Monday, January 2, 2012

Eclectic Reading

At long last here's the list of the books I read in 2011. The list only contains books that I finished and completely read. It does not include the tons of books that I skimmed through or read bits and pieces of.


  1. Inside the Church of Flannery O’Connor: Sacrament, Sacramental, and the Sacred in Her             Fiction Edited by Joanne Halleran McMullen   
  2. The Twelfth Imam by Joel C. Rosenberg
  3. Flannery O’Connor: A Life by Jean W. Cash    
  4. Orient Express: An Entertainment by Graham Greene 
  5. Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor by Brad Gooch 
  6. Travelers Along the Way: The Men and Women Who Shaped My Life by Benedict J. Groeschel 
  7. It’s a Battlefield by Graham Greene 
  8. One Nation Under Arrest: How Crazy Laws, Rogue Prosecutors, and Activist Judges Threaten Your Liberty by The Heritage Foundation 
  9. Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska 
  10. The Lion, the Mouse, and the Dawn Treader: Spiritual Lessons from C.S. Lewis’s Narnia by Carl McColman 
  11. England Made Me by Graham Greene  
  12. Looking for the King by David Downing  
  13.  Is God Still An Englishman: How We Lost Our Faith (But Found New Soul) By Cole Moreton
  14. Cosima Wagner: The Lady of Bayreuth by Oliver Hilmes  
  15. Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin by Mel Gordon 
  16.  Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s by Otto Friedrich 
  17.  The Shining By Stephen King 
  18. Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir by Geoffrey O’Brien 
  19. Acts of Love by Roberta Latow 
  20.  Seminary: A Search by Paul Hendrickson
  21.  A Bullet for Cinderella by John D. MacDonald 
  22.  The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain 
  23.  Double Indemnity by James M. Cain Completed: August 27, 2011 
  24. The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family by Andrew Himes  
  25. Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy by Rumer Godden 
  26.  Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch 
  27.  Ex-Virgin by Orrie Hitt 
  28.  Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief by Joseph Pearce 
  29.  The Inferno by Dante Aligheri Translated by Mark Musa 
  30.  Havah: The Story of Eve by Tosca Lee
  31. 11/22/63 by Stephen King 
  32.  Ordinary People by Judith Guest 
  33.  Testing the Faith: The New Catholic Fiction in America by Anita Gandolfo