Some Books I've Read Recently
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Fiction & Essays
- Bird by Bird / Anne Lamott
- The Moonstone / Wilkie Collins
- Lowboy / John Wray
- The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a life through pages of a lost journal / Lily Koppel
- Mistress of the Art of Death / Ariana Franklin
- The Woman in White / Wilkie Collins
- Down There on a Visit / Christopher Isherwood
- The Lost Estate / Henri Alain-Fournier
- Appointment in Samarra / John O'Hara
- The Flowers / Dagoberto Gilb
- McTeague / Frank Norris
- Remainder / Tom McCarthy
- A Rage in Harlem / Chester HImes
- On the Road / Jack Kerouac (I was supposed to read this in college, but never did. What a waste of 10 years! Life will never be the same.)
- The Angle of Repose / Wallace Stegner
- The Razor's Edge / Somerset Maugham
- The Ladies Paradise / Emile Zola
- The Sea / John Banville
- Alternatives to Sex / Stephen McCauley
- The Post Birthday World
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics / Marisha Pessl
- Then We Came to the End / Joshua Ferris
- Beyond Black / Hilary Mantel
- Black Swan Green / David Mitchell
- The Good Soldier / Ford Madox Ford
- The Hot Kid / Elmore Leondar
- Mother's Milk / Edward St. Aubyn
- Of Human Bondage / Somerset Maugham
- Possession / A.S. Byatt
- Phantom Tollbooth / Norton Juster
- Shooting an Elephant (and other essays) / George Orwell
- The Sound and the Fury / William Faulkner
- Tales of the City / Armistead Maupin
- Vile Bodies / Evelyn Waugh
- The White Earth / Andrew McGahan
- How Buildings Learn / Stewart Brand
- The Power of Now (Yes. I admit it. I read it and I liked it. So there.)
- A Guided Tour of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung / Robert Hopcke
- The Assassins' Gate / George Packer
- Logic Made Easy / Deborah J. Bennett
- The Undercover Economist / Tim Harford
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street / Burton Malkiel
Nonfiction