Syntax of Things Read (2004)

The Wilco Book

The Best American Nonrequired Reading edited by Dave Eggers

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

{Note:  Links from this point to end of the year refer to the book's listing at Powell's Books. I'm too lazy to change them all.}

Well by Matthew McIntosh

How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers

Mailman by J. Robert Lennon

Kings of Infinite Space by James Hynes

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir by Nick Flynn

CITY LIFE by Donald Barthelme

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour : An Introduction by J.D. Salinger

Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott

Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

The Book Against God : A Novel by James Wood

The Clearing by Tim Gautreaux

The John Fante Reader by John Fante

Pastoralia: Stories

by George Saunders

Pete Hamill: A Drinking Life : A Memoir

Joseph Heller: Catch 22

Little Children by Tom Perrotta

The Dog of the South by Charles Portis

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer

A Night at the Movies Or, You Must Remember This by Robert Coover

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.: J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover

Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster

Crash by J. G. Ballard

The Path of Minor Planets : A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer

Someone to Watch Over Me : Stories by Richard Bausch

A Life Without Consequences by Stephen Elliott

Flee the Angry Strangers by George Mandel

Tlooth by Harry Mathews

Love and Hydrogen by Jim Shepard

Ray by Barry Hannah

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris

July, July by Tim O'Brien

The Fortress of Solitude : A Novel by Jonathan Lethem

The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer

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You Are Not a Stranger Here : Stories by Adam Haslett

The Watch by Rick Bass

Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland

Tooth Imprints On a Corn Dog by Mark Leyner

Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders

How Soon Is Never? : A Novel by Marc Spitz;

Orpheus Emerged by Jack Kerouac; 176 pp.

Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey by Dan Rhodes; 224 pp.

Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne; 500 pp.

Sarah by JT LeRoy; 160 pp.

My review