I read a lot of good books last year, and what follows is the alphabetized list. In previous years, I’ve created a post of my Top 10 books of the year, but I decided to forego that this year. Maybe you’ll find something on this list that is of interested to you!
Jennifer Ackerman–The Genius of Birds
Aeschylus–The Orestia
Aristophanes–Lysistrata and Other Plays
Aristotle–Nichomachean Ethics
James Baldwin–Notes of a Native Son
Ann Beattie–The New Yorker Stories
Italo Calvino–If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Nicolas Carr–The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
Raymond Carver–Collected Stories
Willa Cather–O, Pioneers!
John Cheever–The Stories of John Cheever
Roy Peter Clark–How to Write Short
Cyzewski, Ed–Reconnect: Spiritual Restoration from Digital Distraction
Annie Dillard–Teaching a Stone to Talk
Fyodor Dostoyevsky–The Idiot
Richard Ford–Sorry for Your Trouble: Stories
E.M. Forester–A Room With a View
Jen Stewart Fueston–Madonna, Complex
Diane Glancy–Stone Heart–A Novel of Sacajawea
Lauren Groff–Florida
Fr. Albert Haase–Catching Fire, Becoming Flame
Edith Hamilton–Mythology
Dashiell Hammett–The Maltese Falcon
Tony Hoagland–Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God: Poems
Homer–The Illiad
Homer–The Odyssey
Joshua Hren–In the Wine Press: Short Stories
Fr. Thomas Keating–Open Mind, Open Heart
Garrison Keillor–Liberty
Sinclair Lewis–It Can’t Happen Here
Cal Newport–Digital Minimalism
Tommy Orange–There, There
Henry David Thoreau–Walden
John Steinbeck–The Short Novels
Leo Tolstoy–War and Peace
Jeanne Murray Walker–Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking: Poems
James Matthew Wilson–The Strangeness of the Good
Tish Warren–Liturgy of the Ordinary
David Wright–Local Talent
Brian Zahnd–Postcards from Babylon
Brian Zahnd–The Unvarnished Jesus
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