Last update: January 3rd 2022.
Books and authors I have done posts on, listed by year:
- -800s
- -850 Homer – Odyssey
- -700s
- -600s
- -500s
- Lao-tzu – Tao-te-Ching
- -400s
- -420 Herodotus
- -300s
- -200s
- -247 Archimedes
- -200 Library of Alexandria – Septuagint
- -100s
- -000s
- -45 Cicero – De divinatione
- -8 Ovid
- 000s
- 50 Q Gospel
- 60 Luke
- 70 Signs Gospel
- 75 Plutarch – Parallel Lives
- 95 Epictetus
- 98 Tacitus – Germania
- 100s
- 150 Ptolemy
- 150 Gospel of Judas
- 150 Gospel of Peter
- 200s
- 300s
- 357 Athanasius – Life of St Antony
- 360 Codex Sinaiticus
- 367 The Bible
- 367 Nag-Hammadi library
- 380 St Ambrose – De fide
- 391 Ammianus
- 395 Gregory of Nyssa – The Lord’s Prayer
- 400s
- 405 Jerome – Vulgate
- 434 Peregrinus – Commonitorium
- 429 Augustine – Select Letters
- 440 Codex Alexandrinus
- 500s
- 600s
- 700s
- 800s
- 900s
- 1000s
- 1100s
- 1154 al-Idrisi – Tabula Rogeriana
- 1200s
- 1274 Aquinas
- 1300s
- 1321 Dante – The Divine Comedy
- 1355 Ibn Battuta – Rihla
- 1400s
- 1500s
- 1513 Machiavelli
- 1517 Luther
- 1519 Leonardo da Vinci – Notebooks
- 1536 Calvin
- 1543 Copernicus
- 1585 St John of the Cross – Dark Night of the Soul
- 1600s
- 1700s
- 1748 Hume
- 1768 Encyclopaedia Britannica
- 1773 Phillis Wheatley
- 1787 Jefferson
- 1789 Lavoisier
- 1794 Equiano
- 1800s
- 1807 Hegel
- 1813 Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
- 1818 Shelley
- 1829 David Walker – Appeal
- 1840 Anne Lister – Diaries
- 1845 Frederick Douglass
- 1850 Edgar Allan Poe – Ten Great Mysteries
- 1853 Solomon Northup – 12 Years a Slave
- 1858 Ellen G. White
- 1868 Tolstoy – War and Peace
- 1867 Marx
- 1871 Darwin
- 1900s
- 1900s (decade)
- 1901 Booker T. Washington
- 1903 W.E.B. Du Bois – The Souls of Black Folk
- 1906 Franz Boas
- 1908 Gideon Bible
- 1910s
- 1910 E.M. Forster – Howards End
- 1910: Tagore – Gitanjali
- 1911 Concise Oxford Dictionary
- 1913 Unamuno – The Tragic Sense of Life
- 1916 Madison Grant
- 1917 Lenin – Imperialism
- 1920s
- 1920 H.G. Wells – The Outline of History
- 1924 Hitler
- 1929 Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms
- 1928 Oxford English Dictionary
- 1929 Nella Larsen – Passing
- 1929 Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own
- 1930s
- 1933 Carter G. Woodson – The Mis-Education of the Negro
- 1935 Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House on the Prarie
- 1936 Margaret Mitchell
- 1937 Zora Neale Hurston
- 1938: Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca
- 1939 L. Sprague de Camp – Lest Darkness Fall
- 1940s
- 1945 Orwell – Animal Farm
- 1945 Leopold Sedar Senghor
- 1946 Herge – Tintin in the Congo (revised edition)
- 1949 Orwell – 1984
- 1949 The Negro Motorist Green Book
- 1949 Nancy Mitford: Love in a Cold Climate
- 1950s
- 1951 McLuhan – The Mechanical Bride
- 1952 Frantz Fanon – Black Skin, White Masks
- 1953 Churchill – Second World War
- 1955 Tolkien – Lord of the Rings
- 1956 C.S. Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia
- 1957 Jack Kerouac
- 1959 The Golden Book Encyclopedia
- 1960s
- 1960 Lorraine Hansberry – The Drinking Gourd
- 1960 Isaac Asimov
- 1963 James Baldwin – The Fire Next Time
- 1963 Martin Luther King Jr – Letter from Birmingham Jail
- 1964 Hemingway – A Moveable Feast
- 1965 Malcolm X
- 1965 Fowler’s Modern English Usage
- 1966 Mao – Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
- 1968 John Brunner – Stand on Zanzibar
- 1968 Philip K. Dick – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- 1969 Maya Angelou – I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- 1970s
- 1970 Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
- 1971 The Pentagon Papers
- 1973 Jacob Bronowski – The Ascent of Man
- 1973 Solzhenitsyn
- 1974 Cheikh Anta Diop – The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality?
- 1974 Angela Davis – Autobiography
- 1974 James Baldwin – If Beale Street Could Talk
- 1975 Jonathan Schell – The Time of Illusion
- 1978 Edward Said – Orientalism
- 1979 Octavia Butler – Kindred
- 1979 Barbara Cartland – Imperial Splendour
- 1980s
- 1980 The Next Whole Earth Catalog
- 1980 Howard Zinn
- 1981 June Jordan
- 1982 NKJV
- 1982 Rough Guides
- 1983 Audre Lorde
- 1983: Joan Didion: Salvador
- 1984 Bobby E. Wright – The Psychopathic Racial Personality
- 1985 Ntozake Shange – Betsey Brown
- 1985 Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
- 1986 Ken Grimwood – Replay
- 1987 Assata Shakur
- 1987 Michael Crichton – Sphere
- 1988 Jamaica Kincaid
- 1988 Salman Rushdie
- 1988 Dominick Dunne
- 1988 Noam Chomsky – Manufacturing Consent
- 1989 Elaine Pagels – The Gnostic Gospels
- 1990s
- 1991 Frances Cress Welsing – The Isis Papers
- 1992 Lorene Cary – Black Ice
- 1992 Hans Kung – Credo
- 1992 Terry McMillan
- 1992 Donna Tartt – The Secret History
- 1993 Connie Porter – Meet Addy
- 1994 Rick Moody – The Ice Storm
- 1994 Charles Murray – The Bell Curve
- 1995 Gregory Maguire – Wicked
- 1996 James McBride – The Color of Water
- 1996 Burton L. Mack – Who Wrote the New Testament?
- 1996 Samuel P. Huntington – The Clash of Civilizations
- 1997 Jared Diamond – Guns, Germs and Steel
- 1998 William Bennett – The Death of Outrage
- 1998 Danzy Senna – Caucasia
- 1998 Chinua Achebe
- 1999 The Jesus Seminar
- 1900s (decade)
- 2000s
- 2000s (decade)
- 2000 Stephen King – On Writing
- 2001 bell hooks
- 2001 ESV
- 2002 Orianna Fallaci – The Rage and the Pride
- 2002 Danyel Smith
- 2003 Beverly Tatum
- 2003 Jeremiah Wright
- 2003 Dan Brown – The Da Vinci Code
- 2003 Elaine Pagels – Beyond Belief
- 2004 Michelle Malkin
- 2004 Pam Peters – The Cambridge Guide to English Usage
- 2005 damali ayo
- 2005 Adam Mansbach
- 2005 David Foster Wallace
- 2006 Brigitte Gabriel – Because They Hate
- 2006 ISG Report
- 2006 Norah Vincent – Self-Made Man
- 2007 Lawrence Hill – The Book of Negroes
- 2007 Caille Millner – The Golden Road
- 2007 James W. Loewen – Lies My Teacher Told Me
- 2007 William Gibson – Pattern Recognition
- 2007 Sherman Alexie – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- 2007 Kola Boof – Diary of a Lost Girl
- 2008 Eric Etheridge – Breach of Peace
- 2009 Staceyann Chin
- 2010s
- 2010 Heidi Durrow – The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
- 2010 Michelle Alexander – The New Jim Crow
- 2010 Rebecca Skloot – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- 2010 Nicholas Carr – The Shallows
- 2011 Leah Price – Unpacking My Library
- 2012 Michael Hastings – The Operators
- 2013 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
- 2014 Amy Chua
- 2014 Janet Mock – Redefining Realness
- 2014 Anne Berest, at al. – How to be Parisian
- 2014 Heather Cox Richardson – To Make Men Free
- 2015 Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me
- 2015 Harper Lee – Go Set a Watchman
- 2016 Margot Lee Shetterly – Hidden Figures
- 2016 Zadie Smith – Swing Time
- 2016 Lily Brooks-Dalton – Good Morning, Midnight
- 2016 Julia Serano – Whipping Girl
- 2016 Ibram X. Kendi – Stamped from the Beginning
- 2016 Carol Anderson – White Rage
- 2018 Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Reconstructing the Gospel
- 2018 Michael Eric Dyson – What Truth Sounds Like
- 2018 Bob Woodward – Fear
- 2018 John Lea – Believe Me
- 2018 Michelle Obama – Becoming
- 2018 Afua Hirsch – Brit(ish)
- 2018 Pat Barker – The Silence of the Girls
- 2019 Cal Newport – Digital Minimalism
- 2020s
- 2020 Jeanine Cummins – American Dirt
- 2020 Bob Woodward – Rage
- 2020 Sarah Kendzior – Hiding in Plain Sight
- 2020 Isabel Wilkerson – Caste
- 2020 Ruth Ben-Ghiat – Strongmen
- 2020 Kalynn Bayron – Cinderella is Dead
- 2020 Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half
- 2021 John McWhorter – Woke Racism
- 2000s (decade)
– Abagond, 2018, 2022.
See also:
- films
- songs
- books I read in: 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
- other posts about books:
- The Top Ten Desert Island Books
- Reading old books
- The 15 Year Rule
- Lost book covers
- Books that have most influenced me as a blogger
- Books I wish I had read sooner
- My favourite Greek books
- Books on American history
- Books for 2013
- Books for 2018
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@ Abagond: You should do a post on Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. It was a movie many years ago, and the film is being rebooted.
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@ Abagond
Have you read the original Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so, would you consider doing a post on it?
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i met timothy leary, he sent a postcard inviting me to a party but i couldn’t make it, he was a real nice guy
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@HeidiDurrow wrote The Girl Who Fell from the sky. She runs the annual Mixed Remixed conference in Los Angeles.
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@Abagond: Imagine living in a dystopian society where the government says all books should be burned just for the purpose of gaining control of our thoughts. Having a want to be despot like Trump in this current administration brings this to mind. It’s such a dark time we are living in and a dystopian society doesn’t seem that far away.
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@MB,
The US still has a way to go before they reach that stage.
But you don’t have to travel very far to find some place which is a lot closer to that dystopian state. The PRC bans books and arrests and imprisons (often without trial) authors, publishers, book sellers, online content providers, etc. for publishing material that the Party does not approve of, and the material gets deleted, the book is banned and any copies are “burned”. We are already there today. The US still largely enjoys significant freedom of the press (at least compared to many other places).
Hong Kong ranked #18 ( ahead of the USA) in 2002, but dropped to #73 last year (out of 180 countries based on 2016 data). This has all happened since I have been here. It looks destined to drop further – I shudder to think what the next ranking will announced to be this year. The USA is starting to look pretty good now.
Reporters Without Borders rejected Hong Kong as their Asia headquarters.
Hong Kong falls 4 places in 2017 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index; Taiwan freest in Asia
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/04/26/hong-kong-falls-4-places-2017-reporters-without-borders-press-freedom-index-taiwan-freest-asia/
Full report is here:
https://rsf.org/en/ranking
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Reblogged this on khushizn.
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@ jefe: Thanks for the link
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Does Mrs Abagond peacefully co-exist with your books?
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whose bookshelf is that
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it aint much i lost a bunch moving like 4 milk crates full i love books i have spent thousans on them
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@ Joe
LOL.
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@ v8driver
I have seen that “Home Remedies” book before. I think my sister has it.
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@ MJB
I am on a Rio news cycle and things are markedly worse there. But it is not a far cry from what the US could become under Trump. He has already threatened to do some of it (lock up his political opponent, send in the military into one of the main cities for the sake of “public safety”, etc). On the other hand, the US press seems to be less cowed.
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@ MJB @ OMO
I have not read “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” nor “Fahrenheit 451” but need to!
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@ v8driver
The bookshelf at the top of the post is something I pulled off of Google Images.
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@MB,
@abagond,
I have seen the press freedom drop precipitously in HK right before my eyes, mostly in the past 5-6 years. It is still not quite as bad as Brazil, but it is heading in that direction fast. It would not surprise me if it became worse than Brazil in the next few years.
I am glad to see that the US is pushing back on the administration attempt to stifle the press. And I am happy to see my hometown newspapers (Washington Post, NYT) refusing to be cowed so far.
Not so true in the leading English and Chinese language newspapers in Hong Kong. It is amazing at the transformation in the past 5-6 years, and it only going to get worse.
This is why I was asking Abagond, as part of his Portuguese language media diet, if he could look at the Portuguese media in Macau and see if it has cowed to the emperor up North, or if they equate national pride with party loyalty.
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@ Abagond:
I am MB, but i know you were responding to me, and yes after seeing the trailer for Fahrenheit 451 it mirrors Trump’s insanity to become an authoritarian and a want to be dictator, especially with how he wants to control the news media. The burning of books by the government is not to far fetched of something like this happening in America.
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*too^^ typo
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