35 BOOKS BOUGHT IN THE LAST YEAR

Selected Poems - Kenneth Fearing
The Healthy Deviant - Pilar Gerasimo
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield’s Life in the Blues - David Dann
A Roll of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance - Stephane Mallarmè
Weather - Jenny Offill
Utopia Avenue - David Mitchell
Art and Artist - Otto Rank
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
Lovecraft Country - Matt Ruff
The Perennial Philosophy - Aldous Huxley
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
Operators and Things - Barbara O’Brien
Men in Dark Times - Hannah Arendt
The Big Red Book - Rumi
Tragic Sense of Life - Miguel Unamuno
Feathers - Thor Hanson
Transformation - Murray Stein
Mudras of India - Cain and Revital Carroll
Breath - James Nestor
The Sense of Sight - John Berger
The Diaries of Paul Klee
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
The French Widow - Mark Pryor
Catching the Big Fish - David Lynch
Close Range - Annie Prioux
The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Psychoanalysis of Fire - Gaston Bachelard
A Net of Good and Evil - Michael Scott Cain
The Law of Innocence - Michael Connelly
Black Elk Speaks - John Niehardt

And have I read them all?
Years ago, I absolved of almost all my guilt with buying books but not soon reading them, when I read Walter Benjamin’s “Unpacking My Library” He quotes “the answer which Anatole France gave to a philistine who admired his library and then finished with the standard question, “And you have read all these books, Monsieur France?”
”Not one tenth of them!” he said.

painting by Ilia Galkin