I love to read. I’m already sad about my lame reading in 2008, but one word: infant. So I’ll take what I can get. If you have a book you’d like to recommend based on what I’ve listed below, please leave a comment! I’m always looking for a good book to read.
2008
Flower Children – Maxine Swann
Bridge of Sighs – Richard Russo
I Am America (And So Can You)! – Stephen Colbert
Love Walked In – Marisa del los Santos
The Echo Maker – Richard Powers
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri
Montana Gardener’s Companion – Bob Gough
2007
Digging to America – Anne Tyler
Happiness Sold Separately – Lolly Winston
The Abstinence Teacher – Tom Perotta
Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
The Myth of You and Me – Leah Stewart
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – Barbara Kingsolver
Special Topics in Calamity Physics – Marisha Pessl
Grace (Eventually) – Anne Lamott
I Feel Bad About My Neck – Nora Ephron
We the Living – Ayn Rand
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
Succulent Wild Woman – Sark
Tell Me Everything – Sarah Salway
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer
The Female Brain – Louann Brezendine, MD
O Pioneers – Willa Cather
The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
2006
Little Children – Tom Perotta
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg
The Alchemist – Paulo Coehlo
The Nanny Diaries – Emma McLaughlin
Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
The Tenth Circle – Jodi Picoult
Veronica – Mary Gaitskill
I Am Charlotte Simmons – Tom Wolfe
The Inner Circle – T.C. Boyle
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The World is Flat – Thomas L. Friedman
The Tortilla Curtain – T.C. Boyle
Freakonomics – Levitt and Dubner
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
The Journals of Lewis and Clark – edited by Bernard Devoto
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Vanishing Acts – Jodi Picoult
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
The Dark Tower – Stephen King
Song of Susannah – Stephen King
Wolves of the Calla – Stephen King
Wizard and Glass – Stephen King
The Waste Lands – Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three – Stephen King
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
Della Raye – Gary Penley
Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
The Pact – Jodi Picoult
Salem Falls – Jodi Picoult
My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Good Grief – Lolly Winston
2005
The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Eiger Dreams – Jon Krakauer
The Gunslinger – Stephen King
Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck
Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich
Plainsong – Kent Haruf
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddon
Rain of Gold – Victor Villasenor
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Blindness – Jose Saramago
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories – Flannery O’Connor
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
December 14, 2007 at 5:19 am
Did you like Bel Canto? I love Patchett. Just checked out her new one, Run. But I don’t think I am going to get to it. Ack!!
December 24, 2008 at 2:10 pm
do you know whats stupid you are i love qwest and you ani’t going there
thanks for your comment. I hope it didn’t hurt too much.
January 13, 2009 at 9:22 am
You must read The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch! I recently had a friend pass away from cancer and alot of what Randy talked about happened with my friend. This book made me laugh and cry. I couldn’t put it down. I think I read it in two or three days.
The fact that I knew he was in a lot of pain but seemed to not want to let anyone know. Maybe he just didn’t want to bother anyone with it. Everytime I would walk through his door he would say to me, “What’s up Buttercup?” as if nothing was wrong at all. He was so brave. I used to go see how he was doing almost everyday until he passed away.
I was driving up to his house and a bunch of his stuff was on his front lawn. I knew right away I was about to get bad news and I did.
May 19, 2009 at 7:01 am
I’m still waiting for you to read “Wintering” by Kate Moses. Here are a few others I love, love:
“Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight”
“Then we Came to the End” Joshua Ferris
“The Post Birthday World” Lionel Shriver
“This Book Could Save Your Life” A.M. Holmes