Having left the world of study-mandated reading in 2007 and fearing a progressive atrophying of the reading muscles, I made a new year's resolution in 2008 to read a book a week. Ten years and 620 books later, imagining that a full list might make for a fun thirty seconds' perusal, here's the result.
Some discoveries:
1. Passing interests lead one to the doormat of some crazy titles. Favourites here include: Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives; Screening Nostalgia: Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film; and The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics.
2. Numbers tell a story but not the whole story. According to the spreadsheet, I've read more books by Martin Amis (14 books, including Time's Arrow twice) than by anyone else. This surely overstates my enthusiasm. Other high scorers include Vladimir Nabokov (9), Philip Roth (9), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (8 -- a thoroughly worthwhile blitz of the Sherlock Holmes canon), Jonathan Franzen (7), José Saramago (7), Edward St. Aubyn (7), Truman Capote (7), Marcel Proust (7... if you include two failed attempts to finish Swann's Way before I finally did it), Alan Hollinghurst (6), and Slavoj Žižek (6).
3. My male:female author ratio is embarrassing. To the order of about 17:3 embarrassing. Check back in with me in 2028.
4. Novels win out for now, but age and perhaps curiosity have been inclining one to nonfiction since 2012.
5. I remember almost nothing about almost everything. Some of these books I couldn't even tell you the subject.
6. I pushed unnecessarily through some real clangers.
7. Certain patterns of interest -- in terrorism, David Lynch, dictionaries, mid-twentieth-century Americana -- have persisted.
8. Sometimes you put a book down -- Infinite Jest, for instance (which in truth was more of a smack down), The Goldfinch -- and then don't quite ever pick it up again. Maybe 2% of these books are as such.
9. Aside from being the responsible older brother of your internet browsing history, a list like this is also a lovely mnemonic for various trips by train, plane, bus, or subway, for lingerings and loiterings, holidays, night shifts, houses and apartments, friends and family...
10. According to the algorithm on this webpage, it'll take you about 17 minutes to read the whole actual list. Seriously don't bother.
Including the covers of some faves, then, herewith:
2008
Silas Marner, George Eliot
Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters, John Steinbeck
The Empty Space, Peter Brook
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch
The Witches of Eastwick, John Updike
The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead to Mulholland Dr., Eric G. Wilson
The Arena, John Swales
Violence, Slavoj Žižek
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
In A Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu
A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays, Tennessee Williams
The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
Plague 99, Jean Ure
Hamlet: Poem Unlimited, Harold Bloom
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
Twelve, Nick McDonell
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Forster
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
The Swimming-Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst
Raising Kane, Pauline Kael
The Informers, Bret Easton Ellis
The Rotters' Club, Jonathan Coe
The Tin Drum, Gunther Grass
Libra, Don DeLillo
Notes On A Scandal, Zoe Heller
The Second Plane, Martin Amis
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King
Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
Looking For Sex In Shakespeare, Stanley Wells
The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis
Have I Got Views For You, Boris Johnson
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Straw Dogs, John Gray
Notes From Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature, Steven Pinker
My Favourite Wife, Tony Parsons
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
Ripley Under Water, Patricia Highsmith
Sabbath's Theater, Philip Roth
Blair Unbound, Anthony Seldon
The Widows of Eastwick, John Updike
Bambi vs Godzilla, David Mamet
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
Hard Times, Charles Dickens
The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein
The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
9-11, Noam Chomsky
The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda's Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright
Stuff Happens, David Hare
Summer Crossing, Truman Capote
The Magus, John Fowles
2009
Culture, Crisis and America's War On Terror, Stuart Croft
Film and Television After 9/11, Wheeler Winston Dixon (editor)
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
Welcome to the Desert of the Real, Slavoj Žižek
Time's Arrow, or the Nature of the Offence, Martin Amis
The Folding Star, Alan Hollinghurst
Ground Zero, Paul Virilio
The Europeans, Henry James
The Mercy Seat, Neil LaBute
After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City, Michael Sorkin, Sharon Zukin (editors)
Terrorist, John Updike
Then We Came To The End, Joshua Ferris
A Good School, Richard Yates
The Human Stain, Philip Roth
Jack Maggs, Peter Carey
Experience, Martin Amis
A Word Child, Iris Murdoch
Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries, Alastair Campbell
How To Be Alone, Jonathan Franzen
Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
The Double, José Saramago
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, Kazuo Ishiguro
The King's English, Kingsley Amis
The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, José Saramago
Night Train, Martin Amis
Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History, Jonathan Franzen
The Gum Thief, Douglas Coupland
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood, Peter Biskind
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Sundance Kids: How the Mavericks Took Back Hollywood, James Mottram
Metamorphosis and Other Stories, Franz Kafka
The Fifth Child, Doris Lessing
The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard
Young Hearts Crying, Richard Yates
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Lynne Truss
Al Qaeda and What It Means To Be Modern, John Gray
The Natural: Bill Clinton's Misunderstood Presidency, Joe Klein
A Home at the End of the World, Michael Cunningham
Indignation, Philip Roth
Molesworth, Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
Crash, J.G. Ballard
Leviathan, or The Whale, Philip Hoare
London Fields, Martin Amis
David Lynch: Beautiful Dark, Greg Olson
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Other Voices, Other Rooms, Truman Capote
Remainder, Tom McCarthy
Einstein's Monsters, Martin Amis
Cock & Bull, Will Self
The Moon and Sixpence, W. Somerset Maugham
The Cambridge Companion to E.M. Forster, David Bradshaw (editor)
A Study In Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Humbling, Philip Roth
The Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What It Means, Vince Cable
2010
The Hell of It All, Charlie Brooker
Hunger, Knut Hamsun
2666, Roberto Bolaño
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Alain De Botton
Time's Arrow, or the Nature of the Offence, Martin Amis
Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Sloan Wilson
Rabbit, Run, John Updike
They Came Like Swallows, William Maxwell
Possession: A Romance, A.S. Byatt
The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice, Greil Marcus
How Proust Can Change Your Life, Alain De Botton
Strong Motion, Jonathan Franzen
The Wapshot Scandal, John Cheever
The Modern American Novel, Malcolm Bradbury
The Château, William Maxwell
Falconer, John Cheever
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
Money: A Suicide Note, Martin Amis
The City and the Pillar, Gore Vidal
Cameron on Cameron: Conversations with Dylan Jones, Dylan Jones
Moby-Dick, or The Whale, Herman Melville
Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
Blindness, José Saramago
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
The Breast, Philip Roth
Laughter In The Dark, Vladimir Nabokov
Imperial Bedrooms, Bret Easton Ellis
The Unlimited Dream Company, J.G. Ballard
Ghostwritten, David Mitchell
Alone In Berlin, Hans Fallada
A Boy's Own Story, Edmund White
Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey
The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
Boxer, Beetle, Ned Beauman
Of Love and Hunger, Julian Maclaren-Ross
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
C, Tom McCarthy
Atomised, Michel Houellebecq
A Journey, Tony Blair
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
The Information, Martin Amis
The Sign of Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Collected Stories, John Cheever
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Teach Us To Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing, Tim Parks
American Pastoral, Philip Roth
Open, Andre Agassi
Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
The Easter Parade, Richard Yates
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
2011
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
Masters of Cinema: David Lynch, Thierry Jousse
The Film Paintings of David Lynch: Challenging Film Theory, Allister Mactaggart
Fishing in Utopia: Sweden and the Future that Disappeared, Andrew Brown
So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell
By Nightfall, Michael Cunningham
The Spell, Alan Hollinghurst
Death At Intervals, José Saramago
Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind, Gary Marcus
Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future, Will Bunch
Cocaine Nights, J.G. Ballard
Submarine, Joe Dunthorne
The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death, John Gray
Visiting Mrs Nabokov, and Other Excursions, Martin Amis
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Vladimir Nabokov
Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
Race of a Lifetime, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald
Columbine, Dave Cullen
Kingdom Come, J.G. Ballard
The Art of Fiction, David Lodge
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carré
The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Orpheus Descending / Something Unspoken / Suddenly Last Summer, Tennessee Williams
Underworld, Don DeLillo
Music for Chameleons, Truman Capote
The Stranger's Child, Alan Hollinghurst
Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career, George Plimpton
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
The Damned Utd, David Peace
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller..., Italo Calvino
What Ever Happened To Modernism?, Gabriel Josipovici
Right Ho, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
Washington Square, Henry James
The Valley of Fear, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Letter From America, Alistair Cooke
Light Years, James Salter
The American Revolution: A History, Gordon S. Wood
Vernon God Little, D.B.C. Pierre
Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, Michael Sorkin
Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
Antwerp, Roberto Bolaño
Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Oh What a Paradise It Seems, John Cheever
Tender Is The Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton
Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives, Greil Marcus
The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens
Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, Anthony Summers
Point Omega, Don DeLillo
In the Bedroom: Seven Stories, Andre Dubus
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays, David Foster Wallace
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, and Other Clinical Tales, Oliver Sacks
The Grass Harp, Truman Capote
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
Concerning E.M. Forster, Frank Kermode
Everyman, Philip Roth
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, David Shields
Swann's Way, Marcel Proust [first attempt]
2012
Happy Days and Wonder Years: The Fifties and Sixties in Contemporary Cultural Politics, Daniel Marcus
How We Got Here: The 70's - The Decade That Brought You Modern Life -- For Better or Worse, David Frum
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
Palimpsest, Gore Vidal
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past, Simon Reynolds
The Fall, Albert Camus
Seeing, José Saramago
A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Ravelstein, Saul Bellow
The Rachel Papers, Martin Amis
Screening Nostalgia: Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film, Christine Sprengler
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
Writing in Restaurants, David Mamet
Cain, José Saramago
Life & Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee
The Third Reich, Roberto Bolaño
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, Zadie Smith
Authorship and the Films of David Lynch: Aesthetic Receptions in Contemporary Hollywood, Antony Todd
The Sonderberg Case, Elie Wiesel
Hotel de Dream, Edmund White
Our Iceberg Is Melting, John Kotter & Holger Rathgeber
End Zone, Don DeLillo
The Luzhin Defense, Vladimir Nabokov
Back To Work: Why We Need Smart Government For A Strong Economy, Bill Clinton
Jack Holmes & His Friend, Edmund White
Farther Away, Jonathan Franzen
Time To Start Thinking: America In the Age of Descent, Edward Luce
Those Guys Have All The Fun: Inside the World of ESPN, James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
The Chemistry of Tears, Peter Carey
Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo
Too Big To Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street, Andrew Ross Sorkin
Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, Slavoj Žižek
They Eat Puppies, Don't They?, Christopher Buckley
The Spoils of Poynton, Henry James
Fifth Business, Robertson Davies
Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-9/11 America, Stacy Takacs
The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages, David Bevington
Junk Mail, Will Self
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, Vladimir Nabokov
The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Steven Pinker
No One Left To Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton, Christopher Hitchens
Lionel Asbo: State of England, Martin Amis
The Inimitable Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
Every Nation For Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World, Ian Bremmer
The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century, D. Graham Burnett
Film After Film, Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?, J. Hoberman
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
It Can't Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis
Strong Opinions, Vladimir Nabokov
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
Mr. Sammler's Planet, Saul Bellow
The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics, John Pollack
All the Names, José Saramago
Thomas Adès: Full of Noises - Conversations with Tom Service, Thomas Adès and Tom Service
The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
David Lynch, Justus Nieland
Point to Point Navigation, Gore Vidal
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace
The Manticore, Robertson Davies
Generation of Swine - Gonzo Papers Vol. 2: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's, Hunter S. Thompson
Zeroville, Steve Erickson
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, Christopher Hayes
Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max
The Sorceror's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper, John Richardson
Tintin and the Secret of Literature, Tom McCarthy
The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
Back To Blood, Tom Wolfe
Mortality, Christopher Hitchens
Something Like The Gods: A Cultural History of the Athlete from Achilles to LeBron, Stephen Amidon
Never Mind, Edward St. Aubyn
Bad News, Edward St. Aubyn
2013
Michael Haneke, Peter Brunette
Some Hope, Edward St. Aubyn
Mother's Milk, Edward St. Aubyn
Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
Extreme Metaphors: Selected Interviews with J.G. Ballard, 1967-2008, Simon Sellars and Dan O'Hara (editors)
The Art of Immersion: How the digital generation is remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the way we tell stories, Frank Rose
One Man's Castle: Clarence Darrow In Defense of the American Dream, Phyllis Vine
At Last, Edward St. Aubyn
The Aleph and Other Stories, Jorge Luis Borges
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Yukio Mishima
Both Flesh and Not: Essays, David Foster Wallace
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, Susan Sontag
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, Al Gore
The End of the Story, Lydia Davis
Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up - An Insider's Portrait, Bob Colacello
Prater Violet, Christopher Isherwood
The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published, David Skinner
Answered Prayers, Truman Capote
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, James Gleick
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life, John Adams
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain
The Hundred Brothers, Donald Antrim
The Alastair Campbell Diaries, Volume One: Prelude to Power, 1994-1997, Alastair Campbell
The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, Slavoj Žižek
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief, Lawrence Wright
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths, John Gray
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America, Martin Amis
The Enchanter, Vladimir Nabokov
World of Wonders, Robertson Davies
When You Are Engulfed In Flames, David Sedaris
The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
City of Quartz, Mike Davis
Saturday, Ian McEwan
Because the Night, James Ellroy
The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers
Too Brief A Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote, Gerald Clarke (editor)
Breaking Bad and Philosophy: Badder Living Through Chemistry, David R. Koepsell and Robert Arp (editors)
Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000, Gore Vidal
Murphy, Samuel Beckett
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Pulphead: Essays, John Jeremiah Sullivan
My Lives, Edmund White
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Philosophy of David Lynch, William J. Devlin and Shai Biderman (editors)
Tales From the City, Armistead Maupin
Lightning Rods, Helen DeWitt
Mad Travellers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses, Ian Hacking
Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs, James Wolcott
Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Boris Kachka
The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael, Pauline Kael
At the Same Time: Essays & Speeches, Susan Sontag
Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon
Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life, Adam Gopnik
2014
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
How To Be A Woman, Caitlin Moran
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Tom Reiss
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible, Simon Winchester
Lars von Trier, Linda Badley
Mergers & Acquisitions, Dana Vachon
Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival, Sean Strub
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester
Monkeys, Susan Minot
The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography, Stephen Fry
Rapture, Susan Minot
Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative, Lawrence Weschler
The Good Life, Jay McInerney
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
e.e. cummings: A Life, Susan Cheever
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, Jeff Kinney
American Dervish, Ayad Akhtar
Disgraced, Ayad Akhtar
Constellation of Genius - 1922: Modernism Year One, Kevin Jackson
Rules of Civility, Amor Towles
The Winter Ghosts, Kate Mosse
Brooklyn Bounce: The Highs of Lows of Nets Basketball's Historic First Season in the Borough, Jake Appleman
In Bed With Gore Vidal: Hustlers, Hollywood, and the Private World of an American Master, Tim Teeman
The Other Side of Desire: Four Journeys into the Far Realms of Lust and Longing, Daniel Bergner
Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems, J.D. McClatchy
Seating Arrangements, Maggie Shipstead
After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, Evie Wyld
Jesus: The Human Face of God, Jay Parini
The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, Jonathan Alter
& Sons, David Gilbert
Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War, Amanda Vaill
To Rise Again At A Decent Hour, Joshua Ferris
The News: A User's Manual, Alain De Botton
Tiny Terror: Why Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote Answered Prayers, William Todd Schultz
How About Never - Is Never Good For You?: My Life in Cartoons, Bob Mankoff
Do The Movies Have A Future?, David Denby
The Children and the Wolves, Adam Rapp
Nocturne, Adam Rapp
The Vacationers, Emma Straub
The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years, Greil Marcus
Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection, Debora Spar
Chapel of Inadvertent Joy, Jeffrey McDaniel
My Salinger Year, Joanna Rakoff
Lost For Words, Edward St. Aubyn
Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution, John Paul Stevens
My Struggle: Book 1, Karl Ove Knausgaard
Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks, Brad Dukes
David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire, Martha P. Nochimson
The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses, Kevin Birmingham
My Life in Middlemarch, Rebecca Mead
The Sea Inside, Philip Hoare
The House of Blue Leaves, John Guare
The Furies, Natalie Haynes
Six Degrees of Separation, John Guare
A Free Man of Color, John Guare
Daring: My Passages - A Memoir, Gail Sheehy
The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning, Marcelo Gleiser
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, Andrew Solomon
Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay
Little Failure, Gary Shteyngart
Roberto Bolaño's Fiction: An Expanding Universe, Chris Andrews
The Children Act, Ian McEwan
The Ministry of Guidance Invites You To Not Stay, Hooman Majd
The Last Girlfriend on Earth, and Other Love Stories, Simon Rich
Sane New World: A User's Guide to the Normal-Crazy Mind, Ruby Wax
The Zone of Interest, Martin Amis
We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda, Philip Gourevitch
How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise, Chris Taylor
The Sherlockian, Graham Moore
My Struggle: Book 2, Karl Ove Knausgaard
There Must Be Some Mistake, Frederick Barthelme
Event: A Philosophical Journey Through A Concept, Slavoj Žižek
Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty, Diane Keaton
The White Album, Joan Didion
Margaret Thatcher - The Authorized Biography: Volume One, Charles Moore
2015
The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way And It Wasn't My Fault And I'll Never Do It Again, P.J. O'Rourke
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
Imperfect Bliss, Susan Fales-Hill
The Asylum: True Tales of Madness from a Life in Fashion, Simon Doonan
Amnesia, Peter Carey
The Unspeakable and Other Subjects of Discussion, Meghan Daum
Bonita Avenue, Peter Buwalda
The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs, Greil Marcus
Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview, Roberto Bolaño
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History, Boris Johnson
The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song, Ben Yagoda
Satin Island, Tom McCarthy
The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man, Luke Harding
Olives, A.E. Stallings
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, Tom Wolfe
The Fifth Gospel, Ian Caldwell
Discontent and Its Civilizations, Mohsin Hamid
The Architecture of David Lynch, Richard Martin
There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll, Lisa Robinson
I Am Sorry To Think I Have Raised a Timid Son, Kent Russell
The Architect's Apprentice, Elif Shafak
The Emerald Light in the Air, Donald Antrim
Dark Sparkler, Amber Tamblyn
The Farm, Tom Rob Smith
The Marauders, Tom Cooper
The Sense of Style, Steven Pinker
Properties of Light, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery, Sarah Lewis
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins, Irvine Welsh
Frank: A Life in Politics From the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage, Barney Frank
Gabriel: A Poem, Edward Hirsch
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
My Struggle: Book 3, Karl Ove Knausgaard
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway, Åsne Seierstad
Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita, Richard Roper
My Documents, Alejandro Zambra
Van Gogh: A Power Seething, Julian Bell
Age of Fracture, Daniel T. Rodgers
The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry Into Human Freedom, John Gray
Book of Numbers, Joshua Cohen
The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir, Nick Flynn
The Reenactments: A Memoir, Nick Flynn
The Nearest Thing to Life, James Wood
On Michael Jackson, Margo Jefferson
The Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up With George, Kelly Carlin
We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s, Richard Beck
The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq, Emma Sky
I Am My Own Wife, Doug Wright
Charlie Mike: A True Story of War and Finding the Way Home, Joe Klein
When Blackness Rhymes With Blackness, Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Heaven: Poems, Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Purity, Jonathan Franzen
Let's Talk About Love: A Journey To the End of Taste, Carl Wilson
Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal, Wendy Walters
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe, Lisa Randall
Daydreams of Angels: Stories, Heather O'Neill
I See You Made An Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50, Annabelle Gurwitch
The Emperor of Water Clocks: Poems, Yusef Komunyakaa
Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii, Susanna Moore
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers, Simon Winchester
David Lynch: The Man From Another Place, Dennis Lim
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy, David Graeber
Cameron at 10: The Inside Story 2010-2015, Anthony Seldon & Peter Snowdon
Chess Story, Stefan Zweig
Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art In Its Struggle To Be Understood, Grayson Perry
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, Salman Rushdie
2016
The Fran Leibowitz Reader, Fran Leibowitz
A Decent Ride, Irvine Welsh
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped, Garry Kasparov, with Mig Greengard
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Erik Larson
True Believers, Kurt Andersen
Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers, Janet Malcolm
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, Nathaniel Philbrick
Drawing Blood, Molly Crabapple
Bettyville: A Memoir, George Hodgman
Negroland: A Memoir, Margo Jefferson
Francis Bacon In Your Blood: A Memoir, Michael Peppiatt
The Danish Girl, David Ebershoff
Sudden Death, Álvaro Enrigue
Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence, Bryan Burrough
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson
A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time, Adrian Bardon
The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe, Stephon Alexander
What Belongs To You, Garth Greenwell
Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
Swann's Way, Marcel Proust [second attempt]
Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes Our Past, Douwe Draaisma
White Sands, Geoff Dyer
Another Great Day At Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush, Geoff Dyer
Venusberg, Anthony Powell
The Face: Cartography of the Void, Chris Abani
10:04, Ben Lerner
Power and the People: The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume 2, 1997-1999, Alastair Campbell
Maggie & Me: Coming Out and Coming of Age in 1980s Scotland, Damian Barr
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
Intellectual Skywriting: Literary Politics and The New York Review of Books, Philip Nobile
Memoirs, Kingsley Amis
The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt
John Aubrey, My Own Life, Ruth Scurr
Postcapitalism: A Guide To Our Future, Paul Mason
Thirteen Ways of Looking, Colum McCann
The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction, Mark Lilla
Loner, Teddy Wayne
The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander
The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State, Lawrence Wright
Redeployment, Phil Klay
Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me, Craig Seligman
Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors: Against the Double Blackmail, Slavoj Žižek
The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir, Vivian Gornick
How To Write Like Tolstoy, Richard Cohen
Sweet Lamb of Heaven, Lydia Millet
The Sellout, Paul Beatty
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, Timothy Snyder
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld, Jamie Bartlett
99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939, Anthony Burgess
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters, John Richardson
How To Change the World, John-Paul Flintoff
The Naked Civil Servant, Quentin Crisp
2017
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs From Outer Space, Janna Levin
How To Survive A Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, David France
Washington’s Farewell: The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations, John Avlon
A World In Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order, Richard Haass
Time Travel, James Gleick
Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein, John Nixon
My Struggle: Book 4, Karl Ove Knausgaard
Age of Anger: A History of the Present, Pankaj Mishra
Fever Dream, Samanta Schweblin
Universal Harvester, John Darnielle
I, Claudius, Robert Graves
Private Citizens, Tony Tulathimutte
So Much Synth, Brenda Shaughnessy
The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of it All at the Oxford English Dictionary, John Simpson
Richard Nixon, John A. Farrell
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays, Tom McCarthy
The Early Stories of Truman Capote, Truman Capote
A Colony in a Nation, Chris Hayes
Political Fictions, Joan Didion
The End of Eddy, Édouard Louis
Over To You, Roald Dahl
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder
Travels in Hyperreality, Umberto Eco
Making It, Norman Podhoretz
Under the Sign of Saturn, Susan Sontag
Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma, Michael Peppiatt
Writing the 9/11 Decade: Reportage and the Evolution of the Novel, Charlie Lee-Potter
Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag
Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles, David Thomson
Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash
Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt
Marcel Proust: A Life, Edmund White
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, Mary Beard
The Way By Swann's, Marcel Proust [third attempt; first successful]
Live From Golgotha, Gore Vidal
Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin, James Campbell
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Marcel Proust
RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR, Philip Hoare
Autobiography, Morrissey
Submission, Michel Houellebecq
Melville, Jean Giono
The Guermantes Way, Marcel Proust
We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy, Ta-Nehisi Coates
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, Adrienne Rich
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick, Elizabeth Hardwick
Sodom and Gomorrah, Marcel Proust
Dunbar, Edward St. Aubyn
The Sparsholt Affair, Alan Hollinghurst
Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith, Joan Schenkar
The Prisoner & The Fugitive, Marcel Proust
Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the Storming of the Presidency, Joshua Green
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