Reading log, 2013

Here it is, the year's not-much-anticipated reading log. Of note, I finished Will Durant's 4th volume of his Story of Civilization series. I began that book before I began dating Laura. Yay, done.

Another note: a full-time job is an obstacle for reading. I finished fifteen books Jan–Apr, coinciding with unemployment, and managed a meager seven books in the remaining eight months, coinciding with employment. Yay, money.

Lastly, an unsubstantiated opinion: It's too bad George Orwell has captured the modern imagination because Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon is a much better book at showing what went wrong with the 20th century Communist Revolution.

• John Masefield
  The Box of Delights (1935)

• Walter Tevis
  The Man Who Fell to Earth (1963)

• Neil Gaiman
  Anansi Boys (2005)

• George Orwell
  Animal Farm (1945)

• Arthur Koestler
  Darkness at Noon (1940)

• Kurt Vonnegut
  Mother Night (1961)

• Ray Bradbury
  Dandelion Wine (1957)

• Richard Feynman
  Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (1994)

• Will Durant
  The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization—Christian, Islamic, and Judaic—from Constantine to Dante: A.D. 325-1300 (1950)

• Joe Hill
  Horns (2010)

• Isaac Asimov
  Foundation (1951)

• Isaac Asimov
  Foundation and Empire (1952)

• Isaac Asimov
  Second Foundation (1953)

• Lewis Thomas
  The Lives of a Cell (1974)

• Isaac Asimov
  Foundation's Edge (1981)

• Isaac Asimov
  Foundation and Earth (1986)

• Dan Brown
  Inferno (2013)

• David Mitchell
  Cloud Atlas (2004)

• Bjarne Stroustrup
  The Design and Evolution of C++ (1994)

• R. M. Sainsbury
  Paradoxes (2009)

• Isaac Asimov
  Asimov's Guide to the Bible (vol. 1 1967, vol. 2 1969)

• Ken Follet
  Pillars of the Earth (1989)