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Saturday, January 06, 2007
2006: A Year in Books I didn't read as many books in 2006 as I did in 2005, but most of them were really good. Here's a list of all the books I completed (there were many more that I didn't). Anthony Grafton, The Footnote Nicholas Riasanovsky, A History of Russia Orlando Figes, Natasha's Dance Linda Colley, Britons Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France Peter Gay, The Enlightenment, Vol. 1 Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince [re-read] A. S. Byatt, The Biographer's Tale Paul Johnson, Modern Times Francis Seow, To Catch a Tartar Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair Niall Ferguson, The War of the World Peter Saccio, Shakespeare's English Kings Damon Linker, The Theocons Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard John J. Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics Denis Judd, Empire Maya Jasanoff, Edge of Empire |
WHO AM I? Your author graduated from Dartmouth College in 2004 having majored in History and English. From June 2007, he will be teaching contemporary Southeast Asian history at another of his former schools. SOME WEBSITES I READ The Dartmouth Observer Singapore Websites The Intelligent Singaporean Mr Wang Says So Mr Brown Singabloodypore Singapore Angle Singapore Window A Xenoboy in Sg Gayle Goh Aaron Ng Molly Meek Elia Diodati Stressed Teacher Tym Blogs Too! Yawning Bread Talking Cock Non-Singapore Websites Andrew Sullivan The Belgravia Dispatch The American Scene Oxblog The Corner Bradford Plumer Matthew Yglesias The Washington Monthly National Review Online The Weekly Standard The Plank Open University Marty Peretz Michael Totten Martin Kramer Daniel Drezner Joe's Dartblog Instapundit Christopher Hitchens Ross Douthat IvyGate Les Belles Lettres Arts & Letters Daily The Atlantic Monthly History News Network Guardian Unlimited Books London Review of Books The New Criterion Voice of the Shuttle New York Review of Books ARCHIVES September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 November 2009 July 2010 October 2010  |