Greetings From the Biblioracle
Today we welcome back the Biblioracle, who takes the last five books you read and recommends what to read next.
A short primer to the Biblioracle:
What is the Biblioracle? The Biblioracle is a service in the person of The Morning News contributing writer John Warner, said service being a recommendation for what book you should read next.
What do I have to do to receive a recommendation from the Biblioracle? In order to receive a recommendation, simply list the last five books you’ve read. Based on that list, the Biblioracle will tell you what to read next.
Why do I need the Biblioracle? Each year, somewhere around 175,000 books are published. That’s over 14,000 per month, approximately 3,350 per week, 480 per day, 20 per hour. According to the N.E.A., the average person reads zero books per year, so if you’re going to read a book, it better be a good one. The Biblioracle will help make sure it’s a good one. Even those of us who consider ourselves heavy readers may complete no more than 30 books in an average year, fewer than 2,000 books in a lifetime. The fraction of total published books we’re humanly capable of reading is vanishingly small, so we’ve got to maximize our enjoyment-per-book-read ratio as much as possible.
It’s true, sometimes I feel a lot of anxiety about which book I should choose, and I spend a lot of time worrying about choosing the wrong one, and sometimes I experience a kind of paralysis when I try to figure out what to read. The Biblioracle hears you. He experiences the same problem when it comes to buying toothpaste. He now buys the one that comes in a dispenser shaped like Spider-Man because it’s fun to see red-striped toothpaste goo come out of the stop of Spider-Man’s head. In fact, there’s even several books examining this phenomenon, which the Biblioracle does not recommend because he does not believe in recommending books that contain information we already know.
What qualifies the Biblioracle to make these recommendations? Primarily because he thought of the idea first. But here’s some other things you should know. The Biblioracle was quite literally raised in an independent bookstore co-owned by his mother in his hometown of Northbrook, Ill. While spending hours upon hours reading Asterix comics and mini-biographies of professional hockey players, he witnessed his mother engaging in the alchemy of the independent bookseller that is matching book to reader. Either the book recommendation ability is in his blood or he has merely been well trained in this particular art, but the questions of nature and nurture do not matter. The fact is, the man can recommend books.
The Biblioracle is also a writer of books and he reads a couple of books a week. He is also paid to teach college students about books. Books.
But don’t I already have access to this kind of service automatically through internet retailers like Amazon that offer recommendations based on my browsing and buying history? It is important to draw a distinction between Amazon’s “Customers Also Bought” feature and the Biblioracle. Amazon is primarily constituted of servers and processors and computer programs. Amazon employs only seven actual human beings plus Jeff Bezos, who is a cyborg. The Biblioracle is flesh and blood. Also, unlike Amazon, the Biblioracle has no financial stake in recommending specific books aside from his own.
Does this mean the Biblioracle has read every book he recommends? If at all possible, the books recommended by the Biblioracle will have been personally read by him. However, there may be occasions where the Biblioracle will recommend a book he has not read but is merely familiar with. Sometimes the Biblioracle just gets a feeling and he’s got to go with it. You understand.
Does a Biblioracle recommendation come with a money-back guarantee? Of course. If your chosen book fails to please you, the Biblioracle will refund you the cost of your free recommendation. He also invites you to email him at biblioracle@gmail.com in order to tell him all the ways and whys you did not care for his particular recommendation.
Does the Biblioracle offer insight and wisdom into things other than what I should read next? The Biblioracle is happy to receive any book/reading/writing/publishing-related questions at biblioracle@gmail.com. At future appearances, in addition to offering book recommendations, he will answer reader questions.
What if I don’t get my Biblioracle recommendation request in during the designated window? Do not fret, the Biblioracle shall return!
List the last five books you’ve read, and the Biblioracle tells you what to read next.
The Biblioracle is now closed. Due to overwhelming response, the Biblioracle can only respond to requests submitted prior to 3:00 p.m. ET. If you missed your recommendation this time around, watch for the Biblioracle’s next appearance later this summer!
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We're live. Fire away, avid readers.
'Bout time! ;-)
I'll give the last five books I read and liked.
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
The Night Country by Stewart O'Nan
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzhucchelli
The Newspaper of Claremont Street by Elizabeth Jolley
Twelve Days in Persia by Vita Sackville-West
Mailman - J. Robert Lennon
Looks good, thanks!
I swear I'm not a 13-year-old girl:
An Unquiet Mind (Kay Redfield Jamison)
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret (Judy Blume)
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Dune (Frank Herbert)
When We Were Orphans (Kazuo Ishiguro)
This is a very difficult one. Very broad palate, but that's what makes it tough.
The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
I don't think that's something I would ever read, but I understand I made it hard for you. Those books don't have much in common.
Give it a shot. The Biblioracle's powers may surprise you.
Oh all knowing Biblioracle, here are the last five books I've read:
The Irregulars, Jennet Conant
What We Are, Peter Nathaniel Malae
The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo, Stieg Larson
Tinkers, Paul Harding,
Let The Great World Spin, Collum McCann
Hit me with your recommendation!
Thank you,
-Paul C
Chapel Hill, NC
So Much for That - Lionel Shriver
Thank you John!
Okay!
When you reach me - Rebecca Stead
Next - James Hynes
The Ask - Sam Lipsyte
Lowboy - John Wray
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Anthropology of an American Girl - M.T. Hamann
1. Last Evenings on Earth - Roberto Bolano
2. John and Abigail Adams' letters
3. Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
4. True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
5. The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
Triangle - Katharine Weber
Sounds interesting and seems to go along with a Will Self lecture I read the other day. Thanks!
From most recent, to earliest read:
Destroy, She Said – Marguerite Duras
Jesus Son – Denis Johnson
Riddley Walker – Russell Hoban
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
The Book of Night Women – Marlon James
Thanks John!
-Mark
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
That's a great suggestion, but unfortunately Margaret Atwood is one of my favorite authors, so I've read most everything she's put out, including O&C. If you get a chance, may I have another?
I'm going to go with another deeper classic then:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick
Nice! I've been wanting to read some of PKD's stuff (which I haven't read any of) and this is a great push. Thanks!
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nancy Milford
Liar's Club, Mary Karr
Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
A bit obvious, but I'm going with:
Tinkers - Paul Harding
Sounds like a cross between Nicholson Baker and Sherwood Anderson, two great favorites of mine. Thanks so much, John!
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung; Lester Bangs
Black Dogs; Ian McEwan
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them; Elif Batuman
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Alice Munro
The Fortress of Solitude; Jonathan Lethem
Loser Goes First - Dan Kennedy*
*Indicates a friend or acquaintance of the Biblioracle.
I'll check it out. Incidentally, I didn't know that the Biblioracle subcontracts!
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Thanks!
Among the Missing - Dan Chaon
Republic by Plato
Another Country by James Baldwin
Sentimental Education by Flaubert
The Renaissance by Walter Pater
Madame Bovary by Flaubert
Shadow Country - Peter Mathiessen
2009 Tournament of Books competitor.
Andrew, I think you and I might be the same person.
This is awesome!
-Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq
-The Magicians by Lev Grossman
-The Godfather of Kathmandu by John Burdett
-The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
-Doubles by Nic Brown
I'm jealous. I want to read Doubles. One question before a recommendation. Did you enjoy The Magicians?
Not that much.
Oh, and Doubles is awesome - I read it in one sitting.
The Risk Pool - Richard Russo
Thank you! Your last recommendation *perfect* (Notes on a Scandal) so I'm looking forward to this new rec. Perfect timing since we're about to go on vacation.
My five most recent reads:
"The Anthologist" by Nicholson Baker
"The Book of Night Women" by Marlon James
"Empire of Ivory" and "Victory of Eagles" by Naomi Novik
"Downtown Owl" by Chuck Klosterman
Apathy - Paul Neilan
Sounds like a winner -- I look forward to getting my hands on it. Thanks so much! :)
An African in Greenland - Tete-Michel Kpomassie
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick
Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
The Scar - China Mieville
Monkey Beach - Eden Robinson
We await your wisdom, O Biblioracle!
The Magus - John Fowles
All right, here goes -- Last five books: The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt,
Ulysses by James Joyce,
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink,
In the Land of Believers: An Outsider's Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church by Gina Welch,
and Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben.
I could use something cheerful.
Rapture Ready - Daniel Radosh
Out of Sheer Rage; Time Regained; Proust: the early years; Proust: the late years; The Imperfectionists
A Frieze of Girls - Allan Seager
Seager was my great uncle (died before I was born, though) and I'm always looking for the right reader for this book. It's a tough find, but U. of Michigan Press reprinted it five or six years ago.
Thanks! I will start the search.
This is going to be hard cuz I tend to read all over the place but:
Africa United by Steve Bloomfield (currently reading but LOVING! it)
The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part 2: From the Bastille to Baghdad by Larry Gonick
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear (also currently reading)
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (rereading...)
and so many more including many science fiction/fantasy
Wow. All over the place is right, but that's what makes this fun.
Sleepless - Charlie Huston
Wow, just wow. You're just so spot on. I'm a huge insomniac.
Here are my last 5. looking forward to what comes back!
1. Factotum - Charles Bukowski.
2. Daredevil -Omnibus Volumne 1 - Brian Michael Bendis
3. Shambhala sacred path of the warrior - Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
4. The primal Blueprint - Mark Sisson
5. You can heal your life - Lousie L Hay
Staggerford - Jon Hassler
Nice! I'll give it a go!.
Thanks for your time.
A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey
A Multitude of Sins, by Richard Ford
The Tall Man, by Chloe Hooper
Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
Thanks from London!
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
I could really use a great recommendation for the summer, Biblioracle! These are the last 5 books I've read:
Drop City - T.C.Boyle
Shoplifting From American Apparel - Tao Lin
Beware of God - Shalom Auslander
Miles from Nowhere - Nami Mun
No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
Saul and Patsy - Charles Baxter
hello biblioracle.
i am excited to hear your suggestion:
1. OBERIU - An anthology of Russian Absurdism
2. Boons/The Camp - by David Ohle
3. Hunger - by Knut Hamsun
4. Collected Stories - by Lydia Davis
5. A Nice Wee Present from Scotland - by Ivor Cutler
The Clown - Heinrich Boll
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
Pastoralia, George Saunders
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem
Denialism, Michael Specter
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Good choice, but I've already read it.
Carter Beats the Devil - Glen David Gould
Sounds great. Thanks for the suggestion.
Hi John,
This sounds like fun. Looking forward to hearing your recommendations. Last five in reverse order,
The Cryptographer by Tobias Hill
The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
The City and the City by China Mieville
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Things We Didn't See Coming - Steven Amsterdam
Good shout, that sounds amazing. I love a good dystopia! Thanks
Let's see what you can make of this!
Best European Fiction 2010, ed. Aleksandar Hemon
Await Your Reply, by Dan Chaon
A Portrait of the Addict as a Young Man, Bill Clegg
Asterios Polyp, by David Mazzucchelli
Independent People, by Halldór Laxness
Rachel Papers - Martin Amis
Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace-David Lipsky
The Broom of the System-David Foster Wallace
Nine Stories-J.D. Salinger
Let the Great World Spin-Colum McCann
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius-Dave Eggers
Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson
My last 5 books
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
The Sabbath World by Judith Shulavitz
Innocent by Scott Turow
Moment of Glory by John Feinstein
Blue has no South Alex Epstein
Foreskin's Lament - Shalom Auslander
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Wells Tower
How Fiction Works - James Wood
Where's the Moon, There's the Moon - Dan Chiasson
Lost in the Funhouse - John Barth
Cathedral - Raymond Carver
Edwin Mullhouse - Steven Millhauser
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Why I Am So Wise by Frederich Nietzche
Curious Men by Frank Buckland
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace
Thanks you. I've read the David Lynch essay from that book but none of the others. Will seek it out.
Game Change by John Heilemann
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2 by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (I totally hated this book though)
Thanks!
The Columnist - Jeffrey Frank
The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
Big Machine - Victor LaVallle
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Wells Tower
Rosie - Anne Lammott
Model Home - Eric Puchner
Every Man Dies Alone - Hans Fallada
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age - Kurt Beyer
Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway
With Their Backs to the World - Asne Seierstad
The Anthologist - Nicholson Baker
The Lazarus Project - Alexander Hemon
Oh that's perfect! I'd heard of this book, but didn't realize Hemon was from Sarajevo until just now. Love reading through everyone's lists. :-)
The Help-Kathryn Stockett
Black Water Rising-Atticka Locke
Secrets of Eden-Chris Bohjalian
Breathless-Dean Koontz
The Dome-Stephen King
The Lonely Polygamist - Brady Udall
Thanks! I'll try it.
Darn glad to be here.
Lost City of Z
Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl Definitive Ed.
Howard's End is on the Landing by Susan Hill
Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon.
The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman
Thanks! It keeps coming up.
1. "Loving" by Henry Green
2. "Disgrace" by J.M. Coetzee
3. "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens
4. "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton
5. "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen
Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Mrs Bridge, Evan Connell (A solid rec from you the last time you did this, so thanks!)
Next, James Hynes
The Possesed, Elif Batuman
Dear Everbody, Michael Kimball
Witz, Joshua Cohen (currently reading this one – I like it but it will take a while)
Cruddy - Lynda Barry
Ghost War - Steve Coll
Logicomix
The Ask
Zeitoun
Let the Great world spin
Welcome back!
It's on a lot of people's lists and I recommended it to someone last time, but I'm going with:
Next - James Hynes
I'll play.
The Temple of the Wild Geese / Bamboo Dolls of Echizen • Tsutomu Mizumaki
The Imperfectionists • Tom Rachman
The Infinities • John Banville
The Subversive Copyeditor • Carol Fisher Saller
Out of My Head • Didier Van Cauwelaert
Europa - Tim Parks
Unknown to me. Will check it out.
(I committed an ironic typo: it's The Subversive Copy Editor
I have another question, but since I doubt you'll making another pass just to read the replies to your replies, I'll bend the rules a bit and ask it as a new comment.
And a new typo, forgetting the close parenthesis. *sigh*
The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yoko Ogawa (liked it)
The Post-Birthday World, by Lionel Shriver (meh, heavy-handed with the parallel time lines)
The Solitude of Prime Numbers, by Paolo Giordano (liked it)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer (meh, found it very affected)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell (liked it)
Remainder - Tom McCarthy
Someone else who has already read something I'm looking forward to (the David Mitchell).
I got it through librarything's early reviewers program. mitchell's great.
Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter Guralnick
Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov
You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
9 Stories by J.D. Salinger
Bech is Back by John Updike
thanks!
Herb 'n' Lorna - Eric Kraft
Although Of Course.... by David Lipsky
Hold On To Your Dreams (bio of Arthur Russell) by Tim Lawrence
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (didn't really like this one though)
Generation A by Douglas Coupland
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Marukami
Ah, Murakami. I enjoy reading him, but his books tend to go into my head and right back out again. Why is that, I wonder?
The Prize - Daniel Yergin
Zoli - Colum McCann
A World at Arms - Gerhard Weinberg
Dancer - Colum McCann
This Side of Brightness - Colum McCann
Netherland - Joseph O'Neil
Read it and enjoyed it!
Alrighty then. How about:
Gilead - Marylinn Robinson
One of my favorite books. ;-) Third time is the charm?
Alright. A repeat, but:
Tinkers - Paul Harding
Perfect. Much obliged.
Get Capone by Jonathan Eig *
A Good Fall by Ha Jin
The Bullpen Gospels by Dirk Hayhurst
The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff by Joseph Epstein
The Man With Two Arms by Billy Lombardo
*wrote this one but also read it.
A celebrity author and Chicago guy.
This is a bit off the wall, but:
Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories (and other disasters) - Jean Shepard
Never hoid of it, but I'm going to Unabridged Bookstore right now to check it out. Thanks!
What a cool idea! The last five books I've finished (reading two simultaneously now):
Where Men Find Glory by Jon Krakauer (didn't like as much as Krakauer's others)
The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
This is Not Chick Lit compiled by Elizabeth Merrick
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
Fascinating! I think I skimmed that years ago, but I don't remember it. Looking forward to reading it for real. Thanks!
1984 - Orwell
Dune - Herbert
Brave New World - Huxley
A Brief History of Time - Hawking
The Martian Chronicles - Bradbury
Lots of classics here. I'm going to try to pair you with something contemporary that will gel with this list.
God Is Dead - Ron Currie Jr.
Seems pretty intense.. but I'll definitely check it out. Thanks!
Great idea btw!
The Financial Lives of the Poets -- Jess Walter
Await Your Reply -- Dan Chaon
Next -- James Hynes
Let the Great World Spin -- Colum McCann
The Anthologist -- Nicholson Baker
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Lovely idea. Read it, enjoyed it. May I have another please?
The Water Method Man - John Irving
New York, Edward Rutherfurd
Solar, Ian McEwan (I got as far as the bear rug incident, but it just seemed kind of hokey to me. Decided to move on.)
The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
Little Bee, Chris Cleave
The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell
The Hole We're In - Gabrielle Zevin
Thank you, Biblioracle!! I hadn't heard of this one yet, but I have put it at the top of my list. I love reading all the suggestions- thanks for doing this!
Wolf Hall- Hilary Mantel
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
Columbine- Dave Cullen
Bangkok 8-John Burdett
The Magicians-Lev Grossman
The Colony - Jillian Weise*
*Friend or acquaintance of Biblioracle.
Get Capone by Jonathan Eig (I wrote this one and read it)
The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff by Joseph Epstein
The Bullpen Gospels by Dirk Hayhurst
A Good Fall by Ha Jin
The Man With Two Hands by Billy Lombardo
Getting on a plane soon, help me out O wise and weirdly intuitive Biblioracle:
1. The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
2. I'm Gone, Jean Echenoz
3. Memoirs of Montparnasse, John Glassco
4. The Pregnant Widow, Martin Amis
5. The Friends of Eddie Coyle, George V. Higgins
Kapitoil - Teddy Wayne
Great. Thanks John.
In reverse chronological order:
1. Horns, Joe Hill
2. Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger
3. Logicomix, Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou
4. The Hand that Once Held Mine, Maggie O'Farrell
5. The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
Castle - J. Robert Lennon
Hmm ... OK, I'm intrigued. Thanks much.
The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
The Lacuna
Wolf Hall
The Help
The Birth of Venus
Okay, the Biblioracle has not read this one, but Mrs. Biblioracle raved about it:
Beautiful Creatures - Tracy Chevalier
Cloud Atlas-- David Mitchell
Smoke and Mirrors-- Neil Gaiman
Proust was a Neuroscientist-- Jonah Lehrer
Ender's Game-- Orson Scott Card
Neuromancer-- William Gibson
i. am. excited!
Cast of Shadows - Kevin Guilfoile*
*Close friend of Biblioracle
excellent-- thank you!
Runaway - Alice Munro
Leviathan - Philip Hoare
If noone speaks of remarkable things - John McGregor
White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
The Shaking Woman - Siri Hudsvedt
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
The Lonely Polygamist - Brady Udell
Little Bee - Chris Cleave
The Unnamed - Joshua Ferris
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
Already read it (and loved it)
I'm not sure why this one is coming to me because this is not a book I loved, but something is telling me it's up your alley:
Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marissa Pessl
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
Black Sabbatical (poems) by Brett Eugene Ralph
Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
The Mystery Guest by Gregoire Bouillier
The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Paolo Giordano
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis - Um, Lydia Davis
Field Notes on Democracy - Arundhati Roy
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Wells Tower
Miles from Nowhere - Nami Mun
Complete Poems (of Dorothy Parker) - Dorothy Parker
Housekeeping - Marilynn Robinson
Tom McCarthy - Remainder
Lev Grossman - The Magicians
Michael Chabon - The Final Solution
David Eagleman - Sum
Kevin Fanning - Jennifer Love Hewitt Times Infinity
Although it should be mentioned that I hated Remainder. I think the one prior to that was Chabon's Kavalier & Clay.
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
Thanks! Consider it next on the list.
The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History - John Ortved
Quarry In The Middle - Max Allan Collins
Collected Stories - H. P. Lovecraft
Memory - Donald E. Westlake
The Penguin History of the USA - Hugh Brogan
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death - Charlie Huston
I'm not familiar with this book but some cursory googling makes me think it'd be right up my alley. Thanks Biblioracle!
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Steig Larsson
Divisadero - Michael Ondaatje
Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
Shiloh - Shelby Foote
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien
Very interested to see what you'll come up with! Thanks!
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
This world we live in -- Susan B Pfeffer
Still Alice -- Lisa Genova
The Silver Cloud Cafe -- Alfredo Vea
Little Bird of Heaven -- Joyce Carol Oates
The Far Pavilions -- MM Kaye
Wow. Seeing The Far Pavillions in this list took me back. That was one of my mom's biggest recommendations. She had an autograph party for MM Kaye where the line stretched down the block. This must've been in the late 70's.
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Broom of the System - David Foster Wallace
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
The Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
North - Seamus Heaney
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
Thanks for doing this!
The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead
east of eden - steinbeck
thirteenth tale - setterfield
to kill a mockingbird - lee
the sun also rises - hemingway
extremely loud and incredibly close - foer
Mrs. Bridge - Evan Connell
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler - Italo Calvino
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Of Bees and Mist - Erick Setiawan
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
America's Women, Gail Collins
The Lost Fleet: Victorious, Jack Campbell
The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
Changes, Jim Butcher
The Crimson Rooms, Katharine McMahon
(Never said I was going to make it easy for you. Also, I notice you don't ask if we liked the last five books we read.)
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
Okay, John, I'm going to go get a copy of Cutting For Stone. And totally going to tell you if I love it or hate it.
Are you really Dana Stabenow??? Your books have given me much pleasure. Thank you.
I really am, and thanks!
Most recent first:
The Reader (Bernhard Schlink)
The Four Seasons (Laurel Corona)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ( Stieg Larsson)
Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
Whoa! Have you been following my book club?! We were supposed to read that and then the paperback version wasn't out yet, so I procrastinated and procrastinated and pretty soon we were done and reading Mockingbird, so I thought I'd put Sawtelle behind me! Clearly, the universe thinks I should read this book!
Thanks much and I'm really only reading it because I have a soft spot in my heart for Northbrook IL!
The careless society: community and its counterfeits. McKnight, John.
The reason for God. Keller, Timothy.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Dillard, Annie.
I am Not Sidney Portier. Everett, Percival.
Airships. Hannah, Barry.
Stop Time - Frank Conroy
I appreciate your time. Thanks!
This is thrilling!
In the Heart of the Sea – Nathaniel Philbrick
Charmed Life – Diana Wynne Jones
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Legend of a Suicide – David Vann
Psmith, Journalist – PG Wodehouse
My first repeat of the day, but this is a current and hot book that I think you'll like:
The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman
It's like you saw into the depths of my soul. I read the blurb and fell sure I'll love it.
Driftless - David Rhodes
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
Some of the Dead are Still Breathing - Charles Bowden
Never Cry Wolf - Farley Mowat
The Inner Experience - Thomas Merton
Everyting Matters - Ron Currie Jr.*
I got this book as a recommendation from the Tournament of Books round. Great, different, but really great. Thanks.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (while I've loved her other novels, I didn't like this one)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Skinny Dip by Carl Hiassen
Lots of similarities to my bookshelf here.
The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perrotta
i've been on a bit of a scientriffic/critico munk these past few books, but would appreciate a fiction recommendation. munk isn't a word.
infinite jest - david foster wallace (150ish pages - getting there!)
the structure of scientific revolutions - thomas kuhn
walter benjamin, or towards a revolutionary crit - terry eagleton
time's arrow - martin amis
collected non-fíccciónés - borges
Galetea 2.2 - Richard Powers
Last five in reverse chronological order:
Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
Peace Like a River
Anil's Ghost
Poisonwood Bible
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
(Note that I'm currently reading both Mystery and Manners and An Imaginary Tale: The Story of i)
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
Aww man. I've already read that. Oh well. I'll choose from someone else's rec's.
How about:
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
How sweet of you! Thank you. I shall pick it up after I finish my struggle with the history of a math symbol, written by an engineer.
Rapture (Susan Minot)
Rabbit at Rest (John Updike)
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Jonathan Culler)
White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
Remainder (Tom McCarthy)
The Sportswriter - Richard Ford
I love that book! (Or, you know me and have studied my bookshelf!)
A Fan's Notes - Frederick Exley
the fall- albert camus
invisible- paul auster
as i lay dying- faulkner
pale fire- nabokov
god bless you, mr. rosewater- vonnegut
Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
Just Kids - Patti Smith
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Diviners - Margaret Laurence
Some of the Dead are Still Breathing - Charles Bowden
Thank you!!
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 2: Dance and Dream--Javier Marias
The Three Musketeers--Alexandre Dumas
The New Life--Dante Alighieri
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ--Philip Pullman
The Lost Steps--Alejo Carpentier
Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino
Lyubka the Cossack and Other Stories by Issacc Babel
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima
At Swim-Two-Brids by Flann O'Brien
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Thanks in advance! Fun idea!
The World in 10 1/2 Chapters - Julian Barnes
The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag
Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault
The Double, Dostoevsky
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami
This is such a great idea, thanks for any recommendations!
This is out o a limb, but I'm feeling lucky:
The Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq
Oh, fine, so SOME people can spell it.
Pish.
Anthony Doerr - Four Seasons in Rome
Victor LaValle - Big Machine
Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
J.M. Coetzee - Summertime
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
Wonderful, haven't seen the film so very excited to read.
Quick! I need to tell my butler what to bring me!
London, Edward Rutherfurd
Shades of Grey, Jasper Fforde
The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
Mister B. Gone, Clive Barker
Pictures at a Revolution, Mark Harris
Sweet and Low - Rich Cohen
In chronological order:
1. Alastair Reynolds, "Revelation Space"
2. Alastair Reynolds, "Redemption Ark"
3. Neal Asher, "Gridlinked"
4. Neal Asher, "The Line of Polity"
5. Neal Asher, "The Brass Man"
Very shaky territory for The Biblioracle here being very weak in this category, but here's a shot:
Finch - Jeff Vandermeer
EXCELLENT TRANSACTION. A++! WOULD DO BUSINESS AGAIN.
1) Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir by Azar Nafisi
2) Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
3) Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
4) Atonement by Ian McEwan
5) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Point and Other Stories - Charles D'ambrosio
Emporium - Adam Johnson
The Lazarus Project - Aleksandr Hemon
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Wells Tower
Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing - Lydia Peelle
You're into stories, so here's more:
Officer Friendly - Lewis Robinson
Advice for Italian Boys - Anne Giardini
Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
The Year of Living Biblically - AJ Jacobs
1984 - George Orwell
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, Jan Potocki
Sunflower, Gyula Krúdy
Clandestine in Chile, Gabriel García Márquez
Life A User's Manual, Georges Perec
Fear of Flying, Erica Jong
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
A Man on the Moon - Andrew Chaikan
The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
A Walk Across America - Peter Jenkins
Pirate Latitudes - Michael Crichton
An American on Purpose - Craig Ferguson
Good luck...
Shutter Island - Denis Lehane
Robert Walser, Microscripts
Aaron Kunin, The Mandarin (rereading)
Emily Pettit, How (repeatedly reading)
Sam Lohmann, Onlooking (right now)
Dara Wier, Reverse Rapture (for the nth time)
Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
Amazon thinks that I should buy a blender. Most blenders I've read are just very brief memoirs of their Asian manufacture. I guess I'm looking for something longer, written on paper.
My Name Is Red [in progress], by Orhan Pamuk
The Blue Flowers, by Raymond Queneau
Empire of the Sun, by J. G. Ballard
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, by George Saunders
Chronic City, by Jonathan Lethem
A Friend of the Earth - T.C. Boyle
The Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
City of Glass - Paul Auster
Hunger Games/Catching Fire - Suzan Collins
Me and Orson Welles - Robert Kaplaw
The Devil in the White City - Erik Lawson
Lost Things - Jenny Offill
1. The Plague Journal - Michael O'Brien
2. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
3. Pocket Collection of Emily Dickinson
4. Assorted Poems - Walt Whitman
5. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
Hey, John!
Trickster Makes This World - Lewis Hyde
All Star Superman - Grant Morrison
Scott Pilgrim (the whole series) - Bryan Lee O'Malley
Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
Ulysses - James Joyce
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
This is such a great idea!
Possession -- A.S. Byatt
Fantastic Mr. Fox -- Roald Dahl
Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King -- Brad Matsen
Normal People Don't Live Like This -- Dylan Landis
Madeleine Is Sleeping -- Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
The Vagrants - Yiyun Li
Housekeeping by M. Robinson; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by S. Larson; The Good Earth by P. Buck; Shutter Island by D. Lehane and To Kill A Mockingbird by H. Lee
Blame - Michelle Hunevan
Unaccustomed Earth -- Jhumpa Lahiri
Lush Life -- Richard Price
Where the God of Love Hangs Out -- Amy Bloom
Truth & Beauty -- Ann Patchett
The Night of the Gun -- David Carr
Liar's Club - Mary Karr
Oh, snap. I've already it but it's worth noting it's one of my favorite books EVER.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward, Robert Ford by Ron Hansen
The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Raising Holy Hell - Bruce Olds
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
The Modern Mind - Peter Watson
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
Good call - I had been eyeing that one on my husband's bookshelf
1. Broom of the System - David Foster Wallace
2. Manual of Detection - Jedediah Berry
3. Spell Book of Listen Taylor - Jaclyn Moriarty
4. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible! - Jonathan Goldstein
5. Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners - (several authors)
Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Thanks for this! In chronological order:
"Anna Karenina," by Leo Tolstoy
"Unaccustomed Earth," by Jhumpa Lahiri
"The House of Mirth," by Edith Wharton
"The Assistant: A Novel," by Bernard Malamud
"McCain's Promise: On the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope," by David Foster Wallace
(And I'm currently reading "War and Peace"...)
My Antonia - Willa Cather
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - David Foster Wallace
Chess Story - Stefan Zweig
The Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
The Sot-Weed Factor - John Barth
So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell
Here's a doozy, but I think it's up your alley:
JR - William Gaddis
Excellent - I've been meaning to read some Gaddis for a while now. Thanks for the suggestion!
Mort, Terry Pratchett
The Summer of the Great-grandmother, Madeleine L'Engle
Dracula. Bram Stoker
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams
Lamb - Christopher Moore
The Way We Live Now -- Anthony Trollope
Summertime -- J.M. Coetzee
Reporting At Wit's End -- St. Clair McKelway
The Ask -- Sam Lipsyte
The Spellmans Strike Again -- Lisa Lutz
[Currently reading: How To Sell -- Clancy Martin]
[Also currently reading: The Age of Wonder -- Richard Holmes]
Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
Thanks. Have read and liked it (until the end, where I thought it fell down a bit.) Haven't read Sharp Objects though.
Love that you've brought this back.
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby
When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
V - Thomas Pynchon
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz
In general I'm not big on copping out and recommending another book by one of the authors in the list, but all my senses are pointing to:
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
I've been back and forth on my feelings about Cloud Atlas so its probably a good idea to give Mitchell another shot. Thanks.
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Three-Ten to Yuma and other stories, Elmore Leonard
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
The Orchard Keeper, Cormac McCarthy
The short novels of Faulkner (Old Man, Spotted Horses, The Bear, etc.)
I also participated during the Tournament of Books; you recommended Richard Banks' The Sweet Hereafter and I really owe you one because it was just my thing.
True Grit - Charles Portis
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Books 1-5 - Rick Riordan
... which is actually 7 books ...
I'm going to give you another series:
The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
Thank you! It looks really interesting!
1. The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker
2. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
3. The Making of a Writer, Gail Godwin
4. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
5. The Ugly American, William Lederer
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
The Lost City of Z - David Grann
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Tau Zero - Poul Anderson
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Marukami
Sweet! I own the book but haven't read it yet. Dude do you know that you're awesome?
1. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
2. The Decision Tree - Thomas Goetz
3. You Are Not A Gadget - Jaron Lanier
4. The Anthologist - Nicholson Baker
5. The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination - Jacob Bronowski
How Doctors Think - Jerome Groopman
Oops. I posted a response to myself and I meant to post to you, oh great @biblioracle. (This is genius, btw.) Thank you for the recommendation. I had been wondering if you would recommend fiction or nonfiction and now I have my answer. I wonder what your fiction recommendation would have been?
I was wondering if you would recommend ficition or non-fiction. Now I know: I would have liked a novel recommendation just as much. Thanks!
OK, Biblioracle, what can you do with this:
The Song is You, by Arthur Phillips, 2009
The Lost Books of the Odyssey, by Zachary Mason, 2007 & 2010
Lark and Termite, by Jayne Anne Phillips, 2009 (disappointing)
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, by Wells Tower, 2009
Let The Great World Spin, by Colum McCann, 2009
thanks in advance!
The Cradle - Patrick Sommerville
hmmm, I am dubious that I will like "The Cradle" (it sounds suspiciously heartwarming). But who am I to question the Biblioracle? Read it, I will.
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
2. Three poems -- John Ashbery
3. The Idiot -- Dostoevsky
4. By Night in Chile - Roberto Bolano
5. About a Mountain -- John D'Agata
I'm sort of all over the place..
The Book of Evidence - John Banville
1. Molly Keane - Good Behavior
2. Robert Bolano - By Night in Chile
3. David Mitchell - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
4. Kenneth Anger - Hollywood Babylon
5. Christopher Isherwood - Christopher and his Kind
Thanks, so exciting!
Nobody Move - Denis Johnson
Metro Girl - Janet Evanovich
Lean Mean Thirteen - Janet Evanovich
Changes - Jim Butcher
Except the Queen - Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder (absolutely adored this book!)
Outlander - Diana Gabaladon
Looking forward...
Pale Fire - Nabokov
Franny and Zooey - Salinger
Death in Spring - Merce Rodoreda
Union Atlantic - Adam Haslett
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Spark
I've also been reading Deborah Eisenberg's Collected Stories on and off. Thanks!
Famous Fathers - Pia Ehrhardt*
*Friend of the Biblioracle
A Night Too Dark, Dana Stabenow
The Painted Drum, Louise Edrich
Hold Tight, Harlan Coben
Bucking the Sun, Ivan Doig
South of Broad, Pat Conroy
Another repeat, but it's a classic I could recommend to just about anybody:
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
Ordering as I write this!
Love this!
Master Pip
Let the Great World Spin
Old Gringo - Fuentes
On the Way Home by Laura Ingalls Wilder (diary excerpts)
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Read and enjoyed. If you have a chance would love another or, I have several Murakamis, Next and The Ask in my TBR, which would you direct me to next, or I love essays, any favorite you'd like to steer me to - just in case you want to mix it up.
I am thrilled you are back.
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeannette Winterson
Last Orders by Graham Swift
One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds
Island by Alistair MacLeod
Since you're amenable to poetry, I'm going to suggest:
Crossing to Sunlight - Paul Zimmer
I am more than amenable to poetry, it now forms a good chunk of my reading. However, I will confess to not knowing Paul Zimmer, and he sounds just right. Thanks, o Great One!
I've been heavily into YA fantasy novels this spring, but it's not the only thing I like:
The Sorceress, Michael Scott
Queen Zixi of Ix, L. Frank Baum
The Red Pyramid, Rick Riordan
City of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau
Astrid and Veronika, Linda Olsson
Thank you!
Magic for Beginners - Kelly Link
Thank you!
Denis Johnson - Tree of Smoke
Norman Mailer - The Castle in the Forest
Katherine Anne Porter - Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Julia Sweeney - Letting Go of God
John Updike - The Witches of Eastwick
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
Nurtureshock by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
Keys to the Demon Prison by Brandon Mull
Mystic Art of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
Jennifer Government - Max Barry
Let's see...
1) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
2) The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett
3) Whisper in the Blood by Dana Stabenow
4) River in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters
5) Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Here's a little peek behind the Biblioracle curtain. Looking at this list, I'm generally blank. As much as the Biblioracle likes to think he knows all, fantasy is a decided weak spot in my reading. I mostly have the big ones under my belt, but, I notice upthread that I recommended Outlander (a book I've read) to someone, and that person recommends Except the Queen, so that's what I'm going to do:
Except the Queen - Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder
So have you read Dorothy Dunnett? If not, it is a must on one's Bucket List, in my opinion. Not fantasy. Actually, the only fantasy on this list is Robin Hobb. :) I will try your recommendation though. Haven't read it. Thank you!
Sun Storm, Asa Larsson
Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
The Mapping of Love and Death, Jacqueline Winspear
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Posession - A.S. Byatt
Ask the Dust - John Fante
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Too Big to Fail - Andrew Ross Sorkin
Stripping Bare the Body - Mark Danner
Nixonland - Rick Perlstein
Good Omens-Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchet
Lies My Teacher Told Me-Loewen
Oryx and Crake- Margaret Atwood
An Education- Lynn Barber
The Last Solution- Michael Chabon
EDIT: The FINAL Solution- Michael Chabon
Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller
Reality Hunger - David Shields
In Persuasion Nation - George Saunders
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
rats, already read that one (within the past year in fact). you know me too well.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao- Junot Diaz
Infinite Jest- DFW
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks- Rebecca Skloot
The Lacuna- Barbara Kingsolver
Let the Great World Spin- Colum McCann
The Book of Night Women - Marlon James
Persepolis (currently reading)
The Great Gatsby
The Ask
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Eating the Dinosaur- Chuck Klosterman
A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
1. Michael Taussig, "Shamanism, Colonialism & the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing"
2. Rabelais, "Complete Works"
3. Rousseau, "Reveries of a Solitary Walker"
4. Carlton Lake, "Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist"
5. U.S. Grant, "Memoirs"
Despite this list, I'm going fiction:
Fifth Business - Robertson Davies
Interesting. I have yet to read Davies. Will do.
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Framley Parsonage - Anthony Trollope
Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald
Not an easy one, and you've probably read it:
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
The Forsyte Saga - John Gallsworthy
White Noise - Don Delillo
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
The War That Killed Achilles - Caroline Alexander
The Likeness - Tana French
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Birds of America
I Don't Care About Your Band
Game Change
Self-Help
Eating the Dinosaur
Fraud - David Rakoff
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Airships - Barry Hannah
David Boring - Daniel Clowes
Stoner - John Williams
The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
Full of Life - John Fante
On the Road- Jack Kerouac
When You Are Engulfed In Flames- David Sedaris
The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius- Dave Eggers
The Road- Cormac McCarthy
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Not 100% sure these are the last 5, but something like...
Await Your Reply - Dan Chaon
Although of Course... - David Lipsky
Case Closed - Patrik Ourdenik
The Ask - Sam Lipsyte
Awful Possibilities - Christian Tebordo
Dart League King - Keith Morris*
Friend of the Biblioracle
Good call. Though read. And *loved*. Am actually working my way through his new ssc now...
Here's another book from Tin House that I think you'll like:
Hot Springs - Geoffrey Becker
The Women - T.C. Boyle
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
Sag Harbor - Colson Whitehead
Forty Stories - David Barthelme
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
The Verificationist - Donald Antrim
Rock. Thanks.
1. Let The Great World Spin, Colum McCann
2. Twilight, Stephanie Meyer
3. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
4. Devil In The White City, Erik Larson
5. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
Thank You!
Away - Amy Bloom
The End of Major Combat Operations (Half of the latest McSweeney's)
Devil in White City - Erik Larson
Once Upon a Time in the North - Phillip Pullman
Singularity Sky - Charles Stross
The Terror - Dan Simmons
Thanks!
Matterhorn - Karl Merlantes
1. Oblivion by David Foster Wallace
2. The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
3. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
4. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
5. When You Are Engulfed by Flames by David Sedaris
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki
Cheng and Eng, Darin Strauss
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell
Fury, Salman Rushdie
Banvard's Folly - Paul Collins*
Yay! Nothing I've even thought about reading before! Thanks so much!
Tears of Mermaids by Stephen G. Bloom
Fables: The Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham
Peter and Max by Bill Willingham
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Backing into Forward: A Memoir by Jules Feiffer
The Revolution Business by Charles Stross
Writing About Visual Art by David Carrier
(Good luck! And thanks!)
Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand
And the Heart Says Whatever - Emily Gould
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchet
Beasts of No Nation - Uzodinma Iweala
Okay, another repeat, and one by a friend of mine as well, but I stand by this recommendation.
The Colony - Jillian Weise
Wolf Hall
Lush Life
Home Land
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
The Baffler (back issues circa 1995)
Airships - Barry Hannah
Bagombo Snuffbox - Kurt Vonnegut (currently reading)
The Dogs of Babel - Carolyn Parkhurst (read for book club and hated it)
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
Factotum - Charles Bukowski
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Wells Tower
The Women - T.C. Boyle
1. Into Thin Air
2. An Education
3. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
4. Commencement
5. The End of the Affair
A Friend of the Family - Lauren Grodstein
1. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
2. The Mind's I - edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett
3. Gilgamesh - unknown
4. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony - Roberto Callasso
5. Eros the Bittersweet - Anne Carson
The Barnum Museum - Steven Millhauser
This is a valuable service you are providing!
Helprin: Winter's Tale
Roberts: Yellow Blue Tibia
Bulgakov: The Master & Margarita
Philbrick: In the Heart of the Sea
Cherry-Garrard: The Worst Journey in the World
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Any particular translation?
Kibbitzing here. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhnosky have been working their way through all the classic Russian literature, producing excellent translations.
I've read and can wholeheartedly recommend their versions of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov as superior.
Much obliged!
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
A Personal Matter - Kenzaburo Oe
The Cluetrain Manifesto
A Canticle for Liebowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Anathem - Neal Stephenson
Blindness - Jose Saramago
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
Spook Country - William Gibson
Manhood for Amateurs - Michael Chabon
This Is Not a Game - Walter Jon Williams
Free-Range Chickens - Simon Rich
White Noise - Don Delillo
I'm actually in the middle of that right now!
1. Haruki Murakami 'Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'
2. David Mazzuchelli's 'Asterios Polyp'
3. Harvey Swados 'Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn'
4. Tove Jannson 'The True Deceiver'
5. Mordechai Richler 'Barney's Version'
Stoner - John Williams
The World - Jan Morris
The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano
Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion
The Soccer Wars - Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Emperor - Ryszard Kapuscinski
V - Thomas Pynchon
Demons - Dostoevsky
Before the Storm - Rick Perlstein
Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
Scapegoat - Rene Girard
Dead Man's Memoir - Mikhail Bulgakov
Pale Fire - Valdimir Nabokov
My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
Dear Andy Kaufman, I Hate Your Guts! by Lynne Margulies
Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
Uncommon Carriers - John McPhee
This looks so promising. I'm excited! Thank you.
1. Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
2. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
3. Collected Stories - John Cheever
4. The Dark Knight Returns -- Frank Miller
5. Broom of the System - David Foster Wallace
Pastoralia - George Saunders
The Red Pyramid - Rick Riordan
Dead in the Family - Charlaine Harris
The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott - Kelly O'Connor McNees
Home Safe - Elizabeth Berg
Heist Society - Ally Carter
I tend to enjoy fluffy YA books.
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks - E. Lockhart
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
A Perfect Spy - John Le Carre
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible! - Jonathan Goldstein
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I Am America and So Can You, Stephen Colbert
Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard
The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano
The Ask - Sam Lipsyte
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Scrapbooks: an American History - Jessica Helfand
The Bedwetter - Sarah Silverman
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
Sentimental Education--Flaubert
Book of Basketball--Bill Simmons
Gilead--Marilynne Robinson
An Engagement--Simeonon
Inherent Vice--Pynchon
Mao II - Don Delillo
Great book, already read...But the system works!
5. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
4. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men By David Foster Wallace
3. Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
2. The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
1. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Currently reading: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Children's Hospital - Chris Adrian
A Dog's Ransom by Patricia Highsmith
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Housekeeping by Marilynn Robinson
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
Young Men and Fire - Norman Maclean
Big Machine - Victor LaValle
The Heights - Peter Hedges
Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
Day for Night - Frederick Reiken
Thanks!
Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace
2666 — Roberto Bolano
The Magicians — Lev Grossman
Anathem — Neal Stephenson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — Stieg Larsson
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
Gerhardt Richter: A Life in Painting
Adolf Hitler, by John Toland
Aldous Huxley: Collected Essays
Portable Chekhov (Penguin portable Library)
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
The Ask, Sam Lipsyte
Venus Drive, Sam Lipsyte
Blue Angel, Francine Prose
All Aunt Hagar's Children, Edward P. Jones
Tinkers, Paul Harding
Modern Baptists - James Wilcox
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larrson
61 Hours by Lee Child
The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron
Nowhere to Run by C.J. Box
Accident Man by Tom Cain
Smiley's People - John Le Carre
The Brother's Karamazov--Fyodor Dostoevsky
How German Is It?--Walter Abish
His Illegal Self--Peter Carey
The Third Policeman--Flann O'Brien
The Leopard--Guiseppe di Lampedusa
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Dancer From The Dance (Andrew Holleran)
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara (Ben Fountain)
Madame Bovary
The Quiet American
A Sentimental Education
Dusk - James Salter
Thanks!
1. men are mortal - simone de beauvoir
2. the pillowman - martin mcdonagh
3. vineland - thomas pynchon
4. henderson the rain king - saul bellow
5. six memos for the next millennium - italo calvino
Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
Last 5 books:
Harry Potter I
Harry Potter II
Harry Potter III
Harry Potter IV
Water for Elephants
For you a repeat series recommendation.
The Dark Is Rising - Susan Cooper
A Cook's Tour - Anthony Bourdain
Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton
The Savage Detectives - Robert Bolano
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
The Happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin (in progress)
From Diapers to Dating - Debra Haffner (in progress)
The New Father - Armin Brott
How the States Got Their Shapes - Mark Stein
Sperm Wars - Robin Baker
I'd list all the children's book's I've been reading to my daughter, but that might skew the Biblioracle's answer.
You need some fiction:
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
1. Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
2. Just Kids by Patti Smith
3. Zeroville by Steve Erickson
4. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
5. The Dream by Emile Zola
Foe - J.M. Coetzee
Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
The Last of Her Kind, by Sigrid Nunez
Abigal Adams, by Woody Holton
When You Are Engulfed in Flames, by David Sedaris
Blues for Hannah, by Tim Farrington
The End of Vandalism - Tom Drury
Thanks!
Help me, Biblioracle! These are the last five books I've read:
Turning Point: The Abstract Expressionists and the Transformation of American Art by April Kingsley
Who Walk In Darkness by Chandler Brossard
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by Gilbert Sorrentino
Blue Angel - Francine Prose
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Lisey's Story - Stephen King
Bambi Vs Godzilla - David Mamet
Rising Stars - J. Michael Straczynski
The Many-Coloured Land - Julian May
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murikami
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murikami
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
I'm excited to hear your recommendations — thanks!
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
1)Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
2) Out of Sheer Rage - Geoff Dyer
3)Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
4)Seymour: An Introduction - J.D. Salinger
5) Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
Thanks!
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain - Robert Olen Butler*
Hunger - Elise Blackwell
Nox - Anne Carson
The Children's Hospital - Chris Adrian
Saga/Circus - Lyn Hejinian
The Land of Green Plums - Herta Muller
Genesis - Bernard Beckett
I have read, in this order:
Report on Myself (Bouillier)
Books and Islands in Ojibway Country
The Lost City of Z
Agincourt (B. Cornwell)
Open Veins of Latin America (E. Galeano)
now just magazines (Lapham's Quarterly, the New Yorker); what's my next book purchase?
thanks!
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
Hook me up!
This Boy's Life - Tobias Wolff
Whatever It Takes, Paul Tough
2666, Roberto Bolano
And the Heart Says Whatever, Emily Gould
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, David Lipsky
Things the Grandchildren Should Know, Mark Oliver Everett
Devil in the Details - Jennifer Traig
1) The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
2) The Lost City of Z by David Grann
3) Cleaving by Julie Powell
4) And the Heart Says Whatever by Emily Gould
5) How Did You Get This Number? by Sloane Crosley
Kapitoil - Teddy Wayne*
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Wind Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Whip Smart, by Melissa Febos
thanks
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law by Martha Nussbaum
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Nazi Literature of the Americas by Roberto Bolano
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
Nine Stories - JD Salinger
The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
The Broom of the System - David Foster Wallace
Lush Life - Richard Price
Self Help - Lorrie Moore
The Old Man and Me - Elaine Dundy
As She Crawled Across the Table - Jonathan Lethem
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book - Alice B. Toklas
At the Bottom of the River, - Jamaica Kincaid
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
[Also have Boswell's Life of Johnson on the bedside table, and read a few pages almost every night. Not in sequence, however.]
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Cool! Have never read this one - thank you. (And there are a lot of other recommendations you've made today that I'm planning to follow up on.)
Last 5 books I've read:
Lost City of Z (in progress)
Every Man Dies Alone (Hans Fallada)
A Short History of Women (Kate Walbert)
The Long Song (Andrea Levy)
Black Water Rising (Attica Locke)
I keep trying to recommend this one, but everyone seems to have read it. Here I go again:
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
I haven't, although I've thought about reading it. Now I will. Thanks.
1. The Sea - Banville
2. Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens
3. Caliban's Shore - Taylor
4. Confessions of a Philosopher - Magee
5. Before the Colors Fade - Reasoner
Changing Places - David Lodge
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Steig Larsson
The Red Queen, Matt Ridley
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
The Elementary Particles, Michele fucking hell I'm not going to spell it right anyway Hollaback Hulabeak whatever.
Ask the Dust - John Fante
Ryu Murakami - Piercing
Rivka Galchen - Atmospheric Distrubances
John Crowley - Lord Byron's Novel the Evening Land
Jonathan Lethem - Men and Cartoons
Molly Young - Troubleshooting
Journey to the End of Night - Celine
I do frequently get stuck, so I am looking forward to this.
Anathem - Neal Stephenson
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
An Echo in the Bone - Diana Gabaldon
Heir to Sevenwaters - Juliet Marrilier
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
Thank you - I can't wait to read it!
From the Grachi to Nero - HH Scullard
The Peloponessian War - Donald Kagan
Ask the Dust - John Fante
Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett
Rome and Italy - Livy
Play it As it Lays - Joan Didion
Oh the Glory of it All by Sean Wilsey
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
Trouble by Kate Christensen
Wish Her Safe at Home by Stephen Benatar
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
I would never have picked that on my own. Thank you! Can't wait to read it.
The Ask, by Sam Lipsyte
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin
The Possessed by Elif Batumen
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
Paul: A Brief Insight by E. P. Sanders
Hurry Down Sunshine - Michael Greenberg
Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever - Justin Taylor
How We Are Hungry - Dave Eggers
After Dark - Haruki Murakami
Willful Creatures - Aimee Bender
Big Machine - Victor LaValle
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts
Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
The School of Essential Ingredients, Erica Bauermeister
The Glass Room, Simon Mawer
The Gathering, Anne Enright
Yet again, I'm going with:
The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman
The Tailor of Panama, John Le Carre
The Mission song, John Le Carre
Following the Equator, Mark Twain
The Covenant, James Michener
The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Codex by Lev Grossman
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Liars and Saints - Maile Meloy
Seriously, how do you do it? This is eerier than getting my palm read. I love Malie Meloy!
Ava's Man - Bragg
Prince of Frog Town - Bragg
Fire - Junger
Evening - Minot
Blind Assassin - Atwood
Falling in Place - Ann Beattie
You're A Horrible Person, But I Like You, from The Believer
The Interrogative Mood by Padgett Powell
Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The Reincarnationist by M.J. Rose
I Am Not Sidney Poitier - Percival Everett
The Big Short - Michael Lewis
Create Your Own Economy - Tyler Cowen
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead - David Shields
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
Born to Run - Christopher McDougall
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets - David Simon
The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer by Philip Carlo
If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous
No One Belongs Here More then You, Stories by Miranda July
Just Kids by Patti Smith
I Don't Care About Your Band by Julie Klausner
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People - Tim Reiterman
Thank you! I'm into it!
Hi - Last five books:
Drop City - TC Boyle
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Wild Punch - Creston Lea
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Yiddish Policeman's Union - Michael Chabon
Thanks Biblioracle!
What Is the What - Dave Eggers*
Ender in Exile, Orson Scott Card
Gifted, Nikita Lalwani
Four Seasons in Rome, Anthony Doerr
The Lace Reader, Brunonia Barry
Driftless, David Rhodes
Very exciting! The book release I'm most looking forward to is the new David Mitchell.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Marukami
I read it already, but I did like it!
Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone - James Baldwin
Another Country - James Baldwin
The Beautiful Room Is Empty - Edmund White
A Heart So White - Javier Marias
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
City of Refuge - Tom Piazza
The Lacuna- Barbara Kingsolver
An American Dream- Norman Mailer
The People of Paper- Salvador Plascencia
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime- Mark Haddon
Olive Kitteredge- Elizabeth Strout
All Over - Roy Kesey*
Thanks! Looks great and I've never heard of Kesey. As soon as I finish Tinkers I'll start it...
No country for old men - Cormac McCarthy
Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Mysteries of Pittsburgh - Michael Chabon
Freaky Deaky - Elmore Leonard
City of thieves - David Benioff
Lush Life - Richard Price
Bullet Park, John Cheever
Franny and Zooey, JD Salinger
Game Change, Heilman/Halperin
Nixonland, Rick Perlstein
Cross-X, Joe Miller
Company, Max Barry
(Six, because my tastes vary.)
U.S.! - Chris Bachelder
Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo (amazing and an interesting structure that i found pretty fascinating...after figuring it out)
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (good but not as good as I'd hoped)
The Quiet American - Graham Greene (pretty good)
Of Love and Other Demons -Gabriel Garcia Marquez (amazing)
Fear and trembling -Amelie Nothomb (a bit of a dissapointment compared to the amazing Character of Rain/Metaphysics of Tubes)
I'm a massive fan of magic realism and my favorite authors are Murakami and Marquez. i'm hoping to read The Lost Steps and Ficciones soon! Any recommendations would be more than appreciated!
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt - Aimee Bender
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Oscar Wilde bio by Richard Ellmann
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Words in Air The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
Flannery O'Connor The Complete Stories
Murphy - Samuel Beckett
Just Kids, Patti Smith
All of It Singing, Linda Gregg
Kabul In Winter, Ann Jones
Nox, Anne Carson
Nothin' But Good Times Ahead, Molly Ivins
In Primary Light - John Wood*
Ooh, exciting. Thank you!
Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
Ladies Man by Richard Price
This Wicked World by Richard Lange
Antwerp by Roberto Bolano
The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
Next - James Hynes
Paula Fox: Desperate Characters
McCann, Colum: Everything In This Country Must
Dinaw Mengestu: The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Wells Tower: Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Susan Minot: Lust & Other Stories
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
Hahahaha, how delightful! That's the book I read just before these ones. I didn't love it, though, I'm afraid to say.
Quo Vadis
Little Bee
Shogun
The School of Essential Ingredients
Autobiography of Red
Wolf Hall - Hillary Mantel
Russian Debutante's Handbook, by Gary Shteyngart
The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
The Imperfectionists, by Tom Rachman
Confederates in the Attic, by Tony Horwitz
The Egyptologist, by Arthur Phillips
The People's Act of Love - James Meek
Cod by Mark Kurlansky
The Invention of Air by Stephen Johnson
Home Game by Michael Lewis
Empire of Blue Water by Stephan Talty
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Fordlandia - Greg Grandin
Expressway, by Sina Queyras
Joy Is So Exhausting, by Susan Holbrook
Tender Buttons, by Gertrude Stein
Contract with the World, by Jane Rule
The Best of (What's Left of) Heaven, by Mairead Byrne
Hmm. My tastes are actually more varied than this list suggests. And (contrary to evidence) I do read male authors.
Love Medicine - Louise Erdrich
Alas, read it! Any others? :)
Your Face Tomorrow - Javier Marias
Dr. Bloodmoney - Philip K. Dick
The Draught - J. G. Ballard
Platform - Michel Houellebecq
Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
Haven't actually read a book in full in a while, but the last five I remember either completing or making a large dent in are:
The Art of Writing by John Gardner
Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller
Cujo by Stephen King
Fat City by Leonard Gardner
(And yes I plan on finishing the ones I haven't completed, so please avoid the easy way out of this.)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle - George V. Higgins
Up the Junction, Nell Dunn
Music Upstairs, Shena Mackay
Troubles, J.G. Farrell
Frost in May, Antonia White
The Lover, Marguerite Duras
Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
Erm, I'm also an all over the place reader.
Green Metropolis - David Owen (currently reading)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Lost City of Z - David Grann
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
Model Home - Eric Puchner
Gossip Girl, Cecily von Ziegesar
And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
Huck Finn, Mark Twain
The Changeling, Middleton + Rowley
The Bell, Iris Murdoch
The Finishing School - Muriel Spark
Helter Skelter - - Vincent Bugliosi
Catcher in the Rye - - JD Salinger
Bonfire of the Vanities - - Tom Wolfe
How I Became a Famous Novelist - - Steve Hely
Lush Life - - Richard Price
The Writing Class - Jincy Willett
catch 22/joseph heller
crucible/arthur miller
to kill a mockingbird/harper lee
in cold blood/truman capote
one flew over the cuckoo's nest/ken kesey
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
(You're either going to love it or loathe it.)
* Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy, Melissa Milgrom
* A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah
* The Black Moth, Georgette Heyer
* Soulless, Gail Carriger
* Mr Pettigrew's Last Stand, Helen Simonson
I used to think I stuck to one genre :P
Man Gone Down - Michael Thomas
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Econned
Bite me
Red Mutiny
Wolf Hall
(Please don't suggest anything to do with that girl with the dragon tatoo. I've made ith through 1 1/2 of them.)
Steve
American Rust - Philipp Meyer
The Milagro Beanfield War - John Nichols
The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal - Christopher Moore
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past Vol VI: Time Regained
Robert Parker, Back Story
Javier Marias, Your Face Tomorrow Vol II: Dance & Dream
Paolo Bacigalupi, The Wind Up Girl
Adam Haslett, Union Atlantic
Whew, hope throwing the Proust bomb in there won't be too much of a challenge. :)
Persuader - Lee Child
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit
Coin Locker Babies, Ryu Murakami
A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
My Life, Bill Clinton (bought and read, however, on Bulevardi Bil Klinton in Kosovo)
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families - Philip Gourevitch
Filth by Irvine McWelsh
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
A Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Aleksandr Solshenitsyn
Mundo Maravilloso by Javier Calvo
The Joke's Over by Ralph Steadman
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Love this!
The Last of Her Kind (by Sigrid Nunez)
The Nimrod Flipout (by Etgar Keret)
The Namesake (by Jhumpa Lahiri)
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee (by Sarah Silverman)
Turning the Mind into an Ally (by Sakyong Mipham)
The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
1. A book of boxing stories (fiction).
2. David Remnick's "Reporting"
3. A book about Colombian rebels kidnapping Americans in the jungle (nonfiction)
4. A book about the history of pirates (nonfiction)
5. BMF: the true story of the Black Mafia Family
Newjack - Ted Conover
Doc & Fluff by Pat Califia
Girls, Visions, and Everything by Sarah Schulman
Stay by Nicola Griffith
The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
Basketball Jones by E. Lynn Harris
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
A Deepness in the Sky and A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Microserfs by Douglas Copeland
Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes
(also, I'm pretty much over the sci-fi kick that accounts for the first two of the books on that list).
The Company - Max Barry
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Tumbling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson
Man Walks into a Room by Nicole Krauss
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name - Vendela Vida*
Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
Kiss of the Spider Woman - Manuel Puig
The Looming Tower - Lawrence Wright
A Sense of Where You Are - John McPhee
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
Last 5 books:
This Borrowed Earth - Robert Emmet Hernan
The Ecotechnic Future - John Michael Greer
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World - Wade Davis
The Black Swan - Nassim Taleb
Shackleton's Way - Alexandra Shackleton
Probably read it, but here goes:
Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
From current backwards:
Joseph Campbell, "The Power of Myth"
Rick Geary, "Trotsky: A Graphic Biography"
Diarmaid MacCulloch, "The Reformation"
Hillary Mantel, "Wolf Hall"
Susanna Clarke, "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell"
Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
The Monster of Florence - Douglas Preston
The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
Huh. Didn't realize there was such a trend in my most recent book choices (up until the most recent book, that is).
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
Emma by Jane Austen
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
Genesis - Bernard Beckett
Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
King Lear - Shakespeare
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
We Love Glenda So Much & A Change of Light - Julio Cortazar
Actually this is incorrect - I forgot a book. Here's the more accurate list.
Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
King Lear - Shakespeare
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
(feel free to take Cortazar into account as well-- it has not escaped my notice that all the other books are by British authors, which does not reflect the full spectrum of my taste)
(good God, now I'm even writing like a Brit)
Embrace the Brit-ness
Some Tame Gazelle - Barbara Pym
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
Light in the Crossing by Kent Meyers
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Picturing Will - Ann Beattie
Where the god of love hangs out
The girl who kicked the hornets nest
The Lake Shore Limited
Fantasy in Death
So Much For That
A Gate at the Stairs - Lorrie Morrie
Boneshaker - Cherie Priest
Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (horrible.)
Into Africa - Martin Dugard
Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
March Violets - Philip Kerr
Lush Life - Richard Price
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Primitive Mythology by Joseph Campbell
Man & His Symbols by Carl Jung
Touch Anything Except Me by Kevin Fanning
The Adderal Diaries by Stephen Elliott
Howard's End - E.M. Forster
"The Brothers K" - David James Duncan
"Invisible Man" - Ralph Ellison
"Rabbit, Run" - John Updike
"American Tabloid" - James Ellroy
"Let The Great World Spin" - Colum McCann
The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead
Perfect - I have this on my bookshelf already but have not yet read it. Thanks!
I'm always looking for a good recommendation, so if you could, please use your powers and divine from these last five:
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
Design - Tom Peters
The Girl With Curious Hair - David Foster Wallace
Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
The Gastronomical Me - MFK Fisher
Thanks in advance!
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
Unfortunately I've already read A Moveable Feast but regardless, well done sir! I really enjoyed it and it is my favorite Hemingway by far, you are good!
a wrinkle in time - madeleine l'engle
miles from nowhere - nami mun
all that follows - jim crace
nox - anne carson
also, i'm driving to the beach tomorrow.
Five Skies - Ron Carlson
1. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
2. Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow
3. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
4. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
5. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Specimen Days - Michael Cunningham
Thank you so much, John! This looks interesting, and is definitely not something I would have picked up myself, so I am very excited!
The Ask - Sam Lipsyte
Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Anti-Semite and Jew - Jean-Paul Sartre
The Gun Seller - Hugh Laurie
Noir - Robert Coover
Theatricality and Absorption - Michael Fried
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
Seize the Day - Bellow
Some Version of Pastoral - William Empson
On Movies - Dwight MacDonald
Edwin Mullhouse - Steven Millhauser
Capital, Karl Marx
American Lion, John Meacham
The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson
The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Viktor Serge
Soccernomics, Kuper and Syzmanski
Last Night in Montreal - Emily St. John Mandel
Dud Avocado - Elaine Dundy
There a Petal Silently Falls - Ch'oe Yun
Long For This World - Sonia Chung
The Sky is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
Great suggestion but I read this last year. Any other suggestions? (I have Tinkers, Brodeck, and Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell next on my TBR list)
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
Vintage Murakami - Haruki Murakami
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Freedom(tm) - Daniel Suarez
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
The Whole Beast - Fergus Henderson (cookbook about making trotters, tripe, other offal and herring semen on toast)
The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
2666 - Roberto Bolano (haven't finished yet because the first 200 pages are about an incredibly passive love triangle between three academics and some 18th century poet they study, and seriously.)
Promotional Reyka Vodka Pop-Up book - poor Iceland
The Polished Hoe - Austin Clarke (my Jamaican ex girlfriend accused me of being too into "black people things" when I told her I was reading it. Maybe?)
John Henry Days - Colson Whitehead
Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
The Famished Road, by Ben Okri
Love in a Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
and one more for good measure: Run, by Ann Patchett
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara - Ben Fountain
Things I Learned About My Dad: Humorous and Heartfelt Essays, edited by Heather Armstrong
White Noise, Don DeLillo
Shadow Country, Peter Matthiessen
2666, Roberto Bolaño
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver
Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
Little, Big by John Crowley
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Russia House by John LeCarre
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
Happy All the Time - Laurie Colwin
Very interesting. Thanks!
The Rainmaker, by John Grisham
The Girl Who Played With Fire (Audio), by Stieg Larsson
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
Williams Stubbs Essays on the English Constitution
The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Blade Itself - Marcus Sakey
Thank you!
the lost city of z, david grann
a game of thrones, george rr martin
a reliable wife, robert goolrick
the river king, alice hoffman
the city of dreaming books, walter moers
The Truth About Celia - Kevin Brockmeier
Runaway - Alice Munro
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susannah Clarke
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
thanks! i've read it before, and i loved it. so you're spot on.
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
A Cannibal in Manhattan - Tamma Janowitz
The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
Atonement - Iam McEwan
Asylum - Matrick McGrath
The Collector - John Fowles
Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Wells Tower
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Who Do You Think You Are? - Alice Munro
Emporium - Adam Johnson*
1. The Help
2. Let The Great World Spin
3. Water For Elephants
4. The Omnivore's Dilemma
5. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Water for Elephants and The Help were gifts and I would like to stray away from the genre. Thank you so much!
So Much for That - Lionel Shriver
Infinite Jest- David Foster Wallave
The Rabbit Novels - Updike
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
On the Road Scroll Edition- Kerouc
Junky
The Post Office - Charles Bukowski
Innocent by Scott Turow
61 Hours by Lee Child
The Russia House by John le Carre
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Disgrace by JM Coetzee
The Godwulf Manuscript - Robert B. Parker
The Trouble with Principle - Stanley Fish
2666 - Roberto Bolano
The Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
The Assault - Harry Mulisch
Small World - David Lodge
I really really wanted to play last time! This is exciting!
Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Baader-Meinhof: The Inside Story of the R.A.F. by Stefan Aust
The Hunger Games #1 by Suzanne Collins
Operation Mincemeat - Ben Macintyre
Thank you!
(bottom being most recent)
The Blue Sweater -- novogratz
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information -- tufte
Candide -- voltaire
Rework -- Fried and Heinemeier
Spunk and Bite -- plotnik
God Is Dead - Ron Currie Jr.
Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris
A Dance With Dragons - George R R Martin
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language - Douglas Hofstadter
The Iliad - Homer
You Remind Me of Me - Dan Chaon
Critique of Pure Reason --- Immanuel Kant
Wolf Hall --- Hilary Mantel
Portnoy's Complaint --- Philip Roth
On Violence --- Slavoj Zizek
The World According to Garp --- John Irving
Generosity: An Enhancement - Richard Powers
Thanks in advance!
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day Of The Locust - Nathanael West
Your Face Tomorrow Volume 2 - Javier Marias
Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion
Prelude to Foundation - Asimov
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Nemesis - Asimov
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
Brave New World - Huxley
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Godric - Frederick Buechner
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
1. All Books, J.D. Salinger (reread)
2. Let The Great World Spin
3. The Bell Jar
4. Devil in The White City
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch (still reading)
I Was Looking for a Street by Charles Willeford
Citrus County by John Brandon
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Funnies - J. Robert Lennon
I looked it up... I think I'll love it! Thanks.
Blood Pact and Other Stories - Mario Benedetti
The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington
Around the Day in 80 Worlds - Julio Cortazar
Beauty Salon - Mario Bellatin
Silencing the Past - Michel-Rolphe Trouillot
Wonderful World - Javier Calvo
Great idea! Here are my last five:
The Motel Life, by Willy Vlautin
Venus Drive, by Sam Lipsyte
Glitz, by Elmore Leonard
Driving the Heart, by Jason Brown
The Collected Stories of Ellen Gilchrist
Interested to see what you come up with!
The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure - Jack Pendarvis*
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
"White Noise" by Don DeLillo
"Consider the Lobster and Other Essays" by David Foster Wallace
"Slaughterhouse 5" by Kurt Vonnegutt
"The Ghostwriter" by Philip Roth
Everything Matters - Ron Currie Jr.
Wilson by Daniel Clowes
Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
Them by Jon Ronson
Reporting at Wit's End by St. Clair McElway
Rag and Bone by James R. Benn
The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman
PEN/Faulkner O. Henry Award Winners 2009
Istanbul: Memories and the City - Orhan Pamuk
Everyday Drinking - Kingsley Amis
To Wake the Dead - Marina Belozerskaya
Franny & Zooey
Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
Obliged. I will buy this book.
The Proper Study of Manking - Isiah Berlin
Iconostasis - Pavel Florensky
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Passage to India - EM Forster
Manual of Contemporary Art Style - Pablo Helguera
That's The Proper Study of Mankind - Isaiah Berlin
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
9 Stories, JD Salinger
The Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Medea, Euripides
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
White Teeth -- Zadie Smith
A Gate at the Stairs -- Lorrie Moore
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Junot Diaz
The Noonday Demon -- Andrew Solomon
Plan B -- Jonathan Tropper
The Privileges - Jonathan Dee
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gregory Taubes
Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography by Dominic Streatfield
The Pace by Shelena Shorts
The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved by Sandor Ellix Katz
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Cool idea!
Wake - Lisa McMann
1. Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
2. The Race Card Richard Ford
3. Freakonomics by Levitt/Dubner
4. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
5. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture- Ellen Ruppel Shell
Wrestling with Moses- Anthony Flint
The Ramen King and I- Andy Raskin
Foundation's Edge- Isaac Asimov
Outliers- Malcolm Gladwell
Not Even Wrong - Paul Collins
The Better of McSweeney's, Volume 1 - Dave Eggers
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious - Gerd Gigerenzer
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress - Michael Specter
The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
The Cheese Monkeys - Chip Kidd
Murakami- Wind Up Bird Chronicle; Junot Diaz - Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Lee Maynard - Crum; Palahniuk - Rant; Patti Smith- Just Kids
Model Home - Eric Puchner
The Confidence-Man - Melville
The Recognitions - JR Gaddis
The Consumer Society - Jean Baudrillard
Walk on the Wild Side - Nelson Algren
Confidence Games - Mark C. Taylor
I don't know why this is coming to me because it's an odd book, but something is pushing it:
The Age of Wire and String - Ben Marcus
What Maisie Knew - Henry James
With Billie - Julia Blackburn
Remake/Remodel - Michael Bracewell
Things We Didn't See Coming-Steven Amsterdam
Austerity Britain-David Kynaston
White Noise - Don Delillo
High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 - Joyce Carol Oates
Look at Me - Jennifer Egan
Where I was From - Joan Didion
Female Chauvinist Pigs - Ariel Levy
The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
The World Without Us - Alan Wiseman
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Generation A - Douglas Coupland
The Plague - Albert Camus
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Thanks!
Things We Didn't See Coming - Steven Amsterdam
I seldom read for myself. Most of my time is spent reading to my daughter. Here are my last five as best I can recall.
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Areas of My Expertise - John Hodgman
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Kaiju Big Battel: A Practical Guide to Giant City-Crushing Monsters - Studio Kaiju
Autobiography - M.K. Ghandi
World War Z - Max Brooks
Listing 6, because I actually hated the 5th book on this list. There is a slightly higher proportion of nonfiction on this list compared to my usual reading tastes, just FYI.
Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Nostalgia's Thread by Randall R. Freisinger (book of 10 poems based on Norman Rockwell paintings)
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (I read this for a book club but hated, hated, HATED it. Story could've been interesting but the author can't write.)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Beautiful Children - Charles Bock
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
The Carrie Diaries
Before I Fall
When You Reach Me
The Handmaid's Tale
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
the picture of dorian gray -- oscar wilde
what is the what -- dave eggers
the big short -- michael lewis
although of course you end up becoming yourself -- david lipsky
a wild sheep chase -- haruki murakami
This Boy's Life - Tobias Wolff
This is great. Thank you so much!
Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess
Poems, Prose, and Letters by Elizabeth Bishop
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Black Unicorn by Terry Brooks
Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
That's a good recommendation. Unfortunately I've already read that particular work.
1984 - Orwell
Persuasion - Austen
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Possession - A.S. Byatt
Swann's Way, Proust
The Cave, Saramago
The Savage Detectives, Bolaño
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami
The Man of Feeling, Marías
Wonderful World - Javier Calvo
7 Pillars of Wisdom - TE Lawrence
Desolation Island - Patrick O'Brian (I've read 'em all multiple times, so please no recommendations there, but thanks)
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
In the Graveyard of Empires - Seth G Jones
Collected Fiction - JG Borges
Birds Without Wings - Louis DeBernieres
Feed - Mira Grant
Ship Breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susannah Clarke
The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm - Brandon Sanderson & Robert Jordan
Under the Dome - Stephen King
Things We Didn't See Coming - Steven Amsterdam
This sounds *amazing.* Thank you so much!
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby
1) True Grit - Charles Portis
2) Norwegian Wood - Haruki Marukami
3) Permanent Midnight - Jerry Stahl
4) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
5) My Friend Leonard - James Frey
Happy Baby - Stephen Elliott
Wow, neat!
USA - John Dos Passos
Big Cats - Holiday Reinhorn
Typical - Padgett Powell
Self Help - Lorrie Moore
Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine - Stanley Crawford
Waveland - Frederick Barthelme
1. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of Little Bighorn by Nathan Philbrick
2. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
3. Although of course you end up becoming yourself: A road trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
4. The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
5. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
A Thousand Cuts - Simon Lelic
Last 5 books:
The Makers by Doctorow (reading now)
Cosmic by Boyce
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Girl Who Chased the Moon by Allen
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
Downtown Owl - Chuck Klosterman
Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
Among the Thugs - Bill Buford
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
Clockers - Richard Price
Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larrson
America! America! - Ethan Canin
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
Breath, Eyes, Memory - Edwidge Danticat
Here are my 5 most recently completed books:
Brava, Valentine - Trigiani, Adriana
The Giver - Lowry, Lois
Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron - Fforde, Jasper
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters - Winters, Ben H. & Jane Austen
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children - Bronson, Po
Skinny Dip - Carl Hiaasen
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi - Geoff Dyer
Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear - Javier Marias
The Museum of Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel) - Macedonio Fernandez
Pornografia - Witold Gombrowicz
Home Boy - H. M. Naqvi
Flush (Carl Hiassen), Black Magic Sanction (Kim Harrison), Silver Borne (Patricia Briggs), The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman), Bite Me: A Love Story (Christopher Moore)
House to House by David Bellavia
Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
Halfway to Heaven by Mark Obmascik
Making Rounds With Oscar by David Dosa
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Tourist - Olen Steinhauser
V - Thomas Pynchon
The Crack in Space - Philip K. Dick
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
1) True Grit - Charles Portis
2) Norwegian Wood - Haruki Marukami
3) Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
4) Permanent Midnight - Jerry Stahl
5) My Friend Leonard - James Frey
A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
Any Human Heart - William Boyd
Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
Scott Pilgrim Versus The World - Bryan Lee O'Malley
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi - Geoff Dyer
Solitude of Prime Numbers - Paolo Giordano
Homer & Langley, EL Doctorow
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Hardy
One Day, David Nicholls
Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
The Merry Recluse, Caroline Knapp
The Northern Clemency - Philip Hensher
Hellhound on His Trail - Hampton Sides
The Tourist - Owen Steinhauer
Big Money - Michael Lewis
Let The Great World Spin - Colum McCann
Everything Matters - Ron Currie
Cast of Shadows - Kevin Guilfoile
You are good. REALLY good! I read Cast of Shadows when it first came out, and I LOVED it!
Any other recommendations? Please? ;-)
Beatrice & Virgil - Yann Martel
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
This Side of Brightness - Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
The Commitments - Roddy Doyle
1. The Windup Girl
2. Angelology (meh)
3. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (meh)
4. Chronic City - Lethem
5. We Were Orphans -- Ishiguru
No Country for Old Men
Leviathan - Paul Auster
Embers - Sandor Marai
The Makioka Sisters - Junichiro Tanizaki
Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Ron Hansen
Generation A - Douglas Coupland
Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett
Let the Right One In - John Lindqvist
Juilet, Naked - Nick Hornby
To Your Scattered Bodies Go -Philip Jose Farmer
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
Good Omens - Neil Gaimon and Terry Pratchett
American Gods - Neil Gaimon
Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Sophie's Choice - William Styron
Chocolat - Joanne Harris (post finals relaxation)
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Lit - Mary Karr
A Short History of Women - Kate Walbert
Half Broke Horses - Jeanette Walls
Thanks!
Island Beneath The Sea By Isabel Allende
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Abraham Lincoln; Vampire Hunter by Seth Graham-Smith
Wisconsin Chippewa myths & tales and their relation to Chippewa life by Barnouw, Victor
Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gould
The God of Small Things - Andruhati roy
Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
Bite Me: Christopher Moore
The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summer by Paul Torday
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
Model Home--Eric Puchner
Next--James Hynes
So Much for That--Lionel Shriver
Where the God of Love Hangs Out--Amy Bloom
The Financial Lives of Poets--Jess Walter
Mission to America - Walter Kirn
Peace - Richard Bausch
Warlock - Oakley Hall
Salvage - Michael Crummey
A Rogue's Life - Wilkie Collins
The Sour Lemon Score - Richard Stark
The Hotel Eden - Ron Carlson
Late Empire - David Wojahn
Elegy - Larry Levis
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Metaphysics - Theodor Adorno
Useless Virtues - T.R. Hummer
Regarding the Pain of Others - Susan Sontag
Lolita -Nabokov
The Awakening -Chopin
Holidays on Ice -Sedaris
Dracula -Stoker
Wanton Splendor- Smith
Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
pride and prejudice - jane austen
harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban - jk rowling
the once and future king - white
merlin triology - stewart
stranger in a strange land - heinlein
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith
Bite Me: Christopher Moore
The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers by Paul Torday
Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Hardy
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Ford
Excellent choice--read it, but you have reminded me I have yet to read his newest book Shades of Gray. Thanks!
As a librarian, it's been fun to watch what you've recommended to different readers. Looking forward to when you do this again.
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
Chelsea, Chelsea, Bang, Bang - Chelsea Handler
White Apples - Jonathan Carroll
With the Old Breed - EB Sledge
Cry of the Kalahari - Cordelia Dykes Owens and Mark James Owens
Matterhorn - Karl Merlantes
Brodeck by Phillipe Claudel
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Peace by Richard Bausch
The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano
The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Wells Tower
Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Tinkers - Paul Harding
The Known World - Edward P. Jones
Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Armies of the Night - Norman Mailer
last five books here? okay, all terrific ones. ZADAYI RED by Caleb Fox, SHADOWS IN THE CAVE by Caleb Fox, LIFE OF MARK TWAIN by Ron Powers, ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain, and a legal thriller by Richard North Patterson
House of Tomorrow - Peter Bognani
Let the Great World Spin
Hunger Games
Mr. Pip
Steppenwolf
Lush Life
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips
Murder in the Lincoln Bedroom - Elliot Roosevelt
Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms - Will Richardson
The Circus Ship - Chris Van Dusen
The Wife's Tale - Lori Lansens
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Wells Tower
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight - Vladimir Nabokov
A Little History of the World - E. H. Gombrich
Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters
The Knife Thrower - Steven Millhauser
My last five books were: Nothing Right by Antonya Nelson, Brooklyn by Colm Toibin, Life Class by Diana Athill, The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill and The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.
One D.O.A, and One on the Way - Mary Robison
- Mating, Norman Rush
- Alien Hearts, Guy de Maupassant
- Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris
- The Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer
- The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
The Good Thief - Hannah Tinti
I'm giving Warner a buck for every time he recommends Get Capone. That, my friends, is the Capone way of doing business, see?
I love this.
Too Much Happiness.
The Last Child.
Black Hearts: a Descent into Madness in Iraq
Tinkers
The Lakeshore Limited
Crossing California - Adam Langer
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
The God of the Hive by Laurie R. King
Hardly Knew Her by Laura Lippman
Evan Blessed by Rhys Bower
Pretty in Ink by Karen E. Olson
The Serialist - David Gordon
The Whole Truth - David Baldacci
Between Two Seas - Carmine Abate
The Stand - Stephen King
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself - David Lipsky
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline - George Saunders
Already read it, love it. Thanks anyway. I'm amazed by how fast you're ripping through these things.
The Island at the End of the World - Sam Taylor
A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon
Dog House: A Love Story - Carol Pisant
Serendipity - Louise Shaffer
The Bird Catcher - Laura Jacobs
Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
When the Astors Owned New York - Justin Kaplan
Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
The Death and Life of American Journalism - Robert McChesney and John Nichols
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
The WIlderness Warrior - Douglas Brinkley
Hmmmm....
Up in the Old Hotel - Joseph Mitchell
Everything Matters - Ron Currie
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher
The Girl who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
Await Your Reply - Dan Chaon
My last five books were:
1.The Brutal Telling/Louise Penny
2.The Angel’s Game/ Ruiz Zafon
3.Chasing Cezanne/ Mayle
4.Undiscovered Country/ Enger
5.Travels with Charley/ Steinbeck
Thank you for your response,
Carol
His Illegal Self - Peter Carey
Related question for John Warner: do you ever play this game with readers' five all-time favorite books?
Also, would this exercise be called "pentagulation"?
gah. I cannot type today. Pentangulation
I have not, but my hunch is that with the favorite books I'd be more likely to name other books they'd already ready. Maybe we'll try it in a future installment, though.
That seems likely, but you never know.
ooh, excited.
city boy, edmund white
the ask, sam lipsyte
game change, mark halperin & that new york guy
edisto, padgett powell
nine dragons, michael connelly
Wish I could give you something more original, but this is what's coming to me. It feels very solid.
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
An Angel at My Table - Janet Frame
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
The Known World - Edward P. Jones
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Lazarus Project - Aleksander Hemon
Politics - Adam Thirlwell
Tinkers - Paul Harding
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Machine Dreams - Jayne Anne Phillips
Big Machine - Victor Lavalle
1. And the Heart Says Whatever - Emily Gould
2. Manhood for Amateurs - Michael Chabon
3. Magical Thinking - Augusten Burroughs
4. Eating the Dinosaur - Chuck Klosterman
5. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
Fraud - David Rakoff
In The Kitchen - Monica Ali
The Stories of John Cheever
Paul Bowles - The Collected Short Stories
Low Life - Luc Sante
The Complete Short Stories of DH Lawrence
Looks like you're underwater. Skip mine if you like.
Silk Parachute - John McPhee
Rhumb Lines and Map Wars - Mark Monmonier
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Bananas - Dan Koeppel
The Discovery of France - Graham Robb
The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean
Bouvard & Pecuchet - Flaubert
But Beautiful - Geoff Dyer
Selected Stories - Robert Walser
Texaco - Patrick Chamoiseau
About a Mountain - John D'Agata
The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker
In the Kitchen - Monica Ali
The Likeness - Tana French
The House at Riverton - Kate Morton
Blindside - Michael Lewis
When The Crocodile Eats the Sun - Peter Godwin
thanks!
White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Pan - Camden Joy & Colin Morton
American Pastoral - Phillip Roth
The White Lions of Timbavati - Chris McBride
Writing Los Angeles - edited by David Ulin
Less than Zero - Brett Easton Ellis
last 5 books i have read:
Tess of the D'urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson
GREat Expectations by Dickens
Dickens biography by Jane Smiley
The Children's Book by AS Byatt
The Life of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
The Ask-Lipsyte
Immortal Life Henrietta Lack
The Imperfectionists- Rachman
Born to Run-McDougall
The Long Fall-Mosley
Clockers - Richard Price
And Then We Came To The End - Joshua Ferris
Homer & Langley - EL Doctorow
I Drink For A Reason - David Cross
Amusing Ourselves To Death - Neil Postman
What Is The What - Dave Eggers
It's a repeat, but high confidence here.
Kapitoil - Teddy Wayne*
The Toss of a Lemon, by Padma Viswanathan
A Common Pornography, by Kevin Sampsell
Paranoid Park, by Blake Nelson
The Piggle, by D.W.W. Winnicott
When We Were Bad, by Charlotte Mendelson
The Believers - Zoe Heller
Impact - Douglas Preston (but it was terrible)
Wolf Hall - Hillary Mantel
Sleepless - Charlie Houston
I Married a Communist - Phillip Roth
Heyday - Kurt Anderson
The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Mortals -- Norman Rush
Solar -- Ian McEwan
The Human Stain -- Philip Roth
Next -- James Hynes
The Possessed -- Elif Batuman
You are amazing for doing this!
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Already read it, loved it. Can I have another, please?
Actually, never mind. It's been years since I read it, and I can tell you're buried. I'm due for a reread of this book. I'll accept!
Killing the Shadows by Val McDermid
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon
Queen of Swords by Sara Donati
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
Excellent book!
Water for Elephants
Middle Sex
Wrinkle in Time
Dancing in the Dark
Dying for Mercy
Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
The High Window - Raymond Chandler
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death - Charlie Huston
The Given Day- Lehane
The Strain- Del Toro
The House in Paris- Bowen
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay- Chabon
On the Beach- Shute
I've not read this book because it's not quite out, but it's the buzz book of Book Expo and who am I to challenge the buzz:
The Passage - Justin Cronin
Let me know what you thought (biblioracle@gmail.com).
Apocalyptic vampires. Sweet! I can't wait!
Children of the Sea Vol 1 by Daisuke Igarashi
West Coast Blues by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Jacques Tardi
Pluto by Naoki Urasawa
Serenity Vol 2 written by Joss Whedon
Batman: Snow illustrated by J. H. Williams
Absolutely stumped me. I got nothing.
Many apologies from the Biblioracle.
The Graveyard Book - Gaiman
Earthcore - Sigler
Contagious - Sigler
Unseen Academicals - Pratchett
Middlesex - Eugenides
Little Children - Tom Perotta
The Pesthouse - Jim Crace
Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
The Body Artist - Don Delillo
The Player - Michael Tolkin
Infinite Jest - DFW
Lolita - Nabokov
All The Pretty Horses - McCarthy
Manhood for Amateurs - Michael Chabon
Another Country - James Baldwin
Zeitoun - Dave Eggers*
The Girl Who Played with Fire - by Steig Larsson
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - by Wells Tower
The Good Soldiers - by David Finkel
Collected Stories - by Lydia Davis
Gilead - by Marylinn Robinson
Matterhorn - Karl Merlantes
The Ask - Sam Lipsyte
Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World - Donald Antrim
Under the Dome - Stephen King
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
Thanks much!
Camouflage - Murray Bail
Just put a request in at the public library. Looking forward to it!
Old Man and the Sea-Hemingway
Guignol's Band-Celine
The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett-Beckett
Dead Souls-Gogol
Cathedral-Carver
Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
Already read it. Some Biblioracle...
City of Glass - Paul Auster
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
The Rotters’ Club - Jonathan Coe
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
The Satanic Diaries - Salman Rushdie
Immortal Life Henrietta Lack by Skloot
Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Bender
Born to Run by McDougall
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
he Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer
Day for Night - Frederick Reiken
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
The Nimrod Flipout - Etgar Keret
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country - Ken Kalfus
War Horse - Michael Morpurgo
The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story - Susan Hill
English Creek - Ivan Doig
The Year 1000 - Robert Lacey
Republican Gomorrah - Max Blumenthal
Postcards - E. Annie Proulx
Alrighty, then!
Wharton, Edith: Ethan Frome
Watson, Brad: The Last Days of the Dog-Men
Doig, Ivan: The Whistling Season
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Junger, Sebastian: War
Call It What You Want - Keith Morris*
Heyday of Natural History by Lynn Barber
Netherland by Joseph O'Brien
Slam by Nick Hornby (well, it was an audiobook, but I suppose that counts)
Long for this world by Sonya Chung
Sweet and Low by Rich Cohen.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
(I experienced this as an audio book, unabridged so I think the recommendation holds for a printed version.)
Thanks. I have a tougher time finding good books to listen to rather than (visually) read.
Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd - Edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci
The Book of Mordred - by Vivian Vande Velde
Valiant - by Holly Black
Radiant Shadows - by Melissa Marr
Ship Breaker - by Paolo Bacigalupi
House of Night Series - P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
I haven't read these, but Mrs. Biblioracle enjoys them.
Awesome, thank you Mr. and Mrs. Biblioracle! I have been looking at those for awhile but had not yet picked them up. I think I will tackle them over teh long weekend!
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
The Making of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by DFW
The Cliff Walk - Don Snyder
South of the Border, West of the Sun — Haruki Murakami
Olive Kitteridge — Elizabeth Strout
Veronika Decides to Die — Paulo Coelho
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius — Dave Eggers
The Elegance of the Hedgehog — Muriel Barbery
The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
Currently: Born Round, Frank Bruni
My last five:
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays, DFW
Lolita, Nabokov
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Thanks! I'm looking forward to your recommendation.
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Solitude of Prime Numbers (Paolo Giordano)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Alan Bradley)
Stonehenge (Bernard Cornwell)
Cranford (Elizabeth Gaskell)
Nice Work (David Lodge)
Mrs. Bridge - Evan Connell
These are the last five I read *and liked*:
Push by Sapphire
Vampire High by Douglas Rees
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind
The Book of Night Women - Marlon James
Hm, not something I would have suggested for myself - and I'm a librarian who does readers' advisory! I'll give it a shot. Thanks so much for doing this!
Last 5 books I read and LIKED:
- Cry of the sloth / Sam Savage
- Innocent Blood / P.D. James
- The girl who played with fire / Stieg Larsson
- The wrong mother / Sophie Hannah
- Olive Kitteridge / Elizabeth Strout
Bad Things Happen - Harry Dolan
House Rules - Jodi Picoult
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
The Magician's Assistant - Ann Patchett
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
But I bet you've read it, so if you have:
Dinner at a Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler
The Good Thief, by Hannah Tinti
Collected Fiction, John Luis Borges
A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller
The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
The Ruby in the Smoke, Phillip Pullman
The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
Thanks!
It's a good one, and I'm a fan of all the five you list.
Jeeves Takes Charge - P.G. Wodehouse
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star - Paul Theroux
Balkan Ghosts - Robert D. Kaplan
The Mayor's Tongue - Nathaniel Rich
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Personal Days - Ed Park*
To Play the Fool by Laurie R. King
You Suck by Christopher Moore
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
A Night too Dark by Dana Stabenow
Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
Fight Club (rereading) - Chuck Palahniuk
What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President? - Kevin Mattson
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History - Robert M. Edsel
Crime - Irvine Welsh
Little Fingers- Filip Florian
Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jr.
Diary - Chuck Palahniuk
The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
The Zero - Jess Walter
Me Talk Pretty one day- David Sedaris
Museum of Innocence - Orhan Pamuk (gave up before finishing)
The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald (re-read)
Confessions of a Mask- Yukio Mishima
Banana: Fate of the Fruit that changed the World- Dan Koeppel
Traffic - Tom Vanderbilt
Broom of the System - David Foster Wallace
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline - George Saunders
Demonology - Rick Moody
Like Life - Lorrie Moore
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself - David Lipsky
The World According to Garp - John Irving
the secret history - donna tartt
black swan green - david mitchell
although of course you end up becoming yourself - david lipsky
the acid house - irvine welsh
john lennon: the life - philip norman
Sag Harbor - Colson Whitehead
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
Strawberry Fields by Marina Lewycka
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
Thank you! Heading to the library tonight!
Wanderlust - Ann Aguirre
Grimspace - Ann Aguirre
Spells - Aprilynne Pike
Magic Bleeds - Ilona Andrews
Inside Out - Maria V. Snyder
Bullet - Laurel K. Hamilton
It may not be my next book, but it is on pre-order. Well done! (although to be honest, the series hasn't been that great for the last six books or so).
What Ho, Jeeves -- P.G. Wodehouse
My Man Jeeves -- P.G. Wodehouse
I Served the King Of England -- Bohumil Hrabal
My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Thank you!
Steppenwolf
Mr. Pip
Let the Great World Spin
39 Clues
Great Expectations
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia, by Robert Lacey
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nate Fick
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
The Elephant and the Dragon, by Robyn Meredith
Just picked up Sebastian Junger's book War, and Misha Glenny's McMafia. Only just started both, so count each as half to make 1 bonus. (Fairly limited range of interest, I know)
The Sandbox - David Zimmerman
Wolf Hall - Mantel
Let The Great World Spin - McCann
Chapterhouse: Dune - Herbert
Lolita - Nabokov
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Didion
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Mary Balogh--Seducing an Angel
Adrienne Martini--Sweater Quest
Jim C. Hines--The Stepsister Scheme
Julian Bell--Mirror of the world
Vanity Fair's Presidential Profiles
This is the toughest one of the day for me. I'm kind of stumped. Here's a book I've been wanting to recommend all day, but haven't found a fit for. Maybe this is a sign:
The End of Mr. Y - Scarlett Thomas
A Problem from Hell - Samantha Power
Salem's Lot - Stephen King
Dry - Augusten Burroughs
The Emperor's Children - Claire Messud
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
Random Family - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Mary - Nabakov
The Master & Margarita - Bulgakov
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
The Portrait of a Lady - James
The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album - Ashley Kahn
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Japrocksampler: How the Post-War Japanese Blew Their Minds on Rock 'n' Roll - Julian Cope
On Relationship - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Q: The autobiography of Quincy Jones - Quincy Jones
Body and Soul - Frank Conroy
Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sanchez Pinol
Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marias
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Joke by Milan Kundera
The Capture by Kathryn Lasky
see Michael Silverblatt for another bibilioracle... http://www.kcrw.com/etc/pro...
A Brief History of the Dead - Kevin Brockmeier
The Mammoth Hunters - Jean Auel
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
What is the What - Dave Eggers
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
The Great Train Robbery - Michael Crichton
Okay, I hate to do this, but the response here has been truly wonderful and overwhelming, so I have to give a little premature cutoff to the requests so I can make sure to get to everyone who has already posted in a reasonable time frame. Any requests below this message I humbly ask that you submit them next time the Biblioracle appears which will be sooner than you think.
Best,
John
oh no just missed it by two minutes!
Thanks so much for this. Such bibliovoyeurism was fun!
The Afghanistan Picture Show--William T Vollmann
To Die For--Joyce Maynard
The Line of Beauty--Alan Hollinghurst
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks--Rebecca Skloot
Giovanni's Room--James Baldwin
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Clarke
The Time Travelers Wife - Niffenegger
The Shack (did not like) - Young
City of Thieves - Benioff
Plain Truth - Picoult
War and Peace - Tolstoy
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
Lady of the Camellias - Dumas fils
Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Speaketh Biblioracle; I await your auspicious divination.
Under the Dome - Stephen King
Pursuit of Honor - Vince Flynn
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
Once Were Cops - Ken Bruen
The Siege - Stephen White
STETTIN STATION (Downing)
MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST STAND (Simonson)
DAUGHTERS OF THE WITCHING HILL (Sharratt)
EVENING IN THE PALACE OF REASON (Gaines)
I WANT TO BE LEFT BEHIND (Peterson)
The Best of Modern Humour - Mordecai Richler (ed)
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
2666 - Roberto Bolano
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Barometer Rising - Hugh MacLennan
The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr by Ken Gormley
The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans
Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Stories by Kurt Vonnegut
The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis
My last five books read were:
Instruments of Darkness by Imogen Robertson
The Scent of Rain and Lightening by Nancy Pickard
the Marshal's Own Case by Magdalen Nabb
The Merry Devils by Edward Marston
Blood Harvest by S.J. Bolton
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
Rosie by Anne Lamott
Don't Cry by Mary Gaitskill
1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
2. Native Son by Richard Wright
3. Monkey Bars by Matthew Lippman
4. War Dances by Sherman Alexie
5. The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler
The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
Open by Andre Aggasi
The Late Bloomer's Revolution by Amy Cohen
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
How Soccer Explains the World
The Lost Symbol
The Road
The Jefferson Bible
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Heart Shaped Box - Joe Hill
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Dimiter - William Peter Blatty
Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson
Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture by Thomas Chatterton Williams
The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
The Winter Of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
My last five books read:
Tinkers, Paul Harding
Tethered, Amy MacKinnon
Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
Both Ways is The Only Way I Want It, Maile Meloy
Still Midnight, Denise Mina
Devotion by Dani Shapiro
The Heights by Peter Hedges
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Robin and Ruby - KM Soehnlein
A World Lit Only by Fire - William Manchester
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
The World of Normal Boys - KM Soehnlein
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Daniyal Mueenuddin
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
Legend of a Suicide, David Vann
French Milk, Lucy Knisley
The Vet's Daughter, Barbara Comyns
The Broom of the System - David Foster Wallace
Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Blindness - Jose Saramago
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer Among the Indians by Mark Twain
Here is New York by E.B. White
Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
Lights on a Ground of Darkness: An Evocation of a Place and Time by Ted Kooser
Th1rteen r3asons why - Jay Asher
The Guinea Pig Diaries - A. J. Jacobs
Secrets of Eden - Christopher Bohjalian
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
The Book of Basketball - Bill Simmons
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
After Dark - Haruki Murakami
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
In Cold Blood - Capote
Never Let Me Go - Ishiguru
What is the What - Eggers
The Sandman - Gaiman
Kavalier and Clay - Chabon
Back Story - Robert B. Parker
Changes - Jim Butcher
Blackout - Connie Willis
Doomsday - Connie Willis
Dead in the Family - Charlaine Harris
The 25th Hour, by David Benioff
The Understudy, by David Nicholls
The Devil's Company, by David Liss
Pavel and I, by Dan Vyleta
Day After Night, by Anita Diamant
1. This Noisy Egg -- Nicole Walker (poetry)
2. I Am Legend -- Richard Matheson
3. Although In The End You End Up Becoming Yourself -- David Lipsky
4. Naked Lunch -- WS Burroughs
5. Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life -- Steve Almond
The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Odyssey - Homer (Robert Fitzgerald translation)
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
Manhood for Amateurs - Michael Chabon
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Midwives - Chris Bjorklund
And if Manhood for Amateurs doesn't count because it's non-fiction, feel free to replace it with my sixth-most recently read book, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
the great shark hunt -- hunter s. thompson
master of the senate -- robert caro
ender in exile -- orson scott card
lolita -- nabokov
this side of paradise -- f. scott fitzgerald
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself - David Lipsky
A Farewell to Alms - Gregory Clark
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
If this works I swear I'll eat my hat. The one I made out of sandwiches.
Once a Runner - John L. Parker
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Sellevision - Augusten Burroughs
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Seth Grahame-Smith
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
1. One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel garcia marquez
2. In Cold Blood - Capote
3. Stuart, A Life Backwards - Alexander Masters
4. Wind-Up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murkami
5. Lady Chatterly's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
Thanks!
Britpop! John Harris
1985 by George Orwell
Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil
Kill Your Friends by John Niven
Times Square Red Times Square Blue by Samuel Delany
The Corrections (Franzen) (in progress. for the second time)
Omega: the Unknown (Lethem)
Kafka on the Shore (Murakami)
the Golden Compass books (Pullman) (does it count as three or one? can't tell.)
Infinite Jest (DFW)
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Hollow Hope, Gerald Rosenberg
One Thousand White Women, Jim Fergus
Mama Might Be Better Off Dead, Laurie Kaye Abraham
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchion
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Book of Dave - Will Self
Hope I'm not too late!
A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
Logicomix
Inca Land Explorations - Hiram Bingham
High Fidelity - Hornby
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews
Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Olive Kitteridge by Amy Strout
Fairy Queen - Edmund Spenser
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
On Writing - Stephen King
Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon
Thanks!
The Quiet American, Graham Greene
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
Washington Square, Henry James
Hi,
. Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
2. The Pale Blue Eye, Louis Bayard
3. Buring Bright, Ron Rash
4. Darling Jim, Christian Moerk
5. The Women, T.C. Boyle
Thank you in advance,
JerriLynn Robinson
City of Dragons, Kelli Stanley
The good, the bad and the uncanny, Simon R. Green
The dead travel fast, Deanna Raybourne
Breathing water, Tim Hallinan
The girl with the dragon tattoo, Steig Larsson
Making toast by Rosenblatt
Thereby hangs a tail by Quinn
Scent of rain and lightning by Pickard
A Murderous Procession by Franklin
Holly Blues by Albert
Grace Paley - Collected Stories
Juan Rulfo - Pedro Páramo
Leo Bersani - Is The Rectum A Grave?
John Cheever - Falconer
John Updike - Collected Stories
Eleanor Ribgy - Douglas Coupland
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
A Boy of Good Breeding - Miriam Toews
The Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson
Sum: 40 Tales From The Afterlives - David Eagleman
Imperial - William T. Vollmann
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Rising Up and Rising Down - William T. Vollmann
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
V. - Thomas Pynchon
All that Vollmann has put me in the mood for some fiction, to be honest.
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostovo
Sum and Total of Now by Don Robertson
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Double Comfort Safari Club by McCall Smith
Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Love this!
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
Samuel Johnson is Indignant - Lydia Davis
Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
Uncollected Poems - Rilke
This is lovely, thank you!
huckleberry finn =twain
tom sawyer - twain
guns of August - tuchmann
Botany of the Senses - pollan
a distant mirror - tuchmann
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Manhood for Amateurs - Michael Chabon
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Conspiracy Club, Jonathan Kellerman
Memorial Day, Vince Flynn
New York: The Novel, Edward Rutherfurd
Hardball, Sara Paretsky
The Last Season, Eric Blehm
A Night Too Dark - Dana Stabenow
Sudden Mischef - Robert B. Parker
Green River Running Red - Ann Rule
Molly Ivins, A Rebel Life - Bill Minutaglio and W.MIchael Smith
The Last Cowgirl - Jana Richman
Last 5 read:
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith
Listen - Rene Gutteridge
this world we live in - Susan Beth Pfeffer
The blind side: evolution of a game - Michael Lewis
The time of my life - Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi
What to do if you don't get your Biblioracle recommendation request in during the designated window? Go talk to a librarian. They've been doing this sort of thing for decades.
Jim Butcher - Changes
Theodore Sturgeon - Some of Your Blood
James Crumley - The Wrong Case
Wallace Stroby - Gone 'Til November
Craig McDonald - Print the Legend
Would you recommend me something non-fiction? I've been on a tall tales kick for months now and need a change of pace...
Thanks!
The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers
Eden Express - Mark Vonnegut
The Threepenny Opera - Bertoldt Brecht
Paradise Lost - John Milton
Flemings Bond series (I'll count it as one)
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
Dr Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
The Unnamed - Joshua Ferris
Hopsotch - Julio Cortazar
infinite jest - david foster wallace (2nd time)
dune - frank herbet
dune messiah - frank herbert
ghostwritten - david mitchell
children of dune - frank herbert
Hope you will see this soon, biblioracle. My last five ooks:
Green, Clean, and Lean by Dr. Walter Crinnion
In the shadow of the Cypress by Thomas Steinbeck
Flirting with Forever by Gwyn Cready
Snakes Can't Run by Ed Lin
Pearl of China by Anchee Min
What shall I read next?
World War Z, Max Brooks
The Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
Your brain at work, David Rock
What's your story, Watts Wacker
The Google Story, David Vise
Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
I hope they serve beer in Hell by Tucker Max (though technically I didn't finish it because it's quite possibly the worst book I've ever attempted to read) if this book doesn't count Dune by Frank Herbert goes here.
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
You Suck by Christopher Moore
The Broom of the System
by David Foster Wallace
Changes by Jim Butcher
Wake by Robert Sawyer
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
We Get to Carry Each Other: The Gospel According to U2
Greg Garrett
Triathlons for Women by Sally Edwards
The Original of Laura - Vladimir Nabokov
Divine Misfortune - A. Lee Martinez
Pleading Guilty - Scott Turow
And Party Every Day: The Inside Story Of Casablanca Records - Larry Harris
The Black Swan - Nassim Taleb
Hand That First Held Mine, Maggie O'Farrell
A Thousand Cuts, Simon Lelic
The Northern Clemency, Philip Hensher
The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman
Solar, Ian McEwan
1.Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
2. The Pale Blue Eye, Louis Bayard
3. Buring Bright, Ron Rash
4. Darling Jim, Christian Moerk
5. Let the Great World Spin
Thank you in advance
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Dombey and Sons by Charles Dickens
The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Valis by Philip K. Dick
Bill Bryson - Down Under
Bill Bryson - Notes from a Big Country
Of Men and Mice
Vikram Chandra - Love and Longing in Bombay
Alexander McCall Smith - The Kalahari Typing Class for Men
A Mercy - Toni Morrison
Where the Wild Things Are - David Eggers
The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg - Geoff Herbach
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Nudge - Improving Decisions and blah blah blah - Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Market Day - James Sturm
The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground - Ron Jacobs
Black Hole- Charles Burns
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
by Apostolos Doxiadis
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays - David Foster Wallace
Changing My Mind Occasional Essays - Zadie Smith
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
Ransom - David Malouf
The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano