My reading list through this week, will post update in UP in the fall.
1) Walt Harrington. Intimate Journalism: The Art and Craft of Reporting Everyday Life. [NF]
2) Mel Starr. Unhallowed Ground. (#4)
3) Jon Meachem. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. [NF]
4) Judith Blahnik and Phillip S.Schulz. Mud Hens and Mavericks. [NF
5) John Krich. El Beisbol: The Pleasures and Passions of the Latin American Game.[NF]
6) Erica Jong. Erica Jong On Henry Miller: The Devil At Large. [NF]
7) Michael Delp. As If We Were Prey. [SS-E]
8) John Simon. Paradigms Lost: Reflections on Literacy and Its Decline. [NF]
9) George Saunders. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. [SS]
10) Bernard DeVoto. Across The Wide Missouri. [NF]
11) Bernard DeVoto. Mark Twain’s America. [NF]
12) Raymond W. Thorp and Robert Bunker. Crow Killer. [NF]
13) William Golding. The Inheritors.
14) Sebastian de Grazia. Machiavelli in Hell. [NF]
15) Patsy Sims. Literary Nonfiction: Learning by Example. [NF]
16) Joseph Heywood. Hard Ground, Woods Cop Stories. [PROOF]
17) Bernard Cornwell. 1356.
18) Adam Hochschild. To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. [NF]
19) Patrick McGinley. Goosefoot.
20) Colin Dickey. Crankolepty [NF]
21) Tony Hillerman. Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir. [NF]
22) Carl Van Doren. Benjamin Franklin. [NF]
23) Charles Norman. e.e.cummings: The Magic Maker [NF]
24) Thomas Berger. The Return of Litle Big Man.
25) William Price Fox. Satchel Paige’s America. [NF]
26) Bob Lemieux. Off Wing: Coaching in the Bowels of the Dead Wings in the 1970s. [MS]
27) Alexandra Horowitz. Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know. [NF]
28) Jeff Hirsch. The Eleventh Plague.
29) Robert Ryan. Early One Morning.
30) Antony Beevor & Artemis Cooper. Paris: After the Liberation, 1944-1949. [NF]
31) Antony Beevor. The Mystery of Olga Chekhova. [NF]
32) Ronald Weber. Riverwatcher. [ARC]
33) Arnaldur Indridason. Operation Napoleon.
34) Joseph Heywood. Hard Ground, Woods Cop Stories. [SS]
35) William Golding. The Ineheritors.
36) Robert W Peterson. Only the Ball Was White. [NF]
37) Sigurd F. Olson. The Singing Wilderness. [NF]
38) Cesar Mallan. Short Guide to a Happy Dog.[NF]
39) Dominick Cavallo. A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History. [NF]
40) Wm R. Forstchen. One Second After.
41) Henry Hart. The World As A Lie: James Dickey. [NF]
42) Insiders’ Guide. San Antonio.[NF]
43) Ilaria Gozzini Giacosa. A Taste of Ancient Rome.[NF]
44) Aldous Huxley. Beyond The Mexique Bay [NF]
45) Jason Turbow & Michael Duca. The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign-Stealing, & Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime. [NF]
46) Francisco E.Balderrama & Richard A. Santillan. Mexican American Baseball in Los Angles. [NF]
47) Richard A. Santillan, Mark A. Ocegueda and Terry A. Cannon. Mexican American Baseball in the Inland Empire. [NF]
48) Adrian Burgos Jr. Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line. [NF]
49) Zack Hemple. The Baseball: Stunts, Scandals and Secrets Beneath the Surface.[NF]
50) Peter Levine. A.G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball. [NF]
51) Paul Dickson. The Hidden Language of Baseball: How Signs and Sign-Stealing Have Influenced the Course of Our National Pastime. [NF]
52) Paul Dickson. The Unwritten Rules of Baseball: The Etiquette, Conventional Wisdom, and Axiomatic Codes of Our National Pastime. [NF]
53) Rob Ruck. Raceball: How The Major Leagues Colonized The Black and Latin Game. [NF]
54) Robert K. Adair. The Physics of Baseball. [NF]
55) Buzz Bissinger. 3 Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of A Manager. [NF]
56) Zack Hample. Watching Baseball Smarter. [NF]
57) Bernard Malamud. The Natural.
58) Dirk Hayhurst. The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of A Minor League Veteran. [NF]
59) Chris Ballard. One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, and Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season. [NF]
60) Jules Tygiel. Past Time: Baseball As History. [NF]
61) Robert Elias. The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad. [NF]
62) Jack Stallings, Bob Bennett, Eds. Baseball Strategies: Your Guide to the Game Within the Game. [NF]
63) Harriet Doerr. Consider This, Senora.
64) Bill Veeck with Ed Linn. The Hustler’s Handbook. [NF]
65) Antony Beevor. The Mystery of Olga Checkhova. [NF]
66) Amy Waldman. The Submission.
67) Joseph Heywood. Killing A Cold One [Page Proofs]
68) Jim Bishop. The Day Christ Died.
69) John Gardner. The Life and Times of Chaucer. [NF]
70) Walter M. Miller, Jr. A Canticle for Leibowitz. (1959)
71) Susan Cain. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. [NF]
72) Ellen Airgood. Prairie Evers.
73) Henry Adams. Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original. [NF]
74) Percy Lubbock. The Craft of Fiction. (1922). [NF]
75) Kenneth Burke. A Grammar of Motives (1945) [NF]
76) Daniel Kahneman. Thinking Fast and Slow. [NF]
77) Margaret A. Salinger. Dream Catcher. [NF]
78) Davod P. Wagner. Cold Tuscan Stone. [ARC]
79) Paul Dorion. Trespasser.
80) Bob Lemieux. Off Wing. [NF]
81) Joseph Heywood. Killing A Cold One. [Proofs]
82) John Le Carre. A Delicate Truth.
83) Vladimir Nabokov. Speak, Memory. [NF]