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Don does. And she appreciates it very much.

Books read in December. Favorites with astericks.

Friendship: An Expose by Joseph Epstein*
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs by Elie Wiesel
Second Drafts of History: Essays by Lance Morrow
Ambition: The Secret Passion by Joseph Epstein
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead Revisited by Paula Byrne
Roctogenarians: Late in life debuts, comebacks, and triumpths by Mo Rocca
One Man’s America: The pleasures and provocations of our singular nation by George F. Will
Death Need Not Be Fatal by Malachy McCourt
A Passion For Books: A Book Lover’s Treasury edited by H. Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan
The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
Edward Hopper by Lloyd Goodrich*
Going Solo by Roald Dahl*
Over To You by Roald Dahl
More About Boy: Roald Dahl’s Takes from Childhood
Mind And Matter: A Life in Math and Football by John Urschel and Louisa Thomas
Players: How Sports Became a Business by Matthew Futterman
The Legend of Bear Bryant by Mickey Herskowitz
The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory by Thomas Fuller

The contents of someone’s bookcase are part or his history, like an ancestral bookcase. -Anatole Broyard