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Books I Have Read This Year

  • Paul E. Erdman: The Billion Dollar Sure Thing (*****)
  • Paul E. Erdman: The Silver Bears (****)
  • Robert Harris: Conclave (*****)
  • Rosemary Mahoney: The Early Arrival Of Dreams (****)
  • Pat Conroy: The Water Is Wide (*****)
  • Paul E. Erdman: The Crash Of '79 (****)
  • Aldous Huxley: Crome Yellow (*)
  • Michael Gold: Jews Without Money (***)
  • Rachel Ingalls: Mrs. Caliban (*****)
  • William Goldman: Tinsel (***)
  • Richard Greene: The Unquiet Englishman (*****)
  • Donald Barthelme: The Teachings Of Don B. (*****)
  • Max Beerbohm: A Christmas Garland (*****)
  • Jack Higgins: Year Of The Tiger (****)
  • Lawrence Block: Hit List (***)
  • Julian Barnes: Letters From London (***)
  • Gore Vidal: Clouds And Eclipses (***)
  • William Donaldson: Brewer's Rogues, Villains, And Eccentrics (*****)
  • P. G. Wodehouse: Hot Water (****)
  • Thomas Harris: Red Dragon (***)
  • E. L. Doctorow: Andrew's Brain (*****)
  • Patricia Highsmith: Deep Water (****)
  • Rumer Godden: In This House Of Brede (***)
  • Paul Gallico: The Poseidon Adventure (*****)
  • Robin Cook: Critical (***)
  • Larry Woiwode: What I'm Going To Do, I Think (**)
  • Joshua Ferris: The Unnamed (***)
  • J. R. Moehringer: Sutton (*****)
  • Peter Lovesey: The Last Detective (****)
  • James A. Michener: Caravans (*****)
  • Gregory McDonald: Fletch's Fortune (****)
  • Harry Kemelman: Tuesday The Rabbi Saw Red (****)
  • Brooke Hayward: Haywire (***)
  • Truman Capote: Portraits And Observations (*****)
  • Bret Easton Eliis: American Psycho (*)
  • Martin Cruz Smith: Gorky Park (****)
  • Calvin Trillin: Remembering Denny (*****)
  • John Ford: 'Tis Pity She's A Whore (*****)
  • Agatha Christie: Cards On The Table (****)
  • Joseph Heller: Portrait Of An Artist, As An Old Man (*****)
  • Joe David Brown: Paper Moon (*****)
  • Arthur Hailey: Detective (****)
  • P. G. Wodehouse: Jeeves In The Morning (*****)
  • Henry Cecil: Portrait Of A Judge (*****)
  • Vincent Starrett: The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes (*****)
  • George MacDonald Fraser: Black Ajax (***)
  • Robert Harris: V2 (****)
  • Mary Norton: The Borrowers (*****)
  • Gerald A. Browne: 11 Harrowhouse (***)
  • Ross MacDonald: The Name Is Archer (*****)
  • Gunter Grass: Cat And Mouse (**)
  • Leo Durocher (with Ed Linn): Nice Guys Finish Last (*****)
  • Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (**)
  • Stanley Elkin: Pieces Of Soap (**)
  • Calvin Trillin: Tepper Isn't Going Out (***)
  • George MacDonald Fraser: The Pyrates (****)
  • Tom Sharpe: Grantchester Grind (*****)
  • Paul Auster: The Brooklyn Follies (*****)
  • Don Floyd: Sun Records: An Oral History (****)
  • Evelyn Waugh: Helena (***)
  • Yann Martel: The Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatios (****)
  • James Leo Herlihy: The Season Of The Witch (**)
  • Eliot Asinof: Say It Ain't So, Gordon Littlefield (**)
  • Gore Vidal: In A Yellow Wood (****)
  • John Nichols: The Sterile Cuckoo (***)
  • Avery Corman: Kramer Versus Kramer (*****)
  • Robert Harris: The Ghost (*****)
  • Earl Derr Biggers: The House Without A Key (****)
  • Len Deighton: City Of Gold (****)
  • Agatha Christie: The Thirteen Problems (*****)
  • Muriel Spark: The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (*****)
  • Vladimir Nabokov: Strong Opinions (*****)
  • Roald Dahl: My Uncle Oswald (****)
  • William Hazlitt: On The Pleasure Of Hating (****)
  • Studs Terkel: American Dreams: Lost And Found (*****)
  • Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case Of The Caretaker's Cat (*****)
  • John Steinbeck: The Moon Is Down (*****)
  • Ruth Rendell: A Judgement In Stone (*****)
  • Vladimir Nabokov: Invitation To A Beheading (****)
  • James Carroll: Family Trade (***)
  • Richard Ford: The Sportswriter (****)
  • Dylan Thomas: Quite Early One Morning (*****)
  • Ellery Queen: The Egyptian Cross Mystery (*****)
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan Of The Apes (**)
  • Henning Mankell: Italian Shoes (***)
  • Calvin Trillin: Travels With Alice (*****)
  • Philip Roth: American Pastoral (*****)
  • Janwillem van de Wetering: Just A Corpse At Twilight (***)
  • Davis Grubb: Fool's Parade (***)
  • Agatha Christie: Partners In Crime (*)
  • Grazia Deledda: After The Divorce (****)
  • John D. MacDonald: Condominium (****)
  • Henry Miller: Tropic Of Cancer (**)
  • W. Somerset Maugham: The Moon And Sixpence (*****)
  • Willie Mays and Jeff Harris: Danger In Centerfield (*****)
  • Ira Levin: The Stepford Wives (*****)
  • David Graham Phillips: Susan Lenox (*)
  • Samuel Shem: The House Of God (**)
  • the UNPROFESSIONALS (Paris Review anthology) (***)
  • Gustav Flaubert: Flaubert In Egypt (*****)
  • William Golding: Pincher Martin (*****)
  • Paul Theroux: Dark Star Safari (*****)
  • Tom Roland: The Billboard Book Of Number One Country Hits (*****)
  • Alexander Theroux: Einstein's Beets (****)
  • Richard Brautigan: The Abortion (*****)
  • Len Deighton: Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy (***)
  • Thomas McGuane: Ninety-Two In The Shade (****)
  • Russell Baker: Growing Up (****)
  • Henning Mankell: Faceless Killers (****)
  • Gore Vidal: The Season Of Comfort (****)
  • William Trevor: Cheating At Canasta (****)
  • Thomas McGuane: The Bushwhacked Piano (**)
  • Mickey Spillane: Survival Zero (*****)
  • P. G. Wodehouse: Mr Mulliner Speaking (*****)
  • Raymond Kennedy: Columbine (*****)
  • Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (*****)
  • William Boyd: Brazzaville Beach (****)
  • Carson McCullers: Reflections In A Golden Eye (*****)
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Death Of Methusaleh (*****)
  • Charles Chaplin: My Autobiography (****)
  • Paul Auster: Baumgartner (****)
  • Norman Mailer: The Castle In The Forest (*****)
  • Erik Larson: Devil In The White City (****)
  • B. Traven: The Death Ship (****)
  • Agatha Christie: Hickory Dickory Death (*****)
  • Randall Jarrell: Pictures From An Institution (*****)
  • Graham Greene: No Man's Land (*****)
  • Jane Gardam: Old Filth (****)
  • James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce (*****)
  • Agatha Christie: The Murder At The Vicarage (*****)
  • Henry Darcy Curwen (ed.): A Johnson Sampler (*****)
  • John Barth: Lost In The Funhouse (*****)
  • Christopher Isherwood (ed.): Great English Short Stories (*****)
  • Kip Kotzen, Thomas Beller (eds.): With Love And Squalor (**)
  • Dylan Thomas: The Doctor And The Devils (*****)
  • Gary Hart: The Strategies Of Zeus (***)
  • Claudia Roth Pierpoint: Roth Unbound (*****)
  • The Intellectual Devotional: American History (*****)
  • Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr.: Philip Roth (****)
  • Philip Roth: Why Write? (*****)
  • H. R. F. Keating: Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books (****)
  • Natalia Ginzburg: The City And The House (****)
  • L. P. Hartley: The Go-Between (****)
  • William Kennedy: Riding The Yellow Trolley Car (*****)
  • Robert Graves: Goodbye To All That (*****)
  • Kenneth Tynan: Diaries (***)
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Bluebeard (*****)
  • Sándor Márai: Embers (****)
  • Penelope Fitzgerald: The Bookshop (*****)
  • John McPhee: Oranges (*****)
  • Ernest Hemingway: The Dangerous Summer (****)
  • Anthony Burgess: On Mozart (***)
  • Tove Jansson: The Summer Book (****)
  • John Gardner: October Light (***)
  • Thomas W. Gilbert: How Baseball Happened (****)
  • Anne Edwards: Vivien Leigh (*****)
  • Ha Jin: The Crazed (****)
  • William Trevor: The Story Of Lucy Gault (****)
  • Michel Rio: Dreaming Jungles (****)
  • Carol Clark: French Literature (Beginner's Guides) (****)
  • McSweeney's: Created In Darkness By Troubled Americans (****)
  • Michael Crichton: Prey (****)
  • Elizabeth Gaskell: The Poor Clare (***)
  • Larry McMurtry: Horseman, Pass By (***)
  • Anthony Powell: O, How The Wheel Becomes It! (*****)
  • David Wolf: Foul! (****)
  • P. D. James: Talking About Detective Fiction (*****)
  • Raymond Chandler: The High Window (****)
  • Morris West: Harlequin (****)
  • Willa Cather: The Professor's House (***)
  • Shirley Jackson: The Lottery and Other Stories (****)
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