Books Read:
How Reading Changed My Life, Anna Quindlen
Karnak Café, Naguib Mahfouz
Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind, Paula Kamen
Metropole, Ferenc Karinthy
Good Dog. Stay., Anna Quindlen
The Archivist’s Story, Travis Holland
2666, Roberto Bolaño
Album of the Damned: Snapshots from the Third Reich, Paul Garson
Hunger, Knut Hamsun
Biografi: A Traveler’s Tale, Lloyd Jones
The Taker And Other Stories, Rubem Fonseca
I Hate New Music: The Classic Rock Manifesto, Dave Thompson (Review)
Don’t Go There!: The Travel Detective’s Essential Guide to the Must-Miss Places of the World, Peter Greenberg (Review)
Death with Interruptions, Jose Saramago
Scattershot: My Bipolar Family, David Lovelace
Conspiracy Theory in Film, Television, and Politics, Gordon B. Arnold (Review)
The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp through Civilization’s Best Bits, Erik Sass & Steve Wiegand (Review)
The Wasted Vigil, Nadeem Aslam
Hurry Down Sunshine, Michael Greenberg (Review)
To Siberia, Per Petterson
Down to a Sunless Sea, Mathias B. Freese (Review)
The Forever War, Dexter Filkins
Child 44, Tom Rob Smith
Dumbocracy: Adventures with the Loony Left, the Rabid Right, and Other American Idiots, Marty Beckerman (Review)
The Pets, Bragi Olafsson
Guests of the Nation, Mike Palecek (Review)
The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell (Review)
The Madonnas of Leningrad, Debra Dean
Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror, Steven T. Wax (Review)
The Final Solution: A Story of Detection, Michael Chabon
Home, Marilynne Robinson
Finding Nouf, Zoë Ferraris
Young Stalin, Simon Sebag Montefiore
Man in the Dark, Paul Auster
Mike’s Election Guide 2008, Michael Moore (Review)
Leningrad: State of Siege, Michael Jones
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia, Tim Tzouliadis
Atmospheric Disturbances, Rivka Galchen
The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry (Review)
The Do-It-Yourself Constitutional Amendment Kit, Nathaniel Whitten (Review)
Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power, Virginia Rounding
Death in Slow Motion: My Mother’s Descent into Alzheimer’s, Eleanor Cooney
In the Wake, Per Petterson
Netherland, Joseph O’Neill
Air: Or, Have Not Have, Geoff Ryman
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power, Rob Gifford
The Monster of Florence, Douglas Preston
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Puppy Chow Is Better Than Prozac: The True Story of a Man and the Dog Who Saved His Life, Bruce Goldstein
The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion, Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Mirrored Heavens, David J. Williams (Review)
Peace, Richard Bausch
The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing, Mayra Calvani & Anne K. Edwards (Review)
Omega Minor, Paul Verhaeghen
Bright Shiny Morning, James Frey
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire, Matt Taibbi (Review)
The Sorrow of War, Bao Ninh
White Noise, Don DeLillo
Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001), Don Felder
Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
Pushing Ice, Alastair Reynolds
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon
After Dachau, Daniel Quinn
The Man Who Turned Into Himself, David Ambrose (Review)
Serve the People!, Yan Lianke
Youth Without Youth, Mircea Eliade
Nazi Literature in the Americas, Roberto Bolaño (Review)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Mary Roach
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment, Anthony Lewis
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, John Joseph Adams (ed.)
Armageddon in Retrospect, Kurt Vonnegut
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, Nicholson Baker
One Soldier’s War, Arkady Babchenko
Postcards from the Boys, Ringo Starr
His Illegal Self, Peter Carey
Jackson Browne: His Life and Music, Mark Bego
A Simple Twist Of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood On the Tracks, Andy Gill
Bad Monkeys, Matt Ruff
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Ice, Vladimir Sorokin
The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
Dreamers of the Day, Mary Doria Russell (Review)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Homecoming, Bernhard Schlink
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World, Eric Weiner (Review)
The Painter of Battles, Arturo Perez-Reverte
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi
Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America’s Founding Fathers, Gary Kowalski (Review)
The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World, Lonely Planet
Firstborn, Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
Guantanamo: A Novel, Dorothea Dieckmann (Review)
Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson (Review)
The Slynx, Tatyana Tolstaya (Review)
The Story of a Nobody, Anton Chekhov
