Newer Post Older PostSATURDAY, MAY 02, 2015 The Best Books Of All Time -- The Master List Of Books I've Read By Rating Updated December 31, 2020 Here's a very incomplete master list of books I've read.</p><p> This is my list by rating (so you can see which books I gave a perfect four out of four stars to, for example).</p><p> I've got another list organized by author.</p><p> I tend to focus on good books or authors I've read a lot.</p><p> I don't see the point of including a book I didn't like by someone most people haven't heard about.</p><p> I've only got year-by-year lists of my reading going back to 2006.</p><p> Before that, it's very catch as catch can.</p><p> Since I've also considerably winnowed down my personal library without noting the books I got rid of over the years, I don't even have a good record of the books I SAVED for decades.</p><p> So please understand that this isn't remotely comprehensive.</p><p> If I seem overly generous in the number of 3 1/2 and 4 star books, well those are simply the ones I remember best.</p><p> The many minor books I consumed over the years (especially reams and reams of sci-fi, fantasy and mysteries) have faded from memory.</p><p> Just as often, if a book is so bad it would only get 1 1/2 or fewer stars, I didn't bother finishing it.</p><p> What's the point? Any weird gaps (I've read a lot more Dickens than I've listed, for example) are usually because I don't remember with enough specificity what I thought of certain books to rate them.</p><p> Art Garfunkel and Peter Bogdanovich had the right idea! Keep a list, everyone; you'll be glad you did.</p><p> What I wouldn't give for index cards with my brief thoughts on the movies I watched, books I read, albums I heard from a young age onward....</p><p> THE BOOKS MASTER LIST BY RATING FOUR STARS Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe **** The Unwomanly Face Of War by Svetlana Alexievich (1985) **** The Mysteries Of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg **** The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg **** Swan Lake by Chris Van Allsburg and Mark Helprin **** The Tightrope Walkers by David Almond **** Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Hero by Jon Lee Anderson **** The Astonishing Life Of Octavian Nothing Volume 1: The Pox Party by M.T.</p><p> Anderson **** The Astonishing Life Of Octavian Nothing Volume 2: The Kingdom On The Waters by M.T.</p><p> Anderson **** Symphony For The City Of The Dead by M.T.</p><p> Anderson **** The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood **** Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen **** Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen **** The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle by Avi **** Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt **** Peter and Wendy by J.M.</p><p> Barrie **** Dark Lies The Island by Kevin Barry **** Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme **** The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano **** Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury **** The Mists Of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley **** The Stranger by Albert Camus **** In Cold Blood by Truman Capote **** True History Of The Kelly Gang by Peter Carey **** The Path To Power: The Years Of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A.</p><p> Caro **** In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin **** The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin **** Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze **** Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates **** Nostromo by Joseph Conrad **** Evicted by Matthew Desmond **** This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz **** David Copperfield by Charles Dickens **** Great Expectations by Charles Dickens **** Ragtime by EL Doctorow **** The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas; translated by Richard Pevear **** My Family And Other Animals by Gerald Durrell **** The World Of The Short Story edited by Clifton Fadiman **** The Good Soldiers by David Finkel **** Thank You For Your Service by David Finkel **** Autumn Term by Antonia Forest (1948) **** Beat To Quarters by C.S Forester **** Ship Of The Line by C.S Forester **** Don't Lets Go To The Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller **** Coraline by Neil Gaiman **** Sunset Song by Lewis Gibbons **** We Wish To Inform You... by Philip Gourevitch **** Goodbye To All That by Robert Graves **** The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley **** Act One by Moss Hart **** Ellis Island and Other Stories by Mark Helprin **** Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin **** Swan Lake by Mark Helprin with Chris Val Allsbur g (illo) **** The Snows Of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway **** Krazy Kat (the strip in general) by George Herriman **** Rocket Boys (aka October Sky) by Homer Hickam **** Seabiscuit by Lauren Hillenbrand **** The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes **** Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston **** Pogo: Through The Wild Blue Yonder -- The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 1 by Walt Kelly **** Kim by Rudyard Kipling **** Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler **** The Ecstatic by Victor LaValle **** Valdez Is Coming by Elmore Leonard **** Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively **** The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill -- Visions Of Glory 1874- 1932 by William Manchester **** The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill -- Alone 1932-1940 by William Manchester **** Wolf Hall By Hilary Mantel **** Malcolm X: A Live Of Reinvention by Manning Marable **** A Game Of Thrones by George R.R.</p><p> Martin **** Castles Of Steel by Robert Massie **** Dreadnought by Robert K.</p><p> Massie **** Truman by David McCullough **** Moby-Dick by Herman Melville **** Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser **** Martin Dressler: The Tale Of An American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser **** Voices In The Night by Steven Millhauser **** Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell **** The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris **** Devil In A Blue Dress by Walter Mosley **** Bad Boy Brawly Brown by Walter Mosley **** Train Whistle Guitar by Albert Murray **** Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov **** Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian **** The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien **** The Buddha In The Attic by Julie Otsuka **** The Unwinding by George Packer **** Edisto by Padgett Powell **** Edisto Revisited by Padgett Powell **** His Dark Materials: Northern Lights aka The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman **** Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson **** American Pastoral by Philip Roth **** Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie **** Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupery **** Bambi: A Life In The Woods by Felix Salten **** Lincoln In The Bardo by Geor ge Saunders **** Gaudy Nights (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L.</p><p> Sayers **** Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L.</p><p> Sayers **** The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960 by Charles M.</p><p> Schulz **** The Complete Peanuts 1961-1962 by Charles M.</p><p> Schulz **** The Complete Peanuts 1965-1966 by Charles M.</p><p> Schulz **** The Rings Of Saturn by W.G.</p><p> Sebald **** Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak **** A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan **** A Boy And A Bear In A Boat by Dave Shelton **** On Sunset Blvd.: The Life and Times Of Billy Wilder by Ed Sikov **** Early Warning by Jane Smiley **** Some Luck by Jane Smiley **** The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne **** The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor **** Brooklyn by Colm Toibin **** The Hobbit by J.R.R.</p><p> Tolkein **** The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring by J.R.R.</p><p> Tolkein **** The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R.</p><p> Tolkein **** The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King by J.R.R.</p><p> Tolkein **** War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, trans by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhnosky **** Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, trans by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky **** Doonesbury (the comic strip overall) by Garry Trudeau **** Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain **** Mister Max: The Book Of Kings by Cynthia Voigt **** The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton **** A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White **** Stoner by John Williams **** The Virginian by Owen Wister **** This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff **** THREE AND A HALF STARS The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo *** 1/2 Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman *** 1/2 Dickens by Peter Ackroyd *** 1/2 Milton In America by Peter Ackroyd *** 1/2 The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams *** 1/2 The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories by Joan Aiken *** 1/2 The Tevye Stories And Other Stories by Sholem Aleichem *** 1/2 The Absolutely True Adventures of a Part-T ime Indian by Sherman Alexie *** 1/2 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie *** 1/2 A City In Winter by Chris Van Allsburg and Mark Helprin *** 1/2 A Coffin For Dimitrios by Eric Ambler *** 1/2 King by Ho Che Anderson *** 1/2 Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson *** 1/2 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou *** 1/2 Endling The Last by Katherine Applegate *** 1/2 The Bear And The Nightingale by Katherine Arden *** 1/2 The Girl in The Tower by Katherine Arden *** 1/2 Foundation by Isaac Asimov *** 1/2 Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov *** 1/2 Some Hope by Edward St.</p><p> Aubyn *** 1/2 Mother's Milk by Edward St.</p><p> Aubyn *** 1/2 Emma by Jane Austen *** 1/2 Persuasion by Jane Austen *** 1/2 Beyond The Western Sea Book 2 by Avi *** 1/2 The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela *** 1/2 The Devil's Storybook by Natalie Babbitt *** 1/2 Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz *** 1/2 Longbourn by Jo Baker *** 1/2 Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin *** 1/2 Little Man, Little Man by James Baldwin and illos by Yoran Cazac (1976) *** 1/2 Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme *** 1/2 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby *** ½ Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum *** 1/2 The Feast Of Love by Charles Baxter *** 1/2 The Sellout by Paul Beatty *** 1/2 We Believe The Children by Richard Beck *** 1/2 The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall *** 1/2 Ball Four by Jim Bouton *** 1/2 Miracle At Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen *** ½ Tarzan Of The Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs *** 1/2 The Cinder Spires: Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher *** 1/2 The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol 2: 1937-1938 by Milton Caniff *** 1/2 The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol. 3: 1939-1940 by Milton Caniff *** 1/2 The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol. 4: 1941-1942 by Milton Caniff *** 1/2 The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol. 5: 1943-1944 by Milton Caniff *** 1/2 The Complete Terry and the Pirates Vol. 6: 1945-1946 by Milton Caniff *** 1/2 Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote *** 1/2 Selected Writings Of Truman Capote *** 1/2 A Capote Reader by Truman Capote *** 1/2 The Complete Stories of Truman Capote *** 1/2 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey *** 1/2 Junius And Albert's Adventures In The Confederacy by Peter Carlson *** 1/2 Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes (trans by Edith Grossman) *** 1/2 A Passionate Prodigality by Guy Chapman *** 1/2 My Life In France by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme *** 1/2 The Awakening by Kate Chopin *** 1/2 The Big Show by Pierre Closterman *** 1/2 Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb *** 1/2 Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins *** 1/2 Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad *** 1/2 Skippy: Daily Comics 1925-1927 by Percy Crosby *** 1/2 The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt *** 1/2 Deadwood by Pete Dexter *** ½ Drown by Junot Diaz *** 1/2 The Adventures Of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens *** 1/2 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens *** 1/2 Bleak House by Charles Dickens *** 1/2 Hard Times by Charles Dickens *** 1/2 Out Of Africa by Isak Dinesen *** 1/2 Fup by Jim Dodge *** 1/2 All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr *** 1/2 The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle *** 1/2 The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle *** 1/2 The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle *** 1/2 The Return Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle *** 1/2 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas *** 1/2 Chronicles Vol. 1 by Bob Dylan *** ½ A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers *** 1/2 A Hologram For The King by Dave Eggers *** 1/2 Nest by Esther Erlich *** 1/2 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides *** 1/2 Their Finest by Lissa Evans *** 1/2 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo *** 1/2 The House Of The Scorpion by Nancy Farmer *** 1/2 The Siege Of Krishnapur by JG Farrell *** 1/2 Small Country by Gaël Faye *** 1/2 The Princess Of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette *** 1/2 The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde *** 1/2 Harriet The Spy by Louise Fitzhugh *** 1/2 Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (1943) *** 1/2 Hornblower and the Hotspur by C.S Forester *** 1/2 Hornblower During The Crisis by C.S Forester *** 1/2 Hornblower and the Atropos by C.S Forester *** 1/2 Flying Colours by C.S Forester *** 1/2 Prince Valiant Volume 3: 1941-1942 by Hal Foster *** 1/2 Prince Valiant Volume 4: 1943-1944 by Hal Foster *** 1/2 Bryant And May And The Burning Man by Christopher Fowler *** 1/2 Freedom by Jonathan Franzen *** 1/2 Cocktail Hour Under The Tree Of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller *** 1/2 The Book That Changed America by Randall Fuller *** Sea Of Poppies by Amitov Ghosh *** 1/2 River Of Smoke by Amitov Ghosh *** 1/2 The Princess Bride by William Goldman *** 1/2 The Yard by Alex Grecian *** 1/2 Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory *** 1/2 The Glass Sentence by S.E.</p><p> Grove ***/ Warlock by Oakley Hall *** 1/2 Great North Road by Peter F.</p><p> Hamilton *** 1/2 The Assassination Of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen *** 1/2 The Art Of Fielding by Chad Harbach *** 1/2 An Officer And A Spy by Robert Harris *** 1/2 The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris *** ½ The Spark And The Drive by Wayne Harrison *** 1/2 The Sea Queen by Linnea Hartsuyker *** 1/2 Masqueraders by Georgette Hayer *** 1/2 The Tale Of Shikanodo Book 1: Emperor Of The Eight Islands by Lian Hearn *** 1/2 The Tale Of Shikanodo Book 2: Autumn Princess, Dragon Child by Lian Hearn *** 1/2 Slice Harvester by Colin Atrophy Hegendorf *** 1/2 A Dove Of The East and Other Stories by Mark Helprin *** 1/2 A Soldier Of The Great War by Mark Helprin *** 1/2 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway *** 1/2 A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway *** 1/2 The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway *** 1/2 All Creatures Great And Small by James Herriot (read by Christopher Timothy) *** 1/2 A Dual Inheritance by Joanna Hershon *** 1/2 The Boys' House: New and Selected Stories by Jim Heynen *** 1/2 The Coalwood Way by Homer Hickam *** 1/2 The Divided Earth by Faith Erin Hicks *** 1/2 Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand *** 1/2 Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb *** 1/2 The Devil In The Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson *** 1/2 The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins by Antonia Hodgson *** 1/2 The Hidden Life Of Trees by Peter Hohlleben *** 1/2 Dancer From The Dance by Andrew Holleran *** 1/2 A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne *** 1/2 I Served The King Of England by Bohumil Hrabal *** ½ IQ by Joe Ide *** 1/2 Mrs.</p><p> Caliban by Rachel Ingalls (1982) *** 1/2 The World According To Garp by John Irving *** 1/2 The Cider House Rules by John Irving *** 1/2 The Fifth Season by N.J.</p><p> Jemisin (Broken Earth Trilogy Vol. 1) *** 1/2 The Obelisk Gate by N.K.</p><p> Jemisin (Broken Earth Trilogy, Vol. 2) *** 1/2 The Stone Sky by N.K.</p><p> Jemisin (Broker Earth Trilogy Vol 3) *** 1/2 Queen Of The Air by Dean Jensen *** 1/2 Children of Earth And Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay *** 1/2 The Last Temptation by Nikos Kazantzakis *** 1/2 Berlin, 1961: Kennedy, Kruschev and The Most Dangerous Place On Earth by Frederick Kempe *** 1/2 Beneath A Ruthless Sun by Gilbert King *** 1/2 The Murder Of Mary Russell by Laurie R.</p><p> King *** 1/2 Different Seasons by Stephen King *** 1/2 The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling *** 1/2 The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling *** 1/2 Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling *** 1/2 Collected Verse by Rudyard Kipling *** 1/2 Empire Of Sin by Gary Krist *** 1/2 Austerity Britain: 1945-1951 by David Kynaston *** 1/2 The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri *** 1/2 The Sea Witch by Alexander Laing *** ½ The Far Side(the comic strip in general) by Gary Larson *** 1/2 Slapboxing With Jesus by Victor LaValle *** 1/2 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee *** 1/2 A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula K.</p><p> LeGuin (1968) *** 1/2 Prayers For Rain by Dennis Lehane *** 1/2 Mystic River by Dennis Lehane *** 1/2 Hombre by Elmore Leonard *** 1/2 The Street Where I Live by Alan Jay Lerner *** 1/2 The Magic Pudding written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay *** 1/2 The Lies Of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch *** 1/2 Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch *** 1/2 The Deep Blue Goodbye by John D.</p><p> MacDonald (Travis McGee #1) *** 1/2 A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre *** 1/2 Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi *** 1/2 One Nation, Under Gods by Peter Manseau *** 1/2 Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel *** 1/2 The Mirror and The Light by Hilary Mantel *** 1/2 \ The Human Cosmos by Jo Marchant *** 1/2 \ West With The Night by Beryl Markham *** 1/2 The Fisher King by Paule Marshall *** 1/2 A Clash Of Kings by George R.R.</p><p> Martin *** 1/2 A Storm Of Swords by George R.R.</p><p> Martin *** 1/2 A Feast For Crows by George R.R.</p><p> Martin *** 1/2 A Dance With Dragons by George R.R.</p><p> Martin *** 1/2 Born Standing Up by Steve Martin *** 1/2 Lost Books Of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason *** 1/2 The Searchers by Alan Le May *** 1/2 Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann *** 1/2 Transatlantic by Colum McCann *** 1/2 The Longest Way Home by Andrew McCarthy *** 1/2 No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy *** ½ The Road by Cormac McCarthy *** ½ Wolves Of Eden by Kevin McCarthy *** 1/2 The Man Of The House by Stephen McCauley *** 1/2 Little Nemo in Slumberland (the strip in general) by Winsor McCay *** 1/2 The Member Of The Wedding by Carson McCullers *** 1/2 John Adams by David McCullough *** 1/2 Someone by Alice McDermott *** 1/2 Atonement by Ian McEwan *** 1/2 The Children Act by Ian McEwan *** 1/2 A Brief History Of Creation by Bill Mesler and H.</p><p> James Cleaves II *** 1/2 The Son by Philip Meyer *** 1/2 God: A Biography by Jack Miles *** 1/2 Circe by Madeline Miller *** 1/2 The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser *** 1/2 Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943- 1954 by Steven Millhauser *** 1/2 Enchanted Night by Steven Millhauser *** 1/2 In The Penny Arcade by Steven Millhauser *** 1/2 We Others: New and Selected Stories by Steven Millhauser *** 1/2 The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima *** 1/2 Anne Of Avonlea by L.M.</p><p> Montgomery *** 1/2 Rainbow Valley by L.M.</p><p> Montgomery *** 1/2 Two Adolescents by Alberto Moravia *** 1/2 Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris *** ½ Beloved by Toni Morrison *** 1/2 A Red Death by Walter Mosley *** 1/2 White Butterfly by Walter Mosley *** 1/2 Black Betty by Walter Mosley *** 1/2 A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley *** 1/2 Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley *** 1/2 Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley *** 1/2 Little Green by Walter Mosley *** 1/2 Rose Gold by Walter Mosley *** 1/2 I'm A Free State by V.S.</p><p> Naipul *** 1/2 A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar *** 1/2 A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness *** 1/2 More Than This by Patrick Ness *** 1/2 Temeraire by Naomi Novik *** 1/2 Throne Of Jade by Naomi Novik *** 1/2 Victory Of Eagles by Naomi Novik *** 1/2 Blood Of Tyrants by Naomi Novik *** 1/2 Uprooted by Naomi Novik *** 1/2 Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik *** 1/2 Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama *** 1/2 The Aubrey-Maturin Series by Patrick O'Brian *** 1/2 Fly Girls by Keith O'Brien *** 1/2 My Father, The Pornographer by Chris Offutt *** 1/2 Thunderhead by Mary O'Hara *** 1/2 The Abominable Mr.</p><p> Seabrook by Joe Ollmann *** 1/2 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje *** 1/2 There There by Tommy Orange *** 1/2 The Library Book by Susan Orlean *** 1/2 When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka *** 1/2 Dear Mr.</p><p> You by Mary Louise Parker *** 1/2 Resolution by Robert B.</p><p> Parker *** 1/2 The Horseman by Tim Pears *** 1/2 A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck *** 1/2 A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck *** 1/2 On The Wings Of Heroes by Richard Peck *** 1/2 A King's Ransom by Sharon Kay Penman *** 1/2 "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins (short story) *** 1/2 Out Stealing Horses by Pers Petersen *** 1/2 Imperial Twilight by Stephen R.</p><p> Platt *** 1/2 The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell *** 1/2 The Ruby In The Smoke by Philip Pullman *** 1/2 The Shadow In The North by Philip Pullman *** 1/2 His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman *** 1/2 His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman *** 1/2 The Revenant by Michael Punke *** 1/2 The Tangled Tree by David Quammen *** 1/2 Playing To The Gods by Peter Rader *** 1/2 The Doorman's Repose by Chris Raschka *** 1/2 Enter Talking by Joan Rivers with Richard Meryman (1986) *** 1/2 Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson *** 1/2 Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson ***1/2 The Years Of Rice And Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson *** 1/2 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson *** 1/2 Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson *** 1/2 The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson *** 1/2 Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson *** 1/2 The Leviathan by Joseph Roth (trans Michael Hoffmann) *** 1/2 I Married A Communist by Philip Roth *** 1/2 The Plot Against America by Philip Roth *** 1/2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling *** 1/2 Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff *** 1/2 The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks *** 1/2 Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks *** 1/2 Blindness by Jose Saramago *** 1/2 Unnatural Deaths by Dorothy L.</p><p> Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey) *** 1/2 The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Wimsey) by Dorothy L.</p><p> Sayers *** 1/2 Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L.</p><p> Sayers *** 1/2 Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L.</p><p> Sayers *** 1/2 The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L.</p><p> Sayers *** 1/2 Roman Blood by Steven Saylor *** 1/2 Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm *** 1/2 Peanuts (the comic strip in general) by Charles M.</p><p> Schulz *** 1/2 The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958 by Charles M.</p><p> Schulz *** 1/2 The Complete Peanuts 1963-1964 by Charles M.</p><p> Schulz *** 1/2 The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968 by Charles M.</p><p> Schulz *** 1/2 The Complete Peanuts 1969-1970 by Charles M.</p><p> Schulz *** ½ Bicycle Days by John Burnham Schwartz *** 1/2 Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris *** 1/2 Calypso by David Sedaris *** 1/2 Transit by Anna Seghers (1944) *** 1/2 The Marvels by Brian Selznick *** 1/2 Young Nicholas by Rene Goscinny; illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempe *** 1/2 Kara Kush by Idries Shah *** 1/2 Nosferatu by Jim Shepard *** 1/2 The Book Of Aron by Jim Shepard *** 1/2 Amsterdam by Russell Shorto *** 1/2 Dark Victory: The Life Of Bette Davis by Ed Sikov *** ½ The Summer Before The War by Helen Simonson *** 1/2 Owls Of The Eastern Ice by Jonathan C.</p><p> Slaght *** Indelible by Karin Slaughter *** 1/2 Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter *** 1/2 Stitches by David Small *** 1/2 Golden Age by Jane Smiley *** 1/2 Stand-Off by Andrew Smith *** 1/2 A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith *** 1/2 The Complete Bone by Jeff Smith *** 1/2 Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen *** 1/2 Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man by Walter Stahr *** 1/2 The Secret Of Nightingale Wood by Lucy Strange *** 1/2 This Divided Island by Samanth Subramanian *** 1/2 Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase For Lincoln's Killer by James L.</p><p> Swanson *** 1/2 I Can't Breathe by Matt Taibbi *** 1/2 The Secret History by Donna Tartt *** 1/2 A Woman Of Means by Peter Taylor *** 1/2 The Collected Stories Of Peter Taylor *** 1/2 A Summons To Memphis by Peter Taylor *** 1/2 The Oracle At Stoneleigh Court by Peter Taylor *** 1/2 Habibi by Craig Thompson *** 1/2 The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti *** 1/2 The Master by Colm Toibin *** 1/2 The Warden by Anthony Trollope (1855) book one of Barsetshire Chronicles *** 1/2 Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope (1857) book two of Barsetshire Chronicles *** 1/2 #SAD: Doonesbury In The Time of Trump by Garry Trudeau *** 1/2 The Guns Of August by Barbara W.</p><p> Tuchman *** 1/2 The Queen Of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner *** 1/2 The King Of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner *** 1/2 The Gilded Age by Mark Twain *** 1/2 Sketches New And Old by Mark Twain *** 1/2 Mister Max: The Book Of Secrets by Cynthia Voigt *** 1/2 The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America by T.H.</p><p> Watkins *** 1/2 The Complete Calvin And Hobbes by Bill Waterson *** 1/2 Scoop by Evelyn Waugh *** 1/2 The Graduate by Charles Webb *** 1/2 Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster *** 1/2 The Murderer's Ape by Jakob Wegelius *** 1/2 The House That Ruth Built by Robert Weintraub *** 1/2 The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss *** 1/2 The House Of Mirth by Edith Wharton *** 1/2 The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead *** 1/2 Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead *** 1/2 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead *** 1/2 Butcher's Crossing by John Williams *** 1/2 My First Hundred Years In Show Business by Mary Louise Wilson *** 1/2 1944: FDR and The Year That Changed History by Jay Winik *** 1/2 Thank You, Jeeves by P.G.</p><p> Wodehouse *** 1/2 (despite the blackface) The Code Of The Woosters by P.G.</p><p> Wodehouse (1938) *** 1/2 The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff *** 1/2 Ride With The Devil aka Woe To Live On by Daniel Woodrell *** 1/2 What's Left Of Me: The Hybrid Chronicles Vol. 1 by Kat Zhang *** 1/2 Triumph and Disaster: Five Historical Miniatures by Stefan Zweig *** 1/2 THREE STARS Three Brothers by Peter Ackroyd *** So Long, And Thanks for All The Fish by Douglas Adams *** The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga *** The Teeth Of The Gale by Joan Aiken *** Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search For Extra-T errestrial Life edited by Jim Al-khalili *** Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg *** The Wreck Of The Zephyr by Chris Van Allsburg *** The Widow's Broom by Chris Van Allsburg *** Skellig by David Almond The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas by David Almond *** Never Always Sometimes by Adi Alsaid *** Journey Into Fear by Eric Ambler *** Feed by M.T .</p><p> Anderson (2002) ***/ Landscape With Invisible Hand by M.T .</p><p> Anderson *** Mom And Me And Mom by Maya Angelou *** The Underneath by Kathi Appelt *** The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate *** Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less by Jef frey Archer *** Only Time Will Tell (Clifton Chronicles Vol 1) by Jef frey Archer *** A Massacre in Memphis by Steven V.</p><p> Ash *** I, Robot by Isaac Asimov *** Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov *** The Caves Of Steel by Isaac Asimov *** Tales of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov *** Life After Life by Kate Atkinson *** Never Mind by Edward St.</p><p> Aubyn *** Bad News by Edward St.</p><p> Aubyn *** Mansfield Park by Jane Austen *** Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen *** Beyond The Western Sea Book 1 by Avi *** The Most Important Thing by Avi *** Murder At Midnight by Avi ** The Search For Delicious by Natalie Babbitt *** Jack Plank Tells Tales by Natalie Babbitt *** If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin ***/ Jane And The Waterloo Map by Stephanie Barron *** Beatlebone by Kevin Barry *** Saul and Patty by Charles Baxter *** Fun Home by Alison Bechdel *** Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel *** Death Walks In Eastrepp by Francis Beeding *** Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery by James R.</p><p> Benn *** Blood Alone by James R.</p><p> Benn *** The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame, radio play by Alan Bennett *** Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike by David Beresford *** 38 Nooses by Scott W.</p><p> Berg *** The Bill Of Rights by Carol Berkin *** The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry *** Orphans Of The Carnival by Carol Birch *** Lizzie and the Lost Baby by Cheryl Blackford *** Lucky Us by Amy Bloom *** In The Unlikely Event by Judy Blume *** By Night In Chile by Roberto Bolaño *** The Mandela Plot by Kenneth Bonert *** The Discoverers by Daniel J.</p><p> Boorstin *** The First Congress by Fer gus M.</p><p> Bordewich *** E.T.</p><p> The Extra-T errestrial: From Concept To Classic by Laurent Bouzereau *** The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury *** Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury *** The Dead In Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley *** As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust by Alan Bradley *** A Million Heavens by John Brandon *** Court-Martial by Chris Bray *** The Tropic Of Serpents by Marie Brennan *** Voyage Of The Basilisk by Marie Brennan *** Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronté *** Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronté 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