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-Poems: Montale edited by Harry Thomas
-Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
-A Useless Man by Sait Faik Abasiyanik
-The Curved Planks by Yves Bonnefoy
-Small Is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher
-Outside Lies Magic by John Stilgoe
-Collection of Sand by Italo Calvino
-Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
-The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert [audiobook]

What I’ve read so far…

January 14
-Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
-Pastoralia by George Saunders
-CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders

Februrary 14
-The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

March 14
-Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

April 14
Zip

May 14
-The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

June 14
-Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
-A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

July 14
-The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño
-Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
-South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

August 14
-The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

September 14
-Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
-The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
-Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

October 14
Nothing? Don't remember...

November 14
-Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall
-The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
-The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

December 14
-Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

January 15
-Americans and Their Land by Anne Mackin

February 15
-Holy Land by DJ Waldie

March 15

April 15
-Crabgrass Frontier by Kenneth Jackson

May 15

June 15
-Middlemarch by George Eliot [audiobook]
-Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock [audiobook]

July 15
-The First Assassin by John Miller [audiobook]
-Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
-Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell [audiobook]

My desert island library…

-2666 by Roberto Bolaño
-A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
-A Useless Man by Sait Faik Abasiyanik
-Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
-Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
-Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
-Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
-Felicity books from the American Girl series by Valerie Tripp
-Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
-Harry Potters 3 + 5 by JK Rowling
-Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
-Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
-Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
-Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
-Middlemarch by George Eliot
-Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
-Suite française by Irène Némirovsky
-The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
-The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson
-The Railway Children by E Nesbit
-The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
-The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
-War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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Month: August 2014

Sometimes you find things in bookstores…

Recommendation To ReadAugust 17, 2014

Don’t ask of us the word that squares on every side our formless spirit, and in fiery letters proclaims it and shines out like a crocus lost in the middle of a dusty field.   Ah, that man who goes secure, friend to others and to himself, and has no care that his shadow is […]

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