This is my reading list. As I finish books or add to my “to read” stack, I’ll keep track of them here. Why this should be of interest to you, I don’t know, but if you’re reading something that’s on my list, let me know what you thought of it.
To read (in no particular order):
- The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
- The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- How to Be Alone, by Jonathan Franzen
- Aaron Burr, the Conspiracy and Years of Exile 1805–1836 by Milton Lomask
- The Goat Bridge, by T.M. McNally
Read in 2009:
- The Slide, by Kyle Beachy
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
- In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl
- Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
- The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein
Read in 2008:
- The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
- On Picking Fruit, by Arthur Wooten
- The Great Gatsby (again), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Someday this Pain Will Be Useful to You, by Peter Cameron
- The Master by Colm Tóibín
- Swish by Joel Derfner
- Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin
- The Verificationist by Donald Antrim
- The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
Read in 2007:
- First Person Plural by Andrew W.M. Beierle
- Selfish and Perverse by Bob Smith
- The Year of Endless Sorrows by Adam Rapp
- When You Don’t See Me by Timothy James Beck
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
- Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
- Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- Possession, by A.S. Byatt
- The Fran Lebowitz Reader
- Like People in History, by Felice Picano
- The Success Principles, by Jack Canfield
- The Making of a Chef, by Michael Ruhlman
- Garlic and Sapphires, by Ruth Reichl
- The Afterlife by Donald Antrim
- Through It Came Bright Colors, by Trebor Healey
Read in 2006:
- The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
- The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
- Faith for Beginners by Aaron Hamburger
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Best Gay Love Stories 2005 edited by Nick Street
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers
- Someone Like You by Timothy James Beck
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald Antrim
- A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- Sight Hound by Pam Houston
- Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham
- Paula by Isabel Allende
- Fanny by Edmund White
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
- Grief by Andrew Holleran
- Paws and Reflect edited by Neil Plakcy and Sharon Sakson
8 Comments
June 26, 2006 at 8:13 am
If you haven’t already bought Body for Life I’d be happy to send you my copy.
October 9, 2006 at 10:37 am
You have a very sexy reading list? Are you single?
October 19, 2006 at 10:59 am
As Jeff’s “plus one”, I’m pretty comfortable in saying that he is not single. We share a house together, with our five pets. Come to think of it … he’s quite not single.
October 19, 2006 at 11:11 am
Indeed not. We’re kind of like the Brady Bunch, only with pets instead of children (and thank heavens for that).
December 29, 2006 at 10:02 pm
I just found your blog so I dont know if you’ve read this, but check out this book. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor. It’s a beautifully written novel, one of the best I’ve ever read.
March 30, 2007 at 1:37 am
Okay, the Fran Lebowitz Reader is fucking hysterical. Put down whatever you’re reading now and start turning pages.
Also, The Screwtape Letters is one of my all-time faves.
May 1, 2007 at 7:14 pm
I can’t believe I never landed on this page of your blog before! What a great idea. I need to do something like this, if for no other reason that I’ll embarrass myself into reading more.
PS: Are you single yet? (Uh… Mike, NO HITTING!)
December 4, 2007 at 4:22 pm
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