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Books Read 2011

1/3/2016

 
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.

Books Read 2010

1/3/2016

 
1. “Netherlands” - Joseph O’Neill
2. “Envy” - Kathryn Harrison
3. “An Education” - Lynn Barber
4. “The Diving-Bell & The Butterfly” - Jean-Dominique Bauby
5. “The Dying Animal” - Philip Roth
​6. “Strangers” - Anita Brookner
7. “We Don’t Live Here Anymore” - Andre Dubus
8. “The Garden Of Last Days” - Andre Dubus III
9. “On Chesil Beach” - Ian McEwan
10. “The Humbling” - Philip Roth
11. “Must You Go?: My Life With Harold Pinter” - Antonia Fraser
12. “The Kiss” - Kathryn Harrison
13. “The Buddha Of Suburbia” - Hanif Kureishi
14. “The Spend Less Handbook” - Rebecca Ash
15. “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” - Moshin Hamid
16. “Death Of A Lady’s Man” - Leonard Cohen
17. “The Postman Always Rings Twice” - James M. Cain
18. “The Bridges Of Madison County” - Robert James Waller
19. “Homage To Catalonia” - George Orwell
20. “The Monk” - Matthew Lewis
21. “Apples” - Richard Milward
22. “Indignation” - Philip Roth
23. “Wetlands” - Charlotte Roche
24. “The God Delusion” - Richard Dawkins
25. “Exit Ghost” - Philip Roth
26. “A Jew Must Die” - Jacques Chessex
27. “The Finkler Question” - Howard Jacobson
28. “In Praise of Older Women” - Stephen Vizinczey 29. “Invisible” - Paul Auster
30. “Black Coffee Blues” - Henry Rollins
31. “American Pastoral” - Philip Roth
32. “No More Mr Nice Guy” - Howard Jacobson
33. “Intimacy” - Hanif Kureishi
34. “The Act of Love” - Howard Jacobson
35. “Room” - Emma Donoghue
36. “The Dwarfs” - Harold Pinter
37. “The Taxi Queue” - Janet Davey
38. “The Breast” - Philip Roth
39. “Becoming Strangers” - Louise Dean
40. “The Easter Parade” - Richard Yates
41. “Nemesis” - Philip Roth
42. “Young Hearts Crying” - Richard Yates
43. “The Fifth Child” - Doris Lessing
44. “The Prague Orgy” - Philip Roth
45. “Push” - Sapphire

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Books Read 2009

1/3/2016

 
1. “Notes Of A Dirty Old Man” - Charles Bukowski
2. “Slaughterhouse Five” - Kurt Vonnegut
3. “Revolutionary Road” - Richard Yates
4. “The Reader” - Bernard Schlink
5. “Blind Faith” - Ben Elton
6. “The Witch Of Portobello” - Paulo Coelho
7. “Midnight All Day” - Hanif Kureishi
8. “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun” - Haraki Murakami
9. “Confessions Of A Pilgrim” - Juan Arias
10. “Factotum” - Charles Bukowski
11. “Gods Behaving Badly” - Marie Philips
12. “Songs Of Innocence, Songs Of Experience” - William Blake
13. “Hardcore Zen” - Brad Warner
14. “Zen Wrapped Up In Karma Dipped In Chocolate” - Brad Warner
15. “Utopian Dreams” - Tobias Jones
16. “Women” - Charles Bukowski
17. “Success” - Martin Amis
18. “A Heart Shaped Bullet” - Kathryn Flett
19. “In Between The Sheets” - Ian McEwan
20. “Lolita” - Vladimir Nabokov
21. “Palm Sunday” - Kurt Vonnegut
22. “The Death Of Bunny Munro” - Nick Cave

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Books Read 2008

1/3/2016

 
1. “How To Be Idle” - Tom Hodgkinson
2. “How To Be Free” - Tom Hodgkinson
3. “Buddhism: Plain and Simple” - Steve Hagen
4. “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running” - Haruki Murakami
5. “Get A Life! The Little Red Book of White Dot” - David Burke/Jean Lotus
6. “The Game” - Neil Strauss
7. “The Idler” magazine Issues 38 - 41.
8. “The Pilgrimage” - Paulo Coelho
9. “The Favourite Game” - Leonard Cohen
10. “Eleven Minutes” - Paulo Coelho
11. “Like A Flowing River” - Paulo Coelho
12. “Before Night Falls” - Reinaldo Arenas
13. “The Road” - Cormac McCarthy
14. “Breakfast Of Champions” - Kurt Vonnegut
15. “After Dark” - Haraki Murakami
16. “The Zahir” - Paulo Coelho
17. “The Fifth Mountain” - Paulo Coelho
18. “Brida” - Paulo Coelho
19. “The Valkyries” - Paulo Coelho
20. “The Man In The High Castle” - Philip K. Dick
21. “Flashman: Papers One” - George MacDonald Fraser
22. “Wilt” - Tom Sharpe
23. “A Clockwork Apple” - Belinda Webb
24. “Are You Experienced?” - William Sutcliffe
25. “God Is Dead” - Ron Currie Jr.
26. “Cake” - Sandra Newman
27. “Ham On Rye” - Charles Bukowski
28. “Who Moved My Blackberry?” - Lucy Kellaway
29. “The Average American Male” - Chad Kuttgen
30. “Armageddon In Retrospect” - Kurt Vonnegut
31. “Bluebeard” - Kurt Vonnegut
32. “Memories Of My Melancholy Whores” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
​33. “Queer” - William Burroughs
34. “The Most Beautiful Woman In Town” - Charles Bukowski
35. “Post Office” - Charles Bukowski
36. “Hocus Pocus” - Kurt Vonnegut
37. “Kasamakura” - Natsume Sasaki 


Books in bold were particularly good.

Books Read 2007

1/3/2016

 
1. “The Tattooed Girl” - Joyce Carol Oates
2. “The Book Of Longing” - Leonard Cohen
3. “The Alchemist” - Paulo Coelho
4. “Brave New World” - Aldous Huxley
5. “Free To Be Human” - David Edwards
6. “Not Buying It” - Judith Levine
7. “Breaking Open The Head” - Daniel Pinchbeck
8. “Radical Simplicity” - Dan Price
9. “The Name Of This Book Is Dogme ‘95” - Richard Kelly
​10. “Dumbing Us Down” - John Taylor Gatto
11. “What Should I Do With My Life?” - Po Bronson
12. “Introducing Jesus” - Ray Clements
13. “The Language Of God” - Francis S. Collins
14. “Veronika Decides To Die” - Paulo Coelho

Books in 
bold were particularly good.

Books Read 2006

1/3/2016

 
1. “Love Janis” - Laura Joplin
2. “Daisy Miller” - Henry James
3. “Female Chauvinist Pigs” - Ariel Levy
4. “A Spy In The House Of Love” - Annis Nin
5. “A Confederacy Of Dunces” - John Kennedy O’Toole
6. “The Outsider” - Albert Camus
7. “Tropical Animal” - Pedro Juan Gutierrez
8. “House Of Incest” - Annis Nin
9. “The Insatiable Spider Man” - Pedro Juan Gutierrez
10. “Bill Hicks: Agent Of Evolution” - Kevin Booth & Michael Bertin
​11. “Self-Made Man” - Norah Vincent
12. “High Fidelity” - Nick Hornby
13. “About A Boy” - Nick Hornby
14. “Plays Well With Others” - Allan Garganus
15. “Essays In Love” - Allain De Botton
16. “The Great Gatsby” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. “1984” - George Orwell 

Books in 
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