Booklist
No, this is not a list of books I read in 2010 or 2011, but an endless list of books I think I want to read and have read and some which I may never read as I am easily distracted by titles that never land on this list. If there was an easy way to flip this list I would. Stuff I added to the list in 2012 is at the top, followed by 2008-2011 in that order.
2012
Calebs Crossing (Brooks)
Saints and Sinners (O’Brien)
The Year We Left Home (Thompson)
A Game of Thrones (technically x-mas break)
Embassy Town (Mieville)
Tyrant Memory (Castellanos Moya)
The Curfew (Ball)
Starting from Happy (Marx)
In Red (Tulli)
Daniel Stein, Interpreter (Ulitskaya)
Arcadia (Groff)
When Will There be Good News? (Atkinson)
Sorry (Drvenkar)
Reamde (Stephenson)
The Leopard (Nesbo)
Angel Maker (Harkaway)
Kafkaesque
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (Bronsky)
The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
Budapest Noir (Kondor)
Ragnarok: the End of the Gods (Byatt)
Sorry Please Thank You (Yu)
Girl Reading (Ward)
The Sisters Brothers (De Witt)
Open City (Cole)
Death Comes to Pemberley (PD James)
Gone Girl (Flynn)
Locas II (Hernandez)
After the Apocalypse (McHugh)
From the Mouth of the Whale (Sjon)
Parallel Stories (Nadas)
Conversation with Spinoza
While the Women were Sleeping
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Englander)
No One is Here but All of Us (Ausubel)
Stay Awake (Chaon)
Gods Without Men (Kunzru)
The Newlyweds (Freudenberger)
The Chemistry of Tears (Carey)
Office Girl (Meno)
The original list, starting with the oldest titles added to the list.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Blue Castle
Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The Master Butchers Singing Club
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Song Reader
The Secret Life of Bees
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Kalahari Typing School for Men
Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Brick Lane Monica Ali
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes, trans. by Edith Grossman
Love Toni Morrison
Bell, Book and Scandal
The Human Stain
High fidelity
Slammerkin
The Little Friend (yuck)
A Secret History (boring)
Cold Mountain
The Art of Fiction (Gardner)
Little Indiscretions
American Woman
Waiting for the Vote of Wild Animals
Bel Canto-
The Hours
The Corrections
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
I Capture the Castle
Sputnik Sweetheart (Japan)
The Grasshopper King
The Girl Who Played Go
Stella Descending
Ella Minnow Pea
Atonement
White Teeth
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
The Shadow of the Wind (Ruiz Zafon)
Purple Hibiscus (Nigeria)
CAUCASIA
One Foot in Love
Paradise in Ashes
Have you Heard
War of the Roses
A Childs Book of True Crime
What was she thinking? Notes on a Scandal
Dew Breakers
The Known World
Monkeewrench
The Namesake
Quality of Life Report
Dive from Clausen’s Pier
Welcome to My Planet, Where English is sometimes spoken
Well of Lost Plots
Little Children
Krik Krak
Animal Husbandry
A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That
Ibid: A Life; A Novel in Footnotes
The Persistence of Memory S.A.
Dew Breaker Haiti/US
Bee Season
Apprentice to the flower poet Z : a novel
The Book of Salt
To Err is Divine
Bandit Queen Boogie (Sparkle Hayter)
Cassandra French’s Finishing School for
Boys
Country of Origin (Don Lee)
American Taboo
Heir to the Glimmering World
My Year of Meats
Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri)
Colors Insulting to Nature (Wilson)
Shout Down the Moon
Case Histories
Persepolis
Banishing Verona: A Novel (Livesy)
Confessions of a Teenage Sleuth: Nancy Drew Tells it All
Due Preparations for the Plague (half)
Stillness and Other Stories
Whirlwind
How to be Lost
The Plot Against America
An Evening of Long Goodbyes (Murray)
Darkly Dreaming Dextor
Havoc in its Third Year
The Rice Mother – Malaysia
The Finishing School (Sparks)
The Laments
Break any Women Down (Johnson)
Kafka on the Shore (Murakami) (Japan)
Home Land (Lipsyte)
Cloud Atlas (Mitchell)
The Icarus Girl (Oyeyemi) – Nigeria
The Family Tree (Cadwalladr)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukraine
(Lewycka)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller, Walter)
Harbor (Adams, L)
Natasha (Bezmozgis) – Latvia
The Historian (Kostova)
The Untelling (Jones, T.)
Small Island (Levy)
Hunger’s Brides: A novel of the Baroque (Anderson, Paul)
The Year of Living Dangerously
The Loved One (Waugh)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Times Like These (Ingalls)
Snobs (Fellowes)
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
(Lalami)
Son of a Witch (Maguire)
More Than You Know (Story)
The Brooklyn Follies (Auster)
Motherless Brooklyn
Market Forces (Morgan)
Anansi Boys (Gaiman)
Once Upon a Day (Tucker)
The Princess of Burundi (Eriksson)
Jar City
The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch
People of Paper (I tried really, I tried.)
On Beauty (Smith)
A Thin Place
The Accidental (Smith)
Ghost World (Clowes)
One Good Turn (Atkinson)
All Aunt Hagars Children
Kiffe Kiffe Tommorow (Guène)
White Ghost Girls (Greenway)
English, August (Chatterjee) – India
Reader, I Married Him (Roberts)
Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Pessl)
Unconfessed (Christianse) – S.A. (about half)
The End of Mr Y (Thomas)
Cellophane (halfway)
Half a Yellow Sun (Ngozi Adichie)Nigeria
Fangland (Marks)
Kafka in Bronteland & Other Stories (Yellin)
The Littlest Hitler (Boudinot)
Graceland (Abani)
PopCo (Thomas)
The Savage Detectives (Bolano)
Shining at the Bottom of the Sea (Marche)
Getting mother’s body (Parks) bookclub
Eat the Document (Spiotta) pb
The Master (Toibin) pb
Let the Northern Lights Erase your Name (Veda) — really sucked
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country (Kalfus) pb
The Keep (Egan)
The Ministry of Special Cases (Englander)
Inglorious (Kavenna)
Soon I will be Invincible (Grossman)
Lies (Enrique de Heriz)
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (Chabon)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Clarke)
His Dark Materials (Pullman)
golden compass
The subtle knife
amber spyglass
Suite Francaise
The Boy Detective Fails (Meno)
American Born Chinese (Yang)
Pesthouse (Crace)
After Dark (Murakami)
The Dud Avocado (Dundy)
Dancing to Almendra (Montero)
Petropolis (Ulinich)
Gentlemen of the Road (Chabon)
An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England (Clarke)
Night of the Wolf (Halter)
The Cure for Modern Life (Tucker)
The Master and the Margarita
Signed Mata Hari (Murphy)
LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER (O’Nan)
People of the Book (Brooks)
The Commitments (Doyle)
The Deportees (Doyle)
The Nymphos of Rocky Flats (Acevedo)
Amulet (Bolano)
Jaime Bunda, Secret Agent (Pepetela)
Dark Roots (Kennedy)
A Fraction of the Whole (Toltz)
Curse of the Spellmans (Lutz)
The King’s Gold (Murray)
Kindred (Butler)
The End of the Jews (Mansbach)
The Time of the Butterflies (Alvarez) bc
Unaccustomed Earth (Lahiri)
Daughters of the North (Hall)
Interred with their Bones (Carrell)
City of Thieves (Benioff)
Slumberland (Beatty)
Atmospheric Disturbances (Galchen)
The Siege of Krishnapur (Farrell)
Personal Days (Park)
Siren of the Waters (Genelin)
When We Were Romans (Kneale)
A Week in October (Subercaseaux)
Demons in the Spring (Meno)
Doctor Olaf van Schuler’s Brain (Menger-Anderson)
The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques (Radcliffe)
When Will there Be Good News (Atkinson)
The Quiet American (Greene)
Celine’s Death on Credit (Kavenna)
Mysteries (Hamsun)
Watchman (Moore)
Confessions of a Contractor (Murphy)
Assassination Vacation (Vowell)
A Wild Ride through the Night (Moers) Gab & Makeda
Three Musketeers.(Birmajer)
Heretics Daughter (Kent)
The Likeness (French)
The Seamstress (De Pontes Peebles)
Death: A Life (Pendle)
Being Written (Conescu)
The Somnambulist (
The Meaning of Night: A Confession (Cox)
The Monsters of Templelton (Groff)
Skeletons at the Feast (Bohjalian)
Nazi Literature in the Americas (Bolano)
The Dart League King (Morris)
Paris Noir (Masson)
Couch (Parzybok)
Murder on the Eiffel Tower (Izner) French
The China Lover (Buruma)
Child 44 (Smith)
HomeSpun (Vachani)
Captain Freedom (Robillard)
Aya of Yop City (Abouet and Oubrerie)
Blood and Ice (Masello)
The Tricking of Freya (Sunley)
2666 (Bolano) 3/4 of the way through before I gave up
The Informers (Vázquez)
Senselessness (Moya)
Tales from the Town of Widows (Canon)
Oblomov (Goncharov)
The Blue Manuscript (al Khemir)
Revenge of the Spellmans (Lutz)
Winnie and Wolf (Wilson)
Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories (Groff)
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (Larsen)
The Cardboard Universe (Miller)
The Frozen Thames (Humphreys)
Shambling Towards Hiroshima (Morrow)
Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament (Browne)
In the United States of Africa (Waberi)
Lowboy (Wray)
A Quiet Flame (Kerr)
City of Refuge (Piazza)
The Book of Clouds (Aridjis)
The World in Half (Henriquez)
Secret Son (Lalami)
In the Courts of the Sun (D’Amato)
The Secret Speech (Smith)
My Soul to Take (Sigurdardottir)
Havana Fever (Padura)
Wonderland (Kovac)
A Mercy (Morrison)
Love Stories in this Town (Ward)
Everything is Now: New and Collected Stories (Cliff)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Larsson)
The Unscratchables (Kane)
The Marriage Bureau For Rich People (Zama)
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (Howe)
A Monster’s Notes (Sheck)
Amigoland (Casares)
The Enthusiast (Haas)
The Year of the Flood (Atwood)
Lostronaut (Lethem)
A Gate of Stairs (Moore)
The Glister (Burnside)
The Piano Teacher (Lee)
A Glass of Water (Baca) 10/09
Unseen Academicals (Pratchett)
American Fuji (Backer)
Valkyrie (von Boeselager)
The Last War (Menendez)
Pop Apocalypse (Konstantinous)
The City and City (Meville) ++
Palimpsest (Valente)
Tell Me Something True (Cobo)
This is Now (Hyland)
Dexter by Design (Lindsay)
The Skating Rink (Bolano)
The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard
Waiting for Columbus (Trofimuk)
The Informers (Vasquez)
Picking Bones from Ash (Mockett)
The Thing Around your Neck (Adichie)
Sarah’s Key (de Rosnay)
Brodeck (Claudel)
How to Paint a Dead Man (Hall)
Wolf Hall (Mantel)
The Lacuna (Kingsolver)
Acme Library (Ware)
Beneath the Lion’s Gaze (Mengiste)
The Invisible Mountain (de Robertis)
The Ask (Lipstye)
The Information Officer (Mills)
Best European Fiction (2010)(2011)
War Reporting for Cowards (Ayres)
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming (Jackson)
Chronic City (Letham)
The Fortress of Solitude (Letham)
The Interrogative Mood (Powell)
The Book of Dave
Wench (Perkins-Valdez)
You Remind Me of Me (Chaon)
Look at Me (Egan)
The Spellmans Strike Again (Lutz)
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbors Baby (Petrushevskaya)
Broken Teaglass (Arsenault)
The True History of Paradise (Cezair-Thompson)
The Gone Away World (Harkaway)
Our Tragic Universe (Thomas)
John Dies in the End (Wong)
Victoire (Conde)
Your Face Tomorrow (Marias)
- Fever and spear
- Dance and Dream
- Poison, Shadow and Farewell
The Collector of Worlds (Troyanov)
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Egan)
The Windup Girl (Bacigalupi)
The Long Song (Levy)
The Invisible Bridge (Orringer)
Watermark (Sankaran)
The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (Fernandez) Didn’t finish
The Line (Wood)
Skylark (Kosztolanyi)
I Am Not Sidney Poitier (Everett)
The Little Stranger (Waters)
In the Woods (French)
Lark and Termite (Phillips)
Parrot and Olivier (Carey)
The Passage (Cronin)
The Kingdom of Ohio (Flaming)
Faithful Place (French)
The Madonnas of Echo Park (Skyhorse)
The Summer Snow (Pawel)
Super Sad True Love Story (Shteyngant)
Imperfectionists (Rachman)
Any Bitter Thing (Wood)
Neverwhere (Gaiman)
The Devil You Know (Carey)
The Forever War (Haldeman)
World War Z (Brooks)
The Murderous Urges of Ordinary Women (Meltzer)
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Bender)
The Storm Chasers (Blum)
Girl in Translation (Kwok)
Frankenstein’s Monster, Susan Heyboer O’Keefe
Dexter is Delicious, Lindsay
Kraken, China Mieville
Ashes to Dust, Sigurðardóttir’s
The Handbook for Lightening Strike Survivors (Young-Stone)
Weeping Underwater Looks a lot Like Laughter (White)
The Lotus Eaters (Soli)
Stickfiguratively Speaking: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Odone)
Drowning Tucson (Morales)
Todos Santos (Clearman)
Dracula in Love (Essex)
Matilda’s Curse and Other Stories (Engels)
IQ84 (Murakami)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Jackson)
Pattern Recognition (Gibson)
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (Stanisic)
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (Strachey)
How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe (Yu)
Disruptable History of Frankie Landau Banks
True Confessions (Weber)
The Possessed (Batuman)
The Lady Matador’s Hotel (Garcia)
The Thieves of Manhattan (Langer)
Foreign Bodies (Ozick)
Young Lovecraft (Oliver & Torres)
Brains: A Zombie Memoir (Becker)
The Shadow of What We Were (Sepulveda)
Swamplandia (Russell) (bookclub)
Let the Right One In (Lindqvist)
What You See in the Dark (Munez)
Mr. Mendoza’s Paintbrush, Luis Alberto Urrea
Duex Ex Machina (Altschul)
Blood Harvest (Bolton)
A Novel Book store (Cosse)
Skippy Dies (Murray)
Zone One (Whitehead)
The Leftovers (Perotta)
Swim Back to Me (Packer)
Lady Audley’s Secret (Braddon)
Short stories
- You are Free (Senna)
Orientation (Orozco)- The Undivided Self (Self)
- The Spot (Means)
- Agents of Treachery (Penzler)
- Twilight of the Superheros (Eisenberg)
- Dracula’s Guest (Walker)
- How to Escape from a Leper Colony (Yanique)
The World Beneath (Kennedy)
Bad Marie (Dermansky)
Pym (Johnson)
The Vampire of Ropraz (Chessex)
The Barbarian Nurseries (Tobar)
Death at the Chateau Bremont (Longworth)
The Secret History of Costagnana (Vasquez)
Before I Go to Sleep (Watson)
Started Early, Took My Dog (Atkinson)
Miss New India (Mukherjee)
Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion (Harstad)
The Tragedy of Arthur (Phillips)
One of Our Thursdays is Missing (Fforde)
Thursday Next: The First Among Sequels (Fforde)
Snow Crash (Stephenson)
The Quickening Maze (Foulds)
In the Rooms (Shone)
Day of the Oprichnik (Sorokin)
Comedy in a Minor Key (Keilson)
Adios, Happy Homeland! (Menedez)
