Friday, May 11, 2007

The starred books

Is it weird that I have a notebook in which I list every book that I read?? Starting in June, 2004.
Good ones for Katy to find: (you've probably read at least half, if not more)

Richard Bausch, Hello to the Cannibals
Jeremy Jackson, Life at These Speeds
Brigitte Aubert, Death from the Woods
All of Joanne Harris
All of Kim Stanley Robinson, especially Antartica
Ken Mitchell, Stones of the Dalai Lama
All of Ursula Hegi
Richard Powers, The Time of our Singing (top 5), Gain, The Goldbug Variations
Jeffrey Moore, The Memory Artists
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Sharon McCrumb, St. Dale (really)
I'm sure you've read Sitting Practice (Caroline Adderson), Bel Canto (Ann Patchett), A Student of Weather (Elizabeth Hay), and Crow Lake (Mary Lawson).
All of Kent Haruf and David Mitchell
Lionel Davidson, Kolymsky Heights
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, Strong Motion
James Conrad, Making Love to the Minor Poets of Chicago
Lynn Coady, Saints of Big Harbour
Martha Cooley, The Archivist
Edeet Ravel, Look for Me
Diane Schomperlein, Our Lady of the Lost and Found
Mark Helprin, Pacific (another top 5)
Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Human Croquet
Bill Gaston, Sointula
Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai
Ian McEwan, Saturday
Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone, I Know this much is true
Mikael Niemi, Popular Music from Vittula
Hari Kunzru , Transmission
Wayne Johnston, The Custodian of Paradise

1 Comments:

At 11:00 AM, May 18, 2007 , Blogger Thomas Hogglestock said...

It isn't weird! I have kept a list since 1994 and have even put it into an excel spreadsheet. In fact, my latest blog post is about keeping lists.

 

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