Below is a list, alphabetical by author, of the books reviewed on The Second Pass. Full reviews come first (an asterisk denotes a piece from the Backlist section). Following that is a separate list of books that have been reviewed on the blog or in the Shelf section. Click on any title for the original review.
The Accordionist’s Son by Bernardo Atxaga
Eve’s Hollywood by Eve Babitz*
Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey
Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown*
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess*
Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame by Zev Chafets
The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley
Four Freedoms by John Crowley
Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O’Malley, Baseball’s Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles by Michael D’Antonio
Rose Alley by Jeremy M. Davies
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey
The Old Man and Me by Elaine Dundy*
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth*
The Lifted Veil by George Eliot*
Bite the Hand That Feeds You: Essays and Provocations by Henry Fairlie
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of WASP Splendor by Tad Friend
Don’t Cry by Mary Gaitskill
Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor by Brad Gooch
A Friend of the Family by Lauren Grodstein
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Selected Poems by Thom Gunn
Laughing Torso by Nina Hamnett*
Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller
The Believers by Zoë Heller
Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon
Dispatches by Michael Herr*
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban*
The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert by Ward Just*
Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce’s Masterpiece by Declan Kiberd
Danse Macabre by Stephen King*
The Square Sun by Stefan Knapp*
La Culture en clandestins. L’UX by “Lazar Kunstmann”
It’s Beginning to Hurt by James Lasdun
Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves by James Le Fanu
The Illusionist by Françoise Mallet-Joris*
Yours Ever: People and Their Letters by Thomas Mallon
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Gabriel García Márquez: A Life by Gerald Martin
Essays by Leonard Michaels
Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, The Luck of Ginger Coffey, and The Emperor of Ice-Cream by Brian Moore*
All the Living by C. E. Morgan
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov*
Nothing Right by Antonya Nelson
The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History by John Ortved
Once a Runner by John L. Parker, Jr.
Cult Movies by Danny Peary*
Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing by Lydia Peelle
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath*
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 by Thomas E. Ricks
The Way Home by George Pelecanos
The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys by Lilian Pizzichini
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan*
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre*
Essays in Disguise and Max Jamison by Wilfrid Sheed*
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer
Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life by Carol Sklenicka
In the First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn*
Thy Neighbor’s Wife by Gay Talese*
Do Not Deny Me by Jean Thompson
Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany*
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
Love and Summer by William Trevor
Infinite Jest and nonfiction by David Foster Wallace*
As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires by Bruce Weber
Waiting for God by Simone Weil*
Lowboy by John Wray
Blog and Shelf listings:
Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatín
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
Black Hole by Charles Burns
It’s All Right Now by Charles Chadwick
Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records by John Cook with Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance
If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Salvation on Sand Mountain by Dennis Covington
Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine by Stanley Crawford
Collected Stories by Lydia Davis
At Large and At Small by Anne Fadiman
The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon
The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. IV edited by Philip Gourevitch
Beg, Borrow, Steal by Michael Greenberg
Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff
The Story About the Story: Great Writers Explore Great Literature edited by J. C. Hallman
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
One Million by Hendrik Hertzberg
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
Thucydides by Donald Kagan
Lit by Mary Karr
The Conqueror by Jan Kjaerstad
Jessica Z. by Shawn Klomparens
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato
A Brilliant Darkness by João Magueijo
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
Ad Nauseam: A Survivor’s Guide to American Consumer Culture by Carrie McLaren and Jason Torchinsky
Jarrettsville by Cornelia Nixon
The Turnaround by George Pelecanos
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People by Tim Reiterman
The Manner Music by Charles Reznikoff
The Humbling by Philip Roth
Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel
The Blindfold Test by Barry Schechter
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
Trailer Girl and Other Stories by Terese Svoboda
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout
The Listener by Allen Wheelis
Disappearances by William Wiser
Jews and Power by Ruth R. Wisse
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
