Books I've Read & Recommend (***Especially good )
Updated   February012 Chronological Order  (except updates to existing authors)
       Existing authors last updated: 
       Anne Patchett, Robert Hellenga,Richard Russo, Franzen, McEwan


James Church (about North Korea)
The man with the Baltic Stare***
Bamboo and Blood***
Hidden Moon***
A Corpse in the Koryo***

Sarah Blake
The Postmistress***

Helene Tursten
Detective Inspector Huss***

David Foster Wallace
The Pale King***

Orhan Pamuk
Snow***

Cathleen Schine
The Three Weissmanns of Westport***

Abraham Verghese
Cutting for Stone***

Ann Packer
The Dive From Clauson's Pier**

The Postmistreess
Sarah Blake***

Michael Chabon
The Yiddish Policeman's Union***

Robert Harris
Pompeii**

Walter Mosley
The Right Mistake***

Marianne Wiggins
Shadow Catcher**

Johnathan Miles
American Airlines***

Clair Ni Aonghusa
Civil&Strange***

Mischa Berlinski
Fieldwork***

G. B. Edwards
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page***

Peter Temple 
identity theory***

Michael Ondaatje 
Divisadero ** 
Anil's Ghost**

Don DeLillo 
Falling Man*** 
(White Noise -Don't read)

Julian Barnes 
Love, etc.**

Mark Helprin 
A Soldier of the Great War***
Winters Tale**

Johnathan Franzen
Freedom***
The Corrections*** 

S. Levitt & S. Dubner 
Freakonomics** 

Thomas L. Friedman 
The World Is Flat***

Alicia Erian 
Towelhead***

Ian McEwan (2005)
Solar**
Atonement **
Saturday***

Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves***

Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time**

Richard Russo
That Old Cape Magic **
Empire Falls***
Bridge of Sighs**
Mohawk**
Connie Willis
Passage**

Leif Enger
Peace Like a River**

Naguib Mahfouz
Palace Walk**

Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood***
Kafka on the Shore***
The Wind-up Bird Chronical***
after dark**
The Wild Sheep Chase*
South of the Border, West of the Sun*
Dance, Dance, Dance*

Barbara Tuchman
The Guns of August***

Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio***

Neal Stephenson
Diamond Age**
Cryptonomicon***
Snow Crash***

Carol Shields
Unless: A Novel**
Larrys Party***
Stone Diaries**

David Liss
Coffee Trader**
A Conspiracy of Paper*

William Gibson
Spook Country**
Neuromancer***
Pattern Recognition***
All Tomorrows Parties**
Idoru***
Virtual Light**

John Grisham
The Painted House*

Mildred Walker
Winter Wheat*

Dava Sobel
Gallileo's Daughter***

Nick Hornby
About a boy***
High Fidelity**

Bernhard Schlink
The Reader**

Terry Kay
To dance with the white dog.***

V.S. Naipaul
A Bend in the River***
Half a Life

Janet  Fitch
Paint It Black***
White Oleander***

Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
Remains of the Day ***
Never Let Me Go **
When we were Orphans 

Kent Haruf (1999)
Plain Song***
The Tie that Binds***

Ethan Canin
America America***
Emporer of the Air*
Carry me across the Water**

Richard Feynman
Surely you're joking..***

Ward Just (1999)
A Dangerous Friend**

Ann Lamott (1999)
Travelling Mercies**

Robert Hellenga
Blues  Lessons**
The Fall of a Sparrow***
Philosophy Made Simple**
The Italian Lover**

Richard Price
Freedomland***
Lush Life**
Samaritan***

Wally Lamb
This Much I Know Is True***

David Guterson
Eventide**
Snow Falling on Cedars***
East of the Mountains**

Doris Lessing
Love Again***

Dorothy L. Sayers
Bussmans Honeymoon***

Alice Adams
After the War**

Mary Gordon
Spending**

Louis Erdich
Tales of Burning Love**

Ann Patchett
The Magicians Assistant***
Run***
Taft
Bel Canto (half read)
The Patron Saint of Liars**
State of Wonder***

Louis de Bernieres
Corelli's Mandolin***

Jane Hamilton
When Madeline Was Young ***
The Map of the World***
Then Short Life of a Prince
The Book of Ruth
Disobedience

Ursula Hegi
Stones from the River***

Jenette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping*(Unusual)
Written on the Body
GUT Symmetries***

E. Annie Proulx
The Shipping News***
Accordion Crimes**
That Old Ace In The Hole***


Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird***

Annie Dillard
An American Childhood***

Barbara Kingsolver
The Lacuna ***
Prodigal Summer**
Poisenwood Bible***
Animal Dreams***
Pigs in Heaven
Bean Trees

John Irving

Last Night in Twisted River **
Until I Find You***
A Widow for One Year ***
Ciderhouse Rules ***
Son of the Circus***
A Prayer for Owen Meany***
The Fourth Hand*
TheWorld According to Garp**

Anne Tyler
The Homesick Restaurant***
The Amateur Marriage**(good epic though)
The Ladder of Years**
Patchwork Planet
Morgans Passing
Accidental Tourist***
If Morning Ever Comes
Searching for Caleb
Clock Winder
Earthly Possessions
Saint Maybe
Breathing Lessons
Celestial Navigation***

PD James (mystery)
Skull Beneath the Skin**
All others also read.


Umberto Ecco
The Name of the Rose ***


John Gardner
Michelsons Ghost ***
Nickel Mountain ***
October Light**


Robertson Davies
Fifth Business***


Victor Hugo
93


Antoine St'Expery
The Little Prince***


Irving Stone
Depths of Glory : a biographical novel of Camille Pissarro*** 


James Michener
The Source***
Space
Texas
Covenant**
Centennial**
Poland (terrible)


Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage


Tracy Kidder 
Soul of a New Machine***
Old Friends 94
Mountains Beyond Mountains**

Amanda Filipacchi
Nude Men **


Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being***


Tom Robbins
Only Cowgirls get the Blues


Aldous Huxley
Brave New World**
Island


Robert Heinlein
Time Enough for Love***
To Sail Beyond the Sunset
Stranger in a Strange Land***


James Schmitz
Witches of Karres*** sci fi


Ray Bradbury
Dandelion Wine***
Something Wicked This Way Comes


Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Farwell To Arms**

Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim ***


Tony Hillerman
(all his books)
Anthropological mysteries of Navajo's and Hopi's
Blessing Way***

Arthur Upfield
(all his books)
Anthropological mysteries of Aboriginies and whites and a half-cast policeman
The Bone is Pointed. ***


Robert B. Parker
Appaloosa**
(all of his mysteries are interesting reading)

Graham Greene
The Man Within*
The Heart of the Matter ***
Honourary Counsel **
Our Man in Havana***
The End of the Affair**
The Quiet American ***
The Third Man**
The Power and  the Glory**

John Updike
The Terrorist ***
S***
Rabbit at Rest***
Rabbit is Rich
Rabbit Run
Brazil***
Rogers Version
Beck is Back
The Coup
Villages :  A Novel***men, * women


Arthur Koestler
Darkness at Noon


Elie Wiesel
Light


John Fowles
Daniel Martin ***
Ebony Tower
The Collector

Harriet Doerr
Stones for Ibarra***
Consider this, Senora


Russell Hoban
The Lion of Boaz Jaquin 
Riddely Walker***


Dorothy Gilman 
Caravan***


Josephine Tey
Thief of Time***


Frank Herbert
Dune ***
And all others in the series


Pat Barker
Regeneration


John Steinbeck
( all his books) In order of importance:
East of Eden ***
Winter of our Discontent***
Sweet Thursday***
To a God Unknown***
The Grapes of Wrath
The Pearl
Cannery Row
Of Mice and Men
The Red Pony
Travels with Charlie
In Dubious Battle*

Michael Crighton
Next**
State of Fear***(social import rating), *(story prose rating)
Swarm
Timeline**
Andromeda Strain***
Terminal Man
Rising Sun**
Jurassic Park
Disclosure
Air Frame**

Tom Wolfe
Bonfire of the Vanities
A Man in Full***


Robert James Waller

Bridges of Madison County** 
Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend

James Redfield

Celestine Prophecy** 
The Tenth Insight

Edwin Abbott
Flatland***

Dr. Hunter F Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas
Fear and Loathing on the 1972 Campaign Trail**


Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage


Oscar Wild
The Picture of Dorian Gray**


Carrie Fischer
Postcards from the Edge


Henry Miller
Book of Friends


Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis***


May Sarton
Kinds of Love**


Balzac
Ribald Stories**


Plato
The Republic (parable of the cave***)
Euthryphro***
The Apology


Feyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment