02. Theft (2006) - Peter Carey*** 03. A Man without a Country (2005) - Kurt Vonnegut 04. The Audacity of Hope (2006) - Barack Obama --- (abandoned) Printer's Devil, Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution (2006) - Bruce Michelson 05. The Book of Evidence (1989) - John Banville*** --- (abandoned) Twilight of the Superheroes (2006) - Deborah Eisenberg* 06. Gonzo, The Life of Hunter S. Thompson (2007) - Jann Wenner & Corey Seymour 07. Bambi vs. Godzilla, On the Nature, Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business (2007) - David Mamet 08. Why Not Catch-21?, The Stories Behind the Titles (2007) - Gary Dexter ---(abandoned) Little (1995) - David Treuer ---(abandoned) Girlfriend in a Coma (1998) - Douglas Coupland 09. All the Pretty Horses (1992) - Cormac McCarthy**** 10. The Broken Estate (1999) - James Wood 11. Creationists, Selected Essays, 1993-2006 (2006) - E. L. Doctorow 12. Chronicles, volume one (2004) - Bob Dylan 13. The Gum Thief (2007) - Douglas Coupland*** 14. The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) - Booth Tarkington*** 15. In The Cut (1995) - Susanna Moore* 16. On Writing (2000) - Stephen King 17. Travels in the Scriptorium (2006) - Paul Auster** 18. Regeneration (1991) - Pat Barker** 19. Reading Comics (2007) - Douglas Wolk 20. Disgrace (1999) - J.M. Coetzee* 21. Cary Grant (2004) - Marc Eliot ---(abandoned) Money (1984) - Martin Amis* 22. Property (2003) - Valerie Martin** 23. Psychogeography (2007) - Will Self and Ralph Steadman 24. The Paris Review Interviews, Volume II (2007) 25. My Bass and Other Animals (2007) - Guy Pratt 26. The Sea (2005) - John Banville** 27. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) - Lorrie Moore**** 28. The Solitudes (1987) - John Crowley** 29. Traveling Music, The Soundtrack to My Life and Times (2004) - Neil Peart 30. David Mamet, A Life in the Theatre (2008) - Ira Nadel ---(abandoned) Tree of Smoke (2007) - Denis Johnson* 31. No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007) - Miranda July** 32. The City of Falling Angels (2005) - John Berendt ---(abandoned) Scar Lover (1992) - Harry Crews* 33. The Kitchen Readings, Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson (2008) - Michael Cleverly & Bob Braudis 34. The World Without Us (2007) - Alan Weisman ---(abandoned) Oscar and Lucinda (1988) - Peter Carey* 35. Animal Liberation (1975) - Peter Singer --- (abandoned) The Braindead Megaphone (2007) - George Saunders 36. Amsterdam (1998) - Ian McEwan*** 37. The Night in Question (1996) - Tobias Wolff**** 38. Papillion (1969) - Henri Charriére 39. When Blanche Met Brando, The Scandalous Story of A Streetcar Named Desire (2005) - Sam Staggs --- (abandoned) The Moviegoer (1960) - Walker Percy* 40. Death at Intervals (2005) - Josè Saramago**** 41. The Little Disturbances of Man (1959) - Grace Paley**** --- (abandoned) To See Every Bird on Earth (2005) - Dan Koeppel 42. Plays: 1 (1994) - David Mamet**** 43. Wally's World, The Brilliant Life & Tragic Death of the World's 2nd Best Comic Book Artist (2006) - Steve Starger & J. David Spurlock 44. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid (2006) - Jimmy Carter 45. Paul Newman (2004) - Daniel O'Brien 46. Christopher Walken A to Z (2008) - Robert Schnakenberg 47. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2008) - Haruki Murakami 48. Psycho (1959) - Robert Bloch*** 49. Fidelity (2008) - Grace Paley*** 50. A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) - Haruki Murakami***** 51. Man in the Dark (2008) - Paul Auster* 52. Once Around the Bloch (1993) - Robert Bloch 53. How Fiction Works (2008) - James Wood 54. Snuff (2008) - Chuck Palahniuk* 55. Philip Glass: A Portrait (2002) - Robert Maycock 56. Dear Boris, The Life of William Pratt aka Boris Karloff (1975) - Cynthia Lindsay 57. Harlan Ellison, The Edge of Forever (2002) - Ellen Weil Gary K. Wolfe 58. Out of My Mind (2006) - Andy Rooney --- (abandoned) Nights at the Circus (1986) - Angela Carter* 59. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track, The Letters of Richard Feynman (2005) - ed. Michelle Feynman 60. Hot Plastic (2004) - Peter Craig*** 61. Ascending Peculiarity, Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey (2001) - ed. Karen Wilkin 62. Blue Meridian (1971) - Peter Matthiessen 63. Housekeeping (1980) - Marilynne Robinson***** 64. The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair (2004) - George Plimpton 65. Musicophilia, Tales of Music and the Brain (2007) - Oliver Sacks 66. Three to Kill (1976) - Jean-Patrick Manchette*** 67. The Pickwick Papers (1837) - Charles Dickens*** 68. Willful Creatures (2005) - Aimee Bender**** 69. Monster of God (2003) - David Quammen 70. Complete Poems (1983) - Elizabeth Bishop***** 71. Collected Stories, Volume Two (2005) - Richard Matheson*** 72. My Name Escapes Me (1996) - Alec Guinness |
**='yeah-ok' ***=not bad, could have been better. ****=well done, a fine book *****=excellent (rare) Titles in italics are non-fiction 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 |