books i’ve read…

Reads 2009

1. A Tiger’s Heart - Aisling Juanjuan Shen
2. Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People - Tim Reiterman
3. Call Me By Your Name - Andre Aciman

Reads 2008

1. Runaway Horses - Yukio Mishima
2. Her Last Death - Susanna Sonnenberg
3. Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir of an Atomic Town - Kelly McMasters
4. In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
5. Celebutantes - Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper
6. Low Down: Junk, Jazz, and Other Fairy Tales from Childhood - A.J. Albany
7. The Delivery Man - Joe McGinniss Jr.
8. How the Dead Dream - Lydia Millet
9. Emily L - Marguerite Duras
10. The Decay of the Angel - Yukio Mishima
11. The Accidental - Ali Smith
12. Girls in Trucks - Katie Crouch
13. The Ravishing of Lol Stein - Marguerite Duras
14. The Story of a Marriage - Andrew Sean Greer
15. American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld
16. Play it as it Lays - Joan Didion
17. Petite Anglaise - Catherine Sanderson
18. The Confessions of Max Tivoli - Andrew Sean Greer
19. Cost - Roxana Robinson
20. House Rules - Rachel Sontag
21. Rats - Robert Sullivan
22. Falling into Manholes - Wendy Merrill
23. The Boat (stories) - Nam Le
24. Report on Myself - Gregoire Bouillier
25. sToriTELLING - Tori Spelling
26. Deluxe - Dana Thomas
27. An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination - Elizabeth McCracken
28. Cracked Up to Be - Courtney Summers
29. Diane Arbus - Patricia Bosworth
30. Atmospheric Disturbances - Rivka Galchen
31. Glory - Vladimir Nabokov
32. The Hunters - James Salter
33. The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham
34. Schooled - Anisha Lakhani
35. The Knife Thrower - Steven Millhauser
36. Seductive Poison - Deborah Layton
37. Salvation and Suicide - David Chidester
38. Heavenly Deceptor - Nathan Landau
39. Cults in our Midst - Margaret Thaler Singer
40. Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control - Dominic Streatfeild
41. Fieldwork - Mischa Berlinski
42. Dear People: Remembering Jonestown - Edited by Denise Stephenson

Reads 2007

1. Transparent - Cris Beam
2. L’Amante Anglaise - Marguerite Duras
3. The Old Child & Other Stories - Jenny Erpenbeck
4. The Keep - Jennifer Egan
5. Lover of Unreason - Yehuda Koren & Eilat Negev
6. The Wall - Jean-Paul Sartre
7. The Nimrod Flipout - Etgar Keret
8. July, July - Tim O’Brien
9. The Red Parts - Maggie Nelson
10. Silk - Alessandro Baricco, translated from the Italian by Guido Waldman
11. The Omnivore’s Dilemma - Michael Pollan
12. Then We Came to The End - Joshua Ferris
13. The Feminine Mistake - Leslie Bennetts
14. The Mistress’s Daughter - A.M. Homes
15. Now You Love Me - Liesel Litzenburger
16. Falling Man - Don Delillo
17. Baby Love - Rebecca Walker
18. Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul - Karen Abbott
19. I Love You, Let’s Meet - Virginia Vitzthum
20. Ace of Spades - David Matthews
21. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
22. Jamestown - Matthew Sharpe
23. Going After Cacciato - Tim O’Brien
24. Mississippi Sissy - Kevin Sessums
25. Rules for Saying Goodbye - Katherine Taylor
26. The Great Man - Kate Christensen
27. Gone to the Crazies - Alison Weaver
28. An Iliad - Alessandro Baricco
29. The Reincarnationist - M.J. Rose
30. The Scandal of the Season - Sophie Gee
31. An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England - Brock Clarke
32. The Man of My Dreams - Curtis Sittenfeld
33. An Absolute Gentleman - R.M. Kinder
34. Reservation Road - John Burnham Schwartz
35. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
36. Matrimony - Joshua Henkin
37. How Sassy Changed My Life - Kara Jasella/Marisa Meltzer
38. The Mother Garden - Robin Romm
39. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
40. Pnin - Vladimir Nabakov
41. The End of the World as We Know It - Robert Goolrick

Reads 2006

1. Zelda - Nancy Milford
2. Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
3. Jane (a murder) - Maggie Nelson
4. Moments of Being - Virginia Woolf
5. The First Hurt - Rachel Sherman
6. Seemed Like a Good Idea at The Time - David Goodwillie
7. Frantic Transmissions to and From Los Angeles - Kate Braverman
8. Garbage Land - Elizabeth Royte
9. Lithium for Medea - Kate Braverman (re-read)
10. Girlbomb - Janice Erlbaum
11. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
12. Hermit in Paris - Italo Calvino
13. Homeland - Sam Lipsyte
14. Cathedral (stories) - Raymond Carver (re-read)
15. The Apple’s Bruise (stories) - Lisa Glatt
16. Falling Through the Earth - Danielle Trussoni
17. The Dead Fish Museum (stories) - Charles D’Ambrosio
18. A Pale View of Hills - Kauzo Ishiguro
19. Going - Kevin Oderman
20. Things Kept, Things Left Behind - Jim Tomlinson
21. Voodoo Heart (stories) - Scott Snyder
22. The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
23. Simply Green Parties - Danny Seo
24. But Enough About Me - Jancee Dunn
25. Evening - Susan Minot
26. Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt & StephenJ. Dubner
27. A Book of Common Prayer - Joan Didion
28. Field Notes from a Catastrophe - Elizabeth Kolbert
29. Magic for Beginners - Kelly Link
30. Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name - Vendela Vida
31. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
32. The Mystery Guest - Gregoire Bouillier
33. 45 (Poems) - Frieda Hughes
34. Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngart
35. The War - Marguerite Duras (memoir)
36. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
37. Blue Eyes, Black Hair - Marguerite Duras
38. Beauty Junkies - Alex Kuczynski
39. Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima
40. The Uses of Enchantment - Heidi Julavits

Reads 2005

1. Our Kind - Kate Walbert
2. With or Without You - Lauren Sanders
3. You Are Not the One - Vestal McIntyre
4. Bad Blood - Lorna Sage
5. Nice Big American Baby - Judy Budnitz
6. Notes from the Hyena’s Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood - Nega Mezlekia
7. Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
8. House of Thieves - Kaui Hart Hemmings
9. Desperate Characters - Paula Fox
10. Autobiography of a Face - Lucy Grealy
11. Idiots - Jakob Arjouni (Translated by Anthea Bell)
12. The Cocaine Chronicles Jervey Tervalon (Editor), Gary Phillips (Editor)
13. My Happy Life - Lydia Millet
14. Bodies in Motion : Stories - Mary Anne Mohanraj
15. Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld
16. English as a Second Language - Megan Crane
17. Mary - V. Nabokov
18. When it Burned to the Ground - Yolanda Barnes
19. Man Walks into a Room - Nicole Krauss
20. The Language of Baklava - Diana Abu-Jaber
21. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
22. A Perfect Stranger - Roxana Robinson
23. Mothers & Other Monsters - Heather McHugh
24. You Don’t Have to Live Here - Natasha Rodjcic
25. The Baron in the Trees - Italo Calvino
26. One Pill Makes You Smaller - Lisa Dierbeck
27. The Friend Who Got Away (Elissa Schappel/Jenny Offil)
28. Beware of God - Shalom Auslander
29. This Is Not the Tropics : Stories - Ladette Randolph
30. The Coast of Akron - Adrienne Miller
31. Specimen Days - Michael Cunningham
32. Blood Fugues - Edgardo Vega Yunque
33. Willful Creatures - Aimee Bender
34. Last Night -James Salter
35. Despair - Vladimir Nabokov
36. The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
37. Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis
38. The World of Apples - John Cheever
39. Green Living - E!
40. The Stories of John Cheever
41. Faith for Beginners - Aaron Hamburger
42. Big Cats (stories) - Holiday Reinhorn
43. The Prophet of Zongo Street (stories) - Mohammed Naseehu Ali
44. Best American Short Stories 2005 -ed. Michael Chabon
45. This Is a Voice from Your Past: New and Selected Stories - Merrill Joan Gerber
46. Neecey’s Lullaby - Cris Burks
47. Jude - Kate Morgenroth
48. Poor George - Paula Fox
49. Believer Big Book of Interviews
50. Bobbed Hair and Bathtup Gin- Marion Meade
51. A Moveable Feast - E. Hemingway
52. Emperor of the Air - Ethan Canin
53. Pairs (poems) - Philip Booth
54. Savage Beauty (bio of Edna St. Vincent Millay) - Nancy Milford

Reads 2004

1. There are Jews in My House - Lara Vapynar
2. Mr. Bridge - Evan S. Connell
3. In Evil Hour - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. A Mouthful of Air - Amy Koppelman
5. MidAir - Frank Conroy
6. GOAT (a memoir) - Brad Land
7. Granta 84
8. Personal Velocity - Rebecca Miller
9. Conscience & Courage - Eva Fogelman
10. Between Boyfriends - Cindy Chupack
11. Jesus Saves - Darcey Steinke
12. In The Gloaming - Alice Elliott Dark
13. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
14. Opening Skinner’s Box by Lauren Slater
15. Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
16. An Almost Perfect Moment by Binnie Kirshenbaum
17. Degas Must Have Loved a Dancer - Krista Madsen
18. Selections from Les Fleurs de Mal - Charles Baudelaire
19. The Sound and The Fury - William Faulkner
20. Mrs. Dalloway’s Party - Virginia Woolf
21. Wake Up, Sir! - Jonathan Ames
22. Happy Baby - Stephen Elliott
23. Here Kitty Kitty - Jardine Libaire
24. Reproduction is the Flaw of Love - Lauren Grodstein
25. A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That - Lisa Glatt
26. Before, During & After (poems) - Hal Sirowitz
27. Vera - Biogaphy of Vera Nabokov - Stacy Schiff
28. Loverboy (re-read) - Victoria Redel
29. Animal Crackers - Hannah Tinti
30. Laughter in The Dark - Vladmir Nabokov
31. Here Above High Flying Planes - Merrill Feitell
32. A Carnivore’s Inquiry - Sabina Murray
33. Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
34. Lucky - Alice Sebold
35. The Bad Daughter - Julie Hilden
36. Shelter (poems) - Lisa Glatt
37. Drinking - A Love Story (re-read) - Caroline Knapp
39. Welcome to The Fallen Paradise - Dayne Sherman
40. The Weight of It - Amy Wilensky
41. How I Learned to Cook (edited by Margo Perrin)
42. West of Then - Tara Bray Smith
43. Murphy - Samuel Beckett
44. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World - Greg Critser
45. Yoga for People Who Can’t be Bothered to Do It - Geoff Dyer
46. Little Fugue - Robert Anderson
47. Euripides 1
48. Seeking Rapture - Kathryn Harrison
49. Stop That Girl - Elizabeth MacKenzie
50. The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms - introduction by Richard Powers.
51. Out of The Girls’ Room & Into the Night - Thisbe Nissen
52. McSweeney’s 12
53. My Old Man - Amy Sohn
54. The Sea of Tears - Nani Power
55. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City - Nick Flynn
56. The Eye Like a Strange Balloon (poems) - Mary Jo Bang
57. Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabakov
58. Mutual Life & Casualty - Elizabeth Poliner
59. The Ha-Ha - Dave King
60. Midnight at The Dragon Cafe - Judy Fong Bates
61. Borrowed Finery - Paula Fox
62. The Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever
63. In My Father’s Footsteps - Sebastian Matthews

Reads 2003

1. So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell
2. Heart of Darkness (re-read) - Conrad
3. Funny in Farsi - Firoozeh Dumas
4. Madame Bovary (re-read) - Flaubert
5. The Aspern Papers - Henry James
6. 1919 - Dos Passos
7. The Captain’s Doll - D.H. Lawrence
8. To the Lighthouse (re-read) - Woolf
9. Pure Poetry - Binnie Kirshenbaum
10. The Good Soldier-Ford Maddox Ford
11. Why I’m Like This - Cyndy Kaplan
12. Selections from Beckett’s Complete Short Prose
13. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James Cain
14. Beautiful Girls - Beth Ann Bauman
15. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
16. Wonder When You’ll Miss Me - Amanda Davis
17. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
18. The Hazards of Good Breeding - Jessica Shattuck
19. Stories from Bartheleme’s Sixty Stories
20. Libra - Don Delillo
21. The Book of Laughter & Forgetting - Milan Kundera
22. Mrs. Bridge - Evan S. Connell
23. The Chronicle of a Death Foretold - G.G. Marquez
24. Revoluntionary Road - Richard Yates
25. This Boy’s Life - Tobias Wolff
26. Random Family - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
27. My Life in Heavy Metal - Steven Almond
28. Rescuing Patty Hearst - Virginia Hollman
29. Wintering - Kate Moses
30. White Noise - Don Delillo
31. Ariel’s Gift - Erika Wagner
32. The Best of Animals - Lauren Grodstein
33. Hester Among the Ruins - Binnie Kirschenbaum
34. Liars and Saints - Maile Meloy
35. Chasing the Sea - Tom Bissell
36. The Territory of Men - Joelle Fraser
37. The Mineral Palace - Heidi Julavits
38. Half in Love - Maile Meloy
39. Stories in The Worst Way - Gary Lutz
40. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere - ZZ Packer
41. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
42. The Girl in The Flammable Skirt-Aimee Bender
43. Cocaine - Domenic Streitfield
44. Tumble Home - Amy Hempell
45. I Am Not Jackson Pollack - John Haskell
46. James Frey - A Million Little Pieces
47. You are Not a Stranger Here - Adam Haslett
48. The Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
48. See Through - Nelly Reifler
49. King Leopold’s Ghost - Adam Hochschild.
50. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
51. How to Breathe Underwater - Julie Orringer
52. Lucky Girls - Nell Freudenberger
53. From Bauhaus to Our House - Thomas Wolfe
54. One More Victim - The Life & Death of a Jewish Nazi - Arthur Gelb
55. The Long Haul - Amanda Stern
56. And Now You Can Go - Vendela Vida
57. Her Dream of Dreams-the Life of CJ Walker - Bevery Lowry
58. Serious Girls - Maxine Swann
59. The Sleeping Father - Matthew Sharpe
60. Suits Me - The Double Life of Billy Tipton - Diane Middlebrook
61. The Red Passport (stories) - Katherine Shonk
62. Dubliners (re-read) - James Joyce
63. Come Closer - Sara Gran
64. Her Husband - Diane Middlebrook
65. girls - Nic Kelman

Reads 2002

1. Folly — Susan Minot
2. The Lover — waste of my time.
3. Music For Torching — A.M. Homes
4. Safety of Objects — A.M. Homes
5. Started that Dana Spiotta book Lightening Field but couldn’t really get into it
6. Wuthering Heights
7. Where the Road Bottoms Out — Victoria Redel
8. Rough Magic, a Biography of Sylvia Plath by Paul Alexander
9. A.M. Homes: In A Country of Mothers
10.Richard Ford’s Multitude of Sins
11. City of Boys-Beth Nugent
12. Rain-Kirsty Gunn
13. The First Man — Albert Camus
14. The Silent Woman — Janet Malcolm.
15. Live Girls by Beth Nugent.
16. Northern Gothic: Nick Mamantas
17. Jennifer Egan’s Look at Me
18. T. Greenwood’s Undressing the Moon
19. Letters Home - Sylvia Plath
20. House of Mirth - Edith Warton
21. Bitter-Fame, the Life of Sylvia Plath by Anne Stevenson
22. In the Bedroom-Andre Dubus III
23. Fodor Dostoyevsky-The Double
24. Pride & Prejudice-Jane Austen
25. Snow Island-Katherine Towler
26. To The Lighthouse - V. Woolf
27. History On A Personal Note — Binne Kirshenbaum
28. Mrs. Dalloway - V. Woolf
29. Twelve - Nick McDonell (a good, but shameless ripoff of Jay McInerny & Brett Easton Ellis.
30. Where We Lived - Christina Fitzpatick (amazing, amazing and more amazing!)
31. The Lovely Bones-Alice Sebold
32. Land’s End - Michael Cunningham. *cute, but i pray this is not the follow up to The Hours.
33. Long Day’s Journey Into Night (re-read) - Eugene O’Neill. love this, love this love this.
34. The Nanny Diaries- horrid
35. What’s the Girl Worth - Christina Fitzpatick
36. Light in August - William Faulkner
37. The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald
38. Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald
39. Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
40. Antony & Cleopatra
41. A Disturbance in One Place - Binne Kirshenbaum
42. Waiting for Godot, Krapp’s Last Tape (short stories) by Samuel Beckett
43. Day of the Locust & Miss Lonely Hearts by Nathaneal West
44. Being Dead by Jim Crace
45. Between The Acts by Virginia Woolf
46. The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever
47. Stuffed by Patricia Volk