Book List 2004

For easy reference, this list contains all the books, short stories, essays and poetry discussed in "My Brain Doesn't Bibliograph". The dates are when I got around to writing about the book, not necessarily the month when I read it but I read all of these since the start of 2004.

Some information
About the 50 book challenge
Book list for 2003

January
1) Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure - Dave Gorman (buy)
2) Sea Gate - Jocelyn Emerson (buy)
3) Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves but Can't Read, Write or Add - Charles J. Sykes (buy)
4) Firstborn - Louise Gluck (buy)
5) one story (Issues 26-32) - Various authors
6) First Poems - James Merrill (buy)

February
7) What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World - M. L. Rossi (buy)
8) The Girl Who Played Go - Shan Sa (buy)
9) The Book of Ephraim - James Merrill (buy)

March
10) The Cheating Culture - David Callahan (buy)
11) Mefisto - John Banville (buy)
12) 365 Views of Mt Fuji - Todd Shimoda (buy)
13) The Honors Class - Ben H. Yandell (buy)
14) Verse and Universe - ed. Kurt Brown (buy)
15) The Case of the Perservering Maltese (Collected Essays) - Harry Mathews (buy)
16) Mirabell's Books of Number - James Merrill (buy)

April
17) The Making of a Poem - Mark Strand and Eavan Boland (buy)
18) Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson (buy)
19) The World Doesn't End - Charles Simic (buy)
20) The Cosmos Poems - Frederick Seidel (buy)
21) A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose - B. R. Myers (buy)
22) This Craft of Verse - Jorge Luis Borges (buy)
23) Splendide-Hotel - Gilbert Sorrentino (buy)
24) 'Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science - Christian Bok (buy)
25) The Dictionary of Concise Writing: 10,000 Alternatives to Wordy Phrases - Robert Hartwell Fiske (buy)
26) The Dimwit's Dictionary: 5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to Them - Robert Hartwell Fiske (buy)
27) The Makeshift Miracle - Jim Zubkavich (online)
28) Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998: Volume 1 - Andrei Codrescu and Laura Rosenthal (buy)
29) Magician: Apprentice - Raymond E. Feist (buy)
30) Skeptic - V10n4 (online)

May
31) It Ain't Necessarily So (How the Media Remake Our Picture of Reality) - David Murray, Joel Schwartz, and S. Robert Lichter (buy)
32) Talon of the Silver Hawk - Raymond E. Feist (buy)
33) The Concise Guide to Copy Editing - Paul LaRocque (buy)

June
34) A Designer's Art - Paul Rand (buy)
35) How to Start a Magazine - James B. Kobak (buy)
36) Starting & Running a Successful Newsletter or Magazine - Cheryl Woodard (buy)
37) A Field Guide for Science Writers - ed. Deborah Blum/Mark Knudson (buy)
38) Science and Ultimate Reality: Quantum Theory, Cosmology and Complexity - ed. John D. Barrow, Paul C. W. Davies, Charles L. Harper, Jr. (buy)
39) Some Trees - John Ashbery (buy | buy)
40) The Tennis Court Oath - John Ashbery (buy | buy)
41) Rivers and Mountains - John Ashbery (buy | buy)
42) The Double Dream of Spring - John Ashbery (buy | buy)
43) Three Poems - John Ashbery (buy | buy)
44) Bobby Fischer Goes to War : How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time - David Edmonds, John Eidinow (buy)
45) The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) - Philip Pullman (buy | boxed set)

Like last year, I failed to continue recording everything I read for the rest of the year. I did, however, read at about the same rate so I expect I came close to 100 books for the year, and most definitely beat the 50 book challenge. Below is a selection of books that I can see from where I sit that should be on the list.

July-December
46) 200 Books - Keith Smith
47) Politics: Observations & Arguments, 1966-2004 - Hendrik Hertzberg
48) Laboratory of Justice - David L. Faigman
49) Summerland - Michael Chabon
50) Mind Over Matter - K.C. Cole
51) Haiku: Eastern Culture - R.H. Blyth
52) Haiku: Spring - R.H. Blyth
53) Structuralism in Literature - Robert Scholes
54) The Future Dictionary of America - pub. McSweeney Books
55) Buddhism is Not What You Think - Steve Hagen
56) The Sun My Heart - Thich Nhat Hanh
57) n+1 magazine: Negation (Issue 1)
58) The Dark Tower - Stephen King
59) Cosmic Banditos - A.C. Weisbecker
60) Rimbaud Complete - Arthur Rimbaud (tr. Wyatt Mason)
61) The American Scholar: Autumn 2004