Books Read 2011

1. “Portnoy’s Complaint” - Philip Roth
2. “The Farewell Symphony” - Edmund White
3. “Mrs. Dalloway” - Virginia Woolf
4. “Deception” - Philip Roth
5. “ Taming The Beast” - Emily Maguire
6. “Sunstroke” - Tessa Hadley
7. “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8. “Bluesman” - Andre Dubus III
9. “Love Me” - Gemma Weekes
10. “Mud” - Michele Roberts
11. “Seize The Day” - Saul Bellow
12. “The Sound Of My Voice” - Ron Butlin
13. “Kalooki Nights” - Howard Jacobson
14. “City Boy” - Edmund White
15. “The Good Psychologist” - Noam Shpancer
16. “Light Fell” - Evan Fallenberg
17. “The Women Who Got Away” - John Updike
18. “Townie” - Andre Dubus III
19. “Disturbing The Peace” - Richard Yates
20. “The House of Sand & Fog” - Andre Dubus III
21. “Lord of the Flies” - William Golding
22. “The Last Weekend” - Blake Morrison
23. “Teach Us To Sit Still” - Tim Parks
24. “Going Buddhist” - Peter J. Connradi
25. “Goodbye Columbus; And Other Stories” - Philip Roth
26. “The Idle Parent” - Tom Hodgkinson
27. “Come On In!” - Charles Bukowski
28. “How To Be A Woman” - Caitlin Moran
29. “Hollywood” - Charles Bukowski
30. “Tales of Ordinary Madness” - Charles Bukowski
31. “Brooklyn Follies” - Paul Auster
32. “Giovanni’s Room” - James Baldwin
33. “The Slap” - Christos Tsiolkas
34. “The Nose” - Nikolai Gogol
35. “Away From Her” - Alice Munro
36. “The Final Testament of the Holy Bible” - James Frey
37. “The Maples Stories” - John Updike
38. “A Christmas Carol” - Charles Dickens 

Books in bold were particularly good.