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