2011 Book List
Books Read in 2011
Commencement, J. Courtney Sullivan (fiction)
Best American Short Stories: 2010, Richard Russo, editor (fiction)
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping, Judith Levine (non-fiction)
Our Story Begins,Tobias Wolff (fiction)
American Voyeur: Dispatches From the Far Reaches of Modern Life ,Benoit Denizet-Lewis (non-fiction)
Ten Little Indians, Sherman Alexie (fiction)
War Dances, Sherman Alexie (fiction)
Peony in Love, Lisa See (fiction)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See (fiction)
Flight, Sherman Alexie (fiction)
Stolen Innocence, Elissa Wall (non-fiction)
Songs for the Missing, Stewart O'Nan (fiction)
Best American Non-Required Reading:2005, Dave Eggers, editor (fiction)
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris (essays)
Twenty Grand, Rebecca Curtis (fiction)
One Thousand White Women: The Journal of May Dodd, Jim Fergus (fiction)
Off Keck Road, Mona Simpson (fiction)
Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Belle Du Jour (memoir)
The Guinea Pig Diaries, A.J. Jacobs (non-fiction)
Push, Sapphire (fiction)
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules, David Sedaris, editor (fiction)
I Love You, Beth Cooper, Larry Doyle(fiction)
Schooled, Anisha Lakhani (fiction)
Books I didn't finish
It's kind of rare that I start a book and don't finish. For one thing, I am fairly good at choosing books I think I'm going to like. And also, I do like to press through. Even if I don't love a book, I hope there will be some sort of pay-off at the end.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering, Dave Eggers. This was the type of book that I should have enjoyed- quirky and different, and I'd been meaning to read it for ages, but I just couldn't get through it
All Things at Once, Mika Brzezinski. I like Mika, but her book was kind of boring.
Commencement, J. Courtney Sullivan (fiction)
Best American Short Stories: 2010, Richard Russo, editor (fiction)
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping, Judith Levine (non-fiction)
Our Story Begins,Tobias Wolff (fiction)
American Voyeur: Dispatches From the Far Reaches of Modern Life ,Benoit Denizet-Lewis (non-fiction)
Ten Little Indians, Sherman Alexie (fiction)
War Dances, Sherman Alexie (fiction)
Peony in Love, Lisa See (fiction)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See (fiction)
Flight, Sherman Alexie (fiction)
Stolen Innocence, Elissa Wall (non-fiction)
Songs for the Missing, Stewart O'Nan (fiction)
Best American Non-Required Reading:2005, Dave Eggers, editor (fiction)
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris (essays)
Twenty Grand, Rebecca Curtis (fiction)
One Thousand White Women: The Journal of May Dodd, Jim Fergus (fiction)
Off Keck Road, Mona Simpson (fiction)
Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Belle Du Jour (memoir)
The Guinea Pig Diaries, A.J. Jacobs (non-fiction)
Push, Sapphire (fiction)
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules, David Sedaris, editor (fiction)
I Love You, Beth Cooper, Larry Doyle(fiction)
Schooled, Anisha Lakhani (fiction)
Books I didn't finish
It's kind of rare that I start a book and don't finish. For one thing, I am fairly good at choosing books I think I'm going to like. And also, I do like to press through. Even if I don't love a book, I hope there will be some sort of pay-off at the end.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering, Dave Eggers. This was the type of book that I should have enjoyed- quirky and different, and I'd been meaning to read it for ages, but I just couldn't get through it
All Things at Once, Mika Brzezinski. I like Mika, but her book was kind of boring.