Back when I was even more obsessive-compulsive than I am now, I used to carefully note every book I read with the dates I started and finished reading it, along with a brief comment on each one. That became way too much of a chore, especially since I always have 2-3 books going at any given time. What you see below represents a bunch of things I've been reading, but it only includes the stuff  I remembered to put down. I've starred the books I really liked.

February 2010
The Hunger Games. Suzanne Collins

January 2010
How Markets Fail. John Cassidy
Blue Boy. Rakesh Satyal
Our Story Begins. Tobias Wolff
The Professional. Robert B. Parker
Freud. Jonathan Lear

December 2009
Five Skies. Ron Carlson
The House of Mirth. Edith Wharton
The Ascent of Money. Niall Ferguson
Juliet, Naked. Nick Hornby

November 2009
Wolf Hall. Hilary Mantel
Generosity. Richard Powers
The Financial Lives of the Poets. Jess Walter
What is Ancient Philosophy? Pierre Hadot
Blandings Castle. P.G. Wodehouse
On Desire. William Irvine

October 2009
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. Wells Tower
Oil on the Brain. Lisa Margonelli
Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet. Michael Klare

September 2009
This is Where I Leave You. Jonathan Tropper
The Classical World. Robin Lane Fox
Don't Worry, Be Stoic. Peter Vernezze
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. David Wroblewski

August 2009
Await Your Reply. Dan Chaon
The Hot Rock. Donald Westlake
Why Can't We Be Good? Jacob Needleman
That Old Cape Magic. Richard Russo
The Price of Salt. Patricia Highsmith
What We Talk about When We Talk About Love. Raymond Carver
The Ten-Year Nap. Meg Wolitzer
A Guide to the Good Life. William B. Irvine
Last Night at the Lobster. Stewart O'Nan
How I Became a Famous Novelist. Steve Hely
Financial Shock. Mark Zandi

July 2009
The Song Is You. Arthur Philipps
The Family Man. Elinor Lipman
Empire Falls. Richard Russo
The Signal. Ron Carlson
Morality Tale. Sylvia Brownrigg
The Comfort of Strangers. Ian McEwan
The Razor's Edge. Somerset Maugham
Eat, Pray, Love. Elizabeth Gilbert

June 2009
Revolutionary Road. Richard Yates
Shop Class as Soulcraft. Matthew Crawford
Anna Karenina. Leo Tolstoy
Voltaire Almighty. Roger Pearson

May 2009
A Tolerable Anarchy. Jedediah Purdy
The Picture of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life. Winifred Gallagher

April 2009
Are We Rome? Cullen Murphy
The Book of Dahlia. Elisa Albert
Six Bad Things. Charlie Huston
Caught Stealing. Charlie Huston
The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America. Ron Brownstein
The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters. Chip Kidd

March 2009
Blue Angel. Francune Prose
Crooked Little Vein. Warren Ellis
The Mind Body Problem (Contemporary American Fiction). Rebecca Goldstein
Wodehouse: A Life. Robert McCrum (abandoned)
Music for Torching. A.M. Homes
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Dave Eggers

February 2009
The Big Sort. Bill Bishop
The Echo Maker. Richard Powers
Less. Marc Lesser
Weight. Jeannete Winterson.
Tales of the City. Armistead Maupin(abandoned)
The Corrections. Jonathan Franzen

January 2009
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. David Foster Wallace
All The Days and Nights. William Maxwell
Cost. Roxana Robinson
Beat the Reaper. Josh Bazell
Shakespeare Wrote for Money. Nick Hornby
Plum Pie. P. G. Wodehouse
Aldous Huxley. Dana Sawyer

December 2008
Infinite Jest. David Foster Wallace
Gods Behaving Badly. Marie Phillips

November 2008
Uneasy Money. P.G. Wodehouse
The Drunkard's Walk. Leonard Mlodinow (abandoned)
The Portable Dorothy Parker. Dorothy Parker
Outliers. Malcolm Gladwell (abandoned)
Why Read Marx Today? Jonathan Wolff
Save the World on Your Own Time. Stanley Fish (abandoned)
Girl Factory. Jim Krusoe
Blue Heaven. Joe Keenan (abandoned)
Rough Weather. Robert Parker
Crooked River Burning. Mark Winegardner

October 2008
The Age of Reagan. Sean Wilentz (abandoned)
The Thing Itself: On the Search for Authenticity. Richard Todd
Bill the Conqueror. P.G. Wodehouse
Dear American Airlines. Jonathan Miles
Something Fishy. P. G. Wodehouse

September 2008
The Girl on the Boat. P.G. Wodehouse
Zen Heart. Ezra Bayda

August 2008
Dancing With Life. Phillip Moffitt
Jill the Reckless. P.G. Wodehouse

July 2008
War and Peace. Leo Tolstoy (Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, translators)
Blandings Castle. P.G. Wodehouse
Heavy Weather. P.G. Wodehouse

June 2008
Pro Football Prospectus 2008. Aaron Schatz
Hot Water. P.G. Wodehouse
Authenticity: Clearing the Junk. Venerable Yifa
Summer Lightning. P.G. Wodehouse
Biography of the Dollar. Craig Karmin
My Stroke of Insight. Jill Bolte Taylor (skimmed)
Uncle Dynamite. P.G. Wodehouse

May 2008
Then We Came to the End. Joshua Ferris
Wake Up Now. Stephan Bodian
Happiness is an Inside Job. Sylvia Boorstein
War and Peace. Leo Tolstoy
Piccadilly Jim. P.G. Wodehouse
Laughing Gas. P.G. Wodehouse
Big Money. P.G. Wodehouse
Strange Bedfellows: How Late-Night Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke. Rusell Peterson.
Sixty Poems. Charles Simic
Beautiful Children. Charles Bock
True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society. Farhad Manjoo

April 2008
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel. Amy Hempel
Sixty Poems. Charles Simic
The End of the Affair. Graham Greene
Ambivalent Zen. Lawrence Shainberg
Consumed. Benjamin Barber (abandoned)
Wittgenstein's Poker. David Edmonds and John Eidinow (abandoned)
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness. Barry Magid
What's the Matter with Kansas? Thomas Frank
Pigs Have Wings. P.G. Wodehouse
Mulliner Nights. P.G. Wodehouse
Who's Your City? Richard Florida
The Really Hard Problem. Owen Flanagan (abandoned)

March 2008
Knockemstiff. Donald Ray Pollock
Psmith in the City. P.G. Wodehouse
The Courtier and the Heretic. Matthew Stewart
The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality. Andre Comte-Sponville
A Fraction of the Whole. Steve Toltz
The Political Brain. Drew Westen
Supercalitalism. Robert Reich