2022 Readings

by Peter Saint-Andre

2022-12-27

Here are the eighty-odd books I chanced to read in 2022, with links to ones in the public domain that I've posted in full or in part at my Monadnock site. Right now I'm also a third of the way through War and Peace, but there's no way I'll finish it by the end of the year...

General

• Barzun - From Dawn to Decadence
• Cain - Bittersweet
• Darwin - Autobiography
• Fukuyama - Trust
• Hesse - Wandering
• Levy - Breaking the Age Code
• Lewis - The Abolition of Man
• Logan - Oak
• McCullough - The American Spirit
• McMahon - Happiness: A History
• Mill - Autobiography
• Okakura - The Book of Tea
• Pretor-Pinney - The Cloudspotter's Guide
• Riemen - Nobility of Spirit
• Yanagi - The Unknown Craftsman

Fiction and Writing

• Adichie - The Thing Around Your Neck
• Dante - Divine Comedy
• Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
• Eliot - Adam Bede
• Tolstoy - Hadji Murad

Music

• Borstlap - The Classical Revolution
• Wolff - The New Bach Reader

Philosophy

• Angle - Growing Moral
• Angle - Sagehood
• Augustine - Of the Morals of the Catholic Church
• Brădăţan - Dying for Ideas
• Cavell - The Senses of Walden
• D'Angour - Socrates in Love
• Ferraris - Manifesto of New Realism
• Hume - Essays
• Hunt - The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau
• Jonsen and Toulmin - The Abuse of Casuistry
• Lachs - Stoic Pragmatism
• Norton - Personal Destinies (re-read)
• Putnam - The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy
• Russell - Happiness for Humans
• Russell - Practical Intelligence and the Virtues
• Spinoza - Ethics (re-read)
• Wilkins - "Know Thyself" in Greek and Latin Literature (re-read)

Poetry and Poets

• Arnold - Complete Poems
• Baer - Fourteen on Form
• Bryant - Poetical Works
• Cowper - Complete Poems
• Hafez - Hafiz of Shiraz (tr. Avery and Heath-Stubbs)
• Hafez - Faces of Love (tr. Davis)
• Herrick - Hesperides
• Hillyer - The Five Books of Youth
• Hillyer - The Gates of the Compass
• Hillyer - The Hills Give Promise
• Hillyer - The Seventh Hill
• Hillyer - Sonnets and Other Lyrics
• Jonson - Complete Poems
• Lazarus - Complete Poems
• Longfellow - Collected Poems
• Milton - Sonnets
• Riding - The Close Chaplet
• Teasdale - Dark of the Moon
• Teasdale - Flame and Shadow
• Teasdale - Helen of Troy and Other Poems
• Teasdale - Love Songs
• Teasdale - Rivers to the Sea
• Teasdale - Strange Victory
• Wurdemann - Bright Ambush
• Wurdemann - Splendour in the Grass
• Wurdemann - Testament of Love
• Zaturenska - Cold Morning Sky

Psychology

• Babiak and Hare - Snakes in Suits
• Dik, Byrne, and Steger (eds.) - Purpose and Meaning in the Workplace
• Dotlich and Cairo - Why CEOs Fail
• Dunbar - Friends
• Dunbar - Human Evolution
• Fowers - Virtue and Psychology
• Henrich - The WEIRDest People in the World
• Jahoda - Current Concepts of Positive Mental Health
• Jahoda - Employment and Unemployment
• Kaufman - Transcend
• McRae and Costa - Personality in Adulthood
• Peterson and Seligman - Character Strengths and Virtues
• Schwartz and Sharpe - Practical Wisdom
• Seligman et al. - Homo Prospectus
• Seligman - The Hope Circuit
• Warr - Work, Happiness, and Unhappiness
• Waterman (ed.) - The Best Within Us

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