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Currently in my reading list: (last updated 8/26/10)
36 Arguments for the Existence of God, by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
2666, by Roberto Bolano
The Anatomy Lesson, by Philip Roth
Anna Karanina, by Leo Tolstoy
Below Sunlight, by Ryan Adam Smith
The Children's Book, by A.S. Byatt
Empty Mile, by Matthew Stokoe
The Executioner's Song, by Norman Mailer
The Four Fingers of Death, by Rick Moody
A Friend of the Family, by Lauren Grodstein
From Acid to the Body of Christ, by Daxx Danzig
Fungus of the Heart, by Jeremy Shipp
Ghosts and Lightning, by Trevor Byrne
Ghosts of Manhattan, by George Mann
Henry Clay: The Essential American, by David and Jeanne Heidler
Life in Year One, by Scott Korb
Lives of the Monster Dogs, by Kirsten Bakis
A Mercy, by Toni Morrison (One Book One Chicago Fall 2010)
Mesopotamia, by Arthur Nersesian
Opur's Blade, by James Ross
Parrot & Olivier in America, by Peter Carey
Permanent Obscurity, by Richard Perez
The Pythagorean Theorem, by Alfred Posamentier
Righting the Mother Tongue, by David Wolman
Rude Awakenings, by Keith M. Donaldson
The Slap, by Christos Tsiolkas
Super Sad True Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart
Walks with Men, by Ann Beattie
The Women, by T.C. Boyle
The Wrong Bus, by John Hampton

Books now read and reviewed (M = mini-review / CCLaP 100 = The CCLaP 100)

2010 (in the order they were reviewed)
Urbis Morpheos, by Stephen Palmer
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque (CCLaP 100)
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, by Robert Charles Wilson
Point Omega, by Don DeLillo (M)
The Novel: An Alternative History, volume 1, by Steven Moore (M)
Horns, by Joe Hill (M)
Carrion Comfort, by Dan Simmons (M)
The Bradshaw Variations, by Rachel Cusk (M)
The Cave Man, by Xiaoda Xiao (M)
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding (CCLaP 100)
The Cry of the Sloth, by Sam Savage
Roadside Bodhisattva, by Paul Di Filippo (M)
The Spanish Prisoner & The Winslow Boy: Two Screenplays, by David Mamet (M)
The 4-Hour Workweek, by Timothy Ferriss (M)
The Butt, by Will Self
Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott (CCLaP 100)
The Dervish House, by Ian McDonald
Ares Express, by Ian McDonald
The City & The City, by China Mieville
Brain Thief, by Alexander Jablokov (M)
The History of the Ancient World, by Susan Wise Bauer (M)
The Last Duel, by James Landale (M)
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (CCLaP 100)
Pen of Iniquity, by Deno Sandz (M)
Water Ghosts, by Shawna Yang Ryan (M)
World Made By Hand, by James Howard Kunstler (M)
The People Who Watched Her Pass By, by Scott Bradfield
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray (CCLaP 100)
Tinkers, by Paul Harding
The Dream of Perpetual Motion, by Dexter Palmer
600 Hours of Edward, by Craig Lancaster
The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone, by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele (M)
Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter, adapted by Darwyn Cooke (M)
Gardens of the Sun, by Paul McAuley (M)
Generation A, by Douglas Coupland
It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis
Castle, by J. Robert Lennon (M)
The Surrogates, by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele (M)
The Jewel of the Gold Coast, by Sally Kalmbach (M)
Jesus Boy, by Preston L. Allen
The Plague, by Albert Camus (CCLaP 100)
The History of the Medieval World, by Susan Wise Bauer
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
Antwerp, by Roberto Bolano (M)
At a Crossroads, by Kate Williamson (M)
What Will Come After: The Complete Zombie Stories, by Scott Edelman (M)
The Kindly Ones, by Jonathan Littell (M)
Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm (CCLaP 100)
Geosynchron, by David Louis Edelman
Tamara Drewe, by Posy Simmonds
In the First Circle: The Restored Edition, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Real Wizard of Oz, by Rebecca Loncraine (M)
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, by Peter Ackroyd (M)
The Failure, by James Greer (M)
The List of 7, by Mark Frost (M)
The 6 Messiahs, by Mark Frost (M)
Zuckerman Unbound, by Philip Roth
Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy (CCLaP 100)
Explosions, Fires, and Public Order, by Sarah Pickering (M)
Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, edited by ST Joshi (M)
Thank You, Death Robot, edited by Mark Brand (M)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1910, by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill (M)
ETA, by Delphine Pontvieux
Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (CCLaP 100)
The Magicians, by Lev Grossman (M)
The Dorrington Deed-Box, by Arthur Morrison (M)
A, B & E, by Marc Nash (M)
Hooked, by Pauline Kael (M)
Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow (CCLaP 100)
Push, by Sapphire
She-Rain, by Michael Cogdill (M)
Big Lonesome, by Jim Ruland (M)
Stan's Leap, by Tom Duerig (M)
The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas (CCLaP 100)
The Big Rewind, by Nathan Rabin
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, by Hooman Majd
The Gone-Away World, by Nick Harkaway (M)
The Humbling, by Philip Roth (M)
Sex Dungeon for Sale!, by Patrick Wensink (M)
The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 8: 1965-1966, by Charles Schulz (M)
Under the Dome, by Stephen King
Some Things That Meant the World to Me, by Joshua Mohr
How I Became a Famous Novelist, by Steve Hely
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (CCLaP 100)
Where I Stay, by Andrew Zornoza (M)
The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History, by John Ortved (M)
The Sins of Tarrant County, by Sandy Prindle (M)
The Quiet War, by Paul McAuley
The Vikings: A History, by Robert Ferguson (M)
There Never Was a Better Time, by Doug Taylor (M)
Animals and Objects In and Out of Water, by Jay Ryan (M)
Cursed, by Jeremy Shipp
Grundish and Askew, by Lance Carbuncle (M)
Is Being Pro-Choice a Sin?, by Len Belter (M)
The Christ is Not a Person, by JC Tefft (M)
Acedia & Me, by Kathleen Norris (M)
The "Oz" series (14 books), by L Frank Baum
The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood

2009-2007 (in alphabetical order)
(The list below is also available as a sortable spreadsheet)

The 39 Steps, by John Buchan
1421 and 1434, by Gavin Menzies (M)
The Abstinence Teacher, by Tom Perrotta
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (M)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain (CCLaP 100)
Africa: A Photographic Safari, by Carlyle Thompson
After Dark, by Haruki Murakami
After the Prophet, by Lesley Hazleton (M)
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton (CCLaP 100)
Alice Fantastic, by Maggie Estep
All About Lulu, by Jonathan Evison
All Shall Be Well..., by Tod Wodicka
The Almost Moon, by Alice Sebold
American Transcendentalism: A History, by Philip Gura
Anathem (part 2), by Neal Stephenson
Anathem (part 1), by Neal Stephenson
Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet, by Joanne Proulx
Arcade of Cruelty, by Joseph Larkin
The Art of War, Sun Tzu (CCLaP 100)
Astropolis: Saturn Returns, by Sean Williams (M)
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand (M)
Attachment, by ME Jabbour
The Babylonian Trilogy, by Sebastien Doubinsky
Bad Monkey, by Curt Smith
Barrel Fever, by David Sedaris (M)
Beautiful Children, by Charles Bock (M)
Beet, by Roger Rosenblatt (M)
Beloved, Toni Morrison (CCLaP 100)
The Bird is a Raven, by Benjamin Lebert (M)
The Black Diamond Detective Agency, by Eddie Campbell and C Gaby Mitchell (M)
The Black Heart, by Patrick O'Leary (M)
Black Hole, by Charles Burns (M)
The Black Sun, by James Twining
Blankety Blank, D. Harlan Wilson
Blue, by JD Riso
Blue Highways, by William Least Heat-Moon (M)
Boneshaker, by Cherie Priest
Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin
The Boy Detective Fails, by Joe Meno
Brasyl, by Ian McDonald
Bridge of Sighs, by Richard Russo
Bringing Home the Birkin, by Michael Tonello
Broken Bulbs, by Eddie Wright
by George, by Wesley Stace
The Call of the Wild, Jack London (CCLaP 100)
Candida, George Bernard Shaw (CCLaP 100)
The Canon, by Natalie Angier (M)
Castle Waiting, by Linda Medley (M)
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger (CCLaP 100)
Chance in Hell, by Gilbert Hernandez (M)
The Chess Machine, by Robert Lohr
Classics for Pleasure, by Michael Dirda (M)
Clown Girl, by Monica Drake (M)
Common Sense Pediatrics, by S. Cornelia Franz, MD (M)
Commonwealth, by Joey Goebel
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, by Xiaolu Guo
Conquering Venus, by Collin Kelley
Consolation, by Michael Redhill
The Contract, by Joseph Kutrzeba
Courage in Patience, by Beth Fehlbaum (M)
Crooked Little Vein, by Warren Ellis
The Cradle, by Patrick Somerville (M)
Cyberabad Days, by Ian McDonald
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born, by various authors
Day of Empire, by Amy Chua
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, by Dana Thomas
Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville (CCLaP 100)
dermaphoria, by Craig Clevenger
Descartes' Bones, by Russell Shorto
Desolation Road, by Ian McDonald
The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson (M)
Disquiet, by Julia Leigh (M)
The Dissident, by Nell Freudenberger
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow
Downtown Owl, by Chuck Klosterman (M)
Dracula, Bram Stoker (CCLaP 100)
Drop City, by TC Boyle
Dune, by Frank Herbert (M)
Dust and Shadow, by Lynsday Faye
Earthquake ID, by John Domini
Educating Peter, by Lettie Teague (M)
Eiffel's Tower, by Jill Jonnes (M)
Elk's Run, by Joshua Hale Fialkov
The End As I Know It, by Kevin Shay
End Credits, by AF Rutzy
End of the Century, by Chris Roberson
Engleby, by Sebastian Faulks (M)
Envy, by Kathryn Harrison (M)
Ex Libris, by Anne Fadiman (M)
The Exception, by Christian Jungersen
The Execution of Sherlock Holmes, by Donald Thomas (M)
Exposure, by Kathryn Harrison (M)
Exquisite Corpse, by Poppy Z Brite (M)
Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Midnight, by Cat Rambo
The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
The Faith Between Us, by Peter Bebergal and Scott Korb
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (CCLaP 100)
The Fermata, by Nicholson Baker (M)
The Final Solution, by Michael Chabon (M)
Finn, by Jon Clinch (M)
Forever Twilight, volumes 1 and 2, by Peter Crowther
The Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem (M)
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov (M)
From Hell, by Alan Moore
From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain, by Minister Faust
The Gargoyle, by Andrew Davidson
The Gathering, by Anne Enright
Ghostwritten, by David Mitchell
The Giant's House, by Elizabeth McCracken (M)
Glasshouse, by Charles Stross
God is a Woman, by Ian Coburn
The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov (CCLaP 100)
Gradisil, by Adam Roberts
Grand Avenues, by Scott Berg
The Gravedigger's Daughter, by Joyce Carol Oates (M)
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (CCLaP 100)
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald (CCLaP 100)
Great Man, by Kate Christensen (M)
The Great Neighborhood Book, by Jay Walljasper (M)
The Great Perhaps, by Joe Meno
Grey, by Jon Armstrong (M)
Growing Up Moffett, by Sarah Moffett
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift (CCLaP 100)
The Gum Thief, by Douglas Coupland
The Gypsy in My Soul, by Christine Harris
HP Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, by Michel Houellebecq
Hairstyles of the Damned, by Joe Meno
Halting State, by Charles Stross
Hats & Eyeglasses, by Martha Frankel
The Heart of a Cult, by Lena Phoenix
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (CCLaP 100)
Heart-Shaped Box, by Joe Hill (M)
Heartbreak Soup: A Love And Rockets Book, by Gilbert Hernandez (M)
Himalayan Passage, by Jean Smith
The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne (CCLaP 100)
How to Keep the Woman You Have, by FG Walters (M)
How to Read Novels Like a Professor, by Thomas Foster (M)
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, by Pierre Bayard (M)
Human Diastrophism: A Love And Rockets Book, by Gilbert Hernandez (M)
Ibiza Virgin, by Jennifer Eric
In the Hand of Dante, by Nick Tosches (M)
Independence Day, by Richard Ford (M)
Infoquake, by David Louis Edelman
Interview with the Vampire, by Anne Rice (M)
The Island of Dr. Moreau, HG Wells (CCLaP 100)
Israel vs Utopia, by Joel Schalit
Jamestown, by Matthew Sharpe
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (CCLaP 100)
Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen, by Lesley Hazleton
The Joy of Chemistry, by Cathy Cobb and Monty Fetterolf (M)
Katka, by Stephen Meier
Kelland, by Paul Bens (M)
Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto (M)
Lala Pipo, by Hideo Okuda (M)
The Last Colony, by John Scalzi
The Last Opium Den, by Nick Tosches (M)
The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis, by Mark Gluth (M)
Layover, by Lisa Zeidner (M)
The Learners, by Chip Kidd (M)
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K Le Guin (CCLaP 100)
Little Children, by Tom Perrotta
Liverpool 800, by John Belchem (M)
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (M)
The Long Escape, by Jan Rehacek (M)
The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler
Lords of Chaos, by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind (M)
The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli, by Ginnetta Correli
Lottery, by Patricia Wood (M)
The Loving Dominant, by John Warren (M)
Lucky Man, by Ben Tanzer
Lucky Wander Boy, by DB Weiss (M)
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (CCLaP 100)
Majestic Restoration, by Bryan Roscoe (M)
The Man Who Was Thursday, GK Chesterton (CCLaP 100)
A Map of Home, by Randa Jarrar
Master of Ceremonies, by David Henry Sterry
Matala, by Craig Holden (M)
Me and Kev, by Simon Black (M)
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (CCLaP 100)
Mind Gone Astray, by Wayne Kallio
Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jones
Monastery Ridge, by Henry West
Moral Clarity, by Susan Neiman
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (CCLaP 100)
MultiReal, by David Louis Edelman
Murderland: h8, by Garrett Cook
Muffy: or A Transmigration of Selves, by ST Gulik
A Naked Singularity, by Sergio De La Pava
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco (CCLaP 100)
Nazi Literature in the Americas, by Roberto Bolano
The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, by Neal Pollack (M)
Neurotica, by Elva Maxine Beach
New Bedlam, by Bill Flanagan (M)
New Monasticism, by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (M)
The Night Climbers, by Ivo Stourton
The Night of the Gun, by David Carr (M)
No one belongs here more than you., by Miranda July
Nobody Move, by Denis Johnson
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (CCLaP 100)
Nova Swing, by M John Harrison
Now And Forever, by Ray Bradbury (M)
Nuclear Nightmare, by James Collins (M)
The Nulapeiron Sequence (Paradox, Context and Resolution), by John Meaney
On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan
The Painting and the City, by Robert Freeman Wexler
Passenger, by Ronald Malfi
The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, by Michelle Tea (M)
Perforated Heart, by Eric Bogosian
Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi (M)
Personal Effects: Dark Art, by JC Hutchins and Jordan Weisman
The Pesthouse, by Jim Crace (M)
Petropolis, by Anya Ulinich
The Pisstown Chaos, by David Ohle
The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City, by Carl Smith
The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth (M)
The Possibility of an Island, by Michel Houellebecq
The President's Pianist, by George Manos as told to Daniel Lindley
Prince of Storms, by Kay Kenyon
Prisoners in Paradise, by Akmal Shebl
Psychological Methods To Sell Should Be Destroyed, by Robert Freeman Wexler
Pygmy, by Chuck Palahniuk (M)
The "Quantum Gravity" trilogy, by Justina Robson
Race to the Sea, by Dayton Alverson (M)
Radiant Days, by Michael FitzGerald (Let's Talk About It Again)
Rant, by Chuck Palahniuk
The Raw Shark Texts, by Steven Hall
Red Moon: Looming of a New World Order, by Ron Roman Riales (M)
The Redneck Manifesto, by Jim Goad (M)
Released to the Angels, by Marilynn Garzione (M)
Religious Literacy, by Stephen Prothero (M)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
Remember Me, by Marian Kampinski (M)
RenGen, by Patricia Martin (M)
The Republic, Plato (CCLaP 100)
The Resurrectionist, by Jack O'Connell
Right Livelihoods, by Rick Moody
The Ringmaster: Proud Man's Game, by MA William (M)
R.I.P., by Terry Lamsley (M)
The Ripley Trilogy, Patricia Highsmith (CCLaP 100)
River of Gods, by Ian McDonald
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
Rollback, by Robert J Sawyer
Ruins, by Achy Obejas
Running with Scissors, by Augusten Burroughs
The Sam Gunn Omnibus, by Ben Bova (M)
Sardinian Silver by A Colin Wright
Saturn Returns, by Sean Williams (M)
Saturn's Children, by Charles Stross
Shakespeare: The World as Stage, by Bill Bryson (M)
Shamrock Alley, by Ronald Malfi (M)
Sheep and Wolves, by Jeremy Shipp (M)
Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, by Stephen Marche
Shock Treatment, by Karen Finley (M)
Shooting War, by Anthony Lappe and Dan Goldman (M)
Silver Screen, by Justina Robson
Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser (CCLaP 100)
The Slide, by Kyle Beachy
The Slynx, by Tatyana Tolstaya
Snuff, by Chuck Palahniuk
The Solitudes, by John Crowley
Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (M)
The Somnambulist, by Jonathan Barnes
Soon I Will Be Invincible, by Austin Grossman
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner (CCLaP 100)
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl
Standing Still, by Kelly Simmons (M)
Starship: Flagship, by Mike Resnick
Still Life with Psychotic Squirrel, by CB Smith
Sunshine Estates: Rx for Rosedale, by Lynn Shirey
Swimming Inside the Sun, by David Zweig
Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire, by Diana and Michael Preston
Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs (CCLaP 100)
Teacher Accused, by Alvin Granowsky
Tearing Down the Wall of Sound, by Mick Brown (M)
Ten Books that Screwed Up the World, by Benjamin Wiker (M)
The Ten-Cent Plague, by David Hajdu
This Year You Write Your Novel, by Walter Mosley (M)
Three Fallen Women, by Amy Guth
Three Novellas for a Novel, by Carl Shuker
A Tomb on the Periphery, by John Domini
The Traveler, by John Twelve Hawks (M)
Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (CCLaP 100)
Trip, by Mick MacO (M)
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller (CCLaP 100)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne (CCLaP 100)
Unlucky Lucky Days, by Daniel Grandbois (M)
The Uses of Enchantment, by Heidi Julavits
Vacation, by Jeremy Shipp
Valencia, by Michelle Tea (M)
Via Dolorosa, by Ronald Malfi
Virtual Worlds: Rewiring Your Emotional Future, by Jack Myers with Jerry Weinstein
Vox, by Nicholson Baker (M)
Voyeurs of Death, by Shaun Jeffrey
Waiting for God, by Lawrence Bush (M)
Washington Square, Henry James (CCLaP 100)
The Welsh Girl, by Peter Ho Davies
The Whole, by John Reed
Will You Love Me Tomorrow, by Danny Gillan
Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson (CCLaP 100)
A Wolf at the Table, by Augusten Burroughs
The Words of Every Song by Liz Moore
World War Z, by Max Brooks
The Yiddish Policemen's Union, by Michael Chabon
You: Or, The Invention of Memory, by Jonathan Baumbach
You Don't Love Me Yet, by Jonathan Lethem (M)
Zerostrata, by Andersen Prunty
Zeroville, by Steve Erickson (M)