What I've been reading for the last few years

2008

• Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
• The Essential Lenny Bruce, John Cohen (ed.)
• Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
• Fire, Sebastian Junger
• The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe
• Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris
• Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor
• Democracy, Joan Didion
• No Shortcuts to the Top, Ed Viesturs
• Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer
• Elizabeth Costello, J.M. Coetzee
• The Trouble with Physics, Lee Smolin
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
• Falling Man, Don DeLillo
• What Every Person Should Know about War, Chris Hedges
• Libra, Don DeLillo
• The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
• The Haj, Leon Uris
• The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs
• Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon, Garrison Keillor
• Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood

2007

• The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
• Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
• Underworld, Don DeLillo
• Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America, Chris Hedges
• Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell
• New Rules, Bill Maher
• The Road, Cormac McCarthy
• War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Chris Hedges
• The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, Candice Millard
• The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
• A More Perfect Constitution, Larry J. Sabato
• Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby Jr.
• The Human Stain, Philip Roth
• No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
• The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud

2006

• Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
• An Awfully Big Adventure, Beryl Bainbridge
• Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham
• Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
• Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
• Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
• On the Beach, Nevil Shute
• Saturday, Ian McEwan
• On Being a Teacher, Jonathan Kozol
• Ravelstein, Saul Bellow
• Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
• A Murder of Quality, John Le Carre
• Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
• The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins
• Call for the Dead, John Le Carre
• In Search of Nature, E.O. Wilson
• The Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks

2005

• House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
• Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Stephen C. Schlesinger
• Fairy Tales, Oscar Wilde
• Why I am not a Hindu, Kancha Ilaiah
• Am I A Hindu?/the Hinduism Primer, Ed Viswanathan
• In Exile from the Land of Snows: The Definitive Account of the Dalai Lama and Tibet Since the Chinese Conquest, John Avedon
• Collapse, Jared Diamond
• Krishnamurti for Beginners, J. Krishnamurti
• A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
• Eventide, Kent Haruf
• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
• The Tie That Binds, Kent Haruf
• The Future of Life, E.O. Wilson
• Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
• All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
• The Constant Gardener, John LeCarre
• The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat : The Story of the Penicillin Miracle, Eric Lax
• The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
• The Plot Against America, Phillip Roth
• Isaac's Storm, Erik Larson

2004

• The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy
• Trinity, Leon Uris
• An Army at Dawn, Rick Atkinson
• The Horned Man, James Lasdun
• Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, Ross King
• Malgudi Days, R.K. Narayan
• Coal, Barbara Freese
• The Interpeter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
• Fasting, Feasting, Anita Desai
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
• Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
• Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis
• Golden Gate, Vikram Seth
• Plainsong, Kent Haruf
• Martin Dressler, Stephen Millhauser
• The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
• Neuromancer, William Gibson
• Moral Politics, George Lakoff

2003

• Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories, Gregor Von Rezzori
• The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
• The Last River, Todd Balf
• Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
• The Road to Nab End, William Woodruff
• The World According to Garp, John Irving
• Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
• Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
• Life of Pi, Yann Martell
• Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis
• Atonement, Ian McEwan
• Stalingrad, Antony Beevor
• The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
• Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
• The Spanish Civil War, Antony Beevor

2002

• Catch-22, Joseph Heller
• Under the Volcano, Malcom Lowry
• Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
• The Big Money, John Dos Passos
• Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
• Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
• The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000, David Quammen (ed.)
• A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
• Endurance, Alfred Lansing
• The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh
• Rabbit at Rest, John Updike
• Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
• Elementals, A.S. Byatt
• Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
• Eat the Rich, P.J. O'Rourke
• A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
• Che Guevara - A Revolutionary Life, Jon Lee Anderson
• Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
• Half a Life, V.S. Naipaul

2001

• The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
• Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• The Shelterng Sky, Paul Bowles
• A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Woolfe
• Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
• Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
• A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
• Last Orders, Graham Swift
• The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
• Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
• The Professor's House, Willa Cather
• Carpenter's Gothic, William Gaddis
• Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell
• Ironweed, William Kennedy
• The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos
• The Great Crash 1929, John Kenneth Galbraith
• 1919, John Dos Passos
• Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh

2000

• The Diversity of Life, E.O. Wilson
• The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, Paul Hoffman
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• Rabbit Redux, John Updike
• Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
• What the Buddha Taught, Walpola Rahula
• The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, Finca Vigia Edition
• Collected Short Stories (vol. 3) of W. Somerset Maughm
• The Periodic Table, Primo Levi
• The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
• The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Sun also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
• Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
• The Double Helix, J.D. Watson
• Rabbit is Rich, John Updike
• The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
• Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
• The Green Man, Kingsley Amis
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
• Travels with my Aunt, Graham Greene
• The Thurber Carnival, James Thurber
• I, Claudius, Robert Graves
• From Bauhaus to Our House, Tom Woolfe
• The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
• Death Come for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
• Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maughm

Pre-2000

• Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
• Narcissus and Goldmund, Herman Hesse
• The Trial, Franz Kafka
• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
• The Plague, Albert Camus
• All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Memarque
• Walden, Henry David Thoreau
• The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
• Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietze
• Animal Farm, George Orwell
• Ethics, Aristotle
• On the Road, Jack Kerouac
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitysyn
• The Gulag Archipelago (Book 1), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Natural Acts, David Quammen
• American History at a Glance, Marshall Smelser and Joan R. Gundersen
• Portrait of Canada, June Callwood
• Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
• Barbarosa, Alan Clark
• Scientific Temperments, Philip J. Hilts
• The Dark Half, Stephen King
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
• Jesus Tales, Romulus Linney
• The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
• The Discoverers, Daniel J. Boorstin
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
• Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
• The Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
• The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
• What the Great Religions Believe, Joseph Gaer
• Zen Mind, Beginners Mind, Shunryu Suzuki
• The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha, E.A. Burtt
• The Penal Colony (short story collection), Franz Kafka
• Being Peace, Thich Nhat Hahn
• A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
• The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
• Battle Cry of Freedom, James McPherson
• Godel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter
• The Master of Go, Yasunari Kawabata
• A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
• Chaos, James Gleick
• Fractal Geometry of Nature, Benoit Mandlebrot
• Vietnam - A History, Stanley Karnow
• The Korean War, Max Hastings
• Foucalt's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
• Of Mice and Men, James Steinbeck
• Cannery Row, James Steinbeck
• Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
• A History of Pi, Petr Beckman
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
• The First Three Minutes, Steven Weinberg
• Adventures of a Mathematician, Stanislaw Ulam
• The Quincunx, Charles Palliser
• Don't Know Much About History, Kenneth C. Davis
• For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Age of Reason, Jean-Paul Satre
• Eva Luna, Isabel Allende
• Complexity, M. Mitchell Waldrop
• A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
• Sanctuary, William Faulkner
• The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
• Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
• Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
• As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
• The Defense, Vladimir Nabokov
• Iron John, Robert Bly
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Possession, A.S. Byatt
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• Genius, James Gleick
• Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner
• The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Walker
• An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Stranger, Albert Camus