Books I read in 2011

Joe said to me the other night, "You can't expect to read the whole of world literature before you die, and you certainly can't do it before 11 o'clock.  So put the book down and come watch a movie with me and Theresa.  Be a person!" 

Tracy Kidder:  Home Town
Orhan Pamuk:  The Naive & the Sentimental Novelist
Thomas McGuane: Nobody's Angel
James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime
Thomas McGuane: Driving on the Rim
Henry James:  Turn of the Screw
Pico Iyer:  Video Night in Kathmandu
Jim Harrison: The English Major
Robert Harris:  Conspirata
Colum McCann:  Zoli
Henning Mankell:  The Man From Beijing
Steven Rinella: American Buffalo
Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point
Steven Rinella: The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine
Ben Macintyre: Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
Michel Houellebecq: The Possibility of an Island
Thomas Cahill: Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe

Edward Abbey: The Monkey Wrench Gang
Vladimir Nabokov: Laughter in the Dark
Malcolm Gladwell:  Blink
Mark Kurlansky: Cod
James Jones: Some Came Running
Mary Roach: Packing for Mars
Oliver Sacks: Musicophilia
Richard Yates: The Easter Parade
Pat Barker: Regeneration
Naguib Mahfouz: Palace Walk
Daniel Woodrell:  Tomato Red
Anne Enright: The Gathering
Bill Bryson: At Home
Julian Barnes: Flaubert's Parrot
Barry Hannah: Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories
Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers
Elizabeth Kostova: The Historian
Joseph O'Neill: Netherland
Muriel Spark: The Only Problem
John Preston: Hometowns
Douglas Waller: Wild Bill Donovan--The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage
James Crumley:  The Last Good Kiss
Jim Harrison:  The Great Leader
David Lodge: A Man of Parts
Barbara Kingsolver: The Lacuna
Sam Lipsyte: The Ask
Pete Dexter: Paris Trout
William Langewiesche: The Outlaw Sea:
A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime

Jim Harrison:  Warlock
Vladimir Kuzichkin: Inside the KGB
Julia Child: My Life in France
Barbara Kingsolver: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Ian McEwan: Black Dogs
Patti Smith: Just Kids
Julian Barnes: Cross Channel
Zadie Smith: On Beauty
Muriel Spark: The Driver's Seat
Dang Thuy Tram: Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
Pico Iyer: Falling Off the Map
Thomas Cahill: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter