- Acevedos, Mario - The Nymphos of Rocky Flats
- Acevedos, Mario - X-Rated Bloodsuckers
- Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
- Adams, Douglas - A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Adams, Richard - Watership Down
- Airth, Rennie - River of Darkness
- Ali, Monica - Alentejo Blue
- Ali, Monica - Brick Lane
- Allende, Isabel - The House of the Spirits
- Antrim, Donald - The Verificationist
- Arensberg, Ann - Incubus
- Armstrong, Kelley - Bitten
- Atkinson, Kate - Case Histories
- Atkinson, Kate - One Good Turn
- Atwood, Margaret - Alias Grace
- Atwood, Margaret - Oryx and Crake
- Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
- Auster, Paul - Oracle Night
- Auster, Paul - The Book of Illusions
- Baker, Nicholson - A Box of Matches
- Bakis, Kirsten - Lives of the Monster Dogs
- Banks, Melissa - The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing
- Banks, Russell - Cloudsplitter
- Barker, Pat - Border Crossing
- Barnes, Julian - Arthur & George
- Barnes, Julian - England, England
- Barnes, Julian - Love, etc.
- Barry, Max - Jennifer Government
- Bechdel, Allison - Fun Home
- Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
- Bowles, Paul - The Sheltering Sky
- Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
- Bram, Christopher - Lives of the Circus Animals
- Brockmeier, Kevin - The Brief History of the Dead
- Brooks, Geraldine - March
- Brooks, Max - World War Z
- Burdett, John - Bangkok 8
- Burgess, Anthony - A Clockwork Orange
- Burroughs, Augusten - Dry
- Burroughs, Augusten - Magical Thinking
- Burroughs, Augusten - Possible Side Effects
- Burroughs, Augusten - Running with Scissors
- Burroughs, William S. - Naked Lunch
- Butler, Octavia - Fledgling
- Capote, Truman - In Cold Blood
- Carson, Tom - Gilligan's Wake
- Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Cather, Willa - My Antonia
- Cather, Willa - O Pioneers!
- Chabon, Michael - The Amazing Adventures of Kavlier and Clay
- Chabon, Michael - Werewolves in Their Youth
- Chandra, Vikram - Sacred Games
- Childress, Mark - One Mississippi
- Christensen, Kate - The Epicure's Lament
- Clarke, Susanna - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
- Clinch, Jon - Finn
- Coe, Jonathon - The House of Sleep
- Coelho, Paolo - The Alchemist
- Colfer, Eoin - Artemis Fowl
- Colfer, Eoin - Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
- Colfer, Eoin - Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
- Colfer, Eoin - Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
- Colfer, Eoin - Artemis Fowl:The Opal Deception
- Collins, Michael - Death of a Writer
- Connelly, Michael - The Black Echo
- Connelly, Michael - The Lincoln Lawyer
- Connoly, John - The Book of Lost Things
- Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
- Coover, Robert - Briar Rose
- Cotterill, Colin - The Coroner's Lunch
- Cox, Michael - The Meaning of Night
- Cunningham, Michael - The Hours
- Dahlquist, Gordon - The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
- D'Ambrosio, Charles - The Dead Fish Museum
- Danielewski, Mark - House of Leaves
- Davis, Kathryn - The Walking Tour
- Davison, Maryjanice - Undead and Unwed
- Del Franco, Mark - Unshapely Things
- Delillo, Don - The Body Artist
- DeLillo, Don - White Noise
- Desai, Kiran - The Inheritance of Loss
- Dexter, Peter - Paris Trout
- Diamant, Anita - The Red Tent
- Didion, Joan - The Year of Magical Thinking
- Doctorow, E.L. - The March
- Dooling, Richard - Brain Storm
- Dreiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie
- du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca
- Due, Tananarive - The Living Blood
- Dunn, Katherine - Geek Love
- Dunning, John - Booked To Die
- Dunning, John - The Bookman's Promise
- Dunning, John - The Bookman's Wake
- DuPrau, Jeanne - The City of Ember
- DuPrau, Jeanne - The People of Sparks
- DuPrau, Jeanne - The Prophet of Yonwood
- Edwards, Kim - The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- Egan, Jennifer - The Keep
- Ellis, Brett Easton - Glamorama
- Ellis, Brett Easton - Less than Zero
- Ellis, Brett Easton - Lunar Park
- Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
- Ellroy, James - The Cold Six Thousand
- Epstein, Leslie - Pandaemonium
- Erdrich, Louise - Four Souls
- Erdrich, Louise - The Master Butcher's Singing Club
- Erian, Alicia - Towelhead
- Eugenides, Jeffrey - Middlesex
- Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Virgin Suicides
- Evanovich, Janet - One for the Money
- Farris, John - All Heads Turn as the Hunt Goes By
- Fasman, John - The Geographer's Library
- Faulkner, William - Absalom, Absalom!
- Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
- Feig, Paug - Kick Me
- Fforde, Jasper - Lost in a Good Book
- Fforde, Jasper - Something Rotten
- Fforde, Jasper - The Eyre Affair
- Fforde, Jasper - The Well of Lost Plots
- Fielding, Helen - Bridget Jones Diary
- Findley, Timothy - Pilgrim
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Tender is the Night
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
- Flynn, Gillian - Sharp Objects
- Foer, Jonathon Safran - Everything is Illuminated
- Foer, Jonathon Safran - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Forster, E.M. - A Passage to India
- Forster, E.M. - A Room with a View
- Fowler, Karen Joy - The Jane Austen Book Club
- Fowles, John - The Magus
- Franklin, Ariana - Mistress of the Art of Death
- Franzen, Jonathon - The Corrections
- Frazier, Charles - Cold Mountain
- Freudenberger, Nell - The Dissident
- Frey, James - A Million Little Pieces
- Frey, James - My Friend Leonard
- Gaiman, Neil - American Gods
- Gaiman, Neil - Coraline
- Garland, Alex - The Tesseract
- Gilbert, David - Remote Feed
- Ginsberg, Debra - Blind Submission
- Gold, Glen David - Carter Beats the Devil
- Goldberg, Myla - Bee Season
- Golden, Arthur - Memoirs of a Geisha
- Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
- Gordon, Neil - The Company You Keep
- Grahame, Kenneth - The Wind in the Willows
- Grand, David - Louse
- Greene, Graham - The Heart of the Matter
- Grisham, John - The Broker
- Gruen, Sara - Water for Elephants
- Haddon, Mark - A Spot of Bother
- Haddon, Mark - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
- Haig, Matt - The Dead Father's Club
- Hamilton, Laurel K. - Guilty Pleasures
- Hammett, Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon
- Harris, Charlaine - Club Dead
- Harris, Charlaine - Dead in Dallas
- Harris, Charlaine - Dead until Dark
- Harris, Thomas - Hannibal
- Harrison, Jim - Returning to Earth
- Harrison, Kathryn - Envy
- Harvey, Kenneth - The Town that Forgot How to Breathe
- Harwood, John - The Ghost Writer
- Hautman, Pete - Rash
- Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
- Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
- Hemingway, Ernest - For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises
- Hempel, Amy - The Collected Stories of
- Herbert, Frank - Dune
- Hiaasen, Carl - Sick Puppy
- Hill, Joe - Heart-Shaped Box
- Hollinghurst, Allan - The Line of Beauty
- Homes, A.M. - Music for Torching
- Horn, Dara - The World to Come
- Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner
- Hughes, Richard - A High Wind in Jamaica
- Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes are Watching God
- Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
- Hynes, James - The Lecturer's Tale
- Irving, John - The World According to Garp
- Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
- Ishiguro, Kazuo - When We Were Orphans
- Jackson, Shirley - The Haunting of Hill House
- James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
- Johnson, Dennis - Already Dead
- Jones, Edward P. - All Aunt Hagar's Children
- Jones, Edward P. - The Known World
- Joyce, James - Finnegan's Wake
- Joyce, James - Ulysses
- Julavits, Heidi - The Effect of Living Backwards
- Julavits, Heidi - The Uses of Enchantment
- Just, Ward - Forgetfulness
- Kellerman, Jonathan - Therapy
- Keneally, Thomas - Office of Innocence
- Keneally, Thomas - Schindler's List
- Kenner, Julie - Carpe Demon
- Kerouac, Jack - On the Road
- Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Kidd, Sue Monk - The Secret Life of Bees
- Kiernan, Caitlin - Threshold
- King, Stephen - Black House
- King, Stephen - Lisey's Story
- King, Stephen - On Writing
- King, Stephen - The Stand
- Kingsolver, Barbara - The Bean Trees
- Kingsolver, Barbara - The Poisonwood Bible
- Kipling, Rudyard - Kim
- Kirn, Walter - Thumbsucker
- Knowles, John - A Separate Peace
- Knox, Tyler - Kockroach
- Koontz, Dean - Odd Thomas
- Koontz, Dean - The Face
- Kostova, Elizabeth - The Historian
- Krauss, Nicole - The History of Love
- Krist, Gary - Bad Chemistry
- Kunkel, Benjamin - Indecision
- Lahiri, Jhumpa - The Interpreter of Maladies
- Lahiri, Jhumpa - The Namesake
- Lamb, Wally - I Know This Much is True
- Lancaster, Jen - Bitter is the New Black
- Lansdale, Joe - Captains Outrageous
- Larson, Erik - The Devil in the White City
- Lawrence, D.H. - Sons and Lovers
- Lee, Harper - To Kill and Mockingbird
- Lehane, Dennis - Mystic River
- Lehane, Dennis - Shutter Island
- Lethem, Jonathon - Fortress of Solitude
- Lethem, Jonathon - Motherless Brooklyn
- Lewis, Sinclair - Main Street
- Lewis, Sinclair - The Jungle
- L'Heureux, John - Having Everything
- London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
- Lovecraft, H.P. - At the Mountains of Madness
- Lutz, Lisa - The Spellman Files
- Lynch, Jim - The Highest Tide
- Maguire, Gregory - Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
- Maguire, Gregory - Lost
- Maguire, Gregory - Wicked
- Mailer, Norman - The Naked and the Dead
- Mantel, Hilary - Beyond Black
- Mantel, Hilary - Fludd
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - Memories of My Melancholy Whores
- Martel Yann - Life of Pi
- Martinez, A. Lee - Gil's All Fright Diner
- Matheson, John - I Am Legend
- Maugham, W. Somerset - Of Human Bondage
- Maupin, Armistead - The Night Listener
- McCabe, Peter - Breakfast on Pluto
- McCarthy, Cormac - The Road
- McCullers, Carson - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- McEwan, Ian - Atonement
- McEwan, Ian - Saturday
- McFarland, Dennis - A Face at the Window
- McGrath, Patrick - Asylum
- Mead, Richelle - Succubus Blues
- Messud, Claire - The Emperor's Children
- Miller, Andrew - Oxygen
- Miller, Henry - Tropic of Cancer
- Min, Anchee - Empress Orchid
- Mina, Denise - Deception
- Minot, Susan - Rapture
- Mishima, Yukio - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
- Mistry, Rohinton - A Fine Balance
- Mitchell, David - Black Swan Green
- Mitchell, David - Cloud Atlas
- Mitchell, David - Ghostwritten
- Moody, Rick - Demonology: Stories
- Moore, Christopher - A Dirty Job
- Moore, Christopher - Bloodsucking Fiends
- Moore, Christopher - Coyote Blue
- Moore, Christopher - Fluke, or I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
- Moore, Christopher - Island of the Sequined Love Nun
- Moore, Christopher - Practical Demonkeeping
- Moore, Christopher - The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
- Moore, Christopher - The Stupidest Angel
- Moore, Christopher - You Suck: A Love Story
- Morrison, Toni - Beloved
- Morrison, Toni - Sula
- Munro, Alice - Runaway
- Murakami, Haruki - Kafka on the Shore
- Murray, Les - Fredy Neptune
- Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
- Nafisi, Azar - Reading Lolita in Tehran
- Ngozie Adichie, Chimamanda - Half of a Yellow Sun
- Nicholson, Geoff - Bedlam Burning
- Niffenegger, Audrey - The Time Traveller's Wife
- Nix, Garth - Mister Monday
- Noel, Katharine - Halfway House
- Notaro, Laurie - We Thought You Would Be Prettier
- Oates, Joyce Carol - The Falls
- O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
- O'Connor, Flannery - Wise Blood
- Orringer, Julie - How to Breathe Underwater
- Orwell, George - 1984
- Orwell, George - Animal Farm
- Ozich, Cynthia - Heir to the Glimmering World
- Palahniuk, Chuck - Choke
- Palahniuk, Chuck - Haunted
- Palliser, Charles - The Unburied
- Parkhurst, Carolyn - Lost and Found
- Parkhurst, Carolyn - The Dogs of Babel
- Patchett, Ann - Bel Canto
- Perez-Reverte, Arturo - The Club Dumas
- Perlman, Elliot - Seven Types of Ambiguity
- Perrotta, Tom - Election
- Perrotta, Tom - Joe College
- Perrotta, Tom - Little Children
- Perrotta, Tom - The Wishbones
- Pessl, Marisha - Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- Petterson, Vicki - The Scent of Shadows
- Pierce, DBC - Vernon God Little
- Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Poirier, Mark Jude - Goats
- Pratchett, Terry - The Color of Magic
- Price, Richard - Freedomland
- Priest, Cherie - Four and Twenty Blackbirds
- Pritchard, Sara - Crackpots
- Prose, Francine - Reading Like a Writer
- Proulx, Annie - The Shipping News
- Quindlen, Anna - Rise and Shine
- Rand, Ayn - Atlas Shrugged
- Rand, Ayn - The Fountainhead
- Roach, Mary - Spook
- Roach, Mary - Stiff
- Roberts, Gregory David - Shantaram
- Robinson, Marilynne - Gilead
- Robinson, Marilynne - Housekeeping
- Rock, Peter - The Unsettling
- Roth, Phillip - American Pastoral
- Roth, Phillip - The Human Stain
- Roth, Phillip - The Plot Against America
- Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix
- Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- Roy, Arundhati - The God of Small Things
- Rubenfeld, Jed - The Interpretation of Murder
- Ruff, Matt - Set This House in Order
- Rushdie, Salman - The Satanic Verses
- Russo, Richard - Empire Falls
- Sakey, Marcus - The Blade Itself
- Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
- Sansom, Ian - The Case of the Missing Books
- Satrapi, Marjane - Persepolis
- Schreiber, Joe - Chasing the Dead
- Sebold, Alice - The Lovely Bones
- Sedaris, David - Barrel Fever
- Sedaris, David - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
- Sedaris, David - Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Sedaris, David - Naked
- See, Lisa - Flower Net
- Seierstad, Asne - The Bookseller of Kabul
- Setterfield, Diane - The Thirteenth Tale
- Sheffield, Rob - Love is a Mix Tape
- Sherril, Steven - The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
- Shields, Jody - The Fig Eater
- Shreve, Porte - The Obituary Writer
- Shteyngart, Gary - Absurdistan
- Simmons, Dan - The Terror
- Sittenfeld, Curtis - Prep
- Smith, Alexander McCall - At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
- Smith, Alexander McCall - Friends and Chocolate
- Smith, Alexander McCall - In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
- Smith, Alexander McCall - Morality for Beautiful Girls
- Smith, Alexander McCall - Portuguese Irregular Verbs
- Smith, Alexander McCall - Tears of the Giraffe
- Smith, Alexander McCall - The Blue Shoes of Happiness
- Smith, Alexander McCall - The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
- Smith, Alexander McCall - The Full Cupboard of Life
- Smith, Alexander McCall - The Kalahari Typing School for Men
- Smith, Alexander McCall - The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
- Smith, Alexander McCall - The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
- Smith, Alexander McCall - The Right Attitude to Rain
- Smith, Alexander McCall - The Sunday Philosophy Club
- Smith, Betty - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Smith, Scott - The Ruins
- Smith, Zadie - On Beauty
- Smith, Zadie - White Teeth
- Steinbeck, John - Of Mice and Men
- Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
- Stone, Robert - Bay of Souls
- Styron, William - Sophie's Choice
- Swan, Mary - The Deep
- Tan, Amy - Saving Fish from Drowning
- Tan, Amy - The Bonesetter's Daughter
- Tarloff, Erik - The Man Who Wrote the Book
- Tartt, Donna - The Little Friend
- Tartt, Donna - The Secret History
- Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Lord of the Rings
- Tuck, Lily - The News from Paraguay
- Ullman, Ellen - The Bug
- Updike, John - Rabbit, Run
- Updike, John - Villages
- Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse Five
- Wagner, Bruce - Still Holding
- Wallace, David Foster - Oblivion
- Walsh, Jeanette - The Glass Castle
- Walter, Jess - The Zero
- Warren, Robert Penn - All the King's Men
- Waters, Sarah - Fingersmith
- Waters, Sarah - The Night Watch
- Waugh, Evelyn - A Handful of Dust
- Wellington, David - Monster Island
- Wells, H.G. - War of the Worlds
- Welsh, Louise - The Cutting Room
- Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence
- White, E.B. - Charlotte's Web
- Wiesel, Elie - Night
- Wiggins, Marianne - Evidence of Things Unseen
- Wolfe, Tom - Bonfire of the Vanities
- Woolf, Virginia - Orlando
- Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
- Woolfe, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway
- Wright, Richard - Native Son
- Zafon, Carlos Ruiz - The Shadow of the Wind
- Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief
The Story of the List
This all started with a reading of Stephen King, and not a horror story either, his autobiographical treatise, On Writing. He encouraged that writers are only as good as their reading allows. At that point, I had already made the decision to pursue my writing and not only was I not reading good fiction, I had read nothing notable in at least a year.
So, I started the list.
I trudged through New York Times Most Notables, Bestseller lists, both The Modern Library and Radcliffe's 100 best novels. I started leafing through Bookmarks magazine and Pages and spending my free time walking through the aisles of book stores.
The Beginning was April 2006.
Now I'm starting on the reviews 63 books later. Wish me luck.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
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