwell
The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Breakfast of champions, or, Goodbye blue Monday!, Kurt Vonnegut
Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
Introduction to the New Testament History and Literature, Dale B. Martin (Yale Course)
4:50 from Paddington, Agatha Christie
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hard Times, Charles Dickens
Pompeii, Robert Harris
Mafia Son, Sandra Harmon
The Moving Finger (A Miss Marple Mystery), Agatha Christie
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
African American History: From Emancipation to the Present, Jonathan Halloway (Yale Course)
Cat Among the Pigeons, Agatha Christie
Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac (repeat x)
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
The Body in the Library, Agatha Christie
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt
Malcolm X, Manning Marable
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
The Ghosts of Cannae, Robert O’Connell
On Canaan’s Side, Sebastian Barry
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austin
Hickory Dickory Dock, Agatha Christie
The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
The Sandalwood Tree, Elle Newmark
Very Good Jeeves (Short Stories), P.G. Wodehouse
Bird Songs in Literature, ed. Joseph Wood Krutch and Peter Kellogg
Taken at the Flood, Agatha Christie
Short Stories III, Ernest Hemingway
My Man Jeeves, PG Wodehouse
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
Emma, Jane Austin
Townie, Andre Dubus III
The Bartender’s Tale, Ivan Doig
The particle at the end of the universe: how the hunt for the Higgs boson leads us to the edge of a new world, Sean Carroll
We Have the War Upon Us, William Cooper
Spartacus, Ben Kane
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824, Harvey Sachs
Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
Lunatics, Dave Barry & Alan Zweibel
The Man Who Loved China, Simon Winchester
The Darling, Russell Banks
Run, Ann Patchett
A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman
While the Light Lasts, Agatha Christie
Paris: A Love Story, Kati Marton
Giants of Philosophy St Augustine
Stoics & Epicureans
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M Pirsig
Roads to Quoz, William Least Heat-Moon
Detective Classics, Radio Spirits, Inc (old radio)
The Death of King Arthur, Simon Armitage
Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
Minding Frankie, Maeve Binchy (abridged)
My Cross to Bear, Gregg Allman
Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton
Billy Budd, Herman Melville
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, Mo Yan
Earth, Jon Stewart
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Reza Aslan
A More Perfect Heaven, Dava Sobel
Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
The Mirror Cracked, Agatha Christie
The Guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman
Poirot Investigates, Agatha Christie
Bark: Stories, Lorrie Moore
Behind Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
Call for the Dead, John LeCarre
Nemesis, Agatha Christie
Bob Dylan in America, Sean Wilentz
Henry IV Part 1, Shakespeare
Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
The Spectator Bird, Wallace Stegner
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
While Mortals Sleep – Short Stories, Kurt Vonnegut
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, Jake Tapper
The Love of A Good Woman: Stories, Alice Monroe
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America”s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson
Regatta Mystery-Stories, Agatha Christie
Murders at the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allan Poe
How Jesus Became God, Bart D. Ehrman
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
At Home, Bill Bryson
Agent Zigzag A True Story of Nazi Espionage Love, Ben Macintyre
Silas Marner, George Eliot
Strong Poison, Dorothy Sayers
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
The Constant Gardener, John Le Carre
Big Data, Viktor Mayer-Scho¨nberger and Kenneth Cukier
Pigs Have Wings, P.G. Wodehouse
Iliad, Homer (Stephen Mitchell) repeat xx
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War, Stephen Kinzer
The World According to Garp, John Irving (did not finish)
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Prof. Glenn S. Holland Poirot’s Early Cases, Agatha Christie
The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
The Looking Glass War, John Le Carre
The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America, Michael Eric Dyson (did not finish)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf
All Things Wise and Wonderful, James Herriot
Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan
One Summer: America, 1927, Bill Bryson
Beowulf, Seamus Heaney
Gilgamesh. A New English Version, Stephen Mitchell
The Red and the Black, Stendhal
The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
The Irony of American History, Reinhold Niebuhr – repeat most of it x
SPQR, Mary Beard repeat x
C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity, George M. Marsden
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002, David Sedaris
Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris repeat x
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris repeat x
Darhma Bums, Jack Kerouac repeat x
The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux
Dubliners, James Joyce
Ulysses, James Joyce (RTE)
The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
Calypso, David Sedaris (May 2018)
The Ambassadors, Henry James
Great American Essays
Canterbury Tales
Luther Galatians Commentary, Theodore Graebner (Translator)
How the Bible Actually Works, Peter Enns
One Giant Leap, Charles Fishman
Not on audio
Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
Appointment in Samarra, John O”Hara
The 42nd Parallel (USA), John Dos Passos
Misc
Native Son (class on novels at some Canadian university)
Uncle Tom”s Cabin (class on novels at some Canadian university)
Things Fall Apart
Books from 100 Best Novels list (Modern Library)
Listened to:
The age of innocence / Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
The postman always rings twice / Cain, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977. (small part)
A room with a view / Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.
Midnight”s Children, Salman Rushdie
A bend in the river / Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-
Lord Jim / Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
Light in August / Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
The Maltese falcon / Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961.
All the king”s men / Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989.
Women in love / Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.
Invisible man / Ellison, Ralph.
Darkness at noon / Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983.
A portrait of the artist as a young man / Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Sister Carrie / Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945.
The heart is a lonely hunter / McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967.
Sophie”s choice / Styron, William, 1925-2006.
Brave new world / Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.
Brideshead Revisited / Evelyn Waugh
Adventures of Augie March / Bellow, Saul.
Animal farm Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
The Great Gatsby / Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
To the lighthouse / Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
As I lay dying Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
Curtain: Poirot”s Last Case, Agatha Christie
Heart of darkness / Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
Not listened to:
A clockwork orange / Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993.
The house of mirth / Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
The sun also rises / Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
Catch-22 / Heller, Joseph.
Slaughterhouse-five / Vonnegut, Kurt.
Old books, removed from computer storage
A Study in Scarlet
Agatha Christie, The Under Dog, Four-and Twenty Blackbirds, The Dream, The Mystery of the Blue Train
Elmore Leonard, Western Stories
Philip Dick, Stories
Zane Grey, Tappan”s Burro
John McPhee, Uncommon Carriers
Dorothy Sayers, Strong Poison
Raymond Chandler, Trouble is My Business
Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House
Other things I listened to
12 Byzantine Rulers
APM American RadioWorks
Biology 1A_Fall 2008_UC Berkeley
History of Rome
Collegeboard.com’s 101 books to read before college
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
A Death in the Family: A Novel by James Agee
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Samuel Beckett”s Waiting for Godot (Bloom”s Modern Critical Interpretations)
The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Bronte
The Stranger by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Virago Modern Classics) by Willa Cather
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane -The Easton Press
Inferno (Modern Library Classics) by Dante
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
A Tale of Two Cities (A Washington Square Press Book) by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
The Three Musketeers (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Alexandre Dumas
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Selected Essays (Penguin Classics) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) by Henry Fielding
Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
LORD OF THE FLIES (With a biographical and critical note by E.L. Epstein, and a portraight of the author) (WIDEVIEW/PERIGEE BOOKS) by WILLIAM GOLDING
Tess of the D”Urbervilles (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thomas Hardy
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics) by Ernest Hemingway
Homer-The Iliad
The Odyssey by Homer
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
A Doll”s House by henrik ibsen
The portrait of a lady (The Laurel Henry James) by Henry James
The Turn of the Screw – Literary Touchstone Classic by Henry James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics) by James Joyce
Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) by Daniel Defoe
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Beowulf (Signet Classics) (Old English Edition) by Anonymous
The Canterbury Tales (original-spelling Middle English edition) (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Babbitt (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sinclair Lewis
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Bartleby the Scrivener (Hesperus Classics) by Herman Melville
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Beloved by Toni Morrison
A Good Man is Hard to Find (A Women”s Press classic) by Flannery O”Connor
Long Day”s Journey into Night by Eugene O”Neill
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allen Poe, Selected Tales (Oxford World”s Classics)
Swann”s Way (Dover Thrift Editions) by Marcel Proust
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Call It Sleep: A Novel by Henry Roth
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare – Macbeth by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
Pygmalion By George B. Shaw
Frankenstein
Ceremony – Leslie Marmon Silko
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: (50th Anniversary Edition) (Signet Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Antigone by Sophocles
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
Treasure Island (Enriched Classics Series) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Uncle Tom”s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gulliver”s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace (Vintage Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich-Fathers And Sons
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Candide by Voltaire
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The House of Mirth (Everyman”s Library (Cloth)) by Edith Wharton
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Thrift Edition) by Walt Whitman
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Native Son by Richard Wright
David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott