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Bibliophilia

An online and continuously updated list of the books I read.

November 2008

  • Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore

October 2008

  • Randy Pausch & Jeffrey Zaslow - The Last Lecture
  • Orhan Pamuk - My Name is Red
  • Rajiv Chandrasekaran - Imperial Life in the Emerald City
  • Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

September 2008

  • P. G. Wodehouse - Ukridge
  • Hari Kunzru - Transmission
  • P. G. Wodehouse - Do Butlers Burgle Banks?

August 2008

  • Neil Gaiman - Death: The High Cost of Living
  • Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible
  • Haruki Murakami - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
  • Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha

July 2008

  • Claire Messud - The Emperor's Children
  • Joseph O'Neill - Netherland

July 2008

  • Geoffrey R. Stone - Perilous Times
  • Cynthia J. Alexander & Leslie A. Pal - Digital Democracy

June 2008

  • Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
  • Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays

May 2008

  • Ian McEwan - Saturday
  • Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love

April 2008

  • Nassim Taleb - The Black Swan
  • Maxx Barry - Syrup
  • Ian McEwan - Saturday
  • Dick Francis - Forfeit
  • Dick Francis - Flying Finish
  • P. G. Wodehouse - Meet Mr. Mulliner
  • Sudhir Venkatesh - Gang Leader for a Day

March 2008

  • Alan Greenspan - The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
  • David Mitchell - Black Swan Green
  • Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - Watchmen

February 2008

  • Neal Asher - Gridlinked
  • Jostein Gaardner - Sophie's World

January 2008

  • Al Gore - An Inconvenient Truth
  • Al Gore - Earth in the Balance
  • Andrew X. Pham - Catfish and Mandala
  • Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
  • Edgar Wallace - The Mind of J. G. Reeder

December 2007

  • P. G. Wodehouse - Ukridge
  • Bill Bryson - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
  • David Mitchell - Ghostwritten
  • Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

November 2007

  • Winston Groom - Forrest Gump
  • John le Carré - The Mission Song

October 2007

  • Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants
  • Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
  • Ramachandra Guha - India after Gandhi

September 2007

  • Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis
  • Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Identity
  • Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Supremacy

August 2007

  • Hugh Laurie - The Gun Seller
  • Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions

July 2007

  • Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death
  • Irène Némirovsky - Suite française
  • J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns
  • Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

June 2007

  • Michio Kaku - Visions
  • John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
  • Diane Setterfield - The Thirteenth Tale
  • Maile Meloy - A Family Daughter
  • Richard Russo - Straight Man
  • Mira Kamdar - Planet India

May 2007

  • Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
  • Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong
  • Gerald Durrell - The Picnic and Other Inimitable Stories
  • Haruki Murakami - After the Quake

April 2007

  • V. S. Naipaul - An Area of Darkness
  • John Grisham - The Partner
  • Irvine Welsh - Porno
  • Neil Gaiman - Fragile Things
  • Dick Francis - For Kicks

March 2007

  • Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
  • Zoe Heller - What Was She Thinking?
  • MASH - Richard Hooker
  • J. D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
  • Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
  • Toni Morrison - Beloved

February 2007

  • Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife
  • Zadie Smith - On Beauty
  • Michael Crichton - Next
  • Nick Hornby - How to Be Good

January 2007

  • V. S. Naipaul - Among the Believers
  • Nick Hornby - About A Boy
  • Orhan Pamuk - Istanbul: Memories and the City
  • Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club

December 2006

  • No Updates

November 2006

  • No Updates

October 2006

  • No Updates

September 2006

  • Åsne Seierstad - The Bookseller of Kabul
  • Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy

August 2006

  • Pico Iyer - Sun After Dark
  • John Monaghan & Peter Just - Social & Cultural Anthropology
  • Michael Crichton - A Case of Need
  • John Irving - Until I Find You

July 2006

  • Philip K. Dick - Time Out of Joint
  • Suketu Mehta - Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
  • Isaac Asimov - Foundation & Earth
  • Isaac Asimov - Foundation's Edge
  • Isaac Asimov - Second Foundation
  • Isaac Asimov - Foundation & Empire

June 2006

  • Salman Rushdie - Fury
  • Isaac Asimov - Foundation
  • Hanif Kureishi - Midnight All Day
  • Åsne Seierstad - With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia
  • Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics

May 2006

  • Gregory David Roberts - Shantaram
  • Amitav Ghosh - The Shadow Lines
  • Kazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans
  • Frank Miller - Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again
  • Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty

April 2006

  • Kazuo Ishiguro - The Unconsoled
  • George R. R. Martin - A Clash of Kings
  • Alan Moore & David Lloyd - V for Vendetta
  • Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - Watchmen

March 2006

  • Erich Segal - Prizes
  • Leon Uris - Exodus

February 2006

  • No Updates

January 2006

  • Alex Haley - Roots
  • Jeffrey Archer - First Impression
  • George R. R. Martin - A Game of Thrones
  • Michael Crichton - The Lost World

December 2005

  • Mario Puzo - The Last Don
  • Harlan Coben - Darkest Fear
  • Gerald Durrell - The Bafut Beagles
  • Agatha Christie - Five Little Pigs

November 2005

  • Sidney Sheldon - Master of the Game
  • Kazuo Ishiguro - A Pale View of Hills
  • Murray Walker - Unless I'm Very Much Mistaken: An Autobiography
  • Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Shadow of the Wind
  • John le Carré - The Constant Gardener
  • Anonymous – Primary Colors
  • Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let You Go
  • Nicci French – Land of the Living

October 2005

  • Robert Jordan - Knife of Dreams
  • John Irving – A Prayer for Owen Meany
  • Nick Hornby – High Fidelity
  • Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express

September 2005

  • Robert Harris – Pompeii

August 2005

  • No Updates

July 2005

  • Peter Mayle - A Year in Provence
  • J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

June 2005

  • Jean Sasson - Princess
  • Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins - It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life

April 2005

  • Robert Jordan - New Spring
  • Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five

April 2005

  • Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet
  • Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
  • Steve Matchett - The Mechanic’s Tale: Life in the Pit-Lanes of Formula One
  • Christopher Paolini - Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1)

March 2005

  • P. G. Wodehouse - A Damsel in Distress
  • Chetan Bhagat - Five Point Someone

February 2005

  • Anurag Mathur - The Inscrutable Americans
  • George Orwell - 1984
  • Arun Shourie - Governance And The Sclerosis That Has Set In
  • Manuel Castells - The Power of Identity
  • Simon Singh - The Code Book

January 2005

  • John Grisham - The Last Juror
  • P. G. Wodehouse - Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
  • Jeffrey Archer - Sons of Fortune
  • Michael Crichton - State of Fear

December 2004

  • Dan Brown - Angels & Demons

November 2004

  • Sidney Sheldon - Are You Afraid of The Dark?
  • Agatha Christie - A Murder is Announced
  • P. G. Wodehouse - Laughing Gas
  • John Mortimer - Rumpole’s Last Case
  • John Mortimer - Rumpole and the Golden Thread
  • John Mortimer - Rumpole for the Defence
  • Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of The Day

August - October 2004

  • No Updates

July 2004

  • Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama
  • Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  • J. M. Coetzee - Disgrace

June 2004

  • P. G. Wodehouse - Uncle Dynamite
  • John Irving - The World According to Garp
  • P. G. Wodehouse - Hot Water

May 2004

  • Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake
  • J. D. Salinger - Nine Stories
  • Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
  • Arthur Hailey - Hotel

April 2004

  • Alistair MacLean - Puppet on a Chain
  • Alistair MacLean - Force 10 from Navarone
  • Mario Puzo - Omerta

March 2004

  • Vikram Seth - An Equal Music
  • Frederick Forsyth - The Veteran
  • Richard P. Feynman - Six Easy Pieces
  • H. G. Wells - The War of the Worlds

February 2004

  • Irving Wallace - The Man
  • Alistair MacLean - The Way To Dusty Death
  • Robert M. Pirsig - Lila : An Enquiry into Morals

January 2004

  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera

December 2003

  • D. B. C. Pierre - Vernon God Little
  • Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl : The Arctic Incident
  • Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath

November 2003

  • John Grisham - The Partner

October 2003

  • Alvin Toffler - Future Shock
  • John Grisham - The King of Torts

September 2003

  • Roald Dahl - Eight Further Tales of the Unexpected
  • Roald Dahl - Someone Like You
  • Roald Dahl - Switch Bitch
  • Roald Dahl - Over To You
  • Roald Dahl - Kiss, Kiss
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez - The Autumn of the Patriarch
  • Salman Rushdie - Fury
  • Milan Kundera - Identity
  • Jonathan Lynn and Anthony Jay - The Yes Prime Minister Series
  • Jonathan Lynn and Anthony Jay - The Yes Minister Series

August 2003

  • Robert Jordan - Lord of Chaos (Wheel of Time Book Six)
  • Robert Jordan - The Fires of Heaven (Wheel of Time Book Five)
  • P. G. Wodehouse - Indiscretions of Archie
  • Robert Jordan - The Shadow Rises (Wheel of Time Book Four)
  • Robert Jordan - The Dragon Reborn (Wheel of Time Book Three)
  • Robert Jordan - The Great Hunt (Wheel of Time Book Two)

July 2003

  • Robert Jordan - To The Blight (Eye Of The World Part Two)
  • Robert Jordan - From The Two Rivers (Eye Of The World Part One)
  • John Irving - The Cider House Rules
  • Rohinton Mistry - Such A Long Journey
  • Fareed Zakaria - The Future of Freedom : Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
  • J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

May 2003

  • John le Carre - The Tailor of Panama
  • Jeffrey Archer - Sons of Fortune
  • Shashi Tharoor - The Great Indian Novel

April 2003

  • Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting

March 2003

  • Debby Bull - Blue Jelly
  • Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
  • Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

February 2003

  • Alexander Frater - Chasing The Monsoon
  • Joseph Heller - Catch 22
  • J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

January 2003

  • Alistair MacLean - The Guns of Navarone
  • FF8282 - A Prison Diary
  • Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
  • Erich Segal - The Class
  • George Orwell - Animal Farm
  • Isaac Asimov - Foundation
  • Erich Segal - Doctors
  • Erich Segal - Acts of Faith
  • W. Daniel Hillis - The Pattern on The Stone

December 2002

  • Terry Pratchett - The Last Continent
  • Graham Greene - A Sort Of Life
  • Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains Of The Day
  • Michael Crichton - Prey
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

November 2002

  • J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings : Return of the King
  • J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers

October 2002

  • J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Douglas Adams - The Long Dark Tea-time Of The Soul
  • Robert Jordan - Winter’s Heart (Wheel of Time Book Nine)
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

Some other books read before this list was created (1982-2002)

  • Arthur Hailey - Airport
  • Arthur Hailey - Hotel
  • Arthur Hailey - In High Places
  • Arthur Hailey - The Evening News
  • Arthur Hailey - The Moneychangers
  • Arthur Hailey - Wheels
  • Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
  • Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
  • Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
  • Frederick Forsyth - The Day of the Jackal
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
  • George Orwell - 1984
  • Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
  • Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’ Diary
  • Irving Wallace - The Haj
  • Irving Wallace - The Man
  • J D Salinger - Franny and Zooey
  • J D Salinger - Nine Stories
  • J D Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
  • Jeffrey Archer - A Matter of Honour
  • Jeffrey Archer - A Quiver Full of Arrows
  • Jeffrey Archer - A Twist in the Tale
  • Jeffrey Archer - First Among Equals
  • Jeffrey Archer - Kane and Abel
  • Jeffrey Archer - Shall We Tell the President? (Kennedy and Kane versions)
  • Jeffrey Archer - The Prodigal Daughter
  • Jeffrey Archer - To Cut a Long Story Short
  • John Grisham - A Time to Kill
  • John Grisham - The Brethren
  • John Grisham - The Chamber
  • John Grisham - The Client
  • John Grisham - The Firm
  • John Grisham - The Pelican Brief
  • John Grisham - The Rainmaker
  • John Grisham - The Summons
  • Joseph Heller - Catch 22
  • Jostein Gaardner - Sophie’s World
  • Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind
  • Mario Puzo - The Godfather
  • Michael Crichton - Airframe
  • Michael Crichton - Congo
  • Michael Crichton - Disclosure
  • Michael Crichton - Eaters of the Dead
  • Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park
  • Michael Crichton - Rising Sun
  • Michael Crichton - Sphere
  • Michael Crichton - The Andromeda Strain
  • Michael Crichton - The Great Train Robbery
  • Michael Crichton - The Lost World
  • Michael Crichton - The Terminal Man
  • Michael Crichton - Timeline
  • Robert Jordan - The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time Book One)
  • Robert M Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  • Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children
  • Sidney Sheldon - The Sky is Falling
  • Winston Groom - Forrest Gump
  • Winston Groom - Gump and Co.