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@karlbakeman Editorial Director for Digital Media @wwnorton Brooklyn

Where we’re coming from

A few books that we read that I can’t place in the timeline: Lost Memory of Skin, Canada, Man Gone Down, Tinkers, Union Atlantic

  1. April 2014: Shantytown
  2. March 2014: The Infatuations
  3. February 2014: The Goldfinch
  4. December 2013: The Circle
  5. September 2013: Olive Kittredge
  6. August 2013: Open City
  7. July 2013: The Bus Driver who wanted to be God
  8. March 2013: Conspiracy of Paper
  9. February 2012: Tenth of December
  10. December 2012: Motherless Brooklyn
  11. October 2012: Aurorama
  12. September 2012: The Street of Crocodiles
  13. July 2012: The City and the City
  14. [Carl, any record of what we read in June 2012?]
  15. April 2012: Hunger Games
  16. March 2012: White Teeth
  17. January 2012: Freedom
  18. [Carl, any record of books we read in fall of 2011? I can’t find any.]
  19. September 2011: The Glass Castle
  20. August 2011: A Visit from the Goon Squad
  21. June 2011: Remainder
  22. May 2011: How We Die
  23. March 2011: The Ethical Slut
  24. February 2011: Sex at Dawn
  25. December 2010: How Pleasure Works
  26. November 2010: Middlesex
  27. September 2010: Yiddish Policemen’s Union
  28. June 2010: A Canticle for Liebowitz
  29. May 2010: Paradise Built in Hell
  30. April 2010: Journal of the Plague Year
  31. February 2010: Poisonwood Bible
  32. January 2010: We Need to Talk about Kevin
  33. November 2009: Madame Bovary
  34. October 2009: Wake up, Sir!
  35. September 2009: The Moviegoer
  36. August 2009: The Picture of Dorian Grey
  37. July 2009: In the Heart of the Sea
  38. June 2009: Crash
  39. May 2009: Samaritan
  40. April 2009: The Intuitionist
  41. March 2009: Liar’s Poker
  42. February 2009: Then We Came to the End
  43. January 2009: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  44. December 2008: The Comedians
  45. November 2008: Mountains Beyond Mountains
  46. October 2008: Miami and the Siege of Chicago
  47. September 2008: Absurdistan
  48. August 2008: Septembers of Shiraz
  49. July 2008: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
  50. June 2008: The Year of Magical Thinking
  51. April 2008: Tales of the Unexpected
  52. March 2008: Omnivore’s Dilemma
  53. February 2008: The Sun Also Rises
  54. January 2008: Rabbit, Run
  55. December 2007: Satanic Verses
  56. November 2007: Snow
  57. August 2007: Self-Made Man
  58. July 2007: Lincoln’s Melancholy
  59. June 2007: Never Let Me Go
  60. April 2007: Blood Meridian
  61. March 2007: Lamb
  62. February 2007: Under the Banner of Heaven
  63. January 2007: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
  64. November 2006: Left Behind
  65. October 2006: Look at Me
  66. September 2006: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
  67. August 2006: The Man in the High Castle
  68. July 2006: Housekeeping
  69. June 2006: Sabbath’s Theater
  70. May 2006: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  71. April 2006: A Collection of Essays by George Orwell
  72. March 2006: The Long Goodbye
  73. February 2006: The Watchmen
  74. January 2006: Crime & Punishment
  75. November 2005: In Cold Blood
  76. October 2005: Dracula
  77. [Carl can you help me reconstruct the list from the first year?]
  78. February 2004: New York Trilogy
  79. December 2003: Perks of Being a Wallflower