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Books Read Since Commencing this Faversham
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)
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
And in other news...
...Kristine is surprised to see a new post here.
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11:24 AM
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