Booklist 2022

1.    The Search: a biography of Leo Tolstoy -- Sara Newton Carroll

2.    The Buddha in the Attic -- Julie Otsuka

3.    Silverview -- John le Carré

4.    Snow Angels -- Stewart O'Nan

5.    The Blue Guitar -- John Banville

6.    Great House -- Nicole Krauss

7.    Glory -- Vladimir Nabokov

8.    You Think It, I'll Say It -- Curtis Sittenfeld

9.    Ethan Frome -- Edith Wharton

10.    Life Without Children -- Roddy Doyle

11.    Why Peacocks? an unlikely search for meaning in the world's most magnificent bird -- Sean Flynn

12.    The Last Painting of Sara de Vos -- Dominic Smith

13.    The Employees -- Olga Ravn, tr. by Martin Aitken

14.    Wayward -- Dana Spiotta

15.    Year of the Monkey -- Patti Smith

16.    By Nightfall -- Michael Cunningham

17.    Ocean State -- Stewart O'Nan

18.    Time Is a Mother -- Ocean Vuong

19.    Forest Dark -- Nicole Krauss

20.    Gap Creek the story of a Marriage -- Robert Morgan

21.    Leave the World Behind -- Rumaan Alam

22.    The Vanishing Act of Esmé Lennox -- Maggie O'Farrell

23.    The Lost Family: how DNA testingis upending who we are -- Libby Copeland

24.    The Black Snow -- Paul Lynch

25.    Elegy for April -- Benjamin Black

26.    Learning to Talk -- Hilary Mantel

27.    Something to Do with Paying Attention -- David Foster Wallace

28.    Enon -- Paul Harding

29.    Whereabouts -- Jhumpa Lahiri

30.    Dreaming in Cuban -- Cristina Garcia

31.    Unaccustomed Earth -- Jhumpa Lahiri

32.    Ghost Light -- Joseph O'Connor

33.    Eventide -- Kent Haruf

34.    Noboy's Normal: how culture created the stigma of mental illness -- Roy Richard Grinker

35.    The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri -- David Bajo

36.    The Slap -- Christos Tsiolkas

37.    The Comedian -- Joseph O'Connor 

book list

I used to list the books I had read at the end of every year. I still do, handwritten, but I haven't posted such lists here in a while.

So, here goes. My 2018 reading list, sotto voce, in ejaculatio praecox form, if you will:

1.  Debriefing: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag, edited by Benjamin Taylor
2. Andrew's Brain by E.L. Doctorow 
3. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
4.  Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
5. A Live Coal in the Sea by Madeleine L'Engle
6. A Legacy of Spies by John le Carre
7. Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey by Stephen Kuusisto
8. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
9. Does It Fart? The Definitive Guide to Animal Flatulence by Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti; illustrated by Ethan Kocak
10. The Informer by Craig Nova
11. While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
12. The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth
13. The Fig Eater by Jody Shields
14. My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley
15. Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose
16. This Is It by Alan Watts
17. Haiku: This Other World by Richard Wright
18. The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
19. The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John le Carre

... and counting.

2012 Book List

It's a tiny bit late, but here is my annual list of books I have read. For no reason other than I've been writing my OWN books, the list is a little shorter this year. I could claim the list is briefer because I have one or two monster-long books, but that wouldn't work. I typically have one or two monster-long books. Here goes:

1. The Greatest Game Ever Pitched: Juan Marichal, Warren Spahn, and the Pitching Duel of the Century -- Jim Kaplan

2.  Wait Till Next Year -- Doris Kearns Goodwin

3. The Odds: A Love Story -- Stewart O'Nan

4. The Great Leader -- Jim Harrison

5. Just Kids -- Patti Smith

6. The Hunger Games -- Suzanne Collins

7. Cutting for Stone -- Abraham Verghese

8. Ignorance: How It Drives Science -- Stuart Firestein

9. A Pirate for Life -- Steve Blass

10. Canada -- Richard Ford

11. The Juju Rules, or How to Win Ballgames from Your Couch -- Hart Seely

12. You & Me -- Padgett Powell

13. The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger -- Leonard Scheff and Susan Edmiston

What are you reading?