The Big Summer Read.

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.

1. *Eiffel’s Tower – Jill Jonnes
2. *Sister India – Peggy Payne
3. The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
4. Cinnamon Gardens – Shyam Selvadurai
5. Stoner – John Williams
6. The Paying Guests – Sarah Waters
7. Atmospheric Disturbances – Rivka Galchen
8. Our Man in Havana – Graham Greene
9. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
10. Hot Milk – Deborah Levy
11. Fresh Complaint: Stories – Jeffrey Eugenides
12. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats – Jan Philipp Sendker
13. The BugHouse – Daniel Swift
14. *The Heaven of Mercury – Brad Watson
15. *There Once Lived A Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories – Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
16. *At The Existentialist Café – Sarah Bakewell
17. *The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu – Joshua Hammer (completed)
18. Manuscript Found in Accra – Paulo Coelho
19. Music Through the Floor – Eric Puchner
20. Laughable Loves – Milan Kundera
21. The Lost Equation of Isaac Severy – Nova Jacobs
22. Jackson’s Dilemma – Iris Murdoch
23. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank – Thad Carhart
24. *The Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
25. *Star Quality: The Collected Stories of Noël Coward