Five Books I’m Embarrassed Not to Have Read

*Idea borrowed from Short Stack, the book blog from Washington Post.

 

Some books on my shelf that I have bought, but never read.

 

1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
5. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

This is my list.  What’s yours?

 

Books: Expanding Your Horizons … Or Not

World map based on the number of books published annually.

 

 

*From World Mapper.org

 

My all-time favorite ‘books’ are a dictionary and an atlas.  A dictionary because of the possibilities of language and an atlas because despite everything we know, we really know nothing at all.

 

I was recently surprised with a gift of two new books: Ptolemy’s “Geography”: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters translated by J. Lennart Berggren and Alexander Jones and To the Ends of the Earth: 100 Maps That Changed the World by Jeremy Harwood.  You know a guy is really trying when he patiently listens as you harp on about ancient cartography and then buys you books to feed your obsession.  Perhaps I should give him a chance …