Books to Recommend (or not)

by John Q McDonald --- 11 July 2016

Books 701-800

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800. The Collected Poems by Marcel Proust

799. The Carbon Murder by Camille Minichino

798. Reclaiming San Francisco edited by James Brook, Chris Carlsson & Nancy J. Peters

797. Doctor Copernicus by John Banville

796. Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald

795. Naked in the Woods by Margaret Grundstein

794. The Sky is not the Limit by Neil deGrasse Tyson

793. At Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell

792. Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Glück

791. The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel

790. The Taft Story by William S. White

789. Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac

788. From Heaven Lake by Vikram Seth

787. M Train by Patti Smith

786. Utopia by Sir Thomas More

785. The Acceptance World by Anthony Powell

784. The Martian by Andy Weir

783. Erotic City by Josh Sides

782. The Sand Child by Tahar ben Jelloun

781. Everland by Rebecca Hunt

780. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

779. X by Sue Grafton

778. A Buyer's Market by Anthony Powell

777. Growing up Hippie by Anastasia Galadriel Machacek

776. Dead Irish by John Lescroart

775. A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell

774. Modern Man by Anthony Flint

773. S. by John Updike

772. The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon

771. The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton

770. The Blue Flowers by Raymond Queneau

769. The Movement of Stars by Amy Brill

768. American Eve by Paula Uruburu

767. The City & The City by China Miéville

766. Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos by William Poundstone

765. Cousin Felix Meets the Buddha by Lincoln Kaye

764. Megastructure by Reyner Banham

763. Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter

762. The Love-Death Thing by Thomas B. Dewey

761. Updike by Adam Begley

760. Loving by Henry Green

759. July, July by Tim O'Brien

758. Enon by Paul Harding

757. The Centaur by John Updike

756. This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila

755. The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit

754. Seeking Peace by Mary Pipher

753. On the Edge by Edward St. Aubyn

752. So, Anyway... by John Cleese

751. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

750. Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

749. Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

748. Against Happiness by Eric G. Wilson

747. Transforming Paris by David P. Jordan

746. Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall

745. Ursule Mirouët by Honoré de Balzac

744. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris

743. Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King

742. W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton

741. Drifting into Darien by Janisse Ray

740. White Noise by Don DeLillo

739. Going after Cacciato by Tim O'Brien

738. The Noble Hustle by Colson Whitehead

737. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

736. When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer

735. City Boy by Edmund White

734. Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead

733. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

732. Reyner Banham by Nigel Whiteley

731. The Boric Acid Murder by Camille Minichino

730. Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux

729. Brilliant Blunders by Mario Livio

728. Tabloid City by Pete Hamill

727. A Nickel's Worth of Ice by Sam Patterson

726. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

725. The Vulcan Academy Murders by Jean Lorrah

724. Insuring the City by Elihu Rubin

723. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

722. The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman

721. Water Touching Stone by Eliot Pattison

720. Groucho and Me by Groucho Marx

719. The Beryllium Murder by Camille Minichino

718. The Position by Meg Wolitzer

717. Miss Bagshot goes to Tibet by Anne Telscombe

716. Bayonets to Lhasa by Peter Fleming

715. Satori Ranch by Mary Frisbee

714. Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac

713. Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

712. Diva by Delacorta

711. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

710. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

709. The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt

708. The American by Henry James

707. A Negotiated Landscape by Jasper Rubin

706. The Greater Journey by David McCullough

705. The Lithium Murder by Camille Minichino

704. The Idiat and the Odd-yssey by Harlan Hambright

703. We are what We Pretend to Be by Kurt Vonnegut

702. Licks of Love by John Updike

701. The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper