Booknerd

I like to read. It’s a major part of my life and being a reader is how I define myself. Here’s a list of books I’ve read since 2002.

Books Read 2009

  1. The English Major (review)
  2. Y the Last Man vols. 1-10 (review)
  3. My Happy Life (review)
  4. Taking Care
  5. Too Cool To Be Forgotten (review)
  6. Wonder Boys (review)
  7. The First Person: and Other Stories (review)
  8. Outliers: The Story of Success (review)
  9. Watchmen (abandoned)
  10. Local (review)
  11. Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry (review)
  12. Mudville (review)
  13. Don’t Cry (review)
  14. The Turtle Catcher (review)
  15. The Big Sleep (review)
  16. Pride and Prejudice (review)
  17. All-Star Superman Volumes 1 & 2 (review)
  18. The Annunciations of Hank Meyerson, Mama’s Boy and Scholar (review)
  19. The Year of Magical Thinking (review)
  20. Disquiet (review)
  21. So Brave, Young and Handsome (review)
  22. Epileptic (review)
  23. The Song Is You (review)
  24. German for Travelers: A Novel in 95 Lessons (review)
  25. Twin Study (review)
  26. The Umbrella Academy (v. 1) (review)
  27. The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (review)
  28. The Rock Snob’s Dictionary (review)
  29. Funny Misshapen Body (abandoned)
  30. Laura Rider’s Masterpiece (review)
  31. Maus (review)
  32. Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (review)
  33. Little Things (review)
  34. Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (review)
  35. Sag Harbor: A Novel (review)
  36. Kingdom Come (abandoned)
  37. In the Shadow of No Towers (review)
  38. I Kill Giants (review)
  39. Love Is a Four-Letter Word (review)
  40. The Maltese Falcon
  41. Shortcomings (review)
  42. Do Not Deny Me (review)
  43. Asterios Polyp (review)
  44. We Need to Talk About Kevin (review)
  45. Andromeda Klein (review)
  46. Await Your Reply (review)
  47. American Born Chinese (review)
  48. Everything Matters! (review)
  49. Totally Killer (review)
  50. The Complete Essex County (review)
  51. Juliet, Naked (review)
  52. Stitches (review)
  53. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

    54. Books Read 2008

  54. All About Lulu (review)
  55. The Virgin Suicides
  56. The Theory of Light & Matter
  57. Identity Crisis (DC Comics)
  58. The Gargoyle (review)
  59. Twilight (review)
  60. Indignation (review)
  61. Dear Everybody (review)
  62. An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination (review)
  63. What Was Lost (review)
  64. The Alcoholic (review)
  65. The Wordy Shipmates (review)
  66. Downtown Owl (review)
  67. Personal Days (review)
  68. When You Are Engulfed in Flames (review)
  69. Kafka on the Shore (review)
  70. The Night of the Gun (review)
  71. Netherland (review)
  72. Who Do You Love (Review)
  73. America America (review)
  74. So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star (review)
  75. Everything I’m Cracked Up to Be (review)
  76. The Importance of Music to Girls (review)
  77. The Ghost Writer
  78. Secret Lives of Great Authors (review)
  79. The Wonders of the Invisible World (review)
  80. I Love You, Beth Cooper (review)
  81. The Monsters of Templeton (review)
  82. The Dead Fish Museum (review)
  83. The Stone Gods (review)
  84. I am the Messenger (podcast)
  85. Things I’ve Learned from the Women Who’ve Dumped Me (review)
  86. Things That Fall From the Sky (review)
  87. The Learners (review)
  88. Rock On (review)
  89. Bang Crunch (review)
  90. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (podcast)
  91. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (podcast)
  92. My Life in Heavy Metal (review)
  93. Candy Girl (review)
  94. Post Office (review)
  95. The Descendants (review)
  96. Self-Help (review)
  97. Atonement (review)
  98. The Screwtape Letters (podcast)
  99. No One Belongs Here More Than You (review)
  100. Away
  101. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal (podcast)

    102. Books Read 2007

  102. Dead Boys
  103. Then We Came to the End
  104. My Date with Satan
  105. Best American Short Stories 2007
  106. Foreskin’s Lament
  107. Schulz and Peanuts
  108. All Over But the Shouting
  109. The Gum Thief
  110. Sammy’s Hill
  111. An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England
  112. The Sabotage Cafe
  113. The Best of Tin House
  114. The Sound and the Fury
  115. Honored Guest
  116. Forever Odd
  117. The Beautiful and Damned
  118. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
  119. The Words to Every Song
  120. Ignorance
  121. All This Heavenly Glory
  122. Throw Like a Girl
  123. Fitting Ends
  124. Later, at the Bar
  125. A Moveable Feast
  126. Reading Like a Writer
  127. Petal Pusher
  128. Fear of Flying
  129. Kissing in Manhattan
  130. American Pastoral
  131. Love is a Mix Tape
  132. A Brief History of the Dead
  133. You Don’t Love Me Yet
  134. Famous Writers School
  135. How to Be Alone
  136. Remainder
  137. Absurdistan
  138. The Brothers K
  139. Sweet and Low: A Family Story
  140. Hush, Vol. 2
  141. Hush, Vol. 1
  142. The Road
  143. Undead and Unwed
  144. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  145. Best American Short Stories 2006

    146. Books Read 2006

  146. Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker
  147. My Secret
  148. Where I’m Calling From
  149. Motherless Brooklyn
  150. Brighton Rock*
  151. The Keep
  152. Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
  153. This is Not Chick Lit
  154. A Spot of Bother
  155. Because They Wanted To
  156. The Accidental
  157. This Side of Paradise
  158. The Vanished Man
  159. Prep
  160. Lolita
  161. Fun Home
  162. Between the Bridge and the River (Podcast)
  163. The Wedding (book club)
  164. Everyman
  165. Post Secret
  166. King Dork
  167. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
  168. JPod
  169. Fahrenheit 451 (Podcast)
  170. For Whom the Bell Tolls
  171. The Red Tent (book club)
  172. Twilight of the Superheroes
  173. The Secret Life of Bees (book club)
  174. 1984
  175. The Thin Place (book club)
  176. In Cold Blood
  177. My Sister’s Continent
  178. Crime and Punishment (book club)
  179. Company: A Novel
  180. Jane Eyre (book club)

    181. Books Read 2005

  181. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004
  182. Catcher in the Rye
  183. The News from Paraguay
  184. Cat’s Cradle
  185. Eleanor Rigby
  186. Ella Minnow Pea
  187. Please Don’t Come Back From the Moon
  188. The Great Gatsby
  189. How to Breathe Underwater
  190. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  191. The Plot Against America
  192. Love Invents Us
  193. Home Land
  194. The Giant’s House
  195. Under the Banner of Heaven*
  196. Geek Love
  197. The Night in Question
  198. Written on the Body
  199. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  200. The Cheese Monkeys
  201. The Coast of Chicago
  202. God bless you, Mr. Rosewater
  203. The Kite Runner
  204. The Bluest Eye
  205. Case Histories
  206. How to Breathe Underwater (i read it twice)
  207. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven
  208. A Candle in Her Room
  209. Lighthousekeeping*
  210. Oh My Stars*
  211. The Pornographer’s Poem
  212. Upstate
  213. The Apple’s Bruise
  214. Snakes and Earrings
  215. Until I Find You
  216. Killing Yourself to Live
  217. Sex, Drugs, and Coca Puffs
  218. Willful Creatures
  219. Ibid
  220. Beware of God
  221. Samuel Johnson is Indignant
  222. A Confederacy of Dunces
  223. Murder at the Vicarage
  224. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005
  225. Veronica : A Novel
  226. The Confessions of Max Tivoli
  227. Me Talk Pretty One Day
  228. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
  229. Cloud Atlas
  230. A Changed Man
  231. Gilead
  232. Assassination Vacation
  233. Odd Thomas
  234. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell*
  235. The History of Love

    236. Books Read 2004

  236. Jesus’ Son
  237. Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist
  238. Quite a Year for Plums
  239. Reasons to Live
  240. What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal
  241. Something Rising (Light and Swift)
  242. The Midnight Disease : The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain*
  243. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  244. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003
  245. A Girl Named Zippy
  246. Among the Missing
  247. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues*
  248. Bad Behavior
  249. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
  250. Civilwarland in Bad Decline
  251. The Fortress of Solitude
  252. The Hazards of Good Breeding
  253. Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona
  254. The Namesake
  255. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
  256. Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-workers
  257. How to Be Good
  258. Oblivion
  259. A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That
  260. You Remind Me of Me
  261. Love and Hydrogen
  262. Emperor of the Air
  263. The Human Stain
  264. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
  265. Liars and Saints
  266. Love
  267. The Point and Other Stories
  268. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
  269. Naked
  270. Birds of America: Stories
  271. 33 1/3 Let it Be
  272. Crabwalk
  273. I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
  274. Little Children
  275. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002
  276. Autobiography of a Face
  277. The Best American Short Stories 2002
  278. The Best American Short Stories 2004
  279. How We Are Hungry
  280. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
  281. Alias Grace
  282. Half in Love
  283. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
  284. Godless

    285. Books 2003

  285. Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
  286. The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
  287. I Stay Near You
  288. The Crimson Petal and the White
  289. The Lost Soul Companion
  290. In Her Shoes
  291. Normal
  292. The Alchemist
  293. The Partly Cloudy Patriot
  294. Songbook
  295. The Bitch in the House*
  296. My Only Story
  297. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
  298. Word Freak
  299. The Phantom Tollbooth
  300. The Thief of Always
  301. Beautiful Girls
  302. Slanky
  303. Cash: The Autobiography
  304. Happiness
  305. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
  306. They Have a Word for It
  307. The Secret History
  308. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
  309. Wonder When You’ll Miss Me
  310. About the Author
  311. Reading Lolita in Tehran*
  312. You’ve Got to Read This
  313. Good Girls Gone Bad
  314. Hey Nostradamus!
  315. The Muse Asylum
  316. Written on the Body
  317. The Solace of Leaving Early
  318. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
  319. Sleep Toward Heaven
  320. The Time of Our Singing*
  321. What I Loved
  322. Sula
  323. Jennifer Government
  324. The Torn Skirt
  325. The Subject Steve
  326. Please, Don’t Kill the Freshman
  327. The Enchantment of Lily Dahl
  328. The Losers’ Club
  329. Lucky Girls
  330. The Best American Short Stories 2003
  331. The Winter Zoo
  332. The Time Traveler’s Wife
  333. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  334. The Little Women

    335. Books 2002

  335. Fargo Rock City
  336. Lightning Field
  337. The Vagina Monologues
  338. Net Words: Creating High-Impact Copy Online
  339. Lit Life
  340. The Powerbook
  341. Bias
  342. The Bell Jar
  343. Come to Me
  344. Mouthing the Words
  345. The Savage Girl
  346. Small Pieces Loosely Joined
  347. Hot Text: Web Writing that Works
  348. Use Me
  349. Superbad
  350. Ella Minnow Pea
  351. The Nanny Diaries
  352. Woe is I
  353. Junk English
  354. Shopgirl
  355. The Professor and the Madman
  356. Cheese Monkeys
  357. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
  358. Bird by Bird
  359. Good in Bed
  360. The Invisible Circus
  361. An Invisible Sign of My Own**
  362. You Are Not a Stranger Here**
  363. Prague**
  364. The Cluetrain Manifesto
  365. A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashion, and Culture Change
  366. The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up**
  367. Snobbery: The American Version
  368. For Fucks Sake**
  369. You Shall Know Our Velocity**
  370. Welcome to Higby**
  371. The Little Friend

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