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

Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter’s by R.A. Scotti

On Deck

Lowboy by John Wray

The Reading Queue

  1. The Fall Of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson
  2. Super Crunchers by Ian Ayers
  3. Darkmans by Nicola Barker
  4. The Possessed by Elif Batuman
  5. The Free World by David Bezmogis
  6. Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays edited by Brendan Burford
  7. New York Diaries edited by Teresa Carpenter
  8. Fire Season by Philip Connors
  9. The Lifespan of a Fact by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal
  10. Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
  11. Ryszard Kapuscinski: A Life by Artur Domoslawski
  12. The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
  13. A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
  14. His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
  15. A Game of Brawl by Bill Felber
  16. The Tree by John Fowles
  17. Tough Trip Through Paradise 1878-1879 by Andrew Garcia
  18. The Information by James Gleick
  19. The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
  20. Tinkers by Paul Harding
  21. Hiroshima by John Hersey
  22. The Whale by Philip Hoare
  23. Round Rock by Michelle Huneven
  24. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
  25. Where Good Ideas Come From by Stephen Johnson
  26. The Revenge of Geography by Robert Kaplan
  27. Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
  28. Give Me Everything You Have by James Lasdun
  29. It’s Beginning to Hurt by James Lasdun
  30. If You’re Not Yet Like Me by Edan Lepucki
  31. The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan
  32. The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
  33. Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory
  34. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  35. Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker by James McManus
  36. McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern Issue 13
  37. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
  38. American Rust by Philipp Meyer
  39. The Glorious Cause by Robert Middlekauff
  40. Manituana by Wu Ming
  41. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
  42. The Drunkard’s Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
  43. Diary of a Very Bad Year by n+1
  44. Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
  45. The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner
  46. The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
  47. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
  48. Listen to This by Alex Ross
  49. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks
  50. The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
  51. Atlas of Remote Islands by Atlas of Remote Islands
  52. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
  53. Super Sad Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
  54. Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North by Yuri Slezkine
  55. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  56. The Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin
  57. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  58. The Suicide Run by William Styron
  59. Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
  60. The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
  61. A New Culture of Learning by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown
  62. Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff by Calvin Trillin
  63. Within the Context of No Context by George W.S. Trow
  64. Revolution by Deb Olin Unferth
  65. Portrait with Keys by Ivan Vladislavic
  66. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
  67. State by State edited by Matt Weiland, Sean Wilsey
  68. The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham
  69. Stoner by John Williams
  70. Mr. Jefferson’s University by Garry Wills

 

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Mrs. Millions Has Been Reading

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