2011 READING LIST
Two stars - read this book
Art of Possibility by Benjamin and Rosamund Zander
Blood Horses by John jeremiah Sullivan
Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
Ghosted by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
Eleven by Mark Watson
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
A Barn in New England by Joseph Monninger
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Running the Books by Avi Steinberg
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
One star - good, you might like
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
I Am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak
Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Timbuktu by Paul Auster
Fantastic Women by Rob Spillman
Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
The World As We Know It by Joseph Monninger
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Just A Geek by Wil Wheaton
Dead Boys by Richard Lange
Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky
Netsuke by Rikki Ducornet
How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer
Darkness Visible by William Styron
The Gentlemen's Hour by Don Winslow
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Dart League King by Keith Lee Morris
No Lease on Life by Lynne Tillman
You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier
The Beekeepers' Lament by Hannah Nordhaus
The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma
Johannes Cabal the Detective by Jonathan Howard
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
Savages by Don Winslow
The Cross-Time Engineer by Leo Frankowski
Sum by David Eagleman
The Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball
A Passion for Books by Harold Rabinowitz
Emergency by Neil Strauss
How to Sell by Clancy Martin
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
The Rescue Artist by Edward Dolnick
Andorra by Peter Cameron
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
Moby Duck by Donovan Hohn
When the Killing's Done by T.C. Boyle
Christopher Morley by Mark Wallach and Jon Bracker
Brushing Back Jim Crow by Bruce Adelson
Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars by Daniel Pinkwater
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
Priceless by William Poundstone
Victory Faust by Gabriel Schechter
The Art of Losing by Keith Dixon
The Possessed by Elif Batuman
Zero stars - there's better
What's Gotten Into Us by McKay Jenkins
The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan Pease
You Say More Than You Think by Janine Driver
Buyology by Martin Lindstrom
The Financial Aid Handbook by Carol Stack and Ruth Vedvik
Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
The Worthy by Will Clarke
Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever by Justin Taylor
Stolen World by Jennie Smith
Personal Days by Ed Park
The Requiem Shark by Nicholas Griffin
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
Castle by J. Robert Lennon
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
Thieves of Manhattan by Adam Langer
Secretariat by Timothy Capps
Camera by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Yankee Doodle Dandy by John Dizikes
Awful, don't bother
Catch Me if You Can by Frank Abernagle
In the King's Arms by Sonia Taitz
The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
I Am the Market by Luca Rastello
Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock
Blockade Billy by Stephen King