Joe's Fiction List
The list that follows has a list of books that I've read (and can remember that I've read) since January, 2002. I recommend them all as good fiction, but I am especially fond of the works of the great Japanese writer Shusaku Endo. Rebecca Wells Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Rebecca Wells Little Altars Everywhere Pat Conroy My Losing Season Pat Conroy Beach Music Pat Conroy The Prince of Tides Shusaku Endo Wonderful Fool Shusaku Endo The River Shusaku Endo The Sea and Poison Shusaku Endo Five By Endo Shusaku Endo The Final Martyrs Shusaku Endo Silence Shusaku Endo The Samurai Graham Greene The Quiet American Graham Greene The Human Factor Graham Greene The Power and the Glory Anne Tyler Dinner at Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler Saint Maybe Anne Tyler Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov Aleksander Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch Wallace Stegner The Big Rock Candy Mountain Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck The Pearl William Golding Lord of the Flies Stephen King The Green Mile Stephen King The Shawshank Redemption Elie Wiesel The Gates of the Forest Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Yevgeny Yevtushenko Don't Die Before You're Dead James Dickey Deliverance Pat Conroy The Great Santini Tom Clancy Rainbow Six John Grisham A Painted House Garrison Keillor Lake Wobegon Days Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Pat Conroy The Lords of Discipline J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Herman Melville Moby Dick J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit Shusaku Endo Scandal Leo Tolstoy The Forged Coupon Mary Shelley Frankenstein J.R.R. Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring Julian Symons The Narrowing Circle J.R.R. Tolkien The Two Towers J.R.R. Tolkien The Return of the King John Grisham The Summons Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World Shusaku Endo Foreign Studies Shusaku Endo When I Whistle George Orwell Animal Farm Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 Frank Schaeffer Portofino Ray Bradbury From the Dust Returned Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes From Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky The Gambler John Grisham The Street Lawyer John Grisham The Runaway Jury John Grisham Bleachers Robert Ludlum The Apocalypse Watch Robert Ludlum The Prometheus Deception Robert Ludlum The Sigma Protocol F. Paul Wilson Midnight Mass Kenzaburo Oe The Silent Cry Kenzaburo Oe An Echo of Heaven Stephen King Bag of Bones Dean Koontz Odd Thomas Ray Bradbury The Cat's Pajamas Stephen King Dreamcatcher Carl Sagan Contact Dean Koontz The Taking Arthur C. Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey Stephen King The Tommyknockers Garrison Keillor Love Me Arthur C. Clarke 2010: odyssey two Dean Koontz Forever Odd 07/22/2006 Charles Portis True Grit 07/23/2006 Neil McMahon To The Bone 07/27/2006 Stephen King Desperation 07/29/2006 Neil McMahon Revolution No. 9 08/01/2006 Andy McNab Firewall 08/05/2006 Dan Brown Digital Fortress 08/06/2006 Neil McMahon Blood Double 08/08/2006 Stephen King From a Buick 8 08/23/2006 Andy McNab Code 4 08/30/2006 Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter 09/09/2006 Stephen King The Drawing of the Three 9/23/2006 Andy McNab Last Light 10/03/2006 Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness 10/13/2006 Stephen King The Gunslinger Stephen King The Wastelands 11/03/2006 Stephen King Wizard and Glass 12/03/2006 Stephen King Wolves of the Calla 12/17/2006 Stephen King Song of Susannah 12/31/2006 Stephen King The Dark Tower 01/11/2007 Graham Greene A Burnt Out Case 01/14/2007 Aldous Huxley Brave New World 01/03/2007 Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 02/06/2007 Stephen King Insomnia 05/14/2007 Dean Koontz Brother Odd 06/14/2007 Stewart O'Nan The Names of the Dead 07/12/2007 Anne Tyler Digging to America 07/25/2007 Dean Koontz By the Light of the Moon 08/10/2007 Neil McMahon Lone Creek 09/19/2007 Stephen King The Dark Half 11/19/2007 Kenzaburo Oe Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids 01/01/2008