I read a lot less this year. Less than I have in a year since I started keeping these lists back in 2017. I… don’t feel bad about this, necessarily, although I do wish I would have read more. It was a busy year. A lot happened.[1] But I do sort of which I’d read more. I will say that my reading was a bit more varied this year, in part due to work and other things,[2] but I did read some pretty neat books, some long books, some very short books, and so on. I even reread, which is something I think I said I was going to do more of this year or last yer but didn’t really. Anyway, here’s the sometimes annotated list:[3]
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Eddy Merckx: The Cannibal by Daniel Friebe
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf[4]
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney[5]
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Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
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Distance Cycling by Dan Kehlenbach and John Hughes[6]
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Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau[7]
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Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys[8]
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I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal[10]
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The House by Jane Unrue[11]
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The New House by David Leo Rice[12]
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Zero: Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife[13]
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La Maison de Rendez-vous by Alain Robbe-Grillet[14]
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Lanterne Rouge: The Last Man in the Tour de France by Max Leonard[15]
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Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey[16]
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How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman[17]
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The Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow[19]
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The World Broke in Two by Bill Goldstein[20]
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Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg[21]
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Python Testing with Pytest by Brian Okken[22]
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Introducing Python by Bill Lubanovic[23]
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The People, Yes by Carl Sandburgfoodnote:[Have I gushed about this on this blog already? If not, it’s wonderful.]
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Learn Enough Ruby to be Dangerous by Michael Hartl[24]
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The Philosophical Programmer by Daniel Kohanski[25]
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Winter Stars by Larry Levis[26]
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Dead Souls by Gogol[27]
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The King by Donald Barthelme[29]
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino[30]