2020 Readings
2020-12-31
Despite pandemic lockdowns and such, I read only ~75 books this year (granted, a third of them were dense works of philosophical scholarship on Aristotle). In 2021 I hope to finish the remaining dozen or so books I need to read in preparation for writing an epitome of Aristotle's ethics; I also hope to include a more generous helping of literature, modern science, and history. Several of the following books are available online at monadnock.net (the site where I post books that are in the public domain); see the end of this post for links.
Philosophy
- Bar On (ed.) - Engendering Origins
- Beere - Doing and Being
- Bielskis - Existence, Meaning, Excellence
- Burnet - The Ethics of Aristotle
- Casey - Pagan Ethics
- Chroust - Aristotle
- Cooper - Reason and Emotion
- Eriksen - Bios Theoretikos
- Freeland (ed.) - Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle
- Furth - Substance, Form and Psyche
- Groenhout - Connected Lives
- Hoffer - The True Believer
- Hutchinson - The Virtues of Aristotle
- Kalimtzis - An Inquiry into the Philosophical Concept of Scholê
- Lennox - Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology
- Leroi - The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science
- Lord - Education and Culture in the Political Thought of Aristotle
- Meyer - Aristotle on Moral Responsibility
- Miller (ed.) - Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: A Critical Guide
- Nightingale - Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy
- Nussbaum and Rorty (eds.) - Essays on Aristotle’s De Anima
- Pieper - Leisure, the Basis of Culture
- Polansky (ed.) - The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
- Reeve - Practices of Reason
- Smith - Revaluing Ethics
- Stern-Gillet - Aristotle's Philosophy of Friendship
- Walker - Slow Philosophy
- Weiner - The Socrates Express
Fiction
- Hesse - Demian
- Voltaire - Candide
- Zamyatin - WE
Poetry
- Auden - Selected Poems
- Donne - Selected Poems
- Dove (ed.) - The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry
- Emerson - Complete Poems
- Finch and Mail (eds.) - Villanelles
- Hughes - Collected Poems
- Larkin - Collected Poems
- Ryan - The Niagara River
- Ryan - Erratic Facts
- Ryan - Synthesizing Gravity
- Stallings - Like
- Stallings - Olives
- Swinburne - Poems and Ballads, First Series
- Swinburne - Songs Before Sunrise
- Swinburne - Poems and Ballads, Second Series
- Swinburne - Songs of the Springtides
- Swinburne - Studies in Song
- Swinburne - A Century of Roundels
- Swinburne - A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems
- Swinburne - Poems and Ballads, Third Series
- Swinburne - Astrophel and Other Poems
- Wilbur - Anterooms
- Wilbur - New and Collected Poems
General
- Douglass - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
- Forni - Choosing Civility
- Franklin - Autobiography
- de Grazia - Of Time, Work, and Leisure
- Hitz - Lost in Thought
- Honoré - In Praise of Slowness
- Housel - The Psychology of Money
- Kishimi and Koga - The Courage to be Disliked
- Linehan - Building a Life Worth Living
- Meyer - The Culture Map
- Nestor - Breath
- O'Mara - In Praise of Walking
- Sowell - Black Rednecks and White Liberals
- Tainter - The Collapse of Complex Societies
- Wright - Time for Wonderlust
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