{"id":165,"date":"2006-12-10T23:24:23","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T06:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/what-we-read\/"},"modified":"2009-08-09T10:32:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T17:32:31","slug":"what-we-read","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/what-we-read\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Read"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE READING LIST<\/span><\/p>\n

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The following is an incomplete list of books I have read. If you have any reading suggestions please e-mail<\/a> them to me.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Dud Avocado (Elaine Dundy)<\/span>
\nThe Dark Side (Jane Mayer)<\/span>
\nSag Harbor<\/span><\/em> (Colson Whitehead)<\/span>
\nHow We Decide<\/span><\/em> (Jonah Lehrer)<\/span>
\nDarkness Visible (William Styron)<\/span>
\nA Meaningful Life<\/span><\/em> (L.J. Davis)<\/span>
\nPlay It as It Lays<\/span><\/em> (Joan Didion)<\/span>
\nCamera<\/span><\/em> ()<\/span>
\nU and I<\/span><\/em> (Nicholson Baker)<\/span>
\nElsewhere, U.S.A.<\/span><\/em> (Dalton Conley)<\/span>
\nThe Folded Leaf<\/span><\/em> (William Maxwell)<\/span>
\nThe Crowd Sounds Happy<\/span><\/em> (Nicholas Dawidoff)<\/span>
\n2666<\/span><\/em> (Roberto Bolano)<\/span>
\nRemainder<\/span><\/em> (Tom McCarthy)<\/span>
\nHow Fiction Works<\/span><\/em> (<\/span>James Wood)<\/span>
\nAhead of the Curve<\/span><\/em> (Philip Devles Broughton)<\/span>
\nWhat I Talk About when I Talk About Running<\/span><\/em> (Haruki Murakami)<\/span>
\nNaked Economics<\/span><\/em> ()<\/span>
\nNetherland<\/span><\/em> (Joseph O’Neill)<\/span>
\nI Was Told There’d Be Cake<\/span><\/em> (Sloane Crosley)<\/span>
\nLiar’s Poker<\/span><\/em> (Michael Lewis)<\/span>
\nAgainst Happiness<\/span><\/em> (Eric Wilson)<\/span>
\nThe Mystery Guest<\/span><\/em> ()<\/span>
\nMaynard and Jennica<\/span><\/em> (Rudolph Delson)<\/span>
\nOnce More Around the Park<\/span><\/em> (Roger Angell)<\/span>
\nBetter<\/span><\/em> (Atul Gawande)<\/span>
\nWhat Is the What<\/span><\/em> (Dave Eggers)<\/span>
\nExperience<\/span><\/em> (Martin Amis)<\/span>
\nWar Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning<\/span><\/em> (Chris Hedges)<\/span>
\nHouse of Meetings<\/span><\/em> (Martin Amis)<\/span>
\nTransparent Things<\/span><\/em> (Vladimir Nabokov)<\/span>
\nThe Invention of Solitude<\/span><\/em> (Paul Auster)<\/span>
\nYou Don’t Love Me Yet<\/span><\/em> (Jonathan Lethem)<\/span>
\nA Day in the Bleachers<\/span><\/em> (Arnold Hano)<\/span>
\nThe Echoing Green<\/span><\/em> (Josh Prager)<\/span>
\nNohow On<\/span><\/em>(Samuel Beckett)<\/span>
\nThe Blind Side<\/span><\/em> (Michael Lewis)
\nThe Last of Her Kind<\/em> (Sigrid Nunez)
\nAmong the Thugs<\/em> (Bill Buford)
\nMinima Moralia<\/em> (Theodor Adorno)
\nHow Soccer Explains the World<\/em> (Franklin Foer)
\nThe Disappointment Artist<\/em> (Jonathan Lethem)
\nBlack Swan Green<\/em> (David Mitchell)
\nThe Wages of Wins<\/em> (David J. Berri et al)<\/span>
\nThe Boy Who Fell From the Sky<\/span><\/em> (Ken Dornstein)<\/span>
\nThe 42nd Parallel<\/span><\/em> (John Dos Passos)
\nThe Brooklyn Follies<\/em> (Paul Auster)
\nMary<\/em> (Vladimir Nabokov)
\nDespair<\/em> (Vladimir Nabokov)
\nIndecision<\/em> (Benjamin Kunkel)
\nThe Undercover Economist<\/em> (Tim Harford)
\nThe Year of Magical Thinking<\/em> (Joan Didion)
\nTeachers Have It Easy<\/em> (Dave Eggers et al)
\nThe People of Paper<\/em> (Salvador Plascencia)
\nFreakonomics<\/em> (Steven D. Levitt)
\nHousekeeping<\/em> (Marilynne Robinson)
\nOh the Glory of It All<\/em> (Sean Wilsey)
\nHouse of Thieves<\/em> (Kaui Hart Hemmings)
\nHow to Breathe Underwater<\/em> (Julie Orringer)
\nThe History of Love<\/em> (Nicole Krauss)
\nExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close<\/em> (Jonathan Safran Foer)
<\/em>Old School<\/em> (Tobias Wolff)
\nPrep<\/em> (Curtis Sittenfeld)
\nThe Tipping Point<\/em> (Malcolm Gladwell)
\nThe Perfect Hour<\/em> (James L. West)
\nHow We Are Hungry<\/em> (Dave Eggers)
\nSputnik Sweetheart<\/em> (Haruki Murakami)
\nConfessions of an Economic Hitman<\/em> (John Perkins)
\nUrban Tribes<\/em> (Ethan Watters)
\nDon’t Think of an Elephant<\/em> (George Lakoff)
\nThe Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty<\/em> (Buster Olney)
\nShakespeare, Einstein and the Bottom Line<\/em> (David L. Kirp)
\nIn the Shadow of No Towers<\/em> (Art Spiegelman)
\nBlink<\/em> (Malcolm Gladwell)
\nSore Winners<\/em> (John Powers)
\nPlatform<\/em> (Michel Houellebecq)
\nGoing Nucular<\/em> (Geoffrey Nunberg)
\nSex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs<\/em> (Chuck Klosterman)
\nLoser Goes First<\/em> (Dan Kennedy)
\nWhat’s the Matter With Kansas<\/em> (Thomas Frank)
\nCandyfreak<\/em> (Steve Almond)
\nMr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder<\/em>(Lawrence Weschler)
\nThe Wisdom of Crowds<\/em> (James Surowiecki)
\nBoggs: A Comedy of Values<\/em> (Lawrence Weschler)
\nDress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim<\/em> (David Sedaris)
\nWhat Really Happened to the Class of ’93<\/em> (Chris Colin)
\nOut of My League<\/em> (George Plimpton)
\nThe Unforbidden is Compulsory<\/em> (Dave Eggers)
\nThe Ticket Out<\/em> (Michael Sokolove)
\nBody Politic<\/em> (David Shields)
\nIf on a winter’s night a traveler<\/em> (Italo Calvino)
\nSam the Cat and Other Stories<\/em> (Matthew Klam)
\nThe Confessions of Max Tivoli<\/em> (Andrew Sean Greer)
\nOn Paradise Drive<\/em> (David Brooks)
\nThe Rachel Papers<\/em> (Martin Amis)
\nRegarding the Pain of Others<\/em> (Susan Sontag)
\nSwann’s Way<\/em> (Marcel Proust)
\nThe Book of Illusions<\/em> (Paul Auster)
\nHow Proust Can Change Your Life<\/em> (Alain de Botton)
\nWinner of the National Book Award<\/em> (Jincy Willet)
\nVarieties of Exile<\/em> (Mavis Gallant)
\nThe Unprofessionals<\/em> (Julie Hecht)
\nThe Shape of a Pocket<\/em> (John Berger)
\nCharming Billy<\/em> (Alice McDermott)
\nGetting Personal<\/a><\/em> (Phillip Lopate)
\nThe Colossus of New York<\/em> (Colson Whitehead)
\nWho Will Run the Frog Hospital?<\/em> (Lorrie Moore)
\nBirds of America<\/em> (Lorrie Moore)
\nHerzog<\/em> (Saul Bellow)
\nGun, With Occasional Music<\/em> (Jonathan Lethem)
\nFreelance Writing for Magazines and Newspapers<\/em> (Marcia Yudkin)
\nThe Broken Estate<\/em> (James Wood)
\nThe Trial<\/em> (Franz Kafka)
\nJokes Told in Heaven About Babies<\/em> (Lucy Thomas)
\nOn Becoming a Novelist<\/em> (John Gardner)
\nMidsummer<\/em> (Marcelle Clements)
\nAnd Now You Can Go<\/em> (Vendela Vida)
\nAmnesia Moon<\/em> (Jonathan Lethem)
\nSummer of ’49<\/em> (David Halberstam)
\nThe Fortress of Solitude<\/em> (Jonathan Lethem)
\nSpeak, Memory<\/em> (Vladimir Nabokov)
\nLast Orders<\/em> (Graham Swift)
\nAfternoon of an Author<\/em> (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
\nMay the Best Team Win<\/em> (Andrew Zimbalist)
\nMoneyball<\/em> (Michael Lewis)
\nThe Teammates<\/em> (David Halberstam)
\nOne Hundred Years of Solitude<\/em> (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
\nReefer Madness<\/em> (Eric Schlosser)
\nImportant Things That Don’t Matter<\/em> (David Amsden)
\nThe Hazards of Good Breeding<\/em> (Jessica Shattuck)
\nThe Quality of Life Report<\/em> (Meghan Daum)
\nTriumph and Tragedy in Mudville<\/em> (Stephen Jay Gould)
\nTepper isn’t Going Out<\/em> (Calvin Trillin)
\nHaussmann, or the Distinction<\/em> (Paul Lafarge)
\nThe Spooky Art<\/em> (Norman Mailer)
\nLike Life<\/em> (Lorrie Moore)
\nThe Partly Cloudy Patriot<\/em> (Sarah Vowell)
\nGravity’s Rainbow<\/em> (Thomas Pynchon)
\nFever Pitch<\/em> (Nick Hornby)
\nKitchen Confidential<\/em> (Anthony Bourdain)
\nSongbook<\/em> (Nick Hornby)
\nR.E.M. | Fiction<\/em> (David Buckley)
\nSurely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman<\/em> (Richard Feynman)
\nOur Posthuman Future<\/em> (Francis Fukuyama)
\nThe History of Sexuality: An Introduction<\/em> (Michel Foucoult)
<\/em>Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism (Joan Acocella)
\nThe Disuniting of America<\/em> (Arthur Schlesinger)
\nChild of My Heart<\/em> (Alice McDermott)
<\/em>The Last Commissioner (Fay Vincent)
<\/em>Doing School (Denise Clark Pope)
<\/em>You Shall Know Our Velocity (Dave Eggers)
\nThe Cheese Monkeys<\/em> (Chip Kidd)
<\/em>How to Be Alone (Jonathan Franzen)
<\/em>Making a Literary Life (Carolyn See)
\nYou are Not a Stranger Here<\/em> (Adam Haslett)
\nThe Dressing Station<\/em> (Jonathan Kaplan)
\nFast Food Nation<\/em> (Eric Schlosser)
<\/em>The Curse of the Bambino (Dan Shaughnessy)
<\/em>Tender is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
<\/em>Severed Trust: Why American Medicine Hasn’t been Fixed (George Lundberg)
<\/em>A Fan’s Notes (Frederick Exley)
<\/em>Twelve (Nick McDonnell)
<\/em>The Doctor Stories (William Carlos Williams)
\nThe Black Veil<\/em> (Rick Moody)
\nHow to be Good<\/em> (Nick Hornby)
\nAs I Lay Dying<\/em> (William Faulkner)
\nMy Misspent Youth<\/em> (Meghan Daum)
\nThe Metaphysical Club<\/em> (Louis Menand)
\nThe Season of Lillian Dawes<\/em> (Katherine Mosby)
\nEnough About You<\/em> (David Shields)
\nComplications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science<\/em> (Atul Gawande)
\nEverything is Illuminated<\/em> (Jonathan Safran Foer)
\nBoonville<\/em> (Robert Mailer Anderson)
\nMystery and Manners<\/em> (Flannery O’Connor)
\nGenes, Girls, and Gamow: after The Double Helix<\/em> (James D. Watson)
\nYou Can’t Go Home Again<\/em> (Thomas Wolfe)
\nAssorted Fire Events<\/em> (David Means)
\nPale Fire<\/em> (Vladimir Nabokov)
\nStrong Motion<\/em> (Jonathan Franzen)
\nWar in a Time of Peace<\/em> (David Halberstam)
\nA Prayer for Owen Meany<\/em> (John Irving)
\nWith Love and Squalor<\/em> (Eds. Thomas Beller and Kip Kotzen)
\nRaise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour…<\/em> (J.D. Salinger)
\nUncle Tungsten<\/em> (Oliver Sacks)
\nA Sport and A Pastime<\/em> (James Salter)
\nSeize the Day<\/em> (Saul Bellow)
\nThe Sleep-Over Artist<\/em> (Thomas Beller)
\nThe Actual<\/em> (Saul Bellow)
\nDesperate Characters<\/em> (Paula Fox)
\nThe Great Gatsby<\/em> (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
\nNine Stories<\/em> (J.D. Salinger)
\nFranny and Zooey<\/em> (J.D. Salinger)
\nPostmodern Pooh<\/em> (Frederick Crews)
\nThe Corrections<\/em> (Jonathan Franzen)
\nMemories of a Catholic Girlhood<\/em> (Mary McCarthy)
\nWit<\/em> (Margaret Edson)
\nFar Away<\/em> (Caryl Churchill)
\nProof<\/em> (David Auburn)
\nPnin<\/em> (Vladimir Nabokov)
\nThe New Sins<\/em> (David Byrne)
\nKissing in Manhattan<\/em> (David Schickler)
\nSome Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/em> (Matthew J. Bruccoli)
\nNaked<\/em> (David Sedaris)
\nArthur Rimbaud<\/em> (Enid Starkie)
\nThe Twentieth Century<\/em> (Howard Zinn)
\nNot-Knowing<\/em> (Donald Barthelme)
\nLost in the Funhouse<\/em> (John Barth)
\nThe Crying of Lot 49<\/em> (Thomas Pynchon)
\nNative Son<\/em> (Richard Wright)
\nDown the Highway: The Life and Times of Bob Dylan<\/em> (Howard Sounes)
\nHigh Fidelity<\/em> (Nick Hornby)
\nCat’s Cradle<\/em> (Kurt Vonnegut)
\nA Pitcher’s Story<\/em> (Roger Angell)
\nThe Unbearable Lightness of Being<\/em> (Milan Kundera)
\nUnderworld<\/em> (Don DeLillo)
\nThis Shape We’re In<\/em> (Jonathan Lethem)
\nJoe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life<\/em> (Richard Ben Cramer)
\nShopgirl<\/em> (Steve Martin)
\nThe Pat Hobby Stories<\/em> (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
\nAbout a Boy<\/em> (Nick Hornby)
\nWhite Noise<\/em> (Don DeLillo)
\nMe Talk Pretty One Day<\/em> (David Sedaris)
\nRimbaud<\/em> (Graham Robb)
\nMotherless Brooklyn<\/em> (Jonathan Lethem)
\nThe First Forty-Nine Stories<\/em> (Ernest Hemingway)
\nThe Maltese Falcon<\/em> (Dashiell Hammett)
\nSlaughterhouse 5<\/em> (Kurt Vonnegut)
\nThe Gutenberg Elegies<\/em> (Sven Birkerts)
\nParis to the Moon<\/em> (Adam Gopnik)
\nThe Silicon Boys<\/em> (David A. Kaplan)
\nDriving Mr. Albert<\/em> (Michael Paterniti)
\nWhat it Felt Like<\/em> (Henry Allen)
\nCeremony<\/em> (Leslie Marmon Silko)
\nThe Basil and Josephine Stories<\/em> (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
\nThe Art of Fiction<\/em> (David Lodge)
\nWhite Teeth<\/em> (Zadie Smith)
\nF. Scott Fitzgerald<\/em> (Andrew Turnbull)
\nDisgrace<\/em> (J.M. Coetzee)
\nFor the Time Being<\/em> (Annie Dillard)
\nThe Boys of Summer<\/em> (Roger Kahn)
\nThe Fundamentals of Play<\/em> (Caitlin Macy)
\nThe Beautiful and Damned<\/em> (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
\nWords Fail Me<\/em> (Patricia T. O’Connor)
\nThis Boy’s Life<\/em> (Tobias Wolfe)
\nBobos in Paradise<\/em> (David Brooks)
\nOn the Road<\/em> (Jack Kerouac)
\nAda, or Ardor<\/em> (Vladirmir Nabokov)
\nLa symphonie Pastorale<\/em> (Andr\u00e9 Gide)
\nPast Time: Baseball as History<\/em> (Jules Tygiel)
\nTake the Cannoli<\/em> (Sarah Vowell)
\nTrimalchio<\/em>: An early version of The Great Gatsby<\/em> (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
\nThe Sun Also Rises<\/em> (Ernest Hemingway)
\nFairball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball<\/em> (Bob Costas)
\nLolita<\/em> (Vladimir Nabokov)
\nA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius<\/em> (Dave Eggers)
\nLe diable au corps<\/em> (Raymond Radiguet)
\nMartin Dressler<\/em> (Steven Millhauser)
\nThe Archivist<\/em> (Martha Cooley)
\nA Lost Lady<\/em> (Willa Cather)
\nMy \u00c1ntonia<\/em> (Willa Cather)
\nThe Writing Life<\/em> (Annie Dillard)
\nThe Hours<\/em> (Michael Cunningham)
\nMrs. Dalloway<\/em> (Virginia Woolf)<\/span><\/p>\n

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