2011 Reading List

Most recently read first:

Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World -- Richard Rhodes


House of Holes -- Nicholson Baker

Backwards Ran Sentences : The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker -- Wolcott Gibbs

The Master and Margarita -- Mikhail Bulgakov

Wolf Hall -- Hilary Mantel

Train Dreams -- Denis Johnson

Assumption -- Percival Everett

The Face of Trespass -- Ruth Rendell

Pictures at a Revolution -- Mark Harris

The Score -- Richard Stark

The Stars My Destination -- Alfred Bester

A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 -- Alistair Horne

The Sleepwalkers -- Paul Grossman

On The Road -- Jack Kerouac

Thy Neighbor's Wife -- Gay Talese

Varieties of Disturbance -- Lydia Davis

Comedy in a Minor Key -- Hans Keilson

Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure -- Craig Robinson

Outsider in Amsterdam -- Janwilliam van de Wetering

My Animal Life -- Maggie Gee

The Moonstone -- Wilkie Collins

Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence -- Bill James

A Meaningful Life -- L.J. Davis

Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage -- Richard Holmes

Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960 -- William Boyd

Embassytown -- China Mieville

Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews -- Geoff Dyer

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government -- David K. Johnson

Just Kids -- Patti Smith

Started Early, Took My Dog -- Kate Atkinson

Memento Mori -- Muriel Spark

Half a Life -- Darin Strauss

Three Men in a Boat -- Jerome K. Jerome

Toward You -- Jim Krusoe

The Arabs: A History -- Eugene Rogan

Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry -- David Orr

Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H. Lawrence -- Geoff Dyer

Bossypants -- Tina Fey

The Buenos Aires Quintet -- Manuel Vazquez Montalban

Funeral for a Dog -- Thomas Pletzinger

Ecstasy -- Mike Leigh

Season's Greetings -- Alan Ayckbourne

Mary Broome -- Allan Monkhouse

Heads You Lose -- Lisa Lutz and David Hayward

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe -- Charles Yu

Lidless -- Frances Ca-Chu Cowhig

A Lesson in Narrative Time -- Jody Bolz

Savages -- Don Winslow

Fen -- Caryl Churchill

Saul Bellow: Letters -- Saul Bellow

The Children's Hour -- Lillian Hellman

Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickenson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Bronte -- Maureen Adams

In a True Light -- John Harvey

She Was My Brother -- Julie Jensen

Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low-Culture Manifesto -- Chuck Klosterman

Vampire Boy -- Carlos Trillo & Eduardo Risso

Life -- Keith Richards

Revolution: The Year I Fell In Love and Went to Join the War -- Deb Olin Unferth

The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics -- Walter Mondale and David Hage