other fiction read in the last, well, year or so

Nabokov’s Lolita.
Voltaire’s Candide.
Adam Fawer’s Improbable.
Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.
Stephen King’s The Stand.
Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818 text).
Stephenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath (can’t believe I never read this before — incredible!)
Several short stories by Joseph Conrad.
Escohotado’s A Brief History of Drugs.

A bunch of other stuff that I don’t have handy.