02. Subtraction (1991) - Mary Robison* 03. The Clown (1963) - Heinrich Böll*** 04. The Comfort of Strangers (1981) - Ian McEwan*** 05. Palace Walk (1956) - Naguib Mahfouz*** 06. Armadillo (1998) - William Boyd*** 07. By Night in Chile (2000) - Roberto Bolaño*** 08. Life on Air (2002) - David Attenborough 09. Elizabeth Costello (2003) - J. M. Coetzee** 10. The Killer Inside Me (1952) - Jim Thompson**** 11. Coming Through the Slaughter (1976) - Michael Ondaatje** 12. Sean Penn, His Life and Times (2004) - Richard T. Kelly 13. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) - Charles Dickens***** 14. Out of Sight (1996) - Elmore Leonard**** 15. Operation Wandering Soul (1993) - Richard Powers*** 16. The Successor (2003) - Ismail Kadare** 17. Fifth Business (1970) - Robertson Davies**** 18. The English Patient (1992) - Michael Ondaatje*** 19. Tarantula (1995) - Thierry Jonquet*** 20. The Varieties of Scientific Experience (2006) - Carl Sagan 21. Sun Dogs (1982) - Robert Olen Butler** 22. The Post-Birthday World (2007) - Lionel Shriver** 23. Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985) - Richard Powers**** 24. Amulet (1999) - Roberto Bolaño** 25. The Eye, A Natural History (2007) - Simon Ings 26. The Inheritance of Loss (2006) - Kiran Desai** 27. The Paris Review Interviews, Volume I (2006) 28. The Castle (1926) - Franz Kafka*** 29. Talk Talk (2006) - T. C. Boyle* 30. Atonement (2001) - Ian McEwan** 31. Clifford Brown, The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter (2000) - Nick Catalano 32. Double Indemnity (1936) - James M. Cain**** 33. The Age of Innocence (1920) - Edith Wharton** 34. Spook, Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005) - Mary Roach 35. Prisoner's Dilemma (1988) - Richard Powers**** 36. The Life and Times of Claude Rains (2006) - Carmella Felice 37. The English, A Portrait of a People (1998) - Jeremy Paxman 38. The Maltese Falcon (1930) - Dashiell Hammett**** 39. After Dark (2004) - Haruki Murakami**** 40. The Gold Bug Variations (1991) - Richard Powers*** 41. One Good Turn (2006) - Kate Atkinson* 42. Freedom in Exile (1990) - Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dali Lama of Tibet 43. The Manticore (1972) - Robertson Davies*** 44. Hitchcock / Truffaut (1983) - François Truffaut & Alfred Hitchcock 45. Postcards From Ed (2006) - Edward Abbey 46. Into the Wild (1996) - Jon Krakauer 47. Gain (1998) - Richard Powers*** 48. What it Used to Be Like, a portrait of my marriage to Raymond Carver (2006) - Maryann Burk Carver 49. Painkillers (2000)* 50. Black Ice (1999) - Peter Stamm** 51. The Big Over Easy (2005) - Jasper Fforde*** 52. Catching the Big Fish, Meditation, Consciousness, & Creativity (2006) - David Lynch 53. god is Not Great, How Religion Poisons Everything (2007) - Christopher Hitchens 54. Stories in the Worst Way (1996) - Gary Lutz** 55. The High Window (1942) - Raymond Chandler*** 56. Mere Anarchy (2007) - Woody Allen**** 57. Frost (1963) - Thomas Bernhard** 58. In Strange Gardens (2003) - Peter Stamm** 59. Collected Stories, Volume One (2003) - Richard Matheson**** 60. Ozma of Oz (1907) - L. Frank Baum 61. 62. Eleven Minutes (2003) - Paulo Coelho* 63. My Boring-Ass Life, The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith (2007) - Kevin Smith 64. Orson Welles, The Road to Xanadu (1995) - Simon Callow 65. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) - Ken Kesey*** 66. The Pacific, and Other Stories (2004) - Mark Helprin* 67. 68. Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder, Pronged Ants and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology (1995) – Lawrence Weschler 69. The Power of Myth (1988) – Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers 70. Point to Point Navigation (2006) - Gore Vidal 71. Plowing the Dark (2000) – Richard Powers*** --- (abandoned) Lanark, A Life in Four Books (1981) – Alasdair Gray* 72. Dirty Snow (1948) - Georges Simenon*** 73. Understanding Richard Powers (2002) – Joseph Dewey 74. Men Without Women (1927) – Ernest Hemingway*** 75. The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch, volume 1: Final Reckonings (1987) – Robert Bloch**** 76. A Fable (1954) – William Faulkner** 77. I Am Legend (1954) – Richard Matheson**** 78. The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escher (1978) Bruno Ernst |
**='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 |