Books read in 2022 thus far

Charles Lincon
6 min readJun 10, 2022

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Books Read in 2022

1. Lakes: A Very Short Introduction — Warwick F. Vincent. Started Wednesday December 29, 2021 at 11:46AM. Finished Saturday January 1, 2022 at 6:29PM.

2. Hegel: A Very Short Introduction — Peter Singer. Started Saturday January 1, 2022 at 6:32PM. Finished Sunday January 2, 2022 at 11:44AM.

3. The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Leo Tolstoy. Started Sunday January 2, 2022 at 11:48AM. Finished Sunday January 2, 2022 at 4:30PM.

4. The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas. Started Sunday January 2, 2022 at 4:46PM. Finished Monday January 10, 2022 at 12:19AM.

5. HBR’s 10 Must Reads: The Essentials — Started Monday January 10, 2022 at 7:25PM. Finished Wednesday January 12, 2022 at 7:25PM.

6. HBR’s 10 Must Reads: On Leadership — Started Wednesday January 12, 2022 at 7:25PM. Finished Thursday January 13, 2022 at 6:12PM.

7. HBR Guide to Better Business Writing: Engage readers Tighten and brighten Make your case — Bryan A. Garner. Started Friday January 14, 2022 at 8:36AM. Finished Friday January 14, 2022 at 3:04PM.

8. On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic — Friedrich Nietzsche. Started Friday January 14, 2022 at 7:22PM. Finished Saturday January 15, 2022 at 5:07PM.

9. A Handful of Dust — Evelyn Waugh. Started Saturday January 15, 2022 at 7:42PM. Finished Sunday January 16, 2022 at 4:08PM at home.

10. Put Out More Flags — Evelyn Waugh. Started Sunday January 16, 2022 at 4:25PM at home. Finished Monday January 17, 2022 at 11:57AM.

11. Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future — Friedrich Nietzsche. Started Monday January 17, 2022 at 11:58PM. Finished same day at 9:10PM.

12. Eaters of the Dead — Michael Crichton. Started Monday January 17, 2022 at 9:17PM. Finished Tuesday January 18, 2022 at 11:16AM.

13. Beowulf — Translated by Seamus Heaney. Started Tuesday January 18, 2022 at 11:18AM. Finished same day 8:35PM.

14. Grendel — John Gardner. Started Tuesday January 18, 2022 at 8:35PM. Finished Wednesday January 19, 2022.

15. The Aeneid — Virgil. Started Tuesday January 20, 2022. Finished Monday January 24, 2022 at 10:14PM.

16. Brideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh. Started Monday January 24, 2022 at 10:39PM. Finished Thursday January 27, 2022 at 12:10PM.

17. The Perks of Being a Wallflower — Stephen Chbosky. Started Thursday January 27, 2022 at 12:36PM. Finished same day at 5:13PM.

18. Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing. Started Sunday January 23, 2022. Finished Thursday January 27, 2022 at 8:44PM.

19. Tax-Free Wealth: How to Build Massive Wealth by Permanently Lowering Your Taxes — Tom Wheelwright, CPA. Started Thursday January 27, 2022 at 5:22PM. Finished Saturday January 29, 2022 at 5:12PM.

20. The Road — Cormac McCarthy. Started Saturday January 29, 2022at 6:51PM. Finished same day around 10:10PM.

21. Me Talk Pretty One Day — David Sedaris. Started February 1, 2022 Tuesday 12:33PM. Finished Wednesday February 2, 2022 at 6:25PM.

22.A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens. Started Wednesday February 2, 2022 at 9:24PM. Finished Saturday February 5, 2022 at 10:47PM.

23.Paradise Lost — John Milton. Started Sunday February 6, 2022 at 3:17PM. Finished Tuesday February 8, 2022 at 3:20PM.

24. The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer (Translation by Burton Raffel). Started Wednesday, February 9, 2022, at 8:54 PM. Finished Thursday, February 17, 2022, at 4:43 PM.

25.The Horse, The Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World — David W. Anthony. Started Thursday, February 17, 2022, at 4:44 PM. Finished Sunday, February 20, 2022, at 11:27 AM.

26. Twelfth Night — William Shakespeare. Started Sunday, February 20, 2022, at 1:06 PM. Finished Sunday, February 20, 2022, at 4:36 PM.

27. Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe. Started Sunday, February 20, 2022, at 4:56 PM. Finished Monday, February 21, 2022, at 4:53 PM.

28. Gorgias — Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Monday, February 21, 2022, at 5:26 PM. I finished the same day at 8:25 PM.

29. Protagoras — Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Started Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at 7:54 PM. Finished Wednesday, February 23, 2022, at 7:15 PM.

30. Meno — Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Started Wednesday, February 23, 2022, at 8:37 PM. Finished on the same day at 9:22 PM.

31. Euthydemus — Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Finished Friday February 25, 2022 at 9:40 AM.

32.Lesser Hippias — Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Started Friday February 25, 2022 at 8:15 PM. Finished Friday February 25, 2022 at 8:31 PM.

33.Atomic Habits — James Clear. Started Friday February 25, 2022 at 10:02PM. Finished Sunday February 27, 2022 at 9:19 PM.

34.Hippias Major — Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Finished Monday February 28, 2022 at 5:55 PM.

35.Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers. Started Sunday February 27, 2022 at 9:20 PM. Finished March 3, 2022 Thursday at 8:17PM.

36.Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions — Edwin A. Abbot. Started March 3, 2022 Thursday at 8:54 PM. Finished Sunday March 5, 2022 at 11:31 AM.

37. The Two Towers — J.R.R. Tolkien. Started March 3, 2022 Thursday at 8:19 PM. Finished Sunday March 6, 2022 at 3:55 PM.

38. HBR Guide to Office Politics — Karen Dillon. Started Friday March 11, 2022 5:27PM. Finished same day at 9:16PM.

39.Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw. Started Sunday March 13, 2022 at 8:55PM. Finished Monday March 14, 2022 at 6:02PM.

40. And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie. Started Monday March 14, 2022 at 6:40PM. Finished Tuesday March 15, 2022 at 10:31PM.

41. The Greek Revolution: 1821 and The Making of Modern Europe — Mark Mazower. Started Wednesday March 16, 2022 at 3:28 PM. Finished Tuesday March 19, 2022 5:22 PM.

42. The History of Western Philosophy — Bertrand Russel. Started Tuesday March 19, 2022 5:23 PM. Finished Tuesday March 29, 2022 at 8:17 PM.

43.Death in Venice — Thomas Mann. Started Tuesday March 29, 2022 at 9:13 PM. Finished Wednesday March 30, 2022 at 7:53 PM.

44. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction — Michel Foucault. Started Wednesday March 30, 2022 at 7:53 PM. Finished Thursday March 31, 2022 at 6:10 PM.

45.The Magic Mountain — Thomas Mann. Started Thursday March 31, 2022 at 6:13 PM. Finished Thursday April 7, 2022 at 8:02PM.

46. Dracula — Bram Stoker. Started Thursday April 7, 2022 at 9:46PM.

47. The Interpretation of Dreams — Sigmund Freud. Started in December 2021. Finished Tuesday April 19, 2022 at 9:36PM.

48. HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations — Nancy Duarte. Started Tuesday April 19, 2022 at 9:36AM. Finished same day at 1:03PM.

49. The Death of the Banker — Ron Chernow. Started Tuesday April 19, 2022 at 1:05PM. Finished Tuesday April 19, 2022 at 4:16PM.

50. The Hedgehog and the Fox — Isaiah Berlin. Started Tuesday April 19, 2022 at 4:18PM. Finished Wednesday April 20, 2022 at 5:56PM.

51. The Yellow Wallpaper — Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Started at 6:58 PM and finished at 8:08 PM on Sunday, April 24, 2022 (Greek Easter) in Rockville, Maryland.

52.Democracy in America — Alexis De Tocqueville. Started Wednesday, April 20, 2022, at 5:57 PM. Finished Sunday, May 1, 2022, at home in Cedar Park, Texas at 2:19 PM.

53.A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement — Anthony Powell. Started Sunday, May 1, 2022, at 2:20 PM. Finished Sunday, May 8, 2022, at 10:43 AM.

54.Tristram Shandy — Laurence Stern. Started Sunday, May 8, 2022 at 2:53PM. Finished Tuesday May 17, 2022 at 10:32PM.

55. Middlesex — Jeffrey Eugenides. Started Tuesday May 17, 2022 at 10:52PM. Finished Tuesday May 24, 2022 at 7:16PM.

56.The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho. Started Tuesday May 24, 2022 at 7:19PM. Finished Wednesday May 25, 2022 at 8:42PM.

57. Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe — and Started the Protestant Reformation — Andrew Pettegree. Started Wednesday May 25, 2022 at 10:35PM. Finished Saturday May 28, 2022 at 9:42 AM.

58. The Sea and The Jungle — H.M. Tomlinson. Started Saturday May 28, 2022 at 10:01 AM. Finished Monday May 30, 2022 at 7:29 PM.

59.Models: Attract Women Through Honesty — Mark Manson. Started Tuesday May 31, 2022 at 5:50 PM. Finished Thursday, June 2, 2022, at 6:29 PM.

60. The Lost Keys of Freemasonry — Manly P. Hall. Started Friday June 3, 2022 at 10:08 PM. Finished Friday at June 3, 2022 11:52 PM.

61. The European Union: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) 4th Edition — Simon Usherwood & John Pinder. Started Saturday June 4, 2022 at 10:51PM. Finished Sunday June 5, 2022 at 4:40PM.

62. The Club Dumas — Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Started Sunday June 5, 2022 at 10:33PM. Finished Monday June 6 (both Grandfather’s birthdays), 2022 at 9:19PM.

63.Rewriting The Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity — Joseph E. Stiglitz. Started Monday June 6 (both Grandfather’s birthdays), 2022 at 9:42PM. Finished Thursday June 9, 2022 at 7:36PM.

© Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV

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Charles Lincon

Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Hegelian dialectics, Attic Greek, masters University of Amsterdam.