The following is a list of books I have read over the years along with my ratings on a scale of one to five stars.

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– D. H. Schleicher

2022

• A Panorama of American Film Noir – currently reading
• The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon – currently reading
• Tanqueray by Stephanie Johnson – *****
• White Crane Strikes by Ivy Ngeow – ****
• The Lost Country by William Gay – ****
• Sometimes We Fall by Yong Takahashi – ****
• The Arsonist’s City by Hala Alyan – ****
• Something Dead in Everything by Lannie Stabile – ****
• The Best American Short Stories 2021 – **
• Asian Anthology edited by Ivy Ngeow – ****
• Talk to Me by T. C. Boyle – ****
• My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson – *****
• Philadelphia Spiritualism and the Curious Case of Katie King by Stephanie Hoover – ***
• I Hate to See that Evening Sun Go Down by William Gay – *****
• Passing by Nella Larsen – *****

2021:

• Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead – ****
• Dark Secrets by John Greco – ***1/2
• In the Valley by Ron Rash – *****
• Stalin’s Door by John St. Clair – *****
• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw – *****
• Paper Castles by B. Fox – ****
• The Familiar Dark by Amy Engle – ****
• The Hemingway Stories by Ernest Hemingway – ****
• The Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips – ***
• Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon – ***
• Cry of the Flying Rhino by Ivy Ngeow – *****
• The Best American Short Stories 2020 – ****
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck – *****
• The Garden of Stone Houses by Anya Pavelle – ****
• Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunook Clapsaddle – ***
• Bang to Begin by Jethro Weyman – ***1/2
• Twilight by William Gay – *****
• Come Hell or High Water by Evelyn Chatres – **1/2
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett – *****
• Tis the Season by John Greco – ***1/2

2020:

• Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler – ****
• The Nickle Boys by Colson Whitehead – ****
• Razor Blades by Noir Hayes – ***
• 12:23 by Patrick F. Johnson – ***
• A Good American by Alex George – ***
• Our Time is Now by Stacey Abrams – ****
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison – ****
• Nevada Noir by David Arrowsmith – ****1/2
• Overboard by Ivy Ngeow – *****
• Provinces of Night by William Gay – *****
• The Hanging Artist by John Steinhagen – ****
• Secrets by Susan M. Lane – ****
• The Pup and the Pianist by Sara Flower Kjeldsen – ****
• The Best American Short Stories 2019 – **
• The Escape to Candyland by Yong Takahashi – ****
• On Sal Mal Lane by Ru Freeman – *****
• The Broken and the Foolish by Sara Flower Kjeldsen – ****
• The End of Echoes by Dawn Hosmer – ***1/2
• The Late Show by John Greco – ***1/2
• The Long Home by William Gay – ****1/2
• The Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville – **
• The Deep by Rivers Solomon – *****

2019:

• The Dead Go to Seattle by Vivian Faith Prescott – ***1/2
• Once Upon a Crime (Anthology) – ***
• The Risen by Ron Rash – ***1/2
• When It’s Over by Barbara Ridley – ****
• Darktown by Thomas Mullen – ***
• The War in Our Hearts by Eva Seyler – ****
• Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje – *****
• The Alien Diaries by Glenn Devlin – ***
• Enon by Paul Harding – could not finish
• First of Their Kind by C. D. Tavenor – ***1/2
• Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje – ***1/2
• Room to Dream by Kristine McKenna and David Lynch – ****
• Pray for the Girl by Joseph Souza – ****
• All the Broken People by Amy Rivers – **
• Some Love, Some Pain, Sometimes by J. California Cooper – ****
• Spying on Whales by Nick Pyenson – *****
• Bitter Ends by John Greco – ***1/2
• In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje – *****
• The Best American Short Stories 2018 – ****1/2

2018:

• Dracul by Dacre Stoker and J. D. Barker – ****
• Artemis by Andy Weir – **
• The Women by T.C. Boyle – ****
• The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery – ****
• The Best American Short Stories 2017 – ***1/2
• Tha Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp M. D. – *
• Warlight by Michael Ondaatje – ****1/2
• The Confident Parent by Jane Scott M.D. – ****
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas – ***1/2
• Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin – ***1/2

2017:

• Selected Stories by Alice Munro – ****
• Lilli de Jong by Janet Benton – ***1/2
• 1177 BC – The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline – **
• Twin Peaks: The Last Dossier by Mark Frost – ***
• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann – **1/2
• Redemption Road by John Hart – ***
• The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel – could not finish
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins – ****1/2
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway – ****
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead – ***1/2
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders – *****
• A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash – ***
• The Best American Short Stories 2016 – ***1/3
• Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo – ***1/2

2016:

• The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost – ****
• The State We’re In by Ann Beattie – ***
• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger – ***
• Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash – ***1/2
• Where Futures End by Parker Peevyhouse – *1/2
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller – ****1/2
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr – ****
• The Best American Short Stories 2015 – ****
• Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart – **1/2
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison – ***1/2

2015:

• The Best American Short Stories 2014 – ***
• Make Something Up by Chuck Palahniuk – **1/2
• Something Rich and Strange by Ron Rash – ***1/2
• Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee – ****
• The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood – **
• Humber Boy B by Ruth Dugdall – ***
• God Help the Child by Toni Morrison – ***1/2
• The Kept by James Scott – ****
• Deep Winter by Samuel W. Gailey – **
• Canada by Richard Ford – *

2014:

• The Monster of Florence by Mario Spezi and Douglas Preston – could not finish
• The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014 – ***
• Beloved by Toni Morrison – ****
• World’s End by T. C. Boyle – ***1/2
• Amsterdam by Russell Shorto – *****
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri – ****1/2
• Heart of a Tiger by Herschel Cobb – ***1/2
• The Best American Short Stories 2013 Edition – ***
• MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood – ****
• The Circle by Dave Eggers – ****

2013:

• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin – ****
• Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut – ****1/2
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut – ****
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje – *****
• The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman – ***1/2
• The Best American Short Stories 2012 Edition – ****
• Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller – ****1/2
• The River Swimmer by Jim Harrison – ***
• Tenth of December by George Saunders – ****1/2
• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by John Meacham – *****

2012:

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens – could not finish
• Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis – ***
• The Best American Short Stories 2011 Edition – ****
• The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor – *****
• Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie – ****
• Journey Without Maps by Graham Greene – ***
• One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash – ***1/2
• Home by Toni Morrison – ****1/2
• The Cove by Ron Rash – ***1/2
• The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 Edition – ***
• Lost in Shangri-La by Michael Zuckoff – ***
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver – ****1/2
• The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje – ****1/2

2011:

• The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene – ****
• The Best American Short Stories 2010 Edition – ****
• I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive by Steve Earle – could not finish
• Cathedral by Raymond Carver – ****
• The Silent Land by Graham Joyce – **
• Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver – *****
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini – ****
• Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene – ***1/2
• The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman – ***1/2
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (could not finish)

2010:

• High Lonesome by Joyce Carol Oates — ****
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen — **1/2
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad — ***1/2
• The Best American Short Stories 2009 Edition — ****
• Graham Greene, A Life in Letters — ****
• Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch — ***1/2
• Dr. Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party by Graham Greene — ****
• Greene on Capri by Shirley Hazzard — ****
• The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene — ****
• Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving — ***
• The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood — ****

2009:

• Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene — ***
• Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane — ***
• The Honorary Counsul by Graham Greene — ***
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck — *****
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen — ***
• The Best American Short Stories 2008 edition — ****
• Hater by David Moody — **
• Loser Takes All by Graham Greene — ****
• The Man Within by Graham Greene — ***
• A Mercy by Toni Morrison — *****
• American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by John Meacham — ****
• The Collected Short Stories of Richard Yates — *****
• Ulysses by James Joyce — ****
• England Made Me by Graham Greene — ***1/2
• Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner — ***
• The Human Factor by Graham Greene — *****

2008:

• The Comedians by Graham Greene — ****
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy — ***
• Serena by Ron Rash — *****
• The Quiet American by Graham Greene — *****
• The End of the Affair by Graham Greene — *****
• Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut — ****
• The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke — ***1/2
• The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene — ****
• The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst — ***
• A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene — ***
• The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene — *****
• “The Turn of the Screw” (novella) by Henry James — ****1/2
• Dubliners by James Joyce — *****
• The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl – could not finish
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway — ****1/2
• Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene — ****
• The Collected Short Stories of William Faulkner — ****

2007:

• Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker — zero stars
• The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene — *****
• Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje — ***1/2
• Brighton Rock by Graham Greene — *****
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene — *****
• Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky — ***1/2
• Orient Express by Graham Greene — ***
• Twice Dead by Yoram Lubling — ***1/2
• Light in August by William Faulkner — *****
• A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene — *****
• Bogombo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut — ****
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner — ***1/2
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner — ****1/2
• The Tenth Man by Graham Greene — ****
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky — *****
• The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen — ****
• Winterwood by Patrick McCabe — *****
• Portraits in the Dark by Nancy O’Greene — ****

2006:

• Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch — ***
• The Complete Short Stories of Graham Greene — *****
• The Great Escape by Kati Marton — *****
• Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia by Ronald K. Siegal — ****
• Love & Hate in Jamestown by David A. Price — ****
• The Ruins by Scott Smith — **