Books I read in 2011
(possibly begun earlier, but finished this year)

January
-Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman (1.6.11)
-The Void Captain's Tale, Norman Spinrad (1.10.11)

February
-Renaissance Characters, Eugenio Garin (ed.), Lydia G. Cochrane (trans.) (2.15.11)
-Byzantium and Venice, Donald M. Nicol (2.18.11)
-Re-Orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East, Gerald MacLean, ed. (2.28.11)

March
-The Ottoman Turks and the Arabs 1511-1574, George William Frederick Stripling (3.11.11)
-Sinai Tapestry, Edward Whittemore (3.13.11)
-Cold Skin, Albert Sánchez Piñol (3.241)
-The Ottoman Age of Exploration, Giancarlo Casale (3.31.11)

April
-Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China, Bill Porter (4.2/3.11)
-Footprints in the Snow: The Autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist Monk, Sheng Yen (4.6/7.11)
-Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick (4.18.11)

May
-Jerusalem Poker, Edward Whittemore (5.6.11)
-The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped, Paul Strathern (5.16.11)
-For All My Walking, Taneda Santoka, Burton Watson (trans.) (5.27.11)

June
-One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryokan, Ryokan, John Stevens (trans.) (6.5.11)
-The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, Jesse Bullington (6.14.11)
-Right under the big sky, I don't wear a hat, Hosai Ozaki, Hiroaki Sato (trans.) (6.20.11)
-Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits, Bill Porter (6.20.11)
-Denied to the Enemy, Dennis Detwiller (6.25.11)

July
-The Enterprise of Death, Jesse Bullington (7.22.11)

August
-Vanity of Duluoz, Jack Kerouac (8.21.11)
-Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724, Liam Matthew Brockey (8.26.11)
-Rambles Through My Library, Raymond M. Smullyan (8.27.11)

September
-Supergods, Grant Morrison (9.6.11)
-Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters, Zhaoming Qian (9.14.11)
-The Unborn : The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei 1622-1693, Norman Waddell (9.19.11)

October
-Reamde, Neal Stephenson (10.2.11)
-A Renaissance Tapestry: The Gonzaga of Mantua, Kate Simon (10.5.11)
-A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin (10.11.11)
-The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China, Timothy Brook (10.25.11)

November
-A Buddhist Leader in Ming China: The Life and Thought of Han-Shan Te-Ch'ing, Sung-Peng Hsu (11.1.11)
-The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto, Baisao, Norman Waddell (trans.) (11.2.11)
-The King in Yellow, Robert W. Chambers (11.10.11)
-The Damned Highway, Brian Keene and Nick Mamatas (11.12.11)
-The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, Shih-Shan Henry Tsai (11.30.11)

December
-The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane, Robert E. Howard (12.3.11)
-Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist, Phil Baker (12.14.11)
-A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin (12.19.11)
-UFO In Her Eyes, Xiaolu Guo (12.22.11)
-Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (12.30.11)



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