My evolving reading list

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