{"id":24730,"date":"2019-06-30T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T12:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24730"},"modified":"2019-06-29T16:59:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T21:59:56","slug":"books-for-the-ages-and-brian-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/30\/books-for-the-ages-and-brian-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Books For The Ages And Brian J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A photographer for the <em>Washington Post<\/em> has a listicle up called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2019\/entertainment\/books\/100-books-for-the-ages\/?noredirect=on&#038;utm_term=.041c3a16a50d\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Books for the Ages<\/a> which includes a book (or a series, or more) for each year of life.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a silly list, but it&#8217;s an excuse for me to compare what I&#8217;ve read against the list.<\/p>\n<p>Books I&#8217;ve read I&#8217;ve put in bold; books I have to read are in orange.  I&#8217;ve included links for the books I&#8217;ve read and reported on on this very blog.<\/p>\n<p>Here they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><em>The Very Hungry Caterpillar<\/em> by Eric Carle<\/b><\/li>\n<li><em>Llama Llama Red Pajama<\/em> by Anna Dewdney<\/li>\n<li><b><em>Where the Wild Things Are<\/em> by Maurice Sendak<\/b><\/li>\n<li><em>Charlie Parker Played Be Bop<\/em> by Chris Raschka <\/li>\n<li><em>The Giving Tree<\/em> by Shel Silverstein <\/li>\n<li><b><em>Ramona the Pest<\/em> by Beverly Cleary<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><em>The Complete Calvin and Hobbes<\/em> by Bill Watterson <\/b><\/li>\n<li><em>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer\u2019s Stone<\/em> by J.K. Rowling<\/li>\n<li><b><em>Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing<\/em> by Judy Blume <\/b><\/li>\n<li><em>Smile<\/em> by Raina Telgemeier <\/li>\n<li><em>Ghost<\/em> by Jason Reynolds  <\/li>\n<li><em>Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry<\/em> by Mildred D. Taylor <\/li>\n<li><em>I Am Malala<\/em> by Malala Yousafzai <\/li>\n<li><em>The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/em> by Stephen Chbosky <\/li>\n<li><em>The Hate U Give<\/em> by Angie Thomas <\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/06\/book-report-jane-eyre-by-charlotte-bronte-1847-1984\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Jane Eyre<\/em> by Charlotte Bront\u00eb<\/a><\/b> <\/li>\n<li><em>Once Upon a River<\/em> by Bonnie Jo Campbell <\/li>\n<li><em>A Gate at the Stairs<\/em> by Lorrie Moore <\/li>\n<li><em>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> by Margaret Atwood <\/li>\n<li><em>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/em> by Junot D\u00edaz<\/li>\n<li><b><em>The Sun Also Rises<\/em> by Ernest Hemingway <\/b><\/li>\n<li><font color = \"orange\"><em>Democracy in America<\/em> by Alexis de Tocqueville <\/font><\/li>\n<li><em>The Autobiography of Malcolm X<\/em> by Malcolm X and Alex Haley <\/li>\n<li><b><em>Atlas Shrugged<\/em> by Ayn Rand <\/b><\/li>\n<li><em>I Capture the Castle<\/em> by Dodie Smith <\/li>\n<li><em>Americanah<\/em> by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie <\/li>\n<li><em>The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People<\/em> by Stephen R. Covey <\/li>\n<li><em>Sister Outsider<\/em> by Audre Lorde <\/li>\n<li><em>In Defense of Food<\/em> by Michael Pollan <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"orange\"><em>The Joy of Sex<\/em> by Alex Comfort <\/font><\/li>\n<li><em>Mastering the Art of French Cooking<\/em> by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle and Simone Beck <\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/22\/book-report-the-grapes-of-wrath-by-john-steinbeck-1939\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Grapes of Wrath<\/em> by John Steinbeck <\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story<\/em> by Paul Monette <\/li>\n<li><em>Beloved<\/em> by Toni Morrison <\/li>\n<li><em>How to Talk So Kids Will Listen &#038; Listen So Kids Will Talk<\/em> by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish <\/li>\n<li><em>Life Among the Savages<\/em> by Shirley Jackson <\/li>\n<li><em>The Joy Luck Club<\/em> by Amy Tan <\/li>\n<li><em>The Sportswriter<\/em> by Richard Ford <\/li>\n<li><em>What Alice Forgot<\/em> by Liane Moriarty <\/li>\n<li><em>The Diving Bell and the Butterfly<\/em> by Jean-Dominique Bauby <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"orange\"><em>Rabbit, Run<\/em> by John Updike<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><em>The Woman Upstairs<\/em> by Claire Messud <\/li>\n<li><em>Their Eyes Were Watching God<\/em> by Zora Neale Hurston <\/li>\n<li><em>The Goldfinch<\/em> by Donna Tartt <\/li>\n<li><em>Where\u2019d You Go, Bernadette<\/em> by Maria Semple <\/li>\n<li><em>Salvage the Bones<\/em> by Jesmyn Ward <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"orange\"><em>Stretching<\/em> by Bob Anderson <\/font><\/li>\n<li><em>Bossypants<\/em> by Tina Fey <\/li>\n<li><b><em>Walden<\/em> by Henry David Thoreau <\/b><\/li>\n<li><em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em> by E.L. James <\/li>\n<li><em>Who Do You Think You Are?<\/em> by Alice Munro <\/li>\n<li><em>Men Without Women<\/em> by Haruki Murakami <\/li>\n<li><em>A Man Called Ove<\/em> by Fredrik Backman <\/li>\n<li><em>The Denial of Death<\/em> by Ernest Becker <\/li>\n<li><em>Olive Kitteridge<\/em> by Elizabeth Strout <\/li>\n<li><em>When Things Fall Apart<\/em> by Pema Ch\u00f6dr\u00f6n <\/li>\n<li><em>Remains of the Day<\/em> by Kazuo Ishiguro <\/li>\n<li><em>The Plague of Doves<\/em> by Louise Erdrich <\/li>\n<li><em>Dynamic Aging<\/em> by Katy Bowman <\/li>\n<li><em>The Five Years Before You Retire<\/em> by Emily Guy Birken <\/li>\n<li><em>Fear of Dying<\/em> by Erica Jong <\/li>\n<li><em>Major Pettigrew\u2019s Last Stand<\/em> by Helen Simonson <\/li>\n<li><em>Our Souls at Night<\/em> by Kent Haruf <\/li>\n<li><em>Old in Art School<\/em> by Nell Painter <\/li>\n<li><em>65 Things to Do When You Retire<\/em> edited by Mark Evan Chimsky <\/li>\n<li>The <em>Outlander<\/em> series by Diana Gabaldon <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"orange\"><em>Don Quixote<\/em> by Miguel de Cervantes <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"orange\"><em>The Year of Magical Thinking<\/em> by Joan Didion <\/font><\/li>\n<li><em>I Remember Nothing<\/em> by Nora Ephron <\/li>\n<li><em>Master Class: Living Longer, Stronger, and Happier<\/em> by Peter Spiers <\/li>\n<li><em>Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em> by Salman Rushdie <\/li>\n<li><em>Love in the Time of Cholera<\/em> by Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez <\/li>\n<li><em>The Years of Lyndon Johnson<\/em> four volumes, by Robert Caro <\/li>\n<li><em>Paris in the Present Tense<\/em> by Mark Helprin <\/li>\n<li><em>The History of Love<\/em> by Nicole Krauss <\/li>\n<li><em>Women Rowing North<\/em> by Mary Pipher <\/li>\n<li><em>Gilead<\/em> by Marilynne Robinson <\/li>\n<li><b><em>Charlotte\u2019s Web<\/em> by E.B. White <\/b><\/li>\n<li><em>The Coming of Age<\/em> by Simone de Beauvoir <\/li>\n<li><em>Coming Into Eighty: Poems<\/em> by May Sarton <\/li>\n<li><em>Devotions<\/em> by Mary Oliver <\/li>\n<li><em>The Summer of a Dormouse<\/em> by John Mortimer <\/li>\n<li>All the thrillers and mysteries<\/li>\n<li><em>The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life<\/em> edited by John Brockman <\/li>\n<li><em>Ravelstein<\/em> by Saul Bellow <\/li>\n<li><em>Old Filth<\/em> by Jane Gardam <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"orange\"><em>King Lear<\/em> by William Shakespeare <\/font><\/li>\n<li><em>Nearing Ninety: And Other Comedies of Late Life<\/em> by Judith Viorst<\/li>\n<li><em>A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing 90<\/em> by Donald Hall <\/li>\n<li><em>Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God<\/em> by Joe Coomer <\/li>\n<li><em>Selected Poems: 1988-2013<\/em> by Seamus Heaney <\/li>\n<li><em>Nothing to be Frightened Of<\/em> by Julian Barnes <\/li>\n<li><em>Sapiens<\/em> by Yuval Harari <\/li>\n<li><em>This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism<\/em> by Ashton Applewhite <\/li>\n<li>The Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante <\/li>\n<li><em>Somewhere Towards the End<\/em> by Diana Athill <\/li>\n<li><em>My Own Two Feet<\/em> by Beverly Cleary <\/li>\n<li><em>Life Is So Good<\/em> by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman <\/li>\n<li><em>Little Boy<\/em> by Lawrence Ferlinghetti <\/li>\n<li><em>Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author<\/em> by Herman Wouk <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of the books that I don&#8217;t have colored in the list above, I don&#8217;t expect that I&#8217;ll even consider reading.  I mean, most of the YA fiction listed above that I haven&#8217;t read is message-oriented, as are many of the other novels.  I might read <em>Gilead<\/em> but that&#8217;s only because I gave a copy to my beautiful wife and her mother for Christmas a couple years ago, so there&#8217;s bound to be one or more floating around by the end of my retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Fun fact:  <em>Rabbit, Run<\/em> and <em>Stretching<\/em> are both at the chairside <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/17\/the-book-accumulation-points-of-brian-j\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book accumulation point<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve tried to read <em>Rabbit, Run<\/em>, but I&#8217;ve found it odious.  And I got <em>Stretching<\/em> on the indirect advice of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my editor<\/a>.  For years, I&#8217;ve meant to take up stretching, but I haven&#8217;t yet.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, make of it what you will, the intersection of my reading habits with that of a photographer.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"https:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2019\/06\/age-24atlas-shruggedby-ayn-randmarvel.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Althouse<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photographer for the Washington Post has a listicle up called Books for the Ages which includes a book (or a series, or more) for each year of life. It&#8217;s a silly list, but it&#8217;s an excuse for me to compare what I&#8217;ve read against the list. Books I&#8217;ve read I&#8217;ve put in bold; books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24733,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24730\/revisions\/24733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}