Book list
When I graduated college in May 1998, I decided to read at least twelve books every year. In this list I've counted only novels or non-fiction read first page to last- but those are the only rules. The list is sortable by column. Recently, I analyzed this booklist, and produced some fascinating statistics. [PDF]
| # | Title | Author | Length | Year Written | Year Read |
| 1 | Love in the Time of Cholera (F) | Marquez (M) | 348 | 1988 | 1 |
| 2 | The Stranger (F) | Camus (M) | 144 | 1946 | 1 |
| 3 | Mao II (F) | Delillo (M) | 256 | 1992 | 1 |
| 4 | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (F) | Kundera (M) | 320 | 1978 | 1 |
| 5 | Empire of Signs (NF) | Barthes (M) | 109 | 1970 | 1 |
| 6 | The Ice Storm (F) | Moody (M) | 288 | 1995 | 1 |
| 7 | The Name of the Rose (F) | Eco (M) | 552 | 1983 | 1 |
| 8 | Seven Nights (NF) | Borges (M) | 121 | 1984 | 1 |
| 9 | The Man Who Was Thursday (F) | Chesterton (M) | 192 | 1908 | 1 |
| 10 | The Calcutta Chromosome (F) | Ghosh (M) | 320 | 1995 | 1 |
| 11 | Laughable Loves (F) | Kundera (M) | 304 | 1969 | 1 |
| 12 | Galatea 2.2 (F) | Powers (M) | 336 | 1995 | 1 |
| 13 | The Names (F) | Delillo (M) | 352 | 1989 | 1 |
| 14 | The Intuitionist (F) | Whitehead (M) | 272 | 1999 | 1 |
| 15 | Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (F) | Powers (M) | 352 | 1985 | 2 |
| 16 | The Sun Also Rises (F) | Hemingway (M) | 256 | 1926 | 2 |
| 17 | Siddhartha (F) | Hesse (M) | 160 | 1922 | 2 |
| 18 | White Noise (F) | Delillo (M) | 336 | 1985 | 2 |
| 19 | The Razor's Edge (F) | Maugham (M) | 336 | 1944 | 2 |
| 20 | Lord Jim (F) | Conrad (M) | 384 | 1900 | 2 |
| 21 | The Talented Mr. Ripley (F) | Highsmith (F) | 304 | 1955 | 2 |
| 22 | The Good Soldier (F) | Ford (M) | 304 | 1915 | 2 |
| 23 | Brighton Rock (F) | Greene (M) | 256 | 1938 | 2 |
| 24 | Tough Jews (NF) | Cohen (M) | 304 | 1998 | 2 |
| 25 | The Professor and the Madman (NF) | Winchester (M) | 272 | 1998 | 2 |
| 26 | In Cold Blood (NF) | Capote (M) | 368 | 1966 | 3 |
| 27 | Exodus (F) | Uris (M) | 608 | 1958 | 3 |
| 28 | Visual Explanations (NF) | Tufte (M) | 156 | 1997 | 3 |
| 29 | A Farewell to Arms (F) | Hemingway (M) | 336 | 1929 | 3 |
| 30 | Envisioning Information (NF) | Tufte (M) | 126 | 1990 | 3 |
| 31 | The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (NF) | Tufte (M) | 197 | 1983 | 3 |
| 32 | A Moveable Feast (F) | Hemingway (M) | 240 | 1964 | 3 |
| 33 | The Waterworks (F) | Doctorow (M) | 352 | 1994 | 3 |
| 34 | Invisible Cities (F) | Calvino (M) | 165 | 1972 | 4 |
| 35 | Our Man in Havana (F) | Greene (M) | 224 | 1958 | 4 |
| 36 | The Secret Agent (F) | Conrad (M) | 368 | 1907 | 4 |
| 37 | The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory (F) | Borges (M) | 176 | 1975 | 4 |
| 38 | The Heart of the Matter (F) | Greene (M) | 256 | 1948 | 4 |
| 39 | Liar's Poker (NF) | Lewis (M) | 256 | 1989 | 4 |
| 40 | The Great Crash 1929 (NF) | Galbraith (M) | 224 | 1954 | 4 |
| 41 | The Money Culture (NF) | Lewis (M) | 304 | 1991 | 4 |
| 42 | The End of the Affair (F) | Greene (M) | 192 | 1937 | 4 |
| 43 | The Gangs of New York (NF) | Asbury (M) | 420 | 1927 | 4 |
| 44 | The Big Con (NF) | Maurer (M) | 336 | 1940 | 4 |
| 45 | The Long Goodbye (F) | Chandler (M) | 384 | 1953 | 4 |
| 46 | The Avengers (NF) | Cohen (M) | 272 | 2000 | 4 |
| 47 | The Rachel Papers (F) | Amis (M) | 240 | 1973 | 4 |
| 48 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (F) | Rowling (F) | 190 | 1997 | 5 |
| 49 | The Quiet American (F) | Greene (M) | 192 | 1955 | 5 |
| 50 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (F) | Rowling (F) | 352 | 1998 | 5 |
| 51 | Introducing Time (NF) | Callender (M) | 176 | 2001 | 5 |
| 52 | The Lady in the Lake (F) | Chandler (M) | 272 | 1943 | 5 |
| 53 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (F) | Rowling (F) | 448 | 1999 | 5 |
| 54 | The Club Dumas (F) | Perez-Reverte (M) | 384 | 1996 | 5 |
| 55 | A Cook's Tour (NF) | Bourdain (M) | 288 | 2001 | 5 |
| 56 | Kitchen Confidential (NF) | Bourdain (M) | 320 | 2000 | 5 |
| 57 | Stamboul Train (F) | Greene (M) | 224 | 1932 | 5 |
| 58 | Me Talk Pretty One Day (NF) | Sedaris (M) | 288 | 2000 | 5 |
| 59 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (F) | Rowling (F) | 734 | 2000 | 5 |
| 60 | The High Window (F) | Chandler (M) | 272 | 1942 | 5 |
| 61 | The Book of Illusions (F) | Auster (M) | 336 | 2002 | 5 |
| 62 | Notes from the Underground (F) | Dostoevsky (M) | 160 | 1864 | 5 |
| 63 | Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories (F) | Capote (M) | 176 | 1958 | 5 |
| 64 | The Magician (F) | Maugham (M) | 172 | 1908 | 5 |
| 65 | Ripley Underground (F) | Highsmith (F) | 320 | 1970 | 5 |
| 66 | Double Indemnity (F) | Cain (M) | 128 | 1936 | 5 |
| 67 | Farewell, My Lovely (F) | Chandler (M) | 304 | 1940 | 5 |
| 68 | The Thin Man (F) | Hammett (M) | 208 | 1933 | 5 |
| 69 | The Moon and Sixpence (F) | Maugham (M) | 224 | 1919 | 5 |
| 70 | The Postman Always Rings Twice (F) | Cain (M) | 128 | 1934 | 5 |
| 71 | Ripley's Game (F) | Highsmith (M) | 288 | 1974 | 5 |
| 72 | The Little Sister (F) | Chandler (M) | 256 | 1949 | 5 |
| 73 | The Power and the Glory (F) | Greene (M) | 240 | 1940 | 5 |
| 74 | The Old Man and the Sea (F) | Hemingway (M) | 128 | 1952 | 5 |
| 75 | Cakes and Ale (F) | Maugham (M) | 320 | 1930 | 5 |
| 76 | Playback (F) | Chandler (M) | 176 | 1958 | 5 |
| 77 | Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction (F) | Salinger (M) | 224 | 1955 | 5 |
| 78 | Jacob's Room (F) | Woolf (F) | 192 | 1922 | 5 |
| 79 | The Boy Who Followed Ripley (F) | Highsmith (F) | 304 | 1980 | 5 |
| 80 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (F) | Twain (M) | 368 | 1885 | 5 |
| 81 | The Fall (F) | Camus (M) | 160 | 1956 | 6 |
| 82 | The Maltese Falcon (F) | Hammett (M) | 224 | 1929 | 6 |
| 83 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (F) | Rowling (F) | 870 | 2003 | 6 |
| 84 | Ripley Under Water (F) | Highsmith (F) | 320 | 1991 | 6 |
| 85 | The Goal (NF) | Goldratt (M) | 384 | 1984 | 6 |
| 86 | Oracle Night (F) | Auster (M) | 256 | 2003 | 7 |
| 87 | Motherless Brooklyn (F) | Lethem (M) | 336 | 1999 | 7 |
| 88 | The Da Vinci Code (F) | Brown (M) | 454 | 2003 | 7 |
| 89 | The Flanders Panel (F) | Perez-Reverte (M) | 304 | 1990 | 7 |
| 90 | A Gun for Sale (F) | Greene (M) | 208 | 1936 | 7 |
| 91 | Red Harvest (F) | Hammett (M) | 224 | 1929 | 7 |
| 92 | Mind Wide Open (NF) | Johnson (M) | 288 | 2004 | 7 |
| 93 | Emergence (NF) | Johnson (M) | 288 | 2002 | 7 |
| 94 | Rendezvous in Black (F) | Woolrich (M) | 240 | 1948 | 7 |
| 95 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey (F) | Wilder (M) | 144 | 1927 | 7 |
| 96 | The Continental Op (F) | Hammett (M) | 352 | 1923 | 7 |
| 97 | Snow Crash (F) | Stephenson (M) | 480 | 1992 | 7 |
| 98 | The Dain Curse (F) | Hammett (M) | 240 | 1928 | 7 |
| 99 | Trouble Is My Business (F) | Chandler (M) | 224 | 1934 | 7 |
| 100 | Inventing Japan (NF) | Baruma (M) | 208 | 2003 | 8 |
| 101 | Rashomon (F) | Akutagawa (M) | 110 | 1952 | 8 |
| 102 | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (F) | Murakami (M) | 416 | 1991 | 8 |
| 103 | The Simple Art of Murder (F) | Chandler (M) | 384 | 1950 | 8 |
| 104 | Freakonomics (NF) | Levitt and Dubner (M) | 242 | 2005 | 8 |
| 105 | Blink (NF) | Gladwell (M) | 288 | 2005 | 8 |
| 106 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (F) | Rowling (F) | 652 | 2005 | 8 |
| 107 | Paris, France (NF) | Stein (F) | 120 | 1940 | 8 |
| 108 | Maigret and the Wine Merchant (F) | Simeon (M) | 166 | 1970 | 8 |
| 109 | A Wild Sheep Chase (F) | Murakami (M) | 368 | 1982 | 8 |
| 110 | The Tipping Point (NF) | Gladwell (M) | 304 | 2000 | 8 |
| 111 | The Wisdom of Crowds (NF) | Surowiecki (M) | 320 | 2004 | 8 |
| 112 | Exile and the Kingdom (F) | Camus (M) | 213 | 1957 | 8 |
| 113 | L.A. Confidential (F) | Ellroy (M) | 512 | 1990 | 8 |
| 114 | Darkness Visible (NF) | Styron (M) | 96 | 1990 | 8 |
| 115 | Maigret at the Gai-Moulin (F) | Simenon (M) | 176 | 1940 | 8 |
| 116 | The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (F) | Nabokov (M) | 224 | 1941 | 8 |
| 117 | The Ox-Bow Incident (F) | Clark (M) | 256 | 1940 | 8 |
| 118 | Brown's Requiem (F) | Ellroy (M) | 256 | 1981 | 8 |
| 119 | Norwegian Wood (F) | Murakami (M) | 304 | 1987 | 8 |
| 120 | Zuleika Dobson (F) | Beerbohm (M) | 236 | 1911 | 8 |
| 121 | The Black Dahlia (F) | Ellroy (M) | 336 | 1987 | 8 |
| 122 | Ragtime (F) | Doctorow (M) | 288 | 1974 | 8 |
| 123 | The Grifters (F) | Thompson (M) | 208 | 1963 | 8 |
| 124 | The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (F) | Murakami (M) | 624 | 1994 | 8 |
| 125 | The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (NF) | Sacks (M) | 256 | 1985 | 8 |
| 126 | Zero (NF) | Seife (M) | 256 | 2000 | 8 |
| 127 | Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (F) | Clarke (F) | 800 | 2004 | 8 |
| 128 | A Briefer History of Time (NF) | Hawking (M) | 176 | 2005 | 8 |
| 129 | The Golden Ratio (NF) | Livio (M) | 320 | 2002 | 8 |
| 130 | The Code Book (NF) | Singh (M) | 342 | 1999 | 8 |
| 131 | Clandestine (F) | Ellroy (M) | 336 | 1982 | 8 |
| 132 | The Paradox of Choice (NF) | Schwartz (M) | 288 | 2004 | 9 |
| 133 | The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (F) | Le Carre (M) | 224 | 1963 | 9 |
| 134 | The Pattern on the Stone (NF) | Hillis (M) | 165 | 1998 | 9 |
| 135 | Neverwhere (F) | Gaiman (M) | 400 | 1996 | 9 |
| 136 | On Photography (NF) | Sontag (F) | 224 | 1976 | 9 |
| 137 | Into Thin Air (NF) | Krakauer (M) | 333 | 1997 | 9 |
| 138 | Happiness (NF) | Layard (M) | 320 | 2005 | 9 |
| 139 | Chaos (NF) | Gleick (M) | 368 | 1987 | 9 |
| 140 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (F) | Le Carre (M) | 379 | 1974 | 9 |
| 141 | Regarding the Pain of Others (NF) | Sontag (F) | 131 | 2003 | 9 |
| 142 | Classic Essays on Photography (NF) | Trachtenberg (M) | 300 | 1980 | 9 |
| 143 | The Day of the Jackal (F) | Forsyth (M) | 384 | 1971 | 9 |
| 144 | The Evolution of Cooperation (NF) | Axelrod (M) | 241 | 1984 | 9 |
| 145 | The Big Nowhere (F) | Ellroy (M) | 406 | 1988 | 9 |
| 146 | Decoding the Universe (NF) | Seife (M) | 296 | 2006 | 9 |
| 147 | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (NF) | Suzuki (M) | 138 | 1970 | 9 |
| 148 | The Music of the Primes (NF) | Sautoy (M) | 335 | 2003 | 9 |
| 149 | The Death and Life of Great American Cities (NF) | Jacobs (F) | 458 | 1961 | 9 |
| 150 | Embers (F) | Marai (M) | 213 | 1942 | 9 |
| 151 | The Way of Zen (NF) | Watts (M) | 236 | 1957 | 9 |
| 152 | Camera Lucida (NF) | Barthes (M) | 119 | 1980 | 9 |
| 153 | White Jazz (F) | Elroy (M) | 352 | 1992 | 9 |
| 154 | The Wisdom of No Escape (NF) | Chodron (M) | 110 | 1991 | 9 |
| 155 | Incompleteness (NF) | Goldstein (F) | 296 | 2005 | 9 |
| 156 | When Things Fall Apart (NF) | Chodron (F) | 146 | 1997 | 9 |
| 157 | Smiley's People (F) | Le Carre (M) | 397 | 1979 | 9 |
| 158 | Faster (NF) | Gleick (M) | 330 | 1999 | 9 |
| 159 | Practicing Peace in a Time of War (NF) | Chodron (F) | 128 | 2006 | 9 |
| 160 | Happiness (NF) | Ricard (M) | 304 | 2003 | 10 |
| 161 | Why People Photograph (NF) | Adams (M) | 186 | 1988 | 10 |
| 162 | Less Than Zero (F) | Easton Ellis (M) | 208 | 1985 | 10 |
| 163 | The Selfish Gene (NF) | Dawkins (M) | 376 | 1976 | 10 |
| 164 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows (F) | Rowling (F) | 759 | 2007 | 10 |
| 165 | Start Where You Are (NF) | Chodron (F) | 156 | 1994 | 10 |
| 166 | Beauty in Photography (NF) | Adams (M) | 108 | 1981 | 10 |
| 167 | Devil in the White City (NF) | Larson (M) | 447 | 2003 | 10 |
| 168 | The Day of the Owl (F) | Sciascia (M) | 122 | 1961 | 10 |
| 169 | The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (F) | Simenon (M) | 203 | 1938 | 10 |
| 170 | The Places That Scare You (NF) | Chodron (F) | 140 | 2001 | 10 |
| 171 | Thunderstruck (NF) | Larson (M) | 463 | 2006 | 10 |
| 172 | The Faith of Graffiti (NF) | Mailer (M) | 100 | 1974 | 10 |
| 173 | Darkness at Noon (NF) | Koestler (M) | 216 | 1941 | 10 |
| 174 | Man's Search for Meaning (NF) |