2011 Bookshelf

I will conquer 2011 one book at a time.

• Hardboiled Wonderland and The End of The World – Haruki Murakami
• Less than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
• The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
• Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry – Elizabeth McCracken
• Dear American Airlines – Jonathan Miles
• Towelhead – Alicia Erian
• The Gathering – Anne Enright
• Town House – Tish Cohen
• The Position – Meg Wolitzer
• Everybody Loves Somebody – Joanna Scott
• A Special Providence – Richard Yates
• Eleanor Rigby – Douglas Coupland
• We’ll Always Have Paris – Ray Bradbury
• Shop Girl – Steve Martin
• A Ship Made of Paper – Scott Spencer
• The Private Lives of Pippa Lee – Rebecca Miller
• High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
• The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-Time – Mark Haddon
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami
• Wonder Boys – Michael Chabon
• The Show I’ll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience – Sean Manning
• Notes On A Scandal – Zoe Heller 
• The Pleasure of My Company – Steve Martin
• The Confessions Of Max Tivoli – Andrew Sean Greer
• Kafka On The Shore – Haruki Murakami
• The Perks Of Being A Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
• A Long Way Down – Nick Hornby
• The Year Of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
• Summerland – Michael Chabon
• The Notebooks Of Don Rigoberto – Mario Vargas Llosa
• My Father’s Tears – John Updike
• Invisible Monsters – Chuck Palahniuk
• American Gods – Neil Gaiman
• Dancing Girls  -Margaret Atwood
• Diary – Chuck Palahniuk
• Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro 
• Atonement – Ian McEwan
• The Best American Poetry 1997 – James Tate
• Ilustrado – Miguel Syjuco 
• Consequences – Penelope Lively 
• Everything Is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
• Fishing The Sloe-Black River – Colum McCann
• Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos – Kim Addonizio 
• Dubliners – James Joyce 
• Nevermind The Pollacks: A Rock And Roll Novel – Neal Pollack 
• Women Of The Silk – Gail Tsukiyama
• Prep – Curtis Sittenfeld 
• Letters To A Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke 
• Shampoo Planet – Douglas Coupland
• Who Will Run The Frog Hospital – Lorrie Moore
• The Florist’s Daughter – Patricia Hempl  
• 1001 Books Before You Die – Peter Boxall
• 1001 Albums: You Must Hear Before You Die – Robert Dimery 
• Housekeeping vs. the Dirt – Nick Hornby 
• Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle – Ellen Gilchrist
• The Keep – Jennifer Egan
• Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
• Life Of Pi – Yann Martel
• Franny And Zooey – J.D. Salinger 
• Be My Knife – David Grossman
• As She Climbed Across The Table – Jonathan Lethem
• Fidelity: Poems – Grace Paley
• Into The Wild – Jon Krakauer 
• The Beach – Alex Garland 
• The Member Of The Wedding – Carson McCullers 
• Morning In The Burned House – Margaret Atwood
• The Catcher In The Rye – J.D. Salinger 
• Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas – Chuck Klosterman 
• Beowulf On The Beach – Jack Murnighan
• A Good Fall – Ha Jin 
• The Discomfort Zone – Jonathan Franzen 
• The Best American Poetry 2001 – Robert Haas
• On The Road – Jack Kerouac
• The Wild Things – Dave Eggers 
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers 
• Up In The Air – Walter Kirn 
• Double Fault – Lionel Shriver
• Possible Side Effects – Augusten Burroughs
• Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri 
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim – David Sedaris
• Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper – Diablo Cody 
• Running With Scissors – Augusten Burroughs 
• We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver 
• A Visit From The Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
• On Beauty – Zadie Smith 
• Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned – Wells Tower 
• Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli 
• Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist – Rachel Cohn, David Levithan
• Going Solo – Roald Dahl 
• The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides
• Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me – Martin Millar
• The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 – Dave Eggers 
• Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
• All the Sad Young Literary Men – Keith Gessen
• Dear Mr. President – Gabe Hudson 
• Interworld – Neil Gaiman
• The Brutal Language Of Love – Alicia Erian
• Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
• Little Beauties – Kim Addonizio 
• Columbine – Dave Cullen
• The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman