The Movies, Books, Theater, Concerts, CDs, Etc. I Saw/Read/Attended In 2015

Updated December 31, 2015


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(Increasingly, I am sampling books, reading 10%, 20% even 40 or 50% before deciding to move on. The books below are only the ones I've read completely. That also explains what looks like generous grading -- more and more, if I sense a book is not going to be among my favorites, I stop reading. Too many books; too little time!)

1. Mightier Than The Sword (Clifton Chronicles Vol. 5) by Jeffrey Archer **
2. The Marriage Game by Alison Weir ***
3. I'm Glad I Did by Cynthia Weil ** 1/2
4. One Nation, Under Gods by Peter Manseau *** 1/2
5. Always Magic In The Air: The Bomp and Brilliance Of The Brill Building by Ken Emerson ** 1/2
6. God's Bankers by Gerald Posner ***
7. The Future Of The Catholic Church With Pope Francis by Garry Wills ** 1/2
8. The Francis Miracle by John L. Allen ** 1/2
9. The Age Of Acquiescence by Steve Fraser ***/
10. The Monopolists by Mary Pilon ***
11. Early Warning by Jane Smiley ****
12. Nightbird by Alice Hoffman **
13. The Tightrope Walkers by David Almond ****
14. The Tropic Of Serpents by Marie Brennan ***
15. Voyage Of The Basilisk by Marie Brennan ***
16. Hissing Cousins by Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer ***
17. Voices In The Night by Steven Millhauser ****
18. Words Without Music by Philip Glass ***
19. Between You And Me by Mary Norris ***
20. Murder Is Bad Manners by Robin Stevens ** 1/2
21. Capital Dames by Cokie Roberts ***
22. Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris ** 1/2
23. Day Shift by Charlaine Harris ***
24. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough ***
25. The Railway Children by E. Nesbit ***
26. The Light Princess by George MacDonald w illus by Maurice Sendak ** 1/2\
27. The Bill Of Rights by Carol Berkin ***
28. Tiger Boy by Mitali Perkins ** 1/2
29. And Sometimes I Wonder About You by Walter Mosley ***
30. The Millionaire And The Bard by Andrea Mays ** 1/2
31. Uprooted by Naomi Novik *** 1/2
32. The School For Unusual Girls by Kathleen Baldwin **
33. The Book  Of Aron by Jim Shepard *** 1/2
34. Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas ** 1/2
35. Irrationally Yours by Dan Ariely ** 1/2
36. My First Hundred Years In Show Business by Mary Louise Wilson *** 1/2
37. Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson *** 1/2
38. Circling The Sun by Paula McLain ***
39. In The Unlikely Event by Judy Blume ***
40. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling ** 1/2
41. Paper Towns by John Green ***
42. Looking For Alaska by John Green ***\
43. Fool's Quest by Robin Hobb ***
44. The Glass Sentence by S.E. Grove ***/
45. The Curious World Of Calpurnia Tate ***
46. The Intern's Handbook by Shane Kuhn ** 1/2
47. Hostile Takeover by Shane Kuhn ***
48. Mister Max: The Book Of Lost Things by Cynthia Voigt ***
49. Mister Max: The Book Of Secrets by Cynthia Voigt *** 1/2
50. Mister Max: The Book Of Kings by Cynthia Voigt ****
51. Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter *** 1/2
52. Pope Francis Among The Wolves by Marco Politi ** 1/2
53. Never Always Sometimes by Adi Alsaid ***/
54. Our Man In Charleston by Christopher Dickey ***
55. Katrina by Gary Rivlin ** 1/2
56. Slice Harvester by Colin Atrophy Hegendorf *** 1/2
57. We Believe The Children by Richard Beck *** 1/2
58. Carrying Albert Home by Homer Hickam *** /
59. South Toward Home by Margaret Eby ***
60. Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam ****
61. The Rest Of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness ***/
62. Sorcerer To The Crown by Zen Cho ***
63. Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster *** 1/2
64. Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart ***
65. Stand-Off By Andrew Smith *** 1/2
66. Finale by Thomas Mallon ***/
67. 1944: FDR And The Year That Changed History by Jay Winik *** 1/2
68. Symphony For The City Of The Dead by M.T. Anderson ****
69. Razzle Dazzle by Michael Riedel ** 1/2
70. Saving Capitalism by Robert Reich ** 1/2
71. A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston ***
72. Newt's Emerald by Garth Nix ** 1/2
73. Golden Age by Jane Smiley *** 1/2
74. The Silent Boy by Andrew Taylor ** 1/2
75. Sinatra: The Chairman by James Kaplan ***\
76. The Coalwood Way by Homer Hickam *** 1/2
77. The Keeper's Son by Homer Hickam ***/
78. Slade House by David Mitchell ***
79. Avenue Of Mysteries by John Irving ***
80. Dear Mr. You by Mary Louise Parker *** 1/2
81. Cast Of Characters by Thomas Vinciguerra ** 1/2
82. The Great Surge by Steve Radelet ***
83. The Cinder Spires: Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher *** 1/2
84. Beatlebone by Kevin Barry ***
85. How To Catch A Bogle by Catherine Jenkins ***
86. A Plague Of Bogles by Catherine Jenkins ***
87. Memory Theater by Simon Critchley ***
88. The Constable's Tale by Donald Smith ** 1/2
89. Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates ****
90. A Brief History Of Creation by Bill Mesler and H. James Cleaves II *** 1/2
91. All About Sam by Lois Lowry ** 1/2
92. It's All Your Fault by Paul Rudnick (2016 release) ***
93. This Divided Island by Samanth Subramanian *** 1/2
94. The Revenant by Michael Punke *** 1/2
95. The Last Bogler by Catherine Jinks ***
96. Lizzie and the Lost Baby by Cheryl Blackford ***
97. Bryant And May And The Burning Man by Christopher Fowler *** 1/2
98. The Tevye Stories and Other Stories by Sholem Aleichem *** 1/2
99. Robert B. Parker's Ironhorse by Robert Knott ** 1/2
100. Robert B. Parker's Bull River by Robert Knott ** 1/2




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1. Fall Out Boy -- American Beauty/American Psycho ***/
2. Diana Krall -- Wallflower ** 1/2
3. Steve Earle -- Terraplane *** 1/2
4. The Lone Bellow -- Then Came The Morning *** 1/2
5. The Waterboys -- Modern Blues ***
6. The Subways -- The Subways **
7. Lee Ann Womack -- The Way I'm Livin' (2014) ** 1/2
8. Kris Allen -- Horizons (2014) ** 1/2
9. Bob Dylan -- Shadows In The Night ***/
10. Old Crow Medicine Show -- Carry Me Back (2012) ***
11. Sleater Kinney -- No Cities To Love ** 1/2
12. Dakota Staton -- Dynamic! (1958) ***
13. Courtney Barnett -- Sometimes I Just Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit *** 1/2 \
14. Martin Sexton -- Mixtape Of The Open Road *** (esp "Do It Daily")
15. Marina And The Diamonds -- Froot **
16. Mick Flannery -- By The Rule ** (esp "Get What You Give")
17. Amy LaVere and Will Sexton -- Hallelujah, I'm A Dreamer *** 1/2
18. Andrew Combs -- All These Dreams *** (esp "Strange Bird")
19. Brian Setzer -- Rockabilly Riot (2014) ** 1/2
20. Nellie McKay -- My Weekly Reader ***
21. The Tallest Man On Earth -- Dark Bird Is Home ****
22. Ozark Henry -- Paramount ***
23. Randy Travis -- Influence Vol. 2: The Man I Am (2014) ** 1/2
24. Bill Ryder-Jones -- Home Recordings Jan/Feb 2015 ** 1/2
25. Sufjan Stevens -- Carrie And Lowell ****
26. Bill Fay -- Who Is The Sender? ***
27. Tobias Jesso Jr. -- Goon **
28. The Staples Singers -- Freedom Highway Complete ** 1/2 (poorly miked concert; bad sound)
29. Steve Earle -- Terraplane *** 1/2
30. Various Artists -- Zomba Prison Project ** 1/2
31. Leonard Cohen -- Can't Forget: A Souvenir Of The Grand Tour ***
32. Kendrick Lamar -- To Pimp A Butterfly *** 1/2
33. Father John Misty -- I Love You Honeybear ** 1/2
34. Drew Holcomb -- Medicine **
35. The Honeydrips -- In The City **
36. John Grant -- Strongroom (EP) *** 1/2
37. Kasey Chambers -- Bittersweet **
38. Kodaline -- Coming Up For Air **
39. Lady Lamb The Beekeeper -- After **
40. Loudon Wainwright III -- Haven't Got The Blues (Yet) ***
41. Matt Wertz -- Old Flames **
42. Richard Thompson -- Acoustic Classics (2014) ***
43. The White Birch -- The Weight Of Spring * 1/2
44. The Watkins Family Hour -- The Watkins Family Hour * 1/2
45. Vetiver -- Complete Strangers ** 1/2
46. The Vespers -- Sisters and Brothers **
47. Two Gallants -- We Come Undone ** 1/2
48. Tony Joe White -- The Complete Collection **
49. Tom Broseau -- Perfect Abandon **
50. Toni Braxton And Babyface --- Love, Marriage And Divorce (2014) ***/
51. Steve Gunn -- Seasonal Hire ***
52. The Staves -- Dead And Born And Grown **
53. San Cisco -- Gracetown **
54. Robert Earl Keen -- Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions ** 1/2
55. Sean Watkins -- All I Do Is Lie **
56. Seth Avett And Jessica Lea Mayfield -- Sing Elliot Smith ***
57. Shakey Graves -- And The War Came (2014) ***
58. Shakey Graves -- Nobody's Fool (2015) *** 1/2
59. Kelly Clarkson -- Piece By Piece ***
60. James McMurtry -- Complicated Game ** 1/2
61. She And Him -- Classics (2014) *** 1/2
62. Garth Brooks -- Man Against Machine (2014) **
63. Shelby Lynne -- I Can't Imagine ** 1/2
64. Leon Bridges -- Coming Home **
65. James Taylor -- Before This World ** 1/2
66. Boz Scaggs -- A Fool To Care ***
67. Jason Isbell -- Something More Than Free ***/
68. Davy Knowles -- The Outsider **
69. Josh Ritter -- Sermon On The Rocks ** (but final track "Man On A Horse" a keeper)
70. Richard Thompson -- Still ** 1/2
71. Trailhead -- Leave Me To Learn **
72. Lindi Ortega -- Faded Gloryville *** 1/2\
73. Daniel Romano -- If I've Only One Time Askin' *** 1/2\
74. Ernestine Anderson -- Swings The Penthouse (1962 concert) ***/
75. Lesley Gore -- Girl Talk (1964) ***/
76. Lianne La Havas -- Blood ***
77. Curtis Harding -- Soul Power (2014) **
78. Sean Taylor -- ** 1/2
79. Mika -- No Place In Heaven ***
80. Langhorne Slim -- The Spirit Moves ** 1/2
81. Iris DeMent -- The Trackless Woods *** 1/2/
82. Jack Savoretti -- Scars **
83. The Wands -- The Wands ** 1/2
84. Ruthann Friedman -- The Complete Constant Companion Sessions (1969) ***/
85. Johnny Mathis -- So Nice (1966) ** 1/2
86. East Anderson -- Delilah ***/
87. Darlene Love -- Introducing Darlene Love ** 1/2
88. Kasey Musgraves -- Pageant Material  ***  1/2
89. Various Artists -- Country Soul [sic] ** 1/2
90. Family Of The Year -- Family Of The Year **
91. Samantha Fish -- Wild Hearts **
92. Run Boy Run -- Something To Someone (2014) **
93. Fotheringay -- Fotheringay (1970) ****
94. Fotheringay -- Fotheringay 2 (1971-ish) *** 1/2
95. Old Man Luedecke -- Domestic Eccentric **
96. Garnet Mimms -- Looking For You: The Complete United Artists and Veep Singles (1963-1967) ****
97. Courtney Barnett -- Double EP: A Sea Of Spilt Peas (2014) *** 1/2
98. Jill Scott -- Woman *** 1/2
99. Marion Williams -- Gospel Soul Of Marion Williams ****
100. Public Enemy -- Man Plans God Laughs ** 1/2
101. Various Artists -- Southpaw Soundtrack ** 1/2
102. Beirut -- No No No **
103. Boz Scaggs -- A Fool To Care *** 1/2 (better on repeated listening)
104. Anna and Elizabeth -- Anna and Elizabeth ** (Appalachian face)
105. The Kingston Trio -- Greatest Hits **
106. George Benson -- The Best Of George Benson **
107. What's Eating Gilbert -- That New Sound You're Looking For **
108. The Weeknd -- Beauty Behind The Madness ** 1/2
109. Janis Ian -- Anthology **
110. Bruce Hornsby -- Essential **
111. Fotheringay -- Nothing More: Collected *** 1/2
112. Fleetwood Mac -- Play On ****
113. The Fratellis -- Eyes Wide Tongue Tied *** 1/2
114. Findlay Brown -- Slow Light **
115. Greg Trooper -- Live At The Rock Room **
116. Freddy Cole -- Singing The Blues (2014) ** 1/2
117. The Strypes -- Little Victories **
118. Procol Harum -- Shine On Brightly (1968)  ***/
119. Prince -- HitnRun Phase One ***\
120. Lesley Gore -- California Nights (1967) ***/
121. Marine Dreams -- Producer's Wonderland ** 1/2
122. Years And Years -- Communion ** 1/2
123. Steep Canyon Rangers -- Radio **
124. Meg Baird -- Don't Weigh Down The Light **
125. Leigh Nash -- The State I'm In ***
126. Rhodes -- Wishes *** (romantic, anthemic pop w great arrangements)
127. Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin -- Lost Time ***\
128. Bones -- Powder *** 1/2\
129. Bones -- HateToBreakItToYou ***
130. Tony Bennett and Bill Charlap -- The Silver Lining *** 1/2
131. David Bowie -- Hunky Dory (1971) ****
132. David Bowie -- Space Oddity (1969) *** 1/2
133. David Bowie -- Aladdin Sane (1973) *** 1/2
134. John Grant -- Grey Tickles, Black Pressure ** 1/2
135. Harry Connick Jr. -- That Would Be Me ***
136. Don Henley -- Cass Country ***/
137. Carrie Underwood -- Storyteller ***/
138. The Mavericks -- Mono *** 1/2
139. Sharon Jones And The Dap Kings -- It's A Holiday Soul Party ** 1/2
140. Def Leppard -- Def Leppard **
141. Original Broadway Cast -- Hamilton *** 1/2 /
142. Chris Young -- I'm Comin' Over ** 1/2
143. Magic System -- Radio Afrika ***
144. The Coasters -- Christmas With The Coasters * 1/2
145. Jesse Malin -- Outsiders **
146. Eric Church -- Mr. Misunderstood ***/
147. Tom McGraw -- Damn Country Music **
148. The Specials -- The Specials (weak vocals) ***
149. Peter Case -- Hway 62 **
150. Sara Bareilles -- What's Inside: Songs From Waitress *** 1/2
151. Carousel Kings -- Three Christmas Classics: A Four Song EP **
152. Chris Isaak -- First Comes The Night ***
153. Adele -- 25 ***/
154. Jeff Lynne's ELO -- Alone In The Universe ***
155. Francesco Yates -- Francesco Yates **
156. The Lighthouse And The Whaler -- Mont Royal ** 1/2
157. Edie Brickell and Steve Martin -- So Familiar **
158. Kylie Minogue -- Kylie Christmas **
159. The Brian Setzer Orchestra -- Rockin' Rudolph **
160. Angie Stone -- Dream **
161. Frank Sinatra -- A Voice On Air: 1935-1955 ***
162. Amy Winehouse -- Amy (soundtrack) **
163. The Velvet Underground -- Loaded (1970) *** 1/2
164. Steven Curtis Chapman -- Christmas Hymns * 1/2
165. Danny Gokey -- Christmas Is Here * 1/2
166. The Pretty Things -- The Sweet Pretty Things (Are In Bed Now, Of Course) ** 1/2
167. The Dead Weather -- Dodge And Burn ** 1/2
168. Ben Rector -- Brand New ** 1/2 (but song "Make Something Beautiful" lovely)
169. Duran Duran -- Paper Gods ** 1/2
170. Drake and The Future -- What A Time To Be Alive ** 1/2
171. Holy Sons -- Fall Of Man **
172. Joanna Newsome -- Divers **
173. Lana Del Rey -- Honeymoon **
174. Los Lobos -- Gates Of Gold *** 1/2 \
175. Madonna -- Rebel Heart ***
176. Rod Melancon -- Parish Lines **
177. Ruby Amanfu -- Standing Still ** 1/2
178. Ryan Adams -- 1989 ***
179. Various Artists - Nippon Girls 2: Japanese Pop, Beat And Rock n Roll 1965-1970 *** 1/2
180. Ron Sexsmith -- Carousel One *** \
181. Ike Reilly -- Born On Fire *** 1/2
182. Foals -- What Went Down ** 1/2
183. Ryley Walker -- Primrose Green **
184. The Felice Brothers -- Feliz Navidad **
185. Jim O'Rourke -- Simple Songs **
186. Hop Along -- Painted Shut ** 1/2
187. Patty Griffin -- Servant Of Love *** 1/2
188. James Bay -- Chaos And The Calm **
189. Bill Ryder-Jones -- West Kirby County Primary ***\
190. David Bowie -- Station To Station (1976) *** 1/2
191. The Mekons and Robbie Fulks -- Jura ** 1/2
192. Sun Bears! -- Do Christmas ** 1/2
193. Ashley Monroe -- The Blade ** 1/2
194. Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band -- Wrap This! * 1/2
195. Rumer -- Love Is The Answer EP ***
196. Alabama Shakes -- Sound And Color ***
197. Bob Moses -- Days Gone By ***
198. Cowboy Junkies -- Notes Falling Slowly *** 1/2
199. Prince -- HitNRun Phase Two ** 1/2
200. The London Souls -- The London Souls *** 1/2
201. The Vamps -- Wake Up **
202. Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment -- Surf ** 1/2
203. Bruce Springsteen -- The River Single Album Version ** 1/2
204. Miguel -- Wildheart ***
205. The Arcs -- Yours, Dreamily **
206. Carly Rae Jepsen -- Emotion ** 1/2 (vocals over-processed; strong songs)
207. Tame Impala -- Currents *** 1/2
208. Skrillex and Diplo -- Present Jack U ***/
209. Tinariwen -- Live In Paris 2014 *** 1/2
210. Chris Stapleton -- Traveller *** 1/2
211. Mackintosh Braun -- Arcadia ** 1/2
212. Malinky -- Malinky ** 1/2
213. Michael Sherwood and Christian Nesmith -- Groovy Lemon Pie ***
214. Kamasi Washington -- The Epic *** 1/2
215. Kanaku Y El Tigre -- Quema Quema Quema ** 1/2
216. Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams -- Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams ** 1/2
217. Leigh Nash -- The State I'm In ** 1/2
218. Quiet Company -- Transgressor ** 1/2
219. Peter Buck -- Warzone Earth **
220. Paul Weller -- Saturn's Pattern ***
221. Kimmie Rhodes -- Cowgirl Boudoir **
222. Kristin Diable -- Create Your Own Mythology ***/
223. Kurt Cobain -- Montage Of Heck **
224. Dirty Revival -- Dirty Revival **
225. Veruca Salt -- Ghost Notes ***/
226. Whitney Rose -- Heartbreaker Of The Year ***
227. Cage The Elephant -- Tell Me I'm Pretty ***/
228. Alan Jackson -- Angels and Alcohol **
229. April Verch -- The Newpart ** 1/2
230. Car Seat Headrest -- Teen Style ***
231. Warm Soda -- Symbolic Dream ***
232. Royal Headache -- High ***
233. Scouting For Girls -- Still Thinking About You ** 1/2
234. Dwight Yoakum -- Second-Hand Heart *** 1/2
235. Orange Humble Band -- Depressing Beauty *** 1/2/
236. Franz Ferdinand Sparks -- Franz Ferdinand Sparks ***/
237. Vince Staples -- Summertime '06 *** 1/2
238. Kurt Vile -- B'lieve I'm Going Down ***
239. Graham Parker -- Mystery Gate ** 1/2
240. The Bellfuries -- Workingman's Bellfuries ** 1/2
241. Blur -- The Magic Whip ***



MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES 

1. Foyle's War Season 8 * 1/2
2. The Babadook (2014) ** 1/2
3. Mommy *** 1/2
4. Wild Tales *** 1/2
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) *** 1/2
6. We Are The Best! (2014) ***
7. Birdman (2014) *
8. Nightcrawler (2014) *** 1/2
9. Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) **
10. Ida (2014) *** 1/2
11. The Lunchbox (2014) *** 1/2
12. Force Majeure (2014) *** 1/2
13. Fury (2014) *** 1/2
14. The Avengers: Age Of Ultron * 1/2
15. Beggars Of Life (1928) (Film Forum w live accompaniment) *** 1/2
16. Bad Little Angel (1939) * 1/2
17. I'll Be Seeing You (1944 w Joseph Cotten, Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple) ** 1/2
18. Pitch Perfect 2 * 1/2
19. Inside Out ***
20. Dope ** 1/2 (but fun)
21. Confessions Of A Nazi Spy (1939) **
22. Mr. Holmes (2015) * 1/2
23. Ant-man ** 1/2
24. Amy (Amy Winehouse docu) **
25. Flamenco Flamenco (2014) *** 1/2
26. Beyond Zero: 1914 -- 1918 *** 1/2
27. Seashore ***
28. Adventures Of Jane Arden (1939) *
29. Pride Of The Blue Grass (1939) **
30. Mission Impossible Rogue Nation ** 1/2
31. Microbe And I (Michel Gondry) **
32. Indian Summers (TV series season one) **
33. The Walk **
34. Brooklyn [Noam] ***\
35. Bridge Of Spies [Andy] **
36. Spectre [Luis) ***
37. The Danish Girl [Luis] ** 1/2
38. Carol [Noam] ** 1/2
39. Chimes At Midnight [Noam] ***
40. Son Of Saul *** 1/2
41. In Jackson Heights *** 1/2
42. The Revenant ** 1/2
43. Creed ** 1/2
44. Joy ** 1/2
45. The End Of The Tour ** 1/2
46. Slow West ***/
47. Sicario **
48. Me And Earl and the Dying Girl **
49. Güeros *** 1/2
50. The Clouds Of Sils Maria ** 1/2
51. The Big Short ** 1/2
52. Far From The Madding Crowd (2015 w Carey Mulligan) ***
52. Oscar shorts live action
          Stutterer ** 1/2
          Everything Will Be Okay ***
          Day One **
          Ave Maria * 1/2
          Shok * 1/2
53. Oscar shorts animation
          Bear Story ***
          We Can't Live Without Cosmos ** 1/2
          Prologue *
          World Of Tomorrow **
          Sanjay's Super Team ***
54. Love And Mercy *** 1/2
55. Chi-raq * 1/2
56. The Diary Of A Teenage Girl *** 1/2
57. Straight Outta Compton ***/
58. Anomalisa ** 1/2
59. Tangerine ***/
60. The Tribe *** 1/2
61. The Hateful Eight ***







THEATER CONCERTS THEATER CONCERTS THEATER CONCERTS THEATER CONCERTS THEATER CONCERTS THEATER CONCERTS THEATER CONCERTS

1. Honeymoon In Vegas [Garrett] **
2. The Woodsman [Noam] ***
3. Constellations [Noam] ** 1/2
4. Taylor Mac's A 24 Decade History Of Popular Music 1930s-1950s [Noam] ** 1/2
5. Let The Right One In [Solo] **
6. Da [Noam] no rating
7. A Month In The Country [Noam] ** 1/2
8. Parade in Concert at Lincoln Center [Noam] ** 1/2
9. Hamilton at the Public [Luis] ***
10. The World Of Extreme Happiness [Noam, Zoe] ** 1/2
11. Broadway By The Year 1915-1940 [TJ] **
12. Verite * 1/2
13. Fabulous! [TJ] *
14. The Mystery Of Love And Sex **
15. An Octoroon at Polonsky Shakespeare Center [TJ] *** 1/2
16. Fish In The Dark *
17. The Audience ***
18. Josephine And I [Zoe] ***
19. Posterity * 1/2
20. The Hunchback Of Notre Dame at Paper Mill [Noam] **
21. Lonesome Traveler [Noam] **
22. On The Twentieth Century [Cohen] ***
23. Radio City Music Hall's New York Spring Spectacular [Noam] ** 1/2
24. The Heidi Chronicles [Noam] *
25. The Tallest Tree In The Forest * 1/2
26. Broadway By The Year: 1941-1965 [TJ] ***
27. Twelfth Night by Bedlam [Noam] ***
28. What You Will by Bedlam [Noam] *** 1/2
29. Wolf Hall Parts I and II [Noam] ** 1/2
30. Skylight [Noam] ***
31. Nellie McKay [Noam] at 54 Below ***
32. Ludic Proxy ** 1/2
33. It Shoulda Been You {TJ] ** 
34. Finding Neverland [TJ] ** 1/2
35. Hamlet w Peter Sarsgaard at CSC [Noam] no stars
36. The King And I [Noam] ***
37. Gigi * 1/2
38. An American In Paris [] ** 1/2
39. Doctor Zhivago [TJ] no stars
40. Fun Home [Noam] ** 1/2
41. Living On Love [TJ] * 1/2
42. Early Shaker Spirituals: A Record Album Interpretation [solo] ***
43. Airline Highway [Noam] * 1/2
44. The Two Gentlemen Of Verona (Fiasco Theatre) [Noam] *** 
45. The Visit (w Chita Rivera) [Noam] ** 1/2
46. The Sound And The Fury (ERS) [Noam] ** 
47. Broadway By The Year: 1966-1990 [TJ] ***
48. The Spoils * 1/2
49. Ever After (at Papermill) [Noam] **
50. Heisenberg [Noam] *** 1/2
51. Marilyn Maye at 54 Below [TJ] ***
52. Kaiser Chiefs at Irving Plaza [Noam] *** 1/2
53. What I Did Last Summer (AR Gurney at Signature) [Noam] *
54. Betty Buckley at Joe's Pub [Noam] ***
55. Orville And Wilbur Did It (reading w Bobby Steggert, Matt Doyle et al) [Noam] ***
56. The Painted Rocks At Revolver Creek (Athol Fugard at Signature) [Noam, Zoe, Cohen] *** 1/2
57. An Act Of God [TJ] **
58. The National High School Musical Theatre Awards [Noam] *** 
59. Amazing Grace [TJ] *

60. My Report To The World (David Strathairn staged reading of play about Jan Karski) [Noam]  

61. The Absolute Brightness Of Leonard Pelkey (James Lescene one-man play) [Noam] ** 1/2

62. Cymbeline (Shakespeare In The Park w Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater)[Noam]  *** 
63. John (by Annie Baker at Signature) *** 1/2 [Noam, Zoe, Cohen, Robynne]
64. Hamilton (on Broadway) [Noam] *** 1/2 production of **** musical
65. The Christians (Playwrights Horizons) [Zoe] ***\
66. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Pearl Theatre Company) [Noam]
67. Reread Another (Target Margin at The Brick) **
68. Daddy Long Legs (musical at Davenport) **
69. Spring Awakening (2015 Bway revival by Deaf Theatre West) [Luis]  *** 1/2
70. Barbecue (Public Theater) [Noam] **
71. Fool For Love (W Nina Arianda, Sam Rockwell) [Noam] ** 1/2
72. Old Times (w Clive Owen) [Stephen Garrett] **
73. The Bandstand (at Papermill) {TJ] ***\
74. The Gin Game (w James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson) [Noam] **
75. Rothschild And Sons (w Robert Cuccioli) ** 1/2
76. The Inn At Lake Devine [Noam] **
77. First Daughters Suite (Public) [Zoe] 
78. Tannhauser (at Met w Eva-Maria Westbroek, Johan Botha) ** 1/2
79. Ripcord (Holland Taylor) [Noam] **
80. Janitor (mood piece at Hudson Park Carousel) [Noam] **
81. Dames At Sea (Broadway) [TJ] ** 1/2
82. The Humans (Jane Houdyshell, Reed Birney) [Noam] *** 1/2
83. Sylvia (Matthew Broderick) [Luis] **
84. Therese Raquin (Keira Knightley) [Noam] * 1/2
85. King Charles III (Tim Piggot-Smith) [Noam] *** 1/2
86. Hir (Taylor Mac play) [Zoe] **
87. Henry IV (Harriet Walter at St. Ann's in all-female production) ***
88. On Your Feet [Luis] **
89. Misery (Bruce Willis) [Stephen Garrett] *

90. A View From The Bridge (Mark Strong) ***
91. Paper Bullets (strong songs by Billie Joe Armstrong) [Noam] ***
92. China Doll  [Noam] *
93. New York Animals (Bedlam) (but strong songs by Steven Sater and Burt Bacharach) [Livia Belman-Wells] ** 1/2
94. Incident At Vichy (Signature revival) [Zoe, Livia] ** 1/2
95. Night Is A Room (Signature show) **
96. School Of Rock [Luis] * 1/2
97. The New Standards: The Holiday Show (w guests Nellie McKay, Fred Schneider, Julian Fleischer, Har Mar Superstar et al) [Noam] ***/
98. Lazarus * 1/2 [Dave Cohen]
99. Plaid Tidings ** 1/2 [Cohen]
100. Marjorie Prime ** [Noam]
101. The Color Purple (Cynthia Erivo, Jennifer Hudson) [Noam] ** 1/2
102. Once Upon A Mattress (Jackie Hoffman, John Epperson) [Cohen, Luis] ** 1/2
103. Daniel Kitson's Christmas Show [Noam] *** 1/2 (marked off half a star cause no hot chocolate)





Updated December 31, 2015

BOOKS: The Best Books Of All Time Organized By Rating

Updated December 31, 2018

Here's a very incomplete master list of books I've read. This is my list organized by author. I've got another list organized by rating. I tend to focus on good books or authors I've read a lot. I don't see the point of including a book I didn't like by someone most people haven't heard about.

I've only got year-by-year lists of my reading going back to 2006. Before that, it's very catch as catch can. Since I've also considerably winnowed down my personal library without noting the books I got rid of over the years, I don't even have a good record of the books I SAVED for decades. So please understand that this isn't remotely comprehensive. If I seem overly generous in the number of 3 1/2 and 4 star books, well those are simply the ones I remember best. The many minor books I consumed over the years (especially reams and reams of sci-fi, fantasy and mysteries) have faded from memory. Any weird gaps (I've read a lot more Dickens than I've listed, for example) are perhaps because I don't remember with enough specificity what I thought of certain books to rate them.

Art Garfunkel and Peter Bogdanovich had the right idea! Keep a list, everyone; you'll be glad you did. What I wouldn't give for index cards with my brief thoughts on the movies I watched, books I read, albums I heard from a young age onward....

THE BOOKS MASTER LIST BY RATING

I list all the 4 star books, then all the 3 1/2 star books, then all the 3 star books and then I stop. Because who cares about what books I felt meh about? 

FOUR STARS

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe ****

The Unwomanly Face Of War by Svetlana Alexievich (1985) ****

The Mysteries Of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg ****

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg ****

Swan Lake by Chris Van Allsburg and Mark Helprin ****

The Tightrope Walkers by David Almond ****

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Hero by Jon Lee Anderson ****

The Astonishing Life Of Octavian Nothing Volume 1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson ****

The Astonishing Life Of Octavian Nothing Volume 2: The Kingdom On The Waters by M.T. Anderson ****

Symphony For The City Of The Dead by M.T. Anderson ****

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood ****

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen ****

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ****

The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle by Avi ****

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt ****

Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie ****

Dark Lies The Island by Kevin Barry ****

Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme ****

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano ****

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury ****

The Mists Of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley ****

The Stranger by Albert Camus ****

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote **** 

True History Of The Kelly Gang by Peter Carey **** 

The Path To Power: The Years Of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro ****

In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin ****

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin ****

Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze ****

Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates ****

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad ****

Evicted by Matthew Desmond ****

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz ****

David Copperfield by Charles Dickesn ****

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens ****

Ragtime by EL Doctorow ****

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas; translated by Richard Pevear ****

My Family And Other Animals by Gerald Durrell ****

The World Of The Short Story edited by Clifton Fadiman ****

The Good Soldiers by David Finkel ****

Thank You For Your Service by David Finkel ****

Autumn Term by Antonia Forest (1948) ****

Beat To Quarters by C.S Forester ****

Ship Of The Line by C.S Forester ****

Don't Lets Go To The Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller ****

Coraline by Neil Gaiman ****

Sunset Song by Lewis Gibbons ****

We Wish To Inform You... by Philip Gourevitch ****

Goodbye To All That by Robert Graves ****

The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley ****

Act One by Moss Hart ****

Ellis Island and Other Stories by Mark Helprin ****

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin ****

Swan Lake by Mark Helprin with Chris Val Allsburg (illo) ****

The Snows Of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway ****

Krazy Kat (the strip in general) by George Herriman ****

Rocket Boys (aka October Sky) by Homer Hickam ****

Seabiscuit by Lauren Hillenbrand ****

The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes ****

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston ****

Pogo: Through The Wild Blue Yonder -- The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 1 by Walt Kelly ****

Kim by Rudyard Kipling ****

The Ecstatic by Victor LaValle ****

Valdez Is Coming by Elmore Leonard **** 

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively **** 

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill -- Visions Of Glory 1874-1932 by William Manchester ****

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill -- Alone 1932-1940 by William Manchester ****

Wolf Hall By Hilary Mantel ****

Malcolm X: A Live Of Reinvention by Manning Marable ****

A Game Of Thrones by George R.R. Martin ****

Castles Of Steel by Robert Massie ****

Dreadnought by Robert K. Massie ****

Truman by David McCullough ****

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville ****

Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser ****

Martin Dressler: The Tale Of An American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser ****

Voices In The Night by Steven Millhauser ****

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell ****

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris ****

Devil In A Blue Dress by Walter Mosley ****

Bad Boy Brawly Brown by Walter Mosley ****

Train Whistle Guitar by Albert Murray ****

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov ****

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian ****

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien ****

The Buddha In The Attic by Julie Otsuka ****

The Unwinding by George Packer ****

Edisto by Padgett Powell ****

Edisto Revisited by Padgett Powell ****

His Dark Materials: Northern Lights aka The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman ****

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson ****

American Pastoral by Philip Roth ****

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie ****

Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupery ****

Bambi: A Life In The Woods by Felix Salten ****

Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders ****

Gaudy Nights (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers ****

Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers ****

The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960 by Charles M. Schulz ****

The Complete Peanuts 1961-1962 by Charles M. Schulz ****

The Complete Peanuts 1965-1966 by Charles M. Schulz ****

The Rings Of Saturn by W.G. Sebald **** 

Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak ****

A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan ****

A Boy And A Bear In A Boat by Dave Shelton ****

On Sunset Blvd.: The Life and Times Of Billy Wilder by Ed Sikov ****

Early Warning by Jane Smiley ****

Some Luck by Jane Smiley ****

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne ****

The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor ****

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin ****

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein ****

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein ****

The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkein ****

The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King by J.R.R. Tolkein **** 

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, trans by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhnosky ****

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, trans by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky ****

Doonesbury (the comic strip overall) by Garry Trudeau ****

Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ****

Mister Max: The Book Of Kings by Cynthia Voigt ****

The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton ****

A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White ****

Stoner by John Williams ****

The Virginian by Owen Wister ****

This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff ****

THREE AND A HALF STARS

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo *** 1/2

Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman *** 1/2

Dickens by Peter Ackroyd *** 1/2

Milton In America by Peter Ackroyd *** 1/2

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams *** 1/2

The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories by Joan Aiken *** 1/2

The Tevye Stories And Other Stories by Sholem Aleichem *** 1/2

The Absolutely True Adventures of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie *** 1/2

You Don't Have To Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie *** 1/2

A City In Winter by Chris Van Allsburg and Mark Helprin *** 1/2

A Coffin For Dimitrios by Eric Ambler *** 1/2

King by Ho Che Anderson *** 1/2

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson *** 1/2

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou *** 1/2 

Endling The Last by Katherine Applegate *** 1/2

The Bear And The Nightingale by Katherine Arden *** 1/2

The Girl in The Tower by Katherine Arden *** 1/2

Foundation by Isaac Asimov *** 1/2

Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov *** 1/2

Some Hope by Edward St. Aubyn *** 1/2

Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn *** 1/2

Emma by Jane Austen *** 1/2

Persuasion by Jane Austen *** 1/2

Beyond The Western Sea Book 2 by Avi *** 1/2

The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela *** 1/2

The Devil's Storybook by Natalie Babbitt *** 1/2

Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz  *** 1/2

Longbourn by Jo Baker *** 1/2

Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin *** 1/2 

Little Man, Little Man by James Baldwin and illos by Yoran Cazac (1976) *** 1/2 

Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme *** 1/2

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby *** ½

Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum *** 1/2

The Feast Of Love by Charles Baxter *** 1/2

The Sellout by Paul Beatty *** 1/2

We Believe The Children by Richard Beck *** 1/2

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall *** 1/2

Ball Four by Jim Bouton *** 1/2

Miracle At Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen *** ½

Tarzan Of The Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs *** 1/2

The Cinder Spires: Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher *** 1/2

Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote *** 1/2

Selected Writings Of Truman Capote *** 1/2

A Capote Reader by Truman Capote *** 1/2

The Complete Stories of Truman Capote *** 1/2 

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey *** 1/2 

Junius And Albert's Adventures In The Confederacy by Peter Carlson *** 1/2

Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes (trans by Edith Grossman) *** 1/2

A Passionate Prodigality by Guy Chapman *** 1/2

My Life In France by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme *** 1/2

The Awakening by Kate Chopin *** 1/2

The Big Show by Pierre Closterman *** 1/2

Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb *** 1/2

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins *** 1/2

Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad *** 1/2 

Skippy: Daily Comics 1925-1927 by Percy Crosby *** 1/2

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt *** 1/2

Deadwood by Pete Dexter *** ½

Drown by Junot Diaz *** 1/2

The Adventures Of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens *** 1/2

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens *** 1/2

Bleak House by Charles Dickens *** 1/2

Hard Times by Charles Dickens *** 1/2

Out Of Africa by Isak Dinesen *** 1/2 

Fup by Jim Dodge *** 1/2

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr *** 1/2

The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle *** 1/2

The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle *** 1/2

The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle *** 1/2

The Return Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle *** 1/2

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas *** 1/2

Chronicles Vol. 1 by Bob Dylan *** ½

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers *** 1/2

A Hologram For The King by Dave Eggers *** 1/2

Nest by Esther Erlich *** 1/2

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides *** 1/2

Their Finest by Lissa Evans *** 1/2

The House Of The Scorpion by Nancy Farmer *** 1/2

The Siege Of Krishnapur by JG Farrell *** 1/2 

Small Country by Gaël Faye *** 1/2

The Princess Of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette *** 1/2

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde *** 1/2 

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (1943) *** 1/2 

Hornblower and the Hotspur by C.S Forester *** 1/2

Hornblower During The Crisis by C.S Forester *** 1/2

Hornblower and the Atropos by C.S Forester *** 1/2

Flying Colours by C.S Forester *** 1/2

Prince Valiant Volume 3: 1941-1942 by Hal Foster *** 1/2

Prince Valiant Volume 4: 1943-1944 by Hal Foster *** 1/2

Bryant And May And The Burning Man by Christopher Fowler *** 1/2

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen *** 1/2

Cocktail Hour Under The Tree Of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller *** 1/2

The Book That Changed America by Randall Fuller ***

Sea Of Poppies by Amitov Ghosh *** 1/2

River Of Smoke by Amitov Ghosh *** 1/2

The Princess Bride by William Goldman *** 1/2

The Yard by Alex Grecian *** 1/2

Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory *** 1/2

The Glass Sentence by S.E. Grove ***/

Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton *** 1/2

The Assassination Of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen *** 1/2

The Art Of Fielding by Chad Harbach *** 1/2

An Officer And A Spy by Robert Harris *** 1/2

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris *** ½

The Spark And The Drive by Wayne Harrison *** 1/2 

The Sea Queen by Linnea Hartsuyker *** 1/2

Masqueraders by Georgette Hayer *** 1/2

The Tale Of Shikanodo Book 1: Emperor Of The Eight Islands by Lian Hearn *** 1/2
The Tale Of Shikanodo Book 2: Autumn Princess, Dragon Child by Lian Hearn *** 1/2

Slice Harvester by Colin Atrophy Hegendorf *** 1/2

A Dove Of The East and Other Stories by Mark Helprin *** 1/2

A Soldier Of The Great War by Mark Helprin *** 1/2

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway *** 1/2

A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway *** 1/2

The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway *** 1/2

A Dual Inheritance by Joanna Hershon *** 1/2

The Boys' House: New and Selected Stories by Jim Heynen *** 1/2

The Coalwood Way by Homer Hickam *** 1/2 

The Divided Earth by Faith Erin Hicks *** 1/2

Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand *** 1/2

Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb *** 1/2

The Devil In The Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson *** 1/2
The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins by Antonia Hodgson *** 1/2

The Hidden Life Of Trees by Peter Hohlleben *** 1/2

Dancer From The Dance by Andrew Holleran *** 1/2

A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne *** 1/2

I Served The King Of England by Bohumil Hrabal *** ½

IQ by Joe Ide *** 1/2

Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls (1982) *** 1/2

The World According To Garp by John Irving *** 1/2

The Cider House Rules by John Irving *** 1/2 

The Fifth Season by N.J. Jemisin (Broken Earth Trilogy Vol. 1) *** 1/2

The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin (Broken Earth Trilogy, Vol. 2) *** 1/2

The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin (Broker Earth Trilogy Vol 3) *** 1/2 

Queen Of The Air by Dean Jensen *** 1/2

Children of Earth And Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay *** 1/2

The Last Temptation by Nikos Kazantzakis *** 1/2

Berlin, 1961: Kennedy, Kruschev and The Most Dangerous Place On Earth by Frederick Kempe *** 1/2 

Beneath A Ruthless Sun by Gilbert King *** 1/2

The Murder Of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King *** 1/2

Different Seasons by Stephen King *** 1/2

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling *** 1/2

The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling *** 1/2

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling *** 1/2

Collected Verse by Rudyard Kipling *** 1/2

Empire Of Sin by Gary Krist *** 1/2

Austerity Britain: 1945-1951 by David Kynaston *** 1/2

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri *** 1/2

The Sea Witch by Alexander Laing *** ½

The Far Side(the comic strip in general) by Gary Larson *** 1/2

Slapboxing With Jesus by Victor LaValle *** 1/2

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee *** 1/2 

A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin (1968) *** 1/2

Prayers For Rain by Dennis Lehane *** 1/2

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane *** 1/2

Hombre by Elmore Leonard *** 1/2 

The Street Where I Live by Alan Jay Lerner *** 1/2

The Lies Of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch *** 1/2

Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch *** 1/2

The Deep Blue Goodbye by John D. MacDonald (Travis McGee #1) *** 1/2

A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre *** 1/2

Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi *** 1/2

One Nation, Under Gods by Peter Manseau *** 1/2

West With The Night by Beryl Markham *** 1/2

The Fisher King by Paule Marshall *** 1/2

A Clash Of Kings by George R.R. Martin *** 1/2

A Storm Of Swords by George R.R. Martin *** 1/2

A Feast For Crows by George R.R. Martin *** 1/2

A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin *** 1/2

Born Standing Up by Steve Martin *** 1/2

Lost Books Of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason *** 1/2

Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann *** 1/2

Transatlantic by Colum McCann *** 1/2

The Longest Way Home by Andrew McCarthy *** 1/2

No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy *** ½ 

The Road by Cormac McCarthy *** ½ 

Wolves Of Eden by Kevin McCarthy *** 1/2 

The Man Of The House by Stephen McCauley *** 1/2

Little Nemo in Slumberland (the strip in general) by Winsor McCay *** 1/2

The Member Of The Wedding by Carson McCullers *** 1/2

John Adams by David McCullough *** 1/2

Someone by Alice McDermott *** 1/2

Atonement by Ian McEwan *** 1/2

The Children Act by Ian McEwan *** 1/2

A Brief History Of Creation by Bill Mesler and H. James Cleaves II *** 1/2

The Son by Philip Meyer *** 1/2 

God: A Biography by Jack Miles *** 1/2 

Circe by Madeline Miller *** 1/2

The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser *** 1/2

Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Steven Millhauser *** 1/2

Enchanted Night by Steven Millhauser *** 1/2

In The Penny Arcade by Steven Millhauser *** 1/2

We Others: New and Selected Stories by Steven Millhauser *** 1/2

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima *** 1/2

Anne Of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery *** 1/2

Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montgomery *** 1/2

Two Adolescents by Alberto Moravia *** 1/2

Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris *** ½

Beloved by Toni Morrison *** 1/2

A Red Death by Walter Mosley *** 1/2

White Butterfly by Walter Mosley *** 1/2

Black Betty by Walter Mosley *** 1/2

A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley *** 1/2

Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley *** 1/2

Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley *** 1/2

Little Green by Walter Mosley *** 1/2

Rose Gold by Walter Mosley *** 1/2 

I'm A Free State by V.S. Naipul *** 1/2 

A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar *** 1/2

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness *** 1/2

More Than This by Patrick Ness *** 1/2

Temeraire by Naomi Novik *** 1/2

Throne Of Jade by Naomi Novik *** 1/2

Victory Of Eagles by Naomi Novik *** 1/2

Blood Of Tyrants by Naomi Novik *** 1/2

Uprooted by Naomi Novik *** 1/2  

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik *** 1/2 

Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama *** 1/2 

The Aubrey-Maturin Series by Patrick O'Brian *** 1/2 

Fly Girls by Keith O'Brien *** 1/2

My Father, The Pornographer by Chris Offutt *** 1/2

Thunderhead by Mary O'Hara *** 1/2

The Abominable Mr. Seabrook by Joe Ollmann *** 1/2 

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje *** 1/2 

There There by Tommy Orange *** 1/2 

The Library Book by Susan Orlean *** 1/2 

When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka *** 1/2

Dear Mr. You by Mary Louise Parker *** 1/2

Resolution by Robert B. Parker *** 1/2

The Horseman by Tim Pears *** 1/2

A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck *** 1/2

A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck *** 1/2

On The Wings Of Heroes by Richard Peck *** 1/2

A King's Ransom by Sharon Kay Penman *** 1/2

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins (short story) *** 1/2

Out Stealing Horses by Pers Petersen *** 1/2  

Imperial Twilight by Stephen R. Platt *** 1/2 

The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell *** 1/2

The Ruby In The Smoke by Philip Pullman *** 1/2

The Shadow In The North by Philip Pullman *** 1/2

His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman *** 1/2

His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman *** 1/2

The Revenant by Michael Punke *** 1/2 

The Tangled Tree by David Quammen *** 1/2 

Playing To The Gods by Peter Rader *** 1/2 

The Doorman's Repose by Chris Raschka *** 1/2 

Enter Talking by Joan Rivers with Richard Meryman (1986) *** 1/2

Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson *** 1/2

Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson ***1/2

The Years Of Rice And Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson *** 1/2

2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson *** 1/2

Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson *** 1/2

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson *** 1/2

The Leviathan by Joseph Roth (trans Michael Hoffmann) *** 1/2

I Married A Communist by Philip Roth *** 1/2

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth *** 1/2

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling *** 1/2

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff *** 1/2

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks *** 1/2

Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks *** 1/2

Blindness by Jose Saramago *** 1/2

Unnatural Deaths by Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey) *** 1/2

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers *** 1/2

Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers *** 1/2

Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers *** 1/2 

The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers *** 1/2 

Roman Blood by Steven Saylor *** 1/2 

Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm *** 1/2

Peanuts (the comic strip in general) by Charles M. Schulz *** 1/2

The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958 by Charles M. Schulz *** 1/2

The Complete Peanuts 1963-1964 by Charles M. Schulz *** 1/2

The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968 by Charles M. Schulz *** 1/2

The Complete Peanuts 1969-1970 by Charles M. Schulz *** ½

Bicycle Days by John Burnham Schwartz *** 1/2 

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris *** 1/2 

Calypso by David Sedaris *** 1/2 

Transit by Anna Seghers (1944) *** 1/2 

The Marvels by Brian Selznick *** 1/2

Young Nicholas by Rene Goscinny; illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempe *** 1/2

Kara Kush by Idries Shah *** 1/2

Nosferatu by Jim Shepard *** 1/2

The Book Of Aron by Jim Shepard *** 1/2

Amsterdam by Russell Shorto *** 1/2

Dark Victory: The Life Of Bette Davis by Ed Sikov *** ½

The Summer Before The War by Helen Simonson *** 1/2

Indelible by Karin Slaughter *** 1/2

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter *** 1/2

Stitches by David Small *** 1/2

Golden Age by Jane Smiley *** 1/2

Stand-Off by Andrew Smith *** 1/2

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith *** 1/2

The Complete Bone by Jeff Smith *** 1/2

Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen *** 1/2

Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man by Walter Stahr *** 1/2

The Secret Of Nightingale Wood by Lucy Strange *** 1/2

This Divided Island by Samanth Subramanian *** 1/2

Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase For Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson *** 1/2

I Can't Breathe by Matt Taibbi *** 1/2

The Secret History by Donna Tartt *** 1/2

A Woman Of Means by Peter Taylor *** 1/2

The Collected Stories Of Peter Taylor *** 1/2

A Summons To Memphis by Peter Taylor *** 1/2

The Oracle At Stoneleigh Court by Peter Taylor *** 1/2

Habibi by Craig Thompson *** 1/2

The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti *** 1/2 

The Master by Colm Toibin *** 1/2  

#SAD: Doonesbury In The Time of Trump by Garry Trudeau *** 1/2

The Guns Of August by Barbara W. Tuchman *** 1/2 

The Gilded Age by Mark Twain *** 1/2 

Sketches New And Old by Mark Twain *** 1/2

Mister Max: The Book Of Secrets by Cynthia Voigt *** 1/2

The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America by 

T.H. Watkins *** 1/2

The Complete Calvin And Hobbes by Bill Waterson *** 1/2

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh *** 1/2

The Graduate by Charles Webb *** 1/2

Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster *** 1/2 

The Murderer's Ape by Jakob Wegelius *** 1/2 

The House That Ruth Built by Robert Weintraub *** 1/2 

The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss *** 1/2

The House Of Mirth by Edith Wharton *** 1/2

The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead *** 1/2

Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead *** 1/2

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead *** 1/2

Butcher's Crossing by John Williams *** 1/2

My First Hundred Years In Show Business by Mary Louise Wilson *** 1/2

1944: FDR and The Year That Changed History by Jay Winik *** 1/2

The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff *** 1/2

Ride With The Devil aka Woe To Live On by Daniel Woodrell *** 1/2

What's Left Of Me: The Hybrid Chronicles Vol. 1 by Kat Zhang *** 1/2

Triumph and Disaster: Five Historical Miniatures by Stefan Zweig *** 1/2

THREE STARS

Three Brothers by Peter Ackroyd ***

So Long, And Thanks for All The Fish by Douglas Adams ***

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga ***

The Teeth Of The Gale by Joan Aiken ***

Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search For Extra-Terrestrial Life edited by Jim Al-khalili ***

Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg ***

The Wreck Of The Zephyr by Chris Van Allsburg ***

The Widow's Broom by Chris Van Allsburg ***

Skellig by David Almond

The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas by David Almond ***

Never Always Sometimes by Adi Alsaid ***

Journey Into Fear by Eric Ambler ***

Feed by M.T. Anderson (2002) ***/

Landscape With Invisible Hand by M.T. Anderson ***

Mom And Me And Mom by Maya Angelou ***

The Underneath by Kathi Appelt ***

Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer ***

Only Time Will Tell (Clifton Chronicles Vol 1) by Jeffrey Archer ***

A Massacre in Memphis by Steven V. Ash ***

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov ***

Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov ***

The Caves Of Steel by Isaac Asimov ***

Tales of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov ***

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson ***

Never Mind by Edward St. Aubyn ***

Bad News by Edward St. Aubyn ***

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen ***

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen ***

Beyond The Western Sea Book 1 by Avi ***

The Most Important Thing by Avi ***

Murder At Midnight by Avi **The Search For Delicious by Natalie Babbitt ***

Jack Plank Tells Tales by Natalie Babbitt *** 

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin ***/ 

Jane And The Waterloo Map by Stephanie Barron ***

Beatlebone by Kevin Barry ***

Saul and Patty by Charles Baxter *** 

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel ***

Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel ***

Death Walks In Eastrepp by Francis Beeding ***

Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery by James R. Benn ***

Blood Alone by James R. Benn ***

Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike by David Beresford ***

38 Nooses by Scott W. Berg ***

The Bill Of Rights by Carol Berkin ***

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry ***

Orphans Of The Carnival by Carol Birch ***

Lizzie and the Lost Baby by Cheryl Blackford ***

Lucky Us by Amy Bloom ***

In The Unlikely Event by Judy Blume ***

By Night In Chile by Roberto Bolaño *** 

The Mandela Plot by Kenneth Bonert ***

The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin ***

The First Congress by Fergus M. Bordewich ***

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: From Concept To Classic by Laurent Bouzereau ***

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury ***

Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury ***

The Dead In Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley ***

As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust by Alan Bradley ***

A Million Heavens by John Brandon ***

Court-Martial by Chris Bray ***

The Tropic Of Serpents by Marie Brennan ***
Voyage Of The Basilisk by Marie Brennan ***

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronté ***

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronté

Hinterland by Caroline Brothers *** 

Hickory by Palmer Brown *** 

The Panic Of 1907 by Robert F. Bruner and Sean Carr ***

Atlantic High by William F. Buckley Jr. ***

Marco Polo If You Can by William F. Buckley Jr. ***

The Story Of Henri Tod by William F. Buckley Jr. ***

Right Reason by William F. Buckley Jr. ***

Racing Through Paradise by William F. Buckley Jr. ***

Why Time Flies by Alan Burdick ***

The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs ***

Music For Chameleons by Truman Capote ***

Leviathan Awakes by James S.A. Carey *** 

A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey ***  

Southern League: A True Story of Baseball, Civil Rights... by Larry Carlton ***

The Alienist by Caleb Carr *** 

The Case Against The Supreme Court by Erwin Chemerinsky ***

Sorcerer To The Crown by Zen Cho ***

Global Discontents by Noam Chomsky; interviews w David Barsamian ***  

The Unknown Universe by Stuart Clark ***

Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke *** 

2001: A Space Odyssey ***  

Rendezvous With Rama *** 

The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate ***

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins ***

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ***

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad ***

Achilles by Elizabeth Cook ***

London Falling by Paul Cornell ***

Soulless by Gail Corriger ***

The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill ***

Memory Theater by Simon Critchley *** 

Skippy: Daily Comics 1928-1930 by Percy Crosby ***

Skippy: Daily Comics 1931-1933 by Percy Crosby *** 

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis ***

Rodzina by Karen Cushman ***

Showdown At Shepherd's Bush by David Davis ***

The Ipcress File by Len Deighton ***

Funeral In Berlin by Len Deighton *** 

The War Before The War by Andrew Delbanco *** 

No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon ***

Our Man In Charleston by Christopher Dickey ***

Hans Brinker, Or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge ***\

I Am Spartacus: Making A Film, Breaking The Blacklist by Kirk Douglas ***

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Himself ***

A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle *** 

The Sign Of The Four by Arthur Conan Doyle ***

The Valley Of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle ***

His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle ***

Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar ***

Half Magic by Edward Eager ***

Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives by David Eagleman ***

South Toward Home by Margaret Eby ***

Dodsworth in Rome by Tim Egan ***

Revolutionary Summer by Joseph Ellis ***

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From Making Of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes ***

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides ***

Of Bone And Thunder by Chris Evans ***

Toms River by Dan Fagin ***

Luminous Airplanes by Paul La Farge ***

A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks ***

The Evangelicals by Frances Fitzgerald ***

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn ***

Lieutenant Hornblower by C.S Forester ***

Lord Hornblower by C.S Forester ***

Prince Valiant Volume 1: 1937-1938 by Hal Foster ***

Prince Valiant Volume 2: 1939-1940 by Hal Foster ***

The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault ***

Bryant And May: Strange Tides by Christopher Fowler *** 

Conan Doyle For The Defense by Margalit Fox ***

Four Futures: Visions Of The World After Capitalism by Peter Frase ***

The Age Of Acquiescence by Steve Fraser ***/

Quiet Until The Thaw by Alexandra Fuller ***/

George F. Kennan by John Lewis Gaddis ***

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman ***

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman ***

The Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman ***A Gathering Of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines ***

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell ***

The Epiphany Machine by David Burr Gerrard ***/

Words Without Music by Philip Glass ***

Nicholas Again by Rene Goscinny; illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempe ***

Otis Redding by Jonathan Gould ***/

Jumper by Steven Gould ***

Jumper: Griffin's Story by Steven Gould ***

Refugee by Alan Gratz ***

The Black Country by Alex Grecian ***

Looking For Alaska by John Green ***

Paper Towns by John Green ***\

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green ***

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene ***

The Magician by Lev Grossman ***

The Magician King by Lev Grossman ***

The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman ***

The Road To Jonestown by Jeff Guinn ***

The Case Of The Deadly Butter Chicken by Tarquin Hall ***

The Case Of The Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall ***

The Case Of The Man Who Died Laughing by Tarquin Hall ***

The Bad-Ass Librarians Of Timbuktu by Josh Hammer ***

Living Dead Until Dallas by Charlaine Harris ***

Club Dead by Charlaine Harris ***

Day Shift by Charlaine Harris ***

Fatherland by Robert Harris ***

Enigma by Robert Harris ***

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris ***

Joan Of Arc: A Life Transfigured by Kathryn Harrison ***

Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart ***

The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker ***/

The Tale Of Shikanodo Book 3: Lord Of Darkwood by Lian Hearn ***

The Tale Of Shikanodo Book 4: The Tengu's Game Of Go by Lian Hearn ***

Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein ***

Memoir From Antproof Case by Mark Helprin ***

The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway ***

The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway ***

Losing Our Way by Bob Herbert ***

Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen ***

Skink -- No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen ***

The Keeper's Son by Homer Hickam ***

Carrying Albert Home by Homer Hickam ***/

The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks ***

The Stone Heart: The Nameless City Volume 2 by Faith Erin Hicks ***/

Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins ***

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith ***

Seven Rivers West by Edward Hoagland ***

Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb ***

Fool's Quest by Robin Hobb ***

The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth ***

Nights In Aruba by Andrew Holleran *** 

Aladdin -- a new translation by Paolo Lemos Horta *** 

Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household ***

Neverhome by Laird Hunt *** 

Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston ***

Righteous by Joe Ide ***

Setting Free The Bears by John Irving ***

The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving ***

A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving ***

Avenue Of Mysteries by John Irving ***

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood ***

How To Catch A Bogle by Catherine Jenkins ***

A Plague Of Bogles by Catherine Jenkins ***

The Last Bogler by Catherine Jenkins ***

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson ***

A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston ***

The Siege by Ismail Kadare ***

Frank: The Voice by James Kaplan ***/

The Learners by Chip Kidd ***

Dream Of Spires by Laurie R. King ***

The Dark Tower II: The Drawing Of The Three by Stephen King ***

Plain Tales From The Hills by Rudyard Kipling ***

The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales by Rudyard Kipling ***

Barrack-Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling ***

Captain's Courageous by Rudyard Kipling ***

The Complete Stalky And Co. by Rudyard Kipling ***

From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg ***

Hostile Takeover by Shane Kuhn ***

The Translation Of Love by Lynne Kutsukaka *** 

Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? by Robert Kuttner *** 

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri ***

In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri ***

The French Admiral (Alan Lewrie series) by Dewey Lambdin ***

The King's Privateer by Dewey Lambdin, an Alan Lewrie adventure ***

Savage Season (Hap and Leonard #1) by Joe R. Lansdale ***

Big Machine by Victor LaValle ***

The Devil In Silver by Victor LaValle ***

The Changeling by Victor LaValle ***

A Drink Before The War by Dennis Lehane ***

Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane ***

Sacred by Dennis Lehane ***

Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane ***

The Child Who by Simon Lelic ***

The Gentleman by Forrest Leo ***

Death In A Strange Country by Donna Leon ***

Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem ***

Juliet's Nurse by Lois Leveen ***

The Remarkable Education Of John Quincy Adams by Phyllis Lee Levin *** 

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis *** 

A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis (1961) ***

Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis ***

The Big Short by Michael Lewis ***

The Wind On The Moon by Eric Linklater ***

What Just Happened by Art Linson ***

The Siege Of Washington by John Lockwood and Charles Lockwood ***

Proxy by Alex London ***

America's Bank by Roger Lowenstein ***

Midnight Plus One by Gavin Lyall ***

Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon ***

Finale by Thomas Mallon ***

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill -- Defender Of The Realm 1940-1965 by William Manchester with Paul Reid ***

Tamburlaine Parts I and III by Christopher Marlowe ***

The World Of Tomorrow by Brendan Matthews ***

Willie And Joe Back Home by Bill Mauldin ***

All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy ***

Easy Way Out by Stephen McCauley *** 

Marilla Of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy *** 

1776 by David McCullough ***

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough ***

The Skeleton Road by Val McDermid ***

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan ***

Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan ***

The Long Way Round by Ewan McGregor And Charley Boorman *** 

Circling The Sun by Paula McLain *** 

Beatles Vs. Stones by John McMillian *** 

The Apothecary by Maile Meloy ***

Billy Budd by Herman Melville ***

Tales of The South Pacific by James A Michener *** 

God in the Qu'ran by Jack Miles *** 

Quakeland by Kathryn Miles ***

Hero Of The Empire by Candice Millar ***

The King In The Tree by Steven Millhauser ***

The Knife Thrower by Steven Millhauser ***

Little Kingdoms by Steven Millhauser ***

Slade House by David Mitchell ***

Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell *** for story/* for ugliness

Young Once by Patrick Modiano ***

Suspended Sentences by Patrick Modiano ***

Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery ***

Anne Of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery ***

Rilla Of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery ***

Hero by Perry Moore ***

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo ***

The Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R. Morris ***

Starting Out In The Evening by Brian Morton ***

Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley  ***

Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley ***

Gone Fishin' by Walter Mosley ***

Six Easy Pieces by Walter Mosley ***

And Sometimes I Wonder About You by Walter Mosley ***

Keats by Andrew Motion ***

The Spyglass Tree by Albert Murray ***

Revolutionary by Alex Myers ***

Grand Pursuit by Sylvia Nasar ***

Five Children And It by E. Nesbit ***

The Railway Children by E. Nesbit ***

The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit ***

The Rest Of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness *** 

Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee (bio of John W Campbell and sci-fi) *** 

John Saturnall's Feast by Lawrence Norfolk ***

Between You And Me by Mary Norris ***

Bed Knob And Broomstick by Mary Norton ***

The Borrowers by Mary Norton ***

Black Powder War by Naomi Novik ***

Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik ***

League Of Dragons by Naomi Novik ***

Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik ***

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats Of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien ***

My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara ***

Green Grass Of Wyoming by Mary O'Hara ***

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill ***

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel ***

Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel *** 

Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker ***

Brimstone by Robert B. Parker ***

Blue-Eyed Devil by Robert B. Parker ***

A Mighty Heart by Mariane Pearl ***

Fair Weather by Richard Peck ***

East Of The West by Miroslav Penkov ***

The Queen's Man by Sharon Kay Penman ***

Cruel As The Grave by Sharon Kay Penman ***

Dragon's Lair by Sharon Kay Penman ***

Prince Of Darkness by Sharon Kay Penman ***

Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman ***

Hissing Cousins by Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer ***

Freak The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick ***

Dog Man Unleashed by Dav Pilkey ***

The Monopolists by Mary Pilon ***

God's Bankers by Gerald Posner ***

Typical by Padgett Powell ***

Aliens Of Affection by Padgett Powell ***

Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men by Padgett Powell ***

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers ***

The Book Of Dust Volume One: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman ***

The Tiger In The Well by Philip Pullman ***

The White Mercedes by Philip Pullman ***

Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Bway Revolution by Scott S. Purdum ***

To Ruhleban and Back by Geoffrey Pyke ***

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon ***

The Great Surge by Steve Radelet ***

Genius For Deception by Nicholas Rankin ***

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome ***

The Evenings by Gerard Reve (1956) (trans by Sam Garrett) ***/

Capital Dames by Cokie Roberts ***

Island Of Bones by Imogen Robertson ***

Circle Of Shadows by Imogen Robertson ***

Switched On by John Elder Robinson ***

The Martians by Kim Stanley Robinson ***

New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson ***

Bright Island by Mabel L. Robinson ***

The Violet Hour by Katie Roiphe ***

Moonday by Alex Ross ***

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling ***

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling ***

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling ***

The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith aka JK Rowling ***

Social Disease by Paul Rudnick ***

It's All Your Fault by Paul Rudnick ***

Awakenings by Oliver Sacks ***

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery ***

Dominion by C.J. Samson ***

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi ***

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi ***

Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey) ***

The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers ***

Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers ***  

Arms Of Nemesis by Steven Saylor ***

Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare's Sonnets by Elaine Scarry ***

Tow-Truck Pluck by Annie M.G. Schmidt ***

The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952 by Charles M. Schulz ***

The Complete Peanuts 1953-1954 by Charles M. Schulz ***

The Complete Peanuts 1955-1956 by Charles M. Schulz ***

The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972 by Charles M. Schulz ***

The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974 by Charles M. Schulz ***

Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz ***

The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz *** 

Barrel Fever by David Sedaris ***

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris *** 

Naked by David Sedaris ***  

Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris ***  

The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden ***

The Invention Of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick ***

The Nutshell Library by Maurice Sendak ***

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More To Life by Maurice Sendak ***

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell ***

New Thoughts by Wallace Shawn ***

Battling Against Castro by Jim Shepard ***

Demon Vol. 2 by Jason Shiga ***

The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve ***

Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides ***

Blood And Thunder by Hampton Sides ***

In The Kingdom Of Ice by Hampton Sides ***

Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers by Ed Sikov *** 

The Carter Of La Providence by Georges Simenon (1931) (Maigret #2) ***/

The Late Monsieur Gallet by Georges Simenon (1931) (Maigret #3) ***

Kisscut by Karin Slaughter ***/

A Faint Cold Fear by Karin Slaughter ***/

Faithless by Karin Slaughter ***

Cop Town by Karin Slaughter ***

No. 1 Ladies Detctive Agency by Alexander McCall Smith ***

Winger by Andrew Smith ***

Mussolini by Denis Mack Smith ***

American Mirror: The Life And Art of Norman Rockwell by Deborah Solomon ***

Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy by Bishop John Shelby Spong ***

The Last Cowboys Of San Geronimo by Ian Stansel *** 

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson *** (but *** 1/2 in terms of influence)

Love, Nina by Nine Stibbe ***

The Living Constitution by David A. Strauss ***

The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout ***

The Curious World Of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Tate *** 

The Emissary by Yoko Tawada ***

In The Miro District and Other Stories by Peter Taylor ***

In The Tennessee Country by Peter Taylor ***

Duke: A Life Of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout ***

The Vatican Diaries by John Thavis ***

The Land Of Steady Habits by Ted Thompson ***

The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin ***

Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin ***

Play It Loud by Brad Tolinski and Alan Di Perna ***

The Tolkein Reader by J.R.R. Tolkein ***

The Father Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkein ***

The Silmarilion by J.R.R. Tolkein ***

Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin ***

Cue For Treason by Geoffrey Trease ***

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner ***

The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County And Other Sketches by Mark Twain ***

The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain ***

The Prince And The Pauper by Mark Twain ***

Countdown To Pearl Harbor by Steve Twomey ***

Bobby Kennedy by Larry Tye ***

The Cleaner of Chartres by Sally Vickers ***

Mister Max: The Book Of Lost Things by Cynthia Voigt *** 

Toaff's Way by Cynthia Voigt ***

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut ***

The Late Scholar (A Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery) by Jill Paton Walsh ***

Farthing by Jo Walton *** 

Camelot's End by Jon Ward *** 

Coffin, Scarcely Used by Colin Watson (1958) ***

Bump In The Night: A Flaxborough Mystery by Colin Watson ***

Patient: The True Story Of A Rare Illness by Ben Watt ***

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh ***

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh ***

Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh ***

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh ***

New Cardiff by Charles Webb ***

The Marriage Game by Alison Weir ***

The Young World by Chris Weitz ***

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton ***

Cosby: His Life And Times by Mark Whitaker ***

Smoketown by Mark Whitaker ***

States of Desire by Edmund White ***

The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White ***

The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White *** 

Hotel de Dream by Edmund White *** 

Jack Holmes and His Friends by Edmund White *** 

John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead *** 

The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death by Colson Whitehead *** 

Falling Ill by CK Williams ***

Writing To Save A Life: The Louis Till File by John Edgar Wideman ***

A Series Of Catastrophes And Miracles by Mary Elizabeth Williams ***

The Kings of Cool by Don Winslow ***

Savages by Don Winslow ***

Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters ***

The Duke Of Deception by Geoffrey Wolff ***

In The Garden Of The North American Martyrs by Tobiass Wolff ***

Back In The World by Tobias Wolff ***

In Pharoah's Army by Tobias Wolff ***

Old School by Tobias Wolff ***

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson ***

Death Of A Red Heroine (Inspector Chen mystery) by Qiu Xialong ***

The Ploughmen by Kim Zupan ***

Genius and Discovery: Five Historical Miniatures by Stefan Zweig *** 

Updated December 31, 2018

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