September 5, 2010

The List

August 2009
Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. Dick
My Life in France - Julia Child
The People of Paper - Salvador Plascencia
Fire to Fire - Mark Doty
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh

September 2009
Dead In Dallas - Charlaine Harris
Club Dead - Charlaine Harris
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
What is the What - Dave Eggers
2666 - Roberto Bolano

November 2009
Genesis - Bernard Beckett

December 2009
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley (re-read)
Franklin and Lucy: Mrs. Rutherford and the Other Remarkable Women in Roosevelt's Life - Joseph E. Persico

January 2010
(LSAT)

February 2010
In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan (4/5)
Zeitoun - Dave Eggers (4/5)
The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter - Peter Singer (3/5)
Working In the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do - Gabriel Thompson (4/5)

March 2010
Cleaving: A Story of Meat, Marriage, and Obsession - Julie Powell (4/5)
Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger (2/5)
School Lunch Politics - Susan Levine (3/5)
T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life - Lyndall Gordon (did not finish)
Marathoning for Mortals - John Bingham and Jenny Hadfield (3/5)

April 2010
Slow Man - J.M. Coetzee (did not finish)
Scarlet Sister Mary - Julia Peterkin (5/5)

May 2010

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (5/5)
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro (4/5)
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (4/5)
The Help - Kathryn Stockett (3/5)
The Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart (3/5)
The Hollow Hills - Mary Stewart (3/5)
The Last Enchantment - Mary Stewart (3/5)
The Parable of the Sower - Octavia F. Butler (4/5)

June 2010
Five Smooth Stones - Ann Fairbairn (4/5)
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (re-read) (4/5)
Crossing to Safety - Wallace Stegner (re-read) (4/5)
The Bostonians - Henry James (re-read) (4/5)

July 2010
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (did not finish)
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (5/5)
The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness (4/5)
The Parable of the Talents (did not finish)
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins (5/5)
The Ask and the Answer - Patrick Ness (5/5)

August 2010

Solar - Ian McEwan (2/5)
Freedom Summer: The Summer that Made Mississippi Burn and Made America A Democracy - Bruce Watson (5/5)
The Magicians - Lev Grossman (3/5)
The Unnamed - Joshua Ferris (5/5)
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood (4/5)
The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today - Ted Conover (4/5)
Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer (4/5)

September 2010
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins (3/5)
The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver (4/5)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot (3.5/5)
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver (4/5)
Hyperion - Dan Simmons (4.5/5)

October 2010
Monsters of Men - Patrick Ness (5/5)
The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons (unfinished)
(Law School Applications)

November 2010
(Law School Applications)
The Life and Death of the Great American School System - Diane Ravich (4/5)
Feed - M.T. Anderson (2/5)

December 2010
Freedom - Jonathan Franzen (3/5)

January 2011
The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis (re-read)
Born to Run - Christopher McDougall (5/5)
Oscar Wilde (did not finish)
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami (did not finish)

February 2011

March 2011
The Big Short - Michael Lewis
Just Kids - Patti Smith
Flatland - Edwin F. Abbott
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen


April - June 2011

Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien (re-read)
The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien (re-read)
Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin
Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin
Room - Emma Donoghue
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
World War Z - An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks
Bossypants - Tina Fey
Brideshead Revisited (re-read)

July 2011

Planet Law School, II - Atticus Falcon
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling (re-read)
Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin
King of Torts - John Grisham
Law School Confidential - Robert H. Miller
Never Let Me Go (re-read) - Kazuo Ishiguro

August 2011

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

Bleak House (re-read) - Charles Dickens

September 2011
Falling Man - Don DeLillo

The List


The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson (Booker Prize 2010)
C - Tom McCarthy
The Lost Books of the Odysessey - Zachary Mason
A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
Super Sad True Love Story - Gary Shteyngart
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann (NBA 2009)
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species - Sean B. Carroll (NBA 2009 )
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy - Keith Waldrop (NBA 2009)
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice - Phillip Hoose (NBA 2009)
American Salvage - Bonnie Jo Campbell (NBA 2009)
A Happy Marriage - Raphael Iglesias
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James (re-read)
My Empire of Dirt - Manny Howard
Food Politics - Marion Nestle
The Crisis of Islamic Civilization - Dr. Ali A. Allawi
Independence Days: A Guide to Sustainable Food Storage and Presentation - Sharon Astyk
Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto - Peter Pringle
Let Them Eat Junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity
Das Kapital - Karl Marx
As Is - James Galvin
The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Saturday - Ian McEwan
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
Floodmarkers - Nic Brown
Home - Marilynne Robinson
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
The Summer Before the Dark - Doris Lessing
The White Man's Burden – William Easterly
Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity – Robert Jensen
Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body – Courtney E. Martin
The Oxford History of the Biblical World – Michael D. Coogan
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against Aids – Helen Epstein
The Enchantress of Florence – Salmon Rushdie
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency – Barton Gellman
The Post-American War – Fareed Zakaria
What the Dead Know – Laura Lippman