Zero 2016

You know the drill...

001. The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray 01/02/16
002. The Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen 01/05/16 ♥︎
003. Essay on Warren Hastings by Thomas Babington Macaulay 01/06/16 ♡
004. Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac 01/10/16 ♥︎
005. How We Think by John Dewey 01/10/16 ♡
006. Valentine by George Sand 01/12/16
007. The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 01/12/16 ♡
008. The World as I Found It by Bruce Duffy 01/14/16 ♥︎
009. Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos 01/15/16
010. The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett 01/16/16
011. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett 01/16/16
012. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett 01/17/16
013. Mort by Terry Pratchett 01/17/16
014. Sourcery by Terry Pratchett 01/17/16
015. Heidi by Johanna Spyri 01/19/16 ♡
016. Rudin by Ivan Turgenev 01/19/16
017. Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome 01/19/16 ♥︎
018. The Patrician by John Galsworthy 01/20/16
019. Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex by Owen Chase 01/20/16
020. Truman by David McCullough 01/24/16 ♥︎
021. The Priest and His Disciples by Hyakuzō Kurata 01/24/16
022. Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom by Maurice Johnston 01/25/16 ♡
023. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer 01/29/16 ♥︎
024. Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou 01/29/16 ♡
025. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell 01/31/16 ♡

026. Helen by Maria Edgeworth 02/02/16 ♡
027. South Sea Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson 02/03/16
028. The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson 02/04/16
029. Balloons by Elizabeth Bibesco 02/04/16
030. Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan 02/04/16
031. Joy in the Morning by P. G. Wodehouse 02/05/16 ♡
032. The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith 02/06/16 ♥︎
033. The Normans in European History by Charles Homer Haskins 02/07/16 ♡
034. Wild Wales by George Borrow 02/08/16
035. Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat 02/09/16 ♡
036. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson 02/13/16
037. Cornelli by Johanna Spyri 02/13/16
038. The Mating Season by P. G. Wodehouse 02/16/16
039. On the Citizen by Thomas Hobbes 02/20/16
040. A Noble Name by Claire Von Glümer 02/21/16
041. The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene 02/21/16
042. Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen 02/21/16
043. Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolaño 02/22/16
044. Sir Harry Hotspur Of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope 02/23/16
045. The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson 02/28/16
046. Collected Stories of William Faulkner 02/29/16 ❣
047. Claudine in Paris by Colette 02/29/16 ♡

048. The Castle by Franz Kafka 03/02/16 ♥︎
049. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong 03/03/16
050. The Godfather by Mario Puzo 03/03/16
051. Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile 03/04/16 ♡
052. The Genius by Theodore Dreiser 03/07/16
053. The Elder Edda by Anonymous 03/08/16 ♡
054. The Martyrdom of Man by William Winwood Reade 03/10/16 ♥︎
055. The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky 03/12/16 ♡
056. The Chosen by Chaim Potok 03/13/16
057. Mrs. Armytage by Catherine Gore 03/14/16 💩
058. Marginal Voices by Julio Ramón Ribeyro 03/14/16
059. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James 03/15/16 ♡
060. Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin 03/16/16
061. Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell 03/16/16
062. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy 03/17/16
063. Libussa by Johann Karl August Musäus 03/17/16
064. The Thirty Years War by C. V. Wedgwood 03/18/16 ❣
065. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving 03/21/16
066. The Lair by Norman Manea 03/23/16
067. Geronimo: His Own Story 03/23/16 ♡
068. Der Blonde Eckbert by Ludwig Tieck 03/23/16
069. The Book of Franza by Ingeborg Bachmann 03/25/16
070. We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion 03/27/16 ♥︎
071. The Sea Voyage by John Fletcher 03/29/16
072. El Filibusterismo by José Rizal 03/31/16 ♡
073. The Princess Bride by William Goldman 03/31/16

074. The Three Leaps of Wang Lun by Alfred Döblin 04/01/16
075. The Street by Ann Petry 04/03/16 ♡
076. Louis D. Brandeis by Melvin Urofsky 04/05/16 ♡
077. Old Town by Lin Zhe 04/09/16 💩
078. Requiem for Fanny Goldmann by Ingeborg Bachmann 04/10/16
079. Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry 04/14/16
080. All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer 04/14/16 ♥︎
081. The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman 04/19/16 ♡
082. Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis 04/19/16
083. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke 04/20/16 ♡
084. Adeline Mowbray by Amelia Opie 04/21/16
085. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist 04/22/16
086. Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund 04/24/16 💩
087. The Infinities by John Banville 04/24/16
088. Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey 04/25/16
089. ® Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 04/26/16
090. ® Paradise Lost by John Milton 04/26/16 ❣
091. The War Workers by E. M. Delafield 04/27/16
092. The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks 04/27/16
093. A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré 04/28/16

094. The Last Lion: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester 05/01/16 ♥︎
095. The Last Lion: Alone, 1932-1940 by William Manchester 05/03/16 ♥︎
096. The Vinland Sagas by Anonymous 05/03/16 ♡
097. Eirik the Red’s Saga by Anonymous 05/03/16
098. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein 05/04/16
099. The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by Paul Reid 05/10/16 ♡
100. Mountain Interval by Robert Frost 05/11/16
101. A Woman's Life by Guy de Maupassant 05/11/16 ♡
102. Maria Theresa by James Franck Bright 05/12/16
103. The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson 05/12/16 ♥︎
104. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham 05/13/16
105. A Little Tour in France by Henry James 05/16/16
106. The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier 05/18/16
107. Exodus by Leon Uris 05/22/16
108. After Babel by George Steiner 05/27/16 ♥︎
109. Hotel Savoy by Joseph Roth 05/27/16 ♡
110. Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag 05/28/16 ♡
111. Homo Faber by Max Frisch 05/28/16
112. John Brown by W. E. B. Du Bois 05/29/16 ♡
113. My Struggle: Book Five by Karl-Ove Knausgård 05/30/16 ♡
114. ® White Noise by Don DeLillo 05/31/16

115. Écrits: A Selection by Jacques Lacan 06/02/16
116. ® The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan 06/03/16 ♡
117. ® Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais 06/07/16 ♡
118. ® Dune by Frank Herbert 06/08/16 ♥︎
119. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert 06/09/16
120. Children of Dune by Frank Herbert 06/10/16
121. Das Boot by Lothar-Günther Buchheim 06/10/16 ♡
122. Under the Shadow of Etna by Giovanni Verga 06/10/16
123. Mr. Harrison's Confessions by Elizabeth Gaskell 06/11/16
124. The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner 06/13/16 ♥︎
125. ® Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein 06/14/16
126. The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi 06/16/16
127. Jaws by Peter Benchley 06/17/16 💩
128. Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens 06/17/16 ♡
129. Out of Bohemia by Gertrude Christian Fosdick 06/17/16 💩
130. Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd 06/19/16 ♡
131. The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek 06/21/16 ♥︎
132. The Night in Lisbon by Erich Maria Remarque 06/22/16
133. Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint 06/24/16
134. The Plumed Serpent by D. H. Lawrence 06/26/16
135. What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell 06/28/16
136. The Grave Diggers Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates 06/30/16

137. The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin 07/01/16
138. The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel 07/02/16
139. The New Yorker Stories by Ann Beattie 07/06/16 ♡
140. God's Fool by Maarten Maartens 07/07/16
141. The Talisman by Walter Scott 07/09/16
142. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane 7/10/16 ♡
143. Inevitable by Louis Couperus 7/15/16 ♡
144. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi 7/17/16 ♡
145. The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh 7/18/16 ♥︎
146. The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens 7/21/16
147. Pagan Papers by Kenneth Grahame 7/22/16
148. The Friends of the Friends by Henry James 7/22/16
149. The Albertine Workout by Anne Carson 7/22/16 ♥︎
150. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris 7/23/16
151. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris 7/23/16 ♥︎
152. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann 7/25/16 💩
153. A Sad Affair by Wolfgang Koeppen 7/26/16
154. The Lemoine Affair by Marcel Proust 7/26/16
155. Diary of a Man in Despair by Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen 7/26/16 ❣
156. The Hero by W. Somerset Maugham 7/27/16
157. In Search of Mademoiselle by George Fort Gibbs 7/30/16 💩
158. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson 7/31/16 ♡

159. Untimely Papers by Randolph Silliman Bourne 08/01/16 ♡
160. Time for a Tiger by Anthony Burgess 08/02/16
161. The Enemy in the Blanket by Anthony Burgess 08/02/16
162. Beds in the East by Anthony Burgess 08/03/16 💩
163. History of a Six Weeks' Tour by Mary Shelly 08/04/16
164. The Tower of Dago by Mór Jókai 08/05/16 💩
165. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson 08/06/16 ♥︎
166. Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin 08/07/16 ♡
167. The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin 08/08/16
168. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne 08/12/16
169. The Manchester Man by Isabella Varley Banks 08/15/16
170. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks 08/17/16 💩
171. The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark 08/20/16 ♡
172. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie 08/22/16 ♡
173. Freefall by Joseph E. Stiglitz 08/25/16 ♡
174. Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino 08/30/16 ♡
175. Uganda's White Man of Work by Sophia Blanche Fahs 08/31/16

176. Hans of Iceland by Victor Hugo 09/01/16 💩
177. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin 09/02/16
178. The Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair 09/02/16
179. Adam Resurrected by Yoram Kaniuk 09/03/16 ♡
180. Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs 09/04/16 ♥︎
181. The Dry Dock of a Thousand Wrecks by Philip I. Roberts 09/04/16
182. Dead Man's Walk by Larry McMurtry 09/04/16
183. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin by Elizabeth Robins Pennell 09/05/16
184. The Black Prophet by William Carleton 09/07/16 ♡
185. Across Asia on a Bicycle by Thomas Gaskell Allen 09/07/16
186. Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry 09/08/16 ♡
187. The Prodigal Village by Irving Bacheller 09/09/16
188. At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen 09/10/16 ♡
189. First Blood by David Morrell 09/10/16
190. The Children of Men by P.D. James 09/10/16
191. Autobiography of Jesse H. Pomeroy 09/11/16
192. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel 09/13/16
193. Mont-Oriol by Guy de Maupassant 09/14/16 ♡
194. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen 09/15/16 💩
195. The African Queen by C.S. Forester 09/15/16 ♡
196. Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut 09/16/16
197. The March by E.L. Doctorow 09/17/16
198. The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson 09/18/16
199. Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl 09/19/16
200. The Three Impostors and Other Stories by Arthur Machen 09/19/16
201. The Rising of the Tide by Ida Minerva Tarbell 09/21/16 ♡
202. Emmeline by Charlotte Turner Smith 09/23/16
203. The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh 09/24/16
204. Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque 09/25/16 ♡
205. Another Study of Woman by Honoré de Balzac 09/25/16
206. Communism: A History by Richard Pipes 09/25/16
207. Misery by Stephen King 09/26/16
208. Zone One by Colson Whitehead 09/26/16
209. Close Range by Annie Proulx 09/27/16 ♥︎
210. Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck 09/27/16
211. Pan by Knut Hamsun 09/28/16 ♡
212. Attila the Hun by John Man 09/30/16

213. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough 10/02/16
214. Five Months At Anzac by Joseph Lievesley Beeston 10/02/16
215. The Landleaguers by Anthony Trollope 10/03/16 💩
216. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 10/05/16
217. The Story of Garfield by William Gunion Rutherford 10/05/16 💩
218. Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card 10/06/16 ♡
219. The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume 10/06/16
220. Pierette by Honoré de Balzac 10/07/16 ♡
221. The Vicar Of Tours by Honoré de Balzac 10/08/16
222. The Black Sheep by Honoré de Balzac 10/09/16 ♡
223. The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan 10/09/16
224. The River of Doubt by Candice Millard 10/10/16 ♥︎
225. The Noh Plays of Japan by Arthur Waley 10/11/16 ♡
226. The Witch of Edmonton by Thomas Dekker 10/11/16
227. Death In Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen 10/11/16 ♡
228. Blackwater:... Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill 10/12/16
229. The Help by Kathryn Stockett 10/13/16 💩
230. Little Angel & Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev 10/13/16
231. The Outcry by Henry James 10/13/16
232. Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford 10/14/16
233. Sea and Sardinia by D.H. Lawrence 10/14/16
234. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides 10/14/16
235. A Confession by Leo Tolstoy 10/14/16
236. Oscar Wilde: Reminiscences by André Gide 10/14/16
237. Hawaii by James A. Michener 10/16/16
238. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green 10/17/16
239. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg 10/18/16
240. Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver 10/19/16
241. Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin 10/20/16 ♡
242. The Elephant Man by Frederick Treves 10/20/16
243. The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson 10/20/16
244. Martin Eden by Jack London 10/21/16
245. Aesop's Fables 10/21/16 ♥︎
246. Science of Logic by G.W.F. Hegel 10/22/16 ♡
247. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs 10/23/16
248. The Third Man by Graham Greene 10/23/16 ♡
249. The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne 10/23/16
250. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert 10/24/16
251. News from Nowhere by William Morris 10/24/16 💩
252. Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding 10/26/16
253. The Crofton Boys by Harriet Martineau 10/26/16 ♡
254. The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson 10/26/16 ♡
255. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood 10/27/16 ♥︎
256. Empires Of The Sea by Roger Crowley 10/28/16 ♡
257. The Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle 10/29/16
258. Rhyme? and Reason? by Lewis Carroll 10/29/16
259. The Confessions of Al-Ghazali 10/29/16
260. Drugging a Nation by Samuel Merwin 10/30/16
261. Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli 10/31/16
262. After Dark by Haruki Murakami 10/31/16 💩

263. The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett 11/01/16
264. Carrie by Stephen King 11/02/16
265. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales 11/04/16 ♥︎
266. Bad Dirt by Annie Proulx 11/04/16
267. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert 11/05/16 💩
268. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy 11/07/16 ♡
269. It Might Have Happened to You by Coningsby Dawson 11/07/16
270. Neuromancer by William Gibson 11/07/16
271. Norway and the Union with Sweden by Fridtjof Nansen 11/08/16
272. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin 11/08/16 ♡
273. The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin 11/08/16
274. Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin 11/10/16
275. Planet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin 11/10/16
276. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe 11/10/16
277. City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin 11/10/16 ♡
278. Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal 11/10/16 ♡
279. The Maias by Eça de Queirós 11/11/16 ♡
280. Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse 11/12/16
281. The Door by Magda Szabó 11/12/16 ♥︎
282. The Peregrine by J.A. Baker 11/12/16 ♡
283. Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas 11/13/16
284. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin 11/13/16 ♡
285. Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin 11/14/16 ♡
286. The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin 11/14/16
287. At the Councillors by E. Marlitt 11/15/16 ♡
288. The Witness by Juan José Saer 11/16/16 ♥︎
289. John Knox by A. Taylor Innes 11/16/16
290. It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis 11/16/16 ♡
291. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 11/16/16 ♡
292. The Middle of the Journey by Lionel Trilling 11/17/16
293. Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler 11/17/16 ♡
294. The High Window by Raymond Chandler 11/17/16
295. The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler 11/18/16
296. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler 11/18/16 ♡
297. Life of Prince Metternich by George Bruce Malleson 11/18/16 ♡
298. The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita 11/19/16 ♡
299. The Child Of Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio 11/20/16
300. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams 11/20/16
301. None to Accompany Me by Nadine Gordimer 11/21/16
302. Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell 11/22/16 ♡
303. You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe 11/25/16 ♥︎
304. The House Of Rothschild: 1798-1848 by Niall Ferguson 11/28/16 ♡
305. The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski 11/29/16 ♡

306. Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski 12/01/16
307. Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski 12/01/16
308. The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski 12/02/16
309. Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski 12/03/16
310. The House of Rothschild: 1849-1999 by Niall Ferguson 12/06/16 ♡
311. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss 12/07/16
312. Roxana by Daniel Defoe 12/09/16
313. Jenny by Sigrid Undset 12/10/16 ♡
314. Edward the First by T. F. Tout 12/10/16 ♡
315. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 12/13/16
316. The Martyrdom of Belgium by Gerard Cooreman 12/13/16
317. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 12/14/16
318. The House With the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown 12/15/16 ♡
319. Amadis of Gaul by Anonymous 12/17/16
320. Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler 12/18/16 ♡
321. Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope 12/21/16
322. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell 12/23/16
323. From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne 12/23/16
324. A Tranquil Star by Primo Levi 12/23/16
325. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton 12/24/16
326. The Explorer by W. Somerset Maugham 12/25/16
327. The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano 12/25/16 ♡
328. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolf Anaya 12/25/16
329. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 12/27/16
330. The Ask by Sam Lipsyte 12/28/16
331. Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace 12/29/16
332. The New Idealism by May Sinclair 12/31/16
333. The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata 12/31/16 ♡

Is it just us this year?

Eight years in we're back to the original crew for 2016 ;) Perhaps we will pick up a few brave new souls next year.

Has it really been that long?? Happy New Year, dear conspirator

Happy New Year!

YEAR END TOTALS: 333 books; 116,524 pages; 350 ppb