Dusty Volumes

Non-Fiction:

• An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments by Ali Almossawi ★★★★★
• The Arrival by Shaun Tan ★★★★★
• Why Smart People Hurt: A Guide for the Bright, the Sensitive, and the Creative by Eric Maisel ★★★★ (my review)
• How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen ★★★★
• The Hell of it All by Charlie Brooker ★★ (my review)
• The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English by Robert Beard ★★
• Outcasts!: The Lands That FIFA Forgot by Steve Menary ★★ (my review)
• The Idler’s Glossary by Joshua Glenn ★★ (my review)
• Digital State: How the Internet is Changing Everything by Simon Pont ★ (my review)

Fiction (Series):

• Portuguese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith ★★★★
• The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs (Portuguese Irregular Verbs, #2) by Alexander McCall Smith ★★★★
• At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances (Portuguese Irregular Verbs, #3) by Alexander McCall Smith ★★★
• The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1) by Donald E. Westlake ★★★★ (my review)
• Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2) by Donald E. Westlake ★★★
• Jimmy the Kid by Donald E. Westlake ★★★★
• Nobody’s Perfect by Donald E. Westlake ★★★★
• Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5) by Donald E. Westlake ★★
• Good Behavior (Dortmunder, #6) by Donald E. Westlake ★★★
• The Case of the Troubled Trustee by Erle Stanley Gardner ★★
• Billy Bunter’s Barring Out by Frank Richards ★★★★
• The Anti-Social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole by John Mortimer ★★★★
• Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders by John Mortimer ★★★★

Fiction (Non-Series):

The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico ★★★★★

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee ★★★★★

The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks ★★★★★

Holes (Holes, #1) by Louis Sachar ★★★★★

The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie ★★★★

Overqualified by Joey Comeau ★★★★

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell ★★★★

Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman ★★★★ (my review)

Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym ★★★

In the Middle of the Night by Robert Cormier ★★★

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans ★★★

Fortunately, the Milk . . . by Neil Gaiman ★★★

The Book of Proper Names by Amélie Nothomb ★★★

The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín ★★★

Woman in the Dark by Dashiell Hammett ★★

Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World: A Novel by Donald Antrim ★

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys ★

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon ★

How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti ★

Total: ~7078 pages