So many books, so many books. I consciously tried to expand my reading horizons this year, which has helped to swell my reading list to unmanageable lengths. Sifting out worthy entries in disciplines with which I’m not especially familiar is not at all easy, so sometimes I just have to go on faith that apparent hard work, diligence, and care have resulted in an enlightening end product.
Krasznahorkai’s Satantango is certainly for me the book of the year, though in its way Lucan’s Civil War was as well, and I was very happy to have William Bronk‘s later poetry collected.
I have hardly read all of all of the nonfiction selections–I’ll be lucky if I ever read the Bailyn book cover to cover–but they have all been of note to me at least as reference or inspiration. Some stragglers from 2011 have snuck in as well.
If anyone’s curious as to why some book or other made the list, feel free to ask in the comments. Reviews on a couple are forthcoming.
(As always, I do not make any money from these links–this was just by far the simplest way to get thumbnails and metadata.)
Literature
An Ermine in Czernopol (New York Review Books Classics)
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The Person I Am Volume One (Laura (Riding) Jackson series Book 1)
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The Person I Am Volume Two (Laura (Riding) Jackson series Book 2)
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Minuet for Guitar (in Twenty-Five Shots) (Slovenian Literature)
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Comics
Ralph Azham: Why Would You Lie To Someone You Love (RALPH AZHAM HC)
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Walt Disney's Donald Duck Vol. 2: "A Christmas For Shacktown" (WALT DISNEY DONALD DUCK HC)
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Nonfiction
Oral Literature in Africa (World Oral Literature Series Book 1)
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Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry: Decoding Facts and Variables (Cultural Sociology)
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Acolytes of Nature: Defining Natural Science in Germany, 1770-1850
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The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition
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Regimens of the Mind: Boyle, Locke, and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition
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German Philosophy of Language: From Schlegel to Hegel and beyond
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Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century
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American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas
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Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives
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Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing, Remembrance, and Political Imagination
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The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things (The Evolution of Modern Philosophy)
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Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame
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More than Real: A History of the Imagination in South India
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The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy: A Systematic Reconstruction
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Scholarship, Commerce, Religion: The Learned Book in the Age of Confessions, 1560–1630
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The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of Ernst Tugendhat
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Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government- and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead
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Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy 2 Volume Hardback Set
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On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present
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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
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Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: An Introduction and Interpretation (This Way Up series)
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