Reading List

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

MALAMUD, Bernard
The Natural

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

NABOKOV, Vladimir
Lolita
Pnin

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
American Pastoral
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
Murder is Murder is Murder
The Caravaggio Shawl

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 Age of Innocence
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

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