My 2000 Reading List
Dreams of My Russian Summer
Andre Makine
The Love of a Good Woman
Alice Munro
Midnight in Sicily
Peter Robb
The Delicate Prey
Paul Bowles
The Lover
Marguerite Duras
Run River
Joan Didion
A Street in Marrakesh
Elizabeth Fernea
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
Haruki Murakami
The Girl at the Lion d’Or
Sebastian Faulks
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
George Eliot: The Last Victorian
Kathryn Hughes
Sostiene Pereira
Antonio Tabucchi
The Call of Stories
Robert Coles
Swimming Lessons
Rohinton Mistry
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh
Tomcat in Love
Tim O’Brien
The End of the Affair
Graham Greene
Flux
Peggy Orenstein
The Blue Flower
Penelope Fitzgerald
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Haruki Murakami
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia
Chris Stewart
Leviathan
Paul Auster
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
Moon Palace
Paul Auster
Blindness
Jose Saragado
At Heaven’s Gate
Robert Penn Warren
Candide
Voltaire
The Hours
Michael Cunningham
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
The Fifth Child
Doris Lessing
The Puttermesser Papers
Cynthia Ozick
Back in the World
Tobias Wolff
A Room with a View
E.M. Forster
King, Queen, Knave
Nabokov
Cherry
Mary Karr
The Mark of the Angel
Nancy Huston
My 1999 Reading List
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Pnin
Nabokov
New York Trilogy
Paul Auster
Personal History
Katherine Graham
The Nawal El Saadawi Reader
Nawal El Saadawai
Ancient Evenings
Norman Mailer
Great Irish Writers
John McCarthy, ed.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Fay Weldon
Central Square
George Packer
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
About a Boy
Nick Hornby
Il Conformista
Alberto Moravia
Kalimantaan
C.S. Godshalk
A Widow for One Year
John Irving
Cavedweller
Dorothy Allison
Herzog
Saul Bellow
Turn of the Century
Kurt Anderson
Marcovaldo
Italo Calvino
A Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Melissa Bank
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Fall of the Sparrow
Robert Hellenga
Cairo: The City Victorious
Max Rodenbeck
Crossing the Channel
Julian Barnes
Babel Tower
A.S. Byatt
Are You Somebody
Nuala O’Faolain
Hand to Mouth
Paul Auster
Cristo si รจ Fermata a Eboli
Carlo Levi
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes
The Man Who Ate Everything
Jeffrey Steingarten
Among the Thugs
Bill Buford
Spring Snow
Yukio Mishima
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
My 1998 Reading List
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
Public Knowledge: The Social Dimension of Science
John Ziman
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx
Paradise
Toni Morrison
Corelli’s Mandolin
Louis de Bernieres
The Odyssey
Homer (Robert Fagles trans)
Because They Wanted To
Mary Gaitskill
True North
Jill Ker Conway
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Jan Potocki
The Angel of Darkness
Caleb Carr
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
Women with Men
Richard Ford
Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics etc
Frank Sulloway
Bridget Jones’ Diary
Helen Fielding
The Anatomy of Love
Helen Fisher
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Alain de Botton
Susie Bright’s Sexual State of the Union
Susie Bright
Lives of the Monster Dogs
Kirsten Bakis
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
Harafish
Naguib Mahfouz
Getting In
James Finny Boylan
The Woodcutters
Thomas Bernhart
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
For Kings and Planets
Ethan Canin
La Lunga Vita di Marianna Ucria
Dacia Maraini
Medieval in L.A.
Jim Paul
Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon
Jim Paul
What’s Called Love
Jim Paul (ugh)
My 1997 Reading List
Le Divorce
Diane Johnson
The Human Factor
Graham Greene
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Sebastien Japrisot
Eat Fat
Richard Klein
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Seven Japanese Tales
Junichiro Tanazaki
Ransom
Jay McInerney
Angela’s Ashes
FrankMcCourt
Regeneration
Pat Barker
The Eye in the Door
Pat Barker
The Ghost Road
Pat Barker
Crooked Little Heart
Annie Lamott
Love Invents Us
Amy Bloom
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
Geek Love
Katherine Dunn
Come to Me
Amy Bloom
The Palace Thief
Ethan Canin
She’s Come Undone
Wally Lamb
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson
Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Peter Hoeg
Emperor of the Air
Ethan Canin
Human Croquet
Kate Atkinson
Incidents in the Rue Laugier
Anita Brookner
Women in Love
DH Lawrence
More Die of Heartbreak
Saul Bellow
All the King’s Men
Robert Penn Warren
The Italians
Luigi Barzini
The Loser
Thomas Bernhard
Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
Humboldt’s Gift
Saul Bellow
Fireflies
Shiva Naipaul
My 1996 Reading List
The One Hundred Secret Senses
Amy Tan
The Republican War Against Women
Tanya Melich
The Makioka Sisters
Junichiro Tanizaki
The House on the Lagoon
Rosario Ferre
Staring at the Sun
Julian Barnes
Some Prefer Nettles
Junichiro Tanizaki
The Invisible Circus
Jennifer Egan
The Age of Consent
Geoffrey Wolff
The Sportswriter
Richard Ford
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
McTeague
Frank Norris
Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Heart Songs
E. Annie Proulx
Midair
Frank Conroy
Mr. Ive’s Christmas
Oscar Hijuelos
Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Amazing Grace
Jonathan Kozol
Paula
Isabel Allende
Primary Colors
Anonymous
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson
Stones from the River
Ursula Hegi
Quicksand
Junikiro Tanazaki
Ladders of the Years
Anne Tyler
Floating in My Mother’s Palm
Ursula Hegi
Romola
George Eliot
The Edible Woman
Margaret Atwood
Best of Young American Writers
Granta, Ian Jack, ed.
The Pelican Brief
John Grisham
Rock Springs
Richard Ford
In the Eye of the Storm
Ahdat Soueif
The Liar’s Club
Mary Karr
The Paperboy
Pete Dexter
Paris Trout
Pete Dexter
The Key
Junichiro Tanazaki
Italian Stories/Novelle Italian
Robert Hall, ed.
The Mating Season
PG Wodehouse
Murthur and Walking Spirits
Robertson Davies
Brotherly Love
Pete Dexter
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom
Sidney Mintz
Chicken Little, Tomato Sauce and Agriculture
Joan Gussow
Leave it to Psmith
PG Wodehouse
The Magic Toyshop
Angela Carter
Saints and Strangers
Angela Carter
Wise Children
Angela Carter
This Boy’s Life
Tobias Wolff
In Pharoah’s Army
Tobias Wolff
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
High Fidelity
Nick Hornby
The Rainbow
DH Lawrence
Arranged Marriage
Chitra Banarjee Divkaruni
Barry Lyndon
Thackerey
The Duke of Deception
Geoffrey Wolff
Back in the World
Tobias Wolff
Accordian Crimes
Annie Proulx
Blue Sky Dream
David Beers
The Night in Question
Tobias Wolff
Autobiography of My Mother
Jamaica Kincaid
The Final Club
Geoffrey Wolff