Jay’s Book List

2024

Underworld, Don Delillo 

White Noise, Don Delillo 

Libra, Don Delillo

American Pastoral, Philip Roth 

Patrimony, Philip Roth

Sabbath’s Theater, Philip Roth 

Ravelstein, Saul Bellow 

The Known World, Edward P Jones

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, Michael Chabon 

Rise and Fall of the Neo-Liberal Order, Gary Gerstle 

The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem

Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride 

White Teeth, Zadie Smith 

Gilead, Marilynne Robinson 

Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson 

Rabbit Run, John Updike 

Rabbit Redux, John Updike 

Rabbit is Rich, John Updike 

Rabbit at Rest, John Updike

Rabbit Remembered, John Updike 

FDR, Jean Edward Smith

Freedom, Jonathan Franzen 

Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan 

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz

Family Family, Laurie Frankel 

Falconer, John Cheever

My Promised Land, Avi Shavit 

Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy 

London Fields, Martin Amis 

Empire Falls, Richard Russo

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon 

Atonement, Ian McEwan

Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus 

The Shipping News, Annie Proulx 

The Candy House, Jennifer Egan 

Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders

Reality Hunger, David Shields 

Tenth of December, George Saunders

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, George Saunders 

Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche 

Bold Move, Luana Marques

A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

The Plot Against America, Philip Roth 

The Road, Cormac McCarthy 

Operation Shylock, Philip Roth 

North Woods, Daniel Mason 

I Married a Communist, Philip Roth 

Pastoralia, George Saunders 

Trust, Hernan Diaz 

The Overstory, Richard Powers 

The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst 

Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel