Stay With Me, Go Places

It's a blog, like LiveJournal, but without people actually reading it.

Menu
  • Home
  • Journal
  • Stories
  • Top 5 Lists
  • Links
  • About
    • About Me
    • Contact
    • My RSS Reading List
    • Public Transportation Novels
    • Seasonal Playlists
Menu

Public Transportation Novels

May 2015

Blackbirds – Chuck Wendig

The Humans – Matt Haig

June 2015

Taft 2012 – Jason Heller

Against the Day – Thomas Pynchon

July 2015

(still reading Against the Day…if you’ve read it, you probably understand why)

August 2015

Redshirts – John Scalzi

Anarchy Evolution – Greg Graffin, Steve Olson

{Secret Novel 1}

September 2015

The Martian – Andy Weir

Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel

Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse

Flirting with French – William Alexander

The Dog Stars – Peter Heller

October 2015

Population Wars – Greg Graffin

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

November 2015

Pohlstars – Frederik Pohl

The King in Yellow – Robert W. Chambers

December 2015

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

Hyperbole and a Half – Allie Brosh

Snuff – Terry Pratchett

Take the Cannoli – Sarah Vowell

January 2016

Seveneves – Neal Stephenson

February 2016

Gun Machine – Warren Ellis

{Secret Novel 2}

The Peripheral – William Gibson

March 2016

The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin

April 2016

Changing My Mind – Zadie Smith

{Secret Novel 3}

Open Veins of Latin America – Eduardo Galeano

May 2016

Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut

High-Rise – J.G. Ballard

Looking For Jake – China Miéville

June 2016

A Dirty Job – Christopher Moore

Looking Back – Lou Andreas-Salomé

Central Station – Lavie Tidhar

July 2016

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms – N.K. Jemison

My Lobotomy – Howard Tully

August 2016

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke

September 2016

Breathless in Bombay – Murzban F. Shroff

Normal – Warren Ellis

The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

November 2016

Einstein’s Dream – Alan Lightman

Millennium People – J.G. Ballard

December 2016

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

A Bowl of Red – Frank X. Tolbert

January 2017

The Man Who Was Thursday – G.K. Chesterton

The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler

The Inimitable Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs – Chuck Klosterman

February 2017

Binti – Nnedi Okorafor

Binti: Home – Nnedi Okorafor

Wake Up, Sir! – Jonathan Ames

Principato – Tom McHale

March 2017

Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs

A Race of Minds – Simon Horrocks

April 2017

5000-1 The Leicester City Story – Rob Tanner

The Trial – Franz Kafka

Unspeakable Things – Laurie Penny

May 2017

Smart Baseball – Keith Law

Dying Light – Donald Griswold

Kingdom of Fear – Hunter S. Thompson

June 2017

Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck

Cannery Row – John Steinbeck

July 2017

The God of Small Things -Arundhati Roy

1984 – George Orwell

August 2017

Singularity Sky – Charlie Stross

The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett

Ready Player One – Ernest Cline

September 2017

The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett

The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler

The Return – Roberto Bolaño

October 2017

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

Lamb – Christopher Moore

November 2017

White Teeth – Zadie Smith

December 2017

Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie

Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino

January 2018

Angelmaker – Nick Harkaway

The Death and Life of Great American Cities – Jane Jacobs

April 2018 (yikes, that’s a long time to read that last one)

Border Districts: A Fiction – Gerald Murnane

The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman

Lost In A Good Book – Jasper Fforde

May 2018

London Kerning – Glenn Fleishman

Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh

The Crossing – Cormac McCarthy

June 2018

The Gods Laughed – Poul Anderson

July 2018

Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker

Tell The Machine Goodnight – Katie Williams

August 2018

Sidetracked – Henning Mankell

Nova – Samuel Delany

September 2018

Pivot Point – Tess Manchester

Other Minds (The Octopus, The Sea, and The Deep Origins of Consciousness) – Peter Godfrey-Smith

October 2018

{Secret Novel 3b}

November 2018

Book of Imaginary Beings – Jorge Luis Borges

The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien

December 2018

How to Change Your Mind – Michael Pollan

January 2019

The Savage Detectives – Roberto Bolaño

Behold! We May Rock You! – Jim Kuenzer

Share this:

  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
  • Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp
  • RSS Feed
  • Goodreads
  • Soundcloud
  • YouTube
  • Mastodon
  • Tumblr

Recent Posts

  • It's a strange world. It falls on us to keep it that way.

  • Texas I'm Just A Little Lost And Beaten Down

  • Six Weeks Is Not Nearly Enough

  • What Coulda Been/What Might Be

  • Little Distractions

Archives

Recent Comments

  1. All’s Well That Ends – Stay With Me, Go Places on Is This Thing On?
  2. Ridley on Believe The Hype: Five Things That Were As Good As Advertised
  3. Gary on Believe The Hype: Five Things That Were As Good As Advertised
  4. Ridley on Believe The Hype: Five Things That Were As Good As Advertised
  5. Patrick Joseph on Believe The Hype: Five Things That Were As Good As Advertised
©2025 Stay With Me, Go Places
Close

Ad-blocker not detected

Consider installing a browser extension that blocks ads and other malicious scripts in your browser to protect your privacy and security. Learn more.