Sunday, April 6, 2008

mmm: Just good reads

I just liked these... (But not yet in the Ravin' faves category.) Includes perhaps a little overlap with airplane books.

About a boy — Hornby
1776 — McCullough
Seven types of ambiguity — Perlman

As I lay dying — Faulkner
Face of an Angel — Denise Chavez (Author included!)
Reading Lolita in Tehran — Nafisi

Their eyes were watching god — Hurston
Saturday — McEwan
A short history of tractors in Ukranian — Lewycka

Century's Son — Robert Boswell (Author included!)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter — Carson McCullers
Stiff — Mary Roach

The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Family Matters — Rohington Mistry
The Children — Edith Wharton

Cities of the plain — Cormac McCarthy
Birdsong — Sebastian Faulks
Middlesex — Jeffrey Eugenides

Vanity Fair — William Makepeace Thackeray
South of the Big 4 — Don Kurtz (Author included!)
My losing season — Pat Conroy

The little friend — Donna Tartt
Blessings — Anna Quindlen
The sweet short dream of Eduardo Gutierrez — Jimmy Breslin

John Adams — David McCullough
Tennis Partner — Abraham Verghese
The Stranger — Albert Camus

The Corrections — Joseph Franzen
Loving Pedro Infante — Denise Chavez (Author included!)
Me talk pretty one day — David Sedaris

Corelli's Mandolin — Louis de Berni貥s
Snow Falling on Cedars — David Guterson
The Pick Up — Nadine Gordimer

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