One of my friends, a talented writer and avid reader, has started a meme on Facebook: we’re selecting books to read in 2010, with an emphasis on titles we’ve been putting off for a while. Given that my house is full of books I’ve bought for one reason or another, and haven’t yet gotten around to reading, it was a trivial matter to make a list. Here it is, in no particular order:
- Divisadero,
Michael Ondaatje
- The Living,
Annie Dillard
- The Tin Drum,
Günter Grass (a new translation by Breon Mitchell)
- Bleak House,
Charles Dickens
- On Beauty,
Zadie Smith
- Lovely Green Eyes,
Arnošt Lustig
- The Body of Jonah Boyd,
David Leavitt
- The Big Rock Candy Mountain,
Wallace Stegner
- A Passage to India,
E.M. Forster
- Bel Canto,
Ann Patchett
- The Plot Against America,
, Philip Roth
- The Good Soldier,
Ford Madox Ford
- Siddhartha,
Hermann Hesse
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,
Haruki Murakami
- Hume’s Fork,
Ron Cooper
Should be a good year!
Maybe next year I’ll take on Proust.
Wow! Can’t believe that something I did made a blog! I’m excited that you’re doing it and that you’re on goodreads.
Susie: Credit where due!
I should also point out (as I did on Facebook) that Ann Patchett is on the list because of your recommendation. I think I’d seen her name in book stores once or twice, but I wasn’t truly aware of her till you talked her up in Nebraska a couple of years ago.
Anyway, thanks for getting this whole thing started!
Finished The Body of Jonah Boyd
last night. I got sidetracked because I had to read another Leavitt book
for a book group discussion.
I wrote brief reviews of both books on Goodreads: The Body of Jonah Boyd and The Man Who Knew Too Much
Next up? Hmmm…
Next: The Living