Books read since Jan 96
* – Highly recommended
- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
- *The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- *Blue Latitiudes by Tony Horwitz
- *Spying on the South by Tony Horwitz
- *Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
- Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hemon
- The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
- The Man with the Blue Scarf by Martin Gayford
- Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back) by Jeff Tweedy
- The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
- *Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
- *Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
- Reefer Men by Tony Thompson
- Still Life by Louise Penny
- Autumn by Karl One Knausgaard
- Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hopkins
- *Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
- A Truck Full of Money by Tracy Kidder
- Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
- American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Joe Meacham
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann
- Lucien Freud: Eyes Wide Open by Phoebe Hoban
- *My Struggle: Books 1-5 by Karl One Knausgaard
- The Silverado Squaters by Robert Louis Stevenson
- *The Imortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- *The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Great Leader by Jim Harrison
- *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- This Present Moment by Gary Snyder
- What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
- Lust for Life by Irving Stone
- Bay of Souls by Robert Stone
- *Point to Point Navigation by Gore Vidal
- *Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings (Also see the Metropolitan Museum of Art site)
- Andrew Wyeth: Master Drawings from the Artist’s Collection
- Graphic Storytelling: The Definitive Guide to Composing a Visual Narrative by Will Eisner
- Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud
- The Life and Times of R. Crumb edited by Monte Beauchamp
- The Summer He Didn’t Die by Jim Harrison
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard
- Over the Hills—A Midlife Escape Across America by Bicycle by David Lamb
- *Saturday by Ian McEwan
- *Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
- Will Eisner’s Shop Talk by Will Eisner
- Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
- Blinding Light by Paul Theroux
- *The Innocent by Ian McEwan
- Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure by F. A. Worsley
- Danger on Peaks by Gary Snyder
- The High Sierra of California by Gary Snyder, Tom Killion, John Muir
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- Walkin’ the Dog by Walter Mosley
- The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White
- McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern Issue 13 Edited By by Chris Ware
- Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
- Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide By Eric Meyer
- The Recumbent Bicycle by Gunnar Fehlau
- *Whistler’s Venice by Alastair Grieve
- Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography by James McDonough
- True North by Jim Harrison
- The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- July’s People by Nadine Gordimer
- Running to the Mountain; A Midlife Adventure by Jon Katz
- Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
- Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
- Atonement by Ian MacEwan
- The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy
- How to Shit in the Woods by Kathleen Meyer
- N.C. Wyeth, A Biography by David Michaelis
- Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
- Following the Sun by John Hanson Mitchell
- Saving Faith by David Baldacci
- *Off to the Side by Jim Harrison
- Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden
- *The Raw and The Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand by Jim Harrison
- The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig
- Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski
- Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney
- *The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald
- *House by Tracy Kidder
- *Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
- Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a
High-Altitude Mountaineer by Anatoli Boukreev - *The Story of the Jews by Stan Mack
- Picturing Will by Ann Beattie
- *The Emigrants by WG Sebald
- Maps and Dreams by Hugh Brody
- Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev
- *Sundog by Jim Harrison (1/02)
- Mountain Time by Ivan Doig (12/01)
- The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon (10/01)
- Irons in the Fire, John McPhee
- The New New Thing, Michael Lewis (8/18/01)
- *The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
- Hooking Up, Tom Wolfe
- The Body Artist, Don DeLillo
- It’s Not About the Bike, Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins
- Night Train, Martin Amis (very good noir mystery)
- An Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul (read about 1/2)
- *A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, Eric Newby
- Virtual Light, William Gibson
- Night Flight, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Right Ho, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
- *The Cunning Man, Robertson Davies
- *Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
- *The Road Home, the sequel to Dalva,
Jim Harrison (5/17/2000) - Hopper’s Places, Gail Levin (2/29/2000)
- The Ransom of Russian Art, John McPhee (1/25/2000)
- Sleeping Where I Fall, Peter Coyote (1/16/2000)
- Murder at the National Gallery, Margaret Truman (1/9/2000)
- Angels & Insects, A.S. Byatt (12/24/1999)
- A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
- Legends of the Fall, Jim Harrison
- Desert Notes, River Notes, Barry Lopez
- A Tribe Apart, Patricia Hersch
- Living the Good Life, Helen and Scott Nearing (8/25/99)
- Old Fences, New Neighbors, Peter R. Decker (7/31/1999)
- *Dalva, Jim Harrison (7/17/1999)
- My Old Man and the Sea, David Hays and Daniel Hays (6/12/1999)
- Damascus Gate, Robert Stone
- The Genessee Diary, Henri J. M. Nouwen
- With Chatwin, Portrait of a Writer, Susannah Clapp
- Wired Magazine, Ok, it’s not a book but I read it from cover
to cover - Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
- Time Exposure, The Autobiography of William Henry Jackson,
W.H. Jackson - *Possession, A.S. Byatt
- *Eiger Dreams, Jon Krakauer
- Miles from Nowhere, Barbara Savage
- *Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
- *Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
- Bucking the Sun, Ivan Doig
- Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master’s Lessons in Living a Life
That Matters, Bernard Glassman & Rick Fields - *The Drawings of Paul Cadmus, Guy Davenport
- Pig Earth, John Berger
- Durer, John Berger
- Following The Brush: An American Encounter with Classical Japanese
Culture, John Elder - The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher, Bruno Ernst
- Naturalist, Edward O. Wilson
- Kowloon Tong, Paul Theroux
- A Place in Space, Gary Snyder
- The Pillars of Hercules, Paul Theroux
- The Hunter Gracchus, Guy Davenport
- Consider This Senora, Harriet Doerr
- *Ride With Me Mariah Montana, Ivan Doig
- *Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Peter Hoeg
- The Celestine Prophecy, Redfield
- Ireland: a Bicycle and a Tin Whistle, David Wilson
- Jaguars Ripped My Flesh, Tim Cahill
- *Longitude, Deva Sobel
- *Dancing at the Rascal Fair, Ivan Doig
- *A Year, Brian Eno
- *Stones for Ibarra, Harriet Doerr
- Thank You and OK, David Chadwick
- My Journey to Lhasa, Alice David-Neel
- The Media Lab, Stewart Brand
- Journals, Keith Haring
- My Other Life, Paul Theroux
- Being Digital, Nicholas Negreponte
- Depths of Glory, Irving Stone
- Outerbridge Reach, Robert Stone
- This Hallowed Ground, Bruce Catton
- The Birth of the Beat Generation; Visionaries, Rebels, and
Hipsters, 1944-1960, Steven Watson - I Sing the Body Electronic; A Year With Microsoft on the
Multimedia Frontier, Fred Moody - The Zen of Seeing, Frederick Franck
- *English Creek, Ivan Doig