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Saturday, January 2, 2021

Books to read this year

My goal basically is to read all the books I've bought, a herculean task in itself(bought SO MANY all those years).

First priority should be;

BN edition of William Prescott, Mexico and Peru

Cohen-Solal's bio of Sartre

Maxime Godinson's bio of Muhammad(Eaton Press) 


So many novels by USA/UK writers; 

Samuel Johnson & James Boswell(not novels here), Sterne, Dickens, Anthony Powell, Ford Maddox Ford, Waugh, Saki(Munro), Paul Scott, Burgess, C.P. Snow, Fowles, Derek Mahon(Singapore Grip)..

James, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Bellow, Gaddis, Wouk..

 

I'm going to keep reading French lit, should try to finish Montaigne, & Proust(from Captive), also should tackle

The Libertine Reader: Eroticism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France 

French Decadent Tales 

Henry James's criticism of French writers is really whetting my appetite, wonder if I should actually learn French to read in the original(so many untranslatable authors, according to James). 

 

Read bio of Goethe, so should actually read Faust and Erotic Poems..

How about Arabian Nights, tr. by Burton.

Bought plenty of non-fictions too; Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Robert Burton, Henry Adams, Burke, Mill, Nietzsche, Bagehot, William James, Freud, Veblen, Sorel, Orwell..

Poetry; Virgil, Dante, Milton, Pope, Coleridge..

Will I actually be able to finish reading all those during a decade lol.

And of course should keep reading Latin and Ancient Greek, for example Tacitus and I have tons of Loeb editions..

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