• A Mercy by Toni Morrison
• Goldengrove by Francine Prose
• Home by Marilynne Robinson
• The Believer #63: June 2009
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
• The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov
• Lush Life by Richard Price
• The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
• Descartes Bones by Russell Shorto
• Humpty Dumpty in Oakland by Philip K. Dick
• The Believer July/August '09 Music Issue
• People of The Book by Geraldine Brooks
• Alfred & Emily by Doris Lessing
• Nothing To Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
• Slumberland by Paul Beatty
• Dirty Blonde by Courtney Love
• Loose Girl by Kerry Cohen
• Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
• Living When a Young Friend Commits Suicide by Earl A. Grollman
• 1 in 13 by Jessica Portner
• The Believer September '09 Issue
• True Compass by Ted Kennedy
• The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa
• Wake Up! by Jack Kerouac
• McSweeney's issue 31
• From A to X: A Story in Letters by John Berger
• What Happened to Anna K. by Irina Reyn
• Chosen Country by John Dos Passos
• The Believer September 2009
• The Believer October 2009
• A Coney Island Of The Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• The Letters of Allen Ginsberg by Allen Ginsberg
• Tin House: 10th Anniversary Edition
• Postcards From The Edge by Carrie Fisher
• The Best Awful There Is by Carrie Fisher
• Surrender The Pink by Carrie Fisher
• Delusions of Grandma by Carrie Fisher
• Requiem for a Paper Bag by Davy Rothbart
• Evermore by Alyson Noel
• Miracle Wimp by Erik P. Kraft
• Cancer on $5 A Day by Robert Schimmel
• A Romance on Three Legs by Katie Hafner
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
• The Believer Nov/Dec. 2009: The Art Issue
• McMafia by Misha Glenny
• Moneyball by Michael Lewis
• The Genius by David Harris
• The New Yorker: 12/14/09
• The Professor & The Madman by Simon Winchester
• Open City #5

re-reading:

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
• Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Utopia by Thomas More