Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird, has just posted on Facebook an informal book list of her 20 favorite reads, mostly over the past year. I thought there might be some inspiration here for us. Two of them have already been on our list.
I just wrote down 20 books I've read and loved, mostly in the last year, but not always, and then they were deleted, so I am going to scribble them down again, not always with the author's name, because I cannot risk looking anything up...this will all be deleted again and I won't be able to live with myself.
Tattoos on the Heart by Fr. regrouping Boyble,
Stations of the Heart, By Richard Lischer,
Half-Baked by Alexa Stevenson,
What I thought I Knew, by Eve Alice Cohen,
Still Alice, am spacing out on the author,
Me Before You, by Jojo Moyes
Is This Tomorrow by Caroline Leavitt,
The Wrong Dog Dream, by Jane Vandenburgh,
What's Wrong With White People, by Joan Walsh,
Gypsy Boy by Mikey Walsh,
After Mandela by Douglas Foster,
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver,
Going Clear by Lawrence Wright (the Scientology book--airplane heaven),
In the Garden of the Beast, by the man who wrote Devil in the White City,
Beyond the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo,
all the newly released early books by my buddy Mark Childress, plus Georgia Bottoms,
Hellhound on His Trail
Everything by Junot Diaz--he's so great;
The End of Your Life Book Club, by Will Schwalbe,
Far From the Tree, by Andrew Solomon--stunning.
I'll think of a bunch more as soon as I post this, but want to do so before this list gets deleted again.
