2010-11 Book List
- Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Chris Cleave, Little Bee
- Elif Batuman, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Novels and the People Who Read Them
- Thomas Cahill, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
- Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization
- Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
- Jetta Carleton, The Moonflower Vine
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies
- Tamim Ansary, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
- Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons
- Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor
- Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
- Gil MacNeil, The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club
- John Updike, Rabbit, Run
- Irwin Shaw, Evening in Byzantium
- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
- Octavia Butler, Kindred (my review)
- Ernest Hemingway, The Nick Adams Stories
- John Knowles, A Separate Peace
- Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father
- John Pipkin, Woodsburner
- Vikas Swarup, Q and A
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- John Updike, Rabbit Redux
- Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates
- Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- John Updike, Of the Farm
- Dan Simmons, Drood
- Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
- Margaret Drabble, The Millstone
- Lore Segal, Shakespeare’s Kitchen
- Fred Kaplan, 1959: The Year Everything Changed
- Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima (my thoughts)
- Wallace Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West
- Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
- Joshua Ferris, The Unnamed
- Norman Ollestad, Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
- Margaret Drabble, The Sea Lady
- Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise
- Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah’s Key (Jill’s review)
- Ishmael Reed, Japanese by Spring
- Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea
- E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
- Thomas Cahill, Mysteries of the Middle Ages and the Beginning of the Modern World
- Richard Russo, Empire Falls
- Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil
- Richard West, Chaucer: The Life and Times of the First English Poet
- John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
- Jonathan Franzen, Freedom (Jill’s review)
- Homer, The Odyssey (Fagles translation)
- George Orwell, Animal Farm
- Bernard Shaw, Arms and the Man
- Philipp Meyer, American Rust
- Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
- Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson
- Brady Udall, The Lonely Polygamist
- Bill McKibben, The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation
- Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
- Myla Goldberg, The False Friend
- Edith Hamilton, The Echo of Greece
- Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
- Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
- Robert D. Kaplan, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
- Annabel Lyon, The Golden Mean
- George Orwell, A Collection of Essays
- Don DeLillo, Libra
- Jane Gardam, The Man in the Wooden Hat
- Benson Bobrick, Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired
- E.L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel
- Molly Wizenberg, My Homemade Life
- John Wray, Lowboy
- Rebecca Dean, The Golden Prince
- Mark Logue and Peter Conradi, The King’s Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy
- Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
- Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks
- George Orwell, Shooting and Elephant and Other Essays
- Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
- Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs
- Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been
- Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII
- Philip Roth, Nemesis
- Liel Liebovitz and Matthew Miller, Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (my thoughts on Act V)
- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
- Paul Watkins, Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England
- Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
- Philip Roth, Indignation
- Philip Roth, The Humbling
- Daphne DuMaurier, Rule Britannia
- Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
- Philip Roth, Exit Ghost
- Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
- Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- Carolly Erickson, Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England
- Pat Conroy, My Reading Life (Jill’s review)
- Alan Bradley, The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag
- Paul Watkins, The Story of My Disappearance
- Neil Postman, Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
- Jessica Mitford, Hons and Rebels
- Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Alan Bradley, A Red Herring Without Mustard
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
- Arthur Miller, The Crucible
- William Gibson, The Miracle Worker
- Daphne DuMaurier, The Parasites
- Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
- Meg Wolitzer, The Uncoupling
- Richard Hughes, The Fox in the Attic
- Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Katharine McMahon, The Alchemist’s Daughter
- Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
- Bram Stoker, Dracula
- Adam Haslett, Union Atlantic
- Mary Doria Russell, Dreamers of the Day