Books I've Read - 2024

 

Books I've Read - 2024

• A Catskill Eagle - Robert B. Parker (12/27)
• The Spies of Warsaw - Alan Furst (11/29)
• Valediction - Robert B. Parker (11/1)
• Shanghai - Joseph Kanon (10/24)
• Bones of Hilo - Eric Redman (10/9)
• The Polish Officer - Alan Furst(8/26)
• The Widening Gyre - Robert B. Parker (7/26)
• Ceremony - Robert B. Parker (7/19)
• Master Slave Husband Wife - Ilyon Woo (6/28) NY Times
• The Late Monsieur Gallet - Georges Simenon (6/13)
• Eastbound - Maylis De Kerangal (6/10) NY Times
• A Savage Place - Robert B. Parker (5/20)
• Early Autumn - Robert B. Parker (5/15)
• Looking for Rachel Wallace - Robert B. Parker (5/6)
• The Ministry of Fear - Graham Greene (4/30)
• The Judas Goat - Robert B. Parker (3/14)
• Kokoro - Natsume Soseki (3/3)
• Promised Land - Robert B. Parker (1/25)
• Mortal Stakes - Robert B. Parker (1/15)
• Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - Satoshi Yagisawa (1/11)

Books I've Read - 2023

 

BOOKS I'VE READ - 2023

• God Save the Child - Robert B Parker (12/28)
• World Within A Song - Jeff Tweedy (12/22)
• The Partisan - Patrick Worrall (12/13)
• Kennedy 35 - Charles Cumming (11/26)
• The Godwulf Manuscript - Robert B. Parker (11/2)
• Pietr the Latvian - Georges Simenon (10/27)
• Judas 62 - Charles Cumming (10/15)
• No-Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners - Noah Rasheta (10/12)
• Maigret's Mistake - Georges Simenon (9/14)
• Under Occupation - Alan Furst (9/6)
• Ikigai - the Japanese Secret to Life - Hector Garcia (8/25)
• Box 88 - Charles Cumming (8/19)
• The Haunting of Hajji Hotak - Jamil Jan Kochai (8/11)
• Jar City - Arnaldur Indridasun (8/16)
• Consequences - Manual Munoz (6/27)
• The Mulberry Bush - Charles McCarry (5/23)
• The Discovery of Pasta - Luca Cesari (4/21)
• Another Kind of Eden - James Lee Burke (3/25)
• Again to Carthage - John L Parker (3/22)
• Stay True - Hua Hsu (3/1) NY Times
• Don't Know Tough - Eli Cranor (2/15)
• The Final Case - David Guterson (1/24)

Books I Read - 2022

 

• Down and Out in Paradise - Charles Leerhsen (12/5)
• The Dark Clouds Shining - David Downing (11/20)D tss to
• Hamburgers and Fries - John T. Edge (8/28) FF
• Churchill and Orwell - Thomas E. Ricks (8/22)
• The Angel of Rome - Jess Walter (8/1)
• Every Cloaked Rolled in Blood - James Lee Burke (7/19)
• A Spy Among Friends - Ben MacIntyre (7/11)
• A Runner's High - Dean Karna with sszes (6/21)
• Lenin's Roller Coaster - David Downing (6/12)
• Diary of a Dead Man on Leave - David Downing (5/18)
• The Hell Bent Kid - Charles O. Locke (4/26)
• Tenth of December - George Saunders (3/10)
• On Juneteenth - Annette Gordon-Reed (2/26, NY Times))
• One Man's Flag - David Downing (2/23)
• Taste - Stanley Tucci (1/26)
• No One is Talking About it - Patricia Lockwood (1/23, NY Times)
• Atomic Habits - James Clear (1/19)
• Silverview - John Le Carre (1/17)
• Where the Deer and the Antelope Play - Nick Offerman (1/2)

Books I Read - 2021

 

BOOKS I'VE READ - 2021

• Legends of the North Cascades - Jonathan Evison (12/24)
• The Last Tourist - Olen Steinhauer (12/2)
• The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (11/8)
• Jack of Spies - David Downing (10/31)
• Wedding Station - David Downing (10/15)
• Running with Sherman - Christopher MacDougall (10/6)
• End of Spies - Alex Gerlis (9/11)
• The Sniper - Chang Kuo-Li (9/3)
• The Big Oyster - Mark Kurlansky (8/19)
• The Hunter - Richard Stark (8/5)
• Slough House - Mick Herron (7/28)
• The End of the Affair - Graham Greene (7/6)
• The Premonition - Michael Lewis (6/6)
• Ring of Spies - Alex Gerlis (6/18)
• The Cold Millions - Jess Walter (6/2)
• Beginners - Tom Vanderbilt (5/22)
• Sea of Spies - Alex Gerlis (5/16)
• Sarah Jane - James Sallis (5/2)
• Blood of Victory - Alan Furst (4/26)
• Olive, Mabel & Me - Andrew Cotter (4/17)
• Prince of Spies - Alex Gerlis (4/14)
• I Hate Running and You Can Too - Brendan Leonard (4/7)
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami (3/5)
• Deacon King Kong - James McBride (2/8) NYTimes
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevksy (1/26)
• It Was All a Lie - Stuart Stevens (1/15)
• The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway (1/9)

Books I Read - 2020

 

BOOKS I'VE READ - 2020

• Night Train to Turkistan - Stuart Stevens (12/16)
• Above Suspicion - Helen Macinnes (12/11)
• The Last Good Kiss - James Crumley (11/25)
• Ride a Pale Horse - Helen Macinnes (11/8)
• Wounded - Percival Everett (10/15)
• When the Emperor was Divine - Julie Otsuka (10/10)
• Nowhere to Run - CJ Box (9/13)
• The Soul of Care - Arthur Kleinman (9/4)
• Trouble Is My Business - Raymond Chandler (8/15)
• The Hope of Glory - Jon Meacham (7/29)
• Below Zero - CJ Box (7/25)
• The Survivors - Adam P Frankel (7/15)
• Blood Trail - CJ Box (7/5)
• The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt (6/24)
• Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata (6/13)
• Free Fire - CJ Box (6/6)
• Chancy - Louis L'Amour (5/29)
• In Plain Site - CJ Box (5/20)
• Out of Range - CJ Box (5/17)
• Monstrum - Donald James (5/11)
• The Call of the Wild - Jack London (4/26)
• Trophy Hunt - CJ Box (4/18)
• Good Work The Chairmaking Life of John Brown - Christopher Williams (4/16)
• Chinaberry Sidewalks - Rodney Crowell (3/28)
• Night Boat to Tangier - Kevin Barry (3/14, NY Times)
• The Yellow House - Sarah M. Broome (3/1, NY Times)
• Under Occupation - Alan Furst
• Agent Running in the Field - John le Carre
• Teach Us to Sit Still - Tim Parks

Books I Read - 2019

• Heaven, My Home - Attica Locke
• American Spy - Lauren Wilkinson
• Lehrter Station - David Downing
• A Delicate Truth - John let Carre
• A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do - Pete Fromm
• Potsdam Station - David Downing
• The Maryleybone Drop - Mick Herron
• If Not for This - Pete Fromm
• Joe Country - Mick Herron
• Stettin Station - David Downing
• Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
• Silesian Station - David Downing
• Zoo Station - David Downing
• The Middleman - Olen Steinhauer
• Lie in the Dark - Dan Fesperman
• Warlight - Michael Ondaatje
• The Moroccan Girl - Charles Cumming
• Take the Cannoli - Sarah Vowell
• Educated - Tara Westover
• The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis
• Lake City - Thomas Kohnstamm
• The Incomplete Book of Running - Peter Sagal
• Transcription - Kate Atkinson
• There There - Tommy Orange
• A Perfect Spy - Henry Porter

Books I Read in 2018

BOOKS I'VE READ - 2018

• A Divided Spy - Charles Cumming
• Bluebird, Bluebird - Attica Locke
• A Colder War - Charles Cumming
• A Foreign Country - Charles Cumming
• Shaman Pass - Stan Jones
• Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
• The Trinity Six - Charles Cumming
• Typhoon - Charles Cumming
• Winterkill - C.J. Box
• What You Break - Reed Farrel Coleman
• Sunburn - Laura Lippman
• Upstream - Langdon Cook
• White Sky, Black Ice - Stan Jones
• Lawn Boy - Jonathan Evison
• This Is What Happened - Mick Herron
• The Spanish Game - Charles Cummng
• Robicheaux - James Lee Burke
• The Hidden Man - Charles Cumming
• Friends and Traitors - John Lawton
• A Spy By Nature - Charles Cumming
• The Names of the Stars - Pete Fromm
• Furnishing Eternity - David Giffels
• The Quiet American - Graham Greene
• The Smell of Other People's Houses - Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
• Priestdaddy - Patricia Lockwood
• Bobby Kennedy - Chris Matthews
• Love and Other Consolation Prizes - Jamie Ford

Books I Read in 2016

BOOKS I'VE READ - 2016

• The Night Manager - John le Carre
• A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
• The Hunter's Prayer - Kevin Wignall
• The Traitor's Story - Kevin Wignall
• Breaking Blue - Timothy Egan
• Smiley's People - John le Carre
• The Moving Target - Ross MacDonald
• Time Heals No Wounds - Hendrik Falkenberg
• A Hero of France - Alan Furst
• Hushabye - Celina Grace
• Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Highest Tide - Jim Lynch
• Fearless Jones - Walter Mosley
• The Immortal Irishman - Timothy Egan
• The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester
• Moby Dick - Herman Melville
• The Big Short - Michael Lewis
• Yellow Dog Party - Earl Emerson
• The Dead Horse Paint Company - Earl Emerson
• Crow Fair -Thomas McGuane
• The Man From Berlin - Luke McCallin

Books Read - 2015

Here are the books I read in 2015.

BOOKS I'VE READ - 2015

• Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk - Ben Fountain
• Last Night at the Lobster - Stewart O'Nan
• A Conspiracy of Faith - Jussi Adler-Olsen
• Knots and Crosses - Ian Rankin
• Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving - Jonathon Evison
• Deviant Behavior Earl W. Emerson
• Oaxaca Journal - Oliver Sacks
• The Absent One - Jussi Adler-Olsen
• Fat Tuesday - Earl Emerson
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John Le Carre
• Bridge of Spies - Giles Whittell
• The Looking Glass War - John Le Carre
• The Keeper of Lost Causes - Jussi Adler-Olsen
• Inspector of the Dead - David Morrell
• Nervous Laughter - Earl Emerson
• The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw - Bruce Barcott
• Galveston - Nic Pizzolatto
• Dept of Speculation - Jenny Offill
• Poverty Bay - Earl Emerson
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
• The Rainy City - Earl Emerson
• All the Old Knives - Olen Steinhauer
• Leaving Berlin - Joseph Kanon
• Call For the Dead - John Le Carre
• The Cruelest Miles - Gay and Laney Salisbury
• The Spy Who Came In From the Cold - John Le Carre
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick
• Cathedral - Raymond Carver
• The Innocent Spy - Laura Wilson
• On the Lisbon Affair - Olen Steinhauer

Books Read - 2014

BOOKS I'VE READ - 2014

• The Sportswriter - Richard Ford
• The Last Supper - Charles McCarry
• The Cairo Affair - Olen Steinhauer
• A Murder of Quality - John Le Carre
• The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown
• Midnight in Europe - Alan Furst
• The Director - David Ignatius
• A Most Wanted Man - John Le Carre
• Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
• The Better Angels - Charles McCarry
• Gallows View - Peter Robinson
• A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
• The Secret Lovers - Charles McCarry
• Growing a Feast - Kurt Timmermeister
• The Tears of Autumn - Charles McCarry
• Wave - Sonali Deraniyagals
• Growing a Farmer - Kurt Timmermeister
• The Double - George Pelecanos
• Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin
• The Miernick Dossier - Charles McCarry
• Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger

Books Read - 2013

• American Pastoral - Philip Roth
• The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
• Beautiful Ruins - Jess Walter
• Border Songs - Jim Lynch
• Wild - Cheryl Strayed
• Still Life with Oysters and Lemon - Mark Doty
• Cooked - Michael Pollan
• Sweet Tooth - Ian McEwan
• North of Hope - Shannon Huffman Polson
• The Yellow Birds - Kevin Powers
• Lonesome Animals - Bruce Holbert
• We LIve in Water - Jess Walter
• Double Cross - The True Story of the D-Day Spies - Ben Macintyre
• A Land More Kind Than Home - Wiley Cash
• Bruce - Peter Ames Carlin
• Alibi - Joseph Kanon
• Agent Zigzag - Ben MacIntyre

Books Read - 2012

• The Prodigal Spy - Joseph Kanon
• Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Cutis - Timothy Egan
• Canada - Richard Ford
• Los Alamos - Joseph Kanon
• Mission to Paris - Alan Furst
• Istanbul Passage - Joseph Kanon
• Murder in the Sentier - Cara Black
• The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson
• Mexico Set - Len Deighton
• The Things They Carried - Tim Cahill
• Italian Shoes - Henning Mankell
• Berlin Game - Len Deighton
• The Dirty Life - Kristin Kimball
• Blood,Bones and Butter - Gabrielle Hamilton
• I Am Not Sidney Portier - Percival Everett
• The Drop - Michael Connelly
• American Spy - Olen Steinhauer
• XPD - Len Deighton
• Assumption - Percival Everett
• The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
• An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
• Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
• The Doorbell Rang - Rex Stout
• Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson

Books Read - 2011

• Salt River - James Sallis
• The Cut - George Pelecanos
• Cripple Creek - James Sallis
• The Ones You Do - Daniel Woodrell
• Muscle for the Wing - Daniel Woodrell
• Under the Bright Lights - Daniel Woodrell
• Cypress Grove - James Sallis
• Victory Square - Olen Steinhauer
• An Empty Death: A Thriller - Laura Wilson
• Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
• A Prayer For the City - Buzz Bissinger
• 1861: The Civil War Awakening - Adam Goodheart
• The Anarchist's Tool Chest - Christopjer Schwarz
• Liberation Movements - Olen Steinhauer
• Night Swimming - Pete Fromm
• A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
• 36 Yalta Boulevard - Olen Steinhauer
• Beaten,Seared, Sauced - Jonathan Dixon
• Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
• The Confession - Olen Steinhauer
• Rabbit at Rest - John Updike
• The Bridge of Sighs - Olen Steinhauer
• Rabbit Is Rich - John Updike
• The Making of a Chef - Michael Ruhlman
• Innocent Monster - Reed Farrel Coleman

It Is Done

Rabbit is resting...

Books I Read - 2010

• This is the list of books I read in 2010.  Not as many as in 2009.
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• The Nearest Exit - Olen Steinhauer
• The Disappearing Spoon - Sam Kean
• The Tourist - Olen Steinhauer
• The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
• Made By Hand - Mark Frauenfelder
• Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow
• Spies of the Balkans - Alan Furst
• Medium Raw - Anthony Bourdain
• The Fourth Victim - Tony Spinosa
• War - Sebastian Junger
• Food Rules - Michael Pollan
• Matterhorn - Karl Marlantes
• Hose Monkey - Tony Spinosa
• Tower - Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman
• Empty Ever After - Reed Farrel Coleman
• Beowulf - Seamus Heaney Translation
• Saturday - Ian McEwan
• Murder in Belleville - Cara Black
• Dangerously Funny - David Bianculli
• The Big Burn - Timothy Egan
• The Spies of Warsaw - Alan Furst
• Murder in the Marais - Cara Black
• The Man Who Ate Everything - Jeffrey Steingarten
• Rain Gods - James Lee Burke

Kindle

I have completed my first book on the Kindle.  It was The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.  Lin recommended it to me and I thought it was great.  I also highly enjoyed reading it on the Kindle.

Note - Markus Zusak and I have the same birthday (but not the same year)....

Books I Read - 2009

These are the books I read in 2009. Its actually quite a bit more than I usually read I think - although I've never tracked it before. The list on the blog now changes to Books I've Read in 2010.

The Tender Bar - J. R. Moehringer
Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
Rabbit Redux - John Updike
In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
Soul Patch - Reed Farrel Coleman
The Brass Verdict - Michael Connelly
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
A Happy Marriage - Rafael Yglesias
Where Men Win Glory - Jon Krakauer
Tide, Feather, Snow - Miranda Weiss
The James Deans - Reed Farrel Coleman
Redemption Street - Reed Farrel Coleman
Swan Peak - James Lee Burke
As They See 'Em - Bruce Weber
Walking the Perfect Square - Reed Farrel Coleman
The Convict - James Lee Burke
Once A Runner - John Parker
The Way Home - George Pelacanos
A Homemade Life - Molly Wizenberg
Mary Mary - James Patterson
Hidden Moon - James Church
The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Bauermeister
Echo Park - Michael Connelly
The Turnaround - George Pelacanos
After Dark - Haruki Murakami
Rabbit Run - John Updike
Food Matters - Mark Bittman
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
The Night Gardner - George Pelecanos
Drama City - George Pelecanos