The Complete Short Novels. Anton Chekov
The Man with the Getaway Face. Richard Stark
Snowdrops. Andrew Miller
The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized. Owen Flanagan (abandoned)
The Magus. John Fowles
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. Simon Sebag Montefiore (abandoned)
November 2011
The World as I Found It. Bruce Duffy (abandoned)
The Sisters Brothers. Patrick deWitt (abandoned)
The Inner Circle. T.C. Boyle
Decline & Fall. Evelyn Waugh (abandoned)
Reamde. Neal Stephenson
October 2011
Machine Man. Max Barry
Calling Mr. King. Ronald De Feo (abandoned)
All Quiet on the Western Front. Erich Maria Remarque (abandoned)
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. Stephen Greenblatt
September 2011
Rules of Civility. Amor Towles.
Seven Days in Rio. Francis Levy (abandoned)
Julian. Gore Vidal (adandoned)
The Devil All the Time. Donald Ray Pollock
Before I Go to Sleep. S. J. Watson (abandoned)
August 2011
The Family Fang. Kevin Wilson
Cleopatra. Stacy Schiff
Barchester Towers. Anthony Trollope
July 2011
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I. Miranda Carter (abandoned)
Colonel Roosevelt. Edmund Morris
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore. Benjamin Hale (abandoned)
Exploring Happiness. Sissela Bok
Happiness: A History. Darrin McMahon (abandoned)
The Politics of Happiness. Derek Bok (abandoned - a truly awful book)
The Adults. Alison Espach
Pnin. Vladimir Nabokov (abandoned)
June 2011
The Sweet Relief of Missing Children. Sarah Braunstein (abandoned)
My American Unhappiness. Dean Bakopoulos
Oblivion. David Foster Wallace
Great Expectations. Charles Dickens
The Aleph and Other Stories. Jorge Luis Borges (abandoned)
Long Last Happy. Barry Hannah (abandoned)
Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche. Jim Miller
May 2011
How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Robin Dunbar (abandoned)
A Fairly Honourable Defeat. Iris Murdoch (abandoned)
A Visit from the Goon Squad. Jennifer Egan
The Social Animal. David Brooks (abandoned)
Moonwalking With Einstein. Joshua Foer
April 2011
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. Donald Miller (abandoned)
Brave New World. Aldous Huxley
Nerve: Poise Under Pressure, Serenity Under Stress, and the Brave New Science of Fear and Cool. Taylor Clark (skimmed)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
March 2011
So Long, See You Tomorrow. William Maxwell (abandoned)
Cassandra at the Wedding. Dorothy Baker (abandoned)
Waiting for the Barbarians. J. M. Coetzee
The Road to Wellville. T.C. Boyle (abandoned)
The Warden. Anthony Trollope
February 2011
So Brave, Young, and Handsome. Leif Enger
The Great Stagnation. Tyler Cowen
Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like. Christian Land
January 2011
A Handful of Dust. Evelyn Waugh
So Much For That. Lionel Shriver
Cat's Cradle. Kurt Vonnegut (abandoned)
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age. Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
December 2010
Memoirs of Hadrian. Marguerite Yourcenar (abandoned)
Sunset Park. Paul Auster
Bad Things Happen. Harry Dolan (abandoned)
November 2010
Painted Ladies. Robert Parker
The Fifth Floor. Michael Harvey (abandoned)
By Nightfall. Michael Cunningham
Stuff White People Like. Christian Lander
Echo House. Ward Just
The Little Book of Economics. Greg Ip
2666. Roberto Bolano (abandoned)
The Golden Mean. Annabel Lyon (abandoned)
October 2010
Mr. Peanut. Adam Ross (abandoned)
The Pain Chronicles. Melanie Thernstrom
The Sparrow. Mary Doria Russell
The Chicago Way. Michael Harvey
September 2010
Freedom. Jonathan Franzen
Gentlemen & Players. Joanne Harris
Crampton Hodnet. Barbara Pym
The Four Fingers of Death. Rick Moody
Teach Us To Sit Still. Tim Parks
Hamlet's Blackberry. William Powers
Netherland. Joseph O'Neill
August 2010
Long for this World: The Strange Science of Immortality. Jonathan Weiner (abandoned)
Tinkers. Paul Harding (abandoned)
Super Sad True Love Story. Gary Shteyngart (abandoned)
Excellent Women. Barbara Pym
Crime and Punishment. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Pevear & Volokhonsky translation - and the translation really does make a difference)
July 2010
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. Nicholas Carr
Unlearning Meditation. Jason Siff
The Kindly Ones. Jonathan Littell (abandoned)
Blame. Michelle Huneven
June 2010
The Passage. Justin Cronin
The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff. Joseph Epstein
The Imperfectionists. Tom Rachman
People of the Book. Geraldine Brooks
The Healing of America. T. R. Reid
The Heart of Power. David Blumenthal & James Morone
The Schopenhauer Cure. Irvin Yalom
The Heights. Peter Hedges
Split Image. Robert B. Parker
May
2010
Schopenhauer:
A
Very Short Introduction.
Christopher Janaway
For
Whom
the Bell Tolls.
Ernest Hemingway
The Ask.
Sam Lipsyte
April
2010
The
Hole
We're In.
Gabrielle Zevin
Next.
James Hymes
Model
Home.
Eric Puchner
Stoner.
John Williams
March
2010
Horns. Joe
Hill
The
Privileges.
Jonathan Dee
The
Girl
on the Boat.
P. G. Wodehouse
Losing
the
News. Alex Jones
February
2010
Swimming.
Nicola Keegan
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
February
2008
Ruling Your
World: Ancient
Strategies for
Modern Life.
Sakyong Mipham
Wake Up Now.
Stephan Bodian
Mediated.
Thomas De
Zengotita
Jitterbug
Perfume.
Tom Robbins
The Benchley
Roundup.
Robert
Benchley
January
2008
The Road.
Cormac
McCarthy
The Yiddish
Policeman's
Union.
Michael Chabon
Pontoon: A
Novel of Lake
Wobegon.
Garrison
Keillor
The Abstinence
Teacher.
Tom Perrotta
Matrimony: A
Novel.
Joshua Henkin
Benchley Lost
and Found.
Robert
Benchley
The Great
Gatsby.
F. Scott
Fitzgerald
December
2007
Supercalitalism. Robert Reich
Summer
Moonshine.
P.G. Wodehouse
The Art of
Power.
Thich Nhat
Hanh
Honor: A
History.
James Bowman
Love Monkey.
Kyle Smith
Huey Long.
T. Harry
Williams
Cities and the
Creative Class.
Richard
Florida
Meet Mr.
Mulliner.
P.G. Wodehouse
The Nine:
Inside the
Secret World
of the Supreme
Court.
Jeffrey Toobin
(abandoned)
November
2007
Radiant Mind:
Awakening
Unconditioned
Awareness.
Peter Fenner
Tao Te Ching:
A New
Translation.
Lao Tzu (Sam
Hamill,
translator)
The Prince of
Providence.
Mike Stanton
The End of Mr.
Y.
Scarlett
Thomas
The House of
Medici.
Christopher
Hibbert
October
2007
Then and Now.
Robert B.
Parker
The Last
Self-Help Book
You'll Ever
Need.
Paul Pearsall
A People's
History of the
United States.
Howard Zinn (skimmed)
In a Cardboard
Belt!: Essays
Personal,
Literary, and
Savage.
Joseph Epstein
Meditation Now
or Never.
Steve Hagen
The Book of
Longing.
Leonard Cohen
The 48 Laws of
Power.
Robert Greene
The Ode Less
Travelled:
Unlocking the
Poet Within.
Stephen Fry
September
2007
The Happiness
Hypothesis.
Jonathan Haidt
Dino: Living
High in the
Dirty Business
of Dreams.
Nick Tosches
Rousseau's Dog.
David Edmonds
and John
Eidinow (abandoned)
The Modern
Prince.
Carnes Lord
August
2007
The House That
George Built.
Wilfrid Sheed
The Prince.
Niccolo
Machiavelli
Last Harvest:
How a
Cornfield
Became New
Daleville.
Witold
Rybczynski
The Savage
Detectives.
Roberto Bolano
(abandoned)
The Stoic
Life:
Emotions,
Duties, &
Fate.
Tad Brennan
Cultural
Amnesia.
Clive James
Pro Football
Prospectus
2007.
Aaron Schatz
July
2007
The
Metaphysical
Club: A Story
of Ideas in
America.
Louis Menand
Blood Money:
Wasted
Billions, Lost
Lives, and
Corporate
Greed in Iraq.
T. Christian
Miller
Everyman.
Philip Roth
Claudius The
God.
Robert Graves
Spare Change.
Robert Parker
Ukridge.
P. G.
Wodehouse
Blind into
Baghdad.
James Fallows
June
2007
Understanding
Iraq.
William R.
Polk
Full
Catastrophe
Living.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
I, Claudius.
Robert Graves
High Profile.
Robert Parker
The Emperor's
Handbook: A
New
Translation of
the
Meditations.
Marcus
Aurelius
(David Hicks,
and C. Scot
Hicks,
translators)
Envy.
Kathryn
Harrison
Lucky Jim.
Kingsley Amis
May
2007
Leave
it to Psmith.
P. G.
Wodehouse
Theft.
Peter Carey
(abandoned)
God is Not
Great: How
Religion
Poisons
Everything.
Christopher
Hitchens
Sit Down and
Shut Up: Punk
Rock
Commentaries
on Buddha,
God, Truth,
Sex, Death,
and Dogen's
Treasury of
the Right
Dharma Eye.
Brad Warner
The Club Dumas.
Arturo
Perez-Reverte
and Sonia Soto
My Lucky Star.
Joe Keenan
You Suck: A
Love Story.
Christopher
Moore
Something
Fresh.
P.G. Wodehouse
April
2007
Strangers to
Ourselves.
Timothy Wilson
(abandoned)
The Meaning of
Life.
Terry Eagleton
The Ode Less
Traveled:
Unlocking the
Poet Within
.
Stephen Fry (Abandoned,
but only
because I got
it from the
library, and
it's really
the sort of
book one needs
to hold on to
for a while in
order to get
real use of.)
Money in the
Bank.
P.G. Wodehouse
The Meaning of
Life.
Terry Eagleton
Revenge.
Stephen Fry
Boomsday.
Christopher
Buckley
The Luck of
the Bodkins.
P.G. Wodehouse
March
2007
A Damsel in
Distress.
P.G. Wodehouse
Bambi vs.
Godzilla.
David Mamet (abandoned)
Ronald Reagan.
John Patrick
Diggins
A Clockwork
Orange.
Anthony
Burgess
Uncle Fred in
the Springtime.
P.G. Wodehouse
Absurdistan.
Gary
Shteyngart
February
2007
Black Maps.
Peter
Spiegelman
(abandoned)
Uncle Fred in
the Springtime.
P.G. Wodehouse
What Makes You
Not a Buddhist.
Dzongsar
Jamyang
Kyentse
Open to Desire.
Mark Epstein
Bloodsucking
Fiends.
Christopher
Moore
Beauty Junkies.
Alex Kuczynski
(abandoned)
Lord Emsworth
and Others.
P.G. Wodehouse
January
2007
Zen Mind,
Beginner's
Mind.
Shunryu Suzuki
Scoop.
Evelyn Waugh
(abandoned)
Prayers for
Rain.
Dennis Lehane
Cocktail Time.
P.G. Wodehouse
Gone, Baby,
Gone.
Dennis Lehane
Sacred.
Dennis Lehane
Maps of Time:
An
Introduction
to Big History.
David
Christian
(abandoned)
Spring Fever.
P.G. Wodehouse
December
2006
Full Moon.
P.G. Wodehouse
The Emperor's
Children.
Claire Messud
Citizen Vince.
Jess Walter
Mediated.
Thomas De
Zengotita
On Beauty.
Zadie Smith
Darkness Take
My Hand.
Dennis Lehane
Do Butlers
Burgle Banks?
P. G.
Wodehouse
Special Topics
in Calamity
Physics.
Marisha Pessl
Eight Mindful
Steps to
Happiness.
Bhante
Henepola
Gunaratana
November
2006
Housekeeping
vs. The Dirt.
Nick Hornby
Mindfulness in
Plain English.
Henepola
Gunaratana
Chips off the
Old Benchley.
Robert
Benchley
Shakedown
Beach.
Eric Dezenhall
Wanting
Enlightenment
is a Big
Mistake.
Seung Sahn
The Way to
Win: Taking
the White
House in 2008.
Mark Halperin
and John F.
Harris
October
2006
The Sirens of
Titan.
Kurt Vonnegut
Hundred-Dollar
Baby.
Robert Parker
Lolita.
Vladimir
Nabokov
The Blind
Side:
Evolution of a
Game.
Michael Lewis
How to Raise
an Ox.
Francis Cook
Zen Mind,
Beginner's
Mind.
Shunryu Suzuki
September
2006
Pornocopia.
Laurence
O'Toole
On Bullshit.
Harry G.
Frankfurt
A Drink Before
The War.
Dennis Lehane
Mount Appetite.
Bill Gaston
Friendship: An
Expose.
Joseph Epstein
The Substance
of Style.
Virginia
Postrel
Shutter Island.
Dennis Lehane
Stranger Than
Fiction: True
Stories.
Chuck
Palahniuk
August
2006
The Omnivore's
Dilemma.
Michael Pollan
The Ruins.
Scott Smith
Buddhism is
Not What You
Think.
Steve Hagen
Pro Football
Prospectus
2006. Aaron
Schatz
One Party
Country.
Tom Hamburger
and Peter
Wallsten
I
also started
on the last
book by P.G.
Wodehouse
featuring the
character
Jeeves. Once I
finish it,
I'll have read
all of
Wodehouse's
Jeeves stories
.
Finding all of
the books has
been something
of a
challenge, but
it was well
worth it.
Wodehouse was
a genius of
reserved
English
comedy, and I
feel really
lucky to have
accidentally
stumbled
across his
work. This is
great stuff.
July
2006
An Army of
Davids.
Glenn Reynolds
The Life and
Letters of
Tofu Roshi.
Susan Moon
Enlightenment
Blues.
Andre van der
Braak
Blue Screen.
Robert B.
Parker
March
2006
Arthur and
George.
Julian Barnes
February
2006
Cell.
Stephen King
The Happiness
Hypothesis.
Jonathan Haidt
Benjamin
Franklin.
Walter
Isaacson
January
2006
Next Man Up.
John Feinstein
The River of
Doubt.
Candice
Millard
Ordinary Mind.
Barry Magid
November
2005
No Country for
Old Men.
Cormac
Mccarthy
October
2005
Me Talk Pretty
One Day.
David Sedaris
The Rise of
Theodore
Roosevelt.
Edmund Morris
September
2005
Mornings on
Horseback.
David
Mccullough
Theodore
Roosevelt.
Louis
Auchincloss
School Days.
Robert B.
Parker
Pay Attention,
For Goodness'
Sake.
Sylvia
Boorstein
August
2005
Everything
Arises,
Everything
Falls Away.
Ajahn Chah
The Historian.
Elizabeth
Kostova
My Friend
Leonard.
James Frey
It's Up to
You: The
Practice of
Self-Reflection
on the
Buddhist Path.
Dzigar Kongrul