December The Complete Short Novels. Anton Chekov The Man with the Getaway Face. Richard Stark Snowdrops. Andrew Miller The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized. Owen Flanagan (abandoned) The Magus. John Fowles Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. Simon Sebag Montefiore (abandoned) November The World as I Found It. Bruce Duffy (abandoned) The Sisters Brothers. Patrick deWitt (abandoned) The Inner Circle. T.C. Boyle Decline & Fall. Evelyn Waugh (abandoned) Reamde. Neal Stephenson October Machine Man. Max Barry Calling Mr. King. Ronald De Feo (abandoned) All Quiet on the Western Front. Erich Maria Remarque (abandoned) The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. Stephen Greenblatt September Rules of Civility. Amor Towles. Seven Days in Rio. Francis Levy (abandoned) Julian. Gore Vidal (adandoned) The Devil All the Time. Donald Ray Pollock Before I Go to Sleep. S. J. Watson (abandoned) August The Family Fang. Kevin Wilson Cleopatra. Stacy Schiff Barchester Towers. Anthony Trollope * July George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I. Miranda Carter (abandoned) Colonel Roosevelt. Edmund Morris * The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore. Benjamin Hale (abandoned) Exploring Happiness. Sissela Bok Happiness: A History. Darrin McMahon (abandoned) The Politics of Happiness. Derek Bok (abandoned - a truly awful book) The Adults. Alison Espach * Pnin. Vladimir Nabokov (abandoned) June The Sweet Relief of Missing Children. Sarah Braunstein (abandoned) My American Unhappiness. Dean Bakopoulos Oblivion. David Foster Wallace * Great Expectations. Charles Dickens The Aleph and Other Stories. Jorge Luis Borges (abandoned) Long Last Happy. Barry Hannah (abandoned) Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche. Jim Miller May How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Robin Dunbar (abandoned) A Fairly Honourable Defeat. Iris Murdoch (abandoned) A Visit from the Goon Squad. Jennifer Egan The Social Animal. David Brooks (abandoned) Moonwalking With Einstein. Joshua Foer * April A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. Donald Miller (abandoned) Brave New World. Aldous Huxley Nerve: Poise Under Pressure, Serenity Under Stress, and the Brave New Science of Fear and Cool. Taylor Clark (skimmed) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn March So Long, See You Tomorrow. William Maxwell (abandoned) Cassandra at the Wedding. Dorothy Baker (abandoned) Waiting for the Barbarians. J. M. Coetzee The Road to Wellville. T.C. Boyle (abandoned) The Warden. Anthony Trollope * February So Brave, Young, and Handsome. Leif Enger * The Great Stagnation. Tyler Cowen Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like. Christian Land January A Handful of Dust. Evelyn Waugh * So Much For That. Lionel Shriver Cat's Cradle. Kurt Vonnegut (abandoned) All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age. Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly |