Brett's Footnotes¹

Stuff I'd like to read, aka, The List

• Aira, César
  • Ghosts
  • How I Became A Nun
  • An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
• Akhmatova, Anna
• Aksyonov, Vassily: The New Sweet Style
• Allen, Jeffrey Renard: Rails Under My Back
• Amis, Martin: Heavy Water
• Armitage, Simon: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; A New Verse Translation
• Atkinson, Kate: One Good Turn
• Bailey, Paul
  • Peter Smart's Confessions
  • Gabriel's Lament
• Baker, Kevin
  • Dreamland
  • Paradise Alley
• Bangqing, Han: The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai
• Barnes, Julian: The Sense of an Ending
• Barry, Rebecca: Later, At the Bar
• Barthelme, Donald
• Barthelme, Frederick: Elroy Nights
• Bausch, Richard: The Stories of Richard Bausch
• Bellow, Saul
  • Herzog
  • Augie March
  • Humboldt's Gift
  • Ravelstein
• Bender, Aimee: Willful Creatures
• Bennett, Alan: The Laying on of Hands
• Biggers, Earl Derr: Charlie Chan novels
• Bolano, Roberto
  • 2666
  • The Skating Rink
  • Antwerp
  • The Insufferable Gaucho
  • The Return
• Bogosian, Eric: Perforated Heart
• Boyd, William: Any Human Heart
• Byatt, A.S.: Possession
• Campbell, Bonnie Jo: Once Upon A River
• Caputo, Philip: Acts of Faith
• Casey, Maud: Genealogy
• Cercas, Javier: The Speed of Light
• Choi, Susan: American Woman
• Coetzee, J. M.
  • Disgrace
  • Diary of a Bad Year
• Cohen, Leah Hager: The Grief of Others
• Cortazar, Julio: Diary of Andres Fava
• Cruz Smith, Martin
• Delson, Rudolph: Maynard & Jennica
• deWitt, Patrick: Ablutions; Notes for a Novel
• Dufresne, John: Johnny Too Bad: Stories
• Durham, David Anthony: Gabriel's Story
• Elliot, Jason: The Network
• Ellman, Lucy: Dot in the Universe
• Enright, Annie:
  • The Gathering
  • The Forgotten Waltz
• Ferris, Joshua: Then We Came to the End
• Fox, Paula: The Widow's Children
• Gaitskill, Mary: Veronica
• Galchen, Rivka: Atmospheric Disturbances
• Gibson, William: Zero History
• Glass, Julia: The Widower's Tale
• Glynn, Alan: The Dark Fields
• Golding, Paul: The Abomination
• Goldstein, Rebecca: Properties of Light
• Grossman, David: To The End of the Land
• Guibert, Emmanuel: The Photographer (Graphic Novel, also Lefevre, Didier and Lemercier, Frederic)
• Harrison, Jim: Returning to Earth
• Haskell, John: American Purgatorio
• Hellenga, Robert: Philosophy Made Simple
• Hemon, Aleksandar: The Lazarus Project
• Hempel, Amy
  • Reasons to Live
  • The Dog of the Marriage
• Hilton, James: Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Himes, Chester
• Holman, Sheri
  • A Stolen Tongue
  • The Dress Lodger
• Holmes, Julia: Meeks
• Huong, Duong Thu
• Hughes, Ted
• Huston, Charlie: Caught Stealing
• Hyland, M.J.: This Is How
• Jackson, Shelley: Half Life
• Jackson, Shirley: Novels and Stories
• Jensen, Jeff: Green River Killer; A True Detective Story
• Johnson, Denis: Tree of Smoke
• Jones, Edward P.: The Known World
• Kadare, Ismail: The Pyramid
• Karnezis, Panos: Little Infamies
• Kaye, John
  • Stars Screaming
  • The Dead Circus
• Kennedy, William
  • Legs
  • Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
  • Ironweed
  • Quinn's Book
  • Very Old Bones
  • The Flaming Corsage
  • Roscoe
• Kirino, Natsuo: Out
• Klosterman, Chuck: The Visible Man
• Krauss, Nicole
  • A History of Love
  • Great House
• La Farge, Paul: Luminous Airplanes
• Laxness, Halldor
  • Iceland's Bell
  • Under the Glacier
• Le Carré, John: A Most Wanted Man
• Lent, Jeffrey: In the Fall
• Lennon, J. Robert: Castle
• Long, David: The Inhabited World
• Mantel, Hilary: Vacant Possession
• Martin, Valerie: Property
• McCarthy, Tom:
  • Remainder
• McEwan, Ian: Solar
• McGowan, Heather: Duchess of Nothing
• McGuane, Thomas: Gallatin Canyon: Stories
• McMahon, Thomas
  • Ira Foxglove
  • Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry
  • McKay's Bees
  • Loving Little Egypt
• Mengestu, Dinaw: The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears
• Michaels, Leonard: The Collected Stories
• Millhauser, Steven: <Complete Works>
• Milligan, J.: Jack Fish
• Mooney, Ted: The Same River Twice
• Moore, Lorrie: A Gate at the Stairs
• Morrall, Clare: Astonishing Splashes of Colour
• Morrison, Toni: A Mercy
• Munro, Alice: Runaway
• Newman, Robert: The Fountain at the Center of the World
• Nicholson, William: The Society of Others
• Nilsen, Anders Brekhus: Big Questions (Or, Asomatognosia: Whose Hand Is It, Anyway?)
• Ondaatje, Michael: The Cat's Table
• Orwell, George: Homage to Catalonia
• Parker, Michael: Don't Make Me Stop Now
• Peace, David: Tokyo Year Zero
• Peelle, Lydia: Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing
• Perlman, Elliot: The Street Sweeper
• Perrotta, Tom: Joe College
• Petterson, Per: I Curse the River of Time
• Powers, Richard
  • Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance
  • The Gold Bug Variations
  • Operation Wandering Soul
  • The Time of our Singing
• Powell, Anthony
  "A Dance to the Music of Time"
  • A Question of Upbringing
  • A Buyer's Market
  • The Acceptance World
  • At Lady Molly's
  • Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
  • The Kindly Ones
  • The Valley of Bones
  • The Soldier's Art
  • The Military Philosophers
  • Books Do Furnish a Room
  • Temporary Kings
  • Hearing Secret Harmonies
• Pritchard, Sara: Lately
• Puchner, Eric: Music through the Floor; Stories
• Rafferty, Terrence: Death of an Ordinary Man
• Ross, Adam: Mr. Peanut
• Salter, James: Last Night
• Saramago, José: The Elephant's Journey
• Schlink, Bernhard: The Reader
• Shakar, Alex: Luminarium
• Shepard, Jim
  • Project X
  • Like You'd Understand, Anyway
• Shields, Carol
  • Swann
  • Unless
  • Collected Stories
• Shteyngart, Gary: Super Sad True Love Story
• Sieffert, Rachel: Afterwards
• Somerville, Patrick: The Cradle
• Smith, Ali: There but for the
• Staskiewicz, Keith: Hope: A Tragedy
• Theroux, Marcel: Far North
• Theroux, Paul: Blinding Light
• Thomas, Michael: Man Gone Down
• Thomas, Scarlett: Our Tragic Universe
• Toussaint, Jean-Philippe
  • Television
  • Making Love
  • The Bathroom
• Unsworth, Barry: The Songs of the Kings
• Walbert, Kate: A Short History of Women
• Walter, Jess: The Zero
• Ward, Lynd: Six Novels in Woodcuts
• Waugh, Evelyn
• Welsh, Louise: The Cutting Room
• Westerfeld, Scott: The Risen Empire
• Whitehead, Colson: John Henry Days
• Wilbur, Richard: Collected Poems, 1943-2004
• Williams, John: Stoner
• Woodward, Gerard:
  • August
  • I'll Go to Bed at Noon
  • A Curious Earth

Nonfiction of note

• Friedman, Thomas L. and Mandelbaum, Michael: That Used To Be Us; How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
• Neuwirth, Robert: Stealth of Nations
• Cooper, Alan: The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
• Meggs, Philip: Meggs' History of Graphic Design
• Lidwell, William et al: Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design
• Weinschenk, Susan M: 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter)
• Tufte, Edward R: Envisioning Information
• Cooper, Alan: About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
• Bringhurst, Robert: The Elements of Typographic Style
• Pinker, Stephen: The Better Angels of our Nature
• Bakewell, Sarah: How to Live: Or, a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer