southernbohemian's "I Can't Possibly Live Long Enough to Read All of This"
In 2000 I started keeping a list of books that I would like to read. Unfortunately, for every one that I completed, I usually added five more, so the list has ballooned quite a bit over the last seven years. In the past I’ve been able to average around 50-70 books a year, but since I’ve had my son, that rate has dropped considerably. If I never added another book to this list I’d probably be finshing it up sometime in my 80s. But even as I added stuff I thought of other books that weren’t on the list yet, hence the title. I decided to put the list on here partly to motivate myself and partly to be able to access the list from any computer. Thanks for checking out my crazy list.
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The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Galaxy Books)by Meyer H. Abrams
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nestby Stephen E. Ambrose
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Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germanyby Stephen E. Ambrose
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Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869by Stephen E. Ambrose
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Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition: The Treaty Fight in Perspectiveby Lloyd E. Ambrosius
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The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912by Roald Amundsen
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93.?Woodrow Wilson and the Lost Peace AND Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal, 2 Vby Thomas A. Bailey
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96.?Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolutionby Bernard Bailyn
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The Rockets' Red Glare: When America Goes to War : The Presidents and the Peopleby Richard J. Barnet
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Albion Fellows Bacon: Indiana's Municipal Housekeeper (Midwestern History and Culture)by Robert G. Barrows
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The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve Itby Neal Bascomb
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The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japanby Christopher Benfey
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205.?Scramble for Africa: Causes and Dimensions of Empire (Problems in European civilization)by Raymond F. Betts
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Boorstin Trilogy)by Daniel J. Boorstin
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Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)by Anthony Bourdain
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Miracle At Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May - September 1787by Catherine Drinker Bowen
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The Truth about Dogs: An Inquiry into Ancestry Social Conventions Mental Habits Moral Fiber Canis famiby Stephen Budiansky
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Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionageby Stephen Budiansky
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New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (American Moment)by Colin G. Calloway
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The Year of Our Revolution: Love and Rebellion in the 1960s: Stories and Poemsby Judith Ortiz Cofer
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The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment (Phoenix series)by Henry Steele Commager
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Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America (Penguin Classics)by J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
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The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches (Penguin Classics)by Charles Darwin
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Child Of The Dark: The Diary Of Carolina Maria De Jesus (50th Anniversary Edition)by Carolina Maria de Jesus
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Tunneling to the Future: The Story of the Great Subway Expansion That Saved New Yorkby Peter Derrick
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John Adams: The American Presidents Series: The 2nd President, 1797-1801 (American Presidents (Times))by John Patrick Diggins
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The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary Warby Thomas DiLorenzo
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Leila: Further in the Life and Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman (Donleavy, J. P.)by J. P. Donleavy
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647.?3 BY EASTLAKE - GO IN BEAUTY, THE BRONC PEOPLE, PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST WITH TWENY-SIX HORSESby William Eastlake
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Diamond As Big As the Ritz & Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Good Soldier : A Tale of Passion (The World's Classics) [Paperback] by...by Ford Maddox Ford; Ford Madox Ford; Editor-Thomas C. Moser
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Inside the World's Fair of 1904: Exploring the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Vol. 2by Elana V. Fox
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion: A New Abridgement from the Second and Third Editions (Oxford World's Classics)by Sir James George Frazer
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Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truthby Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi
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The Southern Tradition : The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatismby Eugene Genovese
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The Afrikaners: Biography of a People (Reconsiderations in Southern African History)by Hermann Giliomee
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Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels. From the German of Goethe. Complete in Two Volumes.by trans. T. Carlyle Goethe
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War IIby Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Conversations With Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring and the Crossroads of Socialismby Mikhail S. Gorbachev
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Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States (Cornell Paperbacks)by Maurine W. Greenwald
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The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game (Everyman's Library)by Patricia Highsmith
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Great Issues in American History, Vol. II: From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865by Richard Hofstadter
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Great Issues in American History, Vol. III: From Reconstruction to the Present Day, 1864-1981by Richard Hofstadter
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Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of her Survivorsby James D. Hornfischer
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internmentby Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
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1043.?Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English (Language Library)by Geoffrey Hughes
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The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 (Studies in Environment and History)by Andrew C. Isenberg
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Penguin History)by C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel James
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The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest (Norton Library (Paperback))by Francis Jennings
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Chester Alan Arthur: The American Presidents Series: The 21st President, 1881-1885by Zachary Karabell
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On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature (Harvest Book)by Alfred Kazin
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1158.?Orders from France: The Americans and the French in a Revolutionary World, 1780-1820by Roger G. Kennedy
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Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920by James T. Kloppenberg
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The End of Laissez-Faire: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Great Minds Series)by John Maynard Keynes
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The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 (Cornell Paperbacks)by Walter Lafeber
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History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822by Pier M. Larson
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A New England Town : The First Hundred Years : Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636-1736 (Norton Essays in American History)by Kenneth A. Lockridge
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Musical Tie-in Edition)by Gregory Maguire
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The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library)by Cormac McCarthy
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States)by James M. McPherson
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Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp and Other Essays from Might Magazineby Might Magazine editors
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Arguing about Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congressby William Lee Miller
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The Road to War: France and Vietnam, 1944-1947 (Contemporary France (Paper), Vol 2)by Martin Shipway
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Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in Americaby Giles Milton
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The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution (Stonesong Press Books)by Linda R. Monk
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Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876by Roy Jr. Morris
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The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevailsby Robert Musil
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The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolutionby Gary B. Nash
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Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800: With a New Prefaceby Mary Beth Norton
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The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Lifeby Laurie Notaro
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Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failedby Stephen O'Connor
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The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876-1912by Thomas Pakenham
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Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (Oxford History of the United States)by James T. Patterson
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The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermathby Kevin P. Phillips
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Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court and Free Speech (Cornell Paperbacks)by Richard Polenberg
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People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character (Walgreen Foundation Lectures)by David M. Potter
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In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove (Modern Library Classics) (v. 2)by Marcel Proust
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The Captive & The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. V (Modern Library Classics) (v. 5)by Marcel Proust
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Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnsonby William Rehnquist
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