What was I reading in previous years?


21 Dec 2005: Magic for Beginners, by Kelly Link.
20 Dec 2005: The Testing of Luther Albright, by MacKenzie Bezos.
19 Dec 2005: We're in Trouble, by Christopher Coake.
20 Oct 2005: Black Hole, by Charles Burns.
28 Aug 2005: Infinite Ascent, by David Berlinski.
15 Aug 2005: Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell.
4 Jul 2005: Random Family, by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc.
22 Jun 2005: Diana and Nikon, by Janet Malcolm.
17 Jun 2005: Triomf, by Marlene van Niekerk (Leon de Kock, trans.)
30 May 2005: The Complete Peanuts 1950-1954, by Charles Schultz.
27 May 2005: Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Fanny Trollope.
24 Apr 2005: The Quality of Life Report, by Meghan Daum.
20 Apr 2005: Five Lives at Harvard: Personality Change during College, by Stanley H. King.
1 Apr 2005: Granta 88.
26 Mar 2005: Trading Up, by Michael Silverstein and Neil Fiske.
11 Mar 2005: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction, by J.D. Salinger.
2 Mar 2005: The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, by Sandra Newman.
26 Feb 2005: Modern Ranch Living, by Mark Jude Poirier.
18 Feb 2005: Incompleteness, by Rebecca Goldstein.
15 Feb 2005: Stoner, by John Williams.
11 Feb 2005: Caramba! by Nita Marie Martinez.
13 Jan 2005: We Should Never Meet, by Aimee Phan.
8 Jan 2005: Jokerman 8, by Richard Melo.


30 Dec 2004: The Grave of God's Daughter, by Brett Ellen Block.
25 Dec 2004: Madeleine is Sleeping, by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum.
12 Dec 2004: Here Beneath Low-Lying Planes, by Merrill Feitell.
10 Dec 2004: The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer.
29 Nov 2004: Here Kitty Kitty, by Jardine Libaire.
20 Nov 2004: Now You See It, by Allison Lynn.
18 Nov 2004: Like the Red Panda, by Andrea Seigel.
8 Nov 2004: Cutty, One Rock, by August Kleinzahler.
1 Nov 2004: V., by Thomas Pynchon.
10 Oct 2004: The Squares of the City, by John Brunner.
9 Aug 2004: Next, by Michael Lewis.
6 Aug 2004: Problems of American Society:Drugs, G. Leinwand, ed.
31 Jul 2004: Little Children, by Tom Perrotta.
28 Jul 2004: Sportsworld, by Robert Lipsyte.
15 Jul 2004: Bay of Souls, by Robert Stone.
5 Jul 2004: Oblivion, by David Foster Wallace.
27 Jun 2004:Tales from the Orioles Dugout, by Louis Berney.
13 Jun 2004:Confessions of Zeno, by Italo Svevo.
10 Jun 2004:Fierce Pajamas, D. Remnick and H. Finder, eds.
11 May 2004: The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde.
30 Mar 2004: There are Jews in my House, by Lara Vapnyar.
29 Mar 2004: Codex, by Lev Grossman.
23 Mar 2004: American Woman, by Susan Choi.
16 Mar 2004: The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven, by Rick Moody.
28 Feb 2004: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver.
20 Feb 2004: In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, by Tobias Wolff.
11 Feb 2004: Granta 77.
4 Feb 2004: Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich.
24 Jan 2004: Granta 80.
14 Jan 2004: Popular Music from Vittula, by Mikael Niemi.
10 Jan 2004: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon.
1 Jan 2004: The Blue Suit, by Richard Rayner.

18 Dec 2003: Poker Face, by Katy Lederer.
15 Dec 2003: An Obedient Father, by Akhil Sharma.
7 Dec 2003: The Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman.
28 Nov 2003: The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman.
25 Nov 2003: The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman.
17 Nov 2003: Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, by Ted Conover.
15 Nov 2003: Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers, by Alissa Quart.
12 Nov 2003: My Misspent Youth, by Meghan Daum.
26 Oct 2003: Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing, by Abraham Shalom Himelstein and Jamie Schweser
20 Oct 2003: The Locklear Letters, by Michael Kun.
19 Oct 2003: Skepticism, Inc. by Bo Fowler.
17 Oct 2003: Big If, by Mark Costello.
5 Oct 2003: Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates.
18 Sep 2003: Head On/Repossessed, by Julian Cope.
11 Sep 2003: How Late It Was, How Late, by James Kelman.
6 Sep 2003: The Translator, by John Crowley.
1 Sep 2003: The Inverted World, by Christopher Priest.
26 Aug 2003: Quick Studies: the best of Lingua Franca, Alexander Star, ed.
19 Aug 2003: The Good People of New York, by Thisbe Nissen.
18 Aug 2003: Youth, by J.M. Coetzee.
14 Aug 2003: Moneyball, by Michael Lewis.
10 Aug 2003: The Gatekeepers, by Jacques Steinberg.
7 Aug 2003: The Fifty-Minute Hour, by Robert Lindner.
5 Aug 2003: Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, by Chris Ware.
26 Jul 2003: Independent People, by Haldor Laxness.
14 Jul 2003: Election, by Tom Perrotta.
9 Jul 2003: Everything and More, by David Foster Wallace.
8 Jul 2003:Extreme Math: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition, by Steve Olson.
7 Jul 2003: Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson.
5 Jul 2003: The Effect of Living Backwards, by Heidi Julavits.
25 Jun 2003: The Languages of Pao, by Jack Vance.
12 Jun 2003: The Beasties, by William Sleator.
11 Jun 2003:Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer.
10 Jun 2003: The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen.
4 Jun 2003: Joe College, by Tom Perrotta.
1 Jun 2003: The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick.
17 May 2003: Seek, by Denis Johnson.
4 May 2003: Rough Amusements, by Ben Neihart.
20 Apr 2003: Barter, by Monica Youn.
17 Apr 2003: Unsung Heroes of American Industry, by Mark Jude Poirier.
14 Apr 2003: The Fortunate Fall, by Raphael Carter.
12 Apr 2003: Atonement, by Ian McEwan.
24 Mar 2003: Transition 93.
19 Mar 2003: Murphy, by Samuel Beckett.
18 Mar 2003: Heredity, by Jenny Davidson.
16 Mar 2003: The Easter Parade, by Richard Yates.
19 Feb 2003: 10th Grade, by Joseph Weisberg.
18 Feb 2003: Imagining Numbers (particularly the square root of minus fifteen), by Barry Mazur.
3 Feb 2003: The Treatment, by Daniel Menaker.
24 Jan 2003: My Little Blue Dress, by Bruno Maddox.

3 Dec 2002: Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game, by Jim Albert and Jay Bennett.
14 Oct 2002: I., by Stephen Dixon.
3 Sep 2002: Black House, by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
26 Aug 2002: The Kid: What Happened After my Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant, by Dan Savage.
23 Aug 2002: From 33rd Street to Camden Yards: An Oral History of the Baltimore Orioles, by John Eisenberg.
17 Aug 2002: This Shape We're In, by Jonathan Lethem.
15 Aug 2002: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (audio), by J. K. Rowling.
5 Aug 2002: Granta 70.
2 Aug 2002: Liar's Poker, by Michael Lewis.
29 Jul 2002: The Epic of Gilgamesh. N.K.Sandars, ed.
27 Jul 2002: Transition 92.
15 Jul 2002: The Status Civilization, by Robert Sheckley.
24 Jun 2002: Big Kiss, by Henry Alford.
21 Jun 2002: Transition 91.
19 Jun 2002: Gun, with Occasional Music, by Jonathan Lethem.
16 Jun 2002: Common Sense and The Crises, by Thomas Paine.
8 Jun 2002: With the Next Man Everything Will be Different, by Eva Heller (trans. Krishna Winston)
25 May 2002: A New Kind of Science, by Stephen Wolfram.
15 May 2002: Consumed, by Michelle Stacey.
9 May 2002: Granta 73.
1 May 2002: Glory Goes and Gets Some, by Emily Carter.
18 Apr 2002: The Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies.
1 Apr 2002: The Extra Man, by Jonathan Ames.
21 Mar 2002: Movies, by Stephen Dixon.
20 Mar 2002: Fear Strikes Out, by Jim Pearsall with Al Hirshberg.
18 Mar 2002: 101 Common Therapeutic Blunders, by Richard C. Robertiello and Gerald Schoenewolf.
1 Mar 2002: Transition 90.
16 Feb 2002: Enola Gay, by Mark Levine.
1 Feb 2002: The Game of Life, by James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen.
21 Jan 2002: The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, by Bill James.
15 Jan 2002: The Wedding, by Imraan Coovadia.
14 Jan 2002: Watchmen, by Alan Moore.
13 Jan 2002: Kingdom Come, by Mark Waid and Alex Ross.
4 Jan 2002: World's Tallest Disaster, by Cate Marvin.

22 Nov 2001:Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville.
18 Nov 2001:Transition 89.
16 Nov 2001:Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, by J.K.Rowling.
5 Nov 2001:We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, by Philip Gourevitch.
1 Nov 2001:Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights, by Robert Moses and Charles Cobb.
29 Oct 2001:The Purloined Clinic, by Janet Malcolm.
27 Oct 2001:My Misspent Youth, by Meghan Daum.
25 Oct 2001:Dolce Agonia, by Nancy Huston.
9 Oct 2001: Portraits of White Racism, by David T. Wellman.
September 2001: News on-line, all day long.
12 Aug 2001: The Inferno, by Dante, trans. Robert Pinsky.
8 Aug 2001: Signifying Rappers, by Mark Costello and David Foster Wallace.
30 Jul 2001:Making the Most of College, by Richard J. Light.
27 Jul 2001:Only the Ball was White, by Robert Peterson.
26 Jul 2001:Granta 72.
21 Jul 2001:Pop Internationalism, by Paul Krugman.
17 Jul 2001:Hay, by Paul Muldoon.
16 Jul 2001: Transition 88.
14 Jul 2001: Goats, by Mark Jude Poirier.
9 Jul 2001: The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by Amos Tutuola.
18 Jun 2001: Pictures from an Institution, by Randall Jarrell.
16 Jun 2001: Diary of a Flying Man, by Randy Cohen.
7 Jun 2001: Mr. China's Son, by He Liyi.
4 Jun 2001: Mao Zedong, by Jonathan Spence.
1 Jun 2001: The Chinese Western, Zhu Hong (trans.)
27 May 2001: Hundred Day War: The Cultural Revolution at Tsingua University, by William Hinton.
13 May 2001: Waiting, by Ha Jin.
9 May 2001: Transition 87.
28 Apr 2001: Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem.
25 Apr 2001: Trout Fishing in America, by Richard Brautigan.
13 Apr 2001: Granta 71.
7 Apr 2001: Our America, by LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman.
3 Apr 2001: 100 Multiple-Choice Questions , by John Ashbery.
26 Mar 2001: Of Two Minds: The growing disorder in American psychiatry, by T.M.Luhrmann.
20 Mar 2001: The Great Cat Massacre and other episodes in French cultural history, by Robert Darnton.
13 Mar 2001: Disgrace, by J. M. Coetzee.
8 Mar 2001: Tuff, by Paul Beatty.
6 Mar 2001: Motherland, by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan.
2 Mar 2001:Transition 86.
28 Feb 2001:The! Greatest! Of! Marlys!, by Lynda Barry.
13 Feb 2001: The Fatal Shore, by Robert Hughes.
5 Feb 2001: The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits, by Mary McCarthy.
3 Feb 2001: Granta 68.
7 Jan 2001: No Laughing Matter, by Gershon Legman.
4 Jan 2001: Suburban Nation, by A. Duany, E. Plater-Zyberk, and J. Speck.
2 Jan 2001: Here Lies My Heart, Amy Bloom, ed.

27 Dec 2000: Amen: the diary of Rabbi Martin Siegel.
25 Dec 2000: The Swindler, by Francisco de Quevedo.
17 Dec 2000: Lazarillo del Tormes, anonymous.
4 Dec 2000: Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.
3 Dec 2000: The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie, by Thomas Fink and Yong Mao.
1 Dec 2000: Bee Season, by Myla Goldberg.
24 Nov 2000: The Shape of the River, by Derek Bok and William Bowen.
13 Nov 2000: Transition 85.
7 Nov 2000: Like Life, by Lorrie Moore.
12 Oct 2000: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon.
4 Oct 2000: The Human Stain, by Philip Roth.
1 Oct 2000: The Academic's Handbook, edited by A.Leigh Deneef and Craufurd D. Goodwin.
25 Sep 2000: Granta 67.
19 Sep 2000: Tisch, by Stephen Dixon.
26 Aug 2000: Zot! Book 3, by Scott McCloud.
26 Aug 2000: Granta 66.
21 Aug 2000: back to From a Darkened Room.
17 Aug 2000: The Overworked American, by Juliet Schor.
14 Aug 2000: Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol.
5 Aug 2000: back to From a Darkened Room.
4 Aug 2000: Hannibal, by Thomas Harris.
1 Aug 2000: From a Darkened Room: The Inman Diary, by Arthur Crew Inman (Daniel Aaron, ed.)
28 July 2000: Mr. Cogito, by Zbigniew Herbet.
26 July 2000: R.E.M. Inside Out, by Craig Rosen.
18 July 2000: Various magazines that arrived while I was away.
10 July 2000: Stand on Zanzibar, by John Brunner.
8 July 2000: Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: Poems 1975-1990, by August Kleinzahler.
7 July 2000: Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore.
5 July 2000: Transition 84.
1 July 2000: Sam the Cat, by Matthew Klam.
28 June 2000: Run Catch Kiss, by Amy Sohn.
27 June 2000: The Wild Numbers, by Philibert Schogt.
20 June 2000: A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial, by George P. Fletcher.

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Jordan Ellenberg * ellenber@math.princeton.edu * revised 20 Jun 2000