The year in review:
January:
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
The Age of Consent, Geoffrey Wolff
The Dive From Clausen’s Pier, Ann Packer
An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
The Echo Maker, Richard Powers
The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danticat
Water For Elephants, Sara Gruen
February:
The Hidden Writer, Alexandra Johnson
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Special Topics In Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl
March:
For Writer’s Only, Sophie Burnham
Silas Marner, George Eliot
Breathe, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat
Look at Me, Jennifer Egan
Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison
Children of Men, P.D. James
April:
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Nifenegger
Evening, Susan Minot
May:
The Painter From Shanghai, Jennifer Cody Epstein
Pearl, Mary Gordon
The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Warner Chandler
Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros
June:
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Sense & Sensibility, Jane Austen
Pride & Prejudice, Janue Austen
July:
The God of Small things
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, Maryse Conde
Foe, J.M. Coetzee
How To Read and Why, Harold Bloom
Reunion, Alan Lightman,
The “F” Word, Kelly Bare
Recent History, Anthony Giardina
bone black, bell hooks
Sweetness in the Belly, Camilla Gibb
Tentative August Schedule:
A Voyage In The Dark, Jean Rhyss (To Complete the Novella Challenge)
Man Gone Down, Michael Thomas (for Book Club)
Hurry Down Sunshine (ARC to Review, Non-Fiction Five Challenge)
The House at Riverton, Kate Morton (Book Club)
Among the Bohemian, Virginia Nicholson (To finish up the Non-Fiction Five Challenge)
Other reviews and posts:
Interesting list.I have some on the TBR pile or wishlist. This is my reading since January.
Alternative Scriptwriting by Ken Dancyger and Jeff Rush
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge) by John O’Farrell
A novel in Letters by Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
#Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
Country of the Grand by Gerard Donovan
#Crash by J.G. Ballard
Fresh by Mark McNay
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
#How German is it by Walter Abish
How to avoid making Art by Julia Cameron
In the Miso soup by Ryu Murakami
Jasmine’s Tortoise by Corinne Souza
Lang by Kjell Westo
#Money by Martin Amis
My Soul to Keep by Melanie Wells
Pashazade by John Courtney Grimwood
Scenes from a Revolution: The Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris
#Slabrat by Ted Heller
Slow River by Nicola Griffith
Spunk and Bite by Authur Plotnik
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Book of Erotic Failures by Peter Kinnell
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
The Collector of Worlds by Iliya Troyanov
The Contractor by Charles Holdefer
The Giver by Lois Lowery
#The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster **
The pirates! : in an adventure with scientists by Gideon Defoe
The Pirates in an Adventure with Whaling by Gideon Defoe
The Saddlebag by Bahiyyih Nakhijavni
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
#The Tidewater Tales by John Barth
Hi John,
Your list looks interesting as well.
My book club is going to be reading some Michael Chabon later on in the year. I think we are are reading the Yiddish Policeman’s Union.
I have the New York Trilogy by Paul Auster on my bookshelf. Haven’t read it yet.
I’ve read some Martin Amis too, though the name of the book escapes me now.
I’ll have to look around on your blog and see if you have reviews.