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

The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

On Deck

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

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

Books Max Read in 2012

Books Max Read in 2011

Books Max Read in 2010