The 30 books I intend to read in 2017

Not necessarily in this order…

1. Graham Greene. The End of the Affair. Penguin, 1962. (Book first published 1951.) 187 pages.
2. John Yorke. Into the Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them. Penguin, 2013. 300 pages.
3. Jared Diamond. Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years. Vintage, 2005. (Book first published 1997.) 457 pages.
4. Patricia Highsmith. The Talented Mr Ripley. Vintage, 1999. (Book first published 1955.) 249 pages.
5. Robert B Pippin. Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy. University of Virginia Press, 2012. 106 pages.
6. The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul. Composed and arranged by Douglas R Hofstadter and Daniel C Dennett. Penguin, 1982. (Book first published 1981.) 483 pages.
7. Alison Bechdel. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Jonathan Cape, 2006. 232 pages.
8. Alberto Manguel. A History of Reading. Flamingo, 1997. (Book first published 1996.) 319 pages.
9. Dudley Andrew. Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film. Princeton University Press, 1995. 350 pages.
10. Steve Silberman. Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently. Allen & Unwin, 2015. 521 pages.
11. Ali Smith. Autumn. Hamish Hamilton, 2016. 260 pages.
12. George Eliot. Middlemarch. Wordsworth Editions, 2000. (Book first published 1872.) 688 pages.
13. Herman Hesse. The Glass Bead Game. Trans. Richard and Clara WInston. Vintage, 2000. (Das Glasperlenspiel first published 1943.) 530 pages.
14. Martin Jay. Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme. University of California Press, 2005. 409 pages.
15. Patrick Ness. The Knife of Never Letting Go. Walker Books, 2008. 479 pages.
16. Steven Pinker. The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity. Penguin, 2012. (Book first published 2011.) 841 pages.
17. Tony Judt. Ill Fares the Land. Penguin, 2010. 237 pages.
18. Eleanor Catton. The Luminaries. Granta, 2013. 832 pages.
19. Bruce Springsteen. Born to Run. Simon & Schuster, 2016. 510 pages.
20. Joe Moran. Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV. Profile Books, 2013. 376 pages.
21. Richard Feynman. Six Easy Pieces. Penguin, 2001. (It’s complicated.) 138 pages.
22. James Gleick. The Information. Fourth Estate, 2011. 427 pages.
23. Richard McGuire. Here. Hamish Hamilton, 2014. 320 pages.
24. David Hendy. Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening. Ecco, 2013. 335 pages.
25. Naomi Klein. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate. Penguin, 2015. (Book first published 2014.) 466 pages.
26. Stephen Miller. Conversation: A History of a Declining Art. Yale University Press, 2006. 328 pages.
27. Sven Birkerts. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. Fawcett Columbine, 1994. 229 pages.
28. Raymond Williams. Border Country. Parthian, 2006. (Book first published 1960.) 436 pages.
29. Ted Hughes. Birthday Letters. Faber and Faber, 1998. 198 pages.
30. David Bordwell. The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture. University of Chicago Press, 2016. 142 pages.

That’s 11,385 pages. Dividing that by 300 (which allows for a fair few non-reading days) produces a number just under 38. So if I aim to read 40 pages a day, every day, then by the end of 2017 I will have read all of these books!

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