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In January I decided to catch up on reading I have always wanted to do, especially with some classic books. I hoped to finish two per month. My year end count turned out to be 47 -- one book short of doubling my goal. The majority came through audiobooks with such a large amount of my time being on the road. Here is the final 2014 list. (Yes I will try it again in 2015): Classics (24) Animal Farm - George Orwell Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett Gullivers Travels - Jonathan Swift The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett The Call of the Wild - Jack London On the Road - Jack Kerouac Macbeth - William Shakespeare The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck 1984 - George Orwell The Great Gatzby - F. Scott FItzgerald Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemmingway The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorme The Metamorphasis - Franz Kafka Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Spiritual/philosophy (3) The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton Pilgrims Progress - John Bunyan Non-Fiction (11) John Adams - David McCullough Coolidge -- Amity Shales Benjamin Franklin: An American Life -- Walter Isaacson An Innocent Man - John Grisham The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth - Leigh Montville Killing Lincoln -- Bill OReilly The Supreme Court - The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America - Jeffrey Rosen Killing Kennedy - Bill OReilly A Nation Rising - Kenneth C. Davis Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris Driving Like Crazy - P.J. ORoarke Fictional Distratactions (9) The Last Juror - John Grisham The Appeal - John Grisham The Partner - John Grisham Joe Jones - Anne Lamott Cross Country - James Patterson Nineteern Minutes - Jodie Picoult Double Cross - James Patterson Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt -- Anne Rice Foreign Body - Robin Cook
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:20:15 +0000

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