BG=Book Group selection. I’m in two book groups (and sometimes a third), so a lot of my reading is driven by that. These are numbered in chronological order, from January to December. I don’t read very fast, and I don’t read a lot of short books, so 23 books in a year is kinda good for me.
1. April Witch (Majgull Axelsson)
2. People of the Book (Geraldine Brooks) BG
3. Planet of the Blind (Stephen Kuusisto) BG
4. A Fraction of the Whole (Steve Toltz) BG
5. Idiocy: A Cultural History (Patrick McDonagh)
6. Out of Joint (Mary Felstiner) BG
7. The Book Borrower (Alice Mattison) BG
8. The Unheard (Josh Swiller) BG
9. The Diagnosis (Alan Lightman)
10. Unaccustomed Earth (Jhumpa Lahiri) BG
11. The Air We Breathe (Andrea Barrett) BG
12. A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You (Amy Bloom)
13. When We Were Orphans (Kazuo Ishiguro) BG
14. Black Snake Green (David Mitchell)
15. The Peppered Moth (Margaret Drabble)
16. Franklin Flyer (Nicholas Christopher) BG
17. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Steig Larsson) BG
18. The Monsters of Templeton (Lauren Groff)
19. The Fig Eater (Jody Shields)
20. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows) BG
21. Hippolyte’s Island (Barbara Hodgson)
22. The Confessions of Madame Psyche (Dorothy Bryant)
23. Up in the Air (Walter Kirn) BG
July 28, 2010 at 5:53 pm |
I’ve just finished The Girl who Played with Fire and am consumed (!) by the series. Excellent books.
Been considering People of the Book – how is it?
July 28, 2010 at 6:00 pm |
People of the Book is good–very readable, interesting, another book where Brooks embroiders a story around an existing text.
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