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Reading

Current: I'll Take You There by Wally Lamb

2020

• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (abandoned)
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Layer Cake by J.J. Connolly
• Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley
• Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• Bird Box by Josh Malerman
• The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
• Home Land by Sam Lipsyte
• A Cure For Suicide by Jesse Ball
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

2019

• This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
• The Dinner by Herman Koch
• Ruffhouse by Chris Schwartz
• The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
• Ghosts by Cesar Aira
• Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
• The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
• Slumberland by Paul Beatty
• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
• Already Dead by Denis Johnson
• Can’t Stop Won’t Stop by Jeff Chang
• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
• Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
• By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
• Find Me by Laura van den Berg
• Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
• Patient H.M. by Luke Dittrich
• Rendezvous With Rama by Authur C. Clarke
• Shear by Tim Parks
• Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
• Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
• The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
• The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
• Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
• Getting Mother’s Body by Susan-Lori Parks
• Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
• Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
• Salaryman by Meg Pei
• Comemadre by Roque Larraquy

2018

• The Prank by Anton Chekhov
• Am I Alone Here? by Peter Orner
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #2) by Douglas Adams
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (abandoned)
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• Jonah Sees Ghosts by Mark Sullivan
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
• L’Assommoir by Émile Zola
• Mort by Terry Pratchett
• Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
• The Breaking of Eggs by Jim Powell
• Kill the Next One by Federico Axat
• Pop! by Mark Polanzak
• The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike #2) by Robert Galbraith
• The Stand by Stephen King
• The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
• Ill Will by Dan Chaon
• Hystopia by David Means
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami (misprinted copy)
• The Adventures of a Bed Salesman by Michael Kumpfmuller (abandoned)
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
• The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Lang
• Zeroville by Steve Erickson
• NW by Zadie Smith
• Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson
• Mislaid by Nell Zink
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
• Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett
• Black Edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar
• Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
• The Cuckoo’s Calling (Cormoran Strike #1) by Robert Galbraith
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
• The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

2017

• Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
• The Man of Feeling by Javier Marias
• Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
• Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
• Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier
• To Die for the People by Huey Newton
• The Glamshack by Paul Cohen
• On Bittersweet Place by Ronna Wineberg
• Unrequited by Jenny Drummey
• Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan
• This Day Ends Like Any Day by Timothy Ogene
• The End by Fernanda Torres
• Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
• 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flannigan
• Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
• A Dilemma by Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Joe Gould’s Teeth by Jill Lepore
• Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
• Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
• Compulsion by Meyer Levin
• Bombardiers by Po Bronson
• Cigarettes by Harry Matthews
• Testament by Vickie Gendreau
• The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
• Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
• The Summer She Was Under Water by Jen Michalski
• When The De La Cruz Family Danced by Donna Miscolta
• I Am A Truck by Michelle Winters
• Animal Magnet by Gary Anderson
• Brothers by David Clerson
• Arcade by Drew Nellins Smith
• Come From Nowhere by Ellen Greenfield

2016

• The Tattooed Heart by Jezra Kaye
• The Lower Quarter by Elise Blackwell
• The Afflictions by Vikram Paralkar
• Where the Bird Sings Best by Alejandro Jodorowsky
• The Shapes of Dogs’ Eyes by Harry Gallon
• A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus
• Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
• Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
• Hula by Lisa Smith
• Black Moon by Kenneth Calhoun
• Crooked by Austin Grossman
• Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
• Cabot Wright Begins by James Purdy
• Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
• Under The Small Lights by John Cotter
• Waveland by Simone Zelitch
• Salamanders of the Silk Road by Christopher Smith
• The Underground by Hamid Ismailov
• Between Clay and Dust by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
• Square Wave by Mark de Silva
• Sleight by Kirsten Kaschock
• Among The Living by Jonathan Rabb
• Charmed Particles by Chrissy Kolaya
• How Fast Can You Run by Harriet Levin Millan
• Country Life by Ken Edwards
• Mr. Boardwalk by Louis Greenstein
• Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Bug by Ellen Ullman
• The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink
• Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust (abandoned)
• City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallsberg
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph
• Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
• A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
• The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth

2015

• Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
• Wishin’ and Hopin’ by Wally Lamb
• Night Film by Marisha Pessl
• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
• I Never Promised You A Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
• How I Became Stupid by Martin Page
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Man Who Japed by Philip K. Dick
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• The Man Who Turned Into Himself by David Ambrose
• How I Became A Famous Novelist by Steve Hely
• The Familiar: Volume 1 by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney (abandoned)
• Parasites Like Us by Adam Johnson
• In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard
• Crazy Cock by Henry Miller
• The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
• Summer House With Swimming Pool by Herman Koch
• Pink by Gus Van Sant
• Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers
• Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• V. by Thomas Pynchon
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty
• The Alienist by Caleb Carr
• (R)evolution by PJ Manney (abandoned)
• Wreckage by Emily Bleeker
• The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
• A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson
• The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
• Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
• Under the Skin by Michel Faber
• Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

2014

• Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane
• Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
• A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
• Anthem by Ayn Rand
• VALIS by Philip K. Dick
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
• The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
• Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• We Can Build You by Philip K. Dick
• Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
• An Arsonist’s Guide to Writer’s Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
• The Enormous Room by e.e. cummings
• This Book Is Full Of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It by David Wong
• Letters To A Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa
• The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
• Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
• The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
• Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick