At the beginning of the year I decided to challenge myself to read 100
specific books before the end of the year. Here's the list. (Ones in purple
are the ones I've already read).
- Hanan al-Shaykh - Women of Sand and Myrrh
- Charles Anderson - Puzzles and Essays from "The
Exchange"
- Paul Auster - The Music of Chance
- Steve Aylett - Slaughtermatic
- Iain Banks - The Player of Games
- John Banville - Kepler
- Neal Barrett, Jr. - Interstate Dreams
- Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential
- Susie Bright - On Sex, Motherhood, Porn & Apple
Pie
- David Brin - Kiln People
- Bill Bryson - A Walk in the Woods
- Lois McMaster Bujold - the Curse of Chalion
- Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
- Orson Scott Card - Shadow Puppets
- Peter Carey - My Life as a Fake
- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza - The Great Human Diasporas
- Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Life and Others
- Nicholas Christopher - Franklin Flyer
- Douglas Coupland - All Families are Psychotic
- Roald Dahl - Kiss Kiss
- Richard Dawkins - River Out of Eden
- Don DeLillo - Underworld
- Philip K. Dick - Time out of Joint
- Paul Di Filippo - Ciphers
- Neil Gaiman - Adventures in the Dream Trade
- Amitov Ghosh - In an Antique Land
- Stella Gibbons - Westwood
- Barry Glassner - The Culture of Fear
- James Gleick - Faster
- Lisa Goldstein - The Red Magician
- Philip Gourevitch - We wish to Inform you that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
- Alasdair Gray - Lanark
- Graham Greene - The Quiet American
- Peter F. Hamilton - Fallen Dragon
- Keith Hartman - Gumshoe Gorilla
- A. L. Haskett - Duncan Delaney and the Cadillac of Doom
- Lian Hearn - Grass for His Pillow
- Mark Helprin - Winter's Tale
- Oscar Hijuelos - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- Tom Holt - Faust Among Equals
- John Irving - Setting Free the Bears
- Graham Joyce - the Tooth Fairy
- Robert D. Kaplan - The Ends of the Earth
- Ryszard Kapuscinski - The Emperor
- Stephen King - On Writing
- Stephen King - the Wolves of the Calla
- Mark Kurlansky - 1968
- R.A. Lafferty - Nine Hundred Grandmothers
- Pascale Le Draoulec - American Pie
- Fred Lerner - The Story of Libraries
- Jonathan Lethem - Gun, with Occasional Music
- Alberto Manguel - Into the Looking-Glass Wood
- Yann Martel - Life of Pi
- N.I. Matar - Islam for Beginners
- Alexander McCall Smith - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective
Agency
- Ian McDonald - The Broken Land
- Gita Mehta - Snakes and Ladders
- Judith Miller - God Has Ninety-Nine Names
- Richard K. Morgan - Altered Carbon
- Dow Mossman - The Stones of Summer
- Roy Moxham - Tea
- Haruki Murakami - After the Quake
- Ryu Murakami - 69
- Inga Muscio - Cunt
- Vladimir Nabokov - Invitation to a Beheading
- V.S. Naipul - Among the Believers
- John Nichols - The Sterile Cuckoo
- Jeff Noon - Pollen
- Patrick O'Leary - The Impossible Bird
- Henry Petroski - The
Evolution of Useful Things
- Chaim Potok - Old Men at Midnight
- Richard Powers - the Time of Our Singing
- Tim Powers - Forsake the Sky
- Terry Pratchett - Jingo
- Christopher Priest - The Prestige
- Alastair Reynolds - Revelation Space
- Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint
- J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix
- Rudy Rucker - As Above, So Below
- Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
- Richard Russo - Nobody's Fool
- Malise Ruthven - Islam in the World
- Mark Salzman - The Laughing Sutra
- Jose Saramago - Blindness
- Dan Savage - Skipping Towards Gomorrah
- Karl Schroeder - Permanence
- Randy Shilts - And the Band Played On
- Lewis Shiner - Glimpses
- Sharon Shinn - Angelica
- Dan Simmons - Worlds Enough & Time
- Iain Sinclair - Lights out for the Territory
- John Steinbeck - Travels with Charley
- Jerome Stern - Radios
- Bruce Sterling - Zeitgeist
- Donna Tartt - The Secret History
- Calvin Trillin - The Tummy Trilogy
- William T. Vollman - You Bright & Risen Angels
- Connie Willis - Firewatch
- Robert Charles Wilson - Bios
- Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen