2019 Readings

by Peter Saint-Andre

2019-12-31

Here are the ~110 books I had a chance to read in 2019, divided into a few categories. Most of these are related to my project of writing an epitome of Aristotle's ethics (and most of the rest are related to my project of writing a novel about Pyrrho, the founder of ancient Greek skepticism).

Philosophy

• Anton and Preus (eds.) - Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy Vol. IV
• Aristotle - Protrepticus
• Aristotle - Fragments
• Barnes and Schofield (eds.) - Articles on Aristotle, Vol. 2
• Batchelor - Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
• Batchelor - Secular Buddhism
• Bodéüs - Aristotle and the Theology of the Living Immortals
• Bodnar and Fortenbaugh - Eudemus of Rhodes
• Bowles - Future Ethics
• Brink, Meyer, and Shields (eds.) - Virtue, Happiness, Knowledge
• Broadie - Ethics with Aristotle
• Cottingham and Hacker (eds.) - Mind, Method, and Morality
• Destree and Zingano (eds.) - Theoria
• Elders - Aristotle's Theology
• Flannery - Action and Character According to Aristotle
• Fonsdal - The Buddha before Buddhism
• Frede and Charles - Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda
• Garver - Confronting Aristotle's Ethics
• Hall - Aristotle's Way
• Kenny - Aristotle's Theory of the Will
• Keyt and Miller (eds.) - A Companion to Aristotle's Politics
• Kosman - The Activity of Being
• Kosman - Virtues of Thought
• Kraut - Aristotle on the Human Good
• Lear - Happy Lives and the Highest Good
• Lin Yutang - The Pleasures of a Nonconformist
• Mansion (ed.) - Aristote et les Problèmes sur Méthode
• Melzer - Philosophy Between the Lines
• Monan - Moral Knowledge and its Methodology in Aristotle
• Moreaux and Harflinger (eds.) - Untersuchungen zur Eudemischen Ethik
• North - Sophrosyne
• Nussbaum - the Fragility of Goodness
• Pangle - Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship
• Plato - Theages
• Plato - Erastai
• Plato - Hipparchus
• Plato - Clitophon
• Plato - First Alcibiades
• Plato - Second Alcibiades
• Plato - Lysis
• Plato - Laches
• Plato - Charmides
• Plato - Protagoras
• Plato - Hippias Major
• Plato - Hippias Minor
• Plato - Gorgias
• Plato - Meno
• Plato - Euthyphro
• Plato - Apology
• Plato - Crito
• Plato - Symposium
• Plato - Phaedrus
• Plato - Minos
• Plato - Republic
• Plato - Phaedo
• Plato - Cratylus
• Plato - Ion
• Plato - Euthydemus
• Plato - Menexenus
• Plato - Parmenides
• Plato - Theaetetus
• Plato - Sophist
• Plato - Statesman
• Plato - Philebus
• Plato - Timaeus
• Plato - Critias
• Plato - Laws
• Plato - Epinomis
• Roochnik - Retrieving Aristotle in an Age of Crisis
• Rorty - Essays on Aristotle's Ethics
• Schlossberg - Revitalizing Retirement
• Sharples - Alexander of Aphrodisias: Ethical Problems
• Simpson - Political Illiberalism
• Sparshott - Taking Life Seriously
• Taleb - The Bed of Procrustes
• Witt - Ways of Being
• Wong - Lieh-Tzu
• Xenophon - Memorabilia

History

• Bowden - Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle
• Fontenrose - The Delphic Oracle
• Hamilton - The Greek Way
• Hamilton - The Echo of Greece
• Stone - The Trial of Socrates

Science

• Barrett - How Emotions Are Made

Fiction

• Douglas-Klotz - Sufi Stories
• Gibran - The Prophet
• Golding - The Double Tongue
• Khan - Twenty Jataka Tales
• Le Guin - The Found and the Lost
• Le Guin - Orsinian Tales
• Le Guin - The Unreal and the Real
• Le Guin - The Wind's Twelve Quarters
• Lewis - Till We Have Faces
• Lin Yutang - Famous Chinese Short Stories
• Shah - The Hundred Tales of Wisdom
• Van Over - Taoist Tales
• Walton - The Just City
• Walton - The Philosopher Kings
• Walton - Necessity
• Wong - Seven Taoist Masters
• Wong - Tales of the Taoist Immortals

Poetry

• Davis - A Trick of Sunlight
• Espaillat - Where Horizons Go
• Espaillat - Lapsing to Grace
• Espaillat - Rehearsing Absence
• Espaillat - Her Place in These Designs
• Espaillat - Playing at Stillness
• Le Guin - Sixty Odd
• Le Guin - Incredible Good Fortune
• Le Guin - Finding My Elegy
• Le Guin - So Far So Good
• Le Guin - Tao Te Ching
• Wordsworth - Complete Poems
• Yeats - Complete Poems

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