Andy’s Reading List
Andy’s Reading List
 Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
 Disgrace by J.M. CoetzeeÂ
 A History of Sri Lanka by K.M. De SilvaÂ
  The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence WrightÂ
 Everyman by Philip RothÂ
 Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
 A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
The writing is amateurish, but who cares — that’s a pretty amazing story!
 1491 by Charles Mann
A 20-page list of fascinating “Did you know that … ?” trivia and several hundred pages of filler.
  Moby Dick by Herman Melville
I thought this might be a chore. Not at all … it’s not the “Great American Novel” for nothing. Wow.
  Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
So vulgar, so profane, so perverted … and so true.
  The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Anyone who turns out this caliber of book before age 35 is a Nobel Prize winner in training. Scintillating.
 The Counterlife by Philip Roth
Roth’s virtuoso genius is frightening — so easy to appreciate, a bit harder to actually enjoy.
 Absurdistan by Gary Sheytngart
A much better attempt at writing Catch-22 than Catch-22 itself.
 Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
It’s hard to keep me entertained for 932 pages, but Roberts managed it. Probably could have been 600 pages, but I’m nitpicking.
 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
I knew we should have had a 3 frowny faces option.
 A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
 Motoring with Mohammad by Eric Hansen
 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Hiruki Murakami
 The Stand by Stephen King
 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
 White Noise by Don DeLillo
 The Soul of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman
 The Making of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman
 Atonement by Ian McEwan
 The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
It may have 2 frownies, but it kept me reading!
 The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins