2019 Reading List

What I'm reading now, or have read, since January 1, 2019

Here's what I'm reading...

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

As I Please, 1943-1945  The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters
by George Orwell

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Gehlen - Spy of the Century by E.H. Cookridge
(pictured above left E.H. Cookridge; above right: Reinhard Gehlen)

What I've read since the beginning of this year....

Brother Kemal by Jakob Arjouni

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

Time Will Darken It by William Maxwell

Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant

Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Happy Birthday, Turk! by Jakob Arjouni

The System of the World by Neal Stephenson

Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling

A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner

Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War by Adam Hochschild

Autumn Light by Pico Iyer

Independent People by Halldor Laxness

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

The Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin

The Mystic Masseur by V.S. Naipaul

Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry

Guerrillas by V.S. Naipaul

Istanbul Passage by Joseph Kanon

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

A Place on Earth by Wendell Berry

The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry



The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St. James, 1932-1943
by Gabriel Gorodetsky

The Bastards of Pizzofalcone by Maurizio de Giovanni



Blowing the Bloody Doors Off by Michael Caine





Agent Running in the Field by John Le Carre





Murder on the Leviathon by Boris Akunin

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce
by Colm Toibin

Uncommon Grounds by Mark Pendergrast

Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks

Under Occupation by Alan Furst

The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco

Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry