Max’s 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

Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones

On Deck

The Great Night by Chris Adrien

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. Darkmans by Nicola Barker
  5. Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth
  6. The Possessed by Elif Batuman
  7. The Free World by David Bezmogis
  8. Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays edited by Brendan Burford
  9. Slightly Out of Focus by Robert Capa
  10. New York Diaries edited by Teresa Carpenter
  11. Long for This World by Sonya Chung
  12. Fire Season by Philip Connors
  13. The Lifespan of a Fact by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal
  14. Spooner by Pete Dexter
  15. Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
  16. The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
  17. The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer
  18. His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
  19. What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
  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. The Information by James Gleick
  24. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
  25. Tinkers by Paul Harding
  26. Hiroshima by John Hersey
  27. The Whale by Philip Hoare
  28. Blame by Michelle Huneven
  29. Round Rock by Michelle Huneven
  30. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
  31. The Politics of Glory by Bill James
  32. Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson
  33. Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
  34. It’s Beginning to Hurt by James Lasdun
  35. If You’re Not Yet Like Me by Edan Lepucki
  36. The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan
  37. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
  38. The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
  39. Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory
  40. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  41. Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker by James McManus
  42. McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern Issue 13
  43. American Rust by Philipp Meyer
  44. The Glorious Cause by Robert Middlekauff
  45. Manituana by Wu Ming
  46. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
  47. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
  48. Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
  49. Diary of a Very Bad Year by n+1
  50. Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
  51. The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner
  52. The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
  53. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
  54. Listen to This by Alex Ross
  55. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks
  56. The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
  57. Atlas of Remote Islands by Atlas of Remote Islands
  58. Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter’s by R.A. Scotti
  59. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
  60. Reality Hunger by David Shields
  61. Super Sad Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
  62. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  63. The Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin
  64. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  65. The Suicide Run by William Styron
  66. Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan
  67. A New Culture of Learning by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown
  68. The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
  69. Revolution by Deb Olin Unferth
  70. Portrait with Keys by Ivan Vladislavic
  71. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
  72. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
  73. The Funny Man by John Warner
  74. State by State edited by Matt Weiland, Sean Wilsey
  75. The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham
  76. Mr. Jefferson’s University by Garry Wills
  77. Lowboy by John Wray

Books Max Read in 2012

Books Max Read in 2011

Books Max Read in 2010