Read in 2008
1. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
2. Dirt for Art's Sake by Elisabeth Ladenson — read my
3. Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed — read my
4. The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander — read about this book
5. Heartbreak Tango by Manuel Puig
6. A Rhetoric of Irony by Wayne Booth
7. El Túnel / The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato
8. The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
9. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
10. And the Money Kept Rolling in (And Out) by Paul Blustein
11. Concepts of Criticism by René Wellek
12. Con Borges / With Borges by Alberto Manguel — read about this book
13. Asleep in the Sun by Adolfo Bioy Casares
14. La Furia / Fury and Other Stories by Silvina Ocampo
15. Plan de Evasión / Plan of Escape by Adolfo Bioy Casares
16. Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
17. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig — read about this book
18. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford — read about this book
19. Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
20. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
21. Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann — read about this book
22. 2666 by Roberto Bolano — read about this book
23. Monsieur by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
24. Looking for History by Alma Guillermoprieto
25. Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
26. The Massacre at El Mozote by Mark Danner
27. The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon
28. The Castle by Franz Kafka
29. The Heart that Bleeds by Alma Guillermoprieto
30. W.G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity by J.J. Long
31. The Dream of Heroes by Adolfo Bioy Casares
32. Literature and Cinematography by Viktor Shklovsky
33. The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
Read in 2007
1. Mexican Days by Tony Cohan
2. Las batallas en el desierto / Battles in the Desert by Jose Emilio Pacheco
3. The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian— read of this book
4. Drink Cultura: Chicanismo by Jose Antonio Burciaga
5. Life a User's Manual by Georges Perec— read about this book
6. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
7. Ice by Vladimir Sorokin
8. Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers— read about this book
9. Insect Dreams by Marc Estrin
10. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro— read about this book
11. The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom— read of this book
12. Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead by Alan DeNiro
13. The Cottagers by Marshall N. Klimasewiski
14. Sacco And Vanzetti Must Die! by Mark Binelli
15. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano— read with this book's translator
16. Distant Neighbors by Alan Riding
17. Anxious Pleasures by Lance Olsen
18. The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon— read of this book
19. On Mexican Time by Tony Cohan
20. Amulet by Roberto Bolano
21. Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe— read about this book
22. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens
23. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy— read about this book
24. By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano— read on this book
25. The Meanings of Macho by Matthew C. Gutmann
26. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust— read about this book — and some more blogging
27. We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau
28. Witch Grass by Raymond Queneau— read of this book
29. The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis
30. Massacre in Mexico by Elena Poniatowska
31. A Good War Is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America by David Griffith
32. The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes— read about this book
33. Falling Man by Don DeLillo
34. African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou
35. Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
36. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
37. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
38. The Road by Cormac McCarthy— read of this book
39. Crossing the Yard by Richard Shelton— read of this book
40. Time of Grace by Ken Lamberton— read of this book
41. Criticism: Major Statements edited by Charles Kaplan
42. Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye
43. Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg— read of this book
44. Montano's Malady by Enrique Vila-Matas— read of this book
45. Como me hice monja / How I Became a Nun by Cesar Aira
46. The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne Booth
47. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
48. Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas— read of this book
49. The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch— read of this book
50. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
51. The Enormity of the Tragedy by Quim Monzo
52. The Irresponsible Self by James Wood— read about this book
53. The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross
54. Place-names by Jean Ricardou— read about this book
55. Sylvia by Leonard Michaels— read about this book
56. Middlemarch by George Eliot
57. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
58. The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe— read about this book
59. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
60. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Read in 2006
1. Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
2. Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
3. The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer
4. Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo
5. Vermeer in Bosnia by Lawrence Weschler
6. Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee
7. Joe Gould's Secret by Joseph Mitchell
8. Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
9. Things in the Night by Mati Unt
10. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
11. The Judgment of Paris by Ross King
12. Nietzsche's Kisses by Lance Olsen
13. End Zone by Don DeLillo
14. Duchess of Nothing by Heather McGowan
15. Bouvard And Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert
16. In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
17. Atomik Aztex by Sesshu Foster
18. The Devil Is a Gentleman by J.C. Hallman
19. Television by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
20. Ticknor by Sheila Heti
21. The Girl in the Glass by Jeff Ford
22. My Sister's Continent by Gina Frangello
23. Here they Come by Yannick Murphy
24. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
25. Michael Martone by Michael Martone
26. White Spirit by Paule Constant
27. Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo
28. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
29. A Temple of Texts by William Gass
30. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
31. Crawl Space by Edie Meidav
32. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
33. Artificial Happiness
34. The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald
35. How Would a Patriot Act? by Glenn Greenwald
36. Skin by Kellie Wells
37. Eternal Curse on the Reader of these Pages by Manuel Puig
38. Triangle by Katharine Weber
39. Night Falls Fast by Kay Redfield Jamison
40. Pubis Angelical by Manuel Puig
41. Mohr by Frederick Reuss
42. Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard
43. Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
44. Pan by Knut Hamsun
45. The Blue Guide to Indiana by Michael Martone
46. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
47. The Company of Ghosts by Lydie Salvayre
48. Mulligan Stew by Gilbert Sorrentino
49. The Rainbow Stories by William T. Vollmann
50. The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski by Joseph G. Kickasola
51. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
52. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
53. Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
54. The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers
55. The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
56. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
57. Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
58. Distant Star by Roberto Bolano
59. ManBug by George K. Ilsley
60. Firmin by Sam Savage
61. Sideshow by Sidney Thompson
62. Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O
63. Seven Loves by Valerie Trueblood
64. Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
65. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
66. Golem Song by Marc Estrin
67. Opening Mexico by Julia Preston and Samuel Dillon
68. Demon Theory by Stephen Graham Jones
69. On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald
