All The Good Names Were Taken: Happy birthday, Mr. Darwin

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Happy birthday, Mr. Darwin

2 comments:

Jono said...: Wish I could cause a commotion like him!; February 12, 2013 at 2:52 PM
BBC said...: A lot of idiots still don't believe him.; February 12, 2013 at 9:13 PM

The 2013 reading list

Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell; Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed; Trading in Danger, Elizabeth Moon; Second Grave on the Left, Darynda Jones; North of Now: A Celebration of Country and the Soon to Be Gone, W. D. Wetherell; Blood Rites, Jim Butcher; History of the Finns in Michigan, Armas K. E. Holmio; Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed; Jared Diamond; Death of a Valentine, M. C. Beaton; The Unquiet, John Connolly; Semper Fidelis, Ruth Downie; Trout Madness, Robert Traver; Sister Time, John Ringo and Julie Cochrane; The Tainted Coin, Mel Starr; Silver Pigs, Lindsey Davis; Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63; Taylor Branch; Death Masks, Jim Butcher; The Concrete Blonde, Michael Connelly; Small Town D.A., Robert Traver; A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines; The Black Ice, Michael Connelly; Summer Knight, Jim Butcher; I'm A Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson; A Clash of Kings, George R. R. Martin; The Twelve, Justin Cronin; Sharpe's Trafalagar, Bernard Cornwell; Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World, Colin Wells; The Black Cat, Martha Grimes; Little Brother, Cory Doctorow; Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, Ann Landers; Fool's Puzzle, Earlene Fowler; His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman; Furies of Calderon, Jim Butcher; The Camelot Caper, Elizabeth Peters; Notorious Nineteen, Janet Evanovich; Dragon's Teeth, Upton Sinclair; Death of a Chimney Sweep, M. C. Beaton; Mystery People of the Cove: A History of the Lake Superior Ouinipegou, Ronald Stiebe; Out of the House of Life, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; At Home: A Short History of Private Life, Bill Bryson; Cold Days, Jim Butcher; Sequoyah: The Cherokee Genius, Stan Hoig; The Lords of the North, Bernard Cornwell; Enter Talking, Joan Rivers; The Coroner's Lunch, Colin Cotterill; The Potter's Field, Ellis Peters; The Vanished Library, Luciano Canfora; Explosive Eighteen, Janet Evanovich; The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914, David McCullough

My Pulitzer life list with the year the book won the prize, not the year I read it

Years of Grace (1931), Margaret Ayer Barnes
To Kill A Mockingbird (1961), Harper Lee
The Yearling (1939), Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Travels of Jamie McPheeters (1959), Robert Lewis Taylor
The Store (1933), T. S. Stribling
The Road (2007), Cormac McCarthy
The Old Man and the Sea (1953), Ernest Hemingway
The Magnificent Ambersons (1919), Booth Tarkington
The Late George Apley (1938), John P. Marquand
The Grapes of Wrath (1940), John Steinbeck
The Good Earth (1932), Pearl S. Buck
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1928), Thornton Wilder
The Age of Innocence (1921), Edith Wharton
The Able McLaughlins (1924), Margaret Wilson
Tales of the South Pacific (1948), James Michener
So Big (1925), Edna Ferber
Scarlet Sister Mary (1929), Julia Peterkin
One of Ours (1923), Willa Cather
Now in November (1935), Josephine Johnson
Laughing Boy (1930), Oliver La Farge
Lamb in His Bosom (1934), Caroline Miller
In This Our Life (1942), Ellen Glasgow
Honey in the Horn (1936), Harold L. Davis
His Family (1918), Ernest Poole
Gone With the Wind (1937), Margaret Mitchell
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (2004)
Early Autumn (1927), Louis Bromfield
Dragon's Teeth (1943), Upton Sinclair
Confessions of Nat Turner (1968), William Styron
Arrowsmith (1926), Sinclair Lewis
Angle of Repose (1972), Wallace Stegner
Andersonville (1956), MacKinley Kantor
Alice Adams (1922), Booth Tarkington
Advise and Consent (1960), Allen Drury
A Bell for Adano (1945), John Hersey