Books I've read

Since 2006 I have kept lists of books that I've been reading. I went off the boil a bit in 2008 so I don't think the list for that year is totally comprehensive, but as much as I have the information this is a list of what I have been reading over the past few years:

2006

In the Country of Last Things – Paul Auster
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
The Fountain at the Centre of the World – Robert Newman
The Winter of Our Discontent – John Steinbeck
Ugly Americans – Ben Mezrich
Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
Myron – Gore Vidal
The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West
I Am Charlotte Simmons – Tom Wolfe
Pink – Gus Van Sant
Music For Chamaeleons – Truman Capote
Light On Snow – Anita Shreve
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – Marina Lewycka
The Bang-Bang Club – Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva
Whatever You Think, Think The Oppostie – Paul Arden
The Plague – Albert Camus
The Immoralist – Andre Gide
Yes Man – Danny Wallace
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace – Gore Vidal
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
The Book of Daniel – EL Doctorow
DC Confidential – Christopher Meyer
Permanent Midnight – Jerry Stahl
Dreams From My Father – Barack Obama
JPod – Douglas Coupland
Oracle Night – Paul Auster
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela – Mark Thomas
Who Moved My Blackberry? – Martin Lukes and Lucy Kellaway
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Welcome to Hard Times – EL Doctorow
The Basketball Diaries – Jim Carroll
Lady Chatterley's Lover – DH Lawrence
Love-Lies-Bleeding – Don DeLillo
Gag Rule – Lewis H Lapham
To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Last Tycoon – F Scott Fitzgerald
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Death Kit – Susan Sontag

2007

The Brooklyn Follies – Paul Auster
Come Dance With Me – Russell Hoban
Ragtime – EL Doctorow
The Names – Don DeLillo
Lunar Park – Bret Easton Ellis
The Invention of Solitude – Paul Auster
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
Adventures in the Screen Trade – William Goldman
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The March – EL Doctorow
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha – Roddy Doyle
The Book of Revelation – Rupert Thomson
Long Way Round – Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
Down Under – Bill Bryson
The Princess Bride – William Goldman
The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
Sky Burial – Xinran
Bright Lights, Big City – Jay McInerney
The Moon is Down – John Steinbeck
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country – Ken Kalfus
Homestead – Rosina Lippi
Watership Down – Richard Adams
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart – Lydia Millet
The Crow Road – Iain Banks
East of the Mountains – David Guterson
Sweet Land Stories – EL Doctorow
Terrorist – John Updike
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
The Cryptographer – Tobias Hill

2008

How to Talk to a Widower – Jonathan Tropper
Slash – Slash with Anthony Bozza
Dawn of the Dumb – Charlie Brooker
Reporting – David Remnick
We Never Make Mistakes – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Strong Motion – Jonathan Franzen
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Stasiland – Anna Funder
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khahed Hosseini
Mike’s Election Guide 2008 – Michael Moore
The Steep Approach to Garbadale – Iain Banks
A History of Modern Britain – Andrew Marr
The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy
Falling Man – Don DeLillo

2009

The Gum Thief – Douglas Coupland
Moon Palace – Paul Auster
The Business – Iain Banks
The Motorcycle Diaries – Che Guevara
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
A Planet for the President – Alistair Beaton
Night Train to Lisbon – Pascal Mercier
Travels in the Scriptorium – Paul Auster
The Sorrows of an American – Siri Hustvedt
Man in the Dark – Paul Auster
The Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud – Ben Sherwood
Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
Personal Velocity – Rebecca Miller
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Almost Moon – Alice Sebold
Cut and Run – Alix Boscoe
The Lost Generation – David Tremayne
Twenty Tales from the War Zone – John Simpson
My Story – Alex Zanardi
Crashed and Byrned – Tommy Byrne with Mark Hughes
Zeitoun – Dave Eggers

2010

Lots and lots of travel guides!
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norman Juster
LA Candy - Lauren Conrad
The Pull of the Moon - Elizabeth Berg
Olivia's Luck - Catherine Alliot
First Family - David Baldacci
Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
The Overlook - Michael Connelly
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
The Narrows - Michael Connelly
Land of the Living - Nicci French
The Silent Frontier - Peter Watt
The Black Angel - John Connolly
Classic Australian Short Stories - Various
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
Watermelon - Marian Keyes
Formula One - Bob Judd
The Behaviour of Moths - Poppy Adams
Invisible - Paul Auster
The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Solomon's Song - Bryce Courtenay
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest - Stieg Larsson

2011

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto - Michael Pollan
A Student of Weather - Elizabeth Hay
The Question of Bruno - Aleksandar Hemon
The Story of Forgetting - Stefan Merrill Block
Writing Your Screenplay - Lisa Dethridge
Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Magical Thinking - Augusten Burroughs
The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly
The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly
Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
Nine Dragons - Michael Connelly
The Front - Patricia Cornwell
Message in a Bottle - Nicholas Sparks
The Unquiet - John Connolly
The Winter of Frankie Machine - Don Winslow
Lots of travel guides

2012

11/22/63 - Stephen King
The Secret in Their Eyes - Eduardo Sacheri
Anthem - Ayn Rand
2 B R 0 2 B - Kurt Vonnegut
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
The Stand - Stephen King
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War - Karl Marlantes
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Gone, Baby, Gone - Dennis Lehane
A Drink Before the War - Dennis Lehane
Prayers for Rain - Dennis Lehane
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
The Mist - Stephen King
The Beach - Alex Garland