The following is a list of books I have read over the past years along with my ratings on a scale of one to five stars. Many of the books here have been formally reviewed or mentioned on this blog, so feel free to type any title in the “Search” field on the top right-hand corner of the blog or click on the titles to pull up more details.

– D. H. Schleicher

2018:

• The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery – currently reading
• The Confident Parent by Jane Scott M.D. – currently reading
• The Best American Short Stories 2017 – currrently reading
• 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 — **