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....
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?
THREE AND A HALF STARS
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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
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 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 ***
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
