My Current Booklist

As of July 2011. Bold font indicates that these books have been read!

1. The Story of English by Robert McCrum
2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
3. The Visible World by Mark Slouka
4. A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
5. A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
6. A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
7. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
8. Nemesis by Philip Roth
9. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
10. While We're Far Apart by Lynn Austin
11. The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
12. Transgression by James Nichol
13. Fall of Giants by Ken Follet
14. Dune by Frank Herbert
15. White Russian by Tom Bradby
16. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
17. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
18. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
19. The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
20. Shogun by James Clavell
21. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
22. The Physician by Noah Gordon
23. A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
24. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
25. Valley of Horses by Jean M. Auel
26. The Godfather by Mario Puxo
27. The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
28. Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof
29. Burying the Black Sox by Gene Carney
30. Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo

Numbers 26-30 were added today after a productive visit to Eagle Eye Bookstore, the greatest place known to literary man. (Well, except for number 30, which was given to me by my mother.)

I also have owned for awhile now numbers 2, 5, 6, 14, 15, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. I began Shogun ages ago and lost the book when I moved into my apartment last year, but recently found it. Don't remember a damn thing so I'll have to start back up, but I wasn't more than about 200 pages into it. And it's...real long. I also quoted from The Yiddish Policeman's Union in a paper I wrote for a Jewish linguistics course I took as a sophomore but did not actually read the thing, which was a marginal regret. Not only because I got an A, somehow, but because I really like Michael Chabon and he deserves a solid read-through.

I am currently reading A Feast for Crows because...of course. But I think I'm gonna go into Eight Men Out simultaneously to spread out a bit. I don't have any qualms about reading more than one book at a time, as long as they're different enough to engage different literary interests. I.e. reading Dune and A Feast For Crows simultaneously, while really tempting, is probably not the best.

And as an added note, I would like to point out that while I might not have made a huge dent on this booklist, I have only just drafted it since July, and most of these books are well over 500 pages.