The Month in Books - August 2009

At the start of 2009, I set a goal to read 30,000 pages by year's end. I am measuring progress in pages, rather than titles, to avoid last year's bias toward shorter books. Here's what I read in August:

1. The Great War for Civilisation - Robert Fisk (review)
2. A Savage War of Peace - Alistair Horne (review)
3. Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond (review)
4. The Rise of American Democracy - Sean Wilentz (review)
5. The Human Stain - Philip Roth (review)
6. The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende (review)
7. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (review)
8. The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne (review)
9. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (review)

Pages Read: 4,539
Year-to-Date: 26,210