
The summer reading marathon has begun. Here is the list – in no particular order as I read more than one book at a time. The ones I’ve begun are asterisked. Some are also collections of short stories that I put down and randomly come back to. I hope some of these interest you. As I finish each one, I’ll report on it. Yeh, I’m still that sixth grader who likes to do book reports.
- *Eiffel’s Tower – Jill Jonnes
- *Sister India – Peggy Payne
- The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
- Cinnamon Gardens – Shyam Selvadurai
- Stoner – John Williams
- The Paying Guests – Sarah Waters
- Atmospheric Disturbances – Rivka Galchen
- Our Man in Havana – Graham Greene
- The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
- Hot Milk – Deborah Levy
- Fresh Complaint: Stories – Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Art of Hearing Heartbeats – Jan Philipp Sendker
- The BugHouse – Daniel Swift
- *The Heaven of Mercury – Brad Watson
- *There Once Lived A Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories – Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
- *At The Existentialist Café – Sarah Bakewell
- *The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu – Joshua Hammer (completed)
- Manuscript Found in Accra – Paulo Coelho
- Music Through the Floor – Eric Puchner
- Laughable Loves – Milan Kundera
- The Lost Equation of Isaac Severy – Nova Jacobs
- Jackson’s Dilemma – Iris Murdoch
- The Piano Shop on the Left Bank – Thad Carhart
- *The Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
- *Star Quality: The Collected Stories of Noël Coward