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Friday, June 3, 2011

Looking for something to read?

Here's a nifty new resource. Flashlight Worthy - a website of book recommendations. Interesting browsing.

Where we have been

The books we have read are:
The Manikin by Joanna Scott
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
How the Dead Live by Will Self
The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Defining Moment by Jacquelin Thomas
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Martin Sloan by Michael Redhill
Kiln People by David Brin
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
White Tiger by Aravind Agida
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Atonement by Ian McEwan
City of Thieves by David Benioff
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Coffee Trader by David Liss
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
A House for Mr. Biswas by VS Naipaul
Sunlight Dialogues by John Gardner
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
An Artist in the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
True Grit by Charles Portis
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Ten Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer
Stoner by John Williams
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
Hanging at Cinder Bottom by Glenn Taylor
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
And West is West by Ron Childress
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
Cassada by James Salter
The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
Trespass by Valerie Martin
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Among Others by Jo Walton
Canada by Richard Ford
Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization W. Hodding Carter, IV

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Pompeii by Robert Harris

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance