Book Lists

The Millions started out as a place for Max to keep track of his reading, and he did so via various lists. Now that The Millions is about the reading proclivities of so many other people, as well, we’ve moved Max’s reading lists off the main Millions page to their own page here.

What I’m Reading Now

Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe by Robert Gellately

On Deck

Empires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler

The Reading Queue

  1. Black and Blue: The Golden Arm, the Robinson Boys, and the 1966 World Series That Stunned America by Tom Adelman
  2. Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
  3. The Fall Of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson
  4. Foreskin’s Lament by Shalom Auslander
  5. Darkmans by Nicola Barker
  6. Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth
  7. Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays edited by Brendan Burford
  8. Slightly Out of Focus by Robert Capa
  9. Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
  10. Spooner by Pete Dexter
  11. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  12. The White Album by Joan Didion
  13. Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
  14. The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
  15. Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
  16. His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
  17. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
  18. Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  19. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
  20. The Pacific by Mark Helprin
  21. Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
  22. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
  23. Blame by Michelle Huneven
  24. Round Rock by Michelle Huneven
  25. The Politics of Glory by Bill James
  26. Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
  27. Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
  28. It’s Beginning to Hurt by James Lasdun
  29. Big Machine by Victor LaValle
  30. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  31. Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker by James McManus
  32. McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern Issue 13
  33. Manituana by Wu Ming
  34. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
  35. The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner
  36. The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
  37. The Wild Trees by Richard Preston
  38. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
  39. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks
  40. The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
  41. Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter’s by R.A. Scotti
  42. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
  43. The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
  44. Reality Hunger by David Shields
  45. Our Savage Neighbors by Peter Silver
  46. Child 44 by Tim Rob Smith
  47. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  48. The Suicide Run by William Styron
  49. The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
  50. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
  51. The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham
  52. Mr. Jefferson’s University by Garry Wills
  53. Lowboy by John Wray

Books Max Read in 2009

Books Max Read in 2008

Books Max Read in 2007

Books Max Read in 2006

Books Max Read in 2005

Books That I Read in 2004

Mrs. Millions Has Been Reading

Currently reading the top book on the list. Now rated, by Mrs. Millions herself, from 0 to 5 *’s