An alphabetical list by author’s name of all the books I’ve read and written about since starting my Book Diary in July, 2020.
ACHEBE, Chinua
Things Fall Apart
ALAGO, Michael with Laura Davis-Chanin
I am Michael Alago: Breathing Music, Signing Metallica, Beating Death
ARAX, Mark and WARTZMAN, Rick
The King of California: J. G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
AXELROD, Robert
The Evolution of Cooperation
BAKEWELL, Sarah
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
BALZAC
Lost Illusions
BARNES, Julian
The Man in the Red Coat
BARR, James
Quatrefoil
BAUME, Matt
Hi Honey, I’m Homo! Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture
BECKETT, Samuel
Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnameable
BILLINGS, Alexandra
This Time for Me, a Memoir
BORGES, Jorge Luis
Ficciones
BRONTE, Emily
Wuthering Heights
BROWN, Liz
Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire
BRUNI, Frank
The Age of Grievance
BUKOWSKI, Charles
Factotum
Post Office
BULGAKOV, Mikhail
The Master and Margarita
BUTTIGIEG, Pete
Trust
CASPER, Frank and Jay Kiskel
Used to Be UU: The Systemic Attack on UU Liberalism, What You Need to Know, What You Need to Do
CASTELLANI, Christopher
Leading Men
CATHER, Willa
Death Comes for the Archbishop
O Pioneers!
CERVINI, Eric
Deviant’s War
COOLEY, Terasa
Transforming Conflict: The Blessings of Congregational Turmoil
CUNNINGHAM, Michael
Day
DAVIS, Jim and GRAHAM, Michael
The Great De-Churching
DICK, Philip K.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
DILBERTO, Gioia
I am Madame X
DOESTOEVSKY, Fyodor
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
Notes from Underground
Two Crocodiles
EICHLER, Jeremy
Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
ELIOT, George
MIddlemarch
ELIOT, T. S.
Selected Poems
FIDLER, Joyce
Evolution of a Baby Boomer: Life Beyond Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll
FINDLAY, Jean
Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff; Soldier, Spy, and Translator
FINKEL, Jon
Jocks in Chief
FITZGERALD, F. Scott
The Beautiful and Damned
The Crack-Up
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
The Last Tycoon
This Side of Paradise
FLAUBERT, Gustave
A Simple Heart
FORSTER, E. M.
Howards End
GORRA, Michael
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
HARARI, Yuval Noah
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
HART, Clive and HAYMAN, David, editors
James Joyce’s Ulysses: Critical Essays
HEMINGWAY, Ernest
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Moveable Feast
Short Stories
HOLLERAN, Andrew
Dancer from the Dance
Grief
The Kingdom of Sand
HOLLINGHURST, Alan
The Line of Beauty
HUNEVEN, Michelle
Jamesland
Search
ILLIES, Florian
1913: The Year Before the Storm
IRVING, Washington
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
ISHERWOOD, Christoper
The Berlin Stories
Prater Violet
ISHIGURO, Kazuo
Never Let Me Go
Remains of the Day
JAMES, Henry
The Aspern Papers
Daisy Miller
The Portrait of a Lady
Washington Square
The Wings of the Dove
JIMENEZ, Stephen
The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard
JOYCE, James
Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
KAFKA, Franz
The Trial
KAUFMAN, Charlie
Antkind
LAWRENCE, D. H.
The Fox
LE CARRE, John
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
LEON, Donna
Death at La Fenice
LILLA, Mark
The Once and Future Liberal
LOWRY, Malcolm
Under the Volcano
MACHIAVELLI
The Prince
MACKENZIE, Compton
Whisky Galore
MANN, Thomas
Death in Venice
MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
MCBRIDE, James
Deacon King Kong
MCWHORTER, John
Nine Nasty Words, English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
MENDELSOHN, Jack
The Martyrs: Sixteen Who Gave Their Lives for Racial Justice
MILLER, Madeline
The Song of Achilles
MORRISON, Toni
Beloved
MURAKAMI, Haruki
Kafka on the Shore
NELSON, Linnea, ed.
Beyond Welcome: Building Communities of Love
PERRY, Bruce D. & WINFREY, Oprah
What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
PHELPS-ROPER, Megan
Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
PLUCKROSE, Helen & James Lindsay
Cynical Theories
PORTIS, Charles
True Grit
POWELL, Anthony
A Dance to the Music of Time:
At Lady Molly’s
The Acceptance World
Books do Furnish a Room
A Buyer’s Market
Cassanova’s Chinese Restaurant
Hearing Secret Harmonies
The Kindly Ones
The Military Philosophers
A Question of Upbringing
The Soldier’s Art
Temporary Kings
Valley of Bones
PROUST, Marcel
In Search of Lost Time
PURDY, James
Eustace Chisholm and the Works
Malcolm
PUSHKIN, Alexander
Eugene Onegin
RAPPAPORT, Howard
Arnold & Igor
RAUCH, Jonathan
Kindly Inquisitors
REEVES, Richard V.
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why it Matters, and What to Do about it
RIFKIND, Donna
The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood
ROBINSON, Harlow
The Last Impresario: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Sol Hurok
Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood’s Russians
Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography
RODMAN, Howard A.
The Great Eastern
RODGERS, Mary and GREEN, Jesse
Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
ROSENBERG, Marshall
Living Nonviolent Communication: Practical Tools to Connect and Communicate Skillfully in Every Situation
ROSS, Alex
Wagnerism
ROTH, Philip
Exit Ghost
RUDNICK, Paul
Playing the Palace
RULFO, Juan
Pedro Paramo
RUSHDIE, Salman
The Satanic Verses
SALINGER, J. D.
The Catcher in the Rye
SCHULBERG, Budd
What Makes Sammy Run?
SONDHEIM, Stephen
The Hat Box (Finishing the Hat and Look, I Made a Hat)
STEINBECK, John
Of Mice and Men
STENDAHL,
The Red and the Black
STERNE, Laurence
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
STEVENSON, Robert Louis
Treasure Island
STEWARD, Samuel M.
Phil Andros novels and stories
Stud
My Brother, My Self
The Boys in Blue
Roman Conquests
Shuttlecock
Below the Belt and Other Stories
Greek Ways
Different Strokes
Parisian Lives
STOPPARD, Tom
The Invention of Love
STRAUB, Peter
Ghost Story
STUART, Douglas
Shugie Bain
SUCHET, John
Tchaikovsky: The Man Revealed
TOLSTOY, Leo
The Death of Ivan Ilych
War and Peace
VONNEGUT, Kurt
Galapagos
Slaughter-House Five
VUONG, Ocean
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
WALLER, David
The Perfect Man: The Muscular Life and Times of Eugen Sandow, Victorian Stongman
WEST, Nathanael
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust
WHARTON, Edith
The House of Mirth
WILDE, Oscar
Fairy Tales
The Picture of Dorian Gray
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Carry On, Jeeves
The Inimitable Jeeves
Very Good, Jeeves!
WOOLF, Virginia
Mrs. Dalloway
The Waves