#22

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

#21

Lean, Mean, Thirteen by Janet Evanovich

#47

A Wordly Country by John Ashbery

#20

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

#46

Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

#45

How the Water Feels to the Fishes by Dave Eggers

#44

The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

#19

Daughter's Keeper by Ayelet Waldman

#43

Drown by Junot Díaz

#42

The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat

#17 & 18

The Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders

#41

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron

#40

Skellig by David Almond

#39

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis

#38

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande

#37

Edisto Revisited by Padgett Powell

#36

Edisto by Padgett Powell

# 16 for Niki

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Letham

Good God! It's been way too long since I finished a book!

#35

Home Land by Sam Lipsyte

#34

Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S. by Roland Kelts

#33

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

#32

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

#31

I Love You More Than You Know by Jonathan Ames

#30

The Last Novel by David Markson

#29

Life Work by Donald Hall

#28

Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel

#27

Sylvia by Leonard Michaels

#26

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert

# 15 for Niki

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

According to my 2007 New Year's Resolution, I should be at book #21 by the end of July. Maybe I'll be able to catch up this month...

#25

Falling Man by Don DeLillo

I don't know anymore...

Falling Man by Dan DeLillo

#24

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

#23

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

Second for May

Look at Me by Jennifer Egan

I've been busy...probably my last for May:(

#22

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

First for May

The Keep by Jennifer Egan

4th for April

Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin

3rd for April

The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

#21

Grace (33 1/3 Series) by Daphne A. Brooks

Second for April

Him Her Him Again The End of Him by Patricia Marx

One of my favorite authors, Melissa Bank blurbs the book.

#20

Mao II by Don DeLillo

#19

The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

#18

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

First for April

St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves by Karen Russell

This book of short stories was recommended by Vendela Vida.

#17

Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño

#16

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

Third for March

You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem

I read this since he will be reading for the Seattle Arts & Lecture Series in April.

#15

The Madonna of Excelsior by Zakes Mda

Second for March

Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster

Last for February/First for March

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

It took me a long time to read this book...not sure why...but it was really good...except for the whole Holocaust thing...

#14

She Plays with the Darkness by Zakes Mda

#12 and #13

Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani

Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala

#11

Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda

#10

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu

#9

The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda

#8

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman

#2 for the Wife...

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman

1st Book for February

The Uses of Enchantment by Heidi Julavits

I actually started reading it at the end of January, but I just finished it today.

#7

Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono (trans. by John Reed)

#6

The Clouds by Aristophanes

#5

Symposium by Plato

#4

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

#3

Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me by Craig Seligman

Another one bites the dust...

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida

I really enjoyed her first book, And Now You Can Go, so I thought I'd check out her new book.

Book # 2

A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus

I read this book because I have a strange fascination with books that involve 9/11.

New Year's Resolution...

I've decided to read three books a month for my New Year's Resolution. So far, I have read...

A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne

I was reading about Berne's new book, A Ghost at the Table, and saw that she won the Orange Prize in 1999 for A Crime in the Neighborhood, so I thought I'd check it out. It was also compared with Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, but mainly, I feel, because it has a girl narrator.

Making Up for Lost Time

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
A "school" book.

Live at the Apollo (33 1/3 Series) by Douglas Wolk
Read a review in The Stranger.