--- (abandoned) Cosmopolis (2003) - Don DeLillo* 02. Case Histories (2004) - Kate Atkinson*** 03. When I Knew Al (2005) - E. DeLeo, D. Sheldon, J. McCall --- (abandoned) Small Island (2004) Andrea Levy* 04. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) - Milan Kundera** 05. A Devil's Chaplain, selected essays (2003) - Richard Dawkins 06. The Remains of the Day (1989) - Kazuo Ishiguro*** 07. All Souls (1989) - Javier Marias**** 08. Everything You Know (1999) - Zoë Heller*** 09. Blood Meridian (1985) - Cormac McCarthy**** 10. Silent Bob Speaks (2005) - Kevin Smith 11. The Safety of Objects (1990) - A.M. Homes*** 12. Invisible Man (1952) - Ralph Ellison*** --- (abandoned) Brother of Sleep (1992) - Robert Schneider* 13. Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (2006) - Daniel Dennett 14. An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000) - Aimee Bender*** 15. Lord of the Flies (1954) - William Golding***** 16. The Weight of Numbers (2006) - Simon Ings***** 17. Written Lives (2000) - Javier Marias 18. Double Fault (1997) - Lionel Shriver**** 19. Fascinating Rhythm, Reading Jazz in American Writing (2006) - David Yaffe 20. The Unconsoled (1995) - Kazuo Ishiguro ** 21. Adam, Eve and the Serpent (1988) - Elaine Pagels 22. Hot Head (1992) - Simon Ings** 23. Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (2002) - Christopher Moore** 24. Bartleby & Co. (2000) - Enrique Vila-Mata**** 25. The History of Love (2005) - Nicole Krauss *** 26. The Executioners (1958) - John D. MacDonald** 27. Madame Bovary (1857) - Gustave Flaubert**** 28. Beckett Remembering, Remembering Beckett, A Centenary Celebration (2006) - ed. J. & E. Knowlson 29. Seeing (2004) - José Saramago**** 30. Last Night (2005) - James Salter *** 31. Prison Writings, My Life is a Sundance (1999) - Leonard Peltier --- (abandoned) Martin Dressler, the Tale of an American Dreamer (1996) - Steven Millhauser* 32. Footprints, The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter (2004) - Michelle Mercer 33. This Book Will Save Your Life (2006) A. M. Homes**** 34. The Horned Man (2002) - James Lasdun**** 35. A Multitude of Sins (2001) - Richard Ford*** 36. Hatchet Jobs, Writings on Contemporary Friction (2004) - Dale Peck --- (abandoned) I Sailed With Magellan (2003) - Stuart Dybeck* 37. Everyman (2006) - Philip Roth*** 38. Blue City (1947) - Ross Macdonald*** --- (abandoned) The Accidental (2006) - Ali Smith* 39. Miss Lonelyhearts (1946) - Nathanael West ***** 40. Does Anything Eat Wasps? (2005) ed. Mick O'Hare 41. Harbor (2004) - Lorraine Adams**** --- (abandoned) When We Were Orphans (2000) - Kazuo Ishiguro* 42. People in Glass Houses (1966) - Shirley Hazzard*** 43. The Blindfold (1992) - Siri Hustvedt*** --- (abandoned) The Wandering Jew (1981) - Stefan Heym** 44. Censored 06, The Top 25 Censored Stories (2005) - ed. Peter Phillips & Project Censored 45. Farewell, My Lovely (1940) - Raymond Chandler**** 46. Dark Back of Time (1998) - Javier Marias*** 47. Timbuktu (1999) - Paul Auster** 48. Will Eisner's Shop Talk (2001) - Will Eisner 49. Borges and the Eternal Orangutans (2000) - Luis Fernando Verissimo**** --- (abandoned) The Thin Place (2006) - Kathryn Davis 50. Never Let Me Go (2005) - Kazuo Ishiguro* 51. Panama, The Whole Story (1991) - Kevin Buckley 52. Stir of Echoes (1958) - Richard Matheson** 53. The Cloud Garden (2003) - Tom Hart Dyke & Paul Winder 54. Man Walks Into a Room (2002) - Nicole Krauss*** --- (abandoned) Desperate Characters (1970) - Paula Fox* 55. Distant Star (1996) - Roberto Bolaño**** 56. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) - L. Frank Baum 57. The Hot Kid (2005) - Elmore Leonard*** --- (abandoned) Hotwire (1995) Simon Ings 58. Al Pacino, In Conversation With Lawrence Grobel (2006) - Lawrence Grobel 59. The Club of Angels (1998) - Luis Fernando Verissimo**** 60. Keith Jarrett The Man and His Music (1991) - Ian Carr --- (abandoned) Seven Lies (2006) - James Lasdun* 61. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) - Lewis Carroll 62. The Music of Chance (1990) - Paul Auster*** 63. The Truth (With Jokes) (2005) - Al Franken --- (abandoned) Kingdom Come (2006) - J.G. Ballard** 64. Scar Tissue (2004) - Anthony Kiedis 65. Letter to a Christian Nation (2006) - Sam Harris --- (abandoned) Carry Me Down (2006) - M. J. Hyland* 66. The Joke's Over (2006) - Ralph Steadman --- (abandoned) The Sportswriter (1986) - Richard Ford* --- (abandoned) Veronica (2005) - Mary Gaitskill* 67. The Worst Person In The World (2006) - Keith Olbermann 68. The Information (1995) - Martin Amis*** 69. Liquidation (2003) - Imre Kertész*** 70. Charles Bukowski: Sunlight Here I Am, Interviews & Encounters 1963-1993 (2003) - ed. David S. Calonne 71. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) - Gabriel Garcia Márquez** 72. Plainwater (1995) - Anne Carson*** 73. A Handful of Dust (1934) - Evelyn Waugh*** 74. Between the Alps and a Hard Place, Switzerland in World War II and the remaking oh History (2000) - Angelo M. Codevilla 75. Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller*** 76. The Road (2006) - Cormac McCarthy**** 77. Native American Fiction, a User's Manuel (2006) - David Treuer 78. One Matchless Time, A Life of William Faulkner (2004) - Jay Parini 79. Midnight's Children (1981) - Salman Rushdie* 80. Snow (2002) - Orhan Pamuk**** 81. Measuring the World (2005) - Daniel Kehlmann* 82. The Land of Oz (1904) – L. Frank Baum 83. The God Delusion (2006) – Richard Dawkins 84. Sepharad (2001) – Antonio Muñoz Molina*** 85. The Thin Man (1933) – Dashiell Hammett*** 86. Galatea 2.2 (1995) – Richard Powers**** 87. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2006) – Haruki Murakami*** 88. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001) – Alice Munro**** |
**='yeah-ok' ***=not bad, could have been better. ****=well done, a fine book *****=excellent (rare) Titles in italics are non-fiction and I've chosen to not rate those. Books intended for children also are unrated. Underlined denotes it as a re-read. All "suck" books will be taunted with fire but then released with Bookcrossing |