List of Shame: New and, er, Improved

[amari_z]

Lj and I have only been nodding acquaintances recently, but I compiled this a while ago, yet didn't posted it because it scares me—as it should. There have been three apparently irresistible sales at internet sites I frequent, and I'm afraid I have no will power—and the busier I am at work, the less restraint I have. I've also combined my two previous lists, which go back to late 2005. As per previous practice, "candy" books not included, and this doesn't include books I've read that I acquired pre-shame list. But we won’t talk about the ratio of book read to books bought.



Fiction

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart*6/15
Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savanah*
Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God* 9/18
Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease* 10/23
Peter Ackroyd, The Fall of Troy**12/28
Peter Ackroyd, The Plato Papers*
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus 4/30
Jermey Blachman, @nonymous Lawyer*
Peter Carey, His Illegal Self**12/31/07
Susanna Clark, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Elizabeth Cook: Achilles
Michael Cunningham, Specimen Days 5/24
Sioned Davies (trans), The Mabinogion*
Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child* 8/8/07
George Eliot, Middlemarch*
Anne Enright, The Gathering* 12/12/07
Nuruddin Farah: Links
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop* 12/22
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Gate of Angels* 12/24
Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore*
Penelope Fitzgerald, Human Voices*
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Beginning of Spring *
Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide*
Pamela Gien, The Syringa Tree* 12/6
Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist *6/12
Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty ** 3/2/07
Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns** 5/9
M.J. Hyland, Carry Me Down 5/4
Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation*12/14/07
P.D. James, Children of Men 4/13/07
Ha Jin: War Trash
Ha Jin, Ocean of Words* 8/16/07
Franz Kafka, Collected Stories*
Edward P. Jones: The Known World
Elias Khoury, Gate of the Sun*
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake* 12/27
Lancelot of the Lake
Chang-Rae Lee: Aloft
Christopher Logue, All Day Permanent Red
Cormac McCarthy, The Road 5/31
Fiona McIntosh: Blood and Memory
Ian McEwan, Atonement* 12/19
Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men** 5/6
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas*
David Mitchell, Black Swan Green**
Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion*
Sarah Monette: Melusine
Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun* 1/8/08
Naeem Murr, The Perfect Man 5/14
Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran
R.K. Narayan, Malgudi Days 10/20
R.K. Narayan, Mr. Sampath--The Printer of Malgudi *
R.K. Narayan, The Financial Expert*
R.K. Narayan, Waiting for the Mahatma *
R.K. Narayan, Swami and Friends*
R.K. Narayan, The Bachelor of Arts*
R.K. Narayan, The Dark Room*
R.K. Narayan, The English Teacher*
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried* 8/19
Helen Oyeyemi, Icarus Girl
Sigfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston
Elizabeth Speller, Following Hadrian
Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma*
Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda* 10/28
Tatyana Tolstaya, White Walls*
Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us 5/1
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited 5/30
Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall*
Evelyn Waugh, The Sword of Honor Trilogy* 8/14 (bk 1)
Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust*
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse* 1/7/08


Nonfiction
Alcock et al., Pausanias*
Lindsay Allen, The Persian Empire
Stephen Ambrose: Band of Brothers
Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth 9/26
Thomas Asbridge: The First Crusade
Babur, The Baburnama
Laurence Bergreen, Over the Edge of the World* 9/14/07
Richard Bessel, Nazism and War 10/1
Jeannie Boyer, Daily Life in Ancient India
Edmund Blunden, The Undertones of War
Ian Burma: Inventing Japan 10/3
Bury, Ancient Greek Historians
Paul Cartledge, Alexander the Great 10/17
Paul Cartledge, The Spartans* 6/20/07
Philip Caputo: A Rumor of War 8/5/07
Ragiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City*
John Ellis: His Excellency George Washington 10/26
Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch 10/11
Jared Diamond, Collapse
Christopher Fee, Gods, Heroes & Kings
Richard Fletcher, The Cross and Crescent 10/4
Alexandra Fuller, Don't let's Go to the Dogs Tonight* 9/5
Lawrence M. Friedman: Law in America
Linda Greenhouse, Becoming Justice Blackmun*
Paul Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory 4/07
Paul Fussell: Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
Paul Fussell: The Boys' Crusade
Francessco Gabrieli, Arab Historians of the Crusades
Jonathan Glover: Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Andrew Gordon, Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present*
Al Gore, The Assault on Reason*
Robert Graves: Good-Bye To All That 3/15/07
Peter Green, The Hellenistic Age 10/21
Paul Johnson: The Renaissance
Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War 7/16
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
John Kelly, The Great Mortality 9/22
Stuart Kelly, The Book of Lost Books
Ross King, Machiavelli*
Mark Kurlansky, Nonviolence
Frank Kermode: The Age of Shakespeare 9/23
Edward Larson: Evolution
Livy, Books I-V (Luce Translation)
Mary Lefkowitz: Greek Gods, Human Lives
Geraldine Leick, The Babylonians 11/31/07
Louise Levathes: When China Ruled the Sea 10/7
Bernard Lewis, Race and Slavery in the Middle East*
Edward Luce, In Spite of the Gods
Heather McKillop, The Ancient Maya: New Perspectives
Charles C. Mann, 1491* 8/30/07
Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found*
John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge: The Company
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea
George Mosse, Fallen Soldiers* 10/5
Anthony Pagden: People and Empires
Jonathan Philips, The Fourth Crusade
Geraldine Pinch, Egyptian Mythology*
Richard Pipes, Communism
Arundhati Roy, War Talk
Georges Roux, Ancient Iraq 11/15
Saira Shah: The Storyteller's Daughter 6/10/07
Tahir Shah, The Caliph's House
Seth L. Shein, The Mortal Hero*
Daniel C. Snell, Life in the Ancient Near East
Dava Sobel: The Planets
Kevin Starr: California
Barry Strauss, The Battle of Salamis
Rory Stewart, The Places in Between
Rory Stewart, The Prince of the Marshes 4/27/07
Michael Sturmer, The German Empire 10/2
Romila Thapar, Early India
Lynne Truss: Talk to the Hand
Milton Viorst, Storm from the East
Andrew Wheatcroft, The Habsburgs
Susan Whitfield, Life Along the Silk Road 10/10
A.N. Wilson, London 9/25
Frances Wood, The Silk Road
Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor

*Recent Acquisitions
**not my fault



Okay, no more book buying. I’m so serious.