Books I've Read

  1. X=strongly disliked, !=loved
  2. 2012
  3. stone arabia
    • dana spiotta
  4. the sacred book of the werewolf
    • victor pelevin
  5. a fine balance
    • rohinton mistry
  6. the city and the city
    • china mieville
  7. being there
    • jerzy kosinski
  8. 2011
  9. unaccustomed earth
    • jhumpa lahiri
  10. damned
    • chuck palahniuk
  11. the hunger games (x3)
    • suzanne collins
  12. eat the document
    • dana spiotta
  13. mission to america
    • walter kirn
  14. the bee-loud glade
    • steve himmer
  15. geek love
    • katherine dunn
  16. snow
    • orhan pamuk
  17. freedom
    • jonathan franzen
  18. song yet sung
    • james mcbride
  19. tar baby
    • toni morrison
  20. aunt julia and the scriptwriter
    • mario vargas llosa
  21. the women of brewster place
    • gloria naylor
  22. the yiddish policeman's union
    • michael chabon
  23. the girl who kicked the hornet's nest
    • stieg larsson
  24. bastard out of carolina
    • dorothy allison
  25. the girl who played with fire
    • stieg larsson
  26. 2010
  27. the great gatsby
    • f scott fitzgerald
  28. the girl with the dragon tattoo
    • stieg larsson
  29. the brief wondrous life of oscar wao
    • junot diaz
  30. the crying of lot 49
    • thomas pynchon
  31. god is dead
    • ron currie, jr.
  32. the corrections
    • jonathan franzen
  33. the beautiful things that heaven bears
    • dinaw mengistu
  34. the bluest eye
    • toni morrison
  35. bread and wine
    • ignazio silone
  36. a wrinkle in time
    • madeleine l'engle
  37. the time traveler's wife
    • audrey niffenegger
  38. love in the time of cholera
    • gabriel garcia marquez
  39. beloved (!)
    • toni morrison
  40. sula
    • toni morrison
  41. burmese days
    • george orwell
  42. the golden calf
    • ilya ilf and evgeny petrov, translators konstantin gurevich and helen anderson
  43. salute to spring
    • meridel le sueur
  44. the body artist
    • don delillo
  45. shark's fin and sichuan pepper: a sweet-sour memoir of eating in china
    • fuchsia dunlop
  46. the satanic verses
    • salman rushdie
  47. the mysteries of pittsburgh
    • michael chabon
  48. maps for lost lovers (!)
    • nadeem aslam
  49. drown
    • junot diaz
  50. 2009
  51. illegal people: how globalization creates migration and criminalizes immigrants
    • david bacon
  52. a short history of tractors in ukrainian
    • marina lewycka
  53. bee season (!)
    • myla goldberg
  54. in the convent of little flowers
    • indu sundaresan
  55. the autobiography of an ex-coloured man
    • james wheldon johnson
  56. girl
    • meridel le sueur
  57. jazz
    • toni morrison
  58. reservation blues
    • sherman alexie
  59. the master and margarita
    • mikhail bulgakov
  60. people of the book
    • geraldine brooks
  61. deadeye dick
    • kurt vonnegut
  62. the unbearable lightness of being
    • milan kundera
  63. absurdistan
    • gary shteyngart
  64. the people of paper
    • salvador plascencia
  65. on beauty (!)
    • zadie smith
  66. a complicated kindness
    • miriam toews
  67. women without men
    • shahrnush parsipur
  68. the white tiger
    • aravind adiga
  69. the 158-pound marriage
    • john irving
  70. 2008
  71. a prayer for owen meany
    • john irving
  72. white noise (!)
    • don delillo
  73. mrs dalloway (!)
    • virginia woolfe
  74. rabbit, run
    • john updike
  75. post office
    • charles bukowski
  76. factotum
    • charles bukowski
  77. ham on rye
    • charles bukowski
  78. no country for old men
    • cormac mccarthy
  79. what is the what
    • dave eggers
  80. mountains beyond mountains: the quest of dr paul farmer, a man who would cure the world
    • tracy kidder
  81. memoirs of a geisha
    • arthur golden
  82. the hotel new hampshire
    • john irving
  83. 2007
  84. white teeth
    • zadie smith
  85. the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay (!)
    • michael chabon
  86. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time
    • mark haddon
  87. everything is illuminated
    • jonathan safran foer
  88. letters to a young poet (!)
    • ranier maria rilke
  89. my sister’s keeper
    • jodi picoult
  90. the namesake
    • jhumpa lahiri
  91. extremely loud and incredibly close
    • jonathan safran foer
  92. the world according to garp
    • john irving
  93. dealing with dragons
    • patricia c wrede
  94. searching for dragons
    • patricia c wrede
  95. ender’s game
    • orson scott card
  96. the good earth (X)
    • pearl s buck
  97. harry potter and the deathly hallows
    • jk rowling
  98. harry potter and the half-blood prince
    • jk rowling
  99. hope was here
    • joan bauer
  100. the princess bride
    • william goldman
  101. kappa (!)
    • ryunosuke akutagawa
  102. 2006
  103. observatory mansions
    • edward carey
  104. jesus’ son
    • denis johnson
  105. haroun and the sea of stories (!)
    • salman rushdie
  106. un mundo que agoniza
    • miguel delibes
  107. the stranger (!)
    • albert camus
  108. on truth
    • harry g frankfurt
  109. east, west
    • salman rushdie
  110. cruddy
    • lynda barry
  111. the sisterhood of the traveling pants
    • ann brashares
  112. the second summer of the sisterhood
    • ann brashares
  113. girls in pants: the third summer of the sisterhood
    • ann brashares
  114. blue like jazz
    • donald miller
  115. la hojarasca
    • gabriel garcia marquez
  116. cien anos de soledad
    • gabriel garcia marquez
  117. 2005 and before
  118. god of small things (!)
    • arundhati roy
  119. the catcher in the rye
    • jd salinger
  120. one hundred years of solitude (!)
    • gabriel garcia marquez
  121. a doll’s house
    • henrik ibsen
  122. franny and zoey
    • jd salinger
  123. nine stories (!)
    • jd salinger
  124. raise high the roofbeam, carpenter and seymour: an introduction
    • jd salinger
  125. interpreter of maladies
    • jhumpa lahiri
  126. of mice and men
    • john steinbeck
  127. the wayward bus (X)
    • john steinbeck
  128. their eyes were watching god
    • zora neale hurston
  129. barrel fever
    • david sedaris
  130. naked
    • david sedaris
  131. me talk pretty one day
    • david sedaris
  132. dress your family in corduroy and denim
    • david sedaris
  133. talking to high monks in the snow
    • lydia minatoya
  134. the samurai’s garden
    • gail tsukiyama
  135. cry, the beloved country (!)
    • alan paton
  136. too late the phalarope
    • alan paton
  137. othello
    • william shakespeare
  138. hamlet
    • william shakespeare
  139. macbeth
    • william shakespeare
  140. the giver
    • lois lowry
  141. dandelion wine (!)
    • ray bradbury
  142. the life of pi
    • yann martel
  143. one day in the live of ivan denisovich
    • aleksandr solzhenitsyn
  144. pedro paramo
    • juan rulfo
  145. el coronel no tiene quien le escriba
    • gabriel garcia marquez
  146. harry potter and the sorcerer's stone
    • jk rowling
  147. harry potter and the chamber of secrets
    • jk rowling
  148. harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban
    • jk rowling
  149. harry potter and the goblet of fire
    • jk rowling
  150. harry potter and the order of the phoenix
    • jk rowling
  151. pride and prejudice
    • jane ausen
  152. sense and sensibility
    • jane austen
  153. persuasion
    • jane austen
  154. emma
    • jane austen
  155. my antonia
    • willa cather
  156. the joy luck club
    • amy tan
  157. the importance of being earnest
    • oscar wilde
  158. madame bovary (X)
    • gustave flaubert
  159. the metamorphosis
    • franz kafka
  160. the picture of dorian gray (!)
    • oscar wilde
  161. black rain
    • ibuse masuji