52 Books in 52 Weeks: Final List

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Hooray!  The 15 I loved most are marked with asterisks (which is not to say I didn’t love many of the others, but these are the 15 I keep bringing up and telling people they must read).

1. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
2. Against Happiness by Eric G. Wilson
3. How We Got Insipid by Jonathan Lethem
4. Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
5. I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley*
6. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan*
7. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami*
8. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
9. Independent People by Halldor Laxness
10. Pretty Little Mistakes: A Do-Over Novel by Heather McElhatton
11. Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C. G. Jung
12. Blankets by Craig Thompson*
13. Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences by Lawrence Weschler*
14. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
15. A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
16. When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale
17. All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen*
18. What is the What by Dave Eggers
19. Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
20. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
21. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
22. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri*
23. Can Love Last? by Stephen A. Mitchell
24. Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
25. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
26. Abnormal Psychology by David H. Barlow and V. Mark Durand
27. Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler
28. Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far by Stefan Sagmeister*
29. An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
30. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
31. Heat by Bill Buford
32. A Year with Swollen Appendices by Brian Eno*
33. Lilith’s Brood by Octavia E. Butler
34. Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías*
35. Break It Down by Lydia Davis
36. The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
37. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
38. Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
39. Reborn: Journals & Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag, David Rieff ed.*
40. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
41. Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
42. Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry, by Leanne Shapton*
43. Ambient Findability by Peter Morville
44. The Song Is You by Arthur Phillips
45. In America by Susan Sontag
46. Epileptic by David B.
47. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace*
48. Lowboy by John Wray*
49. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
50. Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler*
51. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
52. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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