Books Read: 2001

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January, 2001
Van Gogh by Pascal Bonafoux
Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh edited by Irving Stone
Harold’s Purple Crayon Treasury by Crockett Johnson
Essential Dali by Kirsten Bradbury
The Darwin Awards by Wendy Northcutt
Constantine’s Sword: The Church and The Jews: A History by James Carroll

February, 2001
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1959)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T. S. Eliot
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
National Portrait Gallery History of the Kings & Queens of England by David Williamson
The Horse Whisperer by Nicolas Evans
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara Tuchman
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibrain
St. Peter’s Fair by Ellis Peters
A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Allcott

March 2001
I Always Look Up The Word “Egregious” by Maxwell Nurnberg
We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates (Oprah Bookclub, 01/24/01)
Quidditch Through The Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp (J. K. Rowling)
Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them by Newt Scamander (J. K. Rowling)
The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
Hard Times by Charles Dickens

April 2001
On War by Carl Von Clausewitz
Advise And Consent by Allen Drury (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1960)
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, M. D.
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Parables of Joshua by Joseph F. Girzone
The White Nile by Alan Moorehead
Icy Sparks by Gwen Hyman Rubio (Oprah Bookclub, 03/08/01)

May 2001
The Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht
Mein Kampf by Adolph Hitler
The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk by Jennifer Niven
A Cure for Dreams by Kaye Gibbons
Charms For The Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1961)
The Wanderer: His Parables and Sayings by Kahlil Gibran

June 2001
Revelation of Love by Julian of Norwich (translated by John Skinner)
A Circle of Quiet: The Crosswicks Journal, Book One by Madeleine L’Engle
Evolution & Eden: Balancing Original Sin And Contemporary Science by Jerry D. Korsmeyer
The God of Eden: A Trinitarian Theology by Denis Edwards
The Seven Deadly Sins: Stories on Human Weakness and Virtue by Andrew Greeley et al
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir (Oprah Bookclub, 05/16/01)
The Bounty Trilogy: Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, and Pitcairn’s Island by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall
The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1962)

July, 2001
Dead Man Walking by Sr. Helen Prejean, C.S.J.
Essential Michelangelo by Kirsten Bradbury
The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
The Sackett Companion by Louis L’Amour
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Crazy Horse and The Real Reason for the Battle of the Little Big Horn by A. Ross Ehanamani
The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis
The River by Rumer Godden
An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Gone by Rumer Godden
The Reivers by William Faulkner (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1963)
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

August, 2001
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
The Aeneid by Virgil (translated by Robert Fitzgerald)
The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1965)
The Last Days of Pompeii by Sir Edward G. E. Bulwer-Lytton
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
Post Captain by Patrick O’Brian
H. M. S. Surprise by Patrick O’Brian
The Mauritius Command by Patrick O’Brian
Desolation Island by Patrick O’Brian
The Fortune of War by Patrick O’Brian
The Surgeon’s Mate by Patrick O’Brian
The Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker, annotated by Leonard Wolf
The Ionian Mission by Patrick O’Brian
Treason’s Harbour by Patrick O’Brian
The Far Side of the World by Patrick O’Brian
The Reverse of the Medal by Patrick O’Brian
The Letter of Marque by Patrick O’Brian
The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O’Brian
The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O’Brian
The Truelove by Patrick O’Brian
The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O’Brian
The Commodore by Patrick O’Brian
The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O’Brian

September, 2001
The Hundred Days by Patrick O’Brian
Blue At The Mizzen by Patrick O’Brian
100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature by Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald & Dawn B. Sova
Lobscouse & Spotted Dog: Which It’s a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels by Anne Chotzinoff Grossman and Lisa Grossman Thomas
Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1966)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
The Acadian Miracle by Dudley J. LeBlanc
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
The American Language by H. L. Mencken

October, 2001
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Evolution & Eden: Balancing Original Sin And Contemporary Science by Jerry D. Korsmeyer
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Darwin Awards by Wendy Northcutt
Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
The Book On the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski
Mary: A History of Doctrine and Devotion by Hilda Graef
Papal Sin by Garry Wills
The Big Knockover by Dashiell Hammett
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler

November, 2001
Crime and Punishment in American History by Lawrence M. Friedman
The Art of War by Sun Tzu (translated and with an introduction by Samuel B. Griffith)
Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes (translated by Samuel Putnam)
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

December, 2001
The Formation of the New Testament Canon: An Ecumenical Approach by William S. Farmer & Denis M. Farkasfalvy, O. Cist.
Julian of Norwich by Grace Jantzen
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K, Rowling
Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation edited by Helen M. Cooper, Adrienne Alislander Munich, & Susan Merrill Squier
Erotic Verse: Sensual and Amusing Erotic Verse from Sappho to Stevie Smith edited by Christopher Hurford

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