Monday, February 4, 2013

What Are You Reading?

This is a question that I hope people still ask one another.  It is a good opening question, a way to get at someone's interests, curiosities, and ambitions.  I just cleaned off my bedside table, and here is a list of some of what I read last year:

Nonfiction

Clover Adams:  A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life, by Natalie Dykstra

Williams Alexander Percy:  The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker, by Benjamin E. Wise

Sex and God at Yale:  Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad, by Nathan Harden

Bonhoffer:  Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, by Eric Metaxas

Coming Apart, by Charles Murray

Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay, by Christopher Benfey

Incidents the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs

Soldier From the War Returing:  The Greatest Generation's Troubled Homecoming From World War II, by Thomas Childers

Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century, by John Kasson

The Bible (selected passages)

Fiction

Canada, by Richard Ford

Mason's Retreat, by Christopher Tilghman

The Right Hand Shore, by Christopher Tilghman

The World According to Garp, by John Irving

Textbooks
America:  A Narrative History, by George B. Tindall and David Shi

The Great Awakening:  A Brief History with Documents, by Thomas S. Kidd

The Salem Witch Hunt:  A Brief History with Documents, by Richard Godbeer

Newspapers and Magazines
The New York Times (Sundays and selected articles during the week)
The Raleigh News and Observer (daily)
The Chronicle of Higher Education (weekly)
The Tideland News (weekly)
The Atlantic Monthly
The New Yorker (sporadically, but excellent articles and equally excellent cartoons!)

What are YOU reading?  Share your best suggestions in the comments.

1 comment:

  1. Walking the Trail, One Man's Journey Along the Cherokee Trail of Tears by Jerry Ellis

    A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson

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