I read more books than I blog about. Want to know what I've read lately? Here is the list! Titles are posted at the top of the list as I read them.
CURRENT READS:
Okorafor, Nnedi. Who Fears Death. DAW Books, 2014.
Reads from 2019
Barker, Pat. The Silence of the Girls. Penguin Books, 2019.
Faye, Lyndsay. Jane Steele. Putnam, 2016.
Atwood, Margaret. The Testaments. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2019.
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. Anchor Books, 1998. (reread)
Silver, Josie. One Day in December. Penguin, 2018.* (audiobook)
Rowley, Steven. The Editor. Putnam, 2019.
Schroeder, Stassi. Next Level Basic: The Definitive Basic Bitch Handbook. Simon & Schuster Audio.* (audiobook)
Edugyan, Esi. Washington Black. Vintage, 2019.
Jonasson, Jonas. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Hachette Books, 2012.
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Service & Patton, 1897.
Harding, Paul. Tinkers. Bellevue Literary Press, 2009.
Braithwaite, Oyinkan. My Sister, the Serial Killer. Anchor Books, 2019.*
Fowler, Therese Anna. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. St. Martin's Press, 2013.* (audiobook)
Starnone, Domenico. Ties. Trans. Jhumpa Lahiri. Europa Editions, 2015.
Saunders, George. Lincoln in the Bardo. Random House, 2017.
Honeyman, Gail. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. Penguin, 2017.*
Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame. Friday Black. Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Winterson, Jeanette. Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles. Canongate, 2006.
Atwood, Margaret. The Penelopiad. Canongate, 2006.
Armstrong, Karen. A Short History of Myth. Canongate, 2006.
Miller, Madeline. Circe. Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Alderman, Naomi. The Power. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Kushner, Rachel. The Mars Room. Scribner, 2018.
Reads from 2018
Hadley, Tessa. The Past. New York: Harper Perennial, 2016.*
Sapphire, Push. New York: Vintage, 1997.*
Baggot, Julianna. Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Dalcher, Christina. Vox. New York: Berkley, 2018.
Swyler, Erika. The Book of Speculation. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Chevalier, Tracy. New Boy. London: Hogarth, 2017.*
Thompson-Spires, Nafissa. Heads of the Colored People. New York: Atria / 37 Ink, 2018.
Jerusalmy, Raphael. The Brotherhood of Book Hunters. New York: Europa Editions, 2014.
Cooper, Brittney. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2018.
Ewing, Eve. Electric Arches. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017.
Jones, Tayari. An American Marriage. New York: Algonquin Books, 2018.
Ginna, Peter, ed. What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo." New York: HarperCollins, 2018.
Jones, Gayl. Corregidora. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975.*
Penney, Stef. Under a Pole Star. New York: Quercus, 2017.
Chee, Alexander. The Queen of the Night. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.* (audiobook)
DeLillo, Don. Cosmopolis. New York: Scribner, 2003.
Zumas, Leni. Red Clocks. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied, Sing. New York: Scribner, 2017.
Okorafor, Nnedi. Binti: The Night Masquerade. New York: Tor, 2017.
Okorafor, Nnedi. Binti: Home. New York: Tor, 2017.
Okorafor, Nnedi. Binti. New York: Tor, 2015.
Kalfar, Jaroslav. Spaceman of Bohemia. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2017.
Atwood, Margaret. The Robber Bride. New York: Bantam Books, 1993.
Reads from 2017
Himes, Julie Lekstrom. Mikhail and Margarita. New York: Europa Editions, 2017.
Russell, Karen. Swamplandia! New York: Vintage, 2011.* (audiobook)
Hawkins, Paula. The Girl on the Train. New York: Riverhead Books, 2015.* (audiobook)
Diamont, Anita. The Red Tent. 20th Anniversary Edition. New York: Picador, 1997.* (audiobook)
Whitehead, Colson. Zone One. New York: Doubleday, 2011.
Murray, Paul. Skippy Dies. New York: Faber and Faber, Inc. 2010.
Stevens, Chevy. That Night. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2014.* (audiobook)
Mazzeo, Tilar J. Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage. New York: Gallery Books, 2017. (ARC)
Brooks, Geraldine. People of the Book. New York: Penguin, 2008.* (ebook)
Shreve, Anita. The Weight of Water. New York: Back Bay Books. 1997.
Renault, Mary. The Bull from the Sea. New York: Vintage, 2001.
Bennett, Brit. The Mothers. New York: Riverhead Books, 2016. (ARC)
O'Hara, S. Paul. Inventing the Pinkertons; of, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs: Being a story
of the nation's most famous (and infamous) detective agency. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2016.*
Canavan, Gerry. Octavia E. Butler. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Barnet, Miguel. Biography of a Runaway Slave, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. Trans. W. Nick Hill.
Evanston: Curbstone/Northwestern University Press, 2016.
Butler, Octavia E. Kindred. Boston: Beacon Press, 2003.
Jones, Edward P. The Known World. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.
Foer, Jonathan Safran. Here I Am. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2016. (ARC)
2016
Gamber, Wendy. The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2016.*
Cox, Aimee Meredith. Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship. Durham:
Duke University Press, 2016.*
Whitehead, Colson. The Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, 2016. (ARC)
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Perennial Classics, 1998. (reread)
Morrow, James. The Philospher's Apprentice. New York: William Morrow, 2008.
Barbery, Muriel. The Life of Elves. Trans. Alison Anderson. New York: Europa Editions, 2015.
Getz, Trevor R. and Liz Clarke. Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2012.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015.* (ebook)
Lakhous, Amara. Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet. Trans. Ann Goldstein. New York: Europa
Editions, 2014.
Heller, Peter. The Dog Stars. New York: First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, 2013.* (ebook)
Allende, Isabel. Ripper: A Novel. New York: HarperCollins, 2014. (ebook)
Barrows, Annie, and Mary Ann Shaffer. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A
Novel. New York: Random House, 2008. (ebook)
2015
Martin, Valerie. The Ghost of the Mary Celeste. New York: First Vintage Books Edition, 2015.
Kahling, Mindy. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns). New York: Three
Rivers Press, 2011.* (ebook)
Hoffman, Alice. The Marriage of Opposites. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2015. (NetGalley)
Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. New York: Crown Publishing Group
(Random House), 2011.* (audio)
Banks, Russell. Continental Drift. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1985.
Lowry. Lois. The Giver. New York: Laurel Leaf, 2002. (reread)
Mandel, Emily St. John. Station Eleven. New York: Vintage Books, 2014.* (ebook)
Rodriguez, Maria Juana. Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings. New York:
New York University Press, 2014.*
Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman. New York: HaperCollins Publishers, 2015.
Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2007.
Spadaro, Anthony. Cybertheology: Thinking Christianity in the Era of the Internet. Trans. Maria
Way. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014.*
Fox, Michael J. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future. New York: Hyperion, 2010.
Auster, Paul. Oracle Night. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2003.
Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? New York: Del Rey, 1996.*
Johnson, Adam. The Orphan Master's Son. New York: Random House, 2012.
2014
Flynn, Gillian. Gone Girl. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012.* (ebook)
Hwang, Sun-Mi. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly. Trans. by Chi-Young Kim. Illust. by
Nomoco. New York: Penguin Books, 2000.* (ebook)
Perlman, Elliot. Three Dollars. London: Faber and Faber, 1998.
Neely-Cohen, Maxwell. Echo of the Boom. Los Angeles: Rare Bird Books, 2014.
Atwood, Margaret. MaddAddam. New York: Doubleday, 2013. (third book in the MaddAddam
trilogy)
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Vintage, 2007. (reread)
Preston, Richard. The Demon in the Freezer. New York: Random House, 2002.
Lederer, Katy. Poker Face: A Girlhood among Gamblers. New York: Crown Publishers, 2003.
Silver, Elizabeth L. The Execution of Noa P. Singlteon. New York: Crown Publishers, 2013. (ebook)
Matthis, Ayana. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. (ebook)
Miller, Madeline. The Song of Achilles. New York: Ecco Publishers, 2012. (ebook)
Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief. New York: Random House, 2006. (ebook)
Rodriguez, Deborah. The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul. New York: Ballantine Books and imprint of
Random House, 2011. (ebook)
Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game. New York: Tor, 1994.
Roth, Veronica. Allegiant. New York: HarperCollins, 2013. (ebook)
2013
Danticat, Edwidge. Claire of the Sea Light. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Lord, Christopher. The Edwin Drood Murders: Being the Second Dickens Junction Mystery. Harrison
Thurman Books, 2013. (ebook)
Murakami, Haruki. The Elephant Vanishes. New York: Vintage, 1993.
Kingsolver, Barbara. Flight Behavior. New York: Harper / HarperCollins, 2012. (ebook)
Buchanan, Cathy Marie. The Day the Falls Stood Still. New York: Voice / Hyperion, 2009.
Mengestu, Dinaw. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. London: Riverhead / Penguin, 2007.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Banville, John. The Sea. New York: Vintage International, 2005.
Saller, Carol Fisher. The Subversive Copyeditor. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2009. (reread)
Ford, Jamie. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. New York: Ballantine Books, 2009.
Stein, Garth. The Art of Racing in the Rain. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.
2012
Galgut, Damon. In a Strange Room: Three Journeys. New York: Europa Editions, 2010.
Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas. New York: Random House, 2004.
Smith, Ray Chen. The Jazz Cage. Self-published, 2012. (ebook)
Weesner, Theodore. The True Detective. 1987. New York: Astor + Blue Editions, LLC, 2012. (ebook)
Ricci and Habinek (eds.). Espresso Fiction: A Collection of Flash Fiction for the Average Joe.
FictionBrigade, 2012. (ebook)
Bulgakov, Mikhail. Heart of a Dog. Trans. Mirra Ginsburg. New York: Grove Press, 1968. (reread)
Roth, Veronica. Insurgent. New York: HarperCollins, 2012. (ebook)
Roth, Veronica. Divergent. New York: HarperCollins, 2012. (ebook)
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. New York: Anchor Books / Random House, 1986.
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood. New York: Vintage, 1994.
Saramago, Jose. Blindness. Trans. Giovanni Pontiero. Orlando: Harcourt, 1995.
Collins, Suzanne. Mockinjay. New York: Scholastic, Inc, 2010.
Collins, Suzanne. Catching Fire. New York: Scholastic, Inc, 2009.
Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic, Inc, 2008.
Kelman, Stephen. Pigeon English. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Chaon, Dan. Await Your Reply. New York: Ballantine Books, 2010.
Giordano, Paolo. The Solitude of Prime Numbers. Trans. Shaun Whiteside. New York: Pamela CURRENT READS:
Okorafor, Nnedi. Who Fears Death. DAW Books, 2014.
Reads from 2019
Barker, Pat. The Silence of the Girls. Penguin Books, 2019.
Faye, Lyndsay. Jane Steele. Putnam, 2016.
Atwood, Margaret. The Testaments. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2019.
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. Anchor Books, 1998. (reread)
Silver, Josie. One Day in December. Penguin, 2018.* (audiobook)
Rowley, Steven. The Editor. Putnam, 2019.
Schroeder, Stassi. Next Level Basic: The Definitive Basic Bitch Handbook. Simon & Schuster Audio.* (audiobook)
Edugyan, Esi. Washington Black. Vintage, 2019.
Jonasson, Jonas. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Hachette Books, 2012.
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Service & Patton, 1897.
Harding, Paul. Tinkers. Bellevue Literary Press, 2009.
Braithwaite, Oyinkan. My Sister, the Serial Killer. Anchor Books, 2019.*
Fowler, Therese Anna. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. St. Martin's Press, 2013.* (audiobook)
Starnone, Domenico. Ties. Trans. Jhumpa Lahiri. Europa Editions, 2015.
Saunders, George. Lincoln in the Bardo. Random House, 2017.
Honeyman, Gail. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. Penguin, 2017.*
Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame. Friday Black. Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Winterson, Jeanette. Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles. Canongate, 2006.
Atwood, Margaret. The Penelopiad. Canongate, 2006.
Armstrong, Karen. A Short History of Myth. Canongate, 2006.
Miller, Madeline. Circe. Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Alderman, Naomi. The Power. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Kushner, Rachel. The Mars Room. Scribner, 2018.
Reads from 2018
Hadley, Tessa. The Past. New York: Harper Perennial, 2016.*
Sapphire, Push. New York: Vintage, 1997.*
Baggot, Julianna. Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Dalcher, Christina. Vox. New York: Berkley, 2018.
Swyler, Erika. The Book of Speculation. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Chevalier, Tracy. New Boy. London: Hogarth, 2017.*
Thompson-Spires, Nafissa. Heads of the Colored People. New York: Atria / 37 Ink, 2018.
Jerusalmy, Raphael. The Brotherhood of Book Hunters. New York: Europa Editions, 2014.
Cooper, Brittney. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2018.
Ewing, Eve. Electric Arches. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017.
Jones, Tayari. An American Marriage. New York: Algonquin Books, 2018.
Ginna, Peter, ed. What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo." New York: HarperCollins, 2018.
Jones, Gayl. Corregidora. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975.*
Penney, Stef. Under a Pole Star. New York: Quercus, 2017.
Chee, Alexander. The Queen of the Night. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.* (audiobook)
DeLillo, Don. Cosmopolis. New York: Scribner, 2003.
Zumas, Leni. Red Clocks. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied, Sing. New York: Scribner, 2017.
Okorafor, Nnedi. Binti: The Night Masquerade. New York: Tor, 2017.
Okorafor, Nnedi. Binti: Home. New York: Tor, 2017.
Okorafor, Nnedi. Binti. New York: Tor, 2015.
Kalfar, Jaroslav. Spaceman of Bohemia. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2017.
Atwood, Margaret. The Robber Bride. New York: Bantam Books, 1993.
Reads from 2017
Himes, Julie Lekstrom. Mikhail and Margarita. New York: Europa Editions, 2017.
Russell, Karen. Swamplandia! New York: Vintage, 2011.* (audiobook)
Hawkins, Paula. The Girl on the Train. New York: Riverhead Books, 2015.* (audiobook)
Diamont, Anita. The Red Tent. 20th Anniversary Edition. New York: Picador, 1997.* (audiobook)
Whitehead, Colson. Zone One. New York: Doubleday, 2011.
Murray, Paul. Skippy Dies. New York: Faber and Faber, Inc. 2010.
Stevens, Chevy. That Night. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2014.* (audiobook)
Mazzeo, Tilar J. Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage. New York: Gallery Books, 2017. (ARC)
Brooks, Geraldine. People of the Book. New York: Penguin, 2008.* (ebook)
Shreve, Anita. The Weight of Water. New York: Back Bay Books. 1997.
Renault, Mary. The Bull from the Sea. New York: Vintage, 2001.
Bennett, Brit. The Mothers. New York: Riverhead Books, 2016. (ARC)
O'Hara, S. Paul. Inventing the Pinkertons; of, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs: Being a story
of the nation's most famous (and infamous) detective agency. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2016.*
Canavan, Gerry. Octavia E. Butler. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Barnet, Miguel. Biography of a Runaway Slave, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. Trans. W. Nick Hill.
Evanston: Curbstone/Northwestern University Press, 2016.
Butler, Octavia E. Kindred. Boston: Beacon Press, 2003.
Jones, Edward P. The Known World. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.
Foer, Jonathan Safran. Here I Am. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2016. (ARC)
2016
Gamber, Wendy. The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2016.*
Cox, Aimee Meredith. Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship. Durham:
Duke University Press, 2016.*
Whitehead, Colson. The Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, 2016. (ARC)
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Perennial Classics, 1998. (reread)
Morrow, James. The Philospher's Apprentice. New York: William Morrow, 2008.
Barbery, Muriel. The Life of Elves. Trans. Alison Anderson. New York: Europa Editions, 2015.
Getz, Trevor R. and Liz Clarke. Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2012.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015.* (ebook)
Lakhous, Amara. Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet. Trans. Ann Goldstein. New York: Europa
Editions, 2014.
Heller, Peter. The Dog Stars. New York: First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, 2013.* (ebook)
Allende, Isabel. Ripper: A Novel. New York: HarperCollins, 2014. (ebook)
Barrows, Annie, and Mary Ann Shaffer. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A
Novel. New York: Random House, 2008. (ebook)
2015
Martin, Valerie. The Ghost of the Mary Celeste. New York: First Vintage Books Edition, 2015.
Kahling, Mindy. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns). New York: Three
Rivers Press, 2011.* (ebook)
Hoffman, Alice. The Marriage of Opposites. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2015. (NetGalley)
Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. New York: Crown Publishing Group
(Random House), 2011.* (audio)
Banks, Russell. Continental Drift. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1985.
Lowry. Lois. The Giver. New York: Laurel Leaf, 2002. (reread)
Mandel, Emily St. John. Station Eleven. New York: Vintage Books, 2014.* (ebook)
Rodriguez, Maria Juana. Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings. New York:
New York University Press, 2014.*
Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman. New York: HaperCollins Publishers, 2015.
Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2007.
Spadaro, Anthony. Cybertheology: Thinking Christianity in the Era of the Internet. Trans. Maria
Way. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014.*
Fox, Michael J. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future. New York: Hyperion, 2010.
Auster, Paul. Oracle Night. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2003.
Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? New York: Del Rey, 1996.*
Johnson, Adam. The Orphan Master's Son. New York: Random House, 2012.
2014
Flynn, Gillian. Gone Girl. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012.* (ebook)
Hwang, Sun-Mi. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly. Trans. by Chi-Young Kim. Illust. by
Nomoco. New York: Penguin Books, 2000.* (ebook)
Perlman, Elliot. Three Dollars. London: Faber and Faber, 1998.
Neely-Cohen, Maxwell. Echo of the Boom. Los Angeles: Rare Bird Books, 2014.
Atwood, Margaret. MaddAddam. New York: Doubleday, 2013. (third book in the MaddAddam
trilogy)
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Vintage, 2007. (reread)
Preston, Richard. The Demon in the Freezer. New York: Random House, 2002.
Lederer, Katy. Poker Face: A Girlhood among Gamblers. New York: Crown Publishers, 2003.
Silver, Elizabeth L. The Execution of Noa P. Singlteon. New York: Crown Publishers, 2013. (ebook)
Matthis, Ayana. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. (ebook)
Miller, Madeline. The Song of Achilles. New York: Ecco Publishers, 2012. (ebook)
Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief. New York: Random House, 2006. (ebook)
Rodriguez, Deborah. The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul. New York: Ballantine Books and imprint of
Random House, 2011. (ebook)
Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game. New York: Tor, 1994.
Roth, Veronica. Allegiant. New York: HarperCollins, 2013. (ebook)
2013
Danticat, Edwidge. Claire of the Sea Light. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Lord, Christopher. The Edwin Drood Murders: Being the Second Dickens Junction Mystery. Harrison
Thurman Books, 2013. (ebook)
Murakami, Haruki. The Elephant Vanishes. New York: Vintage, 1993.
Kingsolver, Barbara. Flight Behavior. New York: Harper / HarperCollins, 2012. (ebook)
Buchanan, Cathy Marie. The Day the Falls Stood Still. New York: Voice / Hyperion, 2009.
Mengestu, Dinaw. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. London: Riverhead / Penguin, 2007.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Banville, John. The Sea. New York: Vintage International, 2005.
Saller, Carol Fisher. The Subversive Copyeditor. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2009. (reread)
Ford, Jamie. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. New York: Ballantine Books, 2009.
Stein, Garth. The Art of Racing in the Rain. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.
2012
Galgut, Damon. In a Strange Room: Three Journeys. New York: Europa Editions, 2010.
Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas. New York: Random House, 2004.
Smith, Ray Chen. The Jazz Cage. Self-published, 2012. (ebook)
Weesner, Theodore. The True Detective. 1987. New York: Astor + Blue Editions, LLC, 2012. (ebook)
Ricci and Habinek (eds.). Espresso Fiction: A Collection of Flash Fiction for the Average Joe.
FictionBrigade, 2012. (ebook)
Bulgakov, Mikhail. Heart of a Dog. Trans. Mirra Ginsburg. New York: Grove Press, 1968. (reread)
Roth, Veronica. Insurgent. New York: HarperCollins, 2012. (ebook)
Roth, Veronica. Divergent. New York: HarperCollins, 2012. (ebook)
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. New York: Anchor Books / Random House, 1986.
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood. New York: Vintage, 1994.
Saramago, Jose. Blindness. Trans. Giovanni Pontiero. Orlando: Harcourt, 1995.
Collins, Suzanne. Mockinjay. New York: Scholastic, Inc, 2010.
Collins, Suzanne. Catching Fire. New York: Scholastic, Inc, 2009.
Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic, Inc, 2008.
Kelman, Stephen. Pigeon English. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Chaon, Dan. Await Your Reply. New York: Ballantine Books, 2010.
Dorman / Penguin Books, 2010.
Udall, Brady. The Lonely Polygamist. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010.
Favorites from 2011
Adams, Richard. Watership Down. New York: Scribner, 2005.
Atwood, Margaret. The Year of the Flood. New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2009. (second
book in the MaddAddam trilogy)
Bronsky, Alina. The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine. Trans. Tim Mohr. New York: Europa
Editions, 2011.
Cosse, Laurence. A Novel Bookstore. Trans. Alison Anderson. New York: Europa Editions, 2010.
Grossman, Lev. The Magician King. New York: Viking, 2011. (ebook)
Lewycka, Marina. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. New York: Penguin, 2006.
Mosley, Walter. The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray. New York: Riverhead Books, 2010.
All-time Favorites
Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake. New York: First Anchor Books, 2004. (first book in the
MaddAddam trilogy)
Barbery, Muriel. Elegance of the Hedgehog. Trans. Alison Anderson. New York: Europa Editions,
2008.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Ed. Nicola Bradbury, Penguin Classics ed. New York: Penguin,
1996.
Garland, Alex. The Beach. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Trans. Gregory Rabassa. New York:
Harper Perennial, 2004.
Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas. New York: Random House, 2004.
Murakami, Haruki. Hard-Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum. New
York: Vintage International, 1993.
Rawls, Wilson. Where the Red Fern Grows. New York: Doubleday, 1961. Sanchez Pinol, Albert. Pandora in the Congo. Trans. Mary Faye Lethem. New York: Canongate,
2009.
Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1990.
If there is a book on the list that I haven't blogged about, but you'd like to know what I thought, then email me at readosaurustext@gmail.com.
*indicates library book
ARC = advanced review copy
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