Here’s a link to the NY Times list so you can find authors and brief descriptions if you need them. Play the normal way – bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, cross out the ones you are sure you will never read (I rarely cross any out). (my italicized books are either already on my reserve list or have been on my reserve list and returned to the library unread – because I ran out of time.)
FICTION & POETRY
ABSURDISTAN
AFTER THIS
AGAINST THE DAY
ALENTEJO BLUE
ALL AUNT HAGAR’S CHILDREN
APEX HIDES THE HURT.
ARTHUR AND GEORGE
AVERNO
BEASTS OF NO NATION
BLACK SWAN GREEN
BROOKLAND
COLLECTED POEMS, 1947-1997. By Allen Ginsberg
THE COLLECTED STORIES OF AMY HEMPEL
THE DEAD FISH MUSEUM
DIGGING TO AMERICA
THE DISSIDENT
THE DREAM LIFE OF SUKHANOV
EAT THE DOCUMENT
THE ECHO MAKER
THE EMPEROR’S CHILDREN
EVERYMAN
FORGETFULNESS
GALLATIN CANYON: Stories. By Thomas McGuane
GATE OF THE SUN
GOLDEN COUNTRY
HALF OF A YELLOW SUN
HIGH LONESOME: New & Selected Stories, 1966-2006. By Joyce Carol Oates
THE INHABITED WORLD
THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS
INTUITION
THE KEEP
LAST EVENINGS ON EARTH
THE LAY OF THE LAND
LISEY’S STORY
NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS, 1964-2006. By Ishmael Reed
OLD FILTH
ONE GOOD TURN
ONLY REVOLUTIONS
THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ISLAND
THE ROAD
SKINNER’S DRIFT
SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS
THE STORIES OF MARY GORDON
STRONG IS YOUR HOLD
SUITE FRANÇAISE
TERRORIST
THE TRANSLATOR
TWILIGHT OF THE SUPERHEROES.
THE USES OF ENCHANTMENT
A WOMAN IN JERUSALEM
NONFICTION
THE AFTERLIFE
AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
ANDREW CARNEGIE
AT CANAAN’S EDGE: America in the King Years, 1965-68
AVA GARDNER: "Love Is Nothing."
THE BLIND SIDE: Evolution of a Game
BLOOD AND THUNDER: An Epic of the American West
BLUE ARABESQUE: A Search for the Sublime
CLEMENTE: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero
CONSIDER THE LOBSTER: And Other Essays
THE COURTIER AND THE HERETIC: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World
THE DISCOMFORT ZONE: A Personal History
EAT, PRAY, LOVE: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
FALLING THROUGH THE EARTH: A Memoir
FIASCO: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
FIELD NOTES FROM A CATASTROPHE: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
FLAUBERT: A Biography
FUN HOME: A Family Tragicomic
THE GHOST MAP: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic — and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
THE GREAT DELUGE: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
THE GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD: The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina
HAPPINESS: A History
HEAT: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
IRAN AWAKENING: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
JAMES TIPTREE, JR.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
JANE GOODALL: The Woman Who Redefined Man
KATE: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
LEE MILLER: A Life
THE LOOMING TOWER: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
THE LOST: A Search for Six of Six Million
MAYFLOWER: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
THE MOST FAMOUS MAN IN AMERICA: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA: A Natural History of Four Meals
ORACLE BONES: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present
THE PLACES IN BETWEEN
PRISONERS: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide
PROGRAMMING THE UNIVERSE: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos
QUEEN OF FASHION: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
READING LIKE A WRITER: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
REDEMPTION: The Last Battle of the Civil War
SELF-MADE MAN: One Woman’s Journey Into Manhood and Back Again
STATE OF DENIAL
STRANGE PIECE OF PARADISE
SWEET AND LOW: A Family Story
TEMPTATIONS OF THE WEST: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond
THINGS I DIDN’T KNOW: A Memoir
UNCOMMON CARRIERS
THE UNITED STATES OF ARUGULA: How We Became a Gourmet Nation
THE WAR OF THE WORLD: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
THE WORST HARD TIME: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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