Comments | wendy_waring: Not another reading list...

wendy_waring

Not another reading list...

Dec 31, 2009 15:13

I'm not very good at keeping track of what I've read during a year. Nevertheless, I comb other people's lists for suggestions, and it struck me as selfish that I wasn't contributing to the general festschrift celebrating the year 2009. So here are a dozen or so books I read this year (although not published in 2009, sorry), that, months later, ( Read more... )

joshua ferris, the year of magical thinking, the curious incident of the dog in the n, joan didion, paris: the secret history, alan bennett, barbara kingsolver, andrew hussey, then we came to the end, kim westwood, the woman in the fifth, the city & the city, lawrence hill, the book of negroes, douglas kennedy, michael dugan, china mieville, the enchantment of lily dahl, wombats can't fly, shelter, siri hustvedt, the lacuna, the uncommon reader, mark haddon, daughters of moab, susan palwick

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carolryles December 31 2009, 05:58:25 UTC

A really interesting list. I've added a few to my list of "to read" for 2010. Thank you.

wendy_waring December 31 2009, 06:33:20 UTC

You're welcome! Drop by again when you've had a chance to read one or two and give me your verdict.

carolryles December 31 2009, 09:12:36 UTC

I will. I think I'll start with the Kingsolver. I nearly picked it up before Christmas. and Max meets Jeanette Winterson will be my next :)

ex_camillea January 5 2010, 20:50:31 UTC

It took me a long while to get into Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible, but I'm very glad I read it. I've also just finished Palwick's The Necessary Beggar.

'Homely SF' cracks me up.