A complete listing of Extended Play’s book reviews.
Bold indicates books I particularly enjoyed!
General Nonfiction
- John Ortved – The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History
- Haruki Murakami – Underground
- W.H. Auden – Forewords and Afterwords
- David Foster Wallace – A Supposedly Fun Thing I’d Never Do Again
- Ryszard Kapuściński – The Soccer War
- Ryszard Kapuściński – The Emperor
- Ryszard Kapuscinski – Another Day of Life
- John McPhee – The John McPhee Reader
- Dave Cullen – Columbine
- Roger Ebert – Awake In the Dark
- John Leland – Hip: The History
- Lester Bangs – Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
- Lester Bangs – Main Lines, Blood Feasts and Bad Taste
- Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff
- Tom Wolfe – The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- Steven Bach – Final Cut
- Vladimir Nabokov – Strong Opinions
- Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich – This Is Orson Welles
- Bill James – Popular Crime
- Bill Bryson – In A Sunburned Country
- Jonathan Eig – Luckiest Man / Robert Creamer – Babe: The Legend Comes to Life / Cait Murphy – Crazy ’08
- Greil Marcus – Dead Elvis
- Jonah Keri – Up, Up and Away
- Jeff Pearlman – Boys Will Be Boys
- Toby Wilkinson – The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
- Anthony Bourdain – Kitchen Confidential
- Plunkitt of Tammany Hall – George Washington Plunkitt
- Sparky Lyle – The Bronx Zoo
- Marty Appel – Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain
- Jonathan Mahler – The Bronx Is Burning
- Herbert Asbury – The Gangs of New York
- William Knoedelseder – I’m Dying Up Here
Fiction
- Dashiell Hammett: The Big Knockover
- Dashiell Hammett: Nightmare Town
- Dashiell Hammett: Red Harvest
- Raymond Chandler – Lady in the Lake
- Raymond Carver – Where I’m Calling From
- David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- Jim Thompson – Savage Night
- Jim Thompson – The Killer Inside Me
- Louis Nordan – The All-Girl Football Team
- Michael Chabon – Yiddish Policeman’s Union
- Gore Videl – Duluth
- Lynn Lauber – White Girls
- Adam Johnson – The Orphan Master’s Son
- Carl Hiaasen – Sick Puppy
- Carl Hiaasen – Skinny Dip
- Thomas Pynchon – Mason & Dixon
- Thomas Pynchon – Vineland
- Thomas Pynchon – Against the Day
- Thomas Pynchon – Inherent Vice
- Robert Graves – I, Claudius
- Vladimir Nabokov – The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
- Vladimir Nabokov – Complete Stories
- Jennifer Egan – A Visit From the Goon Squad
- James Ellroy – LA Confidential
- Flannery O’Connor – Collected Stories
- William Faulkner – The Reivers
- Peter Carey – The True History of the Kelly Gang
- Tom Rachman – The Imperfectionists
- Terry McDonnell – California Bloodstock
- Edward Anderson – Thieves Like Us
Biographies
- Corey Seymour – Gonzo: The Life of Hunter Thompson
- Claire Tomalin – Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- Akira Kurosawa – Something Like An Autobiography
- Peter Guralnick – Last Train to Memphis: The Making of Elvis Presley
- Peter Guralnick – Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
- Nick Tosches – Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story
- Steve Martin – Born Standing Up
- Stacy Schiff – Cleopatra: A Life
- Richard Reeves – Richard Nixon: Alone In the White House
- David Hajdu – Positively 4th Street
- Malcolm X and Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Manning Marable – Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
- Mick Foley – Have A Nice Day
- Robert A. Caro – The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson Vol. 1)
- Robert A. Caro – Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson Vol. 2)
- Robert A. Caro – Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson Vol. 3)
- Robert A. Caro – The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson Vol. 4)
- David Shields – Salinger
- Richard Ellmann – James Joyce (First Edition)
Penguin Classics
- Homer – The Odyssey (trans. Robert Fagles)
- Caesar – The Civil Wars (trans. Jane P. Gardner)
- Livy – The Early History of Rome (trans. Aubrey de Sélincourt)
- Livy -Rome and Italy (Trans. by Betty Radice)
- Livy – The War with Hannibal by Livy (trans. by Aubrey de Selincourt)
- Plutarch – The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives (trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert)
- Plutarch – The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives (trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert)
- Plutarch – The Fall of the Roman Republic (trans. Rex Warner)
- Tacitus – The Annals of Imperial Rome (trans. Michael Grant)
- Juvenal – The Sixteen Satires (trans. Peter Green)
- Josephus – The Jewish War (trans. E. Mary Smallwood)
- Latin Literature / Greek Literature (edited by Michael Grant)
- Tales From the Thousand and One Nights (trans. NJ Dawood)
- Tales From the Thousand and One Nights (trans. by Malcolm C. Lyons and Ursula Lyons)
- Two Lives of Charlemagne (Translated by Lewis Thorpe)
- The Song of Roland (trans. Dorothy Sayers)
- Chaucer – Canterbury Tales (trans. by Nevill Coghill)
- Marco Polo – The Travels (trans. Ronald E. Latham)
- The Travels of Sir John Mandville (trans. C.W.R.D. Moseley)
- Cervantes – Don Quixote (trans. J.M. Cohen)
- Columbus – The Four Voyages (trans. J.M. Cohen)
- Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist
- Charles Dickens – Barnaby Rudge
- James Joyce – Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Dorothy Parker – Complete Stories
- Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle – The Complete Molesworth
- Richard Farina – Been Down So Long Looks Like Up to Me
- Jack Kerouac – The Dharma Bums
Oxford World’s Classics
- Aesop – Fables (Trans. by Laura Gibbs)
- Vasari – Lives of the Artists (Translated by Julia Conway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella)
- Voltaire – Candide and other stories (trans. by Roger Pearson)
NYRB Classics
- Frans Bengtsson – The Long Ships (Trans. Michael Meyer)
- M.I. Finley – The World of Odysseus
- Thomas Flanagan – The Year of the French
- Álvaro Mutis – The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
- JR Ackerley – My Dog Tulip
Poetry
- Coming Soon!
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