What I've Been Reading
2009-2010 School Year
Bullet Park by John Cheever
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
Stylized by Mark Garvey
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Housekeeping vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby
The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Cold by Bill Streever
Stasiland by Anna Funder
Reading the OED by Ammon Shea
The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester
Eaters of the Dead by Michael Chrichton
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck
Death by Black Hole by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The Vikings by Robert Ferguson
Amsterdam by Ian McEwen
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandel] by Zoe Heller
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
Never Let Me Go by Kazou Ishiguro
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Summer 2010
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Stone Junction by Jim Dodge
Slackjaw by Jim Knipfel
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
Stanley Kubrick: Interviews by Gene D. Philips (editor)
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick
2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke
2010-2011 School Year
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
How Fiction Works by James Wood
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Big Machine by Victor LaValle
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson
The Sherlockian by Graham Moore
Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett Thomas
OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word by Allen Metcalf
Carrie by Stephen King
The Thieves of Manhattan by Adam Langer
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
How to Write a Sentence by Stanley Fish
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
Falconer by John Cheever
Pym by Mat Johnson
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman
Confessions of a Young Novelist by Umberto Eco
Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
The Good Life by Jay McInerney
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Summer 2011
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Deliverance by James Dickey
Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowels
Reading Like A Writer by Francine Prose
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Something Happened by Joseph Heller
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray
Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick by Frederic Raphael
Saturday by Ian McEwen
The Submission by Amy Waldman
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
2011-2012 School Year
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Great House by Nicole Krauss
There but for the by Ali Smith
Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J. Shields
It Chooses You by Miranda July
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollack
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Awful Possibilities by Christian TeBordo
Room by Emma Donoghue
Volt by Alan Heathcock
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
Snowdrops by A.D. Miller
Open City by Teju Cole
Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Luminous Airplanes by Paul La Farge
Solar by Ian McEwan
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
The Remains of the Day by Kazou Ishiguro
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
Summer 2012
A Delusion of Satan by Frances Hill
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
I Am Death by Gary Amdahl
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Tender is the Night by. F. Scott Fitzgerald
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
The Inheritors by William Golding
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Stuff Happens by David Hare
Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
A Happy Death by Albert Camus
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story by D.T. Max
2012-2013 School Year
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
We Are What We Pretend To Be by Kurt Vonnegut
Pastoralia by George Saunders
Both Flesh And Not: Essays by David Foster Wallace
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
Magic Hours by Tom Bissell
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders
Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick de Witt
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
How Literature Saved My Life by David Shields
Fobbit by David Abrams
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton
Tenth of December by George Saunders
HHhH by Laurent Binet
Summer 2013
Libra by Don DeLillo
Canada by Richard Ford
I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman
The Centaur by John Updike
Crash by JG Ballard
The Serialist by David Gordon
Winter King by Thomas Penn
2013-2014 School Year
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
The Circle by Dave Eggers
The First Man by Albert Camus
Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus
Snow White by Donald Barthelme
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
More Baths Less Talking by Nick Hornby
03 by Jean-Christophe Valtat
The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
The Dinner by Herman Koch
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
Submergence by J.M. Ledgard
Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart
The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry by Leanne Sharpton
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Silent World by Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball
High-Rise by JG Ballard
The Sundial by Shirley Jackson
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Spurious by Lars Iyer
Oman Ra by Victor Pelevin
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
Summer 2014
Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
The Rise & Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman
Camus: The Stranger by Patrick McCarthy
Recollections of the Golden Triangle by Alain Robbe-Grillet
You Bright and Risen Angels by William T. Vollmann
Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto
The Kept by James Scott
Odd Type Writers by Celia Blue Johnson
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
Look At Me by Jennifer Egan
2014-2015 School Year
10:04 by Ben Lerner
How Should a Person Be by Sheila Heti
Stoner by John Williams
So We Read On by Maureen Corrigan
King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien
The White Album by Joan Didion
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
Hiroshima by John Hersey
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Songbook by Nick Hornby
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
J by Howard Jacobson
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Reality Hunger by David Shields
Fat Man and Little Boy by Mike Meginnis
The Barter by Siobhan Adcock
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Magician's Lie by Greer Macallister
The First Bad Man by Miranda July
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov
Dark Rooms by Lili Anolik
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
La Maison de Rendez-vous by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
The Unwinding by George Packer
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Get Back: The Unauthorized Chronicle of the Beatles Let It Be Disaster by Doug Sulpy and Ray Schweighardt
Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Summer 2015
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders
The Ghost Network by Catie Disabato
Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes
Taft 2012 by Jason Heller
The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Rainey Royal by Dylan Landis
2015-2016 School Year
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor
The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray
The Killing Lesson by Saul Black
Under Majordomo Minor by Patrick de Witt
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Weirdness by Jeremy Bushnell
In the Woods by Tana French
The Likeness by Tana French
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Pretentiousness: Why It Matters by Dan Fox
Why I Read by Wendy Lesser
I Hate the Internet by Jarett Kobek
American Candide by Mahendra Singh
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison
From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature by Richard Ruland and Malcolm Bradbury
Summer 2016
The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne Booth
How Literature Works by John Sutherland
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2016-2017 School Year
Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Why Read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick
Daisy Miller by Henry James
The North Water by Ian McGuire
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov
Substitute by Nicholson Baker
Security by Gina Wohlsdorf
The Shining by Stephen King
The Hand That Feeds You by A.J. Rich
Summer 2017
Losing It by Emma Rathbone
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
2017-2018 School Year
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet
Sisters by Lily Tuck
Norwegian By Night by Derek B. Miller
U and I by Nicholson Baker
The Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Of The Farm by John Updike
A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning by Robert Zaretsky
The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
Countdown City by Ben H. Winters
World of Trouble by Ben H. Winters
The Grip Of It by Jac Jemc
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak
The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta
When the English Fall by David Williams
Heather, the Totality by Matthew Weiner
Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
Talking About Detective Fiction by P.D. James
A Separation by Katie Kitamura
Hotel Silence by Authur Ava Olafsdottir
The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Ill Will by Dan Chaon
The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce
Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker
The Language of Food by Daniel Jurafsky
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Summer 2018
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Salinger by David Shields and Shane Salerno
In the Cut by Susanna Moore
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
2018-2019 School Year
Dead Girls by Alice Bolin
You by Caroline Kepnes
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul G. Tremblay
The Power by Naomi Alderman
In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
Strong Opinions by Vladimir Nabokov
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
French Exit by Patrick deWitt
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
His Favorites by Katie Walbert
Golden State by Ben Winters
My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Adele by Leila Slimani
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Summer 2019
The Bat by Jo Nesbo
Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo
The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo
2019-2020 School Year
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
Come Closer by Sara Gran
The Terrible Twos by Ishmael Reed
Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis
Super-Cannes by JG Ballard
Summer 2020
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski
Season of Storms by Andrzej Sapkowski
2020-2021 School Year
Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Fledgling by Octavia Butler
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Winter in the Blood by James Welch
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Only Americans Burn in Hell by Jarett Kobek
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina HenrĂquez
Summer 2021
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Faithful Place by Tana French
Broken Harbor by Tana French