2008: Books Read
May
- Sirapie Der Nersessian: The Armenians, 1969.
- Karen Connelly: Dream of a Thousand Lives: A Sojourn in Thailand (Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal), 2001 (1993).
- William Saroyan: The Human Comedy, 1943.
- James M. Cain: Double Indemnity, 1943 (1936).
- Razmik Panossian: The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars, 2006.
- Fumiko Enchi: The Waiting Years, 1971 (1957).
- Anthony Powell: At Lady Molly’s, 1957.
- Jack Womack: Let’s Put the Future Behind Us, 1996.
April
- Wes D. Gehring: Screwball Comedy: A Genre of Madcap Romance, 1986.
- Iris Murdoch: A Severed Head, 1961.
- Taner Akçam: From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide, 2004.
- Oliver Sacks: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, 1985 (1970-1984).
- Michael Chabon: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, 1988.
- William Gibson: Neuromancer, 1984.
- Mikhail Bulgakov: A Dead Man’s Memoir (A Theatrical Novel), 2007 (1965, 1936-7).
- Harold Bierman, Jr.:The Causes of the 1929 Stock Market Crash: A Speculative Orgy or a New Era?, 1998.
- Ronald Grigor Suny: Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History, 1993 (1979-1989).
- Leo Tolstoy: Resurrection, 1994 (1916, 1899).
- J. Otto Pohl: Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949, 1999.
- Thomas de Waal: Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War, 2003.
- Yukiko Tanaka, ed: Unmapped Territories: New Women’s Fiction from Japan, 1991 (various).
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: The Evolving Self: A Psychology For the Third Millennium, 1993.
- Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One, 1961 (1884-1892).
- Hwang Sun-Won: The Book of Masks, 1989 (1980, 1976).
- W. G. Sebald: The Rings of Saturn, 1998 (1995).
- Norbert Ehrenfreund: The Nuremberg Legacy: How the Nazi War Crimes Trials Changed the Course of History, 2007.
- Jonah Lehrer: Proust Was a Neuroscientist, 2007.
- Ishmael Beah: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, 2007.
- Anthony Powell: The Acceptance World, 1955.
March
- Arthur O. Lovejoy: The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea, 1936 (1933).
- Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea, 1978.
- Richard H. Armstrong: A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World, 2005.
- Anthony Powell: A Buyer’s Market, 1952.
- Gert Ledig: Payback, 2003 (1999, 1956).
- Patrick Hamilton: Hangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl’s Court, 1941.
- Theodor W. Adorno: Philosophy of Modern Music, 1973 (1958, 1948, 1941/8).
- Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May: Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers, 1986.
- Natsume Soseki: Kusamakura (The Grass Pillow / The Three-Cornered World), 2008 (1906).
- Richard Yancey: Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man’s Tour of Duty Inside the IRS, 2004.
- Chuck Klosterman: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story, 2005.
- Norman Sherry: Conrad’s Western World, 1971.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990.
- William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!, 1936.
- Georges Simenon: The Strangers in the House, 2006 (1951, 1940).
- W. G. Sebald: Vertigo, 1999 (1990).
- Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1969 (1962).
- Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, 1998 (1886).
- Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton, eds: Wayfarer: New Fiction by Korean Women, 1997 (various).
February
- Robert Alter: Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel, 2005.
- Ira Glass, ed: The New Kings of Nonfiction, 2007 (various).
- Friedrich Nietzsche: The Gay Science, 1974 (1887, 1882).
- David Rakoff: Don’t Get Too Comfortable, 2005.
- Henry Roth: Call It Sleep, 1934.
- Andrew Bowie: Music, Philosophy and Modernity, 2007.
- Dezső Kosztolanyi: Anna Édes, 1991 (1926).
- Susan Oyama: Evolution’s Eye: A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide, 2000.
- Georges Simenon: Tropic Moon, 2005 (1933).
- Anthony Powell: A Question of Upbringing, 1951.
- Eric Hobsbawm: The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848, 1961.
- Natsume Soseki: And Then, 1978 (1909).
- Graham Greene: Stamboul Train, 1934.
- William Gibson: Mona Lisa Overdrive, 1988.
- Richard E. Neustadt: Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership; With Reflections on Johnson and Nixon, 1976 (1968, 1960).
- W. G. Beasley: Japanese Imperialism 1894-1945, 1987.
- Junichi Saga: Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan’s Underworld (The Gambler’s Tale), 1991 (1989).
- Franz Kafka: The Trial, 1998 (1990, 1925).
January
- Daniel Goffman: The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe, 2002.
- Oliver Sacks: Awakenings, 1990 (1973).
- E. J. Hobsbawm: Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality, 1992 (1990).
- Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, 1964 (1963).
- Christoph Zürcher: The Post-Soviet Wars: Rebellion, Ethnic Conflict, and Nationhood in the Caucasus, 2007.
- James Baldwin: Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone, 1968.
- Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, 1991 (1983).
- Robert Alter: The Art of Biblical Narrative, 1981 (1975-1980).
- G. B. Edwards: The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, 1981 (? - 1976).
- Iris Murdoch: An Accidental Man, 1971.
- Natsume Soseki: Grass on the Wayside, 1969 (1915).
- Erez Manela: The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism, 2007.
- Umberto Eco: Baudolino, 2002 (2000).
- Roland Grigor Suny: The Making of the Georgian Nation, 1994 (1988).
- Natsume Soseki: The Gate, 1972 (1910).
- Alan Weisman: The World Without Us, 2007.
- David Rakoff: Fraud, 2001.
- Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit, 1844.
