The Book List

The whole point of starting this was to be able to remember what I have read.  The list that follows is a living list - I'm adding to it as I remember them.  It isn't meant to include everything I have read; there's a bunch of stuff that wasn't really worth recalling, or I just haven't remembered it yet.  I spent one summer in Huron, California reading a pile of forgettable books, mostly horror, for reasons that escape me now.  They won't appear here, even if I did recall some of the titles.  Also, there isn't too much in the way of nonfiction here.  I do read a fair amount of it, but I haven't got around to recalling too many of them.  But there is some.  Same goes for short stories - I read them, but I tend to favor longer pieces.  Just a preference.


The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Leave This World Behind - Rumaan Alam
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets - Svetlana Alexievich
Midnight Champagne - A. Manette Ansay
The House of Rumour - Jake Arnott
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Hiding Place - Trezza Azzopardi
Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
Emotionally Weird - Kate Atkinson
Ship Fever - Andrea Barrett
The Voyage of the Narwahl - Andrea Barrett
City of Thieves - David Benioff
Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernières
Birds Without Wings - Louis de Bernieres
The Blue Afternoon - William Boyd
Drop City - T Coraghessan Boyle
Water Music - T. Coraghessan Boyle
World's End - T Coraghessan Boyle
When the Killing's Done - T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
The Postman Always Rings Twice - James Cain
Double Indemnity - James Cain
Theft - Peter Carey
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John le Carre
The Honorable Schoolboy - John le Carre
The Yiddish Policemans Union - Michael Chabon
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh - Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffery Chaucer
A Person of Interest - Susan Choi
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Being Dead - Jim Crace
Quarantine - Jim Crace
A Slight Trick of the Mind - Mitch Cullin
The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt
House of Leaves -  Mark Z. Danielewski
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
In the Distance - Hernan Diaz
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Bucking the Sun - Ivan Doig
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
 A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
Manhattan Beach - Jennfier Egan
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers 
Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
What is the What - Dave Eggers
Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich 
The Gathering - Anne Enright
Arc d'X - Steve Erickson
Tours of the Black Clocks - Steve Erickson
The Crimson Petal and the White - Michael Faber
Under the Skin - Michael Faber
Been Down So Long Looks Like Up to Me - Richard Farina
The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
The Sound of One Hand Clapping - Richard Flanagan
Live and Let Die - Ian Fleming
 Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Revolutionaries - Joshua Furst
 The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
American Gods - Neal Gaiman
In a Strange Room - Damon Galgut
The Beach - Alex Garland
The Calcutta Chromosome - Amitav Ghosh
The Monsters of Templeton - Lauren Groff
Arcadia - Lauren Groff
Fates and Furies - Lauren Groff
The Ordinary Seaman - Francisco Goldman
Bee Season - Myla Goldberg
A Reliable Wife - Robert Goolrick
The Power And the Glory - Graham Greene
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
The Thin man - Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
Family of Origin - CJ Hauser
The Dog Stars - Peter Heller
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Dune - Frank Herbert
Rocket Boys - Homer Hickam
Naoko - Keigo Higashino
The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos
The Nix - Nathan Hill
 MASH - Richard Hooker
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
How to Be Good - Nick Hornby
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant - Yu Hua
The 4th Hand - John Irving
The Water Method Man - John Irving
Setting Free the Bears - John Irving
The Cider House Rules - John Irving
The 158 Pound Marriage - John Irving
A Son of the Circus - John Irving
The World According to Garp - John Irivng
The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving
A Widow for One Year - John Irving
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
When We were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
A Very Long Engagement - Sébastien Japrisot
Parasites Like Us - Adam Johnson
Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson
Confession of a Hanged Man - Denis Johnson
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X Kendi
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
The Shining - Steven King
Salem's Lot - Steven King
The Stand - Steven King
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Into the Wild - Jon Krakuaer
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
Man Walks Into a Room - Nicole Krauss
Great House - Nicole Krauss
Iceland - Jim Krusoe
The Sleep Garden - Jim Krusoe
The Joke - Milan Kundera
Life Is Elsewhere - Milan Kundera
Laughable Loves - Milan Kundera
Identity - Milan Kundera
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
Immortality - Milan Kundera
Slowness - Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
My Revolutions - Hari Kunzru
The Impressionist - Hari Kunzru
White Tears - Hari Kunzru
The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner
The Silk Road - Jeanne Larsen
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
A Gambler's Anatomy - Jonathan Lethem
Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S. - Jeremy Leven
The Man Who Saw Everything - Deborah Levy
The Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli
Mystery Train - Greil Marcus
The Old Weird America - Greil Marcus
Stranded - Greil Marcus (editor)
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
At Play in the Fields of the Lord - Peter Mathiesson
Apeirogon - Colum McCann
Zoli - Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
Cities of the Plain - Cormac McCarthy
Sick of Shadows - Sharyn McCrumb
Lovely in Her Bones - Sharyn McCrumb
Bimboes of the Death Sun - Sharyn McCrumb
Fisher's Hornpipe - Todd McEwen
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Billy Budd - Herman Melville
The Capital - Robert Menasse
The Emperor's Children - Claire Messud
The Last Life - Claire Messud
Ingenious Pain - Andrew Miller
Oxygen - Andrew Miller
The Crossing - Andrew Miller
Pure - Andrew Miller
Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
Utopia Avenue - David Mitchell
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Slade House - David Mitchell
House Made of Dawn - N Scott Momaday
Utopia - Thomas More
The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Gene - Siddhartha Mukeherjee
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami
Underground - Haruki Murakami
Sixty-Nine - Ryu Murakami
The Adventures of Maqroll - Alvaro Mutis
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Museum Guard - Howard Norman
the Haunting of L - Howard Norman
The Bird Artist - Howard Norman
Dreams of my Father - Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama
The Silent Cry - Kenzaburo Oe
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids - Kenzaburo Oe
Divisidero - Michale Ondtaatje
Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
Dogs of Babel - Carolyn Parkhurst
An Instance of the Fingerpost  - Iain Pears
Life: A User's Manual - Georges Perec
The Club Dumas - Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
Night Film - Marisha Pessl
Machine Dreams - Jayne Anne Phillips
The Worst Intentions - Alessandro Piperno
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
Three Farmers on the Way to a Dance - Richard Powers
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
The Evolution of Beauty - Richard Prum
The Song of the Dodo - David Quammen
The Wild Shore - Kim Stanley Robinson
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
Home - Marilynne Robinson
 I Married a Communist - Phillip Roth
The Plot Against America - Phillip Roth
Set This House in Order - Matt Ruff
The Girl Who Played Go - Shan Sa
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
Beirut Nightmares - Ghada Samman
Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
The Calligrapher’s Secret - Rafik Schami
The Reader - Bernard Schlink
Theory of Bastards - Audrey Schulman
 The Dark Room - Rachel Seiffert
Red Earth and  Pouring Rain - Vikram Shanda
Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
The Gulag Archipelago -  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Ghost Story - Peter Straub
The Big Rock Candy Mountain - Wallace Stegner
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian - Wallace Stegner
Crossing to Safety - Wallace Stegner
Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
The Spectator Bird - Wallace Stegner
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Ghost Story - Peter Straub
Waterland - Graham Swift
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathon Swift
Penrod - Booth Tarkington
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Summons to Memphis - Peter Taylor
Real Life - Brandon Taylor
The Old Patagonian Express - Paul Theroux
The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux
The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
The White Hotel - DM Thomas
Suspects - David Thomson
Imagining Argentina - Lawrence Thornton
Under the Gypsy Moon - Lawrence Thornton
The Treasure of Sierra Madre - B. Traven
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
The Blackwater Lightship - Colm Toibin
The Master - Colm Toibin
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Sacred Hunger - Barry Unsworth
Rabbit Run - John Updike
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Affinity - Sarah Waters
The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
The Time Machine - HG Wells
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehehad
John Henry Days - Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
John Dollar - Marianne Wiggins
Evidence of Things Unseen - Marianne Wiggins
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Alif the Unseen - G. Willow Wilson
Lowboy - John Wray
Lost Time Accidents - John Wray
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates



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