*Only books I've ever completed get listed. Ever.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

The List (=xs read) (& year read)



Adams, Douglas
-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
-The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Adams, Richard
-Watership Down

Adams, Tim
-On Being John McEnroe (2010)

Agassi, Andre
-Open (2009)

Akst, Daniel
-We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess (2013)

Albom, Mitch
-Tuesdays with Morrie

Amis, Martin
-The Rachel Papers (2011)

Aristophanes
-The Clouds (1996)

Ariyoshi, Sawako
-The Doctor's Wife

Atwood, Margaret
-The Edible Woman
-Surfacing
-Cat's Eye [2]
-The Blind Assassin
-Oryx and Crake

Auster, Paul
-The New York Trilogy

Bach, Richard
-Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
-One

Balzac, Honore de
-Old Goriot

Barbery, Muriel
-The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Baxter, John
-Stanley Kubrick: A Biography

Beam, Matt
-Last December (2010)

Bezmozgis, David
-Natasha and Other Stories
-The Free World (2011)
-The Betrayers (2015)

Binet, Laurent
-HHhH (2013)

Blunt, Giles
-Forty Words for Sorrow (2011)
-No Such Creature (2012)
-Until the Night (2012)
-The Hesitation Cut (2015)

Bois, William Pene du
-The Twenty-One Balloons [3+]

Boo, Katherine
-Behind the Beautiful Forevers (2012)

Booth, Alan
-The Roads to Sata [2] (2nd = 2012)

Botton, Alain de
-Essays in Love
-The Romantic Movement
-How Proust Can Change Your Life
-Religion for Atheists (2012)

Bowles, Paul
-The Sheltering Sky

Boyden, Joseph
-Three Day Road

Boynton, Sandra
-Barnyard Dance
-Belly Button Book
-The Going to Bed Book
-Hey! Wake Up!
-Moo, Baa, La La La!
-Fuzzy Fuzzy Fuzzy
-Hippos Go Berserk!

Bradbury, Ray
-Fahrenheit 451
-Zen in the Art of Writing

Bronte, Charlotte
-Jane Eyre (2013)

Brown, Margaret Wise
-Goodnight Moon (2012)

Bryson, Bill
-Notes from a Small Island
-In a Sunburned Country

Buck, Pearl S.
-The Good Earth [2]

Buford, Bill
-Heat

Bukowski, Charles
-Post Office [2] (x2  - 2011)
-Factotum
-Women [2]
-Ham on Rye [2]
-Hollywood

Bulgakov, Mikhail
-The Master and Margarita

Burdett, John
-Bangkok 8: A Novel
-Bangkok Tattoo
-Bangkok Haunts (2014)

Burnett, Halle
-On Writing the Short Story

Burnett, Hallie and Whit
-Fiction Writer's Handbook

Burroughs, Augusten
-Running with Scissors

Burroughs, Willliam S.
-Junkie

Cain, Susan
-Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (2012)

Callaghan, Barry
-Barrelhouse Kings

Camus, Albert
-The Stranger/The Outsider

Capote, Truman
-Other Voices, Other Rooms
-Breakfast at Tiffany's
-In Cold Blood

Carle, Eric
The Very Hungry Caterpillar [many] (2012 x many)

Carroll, Lewis
-Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Carver, Raymond
-Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
-What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
-Cathedral (2015)

Cather, Willa
-My Antonia

Cervantes, Miguel de
-Don Quixote

Chabon, Michael
-The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
-The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
-The Yiddish Policeman's Union
-Maps and Legends
-Telegraph Avenue (2014)

Chandler, Raymond
-The Big Sleep [2]
-Farewell My Lovely
-The Long Goodbye
-The Little Sister (2011)

Christie, Agatha
-The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Choy, Wayson
-Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood

Coelho, Paulo
 -The Alchemist
-Veronika Decides to Die
-By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Coetzee, J.M.
-Disgrace

Cohen, Leonard
-Beautiful Losers
-The Favourite Game

Conroy, Pat
-Beach Music

Coupland, Douglas
-All Families Are Psychotic

Courtenay, Bryce
-The Power of One

Covey, Stephen R.
-The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Dahl, Roald
-Someone Like You
-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [3]

Davies, Robertson
-Fifth Business

Dazai, Osamu
-Run, Melos
-The Setting Sun

DeLillo, Don
-Libra
-Underworld
-Cosmopolis (2013)

Desai, Kiran
-The Inheritance of Loss

deWitt, Patrick
-The Sisters Brothers (2012)

Diaz, Junot
-The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2015)

Dickens, Charles
-Great Expectations (2014)

Didion, Joan
-The Year of Magical Thinking
-Blue Nights (2011)

Dixon, Franklin W.
-The Hardy Boys (various)


Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
-Notes From Underground
-The Brothers Karamazov

Dr. Seuss
-The Cat in the Hat
-Green Eggs and Ham
-Fox in Socks
-The Butter Battle Book
-Oh, the Place You'll Go!
-One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (2012)
-Mr. Brown Can Moo Can You? (2012)
-There's a Wocket in My Pocket (2012)

Dubus III, Andre
-Townie (2011)

Dylan, Bob
-Chronicles: Volume One (x3, 2nd 2013, 3rd 2014)

Edugyan, Esi
-Half-Blood Blues (2012)

Egan, Jennifer
-A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011)

Eggers, Dave
-A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius [2]
-How We Are Hungry
-Zeitoun (2009)
-A Holograph for the King (2012)
-The Circle (2014)

Ehrenreich, Barbara
-Nickled and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Eldridge, Louise
-Tracks (2015)

Eliot, George
-Middlemarch

Ende, Michael
-The Neverending Story

Englander, Nathan
-What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (2012)

Epstein, Edward Jay
-The Hollywood Economist

Eugenides, Jeffrey
-Middlesex
-The Marriage Plot (2011)
-The Virgin Suicides (2013)

Evans, Robert
-The Kid Stays in the Picture (2014)

Faulkner, William
-The Sound and the Fury
-As I Lay Dying

Ferguson, Will
-Hitching Rides With Buddha/
Highway Hokkaido Blues (2012)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
-The Great Gatsby [2]

Flaubert, Gustave
-Madame Bovary

Flynn, Gillian
-Gone Girl (2013)

Focault, Michel
-The History of Sexuality

Follett, Ken
-The Pillars of the Earth

Ford, Ford Madox
-The Good Soldier

Ford, Richard
-Canada (2012)
-The Sportswriter (2015)

Fowles, John
-The French Lieutenant's Woman
-The Magus [2]

Fox, Paula
-Desperate Characters

Frank, Anne
-The Diary of a Young Girl

Franzen, Jonathan
-The Corrections
-How To Be Alone
-Freedom (2010)
-Purity (2015)

Gaitskill, Mary
-Bad Behavior

Gardner, John
-The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
-On Becoming a Novelist

Garland, Alex
-The Beach [2]

Gladwell, Malcolm
-The Tipping Point
-Bink
-Outliers (2008)
-What the Dog Saw

Gogh, Vincent Van
-The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Goldberg, Natalie
-Writing Down the Bones

Golden, Arthur
-Memoirs of a Geisha

Golding, William
-Lord of the Flies

Goldman, William
-Adventures in the Screen Trade (2012)
-The Princess Bride

Greene, Graham
-The Quiet American (2013)

Griffin, Nancy & Masters, Kim
-Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood (2011)

Grisham, John
-The Firm

Grunwald, Henry Anatole
-Salinger: The Classic Critical and Personal Portrait (2012)

Haddon, Mark
-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Hamilton, Ian 
-The Water Rat of Wanchai (2013)

Hanh, Thich Nhat
-Peace is Every Step

Hage, Rawi
-DeNiro's Game
-Cockroach
-Carnival (2013)

Halpert, Sam
-Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography

Harbach, Chad
-The Art of Fielding (2011) x 2 (2014)

Hawke, Ethan
-The Hottest State
-Ash Wednesday

Hedges, Chris
-The Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and Triumph of Spectacle (2010)

Hemingway, Ernest
-Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises [4] (4=2011)
-A Farewell to Arms [2]
-For Whom the Bell Tolls [2]
-The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
-The Old Man and the Sea
-A Moveable Feast [2]

Hempel, Amy
-Reasons to Live

Herrigel, Eugen
-Zen in the Art of Archery

Hesse, Hermann
-Demian
-Siddhartha
-Steppenwolf

Heti, Sheila 
-How Should a Person Be?

Hinton, S.E.
-The Outsiders [3]
-That Was Then, This is Now
-Rumble Fish

Hoff, Benjamin
-The Tao of Pooh

Hornby, Nick
-How to Be Good (2011)

Hosseini, Khaled
-The Kite Runner

Hotchner, A.E.
-Papa Hemingway

Houellebecq, Michel
-Platform
-The Possibility of an Island (2013)

Hugo, Victor
-Les Miserables

Hyde, Lewis
-The Gift

Irving, John
-The World According to Garp
-The Hotel New Hampshire
-A Prayer for Owen Meany
-The Imaginary Girlfriend
-In One Person (2012)

James, Henry
-The Turn of the Screw

Jeffers, Oliver
-Lost and Found (2011)
-How to Catch a Star (2011)

Jin, Ha
-Waiting

Johnson, Denis
-Jesus' Son (2011)

Jones, Lloyd
-Mr. Pip

Joyce, James
-The Dubliners
-A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [2] (2nd =2012)

Jung, Carl G.
-Memories, Dreams and Reflections

Kawabata, Yasunari
-Snow Country [3] (x3=2011)
-Beauty and Sadness (2012)
-Palm of the Hand Stories (2014)

Kerouac, Jack
-On the Road [3+?] (3rd 2012)

Kerr, Alex
-Lost Japan 
-Dogs and Demons 

Keyes, Daniel
-Flowers for Algernon

King, Stephen
-Carrie
-Pet Sematary
-Misery
-Different Seasons
-On Writing
-Duma Key
-Joyland (2014)

Kirino, Natsuo
-Out
-Grotesque (2011)
-Real World (2012)

Klosterman, Chuck
-Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
-I Wear the Black Hat (2013)

Knausgard, Karl Ove 
-My Struggle: Book I, A Death in the Family (2015)
-My Struggle: Book II, A Man in Love (2015
-My Struggle: Book III, Boyhood Island (2015)

Knelman, Joshua
-Hot Art (2012)

Koertge, Rob
-Stoner & Spaz (2014)

Kogawa, Joy
-Obasan

Korman, Gordon
-This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall
-Beware the Fish
-Who is Bugs Potter
-Bugs Potter Live at Nickaninny
-No Coins Please [4, at least]
-Don't Care High

Krakauer, Jon
-Into Thin Air

Krauss, Nicole
-The History of Love (2013)

Kundera, Milan
-The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Kunzru, Hari
-Gods Without Men (2012)

Lacey, Catherine 
-Nobody Is Ever Missing (2015)

Lahiri, Jhumpa
-Interpreter of Maladies (x2 2013)
-The Namesake
-Unaccustomed Earth (2008)
-The Lowland (2014)

Laing, Olivia
-The Trip to Echo Spring (2014)

Lama, Dali
-Ancient Wisdom, Modern World - Ethics for a New Millennium
-An Open Heart

Lama, Dali & Cutler, Howard C.
-The Art of Happiness 

Lamb, Wally
-She's Come Undone

Larson, Erik
-In the Garden of Beasts (2014)

Laurence, Margaret
-The Stone Angel (1994)

Lawson, Mary
-Crow Lake (2012)

LeDuff, Charlie
-Detroit: An American Autopsy (2014)

Lee, Chan-Rae
-On Such a Full Sea (2015)

Lee, Harper
-To Kill a Mockingbird (x2 2013)

Leonard, Elmore
-LaBrava (2012)
-Glitz (2013)
-52 Pickup (2015)

Lethem, Jonathan
-The Fortress of Solitude

Lewis, C.S.
-The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
-Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

Lewis, Michael
-Moneyball (2011)
-The Blind Side (2014)

Lindgren, Astrid
-Pippi Longstocking [3+]

Louis, Lisa
-Butterflies of the Night

Lukeman, Noah
-The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
-The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life

McEnroe, John
-You Cannot Be Serious

MacDonald, Helen 
-H is for Hawk (2015)

Mandel, Hilary St. John
-Station Eleven (2015)

Mandela, Nelson
-Long Walk to Freedom

Marlowe, Ann
-How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
-One Hundred Years of Solitude [2]
-Love in the Time of Cholera

Martel, Yann
-Life of Pi
-Beatrice and Virgil (2010)

Martin, Colin
-Welcome to Hell: One Man's Fight for Life Inside the Bangkok Hilton (2010)

Maugham, W. Somerset
-Of Human Bondage
-The Moon and Sixpence
-The Razor's Edge

Mazzantini, Margaret
-Don't Move (2013)

McCarthy, Cormac
-Blood Meridian
-The Road (2, 2nd 2014)
-All the Pretty Horses (2, 2nd 2015)
-The Crossing
-Suttree [2] (2011) (2012)

McEwan, Ian
-Atonement (2011)
-Enduring Love
-Saturday (2013)

McGregor, Jon
-If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things


McCullers, Carson
-The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (2013)
-A Member of the Wedding (2013)

McInerney, Jay
-The Good Life
-Bright Lights, Big City (2011)

McMurtry, Larry
-All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (x 2, 2 = 2014)

Meyer, Philip
-The Son (2014)

Miller, Henry
-Tropic of Cancer (2015)

Miller, Walter M.
-A Canticle for Leibowitz (2014)

Millhauser, Steven
-Dangerous Laughter (2015)

Millman, Dan
-Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Mishima, Yukio
-The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
-Spring Snow (2012)
-The Sound of Waves (2012)

Mistry, Rohinton
-Such a Long Journey
-A Fine Balance

Mitchell, David
-Number9Dream (x2 2013)
-Cloud Atlas: A Novel
-The Thousand Autums of Jacob de Zoet (2010)

Miyabe, Miyuki
-All She Was Worth

Moody, Rick 
-The Black Veil (2013)

Moore, Lorrie
-Self-Help

Morgenstern, Erin
-The Night Circus (2012)

Morrell, Jessica Page
-Thanks, But This Isn't for Us (2015

Morrison, Toni
-Beloved

Munroe, Alice
-Lives of Girls and Women
-The Love of a Good Woman
-Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship

Munsch, Robert N.
-The Paper Bag Princess

Murakami, Haruki
-Hear the Wind Sing
-A Wild Sheep Chase [2]
-Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World [3]
-Norwegian Wood [7 (x7 2013)]
-Dance Dance Dance [4]
-The Elephant Vanishes 
-South of the Border, West of the Sun
-Underground
-The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle [3]
-Sputnik Sweetheart [6 - 5th = 2013; 6th = 2014]
-After the Quake
-Kafka on the Shore [4]
-After Dark [2]
-Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
-What I Talk About When I Talk About Running [2 - 2x 2013]
-Birthday Stories
-1Q84 (2011)
-Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki (2014)
-The Strange Library (2015)

Myrhoj, Ivar
-Pondus the Penguin

Nabakov, Vladimir
-Lolita (3) (x3 = 2012)

Nafisi, Azar
-Reading Lolita in Tehran

Nissenson, Hugh
-The Days of Awe

Nothomb, Amelie
-The Character of Rain (2012)
-Fear and Trembling
-Tokyo Fiancee [2] (1st x =2009)

O'Connor, Flannery
-A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Oates, Joyce Carol
-The Faith of a Writer

Olen Butler, Robert
-From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction

Ondaatje, Michael
-In the Skin of a Lion
-The Cat's Table (2011)

Orwell, George
-Animal Farm
 -1984

Overbye, Dennis
-Einstein in Love

Ozeki, Ruth
-A Tale for the Time Being (2015)

Packard, Edward
-Choose Your Own Adventure (various)

Pamuk, Orhan
-My Name is Red
-Snow

Percy, Walker
-The Moviegoer

Perrotta, Tom
-The Leftovers (2011)

Phillips, Larry W.
-Ernest Hemingway on Writing

Pirsig, Robert M.
-Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (2)

Plath, Sylvia
-The Bell Jar [3]

Poplak, Richard
-Ja, No, Man
-The Sheikh's Batmobile (2009)

Potok, Chaim
-The Chosen

Pyper, Andrew
-The Damned (2015)

Rakoff, Joanna
My Salinger Year (2014)

Rand, Ayn
-The Fountainhead [4, 4th 2015]

Rey, Hans Augusto & Margaret
-Curious George (many)

Richler, Mordecai
-Barney's Version

Rilke, Rainer Maria 
-Letter to a Young Poet (2015)

Robbins, Tom
-Jitterbug Perfume
-Skinny Legs and All
-Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Roberts, Gregory David
-Shantaram

Robinson, Marilynne
-Housekeeping (2014)
-Gilead (2015)

Rosen, Robert
-Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon

Roth, Philip
-Goodbye Columbus
-The Plot Against America
-Exit Ghost
-Portnoy's Complaint
-The Ghost Writer (2012)

Rowell, Rainbow
-Eleanor & Park (2014)

Rowling, J.K.
-Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Roy, Arundhati
-The God of Small Things [4]

Rubin, Jay
-Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words

Russell, Karen
-Vampires in the Lemon Grove (2014)

Salinger, J.D.
-The Catcher in the Rye [6]
-Nine Stories [3]
-Franny and Zooey [3]
-Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction [4/2]

Salinger, Margaret
-Dream Catcher: A Memoir

Salter, James
-A Sport and a Pastime (2014)

Saramago, Jose
-Blindness

Sedaris, David
-Me Talk Pretty One Day
-Naked (?)

Self, Will
-The Book of Dave (2011)

Sendak, Maurice
Where the Wild Things Are

Seth, Vikram
-A Suitable Boy

Shakespeare, William
-The Two Gentleman of Verona
-The Merry Wives of Windsor
-Romeo and Juliet
-Julius Caesar 
-Hamlet
-The Tempest
-Twelfth Night
-Measure for Measure
-Much Ado About Nothing

Shelley, Mary
-Frankenstein

Shields, Carol
-Unless
-The Stone Diaries

Shrier, Howard
-Boston Cream (2012)

Shteyngart, Gary
-Absurdistan

Smith, Betty
-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Smith, Zadie
-On Beauty
-NW (2014)

Soseki, Natsume
-Botchan
-The Miner
-And Then
-Mon
-Kokoro [2]
-Sanshiro

Spiegelman, Art
-Maus (2013)

Steinbeck, John
-Of Mice and Men
-The Grapes of Wrath
-Cannery Row
-East of Eden [3]
-Travels with Charley (2013)

Stone, Irving
-The Agony and the Ecstasy

Storr, Anthony
-The Dynamics of Creation
-The School of Genius (2013)

Strunk, William and White, E.B.
-The Elements of Style

Suskind, Patrick
-Perfume

Sweetman, David
-Paul Gauguin (2012)

Szado, Ania
-Studio Saint-Ex (2013)

Tartt, Donna
-The Goldfinch (2014)

Teleky, Richard
-The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin

Thompson, Chuck
-Smile When You're Lying (2013)

Toews, Miriam 
-All My Puny Sorrows (2015)

Toibin, Colm
-Brookyln (2011)


Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Hobbit

Tolstoy, Leo
-Anna Karenina
-The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Torres, Justin
-We the Animals (2011)

Trevor, William
-After Rain

Turgenev, Ivan
-Fathers and Sons

Updike, John
-Rabbit, Run

Vogler, Christopher
-The Writer's Journey

Voltaire
-Candide

Vonnegut, Kurt
-Cat's Cradle
-Breakfast of Champions

Walker, George F.
-Suburban Motel

Walter, Jess
-Beautiful Ruins (2012)

Waugh, Evelyn
-A Handful of Dust (2012)

Wayne, Teddy
-The Love Song of Teddy Valentine (2014)

Weldon, Fay
 -The Life and Loves of a She Devil

West, Nathaniel
-The Day of the Locust

Wiesel, Elie
-Night [2]
-Memoir in Two Voices

Wilder, Thornton
-The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2015)

Winfrey, Oprah
-What I Know for Sure (2015)

Winton, Tim
-The Turning

Wolfe, Tom
-The Bonfire of the Vanities

Wood, James
-How Fiction Works

Wyndham, John
-The Chrysalids

Yates, Richard
-Revolutionary Road (2013)

Yoshimoto, Banana
-Kitchen
-np

York, Alissa
-Fauna  (2010)

X, Malcom (with the assistance of Alex Haley)
-The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Zafon, Carlos Ruiz
-The Shadow of the Wind

Zielenziger, Michael
-Shutting Out the Sun

Zinsser, William
-On Writing Well 

Zola, Emile
-Germinal

Zupan, Vitamin
-Minuet for Guitar (2015)

Zusak, Markus
-The Book Thief (2013)

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