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52 Weeks 52 Books

Something like a New Year’s Resolution: read a book a week. Mostly fiction, but some academic work here by necessity.

1. Don DeLillo, White Noise

2. Richard McKeon, Rhetoric: Essays on Invention and Discovery

3. Arthur Nersesian, The Fuck-Up

4. Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

5. Tom Perotta, The Abstinence Teacher

6. Steve Hely, How to Become a Famous Novelist

7. Don DeLillo, The Body Artist

8. Scott Westerfield, The Risen Empire

9. Scott Westerfield, Killing of Worlds

10. Sy Montgomery, Birdology

11. William Gibson, All Tomorrow’s Parties

12. Lisbeth Cohen, The Consumer’s Republic

13. Tawni O’Dell, Back Roads

14. John Berger, Ways of Seeing

15. Rajaa Alsanea, Girls of Riyadh

16. Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

17. Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

18. Stieg Larsson, The  Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

19. China Mieville, King Rat

20. China Mieville, Iron Council

21. Elizabeth Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic

22. Alastair Reynolds, Chasm City