I’m doing this “What am I reading” thing over at Goodreads.com. Be careful, people who like lists and recording things you have. It could be addictive.
Category: Reading
the new pile
- Dylan Landis: Normal People Don’t Live Like This
- Madeleine Van Hecke: Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things
- Robert A. Burton, MD: On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not
- Kathryn Stockett: The Help
- Joshua Ferris: The Unnamed
currently reading…
- Rudolph Delson: Maynard and Jennica
- Malcolm Gladwell: What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
- Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Elizabeth Gilbert: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
- Kathryn Stockett: The Help
- Phil Rosenthal: You’re Lucky You’re Funny: How Life Becomes a Sitcom
a few of these i’m trying to shift from “should read” to “did read.”
- Imogen Edwards-Jones: Hotel Babylon
- David Cross: I Drink for a Reason
- Pamela Ribon: Going in Circles (copyedits)
- Margaret A. Salinger: Dream Catcher: A Memoir
- Malcolm Gladwell: What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
- Kate Chopin: The Awakening
- John Irving: Setting Free the Bears
for the weekend…
- Jamie S. Rich, Joelle Jones: You Have Killed Me
- Jamie S. Rich, Joelle Jones: Twelve Reasons Why I Love Her
- Jesse Ball: Samedi the Deafness
latest reads…
- Margaret Atwood: Bodily Harm
- Chuck Klosterman: Eating the Dinosaur
- Alain de Botton: The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping and the Novel
- Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
halfway through this excellent stack.
- Lorrie Moore: A Gate at the Stairs
- AJ Jacobs: The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
- Nick Hornby: Juliet, Naked
- Allen Shawn: Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life
the book pile
- Catherine O’Flynn: What Was Lost
- Haruki Murakami: A Wild Sheep Chase
- Ann Packer: The Dive from Clausen’s Pier (Yes, I am the last to read this.)
- Margaret Atwood: Bodily Harm
- Various, edited by Ben Forkner, Patrick S. J. Samway: Stories of the Modern South
- Wendy Kaminer: True Love Waits: Essays and Criticism
reading/read
- Jonathan Lethem: As She Climbed Across the Table
- Alain de Botton: Kiss & Tell
- Joe Meno: The Boy Detective Fails
- Jeffrey Brown: Funny Misshapen Body: A Memoir
books and books and books
- Charles Baxter: The Soul Thief
- David Livingstone Smith: Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind
- David Mazzucchelli: Asterios Polyp
- Lucy Knisley: French Milk
- Jorge Luis Borges: Collected Fictions
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude