Nov
An attempt to keep track of the books I’ve read. I’ve attempted to list these in order starting with the most recent, but eventually I just start listing what I remember. I know I’ve left some off… hopefully they will come to me in the future.
2010
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
2009
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories by Elizabeth Strout
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
2008
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Choke by Chuck Palahnuik
Survivor by Chuck Palahnuik
Duma Key by Stephen King
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
March by Geraldine Brooks
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
2007
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Everyman by Philip Roth
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Assination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Before I really kept track:
Jarhead by Anthony Swofford
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Percepolis by Margane Satrapi
Angels and Insects by A. S. Byatt
The Hunstman by Whitney Terrell
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Love by Toni Morrison
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Middlemarch by George Eliot
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Curious incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Forever by Pete Hamill
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Emma by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Animal Farm by George Orwell
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Keesey
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
Candide by Voltaire
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Regulators by Richard Bachman
Beowulf by Unknown
Misery by Stephen King
Pet Semetary by Stephen King
Mutation by Robin Cook
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Congo by Michael Crichton
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Stuart Little by E. B. White
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
Anne of Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery