by Pamela Paul
And at home, I want to thank my husband, Michael, and my three burgeoning readers, Beatrice, Tobias, and Theodore, for all their love, inspiration, and support—even when I had to work at night and couldn’t read by their side.
Index
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Abbey, Edward
“About Writing” (Delany)
Above the River (Wright)
Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner)
Acheson, Dean
Act of War (Cheevers)
Act One (Hart)
Adams, Alice
Adelman, Jeremy
Adventures of Augie March (Bellow)
Adventures of Pinocchio, The (Collodi)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (Conan Doyle)
Advice to a Young Scientist (Medawar)
Aerogrammes (James)
Aesop
After Claude (Owen)
After Mandela (Foster)
After Visiting Friends (Hainey)
Agassi, Andre
Agee, James
Aiken, Joan
Alain-Fournier, Henri
Alameddine, Rabih
Al Aswany, Alaa
Alcott, Louisa May
ALEC (Campbell)
Alexander, Elizabeth
Alexander, Michelle
Alexandria Quartet, The (Durrell)
Alexie, Sherman
Alger, Cristina
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll)
Allen, Woody
Allende, Isabel
All of It, The (Haien)
All the Best (Bush)
All the King’s Men (Warren)
All the Way (Schenkkan)
Almost Invisible (Strand)
Along Came a Spider (Patterson)
Als, Hilton
Alter, Adam
Alvarez, Julia
Amazing Bone, The (Steig)
Ambassadors, The (James)
Ambrose, Stephen
American Gods (Gaiman)
American Life, An (Reagan)
American Religion, The (Bloom)
American Studies (Merlis)
American Tragedy, An (Dreiser)
American Wife (Sittenfeld)
Amis, Kingsley
Anabasis (Xenophon)
Anatomy of an Epidemic (Whitaker)
& Sons (Gilbert)
Andersen, Chris
Andersen, Hans Christian
Anderson, Jean
And Every Day Was Overcast (Kwiatkowski)
Angel Esmeralda, The (DeLillo)
Angell, Roger
Animal Family, The (Jarrell)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery)
Annie Hall (film)
Ansary, Tamim
Anti-California (Lamott)
Apartment, The (film)
Arana, Marie
Arbus, Diane
Archer, Jeffrey
Arc of Justice (Boyle)
Are You My Mother? (Bechdel)
Ariyoshi, Sawako
Armadale (Collins)
Armed Forces Officer, The (Marshall)
Armstrong, Louis
Arsand, Daniel
Art and Illusion (Gombrich)
Arthur C. Clarke Awards
Art of Fielding, The (Harbach)
“Ashes” (Sedaris)
Ashes and Sparks (Sedley)
Asimov, Isaac
Aslam, Nadeem
Assange, Julian
Assassins, The (Oates)
Assomoir, L’ (Zola)
Asterix books (Goscinny and Uderzo)
Atkinson, Kate
Atlas, James
Atonement (McEwen)
Attack of the Theocrats! (Faircloth)
Atwood, Margaret
Auden, W. H.
Auslander, Shalom
Austen, Jane
Autobiography of Mark Twain, The
Autumn of the Patriarch, The (García Márquez)
Avoid Boring People (Watson)
Axelrod, Robert
Babar books (de Brunhoff)
Babel, Isaac
Bad Behavior (Gaitskill)
Bad Blood (Sage)
Bad Monkey (Hiaasen)
Baez, Joan
Baker, Nicholson
Baker, Ray Stannard
Baldwin, James
Balzac, Honoré de
Band of Brothers (Ambrose)
Bang the Drum Slowly (Harris)
Bankers and Pashas (Landes)
Banks, Russell
Barbash, Tom
Bardem, Javier
Barnaby Rudge (Dickens)
Barnes, Julian
Barry, Dave
Barry, Lynda
Barthelme, Donald
Barthes, Roland
Bartok, Mira
Barzun, Jacques
Batman comics
Batters, Elmer
Battleborn (Watkins)
Baudelaire, Charles
Baum, L. Frank
Beah, Ismael
Beard, Jo Ann
Beardsley, Aubrey
Beattie, Ann
Beauman, Ned
Beautiful Mind, A (Nasar)
Beautiful Ruins (Walter)
Bechdel, Alison
Becoming a Man (Monette)
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (Fariña)
Been in the Storm So Long (Litwack)
Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Boo)
Behn, Aphra
Being Wrong (Schulz)
Belloc, Hilaire
Bellow, Saul
Beloved (Morrison)
Benchley, Robert
Benjamin, Walter
Beowolf
Berg, Mary
Berger, Thomas
Bernheimer, Kate
Berriault, Gina
Beschloss, Michael
Best American Nonrequired Reading, The
Best and the Brightest, The (Halberstam)
Betrothed, The (Manzoni)
Betsy-Tacy books (Lovelace)
Beyond Black (Mantel)
Beyond Palomar (Hernandez)
Bhowani Junction (Masters)
Bible
Bierce, Ambrose
Big Short, The (Lewis)
Big Sleep, The (Chandler)
Billy Budd (Melville)
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Fountain)
Bird Alone (O’Faolain)
Bird by Bird (Lamott)
Bishop, Elizabeth
Bishop, K. J.
Bitch Reloaded (King)
Bittman, Mark
Bjork
Black, Alethea
Black Beauty (Sewell)
Black Behind the Ears (Candelario)
Black Boy (Wright)
Black Cloud (Hoyle)
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (West)
Blackmon, Douglas
Blake, William
Bleak House (Dickens)
Bless This Food (Bryant)
Blind Man’s Garden, The (Aslam)
Blind Side, The (Lewis)
Blink (Gladwell)
Blonde (Oates)
Blonde Faith (Mosley)
Blood Knots (Jennings)
Blood Meridian (McCarthy)
Bloom, Harold
Blount, Roy, Jr.
Blue Angel (Prose)
Blue Carbuncle, The (Conan Doyle)
Blue Flower, The (Fitzgerald)
Bluest Eye, The (Morrison)
Blyton, Enid
Bobbsey Twins and Baby May, The (Hope)
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Bolaño, Roberto
Bolívar (Arana)
Bonfire of the Vanities, The (Wolfe)
Bonsai (Zambra)
Boo, Katherine
Boone, Daniel
Borderlands of Culture, The (Saldívar)
Borges, Jorge Luis
Bornstein, Kate
Borowitz, Andy
Borrowers, The (Norton)
Bossypants (Fey)
Bowden, Mark
Bowen, Elizabeth
Bowles, Jane
Box of Delights, The (Masefield)
Boye, William
Boylan, Jennifer Finney
Boyle, Kevin
Boys in the Band, The (Crowley)
Bradbury, Ray
Bradford, Barbara Taylor
Braly, Malcolm
Brandeis, Louis
Brassaï
Bread Givers (Yezierska)
“Bremen Town Musicians, The” (Grimm)
Brennan, Maeve
Brideshead Revisited (Waugh)
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The (Díaz)
Bring Up the Bodies (Mantel)
Brink, Carol Ryrie
Brockman, John
Brodsky, Joseph
Broken Music (Sting)
Brontë, Charlotte
Brookner, Anita
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Brooks, Louise
Brother, I’m Dying (Danticat)
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoyevsky)
Brown, Dan
Brown, Helen Gurley
Browne, Sylvia
Browning, Edmond Lee
Brubaker, Ed
Brussig, Thomas
Bryson, Bill
Buarque, Chico
Buckingham, Marcus
Buckley, Christopher
Buckley, William F., Jr.
Bugliosi, Vincent
Building Stories (Ware)
Bulgakov, Mikhail
Bulldog Drummond (Sapper)
Bunker Hill (Philbrick)
Burdick, Eugene
Burke, James Lee
Burns, Ed
Burroughs, William
Buscaglia, Leo
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Bush, Laura
Butler, Octavia
By Night in Chile (Bolaño)
Byron (Nicolson)
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
By the Waters of Babylon (Lazarus)
Caddie Woodlawn (Brink)
Caesar, Julius
Caldwell, Erskine
Calico Joe (Grisham)
Call It Sleep (Roth)
Call of the Wild, The (London)
Calvino, Italo
Camera Lucida (Barthes)
Cameron, David
Campbell, Eddie
Campbell, Joseph
Camus, Albert
Camus, Catherine
Canada (Ford)
Candelario, Ginetta
Cannon, Lou
Caravaggio
Carlat, Daniel
Caro, Robert
Carpenter, Don
Carpentier, Alejo
Carpetbaggers, The (Robbins)
Carroll, Lewis
Carroll, Sean
Carson, Anne
Carter, Jimmy
Carver, Raymond
Caryl, Christian
Casanova, Giacomo
Casanova books (Fraction)
Case Histories (Atkinson)
Case of the Transposed Legs, The (Keeler)
Casual Vacancy, The (Rowling)
Cat and Mouse (Grass)
Catch-22 (Heller)
Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger)
Cather, Willa
Catherine, Called Birdy (Cushman)
Cat’s Table, The (Ondaatje)
Catullus
Cavali, Patrizia
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
Center Cannot Hold, The (Saks)
Centuria (Manganelli)
Ceremony (Silko)
Chabon, Michael
Chandler, Raymond
Chanel Bonfire (Lawless)
Charlotte’s Web (White)
Chase, The (Carpentier)
Chayes, Sarah
Cheever, John
Cheevers, Jack
Chekhov, Anton
Cheng Naishan
Chern, S. S.
Chesterton, G. K.
Chiang, Ted
Chicken Soup with Rice (Sendak)
Chief, The (Nasaw)
Child, Lee
Child of the Jungle (Kuegler)
Chip Hilton books (Bee)
Chopra, Deepak
Christie, Agatha
Christopher, John
Christ Stopped at Eboli (Levi)
Chrysalids, The (Wyndham)
Church and State (Sim)
Churchill, Winston
Cider House Rules, The (Irving)
Cincinnatus
Cioran, E. M.
Cisneros, Sandra
Cistercian World, The
City in History, The (Mumford)
Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud)
Civil War, The (Library of America)
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (Saunders)
Claire of the Sea Light (Danticat)
Clark, Mary Higgins
Clark, T. J.
Clarke, Arthur C.
Clerke, Agnes M.
Clifton, Donald O.
Clifton, Lucille
Clinton, Bill
Closers, The (Connelly)
Cloud Atlas (Mitchell)
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness (Fuller)
Cocteau, Jean
Code of the Woosters, The (Wodehouse)
Coetzee, J. M.
Cold Comfort Farm (Gibbons)
Colette
Collingwood, R. G.
Collins, Wilkie
Collodi, Carlo
Coltrane, John
Columbus, Chris
Colwin, Laurie
Coma (Cook)
Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare (Russell)
Complete Guide to Lock Picking, The
Compton-Burnett, Ivy
Conan Doyle, Arthur
Concise Knowledge Library: Astronomy, The (Clerke)
Condition of the Working Class in England, The (Engels)
Confederacy of Dunces, A (Toole)
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Twain)
Connell, Evan S.
Connelly, Michael
Connolly, Cyril
Connor, Tony
Conrad, Joseph
Conscious Business (Kofman)
Consolations of Philosophy, The (de Botton)
Constellation of Vital Phenomena, A (Marra)
Contact (Sagan)
Conversations with Wilder (Crowe)
Cook, Bruce
Cooke, John
Cooper, Susan
Coover, Robert
Coppola, Francis Ford
Coppola, Sofia
Coraline (Gaiman)
Corelli’s Mandolin (de Bernieres)
Corner, The (Simon and Burns)
Corral, Eduardo
Corrections, The (Franzen)
Cosmopolis (DeLillo)
Cosmos (Sagan)
Cotton Comes to Harlem (Himes)
Cotton Kingdom, The (Olmsted)
Couch Fiction (Perry)
Couldn’t Keep It to Myself (Lamb)
Countersong to Walt Whitman (Mir)
Count of Monte Cristo, The (Dumas)
Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes, The (Heyward)
Country Girls Trilogy, The (O’Brien)
Coupland, Douglas
Cowell, Cressida
Coyne, Jerry
Cracked (Davies)
Cranston, Bryan
Crisp, Quentin
Crockett, Davy
Cross, Amanda
Crowe, Cameron
Crowley, Mart
Cruise, Tom
Cuckoo’s Calling, The (Rowling)
Curious George (Rey)
Cushman, Karen
Custom of the Country, The (Wharton)
Cutter and Bone (Thornburg)
Cutting Season, The (Locke)
Dahl, Roald
Dance of Anger (Lerner)
Dancing to the Precipice (Moorehead)
Dangerous Book for Boys, The (Iggulden)
Daniel, Susanna
Daniel Deronda (Eliot)
Dante Alighieri
Dante to Dead Man Walking (Schroth)
Danticat, Edwidge
Daredevil comics
Dark Universe (Galouye)
Darlings, The (Alger)
Darrow, Clarence
Darwin, Charles
Dasher (Wooten)
Dass, Ram
D’Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar
David and Goliath (Gladwell)
David Copperfield (Dickens)
David-Weill, Cécile
Davies, James
Da Vinci Code, The (Brown)
Davis, Clive
Davis, L. J.
Dawkins, Richard
Dawn (Butler)
Day, Sylvia
Day at the Beach, A (Wolff)
“Dead, The” (Joyce)
Dean, Cornelia
Death by Black Hole (Tyson)
Death in the Family, A (Agee)
Death of Bees, The (O’Donnell)
de Botton, Alain
Debussy, Claude
Dee, Jonathan
Delafield, E. M.
Delany, Samuel R.
Delicate Truth, A (le Carré)
DeLillo, Don
Demick, Barbara
DeMille, Nelson
Demon-Haunted World (Sagan)
Denial (Stern)
Dennett, Daniel C.
Den of Thieves (Stewart)
Deraniyagala, Sonali
Desai, Anita
Desperate Characters (Fox)
deWitt, Patrick
Dhalgren (Delany)
Diamond, Jared
Diamonds Are Forever (Fleming)
Diaries of Auberon Waugh, The
Diary of a Nobody, The (Grossmith)
Diary of a Provincial Lady (Delafield)
Díaz, Junot
Dick, Philip K.
Dickens, Charles
Dickey, James
Dickinson, Emily
Didion, Joan
Different Seasons (King)
Difficulty of Being (Cocteau)
Digital Fortress (Brown)
Disgrace (Coetzee)
Divine Comedy, The (Dante)
Dixit, Avinash
Doctor Dolittle books (Lofting)
Doctorow, E. L.
Doctor Sleep (King)
Doctor’s Wife, The (Ariyoshi)
Dominican Republic (Moya Pons)
Don Camillo stories (Guareschi)
Don Casmurro (Machado de Assis)
Don Quixote (Cervantes)
Don’t Bump the Glump! (Silverstein)
Doonesbury Chronicles (Trudeau)
Door in the Floor, The (film)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes (Talbot and Talbot)
Doubleday Cookbook, The (Anderson and Hanna)
Dracula (Stoker)
Dreiser, Theodore
Dreisinger, Baz
Drifting House (Lee)
Dropped Names (Langella)
Drunk Tank Pink (Alter)
Dubliners (Joyce)
Dubus, Andre
Duel, The (Chekhov)
Dumas, Alexandre, père
du Maurier, Daphne