Books I Read in the First Half of 2011

After the jump is a list of books I read in the first six months of 2011.

Stephane Hessel – Indignez-Vous! – 1/8/11

Slavoj Zizek – First As Tragedy, Then As Farce – 1/13/11

John Berger – And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos – 1/15/11

Cassandra Troyan – The Things We Embody Are The Things We Destroy – 1/18/11

Sara Drake – Small Advices – 1/22/11

Simon Critchley – The Book of Dead Philosophers – 1/25/11

Anne Elizabeth Moore – The Manifesti of Radical Literature – 1/27/11

Donna Haraway – The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness – 2/2/11

Kenneth Patchen – Hallelujah Anyway – 2/9/11

Wendy Lee Spacek – Oscines – 2/10/11

Terry Eagleton – How To Read A Poem – 2/11/11

Julia Wertz – Drinking at the Movies – 2/12/11

Robert Mankoff – The New Yorker Book of Art Cartoons – 2/13/11

Claudia Nashon – The Art of William Steig – 2/14/11

William Steig – Ruminations – 2/15/11

Mark Strand – Hopper – 2/16/11

C.F. – Powr Mastrs 3 – 2/16/11

Brecht Evens – The Wrong Place – 2/17/11

John Kenneth Galbraith – The Economics of Innocent Fraud – 2/20/11

Philip Roth – The Breast – 2/23/11

William Steig – Drawings – 2/24/11

Wiliam Steig – Sick of Each Other – 2/26/11

Robert Mankoff – The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons – 2/26/11

Jean-Paul Sartre – Nausea – 2/26/11

Nina Kaiden – Artist and Advocate: An Essay on Corporate Personage – 2/28/11

Emma N. Young – So Soon We Shall See – 2/28/11

Nicholas Rombes – A Cultural Dictionary of Punk – 3/1/11 

Paul Strathern – Plato in 90 Minutes – 3/3/11

Wendy Spacek – Hypnagogia – 3/4/11

Matt Furie – Boy’s Club 4 – 3/6/11

Tom Stoppard – The Real Inspector Hound – 3/7/11

Tom Stoppard – After Magritte – 3/7/11

Steve Roggenbuck – DOWNLOAD HELVETICA FOR FREE.COM – 3/12/11

Eugene Ionesco – Foursome – 3/13/11

Philip Hofer – Los Caprichos – 3/15/11

Philip Hofer – The Disasters of War – 3/15/11

Joseph Risel – Goya: Another Look – 3/15/11

Dwight Garner – Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements – 3/18/11

Shel Silverstein – The Giving Tree – 3/19/11 

Simon Blackburn – Plato’s Republic: A Biography – 3/22/11

Aaron Miller – Party Life #1 – 3/27/11

John Baker – Arguing for Equality – 3/28/11

Clifford Ross – The World of Edward Gorey – 3/30/11

Karen Wilkins – Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey – 4/4/11

Jack Murnighan – Beowulf on the Beach – 4/7/11

Adrian Tomine – Scenes from an Impending Marriage – 4/10/11

C.F. – The Core of Caligula – 4/10/11

Ariel Schrag – Stuck in the Middle – 4/12/11

Jacques Prevert – Paroles – 4/13/11 (French and English)

Andrew Brighton – Introducing Picasso – 4/16/11

Ed Choy Moorman – Ghost Comics: A Benefit Anthology for RS Eden – 4/19/11

Jordan Castro & Mallory Whitten – Cute – 4/23/11

Ivy Compton-Burnett – Pastors and Masters – 4/25/11

Adam Gopnik – Paris to the Moon – 5/3/11

Michael Garland – Dinner at Magritte’s – 5/4/11

James Baldwin – Giovanni’s Room – 5/14/11

Evelyn Waugh – The Loved One – 5/15/11

Edward Gorey – Amphigorey Also – 5/25/11

Sappho – Poems – 6/3/11

Charles Baudelaire – Paris Spleen – 6/13/11

Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley – 6/21/11

Richard Bach – Jonathan Livingston Seagull – 6/22/11

James Sutton – Signs in Action – 6/23/11

James Baldwin - Nobody Knows My Name - 6/28/11
Ana C. & Richard Chiem - Oh No, Everything is Wet Now - 6/28/11