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

Child 44 by Tim Rob Smith

On Deck

Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan

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. The Fall Of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson
  3. Foreskin’s Lament by Shalom Auslander
  4. You Lost Me There by Rosecrans Baldwin
  5. Darkmans by Nicola Barker
  6. Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth
  7. The Possessed by Elif Batuman
  8. Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays edited by Brendan Burford
  9. Slightly Out of Focus by Robert Capa
  10. Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
  11. Long for This World by Sonya Chung
  12. Fire Season by Philip Connors
  13. Spooner by Pete Dexter
  14. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  15. The White Album by Joan Didion
  16. Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
  17. The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
  18. Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
  19. His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
  20. A Game of Brawl by Bill Felber
  21. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
  22. The Tree by John Fowles
  23. Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  24. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
  25. The Whale by Philip Hoare
  26. The Pacific by Mark Helprin
  27. Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
  28. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
  29. Blame by Michelle Huneven
  30. Round Rock by Michelle Huneven
  31. The Politics of Glory by Bill James
  32. Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
  33. Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
  34. It’s Beginning to Hurt by James Lasdun
  35. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
  36. The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
  37. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  38. Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker by James McManus
  39. McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern Issue 13
  40. American Rust by Philipp Meyer
  41. Manituana by Wu Ming
  42. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
  43. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
  44. Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
  45. The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner
  46. The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
  47. The Wild Trees by Richard Preston
  48. Listen to This by Alex Ross
  49. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
  50. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks
  51. The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
  52. Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter’s by R.A. Scotti
  53. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
  54. The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
  55. Reality Hunger by David Shields
  56. Super Sad Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
  57. Our Savage Neighbors by Peter Silver
  58. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  59. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  60. The Suicide Run by William Styron
  61. The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
  62. Portrait with Keys by Ivan Vladislavic
  63. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
  64. The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham
  65. State by State edited by Matt Weiland, Sean Wilsey
  66. Mr. Jefferson’s University by Garry Wills
  67. Lowboy by John Wray

Books Max Read in 2010