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This doesn't really cover any of the books I read before 1997.

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key: [y] yes [m] maybe [n] no (fiction); [p] poetry [e] essays, memoirs, or rants; [nf] nonfiction [pd] periodicals [r] reference [hu] humor [uf] unfinished; [*] highly recommended

a

Kobo Abe: Face of Another [m]; Inter Ice Age 4 [m]; The Kangaroo Notebook [y]; The Ruined Map [y]; Secret Rendezvous [y*]; The Woman in the Dunes [y]
K.T. Achaya: Indian Food: A Historical Companion [nf]
Bruce Ackerman: Transformations [nf]
Diane Ackerman: A Natural History of the Senses [nf]
Isabel Allende: The House of Spirits [m]
E.N. Anderson: The Food of China [nf]
Donald Antrim: The Verificationist [y]
Louis Aragorn: Paris Peasant [m]
Vladimir Arsenijevic: In the Hold [n]
Paul Auster: Timbuktu [m]

b

J.G. Ballard: Concrete Island [y]
Iain Banks: Complicity [y]; The Wasp Factory [y]
Julian Barnes: Flaubert's Parrot [m]
Lynda Barry: Cruddy [y]; The Freddie Stories [y]; Girls and Boys [m]; The Good Times Are Killing Me [y*]; The Greatest! of! Marlys! [y]
John Barth: Coming Soon!!! [n]; Chimera [y]; The Floating Opera and The End of the Road [y]; On with the Story [y]
Donald Barthelme: Forty Stories [n]
Frederick Barthelme: Moon Deluze [m]
Steve Beard: Digital Leatherette [uf]
Sharon Beder: Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism [nf]
The Believer: The Believer 1 [pd]; The Believer 2 [pd]; The Believer 3 [pd]; The Believer 4 [pd]; The Believer 5 [pd]; The Believer 6 [pd]; The Believer 7 [pd]; The Believer 8 [pd]; The Believer 9 [pd]; The Believer 10 [pd]; The Believer 11 [pd]
Thomas Bernhardt: The Voice Imitator [y]
Wendell Berry: The Collected Poems, 1957-1982 [p]
Alfred Birnbaum (ed.): Monkey Brain Sushi [y]
Linda Bladholm: Latin and Caribbean Grocery Stores Demystified [nf]
Jorge Luis Borges: Labyrinths [y]; Selected Non-Fictions [e]
Anne Wells Branscomb: Who Owns Information? [nf]
Susie Bright: Sexual State of the Union [nf]
John Brockman (ed.): The Third Culture [nf]
James Robert Brown: Who Rules in Science? [nf]
Sheila Buff: Birding for Beginners [nf]
Mikhail Bulgakov: The Heart of a Dog [y]; The Master and Margarita [y]; The White Guard [y]
David Byrne: The New Sins [m]

c

Terry Caesar: Conspiring with Forms [nf]
Pat Califia: Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism [nf]
Italo Calvino: The Castle of Crossed Destinies [m]; Cosmicomics [y*]; If On a Winter's Night, A Traveller [y*]; Invisible Cities [m]; Italian Folktales [y]; Mr. Palomar [m]; Under the Jaguar Sun [m]
Lan Cao and Himilce Novas: Everything You Need To Know About Asian- American History [nf]
Truman Capote: In Cold Blood [nf]
Jonathan Carroll: Bones of the Moon [y]; A Child Across the Sky [y]; From the Teeth of Angels [y]; Kissing the Beehive; The Land of Laughs [y]; Outside the Dog Museum [n]; The Panic Hand [y]; Sleeping in Flame [m]; Voice of Our Shadow [y]; White Apples [m]; The Wooden Sea [y]
Raymond Carver: Short Cuts [m]
John Casti: The Cambridge Quintet [y]; Searching for Certainty: What Scientists Can Know About The Future [nf]
G.K. Chesterton: The Club of Queer Trades [y]; The Man Who Was Thursday [y]; The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond [y]
Nicholas Christopher: Somewhere in the Night [nf]; A Trip to the Stars [m]
Daniel Clowes: David Boring [y]; Ghost World [y]; Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron [y]; Orgy Bound [y]
Jonathan Coe: The House of Sleep [m]
Robert Coover: A Night at the Movies [uf]; Pricksongs and Descants [m]; The Public Burning [y]
Julio Cortazar: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds [y]; Blow-Up, and Other Stories [m]; Cronopios and Famas [y*]; Hopscotch [y]; Nicaraguan Sketches [nf]; 62: A Model Kit [y*]
Robert Cowley and Steven Ambrose (eds.): What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been [nf]
Jim Crace: Arcadia [m]; Being Dead [y*]; Continent [y]; The Devil's Larder [y*]; The Gift of Stones [y]; Quarantine [y]; Signals of Distress [m]
Andrew Crumey: D'Alembert's Principle [m]; Mr. Mee [y]; Music, in a Foreign Language [y]; Pfitz [y*]
Michael Cunningham: The Hours [n]
Richard Cytowic: The Man Who Tasted Shapes [nf*]

d

Mark Danielewski: House of Leaves [m]
Mike Davis: Ecology of Fear [nf]
Don DeLillo: Americana [y]; Ratner's Star [m]; White Noise [n]
Matthew Derby: Super Flat Times [y]
Philip K. Dick: The Valis Trilogy [y*]
Dougal Dixon: After Man: A Zoology of the Future [y]
Carl Djerassi: The Bourbaki Gambit [y]; Cantor's Dilemma [y*]; Marx, Deceased [y]; Menachem's Seed [n]; NO [y]
John Dos Passos: Manhattan Transfer [y]
Henry Dreyfuss: Symbol Sourcebook [nf]
Mark Dunn: Ella Minnow Pea [m]
James Dunnigan: Dirty Little Secrets of the Twentieth Century [nf]

e

Dave Eggers: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius [y*]
Steve Erikson: Tours of the Black Clock [y]
Brian Evenson: Altmann's Tongue [y]
Percival Everett: Erasure [y]; Glyph [m]

f

Daniel Faigman: Legal Alchemy [nf]
Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair [y]
Tibor Fischer: The Thought Gang [m]
Louis Fisher (ed.): Judicial Power and the Constitution [nf]
M.F.K. Fisher: The Art of Eating [e*]
Don Foster: Author Unknown: Tales of a Literary Detective [nf*]
Thomas Frank (ed.): The Baffler #14 [e]
Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland (eds.): Commodify Your Dissent [nf*]
Jonathan Franzen: The Twenty-Seventh City [y]
Michael Freyn: Copenhagen [y]
Carlos Fuentes: The Death of Artemio Cruz [m]

g

William Gaddis: A Frolic of His Own [y*]; JR [m]
John Kenneth Galbraith: A Tenured Professor [y]
Marjorie Garber: Academic Instincts [e]
Bryan A. Garner: A Dictionary of Modern American Usage [r*]; The Elements of Legal Style [nf]
William Gass: Finding a Form [e]; Omensetter's Luck [uf]; Tests of Time [e]
Roger Gastman (comp.): Free Agents: a History of Washington D.C. Graffiti [nf]
Roberto Girardio: A Vaudeville of Devils [m]
Phoebe Gloeckner: Diary of a Teenage Girl [y]
Nikolai Gogol: The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories [m]
Steven Goldberg: Culture Clash: Law and Science in America [nf*]; Seduced by Science: How American Religion Has Lost Its Way [nf]
David Grand: Louse [y]
Granta: Granta 66 (Summer 1999), Truth and Lies [pd]
Gunther Grass: The Tin Drum [y]
The Green Bag: The Green Bag, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Spring 2002) [pd]; The Green Bag, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Summer 2002) [pd]; The Green Bag, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Autumn 2002) [pd]; The Green Bag, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Winter 2003) [pd]; The Green Bag, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Spring 2003) [pd]; The Green Bag, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Summer 2003) [pd]; The Green Bag, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Fall 2003) [pd]; The Green Bag, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Winter 2004) [pd]
William Grimes: Straight Up Or On the Rocks: A Cultural History of American Drink [nf]

h

Ian Hacking: The Social Construction of What? [nf]
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time [y]
Daniel Handler: The Basic Eight [y]
Brooks Hansen: The Chess Garden [y]; Perlman's Ordeal [m]
Jonathan Harr: A Civil Action [nf]
Daniel C. Harris and Michael D. Bertolucci: Symmetry and Spectroscopy: An Introduction to Vibrational and Electronic Spectroscopy [nf]
Thomas Harris: Hannibal [n]
Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington (eds.): Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress [nf]
Kent Haruf: Plainsong [m]
Miles Harvey: The Island of Lost Maps [nf]
Donald Heintzelman: Bird Watching in the Americas [nf]
Joseph Heller: Catch-22 [y*]
Ted Heller: Slab Rat [y]
Amy Hempel and Jim Shepard (eds.): Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs [p]
Carol DeChellis Hill: Eleven Million Mile High Dancer [n]
Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker [m]
Bohumil Hrabal: Too Loud a Solitude [m]
Laird Hunt: The Impossibly [y]
James Hynes: Publish and Perish [y]

i

Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Three Trapped Tigers [y]

j

Jane Jacobs: The Economy of Cities [nf]
Alfred Jarry: Exploits & Opinions of Doctor Faustroll, Pataphysician: A Neo-Scientific Novel [m]
Sheila Jasanoff: Science at the Bar [nf]
Peter Johnson (ed.): The Best of The Prose Poem: An International Journal [p]
Steven Johnson: Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software [nf]
Paul Johnston: The Body Politic [n]; The Bone Yard [uf]
Ernst Junger: Glass Bees [n]

k

Michio Kaku: Hyperspace [nf]
Justin Kaplan and Anne Bernays: The Language of Names [nf]
Ben Katchor: The Jew of New York [y]; Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer, and The Beauty Supply District [y]
Kenneth Katzner: The Languages of the World [nf]
Guy Gavriel Kay: The Summer Tree [n]
Chip Kidd: The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters [y]
Jean Kilbourne: Deadly Persuasion -- Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising [nf]
Jaegwon Kim: Philosophy of Mind [nf]
Daniel Kleinman: Politics on the Endless Frontier: Postwar Research Policy in the United States [nf]
Leonard Koren and R. Wippo Meckler: Graphic Design Cookbook [nf]
Joel Kotkin: The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape [nf]
Paul Krassner: The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race [e]
Laszlo Krasznahorkai: The Melancholy of Resistance [y]
James Howard Kunstler: The Geography of Nowhere [y]
Hanif Kureishi: Intimacy and Midnight All Day [y]
Andrey Kurkov: Death and the Penguin [y]
Mark Kurlansky: Salt [nf]
Robert Kuttner: Everything For Sale [nf]

l

Nina Laden: Private I. Guana [y]
Erik Larson: The Devil in the White City [nf]
James Lasdun: The Horned Man [y]
Robin Kittrell Laughlin: Backyard Bugs [nf]
Jonathan Lethem: As She Climbed Across the Table [y]; Girl in Landscape [m]; Kafka Americana (with Carter Scholtz) [n]; Motherless Brooklyn [y]; This Shape We're In [y]; The Vintage Book of Amnesia (ed.) [y]
Primo Levi: The Periodic Table [e]
Kelly Link: Stranger Things Happen [y]
David Liss: The Coffee Trader [y]; Conspiracy of Paper [y]
Dahlia Lithwick and Brandt Goldstein: Me v. Everybody [hu]
David Lodge: The British Museum Is Falling Down [y]; Changing Places [y]; Consciousness and the Novel, Connected Essays [e]; Home Rules [y]; Nice Work [y]; Paradise News [y]; Small World [y]; Therapy [y]; Thinks... [y]
Rob Loewinsohn: Magnetic Fields [y]
Sylvia Lovegren: Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads [nf]
Alvin Lu: The Hell Screens [y]

m

Bill Maher: When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden [e]
Martin H. Manser (ed.): The Chambers Paperback Thesaurus [r]
Ben Marcus: The Age of Wire and String [y*]; The Father Costume [y]; Notable American Women [y]
Javier Marias: A Heart So White [y*]
David Markson: This Is Not a Novel [m]; Wittgenstein's Mistress [y]
Harry Mathews: The Human Country [m]; Tlooth [y]
McSweeney's: McSweeney's 1 [pd]; McSweeney's 2 [pd]; McSweeney's 3 [pd]; McSweeney's 5 [pd]; McSweeney's 6 [pd]; McSweeney's 7 [pd]; McSweeney's 8 [pd]; McSweeney's 9 [pd]; McSweeney's 10 (Michael Chabon ed.) [pd]; McSweeney's 11 [pd]; McSweeney's 12 [pd]
Antonio Mendoza: Killers on the Loose [nf]
Steven Millhauser: The Barnum Muesum [m]; Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright [y]
Czeslaw Milosz: Milosz's ABC's [m]
David Mitchell: Ghostwritten [n]
Helen Mitsios (ed.): New Japanese Voices: The Best Contemporary Fiction From Japan [m]
Miyuke Miyabe: All She Was Worth [m]
Lorrie Moore: Birds of America [y]
Alberto Moravia: Boredom [y]; The Conformist [y]; Contempt [y*]
Jeffrey Brandon Morris: Calmly to Poise the Scales of Justice: A History of the Courts of the District of Columbia Circuit [nf]
Randy Mosher: The Brewer's Companion [nf]
Kary Mullis: Dancing Naked in the Mind Field [nf]
Haruki Murakami: After the Quake [y]; Dance Dance Dance [y]; The Elephant Vanishes [y]; Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World [y]; Hear the Wind Sing [y]; Norwegian Wood [y]; South of the Border, West of the Sun [y]; Sputnik Sweetheart [y]; The Wild Sheep Chase [y*]; The Wind-up Bird Chronicle [y]

n

Akira Nakanishi: Writing Systems of the World
Sylvia Nasar: A Beautiful Mind [nf]
New York Times Book Review: Deadly Sings [e]
Jeff Noon: Nymphomation [m]
Lawrence Norfolk: Lempriere's Dictionary [y]; The Pope's Rhinoceros [uf]

o

Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds (first time) [m]; The Dalkey Archives [y]; Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn [e]; The Poor Mouth; The Third Policeman [y*]
Joseph O'Connor (ed.): Yeats Is Dead! [y]
Paul Omerod: Butterfly Economics [nf]
Ruth Ozeki: My Year of Meats [m]

p

F. Paul Pacult: Kindred Spirits [nf]
Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club [y]
R.R. Palmer and Joel Colton: A History of the Modern World [nf]
Orhan Pamuk: A New Life [y]; The White Castle [n]
Milorad Pavic: Dictionary of the Khazars [y*]; The Inner Side of the Wind, or, the Story of Hero and Leander [y]; Landscape Painted with Tea [y]; Last Love in Constantinople [y]
John Allen Paulos: A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper [nf]; Innumeracy [nf]
Iain Pears: An Instance of the Fingerpost [y]; The Dream of Scipio [y]
Victor Pelevin: The Blue Lantern [y]; Buddha's Little Finger [m]; 4 [y]; The Life of Insects [y*]; Omon Ra [m]; The Werewolf Problem in Central Russia [y]; The Yellow Arrow [y]
Georges Perec: 53 Days [y]; Life: A User's Manual [y*]; A Man Asleep [m]; Things: A Story of the Sixties [y]; A Void [y]
Walker Percy: The Moviegoer [y]
Arturo Perez-Reverte: The Club Dumas [y]; The Fencing Master [n]; The Flanders Panel [y]; The Seville Connection [y]
Fernando Pessoa: The Book of Disquiet [y]
Tom Phillips: The Humument [m]
Gifford Pinchot: Breaking New Ground [nf]
Luigi Pirandello: Eleven Short Stories [y]
Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht: The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook [r]
Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar [y]
Andrei Platonov: The Fierce and Beautiful World [y]
Neal Pollack: The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature [y]
Richard Powers: Galatea 2.2 [m]; Plowing the Dark [n]
Carl Proffer (ed.): From Karamzin to Bunin: An Anthology of Russian Short Stories [y]
Thomas Pynchon: V. [m]

q

Joe Queenan: Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler [e]
Raymond Queneau: Zazie in the Metro [y]; Exercises in Style [m]

r

Edogawa Rampo: Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination [y]
Ishmael Reed: The Reed Reader [e]
Waverly Root and Richard de Rochemont: Eating in America [nf]
Edmond Rostand: Cyrano De Bergerac [m]
Philip Roth: The Human Stain [n]; Operation Shylock [m]
Salman Rushdie: Moor's Last Sigh [m]
Geoff Ryman: 253 [y]; Unconquered Countries [m]

s

Oliver Sacks: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat [nf*]
J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye [m]
Jose Saramago: The History of the Siege of Lisbon [m]
Daniel L. Schacter: Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past [nf]
Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation [nf]
Francois Schuiten and Beno�t Peeters: Brusel [y]; Fever in Urbicand [y]
W.G. Sebald: The Rings of Saturn [m]
David Sedaris: Holidays on Ice
Will Self: Great Apes [y]; Grey Area [m]; How the Dead Live [y]; Junk Mail [e]; My Idea of Fun [y]; The Quantity Theory of Insanity [y]; Sore Sites [e]; Tough Tough Toys for Tough Tough Boys [y]
Amartya Sen: Inequality Reexamined [nf]
Luigi Serafini: Codex Seraphinianus [y*]
Leonard Shlain: The Alphabet Versus the Goddess [nf]
Bruno Shultz: The Street of Crocodiles [y]
William Shutkin: The Land That Could Be [e*]
Lee Siegel: Love in a Dead Language [m]
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Shadows on the Hudson [y]
Zadie Smith: White Teeth [y]
Jose Carlos Somoza: The Athenian Murders [m]
Gilbert Sorrentino: Mulligan Stew [m]
Muriel Spark: Aiding and Abetting [m]
Lawrence Sterne: Tristram Shandy [m]
John Storey: An Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture [nf]
Cass Sunstein: Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech [nf]; Free Markets and Social Justice [nf]; One Case at a Time : Judicial Minimalism on the Supreme Court [nf]; The Partial Constitution [nf*]; Republic.com [nf]
Stuart Sutherland: Irrationality: Why We Don't Think Straight [nf]
Louise Van Swaaij and Jean Klare, David Winner (tr.): The Atlas of Experience [m]

t

Paco Ignatio Taibo III: Four Hands [n]
Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair [y*]
Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [y]
Adrian Tomine: Summer Blonde [y]
John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces [m]

u

Miguel de Unamuno: Mist [n]

v

Margaret Visser: The Rituals of Dinner [nf]
Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle [m]

w

David Foster Wallace: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men [y]; The Broom of the System [y*]; The Girl with Curious Hair [y]; Infinite Jest [y*]; A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again [e]
Jonathan Wallace and Mark Mangan: Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace [nf]
Ronald Wardhaugh: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, (3d ed.) [nf]
Chris Ware: The Acme Novelty Date Book 1986-1995, Chris Ware [y]; Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth [y]
Sarah Waters: Affinity [y]; Fingersmith [y]; Tipping the Velvet [y]
Joe Wenderoth: Letters to Wendy's [m]
Lawrence Weschler: Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder [nf]
Colson Whitehead: The Intuitionist [y*]; John Henry Days [y]
Juan Rodolfo Wilcock: Temple of Iconoclasts [y]
Simon Winchester: The Professor and the Madman [nf]
Denis Wood: The Power of Maps [nf]
Virginia Woolf: Monday or Tuesday [m]
Robert Wright: Nonzero [nf]

x

y

Mo Yan: Republic of Wine [n]
Jeff Yang, Dina Gan, Terry Hong et al.: Eastern Standard Time [nf]

z