My Virtual Bookshelf

My recent reading list

2007

• "Lay of the Land," by Richard Ford

2006

• "Disgrace," by J.M. Coetzee
• "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
• "In Cold Blood," by Truman Capote
• "At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68," by Taylor Branch
• "Fight the Monster," by Mary Swanson
• "Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times," by H.W. Brands
• "Underworld: A Novel," by Don DeLillo

2005

• "The Historian," by Elizabeth Kostova
• "Knightfall: Knight Ridder And How The Erosion Of Newspaper Journalism Is Putting Democracy At Risk," by Davis Merritt"
• "Raising the Bar : Integrity and Passion in Life and Business: The Story of Clif Bar, Inc.," by Gary Erickson and Lois Lorentzen
• "Like A Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads," by Greil Marcus
• "Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco," by Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
• "Shalimar the Clown: A Novel," by Salman Rushdie
• "Digital Fortress," by Dan Brown
• "Amsterdam," by Ian McEwan
• "Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story," by Kurt Eichenwald
• "Everything is Illuminated," by Jonathan Safran Foer
• "Chronicles: Volume One," by Bob Dylan
• "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel," by Susanna Clarke
• "Middlesex," by Jeffrey Eugenides
• "The Adventures of Augie March," by Saul Bellow
• "Life 2.0: How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness," by Rich Karlgaard
• "Diaper Free!: The Gentle Wisdom of Natural Infant Hygiene," by Ingrid Bauer
• "The Late Talker: What to Do If Your Child Isn't Talking Yet," by Marilyn Agin, Lisa Geng, and Malcolm Nicholl
• "Atonement," by Ian McEwan
• "The Lovely Bones," by Alice Sebold
• "A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks," by Andy Gill and Kevin Odegard
• "The Confessions of Max Tivoli," by Andrew Sean Greer
• "What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America," by Thomas Frank
• "The Out-Of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping With Sensory Integration Dysfunction," by Carol Stock Kranowitz
• "The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson. How the Income Tax Transformed America ," by Steven R. Weisman
• "Enzymes For Autism And Other Neurological Conditions," by Karen DeFelice

2004

• "The Da Vinci Code," by Dan Brown
• "Wilco: Learning How to Die," by Greg Kot
• "Five-Point Play: The Story of Duke's Amazing 2000-2001 Championship Season," by Mike Krzyzewski
• "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy," by Douglas Adams
• "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe," by Douglas Adams
• "Life, the Universe and Everything," by Douglas Adams
• "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," by Douglas Adams
• "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books," by Azar Nafisi
• "July, July," by Tim O'Brien
• "Portnoy's Complaint," By Phillip Roth

2003

• "Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle," by Matthew Symonds, with commentary by Larry Ellison
• "Everyone Else Must Fail: The Unvarnished Truth About Larry Ellison and Oracle," by Karen Southwick
• "A Man in Full," by Tom Wolfe
• "A Whistling Woman," by A.S. Byatt
• "The Fortune Tellers: Inside Wall Street's Game of Money, Media, and Manipulation," by Howard Kurtz
• "The Maverick and His Machine," by Kevin Maney
• "Let the Dead Bury Their Dead" by Randall Kenan
• "A Tale of Two Valleys" by Alan Deutschman
• "The Botany of Desire" by Michael Pollan
• "A Gesture Life" by Chang-rae Lee
• "The Battle of Brazil" by Jack Matthews
• "A Map of the World" by Jane Hamilton
• "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck

2002

• "Therapy" by David Lodge
• "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
• "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen
• "Seabiscuit" by Laura Hillenbrand
• "Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon
• "Those Damn Rebels" by Michael Pearson
• "Empire Falls" by Richard Russo
• "One Market Under God" by Thomas Frank
• "Pipe Dreams" by Robert Bryce
• "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by Greg Palast
• "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser
• "Misconceptions" by Naomi Wolfe
• "White Oleander" by Janet Fitch
• "Horse Heaven" by Jane Smiley
• "A House for Mr. Biswas" by V.S. Naipaul
• "The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street" by Naguib Mahfouz
• "The Virgin in the Garden" by A. S. Byatt
• "Babel Tower" by A.S. Byatt
• "Still Life" by A.S. Byatt
• "The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood
• "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut
• "Mona Lisa Overdrive" by William Gibson
• "Neuromancer" by William Gibson
• "Count Zero" by William Gibson
• "Word Freak" by Stefan Fatsis
• "How to be Good" by Nick Hornby
• "A Prayer For The City" by Buzz Bissinger
• "Hummingbird House" by Patricia Henley

2001

• "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith
• "Angel of Darkness" by Caleb Carr
• "To Lead As Equals" by Jeffrey Gould
• "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
• "Weird Like Us" by Ann Powers
• "Bee Season" by Myla Goldberg
• "A Bright Shining Lie" by Neil Sheehan
• "Burn Rate" by Michael Wolfe
• "The World According to Garp" by John Irving
• "The Reader" by Bernard Schlink
• "Fugitive Pieces" by Anne Michaels
• "The Intuitionist" by Colson Whitehead
• "The Mayor of Castro Street" by Randy Shilts
• "Seven Guitars" by August Wilson

2000

• "The New New Thing" by Michael Lewis
• "Einstein's Dreams" by Alan Lightman
• "The Vintner's Luck" by Elizabeth Knox

1999

• "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe
• "AOL.COM" by Kara Swisher
• "The Nudist On The Late Shift" by Po Bronson
• "American Pastoral" by Philip Roth

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