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The Reading Queue

(The Reading Queue Explained)

1. Black and Blue: The Golden Arm, the Robinson Boys, and the 1966 World Series That Stunned America by Tom Adelman
2. Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
3. The Fall Of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson
4. The Verificationist by Donald Antrim
5. Darkmans by Nicola Barker
6. Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth
7. The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block
8. Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden
9. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
10. Slightly Out of Focus by Robert Capa
11. You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon
12. Heart of Darkness, Youth, Typhoon: Three Short Novels by Joseph Conrad
13. His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
14. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
15. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe by Robert Gellately
16. Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
17. The Pacific by Mark Helprin
18. Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
19. Round Rock by Michelle Huneven
20. The Politics of Glory by Bill James
21. Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
22. Bowl of Cherries by Millard Kaufman
23. English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
24. Crossing California by Adam Langer
25. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre
26. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
27. Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee
28. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 13
29. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
30. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
31. The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner
32. Empires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler
33. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
34. The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
35. The Wild Trees by Richard Preston
36. The Clerk's Tale: Poems by Spencer Reece
37. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It by Lawrence S. Ritter
38. The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
39. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
40. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks
41. The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
42. Child 44 by Tim Rob Smith
43. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
44. Mr. Jefferson's University by Garry Wills
45. The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf
46. The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

Books That I Read in 2008

The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 by Rick Atkinson (review)
The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux (review)
The Biggest Game in Town by A. Alvarez
The Mansion by Alvaro Mutis

Books That I Read in 2007

The Cottagers by Marshall N. Klimasewiski (LBC nominee)
Guerillas by Jon Lee Anderson (review)
Paper Trails by Pete Dexter (review)
Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead by Alan DeNiro (LBC Pick!)
Sacco And Vanzetti Must Die! by Mark Binelli (LBC nominee)
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (review, 2)
Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker by David Remnick (review)
In the Wake by Per Petterson (review)
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski (review)
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee (review)
Liberation by Joanna Scott (review)
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow (review)
Pastoralia by George Saunders (review)

Books That I Read in 2006

Other Electricities by Ander Monson (LBC nominee)
The White Earth by Andrew McGahan (review)
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow (review)
Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux (review)
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (review)
I Never Liked You by Chester Brown (review)
The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford (LBC nominee)
Television by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (LBC Pick!)
Ticknor by Sheila Heti (LBC nominee)
An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson (review)
The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D'Ambrosio
White Spirit by Paule Constant (LBC nominee)
Michael Martone by Michael Martone (LBC Pick!)
The Diviners by Rick Moody (review)
Firmin by Sam Savage (LBC Pick!)
ManBug by George K. Ilsley (LBC nominee)
Without Feathers by Woody Allen (review)
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson (review)
Seven Loves by Valerie Trueblod (LBC nominee)
Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O (LBC Pick!) (review)
Demon Theory by Stephen Graham Jones (LBC nominee)

Books That I Read in 2005

Generations of Winter by Vassily Aksyonov (review)
Brotherly Love by Pete Dexter (review)
Balkan Ghosts by Robert D. Kaplan (review)
13: The Story of the World's Most Popular Superstition by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer (review)
All This Heavenly Glory by Elizabeth Crane (LBC nominee) (review)
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis (review, 2)
Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
Game Time: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell (review)
Bulletproof Girl by Quinn Dalton (review)
Looking for a Ship by John McPhee (review, 2)
Fraud by David Rakoff (review)
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (LBC Pick!)
The Island of Lost Maps by Miles Harvey (review)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (review)
Belly by Lisa Selin Davis (review)
Absolutely American by David Lipsky (review)
The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki (review)
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam (LBC nominee)
Angel of Forgetfulness by Steve Stern (LBC Pick!)
Our Napoleon in Rags by Kirby Gann (LBC nominee)
10:01 by Lance Olsen (LBC nominee)
Mutual Life & Casualty by Elizabeth Poliner (LBC nominee)
The People's Act of Love by James Meek (review)
Small Island by Andrea Levy (review)
Plain Heathen Mischief by Martin Clark (review)
Garner by Kirstin Allio (LBC Pick!)
Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha by Edward Falco (LBC nominee)
Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson (LBC nominee)

Books That I Read in 2004

Everything's Eventual by Stephen King (review)
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard (review)
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter (review)
The Known World by Edward P. Jones (review, 2)
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes (review)
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (review)
The First World War by John Keegan (review)
The Last Amateurs by John Feinstein (review)
Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski (review)
Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralnick (review)
The Outlaw Sea by William Langewiesche (review)
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Jumpers by Tom Stoppard
The Singing by C. K. Williams (review)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (review)
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen (review)
Founding Fish by John McPhee (review)
Naked in Baghdad by Anne Garrels (review)
In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat by Rick Atkinson (review)

Mrs. Millions Has Been Reading

Currently reading the top book on the list.
Now rated, by Mrs. Millions herself, from 0 to 5 *'s

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
***** Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon ***^1/2
Bowl of Cherries by Millard Kaufman ****^1/2
The Biggest Game in Town by A. Alvarez ****
Last One In by Nicholas Kulish **
Dishwasher by Pete Jordan **^1/2
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin *****
The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux ****^1/2
The Cottagers by Marshall N. Klimasewiski *
Blue Taxi by N. S. Koenings ^1/2
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson **^1/2
Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee ****^1/2
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 ****
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware ***
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale ***
Looking for a Ship by John McPhee ****^1/2
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers ****
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre ****^1/2
White Earth by Andrew McGahan ***^1/2
Crossing California by Adam Langer ***^1/2

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