Taking a Leaf from the 2008 Books read:

Jan 02, 2009 05:18



I had a hard time remembering what phases I went through and which classes I taught. But here is my list, such as it is:

In English:

Popular Literature:

1. The Venetian Betrayal - Steve Berry
2. The Alexandria Link - Steve Berry
3. The Templar Legacy - Steve Berry

4. Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Old Clock - Carolyn Keene

5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowling
6. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
7. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
8. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
9. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - JK Rowling

Literary Criticism:
10. Mapping the World of Harry Potter - Mercedes Lackey
11. The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter - Lana Whited
12. Psychology of Harry Potter - Neil Mulholland
13. Unlocking Harry Potter - John Granger
14. Re-reading Harry Potter - Samun Gupta
15. From Homer to Harry Potter - Matthew T. Dickerson
16. Harry Potter and Philosophy - David Baggett
17. Hero With A Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

More popular Literature:
18. Twilight - S Meyer
19. New Moon - S Meyer
20. Eclipse - S Meyer
21. Breaking Dawn - S Meyer
22. Midnight Sun - S Meyer (Partial manuscript)

23. Acheron - Sherrilyn Kenyon
24. The Dream-Hunter - Sherrilyn Kenyon
25. Night Play - Sherrilyn Kenyon

24. Old Friends and New Fancies - Sybil Brinton
25. Stardust - Neil Gaiman
26. MAUS - Art Spiegelman

27. The Edge of Desire - Stephanie Laurens
28. The Secret - Julie Garwood
29. Ransom - Julie Garwood

30. Cross Bones - Kathy Reichs

Classics:

31. Animal Farm - George Orwell
32. The Oresteia - Aeschylus
33. Seven Against Thebes (play) - Aeschylus
34. The Persians - Aeschylus
35. The Theban Plays - Sophocles
36. Ajax, The Trachiniae, Electra, and Philoctetes (plays) - Sophocles
37. and 38. Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, Helen, Phoenician Women and other assorted. (plays)- Euripides
39. Dracula - Bram Stoker
40. The Importance of Being Earnest- Oscar Wilde
41. Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
42. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins (Loved this!)
43. Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskill
44. Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskill
45. Through a Glass Darkly - Sheridan La Fenu
46. The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
47. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
48. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
49. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
50. The Monk - Matthew Lewis

History:
51. 1491 - Charles Mann
52. The Other God - Yuri Stoyanov
53. A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric - James Murphy
54. Duns Scotus: On the Will and Morality - ed. Alan Wolter
55. Goddess, Wives, Whores and Slaves - Sarah Pomeroy
56. The Greek State - Victor Ehrenberg
57. Inquisition - Edwin Peters
58. The Hippocratc Tradition - Wesley Smith
59. Hippocrates - Jacques Jouanna
60. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture - Marilyn Skinner
61. The Classical Athenian Democracy - David Stockton
62. Rubicon - Tom Holland
63. The Cloud of Unknowing - Unknown Author

Historical Commentary:

64. Aristotle on the Perfect Life - Anthony Kenny
65. Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman - Nicole Loraux
66. Empires of the Word - Nicholas Ostler
67. How Philosophers Saved Myths - Luc Brisson
68. Opera Muliebria - David Herlihy
69. Aristotle on Definition - Marguerite Deslauruers
70. Rhetoric Retold - Cheryl Glenn
71. The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric - Sister Miriam Joseph Rauh
72. The Search for Legitimate Authority - Jeffry Burton Russell

In Greek:

73. Medea - Euripides
74. Art of Rhetoric - Aristotle
75. Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
76. Politics - Aristotle
77. History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
78. Categories - Aristotle
79. Prior Analytics - Aristotle
80. On Airs, Waters and Places - Hippocrates

In Latin:

81. Ars Rhetorica - Aristotle
82. De Anima - Aristotle
83. The Vulgate (selections) - trans. Jerome

I know this list is incomplete, I read about one serial romance a month for a change of pace - I don't remember much about them though. And there are other history books, but they are long since returned to the library/owner.

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