CURRENT READING LIST




Here's what I'm reading now..

Venusberg by Anthony Powell

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd


The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard


The Creators by Daniel J. Boorstin

Books I read January-December  2023...plus through March 2024

Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif

Pulse (stories) by Julian Barnes

The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005
by Zachary Leader


The Istanbul Variations by Olen Steinhauer


Silverview by John Le Carre


Learning to Talk: Stories by Hilary Mantel


Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell

A Miracle of Catfish by Larry Brown

Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You by
Alice Munro

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami


Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver


Restless by William Boyd


More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow


Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami


Shibumi by Tevanian   (Rodney William Whitaker)



Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa


The Actual and The Bellarosa Connection
by Saul Bellow



That Distant Land by Wendell Berry


All That Is Left Is All That Matters: Stories by Mark Slouka


The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories by Denis Johnson


Maps by Nuruddin Farah



Dirt Music by Tim Winton


Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami


The Fall by Simon Mawer


The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst


Deep River by Shusaku Endo



The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey



Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev

Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham


Kolyma Tales by Varlan Shalamov

Angel Pavement by J.B. Priestley



Wodehouse by Robert McCrum


Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
by Haruki Murakami


The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer


House of Glass, Vol. 4 of the Buru Quartet
by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

The Confession by Olen Steinhauer



Night Train To Lisbon by Pascal Mercier


36 Yalta Boulevard by Olen Steinhauer


The Collected Stories of Richard Yates


The Island Within by Richard Nelson

"On the borders of consciousness as in Matthiessen
and Lopez...a holy book...a text to help us understand
ourselves within the natural world." --Jim Harrison



Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki

October Light by John Gardner



Mohr by Frederick Reuss

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
by Haruki Murakami

After the Quake by Haruki Murakami


Nickel Mountain by John Gardner


Sweet Caress by William Boyd



Dickens by Peter Ackroyd


To Heaven By Water by Justin Cartwright



The Destiny Thief by Richard Russo


The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by
Pico Iyer

Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo


The German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz


Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the
Red Sea by Eric Hansen

A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin


Somebody's Fool by Richard Russo


Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

The Devil's Mode: Stories by Anthony Burgess


The One From the Other: A Bernie Gunther Novel
by Philip Kerr

The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd

The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M G Vassanji


Europe Central by William T. Vollmann


The Elephant Vanishes: Stories by Haruki Murakami


The Barracks by John McGahern



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