Off-and-on I've kept this list of books I've read.  I often neglect it
  for a long time.  I've probably left off some favorites, and included
  others that I skimmed once in great confusion and never thought about
  again.

  Some stuff that I know is missing: lots of comics; the tons of books
  of all sorts that I read out loud to my kid; most textbooks--the books
  I've likely invested the most intense thought on, even if I've rarely
  read them cover-to-cover.

  Where there's a year, it's the year I read it, not the publication year.

Dev, Sonali, "Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors" (2023): as an Austen
  adaptation, very loose.  (Not a criticism.)
Delany, Samuel, "Times Square Red, Times Square Blue" (2023): the anecdotes
  and some of his ideas are interesting.  Seems weak on economic policy.
Austen, James, "Northanger Abbey" (2023): a fun one.  Her silliest and
  most self-referential.
Delany, Samuel, "The Jewels of Aptor" (2023):
Tchaikovsky, Adrian, "Elder Race" (2023):
Weing, Drew, "The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo", 1-3 (2023): kid
  moves to the big city and meets Margo Maloo, "monster mediator".  Fun
  stories, not sure I think of the analogy with gentrification.
Baldree, Travis, "Legends and Lattes" (2023): Orc retires to start a
  coffeeshop.
Heyer, Georgette, "The Grand Sophy" (2023): imagine Emma except her
  self-confidence was entirely justified?  Delightfully bonkers ending.
  Hard to overlook a nasty bit of antisemitism in the middle.
Shiga, Jason, "Adventuregame Comics": similar to "Meanwhile" though
  shorter and not as complicated.
Delany, Samuel, "Bread and Wine" (2023): comic; how Chip met the big guy.
Abrams, Stacey, "While Justice Sleep" (2023): a young supreme court clerk,
  a justice in a coma, biotechnology startups, conspiracies....
Marcks, Ira, "Spirit Week" (2023): comic about the fate of an old Estes
  Park modeled on the hotel from The Shining.
Aeham, Ahmad, "The Pianist from Syria" (2023): an as-told-by translated
  from German about a musical childhood in a Palestinian settlement in
  Damascus, followed by seige and escape from the civil war.
Jalaluddin, Uzma, "Ayesha at Last" (2023): a loose adaptation of "Pride
  and Prejudice" set in a mulsim community in Toronto.  Satisfying
  romance and interesting characters, though the plot turns felt a
  little contrived to me at times.
Robinson, Kim Stanley, "The Ministry for the Future" (2023): a slap in
  the face in the form of a first-person account of a near-future heat
  wave that kills millions in India, followed by some hope in the form
  of a bunch of hypothetical econmic and political changes.  I trust the
  author on the basic climatology but not so much on the rest.  (My eyes
  rolled every time he mentioned blockchains).
Wilson, G. Willow, "The Bird King" (2023):
Reid, Kiley, "Such a Fun Age" (2022): "Washtenaw Reads" 2023 title
Ernaux, Annie, "Mémoire de Fille" (2022): recounts a difficult episode of
	her adolescence
Lewis, John, "Run" (2022): continues the story of "March".
Mohr, Melissa, "Holy Shit: A Brief History of Swearing" (2022):
Bussi, Michel, "Nymphéas Noirs" (2022): twisty mystery set in Giverny, site
  of Claude Monet's home.
Meurisse, Catherine, "La Jeune Femme Et La Mer" (2022): 
Ruiz, Oliva, "La Commode Aux Tiroirs de Couleurs" (2022): graphic novel
  adaptation of a novel about a refugee from the Spanish civil war
  through the eyes of her granddaughter
Montaigne, Mario, "Dans La Combi De Thomas Pesquet" (2022): comic recounting
  the training of an astronaut
Garin, Alix, "Ne M'oublie pas" (2022): B.D.; a woman abducts her
  Alzheimers-afflicted grandmother.
King, Maxwell, "The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers"
  (2022): one thing I hadn't realized was the role his family wealth
  played in giving him the freedom to work on his quirky show.
Sattouf, Riad, "Le Jenue Acteur" (2022): Sattouf discovers Vincente
  Lacoste.
Simon, Scott, "Pretty Birds" (2022): the story of a high school
  basketball star who becomes a sniper during the seige of Sarajevo
Butler, Octavia, "Kindred" (2020): expected at first a straightforward
  history lesson with time travel as a framing device, but it's more
  complicated and interesting than that.
Butler, Octavia, "Parable of the Sower" (2022): Teen with hyperempathy
  sets out to found a new Earthseed community in a disintegrating USA.
Chambers, Becky, "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" (2021): Themes
  remind me of Delany (like "Stars in my Pocket..."), but with a more
  straightforward style.  Characters are refreshingly kind.
Chambers, Becky, "A Closed and Common Orbit" (2021): Lovelace the AI
  and, also, an escaped child slave, look for their new places in
  the world.
Chambers, Becky, "Record of a Spaceborn Few" (2021): Life on the Exodus
  Fleet.
Chambers, Becky, "The Galaxy and the Ground Within" (2022): Five characters
  of different species are stranded together at the Five-Hop One-Stop.
Chambers, Becky, "To Be Taught, If Fortunate" (2021): "Fiasco", but nice?
Philyaw, Deesha, "The Secret Lives of Church Ladies" (2022): what the
  title says.
Saadawi, Ahmed, "Frankenstein in Baghdad" (2022):
Wells, Martha, "All Systems Red" (2021): Murderbot the secunit solves a
  mystery and takes his freedom
Wells, Martha, "Artificial Conditions" (2022): More mystery,
  emancipation, and social awkwardness.
Wells, Martha, "Rogue Protocol" (2022):
Wells, Martha, "Exit Strategy" (2022):
Lewis, John, et. al., "March" (2022): 3-volume graphic novel of the civil
  rights movement
Muir, Tamsyn, "Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower" (2022):
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus, "The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure"
  (2022): read to James multiple times.

unknown, translated by Armitage, Simo, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: a
  new Verse Translation"
Adams, Douglas, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy": I can still recite
  the first page or two from memory.
Adams, Douglas, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe":
Adams, Douglas, "Life, the Universe, and Everything":
Adams, Douglas, "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish":
Adams, Douglas, "Mostly Harmless" "The Original Hitchhiker's Radio Scripts":
Adams, Douglas, "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"
Adams, Douglas, "The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul":
Adams, Douglas, "Last Chance to See":
Adams, Douglas, "The Salmon of Doubt": miscellaneous posthumous scrapings
  from his hard drive.  Probably of no interest to anyone but die-hard fans,
  but has some fun bits in it.
Adams, Richard, "Watership Down":
Alcott, Louis M, "Little Women": I seem to recall reading this as a kid
  because, I dunno, it was one of those things everyone said you should
  read.  I don't remember a thing about it.
Aldiss, Brian, "Heliconia Spring":
Aldiss, Brian, "Heliconia Summer":
Aldiss, Brian, "Heliconia Winter":
Alexander, Lloyd, "Westmark":
Alexander, Lloyd, "The Kestrel":
Alexander, Lloyd, "The Beggar Queen":
Alexander, Lloyd, "The Book of Three":
Alexander, Lloyd, "The Black Cauldron":
Alexander, Lloyd, "The Castle of Llyr":
Alexander, Lloyd, "Taran Wanderer":
Alexander, Lloyd, "The High King":
  great kids fantasy.  Rereading the whole Prydain cycle around 2002, maybe
  it loses some of it excitement as an adult, but it's still pretty fun.
Asimov, Isaac, "Foundation":
Asimov, Isaac, "Foundation and Empire":
Asimov, Isaac, "Second Foundation":
Asimov, Isaac, "Foundation's Edge":
Asmiov, Isaac, "I, Robot" (reread 2021):
Asimov, Isaac, "The Caves of Steel":
Asimov, Isaac, "Robots and Empire":
Asimov, Isaac, "The Robots of Dawn":
Asimov, Isaac, "The Stars, Like Dust":
Asimov, Isaac, "The Currents of Space":
Asimov, Isaac, "Pebble in the Sky":
Asimov, Isaac, "The Gods Themselves": fun SF premise worked out in an
  interesting way.  Academic infighting a bit overdone (yes, academics
  may be tyrants in their own little empires, but discipline-wide
  conspiracy seems a little more odd to me), romance sort of ridiculous.
Atwood, Margaret, "The Handmaid's Tale":
Atwood, Margaret, "Cat's Eye":
Augustine, "The Confessions": one of the few things I read in my freshman
  humanities course that I really liked and would read again.
Austen, Jane, "Emma":
Austen, Jane, "Pride and Prejudice": comfort reading--one of those things I
  come back to on a regular basis.
Austen, Jane, "Mansfield Park": maybe the strangest to a modern reader.
  I don't love any of the characters.  But it's interesting in some
  ways.
Austen, Jane, "Northanger Abbey":
Austen, Jane, "Sense and Sensibility":
Austen, Jane, "Persuasion":
Bâ, Mariama, "Une si longue lettre" (2018): "French in Ann Arbor"
  book group.
Ballard, J.G., "Concrete Island"
Ballard, J.G., "Running Scared":
Ballard, J.G., "Empire of the Sun", 2000: I think this may be the only
  Ballard I've read that I've unequivocally liked.  It has a lot of the
  same themes as the other things I've read by him, but somehow they
  make more sense to me in the context of a story about a child (his
  younger self) caught up in a senseless war in China.
Barbery, Muriel, "L'elegance du herisson":
Barker, Clive, "Weaveworld": characters are total blank slates.  Prose
  seems overdone, and the story overlong.
Barlow, Toby, "Sharp Teeth": noir thriller with werewolves, told in
  free verse.  I was a little disappointed--I think I hoped for more epic
  poetry and a less conventional story.
Barnes, Julian, "Flaubert's parrot"
Baylock, "All The Bells on Earth", 2000, gift from Ruth: Slow to
  start---really takes a long time to build up the story, and nothing
  "fantastic" happens for ages. The story could be interpreted almost
  entirely in terms of the mundane world.  Good stuff.
Baylock, "The Last Coin": I like his characters quite a bit.
Baylock, "The Paper Grail":
Beagle, Peter S., "The Folk of the Air":
Beagle, Peter S., "The Last Unicorn":
Beagle, Peter S., "A Fine and Private Place":
Bellotto, René, "L'Enfer": checked out from library before 2014 Lyon
  trip.  Noir.  Exuberent exaggerated language to the point of surreal
  at times.  Grew on me, wished I'd read it more carefully by the end,
  but not sure I'll get a chance to reread....
Benchley, Peter, "Q Clearence":
Birmingham, Kevin, "The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James
  Joyce’s Ulysses":
Blount, Roy jr., "Not Exactly What I Had in Mind":
Bond, Michael, "Monsieur Pamplemousse Aloft":
Bond, Michael, "Monsier Pamplemousse on Location":
Bond, Michael, "Monsieur Pamplemousse Afloat": others: love the names (his
  dog is "Pommes Frites").  Learns heavily on (especially sexist)
  stereotypes.
Boyle, Kevin, "Arc of Justice": novel-like story of Ossian Sweet's
  attempt to move his family to a whites-only neighborhood of Detroit,
  and the legal aftermath.
Bradbury, Ray, "Fahrenheit 451":
Bradbury, Ray, "Something Wicked This Way Comes":
Bradbury, Ray, "Dandelion Wine":
Bradbury, Ray, "The Machineries of Joy":
Braithwaite, "To Sir, With Love":
Brontë, Emily, "Wuthering Heights": yeah, they made me read it in high
  school.  That may have already been too late.
Brooks, Bruce, "The Moves Make the Man" (high school): nice
  young-adult fiction, by a Silver Spring native.
Brooks, Terry, "The Elfstones of Shannara"
Brooks, Terry, "The Sword Of Shannara"
Brooks, Terry, "The Wishsong of Shannara":
Brooks, Terry, "Fantasy Land for Sale--Sold!":
Brownstein, Carrie, "Hunger Makes me a Modern Girl: A Memoir" (2019):
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "Falling Free":
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "Shards of Honor":
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "Aftermaths",
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "Barrayar":
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "The Warrior's Apprentice":
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "The Mountains of Mourning",
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "The Vor Game":
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "Cetaganda":
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "Ethan of Athos":
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "Labyrinth":
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "The Borders of Infinity":
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "Brothers in Arms":
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "Borders of Infinity":
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "Mirror Dance",
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "Memory":
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "Komarr":
Bujold, Lois McMaster, A Civil Campaign":
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "Winterfair Gifts":
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "Diplomatic Immunity":
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "Captain Vorpatril's Alliance":
Bujold, Lois McMaster, "Cryoburn":
Burgess, Anthony, "A Clockwork Orange":
Burgess, Anthony, "The Wanting Seed" (f&sf/t 2004):
Byatt, A.S., "Possession":
Camus, Albert, "L'étranger":
Camus, Albert, "La Peste":
Canetti, "The Voices of Marrakesh":
Card, Orson Scott, "Ender's Game":
Card, Orson Scott, "Speaker for the Dead",
Card, Orson Scott, "Songmaster":
Card, Orson Scott, "Unfinished Sonata":
Card, Orson Scott, "Seventh Son":
Card, Orson Scott, "Red Prophet":
Card, Orson Scott, "The Worthing Chronicles":
Card, Orson Scott, "Hart's Hope":
Card, Orson Scott, "Wyrms":
Card, Orson Scott, "Xenocide":
Card, Orson Scott, "Ender's Shadow":
Carroll, Jonathan, "The Wooden Sea": Nicely done, likeable characters, and
  I like the way very imaginative fantastic ideas are combined with the
  commonplace, but in the end I couldn't really see how it hung together.
Carrol, Lewis, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "Through the
  Looking Glass":
Chevallier, Gabriel, "Clochemerle": in 2014 I happened across a house
  with a plaque in front saying the author of "Clochemerle" had lived
  there, so I picked up a copy.  Comic take on France's
  Catholic/anti-clerical rift.
Child, Lee, "The Killing Floor": read on a whim on Kindle in Tempe
  Christmas 2013.  Passable but don't intend to read any others.
Cho, Zen, "Sorceror to the Crown" (2021):
Cho, Zen, "The True Queen" (2021): Sakti and Muna visit London, get
  entangled with politics of English Thaumaturges, dragons, and the
  Fairy court, find their identity/ies.
Clark, Arthur C., "2001, A Space Oddysey":
Clark, Arthur C., "Childhood's End":
Clark, Arthur C., "Prelude to Space":
Clark, Arthur C., "The Fountains of Paradise":
Clark, Arthur C., "2010:Oddysey 2":
Clark, Arthur C., "A Fall of Moondust":
Clark, Arthur C., "The Sands of Mars":
Clark, Arthur C., "The City and the Stars",
Clark, Arthur C.,  "Earthlight":
Clark, Arthur C., "Expedition to Earth":
Clark, Arthur C., "Imperial Earth":
Clark, Arthur C., "Tales from the White Hart":
Clark, Arthur C., "The Nine Billion Names of God":
Clark, Arthur C., "The Songs of Distant Earth":
Clark, Arthur C., "The Other Side of the Sky":
Clark, Arthur C., "The Wind from the Sun":
Clark, Arthur C., "Songs from Distant Earth":
Clark, Arthur C., "Rendezvous with Rama", (2000 f&sf/t book group):
Clarke, Susanna, "Piranesi" (2021):
Clavell, James, "Shogun"
Colin, Jones, "The Cambridge illustrated history of France": was just
  looking for a basic history text to prepare me for France 2014 trip,
  this fit the bill.
Collins, Suzanne, "The Hunger Games": 2013?: read it on Kindle on a
  whim.  Read synposes of the sequels on wikipedia to innoculate myself
  from the urge to read the rest.
Cooper, Susan, "The Bogart" (2002): The family of two kids inherits a
  Scottish castle, and with it, and invisible, mischevious spirit (a "bogart").
  Very well done except for the computer stuff.
Cooper, Susan, "The Grey King" (reread 2002): Read this as a kid.  It seemed
  more straightforward and less interesting as an adult, but there's good
  local Welsh color.
Cooper, Susan, "Silver on the Tree" (reread 2002): Even more than "The Grey
  King", this is very cut-and-dried; there are poems which give the kids
  laundry lists of things they have to remember to do, and they do them.
Crossly-Holland, kevin, "The Norse Myths": Fun to see stories that you catch
  glimpses of in so many other places.  Maybe a little dry.
Dahl, Roald, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory":
Dahl, Roald, "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator":
Dahl, Roald, "The Witches":
Dahl, Roald, "Mathilda":
Dahl, Roald, "James and the Giant Peach": and I read a few others Dahl
  books, including at least one of the "adult" short-story collections, but
  I don't remember which!
Dante, "Inferno": My eyes also passed over most of Purgatorio and Paradisio
  at some point, but I didn't retain much.
Daudet, Alphonse, "Le Petit Chose" (2014): read on Lyon trip.  Disliked
  it; like fourth-rate Dickens.  (And actually only a small part was set
  in Lyon.)
Daoud, Kamel, "Meursault, contre-enquête" (2018): with "French in Ann
  Arbor" book group.  L'entranger from the point of view of the murdered
  man's brother.
Davies, Paul, "Superforce: The Search for a Grand Unified Theory
  of Nature"
Dawkins, Richard, "The Ancestor's Tale":
De Berniere, Louis, "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts":
De Berniere, Louis, "Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord":
De Berniere, Louis, "The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman":
De Berniere, Louis, "Captain Corelli's Mandolin":
Delacourt, Gregoir, "La Liste de mes Envies" (2018):
Delany, Samuel R., "Triton":
Delany, Samuel R., "Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand": I like the
  title.  The novel is long and weird and some would probably find it
  ponderous, but there's bits of it I like a lot and remember frequently.
Delany, Samuel R., "Nova":  Grail story.
Delany, Samuel R., "Babel-17": Language as a weapon.
Delany, Samuel R., "Neveryona",...:
Delany, Samuel R., "The Einstein Intersection", 1999, sf&ft group: I was
  confused as heck, but enjoyed it anyway.
Delany, Samuel R., "Dhalgren", (?grad school?, 2023): Loved it.  (As
  I reread it in 2023, I thought, "well, last time I didn't get it, it
  makes more sense this time".  So it's weird seeing that my previous
  note was "Loved it.")
Delany, Samuel R., "The Ballad of Beta-2":
Despentes, Virginie, "Apocalypse Bébé":
Diaz, Junot, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao": Oscar gets
  friendzoned, and this is somehow a continuation of the family's
  persecution under Trujillo?  Pfft.
Dick, Phillip K., "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?":
Dick, Phillip K., "The Unteleported Man":
Dick, Phillip K., "The Zap Gun":
Dick, Phillip K., "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said", others:
Dickens, Charles, "Oliver Twist":
Dickens, Charles, "David Copperfield":
Dickens, Charles, "Great Expectations":
Dickens, Charles, "Nicholas Nickleby":
Dickens, Charles, "Bleak House":
Dickson, Gordon R., "Dorsai!":
Dickson, Gordon R., "Lost Dorsai":
Dickson, Gordon R., "Necromancer":
Dickson, Gordon R., "Soldier, Ask Not":
Dickson, Gordon R., "The Spirit of Dorsai":
Dickson, Gordon R., "Tactics of Mistake":
Dickson, Gordon R., "The Final Encyclopedia":
Di Filippo, Paul, "The Steampunk Trilogy": sf&fant. th. gp: Satire
  based in Victorian England and America.
Disch, Thomas, "334", 1999, 2000, sf&fantasy theory group: Very interesting.
  I want to reread this some day.
Disch, Thomas, "Triplicity": contains "Echo Round His Bones", "The
  Genocides", and "The Puppies of Terra".
Disch, Thomas, "Genocides", 1999: Great.  Just reading the last chapter is
  enough to fill me with despair for a week.
Donaldson, Stephen R., "Lord Foul's Bane":
Donaldson, Stephen R., "The Illearth War":
Donaldson, Stephen R., "The Power that Preserves":
Donaldson, Stephen R., "The Wounded Land":
Donaldson, Stephen R., "The One Tree":
Donaldson, Stephen R., "White Gold Weilder":
Donaldson, Stephen R., "Daughter of Regals":
Donaldson, Stephen R., "The Mirror of Her Dreams":
Donaldson, Stephen R., "A Man Comes Riding Through":
Donaldson, Stephen R., the Gap series, ?(grad school): Very fast-paced,
  plot-driven.  Five books, but clearly conceived as such from the start.
  The first book ("The Real Story") describes an event whose implications
  are gradually revealed, and not completely understood until much later.
  I'd like to re-read and see if I still liked it.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, "Crime and Punishment": read for high school
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, "The Brothers Karamazof":read this because, I kid you
  not, I was a fan of the juggling group.
Doyle, Arthur Conan, "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes": We had an edition
  of the complete stories at home, and I'm fairly sure I read them all,
  many probably multiple times.
Dumas, Alexandre, "Le Comte de Monte-Cristo":
Dumas, Alexandre, "Les Trois Mousquetaires":
Dumas, Alexandre, "Vingt Ans Après":
Dumas, Alexandre, "Le Vicomte de Bragelonne":
Dukaj, Jacek, "The Old Axolotl" (2020): more skimmed this, to be honest.
  Odd book.  Might be worth a more careful read.
Duras, Marguerite, "La Douleur" (2018): with "French in Ann Arbor"
  group.
Duras, Marguerite, "Moderato Cantabile" (high school):
Dyuvis, Corinne, "The Art of Saving the World" (2020): YA in which a
  teen learns about her potential thanks to a rift between worlds, a
  dragon, The Powers that Be, and (most importantly) several clones of
  herself.
Eco, Umberto, "Foucault's Pendulum":
Eco, Umberto, "The Name of the Rose":
El Akkad, Omar, "American War" (2020): the story of a late 21st-century
  civil war fought over "prohibition" (of fossil fuels) and the
  continuing north/south rift, funded by a new middle-eastern empire.
  Elements taken from headlines of recent deadlines, but transposed in a
  way to give new perspectives.
El-Mohtar, Amal and Gladstone, Max, "This Is How You Lose the Time War"
  (2021):
Elwes, Cary, "As You Wish : Inconceivable Tales From the Making of the
  Princess Bride" (2019):
Ernaux, Annie, "La Place": story of the author's father.
Evanovich, Janet: Stephanie Plum mysteries 4-7: Biolerplate genre stuff in
  some ways, but with some good jokes and characters.  Perfect for
  distraction from the flu or the sound of aircraft engines....
Exupery, Antoine de, "Le Petit Prince"
Farmer, Philip José, "To Your Scattered Bodies Go":
Farmer, Philip José, "The Fabulous Riverboat":
Farmer, Philip José, "The Dark Design":
Farmer, Philip José, "The Magic Labyrinth":
Farmer, Philip José, "Gods of Riverworld":
Farmer, Philip José, "Dayworld":
Farmer, Philip José, "Dark is the Sun":
Farmer, Philip José, "The Unreasoning Mask"
Farmer, Philip José, "Dayworld Rebel":
Farmer, Philip José, "The Lovers":
Faulkner, William, "As I Lay Dying":
Faye, Gaël, "Petit Pays": a child's perspective on civil war.  Feels
  like a fundamentally optimistic view of human nature in some ways,
  but doesn't shrink from the horror of losing family to the Rwandan
  genocide.
Feynman, Richard P., "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!":
Fforde, Jasper, "The Eyre Affair": seemed right up my alley, but I
  didn't get that much out of it.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, "The Great Gatsby": a high school assignment.  I
  should reread it some day.  (Reread 2021; worth it.)
Flaubert, Gustave, "Un Coeur Simple":
Flynn, Kathleen, "The Jane Austen Project: A Novel" (2020): time travel,
  romance, Jane Austen
Funke, Cornelia, "Inkheart":
Gaiman, Neil, "Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to
  the Galaxy" (1988):  See, I was into Neil Gaiman way before he was
  hot.  Wait, no, I was just a hopeless Douglas Adams fan....
Gaiman, Neil, "American Gods":
Gaiman, Neil, "The Graveyard Book": Nobody "Bod" Owens is orphaned and
  raised in a graveyard.
Garner, Alan, "The Voice That Thunders": essays by and about a favorite
  author.
Garner, Alan, "The Wierdstone of Brisengamen"
Garner, Alan, "The Moon of Gomrath":
  Children's fantasy
Garner, Alan, "The Owl Service":
Garner, Alan, "Elidor":
Garner, Alan, "Red Shift": adolescence.  Very terse, somewhat cryptic,
  definitely worth the trouble.
Garner, Alan, "The Stone Book Quartet": Four episodes covering 5 generations
  of a family and the land they live on.  Very musical language.  Probably
  my favorite Garner.  OK, probably my favorite book.
Garner, Alan, "Strandloper":
Garner, Alan, "Thursbitch":
Garner, Alan, "Boneland": OK, now I start to worry that he's fallen into
  a rut.
Farner, Alan, "Where Shall We Run To?" (2020): memoirs mostly of his
  childhood during WW II.  A bit like a sequel to The Stone Book
  Quartet.
Gide, André, "L'immoraliste" (2003):
Godden, Rumer, "An Episode of Sparrows" (2020): Based on a Connie Willis
  recommendation
Goldman, William, "The Princess Bride":
Goldman, William, "The Silent Gondoliers":
Graham, Kenneth, "The Wind in the Willows":
Graffman, Gary, "I Really Should be Practicing"
Gripe, "In the Time of the Bells" (re-read 2000): Nice melancholy little
  fairy tale about a king, his "whipping boy" (and long-lost brother,
  wouldn't you know it), etc.
Gunther, John, "Death Be Not Proud":
Haldeman, Joe, "The Forever War" (2000): The main character is drafted
  into a war that lasts some thousand years, though only 5 or so by his
  clock, due to relativistic effects.  This means, for example, that every
  time he comes back from a mission there's enormous culture shock.  Any
  non-sf work would not have available such a technique for expressing this
  culture shock, confined to describing surroundings the reader may already
  be familiar with.
Haldeman, Joe, "The Forever Peace" (2002, f&sf/t group): war is fought by 
  remotely operated "soldierboys".  Physicists have figured out how to end
  the universe, and religious fanatics want to do it.
Hambly, Barbara, "The Time of the Dark":
Hambly, Barbara, "The Walls of Air":
Hambly, Barbara, "The Armies of Daylight":
Hambly, Barbara, "The Silent Tower":
Hambly, Barbara, "Silicon Mage":
Hamid, Mohsin, "Exit West" (2021): Follows a pair of war refugees as
  doors open everywhere making global migration uncontrollable.  Despite
  turmoil, relatively optimistic about the world's adaptation to the
  result.
Hardy, Thomas, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles": read it as a teenager;
  remember liking it, but not much more.  Maybe I should give it another
  go some day.
Harrow, Alix E., "The Ten Thousand Doors of January": meta-portal
  fiction
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, "The Scarlet Letter":
Heinlein, Robert A., "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress":
Heinlein, Robert A., "Stranger in a Strange Land":
Heinlein, Robert A., "Glory Road":
Heinlein, Robert A., "Starship Troopers":
Heinlein, Robert A., "Job: A Comedy of Justice":
Heinlein, Robert A., "Friday":
Heinlein, Robert A., "The Door into Summer": He writes so well sometimes,
  but I just detest some of this stuff.  The politics mostly doesn't
  agree with me, but even without that he often comes across as smug and
  condescending.
Heinlein, Robert A.: "Have Spacesuit, will Travel":
Heller, Joseph, "Catch 22":
Hemmingway, Ernest, "The Sun Also Rises":
Hemmingway, Ernest, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (2021):
Herbert, Frank, "Dune" (1980s, 2020): The pandemic gave me an urge to reread
  Dune.  It tells us it's a about the dangers of power, but everyone likes to
  end the story here with the fulfillment of an adolescent power fantasy.
Herbert, Frank, "Dune Messiah" (1980s): Paul is emperor and target
  of a plot.  He loses his eyesight.  Chani dies giving birth to twins.
  Paul takes a final walk into the desert.
Herbert, Frank, "Children of Dune" (1980s, 2021):
Herbert, Frank, "God Emperor of Dune":
Herbert, Frank, "Heretics of Dune":
Herbert, Frank, "Chapterhouse: Dune": My memory is that you're best off
  resisting the temptation to read past "Dune", but maybe I just missed the
  point of the sequels.
Herbert, Frank, "The Santaroga Barrier":
Herriot, James, "All Things Bright and Beautiful"
Herriot, James, "All Creatures Great and Small":
Hilton, James, "Lost Horizons"
Hofstadter, Douglas R., "Gödel, Escher, Bach":
Hofstadter, Douglas R., "Metamagical Themas":
Holdstock, Robert, "Mythago Wood":
Homer, "The Illiad":
Homer, "The Oddysey": probably in more than one translation
Hughart, Barry, "Bridge of Birds":
Hughart, Barry, "The Story of the Stone":  Fun!
Huxley, Aldous, "Brave New World":
Hilton, "Lost Horizons":
Hugo, Victor, "Les Miserables":  I was a great fan when I read this originally
  in high school.  More recently I tried to reread it in the original language.
  I still enjoyed it, but somehow the time required to make it through the
  whole 2000 pages (or whatever it was) again just didn't seem worth it....
  (Yet again more recently, I actually made a second attempt and
  succeeded, but that may have been due to obstinacy more than anything
  else.)
Hugo, Victor, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame":
Ionesco, Eugene, "Rhinocerous":
Irving, John: I have some vague memory of going through a John Irving
  phase as teenager but can't even remember what I actually read: The
  158-pound marriage?  The Cider House Rules?  A Prayer for Owen Meany?
Ishiguro, Kazuo, "Artist of the Floating World"
Ishiguro, Kazuo, "The Remains of the Day":
  Well written.  First person narratives with lots of subtle tricks played
  with the narrator's reliability.  Full of emotion, but some readers (not
  me) seem too disappointed in the (often powerless, ineffective) main
  characters to get it.
Ishiguro, Kazuo, "Never Let Me Go": Fabulous, fascinating, and so deeply
  depressing that I'll probably never be able to pick it up again.
Jansson, Tove: "Moominpappa at Sea" (1993 (Jerry Shurman's recommendation),
  2002 (f&sf/t group)): dark, frankly unhappy family relationships, but
  wonderful.
Jansson, Tove: "Moominland Midwinter" (2002): Moomintroll wakes up early and
  experiences his first winter while the rest of his family is still in
  hibernation.
Jansson, Tove: "Comet in Moominland" (2002): Episodic kid's adventure story
Jansson, Tove: "The Moomins and the Great Flood":
Jansson, Tove, "Finn Family Moomintroll":
Jansson, Tove, "Moominsummer Madness":
Jansson, Tove, "Tales From Moominvalley":
Jansson, Tove, "Moominvalley in November":
Jansson, Tove: "Memoirs of Moominpappa": read this to James when he was
  quite young.  I don't think he understood the unreliable narrator that
  is Moominpappa, but I guess he was just enthralled by the fantasy.
Jansson, Tove: "The Summer Book": a girl, her grandma, an island.  Lots
  of the elements I like about the Moomins, though in the end I lost
  interest a little.
Jefferson, Jemiah: "Voice of the Blood":
Jefferson, Jemiah, "Wounds":
Jefferson, Jemiah, "Fiend":
Jefferson, Jemiah, "A Drop of Scarlet":
Jefferson, Jemiah: "Mixtape for the Apocalypse":
Jefferson, Jemiah, "St*rf*ck*ng":
Jemisin, N.K.: "The Fifth Season":
Jemisin, N.K., "The Obelisk gate":
Jemisin, N.K., "The Stone Sky" (2020): Powerful stuff.  A little apocalyptic
  for 2020. I'd like to give them another read, but they're not short.
Jennings, Gary, "Spangle"
Jerome, Jerome K., "Three Men in A Boat (to say Nothing of the Dog)": I
  was a bit disappointed.  A loose sequence of comic sketches none of
  which seemed particularly unusual.
Joyce, James, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man":
Joyce, James, "The Dubliners":
Joyce, James, "Ulysses" (2020): I always loved the first couple
  chapters.  After several attempts over years, I finally made it
  through in 2020, with some help from http://www.ulyssesguide.com/.  It
  was interesting.  I might give it another shot (a lot of it was still
  pretty opaque).  But I'm not 100% certain that for me it's worth the
  effort.
Keilor, Garrison, "Lake Wobegon Days", "Leaving Home":
Kessel, John, "Pride and Prometheus" (2018): Elizabeth's sister Mary
  meets Frankenstein.
King, Stephen, "Christine":
King, Stephen, "Pet Cemetary":
Kleier, "Last Day", 2000, sf&fantasy group: Terrible.  May be some
  interesting potential ideas there, but almost every one resolved in the
  most boring and trivial way possible.  The writing is bad too.
Kritzer, Naomi, "Catfishing on Catnet": Stephania takes a stand against
  her mom's stalker thanks to a cast of school and online friends and an
  AI.
Kritzer, Naomi, "Chaos on Catnet": The cast of friends widens to a
  couple cult escapees.  A second AI threatens chaos in Minneapolis.
Lafferty, Mur, "The Shambling Guide to New York City" (2021): Something
  I appreciate in both books and cities: the feeling that there's always
  another world waiting for you around the next corner.
Leblanc, Maurice, "Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-cambrioleur": stories of a
  thief who is a bit of a Sherlock Holmes-like character.
Leblanc, Maurice, "Les Dents du Tigre" (2021): more elaborate novel-length
  Lupin adventure.  Heirs to a large estate are killed off one by one,
  others are framed.  Lupin is also a French colonialist.
Le Carré, John, "Smiley's People":
Le Carré, John, "The Little Drummer Girl":
Le Carré, John, "Russia House":
Leckie, Ann, "Ancillary Justice" (2021): engaging, some interesting
  ideas, though I decided to read wikipedia synposes rather than get
  sucked into the next two volumes.
LeGuin, Ursula K., "The Left Hand of Darkness":
LeGuin, Ursula K., "The Dispossed":
LeGuin, Ursula K., "City of Illusions":
LeGuin, Ursula K., "The Eye of the Heron":
LeGuin, Ursula K., "A Wizard of Earthsea":
LeGuin, Ursula K., "The Tombs of Atuan":
LeGuin, Ursula K., "The Farthest Shore":
LeGuin, Ursula K., "The Lathe of Heaven" (reread first & last
  chapters, at least, for sf&fant, 2000): enjoyed it much more than
  I'd remembered.  I'm convinced it's all a parable about urban
  planning in PDX....
Lem, Stanislaw, "His Master's Voice":
Lem, Stanislaw, "Fiasco": Elaborate paranoia turns an attempt at
  interstellar contact into escalating violence.  The title says it.
Lewis, C. S., "The Chronicles of Narnia":
Lewis, C. S., "That Hideous Strength" (sf&fant, 2000): 3rd in space
  trilogy, but stands well on its own.  Didn't know quite what to think
  of it.  The philosophy bothered me quite a bit, but then I'm not sure I
  understood it.  Something about the ending reminded me of the kind of smug
  dialog I hate about late Heinlein.
Levi, Primo: "Survival in Auschwitz":
Levy, Stephen, "Hackers":
Liu, Ken, "The Three-Body Problem" (2020):
Mark, Jan, "Zeno was Here":
Martine, Arkady, "A Memory Called Empire" (2021):
Martine, Arkady, "A Desolation Called Peace" (2021):
Maxx, Barry, "Jennifer Government":
May, Julian, "The Many Colored Land":
McManus, Patrick F., "A Fine and Pleasant Misery":
McManus, Patrick F., "They Shoot Canoes Now, Don't They?":
McManus, Patrick F., "Never Sniff a Gift Fish":
McManus, Patrick F., "The Grasshoper Trap":
McManus, Patrick F., "Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs":
McManus, Patrick F., "Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing":
Mieville, China, "Perdido Street Station" (f&sf/t, 2003): I'm not sure I
  liked the novel as a whole, but it was full of interesting inventions.
Mieville, China, "The City & The City" (f&sf/t, 2010):
Milan, Courtney, "Trade Me" (2021):
Milan, Courtney, "Hold Me" (2021):
Miller, Arthur, "The Crucible":
Miller, Arthur, "Death of a Salesman":
Miller, Walter M., "A Canticle for Leibowitz":
Milne, AA, "Winnie the Pooh":
Milne, AA, "The House at Pooh Corner"
Milne, AA, "When We Were Very Young"
Milne, AA, "Now We Are Six":  James didn't maintain interest in
  these for a long time, but I got a newfound appreciation.
Milne, AA, "Once Upon a Time" (2020): I liked this!  A little like a
  better-natured "Princess Bride".
Mitchell, David, "Cloud Atlas": I always enjoy formal gimmicks....
Mitchison, Naomi, "Travel Light" (2021): based on recommendation from
  "This Is How You Lose the Time War".  Delightful adult fairy tale.
Moliére, "L'Ecole des Femmes":
Modiano, Patrick, "Un Cirque Passe" (2003):  boy meets girl under mysterious
  circumstances, with no discussion of their pasts, and a relationship
  develops.  They have an odd dalliance with organized crime, and she's
  killed in the last paragraph just as they prepare to escape Paris for Rome.
Montgomery, LM, "Anne of Green Gables": another one I seem to recall
  reading as a kid but not getting much out of.
Mosely, Walter, "Futureland": a series of linked short stories featuring an
  interesting collection of characters in a dystopian future.
Mouawad, Wajdi, "Incendies" (2018): with "French in Ann Arbor" book
  group.
Muir, Tamsyn, "Gideon the Ninth" (2021):
Muir, Tamsyn, "Harrow the Ninth" (2021):
Nabokov, "Pnin", "Invitation to a Beheading":
Neill, A. S., "Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing"
Neville, Katherine, "The Eight":
Niederhoffer, Galt, "A taxonomy of Barnacles":
Nimier, Marie, "L'hypnotisme à la Portée de tous": Story of a child whose
  life is changed by her encounter with a book of the same title.
Nimier, Marie, "La Girafe": read this on the strength of "L'hypnotisme à la
  Portée de tous", but got nothing out of it.  Maybe I wasn't trying hard
  enough.
Nimier, Marie, "La Nouvelle Pornographie": huh?
Niven, Larry, "Ringworld":
Niven, Larry, "The Ringworld Engineers":
Niven, Larry, "The Integral Trees"
Niven, Larry, and Pournelle, Jerry: "The Mote in Gods Eye":
Niven, Larry, and Pournelle, Jerry, "Oath of Fealty":
Niven, Larry, and Pournelle, Jerry, "Lucifer's Hammer":
Niven, Larry, and Pournell, Jerry, "Footfall":
Orwell, George, "1984":
Orwell, George, "Animal Farm":
Orwell, George, "Keep the Aspidistra Flying":
Pagnol, Marcel, "La Gloire de Mon Pére":
Pagnol, Marcel, "La Maison de ma Mere": stories from
  the author's childhood; very enjoyable.
Palmer, David R., "Emergence":
Palmer, David R., "Threshhold":
Palwick, Susan, "The Necessary Beggar" (2021):
Perec, Georges, "W ou Le Souvenir d'Enfance": alternates history of the
  relatively uneventful life of an orphan with a retelling of a juvenile
  fantasy of an island dedicated entirely to Sport.  Very interesting.
Perec, Georges, "Les Choses": the story of a couple's search for happiness,
  told in a very un-story-like way; Perec rarely describes a single event
  if he could instead describe a class of typical events, and as a result
  this reads more like some sort of sociological study than a novel.
Perec, Georges, "Un Homme qui Dort": as with "Les Choses", I found it a
  little too dry to take.  Sometimes Perec seems more a writer of lists
  than of novels.
Perc, Georges, "La Vie, Mode d'Emploi": lists upon lists upon lists,
  stories with stories within stories.  Lots of crazy interesting ideas,
  though a bit of a slog for me as with his others.
Penny, Louise, "Still Life" (2021):
Persig, Robert, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance":
Pohl, "Gateway": reread in 2012.  I though it held up OK.
Powers, Tim, "Last Call" (?1999?): Tarot, card-playing, Las Vegas, in a
  modern-day fantasy.  Good stuff.
Powers, Tim, "Expiration Date", (2000): Ghosts this time.  Also good.
Powers, Tim, "Earthquake Weather":
Powers, Tim, "Declare": An odd sort of alternate history or historical
  romance--all the historical details appear to be accurate, but it places a
  radically different interpretation on events--a fantastic one, which would
  have us believe that everything had to do with Djinns.  I didn't really
  enjoy it as much as I'd expected.  It might be more fun if I'd been familiar
  with the relevant history.
Pratchett, Terry, "The Colour of Magic":
Pratchett, Terry, "Feet of Clay":
Pratchett, Terry, "Monstrous Regiment":
Pratchett, Terry, "Going Postal" (2021): Vetinari gives convicted con
  man Moist a second chance as postmaster, where he takes on the Clacks
  (a stand-in for the internet).
Pratchett, Terry: darn it, I like him and I've read plenty of others,
  but I don't remember which. I can't for the
Pratchett, Terry and Gaiman, Neil, "Good Omens":
Priest, Christopher, "The Prestige" (2002):  The story of two rival
  magicians at the turn-of-the-century, their two big illusions, both
  instant self-teleportations, but with extremely different secrets, and
  their modern descendents sorting through the still-simmering family feud.
Proust, Marcel, "Du Côté de chez Swann": "Combray" seemed really
  original and interesting, "Un Amour de Swann" more like a conventional
  novel.
Proust, Marcel, "À l'ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleur":  Enjoyed the
  second half more than the first.  I'm going to need some kind of
  cross-index if I'm ever going to make it through the whole work.
Proust, Marcel, "Le Côté de Guremantes":
Proust, Marcel, "Sodome et Gomorrhe":
Proust, Marcel, "La Prisonnière":
Proust, Marcel, "Albertine Disparue":
Proust, Marcel, "Le Temps Retrouvé": It took me a
  few years.  A cross-reference would indeed have been useful; the
  ending refers back to the beginning quite a bit and I was already
  fuzzy on some of the chacters.  The last volume is wonderful, but "La
  Prisonnière" and "Albertine Disparue" are tough going.  Finished 2013?
Proust, "Lettres à sa voisine": 26 letters Proust wrote to his upstairs
  neighbor.  He really didn't like people making noise upstairs in the
  morning.
Pulley, Natasha, "The Kingdoms": An amnesiac, a lighthouse, alternate
  histories that forked at Trafalgar, HMS Victory.
Pullman, Philip, "The Golden Compass":
Pullman, Philip, "The Subtle Knife":
Pullman, Philip, "The Amber Spyglass":
Pullman, Philip, "I Was a Rat!": the cinderella story from an unusual
  perspective
Pullman, Philip, "The Ruby in the Smoke":
Pullman, Philip, "The Shadow in the North":
Pullman, Philip, "The Tiger in the Well": 
Pullman, Philip, "Count Karlstein":
Pym, Barbara, "Excellent Women"
Pynchon, Thomas, "The Crying of Lot 49":
Queneau, Raymond, "Zazie dans le Metro": zany characters, great fun.
Queneau, Raymond, "Les Derniers Jours":
Queneau, Raymond, "Pierrot Mon Ami": Possibly my favorite book.  I love
  the way he introduces animal characters without telling us at first
  they're animals.  I love the way the whole book almost seems to fit
  together (does it really?) while seeming delightfully random from one
  moment to the next.
Queneau, Raymond, "Les Fleurs Blue":
Queneau, Raymond, "Le Dimanche de la Vie":
Ransome, Arthur, "Swallows and Amazons": plus some of the sequels.  I
  remember enjoying them.  Kids and boats.
Raskin, Ellen, "The Westing Game" (reread 2002): Clever puzzle-mystery about
  the will of one Sam Westing.  Read first as a kid, but still seems great now.
Rawlings, "The Yearling":
Roberts, Keith, "Pavane":
Roubaud, Jacques, "Hortense is Abducted":
Roubaud, Jacques, "Hortense in Exile": I think these
  are hilarious.  Maybe some would find his mathematician's sense of humor
  tedious.
Roubaud, "La Belle Hortense": I finally got around to reading the first of
  the three Hortense books.  Still very funny, and interesting.  I need to
  reread it sometime as I know there are a ton of odd unexplained things
  going on here.
Roubaud, "Mathématique":
Rowan, Carl T., "Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice
  Thurgood Marshall":
Ruff, Matt, "Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy": Read this
  for the f&sf/t book group in 2005, on Sara's recommendation.  Packed
  with ideas, very funny.  The discussion made me think there were things
  I missed, from small jokes to major themes.  So maybe I should give it
  another go some day.  I'm not so sure I will, though....
Rushdie, Salman, "Midnight's Children":
Russell, Mary Doria, "The Sparrow":
Russell, Mary Doria, "Children of God" (2000, f&sf/t book
  group): Starts out with the interesting premise of a jesuit making first
  contact on a planet with two intelligent species, one predator, the other
  prey.  Doesn't go as far with that as I might have liked, but still a good
  read.
Sagan, Carl, "Brocca's Brain":
Sagan, Carl, "Cosmos":
Sagan, Carl, "Contact":
Sagan, Françoise, "Bonjour Tristesse": story of a young woman who, faced
  with the prospect of her easy-going, womanazing father finally settling
  down with a wife they both love, acts to preserve their former
  lifestyle, with tragic consequences.
Sagan, Françoise, "Avec Mon Meillure Souvenir" (2003): autobiographical
  collection.  I think my favorite was the description of her pilgrimage to
  New York to see Billy Holiday sing.
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, "Le Petit Prince":
Salinger, J. D., "Catcher in the Rye":
Salzman, Mark, "Iron and Silk":
Sartre, Jean-Paul, "Huis Clos":
Saunders, George, "Lincoln in the Bardo" (2021): what an odd little
  book.  I enjoyed it.  Checking afterwards, I see that the "historical"
  quotes are a mixture of real and fictional, which bugs me.
Schott, Ben, "Jeeves and the King of Clubs": Top-notch Wodehouse pastiche
  with some fun updates
Shakespeare, William, "Hamlet":
Shakespeare, William, "Macbeth":
Shakespeare, William, "Julius Caeser":
Shakespeare, William, "The Comedy of Errors":
Sheckley, Robert, "Crompton Divided":
Shriver, Lionel, "Game Control": The main character is a woman who falls
  in love with a demographer who wants to "cull" humans to save the human
  species.
Shirer, William Lawrence, "Gandhi, a memoir":
Silverberg, Robert, "Lord Valentine's Castle":
Silverberg, Robert, "The Majipour Chronicles":
Silverberg, Robert, "Gilgamesh the King":
Silverberg, Robert, "Valentine Pontifex":
Silverberg, Robert, "Tom O'Bedlam":
Silverberg, Robert, "The Man in the Maze":
Silverberg, Robert, "Nightwings":
Simenon, Georges, "Maigret et L'Homme du Banc":
Simenon, Georges, "Maigret et le Clochard": The Maigret stories sometimes
  have endings in which less happens than you'd expect, but it's more
  amusing.
Simenon, georges, "Un Noël de Maigret": includes "Un Noël de Maigret", "Sept
  Petites Croix Dans un Carnet", "Le Petit Restaurant des Ternes"; all take
  place on christmas.  The second, taking place entirely in a single office
  around the police switchboard, may have been my favorite.
Smiley, Jane, "Moo", 1999: Amusing satire on university life.  The setting
  is a financially troubled midwestern university.  Characters include
  a hot-shot economics professor ("Lionel Gift"), a secretary who
  holds all the real power in the university, ....
Snicket, Lemony: "The Bad Beginning":
Snicket, Lemony: "The Reptile Room":
Snicket, Lemony: "The Wide Window":
Snicket, Lemony: "The Miserable Mill":
Snicket, Lemony: "The Austere Academy":
Snicket, Lemony: "The Ersatz Elevator":
Snicket, Lemony: "The Vile Village":
Snicket, Lemony: "The Hostile Hospital":
Snicket, Lemony: "The Carnivorous Carnival":
Snicket, Lemony: "The Slippery Slope":
Snicket, Lemony: "The Grim Grotto":
Snicket, Lemony: "The Penultimate Peril":
Snicket, Lemony: "The End": unsatisfying, but correctly so, I think.
Sophocles, "Oedipus Rex":
Sophocles, "Oedipus at Colonnus":  I may have also tried to
  read Antigone at some point, but if so I didn't take much away from it.
  It's "Oedipus at Colonnus" that's really my favorite, though.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" (2002):
  Fictional account of one day in the life of a man living in Stalinist work
  camp.  Miserable and hopeful at the same time.  I loved it.
Sorokin, Vladimir, "The Queue":
Spencer, William Browning, "Resume with Monsters" (2002, f&sf/t):  Our
  protaganist is convinced that the employees at his series of terrible jobs
  are all pawns of Lovecraft's monsters.
Steinbeck, John, "The Grapes of Wrath":
Steinbeck, John, "The Red Pony":
Steinbeck, John, "The Pearl":
Stephenson, Neal, "Quicksilver":
Stephenson, Neal, "The Confusion":
Stephenson, Neal, "System of the World":
Stephenson, Neal, "Cryptonomicon", 1999: Lots of funny characterizations
  of mathematicians: my favorites are the use of a cartesian plane to divide
  up an estate, and the explanation of modular arithmetic using Turing's
  bicycle.
Stephenson, Neal, "Snow Crash":
Stephenson, Neal, "Zodiac":
Stephenson, Neal, "The Diamond Age", reread 2000 for bookgroup: Stephenson is
  always full of little jokes and funny ideas, but some people find it doesn't
  hang together.
Stephenson, Neal, "The Big U": wonderfully silly
Stephenson, Neal, "Seveneves": hard SF: long discussions of orbital
  mechanics, robotics, space elevators, and more.  The engineers are all
  selfless and right-thinking, politicians are all selfish manipulators.
  After the mysterious breakup of the moon, scientists calculate a
  2-year death sentence for earth-dwellers in the form of a meteor
  shower dubbed the "hard rain".  The first half of the story covers the
  effort to launch as many people as possible into space, then their
  trek to get into a safe high orbit.  The second half, set 5000 years
  later, is about the descendents of the "seven eves" who survived the
  trek and their discovery that humans also discovered underground and
  underwater.
Stoker, Bram, "Dracula":
Stoppard, Tom, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead":
Takagi, Akimitsu, "The Informer"  (trans. Sadako Mizuguchi), 2000: 
  Straightforward whodunit about a man down on his luck who's mysteriously
  hired by a (supposed) industrial espionage firm.
Tevis, Walter, "Mockingbird":
Thomas, Angie, "The Hate U Give" (2021): Good YA BLM novel
Thomas, Angie, "On the Come Up" (2021):
Tiptree, James, "Up the Walls of the World"
Tolkien, J.R.R., "The Hobbit":
Tolkien, J.R.R., "The Fellowship of the Ring":
Tolkien, J.R.R., "The Two Towers":
Tolkien, J.R.R., "The Return of the King":
Tolkien, J.R.R., "The Silmarillion": reread 2021, still a bit of a slog
  as far as I'm concerned.
Toole, John Kennedy, "A Confederacy of Dunces"
Twain, Mark, "Tom Sawyer":
Twain, Mark, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court":
Twain, Mark, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn":
Twain, Mark, "The Innocents Abroad": read for a literature class at Reed
  with Roger Porter focusing on travel writing.
Verne, Jules, "Jules Verne: A Biography": Jeez, I don't remember this one
  at all....
Virgil, "The Aeneid": this is a case where my eyes passed over all the words,
  but I can't honestly say I took in that much.  Oh well.
Voigt, "Homecoming":
Voigt, "Dicey's Song":
Vonnegut, Kurt, "Cat's Cradle", "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater", "The
  Sirens of Titan", "Galapagos", "Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons",
  "Slaughterhouse 5", "Player Piano":
Walker, Alice, "The Color Purple":
Walker, Alice, "The Temple of My Familiar":
Wharton, Edith, "The Age of Innocence": Saw the movie, read the book.
White, EB, "Charlotte's Web":
Wilhelm, Kate, "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang": A family struggles to
  survive in the aftermath of society's collapse by cloning themselves.
  Generations later the clones are reluctant to return to the old-fashioned
  reproductive techniques of their elders.  Nice atmosphere, good
  description of the family.  Melancholy.
Wilkerson, Isabel, "The Warmth of Other Suns": the history of the Great
  Migration, told mainly through the stories of three migrants.
Wilkerson, Isabel, "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent":
Willis, Connie, "Remake": Amusing love story, about a young dancer
  determined to dance in the movies in a future during which movie makers
  are more concerned with computer graphics and litigation over the rights
  to pieces of classic movies.  Lots of classic movie references.
Willis, Connie, "To say nothing of the dog, or, How we found the bishop's bird
  stump at last":
Willis, Connie, "The Best of Connie Willis" (2020):
Winkler, Anthony, "The Duppy": The title character (and narrator), a
  Jamaican shopkeeper, dies and goes to heaven, which he must enter, to his
  indignation, through a culvert in a sugar cane field, lead there by his
  guide-to-the-afterlife, who is, to add insult to injury, a "shot thief".
  The hilarity ensues.
Wodehouse, P.G., "Jeeves in the Offing":
Wodehouse, P.G., "Heavy Weather":
Wodehouse, P.G., "The Inimitable Jeeves" (2020):
Wodehouse, P.G., "The Code of the Woosters":
Wodehouse, P.G., "Right Ho, Jeeves" (2020):
Wodehouse, P.G., "My Man Jeeves" (2021):
Wodehouse, P.G., "Thank You, Jeeves" (2020):
Wodehouse, P.G., "Something New" (2021): Blandings, a stolen scarab
Wodehouse, P.G., "The Girl on the Boat" (?, 2021): I'm fond of the
  climax at night in the country house with the suit of armor and the
  drive.
Wodehouse, P.G., "The Mating Season" (2021):
Wodehouse, P.G., "Leave it to Psmith" (2021): Psmith goes to Blandings,
  falls in love
Wodehouse, P.G., "Psmith in the city" (2021): The New Asiatic Bank;
  launching Mike Jackson's cricket career.
Wodehouse, P.G., "Meet Mr. Mulliner" (2021): Mr. Mulliner sits in a pub
  and tells 9 stories about his relatives, who all get what they want
  (in 8 cases, the girl).
Wolfe, Gene, "The Shadow of the Torturer":
Wolfe, Gene, "The Claw of the Conciliator":
Wolfe, Gene, "The Sword of the Lictor":
Wolfe, Gene, "The Citidel of the Autarch":
  intriguing atmosphere, but somehow it never lives up to my
  expectations. After rereading in 2015: made much more sense.  If I read
  it again I should really keep an index of places and characters, I
  probably missed some connections.
Wolfe, Gene, "The Urth of the New Sun":
Wolfe, Gene, "Live Free": an odd cast of characters, united by their all
  having lived together briefly with the mysterious "Ben Free" shortly
  before his house was destroyed, cooperate reluctantly to uncover Free's
  secret; turns out in the end to be a byzantine time-travel story.
Wouk, Herman, "The Caine Mutiny":
Zamyatin, Yevgeny, "We": A distopia, but a very bright, sunny sort of
  distopia. Interesting.
Zelazny, Roger, "Nine Princes in Amber":
Zelazny, Roger, "The Guns of Avalon":
Zelazny, Roger, "The Sign of the Unicorn":
Zelazny, Roger, "The Hand of Oberon":
Zelazny, Roger, "The Courts of Chaos":
Zelazny, Roger, "The Trumps of Doom":
Zelazny, Roger, "Blood of Amber":
Zelazny, Roger, "Sign of Chaos": these Amber books get off to a
  rip-roaring start, then continue less memorably.
Zelazny, Roger, "Doorways in the Sand":