Much Better, America
Four years ago, there was a black armband on the faversham. Not today.
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- Becoming Richard Pryor, by Scott Saul (30 September 2019 - )
- Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov (13 September 2019 - 30 September 2019)
- Funny Girl, by Nick Hornby (4 September 2019 - 12 September 2019)
- The Whites, by Richard Price (writing as Harry Brandt) (19 August 2019 - 4 September 2019)
- Bad News, by Edward St. Aubyn (5 August 2019 - 19 August 2019)
- Americana, by Don DeLillo (5 July 2019 - 5 August 2019)
- The Score, by Richard Stark (3 July 2019 - 5 July 2019)
- The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks, by Robertson Davies (6 May 2019 - 3 July 2019)
- Girl in Landscape, by Jonathan Lethem (26 April 2019 - 5 May 2019)
- The Paperboy, by Pete Dexter (8 April 2019 - 26 April 2019)
- Screenplay, by MacDonald Harris (26 March 2019 - 8 April 2019)
- Berlin, Vol. 1: City of Stones, by Jason Lutes (20 March 2019 - 26 March 2019)
- Never Mind, by Edward St. Aubyn (6 March 2019 - 20 March 2019)
- The Mayor of MacDougal Street, by Dave Van Ronk and Elijah Wald (14 February 2019 - 6 March 2019)
- Watergate, by Thomas Mallon (15 January 2019 - 14 February 2019)
- Freaky Deaky, by Elmore Leonard (3 January 2019 - 15 January 2019)
- Gone Feral: Tracking My Dad Through the Wild, by Novella Carpenter (23 December 2018 - 3 January 2019)
- Here Comes Everybody: The Story of The Pogues, by James Fearnley (25 November 2018 - 21 December 2018)
- The Rise & Fall of Great Powers, by Tom Rachman (4 November 2018 - 25 November 2018)
- The Mourner, by Richard Stark (29 October 2018 - 4 November 2018)
- Through the Habitrails, by Jeff Nicholson (25 October 2018 - 29 October 2018)
- Chronic City, by Jonathan Lethem (17 September 2018 - 25 October 2018)
- The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches, by Brian MacArthur (Editor) (30 July 2018 - 17 September 2018)
- Wise Blood, by Flannery O'Connor (17 July 2018 - 30 July 2018)
- Jar of Fools, by Jason Lutes (16 July 2018 - 17 July 2018)
- Canada, by Richard Ford (3 July 2018 - 16 July 2018)
- Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War, by Mark Harris (6 June 2018 - 2 July 2018)
- I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-up Comedy's Golden Era, by William Knoedelseder (26 May 2018 - June 6, 2018)
- Skinny Dip, by Carl Hiaasen (16 May 2018 - 26 May 2018)
- Wilhelm Scream, by Richard Fairgray and Christian Fairgray (15 May 2018 - 16 May 2018)
- The Outfit, by Richard Stark (11 May 2018 - 17 May 2018)
- The Devil I Know, by Claire Kilroy (29 April 2018 - 11 May 2018)
- Andrew's Brain, by E.L. Doctorow (20 April 2018 - 29 April 2018)
- The Polysyllabic Spree, by Nick Hornby (13 April 2018 - 20 April 2018)
- Little, Big, by John Crowley (2 February 2018 - 13 April 2018)
- The Secret Pilgrim, by John le Carré (1 January 2018 - 1 February 2018)
- Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches, by John Hodgman (27 November 2017 - 6 December 2017)
- The Go-Between, by L.P. Hartley (23 November 2017 - 1 January 2018)
- The Circle, by Dave Eggers (13 November 2017 - 23 November 2017)
- The Bear Who Lived at the Plaza, by Ward Morehouse III (10 November 2017 - 13 November 2017)
- 11/22/63, by Stephen King (11 October 2017 - 10 November 2017)
- Beast, by Marian Churchland (10 October 2017 - 11 October 2017)
- The Cunning Man, by Robertson Davies (1 September 2017 - 9 October 2017)
- Sanctuary, by William Faulkner (7 August 2017 - 1 September 2017)
- Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo (19 July 2017 - 7 August 2017)
- The Undoing Project: a Friendship that Changed Our Minds, by Michael Lewis (21 June 2017 - 19 July 2017)
- Dissident Gardens, by Jonathan Lethem (5 May 2017 - 20 June 2017)
- Djibouti, by Elmore Leonard (22 April 2017 - 5 May 2017)
- Smiley's People, by John le Carré (24 March 2017 - 22 April 2017)
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman (30 January 2017 - 23 March 2017)
- The Man with the Getaway Face, by Richard Stark (21 January 2017 - 30 January 2017)
- Appointment with Death, by Agatha Christie (12 January 2017 - 31 January 2017)
- Bossypants, by Tina Fey (9 January 2017 - 21 January 2017)
- Peril at End House, by Agatha Christie (25 December 2016 - 27 December 2016)
- The Early Stories: 1953-1975, by John Updike (15 September 2016 - 9 January 2017)
- Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson (8 September 2016 - 15 September 2016)
- Daytripper, by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá (7 September 2016 - 8 September 2016)
- Triburbia, by Karl Taro Greenfeld (28 August 2016 - 7 September 2016)
- The Magus, by John Fowles (31 July 2016 - 28 August 2016)
- Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus, by Chester Brown (30 July 2016 - 1 August 2016)
- The Honourable Schoolboy, by John le Carré (8 July 2016 - 31 July 2016)
- Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood , by Mark Harris (20 June 2016 - 8 July 2016)
- Phonogram, Vol. 2: The Singles Club, by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie (16 June 2016 - 20 June 2016)
- Six Bad Things, by Charlie Huston (6 June 2016 - 16 June 2016)
- Brooklyn: a Novel, by Colm Tóibín (25 May 2016 - 5 June 2016)
- The Complete Stories of Truman Capote, by Truman Capote (6 May 2016 - 25 May 2016)
- The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, by Andrew Sean Greer (23 April 2016 - 6 May 2016)
- Paris Trout, by Pete Dexter (15 April 2016 - 23 April 2016)
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores, by Gabriel García Márquez (11 April 2016 - 14 April 2016)
- Luna Park, by Kevin Baker and Danijel Zezel (8 April 2016 - 11 April 2016)
- The Looking Glass War, by John le Carré (22 March 2016 - 7 April 2016)
- Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens (29 January 2016 - 22 March 2016)
- Dog Soldiers, by Robert Stone (17 January 2016 - 29 January 2016)
- Underground, by Jeff Parker and Steve Lieber (16 January 2016 - 17 January 2016)
- Caught Stealing, by Charlie Huston (12 January 2016 - 16 January 2016)
- Cell, by Stephen King (5 January 2016 - 12 January 2016)
- The Reavers, by George MacDonald Fraser (23 December 2015 - 4 January 2016)
- Flinch, by Various (18 December 2015 - 23 December 2015)
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John le Carré (10 December 2015 - 18 December 2015)
- Earl Warren, A Great American Story, by Irving Stone (4 December 2015 - 10 December 2015)
- The Sea, by John Banville (22 November 2015 - 4 December 2015)
- Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood (5 November 2015 - 22 November 2015)
- The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel, by Stephen King (28 October 2015 - 5 November 2015)
- Me and the Devil, by Nick Tosches (11 October 2015 - 28 October 2015)
- Taft: 2012, by Jason Heller (7 October 2015 - 10 October 2015)
- A Murder of Quality, by John le Carré (5 October 2015 - 7 October 2015)
- The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, Book VII), by Stephen King (23 September 2015 - 5 October 2015)
- Sutton, by J.R. Moehringer (16 September 2015 - 23 September 2015)
- Sweet Tooth, by Ian McEwan (4 September 2015 - 16 September 2015)
- Ladies Man, by Richard Price (27 August 2015 - 3 September 2015)
- The Autumn of the Patriarch, by Gabriel García Márquez (12 August 2015 - 27 August 2015)
- A Contract with God, by Will Eisner (12 August 2015)
- Temescal Legacies: Narratives of Change from a North Oakland Neighborhood, by Jeff Norman (7 August 2015 - 12 August 2015)
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson (25 July 2015 - 7 August 2015)
- Skagboys, by Irvine Welsh (28 June 2015 - 25 July 2015)
- The Hunter, by Richard Stark (24 June 2015 - 28 June 2015)
- A Hologram for the King, by Dave Eggers (20 June 2015 - 24 June 2015)
- Call for the Dead, by John le Carré (17 June 2015 - 20 June 2015)
- The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln, by Stephen L. Carter (8 June 2015 - 17 June 2015)
- The Infinite Tides: A Novel, by Christian Kiefer (28 May 2015 - 7 June 2015)
- Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, Book VI), by Stephen King (21 May 2015 - 28 May 2015)
- The Candlemass Road, by George MacDonald Fraser (14 May 2015 - 21 May 2015)
- The Devil All the Time, by Donald Ray Pollock (9 May 2015 - 14 May 2015)
- Nightwoods: a Novel, by Charles Frazier (29 April 2015 - 8 May 2015)
- Tabloid City, by Pete Hamill (19 April 2015 - 29 April 2015)
- The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick (4 April 2015 - 19 April 2015)
- Oakland: The Story of a City, by Beth Bagwell (25 March 2015 - 4 April 2015)
- The Big Rock Candy Mountain, by Wallace Stegner (19 February 2015 - 25 March 2015)
- 52 Pickup, by Elmore Leonard (13 February 2015 - 19 February 2015)
- Old Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac (30 January, 2015 - 12 February 2015)
- Good as Lily, by Derek Kirk Kim and Jesse Hamm (28 January 2015 - 30 January, 2015)
- Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey (10 December 2014 - 28 January 2015)
- Perfidia, by James Ellroy (18 November 2014 - 10 December 2014)
- Reel Gags: All the Inside Jokes, Gags, Pranks, Secret Messages, Code Words, Double Meanings, and Other Hidden References from Your Favorite Films, by Bill Givens (16 November 2014 - 17 November 2014)
- Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book V), by Stephen King (3 November 2014 - 16 November 2014)
- The Woman Who Walked into Doors, by Roddy Doyle (27 October 2014 - 2 November 2014)
- The Sheikh and the Dustbin, by George MacDonald Fraser (20 October 2014 - 27 October 2014)
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John le Carré (12 October 2014 - 20 October 2014)
- The Shame of the Cities, by Lincoln Steffens (2 October 2014 - 12 October 2014)
- Networked: Carabella on the Run, by Gerard Jones and Mark Badger (2 October 2014)
- A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion: A Novel, by Ron Hansen (26 September 2014 - 2 October 2014)
- Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov (14 September 2014 - 26 September 2014)
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle, by George V. Higgins (12 September 2014 - 14 September 2014)
- Spooner, by Pete Dexter (31 August 2014 - 12 September 2014)
- Telegraph Avenue, by Michael Chabon (7 August 2014 - 31 August 2014)
- Parade (with Fireworks), by Michael Cavallaro (7 August 2014)
- Andre the Giant: Life and Legend, by Box Brown (11 July 2014 - 12 July 2014)
- 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami (28 June 2014 - 7 August 2014)
- Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life, by Ann Beattie (19 June 2014 - 28 June 2014)
- The Dead Republic, by Roddy Doyle (11 June 2014 - 19 June 2014)
- Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays, by Steve Martin (7 June 2014 - 10 June 2014)
- On Canaan's Side, by Sebastian Barry (30 May 2014 - 6 June 2014)
- Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes, by William Kennedy (15 May 2014 - 29 May 2014)
- Lost Memory of Skin, by Russell Banks (2 May 2014 - 15 May 2014)
- Zulu, by Caryl Férey (23 April 2014 - 2 May 2014)
- Raylan, by Elmore Leonard (19 April 2014 - 23 April 2014)
- The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book III), by Stephen King (9 April 2014 - 19 April 2014)
- The Magician of Lublin, by Isaac Bashevis Singer (2 April 2014 - 9 April 2014)
- Oh, Play that Thing, by Roddy Doyle (22 March 2014 - 1 April 2014)
- Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem (12 March 2014 - 22 March 2014)
- The Heart of the Matter, by Graham Greene (27 February 2014 - 12 March 2014)
- Hangover Square, by Patrick Hamilton (19 February 2014 - 27 February 2014)
- Five Points, by Tyler Anbinder (12 January 2014 - 19 February 2014)
- Doctor Sleep, by Stephen King (6 January 2014 - 12 January 2014)
- Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, by David Simon (6 December 2013 - 6 January 2014)
- Bleak House, by Charles Dickens (9 October 2013 - 6 December 2013)
- The General Danced at Dawn, by George MacDonald Fraser (4 October 2013 - 9 October 2013)
- Bag of Bones, by Stephen King (24 September 2013 - 3 October 2013)
- Elvis and Nixon, by Jonathan Lowy (14 September 2013 - 23 September 2013)
- The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga (6 September 2013 - 14 September 2013)
- O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors, edited by Luc Sante and Melissa Pierson (30 August 2013 - 6 September 2013)
- Riding the Rap, by Elmore Leonard (25 August 2013 - 30 August 2013)
- L.A. Confidential: The Screenplay, by Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson (22 August 2013 - 25 August 2013)
- Cogan's Trade, by George V. Higgins (17 August 2013 - 22 August 2013)
- The Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood (5 August 2013 - 17 August 2013)
- Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp and Other Essays from Might Magazine, by Might Magazine editors (26 July 2013 - 5 August 2013)
- A Star Called Henry, by Roddy Doyle (27 June 2013 - 26 July 2013)
- Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure, by Paul Auster (16 June 2013 - 27 June 2013)
- Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir, by Foster Hirsch (29 May 2013 - 16 June 2013)
- Speaking with the Angel, edited by Nick Hornby (19 May 2013 - 28 May 2013)
- The KGB Bar Reader, edited by Ken Foster (29 April 2013 - 19 May 2013)
- McAuslan in the Rough, by George MacDonald Fraser (19 April 2013 - 29 April 2013)
- Gates of Eden, by Ethan Coen (11 April 2013 - 18 April 2013)
- The Invention of Love, by Tom Stoppard (6 April 2013 - 11 April 2013)
- The Acid House, by Irvine Welsh (22 March 2013 - 6 April 2013)
- Pronto, by Elmore Leonard (19 March 2013 - 22 March 2013)
- Fire in the Hole and Other Stores, by Elmore Leonard (15 March 2013 - 19 March 2013)
- The Untouchable, by John Banville (26 February 2013 - 15 March 2013)
- Sunset Park, by Paul Auster (15 February 2013 - 26 February 2013)
- Our Kind of Traitor, by John Le Carré (5 February 2013 - 14 February 2013)
- The Willow Tree, by Hubert Selby, Jr. (23 January 2013 - 5 February 2013)
- My World and Welcome to It, by James Thurber (15 January 2013 - 23 January 2013)
- The Dog of the South, by Charles Portis (6 January 2013 - 15 January 2013)
- Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine: Stories, by Thom Jones (21 December 2012 - 6 January 2013)
- Juliet, Naked, by Nick Hornby (16 December 2012 - 20 December 2012)
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel, by Haruki Murikami (29 November 2012 - 15 December 2012)
- Point Omega, by Don DeLillo (27 November 2012 - 28 November 2012)
- Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book IV), by Stephen King (29 October 2012 - 27 November 2012)
- Lemprière's Dictionary, by Lawrence Norfolk (18 September 2012 - 29 October 2012)
- A Walk on the Wild Side, by Nelson Algren (27 August 2012 - 18 September 2012)
- Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children and Other Streets of New Orleans, by John Churchill Chase (10 August 2012 - 27 August 2012)
- Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, by Maxine Hong Kingston (26 June 2012 - 10 August 2012)
- Shopgirl, by Steve Martin (22 June 2012 - 26 June 2012)
- The Human Factor, by Graham Greene (8 June 2012 - 22 June 2012)
- Norwood, by Charles Portis (4 June 2012 - 8 June 2012)
- The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld, by Herbert Asbury (14 May 2012 - 4 June 2012)
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, by Stephen King (7 May 2012 - 14 May 2012)
- Started Early, Took My Dog, by Kate Atkinson (28 April 2012 - 7 May 2012)
- Dance Dance Dance, by Haruki Murikami (15 April 2012 - 27 April 2012)
- Paying for It, by Chester Brown (11 April 2012 - 20 April 2012)
- Pest Control, by Bill Fitzhugh (31 March 2012 - 11 April 2012)
- Miami Blues, by Charles Willeford (26 March 2012 - 31 March 2012)
- My Friend Dahmer, by Derf Backderf (21 March 2012 - 22 March 2012)
- Agatha Christie: An Autobiography, by Agatha Christie (10 February 2012 - 24 March 2012)
- Innocent Eréndira and other stories, by Gabriel García Márquez (3 February 2012 - 10 February 2012)
- Masters of Atlantis, by Charles Portis (26 January 2012 - 2 February 2012)
- Sexing the Cherry, by Jeanette Winterson (13 January 2012 - 26 January 2012)
- Homer & Langley: A Novel, by E.L. Doctorow (1 January 2012 - 12 January 2012)
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, by Leo Tolstoy (3 December 2011 - 31 December 2011)
- The Secrets of Harry Bright, by Joseph Wambaugh (16 November 2011 - 3 December 2011)
- The Stories of John Cheever, by John Cheever (16 September 2011 - 16 November 2011)
- Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth (31 August 2011 - 16 September 2011)
- Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A., by James Ellroy (22 August 2011 - 30 August 2011)
- Gringos, by Charles Portis (5 August 2011 - 19 August 2011)
- Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories, by Thomas Mann (14 June 2011 - 5 August 2011)
- Thin Air, by Howard Browne (10 June 2011 - 13 June 2011)
- Screening History, by Gore Vidal (2 June 2011 - 8 June 2011)
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami (2 May 2011 - 27 May 2011)
- True Grit, by Charles Portis (18 April 2011 - 28 April 2011)
- Beware of God: Stories, by Shalom Auslander (13 April 2011 - 18 April 2011)
- The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger (29 March 2011 - 8 April 2011)
- Skipping Towards Gomorrah the Pursuit of Happiness in America, by Dan Savage (10 March 2011 - 28 March 2011)
- The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities, by Fintan O'Toole (25 February 2011 - 10 March 2011)
- Canone Inverso, by Paolo Maurensig (16 February 2011 - 24 February 2011)
- A Maggot, by John Fowles (28 January 2011 - 16 February 2011)
- Welcome to Hard Times, by E.L. Doctorow (20 January 2011 - 27 January 2011)
- The Grand Inquisitor, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (13 January 2011 - 20 January 2011)
- Notes from Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (12 November 2010 - 13 January 2011)
- Stupid White Men: ...and Other Excuses for the State of the Nation!, by Michael Moore (27 October 2010 - 11 November 2010)
- The Irish Americans: A History, by Jay P. Dolan (7 September 2010 - 27 October 2010)
- The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, by Will Eisner (2 September 2010 - 6 September 2010)
- Never Cry Wolf, by Farley Mowat (26 August 2010 - 2 September 2010)
- Under Western Eyes, by Joseph Conrad (4 August 2010 - 26 August 2010)
- Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, by Al Franken (26 July 2010 - 4 August 2010)
- The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing, by Norman Mailer (2 July 2010 - 25 July 2010)
- W.C. Fields and Me, by Carlotta Monti (with Cy Rice) (23 June 2010 - 1 July 2010)
- Famous Last Words, by Timothy Findley (22 May 2010 - 20 June 2010)
- Black and White and Dead All Over, by John Darnton (11 May 2010 - 21 May 2010)
- Death with Interruptions, by José Saramago (16 April 2010 - 11 May 2010)
- A Most Wanted Man, by Jean le Carré (2 April, 2010 - 16 April 2010)
- Phonogram: Rue Britannia, by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie (31 March 2010 - 1 April, 2010)
- The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene (15 March 2010 - 30 March 2010)
- When Will there Be Good News?, by Kate Atkinson (10 March 2010 - 15 March 2010)
- I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson (27 February 2010 - 9 March 2010)
- Four Letter Worlds, edited by Eric Stephenson (25 February 2010 - 26 February 2010)
- Crime, by Irvine Welsh (11 February 2010 - 25 February 2010)
- Journey without Maps, by Graham Greene (18 January 2010 - 10 February 2010)
- Fan Tan, by Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell (23 December 2009 - 15 January 2010)
- Blood's a Rover, by James Ellroy (27 November 2009 - 9 December 2009)
- A Drink with Shane MacGowan, by Victoria Clarke and Shane MacGowan (26 November 2009 - 22 December 2009)
- The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (18 November 2009 - 26 November 2009)
- Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville (9 September 2009 - 18 November 2009)
- The First $20 Million Is Always The Hardest - A Silicon Valley Novel, by Po Bronson (27 August 2009 - 9 September 2009)
- Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy (17 June 2009 - 26 August 2009)
- The Professor's House, by Willa Cather (6 June 2009 - 17 June 2009)
- Bombardiers, by Po Bronson (22 May 2009 - 5 June 2009)
- Report to the Commissioner, by James Mills (16 May 2009 - 21 May 2009)
- Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, by Steve Martin (13 May 2009 - 16 May 2009)
- Lush Life, by Richard Price (5 May 2009 - 13 May 2009)
- No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy (29 April 2009 - 4 May 2009)
- McIlhenney's Gold: How a Louisiana Family Built the Tabasco Empire, by Jeffrey Rothfeder (17 April 2009 - 28 April 2009)
- Experience, by Martin Amis (22 March 2009 - 16 April 2009 )
- Music for Chameleons, by Truman Capote (12 March 2009 - 22 March 2009)
- Slam, by Nick Hornby (5 March 2009 - 12 March 2009)
- Up in Honey's Room, by Elmore Leonard (28 February 2009 - 5 March 2009)
- The Truth (with jokes), by Senator-Elect Al Franken (24 February 2009 - 28 February 2009)
- Elephantmen: Wounded Animals, by Richard Starkings et al. (21 February 2009 - 24 February 2009)
- You Don't Love Me Yet, by Jonathan Lethem (3 February 2009 - 21 February 2009)
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union, by Michael Chabon (22 January 2009 - 2 February 2009)
- Catch Me If You Can: the True Story of a Real Fake, by Stan Redding and Frank W. Abagnale (16 January 2009 - 21 January 2009)
- Travels in the Scriptorium, by Paul Auster (8 January 2009 - 15 January 2009)
- Paula Spencer, by Roddy Doyle (25 December 2008 - 7 January 2009)
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, by John Godey (18 December 2008 - 24 December 2008)
- The Child in Time, by Ian McEwan (28 November 2008 - 17 December 2008)
- The Lyre of Orpheus, by Robertson Davies (6 November 2008 - 27 November 2008)
- Ravelstein, by Saul Bellow (24 October 2008 - 5 November 2008)
- Beloved, by Toni Morrison (3 October 2008 - 23 October 2008)
- Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs, by Irvine Welsh (20 September 2008 - 3 October 2008)
- What's Bred in the Bone, by Robertson Davies (30 August 2008 - 19 September 2008)
- The Grifters, by Jim Thompson (23 August 2008 - 29 August 2008)
- The Kind I'm Likely to Get, by Ken Foster (14 August 2008 - 22 August 2008)
- Damon Runyon On Broadway, by Damon Runyon (18 July 2008 - 13 August 2008)
- The Rebel Angels, by Robertson Davies (3 July 2008 - 17 July 2008)
- Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby (22 June 2008 - 3 July 2008)
- Swing: A Mystery, by Rupert Holmes (13 June 2008 - 21 June 2008)
- Complete Stories, by Dorothy Parker (9 May 2008 - 13 June 2008)
- The Nothing Man, by Jim Thompson (3 May 2008 - 8 May 2008)
- Terrorist, by John Updike (20 April 2008 - 2 May 2008)
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (27 March 2008 - 20 April 2008)
- Pagan Babies, by Elmore Leonard (21 March 2008 - 26 March 2008)
- Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (10 December 2007 - 20 March 2008)
- One Good Turn, by Kate Atkinson (1 December 2007 - 10 December 2007)
- The Last Spike, by Pierre Berton (26 October 2007 - 30 November 2007)
- Indecision, by Benjamin Kunkel (15 October 2007 - 26 October 2007)
- President Nixon: Alone in the White House, by Richard Reeves (? - probably started sometime in 2001 - resumed 22 August 2007 - 13 October 2007)
- The Brooklyn Follies, by Paul Auster (10 August 2007 - 21 August 2007)
- Father Struck It Rich, by Evalyn Walsh McLean with Boyden Sparkes (12 July 2007 - 9 August 2007)
- The Magician, by W. Somerset Maugham (26 June 2007 - 11 July 2007)
- American Born Chinese, by Gene Yang (5 June 2007 - 16 June 2007)
- O Albany!, by William Kennedy (? - probably started sometime in 2002 - resumed 5 June 2007 - 26 June 2007)
- The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, by Joshua Braff (25 May 2007 - 5 June 2007)
- Who Has Seen the Wind, by W.O. Mitchell (30 April 2007 - 24 May 2007)
- Deadwood, by Pete Dexter (16 April 2007 - 29 April 2007)
- The Master of Ballantrae, by Robert Louis Stevenson (1 April 2007 - 16 April 2007)
- Tricked, by Alex Robinson (31 March 2007)
- The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, by Robert Hough (11 March 2007 - 27 March 2007)
- Winter's Tale, by Mark Helprin (28 January 2007 - 9 March 2007)
- Clandestine, by James Ellroy (19 January 2007 - 27 January 2007)
- The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow (28 November 2006 - 19 January 2007)
- The Honourary Consul, by Graham Greene (9 November 2006 - 21 November 2006)
- God's Pocket, by Pete Dexter (6 November 2006 - 28 November 2006)
- A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby (2 November 2006 - 5 November 2006)
- The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy (3 October 2006 - 1 November 2006)
- Bend Sinister, by Vladimir Nabokov (15 September 2006 - 3 October 2006)
- The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway (10 September 2006 - 14 September 2006)
- Hard Times, by Charles Dickens (25 August 2006 - 10 September 2006)
- Haunted, by Chuck Palahniuk (3 August 2006 - 25 August 2006)
- The Hot Kid, by Elmore Leonard (28 July 2006 - 2 August 2006)
- Nixon at the Movies, by Mark Feeney (19 July 2006 - 28 July 2006)
- Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson (6 July 2006 - 18 July 2006)
- Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue, by Mark Kurlansky (15 June 2006 - 6 July 2006)
- Saturday, by Ian McEwan (18 May 2006 - 13 June 2006)
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Lewycka (7 May 2006 - 18 May 2006)
- Case Histories, by Kate Atkinson (1 May 2006 - 6 May 2006)
- Metropolis, by Elizabeth Gaffney (9 April 2006 - 29 April 2006)
- The Last Tycoon, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (29 March 2006 - 8 April 2006)
- In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote (15 March 2006 - 28 March 2006)
- Ahab's Wife, by Sena Jeter Naslund (1 February 2006 - 15 March 2006)
- Flashman on the March, by George MacDonald Fraser (18 January 2006 - 1 February 2006)
- Living to Tell the Tale, by Gabriel García Márquez (22 November 2005 - 17 January 2006)
- Parasites Like Us, by Adam Johnson (3 November 2005 - 22 November 2005)
- The Darling, by Russell Banks (19 October 2005 - 3 November 2005)
- The March, by E.L. Doctorow (7 October 2005 - 18 October 2005)
- Dog Culture, by Ken Foster (Editor) (30 September 2005 - 7 October 2005 - )
- World of Wonders, by Robertson Davies (17 September 2005 - 30 September 2005)
- The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth (30 August 2005 - 17 September 2005)
- The Silver Screen, by Maureen Howard (13 August 2005 - 29 August 2005)
- The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, by Gordon S. Wood (1 August 2005 - 12 August 2005)
- Brighton Rock, by Graham Greene (15 July 2005 - 1 August 2005)
- Aloft, by Chang-Rae Lee (28 June 2005 - 15 July 2005)
- Port Mungo, by Patrick McGrath (17 June 2005 - 27 June 2005)
- The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (20 May 2005 - 17 June 2005)
- Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates (4 May 2005 - 19 May 2005)
- The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton (26 April 2005 - 4 May 2005)
- Boonville, by Robert Mailer Anderson (12 April 2005 - 26 April 2005)
- Mall, by Eric Bogosian (6 April 2005 - 12 April 2005)
- Felicia's Journey, by William Trevor (27 March 2005 - 6 April 2005)
- The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene (18 March 2005 - 27 March 2005)
- Thank You, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse (10 March 2005 - 18 March 2005)
- The Manticore, by Robertson Davies (28 February 2005 - 10 March 2005)
- I, Fatty, by Jerry Stahl (14 February 2005 - 27 February 2005)
- Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (20 January 2005 - 14 February 2005)
- You Remind Me of Me, by Dan Chaon (7 January 2005 - 19 January 2005)
- The Lady in the Lake, by Raymond Chandler (26 Dec 2004 - 6 January 2005)
- Rendezvous in Black, by Cornell Woolrich (18 Dec 2004 - 26 Dec 2004)
- Nothing Lost, by John Gregory Dunne (11 Dec 2004 - 18 Dec 2004)
- Dubliners, by James Joyce (17 Nov 2004 - 10 Dec 2004)
- Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Tale of Survival, by Dean King (30 Oct 2004 - 17 Nov 2004)
- Love and Hydrogen, by Jim Shepard (12 Oct 2004 - 29 Oct 2004)
- Nana, by Emile Zola (25 Aug 2004 - 11 Oct 2004)
- Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies (4 Aug 2004 - 25 Aug 2004)
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
