Read in 2011
It was a ready year for me. Nice to have my attention span back, more or less. Some of this is just crap, of course, but who cares?
1. Nemesis - Philip Roth - 3/24/11
2. Dead Reckoning - Charlaine Harris - 5/3/11
3. All Together Dead - Charlaine Harris - 5/6/11
4. From Dead to Worse - Charlaine Harris - 5/7/11
5. Dead and Gone - Charlaine Harris - 5/8/11
6. Dead in the Family - Charlaine Harris - 5/9/11
7. Cold Wind - C.J. Box - 6/3/11
8. Frozen Assets - Quentin Bates - 6/9/11
9. Pride and Prescience - Carrie Bebris - 6/11/11
10. Suspense and Sensibility - Carrie Bebris - 6/12/11
11. Silent in the Grave - Deanna Raybourn - 6/15/11
12. The Bad Seed - William March - 6/16/11
13. Sworn to Silence - Linda Castillo - 6/19/11
14. Pray for Silence - Linda Castillo - 6/20/11
15. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym - Edgar Allan Poe - 6/22/11
16. North by Northanger - Carrie Bebris - 6/23/11
17. The Shadow Woman - Åke Edwardson - 6/27/11
18. Pym - Mat Johnson - 6/30/11
19. The Matters at Mansfield - Carrie Bebris - 7/1/11
20. Pale Demon - Kim Harrison - 7/3/11
21. The Virgin of Small Plains - Nancy Pickard - 7/6/11
22. The Scent of Rain and Lightning - Nancy Pickard - 7/9/11
23. The Mephisto Club - Tess Gerritsen - 7/11/11
24. The Whole Truth - Nancy Pickard - 7/12/11
25. I'd Know You Anywhere - Laura Lippman - 7/16/11
26. The Island of the Dead - Lya Luft - 7/18/11
27. Breaking Silence - Linda Castillo - 7/20/11
28. Have Mercy on us All - Fred Vargas - 7/23/11
29. I'll Never Get out of this World Alive - Steve Earle - 7/24/11
30. I Shall Not Want - Julia Spencer-Fleming - 7/26/11
31. Hide and Seek - Ian Rankin - 7/27/11
32. The Intrigue at Highbury - Carrie Bebris - 7/29/11
33. The Black Book - Ian Rankin - 7/30/11
34. Let it Bleed - Ian Rankin - 8/1/11
35. Knots and Crosses - Ian Rankin - 8/3/11
36. Black and Blue - Ian Rankin - 8/8/11
37. Jar City - Arnaldur Indriđason - 8/9/11
38. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut - 8/11/11
39. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut - 8/13/11
40. The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock - 8/14/11
41. The 13th Hour - Richard Doetsch - 8/16/11
42. Dead Souls - Ian Rankin - 8/20/11
43. Set in Darkness - Ian Rankin - 8/22/11
44. Codex - Lev Grossman - 8/28/11
45. Resurrection Men - Ian Rankin - 9/6/11
46. The Moviegoer - Walker Percy - 9/17/11
47. A Question of Blood - Ian Rankin - 9/19/11
48. Fleshmarket Alley - Ian Rankin - 9/20/11
49. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John LeCarré - 12/11/11
50. Native Speaker - Chang-Rae Lee - 12/17/11
51. The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco - 12/24/11
52. Field Gray - Philip Kerr - 12/25/11
53. Total Chaos - Jean-Claude Izzo - 12/26/11
54. Feast Day of Fools - James Lee Burke - 12/27/11
55. A Free Man of Color - Barbara Hambly - 12/29/11
56. The Magicians - Lev Grossman - 12/30/11
For school
1. Mao II - Don DeLillo - 1/15/11
2. Maus - Art Spiegelman - 1/19/11
3. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz - 2/8/11
4. Super Sad True Love Story - Gary Shteyngart - 2/28/11
5. Fun Home - Alison Bechdel - 3/9/11
6. Circle K Cycles - Karen Tei Yamashita - 3/12/11
7. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West - William Cronon - 4/16/11
8. Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture - Carl E. Schorske - 4/20/11
9. London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis - Jonathan Schneer - 4/24/11
10. The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil - Hermano Vianna - 4/27/11
11. Reading Berlin 1900 - Peter Fritzsche - 5/22/11
12. “Civilizing” Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930 - Teresa A. Meade - 5/28/11
13. Oroonoko - Aphra Behn - 9/24/11
14. Jew vs Jew - Samuel G. Freedman - 9/27/11
15. Yekl - Abraham Canan - 9/28/11
16. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis - 10/4/11
17. The Professor's House - Willa Cather - 10/11/11
18. Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth - 10/11/11
19. The Assistant - Bernard Malamud - 10/15/11
20. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe - 10/17/11
21. In the Image - Dara Horn - 11/1/11
22. The Big Money - John Dos Passos - 11/2/11
23. Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer - 11/8/11
24. Evelina - Frances Burney - 11/10/11
25. Native Son - Richard Wright - 11/16/11
26. The Yiddish Policeman's Union - Michael Chabon - 11/18/11
27. Humphry Clinker - Tobias Smollett - 11/19/11
28. How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less - Sarah Glidden - 11/22/11
29. The Street - Ann Petry - 11/29/11
30. The Puttermesser Papers - Cynthia Ozick - 12/5/11
1. Nemesis - Philip Roth - 3/24/11
2. Dead Reckoning - Charlaine Harris - 5/3/11
3. All Together Dead - Charlaine Harris - 5/6/11
4. From Dead to Worse - Charlaine Harris - 5/7/11
5. Dead and Gone - Charlaine Harris - 5/8/11
6. Dead in the Family - Charlaine Harris - 5/9/11
7. Cold Wind - C.J. Box - 6/3/11
8. Frozen Assets - Quentin Bates - 6/9/11
9. Pride and Prescience - Carrie Bebris - 6/11/11
10. Suspense and Sensibility - Carrie Bebris - 6/12/11
11. Silent in the Grave - Deanna Raybourn - 6/15/11
12. The Bad Seed - William March - 6/16/11
13. Sworn to Silence - Linda Castillo - 6/19/11
14. Pray for Silence - Linda Castillo - 6/20/11
15. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym - Edgar Allan Poe - 6/22/11
16. North by Northanger - Carrie Bebris - 6/23/11
17. The Shadow Woman - Åke Edwardson - 6/27/11
18. Pym - Mat Johnson - 6/30/11
19. The Matters at Mansfield - Carrie Bebris - 7/1/11
20. Pale Demon - Kim Harrison - 7/3/11
21. The Virgin of Small Plains - Nancy Pickard - 7/6/11
22. The Scent of Rain and Lightning - Nancy Pickard - 7/9/11
23. The Mephisto Club - Tess Gerritsen - 7/11/11
24. The Whole Truth - Nancy Pickard - 7/12/11
25. I'd Know You Anywhere - Laura Lippman - 7/16/11
26. The Island of the Dead - Lya Luft - 7/18/11
27. Breaking Silence - Linda Castillo - 7/20/11
28. Have Mercy on us All - Fred Vargas - 7/23/11
29. I'll Never Get out of this World Alive - Steve Earle - 7/24/11
30. I Shall Not Want - Julia Spencer-Fleming - 7/26/11
31. Hide and Seek - Ian Rankin - 7/27/11
32. The Intrigue at Highbury - Carrie Bebris - 7/29/11
33. The Black Book - Ian Rankin - 7/30/11
34. Let it Bleed - Ian Rankin - 8/1/11
35. Knots and Crosses - Ian Rankin - 8/3/11
36. Black and Blue - Ian Rankin - 8/8/11
37. Jar City - Arnaldur Indriđason - 8/9/11
38. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut - 8/11/11
39. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut - 8/13/11
40. The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock - 8/14/11
41. The 13th Hour - Richard Doetsch - 8/16/11
42. Dead Souls - Ian Rankin - 8/20/11
43. Set in Darkness - Ian Rankin - 8/22/11
44. Codex - Lev Grossman - 8/28/11
45. Resurrection Men - Ian Rankin - 9/6/11
46. The Moviegoer - Walker Percy - 9/17/11
47. A Question of Blood - Ian Rankin - 9/19/11
48. Fleshmarket Alley - Ian Rankin - 9/20/11
49. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John LeCarré - 12/11/11
50. Native Speaker - Chang-Rae Lee - 12/17/11
51. The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco - 12/24/11
52. Field Gray - Philip Kerr - 12/25/11
53. Total Chaos - Jean-Claude Izzo - 12/26/11
54. Feast Day of Fools - James Lee Burke - 12/27/11
55. A Free Man of Color - Barbara Hambly - 12/29/11
56. The Magicians - Lev Grossman - 12/30/11
For school
1. Mao II - Don DeLillo - 1/15/11
2. Maus - Art Spiegelman - 1/19/11
3. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz - 2/8/11
4. Super Sad True Love Story - Gary Shteyngart - 2/28/11
5. Fun Home - Alison Bechdel - 3/9/11
6. Circle K Cycles - Karen Tei Yamashita - 3/12/11
7. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West - William Cronon - 4/16/11
8. Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture - Carl E. Schorske - 4/20/11
9. London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis - Jonathan Schneer - 4/24/11
10. The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil - Hermano Vianna - 4/27/11
11. Reading Berlin 1900 - Peter Fritzsche - 5/22/11
12. “Civilizing” Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930 - Teresa A. Meade - 5/28/11
13. Oroonoko - Aphra Behn - 9/24/11
14. Jew vs Jew - Samuel G. Freedman - 9/27/11
15. Yekl - Abraham Canan - 9/28/11
16. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis - 10/4/11
17. The Professor's House - Willa Cather - 10/11/11
18. Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth - 10/11/11
19. The Assistant - Bernard Malamud - 10/15/11
20. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe - 10/17/11
21. In the Image - Dara Horn - 11/1/11
22. The Big Money - John Dos Passos - 11/2/11
23. Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer - 11/8/11
24. Evelina - Frances Burney - 11/10/11
25. Native Son - Richard Wright - 11/16/11
26. The Yiddish Policeman's Union - Michael Chabon - 11/18/11
27. Humphry Clinker - Tobias Smollett - 11/19/11
28. How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less - Sarah Glidden - 11/22/11
29. The Street - Ann Petry - 11/29/11
30. The Puttermesser Papers - Cynthia Ozick - 12/5/11