Stack of Books Read in '09!
2009
1. Blood Done Sign my Name by Tim Tyson
2. Between God and Gangsta Rap by Michael Eric Dyson
3. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
4. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
5. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
6. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
8. The Long Haul by Myles Horton
9. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
10. The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
11. Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
12. Blindness by Jose Saramago
13. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
14. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
15. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
16. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
17. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
18. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
19. The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
20. Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov
21. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
22. IV by Chuck Klosterman
23. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
24. Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran
25. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
26. Bonk by Mary Roach
27. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
28. An Unquiet Mind by Kay Jamison
29. Super Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
2008
1. Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
2. Wizard of Oz by Salman Rushdie
3. Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
4. Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
5. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
6. Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood
7. Roxana by Daniel Defoe
8. Pamela by Samuel Richardson
9. Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
10. A Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbald
11. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
13. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
14. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
15. The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
16. From Slogans to Mantras by Stephen Kent
17. Out After Dark by Hugh Leonard
18. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
19. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
20. Madeleine by Andre Gide
21. Grendel by John Gardner
22. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
23. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
24. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
25. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
26. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
27. Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
28. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jonathan Krakaeur
29. The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor
2007
1. Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
2. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
3. The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
4. Home Before Night by Hugh Leonard
5. Dubliners by James Joyce
6. Ulysses by James Joyce
7. Peggy Deery by Nell McCafferty
8. The New Bloomsday Book: a Guide Through Ulysses by Harry Blamire
9. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
10. Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federicci
11. The Meaning of Everything: the Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
12. Invitation to a Beheading by Vladmir Nabokov
13. The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev
14. Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
15. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
16. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
17. Fury by Salman Rushdie
18. Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
19. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
20. Volume Five of Anais Nin's Diary (1947 - 1955) by Anais Nin
21. The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
22. The Stranger by Albert Camus
23. Language Myths edited by Bauer and Trudgill
24. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
25. Watt by Samuel Beckett
26. Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
27. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
28. Maggie: a Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
29. The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
30. Cosmopolis by Don Delillo
31. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
32. Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
33. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor