Books to Recommend (or not)

by John Q McDonald --- 30 January 2013

Books 601-700

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700. The Place that Inhabits Us edited by Sixteen Rivers Press

699. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

698. Last Words by George Carlin, with Tony Hendra

697. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

696. The Helium Murder by Camille Minichino

695. Going to See the Elephant by Rodes Fishburne

694. A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar... by John McDonald

693. Proust's Overcoat by Lorenza Foschini

692. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

691. House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

690. Armistead Maupin by Patrick Gale

689. Why Architecture Matters by Paul Goldberger

688. Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama

687. V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton

686. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

685. Arcadia by Lauren Groff

684. In the Bedroom by Andre Dubus

683. Townie by Andre Dubus III

682. Let's all Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury

681. The Woman on the Bus by Pauline McLynn

680. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray

679. Mrs. Nixon by Ann Beattie

678. Balzac's Omelette by Anka Muhlstein

677. Vineland by Thomas Pynchon

676. Home Comfort edited by Richard Wizansky

675. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

674. The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart

673. God, no! by Penn Jillette

672. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell

671. Taurus Four by Rena Vale

670. A House with no Roof by Rebecca Wilson

669. Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac

668. Magic Bus by Rory MacLean

667. Road to Katmandu by Patrick Marnham

666. The Portrait by Iain Pears

665. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

664. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

663. Mary Ann in Autumn by Armistead Maupin

662. Wrestling with Moses by Anthony Flint

661. The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter

660. U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton

659. Wrecker by Summer Wood

658. Edith Wharton by Louis Auchincloss

657. Herzog by Saul Bellow

656. I Think I Love You by Allison Pearson

655. Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

654. From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe

653. Just Kids by Patti Smith

652. Iona Dreaming by Clare Cooper Marcus

651. The Lemoine Affair by Marcel Proust

650. Delamotte's Crystal Palace by Ian Leith

649. The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein

648. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

647. How to be Good by Nick Hornby

646. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

645. The Time Hoppers by Robert Silverberg

644. Platforms by Pagan Kennedy

643. Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

642. The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer

641. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

640. Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson

639. Confessions of a Memory Eater by Pagan Kennedy

638. Time Regained by Marcel Proust

637. Me of Little Faith by Lewis Black

636. Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David H. Donald

635. The Outermost House by Henry Beston

634. East is East by T. C. Boyle

633. Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes

632. Brook Farm by Sterling F. Delano

631. Stuart in Tibet by Neil Buckley

630. Frank Lloyd Wright by Ada Louise Huxtable

629. The Final Solution by Michael Chabon

628. Memories of Drop City by John Curl

627. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

626. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

625. "Socialism is Great!" by Lijia Zhang

624. Death in Disguise by Caroline Graham

623. I Love You, Ronnie by Nancy Reagan

622. The Open Road by Pico Iyer

621. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

620. What Time is this Place? by Kevin Lynch

619. Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens by K. C. Cole

618. The End of the Story by Lydia Davis

617. Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

616. The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison

615. Still Looking by John Updike

614. Jesus Freaks by Don Lattin

613. The Case of the Velvet Claws by Erle Stanley Gardner

612. Menaced Assassin by Joe Gores

611. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

610. The Road to Mars by Eric Idle

609. Proust in Love by William C. Carter

608. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

607. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

606. Beyond the House of the False Lama by George Crane

605. The Fugitive by Marcel Proust

604. Zodiac by Neal Stephenson

603. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

602. Living Together by Michael Weiss

601. (Not that You Asked) by Steve Almond