By the Bedside in 2010

Books read and reading this year:

Letter to D by Andre Gorz
The delights of growing old by Maurice Goudeket
A lion for love: a critical biography of Stendhal by Robert Alter
Love by Stendhal
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Identity by Milan Kundera
Histoires Grecques by Maurice Sartre

Feb

On Love by Alain de Botton
Chateau d’Argol by Julien Gracq
Life Ascending: the 10 great inventions of evolution by Nick Lane
A Death in Vienna by Frank Tallis
Spell of the Vienna Woods by Paul Hoffman
Napoleon: a life by Paul Johnson
Vienna Blood by Frank Tallis
Life, Sex, and ideas by A.C. Grayling

March

Fatal Lies by Frank Tallis
Vienna Secrets by Frank Tallis
The Renaissance by Walter Pater
Captain Fracasse by Theophile Gautier
Breakfast with Socrates by John Rowland Smith
The basic writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Man of Fifty by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Immortal Game by Shenk

April
The razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Logicomix by apostolos doxiadis
House of Wittgenstein by Alexander Waugh
Ideas that Matter by A. C. Grayling
Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig

May

Closing of the Wesern Mind by Charles Freeman
Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
The Emperor’s Tomb by Joseph Roth
Beauty by Roger Scruton

June

Summer World by Bernd Heinrich
Godless by Dan Barker
God is not great by Christopher Hitchens
The Cliffs by Olivier Adam
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Rebels by Sandor Marai
All Souls by Javier Marias