Books Read 2011

December

*The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, etc* Jonathan Lethem

*You Don’t Love Me Yet* Jonathan Lethem

*The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers* Ed. Vendela Vida

*The Ice Storm* Rick Moody

*Man in the Dark* Paul Auster

*The Fortress of Solitude* Jonathan Lethem

*When the Killing’s Done* TC Boyle

November

*Thieves’ World* Ed. Robert Lynn Asprin & Lynn Abbey

*The Memory Chalet* Tony Judt

*Joe College* Tom Perrotta

*Freedom* Jonathan Franzen

*The Mosquito Coast* Paul Theroux

October

*Animals Like Us* Mark Rowlands

*The Informers* Juan Gabriel Vasquez

*City of Glass* Paul Auster

*The New Life* Orhan Pamuk

*Denialism* Michael Specter

*The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet* David Mitchell

September

*The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property* Lewis Hyde

*Zoli* Colum McCann

*The Dreaming Jewels* Theodore Sturgeon

*The 25th Hour* David Benioff

*Jeff in Venice, Death in Varnasi* Geoff Dyer

*Manhood for Amateurs* Michael Chabon

*The Wise Man’s Fear* Patrick Rothfuss

*The Anthologist* Nicholson Baker

*Daytripper* Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba

August

*The Fall of Hyperion* Dan Simmons

*The Beast in the Jungle* Henry James

*The Crow* J. O’Barr

*The Land of Laughs* Jonathan Carroll

*Pale King* David Foster Wallace

*The Year of Loving Dangerously* Ted Rall

*Logicomix* Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou

July

*A Field Guide to Getting Lost* Rebecca Solnit

*My Other Life*  Paul Theroux

June

*I Am a Strange Loop*  Douglas Hofstader

*The Writing Life* Annie Dillard

*The Enemy* Christopher Hitchens

*Hitch-22* Christopher Hitchens

*The Handmaid’s Tale* Margaret Atwood

May

*Disgrace* J.M. Coetzee

*The Beach* Alex Garland

*Invisible* Paul Auster

*Giovanni’s Room* James Baldwin

*The Name of the Wind* Patrick Rothfuss

*The Reader* Bernhard Schlink

April

*Sunset Park* Paul Auster

*The Windup Girl* Paolo Bacigalupi

*Status Anxiety* Alain de Botton

March

*The Film Club* David Gilmour

*The Imperfectionists* Tom Rachman

*Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace* David Lipsky

*All the Sad Young Literary Men* Keith Gessen

February

*The House On Mango Street* Sandra Cisneros

*Program or Be Programmed* Douglas Rushkoff

*Revolution: The Year I Fell In Love And Went To Join The War* Deb Olin Unferth

*Hyperion* Dan Simmons

January

*Running the Books* Avi Steenburg

*Air* (Vol 1 & 2)  G. Willow Wilson

*Changing My Mind* Zadie Smith

*Girl in Landscape* Jonathan Lethem