Reading List 2011 Update
I've decided to include ratings on a 1-10 scale. These are snapshots taken shortly after I've read the book, and my opinion may change over time. I also tend to adjust ratings based on genre and expectations - so a novel that only promises to be fluffy may not be harmed by flaws that would doom a better written but more ambitious literary novel.
I don't feel like I've kept very good track since my last update, so I may have missed a few. I've reviewed my library e-mails to piece together what I can, but I may be retroactively adding more later. These are explicitly not in any particular order (they may, roughly, have started in the order I read them, but as I added that went to hell).
Newly Added:
19. The Night Monster by James Swain - 4
20. No Good Deed by Laura Lippman - 7
21. Life Sentences: A Novel by Laura Lippman - 6.5
22. The Spellman Files: A Novel by Lisa Lutz - 7
23. The Spellmans Strike Again by Lisa Lutz - 6
24. How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author by Janet Evanovich and Ina Yalof - 4
25. Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich - 5
26. The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman - 4.5
27. The Dark End of the Street: New Stories of Sex and Crime by Today's Top Authors edited by Jonathan Santlofer - 6
28. Corpse Pose by Diana Killian - 5
29. The Adventure of the Missing Detective and 19 of the Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg - 6.5
30. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin - 7
31. Local by Brian Wood - 7.5
32. Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz - 7
33. Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman - 7.5
34. Fire-Breathing Liberal: How I Learned to Survive (and Thrive) in the Contact Sport of Congress by Robert Wexler - 4.5
35. Nemesis by Philip Roth - 8
36. Almost Dead: a novel by Assaf Gavron - 6
37. Another Thing To Fall by Laura Lippman - 6.5
38. The Amazing Adventures of Kavelier and Clay by Michael Chabon - 9
Previously:
1. Fletch's Fortune by Gregory McDonald - 7.5
2. Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich - 5
3. The Human Stain by Philip Roth - 9
4. Chronicles by Bob Dylan - 8.5
5. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris - 5
6. The Big Short by Michael Lewis - 8
7. Fletch, Too by Gregory McDonald - 6
8. Painted Ladies by Robert B. Parker - 6.5
9. Fletch and the Man Who by Gregory McDonald - 7.5
10. Confess, Fletch by Gregory McDonald - 8
11. Grandville by Bryan Talbot - 6
12. The Best Awful by Carrie Fisher - 6.5
13. Fletch by Gregory McDonald - 7
14. Food Rules by Michael Pollan - 4
15. Killing Sacred Cows by Garrett B. Gunderson - 3
16. Point Omega by Don DeLillo - 5
17. Save The Cat! Goes to the Movies by Blake Snyder - 6
18. Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker by James McManus - 6
I don't feel like I've kept very good track since my last update, so I may have missed a few. I've reviewed my library e-mails to piece together what I can, but I may be retroactively adding more later. These are explicitly not in any particular order (they may, roughly, have started in the order I read them, but as I added that went to hell).
Newly Added:
19. The Night Monster by James Swain - 4
20. No Good Deed by Laura Lippman - 7
21. Life Sentences: A Novel by Laura Lippman - 6.5
22. The Spellman Files: A Novel by Lisa Lutz - 7
23. The Spellmans Strike Again by Lisa Lutz - 6
24. How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author by Janet Evanovich and Ina Yalof - 4
25. Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich - 5
26. The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman - 4.5
27. The Dark End of the Street: New Stories of Sex and Crime by Today's Top Authors edited by Jonathan Santlofer - 6
28. Corpse Pose by Diana Killian - 5
29. The Adventure of the Missing Detective and 19 of the Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg - 6.5
30. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin - 7
31. Local by Brian Wood - 7.5
32. Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz - 7
33. Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman - 7.5
34. Fire-Breathing Liberal: How I Learned to Survive (and Thrive) in the Contact Sport of Congress by Robert Wexler - 4.5
35. Nemesis by Philip Roth - 8
36. Almost Dead: a novel by Assaf Gavron - 6
37. Another Thing To Fall by Laura Lippman - 6.5
38. The Amazing Adventures of Kavelier and Clay by Michael Chabon - 9
Previously:
1. Fletch's Fortune by Gregory McDonald - 7.5
2. Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich - 5
3. The Human Stain by Philip Roth - 9
4. Chronicles by Bob Dylan - 8.5
5. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris - 5
6. The Big Short by Michael Lewis - 8
7. Fletch, Too by Gregory McDonald - 6
8. Painted Ladies by Robert B. Parker - 6.5
9. Fletch and the Man Who by Gregory McDonald - 7.5
10. Confess, Fletch by Gregory McDonald - 8
11. Grandville by Bryan Talbot - 6
12. The Best Awful by Carrie Fisher - 6.5
13. Fletch by Gregory McDonald - 7
14. Food Rules by Michael Pollan - 4
15. Killing Sacred Cows by Garrett B. Gunderson - 3
16. Point Omega by Don DeLillo - 5
17. Save The Cat! Goes to the Movies by Blake Snyder - 6
18. Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker by James McManus - 6